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nsb@Genesis:1:27 @ God created man in his own image. In the image of God he created him. He created male and female.

nsb@Genesis:2:2 @ By the seventh day God had finished his work. He rested from all his work on the seventh day.

nsb@Genesis:2:3 @ God blessed the seventh day and made it holy. This is because he rested from all the work of creation he had done.

nsb@Genesis:2:4 @ This is the account of when Jehovah God created the heavens and the earth.

nsb@Genesis:2:7 @ Jehovah God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. The man became a living being.

nsb@Genesis:2:23 @ The man said: »This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called ‘Woman.’ This is because she was taken out of Man.«

nsb@Genesis:2:24 @ This is the reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife. They will become one flesh.

nsb@Genesis:2:25 @ The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.

nsb@Genesis:3:8 @ The man and his wife heard the sound of Jehovah God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day. They hid from Jehovah, among the trees of the garden.

nsb@Genesis:3:13 @ Then Jehovah God said to the Eve: »What is this you have done?« The woman answered: »The serpent deceived me, and I ate.«

nsb@Genesis:3:14 @ So Jehovah God said to the serpent: »Because you have done this you are cursed above all the livestock and all the wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life.

nsb@Genesis:3:18 @ »It will produce thorns and thistles for you. You will eat the plants of the field.

nsb@Genesis:3:20 @ Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.

nsb@Genesis:3:21 @ Jehovah God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.

nsb@Genesis:3:22 @ Jehovah said: »The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.«

nsb@Genesis:4:1 @ Adam had sexual intercourse with his wife Eve. She became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said: »With the help of Jehovah I have brought forth a man.«

nsb@Genesis:4:2 @ Later she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil.

nsb@Genesis:4:4 @ But Abel brought fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. Jehovah looked with favor on Abel and his offering.

nsb@Genesis:4:5 @ He did not look with favor on Cain and his offering. So Cain became very angry, and his face was downcast.

nsb@Genesis:4:8 @ While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

nsb@Genesis:4:17 @ Cain had intercourse with his wife. She became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Later Cain built a city. He named it after his son Enoch.

nsb@Genesis:4:21 @ His brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all who play the harp and flute.

nsb@Genesis:4:23 @ Lamech said to his wives: »Adah and Zillah, listen to me; wives of Lamech, hear my words. I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for injuring me.

nsb@Genesis:4:25 @ Adam had intercourse with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth. She said: »God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.«

nsb@Genesis:5:1 @ This is the written genealogy of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God.

nsb@Genesis:5:3 @ When Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth.

nsb@Genesis:6:3 @ Jehovah said: »My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal and corrupt. Therefore his days will be a hundred and twenty years.«

nsb@Genesis:6:5 @ Jehovah saw how great man’s wickedness on the earth had become. Every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.

nsb@Genesis:6:6 @ Jehovah was grieved that he had made man on the earth. His heart was grieved with pain.

nsb@Genesis:6:9 @ This is the ACCOUNT OF NOAH. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. He walked with God.

nsb@Genesis:6:15 @ »This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be four hundred and fifty feet long, seventy-five feet wide, and forty-five feet high.

nsb@Genesis:7:1 @ Jehovah said to Noah: »Go into the ark, you and your whole family. For I have found you righteous in this generation.

nsb@Genesis:7:7 @ Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.

nsb@Genesis:7:13 @ Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark.

nsb@Genesis:8:9 @ The dove, however, could find no place to set its feet because there was water over all the surface of the earth. It returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and held the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark.

nsb@Genesis:8:12 @ He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.

nsb@Genesis:8:18 @ Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.

nsb@Genesis:8:21 @ Jehovah smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: »Never again will I curse the ground because of man, for the intent of his heart is evil from childhood. I will never again destroy every living creature, as I have done.

nsb@Genesis:9:1 @ God blessed Noah and his sons. He said: »Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.

nsb@Genesis:9:5 @ »I will require your lifeblood as an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. I will demand an accounting from each man for the life of his fellow man.

nsb@Genesis:9:6 @ »Whoever sheds the blood of man will have his blood shed by man. For man was made in the image of God.

nsb@Genesis:9:8 @ Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him:

nsb@Genesis:9:12 @ God said: »This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:

nsb@Genesis:9:17 @ God said: »This is the sign of the covenant I have established with all life on the earth.«

nsb@Genesis:9:21 @ He drank some of its wine. He became drunk and lay undressed inside his tent.

nsb@Genesis:9:22 @ Ham, father of Canaan, saw his father’s nakedness and told his two brothers outside.

nsb@Genesis:9:24 @ Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him.

nsb@Genesis:9:25 @ He said: »Canaan is cursed! He will be a lowly slave to his brothers.«

nsb@Genesis:9:27 @ »May God extend the territory of Japheth. And may Japheth live in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be his slave.«

nsb@Genesis:10:1 @ This is the genealogy of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, Noah’s sons, who also had sons after the flood.

nsb@Genesis:10:4 @ The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.

nsb@Genesis:10:10 @ The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in Shinar.

nsb@Genesis:10:15 @ Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,

nsb@Genesis:10:25 @ Two sons were born to Eber. One was named Peleg, because in his time the earth was divided. His brother was named Joktan.

nsb@Genesis:11:6 @ Jehovah said: »If they become one people speaking the same language, nothing will be impossible for them. They have begun to do this.

nsb@Genesis:11:10 @ This is the genealogy of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was one hundred years old, he became the father of Arpachshad.

nsb@Genesis:11:27 @ This is the genealogy of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.

nsb@Genesis:11:28 @ While his father Terah was still alive, Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans, in the land of his birth.

nsb@Genesis:11:31 @ Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot, son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there.

nsb@Genesis:12:5 @ He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Haran. They set out for the land of Canaan and soon arrived there.

nsb@Genesis:12:7 @ Jehovah appeared to Abram and said: »I will give this land to your offspring.« He built an altar there to Jehovah, who had appeared to him.

nsb@Genesis:12:8 @ From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent. Bethel was on the west and Ai on the east. He built an altar to Jehovah and called on the name of Jehovah.

nsb@Genesis:12:11 @ He was about to enter Egypt. He said to his wife Sarai: »I know what a beautiful woman you are.

nsb@Genesis:12:12 @ »When the Egyptians see you, they will say: ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me, but will let you live.

nsb@Genesis:12:15 @ Pharaoh’s officials saw her. They praised her to Pharaoh. She was taken into his palace.

nsb@Genesis:12:17 @ Jehovah inflicted serious diseases on Pharaoh and his household because of Abram’s wife Sarai.

nsb@Genesis:12:20 @ Pharaoh gave orders about Abram to his men, and they sent him on his way, with his wife and everything he had.

nsb@Genesis:13:1 @ Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him.

nsb@Genesis:13:3 @ He traveled from place to place from the Negev until he came to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had been earlier.

nsb@Genesis:13:4 @ This was where he had first built an altar. There Abram called on the name of Jehovah.

nsb@Genesis:13:10 @ Lot looked up and saw that the district of the Jordan River was well watered, like the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt, toward Zoar. This was before Jehovah destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.

nsb@Genesis:13:12 @ Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom.

nsb@Genesis:13:18 @ Abram moved his tents and went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron. He built an altar to Jehovah there.

nsb@Genesis:14:12 @ They also captured Lot, son of Abram’s brother, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

nsb@Genesis:14:14 @ Abram heard that his nephew had been taken captive. Abram led his trained men, born in his house, three hundred eighteen of them, in pursuit as far as Daniel.

nsb@Genesis:14:15 @ He divided his forces against them by night. He and his servants routed them and pursued them to Hobah, north of Damascus.

nsb@Genesis:14:16 @ Then he brought back all the goods. He also brought back his nephew Lot and all the men and women.

nsb@Genesis:15:4 @ The word of Jehovah came to him: »This man shall not be your heir. No one but your very own issue shall be your heir.«

nsb@Genesis:15:6 @ He believed in Jehovah. Jehovah considered Abram’s faith as his righteousness.

nsb@Genesis:15:7 @ Then God said to him: »I AM JEHOVAH, who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to possess.«

nsb@Genesis:15:13 @ Jehovah said to Abram: »Know this for sure; your offspring will be strangers in a land that is not theirs. They will be slaves there, and they shall be oppressed for four hundred years.

nsb@Genesis:15:18 @ On that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram. He said: »To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,

nsb@Genesis:16:3 @ After Abram lived in Canaan ten years, Sarai, his wife, gave her Egyptian maidservant Hagar to her husband to be his wife.

nsb@Genesis:16:12 @ »He will be a wild donkey of a man. His hand will be against everyone and everyone’s hand against him. He will live in hostility toward all his brothers.«

nsb@Genesis:17:3 @ Abram fell on his face and God said to him:

nsb@Genesis:17:4 @ »This is my covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations.

nsb@Genesis:17:10 @ »This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep: Every male among you shall be circumcised.

nsb@Genesis:17:12 @ »For the generations to come every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised. This includes those born in your household or bought with money from a foreigner, those who are not your offspring.

nsb@Genesis:17:14 @ »Any male not circumcised in the flesh will be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant.«

nsb@Genesis:17:17 @ Abraham fell to his face. He laughed and said to himself: »Will a son be born to a man a hundred years old? Will Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?«

nsb@Genesis:17:19 @ God replied: »Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son! You will call him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as a long lasting covenant for his descendants after him.

nsb@Genesis:17:20 @ »Concerning Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him. I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.

nsb@Genesis:17:21 @ »But my covenant I will establish with Isaac. Sarah will bear him to you by this time next year.«

nsb@Genesis:17:23 @ On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or bought with his money, every male in his household, and circumcised them, as God told him.

nsb@Genesis:17:25 @ His son Ishmael was thirteen.

nsb@Genesis:17:26 @ Abraham and his son Ishmael were both circumcised on that same day.

nsb@Genesis:17:27 @ Every male in Abraham’s household, including those born in his household or bought from a foreigner, was circumcised with him.

nsb@Genesis:18:19 @ »I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household; and that they may remain in the righteous and just way of Jehovah. Jehovah will bring to Abraham what he told him.«

nsb@Genesis:18:33 @ Jehovah went his way as soon as he finished speaking with Abraham. Abraham returned to his place.

nsb@Genesis:19:12 @ »Do you have any other relatives here in the city?« The angels asked. »Get them out of this place, sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or anyone else.

nsb@Genesis:19:14 @ Lot rushed out to tell his sons-in-law: »Hurry! Get out of the city! Jehovah is going to destroy it.« But the young men thought he was only joking.

nsb@Genesis:19:16 @ Lot still hesitated. So the angels seized his hand and the hands of his wife and two daughters and rushed them to safety outside the city, for Jehovah was merciful.

nsb@Genesis:19:21 @ The angel said to him: »All right, I will grant you this request too. I will not destroy the city you are talking about.

nsb@Genesis:19:30 @ Lot was afraid to stay in Zoar. So he and his two daughters moved up into the hills and lived in a cave.

nsb@Genesis:20:2 @ he said that his wife Sarah was his sister. So King Abimelech of Gerar had Sarah brought to him.

nsb@Genesis:20:3 @ God appeared to the king in a dream and said: »You are going to die, because you have taken this woman. She is already married.«

nsb@Genesis:20:5 @ »Abraham said that she was his sister. She said the same thing. I did this with a clear conscience. I have done no wrong!«

nsb@Genesis:20:6 @ God said to him in a dream: »Yes, I know that you did this with a clear conscience. In fact, I kept you from sinning against me. That is why I did not let you touch her.

nsb@Genesis:20:8 @ So Abimelech got up early in the morning. He called all his servants and told them everything. The men were very afraid.

nsb@Genesis:20:10 @ Abimelech also asked Abraham: »What were you thinking when you did this?«

nsb@Genesis:20:11 @ Abraham said: »I thought that because there are no people who reverence God in this place, I would be killed because of my wife.

nsb@Genesis:20:14 @ Abimelech took sheep, cattle, and male and female slaves and gave them to Abraham. He also gave his wife Sarah back to him.

nsb@Genesis:20:16 @ He said to Sarah: »Do not forget that I have given your brother twenty-five pounds of silver. This is to silence any criticism against you from everyone with you. You are completely cleared.«

nsb@Genesis:20:17 @ Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his female slaves so that they could have children.

nsb@Genesis:21:2 @ Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age. It was at the very time God had promised him.

nsb@Genesis:21:4 @ When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him as God had commanded him.

nsb@Genesis:21:5 @ Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

nsb@Genesis:21:6 @ Sarah said: »God brought me laughter. Everyone who hears about this will laugh on account of me.«

nsb@Genesis:21:7 @ She added: »Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.«

nsb@Genesis:21:11 @ This upset Abraham because of his son Ishmael.

nsb@Genesis:21:21 @ He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

nsb@Genesis:21:22 @ Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, spoke to Abraham. They said: »God is with you in all that you do.

nsb@Genesis:21:26 @ Abimelech said: »I do not know who has done this thing. You did not tell me, nor did I hear of it until today.«

nsb@Genesis:21:30 @ He said: »You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand so that it may be a witness to me, that I dug this well.«

nsb@Genesis:21:32 @ They made a covenant at Beer-sheba. Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, arose and returned to the land of the Philistines.

nsb@Genesis:22:3 @ Early the next morning Abraham saddled his donkey. He took two of his servants and his son Isaac with him. He had cut the wood for the burnt offering. Then he set out for the place that God had told him about.

nsb@Genesis:22:9 @ They came to the place God had told him about. Abraham built an altar and arranged the wood on it. He tied up his son and placed him on the altar, on top of the wood.

nsb@Genesis:22:13 @ Abraham looked up and saw a ram caught by its horns in the bushes. So he took the ram and sacrificed it in place of his son.

nsb@Genesis:22:16 @ He said: »I am taking an oath on my own name, declares Jehovah, that because you have done this and have not refused to give me your son, your only son,

nsb@Genesis:22:18 @ ‘»All the nations will ask me to bless them as I have blessed your descendants. This is because you obeyed my command.’«

nsb@Genesis:22:24 @ His concubine, Reumah, also bore Tebah and Gaham and Tahash and Maacah.

nsb@Genesis:23:3 @ Abraham left the side of his dead wife and spoke to the Hittites.

nsb@Genesis:23:6 @ »Listen to us, my lord. You are a mighty leader among us. Bury your dead in one of our best tombs. Not one of us will withhold from you his tomb for burying your dead.«

nsb@Genesis:23:9 @ to sell me Machpelah Cave. It is near the edge of his field. Ask him to sell it to me for its full price here in your presence. Then I can own it as a burial ground.«

nsb@Genesis:23:18 @ His property included the field with the cave in it as well as all the trees inside the boundaries of the field. The Hittites together with all who had entered the city gate were the official witnesses for the agreement.

nsb@Genesis:23:19 @ Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave in the field of Machpelah, east of Mamre, in the land of Canaan.

nsb@Genesis:23:20 @ The Hittites sold the field and its cave to Abraham as his property to be used as a tomb.

nsb@Genesis:24:2 @ Abraham said to the senior servant of his household who was in charge of all that he owned: »Take a solemn oath.

nsb@Genesis:24:5 @ The servant asked: »What if the young woman will not leave home to come with me to this land? Shall I send your son back to the land you came from?«

nsb@Genesis:24:7 @ »Jehovah, the God of heaven, took me from my father’s house and from the land of my birth. He spoke to me and swore to me. He said: I will give this land to your descendants. He will send his angel before you. You will take a wife for my son from there.

nsb@Genesis:24:8 @ »You will be free from this oath if the woman is not willing to follow you. Only do not take my son back there.«

nsb@Genesis:24:9 @ The servant placed his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master. He swore to him concerning this matter.

nsb@Genesis:24:10 @ The servant took ten camels from the camels of his master, and then set out with a variety of good things of his master’s in his hand. He arose and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.

nsb@Genesis:24:11 @ He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at evening time. This is the time when women go out to draw water.

nsb@Genesis:24:14 @ »Let there be the girl to whom I say: ‘Please let down your jar so that I may drink,' and who answers: 'Drink, and I will water your camels also.' May she be the one whom you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown loving-kindness to my master.«

nsb@Genesis:24:20 @ She quickly emptied her jar into the water trough. Then she ran back to the well to draw more water. She drew enough for all his camels.

nsb@Genesis:24:21 @ The man quietly watched her to see whether or not Jehovah made his trip successful.

nsb@Genesis:24:23 @ He said: »Please tell me who your father is. Is there room in his house for my men and me to spend the night?«

nsb@Genesis:24:27 @ He said: »Praise Jehovah, the God of my master Abraham. He has faithfully kept his promise to my master. Jehovah has led me straight to my master’s relatives.«

nsb@Genesis:24:30 @ Laban had seen the nose ring and the bracelets on his sister’s arms and had heard her say what the man told her. He went to Abraham’s servant, who was standing by his camels at the well,

nsb@Genesis:24:32 @ The man went into the house. Laban unloaded the camels and gave them straw and fodder. Then he brought water for Abraham’s servant and his men to wash their feet.

nsb@Genesis:24:37 @ »I solemnly promised my master I would do what he said. He told me: ‘Do not choose a wife for my son from the women in this land of Canaan.

nsb@Genesis:24:40 @ »He said to me: ‘Jehovah, before whom I have walked, will send his angel with you to make your journey successful. You will take a wife for my son from my relatives and from my father’s house.

nsb@Genesis:24:48 @ »I bowed low and worshiped Jehovah, and praised Jehovah, the God of my master Abraham. He guided me in the right way to take the daughter of my master’s kinsman for his son.

nsb@Genesis:24:58 @ They called Rebecca and asked: »Do you want to go with this man?« »Yes,« she answered.

nsb@Genesis:24:59 @ They allowed Rebecca and her old family servant to go with Abraham’s servant and his men.«

nsb@Genesis:24:67 @ Isaac brought Rebecca into the tent that his mother Sarah had lived in. She became his wife. Isaac loved Rebecca. He was comforted for the loss of his mother.

nsb@Genesis:25:6 @ While Abraham was still alive, he gave gifts to the sons of Hagar and Keturah. He also sent their sons to live in the east far from his son Isaac.

nsb@Genesis:25:8 @ Then he took his last breath and died at a very old age. After a long and full life, he joined his ancestors in death.

nsb@Genesis:25:9 @ His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre.

nsb@Genesis:25:10 @ This was the field Abraham purchased from the sons of Heth. Abraham and Sarah his wife were buried there.

nsb@Genesis:25:11 @ After the death of Abraham, God blessed his son Isaac. Isaac lived by Beer-lahai-roi..

nsb@Genesis:25:12 @ This is the genealogy of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maid, bore to Abraham.

nsb@Genesis:25:15 @ Hadad and Tema, Jetur, Naphish and Kedemah.

nsb@Genesis:25:17 @ Ishmael lived one hundred and thirty-seven years. Then he died and was gathered to his ancestors.

nsb@Genesis:25:18 @ His descendants lived as nomads from the region of Havilah to Shur. This is near Egypt, in the direction of Assyria. He died in the presence of all his brothers.

nsb@Genesis:25:19 @ This is the genealogy of Abraham’s son Isaac and his descendants. Abraham was the father of Isaac.

nsb@Genesis:25:21 @ Isaac prayed to Jehovah for his wife because she was childless. Jehovah answered his prayer. His wife Rebekah became pregnant.

nsb@Genesis:25:22 @ She was going to have twins. Before they were born they struggled against each other in her womb. She said: »Why should something like this happen to me?« She asked Jehovah for an answer.

nsb@Genesis:25:25 @ The first one was reddish. His skin was like a hairy robe, so he was named Esau.

nsb@Genesis:25:28 @ Isaac preferred Esau. This is because he enjoyed eating the animals Esau killed. Rebecca preferred Jacob.

nsb@Genesis:25:33 @ Jacob answered: »First make a vow that you will give me your birthright.« Esau made the vow and gave his rights as firstborn to Jacob.

nsb@Genesis:25:34 @ Jacob gave him some bread and some of the soup. He ate and drank and then got up and left. Esau did not care about his birthright.

nsb@Genesis:26:3 @ »You will live there as a foreigner. I will be with you and bless you. I will keep my promise to your father Abraham by giving this land to you and your descendants.

nsb@Genesis:26:4 @ »I will give you as many descendants as there are stars in the sky. I will give your descendants all of this land. They will be a blessing to every nation on earth.

nsb@Genesis:26:5 @ »This is because Abraham did everything I told him to do.«

nsb@Genesis:26:7 @ His wife Rebekah was very beautiful. He was afraid that someone might kill him to get her. So he told everyone that Rebekah was his sister.

nsb@Genesis:26:11 @ So Abimelech charged all the people, saying: »He who touches this man or his wife will certainly be put to death.«

nsb@Genesis:26:15 @ The Philistines stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father. They filled them with dirt.

nsb@Genesis:26:18 @ Then Isaac dug the water wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham. The Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Abraham. He gave them the same names his father had given them.

nsb@Genesis:26:22 @ He moved on from there and dug another well. They did not quarrel over this one. So he named it Rehoboth. He said: »Now Jehovah has made room for us. We will prosper in this land.«

nsb@Genesis:26:25 @ Isaac built an altar there and worshiped Jehovah. Then he set up his camp. His servants dug another well.

nsb@Genesis:26:26 @ Abimelech came from Gerar with Ahuzzath, his friend, and Phicol, the commander of his army, to see Isaac.

nsb@Genesis:26:31 @ Early the next morning each man made his promise and sealed it with a vow. Isaac said good-bye to them. They parted as friends.

nsb@Genesis:26:35 @ These two women brought a lot of grief to his parents, Isaac and Rebekah.

nsb@Genesis:27:1 @ Isaac was old and going blind. He called his older son Esau and said to him: »Son!« Esau answered: »Here I am.«

nsb@Genesis:27:5 @ Rebekah listened while Isaac was speaking to his son Esau. Esau went into the open country to hunt for some wild game to bring back.

nsb@Genesis:27:10 @ »You take it to him to eat. Then he will give you his blessing before he dies.«

nsb@Genesis:27:11 @ Jacob said to his mother: »You know that Esau is a hairy man. I have smooth skin.

nsb@Genesis:27:13 @ His mother replied: »Let any curse against you fall on me, my son. Just do as I say, and go and get the goats for me.«

nsb@Genesis:27:14 @ So Jacob brought the meat to his mother. And she cooked the tasty food that his father liked.

nsb@Genesis:27:16 @ She also covered the smooth part of his hands and neck with goatskins.

nsb@Genesis:27:18 @ He went to his father and said: »Father?« »Yes,« he answered. »Who are you, Son?«

nsb@Genesis:27:22 @ Jacob went closer. His father touched him. He said: »You sound like Jacob, but your hands feel hairy like Esau’s.«

nsb@Genesis:27:26 @ Then his father Isaac said to him: »Come close, my son, and kiss me.«

nsb@Genesis:27:27 @ He came close and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his garments. Then he blessed him and said: »See, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field Jehovah has blessed.«

nsb@Genesis:27:30 @ No sooner had Isaac finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob left his presence, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

nsb@Genesis:27:31 @ He also prepared a good-tasting meal and brought it to his father. Then he said to his father: »Please, Father, eat some of the meat I have hunted for you so that you will bless me.«

nsb@Genesis:27:32 @ »Who are you?« his father Isaac asked him. »I am your firstborn son, Esau,« he answered.

nsb@Genesis:27:33 @ Isaac began to tremble and shake all over. He asked: »Who was it, then, who killed an animal and brought it to me? I ate it just before you came. I gave him my final blessing, and so it is his forever.«

nsb@Genesis:27:34 @ When Esau heard this he cried out loudly and bitterly. He said: »Give me your blessing also, Father!«

nsb@Genesis:27:36 @ Esau said: »This is the second time that he has cheated me. No wonder his name is Jacob. He took my rights as the firstborn son. Now he has taken my blessing. Have you saved a blessing for me?«

nsb@Genesis:27:37 @ Isaac answered: »I have already made him master over you. I have made all his relatives his slaves. I have given him grain and wine. Now there is nothing that I can do for you, son!«

nsb@Genesis:27:40 @ »You will live by your sword. You will serve your brother. Soon you will become restless and break his yoke from your neck.«

nsb@Genesis:27:41 @ So Esau bore a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him. Esau said to himself: »The days of mourning for my father are near. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.«

nsb@Genesis:28:4 @ »He will bless you and your descendants as he blessed Abraham. You may take possession of this land, in which you have lived and which God gave to Abraham!«

nsb@Genesis:28:6 @ Esau found out that his father Isaac had blessed Jacob and had warned him not to marry any of the Canaanite women. He also learned that Jacob had been sent to find a wife in northern Syria.

nsb@Genesis:28:7 @ Jacob did as his father and mother said. He went to Paddan-aram.

nsb@Genesis:28:8 @ It was clear to Esau that his father despised the local Canaanite women.

nsb@Genesis:28:9 @ So Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath, the daughter of Abraham’s son Ishmael, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife in addition to the wives he had.

nsb@Genesis:28:11 @ As soon as the sun went down he stopped for the night. He took one of the stones from that place, put it under his head, and lay down there.

nsb@Genesis:28:15 @ »Remember, I am with you. I will watch over you wherever you go. I will also bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I do what I have promised you.«

nsb@Genesis:28:16 @ Jacob woke up from his sleep and said: »Truly, Jehovah is in this place, and I did not know it!«

nsb@Genesis:28:17 @ He was filled with reverence. He said: »This is an awesome place! Certainly, this is the house of God and the gateway to the heavens!«

nsb@Genesis:28:18 @ Early the next morning Jacob took the stone he had under his head. He set it up as a marker and poured oil on top of it.

nsb@Genesis:28:22 @ »This stone I placed as a marker will be the house of God. I will certainly give you a tenth of everything you give me.«

nsb@Genesis:29:1 @ Jacob continued on his trip and arrived at the land in the east.

nsb@Genesis:29:2 @ Suddenly he came upon a well out in the fields. There were three flocks of sheep lying around it. The flocks were watered from this well. It had a large stone over the opening.

nsb@Genesis:29:6 @ Jacob asked: »How is he?« They replied: »He is well. Here is Rachel his daughter coming with the sheep.«

nsb@Genesis:29:10 @ Jacob saw Rachel, daughter of his uncle Laban, with his uncle Laban’s sheep. He came forward and rolled the stone off the opening of the well and watered his uncle Laban’s sheep.

nsb@Genesis:29:13 @ As soon as Laban heard the news about his sister’s son Jacob, he ran to meet him. He embraced and kissed him and brought him into his home. Then Jacob told Laban all that had happened.

nsb@Genesis:29:23 @ In the evening when it was dark, he took Leah, his daughter, and gave her to him. Jacob slept with her.

nsb@Genesis:29:24 @ Laban gave Zilpah, his servant-girl, to Leah, to be her maid.

nsb@Genesis:29:27 @ »Finish the week of wedding festivities with this daughter. Then we will give you the other one too. But you will have to work for me another seven years.«

nsb@Genesis:29:28 @ Jacob did that. He finished the week with Leah. Then Laban gave his daughter Rachel to him as his wife.

nsb@Genesis:29:29 @ Laban gave his slave Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her slave.

nsb@Genesis:29:33 @ She became pregnant again and gave birth to another son. She said: »Certainly, Jehovah has heard that I am unloved. He has also given me this son.« She named him Simeon.

nsb@Genesis:29:35 @ Leah became pregnant again and gave birth to another son. She said: »This time I will praise Jehovah.« So she named him Judah. Then she stopped having children.

nsb@Genesis:30:3 @ She said: »Here is my maid Bilhah. Sleep with her, so that she can have a child for me. This way I can become a mother through her.«

nsb@Genesis:30:14 @ During the wheat harvest Reuben went out into the fields. He found some mandrake plants. He brought them to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah: »Please, give me some of your son’s mandrake plants.«

nsb@Genesis:30:20 @ Leah said: »God has presented me with a wonderful gift. This time my husband will honor me, because I have given him six sons.« So she named him Zebulun.

nsb@Genesis:30:35 @ Laban took out the striped and spotted male goats, all the speckled and spotted female goats, and every black lamb. He had his sons take charge of them that same day.

nsb@Genesis:30:36 @ They moved away from Jacob with this flock as far as he could travel in three days. Jacob took care of the rest of Laban’s flocks.

nsb@Genesis:30:40 @ Jacob kept the sheep separate from the goats and made them face in the direction of the streaked and black animals of Laban’s flock. In this way he built up his own flock and kept it apart from Laban’s.

nsb@Genesis:31:1 @ Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were saying: »Jacob has taken everything that belonged to our father. He has gained all his wealth from him.«

nsb@Genesis:31:4 @ Then Jacob sent a message to Rachel and Leah to come out to the open country where his flocks were.

nsb@Genesis:31:9 @ »This way God has taken sheep and goats from your father and given them to me.

nsb@Genesis:31:13 @ »‘I am the God of Bethel. That is where you anointed a pillar and made a vow to me. Arise and leave this land. Return to the land of your birth.’«

nsb@Genesis:31:17 @ Then Jacob put his children and his wives on camels.

nsb@Genesis:31:18 @ He drove all his livestock ahead of him. He took all the possessions that he had accumulated. He took his own livestock that he had accumulated in Paddan-aram and went back to his father Isaac in Canaan.

nsb@Genesis:31:19 @ When Laban went to shear his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.

nsb@Genesis:31:23 @ Laban took his men with him and pursued Jacob for seven days until he caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.

nsb@Genesis:31:25 @ Jacob camped on a mountain. So when Laban caught up with Jacob as he was camped in the hill country of Gilead, he set up his camp not far from Jacod’s.

nsb@Genesis:31:28 @ »You did not even let me give a kiss to my sons and my daughters. This was a foolish thing you did.

nsb@Genesis:31:29 @ »It is in my power to do you harm. But the God of your father came to me this night. He said, ‘Take care that you say nothing good or bad to Jacob.’

nsb@Genesis:31:36 @ Jacob lost his temper. »What crime have I committed?« he asked angrily. »What law have I broken that gives you the right to hunt me down?

nsb@Genesis:31:46 @ Jacob said to his relatives: »Gather some stones.« They took stones, put them into a pile, and ate there by the pile of stones.

nsb@Genesis:31:47 @ In his language, Laban called it »Jegar Sahadutha«, but Jacob called it »Galeed.«

nsb@Genesis:31:48 @ Laban said: »This pile of stones stands as a witness between you and me today.« This is why it was named Galeed,

nsb@Genesis:31:52 @ »This pile of stones and this marker stand as witnesses that I will not go past the pile of stones to harm you, and that you will not go past the pile of stones or marker to harm me.

nsb@Genesis:31:53 @ »May the God of Abraham and Nahor—the God of their father—judge between us.« So Jacob swore this oath out of respect for his father Isaac.

nsb@Genesis:31:54 @ He offered a sacrifice on the mountain. He invited his relatives to eat the meal with him. They ate with him and spent the night on the mountain.

nsb@Genesis:31:55 @ Early the next morning Laban kissed his grandchildren and his daughters and blessed them. Then Laban left and went back home.

nsb@Genesis:32:2 @ When he saw them, Jacob said: »This is God’s camp!« He named that place Mahanaim.

nsb@Genesis:32:3 @ Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in Seir, the country of Edom.

nsb@Genesis:32:6 @ When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said: »We went to your brother Esau. He is already on his way to meet you. He has four hundred men with him.«

nsb@Genesis:32:7 @ Jacob was frightened and worried. He divided the people who were with him into two groups. He also divided his sheep, goats, cattle, and camels.

nsb@Genesis:32:13 @ Jacob stayed there that night. Then he prepared a gift for his brother Esau from what he had brought with him:

nsb@Genesis:32:16 @ He placed servants in charge of each herd. He said to his servants: »Go ahead of me, and maintain a distance between the herds.«

nsb@Genesis:32:18 @ »Say, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. This is a gift sent to you. Jacob is directly behind us.’«

nsb@Genesis:32:20 @ »Be sure to say, ‘Jacob is right behind us.’« He thought: »I will make peace with him by giving him this gift that I am sending ahead of me. After that, I will see him, and he will welcome me back.«

nsb@Genesis:32:22 @ That same night Jacob got up, took his two wives, his two concubines, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok River.

nsb@Genesis:32:25 @ The man saw that he was not able to overcome Jacob. He gave him a blow in the hollow part of his thigh, so that his leg was damaged.

nsb@Genesis:32:31 @ The sun rose as he passed Penuel. He was limping because of his thigh.

nsb@Genesis:32:32 @ Therefore, even today the people of Israel do not eat the muscle of the thigh attached to the hip socket. This is because God touched the socket of Jacob’s thigh at the muscle.

nsb@Genesis:33:1 @ Jacob saw Esau coming with his four hundred men. Therefore he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two concubines.

nsb@Genesis:33:3 @ Jacob went ahead of them. He bowed down to the ground seven times as he approached his brother.

nsb@Genesis:33:4 @ Esau ran to meet him. He threw his arms around him, and kissed him. They both cried.

nsb@Genesis:33:8 @ Esau asked: »What about that other group I met? What do you mean by all this company?« Jacob answered: »It was to gain your favor.«

nsb@Genesis:33:11 @ »Take my offering then, with my blessing. God has been very good to me and I have enough.« So at his strong request, he took it.

nsb@Genesis:33:14 @ »Please let my lord pass on before his servant. I will proceed at my leisure, according to the pace of the cattle that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord at Seir.«

nsb@Genesis:33:16 @ So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.

nsb@Genesis:33:17 @ Jacob moved on to Succoth. He built a house there for himself and made shelters for his livestock. That is why the place is named Succoth.

nsb@Genesis:33:19 @ He bought the piece of land on which he pitched his tents. He bought it from the sons of Hamor, father of Shechem, for one hundred pieces of silver.

nsb@Genesis:34:4 @ He told his father: »I want you to get Dinah for me as my wife.«

nsb@Genesis:34:5 @ Jacob learned that his daughter had been disgraced. Since his sons were out in the fields with his livestock, he did nothing until they came back.

nsb@Genesis:34:13 @ Jacob’s sons wanted to get even with Shechem and his father because of what happened to their sister.

nsb@Genesis:34:19 @ The young man did not delay to do what was required. This was because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter. He was the most honored of all his family.

nsb@Genesis:34:20 @ Hamor and his son Shechem went to their city gate to speak to the men of their city. They said:

nsb@Genesis:34:21 @ »These people are friendly toward us. So let them live in our land and move about freely in the area. Look, there is plenty of room in this land for them. We can marry their daughters and let them marry ours.

nsb@Genesis:35:2 @ Jacob said to his family and those who were with him: »Get rid of the foreign gods that you have. Wash yourselves until you are ritually clean. Change your clothes.

nsb@Genesis:35:5 @ Jacob and his family traveled through Canaan. God terrified the people in the towns so much that no one dared bother them.

nsb@Genesis:35:18 @ Rachel was dying! With her last breath she named her son Ben-oni, but his father named him Benjamin.

nsb@Genesis:35:21 @ Israel moved on again. He pitched his tent by the tower of Eder.

nsb@Genesis:35:22 @ While Israel lived in that region, Reuben went to bed with his father’s concubine Bilhah. Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons.

nsb@Genesis:35:27 @ Jacob came home to his father Isaac, to Mamre’s city, Kiriath-arba. Abraham and Isaac had lived there for a while.

nsb@Genesis:35:29 @ Isaac took his last breath and died. He joined his ancestors in death at a very old age. His sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

nsb@Genesis:36:1 @ This is the genealogy of Esau, who is Edom, and his descendants.

nsb@Genesis:36:2 @ Esau selected his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite; Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite;

nsb@Genesis:36:6 @ Then Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the persons of his household, his cattle and all his animals, and all his goods which he had gained in the land of Canaan, and went to a country away from the presence of his brother Jacob.

nsb@Genesis:36:9 @ This is the genealogy of Esau the father of the Edomites in Mount Seir.

nsb@Genesis:36:24 @ These were the sons of Zibeon: both Aiah and Anah. This was the Anah who found the water in the wilderness as he pastured the donkeys of his father Zibeon.

nsb@Genesis:36:32 @ Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom, and the name of his city was Dinhabah.

nsb@Genesis:36:33 @ And when Bela died, Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his place.

nsb@Genesis:36:34 @ When Jobab died, Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.

nsb@Genesis:36:35 @ And when Husham died, Hadad the son of Bedad, who attacked Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his place. And the name of his city was Avith.

nsb@Genesis:36:36 @ When Hadad died, Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place.

nsb@Genesis:36:37 @ And when Samlah died, Shaul of Rehoboth-by-the-River reigned in his place.

nsb@Genesis:36:38 @ When Shaul died, Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his place.

nsb@Genesis:36:39 @ And when Baal-hanan the son of Achbor died, Hadar reigned in his place; and the name of his city was Pau. His wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.

nsb@Genesis:37:1 @ Jacob continued to live in the land of Canaan, where his father had lived.

nsb@Genesis:37:2 @ This is the story of Jacob and his descendants. Joseph was a seventeen-year-old young man. He took care of the flocks with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. Joseph told his father about the bad things his brothers were doing.

nsb@Genesis:37:3 @ Jacob loved Joseph more than all his sons because Joseph had been born in Israel’s old age. So he made Joseph a special multicolored robe with long sleeves.

nsb@Genesis:37:5 @ One time Joseph had a dream. He told his brothers about it and they hated him even more.

nsb@Genesis:37:8 @ »Do you think you are going to be a king and rule over us?« his brothers asked. So they hated him even more because of his dreams and because of what he said about them.

nsb@Genesis:37:9 @ Joseph had another dream and told his brothers: »I had another dream, in which I saw the sun, the moon, and eleven stars bowing down to me.«

nsb@Genesis:37:10 @ He also told the dream to his father. His father scolded him. »What kind of a dream is that? Do you think that your mother, your brothers, and I are going to come and bow down to you?«

nsb@Genesis:37:11 @ Joseph’s brothers were jealous of him. His father kept thinking about the whole matter.

nsb@Genesis:37:12 @ His brothers went to Shechem to take care of their father’s flock.

nsb@Genesis:37:13 @ His father Jacob said to him: »I want you to go to your brothers. They are with the sheep near Shechem.« »Yes, I will go,« Joseph answered.

nsb@Genesis:37:14 @ His father said: »Go and find out how your brothers and the sheep are doing. Then come back and let me know.« So he sent him from Hebron Valley. Joseph was near Shechem,

nsb@Genesis:37:17 @ »They are not here anymore,« the man replied. »I heard them say they were going to Dothan.« Joseph soon found his brothers in Dothan.

nsb@Genesis:37:21 @ Reuben heard this and tried to protect Joseph from them. »Let us not kill him,« he said.

nsb@Genesis:37:22 @ »Do not murder him or even harm him. Just throw him into a dry well out here in the desert.« Reuben planned to rescue Joseph later and take him back to his father.

nsb@Genesis:37:23 @ When Joseph came to his brothers, they pulled off his fancy coat.

nsb@Genesis:37:26 @ Judah asked his brothers: »What will we gain by killing our brother and covering up his death?

nsb@Genesis:37:27 @ »Let us sell him to the Ishmaelites. Let us not hurt him, because he is our brother, our own flesh and blood.« His brothers agreed.

nsb@Genesis:37:29 @ Reuben came back to the pit and found that Joseph was not there. He tore his clothes in sorrow.

nsb@Genesis:37:30 @ He returned to his brothers and said: »The boy is not there! What am I going to do?«

nsb@Genesis:37:32 @ They took the robe to their father and said: »We found this. Does it belong to your son?«

nsb@Genesis:37:33 @ He recognized it and said: »Yes, it is his! Some wild animal has killed him. My son Joseph has been torn to pieces!«

nsb@Genesis:37:34 @ Jacob tore his clothes in sorrow and put on sackcloth. He mourned for his son a long time.

nsb@Genesis:37:35 @ All his sons and daughters came to comfort him. However, he refused to be comforted. He said: »I will go down to the grave still mourning for my son.« So he continued to mourn for his son Joseph.

nsb@Genesis:38:1 @ At that time Judah left his brothers and went to stay with a man named Hirah, who was from the town of Adullam.

nsb@Genesis:38:6 @ For his first son Er, Judah got a wife whose name was Tamar.

nsb@Genesis:38:9 @ Onan knew that the children would not belong to him. So when he had intercourse with his brother’s widow, he let the semen spill on the ground, assuring that there would be no children for his brother.

nsb@Genesis:38:11 @ Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar: »Return to your father’s house and remain a widow until my son Shelah grows up.« He said this because he was afraid that Shelah would be killed, as his brothers had been. So Tamar went back home.

nsb@Genesis:38:12 @ After some time Judah’s wife died. When he finished mourning, he and his friend Hirah of Adullam went to Timnah, where his sheep were being sheared.

nsb@Genesis:38:13 @ Tamar found out that her father-in-law Judah was going to Timnah to shear his sheep.

nsb@Genesis:38:20 @ Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman’s hand. But he did not find her.

nsb@Genesis:38:23 @ Then Judah said: »Let her keep what she has, or we will become a laughingstock. After all, I did send her this young goat, but you did not find her.«

nsb@Genesis:38:28 @ As she was giving birth, one of them put out his hand. The midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it on his wrist and said: »This one came out first.«

nsb@Genesis:38:29 @ When he drew back his hand, his brother came out. She said: »So this is how you have broken out!« He was named Perez.

nsb@Genesis:38:30 @ Then his brother, who had the scarlet thread on his wrist, came out and he was given the name Zerah.

nsb@Genesis:39:2 @ Jehovah was with Joseph. Joseph became a successful man. He worked in the house of his Egyptian master.

nsb@Genesis:39:4 @ Potiphar was pleased with him and made him his personal servant. He put him in charge of his house and everything he owned.

nsb@Genesis:39:5 @ Jehovah blessed the Egyptian’s household and everything he had in his house and in his fields because of Joseph.

nsb@Genesis:39:7 @ Soon his master’s wife began to desire Joseph and asked him to go to bed with her.

nsb@Genesis:39:9 @ »No one in this house is greater than I. He has kept nothing back from me except you. You are his wife. How could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?«

nsb@Genesis:39:11 @ One day he went into the house to do his work. None of the household servants were there.

nsb@Genesis:39:12 @ She grabbed him by his coat and said: »Come to bed with me!« But he ran outside and left his coat in her hand.

nsb@Genesis:39:13 @ When she realized that he had gone but had left his coat behind,

nsb@Genesis:39:14 @ she called her household servants and said to them: »Look! My husband brought this Hebrew here to fool around with us. He came in and tried to go to bed with me. I screamed as loud as I could.

nsb@Genesis:39:15 @ »When he heard me scream, he ran out of the house, leaving his coat with me.«

nsb@Genesis:39:18 @ »When I screamed for help, he left his coat and ran out of the house.«

nsb@Genesis:40:1 @ The king’s chief cupbearer and his chief baker made the king angry.

nsb@Genesis:40:2 @ Pharaoh was furious with his two officials, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker.

nsb@Genesis:40:7 @ He asked these officials of Pharaoh who were with him in his master’s prison: »Why do you look so unhappy today?«

nsb@Genesis:40:9 @ So the chief cupbearer told Joseph his dream. He said: »In my dream a grapevine with three branches appeared in front of me.

nsb@Genesis:40:12 @ »This is what it means,« Joseph said to him. »The three branches are three days.

nsb@Genesis:40:13 @ »In the next three days Pharaoh will release you and restore you to your position. You will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand as you used to do when you were his cupbearer.

nsb@Genesis:40:14 @ »Remember me when things go well for you. Please do me a favor. Mention me to Pharaoh, and get me out of this prison.

nsb@Genesis:40:18 @ Joseph answered: »This is its interpretation: the three baskets are three days.

nsb@Genesis:40:20 @ It happened on the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday that he made a feast for all his servants. He lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.

nsb@Genesis:40:21 @ He restored the chief cupbearer to his office, and he put the cup into Pharaoh’s hand.

nsb@Genesis:41:8 @ The king was upset the next morning. So he called his magicians and wise men and told them what he had dreamed. None of them could tell him what the dreams meant.

nsb@Genesis:41:14 @ So the king sent for Joseph. He was quickly brought out of jail. He shaved, changed his clothes, and went to the king.

nsb@Genesis:41:24 @ »The thin heads of grain swallowed the seven good heads. I told this to the magicians, but no one could tell me what it meant.«

nsb@Genesis:41:36 @ »This food will be a reserve supply for our country during the seven years of famine that will happen in Egypt. Then the land will not be ruined by the famine.«

nsb@Genesis:41:37 @ The king and his officials approved this plan,

nsb@Genesis:41:39 @ The king said to Joseph: »God has shown you all this. Therefore it is obvious that you have greater wisdom and insight than anyone else.

nsb@Genesis:41:42 @ Pharaoh took his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph’s hand. He clothed him in garments of fine linen and put the gold necklace around his neck.

nsb@Genesis:41:43 @ He had him ride in his second chariot. They proclaimed before him: »Bow the knee!« Thus he set him over all the land of Egypt.

nsb@Genesis:41:44 @ Moreover, Pharaoh said to Joseph: »Though I am Pharaoh, yet without your permission no one shall raise his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.«

nsb@Genesis:41:45 @ Pharaoh named Joseph, Zaphenath-paneah. He gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, as his wife. And Joseph went forth over the land of Egypt.

nsb@Genesis:41:51 @ Joseph named his firstborn son Manasseh, because God helped him forget all his troubles and all about his father’s family.

nsb@Genesis:42:1 @ When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons: »Why are you doing nothing?«

nsb@Genesis:42:5 @ Israel’s sons left with the others who were going to buy grain. This is because there was also famine in Canaan.

nsb@Genesis:42:7 @ Joseph recognized his brothers the moment he saw them. Even so, he acted as if he did not know them and spoke harshly to them: »Where did you come from?« They answered: »From Canaan, to buy food.«

nsb@Genesis:42:8 @ Even though Joseph recognized his brothers, they did not recognize him.

nsb@Genesis:42:15 @ »This is how you will be tested: I swear by the name of the king that you will never leave unless your youngest brother comes here.

nsb@Genesis:42:18 @ On the third day, Joseph said: »Do this and live, for I too respect God.

nsb@Genesis:42:21 @ They said to one another: »Truly we are guilty concerning our brother, because we saw his distress when he pleaded with us, yet we would not listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us.«

nsb@Genesis:42:22 @ Reuben said: »Did I not tell you? Did I say, ‘Do not sin against the boy’? You would not listen! Now comes the reckoning for his blood.«

nsb@Genesis:42:25 @ Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain and to restore every man’s money in his sack. They were to give them provisions for the journey. And thus it was done for them.

nsb@Genesis:42:27 @ They stopped for the night. One of them opened his sack to feed his donkey and his money was right inside his sack.

nsb@Genesis:42:28 @ He said to his brothers: »My money has been put back! It is right here in my sack!« They wanted to die. They trembled and turned to each other and asked: »What has God done to us?«

nsb@Genesis:42:33 @ »The governor of that land said to us, ‘This is how I will know that you are honest men: Leave one of your brothers with me. Take food for your starving families and go.

nsb@Genesis:42:34 @ »‘But bring me your youngest brother. Then I will know that you are not spies but honest men. I will give your brother back to you, and you will be able to move about freely in this country.’«

nsb@Genesis:42:35 @ As they were emptying their sacks, each man found his bag of money in his sack. When they and their father saw the bags of money, they were frightened.

nsb@Genesis:42:37 @ So Reuben said to his father: »You may put my two sons to death if I do not bring him back to you. Let me take care of him. I will bring him back to you.«

nsb@Genesis:42:38 @ Jacob replied: »My son will not go with you. His brother is dead, and he is the only one left. If any harm comes to him on the trip you are taking, the grief would drive this gray-haired old man to his grave!«

nsb@Genesis:43:2 @ When they finished eating the grain they brought from Egypt, Israel said to his sons: »Go back and buy us a little more food.«

nsb@Genesis:43:7 @ They answered: »The man kept asking about our family and us. He asked, ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?’ We simply answered his questions. How could we possibly know he would say, ‘Bring your brother here’?«

nsb@Genesis:43:8 @ Then Judah said to his father Israel: »Send the boy along with me. Let us get going so that we will not starve to death.

nsb@Genesis:43:10 @ »If we had not waited so long, we could have made this trip twice by now.«

nsb@Genesis:43:16 @ He saw Benjamin and told the servant in charge of his house: »Take these men to my house. Slaughter an animal and cook it, so they can eat with me at noon.«

nsb@Genesis:43:18 @ On the way they were worried and started talking: »We are being taken there because of the money that was put back in our sacks last time. He will arrest us and take our donkeys. He will make us his slaves!«

nsb@Genesis:43:29 @ Joseph looked around and saw his brother Benjamin. He said: »This must be the youngest brother you told me about. God bless you, my son.«

nsb@Genesis:43:30 @ Right away he rushed off to his room and cried because of his love for Benjamin.

nsb@Genesis:43:31 @ After washing his face and returning, he was able to control himself. He said: »Serve the meal!«

nsb@Genesis:43:32 @ Joseph was served at a table by himself. His brothers were served at another. The Egyptians sat at yet another table. This is because Egyptians felt it was disgusting to eat with Hebrews.

nsb@Genesis:44:1 @ Later, Joseph told the servant in charge of his house: »Fill the men’s grain sacks with as much as they can hold and put their money in the sacks.

nsb@Genesis:44:4 @ They just left the city and were not far off, when Joseph said to the man in charge of his house: »Follow the men and when you overtake them, say to them: ‘Why have you repaid evil for good?

nsb@Genesis:44:5 @ »‘Is this the cup that my master drinks from and that he uses for telling the future? What you have done is evil!’«

nsb@Genesis:44:7 @ They answered him: »What do you mean, Sir, by talking like this? We swear that we have done no such thing.

nsb@Genesis:44:11 @ Each of the brothers quickly put his sack on the ground and opened it.

nsb@Genesis:44:13 @ This upset the brothers so much that they began tearing their clothes in sorrow. Then they loaded their donkeys and returned to the city.

nsb@Genesis:44:14 @ When Judah and his brothers got there, Joseph was still at home. So they bowed down to Joseph.

nsb@Genesis:44:17 @ He said: »It is far from me that I should do this. The man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant. As for you, you go in peace to your father.«

nsb@Genesis:44:20 @ »We answered, ‘We have a father who is old and a younger brother born to him when he was already old. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’

nsb@Genesis:44:22 @ »We replied, ‘The boy cannot leave his father. If the boy leaves him, his father will die.’

nsb@Genesis:44:29 @ »‘If you take this one from me now and something happens to him, the sorrow you would cause me would kill me, as old as I am.’

nsb@Genesis:44:33 @ »Sir, I am your slave. Please let me stay here in place of Benjamin. Please let him return home with his brothers.

nsb@Genesis:45:1 @ Joseph could no longer control himself in front of those standing near him. He sent them out of the room and when he was alone with his brothers he made himself known to them. / Joseph could no longer control his feelings in front of his servants. He sent them out of the room. When he was alone with his brothers, he told them: »I am Joseph!«

nsb@Genesis:45:3 @ Joseph said to his brothers: »I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?« His brothers could not answer him because they were afraid of him.

nsb@Genesis:45:4 @ »Please come closer to me,« Joseph said to his brothers. They came closer. He said: »I am Joseph, the brother you sold into slavery in Egypt!

nsb@Genesis:45:8 @ »It was not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me like a father to Pharaoh. He made me lord over his entire household, and ruler of Egypt.

nsb@Genesis:45:9 @ »Hurry back to my father and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: »God has made me lord of Egypt. Come here to me immediately!

nsb@Genesis:45:14 @ Then he fell on his brother Benjamin’s neck and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck. (Acts strkjv@20:37)

nsb@Genesis:45:15 @ He kissed all his brothers and wept on them. Afterward his brothers talked with him.

nsb@Genesis:45:16 @ When the news reached the palace that Joseph’s brothers had come, the king and his officials were pleased.

nsb@Genesis:45:22 @ Joseph gave some new clothes to each of his brothers. He gave Benjamin five new outfits and three hundred pieces of silver.

nsb@Genesis:45:23 @ To his father he sent ten donkeys loaded with the best things in Egypt. And ten other donkeys loaded with grain and bread and other food for the return trip.

nsb@Genesis:45:24 @ Then he sent his brothers off and told them: »Do not argue on the way home!«

nsb@Genesis:46:1 @ Jacob packed up everything he owned and left for Egypt. On the way he stopped near the town of Beer-sheba and offered sacrifices to the God his father Isaac had worshiped.

nsb@Genesis:46:6 @ They took their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in Canaan. Jacob and all his family arrived in Egypt.

nsb@Genesis:46:7 @ He brought his sons, his grandsons, his daughters, and his granddaughters, his entire family.

nsb@Genesis:46:15 @ These were the sons Leah gave to Jacob in Paddan-aram, in addition to his daughter Dinah. The total number of these sons and daughters was thirty-three.

nsb@Genesis:46:18 @ These were the descendants of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah. She gave birth to these children for Jacob. The total was sixteen.

nsb@Genesis:46:25 @ These were the descendants of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel. She gave birth to these sons for Jacob. The total was seven.

nsb@Genesis:46:26 @ The total number of Jacob’s direct descendants who went with him to Egypt was sixty-six. This did not include the wives of Jacob’s sons.

nsb@Genesis:46:29 @ Joseph got in his chariot and went to Goshen to meet his father. When they met, Joseph threw his arms around his father’s neck and cried for a long time.

nsb@Genesis:46:31 @ Joseph said to his brothers and the rest of his father’s family: »I must go and tell the king that my brothers and all my father’s family, who were living in Canaan, have come to me.

nsb@Genesis:46:34 @ »Be sure to tell him that you have taken care of livestock all your lives, just as your ancestors did. In this way he will let you live in the region of Goshen. Joseph said this because Egyptians will have nothing to do with shepherds.

nsb@Genesis:47:1 @ Joseph took five of his brothers and went to the king. He told him: »My father and my brothers have come from Canaan with their flocks, their herds, and all that they own. They are now in the region of Goshen.«

nsb@Genesis:47:2 @ Then he presented his brothers to the king.

nsb@Genesis:47:4 @ »We have come to live in this country. The famine is so severe in the land of Canaan that there is no pasture for our flocks. Please give us permission to live in the region of Goshen.«

nsb@Genesis:47:7 @ Joseph brought his father Jacob and presented him to the king. Jacob gave the king his blessing.

nsb@Genesis:47:11 @ Joseph settled his father and his brothers in Egypt. He gave them property in the best of the land near the city of Rameses. This was as the king had commanded.

nsb@Genesis:47:12 @ Joseph provided food for his father, his brothers, and all the rest of his father’s family, including the very youngest.

nsb@Genesis:47:20 @ Joseph bought all the land in Egypt for the king. Every Egyptian was forced to sell his land, because the famine was so severe. All the land became the king’s property.

nsb@Genesis:47:26 @ Joseph made it a law for the land of Egypt that one-fifth of the harvest should belong to the king. This law still remains in force today. Only the lands of the priests did not become the king’s property.

nsb@Genesis:47:29 @ When the time drew near for him to die, he called for his son Joseph and said to him: »Place your hand under my thighs and make a solemn vow that you will not bury me in Egypt.

nsb@Genesis:47:31 @ Jacob said: »Make a vow that you will.« Joseph made the vow. Jacob gave thanks there on his bed.

nsb@Genesis:48:1 @ Later Joseph was told that his father was ill. So he took his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, and went to see Jacob.

nsb@Genesis:48:2 @ Jacob was told that his son Joseph had come to see him. He gathered his strength and sat up in bed.

nsb@Genesis:48:4 @ »He promised: ‘I will give you a large family with many descendants that will grow into a nation. I am giving you this land that will belong to you and your family from generation to generation.’«

nsb@Genesis:48:10 @ Israel’s eyesight was failing because of old age. He could hardly see. So Joseph brought his sons close to his father. Israel hugged them and kissed them.

nsb@Genesis:48:12 @ Joseph took them off his father’s lap and bowed with his face touching the ground.

nsb@Genesis:48:13 @ Then Joseph took both of them, Ephraim on his right, facing Israel’s left, and Manasseh on his left, facing Israel’s right, and brought them close to him.

nsb@Genesis:48:14 @ But Israel crossed his hands and reached out. He put his right hand on Ephraim’s head, although Ephraim was the younger son. He put his left hand on Manasseh’s head, although Manasseh was older.

nsb@Genesis:48:15 @ Jacob blessed Joseph. He said: »May God, in whose presence my grandfather Abraham and my father Isaac walked, may this God who has been my shepherd all my life to this very day,

nsb@Genesis:48:17 @ Joseph saw that his father had put his right hand on Ephraim’s head. Joseph did not like it. So he took his father’s hand in order to move it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s.

nsb@Genesis:48:18 @ He said to his father: »That is not right, Father! This is the firstborn. Put your right hand on his head.«

nsb@Genesis:48:19 @ His father refused and said: »I know, Son, I know! Manasseh, too, will become a nation. He, too, will be important. Nevertheless, his younger brother will be more important than he. His descendants will become many nations.«

nsb@Genesis:48:20 @ That day he blessed them. He said: »Because of you, Israel will speak this blessing: ‘May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh!’ In this way Israel put Ephraim ahead of Manasseh.«

nsb@Genesis:49:1 @ Jacob called for his sons. He said: »Gather around, and I will tell you what will happen to you in the future.

nsb@Genesis:49:9 @ »Judah is like a lion, killing his victim and returning to his den. He is like a lion stretching out and lying down. No one dares disturb him.

nsb@Genesis:49:10 @ »The royal scepter shall not depart from Judah. His descendants will always rule. Nations will bring him tribute and bow in obedience before him. This, until Shiloh comes and all will obey him.

nsb@Genesis:49:11 @ »He will tie his donkey to a grapevine, his colt to the best vine. He will wash his clothes in wine, his garments in the blood of grapes.

nsb@Genesis:49:12 @ »His eyes are darker than wine. His teeth are whiter than milk.

nsb@Genesis:49:13 @ »Zebulun will live by the coast. He will have ships by the coast. His border will go as far as Sidon.

nsb@Genesis:49:15 @ »When he sees that his resting place is good and that the land is pleasant, he will bend his back to the burden and will become a slave laborer.

nsb@Genesis:49:16 @ »Dan will judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel.

nsb@Genesis:49:24 @ »His bow stayed steady! His arms remained limber because of the help of the Mighty One of Jacob, because of the name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,

nsb@Genesis:49:26 @ »The blessings of your father are greater than the blessings of the oldest mountains and the riches of the ancient hills. May these blessings rest on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the prince among his brothers.

nsb@Genesis:49:27 @ »Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning and evening he destroys his enemies.«

nsb@Genesis:49:28 @ These are the twelve tribes of Israel. This is how Jacob blessed each of them.

nsb@Genesis:49:29 @ Jacob told his sons: »Soon I will die. I want you to bury me in Machpelah Cave.

nsb@Genesis:49:31 @ »Abraham and his wife Sarah are buried there. Isaac and his wife Rebekah are buried there. I also buried Leah there.

nsb@Genesis:49:33 @ Jacob finished giving these instructions to his sons. He pulled his feet into his bed. He took his last breath and joined his ancestors in death.

nsb@Genesis:50:1 @ Joseph threw himself on his father. He cried over him, and kissed him.

nsb@Genesis:50:2 @ Then Joseph gave orders to embalm his father’s body.

nsb@Genesis:50:4 @ When the time of mourning was over, Joseph said to the king’s officials: »Please take this message to the king:

nsb@Genesis:50:7 @ So Joseph went to bury his father. All the king’s officials, the senior men of his court, and all the leading men of Egypt went with Joseph.

nsb@Genesis:50:8 @ His family, including his brothers, and the rest of his father’s family all went with him. Only their small children and their sheep, goats, and cattle stayed in the region of Goshen.

nsb@Genesis:50:13 @ They carried his body to Canaan and buried it in the cave at Machpelah east of Mamre. He was buried in the field Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite for a burial ground.

nsb@Genesis:50:14 @ After the funeral, Joseph, his brothers, and everyone else returned to Egypt.

nsb@Genesis:50:16 @ Thus they sent word to Joseph, saying: »Your father gave us orders before his death. He said,

nsb@Genesis:50:18 @ Then his brothers also came and immediately bowed down in front of him. »We are your slaves!« they said.

nsb@Genesis:50:20 @ »Even though you planned evil against me, God planned good to come out of it. This was to keep many people alive, as he is doing now.

nsb@Genesis:50:22 @ Joseph continued to live in Egypt with his father’s family. He was a hundred and ten years old when he died.

nsb@Genesis:50:23 @ Joseph lived long enough to see Ephraim’s children and grandchildren. He also lived to see the children of Manasseh’s son Machir. He welcomed them into his family.

nsb@Genesis:50:24 @ Before Joseph died, he told his brothers: »I will not live much longer. God will take care of you. He will lead you out of Egypt to the land he promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

nsb@Genesis:50:26 @ Joseph died in Egypt at the age of one hundred and ten. His body was embalmed and put in a coffin.

nsb@Exodus:1:6 @ Joseph, all his brothers, and that entire generation died.

nsb@Exodus:1:9 @ He said to his people: »There are too many Israelites! They are stronger than we are.

nsb@Exodus:1:22 @ Then Pharaoh commanded all his people: Every son who is born must be thrown into the Nile River. However, keep every daughter alive.

nsb@Exodus:2:6 @ She opened it and saw a baby boy. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. »This is one of the Hebrew babies,« she said.

nsb@Exodus:2:7 @ His sister asked her: »Shall I go and call a Hebrew woman to nurse the baby for you?«

nsb@Exodus:2:9 @ Pharaoh’s daughter told her: »Take care of this child, and I will pay you. The baby’s mother carried him home and took care of him.«

nsb@Exodus:2:11 @ After Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were hard at work. He saw an Egyptian beating one of them.

nsb@Exodus:2:12 @ Moses looked around to see if anyone was watching. Then he killed the Egyptian and hid his body in the sand.

nsb@Exodus:2:15 @ When Pharaoh heard of this matter, he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the presence of Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian by a well.

nsb@Exodus:2:20 @ He asked his daughters: »Where is he? Why have you left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.«

nsb@Exodus:2:21 @ Moses was content to live with the man. He gave Moses his daughter Zipporah.

nsb@Exodus:2:22 @ She bore a son, and he called his name Gershom. For he said: »I have been a stranger in a strange land.«

nsb@Exodus:2:24 @ God heard their groaning. He remembered his promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

nsb@Exodus:3:1 @ One day Moses was taking care of the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock across the desert to Sinai, the holy mountain.

nsb@Exodus:3:3 @ »This is strange,« he thought. »Why is the bush not burning up? I will go closer and see.«

nsb@Exodus:3:6 @ »I am the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.« Moses covered his face, because he was afraid to look at God.

nsb@Exodus:3:10 @ »Now go to Pharaoh! I am sending you to lead my people out of his country.«

nsb@Exodus:3:12 @ God said: »I will be with you! This shall be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall worship God at this mountain.«

nsb@Exodus:3:13 @ Then Moses said to God: »Behold, I am going to the sons of Israel. I will say to them: ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you.’ Now they may ask me: ‘What is His name?’ What shall I say to them?’«

nsb@Exodus:3:15 @ God, further said to Moses: »You shall say to the sons of Israel: ‘JEHOVAH, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ THIS IS MY NAME FOREVER! This is my memorial-name to all generations.

nsb@Exodus:3:21 @ »I will grant this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. When you go you will not go empty handed.

nsb@Exodus:4:5 @ Jehovah said: »Do this to prove to the Israelites that Jehovah, the God of their ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, has appeared to you.«

nsb@Exodus:4:6 @ Jehovah spoke to Moses again: »Put your hand inside your robe.« Moses obeyed. When he took his hand out, it was diseased, covered with white spots, like snow.

nsb@Exodus:4:7 @ Jehovah said: »Put your hand inside your robe again.« He did so, and when he took it out this time, it was healthy, just like the rest of his body.

nsb@Exodus:4:8 @ Jehovah said: »If they will not believe you or be convinced by the first sign, then this one will convince them.

nsb@Exodus:4:14 @ Then the anger of Jehovah burned against Moses, and He said: »Is there not your brother Aaron the Levite? I know that he speaks fluently. He is coming out to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.

nsb@Exodus:4:15 @ »You are to speak to him and put the words in his mouth. I will be with your mouth and his mouth. I will teach you what you are to do.

nsb@Exodus:4:18 @ Moses departed and returned to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him: »Please, let me go, that I may return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see if they are still alive.« Jethro said to Moses: »Go in peace.«

nsb@Exodus:4:20 @ So Moses took his wife and his sons and mounted them on a donkey and returned to the land of Egypt. Moses also took the staff of God in his hand.

nsb@Exodus:4:21 @ Jehovah said to Moses: »When you go back to Egypt see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders that I have put in your power. I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go.«

nsb@Exodus:5:2 @ But Pharaoh responded: »Who is Jehovah, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I do not know Jehovah, and besides, I will not let Israel go.«

nsb@Exodus:5:15 @ Finally, the men in charge of the slaves went to the king and asked: »Why are you treating us like this?

nsb@Exodus:5:21 @ They said: »May Jehovah see what you have done and judge you! You have made Pharaoh and his officials hate us. You have given them an excuse to kill us.«

nsb@Exodus:5:22 @ Moses went back to Jehovah and asked: »Why have you brought this trouble on your people? Why did you send me?

nsb@Exodus:6:1 @ Jehovah said to Moses: »Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh. I will show him my power. He will let my people go! I will show him my power, and he will throw them out of his country.«

nsb@Exodus:6:5 @ »Furthermore I have heard the groaning of the sons of Israel. This is because the Egyptians are holding them in bondage. I have remembered my covenant.

nsb@Exodus:6:9 @ Moses reported this to the Israelites. But they would not listen to him. For they were so discouraged by their backbreaking work.

nsb@Exodus:6:20 @ Amram married his father’s sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived one hundred and thirty-seven years.

nsb@Exodus:7:2 @ »You shall speak all that I command you. Your brother Aaron shall speak to Pharaoh that he let the sons of Israel go out of his land.

nsb@Exodus:7:10 @ Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh. They did as Jehovah commanded. Aaron threw his staff down in front of Pharaoh and his officials. It became a large snake.

nsb@Exodus:7:11 @ Then Pharaoh sent for his wise men and sorcerers. These Egyptian magicians did the same thing using their magic spells.

nsb@Exodus:7:12 @ Each of them threw his staff down. They all became large snakes. But Aaron’s staff swallowed theirs.

nsb@Exodus:7:15 @ »In the morning meet Pharaoh when he is on his way to the Nile. Wait for him on the bank of the river. Take the staff that turned into a snake.

nsb@Exodus:7:17 @ »Jehovah says: ‘This is the way you will recognize that I am Jehovah: I will strike the Nile with this staff in my hand. The water will turn into blood.

nsb@Exodus:7:20 @ Moses and Aaron did as Jehovah commanded. Aaron raised his staff and struck the Nile in front of Pharaoh and his officials. All the water in the river turned into blood.

nsb@Exodus:7:23 @ Pharaoh turned and went back to his palace. This did not change his mind and heart.

nsb@Exodus:8:6 @ »So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt. The frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.

nsb@Exodus:8:17 @ So Aaron struck the ground with his stick. The dust in Egypt was turned into gnats. They swarmed over the people and the animals.

nsb@Exodus:8:23 @ »‘»I will put a dividing line between my people and your people. This sign will happen tomorrow.« ’«

nsb@Exodus:8:24 @ Jehovah did what he said. Dense swarms of flies came into Pharaoh’s palace and into the houses of his officials. All over Egypt the flies ruined everything.

nsb@Exodus:8:25 @ Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron. He said: »Go, sacrifice to your God here in this country.«

nsb@Exodus:8:31 @ Jehovah did what Moses asked. The swarms of flies left Pharaoh, his officials, and his people. Not a single fly was left.

nsb@Exodus:9:1 @ Then Jehovah said to Moses: »Go to Pharaoh, and tell him, this is what Jehovah the God of the Hebrews says: Let my people go to serve me.

nsb@Exodus:9:5 @ Jehovah set a definite time: »I, Jehovah, choose tomorrow as the time when I will do this.«

nsb@Exodus:9:13 @ Jehovah told Moses to get up early the next morning and say to the king: »God of the Hebrews commands you to let his people go, so they can serve him!

nsb@Exodus:9:14 @ »If you do not, he will send his worst plagues to strike you, your officials, and everyone else in your country. Then you will find out that no one can oppose Jehovah.

nsb@Exodus:9:18 @ »At this time tomorrow, I will send a very heavy hail, such as has not been seen in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.

nsb@Exodus:9:20 @ The ones among the servants of Pharaoh who respected the word of Jehovah made his servants and his livestock flee into the houses.

nsb@Exodus:9:21 @ He who paid no regard to the word of Jehovah left his servants and his livestock in the field.

nsb@Exodus:9:23 @ Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky. Then Jehovah sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down to the earth. Jehovah rained hail on the land of Egypt.

nsb@Exodus:9:24 @ It hailed, and lightning flashed while it hailed. This was the worst storm in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation.

nsb@Exodus:9:27 @ The king sent for Moses and Aaron and said: »This time I have sinned. Jehovah is in the right. My people and I are in the wrong.

nsb@Exodus:9:28 @ »Pray to Jehovah! We have had enough of this thunder and hail! I promise to let you go. You do not have to stay here any longer.«

nsb@Exodus:9:33 @ Moses left the royal palace and the city. He lifted his arms in prayer to Jehovah. The thunder, hail, and drenching rain stopped.

nsb@Exodus:9:34 @ The king realized that the storm was over. He disobeyed once more. He and his officials were so stubborn

nsb@Exodus:9:35 @ that he refused to let the Israelites go. This was exactly what Jehovah said would happen.

nsb@Exodus:10:1 @ Jehovah told Moses: »Go back to the king. I have made him and his officials stubborn, so that I could work these signs.

nsb@Exodus:10:2 @ »I did this because I want you to tell your children and your grandchildren about the mighty things and the signs I have done in Egypt. Then all of you will know that I am Jehovah.«

nsb@Exodus:10:6 @ »‘Your houses shall be filled and the houses of all your servants and the houses of all the Egyptians. This is something neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen, from the day that they came upon the earth until this day. He turned and went out from Pharaoh.’«

nsb@Exodus:10:7 @ Pharaoh’s servants said to him: »How long shall this man be a snare to us? Let the men go so that they may serve Jehovah their God. Do you not yet know that Egypt is destroyed?«

nsb@Exodus:10:13 @ Moses held his staff over the land of Egypt. Jehovah made a wind from the east blow over the land all that day and all that night. By morning the east wind had brought the locusts.

nsb@Exodus:10:17 @ »Please forgive my sin one more time. Pray to Jehovah your God to take this deadly plague away from me.«

nsb@Exodus:10:22 @ Moses raised his hand toward the sky. Total darkness fell throughout Egypt for three days.

nsb@Exodus:10:23 @ The Egyptians could not see each other. No one left his house during that time. The Israelites, however, had light where they were living.

nsb@Exodus:11:1 @ Jehovah said to Moses: »I will send only one more punishment on the king of Egypt and his people. After that he will let you leave. In fact, he will drive all of you out of here.

nsb@Exodus:11:6 @ »Everywhere in Egypt there will be loud crying. Nothing like this has ever happened before or will ever happen again.

nsb@Exodus:11:7 @ »But against any of the sons of Israel a dog will not even bark, whether against man or beast. This is so you may understand how Jehovah makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.«

nsb@Exodus:11:10 @ Moses and Aaron performed all these wonders before Pharaoh. Yet Jehovah hardened Pharaoh’s heart. He did not let the sons of Israel go out of his land.

nsb@Exodus:12:2 @ »This month shall be the beginning of months for you. It is to be the first month of the year to you.

nsb@Exodus:12:3 @ »Tell the whole community of Israel: ‘On the tenth day of this month each man must take a sheep for his family, one animal per household.

nsb@Exodus:12:6 @ »‘Take care of it until the fourteenth day of this month. Then at dusk, all the assembled people from the community of Israel must slaughter their animals.

nsb@Exodus:12:11 @ »‘Eat it in this manner: with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste. It is Jehovah’s Passover.’«

nsb@Exodus:12:14 @ »This day will be a memorial to you. You shall celebrate it as a feast to Jehovah. You are to celebrate it as a permanent ordinance throughout your generations.

nsb@Exodus:12:17 @ »You shall also observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread. That was the day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt. Observe this day throughout your generations as a long lasting ordinance.

nsb@Exodus:12:22 @ »Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin. Apply some of the blood that is in the basin to the lintel and the two doorposts. No one shall go outside the door of his house until morning.

nsb@Exodus:12:24 @ »You shall observe this event as an ordinance for you and your children from generation to generation.

nsb@Exodus:12:25 @ »When you enter the land Jehovah will give you, as he has promised, you shall observe this rite.

nsb@Exodus:12:26 @ »When your children ask you: What does this rite mean to you?

nsb@Exodus:12:30 @ Pharaoh, all his officials, and all the other Egyptians got up during the night. There was loud crying throughout Egypt because in every house someone had died.

nsb@Exodus:12:42 @ It is a night to be observed for Jehovah for having brought them out from the land of Egypt. This night is for Jehovah and should be observed by all the sons of Israel throughout their generations.

nsb@Exodus:12:43 @ Jehovah said to Moses and Aaron: »This is the ordinance of the Passover: no foreigner is to eat of it.

nsb@Exodus:12:48 @ »The uncircumcised man may not eat it. If a foreigner has settled among you and wants to celebrate Passover to honor Jehovah, you must first circumcise all the males of his household. He is then to be treated like a native-born Israelite and may join in the festival.

nsb@Exodus:13:3 @ Moses said to the people: »Remember this day in the month of Abib. It is the day Jehovah’s mighty power rescued you from slavery in Egypt. Do not eat anything made with yeast.

nsb@Exodus:13:4 @ »You are going out this day in the month Abib.

nsb@Exodus:13:5 @ »Jehovah shall bring you into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. He swore to your fathers to give you this land flowing with milk and honey. You shall observe this rite in this month.

nsb@Exodus:13:8 @ »On that day tell your children: ‘We do this because of what Jehovah did for us when we left Egypt.’«

nsb@Exodus:13:9 @ »This festival will be like a mark on your hand. It will be a reminder on your forehead that the teachings of Jehovah are always to be a part of your conversation! Jehovah used his mighty hand to bring you out of Egypt.

nsb@Exodus:13:10 @ »You must follow these rules every year at this time.

nsb@Exodus:13:14 @ »In the future when your children ask you, ‘What does this mean?’ tell them: ‘Jehovah used his mighty hand to bring us out of slavery in Egypt.’’«

nsb@Exodus:13:15 @ »Pharaoh was too stubborn to let us go. Because of this every firstborn male in Egypt-human and animal was killed. This is why we sacrifice every firstborn male to Jehovah and buy every firstborn son back from Jehovah.

nsb@Exodus:13:16 @ »This festival will be like a mark on your hand and like a band on your forehead, because Jehovah used his mighty hand to bring us out of Egypt.«

nsb@Exodus:13:19 @ Moses took the body of Joseph with him. Joseph made the Israelites solemnly promise to do so. Joseph said: When God rescues you, you must carry my body with you from this place.

nsb@Exodus:14:4 @ »I will make him stubborn. He will pursue you. My victory over the king and his army will bring me honor. Then the Egyptians will know that I am Jehovah!« The Israelites did as they were told.

nsb@Exodus:14:5 @ The king of Egypt was told that the people had escaped. He and his officials changed their minds and said: »What have we done? We have let the Israelites escape, and we have lost them as our slaves!«

nsb@Exodus:14:6 @ The king got his war chariot and army ready.

nsb@Exodus:14:7 @ He commanded his officers in charge of his six hundred best chariots and all his other chariots to start after the Israelites.

nsb@Exodus:14:10 @ The Israelites saw the king coming with his army. They were frightened and begged Jehovah for help.

nsb@Exodus:14:13 @ But Moses said to the people: »Do not fear! Stand by and see the salvation of Jehovah. He will accomplish this for you today. The Egyptians whom you have seen today, you will never see them again forever.

nsb@Exodus:14:17 @ »I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them. I will be honored through Pharaoh and all his army, through his chariots and his horsemen.

nsb@Exodus:14:18 @ »Then the Egyptians will know that I am Jehovah, when I am honored through Pharaoh, through his chariots and his horsemen.«

nsb@Exodus:14:21 @ Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. Jehovah swept the sea back by a strong east wind all night and turned the sea into dry land. The waters were divided.

nsb@Exodus:14:27 @ Moses held out his hand over the sea. At daybreak the water returned to its normal level. The Egyptians tried to escape from the water. But Jehovah threw them into the sea.

nsb@Exodus:14:31 @ The Israelites saw the great power with which Jehovah had defeated the Egyptians. So they stood in awe of Jehovah. They had faith in Jehovah and in his servant Moses.

nsb@Exodus:15:1 @ Moses and the Israelites sang this song to Jehovah: »I will sing to Jehovah, because he has won a glorious victory. He has thrown the horses and their riders into the sea.

nsb@Exodus:15:2 @ »Jehovah is my strong defender. He is the one who has saved me. He is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will sing about his greatness.

nsb@Exodus:15:3 @ »Jehovah is His name, and he is a warrior!

nsb@Exodus:15:14 @ »Nations learned of this and trembled. The Philistines shook with horror.

nsb@Exodus:15:26 @ He said: »If you will listen carefully to Jehovah your God and do what he considers right, if you pay attention to his commands and obey all his laws, I will never make you suffer any of the diseases I made the Egyptians suffer. I am Jehovah, who heals you.«

nsb@Exodus:16:1 @ The whole congregation of Israelites moved from Elim to the desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai. This was on the fifteenth day of the second month after they left Egypt.

nsb@Exodus:16:3 @ The Israelites said to them: »If only Jehovah had allowed us die in Egypt! There we sat by our pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted! You brought us out into this desert to let us all starve to death!«

nsb@Exodus:16:4 @ Jehovah said to Moses: »I am going to cause food to rain down from the sky for all of you. The people must go out every day and gather enough for that day. In this way I can test them to find out if they will follow my instructions.

nsb@Exodus:16:6 @ Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites: »This evening you will know that it was Jehovah who brought you out of Egypt.

nsb@Exodus:16:8 @ Moses said: »This will happen when Jehovah gives you meat to eat in the evening, and bread to eat in the morning. Jehovah hears your complaints against him. And what are we? Your complaints are not against us but against Jehovah.«

nsb@Exodus:16:15 @ When the children of Israel saw, they said to one another: »What is this?« For they did not know what it was. Moses said to them: »This is the bread Jehovah has given you to eat.«

nsb@Exodus:16:16 @ This is what Jehovah has commanded: »Each man should gather according to what he can eat. You shall take two quarts for each person in your tent.«

nsb@Exodus:16:17 @ The sons of Israel did this. Some gathered much and some little.

nsb@Exodus:16:25 @ Moses said: »Eat this today, because today is the Sabbath, a day of rest dedicated to Jehovah. You will not find any food outside the camp.

nsb@Exodus:16:29 @ »Jehovah has given you the Sabbath. He gives you bread for two days on the sixth day. Remain every man in his place! Let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.«

nsb@Exodus:16:32 @ Moses said: »This is what Jehovah has commanded: ‘Let two quarts of it be kept throughout your generations. Then they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’«

nsb@Exodus:17:2 @ So they complained to Moses about this: »Give us water to drink!« Moses said: »Why do you complain to me? Why do you test Jehovah?«

nsb@Exodus:17:6 @ »Behold! I will stand before you there upon the rock in Horeb. Strike the rock and water will come out of it. Then the people may drink.« Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.

nsb@Exodus:17:11 @ As long as Moses held up his hands, Israel would win, but as soon as he put his hands down, the Amalekites would start to win.

nsb@Exodus:17:12 @ Finally, Moses was so tired that Aaron and Hur got a rock for him to sit on. They stood beside him and supported his arms in the same position until sunset.

nsb@Exodus:17:14 @ After the fight Jehovah said to Moses: »Write an account of this victory and read it to Joshua. I want the Amalekites to be forgotten forever.«

nsb@Exodus:17:16 @ Then Moses explained: »This is because I depended on Jehovah. But in future generations, Jehovah will have to fight the Amalekites again.«

nsb@Exodus:18:1 @ Jethro was the priest of Midian and the father-in-law of Moses. He heard what Jehovah God had done for Moses and his people, after rescuing them from Egypt.

nsb@Exodus:18:2 @ Moses sent his wife Zipporah and her two sons to stay with Jethro. Jethro welcomed them.

nsb@Exodus:18:3 @ Moses was still a foreigner in Midian when his first son was born. Moses said: »I will name him Gershom.«

nsb@Exodus:18:4 @ When his second son was born, Moses said: »I will name him Eliezer, because the God my father worshiped has saved me from the king of Egypt.«

nsb@Exodus:18:7 @ Moses went out to meet his father-in-law. Moses bowed with his face touching the ground and kissed Jethro. They asked each other how they were. Then they entered the tent.

nsb@Exodus:18:8 @ Moses told his father-in-law everything Jehovah had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel. He talked about all the hardships they had on the way, and how Jehovah saved them.

nsb@Exodus:18:14 @ Jethro saw everything that Moses had to do. He asked: »What is all this that you are doing for the people? Why are you doing this all alone? There are people standing here from morning till night to consult you?«

nsb@Exodus:18:18 @ »You and your people will wear yourselves out. This is too much work for you. You cannot do it alone!

nsb@Exodus:18:23 @ »If you do this, as God commands, you will not wear yourself out. All these people can go home with their disputes settled.«

nsb@Exodus:19:3 @ Jehovah called Moses from the mountain. So Moses went up the mountain to God. Jehovah told him: »This is what you must say to the descendants of Jacob. Tell the Israelites:

nsb@Exodus:19:13 @ with stones or arrows, and no one must touch the body of a person killed in this way. Even an animal that touches this mountain must be put to death. You may go up the mountain only after a signal is given on the trumpet.«

nsb@Exodus:20:7 @ »Never use the name of Jehovah your God in a false and evil way. Jehovah will make sure that anyone who is false, evil, careless and vain with his name will be punished.

nsb@Exodus:20:17 @ »Do not covet another man’s house. Do not desire his wife, his slaves, his cattle, his donkeys, or anything else that he owns.

nsb@Exodus:20:25 @ »If you make an altar of stone for me, do not build it out of cut stones. This is because when you use a chisel on stones, you make them unfit for my use.

nsb@Exodus:21:2 @ »When you buy a Hebrew slave he will be your slave for six years. In the seventh year he may leave as a free man without paying for his freedom.

nsb@Exodus:21:3 @ »If he was single at the time you bought him he alone must be set free. If he was married at that time, both he and his wife must be given their freedom.

nsb@Exodus:21:4 @ »If his master gives him a wife, and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children will belong to her master. He shall go out alone.

nsb@Exodus:21:5 @ »What if the slave loves his wife and children so much that he will not leave without them?

nsb@Exodus:21:6 @ »He must stand beside either the door or the doorpost at the place of worship. His owner will punch a small hole through one of his ears with a sharp metal rod. This makes him a slave for life.

nsb@Exodus:21:7 @ »When a man sells his daughter into slavery, she will not go free the way male slaves do.

nsb@Exodus:21:9 @ »If a man buys a female slave to give to his son, he should treat her like a daughter.

nsb@Exodus:21:10 @ »If a man takes a second wife, he must continue to give his first wife the same amount of food and clothing and the same rights that she had before.

nsb@Exodus:21:15 @ »He who strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

nsb@Exodus:21:17 @ »Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.

nsb@Exodus:21:18 @ »When men quarrel and one hits the other with a rock or with his fist and injures him so that he has to stay in bed you must do this.

nsb@Exodus:21:19 @ »If the injured man is able to stand up again and walk around outside with a cane, the one who hit him must not be punished. He must pay the injured man for the loss of his time and for all his medical expenses.

nsb@Exodus:21:20 @ »If a slave owner takes a stick and beats his slave, whether male or female, and the slave dies on the spot, the owner is to be punished.

nsb@Exodus:21:26 @ »If a man strikes the eye of his male or female slave, and destroys it, he shall let him go free because of his eye.

nsb@Exodus:21:27 @ »If he knocks out a tooth of his male or female slave, he shall let him go free because of his tooth.

nsb@Exodus:21:30 @ »If a ransom is demanded of him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is demanded of him.

nsb@Exodus:21:32 @ »If the ox gores a male or female slave, the owner shall give his or her master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

nsb@Exodus:21:34 @ the owner of the pit shall make restitution. He will give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall become his.

nsb@Exodus:21:36 @ »If it is known that the ox was previously in the habit of goring, yet its owner has not confined it, he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead animal shall become his.«

nsb@Exodus:22:2 @ »If the thief is caught while breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no blood guiltiness on his account.

nsb@Exodus:22:4 @ »If the stolen animal is found alive in his possession, whether it is a bull, donkey, or a sheep, he must make up for the loss with double the amount.

nsb@Exodus:22:5 @ »Someone lets his livestock graze in a field or a vineyard. They stray and graze in another person’s field. He must make up for what the damaged field was expected to produce. If he lets them ruin the whole field with their grazing, he must make up from his own field for the loss with the best from his field and vineyard.

nsb@Exodus:22:7 @ »Someone gives his neighbor silver or other valuables to keep for him. They are stolen from that person’s house. If the thief is caught, he must make up for the loss with double the amount.

nsb@Exodus:22:8 @ »If the thief is not caught, the owner of the house must be brought to God to find out whether or not he took his neighbor’s valuables.

nsb@Exodus:22:9 @ »There is a dispute over the ownership of a bull, a donkey, a sheep, an article of clothing, and any other lost property which two people claim as their own. Both people must bring their case to God. The one whom God declares guilty must make up for his neighbor’s loss with double the amount.

nsb@Exodus:22:10 @ »Someone gives his neighbor a donkey, a bull, a sheep, or any other kind of animal to keep for him, and it dies, is injured, or is captured in war, and there are no witnesses.

nsb@Exodus:22:14 @ »Whenever someone borrows an animal from his neighbor, and it is injured or dies while the owner is not present, the borrower must make up for the loss.

nsb@Exodus:23:3 @ »Do not show partiality to a poor man at his trial.

nsb@Exodus:23:6 @ »Do not deny justice to a poor person at his trial.

nsb@Exodus:23:7 @ »Do not make false accusations. Do not put an innocent person to death. I will condemn anyone who does this evil thing.

nsb@Exodus:23:15 @ »In the month of Abib, the month in which you left Egypt, celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread in the way that I commanded you. Do not eat any bread made with yeast during the seven days of this festival. Never come to worship me without bringing an offering.

nsb@Exodus:23:21 @ »Be on your guard before him and obey his voice. Do not be rebellious toward him. He will not pardon your transgression, since my name is in him.

nsb@Exodus:23:22 @ »If you truly obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.

nsb@Exodus:24:8 @ Moses took the blood from the bowls and sprinkled it on the people. Next, he told them: With this blood Jehovah makes his agreement with you.

nsb@Exodus:24:10 @ They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was something that looked like a pavement made out of sapphire. It was as bright as the sky.

nsb@Exodus:24:13 @ Moses and Joshua his assistant got ready. Moses started up the mountain to meet with God.

nsb@Exodus:25:3 @ »This is the type of contribution you will accept from them: gold, silver, and bronze,

nsb@Exodus:25:7 @ onyx stones, and other precious stones to be set in the chief priest’s ephod and his breastplate.

nsb@Exodus:25:33 @ »Three cups shall be shaped like almond blossoms in the one branch, a bulb and a flower, and three cups shaped like almond blossoms in the other branch. This should go on for six branches going out from the lamp stand.

nsb@Exodus:26:24 @ »Fasten these together at the bottom and tightly at the top by a single ring. Both corner frames will be made this way.

nsb@Exodus:27:21 @ »Keep the lamps lit in the tent of meeting outside the canopy where the words of my covenant are. Aaron and his descendants must keep the lamps lit in Jehovah’s presence from evening until morning. This is a long lasting law among the Israelites for generations to come.

nsb@Exodus:28:1 @ Jehovah continued: »Bring your brother Aaron and his sons Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar to you from all the Israelites. They will serve me as priests.

nsb@Exodus:28:3 @ »Tell all the skilled men whom I have given this ability to make Aaron’s clothes. These clothes will set him apart as holy when he serves me as priest.

nsb@Exodus:28:4 @ »The clothes they will make are as follows: a breastplate, an ephod and the robe that is worn with it, another specially woven linen robe, the chief priest’s turban, and a cloth belt. They will make these holy clothes for your brother Aaron and his sons so that they will be able to serve me as priests.

nsb@Exodus:28:12 @ »Then fasten them on the shoulder straps of the ephod as reminders of who the Israelites are. In this way Aaron will carry their names on his shoulders as a reminder in Jehovah’s presence.

nsb@Exodus:28:27 @ »Make two more gold rings, and fasten them to the bottom of the shoulder straps on the front of the ephod. This will be close to the seam just above the belt of the ephod.

nsb@Exodus:28:28 @ »Then the breastplate should be fastened by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a violet cord. Attach it just above the belt of the ephod. This will hold the breastplate in place.

nsb@Exodus:28:29 @ »When Aaron goes into the holy place, he will carry the names of the sons of Israel over his heart as a continual reminder in Jehovah’s presence. He must do this by wearing the breast piece for decision-making.

nsb@Exodus:28:30 @ Put the Urim and Thummim into the breast piece for decision-making. They, too, will be over Aaron’s heart when he comes into Jehovah’s presence. In this way when he is in Jehovah’s presence, Aaron will always be carrying over his heart the means for determining Jehovah’s decisions for the Israelites.

nsb@Exodus:28:38 @ »It shall be on Aaron’s forehead. Aaron will take away the iniquity of the holy things that the sons of Israel consecrate. Concerning their holy gifts it will always be on his forehead that they may be accepted before Jehovah.

nsb@Exodus:28:41 @ »Dress your brother Aaron and his sons in these clothes and anoint them, ordain them, and set them apart to serve me as priests.

nsb@Exodus:28:43 @ »Aaron and his sons must wear them when they go into the tent of meeting or when they come near the altar to serve as priests in the holy place. They will be blameless and will not die. This is a long lasting law for him and his descendants.

nsb@Exodus:29:1 @ Jehovah also said: »This is what you must do in order to set Aaron and his sons apart to serve me as priests: Take a young bull that has no defects and two rams that have no defects.

nsb@Exodus:29:4 @ »Bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the sacred tent of meeting and have them wash themselves.

nsb@Exodus:29:6 @ »Put on his turban with its narrow strip of engraved gold.

nsb@Exodus:29:7 @ »Ordain him by pouring olive oil on his head.

nsb@Exodus:29:10 @ »Lead the bull to the entrance of the sacred tent. Aaron and his sons will lay their hands on its head there.

nsb@Exodus:29:15 @ »Take one of the rams and Aaron and his sons are to put their hands on its head.

nsb@Exodus:29:18 @ »Burn the whole ram on the altar. It is burnt offering to Jehovah. The odor of this offering pleases me.

nsb@Exodus:29:19 @ Take the other ram and Aaron and his sons are to put their hands on its head.

nsb@Exodus:29:20 @ »Kill it and take some of its blood and put it on the lobes of the right ears of Aaron and his sons, on the thumbs of their right hands and on the big toes of their right feet. Sprinkle the rest of the blood all around the altar.

nsb@Exodus:29:21 @ »Take some of the blood that is on the altar and some of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron and his clothes and on his sons and their clothes. He, his sons, and their clothes will then be dedicated to me.

nsb@Exodus:29:24 @ »Put all this food in the hands of Aaron and his sons and have them dedicate it to me as a special gift.

nsb@Exodus:29:26 @ »You may eat the choice breast from this second ram, but you must first lift them up to show that this meat is dedicated to me.

nsb@Exodus:29:27 @ »You shall consecrate the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the heave offering which was waved and which was offered from the ram of ordination, from the one that was for Aaron and from the one that was for his sons.

nsb@Exodus:29:28 @ »It will be for Aaron and his sons as their long lasting portion from the sons of Israel. It is a heave offering. It will be a heave offering from the sons of Israel from the sacrifices of their peace offerings, even their heave offering to Jehovah.

nsb@Exodus:29:29 @ »The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him. They may wear them when they are anointed and ordained.

nsb@Exodus:29:30 @ »For seven days the one of his sons who is priest in his stead shall put them on when he enters the tent of meeting to minister in the holy place.

nsb@Exodus:29:32 @ »Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram and the bread that is in the basket, at the doorway of the tent of meeting.

nsb@Exodus:29:35 @ »Do to Aaron and to his sons all that I have commanded you. Ordain them for seven days.

nsb@Exodus:29:38 @ »Now this is what you shall offer on the altar: two one year old lambs each day, continuously.

nsb@Exodus:29:44 @ »I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar. I will also consecrate Aaron and his sons to minister as priests to me.

nsb@Exodus:30:7 @ »Aaron must burn sweet incense on this altar every morning when he takes care of the lamps.

nsb@Exodus:30:9 @ »Do not burn any unauthorized incense on this altar or any burnt offerings or grain offerings. Do not pour a wine offering on it.

nsb@Exodus:30:12 @ »When you take a census of the people of Israel, each man is to pay me a price for his life. This to insure that no disaster will come on him while the census is being taken.

nsb@Exodus:30:13 @ »Everyone included in the census must pay the required amount of money. It should be weighed according to the official standard. Everyone must pay this as an offering to me.

nsb@Exodus:30:14 @ »Every man being counted in the census who is twenty years old or older is to pay me this amount.

nsb@Exodus:30:15 @ »The rich man is not to pay more. The poor man is not to pay less, when they pay this amount for their lives.

nsb@Exodus:30:16 @ »Collect this money from the people of Israel and spend it for the upkeep of the tent of meeting. This tax will be the payment for their lives. I will remember to protect them.«

nsb@Exodus:30:19 @ »Aaron and his sons will use it for washing their hands and feet.

nsb@Exodus:30:21 @ « They must wash their hands and feet, so that they will not die. This is a long lasting rule that they and their descendants are to observe.«

nsb@Exodus:30:26 @ »This is for dedicating the tent and chest,

nsb@Exodus:30:29 @ »You will make them so holy that anyone who even touches them will become holy when you dedicate them this way.

nsb@Exodus:30:30 @ »Sprinkle Aaron and his sons with this oil when you ordain them as my priests.

nsb@Exodus:30:31 @ »Say this to the people of Israel: ‘This oil must always be used in the ordination service of a priest. It is holy because it is dedicated to Jehovah.

nsb@Exodus:30:37 @ »Do not make any incense for yourselves using this formula. Treat it as holy to Jehovah.

nsb@Exodus:30:38 @ »Anyone who prepares anything like it for his own enjoyment must be excluded from his people.«

nsb@Exodus:31:4 @ »This is for planning skillful designs and working them in gold, silver, and copper.

nsb@Exodus:31:6 @ »I also appointed Oholiab, son of Ahisamach, from the tribe of Dan, to help him. I have given every craftsman the skill necessary to make what I have commanded you:

nsb@Exodus:31:10 @ the special clothes the holy clothes for the priest Aaron and the clothes for his sons when they serve as priests,

nsb@Exodus:31:13 @ »Speak to the people of Israel. Say: ‘You must observe my Sabbaths. This is a sign between you and me throughout your generations that you may know that I am Jehovah, the one who sanctifies you.

nsb@Exodus:31:14 @ »‘You are to observe the Sabbath. It is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it will absolutely be put to death. Whoever does any work on it will be removed from his people.

nsb@Exodus:32:4 @ After he worked on the gold with a tool, he made it into a statue of a calf. Then they said: »Israel, this is your god, who brought you out of Egypt.«

nsb@Exodus:32:11 @ »But Moses pleaded with Jehovah his God. »Jehovah,« he said, »why are you so angry with your people? These are your people whom you brought out of Egypt using your great power and mighty hand!

nsb@Exodus:32:12 @ »Do not let the Egyptians say: ‘He was planning all along to kill them in the mountains and wipe them off the face of the earth. That is why he brought them out of our land.’ Do not be so angry. Reconsider your decision to bring this disaster on your people.

nsb@Exodus:32:14 @ So Jehovah changed his mind and did not bring disaster on his people as he threatened.

nsb@Exodus:32:21 @ Moses asked Aaron: »What did these people do to harm you? Why did you make them sin in this terrible way?«

nsb@Exodus:32:24 @ »Then I asked them to bring me their gold earrings. They took them off and gave them to me. I threw the gold into a fire, and out came this bull.«

nsb@Exodus:32:27 @ He said to them, »Jehovah, the God of Israel says: ‘Each man put his sword by his side. Go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp. Kill each one his brother, and each one his neighbor, and each one his kindred.’«

nsb@Exodus:33:1 @ Jehovah said to Moses: »You and the people you brought out of Egypt must leave this place. Go to the land I promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob with an oath, saying: ‘I will give it to your descendants.’«

nsb@Exodus:33:4 @ The people heard this bad news and acted as if someone had died. No one wore any jewelry.

nsb@Exodus:33:11 @ Jehovah would speak with Moses in person just as someone speaks with a friend. Moses would then return to the camp. But the young man who was his helper, Joshua son of Nun, stayed in the Tent.

nsb@Exodus:33:13 @ If you are, tell me your plans, so that I may serve you and continue to please you. Remember also that you have chosen this nation to be your own.«

nsb@Exodus:33:15 @ Moses said: »If you are not going with us, please do not make us leave this place.

nsb@Exodus:33:17 @ Jehovah said to Moses: »I will do this thing of which you have spoken. You have found favor in my sight. I have known you by name.

nsb@Exodus:33:21 @ Then Jehovah said: »Look, there is a place near me. Stand by this rocky cliff.

nsb@Exodus:34:3 @ »No man may come with you or even be seen anywhere on the mountain. Even the flocks and herds may not graze in front of this mountain.«

nsb@Exodus:34:14 @ »Do not worship any other god but Jehovah for his reputation is filled with zeal, and he is a God who demands exclusive devotion.

nsb@Exodus:34:15 @ Otherwise you might make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land. They would commit spiritual immorality with their gods and sacrifice to their gods. Someone might invite you to eat of his sacrifice.

nsb@Exodus:34:16 @ »You might take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters might commit spiritual immorality with their gods and cause your sons also to commit spiritual immorality with their gods.

nsb@Exodus:34:18 @ »Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread. As I commanded you, you must eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib. This is because in that month you came out of Egypt.

nsb@Exodus:34:21 @ »You may work six days. On the seventh day you must not work. Even during the time of plowing or harvesting you must not work on this day.

nsb@Exodus:34:29 @ Moses came down from Mount Sinai. The two tablets of the testimony were in Moses’ hand as he came down from the mountain. Moses did not know that the skin of his face glowed because he spoke with God.

nsb@Exodus:34:30 @ Aaron and all the Israelites looked at Moses and saw his face glowing. They were afraid to come near him.

nsb@Exodus:34:33 @ Moses put a veil over his face when he finished speaking.

nsb@Exodus:35:2 @ »You may work for six days. The seventh day is a holy day of worship. It is a day when you do not work. It is dedicated to Jehovah. Whoever does any work on this day should be put to death.

nsb@Exodus:35:4 @ Moses spoke to all the people of Israel: »This is what Jehovah has commanded:

nsb@Exodus:35:9 @ The offering could also be carnelians and other jewels to be set in the High Priest’s ephod and in his breast piece.

nsb@Exodus:35:19 @ and the garments the priests are to wear when they serve in the Holy Place---the sacred clothes for Aaron the priest and for his sons.’«

nsb@Exodus:35:29 @ The people of Israel, every man and woman whose hearts were willing, gave their offerings freely to Jehovah. This was for the work that Jehovah gave Moses orders to have done.

nsb@Exodus:35:34 @ »Jehovah also gave Bezalel and Oholiab, son of Ahisamach, from the tribe of Dan the ability to teach others.

nsb@Exodus:36:1 @ Moses continued speaking: »Bezalel and Oholiab will do the work as Jehovah commanded. They will do this with the help of every other craftsman to whom Jehovah has given the necessary skills and talents. They will know how to do all the work for constructing the holy place.«

nsb@Exodus:36:22 @ Each had two identical pegs. They made all the frames for the inner tent this same way.

nsb@Exodus:36:29 @ They were held together at the bottom and held tightly at the top by a single ring. Both corner frames were made this way.

nsb@Exodus:38:3 @ He also made all the equipment for the altar: the pans, the shovels, the bowls, the hooks, and the fire pans. All this equipment was made of copper.

nsb@Exodus:38:21 @ This is the inventory of the tent, the Tent of Testimony. An inventory was ordered by Moses and carried out by the Levites under the direction of Ithamar, son of the priest Aaron.

nsb@Exodus:38:23 @ Bezalel was a jeweler, carpenter, designer, and he knew how to embroider violet, purple, and bright red yarn on fine linen. His assistant was Oholiab, son of Ahisamach, from the tribe of Daniel.

nsb@Exodus:38:26 @ This amounted to one-fifth of an ounce per person, for everyone counted who was at least twenty years old. There were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty people.

nsb@Exodus:38:30 @ He used this to make the bases for the entrance to the tent of meeting, the copper altar with its copper grate and all its accessories,

nsb@Exodus:39:4 @ From this they made two shoulder straps for the ephod and attached them to its sides, so that it could be fastened.

nsb@Exodus:39:5 @ The finely woven belt, made of the same materials, was attached to the ephod so as to form one piece with it. This was as Jehovah had commanded Moses.

nsb@Exodus:39:7 @ They placed them on the shoulder straps of the ephod to represent the twelve tribes of Israel. Again, this was just as Jehovah commanded Moses.

nsb@Exodus:39:20 @ They made two more gold rings and fastened them to the bottom of the shoulder straps on the front of the ephod. This was close to the seam just above the belt of the ephod.

nsb@Exodus:39:27 @ They wove inner robes out of fine linen for Aaron and his sons.

nsb@Exodus:39:41 @ the special clothes worn when serving as priests in the holy place, both the holy clothes for the priest Aaron and the clothes for his sons when serving as priests.

nsb@Exodus:40:12 @ »Bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the Tabernacle, and have them take a ritual bath.

nsb@Exodus:40:14 @ »Bring his sons and put the shirts on them.

nsb@Exodus:40:15 @ »Anoint them just as you anointed their father that they can serve me as priests. This anointing will make them priests for generations to come.«

nsb@Exodus:40:31 @ Moses, Aaron, and his sons used this water to wash their hands and feet.

nsb@Exodus:40:38 @ Jehovah’s column of smoke stayed over the tent during the day. There was fire in the smoke at night. This way all the Israelites could see the column throughout their travels.

nsb@Leviticus:1:3 @ »‘If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, it should be a male without defect. He shall offer it at the doorway of the Tent of Meeting, that he may be accepted before Jehovah.

nsb@Leviticus:1:4 @ »‘He should lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering. It may then be accepted for him to make atonement with Jehovah on his behalf.

nsb@Leviticus:1:13 @ »‘Wash the internal organs and the hind legs. The priest will present the sacrifice to Jehovah and burn all of it on the altar. The odor of this food offering is pleasing to Jehovah.

nsb@Leviticus:2:2 @ »‘Give it to Aaron’s sons the priests. The priest will take a handful of the flour and oil and all of the incense and burn it on the altar as a memorial. It is all offered by fire to Jehovah. The odor of this food offering is pleasing to Jehovah.

nsb@Leviticus:2:3 @ »‘The rest of the grain offering will belong to Aaron and his sons. It is most holy and set apart from Jehovah’s offering by fire.

nsb@Leviticus:3:17 @ »‘This is a long lasting law for generations to come wherever you live. Never eat any fat or blood.’«

nsb@Leviticus:4:3 @ »If it is the High Priest who sins and brings guilt on the people, he should present a young bull without any defects and sacrifice it to Jehovah for his sin.

nsb@Leviticus:4:4 @ »The priest must lead the bull to the entrance of the sacred tent. He must lay his hand on its head and kill it there.

nsb@Leviticus:4:14 @ »When the sin they have committed becomes known the assembly shall offer a bull of the herd. This is for a sin offering. Bring it before the Tent of Meeting.

nsb@Leviticus:4:17 @ »The priest will dip his finger in some of the blood and sprinkle it seven times in Jehovah’s presence in front of the veil.

nsb@Leviticus:4:18 @ »He will put some blood on the horns of the altar in Jehovah’s presence in the Tent of Meeting. He will pour the remaining blood at the bottom of the altar. This is for burnt offerings at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

nsb@Leviticus:4:20 @ »He will do the same thing with this bull that he did with the bull used as the offering for sin. So the priest will pay compensation for the wrong and make peace with Jehovah for the people. They will be forgiven.

nsb@Leviticus:4:23 @ as soon as the sin is called to his attention, the priest will bring as his offering a male goat without any defects.

nsb@Leviticus:4:24 @ »He will place his hand on the goat's head. He will slaughter it in Jehovah’s presence where he slaughters animals for burnt offerings. It is an offering for sin.

nsb@Leviticus:4:25 @ »The priest will then take some of the blood of the offering for sin with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar for burnt offerings. He will pour the rest of the blood at the bottom of the altar for burnt offerings.

nsb@Leviticus:4:28 @ »When he learns what he has done wrong, he must bring a female goat that has no defects as his offering for what he has done wrong.

nsb@Leviticus:4:29 @ »He will place his hand on the animal's head and slaughter it where animals for burnt offerings are slaughtered.

nsb@Leviticus:4:30 @ »The priest will take some of the blood with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar for burnt offerings. He will pour the rest of the blood out at the bottom of the altar.

nsb@Leviticus:4:32 @ »If someone brings a lamb as his offering for sin, he must bring a female that has no defects.

nsb@Leviticus:4:33 @ »He will place his hand on the animal's head and slaughter it where he slaughters animals for burnt offerings.

nsb@Leviticus:4:34 @ »Then the priest will take some of the blood from the offering for sin with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar for burnt offerings. He will pour the rest of the blood at the bottom of the altar.

nsb@Leviticus:5:11 @ »If you cannot afford two turtledoves or two pigeons, bring eight cups of flour as an offering for the sin you committed. Never put olive oil on it or add incense to it. This is because it is an offering for sin.

nsb@Leviticus:6:3 @ »If you find something that someone lost and lie about it under oath, or commit any other sin like this,

nsb@Leviticus:6:9 @ »Command Aaron and his sons: ‘These are the instructions for the burnt offering that stays on the altar overnight while the altar fire is kept burning.

nsb@Leviticus:6:10 @ »‘The priest must put on his linen clothes. This includes linen undergarments. Then he will remove the ashes left on the altar from the fire that consumed the burnt offering and will put them next to the altar.

nsb@Leviticus:6:14 @ »‘This is the law of the grain offering: the sons of Aaron shall present it in the presence of Jehovah in front of the altar.

nsb@Leviticus:6:16 @ »‘Any thing left is for Aaron and his sons to eat. It will be eaten as unleavened cakes in a holy place. They must eat it in the court of the Tent of Meeting.

nsb@Leviticus:6:20 @ »This is the offering Aaron and his sons are to present to Jehovah on the day when he is anointed: a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a regular grain offering, half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening.

nsb@Leviticus:6:22 @ »The anointed priest who will be in his place among his sons will offer it. By a long lasting ordinance it shall be entirely offered up in smoke to Jehovah.

nsb@Leviticus:6:25 @ »Tell Aaron and his sons: ‘These are the instructions for the offering for sin. The offering for sin must be slaughtered in Jehovah’s presence. It is very holy.

nsb@Leviticus:6:26 @ »‘The priest who makes the offering for sin will eat it in a holy place, in the courtyard of the Tent of Meeting. This is in the same place where the burnt offering is slaughtered.

nsb@Leviticus:7:15 @ »‘The flesh of the sacrifice of his thanksgiving peace offerings will be eaten on the day of his offering. He should not leave any of it over until morning.

nsb@Leviticus:7:16 @ »‘If the sacrifice of his offering is a votive or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice as well as on the next day.

nsb@Leviticus:7:18 @ »‘If any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings is eaten on the third day, he who offers it will not be accepted. It will not be considered for his benefit. It will be an offensive thing, and the person who eats of it will bear his own iniquity.

nsb@Leviticus:7:20 @ »‘The person who eats the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings that belong to Jehovah, in his uncleanness, that person will be cut off from his people.

nsb@Leviticus:7:21 @ »‘When someone touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, or an unclean animal, or any unclean detestable thing, and eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings which belong to Jehovah, that person shall be cut off from his people.’«

nsb@Leviticus:7:31 @ »‘The priest will burn the fat on the altar. However, the breast will belong to Aaron and his sons.

nsb@Leviticus:7:33 @ »‘When any of Aaron's sons offer the blood and fat of the fellowship offering, the right thigh will belong to him as his share.

nsb@Leviticus:7:34 @ »‘I have taken the breast and thigh that was presented to me from the contribution offering from the Israelites. I have given them to the priest Aaron and his sons. This is a long lasting law for generations to come.

nsb@Leviticus:7:35 @ »‘This is the share for Aaron and his sons from the sacrifices by fire made to Jehovah. It was given to them on the day Moses ordained them to serve Jehovah as priests.’«

nsb@Leviticus:7:36 @ Jehovah commanded the Israelites to give it to them on the day he anointed them. This is a long lasting law for generations to come.

nsb@Leviticus:8:2 @ »Bring Aaron and his sons, the priests' clothes, the anointing oil, the bull that will be the offered for sin, the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread.

nsb@Leviticus:8:5 @ Moses announced to the congregation: »Jehovah has commanded that this is what you must do!«

nsb@Leviticus:8:6 @ Moses had Aaron and his sons come forward. Then he washed them with water.

nsb@Leviticus:8:11 @ He sprinkled the altar seven times. He anointed the altar; it’s utensils, the washbasin and its pedestal. This made them holy.

nsb@Leviticus:8:12 @ He also poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron's head and anointed him to set him apart for his holy duties.

nsb@Leviticus:8:14 @ Moses brought the young bull for the sin offering. Aaron and his sons put their hands on its head.

nsb@Leviticus:8:15 @ Moses killed it and took some of the blood. Using his finger he put it on the projections at the corners of the altar, in order to dedicate it. He then poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar. In this way he dedicated it and purified it.

nsb@Leviticus:8:18 @ Moses led out the ram for the sacrifice to please Jehovah. After Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head,

nsb@Leviticus:8:22 @ He brought the second ram for the ordination offering. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the ram's head.

nsb@Leviticus:8:23 @ Moses slaughtered it. He took some of the blood, and put it on Aaron's right ear lobe, on his right thumb, and on the big toe of his right foot.

nsb@Leviticus:8:27 @ He placed all these things in the hands of Aaron and his sons. Moses presented all these things to Jehovah as an offering.

nsb@Leviticus:8:30 @ Moses took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood that was on the altar. He sprinkled it on Aaron and his clothes and on his sons and their clothes. In this way he dedicated Aaron, his clothes, his sons, and their clothes.

nsb@Leviticus:8:31 @ Moses told Aaron and his sons: »Cook the meat at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. Take the meat and the bread in the basket of the ordination offering. Eat them there as I commanded when I said: ‘Aaron and his sons will eat it.’

nsb@Leviticus:8:35 @ »You will stay at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting day and night for seven days and keep the watch as Jehovah directs you. Then you will not die. This is what I was commanded.«

nsb@Leviticus:8:36 @ So Aaron and his sons did everything Jehovah commanded through Moses.

nsb@Leviticus:9:1 @ On the eighth day Moses summoned Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel.

nsb@Leviticus:9:8 @ Aaron came to the altar and slaughtered the calf as his own offering for sin.

nsb@Leviticus:9:9 @ Aaron's sons brought him the blood. He dipped his finger in the blood and put it on the horns of the altar. After that he poured out the blood at the bottom of the altar.

nsb@Leviticus:9:22 @ Aaron raised his hands toward the people and blessed them. He sacrificed the offering for sin, the burnt offering, and the fellowship offering. Then he came down from the altar.

nsb@Leviticus:9:24 @ Fire came out from Jehovah’s presence and consumed the burnt offering and the pieces of fat on the altar. As soon as all the people saw this, they shouted and bowed with their faces touching the ground.

nsb@Leviticus:10:1 @ Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu each took an incense burner. They put burning coals and incense in it. Then in Jehovah’s presence they offered this unauthorized fire.

nsb@Leviticus:10:3 @ Moses said to Aaron: »This is what Jehovah was speaking about when he said: ‘All who serve me must respect my holiness. I will reveal my glory to my people.’« But Aaron remained silent.

nsb@Leviticus:10:6 @ Moses said to Aaron and to his sons Eleazar and Ithamar: Do not leave your hair uncombed or tear your clothes to show that you are in mourning. If you do you will die. For Jehovah will be angry with the whole community. But all other Israelites are allowed to mourn this death caused by the fire Jehovah sent.

nsb@Leviticus:10:7 @ »You are Jehovah’s chosen priests. You must not leave the sacred tent, or you will die.« Aaron and his two sons obeyed Moses.

nsb@Leviticus:10:9 @ »Never drink beer or wine when you or your sons enter the sacred tent. If you do, you will die right there! This is a long lasting law from generation to generation.

nsb@Leviticus:10:12 @ Moses spoke to Aaron and his two remaining sons, Eleazar and Ithamar. He said: »Take the grain offering that is left over from the food offered to Jehovah. Bake unleavened bread with it and eat it beside the altar. This is because this offering is very holy.

nsb@Leviticus:10:16 @ Moses asked about the goat for the sin offering and learned that it had already been burned. This made him angry with Eleazar and Ithamar. He demanded:

nsb@Leviticus:10:20 @ When Moses heard this, he was satisfied.

nsb@Leviticus:11:24 @ »‘Regarding the creatures mentioned above, this is how you would become unclean: When you touch their dead bodies you will be unclean until evening.

nsb@Leviticus:11:46 @ »‘This is the law about animals, birds, and every living creature that swims in the water and every creature that swarms on the ground.

nsb@Leviticus:11:47 @ »‘This law helps you distinguish between clean and unclean, the animals you may eat and those you may not eat.’«

nsb@Leviticus:12:2 @ »Tell the Israelites: ‘When a woman gives birth to a boy, she will be unclean for seven days. This is the same number of days she is unclean for her monthly period.

nsb@Leviticus:13:5 @ »The priest will examine you again on the seventh day. If in his opinion the sore looks the same and has not spread, he will isolate you for another seven days.

nsb@Leviticus:13:59 @ This is the law about mildew on clothing. Whether it is wool or linen, or on linen or wool cloth or on anything made of leather; this is how the decision is made as to whether it is ritually clean or unclean.

nsb@Leviticus:14:13 @ »He will slaughter the lamb in the holy place where the animals for the sin offerings and the burnt offerings are slaughtered. He must do this because the repayment offering, like the sin offering, belongs to the priest and is very holy.

nsb@Leviticus:14:15 @ »The priest will also take some of the olive oil and pour it into his own left hand.

nsb@Leviticus:14:16 @ »He will dip his right finger in the oil in his left hand, and with his finger sprinkle some of the oil seven times in Jehovah’s presence.

nsb@Leviticus:14:17 @ »The priest will put some of the oil that is still in his hand on the right ear lobe, on the right thumb, and on the big toe of the right foot of the one to be cleansed. These are the same places he had put the blood of the guilt offering.

nsb@Leviticus:14:18 @ »The priest will put the rest of the oil in his hand on the head of the one to be cleansed. So he will pay compensation for wrongdoing and make peace with Jehovah for that person in Jehovah’s presence.

nsb@Leviticus:14:19 @ »The priest will also sacrifice the offering for sin to make peace with Jehovah for the one who is being cleansed from his impurity. After that, he will slaughter the burnt offering.

nsb@Leviticus:14:21 @ »If the one to be cleansed is poor and cannot afford that much, he must take one male lamb, present it to pay compensation for the wrong and make peace with Jehovah for himself, and use it for his guilt offering. He will take only eight cups of flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering, a quart of olive oil,

nsb@Leviticus:14:23 @ »The eighth day he will take them to the priest for his cleansing at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting in Jehovah’s presence.

nsb@Leviticus:14:26 @ »The priest will pour some of the olive oil into his own left hand.

nsb@Leviticus:14:27 @ »In Jehovah’s presence he will sprinkle some of the oil with his right finger seven times.

nsb@Leviticus:14:28 @ »The priest will put some of the oil that is in his hand on the right ear lobe, on the right thumb, and on the big toe of the right foot of the one to be cleansed. These are the same places he had put the blood of the guilt offering.

nsb@Leviticus:14:29 @ »In Jehovah’s presence, the priest will pour the rest of the oil in his hand on the head of the one to be cleansed in order to make a payment for him.

nsb@Leviticus:14:32 @ »These are the instructions for one who has an infectious skin disease but cannot afford what is needed for his cleansing.«

nsb@Leviticus:14:35 @ »The owner of that house must come and tell the priest that there is something that looks like mildew in his house.

nsb@Leviticus:14:47 @ »Whoever lies down in the house must wash his clothes, and whoever eats in the house must wash his clothes.

nsb@Leviticus:14:48 @ »If the mildew has not reappeared after the house has been replastered, the priest will pronounce the house ritually clean. This is because the mildew has been completely removed.

nsb@Leviticus:14:52 @ »This is the way he will purify the house with the bird's blood, the fresh water, the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop, and the red cord.

nsb@Leviticus:15:2 @ »Tell the Israelites: ‘When a man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean.

nsb@Leviticus:15:3 @ »‘He is unclean because of the discharge from his body. Whether it is chronic or not makes no difference. He is still unclean.

nsb@Leviticus:15:5 @ »‘Those who touch his bed must wash their clothes and their bodies. They will be unclean until evening.

nsb@Leviticus:15:8 @ »‘Should a man who has a discharge spit on anyone who is clean, the person he spits on must wash his clothes and his body. He will be unclean until evening.

nsb@Leviticus:15:11 @ »‘If a man who has a discharge touches anyone without first rinsing his hands, the person he touched must wash his clothes and his body. He will be unclean until evening.

nsb@Leviticus:15:13 @ »‘When a man's discharge stops, he must wait seven days to be cleansed. He must wash his clothes and his body in fresh water. Then he will be clean.

nsb@Leviticus:15:16 @ »‘If a man has an emission of semen, he must bathe his whole body. He will be unclean until evening.

nsb@Leviticus:15:31 @ »You must separate the Israelites from anything that keeps them from being presentable to me. Otherwise they will die. This is because they defile my tent, which is among them, and make it unclean.«

nsb@Leviticus:16:2 @ Jehovah said: »Tell your brother Aaron that he cannot go into the holy place whenever he wants to. If he goes up to the canopy and stands in front of the throne of mercy on the Ark, he will die. This is because I appear in the smoke above the throne of mercy.

nsb@Leviticus:16:3 @ »This is what Aaron must do in order to come into the holy place: He must take a bull as an offering for sin and a ram as a burnt offering.

nsb@Leviticus:16:4 @ »He must dress in a holy linen robe and wear linen undergarments. He must wear a linen belt and turban. These are holy clothes. He should wash his body and put them on.

nsb@Leviticus:16:6 @ »Aaron must sacrifice the bull as his own offering for sin. By doing this, he will pay compensation for wrongdoing and make peace with Jehovah for himself and his family.

nsb@Leviticus:16:13 @ »He must place the incense on the fire in Jehovah’s presence. The cloud of incense will cover the throne of mercy. This is over the words of God's promise, so that he will not die.

nsb@Leviticus:16:14 @ »He will take some of the bull's blood and sprinkle it with his finger on the east side of the throne of mercy. Then he will sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times in front of the throne of mercy.

nsb@Leviticus:16:17 @ »No one may be in the Tent of Meeting from the time Aaron enters the holy place to do this until he comes out. Aaron will pay compensation for wrongdoing and peace with Jehovah for his own sins, his family's sins, and the sins of the entire assembly of Israel.

nsb@Leviticus:16:19 @ »With his finger he will sprinkle some of the blood on it seven times. Because the Israelites made it unclean, he will cleanse it and declare it holy.

nsb@Leviticus:16:24 @ »He will wash his body in the holy place and put on his other clothes. Then he will come out and sacrifice the burnt offering for himself and for the people to make peace with Jehovah for his own sins and the sins of the people.

nsb@Leviticus:16:26 @ »The man who released the goat to Azazel must wash his clothes and his body. Then he may return to the camp.

nsb@Leviticus:16:28 @ »The one who burns them must wash his clothes and take a bath before he returns to camp.

nsb@Leviticus:16:32 @ »High Priest, properly ordained and consecrated to succeed his father, is to perform the ritual of purification. He must dress in priestly garments

nsb@Leviticus:16:34 @ »These regulations are to be observed for a long lasting time to come. This ritual must be performed once a year to purify the people of Israel from all their sins.« So Moses did as Jehovah commanded.

nsb@Leviticus:17:2 @ »Give Aaron and his sons and all the people of Israel the following regulations.

nsb@Leviticus:17:5 @ »This means that the people of Israel must take the sacrifices they have been making in the open fields and bring them to Jehovah. They must bring them to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. The people will sacrifice them as peace offerings to Jehovah.

nsb@Leviticus:17:7 @ »The people must stop sacrificing to goat idols and chasing after them as though they were prostitutes. This is a long lasting law for the people and for future generations.

nsb@Leviticus:17:11 @ »‘This is because life of every living thing is in the blood. I have given this blood to you to pay compensation for wrongdoing and make peace with me on the altar. Blood is needed to pay compensation for wrongdoing and make peace with me.’«

nsb@Leviticus:17:14 @ »This is because the life of any creature is in its blood. So I have said to the people of Israel: ‘Never eat any blood, because the life of any creature is in its blood. Whoever eats blood must be excluded from the people.’«

nsb@Leviticus:18:7 @ especially your own mother. This would disgrace your father.

nsb@Leviticus:18:8 @ »‘Do not disgrace him by having sex with any of his other wives.

nsb@Leviticus:18:11 @ »‘Never have sexual intercourse with a daughter of your father and his wife. She is your own sister.

nsb@Leviticus:18:17 @ »‘Do not have sexual intercourse with a woman and her daughter or a woman and her granddaughter. They are related. Doing this is perverted.

nsb@Leviticus:19:21 @ »‘He must bring a ram for his guilt offering to Jehovah at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

nsb@Leviticus:19:22 @ »‘In Jehovah’s presence the priest will use them to pay compensation for the wrongdoing and make peace with Jehovah for this sin. The man will be forgiven for this sin.

nsb@Leviticus:19:25 @ »‘You may eat the fruit in the fifth year. Do this to make the trees produce more for you. I am Jehovah your God.

nsb@Leviticus:19:32 @ »‘Show respect to the elderly, and honor older people. In this way you show respect for your God. I am Jehovah.

nsb@Leviticus:20:11 @ »‘A man who has intercourse with one of his father's wives disgraces his father. Both he and the woman must be put to death. They are responsible for their own death.

nsb@Leviticus:20:12 @ »‘If a man has sexual intercourse with his daughter-in-law, both of them must be put to death. They have done a disgusting thing and deserve to die.

nsb@Leviticus:20:14 @ »‘When a man marries a woman and her mother, they have done a perverted thing. The man and the two women must be burned. Never do this perverted thing.

nsb@Leviticus:20:17 @ »‘If a man marries his sister or half sister, they must be publicly disgraced and driven out of the community. He has had intercourse with his sister and must suffer the consequences.

nsb@Leviticus:20:19 @ »‘When a man has intercourse with his aunt, both of them must suffer the consequences for incest.

nsb@Leviticus:20:20 @ »‘Whoever has sexual intercourse with his uncle's wife violates his uncle's marriage. That man and woman are guilty of sin. They will die without children.

nsb@Leviticus:20:21 @ »‘He who marries his brother's wife violates his brother's marriage and does an unclean thing. That man and woman will have no children.

nsb@Leviticus:20:25 @ »‘That is why you must make a difference between animals and birds that I have said are clean and unclean. This will keep you from becoming disgusting to me.

nsb@Leviticus:21:10 @ »The priest who is anointed with oil and wears the chief priest's clothes is chief over his brothers. He must never mourn by leaving his hair uncombed or by tearing his clothes.

nsb@Leviticus:21:11 @ »He must not go near any dead bodies or become unclean, even for his father or mother.

nsb@Leviticus:21:12 @ »He must not leave the holy tent of his God. If he does, he will be dishonoring it, because he is dedicated with the anointing oil of his God. I am Jehovah.

nsb@Leviticus:21:14 @ »He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, a woman who has lost her virginity, or a prostitute. He may only marry a virgin from his own people.

nsb@Leviticus:21:15 @ »He must not dishonor his children among his people because I, Jehovah, set him apart as holy.«

nsb@Leviticus:21:22 @ »‘He may eat the food of his God, what is holy and what is very holy.

nsb@Leviticus:21:24 @ Thus Moses spoke to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites.

nsb@Leviticus:22:2 @ »Tell Aaron and his sons that they must respect the holy offerings that the Israelites set apart for me. In this way they will not dishonor my holy name. I am Jehovah.«

nsb@Leviticus:22:7 @ »‘After the sunsets he is clean. Then he may eat the sacred offerings, which are his food.

nsb@Leviticus:22:11 @ »‘A priest's slaves, bought with his own money or born in his home, may eat the food the priest receives.

nsb@Leviticus:22:16 @ by letting any unauthorized people eat them. This would bring guilt and punishment on such people. I am Jehovah and I make the offerings holy.’«

nsb@Leviticus:22:18 @ »Speak to Aaron, his sons, and all the Israelites, and tell them: ‘Israelites or foreigners may bring burnt offerings to Jehovah for anything they vowed or as freewill offerings.

nsb@Leviticus:22:20 @ »‘Do not bring any animal with a physical defect. This is because it will not be acceptable for you.

nsb@Leviticus:23:13 @ »‘Present a grain offering of four quarts of flour mixed with olive oil with it. This will be a sacrifice by fire made to Jehovah. It will be a soothing aroma. Use one quart of wine for the wine offering.

nsb@Leviticus:23:14 @ »‘Do not eat bread, roasted grain, or fresh grain until this same day. Then bring the offering to your God. It is a long lasting law for generations to come wherever you live.

nsb@Leviticus:23:16 @ until the day after the seventh week. This is a total of fifty days. Then bring a new grain offering to Jehovah.

nsb@Leviticus:23:18 @ »‘Using the bread the community is to present seven one-year-old lambs, one bull, and two rams, none of which may have any defects. They should be offered as a burnt offering to Jehovah, along with a grain offering and a wine offering. The odor of this offering is pleasing to Jehovah.

nsb@Leviticus:23:21 @ »‘Do none of your daily work. Gather for worship. Your descendants are to observe this regulation from generation to generation, no matter where they live.

nsb@Leviticus:23:27 @ »The tenth day of this seventh month is a special day for the payment for sins. There will be a holy assembly. Humble yourselves, and bring Jehovah a sacrifice by fire.

nsb@Leviticus:23:34 @ Inform the Israelites: ‘The fifteenth day of this seventh month is the Festival of Booths to Jehovah. It will last seven days.

nsb@Leviticus:23:36 @ »‘Bring a sacrifice by fire to Jehovah for seven consecutive days. On the eighth day there will be a holy assembly. Bring Jehovah a sacrifice by fire. This is the last festival of the year. Do not do any regular work.

nsb@Leviticus:23:38 @ »‘This is in addition to Jehovah’s days of worship, your gifts, all your vows, and your freewill offerings to Jehovah.

nsb@Leviticus:23:39 @ »‘Celebrate Jehovah’s festival for seven days. This should begin on the fifteenth day of the seventh month; at the time you gather what the land produces. The first and the eighth days will be worship festivals.

nsb@Leviticus:23:41 @ »‘It is Jehovah’s festival. Celebrate it for seven days each year. This is a long lasting law for generations to come. Celebrate this festival in the seventh month.

nsb@Leviticus:23:43 @ »‘This is how generations to come may learn how I made the people of Israel live in booths when I brought them out of Egypt. I am Jehovah your God!’«

nsb@Leviticus:24:3 @ »Aaron must keep the lamps lit in the Tent of Meeting from evening until morning. This is outside the canopy where the words of my covenant are in Jehovah’s presence. It is a long lasting law for generations to come.

nsb@Leviticus:24:9 @ »The bread will belong to Aaron and his sons. They will eat it in a holy place. It is very holy, set apart from Jehovah’s offering by fire. This is a long lasting law.«

nsb@Leviticus:24:14 @ »The man who cursed my name must be taken outside the camp. All who heard him curse my name must lay their hands on his head. Then the whole congregation must stone him to death.

nsb@Leviticus:24:22 @ »‘This law applies to all of you. It applies to Israelites and to foreigners living among you. I am Jehovah your God.’«

nsb@Leviticus:24:23 @ When Moses had said this to the people of Israel, they took the man outside the camp and stoned him to death. The people of Israel did what Jehovah commanded Moses.

nsb@Leviticus:25:10 @ »‘In this way you will set the fiftieth year apart and proclaim freedom to all the inhabitants of the land. During this year all property that has been sold must be restored to the original owner or the descendants, and any who have been sold as slaves may return to their families.

nsb@Leviticus:25:13 @ »‘In this jubilee year every slave will be freed in order to return to his property.

nsb@Leviticus:25:33 @ »‘If any Levite buys back a house, in the jubilee the purchased house in the city will be released. This is because the houses in the Levite cities are their property among the Israelites.

nsb@Leviticus:25:41 @ »‘Then you will release him and his children to go back to their family and the property of their ancestors.

nsb@Leviticus:25:49 @ »‘His uncle, his cousin, or some other relative could also buy him back. If he becomes rich, he could buy his own freedom.

nsb@Leviticus:25:50 @ »‘Then he and his buyer must take into account the number of years from the year he was bought until the year of jubilee. His sale price will be adjusted based on the number of years he was with his buyer. This is like the wages of a hired worker.

nsb@Leviticus:25:51 @ »‘If there are many years left, he must refund from his purchase price an amount equal to those years.

nsb@Leviticus:25:52 @ »‘If there are only a few years left until the year of jubilee, he must take them into account. He must refund from his purchase price an amount equal to those years.

nsb@Leviticus:25:53 @ »‘He should serve his buyer as a hired worker during those years. His buyer should not treat him harshly.

nsb@Leviticus:25:54 @ »‘If he cannot buy his freedom he and his children will be released in the year of jubilee.

nsb@Leviticus:26:16 @ then this is what I will do to you: I will terrorize you with disease and fever. You will suffer from eye problems and depression. You will plant your crops and get nothing because your enemies will eat them.

nsb@Leviticus:26:23 @ »‘If this discipline does not help and you still resist,

nsb@Leviticus:26:27 @ »‘If in spite of this you do not listen to me and still resist me,

nsb@Leviticus:27:3 @ »‘This is according to the official standard: adult male, twenty to sixty years old: fifty pieces of silver, adult female: thirty pieces of silver, young male, five to twenty years old: twenty pieces of silver, young female: ten pieces of silver, infant male under five: five pieces of silver, infant female: three pieces of silver, male above sixty years of age: fifteen pieces of silver, female above sixty: ten pieces of silver.

nsb@Leviticus:27:29 @ »‘People dedicated this way may not be bought back. They must be put to death.

nsb@Numbers:1:18 @ and assembled the whole congregation on the first day of the second month. Each man at least twenty years old provided his genealogy by family and household. Then his name was listed.

nsb@Numbers:1:44 @ Moses, Aaron, and the twelve leaders of Israel, each representing his own family, added up these totals.

nsb@Numbers:1:53 @ »The Levites will camp all around the tent of God’s words. In this way Jehovah will not be angry with the congregation of Israel. So the Levites will be in charge of the tent of God’s words.«

nsb@Numbers:2:4 @ »The total number of men in his army is seventy-four thousand six hundred.

nsb@Numbers:2:6 @ »The total number of men in his army is fifty-four thousand four hundred.

nsb@Numbers:2:8 @ »The total number of men in his army is fifty-seven thousand four hundred.

nsb@Numbers:2:11 @ »The total number of men in his army is forty-six thousand five hundred.

nsb@Numbers:2:13 @ »The total number of men in his army is fifty-nine thousand three hundred.

nsb@Numbers:2:15 @ »The total number of men in his army is forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty.

nsb@Numbers:2:17 @ »When the tent of meeting is moved, the Levites will stay in the middle of the groups. The tribes will move out in the same order as they are in the camp, everyone in place under his own flag.

nsb@Numbers:2:19 @ »The total number of men in his army is forty thousand five hundred.

nsb@Numbers:2:21 @ »The total number of men in his army is thirty-two thousand two hundred.

nsb@Numbers:2:23 @ »The total number of men in his army is thirty-five thousand four hundred.

nsb@Numbers:2:26 @ »The total number of men in his army is sixty-two thousand seven hundred.

nsb@Numbers:2:28 @ »The total number of men in his army is forty-one thousand five hundred.

nsb@Numbers:2:30 @ »The total number of men in his army is fifty-three thousand four hundred.

nsb@Numbers:2:32 @ This is the total number of Israelites, counted by households. The grand total of all the troops in the camps was six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.

nsb@Numbers:2:34 @ The Israelites did everything as Jehovah had commanded Moses. They set up camp under their flags, and each person traveled with his own family and household.

nsb@Numbers:3:1 @ This is the list of Aaron and Moses’ descendants when Jehovah spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai.

nsb@Numbers:3:4 @ Nadab and Abihu died in Jehovah’s presence because they offered unauthorized fire in his presence in the Desert of Sinai. They had no children. So only Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests during the lifetime of their father Aaron.

nsb@Numbers:3:9 @ »Give the Levites to Aaron and his sons. The Levites will be the only Israelites given to them.

nsb@Numbers:3:10 @ »Appoint Aaron and his sons to serve as priests. Anyone else who tries to do the priests’ duties must be put to death.«

nsb@Numbers:3:35 @ This clan was to camp on the north side of the Tent, with Zuriel son of Abihail as leader of the clan.

nsb@Numbers:3:38 @ Moses, Aaron, and his sons put up their tents on the east side in front of the tent of meeting. They were in charge of the holy place on behalf of the Israelites. Anyone else who tried to do the Levites’ duties had to be put to death.

nsb@Numbers:3:48 @ »Give the silver to Aaron and his sons. It will buy back those Israelites who outnumber the Levites.«

nsb@Numbers:3:49 @ Moses took this ransom money from the Israelites who outnumbered the Levites.

nsb@Numbers:3:51 @ Then Moses did what Jehovah said and gave Aaron and his sons this ransom money as he had been commanded.

nsb@Numbers:4:4 @ »This is the work the Kohathites will do in the tent of meeting: They will take care of the most holy things.

nsb@Numbers:4:5 @ »When the camp is to move, Aaron and his sons will go in and take down the canopy that hangs over the Ark containing the words of God’s Covenant. First they will cover the Ark with the canopy.

nsb@Numbers:4:6 @ »Over this they will put a covering of fine leather. On top of that they will spread a cloth made entirely of violet material. Then they will put the poles in place.

nsb@Numbers:4:8 @ »They will spread a bright red cloth over everything on the table. They will then cover all this with fine leather. Then they will put the poles in place.

nsb@Numbers:4:14 @ »They will put all the accessories used at the altar on it. These are the trays, forks, shovels, and bowls-all the altar’s accessories. They will spread a covering of fine leather over all this. Then they will put the poles in place.

nsb@Numbers:4:15 @ »When Aaron and his sons finished covering the holy things and the camp is ready to move, the Kohathites will come to carry all the holy articles. They must never touch the holy things, or they will die. The Kohathites will carry all the things from the tent of meeting.

nsb@Numbers:4:19 @ »This is what you must do so that they will not die when they come near the most holy things: Aaron and his sons will go into the holy place and tell each man what he will do and what he will carry.

nsb@Numbers:4:24 @ »This is what the Gershonite families will do and what they will carry:

nsb@Numbers:4:27 @ »All their work, whatever they carry and all their duties, will be done under the direction of Aaron and his sons. You are in charge of telling them everything they are to carry.

nsb@Numbers:4:28 @ »This is the work of the Gershonite families in the tent of meeting. Ithamar, son of the priest Aaron, will be in charge of them.

nsb@Numbers:4:32 @ the posts for the surrounding courtyard, the bases, pegs, and ropes. They must take care of all this equipment. Tell each man by name the things he will carry.

nsb@Numbers:4:33 @ »This is what the Merarite families will do as they work at the tent of meeting. Ithamar, son of the priest Aaron, will be in charge of them.«

nsb@Numbers:4:37 @ This was the total of all those in the Kohathite families who served at the tent of meeting. Moses and Aaron did as Jehovah commanded Moses and registered the Kohathites.

nsb@Numbers:4:41 @ This was the total of all those in the Gershonite families who worked at the tent of meeting. Moses and Aaron did as Jehovah commanded Moses and registered the Gershonites.

nsb@Numbers:4:45 @ This was the total of those registered in the Merarite families. Moses and Aaron did as Jehovah commanded Moses and registered the Merarites.

nsb@Numbers:5:3 @ »Send all of these unclean men and women outside the camp. They must not make this camp where I live among you unclean.«

nsb@Numbers:5:8 @ »‘There may be no heir to whom the payment can be made. In that case, the payment for what you did wrong must be given to Jehovah for the priest to use. This payment is in addition to the ram that is used to pay compensation for the wrongdoing makes peace with Jehovah.

nsb@Numbers:5:14 @ »‘A husband may have a fit of jealousy and suspect his wife, whether she was actually unfaithful or not.

nsb@Numbers:5:15 @ »‘He must then take his wife to the priest along with eight cups of barley flour as an offering for her. He must not pour olive oil on the flour or put frankincense on it, since it is a grain offering brought because of the husband’s jealousy. It is an offering used for a confession, to remind someone of a sin that was committed.

nsb@Numbers:5:18 @ »‘The priest will bring the woman into Jehovah’s presence and loosen her hair. In her hands he will put the offering used for a confession, that is, the grain offering brought because of the husband’s jealousy. The priest will hold the bitter water that can bring a curse in his hands.

nsb@Numbers:5:19 @ »‘The priest will say to her: ‘If no other man has had sexual intercourse with you and you have not been unfaithful to your husband, you are not guilty. This bitter water that can bring a curse will not harm you.

nsb@Numbers:5:21 @ »‘Jehovah will make you an example for your people to see what happens when the curse of this oath comes true: Jehovah will make your uterus drop and your stomach swell. Then the priest will administer the oath and the curse by saying:

nsb@Numbers:5:22 @ »‘May this water that can bring a curse go into your body and make your stomach swell and your uterus drop!’« Then the woman will say: »Amen!« »Amen!«

nsb@Numbers:5:24 @ »He will have the woman drink the bitter water that can bring the curse. This water will go into her and become bitter.

nsb@Numbers:5:30 @ »They also tell you what to do when a husband has a fit of jealousy and is suspicious of his wife. He will make his wife stand in Jehovah’s presence. The priest will do everything these instructions tell him to do.

nsb@Numbers:6:9 @ »‘Someone might suddenly drop dead next to a Nazirite and make the Nazirite’s hair unclean. Seven days later he must shave his head in order to be declared clean.

nsb@Numbers:6:11 @ »‘The priest will sacrifice one as an offering for sin and the other one as a burnt offering. The priest will pay compensation for the wrongdoing and make peace with Jehovah for the person who touched the dead body. That same day the person must dedicate his head again.

nsb@Numbers:6:18 @ »‘The Nazirites will shave their heads at the entrance to the tent of meeting. Then they will take the hair as proof that they had made this vow, and put it on the fire under the fellowship offering.

nsb@Numbers:6:23 @ »Tell Aaron and his sons: ‘This is how you will bless the Israelites. Say to them:

nsb@Numbers:7:11 @ Jehovah said to Moses: »Each day a different leader will bring his gift for the dedication of the altar.«

nsb@Numbers:7:12 @ Nahshon, son of Amminadab, from the tribe of Judah brought his gifts on the first day.

nsb@Numbers:7:18 @ On the second day Nethanel, son of Zuar, the leader from the tribe of Issachar, brought his gifts.

nsb@Numbers:7:25 @ brought his gifts: a silver plate that weighed three and one quarter pounds and a silver bowl that weighed one and three quarter pounds using the standard weight of the holy place. Each dish was filled with flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering.

nsb@Numbers:7:31 @ brought his gifts: a silver plate that weighed three and one quarter pounds and a silver bowl that weighed one and three quarter pounds using the standard weight of the holy place. Each dish was filled with flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering.

nsb@Numbers:7:37 @ brought his gifts: a silver plate that weighed three and one quarter pounds and a silver bowl that weighed one and three quarter pounds using the standard weight of the holy place. Each dish was filled with flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering.

nsb@Numbers:7:43 @ brought his gifts: a silver plate that weighed three and one quarter pounds and a silver bowl that weighed one and three quarter pounds using the standard weight of the holy place. Each dish was filled with flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering.

nsb@Numbers:7:49 @ brought his gifts: a silver plate that weighed three and one quarter pounds and a silver bowl that weighed one and three quarter pounds using the standard weight of the holy place. Each dish was filled with flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering.

nsb@Numbers:7:55 @ brought his gifts: a silver plate that weighed three and one quarter pounds and a silver bowl that weighed one and three quarter pounds using the standard weight of the holy place. Each dish was filled with flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering.

nsb@Numbers:7:61 @ brought his gifts: a silver plate that weighed three and one quarter pounds and a silver bowl that weighed one and three quarter pounds using the standard weight of the holy place. Each dish was filled with flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering.

nsb@Numbers:7:67 @ brought his gifts: a silver plate that weighed three and one quarter pounds and a silver bowl that weighed one and three quarter pounds using the standard weight of the holy place. Each dish was filled with flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering.

nsb@Numbers:7:73 @ brought his gifts: a silver plate that weighed three and one quarter pounds and a silver bowl that weighed one and three quarter pounds using the standard weight of the holy place. Each dish was filled with flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering.

nsb@Numbers:7:79 @ brought his gifts: a silver plate that weighed three and one quarter pounds and a silver bowl that weighed one and three quarter pounds using the standard weight of the holy place. Each dish was filled with flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering.

nsb@Numbers:7:89 @ When Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with Jehovah, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the throne of mercy on the Ark containing the words of God’s Covenant, from between the two cherubim. This is how Jehovah spoke with Moses.

nsb@Numbers:8:4 @ This is how the lamp stand was made: The whole lamp stand, from top to bottom, was hammered out of gold. It was made exactly like the one Jehovah had shown Moses.

nsb@Numbers:8:7 @ »This is what you must do to make them clean: Sprinkle them with water to take away their sins. Make them shave their whole bodies and wash their clothes. Then they will be clean.

nsb@Numbers:8:13 @ »Make the Levites stand in front of Aaron and his sons, and present them as an offering to Jehovah.

nsb@Numbers:8:14 @ »In this way you will separate the Levites from the other Israelites. The Levites will be mine.

nsb@Numbers:8:19 @ »I assign the Levites to Aaron and his sons, as a gift from the Israelites. They are to work in the tent for the people of Israel and to protect the Israelites from the disaster that would strike them if they came too near the Holy Place.«

nsb@Numbers:8:22 @ The people did everything Jehovah commanded Moses concerning the Levites. Thus the Levites were qualified to work in the tent under Aaron and his sons.

nsb@Numbers:8:24 @ »From the age of twenty-five each Levite shall perform his duties in the tent of my presence,

nsb@Numbers:8:26 @ »They may assist the other Levites in their duties at the tent of meeting. But they may not do any regular work. This is how you will handle the Levites’ duties.«

nsb@Numbers:9:3 @ »You must celebrate it on the fourteenth day of this month at dusk. Follow all the rules and regulations for the celebration of the Passover.«

nsb@Numbers:9:16 @ The smoke always glowed this way. At night the smoke that covered the tent glowed like fire.

nsb@Numbers:9:20 @ The same thing happened when the smoke stayed only a few days over the tent: At Jehovah’s command they would set up camp, and at his command they would break camp.

nsb@Numbers:9:23 @ At Jehovah’s command they set up camp, and at his command they broke camp. They obeyed the command Jehovah gave through Moses.

nsb@Numbers:10:28 @ This was the order of march, company by company, when the Israelites broke camp and set out.

nsb@Numbers:10:29 @ Moses said to his brother-in-law Hobab son of Jethro the Midianite: We are about to start out for the place Jehovah said he would give us. He promised to make Israel prosperous, so come with us, and we will share our prosperity with you.

nsb@Numbers:11:11 @ So he asked: »Jehovah, why have you brought me this trouble? How have I displeased you that you put the burden of all these people on me?

nsb@Numbers:11:14 @ »I am not able to take care of all these people by myself. This is too much work for me!

nsb@Numbers:11:15 @ »If you treat me like this have pity on me and kill me. That way I will not have to endure my shame any longer.«

nsb@Numbers:11:20 @ »‘You will eat it for a whole month, until it comes out of your nose, until you are sick of it. This will happen because you have rejected Jehovah who is here among you and have complained to him that you should not have left Egypt.’«

nsb@Numbers:11:29 @ Moses asked him: »Do you think you need to stand up for me? I wish all Jehovah’s people were prophets and that Jehovah would put his Spirit on them!«

nsb@Numbers:12:7 @ »‘But this is not the way I treat my servant Moses. He is the most faithful person in my household.

nsb@Numbers:12:11 @ He said to Moses: »Please, do not make us suffer this punishment for our foolish sin.

nsb@Numbers:13:27 @ This is their report to Moses: »We went to the land where you sent us. It really is a land flowing with milk and honey. Here is some of its fruit.

nsb@Numbers:14:2 @ They complained to Moses and Aaron: »If only we had died in Egypt or in this desert!

nsb@Numbers:14:3 @ »Why is Jehovah bringing us to this land? Is it just to have us die in battle? Our wives and children will be taken as prisoners of war! Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?«

nsb@Numbers:14:14 @ they will tell it to the people who live in this land. These people have already heard that you, Jehovah, are with us, that you appear in plain sight when your cloud stops over us, and that you go before us in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.

nsb@Numbers:14:24 @ »My servant Caleb has a different attitude and has wholeheartedly followed me, I will bring him to the land he already explored. His descendants will possess it.

nsb@Numbers:14:27 @ »How long must I put up with this wicked congregation that keeps complaining about me? I have heard the complaints the Israelites are making about me.

nsb@Numbers:14:29 @ »‘Your bodies will drop dead in this desert. All of you who are at least twenty years old, who were registered and listed, and who complained about me will die.

nsb@Numbers:14:30 @ »‘I raised my hand and swore an oath to give you this land to live in. But none of you will enter it except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

nsb@Numbers:14:32 @ »‘But your bodies will drop dead in this desert.

nsb@Numbers:14:35 @ »‘I, Jehovah, have spoken. I swear I will do these things to all the people in this whole wicked congregation. For they have joined forces against me. They will meet their end in this desert. Here they will die!’«

nsb@Numbers:15:11 @ »Do this for each bull, each ram, and each sheep or goat.

nsb@Numbers:15:13 @ »All native-born Israelites must do it this way when they bring an offering by fire, a soothing aroma to Jehovah.

nsb@Numbers:15:20 @ »When you bake bread, the first loaf of the first bread made from the new grain is to be presented as a special contribution to Jehovah. This is to be presented in the same way as the special contribution you make from the grain you thresh.

nsb@Numbers:15:21 @ »For all time to come, this special gift is to be given to Jehovah from the bread you bake.

nsb@Numbers:15:31 @ »They have rejected what Jehovah said and have deliberately broken one of his commandments. They are responsible for their own death.«

nsb@Numbers:15:35 @ Jehovah said to Moses: »This man must be put to death. The whole congregation must take him outside the camp and stone him.«

nsb@Numbers:16:4 @ When Moses heard this, he bowed with his face touching the ground.

nsb@Numbers:16:5 @ Then he said to Korah and all his followers: »In the morning Jehovah will show who belongs to him, who is holy. He will have that person come near him. Only the person Jehovah chooses will be allowed to come near him.

nsb@Numbers:16:6 @ »Korah, you and all your followers must do this tomorrow: Take incense burners,

nsb@Numbers:16:9 @ »Is it not enough for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the rest of the congregation of Israel? Jehovah has brought you near to do the work for his tent and stand in front of the community to serve them.

nsb@Numbers:16:17 @ »Each man will take his incense burner and put incense in it. They will offer all two hundred and fifty incense burners to Jehovah. Then you and Aaron offer your incense burners.«

nsb@Numbers:16:18 @ So each man took his incense burner. He put burning coals and incense in it and stood with Moses and Aaron at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

nsb@Numbers:16:19 @ Korah assembled all his followers who opposed Moses and Aaron at the entrance to the tent of meeting. The glory of Jehovah appeared to the entire group.

nsb@Numbers:16:28 @ Moses said: »This is how you will know that Jehovah sent me to do all these things and that it wasn’t my idea:

nsb@Numbers:16:37 @ »Tell Eleazar, son of the priest Aaron, to take the incense burners out of the fire and scatter the coals and incense somewhere else. This is because the incense burners have become holy.

nsb@Numbers:16:38 @ »The incense burners of these men who sinned and lost their lives are holy, because they were offered to Jehovah. Hammer them into thin metal sheets to cover the altar. This will be a sign to the Israelites.«

nsb@Numbers:16:40 @ He followed Jehovah’s command given through Moses. The copper-covered altar will remind Israel that no one but a descendant of Aaron may come near to burn incense to Jehovah. Everyone else will die like Korah and his followers.

nsb@Numbers:16:46 @ Moses said to Aaron: »Take your incense burner, put burning coals from the altar and incense in it, and go quickly into the congregation to make peace with Jehovah for the people. Jehovah shows his anger! A plague has started.«

nsb@Numbers:16:47 @ Aaron took his incense burner, as Moses told him. He ran into the middle of the assembly, because the plague had already begun among the people. He put incense on the incense burner to make peace with Jehovah for the people.

nsb@Numbers:17:2 @ »Speak to the Israelites and get twelve staffs from them. Get one from the leader of each of their tribes. Write each man’s name on his staff.

nsb@Numbers:17:5 @ »The staff from the man I choose will begin to grow. In this way I will silence the frequent complaints the Israelites make against you and Aaron.«

nsb@Numbers:17:9 @ Moses brought out the staffs from Jehovah’s presence and showed them to all the Israelites. They looked at them, and each man took his staff.

nsb@Numbers:18:7 @ »Only you and your sons may do the work of priests, everything done at the altar and under the canopy. This is my gift to you: You may serve me as priests. Anyone else who comes near the holy place to do this work must die.«

nsb@Numbers:18:21 @ »I have given the Levites one-tenth of every Israelite’s income. This is in return for the work they do at the tent of meeting.

nsb@Numbers:18:23 @ »Only the Levites will do the work at the tent of meeting. They are responsible for their own sins. This is a long lasting law for future generations. They will own no property, as the other Israelites will.

nsb@Numbers:18:24 @ »Instead, I will give the Levites what the Israelites contribute to Jehovah, one-tenth of the Israelites’ income. This is why I said about them: They will own no property as the other Israelites do.«

nsb@Numbers:18:31 @ »‘You and your households may eat it anywhere. This is because it is the wages you receive for your work at the tent of meeting.

nsb@Numbers:19:2 @ »This is a requirement of the law Jehovah has commanded: ‘Tell the Israelites to bring you a red cow that is perfect, with no defects. Also, it must never have worn a yoke.

nsb@Numbers:19:3 @ »‘Give it to Eleazar the priest. It must be taken outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence.

nsb@Numbers:19:4 @ »‘Eleazar the priest will take some of the blood with his finger and sprinkle it seven times toward the front of the tent of meeting.

nsb@Numbers:19:7 @ »‘The priest must then wash his clothes and his body. After that, he may go into the camp. But he will be unclean until evening.

nsb@Numbers:19:8 @ »‘The person who burned the calf must also wash his clothes and his body. He will be unclean until evening.

nsb@Numbers:19:10 @ »‘The one who collected the ashes must wash his clothes. He remains unclean until evening. This regulation is valid for all time to come, both for the Israelites and for the foreigners living among them.

nsb@Numbers:19:13 @ »‘Those who touch a corpse and do not purify themselves remain unclean. This is because the water for purification has not been thrown over them. They defile Jehovah’s tent, and they will no longer be considered God’s people.

nsb@Numbers:19:17 @ »‘Do this for people who become unclean from touching a dead body. Put some of the ashes from the red cow that was burned as an offering for sin into a container. Then pour fresh water on them.

nsb@Numbers:19:20 @ »‘If the person who becomes unclean does not have his sin taken away, that person must be excluded from the assembly. He has made the holy place of Jehovah unclean. The water to take away uncleanness was not sprinkled on him. He is unclean.

nsb@Numbers:19:21 @ »‘This will be a long lasting law for them. He who sprinkles the water to take away uncleanness must wash his clothes. He who touches this water will be unclean until evening.

nsb@Numbers:20:4 @ »Did you bring Jehovah’s assembly into this desert just to have us all die and our animals?

nsb@Numbers:20:5 @ »Why did you make us leave Egypt and bring us into this terrible place? This is no place to plant crops. Even figs, grapes, and pomegranates will not grow here. And there is no water to drink!«

nsb@Numbers:20:8 @ »Take your staff and you and your brother Aaron gather the congregation. Right before their eyes, tell the rock to give up its water. In this way you will give the congregation water from the rock for them and their animals to drink.«

nsb@Numbers:20:9 @ Moses took his staff out of the tent in Jehovah’s presence as he had been commanded.

nsb@Numbers:20:10 @ Moses and Aaron assembled the congregation in front of the rock and said to them: »Listen, you rebels, must we bring water out of this rock for you?«

nsb@Numbers:20:11 @ Moses raised his hand and hit the rock twice with the staff. Water came pouring out! All the people and their animals drank.

nsb@Numbers:20:12 @ Jehovah said to Moses and Aaron: »You did not trust me! You did not show the Israelites how holy I am! So you will not bring this congregation into the land I am giving them.«

nsb@Numbers:20:13 @ This was the oasis of Meribah, where the Israelites complained about Jehovah and where he showed them he was holy.

nsb@Numbers:20:14 @ Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom. He said: »This is what your brother Israel says: ‘You know all the hardships we have had.

nsb@Numbers:20:25 @ »Take Aaron and his son Eleazar to Mount Hor.

nsb@Numbers:21:5 @ and criticized God and Moses. They said: »Why did you make us leave Egypt only to let us die in the desert? There is no bread or water, and we cannot stand this awful food!«

nsb@Numbers:21:17 @ The people of Israel sang this song: »Wells, produce your water; And we will greet it with a song.

nsb@Numbers:21:23 @ Sihon would not let Israel pass through his territory. Sihon gathered all his troops and came out into the desert to attack Israel. When Sihon’s troops came to Jahaz, they fought against Israel.

nsb@Numbers:21:27 @ That is why the Amorites had written this poem about Heshbon: »Come and rebuild Heshbon, King Sihon’s capital city!

nsb@Numbers:21:28 @ »His armies marched out like fiery flames, burning down the town of Ar and destroying the hills along the Arnon River.

nsb@Numbers:21:33 @ They turned around and went by the way of Bashan. Og the king of Bashan went out with all his people for battle at Edrei.

nsb@Numbers:21:34 @ Jehovah said to Moses: »Do not fear him for I have given him into your hand, and all his people and his land. You will do to him as you did to Sihon, king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.«

nsb@Numbers:21:35 @ The Israelites defeated him, his sons, and all his troops, leaving no survivors. They took possession of his land.

nsb@Numbers:22:5 @ He sent messengers to summon Balaam, son of Beor, who was at Pethor, on the Euphrates River, in the land where his people lived. Balak’s message was: »A nation has just come here from Egypt. They have spread out all over the countryside and are setting up their camp here in front of me.

nsb@Numbers:22:10 @ Balaam answered: »Balak, son of King Zippor of Moab, sent them with this message:

nsb@Numbers:22:16 @ When they came to Balaam they said to him: »This is what Balak son of Zippor says: ‘Do not let anything keep you from coming to me.

nsb@Numbers:22:18 @ Balaam answered Balak’s servants: »Even if Balak gave me his palace filled with silver and gold, I could not disobey the command of Jehovah my God no matter whether the request was important or not.

nsb@Numbers:22:21 @ Balaam got up in the morning and saddled his donkey and left with the Moabite princes.

nsb@Numbers:22:22 @ God became angry that he was going. So the angel of Jehovah stood in the road to stop him. Balaam was riding on his donkey, accompanied by his two servants.

nsb@Numbers:22:23 @ The donkey saw the angel of Jehovah standing in the road with his sword drawn. The donkey turned off the road into a field. Balaam hit the donkey to get it back on the road.

nsb@Numbers:22:27 @ This time, when the donkey saw the angel, it lay down. Balaam lost his temper and began to beat the donkey with his stick.

nsb@Numbers:22:30 @ The donkey replied: »Am I not the same donkey on which you have ridden all your life? Have I ever treated you like this before?« »No,« he answered.

nsb@Numbers:22:31 @ Then Jehovah let Balaam see the angel standing there with his sword. Balaam threw himself face down on the ground.

nsb@Numbers:22:32 @ The angel demanded: »Why have you beaten your donkey three times like this? I have come to bar your way, because you should not be making this journey.

nsb@Numbers:23:6 @ He went back to Balak and found him standing beside his burnt offering with all the princes of Moab.

nsb@Numbers:23:7 @ Balaam delivered this message: »Balak brought me from Aram. The king of Moab summoned me from the eastern mountains. Come and curse Jacob for me,« he said. ‘Come and condemn Israel.

nsb@Numbers:23:16 @ Jehovah met Balaam and told him what to say. He sent him back to Balak to give him his message.

nsb@Numbers:23:17 @ So he returned and found Balak still standing by his burnt offering. He was with the leaders of Moab. Balak asked what Jehovah said.

nsb@Numbers:23:18 @ Balaam uttered this prophecy: »Come, Balak son of Zippor, and listen to what I have to say.

nsb@Numbers:23:19 @ »God is a not man that he should lie. He is not a son of man who changes his mind. Does he ever promise and not fulfill? Does he ever speak and not act?

nsb@Numbers:23:21 @ »He has not observed wickedness in Jacob. Nor has he seen trouble in Israel! Jehovah his God is with him and the shout of a king is among them.

nsb@Numbers:24:3 @ He uttered this prophecy: The message of Balaam son of Beor. These are the words of the man who can see clearly.

nsb@Numbers:24:4 @ The oracle of him who hears the words of God and who sees the vision of the Almighty. Falling down, yet having his eyes open.

nsb@Numbers:24:7 @ »Water will flow from his buckets and his seed will be by many waters. His king shall be higher than Agag. And his kingdom shall be exalted.

nsb@Numbers:24:8 @ »God brings him out of Egypt. He is for him like the horns of the wild bull. He will devour the nations who are his adversaries. He will crush their bones in pieces and shatter them with his arrows.

nsb@Numbers:24:10 @ Balak’s anger burned against Balaam. He struck his hands together and Balak said to Balaam: I called you to curse my enemies! But you have persisted in blessing them three times!

nsb@Numbers:24:13 @ »Even if Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not do anything contrary to the command of Jehovah either good or bad, of my own accord. What Jehovah speaks, that I will speak!

nsb@Numbers:24:14 @ »Now I am going to my people. Come along and I will advise you what this people will do to your people in the days to come.«

nsb@Numbers:24:15 @ He began his discourse by saying: »The oracle of Balaam the son of Beor. The oracle of the man, whose eye is opened,

nsb@Numbers:24:16 @ »The oracle of him who hears the words of God, knows the knowledge of the Most High, and sees the vision of the Almighty. Falling down, yet having his eyes uncovered.

nsb@Numbers:24:18 @ »Edom shall be a possession. Seir, its enemies, also will be a possession. This while Israel performs valiantly.

nsb@Numbers:24:20 @ He looked at Amalek and continued his discourse. He said: Amalek was the first of the nations but he will end in destruction.

nsb@Numbers:24:21 @ And he looked at the Kenite and continued his discourse. He said: »Your dwelling place is enduring and your nest is set in the cliff.

nsb@Numbers:24:23 @ He again offered his discourse and said: »Alas, who can live except God ordain it?

nsb@Numbers:24:25 @ Balaam got up and went back home. Balak also went his way.

nsb@Numbers:25:6 @ One of the Israelite men brought a Midianite woman to his brothers. He did this right in front of Moses and the entire congregation of Israel while they were crying at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

nsb@Numbers:25:7 @ Phinehas, son of Eleazar and grandson of the priest Aaron, saw this. He left the assembly and grabbed a spear in his hand.

nsb@Numbers:25:8 @ He went into the tent after the Israelite man. He drove the spear through the man and into the woman’s body. Because of this, the plague that the Israelites were experiencing stopped.

nsb@Numbers:25:13 @ »My promise is that he and his descendants will be priests for a very long time because he stood up for his God. He made peace with Jehovah for the Israelites.«

nsb@Numbers:25:18 @ »This is because they treated you as enemies. They plotted to trick you in the incident that took place at Peor. They used their sister Cozbi, daughter of a Midianite leader, who was killed on the day of the plague caused by the incident at Peor.«

nsb@Numbers:26:10 @ The ground opened up and swallowed them along with Korah. They and their followers died when the fire consumed the two hundred and fifty men. This was a warning.

nsb@Numbers:26:42 @ The family descended from Dan was the family of Shuham. This was the family descended from Daniel.

nsb@Numbers:27:3 @ »Our father died in the desert. He was not a part of Korah’s followers who joined forces against Jehovah. He died for his own sin and left no sons.

nsb@Numbers:27:4 @ »Why should our father’s name be allowed to die out in his family because he had no son? Give us property among our father’s relatives.«

nsb@Numbers:27:8 @ »Tell the Israelites: ‘If a man dies and leaves no sons, turn his property over to his daughters.

nsb@Numbers:27:9 @ »‘If he has no daughters give his property to his brothers.

nsb@Numbers:27:10 @ »‘If he has no brothers give his property to his uncles on his father’s side of the family.

nsb@Numbers:27:11 @ »‘If he has no uncles, give his property to the nearest relative in his family. That relative will take possession of it. This will be a rule for the Israelites, as Jehovah commanded Moses.’«

nsb@Numbers:27:14 @ »You both rebelled against my command in the Desert of Zin. You did not show the people how holy I am when they were complaining at the oasis. »This was the oasis of Meribah at Kadesh in the Desert of Zin.

nsb@Numbers:27:18 @ Jehovah said to Moses: »Take Joshua son of Nun, a capable man, and place your hands on his head.

nsb@Numbers:27:21 @ »He will depend on Eleazar the priest, who will learn my will by using the Urim and Thummim. In this way Eleazar will direct Joshua and the whole congregation of Israel in all their affairs.«

nsb@Numbers:27:23 @ Moses put his hands on Joshua’s head and proclaimed him as his successor, just as Jehovah proclaimed.

nsb@Numbers:28:6 @ »‘This is the daily offering that is completely burned. It was first offered at Mount Sinai as a food offering, an odor pleasing to Jehovah.

nsb@Numbers:28:10 @ »‘This burnt offering is to be offered every Sabbath in addition to the daily offering with its wine offering.

nsb@Numbers:28:13 @ »‘With each one-year-old lamb a grain offering of eight cups of flour mixed with olive oil. This is a burnt offering, a soothing aroma, an offering by fire to Jehovah.

nsb@Numbers:28:14 @ »‘The wine offering that goes with each bull will be two quarts of wine, with each ram one and one half quarts of wine, and with each lamb one quart of wine. This will be the monthly burnt offering for every month of the year.

nsb@Numbers:28:17 @ »‘The feast of unleavened bread in the fifteenth of this same month. For seven days you must eat only unleavened bread.

nsb@Numbers:28:30 @ »‘Offer one male goat as a sin offering. In this way perform the ritual of purification for the people.

nsb@Numbers:29:5 @ »‘Also offer one male goat as a sin offering. In this way perform the ritual of purification for the people.

nsb@Numbers:30:1 @ Moses said to the heads of the tribes of Israel: This is what Jehovah has commanded about vows:

nsb@Numbers:30:2 @ »If a man makes a vow to Jehovah that he will do something or swears an oath that he will not do something, he must not break his word. He must do everything he said he would do.

nsb@Numbers:30:12 @ »But if her husband cancels it when he hears about it, nothing she said in her vow or oath has to be kept. Her husband has canceled it. Jehovah will free her from this vow or oath.

nsb@Numbers:30:13 @ »A husband decides whether or not his wife has to keep any vow to do something or any oath to do without something.

nsb@Numbers:30:14 @ »If he says nothing to her about it day after day, this means he decided that she must keep her vow or oath. She must keep it because he said nothing to her when he heard about it.

nsb@Numbers:31:21 @ Eleazar the priest said to the soldiers who had gone into battle: »This is what Jehovah’s Law told Moses to do:

nsb@Numbers:32:5 @ »Please give us this land as our property. Do not make us cross the Jordan River.«

nsb@Numbers:32:10 @ That day Jehovah became angry and swore this oath:

nsb@Numbers:32:11 @ »None of the people twenty years old or older, who came from Egypt, will see the land I promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob with an oath. This is because they did not wholeheartedly follow me.

nsb@Numbers:32:12 @ »Only Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun will get to see the land. This is because they wholeheartedly followed Jehovah.

nsb@Numbers:32:18 @ »We will not return to our homes until every Israelite has received his own land.

nsb@Numbers:32:22 @ and takes possession of the land. You may return after that, because you will have fulfilled your obligation to Jehovah and to the other Israelites. Then Jehovah will acknowledge that this land east of the Jordan is yours.

nsb@Numbers:32:23 @ »If you do not keep your promise, I warn you that you will be sinning against Jehovah. Do not doubt this, you will be punished for your sin.

nsb@Numbers:33:1 @ This is a list of all the places where the Israelites set up camp after they left Egypt in organized groups under the leadership of Moses and Aaron.

nsb@Numbers:33:2 @ Jehovah command Moses to wrote down the places where they went as they traveled. This is the list:

nsb@Numbers:34:13 @ Moses said to the Israelites: »This is the land you will receive by drawing lots. This is the land that Jehovah has assigned to the nine and one-half tribes.

nsb@Numbers:35:5 @ »Outside the city measure off three thousand feet on the east side, three thousand feet on the south side, three thousand feet on the west side, and three thousand feet on the north side, with the city in the center. This will be their pastureland around the city.

nsb@Numbers:35:28 @ »Accused murderers must stay in their city of refuge until the death of the chief priest. They may go back to their own property only after his death.

nsb@Numbers:35:31 @ »Murderers must be put to death. They cannot escape this penalty by the payment of money.

nsb@Numbers:35:33 @ »If you did this, you would defile the land where you are living. Murder defiles the land, and except by the death of the murderer there is no way to perform the ritual of purification for the land where someone has been murdered.

nsb@Numbers:36:2 @ They said: »Jehovah commanded you to distribute the land to the people of Israel by drawing lots. He also commanded you to give the property of our relative Zelophehad to his daughters.

nsb@Numbers:36:7 @ »The property of every Israelite will remain attached to his tribe.

nsb@Numbers:36:8 @ »Every woman who inherits property in an Israelite tribe must marry a man belonging to that tribe. In this way all Israelites will inherit the property of their ancestors,

nsb@Deuteronomy:1:1 @ These are the words Moses spoke to all Israel. He was on this side of the Jordan in the desert wilderness, in the plain near the Red Sea, between Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.

nsb@Deuteronomy:1:5 @ On this side of Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses declared the Law. He said:

nsb@Deuteronomy:1:6 @ »Jehovah our God spoke to us in Horeb. He said: ‘You have lived long enough on this mountain.

nsb@Deuteronomy:1:7 @ »Leave this place and go to the mountain of the Amorites, and all the places near there in the plain, in the hills, and in the valley and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and to Lebanon, to the great river, the river Euphrates.

nsb@Deuteronomy:1:8 @ »I have given you this land. Go in and possess the land Jehovah pledged to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and to their descendants after them.’

nsb@Deuteronomy:1:16 @ »I charged your judges to hear the cases between your countrymen and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger with him.

nsb@Deuteronomy:1:20 @ »I said to you: ‘You have arrived at the mountain of the Amorites. Jehovah gives this mountain to us.

nsb@Deuteronomy:1:21 @ »See, Jehovah your God give you this land. Possess it, for Jehovah the God of your fathers said to you: Do not fear. Do not be discouraged.’

nsb@Deuteronomy:1:31 @ »‘You saw how Jehovah your God carried you like a father carries his son all the way until you reached this place.’

nsb@Deuteronomy:1:32 @ »Yet in all this you did not trust Jehovah your God.

nsb@Deuteronomy:1:35 @ »‘Not one man of this evil generation will see that good land, which I swore to give your fathers,

nsb@Deuteronomy:1:36 @ »‘Except Caleb son of Jephunneh. He will see it. I will give him and his descendants the land he walks on. This is because he followed Jehovah wholeheartedly.

nsb@Deuteronomy:1:41 @ »You answered: ‘We have sinned against Jehovah. We will fight just as Jehovah our God commanded us.’ When every man puts on his armor and weapons of war they will be ready to go to the mountain.

nsb@Deuteronomy:2:3 @ ‘You traveled around this mountain long enough. Now go north.

nsb@Deuteronomy:2:7 @ »‘Remember how Jehovah your God blessed you in everything you have done. He took care of you as you wandered through this vast desert. He has been with you these forty years. You had everything you needed.« ’

nsb@Deuteronomy:2:12 @ Horites used to live in Seir, but the descendants of Esau chased them out. They destroyed their nation and settled there themselves. This is similar to the Israelites who later chased their enemies out of the land that Jehovah gave them.

nsb@Deuteronomy:2:14 @ This was thirty-eight years after we left Kadesh-Barnea. By that time all the men who had been in the army at Kadesh-Barnea had died, just as Jehovah said they would.

nsb@Deuteronomy:2:20 @ »‘This territory is also known as the land of the Rephaim. That is the name of the giants who formerly lived there. The Ammonites called them Zamzummim.

nsb@Deuteronomy:2:24 @ Moses continued: »Cross over the Arnon River. I will help you defeat Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon and his country. Possess his land and engage him in battle.

nsb@Deuteronomy:2:25 @ »From this day forward I will make all the people and nations through out the earth afraid of you. They will hear reports about you and tremble and be in anguish because of you.

nsb@Deuteronomy:2:31 @ »Then Jehovah said to me: ‘I make King Sihon and his land helpless before you. Capture his land and occupy it.’

nsb@Deuteronomy:2:32 @ Sihon came out with all his men to fight us near the town of Jahaz,

nsb@Deuteronomy:2:33 @ and Jehovah our God helped us defeat them. We killed Sihon, his sons, and all his people.

nsb@Deuteronomy:2:36 @ Jehovah helped us capture every town from the Arnon River Gorge north to the boundary of Gilead. This included the town of Aroer on the edge of the gorge and the town in the middle of the gorge.

nsb@Deuteronomy:3:1 @ »Next we headed for the land of Bashan. King Og of Bashan and all his army came to fight us at Edrei.

nsb@Deuteronomy:3:2 @ »Jehovah said to me: ‘Do not be afraid of him. I will hand him, all his army, and his land, over to you. Do to him what you did to King Sihon of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon.’

nsb@Deuteronomy:3:3 @ »So Jehovah our God also handed King Og of Bashan and all his army over to us. We defeated him and left no survivors.

nsb@Deuteronomy:3:4 @ »We captured all his cities. Not one was missed. We captured a total of sixty cities in the territory of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

nsb@Deuteronomy:3:6 @ »We destroyed all the towns and put to death all the men, women, and children. This was just as we did in the towns that belonged to King Sihon of Heshbon.

nsb@Deuteronomy:3:11 @ »Of the Rephaim only King Og of Bashan was left. His bed was made of iron and was more than thirteen feet long and six feet wide. It is still in the Ammonite city of Rabbah.

nsb@Deuteronomy:3:12 @ »We took possession of this land. I gave the tribes of Reuben and Gad the land north of Aroer near the Arnon Valley and half of the mountain region of Gilead with its cities.

nsb@Deuteronomy:3:21 @ »I also gave Joshua this command: ‘You have seen with your own eyes everything Jehovah your God has done to these two kings. Jehovah will do the same to all of the kingdoms on the other side of the Jordan River where you are going.

nsb@Deuteronomy:3:26 @ »Jehovah was angry with me because of you, so he would not listen to me. He said: ‘Enough of that! Do not talk to me anymore about this.

nsb@Deuteronomy:4:6 @ »Carefully obey the laws. For this will show your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations. They will hear all these statutes and say: ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’

nsb@Deuteronomy:4:8 @ »And what great nation is there that has statutes and judgments so righteous as the law I present to you this day?

nsb@Deuteronomy:4:22 @ »I am going to die in this land. I will not cross the Jordan River. But you are going to go across and take possession of that good land.

nsb@Deuteronomy:4:26 @ »I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day that you will soon utterly perish from off the land you possess the other side of the Jordan. You will not prolong your days upon it, but will be destroyed.

nsb@Deuteronomy:4:30 @ »When you are in trouble and all these things happen to you in the latter days, turn to Jehovah your God and obey his voice.

nsb@Deuteronomy:4:32 @ »Ask about the days from the past. A time that came before you, since the day that God created man upon the earth. And ask from one side of heaven to the other whether there has ever been anything like this great thing, or anything like it has been heard?

nsb@Deuteronomy:4:34 @ »Has God attempted to take a nation from the middle of another nation? Has he done this by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by great terrors? Yes, and by the use of his great power! Jehovah your God did all this for you in Egypt before your very eyes!

nsb@Deuteronomy:4:35 @ »This was shown to you that you might know that JEHOVAH IS GOD! THERE IS NO ONE BESIDES HIM!

nsb@Deuteronomy:4:36 @ »He made you hear his voice out of heaven. That way he could instruct you. He showed you his great fire on the earth. You heard his words from the middle of the fire.

nsb@Deuteronomy:4:37 @ »He loved your fathers. Therefore he chose their descendants. In fact he watched over you and he brought you out of Egypt with his mighty power.

nsb@Deuteronomy:4:39 @ »Know this and consider it in your heart today: JEHOVAH IS GOD in heaven above, and on the earth beneath: THERE IS NO ONE ELSE!

nsb@Deuteronomy:4:46 @ They were near the town of Bethpeor. This was in the territory that had belonged to King Sihon of the Amorites, who had ruled in the town of Heshbon. Moses and the people of Israel defeated him when they came out of Egypt.

nsb@Deuteronomy:4:47 @ They occupied his land and the land of King Og of Bashan, the other Amorite king who lived east of the Jordan.

nsb@Deuteronomy:4:48 @ This land extended from the town of Aroer, on the edge of the Arnon River, north to Mount Sirion, that is, Mount Hermon.

nsb@Deuteronomy:5:3 @ »Jehovah did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, all of us here alive today.

nsb@Deuteronomy:5:11 @ »‘Do not take the name of Jehovah your God in vain. Jehovah will not leave him unpunished who takes his name in vain.

nsb@Deuteronomy:5:21 @ »‘Do not desire another man's wife; do not covet another man's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his donkey, or any thing that belongs to him.’

nsb@Deuteronomy:6:2 @ »As long as you live, you, your son, and your grandson must respect Jehovah your God. All of you must obey his laws and commandments I give you. Then you will live a long time.

nsb@Deuteronomy:6:3 @ »Listen, O Israel, and be careful to obey these laws. Things will go well for you and your population will increase in a land flowing with milk and honey. This is what Jehovah the God of your ancestors promised you.

nsb@Deuteronomy:6:6 @ »These words that I command you this day must be in your heart.

nsb@Deuteronomy:6:11 @ »The houses will be full of good things that you did not put in them. There will be wells that you did not dig. There will be vineyards and olive orchards that you did not plant. Jehovah will bring you into this land and you will have all you want to eat.

nsb@Deuteronomy:6:13 @ »You must respect Jehovah your God. Serve him and swear by his name!

nsb@Deuteronomy:6:17 @ »Obey the commandments of Jehovah your God. Obey his testimonies and statutes for he commanded you.

nsb@Deuteronomy:6:18 @ »Do what is right and good in Jehovah’s sight. Then you will be able to go in and possess this good land from your enemies, just as he promised your ancestors.

nsb@Deuteronomy:6:22 @ »‘Jehovah showed signs and wonders before our eyes, great and terrible signs, against Egypt, Pharaoh and his entire household.

nsb@Deuteronomy:6:24 @ »‘Jehovah commanded us to do all these statutes. He required that we respect Jehovah our God. This was for our own good that he might preserve us alive, as things are today.

nsb@Deuteronomy:7:5 @ »Deal with them in this way: Destroy their altars and break down their sacred pillars. Cut down their idols and burn them with fire.

nsb@Deuteronomy:7:6 @ »You are a holy people to Jehovah your God. Jehovah your God has chosen you to be his own special people out of all the nations of the earth.

nsb@Deuteronomy:7:7 @ »Jehovah set his heart on you. He chose you, even though you did not outnumber all the other people. You were the smallest of all nations.

nsb@Deuteronomy:7:8 @ »You were chosen because Jehovah loved you and kept the oath he swore to your fathers. So he used his mighty hand to bring you out. He freed you from slavery under Pharaoh king of Egypt.

nsb@Deuteronomy:7:9 @ »Keep in mind that Jehovah your God is the only true God. He is the faithful God. He keeps his promise and is merciful to thousands of generations of those who love him and obey his commandments.

nsb@Deuteronomy:7:12 @ »If you listen to these rules and faithfully obey them, Jehovah your God will keep his covenant with you and be merciful to you, as he swore to your fathers.

nsb@Deuteronomy:7:13 @ »He will love you, bless you, and increase the number of your descendants. He will bless you with children. He will bless your land with produce: grain, new wine, and olive oil. He will bless your herds with calves, and your flocks with lambs and kids. This will all happen in the land Jehovah will give you, as he swore to your fathers.

nsb@Deuteronomy:7:19 @ »You saw with your own eyes the terrible plagues, the miraculous signs, and the amazing things Jehovah did. He used his mighty hand and powerful arm to bring you out. He will do the same thing to all the people who frighten you.

nsb@Deuteronomy:7:22 @ »Jehovah your God will drive out these nations before you little by little. You will not be able to put an end to them quickly. This is because the wild beasts are too numerous around you.

nsb@Deuteronomy:8:2 @ »Remember the forty years Jehovah your God led you in the wilderness. He did this in order to humble you and test you. He wanted to know what was in your heart. Whether you would obey his commandments.

nsb@Deuteronomy:8:3 @ »He humbled you with hunger and then fed you with manna. Neither you nor your fathers had seen this before. He did this to teach you that a person cannot live on bread alone but must live on all that proceeds from the mouth of Jehovah.

nsb@Deuteronomy:8:5 @ Learn this lesson by heart: Jehovah your God disciplined you like parents discipline their children.

nsb@Deuteronomy:8:6 @ »Obey the commandments of Jehovah your God. Walk in his ways and respect him.

nsb@Deuteronomy:8:11 @ »Be careful that you do not forget Jehovah your God. Always obey his judgments and Laws that I give you today.

nsb@Deuteronomy:8:14 @ »When this happens, be careful that you do not become arrogant and forget Jehovah your God. He brought you out of slavery in Egypt.

nsb@Deuteronomy:8:16 @ »He fed you in the desert with manna. Your fathers had never seen this. He did this in order to humble you and test you. But he also did this so that things would go well for you in the end.

nsb@Deuteronomy:8:20 @ »Jehovah will destroy you, just as he destroyed the nations you fought. This is because you will not listen to him.

nsb@Deuteronomy:9:4 @ »When Jehovah your God expels these people right before your very eyes, do not say to yourselves: ‘Jehovah brought us here to possess this land because we live right.’ This is not the case. It is because these nations are so wicked that Jehovah is forcing them out of your way.

nsb@Deuteronomy:9:6 @ »Understand this! It is not because you have been living right that Jehovah your God is giving you this good land to possess. You are a rebellious and impossible people!

nsb@Deuteronomy:9:13 @ »‘Jehovah spoke further to me: ‘I have seen this people. They are a very stubborn people.

nsb@Deuteronomy:9:18 @ »I fell down before Jehovah. Like the first, forty days and nights I did not eat or drink. This was because of all your sin you committed in doing what was evil in the sight of Jehovah to provoke Him to anger.

nsb@Deuteronomy:9:23 @ »‘Jehovah sent you from Kadesh-barnea. He said: ‘Go up and possess the land I have given you.’ Then you rebelled against the command of Jehovah your God. You did not believe him. You did not listen to his voice!

nsb@Deuteronomy:9:25 @ »So I fell down prostrate before Jehovah the forty days and forty nights. I did this because Jehovah said he would destroy you.

nsb@Deuteronomy:9:27 @ »‘»Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Do not look at the stubbornness of this people or at their wickedness or their sin.

nsb@Deuteronomy:10:6 @ The sons of Israel set out from Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died. He was buried there. Eleazar his son ministered as priest in his place.

nsb@Deuteronomy:10:8 @ Jehovah then set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the Ark of the covenant of Jehovah. They were to stand before Jehovah to serve and pronounce blessings in his name until this day.

nsb@Deuteronomy:10:9 @ Levi does not have a portion or inheritance with his brothers. Jehovah is his inheritance; just as Jehovah your God spoke to him.

nsb@Deuteronomy:10:10 @ »I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights like the first time. Jehovah listened to me this time also. Jehovah was not willing to destroy you.

nsb@Deuteronomy:10:12 @ »Now, O Israel, what does Jehovah your God require from you? You are to respect Jehovah your God. Walk in all his ways and love him! Serve Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your being.

nsb@Deuteronomy:10:13 @ »Obey Jehovah’s commandments and his statutes I am commanding you today for your good!

nsb@Deuteronomy:10:15 @ »Yet Jehovah set his affection on your fathers. He loved them. He chose you their descendants above all peoples, as it is this day.

nsb@Deuteronomy:10:18 @ »He executes justice for the orphan and the widow. He shows His love for the alien by giving him food and clothing.

nsb@Deuteronomy:10:20 @ »Respect Jehovah your God and serve him. Hold fast to him and take your oaths in his name.

nsb@Deuteronomy:11:1 @ »Love Jehovah your God, and obey all his laws, regulations and commandments.

nsb@Deuteronomy:11:2 @ »Know today that I do not speak with your sons who have not known and who have not seen the discipline of Jehovah your God. They have not seen his greatness and his awesome power.

nsb@Deuteronomy:11:3 @ »They have not seen his signs and the work he did in the middle of Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt and to all his land.

nsb@Deuteronomy:11:5 @ »They do not know what Jehovah did to you in the wilderness until you came to this place.

nsb@Deuteronomy:11:12 @ »Jehovah your God cares about this land. Jehovah watches over it day after day and year by year.

nsb@Deuteronomy:11:17 @ »Jehovah will become angry with you. He will shut the sky and there will be no rain. Then the ground will not grow any crops. You will quickly disappear from this good land Jehovah is giving you.

nsb@Deuteronomy:11:25 @ »No man will be able to stand before you. Jehovah your God will lay the dread of you and the fear of you on all the land where you set foot. This is as he promised you.

nsb@Deuteronomy:12:5 @ »You should seek Jehovah at the place Jehovah your God chooses out of all your tribes. This is where he will dwell and establish his name. This is where you should go.

nsb@Deuteronomy:12:8 @ »Do not behave the way we do here today, every man doing whatever is right in his own eyes.

nsb@Deuteronomy:12:11 @ »It will happen in the place Jehovah choose for his name to dwell, there you shall bring all that I command you. Bring your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution of your hand, and all your choice vowed offerings that you will vow to Jehovah.

nsb@Deuteronomy:12:21 @ »If the place Jehovah your God chooses to put his name is too far away from you, you may slaughter an animal from the herds or flocks that Jehovah has given you. Eat as much as you want in your city. I have commanded you to do this.

nsb@Deuteronomy:12:31 @ »Do not behave this way toward Jehovah your God, for every abominable act Jehovah hates they have done for their gods. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

nsb@Deuteronomy:13:4 @ »Follow Jehovah and respect him. Obey him and keep his commandments. Worship him and be faithful to him.

nsb@Deuteronomy:13:5 @ »Put to death any interpreters of dreams or prophets that tell you to rebel against Jehovah. For he rescued you from Egypt, where you were slaves. Such people are evil and are trying to lead you away from the life that Jehovah has commanded you to live. They must be put to death, in order to get rid of this evil.

nsb@Deuteronomy:13:14 @ »Investigate and search out and inquire thoroughly. If it is true and the matter established that this abomination has been done among you,

nsb@Deuteronomy:13:17 @ »Do not take anything that is put under ban. If you comply, Jehovah may turn from his burning anger and show mercy to you. He may have compassion on you and make you increase, just as he swore to your fathers.

nsb@Deuteronomy:13:18 @ »Listen to the voice of Jehovah your God. Obey all his commandments that I am commanding you today. Do what is right in the sight of Jehovah your God.

nsb@Deuteronomy:14:2 @ »You are a holy people to Jehovah your God. Out of all the people on the face of the earth Jehovah has chosen you to be a people for His own possession.

nsb@Deuteronomy:14:23 @ »You shall eat in the presence of Jehovah your God, at the place where He chooses to establish his name, the tithe of your grain, your new wine, your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and your flock, so that you may learn to respect Jehovah your God always.

nsb@Deuteronomy:14:24 @ »The place Jehovah your God will choose to put his name may be too far away. He may bless you with so much that you cannot carry the tithe of your income that far.

nsb@Deuteronomy:14:29 @ »This food is for the Levites, since they own no property, and for the foreigners, orphans, and widows who live in your towns. They are to come and get all they need. Do this, and Jehovah your God will bless you in everything you do.

nsb@Deuteronomy:15:2 @ »This is how you should release. Every man who has a loan to his neighbor shall release it. He shall not require it from his neighbor, or from his brother, because it is called Jehovah's release.

nsb@Deuteronomy:15:7 @ »This is what you must do whenever there are poor Israelites in one of your cities in the land that Jehovah your God is giving you.

nsb@Deuteronomy:15:15 @ »Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah your God redeemed you. Therefore I command you this today!

nsb@Deuteronomy:15:17 @ then you shall take an awl and pierce it through his ear into the door. He will be your servant for a very long time. You should do likewise to your maidservant.

nsb@Deuteronomy:16:2 @ »Sacrifice the Passover to Jehovah your God from the flock and the herd, in the place where Jehovah chooses to establish his name.

nsb@Deuteronomy:16:6 @ »It must be at the place where Jehovah your God chooses to establish his name. Sacrifice the Passover in the evening at sunset, at the time that you came out of Egypt.

nsb@Deuteronomy:16:11 @ »Enjoy yourselves in the presence of Jehovah your God along with your sons, daughters, male and female slaves, the Levites who live in your cities, the foreigners, orphans, and widows who live among you. Enjoy yourselves at the place Jehovah your God will choose as a dwelling for his name.

nsb@Deuteronomy:16:15 @ »For seven days you will celebrate this festival dedicated to Jehovah your God in the place he will choose. You will enjoy yourselves, because Jehovah your God will bless all your harvest and all your work.

nsb@Deuteronomy:17:2 @ »In one of the cities Jehovah your God is giving you, there may be a man or woman among you who is doing what Jehovah considers evil. This person may be disregarding the conditions of Jehovah’s covenant.

nsb@Deuteronomy:17:3 @ »Some worship and bow down to other gods, the sun, the moon, or the whole army of heaven. I have forbidden this.

nsb@Deuteronomy:17:4 @ »If it is told you and you have heard of it, then you shall inquire thoroughly. If it is true and the thing certain that this detestable thing has been done in Israel,

nsb@Deuteronomy:17:5 @ »Bring that man or woman who has done this evil deed out to your gates. Stone the man or the woman to death.

nsb@Deuteronomy:17:12 @ »The man who acts presumptuously and does not listen to the priest or the judge will die. This way you will purge the evil from Israel. The priests and judges are there to serve Jehovah your God.

nsb@Deuteronomy:17:16 @ »He must not increase his herd of horses. He must not send the people to return to Egypt to get more horses. For Jehovah said to you: You should never again return that way.

nsb@Deuteronomy:17:17 @ »He must not take many wives or his heart will turn astray. He must not accumulate large amounts of silver and gold.

nsb@Deuteronomy:17:18 @ »When he first sits on the throne of his kingdom, he is to write for himself a copy of this law on a scroll taken in the presence of the Levitical priests.

nsb@Deuteronomy:17:19 @ »He should keep it with him. He should read from it all the days of his life. In this way he will learn to respect Jehovah his God by carefully observing all the words of this Law and these statutes.

nsb@Deuteronomy:17:20 @ »He must not think he is better than the rest of his people. He will not disobey these commandments in any way. So he and his sons will rule for a long time in Israel.

nsb@Deuteronomy:18:5 @ »Jehovah chose from all your tribes the tribe of Levi to serve him and his sons as priests forever.

nsb@Deuteronomy:18:7 @ »He may serve there, as a priest of Jehovah his God, like the other Levites who are serving there.

nsb@Deuteronomy:18:8 @ »He is to receive the same amount of food as the other priests. He may keep everything his family sends him.

nsb@Deuteronomy:18:16 @ »This is according to all that you asked of Jehovah your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly. You said: Let me not hear again the voice of Jehovah my God. Do not let me see this great fire anymore, or I will die.

nsb@Deuteronomy:18:18 @ »‘I will raise up a prophet from among their countrymen like you. I will put my words in his mouth. He will speak to them all that I command him.

nsb@Deuteronomy:18:21 @ »‘« You may wonder: »How shall we recognize that Jehovah did not speak this message?«

nsb@Deuteronomy:18:22 @ »If a prophet speaks in Jehovah’s name and what he says does not happen or come true, then it did not come from Jehovah. That prophet has spoken on his own authority. Never be afraid of him.’

nsb@Deuteronomy:19:2 @ »When all this is done, set aside three cities in the land that Jehovah your God gives you.

nsb@Deuteronomy:19:4 @ »A person who unintentionally kills someone he never hated in the past may run to one of these cities to save his life.

nsb@Deuteronomy:19:5 @ »For example: when a man goes into the forest with his friend to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to cut down the tree, and the iron head slips off the handle and strikes his friend so that he dies. He may flee to one of these cities and live.

nsb@Deuteronomy:19:6 @ »Otherwise the avenger of blood might pursue the manslayer in the heat of his anger. He may overtake him and because the way is long he may take his life. Even though he was not deserving of death, since he had not hated him previously.

nsb@Deuteronomy:19:9 @ »And if you carefully observe all this commandment I command you today, to love Jehovah your God, and to walk in his ways always you shall add three more cities for yourself, besides these three.

nsb@Deuteronomy:19:11 @ »But if there is a man who hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and murders him. If he flees to one of these cities,

nsb@Deuteronomy:19:12 @ »the elders of his city will send for him. They will take him from there and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood that he may die.

nsb@Deuteronomy:19:14 @ »Do not move your neighbor's boundary mark. The ancestors have set this in your inheritance. You will inherit this in the land Jehovah your God gives you to possess.

nsb@Deuteronomy:19:16 @ »This is what you must do whenever a witness takes the stand to accuse a person falsely of a crime.

nsb@Deuteronomy:19:19 @ do to him what he planned to do to the other person. Get rid of this evil.

nsb@Deuteronomy:19:20 @ »When other people hear about this, they will be afraid. Never again will such an evil thing be done among you.

nsb@Deuteronomy:20:8 @ »The officers will also say to the men: Is there any man here who has lost his nerve and is afraid? If so, he is to go home. Otherwise, he will destroy the morale of the others.

nsb@Deuteronomy:20:15 @ »This is what you must do to all the cities that are far away that do not belong to the nations nearby.

nsb@Deuteronomy:20:19 @ »This is what you must do whenever you blockade a city for a long time in order to capture it in war. Do not harm any of its fruit trees with an ax. You may eat the fruit. Never cut those trees down, because the trees of the field are not people you have come to blockade.

nsb@Deuteronomy:21:1 @ »This is what you must do if you find a murder victim lying in a field in the land that Jehovah your God is giving you. If no one knows who committed the murder,

nsb@Deuteronomy:21:7 @ »They will answer: ‘Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did we see it.

nsb@Deuteronomy:21:15 @ »If a man have two wives and loves one more than the other. The first son of either wife is the man's first-born son, even if the boy's mother is the wife he does not love. A man near death and dividing up his property must give a double share to his first-born son. This is because he was the first to be born.

nsb@Deuteronomy:21:16 @ »The day he wills his possessions to his sons, he should not put the firstborn son of the loved wife before the firstborn son of the unloved wife.

nsb@Deuteronomy:21:17 @ »He should acknowledge the firstborn son of the unloved wife. And give him a double portion of all that he has. He is the beginning of his strength. The right of the firstborn belongs to him.

nsb@Deuteronomy:21:18 @ »If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not listen or obey his father or his mother when they chastise him,

nsb@Deuteronomy:21:19 @ »His father and mother shall seize him, and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gateway of his hometown.

nsb@Deuteronomy:21:20 @ »They shall say to the elders of his city: This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious! He will not obey us! He is a glutton and a drunkard.

nsb@Deuteronomy:21:21 @ »All the men of his city shall stone him to death. In that way you will remove the evil from your midst. All Israel will hear about it and fear.

nsb@Deuteronomy:21:23 @ »His corpse must not hang all night on the tree. Be sure to bury him the same day for he who is hanged is accursed of God. You do this so that you do not defile your land Jehovah your God gives you as an inheritance.

nsb@Deuteronomy:22:3 @ »You should do the same with his donkey and his garment. You should do likewise with anything lost by your brother found by you. Do not ignore it.

nsb@Deuteronomy:22:4 @ »You should not see your brothers donkey or his bull fallen down on the way, and pay no attention to them. Help him lift it to its feet.

nsb@Deuteronomy:22:8 @ »When you build a new house make a parapet for your roof. This way you will not bring bloodguilt on your house if anyone falls from it.

nsb@Deuteronomy:22:14 @ he charges her with shameful deeds and publicly defames her. He says: ‘When I had sex with this woman, I did not find proof of her virginity.’

nsb@Deuteronomy:22:16 @ »The girl's father shall say to the elders: I gave my daughter to be this man’s wife, but he turned against her.

nsb@Deuteronomy:22:17 @ »He has charged her with shameful deeds. He says: ‘I did not find your daughter to be a virgin.« »But this is the evidence of my daughter's virginity.« And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city.

nsb@Deuteronomy:22:19 @ »They will fine him a hundred shekels of silver. They will give it to the girl's father, because he publicly defamed a virgin of Israel. She will remain his wife. He may not divorce her all his days.

nsb@Deuteronomy:22:20 @ »On the other hand if this charge is true, that the girl was not found a virgin,

nsb@Deuteronomy:22:24 @ »You must bring them both out to the gate of that city and you must stone them to death! The girl did not protest what was happening and the man has violated his neighbor's woman. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you.

nsb@Deuteronomy:22:26 @ »Do nothing to the woman. There is no sin in the woman worthy of death. This is like the case where a man attacks and murders his neighbor.

nsb@Deuteronomy:22:29 @ The man who has sex with her must give to the girl's father fifty shekels of silver, and she will become his wife because he has violated her. He may not divorce her all his days.

nsb@Deuteronomy:22:30 @ »A man must not have sexual intercourse with his father's wife. This would violate his father.

nsb@Deuteronomy:23:2 @ »No one of illegitimate birth shall enter the assembly of Jehovah. None of his descendants to the tenth generation shall enter the assembly of Jehovah.

nsb@Deuteronomy:23:4 @ »This is because they did not meet you with food and water on the way when you came out of Egypt. It is because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.

nsb@Deuteronomy:23:7 @ »Do not detest an Edomite for he is your brother. Do not detest an Egyptian, because you were an alien in his land.

nsb@Deuteronomy:23:15 @ »Do not hand over an escaped slave to his master.

nsb@Deuteronomy:24:1 @ »When a man marries a woman and later decides he does not love her because he found something he does not like about her he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out from his house.

nsb@Deuteronomy:24:2 @ »She leaves his house and becomes another man's wife.

nsb@Deuteronomy:24:3 @ »If the latter husband turns against her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter husband dies who took her to be his wife,

nsb@Deuteronomy:24:4 @ »her former husband who sent her away is not allowed to take her again to be his wife. She has been defiled. That is an abomination before Jehovah, and you shall not bring sin on the land Jehovah your God gives you as an inheritance.

nsb@Deuteronomy:24:7 @ »If a man is caught kidnapping any of his brothers of the sons of Israel, and he deals with him violently or sells him, the thief shall die. You will purge the evil from among you.

nsb@Deuteronomy:24:10 @ »When you make your neighbor a loan of any sort do not go into his house and repossess the security.

nsb@Deuteronomy:24:13 @ »Return the pledge to him before the sun goes down. He will have his pledged item and he may sleep. He will bless you. And it will be righteousness for you before Jehovah your God.

nsb@Deuteronomy:24:15 @ »Pay him his wages on the workday day before the sunsets. He is poor and sets his heart on it. He will not complain against you to Jehovah and it becomes your sin.

nsb@Deuteronomy:24:16 @ »Fathers shall not be put to death for their sons, nor shall sons be put to death for their fathers. Everyone shall be put to death for his own sin.

nsb@Deuteronomy:24:18 @ »Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and that Jehovah your God redeemed you from there. I therefore command you to do this.

nsb@Deuteronomy:24:22 @ »You must remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt. I am commanding you to do this.

nsb@Deuteronomy:25:2 @ »If the wicked man deserves to be beaten, the judge will then make him lie down and be beaten in his presence. The number of lashes is according to his guilt.

nsb@Deuteronomy:25:6 @ »The firstborn son she bears will assume the name of the dead brother. That way his name will not be blotted out from Israel.

nsb@Deuteronomy:25:7 @ »If the man does not desire to take his brother's wife, his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders and say: My husband's brother refuses to establish a name for his brother in Israel. He is not willing to perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.

nsb@Deuteronomy:25:8 @ »The elders of his city must summon him and speak to him. If he persists and says: I do not desire to take her,

nsb@Deuteronomy:25:9 @ his brother's wife shall must to him in the sight of the elders. She will pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face. Then she will declare: It is done to the man who does not build up his brother's house.

nsb@Deuteronomy:25:10 @ »His name in Israel will be: ‘The house of him whose sandal is removed.’

nsb@Deuteronomy:25:11 @ »If two brothers struggle together and the wife of one approaches to help her husband against the other man, and puts out her hand and seizes his genitals,

nsb@Deuteronomy:26:2 @ »Take some of the first of all the produce of the ground that you bring in from your land that Jehovah your God gives you, and put it in a basket and go to the place where Jehovah your God chooses to establish His name.

nsb@Deuteronomy:26:3 @ »Go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him: I declare this day to Jehovah my God! I have entered the land Jehovah swore to our fathers to give us.

nsb@Deuteronomy:26:9 @ »‘He brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

nsb@Deuteronomy:26:16 @ »This day Jehovah your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances. You shall therefore be careful to do them with all your heart and with all your being.

nsb@Deuteronomy:26:17 @ »You declared Jehovah to be your God today. You said you would walk in his ways and keep his statutes, his commandments and his ordinances, and listen to his voice.

nsb@Deuteronomy:26:18 @ »Jehovah declared you to be his people and a treasured possession. Obey his commandments and receive his promise.

nsb@Deuteronomy:27:2 @ »This is the way it will be on the day when you cross the Jordan to the land that Jehovah your God gives you. You will set up for yourself large stones and coat them with lime

nsb@Deuteronomy:27:9 @ Moses and the Levitical priests spoke to all Israel. They said: »Be silent and listen, O Israel! This day you have become a people for Jehovah your God.

nsb@Deuteronomy:27:10 @ »Obey Jehovah your God, and do his commandments and his statutes which I command you today.«

nsb@Deuteronomy:27:16 @ »‘Cursed is the man who dishonors his father or mother. All the people will say: Amen.

nsb@Deuteronomy:27:17 @ »‘Cursed is he who moves his neighbor's boundary mark. All the people will say: Amen.

nsb@Deuteronomy:27:20 @ »‘Cursed is the man who has sexual activities with his father's wife, because he has violated his father’s rights.’ And all the people say: ‘Amen.’

nsb@Deuteronomy:27:22 @ »‘Cursed is he who has sexual activities with his sister, the daughter of his father or of his mother. All the people answer: Amen.

nsb@Deuteronomy:27:23 @ »‘Cursed is he who indulges in sex with his mother-in-law. And all the people say: Amen.

nsb@Deuteronomy:27:24 @ »‘Cursed is he who beats his neighbor in secret.’ And all the people will say: ‘Amen.’

nsb@Deuteronomy:28:1 @ »Carefully obey Jehovah your God. Faithfully follow all his commandments that I give you today. If you do this Jehovah your God will place you high above all the other nations in the world.

nsb@Deuteronomy:28:9 @ »Jehovah will establish you as a holy people to himself. He swore this to you, if you obey the commandments of Jehovah your God and walk in His ways.

nsb@Deuteronomy:28:12 @ »Jehovah will open for you his good storehouse. The skies will give rain to your land in due season. It will bless all the work of your hand. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow.

nsb@Deuteronomy:28:15 @ »If you do not obey Jehovah your God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes with which I charge you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

nsb@Deuteronomy:28:45 @ »All these disasters will come on you. They will be with you until you are destroyed. This is because you did not obey Jehovah your God and keep all the laws that he gave you.

nsb@Deuteronomy:28:51 @ »They will eat the offspring of your animals and the crops from your fields until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, no new wine, no olive oil, no calves from your herds, and no lambs or kids from your flocks. They will continue to do this until you are completely desolate.

nsb@Deuteronomy:28:54 @ »The kindest and most sensitive man among you will become stingy toward his brother, the wife he loves, and the children he still has left.

nsb@Deuteronomy:28:55 @ »He will give none of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating. It will be all that he has left. These are hardships your enemies will make you suffer during the blockade of all your cities.

nsb@Deuteronomy:28:58 @ »You might not faithfully obey every word of the teachings that are written in this book. You might not respect this glorious and awe inspiring name: JEHOVAH your God.

nsb@Deuteronomy:28:61 @ »Jehovah will also bring you every kind of sickness and plague not written in this Book of the Law. They will continue until you are dead.

nsb@Deuteronomy:28:62 @ »You were at one time as numerous as the stars in the sky. But only a few of you will be left. This is because you did not obey Jehovah your God.

nsb@Deuteronomy:29:1 @ These are the terms of the covenant that Jehovah commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab. All this was in addition to the covenant Jehovah made with them at Mount Sinai.

nsb@Deuteronomy:29:2 @ Moses called together all the people of Israel and said: »You saw for yourselves what Jehovah did to the king of Egypt, to his officials, and to his entire country.

nsb@Deuteronomy:29:4 @ »To this very day Jehovah has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, or ears to hear.

nsb@Deuteronomy:29:6 @ »You have not eaten bread. You have not drunk wine or strong drink. This in order that you might know that I am Jehovah your God.

nsb@Deuteronomy:29:7 @ When you reached this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out to meet us for battle. We defeated them!

nsb@Deuteronomy:29:9 @ »Keep the words of this covenant to do them that you may prosper in all that you do.

nsb@Deuteronomy:29:12 @ that you may enter into the covenant with Jehovah your God, and into His oath that Jehovah your God is making with you today.

nsb@Deuteronomy:29:13 @ »Jehovah will confirm today with this promise that you are his people and that he is your God. This is what he told you. This is what he promised your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob with an oath.

nsb@Deuteronomy:29:14 @ »You are not the only people to receive this promise and its conditions.

nsb@Deuteronomy:29:18 @ »Make sure that no man, woman, family, or tribe standing here today turns from Jehovah our God to serve the gods of other nations. This would be like a root that grows to be a bitter and poisonous plant.

nsb@Deuteronomy:29:19 @ »Be sure there is no one here today who hears these solemn demands and yet convinces himself that all will be well with him. He would go stubbornly on his own way. That would destroy all of you, good and evil alike.

nsb@Deuteronomy:29:20 @ Jehovah will never be willing to forgive him, but rather the anger of Jehovah and His jealousy will burn against that man. Every curse which is written in this book will rest on him. Jehovah will blot out his name from under heaven.

nsb@Deuteronomy:29:21 @ »Jehovah will destroy you by piling on you all the curses that are written in this book of Law. You will be forgotten forever.

nsb@Deuteronomy:29:22 @ »The next generation of your children and foreigners who come from distant countries will see the plagues that have happened in this land and the diseases Jehovah sent here.

nsb@Deuteronomy:29:23 @ »All its land is brimstone and salt. It is a burning waste, unsown and unproductive. No grass grows on it. Like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger and in his wrath.

nsb@Deuteronomy:29:24 @ »All the nations will say: Why has Jehovah done thus to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?'

nsb@Deuteronomy:29:27 @ »‘Jehovah became angry against this land and brought on it all the curses described in this book.

nsb@Deuteronomy:29:28 @ »‘His fierce anger and fury caused Jehovah to uproot these people from their land and deported them to another country. This is where they still are today.’

nsb@Deuteronomy:29:29 @ »Some secret things are hidden. They belong to Jehovah our God. The things that have been revealed in these teachings belong to us and to our children forever. We must obey every word of this Law.

nsb@Deuteronomy:30:8 @ »You shall again obey Jehovah, and observe all his commandments that I command you today.

nsb@Deuteronomy:30:10 @ if you obey Jehovah your God to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, if you turn to Jehovah your God with all your heart with all your being.

nsb@Deuteronomy:30:11 @ »This commandment that I command you today is not too difficult for you. It is not out of reach.

nsb@Deuteronomy:30:13 @ »This commandment is not on the other side of the sea. You do not have to ask: Who will cross the sea to get it for us so that we can hear it and obey it?

nsb@Deuteronomy:30:16 @ »I command you today to Love Jehovah your God, follow his directions, and obey his commandments, laws, and rules. Then you will live, your population will increase, and Jehovah your God will bless you in the land that you are about to enter and possess.

nsb@Deuteronomy:30:20 @ »LOVE JEHOVAH YOUR GOD, OBEY HIM, AND BE LOYAL TO HIM. THIS WILL BE YOUR WAY OF LIFE. It will mean a long life for you in the land that Jehovah swore to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

nsb@Deuteronomy:31:9 @ Moses wrote this Law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi who carried the Ark of the Covenant of Jehovah, and to all the elders of Israel.

nsb@Deuteronomy:31:11 @ when all Israel comes to appear before Jehovah your God at the place he will choose, you shall read this Law in front of all Israel in their hearing.

nsb@Deuteronomy:31:12 @ »Assemble the people, the men and the women and children and the alien who is in your town. Assemble them that they may hear and learn and respect Jehovah your God, and be careful to observe all the words of this Law.

nsb@Deuteronomy:31:16 @ Jehovah said to Moses: »You are about to lie down with your fathers in death. This people will arise and play the harlot with the strange gods of the land. They will plunge into the midst of it. They will forsake me and break my covenant that I made with them.

nsb@Deuteronomy:31:19 @ »Write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the sons of Israel. Put it on their lips, so that this song may be a witness for me against the sons of Israel.

nsb@Deuteronomy:31:21 @ »Then it will happen, when many evils and troubles have come upon them, that this song will testify before them as a witness. It shall not be forgotten from the lips of their descendants. I know the intent they are developing today, before I have brought them into the land that I swore.«

nsb@Deuteronomy:31:22 @ So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it to the sons of Israel.

nsb@Deuteronomy:31:23 @ Jehovah gave this command to Joshua, son of Nun: »Be strong and courageous, because you will bring the Israelites into the land that I swore to give them, and I will be with you.«

nsb@Deuteronomy:31:24 @ Moses finished writing all the words of this Law in a book.

nsb@Deuteronomy:31:25 @ He gave this command to the Levites who carried the Ark of Jehovah’s Covenant:

nsb@Deuteronomy:31:26 @ »Take this Book of the Law, and put it next to the Ark of the Covenant of Jehovah your God, where it will be a witness against you.

nsb@Deuteronomy:31:30 @ The whole congregation of Israel listened. Moses recited all the words of this song:

nsb@Deuteronomy:32:4 @ »He is the Rock! His work is perfect. For all His ways are just. He is a God of faithfulness and without evil. He is just and upright.

nsb@Deuteronomy:32:5 @ »They have corrupted themselves; they are not His sons. They are a blemished, crooked and perverse generation.

nsb@Deuteronomy:32:6 @ »Is this how you repay Jehovah, you foolish and unwise people? Is he not your Father and creator, who made you and formed you?

nsb@Deuteronomy:32:9 @ »Jehovah’s people were his property. Jacob was God’s own possession.

nsb@Deuteronomy:32:10 @ »He found his people in a desert land, in a barren place where animals howl. He guarded them, took care of them, and protected them because they were the precious apple of his eye.

nsb@Deuteronomy:32:12 @ »Jehovah alone led his people. No foreign god was with them.

nsb@Deuteronomy:32:15 @ »Jeshurun grew fat and disrespectful. You got fat! You were stuffed! You over eat! He abandoned the God who made him and scornfully treated the rock of his salvation.

nsb@Deuteronomy:32:19 @ »Jehovah saw this and rejected them. His own sons and daughters made him angry.

nsb@Deuteronomy:32:27 @ »I did not want their enemies to make me angry. I did not want their opponents to misunderstand and say: We won this victory! Jehovah did not do all this!

nsb@Deuteronomy:32:34 @ »Is this not laid up in store with me and sealed up among my treasures?

nsb@Deuteronomy:32:36 @ »Jehovah will bring his people justice. He will have compassion on his servants. He sees that their power is gone, and only the imprisoned and abandoned remain.

nsb@Deuteronomy:32:43 @ »Rejoice you nations with his people. He will avenge the blood of his servants. He will render vengeance on his adversaries, and will atone for his land and his people.«

nsb@Deuteronomy:32:44 @ Then Moses came, along with Joshua son of Nun, and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people.

nsb@Deuteronomy:32:46 @ he said to them: »Take to your heart all the words with which I am warning you today. Command your sons to observe carefully all the words of this law.

nsb@Deuteronomy:32:47 @ »It is not an idle talk! Indeed it is your life. By this word you will prolong your days in the land you to possess on the other side of the Jordan.«

nsb@Deuteronomy:32:49 @ »Go up to this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo. It is in the land of Moab opposite Jericho. Look at the land of Canaan. I am giving this to the sons of Israel for a possession.

nsb@Deuteronomy:32:50 @ »Then die on the mountain you climb. Be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people,

nsb@Deuteronomy:33:2 @ »Jehovah came from Mount Sinai. He rose like the sun over Edom and shone on his people from Mount Paran. Ten thousand angels were with him. A flaming fire was at his right hand.

nsb@Deuteronomy:33:3 @ »Jehovah loves his people. All Your holy ones are in your hand. They followed in your steps and everyone receives your words.

nsb@Deuteronomy:33:6 @ »Do not let his men be few.«

nsb@Deuteronomy:33:7 @ »Hear, O Jehovah, the voice of Judah, and bring him to his people. With his hands he contended for them. May you be help against his adversaries.«

nsb@Deuteronomy:33:9 @ »Who said of his father and mother: ‘I have not seen them; and he did not acknowledge his brothers, nor did he regard his own sons. They observed your word and kept your covenant.’

nsb@Deuteronomy:33:11 @ »O Jehovah, bless his skills and accept the work of his hands. Shatter the loins of those who rise up against him and those who hate him, so that they will not rise again.«

nsb@Deuteronomy:33:12 @ »May the beloved of Jehovah dwell in security by him who shields him all the day. He dwells between his shoulders.«

nsb@Deuteronomy:33:13 @ »Blessed of Jehovah is his land. Bless it with the dew from heaven above and with the deep waters lying below.

nsb@Deuteronomy:33:16 @ »Bless with the choice things of the earth and its fullness. Let the favor of him who dwelt in the bush come to the head of Joseph and to the crown of the head of the one distinguished among his brothers.

nsb@Deuteronomy:33:17 @ »As the firstborn of his bulls, majesty is his. His horns are the horns of the wild bull. With them he will push the peoples, all at once, to the ends of the earth. They are the ten thousands of Ephraim and the thousands of Manasseh.«

nsb@Deuteronomy:33:21 @ »He provided the first part for himself. There the ruler's portion was reserved. He came with the leaders of the people and executed his ordinance of Israel and the justice of Jehovah.«

nsb@Deuteronomy:33:24 @ »Asher is the most blessed with sons. May his brothers favor him. And may he dip his foot in oil.

nsb@Deuteronomy:33:26 @ »There is none like the God of Jeshurun. He rides the heavens to give you help. He goes through the skies in his majesty.

nsb@Deuteronomy:33:28 @ »Israel dwells in security. The fountain of Jacob is secluded in a land of grain and new wine. His heavens also drop down dew.

nsb@Deuteronomy:34:4 @ Jehovah said: »This is the land that I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying: I will give it to your descendants. I let you see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there.«

nsb@Deuteronomy:34:6 @ He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab, opposite Beth-peor. No man knows his burial place to this day.

nsb@Deuteronomy:34:7 @ Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died. His eye was not dim, nor his vigor abated.

nsb@Deuteronomy:34:9 @ Joshua the son of Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him. The sons of Israel listened to him and did as Jehovah had commanded Moses.

nsb@Deuteronomy:34:11 @ for all the signs and wonders that Jehovah sent him to perform in the land of Egypt against Pharaoh, all his servants, and all his land,

nsb@Joshua:1:1 @ Moses the servant of Jehovah died. After his death Jehovah spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ minister, saying:

nsb@Joshua:1:6 @ »Be strong and courageous for you will help this people inherit the land. This is the land I swore to give to their fathers.

nsb@Joshua:1:8 @ »This Book of the Law will not depart out of your mouth. You must meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. Then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

nsb@Joshua:1:11 @ »Pass through the middle of the camp and command the people, say: Prepare your provisions. In three days you will pass over this Jordan. You will go in to possess the land that Jehovah your God gave you to possess.«

nsb@Joshua:1:13 @ »Remember the word Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded you: ‘Jehovah your God has given you rest, and has given you this land.’«

nsb@Joshua:1:14 @ »Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall remain in the land Moses gave you on this side of the Jordan. But you shall pass before your brothers armed, all the mighty men of valor, and help them.

nsb@Joshua:1:15 @ »Your brothers will possess the land Jehovah gave them until Jehovah gives your brothers rest. Then you will return to the land you possess and enjoy it. This is the land Jehovah’s servant Moses gave you on this side of Jordan toward the sunrise.«

nsb@Joshua:2:17 @ The men said to her: »We will be free from this oath you made us swear.

nsb@Joshua:2:18 @ »When we come into the land, tie this scarlet cord in the window from which you let us down. Bring your father, mother, brothers and sisters and your father’s entire household into your home.

nsb@Joshua:2:19 @ »Whoever goes out of your house into the street will be responsible for his own life. We will be guiltless: and whoever shall be with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand is laid on him.

nsb@Joshua:3:4 @ »You should keep a space of a thousand yards between you and the ark. Do not come near it, that you may know the way by which you must go: for you have not passed this way before.«

nsb@Joshua:3:7 @ Jehovah said to Joshua: »This day will I begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel. Now they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.

nsb@Joshua:3:10 @ Joshua said: »By this you shall know the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.

nsb@Joshua:4:5 @ Joshua said to them: »Pass over before the Ark of Jehovah your God to the middle of the Jordan River. Let every man take a stone on his shoulder according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel.

nsb@Joshua:4:6 @ »This may be a sign among you when your children ask their fathers what is the meaning of these stones?

nsb@Joshua:4:8 @ The children of Israel did as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the middle of the Jordan. This was just as Jehovah spoke to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel. They carried them to the place where they lodged and laid them down there.

nsb@Joshua:4:9 @ Joshua set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan River, in the place where the feet of the priests who carried the Ark of the Covenant stood, and they are there to this day.

nsb@Joshua:4:10 @ The priests who carried the ark stood in the middle of the Jordan River. They stood there until every thing that Jehovah commanded Joshua to speak to the people was carried out, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua. During this time the people hurried to the other side of the river.

nsb@Joshua:4:14 @ On that day Jehovah exulted Joshua in the sight of all Israel. They feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.

nsb@Joshua:4:22 @ »Then you will let your children know, saying: Israel came over this Jordan River on dry land.

nsb@Joshua:5:4 @ This is why Joshua circumcised: All the men who came out of Egypt including all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt.

nsb@Joshua:5:9 @ Jehovah said to Joshua: »This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you.« So the name of the place is called Gilgal to this day.

nsb@Joshua:5:13 @ When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, there stood a man in front of him with his sword drawn in his hand. Joshua went to him, and said: »Are you on our side or our adversaries?«

nsb@Joshua:5:14 @ He said: »No, but as captain of the camp of Jehovah I now come.« And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and bowed down and said: »What does my lord say to his servant?«

nsb@Joshua:6:14 @ And the second day they went around the city once, and returned to the camp. They did this for six days.

nsb@Joshua:6:25 @ Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father’s household, and all that she had. She dwells in Israel even to this day because she hid the messengers Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

nsb@Joshua:6:26 @ Joshua pronounced an oath at that time, saying: »Cursed be the man before Jehovah, that rises up and builds this city Jericho. He will lay the foundation at the cost of his firstborn. He will set up the gates at the cost of his youngest son.«

nsb@Joshua:6:27 @ Jehovah was with Joshua and his fame spread throughout all the country.

nsb@Joshua:7:6 @ And Joshua ripped his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the Ark of Jehovah until evening. He threw dust on his head. The elders of Israel did the same.

nsb@Joshua:7:7 @ Joshua said: »Alas, Sovereign Lord Jehovah, why did you bring this people across the Jordan. Was it to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? Would to God we had been content to dwell on the other side of the Jordan!

nsb@Joshua:7:18 @ And he brought his household man by man; and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.

nsb@Joshua:7:20 @ Achan answered Joshua: »Indeed I have sinned against Jehovah the God of Israel. This I have done.

nsb@Joshua:7:24 @ And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.

nsb@Joshua:7:25 @ Joshua said: »Why have you troubled us? Jehovah will trouble you this day.« All Israel stoned them with stones. After they stoned them they burned them with fire.

nsb@Joshua:7:26 @ They raised over them a great heap of stones that is there to this day. So Jehovah turned from the fierceness of his anger. The name of that place was called, the Valley of Achor, to this day.

nsb@Joshua:8:1 @ Jehovah said to Joshua: »Do not fear and do not be discouraged. Take all the people of war with you and go up to Ai. I have given into your hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land.

nsb@Joshua:8:10 @ Joshua rose up early in the morning and mustered his men. He and the elders of Israel went in front of the people to Ai.

nsb@Joshua:8:14 @ When the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed headed for the plain. He did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.

nsb@Joshua:8:18 @ Jehovah said to Joshua: »Stretch out the spear that is in your hand toward Ai.« I will give it to your hand. Joshua stretched out the spear that he had in his hand toward the city.

nsb@Joshua:8:19 @ The ambush began quickly. They ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand. They entered into the city, captured it and quickly set the city on fire.

nsb@Joshua:8:20 @ The men of Ai looked behind and saw the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven. They had no power to run this way or that way: and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.

nsb@Joshua:8:26 @ Joshua did not withdraw his hand. He stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

nsb@Joshua:8:28 @ Joshua burnt Ai and made it a heap forever, even desolation to this day.

nsb@Joshua:8:29 @ He hung the king of Ai on a tree until evening. As soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they take his carcass down from the tree and throw it at the entering gate of the city. They raised a large pile of rocks over it that is there to this day.

nsb@Joshua:8:32 @ He wrote upon the stones a copy of the Law of Moses. He did this in the presence of the children of Israel.

nsb@Joshua:9:20 @ »This we will do to them. We will even let them live in case we become angry. This is because of the oath we swore to them.«

nsb@Joshua:9:24 @ They answered Joshua: »For the reason that it was absolutely told to your servants, how Jehovah your God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and destroy all the inhabitants of the land. Therefore we were very afraid for our lives because of you. So we did this thing.

nsb@Joshua:9:27 @ Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of Jehovah, even to this day, in the place he should choose.

nsb@Joshua:10:3 @ Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, and to Piram king of Jarmuth, and to Japhia king of Lachish, and to Debir king of Eglon, saying:

nsb@Joshua:10:5 @ Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon gathered together. They and all their hosts came before Gibeon and camped. Then they made war against it.

nsb@Joshua:10:13 @ The sun stood still, and the moon stood still, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is this not written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and did not go down for a whole day.

nsb@Joshua:10:23 @ They did so, and brought the five kings to him: the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.

nsb@Joshua:10:25 @ Joshua said: »Do not be afraid. Do not be terrified! Be strong and have courage: for this is what Jehovah will do to all your enemies against whom you fight.«

nsb@Joshua:10:31 @ Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, to Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it:

nsb@Joshua:10:32 @ Jehovah delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel on the second day. He struck it with the edge of the sword, and all the persons who lived there according to all that he had done to Libnah.

nsb@Joshua:10:33 @ Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish. Joshua killed him and his people, until he had left none remaining.

nsb@Joshua:10:34 @ From Lachish Joshua went to Eglon, and all Israel with him. They encamped against it, and fought against it:

nsb@Joshua:10:35 @ They took it on that day and struck it with the edge of the sword. All that were there were destroyed that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish.

nsb@Joshua:10:37 @ They capture it and destroyed it with the edge of the sword. This included the king and all the cities, and all the people who were there. He left none remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon; but destroyed it utterly, and destroyed all the people there.

nsb@Joshua:11:1 @ Jabin king of Hazor heard about this. So he sent a message to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,

nsb@Joshua:11:6 @ Jehovah said to Joshua: »Do not be afraid because of them! About this time tomorrow I will deliver them up all slain before Israel. You must hamstring their horses, and burn their chariots with fire.«

nsb@Joshua:11:15 @ Jehovah commanded Moses his servant and so Moses commands Joshua and Joshua complied. He left nothing undone of all that Jehovah commanded Moses.

nsb@Joshua:12:7 @ These are the kings of the country that Joshua and the children of Israel conquered on this side of the Jordan on the west, from Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon even to Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir; which Joshua gave to the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;

nsb@Joshua:12:11 @ The king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;

nsb@Joshua:13:2 @ This is the land that yet remains: »All the borders of the Philistines, and all Geshuri,

nsb@Joshua:13:7 @ »Divide this land for an inheritance among the nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh.«

nsb@Joshua:13:13 @ Nevertheless the children of Israel did not expel the Geshurites, or the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day.

nsb@Joshua:13:23 @ The border of the children of Reuben was Jordan and its border. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben after their families, the cities and the villages there.

nsb@Joshua:13:27 @ In the valley, Beth-aram, and Beth-nimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, Jordan and his border, to the edge of the sea of Chinnereth on the other side Jordan eastward.

nsb@Joshua:13:28 @ This is the inheritance of the children of Gad after their families, the cities, and their villages.

nsb@Joshua:13:29 @ Moses gave inheritance to the half tribe of Manasseh. This was the possession of the half tribe of the children of Manasseh by families.

nsb@Joshua:14:10 @ »‘Jehovah has kept me alive, as he said, these forty-five years, even since Jehovah spoke this word to Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness. Now I am this day eighty-five years old.

nsb@Joshua:14:11 @ »‘So far I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength is now, for war, both to go out, and to come in.

nsb@Joshua:14:12 @ »‘Now therefore give me this mountain. This is where Jehovah spoke that day. You heard about the Anakims that day. Their cities were large and fortified and Jehovah helped me drive them out just as Jehovah said.«

nsb@Joshua:14:14 @ Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite to this day, because that he wholly followed Jehovah the God of Israel.

nsb@Joshua:15:1 @ This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families: The border of Edom the wilderness of Zin southward was the farthest part of the south coast.

nsb@Joshua:15:12 @ The west border was to the coast of the great sea. This is the coast of the children of Judah round about according to their families.

nsb@Joshua:15:17 @ Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.

nsb@Joshua:15:20 @ This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families.

nsb@Joshua:15:39 @ Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon,

nsb@Joshua:15:63 @ As for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not drive them out. The Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.

nsb@Joshua:16:8 @ The border went out from Tappuah westward to the river Kanah; and from there to the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by their families.

nsb@Joshua:16:10 @ They did not drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites to this day, and have become forced laborers.

nsb@Joshua:17:3 @ But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters: and these are the names of his daughters, Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

nsb@Joshua:17:6 @ Because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons: and the rest of Manasseh’s sons had the land of Gilead.

nsb@Joshua:17:10 @ Southward it was Ephraim’s, and northward it was Manasseh’s, and the sea is his border; and they met together in Asher on the north, and in Issachar on the east.

nsb@Joshua:18:14 @ From the hill that lies before Beth-horon southward; and it ended at Kirjath-baal, which is Kirjath-jearim, a city of the children of Judah: this was the west quarter.

nsb@Joshua:18:19 @ The border passed along to the side of Beth-hoglah northward: and the outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the salt sea at the south end of Jordan: this was the south coast.

nsb@Joshua:18:20 @ Jordan was the border of it on the east side. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the border according to their families.

nsb@Joshua:18:28 @ And Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, which is Jerusalem, Gibeath, and Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.

nsb@Joshua:19:8 @ And all the villages that were near these cities to Baalath-beer, Ramath of the south. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families.

nsb@Joshua:19:12 @ It turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrising to the border of Chisloth-tabor, and then goes out to Daberath, and goes up to Japhia,

nsb@Joshua:19:16 @ This is the inheritance of the children of Zebulun according to their families, these cities with their villages.

nsb@Joshua:19:23 @ This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families, the cities and their villages.

nsb@Joshua:19:31 @ This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.

nsb@Joshua:19:39 @ This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families, the cities and their villages.

nsb@Joshua:19:48 @ This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages.

nsb@Joshua:21:12 @ The fields that were in the city and its towns had already been given to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his possession.

nsb@Joshua:21:44 @ Jehovah granted them peace throughout the land. This is just as he had promised their ancestors. Not one of all their enemies was able to stand against them, because Jehovah gave the Israelites the victory over all their enemies.

nsb@Joshua:22:5 @ »Be sure you obey the Law that Moses commanded you. Love Jehovah your God. Do his will. Obey his commandments and be faithful to him. Serve him with all your heart and with all your being.«

nsb@Joshua:22:7 @ To the one half tribe of Manasseh Moses had given possession in Bashan: but he gave the other half to Joshua among their brothers on this side Jordan westward. Joshua sent them a way to their tents and he blessed them.

nsb@Joshua:22:12 @ When the people of Israel heard this, the whole community came together at Shiloh to go to war against the eastern tribes.

nsb@Joshua:22:16 @ Speaking for the whole assembly of Jehovah’s people they said: »Why have you done this evil thing against the God of Israel? You have rebelled against Jehovah by building this altar for yourselves! You are no longer following him!

nsb@Joshua:22:17 @ »Do you remember our sin at Peor, when Jehovah punished his own people with an epidemic? We are still suffering because of that. Was that not enough sin?

nsb@Joshua:22:19 @ »If your land is not fit to worship in, come over into Jehovah’s land, where his Tabernacle is. Claim some land among us. But do not rebel against Jehovah or make rebels out of us by building an altar in addition to the altar of Jehovah our God.

nsb@Joshua:22:20 @ »Remember how Achan son of Zerah would not obey the command about the things condemned to destruction. The whole assembly of Israel was punished for that. Achan was not the only one who died because of his sin.

nsb@Joshua:22:22 @ »The Mighty, Divine One is God of Gods! He is Jehovah! The Mighty, Divine One is God of Gods! He is Jehovah! He knows why we did this, and we want you to know too! If we rebelled and did not keep faith with Jehovah, do not allow us to live any longer!

nsb@Joshua:22:27 @ but instead, as a sign for our people and yours, and for the generations after us, that we do indeed worship Jehovah. We do this before his sacred Tabernacle with our offerings to be burned and with sacrifices and fellowship offerings. This was to keep your descendants from saying that ours have nothing to do with Jehovah.«

nsb@Joshua:22:28 @ »We thought that if this should ever happen, our descendants could say: ‘You see our ancestors made an altar just like Jehovah’s altar. It was not for burning offerings or for sacrifice, but as a sign for our people and yours.’«

nsb@Joshua:22:29 @ We would certainly not rebel against Jehovah or stop following him now by building an altar to burn offerings on or for grain offerings or sacrifices. We would not build any other altar than the altar of Jehovah our God that stands in front of the Tabernacle of his presence.

nsb@Joshua:22:34 @ The people of Reuben and Gad said: »This altar is a witness to all of us that Jehovah is God. Therefore they named it witness.«

nsb@Joshua:23:13 @ »Jehovah your God will no longer drive these nations out as you advance. Rather, they will be as dangerous for you as a trap or a pit and as painful as a whip on your back or thorns in your eyes. This will last until none of you are left in this good land that Jehovah your God gave you.

nsb@Joshua:23:14 @ »It is time for me to die. Every one of you knows in his heart and very being that Jehovah your God has given you all the good things he promised. Every promise he made has been kept; not one has failed.

nsb@Joshua:23:16 @ »If you do not obey the covenant Jehovah your God commanded you to obey and if you serve and worship other gods, then in his anger he will punish you. Soon none of you will be left in this good land that he gave you.«

nsb@Joshua:24:2 @ Joshua said to all the people: »This is what Jehovah, the God of Israel says: ‘Long ago your ancestors lived on the other side of the Euphrates River and worshiped other gods. One of those ancestors was Terah, the father of Abraham and Nahor.

nsb@Joshua:24:4 @ and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave Esau the hill country of Edom as his possession, but your ancestor Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.

nsb@Joshua:24:10 @ »‘But I would not listen to Balaam, so he blessed you, and in this way I rescued you from Balak.

nsb@Joshua:24:18 @ »As we advanced to this land, Jehovah drove out all the Amorites who lived here. We also will serve Jehovah. He is our God!«

nsb@Joshua:24:24 @ The people said to Joshua: »We will serve Jehovah our God. We will obey his commands.«

nsb@Joshua:24:27 @ He told the people: »This stone will serve as our witness. It has heard all the words that Jehovah spoke to us. So it will be a witness against you, to keep you from rebelling against your God.«

nsb@Joshua:24:30 @ They buried him on his own land at Timnath Serah in the hill country of Ephraim north of Mount Gaash.

nsb@Joshua:24:31 @ As long as Joshua lived, the people of Israel served Jehovah. After his death they continued to do so as long as those leaders were alive who had seen for themselves everything Jehovah had done for Israel.

nsb@Joshua:24:32 @ The body of Joseph, which the people of Israel had brought from Egypt, was buried at Shechem, in the piece of land that Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred pieces of silver. Joseph’s descendants inherited this land.

nsb@Joshua:24:33 @ Eleazar son of Aaron died and was buried at Gibeah, the town in the hill country of Ephraim that had been given to his son Phinehas.

nsb@Judges:1:2 @ Jehovah said: »Judah will go up. I have delivered the land into his hand.«

nsb@Judges:1:3 @ Judah said to Simeon his brother: »Come up with me to my allotted territory that we may fight against the Canaanites. I likewise will go with you to your territory.« So Simeon went with him.

nsb@Judges:1:6 @ Adoni-bezek fled and they chased him, caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his big toes.

nsb@Judges:1:13 @ Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter for a wife.

nsb@Judges:1:17 @ And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they attacked the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath and utterly destroyed it. The name of the city was Hormah.

nsb@Judges:1:21 @ The children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites that inhabited Jerusalem. The Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.

nsb@Judges:1:25 @ When he showed them the entrance into the city, they struck the city with the edge of the sword. But spared the man and all his family.

nsb@Judges:1:26 @ The man went into the land of the Hittites and built a city. He called it Luz, which is its name this day.

nsb@Judges:2:2 @ »You will make no covenant with people of this land. You will throw down their altars. You have not obeyed my voice. Why have you done this?«

nsb@Judges:2:6 @ When Joshua let the people go the children of Israel went, every man, to his inheritance to possess the land.

nsb@Judges:2:9 @ They buried him on the border of his inheritance in Timnath-Serah, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of Gaash hill.

nsb@Judges:2:10 @ After those generations were gathered to their fathers another generation followed them. This new generation did not know Jehovah or the works he had done for Israel.

nsb@Judges:2:20 @ The anger of Jehovah was hot against Israel. He said: »Because this people have transgressed my covenant, which I commanded their fathers, and have not listened to my voice;

nsb@Judges:3:2 @ He did this to teach warfare to the generations of the children of Israel who had not had previous battle experience.

nsb@Judges:3:4 @ They were to be a test for Israel. This would find out whether or not the Israelites would obey the commandments that Jehovah gave their ancestors through Moses.

nsb@Judges:3:9 @ The Israelites cried out to Jehovah, and he sent someone to free them. This was Othniel, the son of Caleb’s younger brother Kenaz.

nsb@Judges:3:12 @ The people of Israel sinned against Jehovah again. Because of this Jehovah made King Eglon of Moab stronger than Israel.

nsb@Judges:3:15 @ Then the Israelites cried out to Jehovah. So he sent someone to free them. This was Ehud, a left-handed man, who was the son of Gera, from the tribe of Benjamin. The people of Israel sent Ehud to King Eglon of Moab with gifts for him.

nsb@Judges:3:16 @ Ehud made himself a double-edged sword about a foot and a half long. He fastened it on his right side under his clothes.

nsb@Judges:3:19 @ But Ehud turned back at the carved stones near Gilgal, went back to Eglon, and said: »Your Majesty, I have a secret message for you.« So the king ordered his servants: »Leave us alone!« Then they all went out.

nsb@Judges:3:20 @ The king was sitting there alone in his cool room on the roof. Ehud went over to him and said: »I have a message from God for you.« The king stood up.

nsb@Judges:3:21 @ With his left hand Ehud took the sword from his right side and plunged it into the king’s belly.

nsb@Judges:3:22 @ The whole sword went in, handle and all, and the fat covered it up. Ehud did not pull it out of the king’s belly, and it stuck out behind, between his legs.

nsb@Judges:4:2 @ Jehovah let them be conquered by Jabin, a Canaanite king who ruled in the city of Hazor. The commander of his army was Sisera, who lived at Harosheth-Hagoyim.

nsb@Judges:4:7 @ »‘And I will lure Sisera, the captain of Jabin’s army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into your hand.’«

nsb@Judges:4:10 @ Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and he went up with ten thousand men under his command. Deborah went with him.

nsb@Judges:4:11 @ Now Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent at the plain of Zaanaim, which is by Kedesh.

nsb@Judges:4:13 @ Sisera gathered together all his nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that were with him, from Harosheth of the nations to the Kishon River.

nsb@Judges:4:14 @ Deborah said to Barak: »Get up, for this is the day in which Jehovah has delivered Sisera into your hand. Jehovah has gone out before you.« So Barak went down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him.

nsb@Judges:4:15 @ Jehovah routed Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his army, with the edge of the sword before Barak. Sisera dismounted his chariot, and fled away on his feet.

nsb@Judges:4:17 @ Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite. There was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.

nsb@Judges:4:21 @ Then Jael Heber’s wife picked up a tent peg and a hammer and went to him while he was fast asleep and drove the peg into his temple and it went down into the ground. He was fast asleep and weary. So he died.

nsb@Judges:4:22 @ Barak pursued Sisera and Jael came out to meet him. She said to him: »Come, and I will show you the man whom you seek.« He went to her tend and saw Sisera lay dead with the peg in his temple.

nsb@Judges:5:1 @ That day Deborah and Barak sang this song:

nsb@Judges:5:22 @ »Then the horses hooves thundered and his mighty steeds stamped the ground.

nsb@Judges:5:26 @ »She took a tent peg in one hand and hammer in the other. She struck Sisera and crushed his skull. Yes, she pierced him through the head.

nsb@Judges:5:27 @ »He sank to his knees and fell down at her feet. At her feet he sank. He fell to the ground, dead.

nsb@Judges:5:28 @ »Sisera’s mother looked thru the window. From behind the lattice she looked. Why is his chariot so late in coming? She asked. Why are his horses so slow to return?

nsb@Judges:6:9 @ »‘I rescued you from the Egyptians and from the people who fought you in this land. I drove them out as you advanced. I gave you their land.

nsb@Judges:6:11 @ The angel of Jehovah came to the village of Ophrah. He sat under the oak tree that belonged to Joash, a man of the clan of Abiezer. His son Gideon was secretly threshing wheat in a wine press, so that the Midianites would not see him.

nsb@Judges:6:13 @ Gideon said to him: »May I ask, sir, why has all this happened to us if Jehovah is with us? What happened to all the wonderful things that our fathers told us Jehovah used to do, how he brought them out of Egypt? Jehovah has abandoned us. He left us to the mercy of the Midianites.«

nsb@Judges:6:19 @ So Gideon went into his house and cooked a young goat and used a bushel of flour to make bread without any yeast. He put the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot, brought them to Jehovah’s angel under the oak tree, and gave them to him.

nsb@Judges:6:20 @ The angel told him: »Put the meat and the bread on this rock, and pour the broth over them.« Gideon did so.

nsb@Judges:6:26 @ »Build a well-constructed altar to Jehovah your God on top of this mound. Take the second bull and burn it as a whole offering. Cut down the symbol of Asherah and use it for firewood.«

nsb@Judges:6:27 @ So Gideon took ten of his servants and did what Jehovah instructed him to do. He was afraid of his family and the people in town, so he did it at night.

nsb@Judges:6:29 @ They asked each other: »Who did this?« They investigated and found out that Gideon, son of Joash, did it.

nsb@Judges:6:31 @ Joash replied: »Are you arguing for Baal? Are you defending him? Anyone who argues for him will be killed before morning. If Baal really is a god he can defend himself. It is his altar that was torn down.«

nsb@Judges:6:32 @ From then on Gideon was known as Jerubbaal, because Joash said: »Let Baal defend himself for his altar was torn down.«

nsb@Judges:6:39 @ Then Gideon said to God: »Do not be angry with me. Allow me to speak just once more. Please let me make one more test with the wool. This time let the wool be dry, and the ground wet.«

nsb@Judges:7:1 @ Gideon and all his men got up early and camped beside Harod Spring. The Midianite camp was in the valley to the north of them by Moreh Hill.

nsb@Judges:7:5 @ Gideon took the men to the water. Jehovah told him: »Separate everyone who laps up the water with his tongue like a dog, from everyone who gets down on his knees to drink.«

nsb@Judges:7:11 @ »You will hear what they are saying, and then you will have the courage to attack.« Gideon and his servant Purah went to the edge of the enemy camp.

nsb@Judges:7:14 @ His friend responded: »This is nothing else but the sword of Gideon, the son of Joash. For God delivered Midian and its army to this man of Israel.«

nsb@Judges:7:21 @ Every man stood in his place around the camp. The army ran, and cried, and fled.

nsb@Judges:7:22 @ The three hundred blew the trumpets. Jehovah set every man’s sword against his companions. They turned on each other throughout all the army. The army fled to Beth-shittah in Zererath, and to the border of Abel-meholah, to Tabbath.

nsb@Judges:8:1 @ Then the people of Ephraim said to Gideon: »Why did you not call us when you went to fight the Midianites? Why did you treat us like this?« They complained bitterly about it.

nsb@Judges:8:4 @ Gideon and his three hundred men passed over the Jordan. Their pursuit continued.

nsb@Judges:8:9 @ He spoke to the men of Penuel: »When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.«

nsb@Judges:8:20 @ He said to Jether his firstborn: »Rise up and kill them.« But the youth would not draw his sword. He was afraid because he was still a youth.

nsb@Judges:8:21 @ Zebah and Zalmunna said to Gideon: »Kill us yourself. It takes a man to do this job.« Gideon killed them and took the ornaments that were on the necks of their camels.

nsb@Judges:8:26 @ The gold earrings that Gideon got weighed over forty pounds. This did not include the ornaments, necklaces, and purple clothes that the kings of Midian wore. It also did not include the collars that were around the necks of their camels.

nsb@Judges:8:27 @ Gideon made an idol from the gold and placed it in his hometown, Ophrah. The Israelites abandoned God and went there to worship the idol. It was a trap for Gideon and his family.

nsb@Judges:8:29 @ Gideon went back to his home and lived there.

nsb@Judges:8:32 @ Gideon son of Joash died at an old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash, at Ophrah. Ophrah was the town of the clan of Abiezer.

nsb@Judges:9:1 @ Gideon’s son Abimelech went to the town of Shechem. All his mother’s relatives lived there. He told them:

nsb@Judges:9:3 @ His mother’s relatives talked to the men of Shechem about this for him. The men of Shechem decided to follow Abimelech because: »He is our relative.«

nsb@Judges:9:5 @ He went to his father’s house at Ophrah. There on top of a single stone he killed his seventy brothers, Gideon’s sons. Gideon’s youngest son Jotham hid and therefore was not killed.

nsb@Judges:9:7 @ Jotham heard about this. He stood on top of Mount Gerizim and shouted out to them: »Men of Shechem, listen to me and God may listen to you!

nsb@Judges:9:16 @ »‘Think about it, Jotham continued: ‘Were you really honest and sincere when you made Abimelech king? Have you respected Gideon’s memory? Did you treat his family properly, as his actions deserved?

nsb@Judges:9:17 @ »‘My father fought for you. He risked his life to deliver you from the Midianites.

nsb@Judges:9:18 @ »‘Today you turned against my father’s family. You killed his sons, seventy men on a single stone. And this because Abimelech, his son by his servant woman, is your relative, you have made him king of Shechem.

nsb@Judges:9:19 @ »‘If you have acted in truth and sincerity today to Gideon and his family then be happy with Abimelech and let him be happy with you.

nsb@Judges:9:21 @ Jotham ran away to Beer and lived there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.

nsb@Judges:9:24 @ That the cruelty done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might be avenged on their brother Abimelech. For he killed them and the men of Shechem helped him kill his brother.

nsb@Judges:9:25 @ And the men of Shechem set men in ambush on the top of the mountains. They robbed all who came along that way. This was reported to Abimelech.

nsb@Judges:9:26 @ Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brothers, and went over to Shechem: and the men of Shechem put their confidence in him.

nsb@Judges:9:29 @ »If I were leading this people I would get rid of Abimelech! I would tell him to: call out your army, come on out and fight!«

nsb@Judges:9:31 @ He sent messengers to Abimelech at Arumah. They said: »Gaal son of Ebed and his brothers have come to Shechem. They are not going to let you enter into the city.

nsb@Judges:9:34 @ Abimelech and all his troops, in four companies, took up concealed positions at night against Shechem.

nsb@Judges:9:35 @ Abimelech and his men saw Gaal come out and stand at the city gate. So they got up from their hiding places.

nsb@Judges:9:38 @ Zebul said to him: »Where is all your big talk now? You asked why we should serve this man Abimelech. These are the men you made fun of. You go fight them!«

nsb@Judges:9:41 @ Abimelech lived in Arumah. Zebul drove Gaal and his brothers out of Shechem. They could no longer live there.

nsb@Judges:9:43 @ He divided his men into three groups. They hid in the fields, waiting. When he saw the people come out of the city, he came out of hiding to kill them.

nsb@Judges:9:44 @ Abimelech and his group rushed forward to guard the city gate. The other two companies attacked the people in the fields and killed all of them.

nsb@Judges:9:46 @ When all the men in the fort at Shechem heard this, they sought safety in the stronghold of the temple of Baal-Berith.

nsb@Judges:9:48 @ He traveled up to Mount Zalmon with his men. He took an ax, cut a limb off a tree, and put it on his shoulder. He told his men to hurry and do the same thing.

nsb@Judges:9:53 @ A woman threw a millstone down on his head and fractured his skull.

nsb@Judges:9:54 @ He quickly called the young man who was carrying his weapons and told him: »Draw your sword and kill me. I do not want it said that a woman killed me.« The young man ran him through with his sword and he died.

nsb@Judges:9:56 @ Thus God paid Abimelech back for the crime that he committed against his father in killing his seventy brothers.

nsb@Judges:11:1 @ Jephthah was a brave soldier from Gilead. He was the son of a prostitute. Gilead was his father.

nsb@Judges:11:2 @ They had other sons by his wife, and when they grew up, they forced Jephthah to leave home. They told him: »You will have no inheritance from our father for you are the son of another woman.«

nsb@Judges:11:3 @ Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob. There a group of worthless men joined with him and they went around together.

nsb@Judges:11:5 @ When this war occurred, the leaders of Gilead went to bring Jephthah back from the land of Tob.

nsb@Judges:11:11 @ Jephthah went with the leaders of Gilead. The people made him their ruler and leader. Jephthah stated his terms at Mizpah in Jehovah’s presence.

nsb@Judges:11:15 @ This was his answer: »It is not true that Israel took away the land of Moab or the land of Ammon.

nsb@Judges:11:16 @ »It happened this way: ‘when the Israelites left Egypt, they went through the desert to the Gulf of Aqaba and came to Kadesh.

nsb@Judges:11:17 @ »‘They sent messengers to the king of Edom to ask permission to go through his land. But the king of Edom would not let them. They also asked the king of Moab, but he would not let them go through his land. So the people of Israel stayed at Kadesh.

nsb@Judges:11:19 @ »‘The people of Israel sent messengers to Sihon, the Amorite king of Heshbon. They asked him for permission to go through his country to their own land.

nsb@Judges:11:20 @ »‘But Sihon refused to let Israel do it. He brought his whole army together, camped at Jahaz, and attacked Israel.

nsb@Judges:11:21 @ »‘Jehovah, the God of Israel, gave the people of Israel victory over Sihon and his army. So the people of Israel took possession of all the territory of the Amorites who lived in that country.

nsb@Judges:11:23 @ »‘Jehovah, the God of Israel, drove out the Amorites for his people, the people of Israel.

nsb@Judges:11:28 @ The king of Ammon paid no attention to this message from Jephthah.

nsb@Judges:11:34 @ Jephthah went back home to Mizpah. His daughter came out to meet him, dancing and playing the tambourine. She was his only child.

nsb@Judges:11:35 @ When he saw her, he ripped his clothes in sorrow and said: »Oh, my daughter! My heart is breaking! Why must it be you? I have made a solemn promise to Jehovah, and I cannot take it back!«

nsb@Judges:11:37 @ She asked her father: »Do this for me. Leave me alone for two months, so that I can go with my friends to wander in the mountains and grieve that I must die a virgin.«

nsb@Judges:11:39 @ She returned to her father after two months. He did what he had promised Jehovah, and she died still a virgin. This was the origin of the custom in Israel.

nsb@Judges:12:7 @ Jephthah led Israel for six years. Then he died and was buried in his hometown in Gilead.

nsb@Judges:12:9 @ He had thirty sons and thirty daughters. He gave his daughters in marriage outside the clan and brought thirty young women from outside the clan for his sons to marry. Ibzan led Israel for seven years,

nsb@Judges:13:2 @ There was a man named Manoah from the town of Zorah. He was a member of the tribe of Daniel. His wife was not able to have children.

nsb@Judges:13:5 @ »After your son is born never cut his hair. This is because from the day of his birth he will be dedicated to God as a Nazirite. He will begin the work of delivering Israel from the Philistines.«

nsb@Judges:13:6 @ Then the woman told her husband: »A man of God came to me. He looked as frightening as the angel of God. I did not ask him where he came from, and he did not tell me his name.

nsb@Judges:13:7 @ »He told me I would become pregnant and have a son. He told me: ‘Do not drink any wine or beer, or eat any forbidden food. This is because the boy is to be dedicated to God as a Nazirite as long as he lives.’«

nsb@Judges:13:9 @ God did what Manoah asked. His angel came back to the woman while she was in the field. Her husband Manoah was not with her,

nsb@Judges:13:11 @ Manoah followed his wife to the man and asked, »Are you the man who talked to my wife?« »Yes,« he answered.

nsb@Judges:13:20 @ While the flames were going up from the altar, Manoah and his wife saw Jehovah’s angel go up toward heaven in the flames. They did not see the angel again.

nsb@Judges:13:21 @ Manoah knew then that the man was Jehovah’s angel. He and his wife fell on their faces to the ground.

nsb@Judges:13:22 @ Manoah told his wife: »We will die, for we have seen God!«

nsb@Judges:13:23 @ His wife answered: »If Jehovah wanted to kill us he would not accept our offerings. He would not have shown us all this or told us these things.«

nsb@Judges:14:2 @ He went home and told his father and mother: »A Philistine woman at Timnah caught my attention. Get her for me. I want to marry her.«

nsb@Judges:14:3 @ His father and mother asked him: »Why do you go to those heathen Philistines to get a wife? Can you not find someone in our own family or among all our people?« Samson told his father: »I like her! She is the one I want. Get her for me.«

nsb@Judges:14:4 @ His parents did not know Jehovah was leading Samson to do this. Jehovah was looking for an opportunity to fight the Philistines. At this time the Philistines were ruling Israel.

nsb@Judges:14:5 @ Samson went to Timnah with his father and mother. When they traveled through the vineyards he heard a young lion roaring.

nsb@Judges:14:6 @ Suddenly the power of Jehovah made Samson strong. He tore the lion apart with his bare hands, as if it were a young goat. But he did not tell his parents what he had done.

nsb@Judges:14:9 @ He scraped the honey out into his hands and ate it as he walked along. Then he went to his father and mother and gave them some. They ate it, but Samson did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the dead body of a lion.

nsb@Judges:14:10 @ Samson’s father went to the woman’s house. Samson gave a banquet there. This was a custom among the young men.

nsb@Judges:14:20 @ His wife was given to his best man at the wedding.

nsb@Judges:15:1 @ Later Samson went to visit his wife during the wheat harvest and took her a young goat. He told her father: »Let me go to my wife in her room. But he would not let him go in.«

nsb@Judges:15:3 @ Samson said: »This time I am not going to be responsible for what I do to the Philistines!«

nsb@Judges:15:5 @ Then he set fire to the torches and turned the foxes loose in the Philistine wheat fields. In this way he burned up both the shocks and the standing grain still in the fields. The olive orchards were also burned.

nsb@Judges:15:6 @ When the Philistines asked who had done this, they learned that Samson had done it because his father-in-law, a man from Timnah, had given Samson’s wife to a friend of Samson’s. So the Philistines burned the woman to death and burned down her father’s house.

nsb@Judges:15:7 @ Samson said to them: »This is how you act! I swear that I will not stop until I pay you back!«

nsb@Judges:15:14 @ When he got to Lehi, the Philistines shouted and ran toward him. Suddenly Jehovah’s power made him strong. He broke the ropes around his arms and hands as if they were burnt flax.

nsb@Judges:15:17 @ When he finished speaking he threw the jawbone away. The place where this happened was named Ramath Lehi.

nsb@Judges:15:18 @ Samson became very thirsty. He called to Jehovah: »You gave me this great victory. Will I now die of thirst and be captured by these heathen Philistines?«

nsb@Judges:16:3 @ However Samson stayed in bed until midnight. He got up and took hold of the city gate and pulled it up, doors, posts, lock, and all. He put them on his shoulders and carried them far off to the top of the hill overlooking Hebron.

nsb@Judges:16:4 @ After this, Samson fell in love with a woman named Delilah, who lived in Sorek Valley.

nsb@Judges:16:9 @ She had some men waiting in another room, so she shouted: »Samson! The Philistines are coming!« But he snapped the bowstrings just as thread breaks when fire touches it. They still did not know the secret of his strength.

nsb@Judges:16:12 @ Delilah tied him with new ropes. Then she shouted: »Samson! The Philistines are coming!« The men were waiting in another room. However he snapped the ropes off his arms like thread.

nsb@Judges:16:14 @ Delilah lulled him to sleep. She took his seven locks of hair and wove them into the loom. She made it tight with a peg and shouted: »Samson! The Philistines are coming!« He woke up and pulled his hair loose from the loom.

nsb@Judges:16:19 @ Delilah lulled Samson to sleep in her lap and called a man, who cut off Samson’s seven locks of hair. Then she tormented him, for he had lost his strength.

nsb@Judges:16:21 @ The Philistines captured him and put his eyes out. They took him to Gaza, chained him with copper chains. They put him to work grinding at the mill in the prison.

nsb@Judges:16:22 @ His hair grew back.

nsb@Judges:16:28 @ Samson prayed: »Sovereign Lord Jehovah please remember me. Please, God, give me my strength just this one time. With this one blow I can get even with the Philistines for putting out my two eyes.«

nsb@Judges:16:30 @ Samson shouted: »Let me die with the Philistines!« He pushed with all his might, and the building fell down on the five kings and everyone else. Samson killed more people at his death than he had killed during his life.

nsb@Judges:16:31 @ His brothers and the rest of his family came to get his body. They took him back and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of his father Manoah. He had been Israel’s judge for twenty years.

nsb@Judges:17:2 @ He said to his mother: »When someone stole those eleven hundred pieces of silver from you, you put a curse on the robber. I heard you do it. Look, I have the money. I am the one who took it.« His mother said: »Jehovah blesses you.«

nsb@Judges:17:3 @ He gave the money back to his mother. She said: »To keep the curse from falling on my son, I myself solemnly dedicate the silver to Jehovah. It will be used to make a wooden idol covered with silver. Now I will give the pieces of silver back to you.«

nsb@Judges:17:4 @ He returned them to his mother. She took two hundred of the pieces of silver and gave them to a metalworker. The metalworker made an idol, carving it from wood and covering it with the silver. It was placed in Micah’s house.

nsb@Judges:17:5 @ Micah had his own place of worship. He made some idols and an ephod, and appointed one of his sons as his priest.

nsb@Judges:17:12 @ He lived in Micah’s home. Micah made him his priest.

nsb@Judges:18:4 @ He answered: »Micah and I have an arrangement. He pays me to serve as his priest.«

nsb@Judges:18:6 @ The priest answered: »Do not worry. Jehovah is taking care of you on this trip.«

nsb@Judges:18:20 @ This filled the priest with joy. He took the sacred objects and went along with them.

nsb@Judges:18:22 @ They traveled a good way from the house when Micah gathered his neighbors for battle. They caught up with the Danites.

nsb@Judges:18:30 @ The Danites set up the idol to be worshiped, and Jonathan, the son of Gershom and grandson of Moses, served as a priest for the Danites. His descendants served as their priests until the people were taken away into exile.

nsb@Judges:19:3 @ The man went after her to persuade her to return. He took his servant and two donkeys with him. The woman invited the Levite into the house, and when her father saw him, he gave him a friendly greeting.

nsb@Judges:19:9 @ When the man, his concubine, and the servant once more started to leave, the father said: »It is almost evening. Please spend the night. It will be dark soon. Stay and enjoy yourself. Tomorrow you can get up early for the trip and go home.«

nsb@Judges:19:10 @ The man did not want to spend another night there. He and his concubine started on their way, with their servant and two donkeys with packsaddles.

nsb@Judges:19:11 @ It was late in the day when they came near Jebus. The servant said to his master: »Why not stop and spend the night here in this Jebusite city?«

nsb@Judges:19:12 @ But his master said: »We are not going to stop in a city where the people are not Israelites.

nsb@Judges:19:23 @ The old man went outside and said to them: »No, my friends! Please! Do not do such an evil, immoral thing! This man is my guest.

nsb@Judges:19:24 @ »Here is his concubine and my virgin daughter. I will bring them out now. You can have them. Do whatever you want with them. But do not do such an awful thing to this man!«

nsb@Judges:19:25 @ The men would not listen to him. The Levite took his concubine and put her outside with them. They raped her and abused her all night long and did not stop until morning.

nsb@Judges:19:27 @ When her master opened the door that morning to go on his way, he found his concubine lying in front of the house with her hands reaching for the door.

nsb@Judges:19:28 @ He said: »Get up and let us go.« But there was no answer. Then he put her body across the donkey and started on his way home.

nsb@Judges:19:29 @ When he arrived at his house he got a knife. He took his concubine’s body and cut it into twelve pieces. He sent one piece to each of the twelve tribes of Israel.

nsb@Judges:19:30 @ Everyone who saw it said: »No such deed has been seen or done since the people of Israel left Egypt! We must do something about this! What will we do?«

nsb@Judges:20:2 @ The leaders of all the tribes of Israel were present at this gathering of God’s people. There were four hundred thousand foot soldiers.

nsb@Judges:20:3 @ Now the people of Benjamin heard that all the other Israelites had gathered at Mizpah. The Israelites asked: »Tell us, how did this wicked deed happen?«

nsb@Judges:20:7 @ »What are you Israelites going to do about this?«

nsb@Judges:20:9 @ »This is what we will do: We will draw lots and choose some men to attack Gibeah.

nsb@Judges:20:10 @ »One tenth of the men in Israel will provide food for the army. The others will go and punish Gibeah for this immoral act they committed in Israel.«

nsb@Judges:20:12 @ The tribes of Israel sent messengers through the territory of the tribe of Benjamin to say: »What is this crime that you have committed?

nsb@Judges:20:13 @ »Hand over those perverts in Gibeah, so that we can kill them and remove this evil from Israel.« But the people of Benjamin would not listen to their brothers.

nsb@Judges:20:25 @ The second time the Benjaminites came out of Gibeah. This time they killed eighteen thousand trained Israelite soldiers.

nsb@Judges:20:36 @ The Benjaminites knew they were defeated. The main body of the Israelite army had retreated from the Benjaminites. This is because they relied on the men that were hiding around Gibeah.

nsb@Judges:20:39 @ the Israelites out on the battlefield were to turn around. By this time the Benjaminites had already killed the thirty Israelites. They told themselves: »We have beaten them.«

nsb@Judges:21:3 @ They said: »Jehovah God of Israel, why has this happened? Why is the tribe of Benjamin about to disappear from Israel?«

nsb@Judges:21:23 @ The Benjaminites did this. Each of them chose a wife from the young women who were dancing at Shiloh and carried her away. They went back to their own territory, rebuilt their towns, and lived there.

nsb@Judges:21:24 @ The rest of the Israelites left, and every man went back to his own tribe and family and to his own property.

nsb@Judges:21:25 @ In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

nsb@Ruth:1:1 @ There was a famine in the land in the days when the judges ruled. And a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons.

nsb@Ruth:1:2 @ The man was Elimelech, and his wife was Naomi, and the two sons were Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem in Judah. They went to Moab and stayed there.

nsb@Ruth:1:6 @ Some time later Naomi heard that Jehovah blessed his people by giving them good crops. So she got ready to leave Moab with her daughters-in-law.

nsb@Ruth:1:13 @ »would you wait for them to grow up? Would this keep you from marrying someone else? No, my daughters, you know that is not possible. Jehovah has turned against me. I feel sorry for you.«

nsb@Ruth:1:19 @ The two of them traveled to Bethlehem. When they arrived at Bethlehem the whole town was excited because of them. The women said: »Is this Naomi?«

nsb@Ruth:2:4 @ Boaz came from Bethlehem. He said to the grain-cutters, »Jehovah is with you.« They answered: »Jehovah gives you his blessing.«

nsb@Ruth:2:5 @ Boaz asked his servant who was in authority over the cutters: »Whose young woman is this?«

nsb@Ruth:2:15 @ She rose to glean. Boaz commanded his servants, saying: »Let her glean among the sheaves, and do not bother her.

nsb@Ruth:2:19 @ Her mother-in-law said to her: »Where did you gather grain today? Where did you work? Blessed is the man who gave you this attention.« So she gave her mother-in-law an account of where she had been working, and said: »The name of the man with whom I was working today is Boaz.«

nsb@Ruth:2:22 @ And Naomi said to Ruth, her daughter-in-law: »It is better, my daughter, for you to go out with his servant girls, so that no danger may come to you in another field.«

nsb@Ruth:3:4 @ »When he lies down, notice the place where he lies down. Go in, uncover his feet and lay down. He will tell you what you should do.«

nsb@Ruth:3:7 @ After Boaz ate and drank, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of barley. Ruth approached quietly, uncovered his feet, and lay down.

nsb@Ruth:3:8 @ Something startled him about midnight. He saw the woman at his feet.

nsb@Ruth:3:10 @ He said: »You are blessed of Jehovah, my daughter: for this kindness is greater than what you showed earlier. You have not pursued younger men, whether poor or rich.

nsb@Ruth:3:13 @ »Rest here tonight. In the morning, if he wants to redeem you, for it is right for a relation to do this, very well, let him do so. But if he will not, then as surely as Jehovah lives, I will do so.«

nsb@Ruth:3:14 @ She slept there at his feet until morning. She got up before it was light enough for anyone to see. He said: »Do not let anyone know that a woman came to the grain floor.«

nsb@Ruth:3:18 @ Naomi said: »Wait until you find out what happened. The man will not rest till he sees this thing through.«

nsb@Ruth:4:5 @ Then Boaz said: »On the day when you take this field, you will have to take with it Ruth, the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, so that you may keep the name of the dead living in his heritage.«

nsb@Ruth:4:7 @ It was the custom for the seller to take off his sandal and give to the buyer to settle a sale or exchange of property. By doing this, Israelites showed that the matter was settled.

nsb@Ruth:4:8 @ So when the man said to Boaz: »You buy it,« he took off his sandal and gave it to Boaz.

nsb@Ruth:4:9 @ Then Boaz said to the leaders and all the others there: »You are all witnesses today that I have bought from Naomi everything that belonged to Elimelech and to his sons Chilion and Mahlon.

nsb@Ruth:4:10 @ »In addition, Ruth the Moabite, Mahlon’s widow, becomes my wife. This will keep the property in the dead man’s family, and his family line will continue among his people in his hometown. Today you are witnesses to this.«

nsb@Ruth:4:12 @ »May your family be like the family of Perez, the son whom Tamar gave to Judah, from the offspring that Jehovah may give you by this young woman.«

nsb@Ruth:4:13 @ Boaz took Ruth to be his wife. He slept with her and Jehovah enabled her to conceive and she gave birth to a son.

nsb@Ruth:4:14 @ The women said to Naomi: »A blessing on Jehovah. He has not let you be without a near relative. May his name be great in Israel.

nsb@1Samuel:1:1 @ There was a certain man of Ramathaim, a Zuphite of the mountains of Ephraim. His name was Elkanah. He was the son of Jeroham son of Elihu son of Tohu son of Zuph an Ephraimite.

nsb@1Samuel:1:3 @ This man went to Shiloh every year to worship and to make offerings to Jehovah of Hosts. The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas were the priests of Jehovah at Shiloh.

nsb@1Samuel:1:4 @ The day came for Elkanah to make his offering. So he gave a part of the feast to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and daughters.

nsb@1Samuel:1:6 @ The other wife did everything possible to make her unhappy. This is because Jehovah had not given her children.

nsb@1Samuel:1:11 @ »O Jehovah of Hosts: If you will truly notice the sorrow of your servant. Remember me. Do not turn away from me. If you will give me a son, then I will give him to you, Jehovah, all the days of his life. His hair will never be cut.«

nsb@1Samuel:1:16 @ »Do not consider your maidservant a worthless woman. I pray like this because I am miserable and filled with grief.«

nsb@1Samuel:1:19 @ The next morning Elkanah and his family got up early. After worshiping Jehovah, they went back home to Ramah. Elkanah had intercourse with his wife Hannah and Jehovah answered her prayer.

nsb@1Samuel:1:21 @ The time came again for Elkanah and his family to go to Shiloh and offer to Jehovah the yearly sacrifice and the special sacrifice he promised.

nsb@1Samuel:1:22 @ This time Hannah did not go. She told her husband: As soon as the child is weaned, I will take him to the Temple of Jehovah, where he will stay all his life.

nsb@1Samuel:1:27 @ »I asked him for this child. He gave me what I asked of him.

nsb@1Samuel:2:3 @ »Boast no more so proudly. Remove arrogance from your mouth. Jehovah is a God of knowledge, and he measures his actions.

nsb@1Samuel:2:9 @ »He guards the feet of his holy ones. The wicked are silenced in darkness. Man will not prevail by strength.

nsb@1Samuel:2:10 @ »The adversaries of Jehovah will be broken to pieces. He thunders in the heavens against them. Jehovah will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to His king and exalt the horn of His anointed.«

nsb@1Samuel:2:13 @ The priests had a custom with the people. If any man offered sacrifice, the priest’s servant came while the flesh was boiling, with a fork of three teeth in his hand.

nsb@1Samuel:2:19 @ His mother made him a little robe. She brought it to him when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.

nsb@1Samuel:2:20 @ Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said: »May Jehovah give you children from this woman for the loan made to Jehovah.« They returned to their home.

nsb@1Samuel:2:22 @ Eli was very old. He heard everything his sons did to Israel. He heard how they slept with the women who served at the door of the tabernacle of meeting.

nsb@1Samuel:2:25 @ »If one man sins against another, God will judge him. But if a man sins against Jehovah, who will intercede for him?« But his sons did not listen to the voice of their father. Jehovah desired to put them to death.

nsb@1Samuel:2:34 @ »‘Your two sons Hophni and Phinehas will both die on the same day. This will show you a sign that everything I have said will come true.

nsb@1Samuel:3:2 @ Eli was lying down in his usual place. His eyes became dim and he could not see.

nsb@1Samuel:3:9 @ »Go, lie down,« Eli told Samuel. When he calls you, say: »Speak Jehovah I am listening.« So Samuel went back to bed in his room.

nsb@1Samuel:3:12 @ »On that day I am going to do to Eli and his family everything I said from beginning to end.

nsb@1Samuel:3:13 @ »I told him I would hand down a long lasting judgment against his household because he knew about his sons’ sin. They were cursing God but he did not restrain them.

nsb@1Samuel:3:19 @ Samuel grew up. Jehovah was with him and did not let any of his words go unfulfilled.

nsb@1Samuel:4:6 @ When the Philistines heard the noise, they asked: »What is all this shouting in the Hebrew camp?« The Philistines found out that Jehovah’s ark was brought into the camp.

nsb@1Samuel:4:7 @ Then they were frightened and said: »A god has come into their camp.« They also said: »Oh no! Nothing like this has ever happened before.

nsb@1Samuel:4:10 @ The Philistines fought and defeated Israel. Every Israelite soldier fled to his tent. It was a major defeat in which thirty thousand Israelite foot soldiers died.

nsb@1Samuel:4:12 @ A man from the tribe of Benjamin ran all the way from the battlefield to Shiloh and arrived there the same day. To show his grief he had torn his clothes and put dirt on his head.

nsb@1Samuel:4:14 @ Eli heard the noise and asked: »What is all this noise about?« The man hurried to Eli to tell him the news.

nsb@1Samuel:4:18 @ When the man mentioned the Ark of God Eli fell backward from his seat beside the gate. He was so old and fat that the fall broke his neck and he died. He was a leader in Israel for forty years.

nsb@1Samuel:5:3 @ Early the next day the people of Ashdod saw that Dagon had fallen forward on the ground in front of Jehovah’s Ark. So they took Dagon and put him back in his place.

nsb@1Samuel:5:4 @ But the next morning they saw that Dagon had again fallen forward on the ground in front of Jehovah’s Ark. Dagon’s head and his two hands were cut off and were lying on the temple’s threshold. The rest of Dagon’s body was intact.

nsb@1Samuel:5:5 @ That is why the priests of Dagon and everyone else who enters Dagon’s temple in Ashdod do not step on the temple’s threshold, even to this day.

nsb@1Samuel:5:11 @ The people of Ekron called for another meeting of the Philistine rulers and told them: »Send this chest back where it belongs. Then it will not kill us.« Everyone was in a panic, because God was causing a lot of people to die.

nsb@1Samuel:6:2 @ the Philistines called in their priests and fortunetellers, and asked: »What should we do with this Ark of Jehovah? Tell us how to send it back where it belongs!«

nsb@1Samuel:6:3 @ They answered: »If you return the Ark of the Covenant of the God of Israel, you must send with it a gift to him to pay for your sin. The Ark must not go back without a gift. In this way you will be healed. You will find out why he continues to punish you.«

nsb@1Samuel:6:9 @ »Then watch where it goes. If it goes up the road to its own country toward Beth Shemesh, then this disaster is Jehovah’s doing. But if not, we will know it was not his hand that struck us, but what happened to us was an accident.«

nsb@1Samuel:6:10 @ The men did this. They took two milk cows and tied them to the cart. They placed their calves in pens at home.

nsb@1Samuel:6:16 @ After the five rulers of the Philistines saw this, they went back to Ekron that same day.

nsb@1Samuel:6:19 @ Some of the men of Bethshemesh looked inside the Ark. Jehovah killed seventy of them. This made the people of Bethshemesh very sad.

nsb@1Samuel:7:1 @ The people of Kiriath Jearim got the Ark and took it to Abinadab’s house on a hill in their town. His son Eleazar took care of it.

nsb@1Samuel:7:2 @ It stayed there for twenty years. During this this long period of time everyone in Israel was very sad and begged Jehovah for help.

nsb@1Samuel:7:9 @ Samuel killed a young lamb and burned it whole as a sacrifice to Jehovah. Then he prayed to Jehovah to help Israel. Jehovah answered his prayer.

nsb@1Samuel:8:1 @ When Samuel was old, he appointed his sons judges over Israel.

nsb@1Samuel:8:2 @ The name of his firstborn son was Joel. He named his second son Abijah. They were judges in Beersheba.

nsb@1Samuel:8:11 @ Samuel said: »These are the rights of a king: He will draft your sons and make them serve on his chariots and horses, and make them run ahead of his chariots.

nsb@1Samuel:8:12 @ »He will appoint them to be his officers over one thousand or over fifty soldiers. He will have them plow his ground and harvest his crops. He will require them to make weapons and equipment for his chariots.

nsb@1Samuel:8:14 @ »He will take away the best of your fields, vineyards, and olive orchards and give them to his officials.

nsb@1Samuel:8:15 @ »He will take a tenth of your grain and wine and give it to his aids and officials.

nsb@1Samuel:8:16 @ »He will confiscate your male and female slaves, your best cattle, and your donkeys for his own use.

nsb@1Samuel:8:17 @ »He will take a tenth of your flocks. In addition, you will be his servants.

nsb@1Samuel:9:5 @ When they came to the territory of Zuph, Saul told his servant who was with him: »Let us go back, or my father will stop worrying about the donkeys and worry about us instead.«

nsb@1Samuel:9:6 @ The servant responded: »There’s a man of God in this city, a highly respected man. Everything he says is sure to happen. Let us go there. Maybe he will tell us which way we should go.«

nsb@1Samuel:9:9 @ Formerly in Israel, when a person went to ask God a question, he would say: »Come; let’s go to the seer.« This is because a prophet used to be called a seer.

nsb@1Samuel:9:10 @ Saul told his servant: »That is a good idea! Come on let us go.« They went to the city where the man of God was.

nsb@1Samuel:9:14 @ Saul and his servant went to the city. Samuel was coming toward them as they entered. He was on his way to the worship site.

nsb@1Samuel:9:16 @ »This time tomorrow I will send you a man from the territory of Benjamin. Anoint him to be ruler of my people Israel. He will save my people from the Philistines. I have seen my people suffering and their cry has reached me.«

nsb@1Samuel:9:17 @ Samuel noticed Saul. Jehovah told him: »There is the man I told you about. This man will govern my people.«

nsb@1Samuel:9:22 @ Samuel brought Saul and his servant to the banquet hall. They sat down at the head of thirty guests.

nsb@1Samuel:9:24 @ The cook picked up the leg and thigh and laid it in front of Saul. Samuel said: This was set apart for you. Eat it. When I invited people to the feast, I set it aside for you. So Saul ate with Samuel that day.

nsb@1Samuel:10:1 @ Samuel took a flask of olive oil and poured it on Saul’s head. He kissed him and said: »Jehovah has anointed you to be ruler of his people Israel. You will rule his people. You will save them from all their enemies. This will be the sign that Jehovah has anointed you to be ruler of his people.

nsb@1Samuel:10:9 @ When Saul tried to leave Samuel, God changed his mind. That day all these signs happened.

nsb@1Samuel:10:14 @ Saul’s uncle asked him and his servant: »Where did you go?« Saul answered: »To look for the donkeys. When we could not find them, we went to Samuel.«

nsb@1Samuel:10:16 @ »He assured us the donkeys had been found,« Saul answered his uncle. But Saul did not tell him what Samuel said about his becoming king.

nsb@1Samuel:10:18 @ He said to the Israelites: »This is what Jehovah God of Israel says: ‘I brought Israel out of Egypt and rescued you from the power of the Egyptians and all the kings who were oppressing you.

nsb@1Samuel:10:27 @ Some good-for-nothing people asked: »How can this man save us?« They despised him and would not bring him presents. He did not respond.

nsb@1Samuel:11:1 @ Nahash the Ammonite came up and put his forces in position for attacking Jabesh in Gilead. The men of Jabesh said to Nahash: »Make an agreement with us and we will be your servants.«

nsb@1Samuel:11:6 @ When he heard this news, God’s Spirit came over him. He became very angry.

nsb@1Samuel:11:7 @ Saul took a pair of oxen, cut them in pieces, and sent them by messengers throughout the territory of Israel with the following message: »This is what will be done to the oxen of anyone who does not follow Saul and Samuel into battle.« The people were afraid of Jehovah. They came out united behind Saul.

nsb@1Samuel:11:9 @ They told the messengers: »This is what you are to say to the men of Jabesh in Gilead: ‘Tomorrow, by the time the sun gets hot, you will be rescued.’« When the men of Jabesh received the message, they were overjoyed.

nsb@1Samuel:12:2 @ »Now you have a king as your leader. I am old and gray and my sons are with you. I walked before you from childhood until this day.

nsb@1Samuel:12:3 @ »Here I am! Testify against me before Jehovah and before his anointed one. Whose bull have I stolen? Whose donkey have I taken? Have I cheated anyone? Have I oppressed any? Have I ever taken a bribe? Tell me and I will make it right.«

nsb@1Samuel:12:8 @ »When Jacob and his family went to Egypt the Egyptians oppressed them. Your ancestors cried to Jehovah for help. He sent Moses and Aaron, who brought them out of Egypt and settled them in this land.

nsb@1Samuel:12:14 @ »All will go well with you if you honor Jehovah your God, serve him, listen to him, and obey his commands. If you and your king follow Jehovah all will be well.

nsb@1Samuel:12:15 @ »But if you do not listen to Jehovah but disobey his commands, he will be against you and your king. He was against your fathers because they disobeyed.

nsb@1Samuel:12:17 @ »It is the dry season and the wheat harvest. I will pray and Jehovah will send thunder and rain. When this happens, you will realize that you committed a great sin against Jehovah when you asked him for a king.«

nsb@1Samuel:12:22 @ »Jehovah made a solemn promise. He will not abandon you. You are his people for his great name’s sake.

nsb@1Samuel:13:7 @ Some of them went to Gad and Gilead on the other side of the Jordan River. Saul stayed at Gilgal. His soldiers trembled with fear.

nsb@1Samuel:13:9 @ Saul commanded: »Bring me some animals so we can offer sacrifices to please Jehovah. Then we can ask for his help.« Saul slaughtered one of the animals,

nsb@1Samuel:13:14 @ »Your kingdom will not last. Jehovah searched for a man after his own heart. Jehovah appointed him as ruler of his people. This is because you did not follow the command of Jehovah.«

nsb@1Samuel:13:16 @ Saul and his son Jonathan and the troops with them stayed at Geba in Benjamin. The Philistines camped at Michmash.

nsb@1Samuel:13:19 @ No blacksmith could be found in all of Israel. In this way the Philistines kept the Hebrews from making swords and spears.

nsb@1Samuel:13:20 @ Everyone in Israel had to go to the Philistines to sharpen the blade of his plow, his mattock, ax, or sickle.

nsb@1Samuel:13:22 @ So in the day of battle there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people with Saul and Jonathan. But with Saul and with his son Jonathan there was found sword and spear.

nsb@1Samuel:14:1 @ Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man who carried his armor: »Come and let us go over to the Philistine outpost on the other side.« He did not tell his father.

nsb@1Samuel:14:7 @ His armor bearer answered him: »Do whatever you have in mind. Go ahead! I agree with you.«

nsb@1Samuel:14:8 @ »We will do this,« Jonathan said. »We will go across so they can see us.

nsb@1Samuel:14:13 @ Jonathan climbed out of the pass on his hands and knees. The young man followed him. Jonathan attacked the Philistines and knocked them down. The young man killed them.

nsb@1Samuel:14:17 @ »Call the roll,« Saul told the troops who were with him, »See who has left our camp.« They looked and found that Jonathan and his armor bearer were not there.

nsb@1Samuel:14:20 @ Saul and all the people with him came together and went forward to the battle. Every man’s sword was turned against the man at his side. There was a very great noise.

nsb@1Samuel:14:26 @ When the people entered the woods, the honey was flowing. But no one put his hand to his mouth. The people were afraid of violating their oath.

nsb@1Samuel:14:27 @ Jonathan had not heard that his father forced the people to take an oath. So he stretched out the tip of the staff he had in his hand and dipped it in the honeycomb. When he put it to his mouth his eyes lit up.

nsb@1Samuel:14:29 @ Jonathan answered: »My father brought trouble to the country. See how my eyes lit up when I tasted a little of this honey?

nsb@1Samuel:14:34 @ »Then tell everyone in camp to bring their cattle and lambs to me. They can kill the animals on this rock and then eat the meat. That way no one will disobey Jehovah by eating meat with blood still in it.« That night the people brought their cattle over to the big rock and killed them there.

nsb@1Samuel:14:37 @ Saul asked God: »Should I attack the Philistines? Will you help us win?« This time God did not answer.

nsb@1Samuel:14:38 @ Saul called his army officers together and said: »We have to find out what sin has kept God from answering.

nsb@1Samuel:14:45 @ But the people said to Saul: »Will Jonathan, who won this great victory for Israel, be put to death?« »No! We promise by the living Jehovah that he will not lose even a hair from his head. What he did today was done with God’s help.« So the people saved Jonathan from being put to death.

nsb@1Samuel:14:47 @ After Saul became king of Israel, he fought all his enemies everywhere: the people of Moab, of Ammon, and of Edom, the kings of Zobah, and the Philistines. He was victorious wherever he fought.

nsb@1Samuel:14:49 @ Saul’s sons were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Malchishua. The names of his two daughters were Merab the firstborn daughter and Michal the younger daughter.

nsb@1Samuel:14:50 @ The name of Saul’s wife was Ahinoam daughter of Ahimaaz. The name of the commander of his army was Abner son of Saul’s uncle Ner.

nsb@1Samuel:15:1 @ Samuel told Saul: »Jehovah sent me to anoint you king of his people Israel. Now listen to Jehovah’s words:

nsb@1Samuel:15:4 @ Saul called his forces together and inspected them at Telem. There were two hundred thousand soldiers from Israel and ten thousand from Judah.

nsb@1Samuel:15:5 @ Then he and his men went to the city of Amalek. They waited in ambush in a dry riverbed.

nsb@1Samuel:15:9 @ Saul and his men spared Agag’s life and did not kill the best sheep and cattle, the best calves and lambs, or anything else that was good. They destroyed only what was useless or worthless.

nsb@1Samuel:15:22 @ Samuel said: »What is more pleasing to Jehovah, burnt offerings and sacrifices or your obedience to his voice? Obeying is better than sacrifice. To pay attention is better than the fat of rams.

nsb@1Samuel:15:27 @ Samuel turned to leave, but Saul caught hold of his cloak, and it tore.

nsb@1Samuel:15:29 @ »The Glory of Israel does not lie or change his mind. He is not a mortal who changes his mind.«

nsb@1Samuel:15:34 @ Samuel went to Ramah. Saul went up to his house in Gibeah, in the land of Saul.

nsb@1Samuel:15:35 @ Samuel never saw Saul again until the day of his death. Samuel went into mourning for Saul. It was no longer Jehovah’s pleasure for Saul to be king over Israel.

nsb@1Samuel:16:1 @ Jehovah said to Samuel: »How long will you mourn for Saul? After all I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Take oil in your vessel and go. I will send you to Jesse, the Beth-lehemite. I have a king from among his sons.«

nsb@1Samuel:16:4 @ Samuel did what Jehovah told him. When he came to Bethlehem the elders of the city trembled at his coming. They greeted him and said: »May peace be with you.«

nsb@1Samuel:16:5 @ »Greetings,« he replied, »I have come to sacrifice to Jehovah. »Perform the ceremonies to make yourselves holy, and come with me to the sacrifice.« He performed the ceremonies for Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.

nsb@1Samuel:16:7 @ But Jehovah said to Samuel: »Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature. I have rejected him. God does not see as man sees. Man looks at the outward appearance. Jehovah looks at the heart.«

nsb@1Samuel:16:8 @ Jesse called Abinadab and made him pass before Samuel. Samuel said: »Jehovah has not chosen this one either.«

nsb@1Samuel:16:9 @ Next Jesse made Shammah pass by. He said: »Jehovah has not chosen this one either.«

nsb@1Samuel:16:10 @ So Jesse brought seven more of his sons to Samuel, but Samuel told Jesse: »Jehovah has not chosen any of these.«

nsb@1Samuel:16:12 @ Jesse sent for him. He was a handsome, healthy young man, and his eyes sparkled. Jehovah said to Samuel: »This is the one. Anoint him!«

nsb@1Samuel:16:13 @ Samuel took the olive oil and anointed David in front of his brothers. Immediately the Spirit of Jehovah took control of David and was with him from that day on. Then Samuel returned to Ramah.

nsb@1Samuel:16:15 @ His servants said to him: »We know that a distressing spirit sent by God is tormenting you.

nsb@1Samuel:16:16 @ »So give us the order and we will look for a man who knows how to play the harp. Then when the distressing spirit comes on you, the man can play his harp, and you will be all right again.«

nsb@1Samuel:16:18 @ One of his attendants said: »Jesse of the town of Bethlehem has a son who is a good musician. He is also a brave and handsome man, a good soldier, and an able speaker. Jehovah is with him.«

nsb@1Samuel:16:21 @ David went to Saul and worked for him. Saul liked him so much that he put David in charge of carrying his weapons.

nsb@1Samuel:16:22 @ Not long after this, Saul sent another message to Jesse: »I really like David. Please let him stay with me.«

nsb@1Samuel:16:23 @ Whenever the distressing spirit from God bothered Saul, David would play his harp. Saul would relax and feel better. The distressing spirit would go away.

nsb@1Samuel:17:4 @ A fighter came out from the tents of the Philistines. His name was Goliath of Gath. He was over nine feet tall.

nsb@1Samuel:17:5 @ He had a headdress of copper on his head. He was dressed in a coat of metal that weighed one hundred twenty five pounds.

nsb@1Samuel:17:6 @ He had copper shin guards on his legs and on his back a copper javelin.

nsb@1Samuel:17:7 @ The shaft of his spear was like the beam used by weavers. The head of his spear was made of fifteen pounds of iron. The man who carried his shield walked ahead of him.

nsb@1Samuel:17:11 @ Saul and all the Israelites were overcome with fear when they heard what this Philistine said.

nsb@1Samuel:17:15 @ David went back and forth from Saul’s camp to Bethlehem, where he tended his father’s flock.

nsb@1Samuel:17:16 @ Each morning and evening for forty days the Philistine came forward and made his challenge.

nsb@1Samuel:17:17 @ Jesse told his son David: »Take this half-bushel of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread to your brothers. Take them to your brothers in the camp right away.

nsb@1Samuel:17:20 @ David obeyed his father. He got up early the next morning and left someone else in charge of the sheep. He loaded the supplies and started off. He reached the army camp just as the soldiers were taking their places and shouting the battle cry.

nsb@1Samuel:17:22 @ David left his things with the man in charge of supplies. He ran up to the battle line to ask his brothers if they were well.

nsb@1Samuel:17:23 @ David talked to his brothers. Goliath came out from the line of Philistines and boasted as usual. David heard him.

nsb@1Samuel:17:25 @ They said to each other: »Look how he keeps coming out to insult us. The king offers a big reward to the man who kills Goliath. That man will even get to marry the king’s daughter. No one in his family will ever have to pay taxes again.«

nsb@1Samuel:17:26 @ David asked some soldiers standing nearby: »What will a man get for killing this Philistine and stopping him from insulting our people? Who does that worthless Philistine think he is? He makes fun of the army of the living God!«

nsb@1Samuel:17:32 @ David told Saul: »No one should be discouraged because of this. I will go and fight this Philistine.«

nsb@1Samuel:17:33 @ Saul responded to David: »You cannot fight this Philistine. You are just a boy. He has been a warrior since he was your age.«

nsb@1Samuel:17:36 @ »I have killed lions and bears. I will do the same to this heathen Philistine. He has defied the army of the living God.

nsb@1Samuel:17:37 @ »Jehovah saved me from lions and bears. He will save me from this Philistine.« Saul answered: »Go and Jehovah be with you.«

nsb@1Samuel:17:38 @ He gave his own armor to David for him to wear. It consisted of a copper helmet, which he put on David’s head, and a coat of armor.

nsb@1Samuel:17:39 @ David strapped Saul’s sword over the armor and tried to walk. But he could not walk. »I cannot fight with all this,« he said to Saul. »I am not used to it.« So he took it all off.

nsb@1Samuel:17:40 @ He took his shepherd’s stick and picked up five smooth stones from the stream and put them in his bag. With his sling ready, he went out to meet Goliath.

nsb@1Samuel:17:41 @ The Philistine, preceded by the man carrying his shield came closer and closer to David.

nsb@1Samuel:17:43 @ The Philistine asked David: »Am I a dog that you come to attack me with sticks?« So the Philistine called on his gods to curse David.

nsb@1Samuel:17:47 @ »Everybody here will see that Jehovah does not need swords or spears to save his people. Jehovah always wins his battles. He will help us defeat you!«

nsb@1Samuel:17:49 @ He put a rock in his sling and swung the sling around by its straps. When he let go of one strap, the rock flew out and hit Goliath on the forehead. It cracked his skull. He fell facedown on the ground.

nsb@1Samuel:17:50 @ So David overcame the Philistine with his leather band and a stone. The Philistine was wounded and laying on the ground. But David had no sword in his hand.

nsb@1Samuel:17:51 @ He ran to him and stood over him. David took Goliath’s sword out of its sheath and cut off his head to kill him. When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead they ran away.

nsb@1Samuel:17:54 @ David took the head of the Philistine to Jerusalem. But he put his armor in his tent.

nsb@1Samuel:17:55 @ When Saul saw David going out against the Philistine, he asked Abner the commander of the army: »Abner, whose son is this young man?« Abner said: »By your life, O king, I do not know.«

nsb@1Samuel:17:57 @ When David returned from killing the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul with the Philistine’s head in his hand.

nsb@1Samuel:18:2 @ Saul kept him with him that day and would not let him go home to his father’s house any more.

nsb@1Samuel:18:4 @ Jonathan removed the robe he was wearing. He gave it to David along with his armor, including his sword, his bow and his belt.

nsb@1Samuel:18:5 @ So David did everything Saul sent him to do successfully. Saul made him a commander in his army. This pleased the people and Saul’s servants.

nsb@1Samuel:18:8 @ Saul became very angry because he considered this saying to be insulting. He said: »To David they credit tens of thousands but to me they credit only a few thousand. The only thing left for David is my kingdom.«

nsb@1Samuel:18:10 @ The next day Jehovah let a distressing spirit take control of Saul. He began acting like a crazy man inside his house. David came to play the harp for Saul as usual. This time Saul had a spear in his hand.

nsb@1Samuel:18:11 @ Saul balanced the spear in his hand and said: »I will give David a blow! I will pin him to the wall.« David got away from him twice.

nsb@1Samuel:18:13 @ So Saul sent him away. He put him in command of a thousand men. David led his men in battle.

nsb@1Samuel:18:14 @ Jehovah helped David. He and his soldiers always won their battles.

nsb@1Samuel:18:15 @ Saul saw how wisely David behaved. This made him fear him.

nsb@1Samuel:18:20 @ Saul’s daughter Michal fell in love with David. When Saul heard of this he was pleased.

nsb@1Samuel:18:22 @ Saul ordered his officials to speak to David in private. They went to David and said: »Look, the king likes you, and all of his officials are loyal to you. Why not ask the king if you may marry his daughter Michal?«

nsb@1Samuel:18:27 @ David and his men killed two hundred Philistines. He took their foreskins to the king and counted them all out to him. This was so he might become his son-in-law. So Saul had to give his daughter Michal in marriage to David.

nsb@1Samuel:18:29 @ Knowing those things made Saul even more afraid of David. He was David’s enemy for the rest of his life.

nsb@1Samuel:18:30 @ The Philistine rulers kept coming to fight Israel. David always won when he fought them. He won more battles against the Philistines than any of Saul’s other officers. This made him famous.

nsb@1Samuel:19:1 @ Saul told Jonathan his son and all his servants to kill David. But Jonathan was very fond of David.

nsb@1Samuel:19:4 @ Jonathan spoke well of David to his father Saul. »You should not commit a sin against your servant David,« he said. »He has not sinned against you. He has in fact done some very fine things for you.

nsb@1Samuel:19:5 @ »He risked his life and killed the Philistine Goliath. Jehovah gave all Israel a great victory. You rejoiced when you saw it. Why should you sin by shedding David’s innocent blood for no reason?«

nsb@1Samuel:19:9 @ One night, David was in Saul’s home, playing the harp for him. Saul sat there with a spear in his hand. The distressing spirit from Jehovah took control of him.

nsb@1Samuel:19:10 @ Saul tried to pin David to the wall with his spear. David dodged it, and Saul’s spear struck the wall. David escaped from Saul that night.

nsb@1Samuel:19:15 @ Then Saul sent messengers to see David. They said: »Bring him up to me on his bed. I will put him to death.«

nsb@1Samuel:19:17 @ Saul said to Michal: »Why have you deceived me like this? You let my enemy go. He has escaped!« Michal said to Saul: »He said to me: ‘Let me go! Why should I kill you?’«

nsb@1Samuel:19:24 @ He even took off his clothes as he prophesied in front of Samuel. He lay there naked all day and all night. The saying: »Is Saul one of the prophets?« came from there.

nsb@1Samuel:20:2 @ He said to him: »It will not happen. You will not die! My father does nothing either great or small without disclosing it to me. So why should my father hide this thing from me? It is not so!«

nsb@1Samuel:20:3 @ David again said: »Your father has certainly known that I have found favor in your eyes.« He said: »Do not let Jonathan know this, that he not be grieved. And yet, as Jehovah lives, and you live, there is only a step between death and me.«

nsb@1Samuel:20:21 @ »Then I will send my servant to find the arrows. You will know if it is safe to come out by what I tell him. If it is safe, I swear by the living God Jehovah that I will say: ‘The arrows are on this side of you! Pick them up!

nsb@1Samuel:20:22 @ »‘If it is not safe, I will say to the boy: The arrows are farther away! This will mean that Jehovah wants you to leave. You must go.

nsb@1Samuel:20:29 @ »David said to me: ‘Please let me go, since our family must make a sacrifice in the city. My brother has commanded me to attend. If I have found favor in your sight, please let me get away that I may see my brothers.’ For this reason he has not come to the king’s table.’«

nsb@1Samuel:20:32 @ Jonathan asked his father: »Why should he be killed? What has he done?«

nsb@1Samuel:20:33 @ Saul threw his spear at Jonathan and tried to kill him. Then Jonathan was sure that his father really did want to kill David.

nsb@1Samuel:20:34 @ Jonathan was angry that his father had insulted David. He got up and left the table. He did not eat anything all that day.

nsb@1Samuel:20:38 @ »Do not just stand there! Hurry up! »The boy picked up the arrow and returned to his master.

nsb@1Samuel:20:40 @ Jonathan gave his weapons to the boy and told him to take them back to town.

nsb@1Samuel:20:41 @ After the boy left, David got up from behind the pile of stones. He fell on his knees and bowed with his face to the ground three times. Both he and Jonathan cried as they kissed each other. David’s grief was even greater than Jonathan’s.

nsb@1Samuel:21:2 @ The king ordered me to do something, David answered the priest Ahimelech, and he told me: »No one must know anything about this mission I am sending you to do. I have stationed my young men at a certain place.«

nsb@1Samuel:21:7 @ That same day one of Saul’s servants who was obligated to stay in Jehovah’s presence was there. His name was Doeg. He was chief herdsman for Saul’s shepherds from Edom.

nsb@1Samuel:21:10 @ David kept running from Saul that day until he came to Gath. There he met with King Achish.

nsb@1Samuel:21:11 @ The officers of King Achish were also there. They asked Achish: »Is David a king back in his own country? Do the Israelites not dance and sing: ‘Saul has killed a thousand enemies; David has killed ten thousand enemies?’«

nsb@1Samuel:21:12 @ David thought about what they said. It made him afraid of Achish.

nsb@1Samuel:21:13 @ Right there in front of everyone, he pretended to be insane. He acted confused and scratched up the doors of the town gate. He drooled in his beard.

nsb@1Samuel:21:14 @ Look at him! Achish said to his officers. You can see he is crazy. Why did you bring him to me?

nsb@1Samuel:22:1 @ David escaped from the town of Gath and he went to Adullam Cave. Once they found out where he was his brothers and the rest of his family followed him there.

nsb@1Samuel:22:6 @ Saul heard that David and his men were found. Saul stayed in Gibeah under the tamarisk tree at the worship site. He held his spear in his hand. All his officials stood around him.

nsb@1Samuel:22:7 @ He said to his officials: »Listen to me men of Benjamin! Will Jesse’s son give every one of you fields and vineyards? Will he make you all officers over a regiment or a battalion of soldiers?

nsb@1Samuel:22:11 @ Then the king sent for the priest Ahimelech son of Ahitub’s and his entire family who were the priests in Nob. All of them came to the king.

nsb@1Samuel:22:15 @ »Is this the first time I have prayed to God for him? Not at all! You should not blame my family or me for this. I knew nothing at all about this.«

nsb@1Samuel:22:19 @ He also killed the people of Nob, the city of the priests. Using his sword, he killed men and women, children and infants, cows, donkeys, and sheep.

nsb@1Samuel:22:20 @ Ahimelech, Ahitub’s son had one son who escaped. His name was Abiathar. He fled to David.

nsb@1Samuel:23:5 @ David and his men went to Keilah and fought the Philistines. They drove off their livestock, and overwhelmingly defeated them. So David rescued the people who lived in Keilah.

nsb@1Samuel:23:8 @ So Saul called all the troops to go to war. They wanted to blockade Keilah, where David and his men were.

nsb@1Samuel:23:13 @ David and his men, about six hundred in all, left Keilah. They went wherever they could go. Then Saul was told: »David has escaped from Keilah! So he gave up the campaign.«

nsb@1Samuel:23:17 @ »Do not be afraid,« Jonathan said. »My father Saul will never get his hands on you. In fact, you are going to be the next king of Israel. I will be your highest official. Even my father knows it is true.«

nsb@1Samuel:23:24 @ So they left and returned to Ziph ahead of Saul. David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon. They were in a desolate valley in the southern part of the Judean wilderness.

nsb@1Samuel:23:25 @ Saul and his men set out to look for David. David heard about it and went to a rocky hill in the wilderness of Maon and stayed there. When Saul heard about this he went after David.

nsb@1Samuel:23:26 @ Saul and his men were on one side of the hill. They were separated from David and his men, who were on the other side. They were hurrying to get away from Saul and his men, who were closing in on them and were about to capture them.

nsb@1Samuel:24:2 @ Saul led three thousand of Israel’s best soldiers out to look for David and his men near Wild Goat Rocks at En-Gedi.

nsb@1Samuel:24:3 @ There were some sheep pens along the side of the road. One of them was built around the entrance to a cave. So Saul went into the cave to relieve himself. David and his men were hiding at the back of the cave.

nsb@1Samuel:24:4 @ They whispered to David: »Jehovah told you he was going to let you defeat your enemies and do whatever you want with them. This must be the day Jehovah was talking about.« David sneaked over and cut off a small piece of Saul’s robe and Saul did not notice.

nsb@1Samuel:24:6 @ He told his men: »Stop talking foolishly. We are not going to attack Saul. He is my king. I pray that Jehovah will keep me from doing anything to harm his chosen king.«

nsb@1Samuel:24:7 @ David stopped his men by saying this to them. He did not let them attack Saul. Saul left the cave and went out onto the road.

nsb@1Samuel:24:8 @ Then David got up and left the cave. He called to Saul: »My lord!« When Saul looked back. David knelt down with his face touching the ground.

nsb@1Samuel:24:11 @ »My master, look at this! The border of your robe is in my hand! I cut off the border of your robe and did not kill you. You should know and be able to see I mean no harm or rebellion. I have not sinned against you! But you are trying to ambush me in order to take my life.

nsb@1Samuel:24:22 @ David promised and Saul went home. David and his men returned to their hideout.

nsb@1Samuel:25:1 @ Samuel died. All Israel gathered to mourn him. They buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David went to the desert of Paran.

nsb@1Samuel:25:2 @ There was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He was a very rich man. He had three thousand sheep and one thousand goats. He sheared his sheep in Carmel.

nsb@1Samuel:25:3 @ His name was Nabal. He was of the family of Caleb. His wife’s name was Abigail. She was a woman of good sense and pleasing looks. The man was cruel and dishonest in his dealings.

nsb@1Samuel:25:8 @ »‘Ask your shepherds. They will tell you the same thing. My servants are your servants. You are like a father to me. This is a day for celebrating. Please be kind and share some of your food with us.’«

nsb@1Samuel:25:10 @ This is what he said: »Who does this David think he is? That son of Jesse is just one more slave on the run from his master. There are too many of them now days.

nsb@1Samuel:25:17 @ »Consider what you should do because our master and his whole household are doomed. He is such a worthless man that it is useless to talk to him.«

nsb@1Samuel:25:20 @ She rode her donkey down a hidden mountain path. David and his men came to her.

nsb@1Samuel:25:21 @ David thought: »I guarded this man’s possessions in the desert for nothing! Not one of his possessions was missing. Yet, he paid me back with evil when I was good to him.

nsb@1Samuel:25:24 @ She fell at his feet and said: »Let me be held responsible for this wrong. Please let me speak with you. Please listen to me.

nsb@1Samuel:25:25 @ »You should not take this worthless person Nabal seriously. He is like his name. His name is Nabal. He is foolish. But I did not see the young men you sent.

nsb@1Samuel:25:27 @ »Please accept this gift from your maidservant. And give it to the young men who accompany my lord.

nsb@1Samuel:25:34 @ »I solemnly promise as Jehovah the God of Israel lives that if you had not come to meet me Nabal would not have had one of his men alive at dawn.«

nsb@1Samuel:25:36 @ When Abigail came to Nabal, he was holding a banquet in his home. It was like a king’s banquet. He was in a good mood and very drunk, so she did not tell him anything until dawn.

nsb@1Samuel:25:37 @ In the morning after the effects of the wine wore off his wife told him what had happened. Nabal had a stroke. He could not move.

nsb@1Samuel:25:39 @ David heard Nabal was dead. He said: »Blessed is Jehovah who defended me against the insults of Nabal. He kept me from doing wrong. Jehovah has turned Nabal’s own wickedness back on him.« David sent men on his behalf to propose marriage to Abigail.

nsb@1Samuel:25:40 @ David’s servants approached Abigail at Carmel. They told her: »David sent us to you to take you to him to be his wife.«

nsb@1Samuel:25:42 @ Abigail quickly got up and rode on a donkey with five of her female servants following her. So she went with David’s messengers and became his wife.

nsb@1Samuel:26:7 @ David and Abishai entered Saul’s camp at night. They found Saul sleeping in the center of the camp. His spear was stuck in the ground near his head. Abner and the troops were sleeping around him.

nsb@1Samuel:26:8 @ Abishai said to David: »God put your enemy in your power tonight. Let me plunge his own spear through him and pin him to the ground. I will do it with just one blow. I will not have to strike twice!«

nsb@1Samuel:26:9 @ But David said: »Do not harm him! Jehovah will certainly punish whoever harms his chosen king.«

nsb@1Samuel:26:10 @ »By the living God Jehovah,« David declared, »I know that Jehovah will kill Saul, either when his time comes to die a natural death or when he dies in battle.

nsb@1Samuel:26:11 @ »Jehovah forbid that I should try to harm the one Jehovah anointed to be king. Just take his spear and his water jar and go.«

nsb@1Samuel:26:16 @ »You failed in your duty, Abner! I swear by the living God Jehovah all of you deserve to die. You have not protected your master, whom Jehovah made king. Look for the king’s spear? Where is the water jar that was near his head?«

nsb@1Samuel:26:19 @ »Please let my lord the king listen to the words of his servant. If Jehovah has stirred you up against me, let Him accept an offering. If it is men, cursed are they before Jehovah. They have driven me out today so that I would have no attachment with the inheritance of Jehovah, saying: ‘Go serve other gods.’«

nsb@1Samuel:26:23 @ »Jehovah put you in my power today. But you are his chosen king. I would not harm you. Jehovah rewards the righteous and faithful.

nsb@1Samuel:27:2 @ David and his six hundred men went over at once to Achish son of Maoch, king of Gath.

nsb@1Samuel:27:3 @ David and his men and their families lived with Achish at Gath. David brought his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail of Carmel, the widow of Nabal.

nsb@1Samuel:27:5 @ David said to Achish: »If it is all right with you, let me live in one of the outlying towns. Why should I live in the royal city with you?«

nsb@1Samuel:27:6 @ Achish immediately gave him Ziklag. This is why Ziklag still belongs to the kings of Judah today.

nsb@1Samuel:27:8 @ David and his men raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. Their territory extends from Telaim to Shur and Egypt.

nsb@1Samuel:27:9 @ David attacked the territory and left no man or woman alive. He also took sheep, cattle, donkeys, camels, and clothing and returned to Achish.

nsb@1Samuel:27:10 @ Achish would ask: »Whom did you raid today?« David would answer: »The south country in Judah, or the south country of the Jerahmeelites, or the south country of the Kenites.«

nsb@1Samuel:27:11 @ He did not bring a single man or woman back to Gath alive. He thought, they could tell Achish what I really did. This was his practice as long as he lived in Philistine territory.

nsb@1Samuel:27:12 @ Achish trusted David and thought: »David’s people must be furious with him. From now on he will have to take orders from me.«

nsb@1Samuel:28:1 @ One day the Philistines brought their soldiers together to attack Israel. Achish told David: »You and your men must fight as part of our Philistine army.«

nsb@1Samuel:28:2 @ David answered: »That will give you a chance to see for yourself just how well we can fight!« Achish said: »You and your men will always be my bodyguards.«

nsb@1Samuel:28:3 @ After Samuel died all the Israelites mourned for him. They buried him in his hometown of Ramah. Saul forced all the fortunetellers and mediums to leave Israel.

nsb@1Samuel:28:7 @ Saul ordered his officials: »Find me a woman who is a medium. I will go and consult her.« »There is one in Endor,« they answered.

nsb@1Samuel:28:8 @ Saul disguised himself. He put on different clothes. After dark he went with two of his men to see the woman. »Consult the spirits for me and tell me what is going to happen,« he said to her: »Call up the spirit of the man I name.«

nsb@1Samuel:28:10 @ Saul made a sacred vow. »By the living God Jehovah I promise that you will not be punished for doing this,« he told her.

nsb@1Samuel:28:18 @ »You disobeyed Jehovah’s command and did not completely destroy the Amalekites. That is why Jehovah is doing this to you.

nsb@1Samuel:28:23 @ Saul refused. He said he would not eat. But his officers also urged him to eat. He finally gave in, got up from the ground, and sat on the bed.

nsb@1Samuel:28:25 @ She set the food before Saul and his officers and they ate. They left that same night.

nsb@1Samuel:29:2 @ The five Philistine kings marched with units of a hundred and of a thousand men. David and his men marched in the rear with King Achish.

nsb@1Samuel:29:3 @ The Philistine commanders saw them and asked: »What are these Hebrews doing here?« Achish answered: »This is David. He is the man who ran away from King Saul of Israel. He has been with me for more than a year. He has done nothing I can find fault with since the day he came to me.«

nsb@1Samuel:29:4 @ The Philistine commanders were angry with Achish and said to him: »Send that fellow back to the town you gave him. Do not let him go into battle with us. He might turn against us during the fight. What better way is there for him to win back his master’s favor than by causing the death of our men?

nsb@1Samuel:29:5 @ »This is David, the one about whom the women sang, as they danced: Saul has killed thousands, but David has killed tens of thousands.«

nsb@1Samuel:29:6 @ Achish called David and said: »I swear by the living God of Israel that you have been loyal to me. I would be pleased to have you go with me and fight in this battle. I have found no fault in you from the day you came to me. But the other kings do not approve of you.

nsb@1Samuel:29:9 @ »I agree,« Achish replied. »I consider you as loyal as an angel of God. But the other kings say you may not go with us into battle.

nsb@1Samuel:29:11 @ David and his men started out early the following morning. They went back to Philistia. The Philistines went on to Jezreel.

nsb@1Samuel:30:1 @ Two days later David and his men came to Ziklag. The Amalekites raided the south country including Ziklag. They attacked Ziklag and burned it.

nsb@1Samuel:30:3 @ When David and his men came to Zikleg they found it completely destroyed by fire. Their wives, sons, and daughters had been taken captive.

nsb@1Samuel:30:4 @ David and his men cried loudly until they did not have the strength to cry anymore.

nsb@1Samuel:30:6 @ The people in their bitterness said David should be stoned. This caused him great distress. They were thinking of their sons and daughters. But David found strength in Jehovah his God.

nsb@1Samuel:30:9 @ So David and his six hundred men went to the Besor Valley, where some were left behind.

nsb@1Samuel:30:12 @ He also ate some dried figs, and two bunches of raisins. After he ate his strength returned. He had not eaten nor did he drank for three days.

nsb@1Samuel:30:18 @ David rescued his two wives. They rescued everyone else the Amalekites captured at Ziklag.

nsb@1Samuel:30:22 @ Then every wicked and worthless man who had gone with David said: »Since they did not go with us, they should not be given any of the loot we recovered. Each of them should take only his wife and children and leave.«

nsb@1Samuel:30:24 @ »Besides, who is going to pay attention to what you have to say in this matter? The share of those who go into battle must be like the share of those who stay with the supplies. They will all share alike.«

nsb@1Samuel:30:25 @ From that time on he made this a rule and a custom in Israel as it is to this day.

nsb@1Samuel:30:26 @ When David arrived in Ziklag, he sent some of the goods to the elders of Judah, and to his friends. He said: »Here is an offering for you from the spoil of those who fought against Jehovah.«

nsb@1Samuel:30:31 @ and Hebron. He sent it to all the places where he and his men had been.

nsb@1Samuel:31:2 @ The Philistines caught up to Saul and his sons. They killed Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua, Saul’s sons.

nsb@1Samuel:31:4 @ He said to the young man carrying his weapons: »Draw your sword and kill me. That way these godless Philistines will not gloat over me and kill me.« But the young man was too terrified to do it. So Saul took his own sword and threw himself on it.

nsb@1Samuel:31:5 @ The young man saw that Saul was dead. Then he too threw himself on his own sword and died with Saul.

nsb@1Samuel:31:6 @ That is how Saul, his three sons, and the young man died. All of Saul’s men died that day.

nsb@1Samuel:31:7 @ The Israelites on the other side of Jezreel Valley and east of the Jordan River heard that the Israelite army had fled and that Saul and his sons had been killed. They abandoned their towns and fled. Then the Philistines came and occupied the towns.

nsb@1Samuel:31:8 @ The next day the Philistines came to strip the dead. They found Saul and his three sons lying on Mount Gilboa.

nsb@1Samuel:31:9 @ They cut off his head and stripped off his armor. Then they sent men throughout Philistine territory to tell the people this good news in their idols’ temples.

nsb@1Samuel:31:10 @ They put his armor in the temple of their goddesses the Asherahs and fastened his corpse to the wall of Beth Shan.

nsb@1Samuel:31:12 @ All the fighting men marched all night and took the dead bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth Shan. They came back to Jabesh and burned the bodies.

nsb@2Samuel:1:2 @ Three days later a soldier came from Saul’s army. His clothes were torn and dirt was on his head. He knelt down in front of David.

nsb@2Samuel:1:4 @ »How did the battle go?« David asked. The man said: »Our army turned and ran. Many were wounded and died. King Saul and his son Jonathan are dead.«

nsb@2Samuel:1:6 @ He answered: »I was on Mount Gilboa. I saw Saul leaning on his spear. The chariots and cavalry of the enemy closed in on him.

nsb@2Samuel:1:10 @ »I went up to him and killed him. I knew that he would die anyway as soon as he fell. Then I took the crown from his head and the bracelet from his arm. Here, I have brought them to you.«

nsb@2Samuel:1:11 @ David and all his men tore their clothes in sorrow.

nsb@2Samuel:1:17 @ Then David chanted with a lament over Saul and Jonathan his son.

nsb@2Samuel:2:2 @ David went to Hebron. He took his two wives: Ahinoam from Jezreel, and Abigail, Nabal’s widow from Carmel with him.

nsb@2Samuel:2:3 @ He also took his men and their families. They settled in the towns around Hebron.

nsb@2Samuel:2:6 @ »May Jehovah always show you kindness. I also will be good to you because you did this.

nsb@2Samuel:2:13 @ At that time Joab the son of Zeruiah was leading David’s soldiers. The two groups met at the pool in Gibeon. Abner and his men sat down on one side of the pool and Joab and his men sat on the other side.

nsb@2Samuel:2:16 @ Each one grabbed his opponent by the head. Then he stuck his sword into his opponent’s side, and they fell down together. That place in Gibeon is called the Field of Enemies.

nsb@2Samuel:2:18 @ Zeruiah’s three sons were there: Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Asahel was as fast on his feet as a wild gazelle.

nsb@2Samuel:2:21 @ Abner said: »Soldiers are all around us. Stop chasing me and fight one of them! Kill him and take his clothes and weapons for yourself.« But Asahel refused to stop.

nsb@2Samuel:2:23 @ However, Asahel would not turn back. So Abner struck him in the stomach with the back end of his spear. The spear went all the way through and came out of his back. Asahel fell down and died. Everyone who saw Asahel lying dead just stopped and stood still.

nsb@2Samuel:2:24 @ Joab and Abishai ran after Abner. It was sun down when they arrived at the hill of Ammah. This hill is near Giah on the road to the wilderness of Gibeon.

nsb@2Samuel:2:29 @ That night Abner and his men marched through the plains. They crossed the Jordan River and passed through the entire Bithron until they came to Mahanaim.

nsb@2Samuel:2:32 @ They buried Asahel in his father’s tomb in Bethlehem. Joab and his men marched all night. They arrived at Hebron at daybreak.

nsb@2Samuel:3:2 @ Sons were born to David while he was in Hebron. His first son was Amnon, born to Ahinoam from Jezreel.

nsb@2Samuel:3:8 @ Ishbosheth’s question made Abner very angry. »Am I a dog that belongs to Judea?« He asked. »Until now I have been faithful to your father Saul’s family, to his relatives and friends. I did not hand you over to David. But now you charge me with a crime because of this woman.

nsb@2Samuel:3:12 @ Abner sent messengers to David to speak on his behalf. »Who owns this country?« He asked. »Make an agreement with me,« he said. »Then I will support you and bring all Israel to you.«

nsb@2Samuel:3:14 @ David sent messengers to Ishbosheth to give him this message: »Give me back my wife Michal! I bought her for the price of a hundred Philistine foreskins.«

nsb@2Samuel:3:15 @ Ishbosheth sent some of his men to take Michal away from her new husband, Paltiel son of Laish.

nsb@2Samuel:3:18 @ »Do it now! This is what Jehovah said about David: ‘I will save my people Israel from the Philistines and all their other enemies through my servant David.’«

nsb@2Samuel:3:20 @ Twenty men accompanied Abner to see David at Hebron. David had a feast for Abner and his men.

nsb@2Samuel:3:29 @ »Let the punishment for it fall on Joab and all his family! In every generation may there be some man in his family who has gonorrhea or a dreaded skin disease or is fit only to do a woman’s work or is killed in battle or does not have enough to eat!«

nsb@2Samuel:3:30 @ Joab and his brother Abishai took revenge and murdered Abner for killing their brother Asahel in the battle at Gibeon.

nsb@2Samuel:3:38 @ The king told his officers: »Do you not know that today a leader, a great man, has fallen in Israel?

nsb@2Samuel:4:1 @ Saul’s son Ishbosheth heard that Abner had died in Hebron. He lost his courage, and all Israel was alarmed.

nsb@2Samuel:4:4 @ Saul’s son Jonathan had a son who was crippled. When the boy was five years old, the news about the death of Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel. His nurse picked him up and fled to Gittaim. She was in a hurry when she left. He fell from her arms and became disabled. His name was Mephibosheth.

nsb@2Samuel:4:7 @ They cut off his head and took his head with them. They traveled by way of the Arabah all night.

nsb@2Samuel:4:8 @ They took the head of Ishbosheth to David at Hebron and said to the king, »Here is the head of Ishbosheth the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life. Jehovah has given my lord the king vengeance this day on Saul and his descendants.«

nsb@2Samuel:4:9 @ David responded to Rechab and his brother Baanah, the sons of Rimmon from Beeroth:

nsb@2Samuel:4:10 @ »I once seized a man who told me that Saul had died. He thought he was bringing good news. I killed him in Ziklag to reward him for his news.

nsb@2Samuel:4:11 @ »How much more should I reward wicked men who kill an innocent man on his own bed in his home? Jehovah has rescued me from every trouble. I solemnly swear, as Jehovah lives, I will now seek revenge for his murder and rid the land of you.«

nsb@2Samuel:4:12 @ David gave the order for his soldiers to kill Rechab and Baanah and cut off their hands and feet. They killed them and hung their hands and feet near the pool in Hebron. They took Ishbosheth’s head and buried it in Abner’s tomb there at Hebron.

nsb@2Samuel:5:2 @ »For a long time when Saul was still our king, you led the people of Israel in battle. Jehovah promised you that you would lead his people and be their ruler.«

nsb@2Samuel:5:6 @ The king and his men went to Jerusalem to attack the Jebusites, who lived in that region. The Jebusites told David: »You will never get in here. Even the blind and the lame could turn you away. In other words he could not enter there.«

nsb@2Samuel:5:12 @ David knew that Jehovah made him king of Israel and that he had made him a powerful ruler for the good of his people.

nsb@2Samuel:5:14 @ The following are the names of his sons born in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,

nsb@2Samuel:5:17 @ The Philistines heard that David was now king of Israel. They mobilized all their forces to capture him. But David found out and went into his fortress.

nsb@2Samuel:5:21 @ The Philistines left their idols there. David and his men carried them all away.

nsb@2Samuel:6:7 @ At once Jehovah God became angry with Uzzah. He killed him because of his irreverence. Uzzah died there beside the Ark of the Covenant.

nsb@2Samuel:6:11 @ The Ark of Jehovah stayed at the home of Obed Edom from Gath for three months. Jehovah blessed Obed Edom and his whole family.

nsb@2Samuel:6:14 @ Wearing a linen ephod, David danced in Jehovah’s presence with all his might.

nsb@2Samuel:6:20 @ David went home so he could ask Jehovah to bless his family. But Saul’s daughter Michal went out and started yelling at him: »You were really great today!« She said. »You acted like a dirty old man. You danced around half-naked in front of your servants’ slave-girls.«

nsb@2Samuel:6:21 @ David answered: »I danced to honor Jehovah. He chose me to be king instead of your father and his family. He made me the leader of his people Israel. I will continue to dance and honor Jehovah.

nsb@2Samuel:7:1 @ King David was settled in his palace. Jehovah kept him safe from all his enemies.

nsb@2Samuel:7:8 @ »Say this to my servant David: ‘This is what Jehovah of Hosts says: I took you from the pasture where you followed sheep so that you could be the leader of my people Israel.

nsb@2Samuel:7:13 @ »‘I will allow no one to take his long lasting kingdom away from him. He will be the one to build a temple for me.

nsb@2Samuel:7:14 @ »‘I will be his father. He will be my son. When he does wrong I will correct him just as parents correct children.

nsb@2Samuel:7:19 @ »Yet this was insignificant in your eyes, O Sovereign Lord Jehovah for you have spoken also of your servant’s house in the distant future. And this is the law for man, O Sovereign Lord Jehovah.

nsb@2Samuel:7:21 @ »For the sake of your Word and according to your will you have done this great thing. You have made it known to your servant!

nsb@2Samuel:7:22 @ »For this reason you are great, O Sovereign Lord Jehovah. There is none like you. There is no God besides you according to all that we have heard with our ears.

nsb@2Samuel:7:23 @ »There is no other nation on earth like Israel. This is the nation you rescued from slavery in Egypt to be your own. You became famous by using great and wonderful miracles to force other nations and their gods out of your land, so your people could live here.

nsb@2Samuel:7:26 @ »You will be famous for a very long time! Everyone will say: »Jehovah of Hosts rules Israel. David’s descendants are his chosen kings.

nsb@2Samuel:8:2 @ He defeated the Moabites. He made the prisoners lie down on the ground and put two out of every three of them to death. So the Moabites became his subjects and paid taxes to him.

nsb@2Samuel:8:3 @ David defeated the king of the Syrian state of Zobah, Hadadezer son of Rehob. Hadadezer was on his way to restore his control over the territory by the upper Euphrates River.

nsb@2Samuel:8:4 @ David captured seventeen hundred of his cavalry and twenty thousand of his foot soldiers. He kept enough horses for a hundred chariots and crippled all the rest.

nsb@2Samuel:8:6 @ Then he set up military camps in their territory. They became his subjects and paid taxes to him. Jehovah made David victorious everywhere.

nsb@2Samuel:8:10 @ He sent his son Joram to greet King David and congratulate him for fighting and defeating Hadadezer. There had often been war between Hadadezer and Toi. Joram brought articles of gold, silver, and copper with him.

nsb@2Samuel:8:15 @ So David ruled all Israel. He did what was fair and right for all his people.

nsb@2Samuel:9:1 @ One day, David thought: »I wonder if any of Saul’s family is still alive. If they are I will be kind to them. This is because I made a promise to Jonathan.«

nsb@2Samuel:9:9 @ The king called Ziba, Saul’s servant, and said: »I am giving Mephibosheth, your master’s grandson, everything that belonged to Saul and his family.

nsb@2Samuel:9:10 @ »You, your sons, and your servants will farm the land for your master Saul’s family and bring in the harvest. This will provide food for them. Mephibosheth will always be a guest at my table.« Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

nsb@2Samuel:10:1 @ Later the king of Ammon died. His son Hanun became king in his place.

nsb@2Samuel:10:2 @ David thought: »I will show kindness to Hanun since his father Nahash showed me kindness.« David sent his servants to comfort Hanun after his father’s death. When David’s servants entered Ammonite territory,

nsb@2Samuel:10:3 @ the Ammonite princes asked their master Hanun: »Do you think David is honoring your father because he sent men to comfort you? Perhaps David sent his men to explore the city, spy on it, and destroy it.«

nsb@2Samuel:10:7 @ After David heard about this, he sent Joab and all the elite troops.

nsb@2Samuel:10:10 @ He put his brother Abishai in command of the rest of the army and had them fight the Ammonites.

nsb@2Samuel:10:11 @ Joab told his brother: »If the Arameans are too much for me to handle, you can come and help me. If the Ammonites are too strong for you, I will come and help you.

nsb@2Samuel:10:13 @ Joab and his men advanced to attack the Syrians. The Syrians retreated.

nsb@2Samuel:10:18 @ and the Israelites drove the Syrian army back. David and his men killed seven hundred Syrian chariot drivers and forty thousand cavalry. They wounded Shobach, the enemy commander, who died on the battlefield.

nsb@2Samuel:11:1 @ In the spring, at the time of the year when kings usually go to war, David sent out Joab with his officers and the Israelite army. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged the city of Rabbah. David stayed in Jerusalem.

nsb@2Samuel:11:2 @ Late one afternoon, David got up from his nap and went to the palace roof. He walked around on the roof. He saw a woman taking a bath. She was very beautiful.

nsb@2Samuel:11:9 @ But Uriah slept at the entrance of the royal palace among his superior’s mercenaries. He did not go home.

nsb@2Samuel:11:11 @ Uriah answered: »The Ark of the Covenant and the armies of Israel and Judah are camping out somewhere in the fields with our commander Joab and his officers and troops. Do you think I would go home to eat and drink and sleep with my wife? I swear by your life that I would not!«

nsb@2Samuel:11:13 @ David invited him for dinner. Uriah ate with David and drank so much that he got drunk. However he still did not go home. He went out and slept on his mat near the palace guards.

nsb@2Samuel:11:17 @ The men of the city came out and fought Joab. Some of David’s mercenaries fell and died. This included Uriah the Hittite.

nsb@2Samuel:11:21 @ »Who killed Jerubbesheth’s son Abimelech? Did a woman on the wall of Thebez throw a small millstone at him and kill him? Why did you go so close to the wall? If the king asks this, tell him: ‘Your man Uriah the Hittite is also dead.’«

nsb@2Samuel:11:25 @ David replied: »This is what you are to say to Joab: ‘Do not let this thing trouble you. After all a sword can kill one person as easily as another. Strengthen your attack against the city, and destroy it. Say this to encourage him.’«

nsb@2Samuel:11:27 @ When her mourning was over, David sent for her and brought her to his home. She became his wife. Then she gave birth to a son. However, Jehovah considered David’s actions evil.

nsb@2Samuel:12:3 @ But the poor man had only one little female lamb that he bought. He raised her, and she grew up in his home with his children. She would eat his food and drink from his cup. She rested in his arms and was like a daughter to him.

nsb@2Samuel:12:4 @ »Now, a visitor came to the rich man. The rich man thought it would be a pity to take one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare a meal for the traveler. So he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for the traveler.«

nsb@2Samuel:12:5 @ David became very angry with the rich man. He said: »I swear by the living God Jehovah that the man who did this should die!

nsb@2Samuel:12:7 @ »You are that man!« Nathan said to David. »And this is what the Lord Jehovah the God of Israel says: ‘I made you king of Israel and rescued you from Saul.

nsb@2Samuel:12:8 @ »‘I gave you his kingdom and his wives. Then I made you king over Israel and Judah. If this had not been enough, I would have given you twice as much.

nsb@2Samuel:12:9 @ »‘Why have you disobeyed my commands? Why did you do this evil thing? You had Uriah killed in battle! You let the Ammonites kill him. Then you took his wife!

nsb@2Samuel:12:12 @ »‘You did this secretly. I will make this happen in broad daylight in front of all Israel.’«

nsb@2Samuel:12:14 @ »You have shown total contempt for Jehovah by this affair. Therefore the son that is born to you must die.«

nsb@2Samuel:12:17 @ The elders in his palace stood beside him to raise him up from the ground. But he was unwilling and he would not eat with them.

nsb@2Samuel:12:19 @ David saw that his servants were whispering to one another. He realized that the child was dead. »Is the child dead?« David asked them. »Yes, he is dead.« They answered.

nsb@2Samuel:12:20 @ David got up from the floor. He took a bath, combed his hair, and changed his clothes. Then he went and worshiped in the Temple of Jehovah. After that he returned to the palace and ate.

nsb@2Samuel:12:21 @ »We do not understand,« his servants said, »while the child was alive you would not eat. As soon as he died, you got up and ate!«

nsb@2Samuel:12:24 @ David comforted his wife Bathsheba. He went to bed with her, and she later gave birth to a son. David named him Solomon. Jehovah loved the child.

nsb@2Samuel:12:30 @ He removed the crown of their god Milcom from off the head of their king. The crown was made of seventy-five pounds of gold. There was a valuable jewel on it. David put the jewel on his own crown. He also carried off everything else of value.

nsb@2Samuel:13:12 @ She said: »No! Do not force me to do this disgraceful thing. It is evil.

nsb@2Samuel:13:14 @ Amnon wouldn’t listen to her. He grabbed his sister and raped her.

nsb@2Samuel:13:15 @ After that Amnon developed an intense hatred for her. His hatred for her was greater than the lust he felt for her. »Get out of here,« he told her.

nsb@2Samuel:13:17 @ He called his servant and said: »Throw this woman out and lock the door!«

nsb@2Samuel:13:22 @ Absalom hated Amnon so much because he raped his sister Tamar. He would not speak to him anymore.

nsb@2Samuel:13:27 @ Absalom insisted until David finally let Amnon and all his other sons go with Absalom. Absalom prepared a banquet fit for a king.

nsb@2Samuel:13:28 @ Absalom gave an order to his servants: »Watch now and when Amnon begins to feel good from drinking too much wine, I will tell you, Attack Amnon. Then kill him. Do not be afraid. I give this order. Be strong and courageous.«

nsb@2Samuel:13:30 @ While they were on their way, David heard this rumor: »Absalom has killed all the king’s sons, and not a single one is left.«

nsb@2Samuel:13:31 @ The king stood up and tore his clothes. Then he lay down on the ground. All his servants stood beside him with their clothes torn to show their grief.

nsb@2Samuel:13:32 @ Jonadab son of David’s brother Shimea, said: »Do not think that all the young men are dead. They have not killed all the king’s sons. Only Amnon is dead. Absalom decided to do this the day his half brother raped his sister Tamar.

nsb@2Samuel:13:36 @ As soon as he finished speaking, the king’s sons arrived. They cried loudly and the king and all his men also cried very bitterly.

nsb@2Samuel:14:3 @ »Go to the king and speak to him in this way.« Then Joab told her exactly what to say.

nsb@2Samuel:14:7 @ »All my relatives have turned against me and are demanding that I hand my son over to them. They want to kill him for murdering his brother. If they do this, I will be left without a son. They will destroy my last hope. They will leave my husband without a son to keep his name alive.«

nsb@2Samuel:14:19 @ »Did Joab put you up to this?« The king asked. The woman answered: »I solemnly swear on your life, Your Majesty, you are absolutely right! Yes, your servant Joab ordered me to do this. He told me to say exactly what I said.

nsb@2Samuel:14:20 @ »Your servant Joab has done this to view this matter from a different angle. You are as wise as an angel of God, who knows everything on earth.«

nsb@2Samuel:14:22 @ Joab quickly bowed down with his face touching the ground. He blessed the king. He said: »Today I know that you have been kind to me because you did what I wanted.«

nsb@2Samuel:14:24 @ The king said: »Absalom should return to his own house. Do not let him see me.« So Absalom returned to his house. He did not see the king.

nsb@2Samuel:14:25 @ No one in all Israel was praised for his good looks as much as Absalom was. He had no blemish from head to toe.

nsb@2Samuel:14:26 @ From time to time, he used to cut his hair because it became heavy for him. When he cut the hair on his head and weighed it, it weighed five pounds according to the king’s standard.

nsb@2Samuel:14:27 @ Absalom had three sons and one daughter. His daughter Tamar was a beautiful woman.

nsb@2Samuel:14:30 @ Finally, Absalom told his servants: »Joab’s barley field is next to mine. Set it on fire!« So they set it on fire.

nsb@2Samuel:15:6 @ Absalom did this with every Israelite who came to the king for judgment. That way he won their loyalty.

nsb@2Samuel:15:11 @ Absalom had two hundred men who at his invitation traveled from Jerusalem with him. They knew nothing of the plot and went in good faith.

nsb@2Samuel:15:12 @ Absalom was offering sacrifices. He sent for Ahithophel, David’s adviser, to come from his home in Giloh. Meanwhile, the conspiracy grew stronger. The number of people siding with Absalom kept getting larger.

nsb@2Samuel:15:14 @ David told all his men who were with him in Jerusalem: »We must run away quickly, or none of us will escape from Absalom. Leave right away or he will catch up to us and bring ruin upon us when he massacres the city.«

nsb@2Samuel:15:16 @ The king left on foot. His whole household followed him. The king left ten concubines behind to take care of the palace.

nsb@2Samuel:15:17 @ The king and his troops left the city on foot. They stopped at the city limits.

nsb@2Samuel:15:18 @ All his mercenaries passed by him. The Cherethites, all the Pelethites, Ittai, and all six hundred men who had followed him from Gath marched past the king.

nsb@2Samuel:15:22 @ David answered: »That is fine. March on!« So Ittai went on with all his men and their dependents.

nsb@2Samuel:15:23 @ The people cried loudly as David’s followers left. The king crossed Kidron Brook. His men followed him. They went to the wilderness.

nsb@2Samuel:15:30 @ David went up the slope of the Mount of Olives. He was barefoot and crying. He covered his head to show his sorrow. Everyone with him was crying. They covered their heads too.

nsb@2Samuel:15:32 @ David reached the top of the Mount of Olives. He met Hushai the Archite at a place of worship. Hushai’s robe was torn, and dust was on his head.

nsb@2Samuel:16:2 @ »What is all this?« David asked. Ziba said: »The donkeys are for your family to ride. The bread and fruit are for the people to eat. The wine is for them to drink in the desert when they are tired out.«

nsb@2Samuel:16:5 @ King David arrived at Bahurim. A man who was a distant cousin of Saul came out cursing. His name was Shimei, son of Gera.

nsb@2Samuel:16:6 @ Shimei threw stones at David and his officials. This was in spite of the fact that his men and his bodyguards surrounded David.

nsb@2Samuel:16:9 @ Abishai son of Zeruiah said to the king: »Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over there and cut off his head!«

nsb@2Samuel:16:10 @ »What business is this of yours?« The king said to Abishai and his brother Joab. »If Jehovah told him to curse me who am I to stop him?«

nsb@2Samuel:16:11 @ David said to Abishai and to all his officials: »My own son is trying to kill me. Why should you be surprised at this Benjaminite? Jehovah told him to curse. Leave him alone and let him curse.

nsb@2Samuel:16:12 @ »Perhaps Jehovah will acknowledge my misery and give me some blessings to take away this curse.«

nsb@2Samuel:16:13 @ David and his men continued along the road. Shimei kept up with them. He walked on the hillside. He cursed and threw stones and dirt at them as he went.

nsb@2Samuel:16:17 @ »Is this how loyal you are to your friend?« Absalom asked Hushai. »Why did you not go with him?«

nsb@2Samuel:16:21 @ Ahithophel answered: »Some of your father’s wives were left here to take care of the palace. You should have sex with them. Then everyone will find out that you have publicly disgraced your father. This will make you and your followers even more powerful.«

nsb@2Samuel:16:22 @ They pitched a tent for Absalom on the palace roof. There in the sight of everyone Absalom went in and had intercourse with his father’s concubines.

nsb@2Samuel:17:2 @ »I will attack him while he is tired and discouraged. He will be frightened! All his men will run away. I will kill only the king.

nsb@2Samuel:17:3 @ »Then I will bring back all his men to you. It will be like a bride returning to her husband. Kill one man and the rest of the people return safely.«

nsb@2Samuel:17:4 @ This seemed like good advice to Absalom and all the Israelite leaders.

nsb@2Samuel:17:5 @ Absalom said: »Bring in Hushai. Let us hear what he has to say about this.«

nsb@2Samuel:17:7 @ Hushai said: »This time Ahithophel’s advice is not very good.

nsb@2Samuel:17:8 @ »You know your father and his followers are mighty warriors. They are as fierce as a mother bear whose cubs have just been killed. Your father has a lot of experience in fighting wars. He will not spend the night with the others.

nsb@2Samuel:17:10 @ »Even the bravest man with a heart like a lion would lose his courage. All Israel knows that your father is a mighty man and the men with him are brave.

nsb@2Samuel:17:12 @ »Find him and attack him! We will fall on him as dew falls on the ground. Neither he nor any of his men will be left alive.

nsb@2Samuel:17:18 @ A young man saw Jonathan and Ahimaaz and told Absalom. So both of them left quickly. They went to the home of a man in Bahurim who had a cistern in his courtyard. They climbed down into it.

nsb@2Samuel:17:22 @ So David and his men crossed the Jordan. By daybreak they had all gone across.

nsb@2Samuel:17:23 @ Ahithophel saw that his advice had not been followed. He saddled his donkey and went back to his hometown. He arranged his affairs in order and he hanged himself. He was buried in the family grave.

nsb@2Samuel:17:25 @ Absalom put Amasa in Joab’s place as commander of the army. Amasa’s father was Ithra from the family of Ishmael, and his mother was Abigal, the daughter of Nahash and the sister of Joab’s mother Zeruiah.

nsb@2Samuel:18:4 @ »I will do what you think best,« the king answered. Then he stood by the side of the gate as his men marched out in units of a thousand and of a hundred.

nsb@2Samuel:18:5 @ The king ordered Joab, Abishai, and Ittai: »Treat the young man Absalom gently for my sake.« All the troops heard him give the commanders this order regarding Absalom.

nsb@2Samuel:18:10 @ A man who saw this told Joab: »I saw Absalom hanging in a tree.«

nsb@2Samuel:18:16 @ Joab ordered the trumpet blown to stop the fighting. His troops came back from pursuing the Israelites.

nsb@2Samuel:18:18 @ During his lifetime Absalom built a monument for himself in King’s Valley. He had no son to keep his name alive. So he named it after himself. To this day it is known as Absalom’s Monument.

nsb@2Samuel:18:19 @ Ahimaaz son of Zadok said: »Joab let me run and tell King David that Jehovah rescued him from his enemies.«

nsb@2Samuel:18:20 @ Joab answered: »You are not the one to tell the king his son is dead. You can take him a message some other time, but not today.«

nsb@2Samuel:18:26 @ The watchman saw another man running. He called: »There is another man running alone.« The king said: »This one is also bringing good news.«

nsb@2Samuel:19:2 @ David’s army found out he was crying because his son died. Suddenly their day of victory turned into a day of sadness.

nsb@2Samuel:19:4 @ David held his hands over his face and kept on crying loudly. »My son, Absalom! Absalom, my son, my son!«

nsb@2Samuel:19:7 @ »Now stand up! Go out there and thank them for what they did. If you do not, I swear by Jehovah you will not even have one man left on your side tomorrow morning. You may have had a lot of troubles in the past. But this will be the worst thing that has ever happened to you!«

nsb@2Samuel:19:11 @ What all Israel was saying reached the king at his house. So King David sent this message to the priests Zadok and Abiathar: »Ask the leaders of Judah, Why should you be the last tribe to reinstate the king back to his palace?

nsb@2Samuel:19:14 @ All the people of Judah were in total agreement. So they sent the king this message: »Come back with all your servants.«

nsb@2Samuel:19:17 @ One thousand people from Benjamin were with him. Ziba the servant of Saul’s family rushed to the Jordan River across from the king. Ziba brought his fifteen sons and twenty servants.

nsb@2Samuel:19:24 @ Mephibosheth grandson of Saul also came to meet David. He missed David so much that he did not take a bath or trim his beard or wash his clothes the whole time David was gone.

nsb@2Samuel:19:31 @ Barzillai, the man from Gilead, came from Rogelim with the king to the Jordan River to send him on his way.

nsb@2Samuel:19:42 @ All the people of Judah answered the people of Israel: »Because the king is our relative. Why are you angry about this? Did we eat the king’s food, or did he give us any gifts?«

nsb@2Samuel:20:3 @ David left ten of his concubines in Jerusalem to take care of his palace. When he returned, he had them taken to another house. He placed soldiers there to guard them. He gave them what they needed. He never slept with any of them again. They had to live there for the rest of their lives as if they were widows.

nsb@2Samuel:20:8 @ Amasa met them at the large rock in Gibeon. Joab wore a military uniform. He strapped a sword in a scabbard at his hip. He stepped forward and the sword dropped into his hand.

nsb@2Samuel:20:9 @ »How are you, my brother?« Joab asked Amasa. He took hold of Amasa’s beard with his right hand to kiss him.

nsb@2Samuel:20:10 @ Amasa was not on guard against the sword in Joab’s left hand. Joab stabbed him in the stomach. Then he stabbed him in his intestines and they poured out on the ground. He died without being stabbed again. Then Joab and his brother Abishai pursued Sheba son of Bichri.

nsb@2Samuel:20:14 @ Sheba went through all of the tribes of Israel when he came to the town of Abel Beth-Maacah. His best soldiers met him there and followed him into the town.

nsb@2Samuel:20:15 @ Joab and his troops surrounded Abel, so no one could go in or come out. They made a dirt ramp up to the town wall. Then they used a battering ram to knock the wall down.

nsb@2Samuel:20:16 @ A wise woman shouted from the top of the wall: »Hear this! Listen to me! I must talk to Joab! Tell him to come here!«

nsb@2Samuel:20:21 @ »That is not so. A man from the mountains of Ephraim by the name of Sheba son of Bichri has rebelled against King David. Give him to me and I will withdraw from the city.« The woman told Joab: »Watch, for his head will be thrown to you from the wall.«

nsb@2Samuel:20:22 @ She went to the people of the city with her plan. They cut off Sheba’s head and threw it over the wall to Joab. He blew the trumpet as a signal for his men to leave the city. They went back home. Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.

nsb@2Samuel:21:1 @ There was a famine for three successive years during David’s reign. David asked Jehovah for advice about it. Jehovah answered: »It is because of Saul and his family. They are guilty of murder because they killed the people of Gibeon.«

nsb@2Samuel:21:2 @ The Gibeonites were not a part of Israel but were left over from the Amorites. The Israelites swore to spare them. Saul, in his eagerness, tried to destroy them for Israel and Judah. The king called the Gibeonites.

nsb@2Samuel:21:4 @ The Gibeonites responded: »Our quarrel with Saul and his family cannot be settled with silver or gold. We do not want to kill any Israelite.« What do you want me to do?« David asked.

nsb@2Samuel:21:6 @ »Hand over seven of his male descendants. We will hang them before Jehovah at Gibeah, the hometown of Saul, Jehovah’s chosen king.« The king responded: »I will hand them over to you.«

nsb@2Samuel:21:7 @ David made a promise to Jonathan with Jehovah as his witness. He spared Jonathan’s son Mephibosheth, the grandson of Saul.

nsb@2Samuel:21:9 @ He turned them over to the Gibeonites. They hanged all seven of them on the mountain near the place where Jehovah was worshiped. This happened right at the beginning of the barley harvest.

nsb@2Samuel:21:11 @ David found out what Saul’s wife Rizpah did. So he went to the leaders of Jabesh to get the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan.

nsb@2Samuel:21:12 @ David took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the citizens of Jabesh Gilead. They had stolen them from the public square of Beth Shean, where the Philistines hung them the day they killed Saul at Gilboa.

nsb@2Samuel:21:13 @ David brought the bones of Saul and Jonathan. His men also gathered the bones of those who had been executed.

nsb@2Samuel:21:14 @ Then they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the land of Benjamin, at Zela, in the tomb of Saul’s father Kish. They did everything the king ordered. After that God answered the prayers for the land.

nsb@2Samuel:21:15 @ Once again there was a battle between the Philistines and Israel. David and his men went to fight the Philistines. David became exhausted.

nsb@2Samuel:21:18 @ After this there was a battle with the Philistines at Gob. Sibbecai from Hushah killed a giant named Saph a descendant of Rapha.

nsb@2Samuel:21:20 @ There was another war, this time in Gath. One of the enemy soldiers was a descendant of the Rephaim. He was as big as a giant and had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot.

nsb@2Samuel:21:22 @ These four were descendants of Haraphah from Gath. David and his men killed them.

nsb@2Samuel:22:1 @ David sang this song to Jehovah when Jehovah rescued him from all his enemies, especially from Saul.

nsb@2Samuel:22:7 @ »I called to Jehovah in my trouble. I called to my God for help. In his temple he heard my voice. He listened to my cry for help.

nsb@2Samuel:22:14 @ »Jehovah thundered from heaven. The Most High made his voice heard.

nsb@2Samuel:22:51 @ »You give glorious victories to your anointed king. Your faithful love for David and for his descendants will never end.«

nsb@2Samuel:23:2 @ »The Spirit of Jehovah spoke through me. His word was on my tongue.

nsb@2Samuel:23:8 @ These are the names of David’s warriors: Ishbosheth son of Hachmon was the leader of the Three Warriors. In one battle, he killed eight hundred men with his spear.

nsb@2Samuel:23:10 @ Eleazar was the exception. He killed Philistines until his hand was cramped. He could not let go of his sword. When Eleazar finished, all the Israelite troops had to do was come back and take the enemies’ weapons and armor. Jehovah gave Israel a great victory that day.

nsb@2Samuel:23:17 @ David said: »Jehovah, I could never drink this! It would be like drinking the blood of these men who risked their lives!« So he refused to drink it. Those were the brave deeds of the three famous soldiers.

nsb@2Samuel:23:18 @ Joab’s brother Abishai led the Thirty Warriors. In one battle he killed three hundred men with his spear. He was as famous as the Three Warriors.

nsb@2Samuel:23:22 @ Benaiah never became one of the Three Warriors. He was just as famous as they were and certainly just as famous as the rest of the Thirty Warriors. David made him the leader of his bodyguard.

nsb@2Samuel:24:3 @ Joab answered reluctantly: »Your Majesty, may Jehovah your God make the people of Israel a hundred times more numerous than they are now. May you live to see him do it. But why does Your Majesty want to do this?«

nsb@2Samuel:24:4 @ The king made Joab and his officers obey his order. They left his presence and went out to count the people of Israel.

nsb@2Samuel:24:11 @ When David got up in the morning, Jehovah spoke his word to the prophet Gad, David’s seer.

nsb@2Samuel:24:12 @ »Go tell David: ‘This is what Jehovah says: »I offer you three choices. Choose the one you want me to do to you.« ’«

nsb@2Samuel:24:16 @ When the angel stretched out his arm to destroy Jerusalem, Jehovah changed his mind about the disaster. »Enough!« He said to the angel who was destroying the people. »Put down your weapon.« The angel of Jehovah was at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

nsb@2Samuel:24:20 @ Araunah saw David and his soldiers coming toward him. He went over to David and bowed down low,

nsb@2Samuel:24:21 @ and said: »My lord the king! Why have you come to see me?« David answered: »I came to buy your threshing place. I have to build Jehovah an altar here, so this disease will stop killing the people.«

nsb@2Samuel:24:23 @ Araunah gave this to the king and said: »May Jehovah your God accept you.«

nsb@1Kings:1:2 @ His servants said to him: »Your Majesty let us find a young woman to stay with you and take care of you. She will lie close to you and keep you warm.«

nsb@1Kings:1:5 @ Adonijah, son of Haggith, was very handsome. His mother gave birth to him after Maacah had Absalom. Adonijah boasted about himself, saying, »I will be king.« He got a chariot and horses and fifty men to run ahead of him.

nsb@1Kings:1:6 @ His father never confronted him by asking: »Why have you done this?«

nsb@1Kings:1:7 @ But Adonijah had discussed his actions with Joab and with the priest Abiathar, so they supported him.

nsb@1Kings:1:9 @ Adonijah sacrificed sheep, cattle, and fattened calves at Zoheleth Rock near En Rogel. He invited all his brothers, the king's other sons, all the men of Judah, and the king's officials.

nsb@1Kings:1:10 @ But he did not invite the prophet Nathan, Benaiah, the special guard or his brother Solomon.

nsb@1Kings:1:15 @ So Bathsheba went to see the king in his bedroom. He was very old, and Abishag, the young woman from Shunem, was taking care of him.

nsb@1Kings:1:25 @ »This very day he has gone and offered a sacrifice of many bulls, sheep, and fattened calves. He invited all your sons, Joab the commander of your army, and Abiathar the priest, and right now they are feasting with him and shouting: ‘Long live King Adonijah!’

nsb@1Kings:1:27 @ »Did Your Majesty approve all this and not even tell your officials who is to succeed you as king?«

nsb@1Kings:1:37 @ »Jehovah has been with Your Majesty. May he also be with Solomon and make his reign even more prosperous than yours.«

nsb@1Kings:1:41 @ Adonijah and all his guests heard this while they were eating. When Joab heard the sound of the horn, he asked: »Why all this noise in the city?«

nsb@1Kings:1:43 @ »Not at all,« Jonathan answered Adonijah. »His Majesty King David has made Solomon king!«

nsb@1Kings:1:47 @ »Even the royal officials have come to congratulate His Majesty King David, saying: May your God make Solomon's name more famous than yours and his reign greater than your reign. The king himself bowed down on his bed

nsb@1Kings:1:52 @ Solomon replied: »If he is loyal, not even a hair on his head will be touched. If he is not, he will die.«

nsb@1Kings:2:1 @ David was about to die. He called his son Solomon and gave him his last instructions:

nsb@1Kings:2:3 @ »Do what Jehovah your God orders you to do. Obey all his laws and commands, as written in the Law of Moses. That way wherever you go you may prosper in everything you do.

nsb@1Kings:2:5 @ »Remember what Joab did to me by killing the two commanders of Israel's armies, Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether. You remember how he murdered them in time of peace. This was revenge for deaths they had caused in time of war. He killed innocent men. I bear the responsibility for what he did. I suffer the consequences.

nsb@1Kings:2:12 @ Solomon succeeded his father David as king. His royal power was firmly established.

nsb@1Kings:2:13 @ Adonijah, son of Haggith, went to Bathsheba, Solomon's mother. »Is this a friendly visit?« She asked. »Yes,« he answered.

nsb@1Kings:2:19 @ So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to talk to him for Adonijah. The king stood up to meet her and bowed down to her. He took his place on the king's throne and she sat at his right hand on the seat made ready for the king's mother.

nsb@1Kings:2:22 @ Then King Solomon answered: »Why are you requesting me to give Abishag the Shunammite to Adonijah? Take the kingdom for him in addition, for he is my older brother, and Abiathar the priest and Joab, the son of Zeruiah, are on his side.«

nsb@1Kings:2:23 @ King Solomon took an oath by Jehovah, saying: »May God's punishment be on me if Adonijah does not give payment for these words with his life.

nsb@1Kings:2:24 @ »Now by the living God Jehovah who has given me my throne from David my father. He made me one of a line of kings. He gave me his word. Adonijah will be put to death this day.«

nsb@1Kings:2:26 @ The king spoke to Abiathar the priest: »Go to your fields at Anathoth. You deserve death. But I will not put you to death now, because you carried the Ark of Jehovah God before David my father. You were with him in all his troubles.«

nsb@1Kings:2:28 @ Joab received news of this for Joab had been one of Adonijah's supporters. He was not on Absalom's side. Then Joab went in flight to the Tent of Jehovah and put his hands on the corners of the altar.

nsb@1Kings:2:29 @ When King Solomon heard about this he sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada to kill him.

nsb@1Kings:2:31 @ The king said: »Do as he said. Kill him there and bury him in the earth. This will remove the guilt of his senseless murders from my father’s family and me.

nsb@1Kings:2:33 @ »Jehovah will repay him for the blood Joab shed. The blood will fall on Joab and on his descendants as long as they live. Jehovah will always give success to David's descendants who sit on his throne.«

nsb@1Kings:2:34 @ So Benaiah went to the Tent of Jehovah’s presence and killed Joab. He was buried at his home in the wilderness.

nsb@1Kings:2:39 @ Three years later, however, two of Shimei's slaves ran away to the king of Gath, Achish son of Maacah. When Shimei heard that they were in Gath,

nsb@1Kings:2:40 @ he saddled his donkey and went to King Achish in Gath, to find his slaves. He found them and brought them back home.

nsb@1Kings:3:1 @ Solomon made an alliance with the king of Egypt by marrying his daughter. He brought her to live in David's City until he finished building his palace, the Temple, and the wall around Jerusalem.

nsb@1Kings:3:3 @ Solomon loved Jehovah. He followed the instructions of his father David. He also slaughtered animals and offered them as sacrifices on different altars.

nsb@1Kings:3:6 @ Solomon answered: »You always showed great love for my father David, your servant. He was good, loyal, and honest in his relation with you. You have continued to show him your great and constant love by giving him a son who today rules in his place.

nsb@1Kings:3:9 @ ‘Give me the wisdom I need to rule your people with justice. Help me know the difference between good and evil. Otherwise, how would I ever be able to rule this great people of yours?«

nsb@1Kings:3:10 @ Jehovah was pleased that Solomon asked for this.

nsb@1Kings:3:15 @ Solomon woke up and was aware that God had spoken to him in the dream. Then he went to Jerusalem and stood in front of Jehovah’s Ark of the Covenant. He offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to Jehovah. Then he gave a feast for all his officials.

nsb@1Kings:3:17 @ One of them said: »Your Majesty, this woman and I live in the same house. I gave birth to a baby boy at home while she was there.

nsb@1Kings:4:2 @ His high officials were as follows: The priest: Azariah son of Zadok,

nsb@1Kings:4:3 @ the court secretaries: Elihoreph and Ahijah, sons of Shisha In charge of the records: Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud.

nsb@1Kings:4:6 @ In charge of the palace servants: Ahishar In charge of the forced labor: Adoniram son of Abda.

nsb@1Kings:4:7 @ Solomon appointed twelve men as district governors in Israel. They provided food from their districts for the king and his household, each man being responsible for one month out of the year.

nsb@1Kings:4:21 @ Solomon's kingdom included all the nations from the Euphrates River to Philistia and the Egyptian border. They paid him taxes and were subject to him all his life.

nsb@1Kings:4:26 @ Solomon had forty thousand stalls for his chariot horses and twelve thousand cavalry horses.

nsb@1Kings:4:27 @ His twelve governors supplied the food King Solomon needed for all who ate in the palace. They always supplied everything needed, each one in the month assigned.

nsb@1Kings:4:28 @ Each governor also supplied his share of barley and straw as needed for the chariot horses and the work animals.

nsb@1Kings:4:31 @ He was the wisest of all men. He was wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, Calcol, and Darda, and the sons of Mahol. His fame spread throughout all the neighboring countries.

nsb@1Kings:4:34 @ Kings all over the world heard of his wisdom and sent people to listen to the Wisdom of Solomon.

nsb@1Kings:5:1 @ When King Hiram of Tyre heard that Solomon succeeded his father as king he sent ambassadors to Solomon. He had always been a friend of David's.

nsb@1Kings:5:2 @ Solomon sent this message to Hiram:

nsb@1Kings:5:3 @ »You know my father David could not build a Temple for the worship of Jehovah due to the constant wars he had to fight. There were enemies in countries all around him. First Jehovah had to give him victory over all his enemies.

nsb@1Kings:5:11 @ Solomon provided Hiram with one hundred thousand bushels of wheat and one hundred and ten thousand gallons of pure olive oil every year to feed his men.

nsb@1Kings:5:12 @ Jehovah kept his promise and gave Solomon wisdom. There was peace between Hiram and Solomon for they made a treaty with each other.

nsb@1Kings:6:13 @ »I will live among my people Israel in this Temple that you are building. I will never abandon them.«

nsb@1Kings:6:20 @ This inner room was thirty feet long, thirty feet wide, and thirty feet high, all covered with pure gold. The altar was covered with cedar panels.

nsb@1Kings:7:7 @ He made the hall for the throne. It was a place where he could sit on his throne and judge. The hall was covered with cedar from floor to ceiling.

nsb@1Kings:7:8 @ His own private quarters were in a different location than the hall containing the throne. They were similar in design. Solomon also built private quarters like this for his wife, Pharaoh's daughter.

nsb@1Kings:7:14 @ Huram was knowledgeable and skilled in making things out of copper. He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali. His father had been from Tyre. He went to do all of King Solomon’s work.

nsb@1Kings:7:37 @ This is how the carts were made. They were all alike, having the same size and shape.

nsb@1Kings:7:46 @ He made them of liquid metal in the lowland district of the Jordan River. This was at the river crossing at Adama, between Succoth and Zarethan.

nsb@1Kings:7:51 @ All the work King Solomon did on Jehovah’s Temple was finished. He brought the holy things that belonged to his father David: the silver, gold, and utensils and put them in the storerooms of Jehovah’s Temple.

nsb@1Kings:8:20 @ »Now Jehovah has kept his promise. I have succeeded my father as king of Israel. And I have built the Temple for the worship of Jehovah the God of Israel.

nsb@1Kings:8:22 @ In the presence of the people Solomon stood in front of the altar. He raised his arms

nsb@1Kings:8:25 @ »Jehovah, God of Israel, I pray that you will also keep the other promise you made to my father when you told him there would always be one of his descendants ruling as king of Israel, provided they obeyed you as carefully as he did.

nsb@1Kings:8:27 @ »Can you, O God, really live on earth? Not even heaven or the heaven of heavens is large enough to hold you. How can this Temple I have built be large enough?

nsb@1Kings:8:29 @ »Watch over this Temple day and night. For this is the place where you have chosen to be worshiped. Hear me when I face this Temple and pray.

nsb@1Kings:8:31 @ »When a person is accused of wronging another and is brought to your altar in this Temple to take an oath that he is innocent,

nsb@1Kings:8:33 @ »When your people Israel have sinned against you their enemies defeat them. They can turn to you and come to this Temple, humbly praying to you for forgiveness.

nsb@1Kings:8:35 @ »When you hold back the rain because your people have sinned against you. And when they repent in this Temple, humbly praying to you,

nsb@1Kings:8:36 @ listen to them in heaven. Forgive the sins of the king and of the people of Israel, and teach them to do what is right. Then, O Jehovah, send rain on this land of yours, which you gave to your people as a permanent possession.

nsb@1Kings:8:38 @ listen to their prayers. If any of your people Israel, out of heartfelt sorrow, stretch out their hands in prayer toward this Temple,

nsb@1Kings:8:41 @ »When a foreigner who lives in a distant land hears of your fame and of the great things you have done for your people and comes to worship you and to pray at this Temple,

nsb@1Kings:8:42 @ »For they will have news of your great name and your strong hand and your out-stretched arm. When he comes to pray in this house:

nsb@1Kings:8:43 @ »Listen to him and give him his desire. Let all the peoples of the earth know about your name. Let them worship you as your people Israel, and that they may see that this house which I have built is truly named by your name.

nsb@1Kings:8:54 @ When Solomon finished praying this prayer for mercy to Jehovah, he stood in front of Jehovah’s altar, where he had been kneeling with his hands stretched out toward heaven.

nsb@1Kings:8:56 @ "THANKS TO JEHOVAH! He has given his people Israel rest, as he has promised. None of the good promises he made through his servant Moses has failed to come true.

nsb@1Kings:8:58 @ »May he bend our hearts toward him. Then we will follow him and obey his commands, laws, and rules, which he commanded our ancestors to obey.

nsb@1Kings:8:59 @ »May these words I have prayed to Jehovah be near Jehovah our God day and night. Then he will give his people Israel and me justice every day as it is needed.

nsb@1Kings:8:60 @ »In this way all the people of the earth may know that Jehovah is God and there is no other god.

nsb@1Kings:8:61 @ »Let your hearts be committed to Jehovah our God. Then you will live by his laws and keep his commands as you have today.«

nsb@1Kings:8:66 @ On the eighth day he dismissed the people. They blessed the king and went to their tents. They rejoiced with cheerful hearts for all the blessings Jehovah had given his servant David and his people Israel.

nsb@1Kings:9:3 @ Jehovah said: »I have heard your prayers and your supplication you made. I have made this house holy. I put my name there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there at all times.

nsb@1Kings:9:7 @ »I will have Israel cut off from the land I gave them. I will abandon this house even though I have made it holy for myself. I will put you out of my sight. Israel will be a public example, and a word of shame among all peoples.

nsb@1Kings:9:8 @ This house will become a mass of broken walls. Everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder at it and make whistling sounds. They will say: Why has Jehovah done this to this land and to this house?

nsb@1Kings:9:9 @ »‘The answer will be: ‘Because they turned away from Jehovah their God. The one who took their fathers out of the land of Egypt. They took for themselves other gods and gave them worship and became their servants: that is why Jehovah has sent this evil on them.’«

nsb@1Kings:9:13 @ He said: »What sort of towns are these you have given me, my brother?« So they were named the land of Cabul, to this day.

nsb@1Kings:9:16 @ The king of Egypt attacked Gezer and captured it. They killed its inhabitants and set fire to the city. He gave it as a wedding present to his daughter when she married Solomon.

nsb@1Kings:9:17 @ Solomon rebuilt it. Using his forced labor, Solomon also rebuilt Lower Beth Horon,

nsb@1Kings:9:19 @ the cities where his supplies were kept, the cities for his horses and chariots, and everything else he wanted to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and elsewhere in his kingdom.

nsb@1Kings:9:20 @ Solomon used the descendants of the people of Canaan whom the Israelites had not killed when they took possession of their land as his forced labor. These included Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

nsb@1Kings:9:22 @ Solomon did not make slaves of Israelites. They served as his soldiers, officers, commanders, chariot captains, and cavalry.

nsb@1Kings:9:24 @ Solomon filled in the land on the east side of the city, after his wife, the daughter of the king of Egypt, had moved from David's City to the palace Solomon built for her.

nsb@1Kings:9:26 @ King Solomon also built a fleet of ships at Eziongeber. This is near Elath on the shore of the Gulf of Aqaba, in the land of Edom.

nsb@1Kings:9:27 @ King Hiram sent experienced sailors from his fleet to serve with Solomon's men.

nsb@1Kings:10:5 @ the food of his table, the seating of his servants, the attendance of his waiters and their attire, his cupbearers, and his stairway by which he went up to the house of Jehovah, she was overwhelmed.

nsb@1Kings:10:12 @ With the sandalwood the king made supports for Jehovah’s Temple and the royal palace, and lyres and harps for the singers. Never again was sandalwood like this imported into Israel, nor has any been seen there to this day.

nsb@1Kings:10:13 @ King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all her desire. Whatever she requested in addition to what he gave her freely from the impulse of his heart. She and her servants went back to her country.

nsb@1Kings:10:15 @ This was in addition to what came to him from the business of the traders, and from all the kings of the Arabians, and from the rulers of the country.

nsb@1Kings:10:22 @ For the king had Tarshish-ships at sea with the ships of Hiram. Once every three years the Tarshish-ships came with gold and silver and ivory and apes and peacocks.

nsb@1Kings:10:24 @ They came from all over the earth to see Solomon and to listen to his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.

nsb@1Kings:11:2 @ Jehovah warned the children of Israel about these nations. He said: »You are not to take wives from them and they are not to take wives from you. They will certainly turn your hearts to go after their gods.« Solomon loved his wives anyway.

nsb@1Kings:11:3 @ He had seven hundred wives, daughters of kings, and three hundred other wives. His wives influenced his heart to turn away.

nsb@1Kings:11:4 @ When Solomon was old he allowed his heart to be turned away to other gods by his wives. His heart was no longer true to Jehovah his God as the heart of his father David had been.

nsb@1Kings:11:6 @ Solomon did evil in the eyes of Jehovah. He did not walk in Jehovah’s ways with all his heart as David his father did.

nsb@1Kings:11:8 @ He did likewise for all his strange wives, who made offerings with burning of perfumes to their gods.

nsb@1Kings:11:9 @ Jehovah was angry with Solomon. This is because his heart turned away from Jehovah, the God of Israel, who had twice come to him in a vision.

nsb@1Kings:11:10 @ Jehovah had given him orders about this very thing that he was not to go after other gods. But he did not obey the orders of Jehovah.

nsb@1Kings:11:11 @ So Jehovah said to Solomon: »Because you have done this, and have not kept the agreement and laws I gave you, I will take the kingdom away from you by force and will give it to your servant.

nsb@1Kings:11:17 @ Hadad was a young boy at the time. He and some of his father's Edomite servants fled to Egypt.

nsb@1Kings:11:19 @ Pharaoh approved of Hadad. So he gave Hadad his sister-in-law, the sister of Queen Tahpenes, to be Hadad's wife.

nsb@1Kings:11:22 @ »Why?« The king asked. »Have I failed to give you something? Is that why you want to go back home?« Hadad answered: »Just let me go.« He went back to his country. As king of Edom, Hadad was an evil, bitter enemy of Israel.

nsb@1Kings:11:23 @ God also caused Rezon son of Eliada to turn against Solomon. Rezon had fled from his master, King Hadadezer of Zobah,

nsb@1Kings:11:24 @ and had become the leader of a gang of outlaws. This happened after David defeated Hadadezer and slaughtered his Syrian allies. Rezon and his gang lived in Damascus, where his followers made him king of Syria.

nsb@1Kings:11:25 @ He was trouble to Israel all through the days of Solomon. This is the damage Hadad did: he was cruel to Israel while he was ruler over Edom.

nsb@1Kings:11:27 @ This is how he rebelled: Solomon was building the Millo and making good the damaged parts of the town of his father David.

nsb@1Kings:11:30 @ Ahijah took his new robe in his hands and tore it into twelve pieces.

nsb@1Kings:11:31 @ He said to Jeroboam: »Take ten of the parts, for this is what Jehovah said: ‘I will take the kingdom away from Solomon by force. I will give ten tribes to you.

nsb@1Kings:11:32 @ »‘But one tribe will be his because of my servant David, and because of Jerusalem. Out of the tribes of Israel he will have the town I have made mine.

nsb@1Kings:11:33 @ »‘I am going to do this because Solomon has rejected me and has worshiped foreign gods. Astarte, the goddess of Sidon; Chemosh, the god of Moab; and Molech, the god of Ammon. Solomon disobeyed me. He has done wrong! He has not obeyed my laws and commands as his father David did.

nsb@1Kings:11:34 @ »‘I will not take the entire kingdom away from Solomon. I will keep him in power as long as he lives. This I will do for the sake of my servant David, whom I chose and who obeyed my laws and commands.

nsb@1Kings:11:40 @ For this reason Solomon tried to kill Jeroboam. Jeroboam escaped to King Shishak of Egypt and stayed there until Solomon's death.

nsb@1Kings:11:41 @ Everything else that Solomon did, his career, and his wisdom, are all recorded in The History of Solomon.

nsb@1Kings:11:43 @ He died and was buried in David's City. His son Rehoboam succeeded him as king.

nsb@1Kings:12:2 @ Jeroboam son of Nebat went to Egypt to escape from King Solomon. When he heard this news he returned from Egypt.

nsb@1Kings:12:6 @ Then King Rehoboam consulted elders who had been with Solomon his father when he was living. He said: »In your opinion, what answer am I to give to these people?«

nsb@1Kings:12:7 @ They said to him: »If you will be a servant to this people today, caring for them and giving them a favorable answer, then they will be your servants for ever.«

nsb@1Kings:12:8 @ But he paid no attention to the opinion of the elders. He went to the young men who were his advisors:

nsb@1Kings:12:9 @ »What is your opinion?« He asked: »What answer are we to give to this people? They want me to lighten the burdens placed on them by my father.«

nsb@1Kings:12:10 @ His young advisors said: »This is the answer to give to the people who came to you saying: ‘Your father put a hard yoke on us; will you make it less?’ Say to them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father's body.’

nsb@1Kings:12:15 @ The king did not listen to the people. This came about by Jehovah’s purpose, so that what he had said by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam, son of Nebat, might be fulfilled.

nsb@1Kings:12:18 @ Then King Rehoboam sent Adoniram, the overseer of the forced work. He was stoned to death by all Israel. King Rehoboam went quickly and got into his carriage to escape to Jerusalem.

nsb@1Kings:12:19 @ Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day.

nsb@1Kings:12:21 @ When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he called together one hundred and eighty thousand of the best soldiers from the tribes of Judah and Benjamin. He wanted to go to war and restore his control over the northern tribes of Israel.

nsb@1Kings:12:23 @ »Give this message to Rehoboam and to all the people of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin:

nsb@1Kings:12:30 @ This became Israel’s sin, worshiping the golden calves. The people went as far as Dan to worship the one calf.

nsb@1Kings:12:33 @ He went to his altar in Bethel to burn an offering on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, the festival he invented for the Israelites.

nsb@1Kings:13:2 @ He actually spoke against the altar: »O altar, altar, this is what Jehovah says: ‘A child, whose name will be Josiah, will be born to the family of David. He will slaughter the priests serving at the pagan altars who offer sacrifices on you. He will burn human bones on you.’«

nsb@1Kings:13:3 @ The prophet went on to say: »This altar will fall apart. The ashes on it will be scattered. Then you will know that Jehovah has spoken through me.«

nsb@1Kings:13:4 @ King Jeroboam heard this. He pointed his outstretched hand at him and ordered: »Seize that man!« At once the king's arm became paralyzed so that he could not pull it back.

nsb@1Kings:13:5 @ The altar suddenly fell apart and the ashes spilled to the ground. This is what the prophet predicted in the name of Jehovah.

nsb@1Kings:13:11 @ There was an old prophet living in Bethel. His sons told him what the man of God had done that day in Bethel. They reported what he said to the king.

nsb@1Kings:13:12 @ Their father asked: »Which way did he go?« His sons saw which way the man of God went.

nsb@1Kings:13:13 @ So the prophet said to his sons: »Saddle the donkey for me.« So they saddled the donkey and he mounted it.

nsb@1Kings:13:14 @ He rode after the man of God. He found him sitting under an oak tree. »Are you the man of God who came from Judah?» He asked. « I am.« Came his reply.

nsb@1Kings:13:16 @ But the man of God from Judah replied: »I may not go back with you or go into your house. I will not take food or a drink of water with you in this place.

nsb@1Kings:13:19 @ So he went back with him, and had a meal in his house and a drink of water.

nsb@1Kings:13:22 @ but have come back, and have taken food and water in this place where he said you were to take no food or water; your dead body will not be put to rest with your fathers.’«

nsb@1Kings:13:24 @ He went on his way. A lion met him on the road and jumped him and killed him. His dead body was stretched in the road with the donkey by its side. The lion was by the body.

nsb@1Kings:13:27 @ He said to his sons: »Saddle my donkey for me.« They did so.

nsb@1Kings:13:30 @ He buried it in his own family grave. He and his sons mourned over it, saying: »Oh my brother, my brother!«

nsb@1Kings:13:31 @ After the burial the prophet said to his sons: »When I die, bury me in this grave and lay my body next to his.

nsb@1Kings:13:33 @ King Jeroboam of Israel still did not turn from his evil ways. He continued to choose priests from ordinary families to serve at the altars he had built. He ordained as priest anyone who wanted to be one.

nsb@1Kings:13:34 @ This was the sin of the house of Jeroboam. It brought about its ruin and total destruction from the face of the earth.

nsb@1Kings:14:2 @ Jeroboam said to his wife: »Disguise yourself so that no one will recognize you, and go to Shiloh. That is where the prophet Ahijah lives. He is the one who said I would be king of Israel.

nsb@1Kings:14:7 @ »Go and tell Jeroboam that this is what Jehovah, the God of Israel, says to him: I chose you from among the people and made you the ruler of my people Israel.

nsb@1Kings:14:15 @ »Jehovah will punish Israel, and she will shake like a reed shaking in a stream. He will uproot the people of Israel from this good land that he gave to their ancestors. He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they have aroused his anger by making idols of the goddess Asherah.

nsb@1Kings:14:18 @ The people of Israel mourned for him and buried him. This is as Jehovah said through his servant, the prophet Ahijah.

nsb@1Kings:14:19 @ Everything else that King Jeroboam did, the wars he fought and how he ruled, are all recorded in The History of the Kings of Israel.

nsb@1Kings:14:20 @ Jeroboam ruled as king for twenty-two years. He died and was buried. His son Nadab succeeded him as king.

nsb@1Kings:14:22 @ The people of Judah sinned against Jehovah. They did more to arouse his anger against them than all their ancestors had done.

nsb@1Kings:14:25 @ King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem in the fifth year of Rehoboam’s reign.

nsb@1Kings:14:29 @ The rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and everything he did are recorded in the book of the History of the Kings of Judah.

nsb@1Kings:14:31 @ Rehoboam went to rest with his fathers, and was buried with them in the city of David. His mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonite woman. And Abijam his son became king in his place.

nsb@1Kings:15:2 @ He ruled three years as king in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Maacah, the daughter of Abishalom.

nsb@1Kings:15:3 @ He was not completely loyal to Jehovah his God as his great-grandfather David had been. He committed the same sins as his father did.

nsb@1Kings:15:4 @ For David's sake Jehovah his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem by raising Abijam a son to rule after him to keep Jerusalem secure.

nsb@1Kings:15:5 @ Jehovah did this because David had done what was right in Jehovah’s eyes. He obeyed his commandments, except in the case of Uriah the Hittite.

nsb@1Kings:15:7 @ Everything else that Abijah did is recorded in The History of the Kings of Judah.

nsb@1Kings:15:8 @ Then Abijam went to rest with his fathers, and they buried him in the earth in the town of David. Asa his son became king in his place.

nsb@1Kings:15:10 @ He was king for forty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Maacah, the daughter of Abishalom.

nsb@1Kings:15:11 @ Asa did what was right in the eyes of Jehovah, as David his father did.

nsb@1Kings:15:12 @ He banished perverted persons from the land. He removed those used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods. He removed all the idols his fathers had made.

nsb@1Kings:15:13 @ He would not let Maacah his mother be queen, because she had made a disgusting image for Asherah. Asa had the obscene image cut down and burned by the Kidron Stream.

nsb@1Kings:15:14 @ The high places were not taken away. Nevertheless Asa’s heart was true to Jehovah all his life.

nsb@1Kings:15:15 @ He brought into the Temple of Jehovah all the things he and his father made holy, silver and gold and vessels.

nsb@1Kings:15:18 @ Then Asa took all the silver and gold still stored in Jehovah’s Temple, and in the king's house, and delivered them, in the care of his servants, to Ben-hadad, son of Tabrimmon, son of Rezon, king of Aram, at Damascus. He said:

nsb@1Kings:15:20 @ Ben-hadad agreed to King Asa’s request and sent his armies to attack Israel. He conquered Ijon and Dan and Abel-beth-maacah, and all Chinneroth as far as the land of Naphtali.

nsb@1Kings:15:21 @ When Baasha heard this he stopped fortifying Ramah and withdrew to Tirzah.

nsb@1Kings:15:23 @ The rest of the events of Asa’s reign, the extent of his power and the names of the cities he built are all recorded in the Book of the History of the Kings of Judah. His feet became diseased, as he grew old.

nsb@1Kings:15:24 @ So Asa went to rest with his fathers and was buried in the town of David his father. Jehoshaphat his son became king in his place.

nsb@1Kings:15:26 @ He did evil in the eyes of Jehovah. He copied the evil ways of his father. He made Israel sin so much that they provoked Jehovah to anger with their idols.

nsb@1Kings:15:28 @ In the third year of the rule of Asa, king of Judah, Baasha put him to death, and became king in his place.

nsb@1Kings:15:29 @ When he became king, he sent destruction on all the offspring of Jeroboam. He killed every person of the family of Jeroboam according to the word of Jehovah as stated by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite.

nsb@1Kings:15:30 @ This happened because Jeroboam aroused the anger of Jehovah, the God of Israel, by the sins he committed and that he caused Israel to commit.

nsb@1Kings:15:31 @ Everything else that Nadab did is recorded in The History of the Kings of Israel.

nsb@1Kings:16:1 @ Jehovah spoke to the prophet Jehu son of Hanani and gave him this message to give to Baasha:

nsb@1Kings:16:5 @ The rest of the acts of Baasha, what he did, and his power, are recorded in the book of the History of the Kings of Israel.

nsb@1Kings:16:6 @ Baasha rested with his fathers. He was buried at Tirzah; and Elah his son became king in his place.

nsb@1Kings:16:7 @ The word of Jehovah came to the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani. This was a warning against Baasha and his family because of all the evil he did in the eyes of Jehovah. He made Jehovah angry by the work of his hands, because he was like the family of Jeroboam, and because he killed him.

nsb@1Kings:16:9 @ His servant Zimri, commander of half his war-carriages made plans to kill him. He was in Tirzah, drinking hard at the house of Arza, controller of the king's house in Tirzah.

nsb@1Kings:16:11 @ Immediately after he became king and took his place on the throne of the kingdom, he put to death all the family of Baasha. Not one male child survived.

nsb@1Kings:16:13 @ This happened because of the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, and because of all the sins they led Israel to commit. It aroused the anger of Jehovah the God of Israel.

nsb@1Kings:16:14 @ The rest of the acts of Elah are recorded in the book of the History of the Kings of Israel.

nsb@1Kings:16:19 @ This happened because of his sins against Jehovah. Like his predecessor Jeroboam, he displeased Jehovah by his own sins and by leading Israel into sin.

nsb@1Kings:16:20 @ Everything else that Zimri did, including the account of his conspiracy, is recorded in The History of the Kings of Israel.

nsb@1Kings:16:28 @ Omri rested with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria. Ahab his son became king in his place.

nsb@1Kings:16:31 @ It was as if he copied the evil ways of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat. He took as his wife Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of Zidon, and became a servant and worshipper of Baal.

nsb@1Kings:16:34 @ In his days Hiel rebuilt Jericho. He laid its foundation at the price of Abiram, his oldest son, and he put its doors in place at the price of his youngest son Segub. This was according to the word of Jehovah spoken through Joshua, the son of Nun.

nsb@1Kings:17:14 @ »For this is the word of Jehovah, the God of Israel: ‘Your supply of meal will not come to an end. The bottle will never be without oil, till the day when Jehovah sends rain on the earth.’«

nsb@1Kings:17:16 @ The store of meal did not come to an end. The bottle was never without oil. This was just as Jehovah said through the mouth of Elijah.

nsb@1Kings:17:17 @ After this the son of the woman of the house became ill. He was so ill that there was no breath in him.

nsb@1Kings:17:19 @ He said: »Give your son to me.« And lifting him out of her arms, he took him up to his room and put him down on his bed.

nsb@1Kings:17:21 @ Stretching himself out on the child three times, he made his prayer to Jehovah. He said: »O Jehovah my God, be pleased to let this child's life come back to him again.«

nsb@1Kings:17:23 @ Elijah took the child down from his room into the house and gave him to his mother. »See, your son is alive.« He said.

nsb@1Kings:18:7 @ While Obadiah was on his way, he came face to face with Elijah. Seeing who it was, he went down on his face and said: »Is it you, my lord Elijah?«

nsb@1Kings:18:36 @ Then at the time of the offering, Elijah the prophet came near and said, »Jehovah, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be seen this day that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things by your order.

nsb@1Kings:18:37 @ »Give me an answer, O Jehovah. Give me an answer so that this people may see that you are God. That you have made their hearts come back again.«

nsb@1Kings:18:42 @ So Ahab went up to have food and drink. Elijah went up to the top of Carmel. He bowed down to the earth and put his face between his knees.

nsb@1Kings:18:43 @ He told his servant to look in the direction of the sea. After he looked the servant said: »There is nothing.« Elijah said: »Go again seven times.« So he went seven times.

nsb@1Kings:18:45 @ After a very little time, the heaven became black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Ahab went in his carriage to Jezreel.

nsb@1Kings:19:1 @ King Ahab told his wife Jezebel everything Elijah had done. He told how he put all the prophets of Baal to death.

nsb@1Kings:19:2 @ She sent a message to Elijah: »May the gods strike me dead if by this time tomorrow I do not do the same thing to you that you did to the prophets.«

nsb@1Kings:19:3 @ Elijah was afraid and fled for his life. He took his servant and went to Beersheba in Judah. He left the servant there.

nsb@1Kings:19:6 @ Looking up, he saw near his head a cake cooked on coals and a bottle of water. So he ate food and drink water and went to sleep again.

nsb@1Kings:19:13 @ Elijah heard it and went out covering his face with his robe. He stood by the entrance of the cave. He heard a voice saying: »What are you doing here, Elijah?«

nsb@1Kings:19:18 @ »I will leave seven thousand people alive in Israel; all those who are loyal to me and have not bowed to Baal or kissed his idol.«

nsb@1Kings:19:19 @ Elijah left there and found Elisha plowing with a team of bulls. There were eleven teams ahead of him. He was plowing with the last one. Elijah took off his cloak and put it on Elisha.

nsb@1Kings:19:20 @ Elisha then left his bulls and ran after Elijah. He said: »Let me kiss my father and mother good-bye and then I will go with you.« Elijah answered, »All right, go back. I am not stopping you!«

nsb@1Kings:19:21 @ Then Elisha went to his team of bulls, killed them, and cooked the meat. He used the yoke as fuel for the fire. He gave the meat to the people, and they ate it. Then he followed Elijah as his helper.

nsb@1Kings:20:1 @ King Benhadad of Syria mustered his entire army, accompanied by thirty-two other kings with their horses and chariots, he laid siege on Samaria, and launched attacks against it.

nsb@1Kings:20:6 @ Now I will send my officers to search your palace and the homes of your officials. They will take everything they consider valuable. They will be there about this time tomorrow.

nsb@1Kings:20:7 @ Then the king of Israel sent for all the responsible men of the land, and said: »Now will you take note and see the evil purpose of this man. He sent for my wives and my children, my silver and my gold, and I did not keep them back.«

nsb@1Kings:20:9 @ So he said to the representatives of Benhadad: »Say to my lord the king: ‘All the orders you sent the first time I will do. But I will not do this thing.« The representatives went back with this answer.

nsb@1Kings:20:11 @ The king of Israel responded: »It is said, let not the one who puts on his armor boast like the one who takes it off.«

nsb@1Kings:20:12 @ Benhadad heard this when he and his allies were drinking in their tents. He told his officers to get ready. So they got prepared to attack the city.

nsb@1Kings:20:13 @ A prophet approached King Ahab of Israel and said: »This is what Jehovah says: ‘Have you seen this large army? I will hand it over to you today. Then you will know that I am Jehovah.’«

nsb@1Kings:20:14 @ Ahab asked: »How will this be done?« The prophet answered: »This is what Jehovah says: ‘By using the young officers of the district governors.« »Who will start the battle?« Ahab asked. »You will,« the prophet answered.

nsb@1Kings:20:20 @ Each one killed his opponent. The Syrians went in flight with Israel after them. Benhadad the king of Aram got away safely on a horse with his horsemen.

nsb@1Kings:20:24 @ »This is what you must do: take the kings from their positions, and put captains in their places.

nsb@1Kings:20:28 @ A man of God came to the king of Israel. He said: »Jehovah says, ‘Because the Aramaeans have said, »Jehovah is a god of the hills and not of the valleys; I will give all this great army into your hands, and you will see that I am Jehovah.« ’«

nsb@1Kings:20:31 @ His servants said to him: »It is said that the kings of Israel are full of mercy: let us then put on haircloth, and cords on our heads, and go to the king of Israel. Maybe he will give you your life.«

nsb@1Kings:20:33 @ Now the men took it as a sign, and were quick to pick up on his word. They said: »Benhadad is your brother.« Then he said: »Go and get him.« So Ben-hadad came out to him and he made him get up into his carriage.

nsb@1Kings:20:34 @ Benhadad said: »The towns my father took from your father I will give back. You may name streets for yourself in Damascus as my father did in Samaria.« As for me, at the price of this agreement you will let me go. So he made an agreement with him and let him go.

nsb@1Kings:20:35 @ A man of the sons of the prophets said to his neighbors by the word of Jehovah: »Give me a wound.« But the man would not.

nsb@1Kings:20:38 @ So the prophet went away, and pulling his headband over his eyes to keep his face covered. He took his place by the road waiting for the king.

nsb@1Kings:20:39 @ When the king went by he cried out to him: »Your servant went out into the fight. A man came to me. He brought a man to me and said: ‘guard this man. Do not let him get away. Your life is the price of his life or you will have to give a talent of silver in payment.’

nsb@1Kings:20:40 @ »But while your servant was turning this way and that, he was gone. Then the king of Israel said to him: ‘You are responsible; you have given the decision against yourself.’«

nsb@1Kings:20:41 @ He quickly took the headband from his eyes. The king of Israel saw that he was one of the prophets.

nsb@1Kings:20:42 @ He said to him: »These are the words of Jehovah: ‘Because you have let go from your hands the man whom I had put to the curse, your life will be taken for his life, and your people for his people.’«

nsb@1Kings:20:43 @ Then the king of Israel went back to his house, bitter and angry, he went to Samaria.

nsb@1Kings:21:4 @ Ahab returned to his house bitter and angry because Naboth the Jezreelite said to him: »I will not give you the heritage of my fathers.« Stretching himself on the bed with his face turned away, he would not eat.

nsb@1Kings:21:5 @ Jezebel his wife came to him and asked: »Why is your spirit so bitter that you have no desire for food?«

nsb@1Kings:21:7 @ Then his wife Jezebel said: »Are you now the ruler of Israel? Get up, eat and be happy. I will give you the garden of Naboth the Jezreelite.«

nsb@1Kings:21:8 @ So she sent a letter in Ahab's name, stamped with his stamp, to the elders and nobles who were in authority with Naboth.

nsb@1Kings:21:11 @ So the elders and nobles in authority in his town did as Jezebel said in the letter she sent them.

nsb@1Kings:21:16 @ When he heard that Naboth was dead, Ahab went down to the garden of Naboth the Jezreelite to take it as his heritage.

nsb@1Kings:21:18 @ »Go to Ahab, king of Israel, in Samaria. He is in the garden of Naboth the Jezreelite. He went there to take it as his heritage.«

nsb@1Kings:21:19 @ »Say to him: ‘Jehovah says: »Have you put a man to death and taken his heritage?« ’« »Then say: ‘Jehovah says: »Your blood will become the drink of dogs! You will go to the same place where the dogs drink the blood of Naboth.« ’«

nsb@1Kings:21:22 @ »Your family will become like the family of King Jeroboam son of Nebat and like the family of King Baasha son of Ahijah. This is because you have stirred up my anger by leading Israel into sin.

nsb@1Kings:21:25 @ No one else devoted himself so completely to doing wrong in Jehovah’s sight as Ahab all at the urging of his wife Jezebel.

nsb@1Kings:21:27 @ Elijah finished speaking. Ahab tore his clothes and took them off. He dressed in sackcloth. He refused food and slept in the sackcloth. He was gloomy and depressed.

nsb@1Kings:21:29 @ »Have you noticed how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Since he has done this, I will not bring disaster on him during his lifetime. It will be during his son's lifetime that I will bring disaster on Ahab's family.«

nsb@1Kings:22:3 @ Ahab asked his officials: »Why have we not done anything to get back Ramoth in Gilead from the king of Syria? It is ours!«

nsb@1Kings:22:19 @ Micaiah continued: »Now listen to what Jehovah says! I saw Jehovah sitting on his throne in heaven, with all his angels standing beside him.«

nsb@1Kings:22:23 @ Micaiah concluded: This is what has happened. Jehovah made these prophets of yours lie to you. He has decreed that you will meet with disaster!

nsb@1Kings:22:24 @ The prophet Zedekiah went to Micaiah and slapped his face. He asked: »Since when did Jehovah’s spirit leave me and speak to you?«

nsb@1Kings:22:27 @ »‘Tell them: ‘It is the king's order that this man is to be put in prison and given prison food till I come again in peace.’«

nsb@1Kings:22:28 @ Micaiah said: If you come back at all in peace, Jehovah has not sent his word by me.

nsb@1Kings:22:30 @ The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat: »I will change my clothing, so that I do not seem to be the king. Then I will go into the fight. You put on your royal robes. So the king of Israel changed his dress and went into the battle.«

nsb@1Kings:22:31 @ Now the king of Aram had given orders to the thirty-two captains of his war-carriages, saying: »Make no attack on small or great, but only on the king of Israel.«

nsb@1Kings:22:32 @ So when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said: »Truly, this is the king of Israel.« They turned against him and surrounded him. Jehoshaphat gave a cry.

nsb@1Kings:22:34 @ A stray arrow wounded the king of Israel a wound where his breastplate was joined to his clothing. He said to the chariot driver: »Go to the side. Take me away from the fight for I am badly wounded.«

nsb@1Kings:22:35 @ The fight grew more violent as the day went on. The king was propped up in his chariot facing the Syrians. The floor of the chariot was covered with the blood from his wound. By evening he died.

nsb@1Kings:22:36 @ About sundown a cry went up from all parts of the army, saying: »Let every man go back to his town and his country, for the king is dead.«

nsb@1Kings:22:38 @ The chariot was washed at the pool of Samaria the bathing-place of the loose women. Dogs were drinking his blood there, as Jehovah said.

nsb@1Kings:22:39 @ Everything else that King Ahab did, including an account of his palace decorated with ivory and of all the cities he built, is recorded in The History of the Kings of Israel.

nsb@1Kings:22:42 @ He was thirty-five years old. He ruled in Jerusalem for twenty-five years. His mother was Azubah, the daughter of Shilhi.

nsb@1Kings:22:43 @ Like his father Asa before him, he did what was right in the sight of Jehovah. However the places of worship were not destroyed, and the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.

nsb@1Kings:22:45 @ Everything else that Jehoshaphat did, all his bravery and his battles, are recorded in The History of the Kings of Judah.

nsb@1Kings:22:46 @ He banished all the male and female prostitutes serving at the pagan altars who were still left from the days of his father Asa.

nsb@1Kings:22:49 @ King Ahaziah of Israel offered to let his men sail with Jehoshaphat's men. Jehoshaphat refused the offer.

nsb@1Kings:22:50 @ Jehoshaphat died and was buried in the royal tombs in David's City. His son Jehoram succeeded him as king.

nsb@1Kings:22:52 @ He sinned against Jehovah, following the wicked example of his father Ahab, his mother Jezebel, and King Jeroboam, who had led Israel into sin.

nsb@1Kings:22:53 @ He worshiped and served Baal. Like his father before him, he aroused the anger of Jehovah, the God of Israel.

nsb@2Kings:1:2 @ King Ahaziah of Israel fell off the balcony on the roof of his palace in Samaria and was seriously injured. He sent some messengers and said to them: »Go to consult Baalzebub, the god of the Philistine city of Ekron, to find out whether or not I will recover from this.«

nsb@2Kings:1:10 @ »If I am a man of God,« Elijah answered: »Let fire come down from heaven and kill you and your men!« At once fire came down and killed the officer and his men.

nsb@2Kings:1:12 @ »Since I am a man of God,« Elijah answered: »let fire come down from heaven and kill you and your men!« At once the fire of God came down and killed the officer and his men.

nsb@2Kings:1:13 @ Once more the king sent an officer with fifty men. He went up the hill, fell on his knees in front of Elijah, and pleaded: »Man of God, be merciful to my men and me. Spare our lives!

nsb@2Kings:1:16 @ Elijah spoke to the king: »This is what Jehovah says: ‘Because you sent messengers to consult Baalzebub, the god of Ekron acting as if there were no god in Israel to consult, you will not get well. You will die!«

nsb@2Kings:1:17 @ Ahaziah died, just as Jehovah spoke through Elijah. Ahaziah had no sons, so his brother Joram succeeded him as king. This happened in the second year of the reign of Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah.

nsb@2Kings:1:18 @ Everything else that King Ahaziah did is recorded in The History of the Kings of Israel.

nsb@2Kings:2:8 @ Then Elijah took off his cloak. He rolled it up and struck the water with it. The water divided, and he and Elisha crossed to the other side on dry ground.

nsb@2Kings:2:12 @ Elisha saw it and cried out to Elijah: »My father, my father! Mighty defender of Israel! You are gone!« He never saw Elijah again. In grief Elisha tore his cloak in two.

nsb@2Kings:2:19 @ Men from Jericho went to Elisha and said: »You may know that this is a fine city but the water is bad and causes miscarriages.«

nsb@2Kings:2:21 @ and he went to the spring, threw the salt in the water, and said: »This is what Jehovah says: ‘I make this water pure. It will not cause any more deaths or miscarriages.’«

nsb@2Kings:3:2 @ Though he was not as bad as his father or his mother Jezebel; he sinned against Jehovah. He removed the image his father had made for the worship of Baal.

nsb@2Kings:3:6 @ At once King Joram mobilized his troops and left Samaria.

nsb@2Kings:3:7 @ He sent this message to King Jehoshaphat of Judah: »The king of Moab rebelled against me. Will you join me to war against Moab?« King Jehoshaphat replied: »I will. I am on your side. My men and horses are at your disposal.

nsb@2Kings:3:15 @ »Now bring me a musician. As the musician played his harp, the power of Jehovah came on Elisha.«

nsb@2Kings:3:16 @ He said: »This is what Jehovah says: ‘Dig ditches all over this dry streambed.

nsb@2Kings:3:17 @ »You will not see any rain or wind. This streambed will be filled with water and you and your animals will have plenty to drink.«

nsb@2Kings:3:18 @ Elisha continued: »This is an easy thing for Jehovah to do. He will also give you victory over the Moabites.

nsb@2Kings:3:26 @ The king of Moab realized that he was losing the battle. So he took seven hundred swordsmen with him and tried to force his way through the enemy lines and escape to the king of Edom. However they failed.

nsb@2Kings:3:27 @ He took his oldest son, who was to succeed him as king, and offered him on the city wall as a sacrifice to the god of Moab. The Israelites were terrified and so they drew back from the city and returned to their own country.

nsb@2Kings:4:8 @ Elisha went to Shunem, where a rich woman lived. She invited him to a meal. From that time on every time he went to Shunem he would have his meals at her house.

nsb@2Kings:4:9 @ She said to her husband: »I know that this man who comes here often is a holy man.

nsb@2Kings:4:11 @ One day Elisha returned to Shunem and went to his room to rest.

nsb@2Kings:4:12 @ He told his servant Gehazi to call the woman. When she came,

nsb@2Kings:4:16 @ Elisha said to her: »By this time next year you will hold a son in your arms.« »Please do not lie to me. You are a man of God!« She said.

nsb@2Kings:4:18 @ Years later at harvest time, the boy went out one morning to join his father, who was in the field with the harvest workers.

nsb@2Kings:4:19 @ Suddenly he cried out to his father: »My head hurts! My head hurts!« »Carry the boy to his mother,« the father said to a servant.

nsb@2Kings:4:20 @ The servant carried the boy back to his mother. She held him in her lap until noon. Then the boy died.

nsb@2Kings:4:25 @ She left for Mount Carmel, where Elisha was. Elisha saw her coming while she was still far off. He said to his servant Gehazi: »Look, there comes the woman from Shunem!

nsb@2Kings:4:27 @ but when she came to Elisha, she bowed down before him and took hold of his feet. Gehazi was about to push her away. Elisha said: »Do not bother her. You can see she is deeply distressed. Jehovah has not told me a thing about it.«

nsb@2Kings:4:34 @ Then he lay down on the boy, placing his mouth, eyes, and hands on the boy's mouth, eyes, and hands. As he lay stretched out over the boy, the boy's body started to get warm.

nsb@2Kings:4:35 @ Elisha got up and walked around the room. He returned and again stretched himself over the boy. The boy sneezed seven times and then opened his eyes.

nsb@2Kings:4:38 @ When there was a famine throughout the land, Elisha returned to Gilgal. He was teaching a group of prophets. He told his servant to put a big pot on the fire and make some stew for them.

nsb@2Kings:4:42 @ A man came from Baal Shalishah. He brought Elisha twenty loaves of bread made from the first barley harvested that year and some freshly cut heads of grain. Elisha told his servant to feed the group of prophets with this.

nsb@2Kings:4:43 @ He asked: »How am I to feed a hundred hungry men with this?« Elisha replied: »Give it to them to eat, because Jehovah says that they will eat and still have some left over.« (Matthew strkjv@14:20)

nsb@2Kings:5:3 @ She said to her mistress: »I wish my master could go to the prophet who lives in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy.«

nsb@2Kings:5:4 @ Naaman heard of this and told the king what the girl said.

nsb@2Kings:5:5 @ The king said: »Go to the king of Israel and take this letter to him.« Naaman departed. He took thirty thousand pieces of silver, six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of fine clothes.

nsb@2Kings:5:6 @ The letter stated: »This letter will introduce my officer Naaman. I want you to cure him of his leprosy.«

nsb@2Kings:5:7 @ The king of Israel read the letter and tore his clothes and said: »How can the king of Syria expect me to cure this man? Does he think that I am God, with the power of life and death? It is plain that he is trying to start a quarrel with me!«

nsb@2Kings:5:9 @ Naaman went with his horses and chariots and stopped at the entrance to Elisha's house.

nsb@2Kings:5:10 @ Elisha sent a servant to tell him to wash himself seven times in the Jordan River. He would then be completely cured of his disease.

nsb@2Kings:5:11 @ Naaman left in a rage, saying: »I thought he would at least come out to me, pray to Jehovah his God, wave his hand over the diseased spot, and cure me!

nsb@2Kings:5:13 @ His servants went up to him and said: »If the prophet had told you to do something difficult, you would have done it. Now why can you not just wash yourself, as he said, and be cured?«

nsb@2Kings:5:14 @ So Naaman went to the Jordan River and dipped himself in it seven times, as Elisha had instructed. He was completely cured. His flesh became firm and healthy like that of a child.

nsb@2Kings:5:15 @ Naaman returned to Elisha with all his men and said: »Now I realize there is no god but the God of Israel. Please accept a gift from me.«

nsb@2Kings:5:21 @ He ran after Naaman. When Naaman saw a man running after him, he got down from his chariot to meet him, and asked: »What is wrong?«

nsb@2Kings:5:23 @ »Please take six thousand pieces of silver,« Naaman replied. He tied the silver in two bags and gave them and two changes of fine clothes to two of his servants, and sent them on ahead of Gehazi.

nsb@2Kings:5:26 @ Elisha said: »Was I there in spirit when the man got out of his chariot to meet you? This is no time to accept money and clothes, olive groves and vineyards, sheep and cattle, or servants!

nsb@2Kings:5:27 @ »Naaman's leprosy will come upon you. You and your descendants will have it from generation to generation!« When Gehazi left, he had the disease. His skin was as white as snow.

nsb@2Kings:6:5 @ One of them was cutting down a tree when suddenly his ax head fell in the water. It was a borrowed ax, he exclaimed to Elisha. »What will I do?«

nsb@2Kings:6:7 @ »Pick it up,« he ordered. The man put his hand in the water and picked it up.

nsb@2Kings:6:8 @ The king of Syria was at war with Israel. He consulted his officers and chose a place to set up camp.

nsb@2Kings:6:10 @ The king of Israel warned the people who lived there. So they were on guard. This happened several times.

nsb@2Kings:6:11 @ The Syrian king was greatly upset over this. He called in his officers and asked them: »Show me who of us is on the side of the king of Israel?«

nsb@2Kings:6:12 @ One of his servants said: »No one is, Your Majesty. The prophet Elisha tells the king of Israel what you say even in the privacy of your own bedroom.«

nsb@2Kings:6:17 @ Elisha prayed: »O Jehovah, open his eyes that he may see.« Jehovah answered his prayer. Elisha's servant looked up and saw the hillside covered with horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.

nsb@2Kings:6:18 @ The Syrians attacked! Elisha prayed, »O Jehovah, strike these men blind!« Jehovah answered his prayer and struck them blind.

nsb@2Kings:6:19 @ Elisha said to the Syrians: »This is not the way or the town you are looking for. Follow me, and I will lead you to the man you are after.« He led them to Samaria.

nsb@2Kings:6:20 @ When they entered the city, Elisha prayed: »Open their eyes and let them see.« Jehovah answered his prayer. He restored their sight, and they saw that they were inside Samaria.

nsb@2Kings:6:24 @ After that King Benhadad of Syria led his entire army against Israel in siege of the city of Samaria.

nsb@2Kings:6:30 @ Hearing this, the king tore his clothes. The people close to the wall could see that he was wearing sackcloth under his clothes.

nsb@2Kings:6:33 @ While Elisha was still talking the king arrived and said: »Jehovah brought this trouble on us! Why should I wait any longer for him to do something?«

nsb@2Kings:7:1 @ Elisha answered: »Hear the word of Jehovah: ‘By this time tomorrow you will be able to buy in Samaria ten pounds of the best wheat or twenty pounds of barley for one piece of silver.’«

nsb@2Kings:7:2 @ The personal attendant of the king said to Elisha: »If Jehovah could make floodgates in the heavens could this happen?« Elisha replied: »You will see it with your own eyes. But you will not eat from it.«

nsb@2Kings:7:9 @ They said to each other: »We should not do this! We have good news. We should not keep it to ourselves. If we wait until morning to tell it we will be punished. Let us go tell the king's officers!«

nsb@2Kings:7:12 @ The king got out of bed even though it was night. He said to his officials: »I will tell you what the Syrians are planning! They know about the famine here, so they have left their camp to go and hide in the countryside. They think that we will leave the city to find food. Then they will take us alive and capture the city.«

nsb@2Kings:7:13 @ One of his servants said: »The people in the city are doomed like those who have already died. Send some men with five of the horses that are left and find out what happened.«

nsb@2Kings:7:17 @ The king of Israel put the city gate under the command of the officer who was his personal attendant. The officer was trampled to death there by the people and died, as Elisha had predicted when the king went to see him.

nsb@2Kings:7:19 @ The king’s attendant answered: »If Jehovah could open floodgates in the heavens could this happen?« Elisha had replied: »You shall see with your own eyes. But you will not eat from it.«

nsb@2Kings:8:2 @ She followed his instructions and left with her family to live in Philistia for the seven years.

nsb@2Kings:8:6 @ She responded to the king’s question by confirming Gehazi’s story. The king called an official and told him to give back to her everything that was hers. This included the value of all the crops that her fields produced during the seven years she was away.

nsb@2Kings:8:8 @ He said to Hazael, one of his officials: »Take a gift to the prophet and ask him to consult Jehovah to find out whether or not I am going to get well.«

nsb@2Kings:8:9 @ Hazael loaded forty camels with all kinds of the finest products of Damascus and went to Elisha. Hazael said: »Your servant, King Benhadad sent me to ask if he will recover from his sickness.«

nsb@2Kings:8:18 @ His wife was Ahab's daughter. Like the family of Ahab he followed the evil ways of the kings of Israel. He sinned against Jehovah.

nsb@2Kings:8:19 @ Jehovah was not willing to destroy Judah. He promised his servant David that his descendants would always continue to rule.

nsb@2Kings:8:21 @ Jehoram and his chariots went to Zair. The Edomite army surrounded them. He and his chariot commanders managed to break out and escape. His soldiers scattered to their homes.

nsb@2Kings:8:23 @ Everything Jehoram did is recorded in The History of the Kings of Judah.

nsb@2Kings:8:24 @ Jehoram died and was buried in the royal tombs in David's City. His son Ahaziah succeeded him as king.

nsb@2Kings:8:25 @ Ahaziah son of Jehoram became king of Judah. This was in the twelfth year of the reign of Joram son of Ahab as king of Israel.

nsb@2Kings:8:26 @ He was twenty-two years old. He ruled in Jerusalem for one year. His mother was Athaliah, the daughter of King Ahab and granddaughter of King Omri of Israel.

nsb@2Kings:8:29 @ He returned to the city of Jezreel to recover from his wounds. Ahaziah went there to visit him.

nsb@2Kings:9:1 @ Elisha the prophet called one of the young prophets and said to him: »Prepare to go to Ramoth in Gilead. Take this jar of olive oil with you.

nsb@2Kings:9:2 @ »When you get there look for Jehu, the son of Jehoshaphat and grandson of Nimshi. Take him to a private room away from his companions.

nsb@2Kings:9:3 @ »Pour this olive oil on his head, and say: ‘Jehovah anoints you king of Israel. Then leave there as fast as you can.’«

nsb@2Kings:9:8 @ »‘The entire house of Ahab will perish. I will get rid of every male in his family, young and old alike.

nsb@2Kings:9:9 @ »‘I will treat his family as I did the families of King Jeroboam son of Nebat and of King Baasha son of Ahijah.

nsb@2Kings:9:10 @ »‘Jezebel will not be buried. Dogs in the territory of Jezreel will eat her body.’« After saying this, the young prophet opened the door and fled.

nsb@2Kings:9:11 @ Jehu went back to his fellow officers. They asked him: »Is everything all right? What did this mad fellow want with you?« Jehu answered: »You know what he wanted.«

nsb@2Kings:9:15 @ King Joram went back to Jezreel to recuperate from the wounds he received from the Aramaeans when he fought against Hazael, king of Aram. Jehu said: »If this is your purpose let no one get away to give news of it in Jezreel.«

nsb@2Kings:9:16 @ So Jehu got into his carriage and went to Jezreel. Joram was ill in bed there and Ahaziah, king of Judah came to see him.

nsb@2Kings:9:17 @ The watchman on the tower in Jezreel saw Jehu and his company coming. He said: »I see a company of people.« Joram said: »Send out a horseman to them and let him ask: ‘Do you come in peace?’«

nsb@2Kings:9:21 @ Joram said: »Get ready.« They prepared his chariot and Joram, king of Israel, with Ahaziah, king of Judah, went out in their chariots to meet Jehu. They came face to face with him at the field of Naboth the Jezreelite.

nsb@2Kings:9:23 @ Then Joram turned his horses and fled. He said to Ahaziah: »Broken faith, O Ahaziah!«

nsb@2Kings:9:24 @ Jehu drew his bow with his full strength and sent an arrow, wounding Joram between the arms. The arrow came out at his heart, and he went down on his face in his chariot.

nsb@2Kings:9:25 @ Jehu said to Bidkar, his captain: »Pick him up, and put him in the field of Naboth the Jezreelite. I remember when you and I were riding together after Ahab, his father. Jehovah offered this prophesy against him.

nsb@2Kings:9:26 @ »Even as I saw the blood of Naboth and his sons yesterday, ‘I will pay you back in this field,’ declares Jehovah. Now take him and throw him into the field as Jehovah predicted.«

nsb@2Kings:9:27 @ When King Ahaziah of Judah saw this, he fled on the road leading to Beth Haggan. Jehu pursued him and ordered: »Shoot him down in his chariot.« They shot him at Gur Pass, near Ibleam. Ahaziah continued to flee until he got to Megiddo, where he died.

nsb@2Kings:9:28 @ His servants brought him in a chariot to Jerusalem. They buried him in a tomb with his ancestors in the City of David.

nsb@2Kings:9:31 @ As Jehu entered the town, she said: »Have you come in peace, you Zimri, who killed his master?«

nsb@2Kings:9:34 @ He came in and ate and drank. He said: »Now see to this cursed woman. Bury her body in the earth, for she is a king's daughter.«

nsb@2Kings:9:36 @ So they came back and told him about it. He said: »This is what Jehovah said by his servant Elijah the Tishbite: ‘In the heritage of Jezreel the flesh of Jezebel will become food for dogs.

nsb@2Kings:9:37 @ »‘The dead body of Jezebel will be like waste dropped on the face of the earth in the heritage of Jezreel. They will not be able to say: »This is Jezebel.« ’«

nsb@2Kings:10:2 @ »You are in charge of the king's descendants, and you have at your disposal chariots, horses, weapons, and fortified cities. As soon as you receive this letter,

nsb@2Kings:10:5 @ So the officer in charge of the palace and the official in charge of the city, together with the leading citizens and the guardians, sent this message to Jehu: »We are your servants, and we are ready to do anything you say. But we will not make anyone king. Do whatever you think best.«

nsb@2Kings:10:6 @ Jehu wrote them another letter: »If you are with me and are ready to follow my orders, bring the heads of King Ahab's descendants to me at Jezreel by this time tomorrow.« The seventy descendants of King Ahab were under the care and were being brought up by the leading citizens of Samaria.

nsb@2Kings:10:10 @ »You may be certain that nothing Jehovah said about the family of Ahab will be without effect. Jehovah has done what he said by his servant Elijah.«

nsb@2Kings:10:11 @ Jehu put to death all the rest of the seed of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his relations and his near friends and his priests, till there were no more of them.

nsb@2Kings:10:15 @ When he left there he met Jehonadab, the son of Rechab. He greeted him and said to him: »Is your heart true to mine, as mine is to yours?« Jehonadab in answer said: »It is.« Jehu said: »If it is give me your hand.« He gave him his hand and he made him come up into his chariot.

nsb@2Kings:10:16 @ He said: »Come with me and see how I am on fire with zeal for Jehovah’s cause.« So he made him go with him in his chariot.

nsb@2Kings:10:18 @ Jehu assembled all the people and said to them: »Ahab was Baal's servant in a small way, but Jehu will be his servant on a great scale.

nsb@2Kings:10:19 @ »Now send for all the prophets of Baal, all his servants and priests, to come to me. Let no one stay away for I have a great offering to make to Baal. Anyone who is not present will be put to death.« Jehu did this with deceit. It was his purpose to destroy the servants of Baal.

nsb@2Kings:10:24 @ They went in to make offerings and burned offerings. Jehu put eighty men outside. He told them: »If any man whom I give into your hands escapes, he who lets him go will forfeit his own life for that life.«

nsb@2Kings:10:27 @ The altar of Baal was pulled down and the house of Baal was broken up and made an unclean place, as it is to this day.

nsb@2Kings:10:31 @ But Jehu did not take care to keep the law of Jehovah with all his heart. He did not keep himself from the sin that Jeroboam did and made Israel do.

nsb@2Kings:10:33 @ east of the Jordan, as far south as the town of Aroer on the Arnon River. This included the territories of Gilead and Bashan, where the tribes of Gad, Reuben, and East Manasseh lived.

nsb@2Kings:10:34 @ Everything else that Jehu did, including his brave deeds, is recorded in The History of the Kings of Israel.

nsb@2Kings:10:35 @ He died and was buried in Samaria. His son Jehoahaz succeeded him as king.

nsb@2Kings:11:2 @ Only Ahaziah's son Jehoash escaped. He was about to be killed with the others, but was rescued by his aunt Jehosheba, who was King Jehoram's daughter and Ahaziah's half sister. She hid him and his nurse in a bedroom in the Temple.

nsb@2Kings:11:3 @ Jehosheba took care of the boy and kept him hidden in the Temple for six years. During this time Athaliah ruled as queen.

nsb@2Kings:11:12 @ Then Jehoiada led Joash out and placed the crown on his head. He gave him a copy of the laws governing kingship. Then Jehoash was anointed and proclaimed king. The people clapped their hands and shouted: »Long live the king!«

nsb@2Kings:11:19 @ Jehoiada the priest, the officers, the royal bodyguard, and the palace guards escorted the king from the Temple to the palace. All the people followed them. Jehoash entered by the Guard Gate and took his place on the royal throne.

nsb@2Kings:12:1 @ Jehoash became king of Judah. It was the seventh year of Jehu's rule over Israel. Jehoash ruled for forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba.

nsb@2Kings:12:2 @ Jehoash did what was right in the eyes of Jehovah all his days, because he was guided by the teaching of Jehoiada the priest.

nsb@2Kings:12:4 @ Jehoash said to the priests: »All the money of the holy things, which comes into the house of Jehovah, the amount fixed for every man's payment, and all the money given by any man freely by motivation of his heart,

nsb@2Kings:12:5 @ »Let the priests take, every man from his friends and neighbors, to make good what is damaged in the Temple, wherever it is to be seen.«

nsb@2Kings:12:8 @ The priests agreed to this and also agreed not to make the repairs in the Temple.

nsb@2Kings:12:18 @ King Jehoash of Judah took all the offerings that his predecessors Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah had dedicated to Jehovah, added to them his own offerings and all the gold in the treasuries of the Temple and the palace, and sent them all as a gift to King Hazael, who then led his army away from Jerusalem.

nsb@2Kings:12:19 @ The rest of the history of Jehoash is recorded in The Annals of the Kings of Judah.

nsb@2Kings:12:20 @ His own officials plotted against him and killed him at the House of the Mound on the road that goes down to Silla.

nsb@2Kings:12:21 @ Jehoash's officials Jozacar, son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad, son of Shomer, executed him. They buried him with his ancestors in the City of David. His son Amaziah succeeded him as king.

nsb@2Kings:13:6 @ Still they did not give up the sin of Jeroboam. This he made Israel do and they continued. There was an image of Asherah in Samaria.

nsb@2Kings:13:7 @ Out of all his army, Jehoahaz had only fifty horsemen and ten carriages and ten thousand footmen. The king of Aram had given them up to destruction, crushing them like dust.

nsb@2Kings:13:8 @ Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all he did, and his great power are recorded in the Book of the History of the Kings of Israel.

nsb@2Kings:13:9 @ Jehoahaz went to rest with his fathers. He was buried at Samaria. Joash his son became king.

nsb@2Kings:13:12 @ Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash, and all he did, and the force with which he went to war against Amaziah, king of Judah, are recorded in the Book of the History of the Kings of Israel.

nsb@2Kings:13:13 @ Joash went to rest with his fathers. They buried Jehoash in Samaria with the kings of Israel. Jeroboam took his place as king.

nsb@2Kings:13:14 @ Elisha became ill with the disease that caused his death. Jehoash, king of Israel, came down to him, and weeping over him said: »My father, my father, the chariot of Israel and its horsemen!«

nsb@2Kings:13:16 @ He said to the king of Israel: »Put your hand on the bow« So he put his hand on it; and Elisha put his hands on the king's hands.

nsb@2Kings:13:21 @ While they were burying a dead man they saw a band coming. They put the man quickly into the place where Elisha's body was. The dead man’s body touched Elisha's bones. The man came to life again and got up on his feet.

nsb@2Kings:13:23 @ But Jehovah was kind to them and had pity on them, caring for them, because of his agreement with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He would not put them to destruction or send them away from his presence until now.

nsb@2Kings:13:24 @ Then Hazael king of Aram died. Benhadad his son became king in his place.

nsb@2Kings:13:25 @ Jehoash son of Jehoahaz captured again from Benhadad, the son of Hazael, the towns he had taken from Jehoahaz, his father, in war. Three times Jehoash defeated him and recovered the towns of Israel.

nsb@2Kings:14:2 @ Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became king. He ruled in Jerusalem for twenty-nine years. His mother's name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem.

nsb@2Kings:14:3 @ He did what was right in the eyes of Jehovah. Though not like David his forefather; he did as Joash his father had done.

nsb@2Kings:14:5 @ As soon as he firmly established the kingdom he immediately put to death those servants who had taken the life of his father, the king.

nsb@2Kings:14:6 @ But he did not put their children to death. The orders of Jehovah recorded in the book of the law of Moses say: »The fathers are not to be put to death for the children, or the children for their fathers; but each man shall be put to death for his own sin.«

nsb@2Kings:14:7 @ He put to the sword twelve thousand men of Edom in the Valley of Salt. He captured Sela in war, and named it Joktheel, as it is to this day.

nsb@2Kings:14:9 @ Jehoash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying: »The thorn-tree in Lebanon sent to the cedar in Lebanon, saying: ‘Give your daughter to my son for a wife.’ A beast from the woodland in Lebanon went by, crushing the thorn under his feet.

nsb@2Kings:14:15 @ The rest of the acts of Jehoash, and his power, and how he went to war with Amaziah, king of Judah, are recorded in the Book of the History of the Kings of Israel.

nsb@2Kings:14:16 @ Jehoash went to rest with his fathers. They buried him in Samaria with the kings of Israel. Jeroboam his son became king in his place.

nsb@2Kings:14:18 @ The rest of the acts of Amaziah are recorded in the book of the History of the Kings of Judah.

nsb@2Kings:14:19 @ Conspiracy was plotted against him in Jerusalem. He went in flight to Lachish, but they sent after him to Lachish and killed him there.

nsb@2Kings:14:20 @ They took his body on horseback and buried him with his fathers in Jerusalem, the town of David.

nsb@2Kings:14:21 @ Then all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.

nsb@2Kings:14:23 @ Jeroboam son of Joash king of Israel became king in Samaria. He ruled for forty-one years. This was in the fifteenth year of the rule of Amaziah son of Joash the king of Judah.

nsb@2Kings:14:25 @ He got back the old limits of Israel from the way into Hamath to the sea of the Arabah. This was what Jehovah said by his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet of Gathhepher.

nsb@2Kings:14:28 @ Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all he did, and his power, and how he went to war with Damascus, causing the wrath of Jehovah to be turned away from Israel, are recorded in the book of the History of the Kings of Israel.

nsb@2Kings:14:29 @ Jeroboam went to rest with his fathers. He was buried with the kings of Israel. Zechariah his son became king in his place.

nsb@2Kings:15:1 @ Azariah son of Amaziah became king of Judah. This was in the twenty-seventh year of the rule of Jeroboam, king of Israel.

nsb@2Kings:15:2 @ Azariah was sixteen years old when he became king. He ruled in Jerusalem for fifty-two years. His mother's name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.

nsb@2Kings:15:3 @ He did what was right in the eyes of Jehovah, as his father Amaziah had done.

nsb@2Kings:15:5 @ Jehovah sent disease on the king and he became a leper. To the day of his death he lived separately in his private house. Jotham his son was over his house, judging the people of the land.

nsb@2Kings:15:6 @ Now the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all he did are recorded in the Book of the History of the Kings of Judah.

nsb@2Kings:15:7 @ Azariah slept with his fathers. He was buried with his fathers in the town of David. Jotham his son became king in his place.

nsb@2Kings:15:9 @ He did evil in the eyes of Jehovah, as his father had done, not turning away from the sin which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do.

nsb@2Kings:15:10 @ Shallum, the son of Jabesh conspired against him. He attacked him in Ibleam and killed him. Shallum became king in his place.

nsb@2Kings:15:11 @ Now the rest of the acts of Zechariah are recorded in the Book of the History of the Kings of Israel.

nsb@2Kings:15:14 @ Then Menahem son of Gadi went up from Tirzah to Samaria. He attacked Shallum, son of Jabesh, in Samaria. He killed him and made himself king in his place.

nsb@2Kings:15:15 @ Now the rest of the acts of Shallum, and the conspiracy he committed, are recorded in the Book of the History of the Kings of Israel.

nsb@2Kings:15:21 @ The rest of the acts of Menahem are recorded in the Book of the History of the Kings of Israel.

nsb@2Kings:15:22 @ Menahem slept with his fathers. Pekahiah his son became king in his place.

nsb@2Kings:15:25 @ Pekah son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him. He attacked him in the king's great house in Samaria. Fifty men of Gilead were with him. He killed the king and became king in his place.

nsb@2Kings:15:26 @ Now the rest of the acts of Pekahiah are recorded in the Book of the History of the Kings of Israel.

nsb@2Kings:15:30 @ Hoshea son of Elah conspired against Pekah son of Remaliah. He attacked him and killed him. He became king in his place. It was in the twentieth year of Jotham son of Uzziah king of Judah.

nsb@2Kings:15:31 @ The rest of the acts of Pekah are recorded in the Book of the History of the Kings of Israel.

nsb@2Kings:15:33 @ He was twenty-five years old when he became king. He ruled sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jerusha daughter of Zadok.

nsb@2Kings:15:34 @ Jotham did what was right in the eyes of Jehovah, as his father Uzziah had done.

nsb@2Kings:15:36 @ The rest of the acts of Jotham are recorded in the Book of the History of the Kings of Judah.

nsb@2Kings:15:38 @ Jotham died and was buried in the royal tombs in David's City. His son Ahaz succeeded him as king.

nsb@2Kings:16:2 @ Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king. He ruled sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do what was right in the eyes of Jehovah his God, as David his father did.

nsb@2Kings:16:3 @ He walked in ways of the kings of Israel. He even offered his son to walk through the fire. He copied the disgusting ways of the nations. Jehovah sent the people of the nations out of the land before the children of Israel.

nsb@2Kings:16:6 @ Then the king of Edom got Elath back for Edom, and sent the Jews out of Elath. The Edomites returned to Elath where they are living to this day.

nsb@2Kings:16:9 @ The king of Assyria, in answer to his request, went up against Damascus and captured it. He took its people away as prisoners to Kir, and put Rezin to death.

nsb@2Kings:16:13 @ He made his burned offering and his meal offering and his drink offering there, draining out the blood of his peace offerings on the altar.

nsb@2Kings:16:14 @ He removed the copper alter that was before Jehovah from the front of the Temple between his altar and the Temple of Jehovah. He put it on the north side of his altar.

nsb@2Kings:16:18 @ He removed the covered way they built in the Temple court and the king’s outer entrance. This was because of the king of Assyria.

nsb@2Kings:16:19 @ The rest of the things Ahaz did are recorded in the Book of the History of the Kings of Judah.

nsb@2Kings:16:20 @ Ahaz slept with his fathers. He was buried in the town of David. Hezekiah his son became king in his place.

nsb@2Kings:17:1 @ Hoshea son of Elah became king over Israel in Samaria. This was in the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah. Hoshea ruled for nine years.

nsb@2Kings:17:3 @ Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against him. Hoshea became his servant and sent him offerings.

nsb@2Kings:17:4 @ Hoshea's treachery became clear to the king of Assyria. He had sent representatives to the king of Egypt. He did not send his offering to the king of Assyria like he did in previous years. So the king of Assyria had him put in chains and locked in prison.

nsb@2Kings:17:12 @ They made themselves servants of disgusting things. Even though Jehovah said: »You should not do this.«

nsb@2Kings:17:13 @ Jehovah sent his messengers and prophets to warn Israel and Judah: »Abandon your evil ways and obey my commands. The commandments contained in the Law I gave to your ancestors. I handed them on to you through my servants the prophets.«

nsb@2Kings:17:15 @ They refused to obey his instructions. They did not keep the covenant he made with their ancestors. They disregarded his warnings. They worshiped worthless idols and became worthless themselves. They followed the customs of the surrounding nations, disobeying Jehovah’s command not to imitate them.

nsb@2Kings:17:18 @ Jehovah was very angry with Israel. He removed them from his sight. Only the tribe of Judah kept its place.

nsb@2Kings:17:20 @ So Jehovah would have nothing to do with all the offspring of Israel. He caused trouble for them. He gave them up into the hands of their attackers, till he had sent them away from before his face.

nsb@2Kings:17:23 @ Jehovah removed Israel from his sight as he said he would through all his servants the prophets. Israel was taken away from their land to Assyria, to this day.

nsb@2Kings:17:26 @ They said to the king of Assyria: »The nations you have taken as prisoners and put in the towns of Samaria have no knowledge of the way of the god of the land. He has sent lions among them causing their death. This is because they have no knowledge of his way.«

nsb@2Kings:17:34 @ So to this day they go on in their old ways. They do not worship Jehovah. They do not keep his orders, his ways, or the law Jehovah gave to the children of Jacob. They are the ones he gave the name Israel.

nsb@2Kings:17:36 @ »Jehovah took you out of the land of Egypt with his great power and his outstretched arm. He is your God, to whom you are to give worship and make offerings:

nsb@2Kings:17:41 @ So these nations worshiped Jehovah and they still served the images they had made. Their children and their children's children did the same. They do just as their fathers did to this very day.

nsb@2Kings:18:2 @ Hezekiah was twenty-five years old when he became king. He ruled in Jerusalem for twenty-nine years. His mother's name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah.

nsb@2Kings:18:3 @ He did what was right in the eyes of Jehovah as David his father had done.

nsb@2Kings:18:4 @ He removed the high places. He broke the stone pillars to bits, and cut down the Asherah poles. The brass snake that Moses had made was crushed to powder at his command, because in those days the children of Israel had offerings burned before it, and he gave it the name Nehushtan.

nsb@2Kings:18:6 @ For his heart was fixed on Jehovah. He did not turn from his ways. Hezekiah obeyed Jehovah’s commandments that Jehovah gave to Moses.

nsb@2Kings:18:7 @ Jehovah was with Hezekiah. He did well in everything he did. He took up arms against the king of Assyria and was his servant no longer.

nsb@2Kings:18:12 @ They did not obey the voice of Jehovah their God. In fact they went against his agreement, even against everything ordered by Moses, the servant of Jehovah. They did not listen to or obey Jehovah.

nsb@2Kings:18:14 @ Hezekiah sent a message to Sennacherib at Lachish: »I have done wrong. Stop your attack and I will pay whatever you demand.« The emperor's answer was that Hezekiah should send him ten tons of silver and one ton of gold.

nsb@2Kings:18:17 @ The king of Assyria sent his commander-in-chief, his quartermaster, and his field commander with a large army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They stood at the channel for the Upper Pool on the road to the Laundryman's Field.

nsb@2Kings:18:21 @ »You rely on Egypt that broken reed of a staff. If a man leans on it his hand will be pierced. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who put their faith in him.

nsb@2Kings:18:22 @ »If you say to me: We trust in Jehovah our God, is he not the one whose high places and altars have been taken away by Hezekiah. For he told Judah and Jerusalem that worship may only be given before this altar in Jerusalem?

nsb@2Kings:18:25 @ »Have I now come to destroy this place without Jehovah? It was Jehovah who said to me: ‘Go up against this land and make it waste.« ’

nsb@2Kings:19:1 @ When King Hezekiah heard their report he tore his clothes in grief. He dressed in sackcloth and went to the Temple of Jehovah.

nsb@2Kings:19:3 @ They said to him: »This is what Hezekiah says: ‘Today is a day filled with misery, punishment, and disgrace. We are like a woman who is about to give birth but does not have the strength to do it.

nsb@2Kings:19:4 @ »‘The Assyrian emperor sent his chief official to insult the living God. May Jehovah your God hear these insults and punish those who spoke them. So pray to God for those of our people who survive.’«

nsb@2Kings:19:6 @ Isaiah responded to them: »Tell this to your master: ‘This is what Jehovah says: »Do not be afraid of the message you heard when the Assyrian king's assistants slandered me.

nsb@2Kings:19:7 @ »I am going to put a spirit in him so that he will hear a rumor and return to his own country. I will have him assassinated in his own country.« ’«

nsb@2Kings:19:8 @ The field commander returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah. He had heard that the king left Lachish.

nsb@2Kings:19:20 @ Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: »This is what Jehovah the God of Israel says: ‘You prayed to me about King Sennacherib of Assyria. I have heard you.

nsb@2Kings:19:21 @ »This is Jehovah’s message to Sennacherib: ‘My people, the virgin daughter of Zion, despise you and laugh at you. My people in Jerusalem shake their heads behind your back.

nsb@2Kings:19:25 @ »Have you not heard? I did this long ago. I planned it in the past. Now I make it happen so that you will turn fortified cities into piles of rubble.

nsb@2Kings:19:29 @ »This will be a sign for you, Hezekiah: You will eat what grows by itself this year and next year. But in the third year you will plant and harvest, plant vineyards, and eat what is produced.

nsb@2Kings:19:31 @ »There will be a remnant of people in Jerusalem and on Mount Zion who will survive. Jehovah is determined to make this happen.

nsb@2Kings:19:32 @ »This is what Jehovah said about the Assyrian king: ‘He will not enter this city or shoot a single arrow against it. No soldiers with shields will come near the city. No siege mounds will be built around it.’

nsb@2Kings:19:34 @ I will defend this city and protect it. It is for the sake of my own honor and because of the promise I made to my servant David.

nsb@2Kings:19:36 @ King Sennacherib of Assyria returned to his home at Nineveh and stayed there.

nsb@2Kings:19:37 @ While he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, Adrammelech and Sharezer assassinated him. They escaped to the land of Ararat. His son Esarhaddon succeeded him as king.

nsb@2Kings:20:1 @ Hezekiah became ill and was about to die. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz said to him: »This is what Jehovah says: ‘Give final instructions to your household. You will not recover. You will die.’«

nsb@2Kings:20:5 @ »Go back and tell Hezekiah, the leader of my people: ‘This is what Jehovah God of your ancestor David says: »I heard your prayer. I saw your tears. Now I will heal you. The day after tomorrow you will go to Jehovah’s Temple.

nsb@2Kings:20:6 @ »I will add fifteen more years to your life. I will rescue you and defend this city from the control of the king of Assyria. I do this for my sake and for the sake of my servant David.« ’«

nsb@2Kings:20:9 @ Isaiah replied: »Jehovah will give you a sign to prove that he will keep his promise. Would you prefer to have the shadow on the stairway go forward ten steps or go back ten steps?«

nsb@2Kings:20:13 @ Hezekiah welcomed the messengers and showed them his wealth. He showed his silver and gold. He also let them look at his spices and perfumes. He even showed all his military equipment. There was nothing in his storerooms or anywhere in his kingdom that he did not show them.

nsb@2Kings:20:17 @ »Jehovah says: ‘The time will come when everything in your palace, everything your ancestors have stored up to this day, will be taken away to Babylon. Nothing will be left.

nsb@2Kings:20:20 @ Everything else about Hezekiah, all his heroic acts and how he made the pool and tunnel to bring water into the city is written in the official records of the Kings of Judah.

nsb@2Kings:20:21 @ Hezekiah slept in death with his ancestors. His son Manasseh succeeded him as king.

nsb@2Kings:21:1 @ Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king. He ruled in Jerusalem for fifty-five years. His mother's name was Hephzibah.

nsb@2Kings:21:3 @ He built the high places that Hezekiah his father destroyed. He made altars for Baal. Then he made an Asherah as Ahab, king of Israel, had done. Manasseh was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven.

nsb@2Kings:21:6 @ He made his own son pass through fire. He burned him as an offering to Molech. He practiced reading the future; gave positions to those who had control of spirits and to wonder-workers. He did much evil in the eyes of Jehovah and provoked him to anger.

nsb@2Kings:21:7 @ He made an image of the goddess Asherah and set it in the Temple of Jehovah. This is the same Temple that Jehovah said to David and to Solomon his son: »In this house, and in Jerusalem, the town which I have made mine out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever.

nsb@2Kings:21:10 @ Jehovah said through his servants the prophets:

nsb@2Kings:21:11 @ »Manasseh king of Judah committed detestable sins. He did more evil than all the Amorites before him. He enticed Judah to do evil with his false gods.

nsb@2Kings:21:12 @ »‘Because of this,’ says Jehovah the God of Israel: ‘I will send such evil on Jerusalem and Judah that the ears of all who hear of it will burn.

nsb@2Kings:21:15 @ »‘Because they have done evil in my eyes. They moved me to anger from the day their fathers came out of Egypt till this day.’«

nsb@2Kings:21:17 @ Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all he did, and his sins, are recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah.

nsb@2Kings:21:18 @ So Manasseh went to rest with his fathers. He was buried in the garden of his house, in the garden of Uzza. Amon his son became king in his place.

nsb@2Kings:21:19 @ Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king. He ruled in Jerusalem for two years. His mother's name was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.

nsb@2Kings:21:20 @ He did evil in the eyes of Jehovah as Manasseh his father had done.

nsb@2Kings:21:21 @ He followed all the practices of his father. He was a servant and worshipper of the false gods to which his father had been a servant.

nsb@2Kings:21:22 @ Amon turned away from Jehovah the God of his fathers. He did not walk in his ways.

nsb@2Kings:21:23 @ The servants of Amon conspired against him. They killed the king in his house.

nsb@2Kings:21:24 @ But the people of the land put to death all those who had taken part in the design against the king. Then they made Josiah his son king in his place.

nsb@2Kings:21:25 @ Now the rest of the acts which Amon did, are recorded in the Book of the History of the Kings of Judah.

nsb@2Kings:21:26 @ He was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza. Josiah his son became king in his place.

nsb@2Kings:22:1 @ Josiah was eight years old when he became king. He ruled in Jerusalem thirty-one years. His mother's name was Jedidah daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath.

nsb@2Kings:22:2 @ He did what was right in the eyes of Jehovah. He walked in the ways of David his father, without turning to the right hand or to the left.

nsb@2Kings:22:11 @ When the king heard what the book of the Law said, he tore his clothes in distress.

nsb@2Kings:22:13 @ »Go inquire of Jehovah on my behalf and for the people. This is concerning the words in this book that has been found. Jehovah’s fierce anger is directed towards us because our ancestors did not obey the things in this book or do everything written in it.«

nsb@2Kings:22:15 @ She told them: »This is what Jehovah God of Israel says: Tell the man who sent you to me:

nsb@2Kings:22:16 @ ‘This is what Jehovah says: »I am going to bring disaster on this place and on the people living here. This is according to everything written in the book that the king of Judah has read.

nsb@2Kings:22:17 @ »‘I will do this because they abandoned me. They sacrificed to other gods in order to make me furious. Therefore, my burning anger against this place will never be extinguished.« ’«

nsb@2Kings:22:18 @ Huldah added: »Tell Judah's king who sent you to me to ask Jehovah a question. This is what Jehovah God of Israel says about the words you heard:

nsb@2Kings:22:19 @ ‘You had a change of heart and humbled yourself in front of Jehovah when you heard my words against this place and those who live here. I said that those who live here would be destroyed and cursed. You also tore your clothes in distress and cried in front of me. So I will listen to you,’« declares Jehovah.

nsb@2Kings:22:20 @ »That is why I will bring you to your ancestors. I will bring you to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see any of the disaster I will bring on this place.« ’« They reported this to the king.

nsb@2Kings:23:3 @ The king stood beside the pillar and made a promise to Jehovah that he would follow Jehovah and obey his commands, instructions, and laws with all his heart and mind. He confirmed the terms of the promise written in this book. All the people joined in the promise.

nsb@2Kings:23:7 @ He tore down the houses of the male temple prostitutes who were in Jehovah’s Temple. This is where women did weaving for Asherah.

nsb@2Kings:23:11 @ He also removed the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the worship of the sun. He burned the chariots used in this worship.

nsb@2Kings:23:16 @ Josiah turned and saw the tombs on the hill. He sent men to take the bones out of the tombs and burn them on the altar to make it unclean. This fulfilled the word of Jehovah announced by the man of God.

nsb@2Kings:23:18 @ He said: »Let him be. Do not move his bones.« So they let his bones be with the bones of the prophet who came from Samaria.

nsb@2Kings:23:19 @ Josiah removed all the houses of the high places the kings of Israel built in the towns of Samaria. This provoked Jehovah to anger and he did with them as he had done in Bethel.

nsb@2Kings:23:21 @ The king gave orders to all the people. He said: »Keep the Passover to Jehovah your God, as it says in this book of the law.«

nsb@2Kings:23:23 @ In the eighteenth year of the rule of King Josiah this Passover was kept to Jehovah in Jerusalem.

nsb@2Kings:23:25 @ Never before had there been a king like him. He turned to Jehovah with all his heart and his entire mind and all his power. As the Law of Moses says: and after him there was no king like him.

nsb@2Kings:23:26 @ Still the heat of Jehovah’s anger was not turned back from Judah. This is because of all Manasseh had done in moving him to anger.

nsb@2Kings:23:27 @ Jehovah said: »I will send Judah away from before my face, as I have sent Israel. I will have nothing more to do with this town. It is Jerusalem my town. And the holy house of which I said: ‘My name will be there.’«

nsb@2Kings:23:28 @ Now the rest of the acts of Josiah and all he did are recorded in the book of the History of the Kings of Judah.

nsb@2Kings:23:29 @ In his days, Pharaoh Necho, king of Egypt, sent his armies against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates. King Josiah went out against him. Josiah was killed when he saw him at Megiddo.

nsb@2Kings:23:30 @ His servants took his body in a carriage from Megiddo to Jerusalem. They buried him there. The people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah, and put the holy oil on him and made him king in place of his father.

nsb@2Kings:23:31 @ Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king. He ruled in Jerusalem for three months. His mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

nsb@2Kings:23:32 @ He did evil in the eyes of Jehovah, as his fathers had done.

nsb@2Kings:23:34 @ Then Pharaoh Necho made Eliakim son of Josiah king in place of Josiah his father. He changed his name to Jehoiakim. He took Jehoahaz away to Egypt, where he remained till he died.

nsb@2Kings:23:36 @ Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king. He ruled in Jerusalem for eleven years. His mother's name was Zebidah daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.

nsb@2Kings:23:37 @ He did evil in the eyes of Jehovah as his fathers had done.

nsb@2Kings:24:2 @ Jehovah sent raiding parties of Babylonians, Arameans, Moabites, and Ammonites against Jehoiakim to destroy Judah as Jehovah predicted through his servants the prophets.

nsb@2Kings:24:3 @ This happened to Judah because Jehovah commanded it to happen. He wanted to remove the people of Judah from his sight because of Manasseh's sins and everything he had done,

nsb@2Kings:24:5 @ The rest of the acts of Jehoiakim are written in the Book of the History of the Days of the Kings of Judah.

nsb@2Kings:24:6 @ Jehoiakim slept with his fathers. Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.

nsb@2Kings:24:7 @ The king of Egypt did not leave his own country again because the king of Babylon captured all the territory from the River of Egypt to the Euphrates River. This territory belonged to the king of Egypt.

nsb@2Kings:24:8 @ Jehoiakin was eighteen years old when he became king. He was king for three months in Jerusalem. His mother was Nehushta daughter of Elnathan from Jerusalem.

nsb@2Kings:24:9 @ Following the example of his father, Jehoiachin sinned against Jehovah.

nsb@2Kings:24:10 @ It was during his reign that the Babylonian army, commanded by King Nebuchadnezzar's officers, marched against Jerusalem and besieged it.

nsb@2Kings:24:12 @ King Jehoiachin of Judah, along with his mother, his sons, his officers, and the palace officials, surrendered to the Babylonians. In the eighth year of Nebuchadnezzar's reign he took Jehoiachin prisoner.

nsb@2Kings:24:17 @ The king of Babylon installed Mattaniah, his father's brother, king in place of Jehoiachin. He changed his name to Zedekiah.

nsb@2Kings:24:18 @ Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king. He was king in Jerusalem for eleven years. His mother's name was Hamutal, daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

nsb@2Kings:24:20 @ This happened in Jerusalem and Judah because of Jehovah’s anger. It continued until he had sent them all away from before him. Then Zedekiah took up arms and rebelled against the king of Babylon.

nsb@2Kings:25:1 @ Now in the ninth year of his rule, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon attacked Jerusalem with all his army. He took his position and laid siege to it. They built earthworks all round the town.

nsb@2Kings:25:5 @ But the Chaldaean army went after the king. They overtook him in the lowlands of Jericho. All his army went in flight from him in every direction.

nsb@2Kings:25:7 @ They put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, chained him with iron bands and took him to Babylon.

nsb@2Kings:25:24 @ Then Gedaliah gave his oath to them and their men. He said: Have no fear because of the servants of the Chaldaeans. Go on living in the land under the rule of the king of Babylon, and all will be well.

nsb@2Kings:25:25 @ In the seventh month, Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the king's seed, came with ten men and made an attack on Gedaliah, causing his death and the death of the Jews and the Chaldaeans who were with him at Mizpah.

nsb@2Kings:25:27 @ In the thirty-seventh year after Jehoiachin king of Judah had been taken prisoner, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, Evil-merodach, king of Babylon, in the first year of his rule, took Jehoiachin, king of Judah, out of prison.

nsb@2Kings:25:28 @ He said kind things to him and placed his seat higher than the seats of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.

nsb@2Kings:25:29 @ His prison clothing was changed. He was a guest at the king's table every day for the rest of his life.

nsb@2Kings:25:30 @ The king gave him a regular amount of food every day for the rest of his life.

nsb@1Chronicles:1:7 @ Javan’s descendants were the people from Elishah, Tarshish, Cyprus, and Rodanim.

nsb@1Chronicles:1:13 @ Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,

nsb@1Chronicles:1:19 @ Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg, because in his time the earth was divided; his brother was named Joktan.

nsb@1Chronicles:1:31 @ Jetur, Naphish and Kedemah. These were the sons of Ishmael.

nsb@1Chronicles:1:46 @ When Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the country of Moab, succeeded him as king. His city was named Avith.

nsb@1Chronicles:1:50 @ When Baal-Hanan died, Hadad succeeded him as king. His city was named Pau, and his wife’s name was Mehetabel daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-Zahab.

nsb@1Chronicles:2:13 @ Jesse was the father of Eliab his firstborn; the second son was Abinadab, the third Shimea,

nsb@1Chronicles:2:18 @ Caleb son of Hezron had children by his wife Azubah. These were her sons: Jesher, Shobab and Ardon.

nsb@1Chronicles:2:25 @ The sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron: Ram his firstborn, Bunah, Oren, Ozem and Ahijah.

nsb@1Chronicles:2:35 @ Sheshan gave his daughter in marriage to his servant Jarha, and she bore him Attai.

nsb@1Chronicles:2:42 @ The sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel: Mesha his firstborn, who was the father of Ziph, and his son Mareshah, who was the father of Hebron.

nsb@1Chronicles:3:3 @ the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital; and the sixth, Ithream, by his wife Eglah.

nsb@1Chronicles:3:9 @ All these were the sons of David, besides his sons by his concubines. And Tamar was their sister.

nsb@1Chronicles:3:10 @ Solomon’s son was Rehoboam, Abijah his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son,

nsb@1Chronicles:3:11 @ Jehoram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,

nsb@1Chronicles:3:12 @ Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son,

nsb@1Chronicles:3:13 @ Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son,

nsb@1Chronicles:3:14 @ Amon his son, Josiah his son.

nsb@1Chronicles:3:16 @ The successors of Jehoiakim: Jehoiachin his son, and Zedekiah.

nsb@1Chronicles:3:17 @ The descendants of Jehoiachin the captive: Shealtiel his son,

nsb@1Chronicles:3:22 @ The descendants of Shecaniah: Shemaiah and his sons: Hattush, Igal, Bariah, Neariah and Shaphat, six in all.

nsb@1Chronicles:4:9 @ Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez. She said: I gave birth to him in pain.

nsb@1Chronicles:4:10 @ Jabez cried out to the God of Israel: Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain. And God granted his request.

nsb@1Chronicles:4:14 @ Meonothai was the father of Ophrah. Seraiah was the father of Joab, the father of Ge Harashim. It was called this because its people were craftsmen.

nsb@1Chronicles:4:18 @ His Judean wife gave birth to Jered the father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. These were the children of Pharaoh’s daughter Bithiah, whom Mered had married.

nsb@1Chronicles:4:25 @ Shallum was Shaul’s son, Mibsam his son and Mishma his son.

nsb@1Chronicles:4:26 @ The descendants of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son and Shimei his son.

nsb@1Chronicles:4:27 @ Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brothers did not have many children; so their entire clan did not become as numerous as the people of Judah.

nsb@1Chronicles:4:41 @ The men whose names were listed came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah. They attacked the Hamites in their dwellings and also the Meunites who were there and completely destroyed them, as is evident to this day. Then they settled in their place, because there was pasture for their flocks.

nsb@1Chronicles:4:43 @ They killed the remaining Amalekites who had escaped, and they have lived there to this day.

nsb@1Chronicles:5:1 @ The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel he was the firstborn, but when he defiled his father’s marriage bed, his rights as firstborn were given to the sons of Joseph son of Israel; so he could not be listed in the genealogical record in accordance with his birthright,

nsb@1Chronicles:5:2 @ and though Judah was the strongest of his brothers and a ruler came from him, the rights of the firstborn belonged to Joseph

nsb@1Chronicles:5:4 @ The descendants of Joel: Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son,

nsb@1Chronicles:5:5 @ Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son,

nsb@1Chronicles:5:6 @ and Beerah his son, whom Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria took into exile. Beerah was a leader of the Reubenites.

nsb@1Chronicles:5:14 @ These were the sons of Abihail son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz.

nsb@1Chronicles:5:19 @ They waged war against the Hagrites, Jetur, Naphish and Nodab.

nsb@1Chronicles:5:26 @ So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, who took the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh into exile. He took them to Halah, Habor, Hara and the river of Gozan, where they are to this day.

nsb@1Chronicles:6:20 @ Of Gershon: Libni his son, Jehath his son, Zimmah his son,

nsb@1Chronicles:6:21 @ Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son and Jeatherai his son.

nsb@1Chronicles:6:22 @ The descendants of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son,

nsb@1Chronicles:6:23 @ Elkanah his son, Ebiasaph his son, Assir his son,

nsb@1Chronicles:6:24 @ Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son and Shaul his son.

nsb@1Chronicles:6:26 @ Elkanah his son, Zophai his son, Nahath his son,

nsb@1Chronicles:6:27 @ Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son and Samuel his son.

nsb@1Chronicles:6:29 @ The descendants of Merari: Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzzah his son,

nsb@1Chronicles:6:30 @ Shimea his son, Haggiah his son and Asaiah his son.

nsb@1Chronicles:6:39 @ and Heman’s associate Asaph, who served at his right hand: Asaph son of Berekiah, the son of Shimea,

nsb@1Chronicles:6:44 @ and from their associates, the Merarites, at his left hand: Ethan son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch,

nsb@1Chronicles:6:49 @ But Aaron and his descendants were the ones who presented offerings on the altar of burnt offering and on the altar of incense in connection with all that was done in the Most Holy Place, making atonement for Israel, in accordance with all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.

nsb@1Chronicles:6:50 @ These were the descendants of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son,

nsb@1Chronicles:6:51 @ Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son,

nsb@1Chronicles:6:52 @ Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,

nsb@1Chronicles:6:53 @ Zadok his son and Ahimaaz his son.

nsb@1Chronicles:7:10 @ The son of Jediael: Bilhan. The sons of Bilhan: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Kenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish and Ahishahar.

nsb@1Chronicles:7:14 @ The descendants of Manasseh: Asriel was his descendant through his Aramean concubine. She gave birth to Makir the father of Gilead.

nsb@1Chronicles:7:15 @ Makir took a wife from among the Huppites and Shuppites. His sister’s name was Maacah. Another descendant was named Zelophehad, who had only daughters.

nsb@1Chronicles:7:16 @ Makir’s wife Maacah gave birth to a son and named him Peresh. His brother was named Sheresh, and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.

nsb@1Chronicles:7:18 @ His sister Hammoleketh gave birth to Ishhod, Abiezer and Mahlah.

nsb@1Chronicles:7:20 @ The descendants of Ephraim: Shuthelah, Bered his son, Tahath his son, Eleadah his son, Tahath his son,

nsb@1Chronicles:7:21 @ Zabad his son and Shuthelah his son. The native-born men of Gath killed Ezer and Elead, when they went down to seize their livestock.

nsb@1Chronicles:7:22 @ Their father Ephraim mourned for them many days, and his relatives came to comfort him.

nsb@1Chronicles:7:23 @ Then he lay with his wife again, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. He named him Beriah, because there had been misfortune in his family.

nsb@1Chronicles:7:24 @ His daughter was Sheerah, who built Lower and Upper Beth Horon as well as Uzzen Sheerah.

nsb@1Chronicles:7:25 @ Rephah was his son, Resheph his son, Telah his son, Tahan his son,

nsb@1Chronicles:7:26 @ Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,

nsb@1Chronicles:7:27 @ Nun his son and Joshua his son.

nsb@1Chronicles:7:35 @ The sons of his brother Helem: Zophah, Imna, Shelesh and Amal.

nsb@1Chronicles:8:1 @ Benjamin was the father of Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second son, Aharah the third,

nsb@1Chronicles:8:8 @ Sons were born to Shaharaim in Moab after he had divorced his wives Hushim and Baara.

nsb@1Chronicles:8:9 @ By his wife Hodesh he had Jobab, Zibia, Mesha, Malcam,

nsb@1Chronicles:8:10 @ Jeuz, Sakia and Mirmah. These were his sons, heads of families.

nsb@1Chronicles:8:29 @ Jeiel the father of Gibeon lived in Gibeon. His wife’s name was Maacah,

nsb@1Chronicles:8:30 @ and his firstborn son was Abdon, followed by Zur, Kish, Baal, Ner, Nadab,

nsb@1Chronicles:8:37 @ Moza was the father of Binea; Raphah was his son, Eleasah his son and Azel his son.

nsb@1Chronicles:8:39 @ The sons of his brother Eshek: Ulam his firstborn, Jeush the second son and Eliphelet the third.

nsb@1Chronicles:9:5 @ Of the Shilonites: Asaiah the firstborn and his sons.

nsb@1Chronicles:9:19 @ Shallum son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his fellow gatekeepers from his family, the Korahites, were responsible for guarding the thresholds of the tent just as their fathers had been responsible for guarding the entrance to the dwelling of Jehovah.

nsb@1Chronicles:9:35 @ Jeiel the father of Gibeon lived in Gibeon. His wife’s name was Maacah,

nsb@1Chronicles:9:36 @ and his firstborn son was Abdon, followed by Zur, Kish, Baal, Ner, Nadab,

nsb@1Chronicles:9:43 @ Moza was the father of Binea; Rephaiah was his son, Eleasah his son and Azel his son.

nsb@1Chronicles:10:2 @ The Philistines pressed hard after Saul and his sons, and they killed his sons Jonathan, Abinadab and Malki-Shua.

nsb@1Chronicles:10:4 @ Saul said to his armor-bearer: »Draw your sword and run me through, or these uncircumcised fellows will come and abuse me.« But his armor-bearer was terrified and would not do it. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it.

nsb@1Chronicles:10:5 @ When the armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he too fell on his sword and died.

nsb@1Chronicles:10:6 @ Saul, his three sons and his entire house died together.

nsb@1Chronicles:10:7 @ When all the Israelites in the valley saw that the army had fled and that Saul and his sons had died, they abandoned their towns and fled. And the Philistines came and occupied them.

nsb@1Chronicles:10:8 @ The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the dead they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.

nsb@1Chronicles:10:9 @ They stripped him and took his head and his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to proclaim the news among their idols and their people.

nsb@1Chronicles:10:10 @ They put his armor in the temple of their gods and hung up his head in the temple of Dagon.

nsb@1Chronicles:10:12 @ all their fighting men took the bodies of Saul and his sons and brought them to Jabesh. They buried their bones under the great tree in Jabesh. Then they fasted seven days.

nsb@1Chronicles:10:13 @ Saul died because of his unfaithfulness to Jehovah. He did not obey the word of Jehovah. He asked a medium to request information from a dead person.

nsb@1Chronicles:11:10 @ These were the men in charge of David’s mighty men. They strengthened themselves with him in his kingdom, with all Israel, to make him king, according to the word of Jehovah concerning Israel.

nsb@1Chronicles:11:11 @ This is the number of the mighty men whom David had: Jashobeam the son of a Hachmonite, chief of the captains; he had lifted up his spear against three hundred, killed by him at one time.

nsb@1Chronicles:11:19 @ He said: »Far be it from me, O my God, that I should do this! Shall I drink the blood of these men who have placed their lives in jeopardy? For at the risk of their lives they brought it.« Therefore he would not drink it. The three mighty men did these things.

nsb@1Chronicles:11:20 @ Abishai the brother of Joab was chief of another three. He had lifted up his spear against three hundred men. He killed them and won a name among these three.

nsb@1Chronicles:11:23 @ And he killed an Egyptian, a man of great height, seven and a half feet tall. Egyptian had a spear like a weaver’s beam in his hand. He went down to him with a staff, wrested the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and killed him with his own spear.

nsb@1Chronicles:11:25 @ Indeed he was more honored than the thirty, but he did not attain to the first three. David appointed him over his guard.

nsb@1Chronicles:11:45 @ Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite,

nsb@1Chronicles:12:3 @ Their leader was Ahiezer son of Shemaah from Gibeah; his brother Joash was second-in-command. These were the other warriors: Jeziel and Pelet, sons of Azmaveth; Beracah and Jehu from Anathoth;

nsb@1Chronicles:12:18 @ Then the Spirit came upon Amasai, who later became a leader among the Thirty, and he said: »We are yours, David! We are on your side, son of Jesse. Peace and prosperity be with you, and success to all who help you, for your God is the one who helps you.« So David let them join him, and he made them officers over his troops.

nsb@1Chronicles:12:19 @ Some men from Manasseh defected from the Israelite army and joined David when he went with the Philistines to fight against Saul. But as it turned out, the Philistine leaders refused to let David and his men go with them. After much discussion, they sent them back, for they said: »It will cost us our lives if David switches loyalties to Saul and turns against us.«

nsb@1Chronicles:12:21 @ They helped David chase down bands of raiders, for they were all brave and able warriors who became commanders in his army.

nsb@1Chronicles:12:27 @ This included Jehoiada, leader of the family of Aaron, who had three thousand seven hundred under his command.

nsb@1Chronicles:12:28 @ This also included Zadok, a young warrior, with twenty-two members of his family who were all officers.

nsb@1Chronicles:12:29 @ From the tribe of Benjamin, Saul’s relatives, there were three thousand warriors. Most of the men from Benjamin had remained loyal to Saul until this time.

nsb@1Chronicles:12:30 @ From the tribe of Ephraim, there were twenty thousand eight hundred warriors, each famous in his own clan.

nsb@1Chronicles:13:1 @ David conferred with each of his officers, the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds.

nsb@1Chronicles:13:4 @ The whole assembly agreed to do this, because it seemed right to all the people.

nsb@1Chronicles:13:6 @ David and all the people of Israel with him went to Baalah of Judah. They went to bring the Ark of Jehovah God from there. He is enthroned between the cherubim on the Ark that is called by his name.

nsb@1Chronicles:13:9 @ When they came to the threshing floor of Kidon, Uzzah reached out his hand to steady the Ark, because the bulls stumbled.

nsb@1Chronicles:13:10 @ Jehovah’s anger burned against Uzzah. He struck him down because he had put his hand on the Ark. So he died there before God.

nsb@1Chronicles:13:11 @ David was angry because Jehovah’s wrath had broken out against Uzzah. To this day that place is called Perez Uzzah.

nsb@1Chronicles:13:14 @ The Ark of God remained with the family of Obed-Edom in his house for three months. Jehovah blessed his household and everything he had.

nsb@1Chronicles:14:2 @ David knew that Jehovah had established him as king over Israel and that his kingdom had been highly exalted for the sake of his people Israel.

nsb@1Chronicles:14:11 @ David and his men went to Baal Perazim. He defeated them there. He said: »As waters break out, God has broken out against my enemies by my hand.« So that place was called Baal Perazim.

nsb@1Chronicles:15:2 @ David insisted that only the Levites carry God’s Ark because Jehovah had chosen them to carry his Ark and to serve him from generation to generation.

nsb@1Chronicles:15:5 @ Leading Kohath’s descendants were Uriel, who came with one hundred and twenty of his relatives.

nsb@1Chronicles:15:6 @ Leading Merari’s descendants were Asaiah, who came with two hundred and twenty of his relatives.

nsb@1Chronicles:15:7 @ Leading Gershom’s descendants were Joel, who came with one hundred and thirty of his relatives.

nsb@1Chronicles:15:8 @ Leading Elizaphan’s descendants were Shemaiah, who came with two hundred of his relatives.

nsb@1Chronicles:15:9 @ Leading Hebron’s descendants were Eliel, who came with eighty of his relatives.

nsb@1Chronicles:15:10 @ Leading Uzziel’s descendants were Amminadab, who came with one hundred and twelve of his relatives.

nsb@1Chronicles:15:17 @ So the Levites appointed Heman son of Joel, and from his relatives they appointed Asaph Berechiah’s son. From their own relatives, Merari’s descendants, they appointed Ethan son of Kushaiah.

nsb@1Chronicles:16:7 @ For the first time David entrusted Asaph and his relatives with the task of singing songs of thanks to Jehovah:

nsb@1Chronicles:16:8 @ Give thanks to Jehovah. Call on his name. Make known among the nations what he has done.

nsb@1Chronicles:16:10 @ Praise his holy name. Let the hearts of those who seek Jehovah rejoice.

nsb@1Chronicles:16:11 @ Search for Jehovah and his strength. Always seek his presence.

nsb@1Chronicles:16:13 @ You are descendants of Israel, his servant. You are descendants of Jacob, his chosen ones.

nsb@1Chronicles:16:14 @ HE IS JEHOVAH OUR GOD. His judgments are pronounced throughout the earth.

nsb@1Chronicles:16:15 @ Remember his promise for a very long time, the word that he commanded for a thousand generations!

nsb@1Chronicles:16:16 @ Remember the covenant that he made to Abraham, and his sworn promise to Isaac.

nsb@1Chronicles:16:23 @ Sing to Jehovah, all the earth! Day after day announce that Jehovah saves his people.

nsb@1Chronicles:16:24 @ Tell people about his glory! Tell all the nations about his miracles.

nsb@1Chronicles:16:26 @ This is because all the gods of the nations are useless idols while Jehovah created the heavens.

nsb@1Chronicles:16:27 @ Splendor and majesty are in his presence. Strength and joy are where he is.

nsb@1Chronicles:16:29 @ Ascribe to Jehovah the glory his name deserves. Bring an offering, and come to him. Worship Jehovah in his holy splendor.

nsb@1Chronicles:16:30 @ Tremble in his presence, all the earth! The earth stands firm. It cannot be moved.

nsb@1Chronicles:16:34 @ Give thanks to Jehovah because he is good, because his mercy endures forever!

nsb@1Chronicles:16:37 @ David left Asaph and his relatives to serve continually in front of the Ark of Jehovah’s Covenant, as the daily work required.

nsb@1Chronicles:16:38 @ David also left Obed Edom and sixty-eight of his relatives to serve there. Obed Edom Jeduthun’s son and Hosah were to be gatekeepers.

nsb@1Chronicles:16:39 @ David left Zadok and his priestly relatives to serve in Jehovah’s Tent at the place of worship in Gibeon.

nsb@1Chronicles:16:40 @ They were ordered to sacrifice burnt offerings to Jehovah. This happened on the altar of burnt offerings continually, morning and evening, as written in the Law of Jehovah that he gave Israel.

nsb@1Chronicles:16:41 @ With Zadok and his relatives were Heman, Jeduthun, and the rest of the Levites who had been selected. They were chosen by name, to give thanks to Jehovah by singing, because His mercy endures forever.

nsb@1Chronicles:16:43 @ Then all the people went home. David went back to bless his family.

nsb@1Chronicles:17:1 @ David settled in his palace. He said to Nathan the prophet: »Here I am, living in a palace of cedar, while the Ark of the Covenant of Jehovah is under a tent.«

nsb@1Chronicles:17:4 @ »Go tell my servant David, This is what Jehovah says: ‘You are not the one to build me a house to dwell in.

nsb@1Chronicles:17:5 @ »I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought Israel up out of Egypt to this day. I have moved from one tent site to another, from one dwelling place to another.

nsb@1Chronicles:17:7 @ Therefore, tell my servant David: »This is what Jehovah of Hosts says: ‘I took you from the pasture and from following the flock, to be ruler over my people Israel.

nsb@1Chronicles:17:10 @ »‘They have done this since the time I appointed leaders over my people Israel. I will also subdue all your enemies. I declare to you that Jehovah will build a house for you!

nsb@1Chronicles:17:11 @ »‘When your days are over and you go to be with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring to succeed you. It will be one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom.

nsb@1Chronicles:17:12 @ »‘He is the one who will build a house for me. I will establish his throne forever.

nsb@1Chronicles:17:13 @ »‘I will be his father, and he will be my son. I will never take my love away from him, as I took it away from your predecessor.

nsb@1Chronicles:17:14 @ »‘I will set him over my house and my kingdom forever! His throne will be established forever.’«

nsb@1Chronicles:17:15 @ Nathan reported to David all the words of this entire revelation.

nsb@1Chronicles:17:16 @ Then King David went in and sat in Jehovah’s presence. He said: »Who am I, O Jehovah? What is my family, that you have brought me this far?

nsb@1Chronicles:17:17 @ »If this were not enough in your sight, O God, you have spoken about the future of the house of your servant. You have looked on me as though I were the most exalted of men, O Jehovah my God.

nsb@1Chronicles:17:19 @ »Jehovah. For the sake of your servant and according to your will, you have done this great thing and made known all these great promises.

nsb@1Chronicles:17:23 @ »Now, Jehovah, let the promise you have made concerning your servant and his house be established from generation to generation. Do as you promised!

nsb@1Chronicles:18:1 @ After this, David defeated and crushed the Philistines. He captured Gath and its surrounding villages from them.

nsb@1Chronicles:18:3 @ David went to establish his control over the territory along the Euphrates River. He defeated King Hadadezer at Hamath.

nsb@1Chronicles:18:6 @ David stationed troops in the Aramean kingdom of Damascus. The Arameans became his subjects and paid taxes to him. Everywhere David went Jehovah gave him victories.

nsb@1Chronicles:18:10 @ he sent his son Hadoram to greet King David and congratulate him for fighting and defeating Hadadezer. There had often been war between Hadadezer and Tou.

nsb@1Chronicles:18:14 @ So David ruled all Israel. He did what was fair and right for all his people.

nsb@1Chronicles:18:15 @ Zeruiah’s son Joab was in charge of the army. Ahilud’s son Jehoshaphat was the royal historian.

nsb@1Chronicles:18:17 @ Jehoiada’s son Benaiah was commander of the Cherethites and the Pelethites. And David’s sons were his main officials.

nsb@1Chronicles:19:1 @ In the course of time, Nahash king of the Ammonites died, and his son succeeded him as king.

nsb@1Chronicles:19:2 @ David thought: »I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me.« So David sent a delegation to express his sympathy to Hanun concerning his father. David’s men came to Hanun in the land of the Ammonites to express sympathy to him.

nsb@1Chronicles:19:3 @ The Ammonite nobles said to Hanun: »Do you think David honors your father by sending men to you to express sympathy? Or have his men come to you to explore and spy out the country and overthrow it?«

nsb@1Chronicles:19:7 @ They hired thirty-two thousand chariots and charioteers, as well as the king of Maacah with his troops, who came and camped near Medeba, while the Ammonites were mustered from their towns and moved out for battle.

nsb@1Chronicles:19:8 @ David heard about this and sent Joab out with the entire army of fighting men.

nsb@1Chronicles:19:11 @ He put the rest of the men under the command of Abishai his brother, and they were deployed against the Ammonites.

nsb@1Chronicles:19:13 @ »Be strong and let us fight bravely for our people and the cities of our God. Jehovah will do what is good in his sight.«

nsb@1Chronicles:19:15 @ When the Ammonites saw that the Arameans were fleeing, they too fled before his brother Abishai and went inside the city. So Joab went back to Jerusalem.

nsb@1Chronicles:19:17 @ David was told of this, so he gathered all Israel and crossed the Jordan. He advanced against them and formed his battle lines opposite them. David formed his lines to meet the Arameans in battle, and they fought against him.

nsb@1Chronicles:20:8 @ These men were the descendants of Haraphah from Gath. David and his men killed them.

nsb@1Chronicles:21:3 @ Joab answered: »May Jehovah make the people of Israel a hundred times more numerous than they are now! They are all your servants, Your Majesty. Why do you want to do this and make the whole nation guilty?«

nsb@1Chronicles:21:8 @ David said to God: »I have committed a terrible sin in doing this! Please forgive me. I have acted foolishly.«

nsb@1Chronicles:21:12 @ »Three years of famine? Three months of running away from the armies of your enemies? Or: three days in which Jehovah attacks you with his sword and sends an epidemic on your land. He will use his angel to bring death throughout Israel? What answer shall I give Jehovah?«

nsb@1Chronicles:21:15 @ Then God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem. Then he changed his mind. He said to the angel: »Stop! That is enough!« The angel was standing at the threshing place of Araunah, a Jebusite.

nsb@1Chronicles:21:16 @ David saw the angel standing in midair, holding his sword in his hand, ready to destroy Jerusalem. Then David and the leaders of the people, all of whom were wearing sackcloth bowed low, with their faces touching the ground.

nsb@1Chronicles:21:20 @ There at the threshing place Araunah and his four sons were threshing wheat, and when they saw the angel, the sons ran and hid.

nsb@1Chronicles:21:21 @ Araunah saw King David approaching. He left the threshing place and bowed low with his face touching the ground.

nsb@1Chronicles:21:27 @ Jehovah told the angel to put his sword away, and the angel obeyed.

nsb@1Chronicles:21:28 @ David saw by this that Jehovah answered his prayer. So he offered sacrifices on the altar at Araunah’s threshing place.

nsb@1Chronicles:22:5 @ David said: »My son Solomon is young and inexperienced. The house to be built for Jehovah should be of great magnificence and fame and splendor in the sight of all the nations. Therefore I will make preparations for it. So David made extensive preparations before his death.«

nsb@1Chronicles:22:6 @ Then he called for his son Solomon and charged him to build a house for Jehovah, the God of Israel.

nsb@1Chronicles:22:8 @ »The word of Jehovah came to me, saying: ‘You have shed much blood and have fought many wars. You are not to build a house for my name. This is because you have shed much blood on the earth in my sight.

nsb@1Chronicles:22:9 @ »‘You will have a son who will be a man of peace and rest, and I will give him rest from all his enemies on every side. His name will be Solomon, and I will grant Israel peace and quiet during his reign.

nsb@1Chronicles:22:10 @ »‘He is the one who will build a house for my name. He will be my son, and I will be his father. I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for a very ong time.’«

nsb@1Chronicles:22:17 @ David ordered all the leaders of Israel to help his son Solomon.

nsb@1Chronicles:22:18 @ He said to them: »Is not Jehovah your God with you? And has he not granted you rest on every side? For he has handed the inhabitants of the land over to me, and the land is subject to Jehovah and to his people.

nsb@1Chronicles:23:1 @ When David was old and full of years, he made his son Solomon king over Israel.

nsb@1Chronicles:23:13 @ The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses. Aaron was set apart, he and his descendants from generation to generation, to consecrate the most holy things, to offer sacrifices before Jehovah, to minister before him and to pronounce blessings in his name as long as they live.

nsb@1Chronicles:23:25 @ For David had said: »Since Jehovah, the God of Israel, has granted rest to his people and has come to dwell in Jerusalem from generation to generation,

nsb@1Chronicles:24:27 @ Shoham, Zaccur, and Ibri for Merari’s descendants through his son Jaaziah,

nsb@1Chronicles:25:9 @ Now the first lot came out for Asaph to Joseph, the second for Gedaliah, he with his relatives and sons were twelve.

nsb@1Chronicles:25:10 @ the third to Zaccur, his sons and his relatives, twelve;

nsb@1Chronicles:25:11 @ the fourth to Izri, his sons and his relatives, twelve;

nsb@1Chronicles:25:12 @ the fifth to Nethaniah, his sons and his relatives, twelve;

nsb@1Chronicles:25:13 @ the sixth to Bukkiah, his sons and his relatives, twelve;

nsb@1Chronicles:25:14 @ the seventh to Jesharelah, his sons and his relatives, twelve;

nsb@1Chronicles:25:15 @ the eighth to Jeshaiah, his sons and his relatives, twelve;

nsb@1Chronicles:25:16 @ the ninth to Mattaniah, his sons and his relatives, twelve;

nsb@1Chronicles:25:17 @ the tenth to Shimei, his sons and his relatives, twelve;

nsb@1Chronicles:25:18 @ the eleventh to Azarel, his sons and his relatives, twelve;

nsb@1Chronicles:25:19 @ the twelfth to Hashabiah, his sons and his relatives, twelve;

nsb@1Chronicles:25:20 @ for the thirteenth, Shubael, his sons and his relatives, twelve;

nsb@1Chronicles:25:21 @ for the fourteenth, Mattithiah, his sons and his relatives, twelve;

nsb@1Chronicles:25:22 @ for the fifteenth to Jeremoth, his sons and his relatives, twelve;

nsb@1Chronicles:25:23 @ for the sixteenth to Hananiah, his sons and his relatives, twelve;

nsb@1Chronicles:25:24 @ for the seventeenth to Joshbekashah, his sons and his relatives, twelve;

nsb@1Chronicles:25:25 @ for the eighteenth to Hanani, his sons and his relatives, twelve;

nsb@1Chronicles:25:26 @ for the nineteenth to Mallothi, his sons and his relatives, twelve;

nsb@1Chronicles:25:27 @ for the twentieth to Eliathah, his sons and his relatives, twelve;

nsb@1Chronicles:25:28 @ for the twenty-first to Hothir, his sons and his relatives, twelve;

nsb@1Chronicles:25:29 @ for the twenty-second to Giddalti, his sons and his relatives, twelve;

nsb@1Chronicles:25:30 @ for the twenty-third to Mahazioth, his sons and his relatives, twelve;

nsb@1Chronicles:25:31 @ for the twenty-fourth to Romamti-ezer, his sons and his relatives, twelve.

nsb@1Chronicles:26:6 @ His son Shemaiah also had sons, who were leaders in their father’s family because they were very capable men.

nsb@1Chronicles:26:7 @ The sons of Shemaiah: Othni, Rephael, Obed and Elzabad; his relatives Elihu and Semakiah were also able men.

nsb@1Chronicles:26:10 @ Hosah the Merarite had sons: Shimri the first although he was not the firstborn, his father had appointed him the first,

nsb@1Chronicles:26:14 @ The lot for the East Gate fell to Shelemiah. Then lots were cast for his son Zechariah, a wise counselor, and the lot for the North Gate fell to him.

nsb@1Chronicles:26:15 @ The lot for the South Gate fell to Obed-Edom, and the lot for the storehouse fell to his sons.

nsb@1Chronicles:26:22 @ the sons of Jehieli, Zetham and his brother Joel. They were in charge of the treasuries of the temple of Jehovah.

nsb@1Chronicles:26:25 @ His relatives through Eliezer: Rehabiah his son, Jeshaiah his son, Joram his son, Zicri his son and Shelomith his son.

nsb@1Chronicles:26:26 @ Shelomith and his relatives were in charge of all the treasuries for the things dedicated by King David, by the heads of families who were the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, and by the other army commanders.

nsb@1Chronicles:26:28 @ And everything dedicated by Samuel the seer and by Saul son of Kish, Abner son of Ner and Joab son of Zeruiah, and all the other dedicated things were in the care of Shelomith and his relatives.

nsb@1Chronicles:26:29 @ From the Izharites: Kenaniah and his sons were assigned duties away from the temple, as officials and judges over Israel.

nsb@1Chronicles:26:30 @ From the Hebronites: Hashabiah and his relatives, seventeen hundred able men, were responsible in Israel west of the Jordan for all the work of Jehovah and for the king’s service.

nsb@1Chronicles:27:1 @ This is a list of Israelite family heads, regiment and battalion commanders, and officers who were serving the king in all the army’s units. Throughout each year they came for a month at a time and then left. Each unit consisted of twenty-four thousand men.

nsb@1Chronicles:27:2 @ Jashobeam, son of Zabdiel, was in charge of the first unit, the one during the first month. In his unit there were twenty-four thousand.

nsb@1Chronicles:27:4 @ Dodai, Ahoh’s descendant, was in charge of the unit during the second month. It was his unit. Mikloth was one of its leaders. In Dodai’s unit there were twenty-four thousand.

nsb@1Chronicles:27:5 @ The third commander of the army during the third month was Benaiah, son of the priest Jehoiada. He was the head, and in his unit there were twenty-four thousand.

nsb@1Chronicles:27:6 @ This Benaiah was one of the thirty fighting men and commander of the thirty as well as his own unit. His son was Ammizabad.

nsb@1Chronicles:27:7 @ Asahel, Joab’s brother, was in charge of the fourth unit during the fourth month, and after him was his son Zebadiah. In his unit there were twenty-four thousand.

nsb@1Chronicles:27:8 @ Shamhuth, Izrah’s descendant, was commander of the fifth unit during the fifth month. In his unit there were twenty-four thousand.

nsb@1Chronicles:27:9 @ Ira, the son of Ikkesh from Tekoa, was in charge of the sixth unit during the sixth month. In his unit there were twenty-four thousand.

nsb@1Chronicles:27:10 @ Helez, a Pelonite from the descendants of Ephraim, was in charge of the seventh unit during the seventh month. In his unit there were twenty-four thousand.

nsb@1Chronicles:27:11 @ Sibbecai, a descendant of Zerah from Hushah, was in charge of the eighth unit during the eighth month. In his unit there were twenty-four thousand.

nsb@1Chronicles:27:12 @ Abiezer, a member of the tribe of Benjamin from Anathoth, was in charge of the ninth unit during the ninth month. In his unit there were twenty-four thousand.

nsb@1Chronicles:27:13 @ Mahrai, a descendant of Zerah from Netophah, was in charge of the tenth unit during the tenth month. In his unit there were twenty-four thousand.

nsb@1Chronicles:27:14 @ Benaiah, a member of the tribe of Ephraim from Pirathon, was in charge of the eleventh unit during the eleventh month. In his unit there were twenty-four thousand.

nsb@1Chronicles:27:15 @ During the twelfth month, the twelfth unit was commanded by Heldai from Netophah. He was Othniel’s descendant. In his unit there were twenty-four thousand.

nsb@1Chronicles:27:24 @ Joab, son of Zeruiah, started to count them but did not finish. God was angry with Israel because of this, and the report from it was never included in the official records of King David.

nsb@1Chronicles:28:1 @ David held a meeting in Jerusalem for all the leaders of Israel, the leaders of the tribes, the leaders of the army units that served the king, the commanders of regiments and battalions, the officials in charge of all the property and livestock belonging to the king and his sons, the palace officials, the soldiers, and the fighting men.

nsb@1Chronicles:28:2 @ King David stood there and said: »Listen to me relatives and subjects. I had my heart set on building the Temple where the Ark of Jehovah’s Covenant could be placed. This Temple will be a stool for our God’s feet, and I have made preparations to build it.«

nsb@1Chronicles:28:6 @ »He told me: ‘Your son Solomon will build my Temple and my courtyards because I have chosen him to be my son. I will be his father.

nsb@1Chronicles:28:7 @ »‘I will establish his kingdom for a very long time if he will remain determined to obey my commands and laws, as he is doing today.’«

nsb@1Chronicles:28:8 @ »I order you in the sight of Israel, Jehovah’s congregation. And as our God listens dedicate your lives to doing everything Jehovah your God has commanded. Then you will be able to possess this good land and leave it as an inheritance for your descendants.

nsb@1Chronicles:28:10 @ »So be careful, because Jehovah has chosen you to build the Temple as his holy place. Be strong, and do it.«

nsb@1Chronicles:28:11 @ Then David gave his son Solomon the plans for the entrance hall and the Temple, the storerooms, upper rooms, inner rooms, and the room for the throne of mercy.

nsb@1Chronicles:28:19 @ David said: »All this was written for me by Jehovah’s hand. He made all the details of the plan clear to me.«

nsb@1Chronicles:28:20 @ David also told his son Solomon: Be strong and courageous, and do the work. Do no be afraid or terrified. Jehovah God, my God, will be with you. He will not abandon you until all the work on Jehovah’s Temple is finished.

nsb@1Chronicles:29:1 @ King David announced to the entire assembly: »God has chosen my son Solomon. He is however young and lacks experience. The work to be done is enormous, because this is not a palace for people but a Temple for Jehovah God.

nsb@1Chronicles:29:3 @ »Over and above all this that I have provided, I have given silver and gold from my personal property because of my love for God’s Temple.

nsb@1Chronicles:29:14 @ »Yet my people and I cannot really give you anything. This is because everything is a gift from you, and we have only given back what is yours already.

nsb@1Chronicles:29:16 @ »O Jehovah, our God, we have brought together all this wealth to build a Temple to honor your holy name. It all came from you and all belongs to you.

nsb@1Chronicles:29:17 @ »I well know, O my God, that you test everyone’s heart and are pleased with people of integrity. In honesty and sincerity I have willingly given all this to you. I have seen how your people who are gathered here have been happy to bring offerings to you.

nsb@1Chronicles:29:23 @ So Solomon succeeded his father David on the throne Jehovah had established. He was a successful king, and the whole nation of Israel obeyed him.

nsb@1Chronicles:29:28 @ He died at a very old age, wealthy and respected, and his son Solomon succeeded him as king.

nsb@1Chronicles:29:29 @ The history of King David from beginning to end is recorded in the records of the three prophets, Samuel, Nathan, and Gad.

nsb@2Chronicles:1:1 @ Solomon, son of David, strengthened his position over the kingdom. Jehovah, his God, was with him and made him very powerful.

nsb@2Chronicles:1:10 @ »Please give me the wisdom and knowledge I need to rule over them. Otherwise, how would I ever be able to rule this great people of yours?«

nsb@2Chronicles:1:12 @ »For this reason I will give you wisdom and knowledge. And in addition, I will give you more wealth, treasure, and fame than any king has ever had before or will ever have again.«

nsb@2Chronicles:1:15 @ During his reign silver and gold became as common in Jerusalem as stone, and cedar was as plentiful as ordinary sycamore in the foothills of Judah.

nsb@2Chronicles:1:16 @ Solomon’s merchants bought his string of horses and chariots in the regions of Musri and Kue.

nsb@2Chronicles:2:3 @ Solomon sent a message to King Hiram of Tyre: »Do business with me as you did with my father, King David, when you sold him cedar logs for building his palace.

nsb@2Chronicles:2:4 @ »I am building a Temple to honor Jehovah my God. It will be a holy place where my people and I will worship him by burning incense of fragrant spices. We will present offerings of sacred bread to him continuously, and we will offer burnt offerings every morning and evening, as well as on Sabbaths, New Moon Festivals, and other holy days honoring Jehovah our God. He has commanded Israel to do this from generation to generation.

nsb@2Chronicles:2:5 @ »I am determined to build a great Temple. This is because our God is greater than all other gods.

nsb@2Chronicles:2:6 @ »No one can really build a Temple for God. This is because even all the vastness of heaven cannot contain him. How then can I build a Temple that would be anything more than a place to burn incense to God?

nsb@2Chronicles:2:9 @ »Prepare large quantities of timber, because this Temple I intend to build will be large and magnificent.

nsb@2Chronicles:2:11 @ King Hiram sent Solomon a letter in reply. He wrote: »Jehovah made you their king because he loves his people.«

nsb@2Chronicles:2:14 @ »He was the son of a woman from the tribe of Daniel. His father is a native of Tyre. Huram knows how to work with gold, silver, copper, iron, stone, wood, purple, violet, and dark red cloth, and linen. He also knows how to make all kinds of engravings and follow any set of plans that will be given to him. He can work with your skilled workmen and the skilled workmen of His Majesty David, your father.

nsb@2Chronicles:2:17 @ Solomon counted all the men who were foreigners in the land of Israel, as his father David had counted them. Solomon counted one hundred and fifty-three thousand and six hundred foreigners.

nsb@2Chronicles:3:1 @ Solomon began to build Jehovah’s Temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah. That is where Jehovah appeared to his father David. David had prepared the site on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

nsb@2Chronicles:3:2 @ He began to build on the second day in the second month of the fourth year of his reign. It was in the place David had povided.

nsb@2Chronicles:3:3 @ This is how Solomon laid the foundation to build God’s Temple. It was ninety feet long and thirty feet wide.

nsb@2Chronicles:5:1 @ The work Solomon did on Jehovah’s Temple was finished. He brought the holy things that had belonged to his father David, the silver, gold, and all the utensils. He put them in the storerooms of God’s Temple.

nsb@2Chronicles:5:13 @ the trumpeters and singers praised and thanked Jehovah in unison. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and other musical instruments, they sang in praise to Jehovah: »He is good; his mercy endures forever.« Then Jehovah’s Temple was filled with a cloud.

nsb@2Chronicles:6:4 @ »Thanks be to Jehovah God of Israel. With his mouth he made a promise to my father David. With his hand he carried it out.« He said:

nsb@2Chronicles:6:7 @ »My father David had his heart set on building a Temple for the name of Jehovah the God of Israel.

nsb@2Chronicles:6:12 @ In the presence of the entire assembly of Israel, Solomon stood in front of Jehovah’s altar. He stretched out his hands to pray.

nsb@2Chronicles:6:13 @ Solomon had made a copper platform seven and one half feet long, seven and one half feet wide, and four and one half feet high. He put it in the middle of the courtyard. He stood on the platform, knelt in front of the entire assembly, and stretched out his hands toward heaven.

nsb@2Chronicles:6:18 @ »Does God really live on earth with people? If heaven and the highest heaven cannot hold you, then how can this Temple that I have built?

nsb@2Chronicles:6:20 @ »Day and night may your eyes be on this Temple, the place where you said your name will be. Listen to me as I pray toward this place.

nsb@2Chronicles:6:21 @ »Hear the plea for mercy that your people Israel and I pray toward this place. Hear us in heaven, the place where you live. Hear and forgive.

nsb@2Chronicles:6:22 @ »If anyone sins against another person and is required to take an oath and comes to take the oath in front of your altar in this temple,

nsb@2Chronicles:6:24 @ »An enemy may defeat your people Israel because they have sinned against you. But when your people return, praise your name, pray, and plead with you in this Temple,

nsb@2Chronicles:6:26 @ »When the sky is shut and there is no rain because they are sinning against you and they pray toward this place, praise your name, and turn away from their sin because you made them suffer,

nsb@2Chronicles:6:29 @ hear every prayer for mercy made by one person or by all the people in Israel, all who know suffering or pain, who stretch out their hands toward this Temple.

nsb@2Chronicles:6:32 @ »People who are not Israelites will come from distant countries because of your great name, mighty hand, and powerful arm. When they come to pray facing this Temple,

nsb@2Chronicles:6:33 @ then hear them in heaven, the place where you live. Do everything they ask so that all the people of the world may know your name and respect you like your people Israel and learn that this Temple that I built bears your name.

nsb@2Chronicles:6:34 @ »When your people go to war against their enemies, you send them and they pray to you toward this city you have chosen and the Temple I built for your name,

nsb@2Chronicles:6:40 @ »Finally, my God, may your eyes be open and your ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.

nsb@2Chronicles:7:3 @ When all the Israelites saw the fire come down and Jehovah’s glory on the Temple, they knelt down with their faces on the pavement. They worshiped and praised Jehovah. They said: »He is good; his mercy endures forever.«

nsb@2Chronicles:7:6 @ The priests were standing at their posts. So were the Levites who had Jehovah’s musical instruments that King David made for praising Jehovah. They were saying: »his mercy endures forever.« This he used to offer praise. The priests were opposite the Levites blowing trumpets while all Israel was standing there.

nsb@2Chronicles:7:10 @ Solomon dismissed the people to their tents on the twenty-third day of the seventh month. They rejoiced with cheerful hearts for all the blessings Jehovah had given David, Solomon, and his people Israel.

nsb@2Chronicles:7:11 @ Solomon finished Jehovah’s Temple and the royal palace and completed everything he had in mind for Jehovah’s Temple and his own palace.

nsb@2Chronicles:7:12 @ JEHOVAH APPEARED TO SOLOMON THAT NIGHT. He said to Solomon: »I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a Temple for sacrifices.

nsb@2Chronicles:7:15 @ »My eyes will be open! My ears will pay attention to the prayers offered at this place.

nsb@2Chronicles:7:16 @ »I have chosen and declared this Temple holy so that my name may be placed there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.

nsb@2Chronicles:7:20 @ »I will uproot Israel from the land I gave them. I will reject this Temple that I declared holy for my name. I will make it an example and an object of ridicule for all the people of the world.

nsb@2Chronicles:7:21 @ »Everyone passing by this impressive Temple will be appalled. They will ask: Why did Jehovah do these things to this land and to this Temple?

nsb@2Chronicles:7:22 @ »They will answer their own question: ‘They abandoned Jehovah the God of their ancestors, who brought them out of Egypt. They adopted other gods, worshiped, and served them. That is why he brought this disaster on them.’«

nsb@2Chronicles:8:1 @ It took Solomon twenty years to build Jehovah’s house and his own house.

nsb@2Chronicles:8:6 @ He also rebuilt Baalath and all the storage cities that he owned. He built all the cities for his chariots, all the cities for his warhorses, and whatever else he wanted to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, or the entire territory that he governed.

nsb@2Chronicles:8:9 @ Solomon did not make any of the Israelites slaves for his projects. Instead, they were the soldiers, officers, generals, and commanders of his chariot and cavalry units.

nsb@2Chronicles:8:14 @ As Solomon’s father David had directed, he set up the divisions of priests for their service and the divisions of Levites for their appointed places. The Levites were to lead in praising Jehovah and to serve beside the priests by doing whatever needed to be done each day. Solomon also set up divisions of doorkeepers at every gate because this was what David, the man of God, had commanded.

nsb@2Chronicles:8:18 @ Huram sent his own servants and his experienced sailors with ships to Solomon. They went with Solomon’s servants to Ophir. There they procured thirty three thousand seven hundred and fifty pounds of gold, and brought it to King Solomon.

nsb@2Chronicles:9:4 @ the food on his table, his officers’ seating arrangement, the organization of his officials and the uniforms they wore, his cupbearers and their uniforms, and the burnt offerings that he sacrificed at Jehovah’s Temple, she was breathless.

nsb@2Chronicles:9:8 @ »I thank Jehovah your God, who is pleased with you. He has put you on his throne to be king on behalf of Jehovah your God. Because of your God’s love for the people of Israel, he has established them permanently and made you king over them so that you would maintain justice and righteousness.«

nsb@2Chronicles:9:19 @ Twelve lions stood on six steps, one on each side. Nothing like this had been made for any other kingdom.

nsb@2Chronicles:9:21 @ The king had ships going to Tarshish with Huram’s sailors. Once every three years the Tarshish ships would bring gold, silver, ivory, apes, and monkeys.

nsb@2Chronicles:9:24 @ Everyone who came brought him gifts such as articles of silver and gold, clothing, weapons, spices, horses, and mules. This happened year after year.

nsb@2Chronicles:9:31 @ Solomon lay down in death with his ancestors and was buried in the City of David. His son Rehoboam succeeded him as king.

nsb@2Chronicles:10:6 @ King Rehoboam sought advice from the elders who had served his father Solomon while he was still alive. He asked: »What do you advise? How should I respond to these people?«

nsb@2Chronicles:10:10 @ The young men who had grown up with him answered: »This is what you should tell them: ‘My little finger is heavier than my father’s whole body.

nsb@2Chronicles:10:16 @ When all Israel saw that the king refused to listen to them, the people answered the king: »What share do we have in David’s kingdom? We will not receive an inheritance from Jesse’s son. Everyone to his own tent, Israel! Now look after your own house, David!« So all Israel went home to their tents.

nsb@2Chronicles:10:18 @ King Rehoboam sent Hadoram to the Israelites. He was in charge of forced labor, but they stoned him to death. So King Rehoboam got on his chariot as fast as he could and fled to Jerusalem.

nsb@2Chronicles:10:19 @ Israel has rebelled against David’s dynasty to this day.

nsb@2Chronicles:11:2 @ God spoke his word to Shemaiah, the man of God. He said:

nsb@2Chronicles:11:9 @ Adoraim, Lachish, Azekah,

nsb@2Chronicles:11:14 @ The priests abandoned their land and property and went to Judah and Jerusalem because Jeroboam and his descendants rejected them as Jehovah’s priests.

nsb@2Chronicles:11:15 @ As an alternative, Jeroboam appointed his own priests for the illegal worship sites and the goat and calf statues he had made as idols.

nsb@2Chronicles:11:21 @ Rehoboam loved Maacah, Absalom’s granddaughter, more than all his other wives and concubines. He had eighteen wives and sixty concubines. He fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

nsb@2Chronicles:11:22 @ Rehoboam appointed Abijah, son of Maacah, as family head and prince among his brothers. By doing this, Rehoboam could make him king.

nsb@2Chronicles:11:23 @ He wisely placed his sons in every region of Judah and Benjamin, in every fortified city. He gave them allowances and obtained many wives for them.

nsb@2Chronicles:12:1 @ Rehoboam established his kingdom and made himself strong. He and all Israel abandoned Jehovah’s teachings.

nsb@2Chronicles:12:2 @ King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem. This took place in the fifth year of Rehoboam’s reign. It happened because all Israel was not loyal to Jehovah.

nsb@2Chronicles:12:3 @ Shishak had twelve hundred chariots, sixty thousand horses, and an army of countless Libyans, Sukkites, and Sudanese from Egypt.

nsb@2Chronicles:12:5 @ Shemaiah the prophet approached Rehoboam and the princes of Judah who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak. He said to them: »Jehovah says: ‘You have forsaken me, so I also have forsaken you to Shishak.’«

nsb@2Chronicles:12:7 @ Jehovah saw that they humbled themselves. The word of Jehovah came to Shemaiah. He said: »They have humbled themselves. I will not destroy them. I will grant them deliverance. I will not use Shishak to pour out my anger on Jerusalem.

nsb@2Chronicles:12:8 @ »However, they will become his servants. They must learn the difference between serving me and serving foreign kings.«

nsb@2Chronicles:12:9 @ King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem and took away the treasures from Jehovah’s temple and the royal palace. He took them all! He even took the gold shields Solomon had made.

nsb@2Chronicles:12:13 @ King Rehoboam strengthened his position in Jerusalem and ruled. He was forty-one years old when he began to rule. He ruled for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city that Jehovah chose from all the tribes of Israel, and the city where Jehovah put his name. Rehoboam’s mother was an Ammonite woman named Naamah.

nsb@2Chronicles:12:14 @ He did evil because he did not seriously dedicate his life to Jehovah.

nsb@2Chronicles:12:16 @ Rehoboam lay down in death with his ancestors and was buried in the City of David. His son Abijah succeeded him as king.

nsb@2Chronicles:13:2 @ His mother was Micaiah the daughter of Uriel from Gibeah. He ruled from Jerusalem for three years when war broke out between Abijah of Judah and Jeroboam of Israel.

nsb@2Chronicles:13:5 @ »Do you not know that Jehovah, the God of Israel, made an unbreakable covenant with David, giving him and his descendants kingship over Israel from generation to generation?

nsb@2Chronicles:13:6 @ »Jeroboam son of Nebat rebelled against Solomon, his king.

nsb@2Chronicles:13:12 @ »God is with us as our leader. His priests will sound their trumpets to call the army to fight you. Men of Israel do not wage war against Jehovah the God of your ancestors. You will not succeed.«

nsb@2Chronicles:13:17 @ Abijah and his men defeated them decisively. Five hundred thousand of the best men of Israel were killed.

nsb@2Chronicles:13:19 @ Abijah pursued Jeroboam and captured some of his cities: Bethel and its villages, Jeshanah and its villages, and Ephron and its villages.

nsb@2Chronicles:13:22 @ The history of Abijah, including how he lived, is written by the prophet Iddo.

nsb@2Chronicles:14:1 @ Abijah slept in death with his ancestors and was buried in the City of David. His son Asa succeeded him as king. In Asa’s time the land had peace for ten years.

nsb@2Chronicles:14:2 @ Asa did what Jehovah his God considered good and right.

nsb@2Chronicles:14:4 @ He told the people of Judah to dedicate their lives to Jehovah. They were to serve the God of their ancestors and observe his teachings and commandments.

nsb@2Chronicles:14:5 @ He got rid of the illegal places of worship and destroyed the altars for incense in all the cities of Judah. The kingdom was at peace during his reign.

nsb@2Chronicles:14:11 @ Asa prayed: »Jehovah, only you can help a powerless army defeat a stronger one. We depend on you to help us. We will fight against this powerful army to honor your name! We know that you will not be defeated. You are Jehovah our God. Do not let man prevail against you.«

nsb@2Chronicles:14:12 @ Jehovah helped Asa and his army defeat the Ethiopians. The enemy soldiers ran away,

nsb@2Chronicles:14:13 @ Asa and his army pursued them as far as Gerar. It was a total defeat! The Ethiopians could not even fight back! The soldiers from Judah took everything that had belonged to the Ethiopians.

nsb@2Chronicles:14:14 @ Asa and his army attacked all the cities around Gerar because the cities were in dread of Jehovah. The army looted all the cities because there were many things to take.

nsb@2Chronicles:15:5 @ »No one could come and go in peace at that time. This is because everyone living in the land had a lot of turmoil.

nsb@2Chronicles:15:16 @ King Asa also removed his grandmother Maacah from the position of queen mother. She made a statue of the repulsive goddess Asherah. Asa immediately cut the statue down, crushed it, and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

nsb@2Chronicles:15:17 @ Although the illegal worship sites in Israel were not taken down, Asa remained committed to Jehovah his entire life.

nsb@2Chronicles:15:18 @ He brought into God’s Temple the silver, the gold, and the utensils he and his father had set apart as holy.

nsb@2Chronicles:16:4 @ Benhadad agreed to do what King Asa requested. He sent his generals and their armies to attack the cities of Israel. He conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel Maim, and all the storage cities in the territory of Naphtali.

nsb@2Chronicles:16:10 @ Asa was so angry with the prophet that he had him put in chains. It was at this same time that Asa began treating some of the people cruelly.

nsb@2Chronicles:16:11 @ All the events of Asa’s reign from beginning to end are recorded in The History of the Kings of Judah and Israel.

nsb@2Chronicles:16:14 @ Asa was buried in the rock tomb that he had carved out for himself in David’s City. They used spices and perfumed oils to prepare his body for burial. They built a huge bonfire to mourn his death.

nsb@2Chronicles:17:1 @ Jehoshaphat succeeded his father Asa as king and strengthened his position against Israel.

nsb@2Chronicles:17:3 @ Jehovah blessed Jehoshaphat because he followed the example of his father’s early life and did not worship Baal.

nsb@2Chronicles:17:4 @ He served his father’s God. He obeyed God’s commandments, and did not act the way the kings of Israel did.

nsb@2Chronicles:17:6 @ His heart was devoted to the ways of Jehovah. He destroyed all the pagan places of worship and the symbols of the goddess Asherah in Judah.

nsb@2Chronicles:17:7 @ In the third year of his reign he sent out the following officials to teach in the cities of Judah: Benhail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah.

nsb@2Chronicles:18:10 @ One of them, Zedekiah son of Chenaanah, made iron horns and said to Ahab: This is what Jehovah says: »With these you will fight the Syrians and totally defeat them.«

nsb@2Chronicles:18:18 @ Micaiah continued: »Now listen to what Jehovah says! I saw Jehovah sitting on his throne in heaven. All his angels were standing beside him.«

nsb@2Chronicles:18:22 @ Micaiah concluded: »This is what has happened. Jehovah made these prophets of yours lie to you. But he has decreed that you will meet with disaster!«

nsb@2Chronicles:18:23 @ Then the prophet Zedekiah went up to Micaiah and slapped his face. He asked: »Since when did Jehovah’s spirit leave me and speak to you?«

nsb@2Chronicles:18:25 @ Then King Ahab ordered one of his officers: »Arrest Micaiah and take him to Amon, the governor of the city, and to Prince Joash.«

nsb@2Chronicles:18:26 @ Say: »This is what the king says: ‘Put this man in prison, and feed him nothing but bread and water until I return home safely.’«

nsb@2Chronicles:18:27 @ Micaiah said: »If you really do come back safely, then Jehovah was not speaking through me. Pay attention to this, everyone!«

nsb@2Chronicles:18:33 @ One man aimed his bow at random and hit the king of Israel between his scale armor and his breastplate. Ahab told the chariot driver: »Turn around, and get me away from these troops for I am badly wounded.«

nsb@2Chronicles:18:34 @ The battle raged on and King Ahab remained propped up in his chariot, facing the Syrians. At sunset he died.

nsb@2Chronicles:19:1 @ King Jehoshaphat of Judah returned safely to his palace in Jerusalem.

nsb@2Chronicles:19:3 @ »Regardless of this, there is some good in you. You have removed all the symbols of the goddess Asherah that people worshiped. You have tried to follow God’s will.«

nsb@2Chronicles:19:10 @ »Warn your relatives living in other cities about every case they bring to you, even if the case involves bloodshed or commandments, rules, or regulations derived from the law. Then your relatives will not become guilty in front of Jehovah. Otherwise, he will become angry with you and your relatives. Do this and you will not be guilty of anything.

nsb@2Chronicles:20:7 @ »You are our God. When your people Israel moved into this land, you drove out the people who were living here and gave the land to the descendants of Abraham, your friend, to be theirs from generation to generation.

nsb@2Chronicles:20:8 @ »Our ancestors lived in this land and built a Temple to honor you.

nsb@2Chronicles:20:9 @ »They believed that whenever this land is struck by war, judgement, disease, or famine, your people can pray to you at the Temple. You will hear their prayer and save them.

nsb@2Chronicles:20:12 @ »You are our God. Will you judge them? We do not have the strength to face this large crowd that is attacking us. We do not know what to do, so we are looking to you.«

nsb@2Chronicles:20:15 @ Jahaziel said: »Pay attention to me, everyone from Judah, everyone living in Jerusalem, and King Jehoshaphat. This is what Jehovah says to you: ‘Do not be frightened or terrified by this large crowd. The battle is not yours. It is God’s.

nsb@2Chronicles:20:17 @ »‘You will not have to fight this battle. Just take up your positions and wait. You will see Jehovah give you victory. People of Judah and Jerusalem, do not hesitate or be afraid.’ Go out to battle. Jehovah will be with you!

nsb@2Chronicles:20:18 @ »Then King Jehoshaphat bowed low. His face was touching the ground. All the people bowed with him and worshiped Jehovah.

nsb@2Chronicles:20:20 @ »Early the next morning the people went out to the wild country near Tekoa. Before they began Jehoshaphat addressed them with these words: ‘People of Judah and Jerusalem! Put your trust in Jehovah your God. You will stand your ground. Believe what his prophets tell you, and you will succeed.

nsb@2Chronicles:20:21 @ »After consulting with the people, the king ordered some musicians to put on the robes they wore on sacred occasions and to march ahead of the army. They sang: ‘Praise Jehovah! His love is eternal!’«

nsb@2Chronicles:20:25 @ Jehoshaphat and his troops came to take the loot. They found among them a lot of goods, clothes, and valuables. They found more than they could carry. They spent three days collecting the loot.

nsb@2Chronicles:20:30 @ Jehoshaphat’s kingdom was peaceful, since his God surrounded him with peace.

nsb@2Chronicles:20:31 @ Jehoshaphat ruled as king of Judah. He was thirty-five years old when he began to rule. He ruled for twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Azubah, daughter of Shilhi.

nsb@2Chronicles:20:32 @ Jehoshaphat carefully followed the example his father Asa had set and did what Jehovah considered right.

nsb@2Chronicles:20:35 @ After this, King Jehoshaphat of Judah allied himself with King Ahaziah of Israel, who led him to do evil.

nsb@2Chronicles:20:36 @ Jehoshaphat joined him in making ships to go to Tarshish. They made the ships in Ezion Geber.

nsb@2Chronicles:20:37 @ Eliezer was the son of Dodavahu from Mareshah. He prophesied against Jehoshaphat. He said: »Jehovah will destroy your work because you have allied yourself with Ahaziah.« The ships were wrecked and could not go to Tarshish.

nsb@2Chronicles:21:1 @ Jehoshaphat died and was buried in the royal tombs in David’s City and his son Jehoram succeeded him as king.

nsb@2Chronicles:21:3 @ Their father gave them large amounts of gold, silver, and other valuable possessions, and placed each one in charge of one of the fortified cities of Judah. But because Jehoram was the oldest, Jehoshaphat made him his successor.

nsb@2Chronicles:21:4 @ Jehoram was in firm control of the kingdom. He had all his brothers killed, and also some Israelite officials.

nsb@2Chronicles:21:7 @ Jehovah was not willing to destroy the dynasty of David. This is because he made a covenant with David and promised that his descendants would always continue to rule.

nsb@2Chronicles:21:9 @ Jehoram took all his chariot commanders to attack. The Edomites and their chariot commanders surrounded him. He got up during the night and broke through their lines.

nsb@2Chronicles:21:10 @ So Edom rebelled against Judah’s rule and is still independent today. At the same time Edom rebelled, Libnah rebelled because Jehoram had abandoned Jehovah the God of his ancestors.

nsb@2Chronicles:21:11 @ Jehoram made illegal places of worship in the hills of Judah. This caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to chase after foreign gods as if they were prostitutes. So he led Judah astray.

nsb@2Chronicles:21:12 @ A letter came to him from the prophet Elijah. It read: This is what Jehovah the God of your ancestor David says: You have not followed the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or the ways of King Asa of Judah.

nsb@2Chronicles:21:14 @ Jehovah will strike a great blow to your people, your sons, your wives, and all your property because you did this.

nsb@2Chronicles:21:17 @ They invaded Judah and stole the royal property from the palace. They led Jehoram’s wives and sons away as prisoners. The only one left behind was Ahaziah, his youngest son.

nsb@2Chronicles:21:18 @ After this happened; Jehovah struck Jehoram with an incurable stomach disease.

nsb@2Chronicles:21:19 @ Two years later Jehoram died in terrible pain. No bonfire was built to honor him. The people had done this for his ancestors, but not him.

nsb@2Chronicles:22:1 @ The people of Jerusalem made Jehoram’s youngest son Ahaziah king in his place, because the raiders who came to the camp with the Arabs had killed all the older sons. So Jehoram’s son Ahaziah became king of Judah.

nsb@2Chronicles:22:2 @ Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he began to rule. He ruled for one year in Jerusalem. His mother was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri.

nsb@2Chronicles:22:3 @ Ahaziah also followed the ways of Ahab’s family, because his mother gave him advice that led him to sin.

nsb@2Chronicles:22:4 @ He did what Jehovah considered evil the same as Ahab’s family had done. After his father died, they advised him to do what Ahab’s family had done. They did this to destroy him.

nsb@2Chronicles:22:6 @ He returned to the city of Jezreel to recover from his wounds. Ahaziah went there to visit him.

nsb@2Chronicles:22:7 @ God used this visit to Joram to bring about Ahaziah’s downfall. While Ahaziah was there, a man named Jehu confronted him and Joram. Jehu was the son of Nimshi, whom Jehovah chose to destroy the dynasty of Ahab.

nsb@2Chronicles:22:8 @ Jehu carried out God’s sentence on the dynasty. He came across a group made up of Judean leaders and of Ahaziah’s nephews that had accompanied Ahaziah on his visit. Jehu killed them all.

nsb@2Chronicles:22:9 @ A search was made for Ahaziah. He was found hiding in Samaria. They took him to Jehu and put him to death. But they did bury his body out of respect for his grandfather King Jehoshaphat, who had done all he could to serve Jehovah. No member of Ahaziah’s family was left who could rule the kingdom.

nsb@2Chronicles:23:4 @ You must do this: One third of you, the priests and Levites who are on duty on the day of worship, must guard the gates.

nsb@2Chronicles:23:7 @ The Levites should surround the king. Each man should have his weapon in his hand. Kill anyone who tries to come into the Temple. Stay with the king wherever he goes.

nsb@2Chronicles:23:8 @ The Levites and all the Judeans did what the priest Jehoiada had ordered them. Each took his men who were coming on duty on the day of worship as well as those who were about to go off duty. Jehoiada did not dismiss the priestly divisions.

nsb@2Chronicles:23:11 @ Then they brought out the king’s son and put the crown on him. They gave him the testimony and made him king. Jehoiada and his sons anointed him. They said: »Long live the king!«

nsb@2Chronicles:23:13 @ She saw the king was standing by his pillar at the entrance. The captains and the trumpeters were beside the king. All the people of the land rejoiced and blew trumpets. The singers with their musical instruments lead the praise. Then Athaliah tore her clothes and said: »This is treason! Treason!«

nsb@2Chronicles:23:18 @ Jehoiada put the priests and Levites in charge of the work of the Temple. They were to carry out the duties assigned to them by King David. This included burning the sacrifices offered to Jehovah in accordance with the Law of Moses. They were also in charge of the music and the celebrations.

nsb@2Chronicles:24:1 @ Joash began to rule when he was seven years old. He ruled for forty years in Jerusalem. His mother was Zibiah from Beersheba.

nsb@2Chronicles:24:11 @ When the Levites brought the box to the king’s officers and they saw a lot of money. The king’s scribe and the chief priest’s officer would empty the box and put it back in its place. They would do this every day. They collected a lot of money.

nsb@2Chronicles:24:16 @ He was buried in the royal tombs in Jerusalem. This was because he had done so much good for the people of Israel, for God, and for the Temple.

nsb@2Chronicles:24:20 @ God’s Spirit spoke to Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest. Zechariah told everyone that God was saying: »Why are you disobeying me and my Laws? This will only bring punishment! You have deserted me, so now I will desert you.«

nsb@2Chronicles:24:22 @ King Joash forgot that Zechariah’s father had always been a loyal friend. So when the people of Judah plotted to kill Zechariah, Joash joined them and gave orders for them to stone him to death in the courtyard of the Temple. As Zechariah was dying, he said: »I pray that Jehovah will see this and punish all of you.«

nsb@2Chronicles:24:25 @ The Arameans withdrew. They left him suffering from many wounds. His own officials plotted against him for murdering the son of the priest Jehoiada. They killed Joash in his bed and buried him in the City of David. But they did not bury him in the tombs of the kings.

nsb@2Chronicles:24:27 @ The record about his sons, the many divine revelations against him, and the rebuilding of God’s Temple is in the notes made in the Book of the Kings. His son Amaziah succeeded him as king.

nsb@2Chronicles:25:1 @ Amaziah began to rule at age twenty-five. He ruled for twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother was Jehoaddan from Jerusalem.

nsb@2Chronicles:25:3 @ Once he had firm control over the kingdom, he executed the officials who killed his father, the former king.

nsb@2Chronicles:25:4 @ He did not execute their children. He obeyed Jehovah’s command written in the Book of Moses’ Teachings: »Parents must never be put to death for the crimes of their children, and children must never be put to death for the crimes of their parents. Each person must be put to death for his own crime.«

nsb@2Chronicles:25:7 @ A man of God approached him and said: »Your Majesty, Israel’s army must not go with you. This is because Jehovah is not with Israel. He is not with these men from Ephraim.

nsb@2Chronicles:25:11 @ Amaziah courageously led his troops. When he came to the Dead Sea region, he killed ten thousand men from Seir.

nsb@2Chronicles:25:14 @ After Amaziah came back from defeating the Edomites, he brought the gods of the people of Seir, set them up as his gods, bowed down to them, and burned sacrifices to them.

nsb@2Chronicles:25:16 @ The king asked him: »Did we make you an adviser to the king? Stop! Do you want me to have you killed?« The prophet stopped. He said: »I know that God has decided to destroy you because you did this. Yet you refuse to listen to my advice.«

nsb@2Chronicles:25:17 @ After receiving counsel from his advisers, King Amaziah of Judah sent messengers to King Jehoash, son of Jehoahaz and grandson of Jehu of Israel, to declare war on Israel.

nsb@2Chronicles:25:18 @ King Jehoash of Israel sent this message to King Amaziah of Judah: »A thistle in Lebanon sent a message to a cedar in Lebanon. It said: ‘Let your daughter marry my son, but a wild animal from Lebanon came along and trampled the thistle.

nsb@2Chronicles:25:20 @ But Amaziah would not listen. God made this happen because he wanted to hand over the Judeans to Jehoash because they had sought help from Edom’s gods.

nsb@2Chronicles:25:27 @ Amaziah turned away from Jehovah. So conspirators in Jerusalem plotted against him. Amaziah fled to Lachish, but they sent men to Lachish after him and killed him there.

nsb@2Chronicles:25:28 @ They brought him back by horse and buried him in the city of Judah with his ancestors.

nsb@2Chronicles:26:1 @ All the people of Judah took Uzziah and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.

nsb@2Chronicles:26:3 @ Uzziah was sixteen years old when he began to rule. He ruled for fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother was Jecoliah from Jerusalem.

nsb@2Chronicles:26:4 @ He did what Jehovah considered right, as his father Amaziah had done.

nsb@2Chronicles:26:5 @ He dedicated his life to serving God in the days of Zechariah. Zechariah taught him to respect God. As long as he dedicated his life to serve God, Jehovah gave him success.

nsb@2Chronicles:26:8 @ The Ammonites paid taxes to Uzziah. His fame spread to the border of Egypt because he became very powerful.

nsb@2Chronicles:26:11 @ He had a large army ready for battle. Its records were kept by his secretaries Jeiel and Maaseiah under the supervision of Hananiah, a member of the king’s staff.

nsb@2Chronicles:26:16 @ However when he became powerful, his pride destroyed him. He was unfaithful to Jehovah his God. He went into Jehovah’s Temple to burn incense on the incense altar.

nsb@2Chronicles:26:18 @ They opposed King Uzziah. They said to him: »Uzziah, you have no right to burn incense as an offering to Jehovah. That right belongs to the priests, Aaron’s descendants, who have been given the holy task of burning incense. Get out of the holy place because you have been unfaithful. Jehovah God will not honor you for this.«

nsb@2Chronicles:26:19 @ Uzziah held an incense burner in his hand. He became angry. As his anger with the priests grew, a skin disease broke out on his forehead. This happened in front of the priests in Jehovah’s Temple as Uzziah was at the incense altar.

nsb@2Chronicles:26:20 @ When the chief priest Azariah and all the priests turned toward him, a skin disease was on his forehead. They rushed him away. Uzziah was in a hurry to get out because Jehovah had inflicted him with the disease.

nsb@2Chronicles:26:21 @ King Uzziah had a skin disease until the day he died. Since he had a skin disease, he lived in a separate house and was barred from Jehovah’s Temple. His son Jotham was in charge of the royal palace and governed the country.

nsb@2Chronicles:26:23 @ Uzziah lay down in death with his ancestors and was buried with them in a field containing tombs that belonged to the kings. People said: »He has a skin disease.« His son Jotham succeeded him as king.

nsb@2Chronicles:27:1 @ Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to rule. He ruled for sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother was Jerushah, daughter of Zadok.

nsb@2Chronicles:27:2 @ He did what Jehovah considered right, as his father Uzziah had done. Unlike his father, he did not illegally enter Jehovah’s Temple. The people continued their corrupt ways.

nsb@2Chronicles:27:6 @ Jotham grew powerful because he was determined to live the way Jehovah his God wanted.

nsb@2Chronicles:27:7 @ Everything else about Jotham, all his wars and his life, is written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.

nsb@2Chronicles:27:9 @ Jotham lay down in death with his ancestors. They buried him in the City of David. His son Ahaz succeeded him as king.

nsb@2Chronicles:28:1 @ Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to rule. He ruled for sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do what Jehovah considered right, as his ancestor David had done.

nsb@2Chronicles:28:3 @ He burned sacrifices in the valley of Ben Hinnom. He sacrificed his son by burning him alive. This was one of the disgusting things done by the nations that Jehovah had driven out from the land Israel possessed.

nsb@2Chronicles:28:5 @ Jehovah his God handed him over to the king of Aram, who defeated him, captured many prisoners, and brought them to Damascus. He also handed him over to the king of Israel, who decisively defeated him.

nsb@2Chronicles:28:9 @ A prophet of Jehovah named Oded was there. He went to meet the army coming home to Samaria. He said: »Jehovah the God of your ancestors handed Judah over to you in his anger. You killed them in a rage that reaches up to heaven.

nsb@2Chronicles:28:13 @ They said to the army: »Do not bring the prisoners here. You will make us responsible for this sin against Jehovah. Do you intend to add to all our sins? Jehovah is very angry at Israel because we have already sinned.«

nsb@2Chronicles:28:22 @ When he had this trouble, King Ahaz became more unfaithful to Jehovah!

nsb@2Chronicles:28:25 @ And in each city of Judah, he made places of worship to sacrifice to other gods. He angered Jehovah the God of his ancestors.

nsb@2Chronicles:28:27 @ Ahaz slept in death with his ancestors. He was buried in the city of Jerusalem because they did not put him into the tombs of the kings of Israel. His son Hezekiah succeeded him as king.

nsb@2Chronicles:29:1 @ Hezekiah began to rule as king when he was twenty-five years old. He ruled for twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother was Abijah, daughter of Zechariah.

nsb@2Chronicles:29:2 @ He did right in the eyes of Jehovah, as his ancestor David had done.

nsb@2Chronicles:29:3 @ In the first month of his first year as king, he opened the doors of Jehovah’s temple and repaired them.

nsb@2Chronicles:29:9 @ »Our fathers were killed in battle. Our sons, daughters, and wives are prisoners because of this.

nsb@2Chronicles:29:10 @ »Now I intend to make a pledge to Jehovah the God of Israel so that he may turn his burning anger away from us.

nsb@2Chronicles:29:11 @ »Do not be negligent, my sons. Jehovah has chosen you to stand in front of him, serve him, be his servants, and burn sacrifices.«

nsb@2Chronicles:29:18 @ Then they went to King Hezekiah. They said: »We have made Jehovah’s entire temple clean. This includes the altar for burnt offerings, all its utensils, the table for the rows of bread and all its utensils,

nsb@2Chronicles:29:19 @ and all the utensils King Ahaz refused to use during his reign when he was unfaithful. We have restored them and made them holy. They are in front of Jehovah’s altar.«

nsb@2Chronicles:29:36 @ King Hezekiah and the people were happy. For God helped them to do all this so quickly.

nsb@2Chronicles:30:2 @ The king, his officials, and the whole assembly in Jerusalem decided to celebrate the Passover in the second month.

nsb@2Chronicles:30:6 @ Messengers carried letters from the king and his officials throughout Israel and Judah. The king’s order said: »Israelites should return to Jehovah the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel. Then he will return to the few of you who escaped from the power of the kings of Assyria.

nsb@2Chronicles:30:8 @ »Do not stiffen your neck like your fathers, but yield to Jehovah and enter his sanctuary that he has consecrated from generation to generation. Serve Jehovah your God that His burning anger may turn away from you.

nsb@2Chronicles:30:9 @ »If you return to Jehovah, your brothers and your sons will find compassion before those who led them captive and will return to this land. Jehovah your God is gracious and compassionate. He will not turn his face away from you if you return to him.«

nsb@2Chronicles:30:19 @ who have their hearts set on dedicating their lives to serve God. May Jehovah the God of their ancestors do this for those who are not clean as required for the holy place.«

nsb@2Chronicles:30:26 @ There was great joy in Jerusalem. Nothing occurred like this in Jerusalem since the days of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel.

nsb@2Chronicles:31:1 @ When this ended, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, broke the pillars in pieces, cut down the Asherim and pulled down the high places and the altars throughout all Judah and Benjamin, Ephraim and Manasseh. They destroyed them all. Then all the sons of Israel returned to their cities, each to his possession.

nsb@2Chronicles:31:8 @ King Hezekiah and his officials saw how much had been given. They praised Jehovah and praised his people Israel.

nsb@2Chronicles:31:10 @ and Azariah the High Priest, a descendant of Zadok, said to him: Since the people started bringing their gifts to the temple, there has been enough to eat and a large surplus besides. We have all this because Jehovah has blessed his people.

nsb@2Chronicles:31:12 @ and put all the gifts and tithes in them for safekeeping. They placed a Levite named Conaniah in charge and made his brother Shimei his assistant.

nsb@2Chronicles:31:13 @ Ten Levites were assigned to work under them: Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismachiah, Mahath, and Benaiah. This was done by authority of King Hezekiah and Azariah the High Priest.

nsb@2Chronicles:31:15 @ In the other cities where priests lived, he was faithfully assisted in this by other Levites: Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah. They distributed the food equally to their fellow Levites according to what their duties were.

nsb@2Chronicles:31:20 @ This is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He did what was good and right and true to Jehovah his God.

nsb@2Chronicles:31:21 @ Hezekiah incorporated Moses’ teachings and commands into worship and dedicated his life to serving God. Whatever he did for the worship in God’s Temple, he did wholeheartedly, and he succeeded.

nsb@2Chronicles:32:3 @ He and his officers and military staff made plans to stop the water from flowing out of the springs outside the city. They helped him do it.

nsb@2Chronicles:32:9 @ Sennacherib and his troops were camped at the town of Lachish. He sent a message to Hezekiah and the people in Jerusalem. It said:

nsb@2Chronicles:32:16 @ Sennacherib’s officers said more against Jehovah God and his servant Hezekiah.

nsb@2Chronicles:32:17 @ Sennacherib wrote letters cursing Jehovah the God of Israel. These letters said: The gods of the nations in other countries could not rescue their people from me. Hezekiah’s God cannot rescue his people from me.

nsb@2Chronicles:32:20 @ King Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah, son of Amoz, prayed about this and called to heaven.

nsb@2Chronicles:32:21 @ Jehovah sent an angel who exterminated all the soldiers, officials, and commanders in the Assyrian king’s camp. Sennacherib was humiliated and returned to his own country. When he went into the temple of his god, some of his own sons killed him with a sword.

nsb@2Chronicles:32:23 @ Many people still went to Jerusalem to bring gifts to Jehovah and expensive presents to King Hezekiah of Judah. From that point in history he was considered important by all the nations.

nsb@2Chronicles:32:25 @ But Hezekiah was conceited. So he did not repay Jehovah for his kindness. Jehovah became angry with him, with Judah, and with Jerusalem.

nsb@2Chronicles:32:26 @ Hezekiah and the people living in Jerusalem humbled themselves when they realized they had become conceited. Thus Jehovah did not vent his anger on them during Hezekiah’s time.

nsb@2Chronicles:32:31 @ When the leaders of Babylon sent ambassadors to ask him about the miraculous sign that had happened in the land, God left him. God did this to test him, to find out everything that was in Hezekiah’s heart.

nsb@2Chronicles:32:32 @ Everything else about Hezekiah, including his devotion to God, is written in the vision of the prophet Isaiah, son of Amoz, and in the records of the kings of Judah and Israel.

nsb@2Chronicles:32:33 @ Hezekiah slept in death with his ancestors. He was buried in the upper tombs of David’s descendants. When Hezekiah died, all of Judah and the people in Jerusalem honored him. His son Manasseh succeeded him as king.

nsb@2Chronicles:33:3 @ He rebuilt the illegal places of worship that his father Hezekiah had torn down. He set up altars dedicated to other gods such as the Baals. He erected a pole dedicated to the goddess Asherah as King Ahab of Israel had done. Manasseh, like Ahab, worshiped and served the entire army of heaven.

nsb@2Chronicles:33:6 @ He burned his son as a sacrifice in the valley of Ben Hinnom, he consulted fortunetellers, and he cast evil spells. He also practiced witchcraft, and appointed royal mediums and psychics. He did many things that made Jehovah furious.

nsb@2Chronicles:33:7 @ Manasseh had a carved idol made. Then he set it up in God’s Temple, where God had said to David and his son Solomon: »I have chosen this temple and Jerusalem from all the tribes of Israel. I will put my name here from generation to generation.

nsb@2Chronicles:33:10 @ Jehovah spoke to Manasseh and his people. But they would not pay attention.

nsb@2Chronicles:33:11 @ So Jehovah made the army commanders of the king of Assyria invade Judah. They took Manasseh captive, put a hook in his nose, put him in bronze shackles, and brought him to Babylon.

nsb@2Chronicles:33:12 @ When he experienced distress, he begged Jehovah his God to be kind and humbled himself in front of the God of his ancestors.

nsb@2Chronicles:33:13 @ He prayed to Jehovah. And Jehovah accepted his prayer and listened to his request. Jehovah brought him back to his kingdom in Jerusalem. Then Manasseh knew that Jehovah is God.

nsb@2Chronicles:33:18 @ Everything else about Manasseh, including his prayer to his God and the words that the seers spoke to him in the name of Jehovah the God of Israel are in the records of the kings of Israel.

nsb@2Chronicles:33:19 @ His prayer and how God accepted it are written in the records of Hozai. The things he did before he humbled himself are also written there. This includes all his sins and unfaithfulness and the places where he built illegal worship sites and set up idols and poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah.

nsb@2Chronicles:33:20 @ Manasseh lay down in death with his ancestors. They buried him in his own palace. His son Amon succeeded him as king.

nsb@2Chronicles:33:22 @ He did what Jehovah considered evil, as his father Manasseh had done. Amon sacrificed to all the idols his father Manasseh had made, and he worshiped them.

nsb@2Chronicles:33:23 @ He did not humble himself in front of Jehovah as his father Manasseh had humbled himself. Instead, Amon continued to sin.

nsb@2Chronicles:33:24 @ His officials conspired against him and killed him in his palace.

nsb@2Chronicles:33:25 @ The people of the land killed everyone who conspired against King Amon. They made his son Josiah king in his place.

nsb@2Chronicles:34:2 @ He did what Jehovah considered right. He lived in the ways of his ancestor David and never stopped living this way.

nsb@2Chronicles:34:3 @ It was the eighth year of his reign. He was still a boy when he dedicated his life to service of the God of his ancestor David. In his twelfth year as king he purged Judah and Jerusalem by destroying the illegal places of worship, poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah, carved idols, and metal idols.

nsb@2Chronicles:34:8 @ In his eighteenth year as king as he was making the land and the temple clean, Josiah sent Shaphan, son of Azaliah, Maaseiah, the mayor of the city, and Joah, the royal historian and son of Joahaz, to repair the Temple of Jehovah his God.

nsb@2Chronicles:34:19 @ As soon as the king heard what the Law said, he tore his clothes in distress.

nsb@2Chronicles:34:21 @ »On behalf of those who are left in Israel and Judah and me, ask Jehovah about the words in this book that was found. Jehovah’s fierce anger has been poured on us because our ancestors did not obey the word of Jehovah by doing everything written in this book.«

nsb@2Chronicles:34:22 @ Hilkiah and the king’s officials went to talk to the prophet Huldah about this matter. She was the wife of Shallum, son of Tokhath and grandson of Hasrah. Shallum was in charge of the royal wardrobe. Huldah was living in the Second Part of Jerusalem.

nsb@2Chronicles:34:23 @ She told them: »This is what Jehovah the God of Israel says: »Tell the man who sent you to me,

nsb@2Chronicles:34:24 @ »This is what Jehovah says: ‘I am going to bring disaster on this place and on the people living here. This is according to the curses written in the book that was read to the king of Judah.

nsb@2Chronicles:34:25 @ »‘I will do this because they have abandoned me. They have sacrificed to other gods in order to make me furious. Therefore, my anger will be poured on this place and it will not be extinguished.’«

nsb@2Chronicles:34:26 @ Huldah continued: »Tell Judah’s king who sent you to me to ask Jehovah a question: ‘This is what Jehovah the God of Israel says about the words you heard:

nsb@2Chronicles:34:27 @ »‘»You had a change of heart and humbled yourself in front of God when you heard my words against this place and those who live here. You humbled yourself, tore your clothes in distress, and cried in front of me. So I will listen to you, proclaims Jehovah.

nsb@2Chronicles:34:28 @ »‘‘That is why I am going to bring you to your ancestors. I am going to bring you to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see any of the disaster I am going to bring on this place and those who live here.« ’« They reported this to the king.

nsb@2Chronicles:34:31 @ The king stood in his place and made a promise to Jehovah that he would follow Jehovah and obey his commandments, instructions, and laws with his entire heart and being. He said he would live by the terms of the covenant written in this book.

nsb@2Chronicles:35:3 @ He told the Levites, who instructed all Israel and performed ceremonies to make themselves holy to Jehovah: Put the Holy Ark in the Temple that Solomon, son of David and king of Israel, built. It should not be carried on your shoulders any longer. Serve Jehovah your God and his people Israel.

nsb@2Chronicles:35:4 @ Get yourselves ready with the family groups of your divisions, which are listed in the records of King David of Israel and the records of his son Solomon.

nsb@2Chronicles:35:7 @ Josiah donated thirty thousand sheep and goats, and three thousand bulls from his own flocks and herds for the people to offer as sacrifices.

nsb@2Chronicles:35:9 @ Conaniah and his brothers Shemaiah and Nethanel, and Hashabiah, Jeiel, and Jozabad, the leaders of the Levites, gave the Levites five thousand sheep and goats and five hundred bulls as Passover sacrifices.

nsb@2Chronicles:35:14 @ After this was done, the Levites provided meat for themselves and for the priests descended from Aaron. Since the priests were kept busy until night, burning the animals that were burned whole and the fat of the sacrifices.

nsb@2Chronicles:35:16 @ Everything was done that day as King Josiah commanded for the worship of Jehovah. This included the keeping of the Passover Festival, and the offering of burnt offerings on the altar.

nsb@2Chronicles:35:18 @ The Passover had not been celebrated like this since the days of the prophet Samuel. None of the former kings had ever celebrated a Passover like this one celebrated by King Josiah, the priests, the Levites, and the people of Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem

nsb@2Chronicles:35:19 @ This was the eighteenth year of Josiah’s reign.

nsb@2Chronicles:35:22 @ But Josiah would not stop his attack. He disguised himself as he went into battle. He refused to listen to Necho’s words, which came from God. He went to fight in the valley of Megiddo.

nsb@2Chronicles:35:23 @ Some archers shot King Josiah. The king told his officers: »Take me away because I am badly wounded.«

nsb@2Chronicles:35:24 @ His officers took him out of the chariot and brought him to Jerusalem in his other chariot. He died and was buried in the tombs of his ancestors. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.

nsb@2Chronicles:35:25 @ Then Jeremiah chanted a lament for Josiah. All the male and female singers speak about Josiah in their lamentations to this day. They made them an ordinance in Israel. They are also written in the Lamentations.

nsb@2Chronicles:35:26 @ The rest of the acts of Josiah and his deeds of devotion as written in the law of Jehovah,

nsb@2Chronicles:35:27 @ and his acts, first to last, are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.

nsb@2Chronicles:36:1 @ The people of the land crowned Josiah’s son Jehoahaz as their new king in Jerusalem in place of his father.

nsb@2Chronicles:36:5 @ Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king. He ruled for eleven years in Jerusalem. He did what Jehovah his God considered evil.

nsb@2Chronicles:36:7 @ Nebuchadnezzar also brought some of the utensils of Jehovah’s Temple to Babylon. He put them in his palace in Babylon.

nsb@2Chronicles:36:8 @ Everything about Jehoiakim, the disgusting things he did and all the charges against him are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. His son Jehoiakin succeeded him as king.

nsb@2Chronicles:36:12 @ He did what Jehovah his God considered evil. He did not humble himself in front of the prophet Jeremiah, who spoke Jehovah’s word.

nsb@2Chronicles:36:15 @ Jehovah the God of their ancestors repeatedly sent messages through his prophets because he wanted to spare his people and his dwelling place.

nsb@2Chronicles:36:16 @ They mocked God’s messengers. They despised his words, and made fun of his prophets until Jehovah became angry with his people. He could no longer heal them.

nsb@2Chronicles:36:18 @ He brought to Babylon each of the utensils from God’s temple, the treasures from Jehovah’s Temple, and the treasures of the king and his officials.

nsb@2Chronicles:36:20 @ The survivors were taken to Babylonia as prisoners. They served as slaves of the king and his sons, until Persia became a powerful nation.

nsb@2Chronicles:36:21 @ This fulfilled the word of Jehovah that was spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days of its desolation it kept Sabbath until seventy years were complete.

nsb@2Chronicles:36:22 @ In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of Jehovah by the mouth of Jeremiah, Jehovah stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia. He sent a proclamation throughout his kingdom, and also put it in writing. He said:

nsb@2Chronicles:36:23 @ Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: »Jehovah, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth. He has appointed me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever there is among you of all his people, may Jehovah his God be with him, and let him go up!«

nsb@Ezra:1:1 @ It was the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia. In order that the word of Jehovah given by the mouth of Jeremiah might come true, Jehovah moved the spirit of Cyrus, king of Persia. He made a public statement through all his kingdom, and put it in writing, saying:

nsb@Ezra:1:4 @ »‘If any of his people in exile need help to return, their neighbors should give them help. They are to provide them with silver and gold, supplies and pack animals, as well as offerings to present in the Temple of God in Jerusalem.’«

nsb@Ezra:1:7 @ King Cyrus gave back the bowls and cups that King Nebuchadnezzar took from the Temple in Jerusalem and put in the temple of his god.

nsb@Ezra:1:9 @ Now this was their inventory: 30 gold dishes, 1,000 silver dishes and 29 duplicates.

nsb@Ezra:2:1 @ These are the people of the divisions of the kingdom. Included were those who had been made prisoners by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and taken away to Babylon, who went back to Jerusalem and Judah, everyone to his town.

nsb@Ezra:2:50 @ The children of Asnah, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephisim,

nsb@Ezra:3:2 @ Then Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brothers the priests, and Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, with his brothers, got up and built the altar of the God of Israel for burned offerings. This was according to the Law of Moses, the man of God.

nsb@Ezra:3:9 @ Then Jeshua with his sons and his brothers, Kadmiel with his sons, the sons of Hodaviah, together took up the work of overseeing the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad with their sons and their brothers, the Levites.

nsb@Ezra:3:11 @ They praised Jehovah and thanked him, saying: »He is good; his loving kindness to Israel is for all generations.« All the people gave a joyful cry. They praised Jehovah because the foundation of Jehovah’s house was in place.

nsb@Ezra:3:12 @ Some of the priests, Levites, heads of families and old men who had seen the first house were present. When the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes they were overcome with weeping; and a number were crying out with joy:

nsb@Ezra:4:7 @ In the time of Artaxerxes, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his friends, sent a letter to Artaxerxes, king of Persia, writing it in the Aramaic language.

nsb@Ezra:4:11 @ »This is a copy of the letter that they sent to Artaxerxes the king: ‘Your servants living across the river send these words:

nsb@Ezra:4:15 @ »That way a search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers. You will see in the book of the records that this town has been uncontrolled. It has been a cause of trouble to kings and countries. There were outbursts against authority in the past. That is the reason the town was laid waste.

nsb@Ezra:4:16 @ »We give you word, that if this town and its walls is completely rebuilt, your power in the country across the river will end.«

nsb@Ezra:4:19 @ »I gave orders for a search to be made, and it is certain that in the past this town has made trouble for kings, and that outbursts against authority have taken place there.

nsb@Ezra:4:22 @ »Be sure to do this with all care. Do not let trouble increase to damage the king.«

nsb@Ezra:5:3 @ At the same time, Tattenai, ruler of the land across the river, and Shethar-bozenai, and their men, came to them and said, »Who gave you orders to go on building this house and this wall?«

nsb@Ezra:5:4 @ Then they said these words to them: »What are the names of the men who are at work on this building?«

nsb@Ezra:5:6 @ This is a copy of the letter Tattenai, the ruler of the land across the river, and Shethar-bozenai and his friends the Apharsachites, from across the river, sent to Darius the king.

nsb@Ezra:5:8 @ »This is to give the king word that we went to the land of Judah, to the house of the great God. It is made of large stones and has its walls supported with wood. The work is going on with diligence and they are making rapid progress.

nsb@Ezra:5:9 @ »Then we asked the men responsible: ‘Who gave you authority for the building of this house and these walls?’

nsb@Ezra:5:12 @ »‘But when our fathers moved the God of heaven to wrath, he gave them up into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, the Chaldaean. He sent destruction on this house and took the people away to Babylon.

nsb@Ezra:5:13 @ »‘In the first year of Cyrus, king of Babylon, Cyrus the king gave an order for the building of this house of God.

nsb@Ezra:5:14 @ »‘The gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the Temple in Jerusalem, were put into the house of his god in Babylon. Cyrus the king took these from the house of his god in Babylon, and gave them to Sheshbazzar, whom he had made ruler.’

nsb@Ezra:5:16 @ »Then this same Sheshbazzar came and put the house of God in Jerusalem on its foundations. From that time until now the building has been going on, but it is still not complete.«

nsb@Ezra:5:17 @ »If it seems good to the king, let search be made in the king's storehouse at Babylon. See if it is true that an order was given by Cyrus the king for the building of this house of God at Jerusalem. Let the king send us word of his pleasure in connection with this business.«

nsb@Ezra:6:1 @ Then Darius the king gave an order and a search was made in the house of the records. This is where the things of value were stored in Babylon.

nsb@Ezra:6:2 @ In the great house of the king in the land of Media, at Achmetha they came across a roll. This statement was put on record:

nsb@Ezra:6:7 @ »Let the work of this house of God continue. Let the ruler of the Jews and their responsible men construct this house of God in its place.

nsb@Ezra:6:8 @ »Further, I give orders as to what you are to do for the responsible men of the Jews in connection with the building of this house of God: That from the king's wealth, that is, from the taxes got together in the land over the river, the money needed is to be given to these men readily, so that their work may not be stopped.

nsb@Ezra:6:10 @ »That they may make offerings of a sweet smell to the God of heaven, with prayers for the life of the king and of his sons.

nsb@Ezra:6:11 @ »I further give orders that if anyone makes any change in this word; one of the supports is to be pulled out of his house. He is to be lifted up and fixed to it and his house is to be destroyed.

nsb@Ezra:6:12 @ »May the God who has made it a resting-place for his name send destruction on all kings and peoples whose hands are outstretched to make any change in this or to do damage to this house of God at Jerusalem. I, Darius, have given this order. Let it be done with all care.«

nsb@Ezra:6:15 @ The construction of this house was complete on the third day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of the rule of Darius the king.

nsb@Ezra:6:16 @ The children of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the rest of those who had come back, kept the feast of the opening of this house of God with joy.

nsb@Ezra:6:17 @ They gave a hundred oxen, two hundred sheep and four hundred lambs as offerings at the opening of this house of God. They gave twelve he goats as a sin offering for all of Israel. Twelve is the number of the tribes of Israel.

nsb@Ezra:6:18 @ They put the priests in their divisions and the Levites in their order, for the worship of God at Jerusalem. This is recorded in the book of Moses.

nsb@Ezra:7:6 @ Ezra came from Babylon. He was a scribe and an expert in the Law of Moses which Jehovah, the God of Israel, had given. The king was moved by Jehovah his God to give him whatever he requested.

nsb@Ezra:7:9 @ He started his journey from Babylon on the first day of the first month. He arrived at Jerusalem on the first day of the fifth month, by the good help of his God.

nsb@Ezra:7:11 @ This is a copy of the letter King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra, the priest and the scribe-copyist, who put into writing the words of the orders of Jehovah and of his rules for Israel:

nsb@Ezra:7:14 @ »The king and his seven wise men send you to get knowledge about Judah and Jerusalem. The Law of your God orders you.

nsb@Ezra:7:15 @ »You are to take with you the silver and gold freely offered by the king and his wise men to the God of Israel, who’s Temple is in Jerusalem,

nsb@Ezra:7:17 @ »Use this money to buy bulls, sheep, and lambs, with their meal offerings and their drink offerings, to be offered on the altar of the house of your God, which is in Jerusalem.

nsb@Ezra:7:23 @ »Whatever the God of heaven orders let it be done completely for the house of the God of heaven. Let there not be wrath against the kingdom of the king and his sons.

nsb@Ezra:7:24 @ »In addition, we make it clear to you, that it will be against the law to put any tax or payment in goods or forced payment on any of the priests or Levites, the music-makers, doorkeepers, Nethinim, or any servants of this house of God.

nsb@Ezra:7:26 @ »If anyone does not keep the law of your God and the law of the king, take care that punishment is given to him. This is by death or by driving him from his country or by taking away his goods or by putting him in prison.«

nsb@Ezra:7:28 @ He has given mercy to me before the king and his government and before all the king's great captains. I was made strong by the hand of Jehovah my God which was on me, and I got together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.

nsb@Ezra:8:17 @ I sent them to Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia, and gave them orders what to say to Iddo and his brothers the Nethinim at the place Casiphia, so that they might come back to us with men to do the work of the house of our God.

nsb@Ezra:8:18 @ With the help of our God they got for us Ish-sechel, one of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah with his sons and brothers, eighteen;

nsb@Ezra:8:19 @ And Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brothers and their sons, twenty;

nsb@Ezra:8:22 @ I would not make request to the king for a band of armed men and horsemen to give us help against those who might attack us on the way. We said to the king: »The hand of our God is on his servants for good, but his power and his wrath are against all those who have turned away from him.«

nsb@Ezra:8:23 @ So we went without food, requesting our God for this: and his ear was open to our prayer.

nsb@Ezra:8:25 @ I gave to them by weight the silver and the gold and the vessels, all the offering for the house of our God that the king and his wise men and his captains and all Israel there present had given:

nsb@Ezra:8:35 @ Those who had been prisoners, who had come back from a strange land, made burned offerings to the God of Israel, twelve oxen for all Israel, ninety-six male sheep, seventy-seven lambs, twelve he-goats for a sin-offering: all this was a burned offering to Jehovah.

nsb@Ezra:9:2 @ »They have taken their daughters as wives for themselves and for their sons. They have mingled the holy race with peoples around them. In fact the leaders and officials were first to do this evil.«

nsb@Ezra:9:3 @ Hearing this, with signs of grief and pulling out the hair of my head and my chin, I took my seat on the earth deeply troubled.

nsb@Ezra:9:7 @ »From the days of our fathers till this day we have been great sinners. Because of our sins, the kings of the lands captured us. We were given to the sword and to prison and to loss of goods and to shame of face, as it is this day.

nsb@Ezra:9:8 @ »Now for a little time grace has come to us from Jehovah our God, to let a small band of us go free and to give us a nail in his holy place. Our God gives light to our eyes and a measure of new life in our prison chains.

nsb@Ezra:9:10 @ »And now, O our God, what are we to say after this? For we have not obeyed your laws,

nsb@Ezra:9:13 @ »After all this and because of our evil-doing and our great sin, and seeing that the punishment that you, O God, have given us, is less than the measure of our sins, and that you have kept from death those of us who are here;

nsb@Ezra:9:15 @ »O Jehovah, God of Israel, righteousness is yours. We are only a small band that has been kept from death this day. See, we are before you in our sin. For no one may keep his place before you because of this.«

nsb@Ezra:10:1 @ While Ezra was saying his prayer and his confession of wrongdoing he wept and fell down before the house of God. A very great number of men and women and children out of Israel came together around him, for the people were weeping bitterly.

nsb@Ezra:10:2 @ Shecaniah, the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answering, said to Ezra, We have done evil against our God, and have taken as our wives strange women of the peoples of the land. But still there is hope for Israel in this question.

nsb@Ezra:10:4 @ »Up, now! For this is your business, and we are with you. Take heart and do it.«

nsb@Ezra:10:5 @ Then Ezra got up, and made the chiefs of the priests and the Levites and all Israel take an oath that they would do this. So they took an oath.

nsb@Ezra:10:8 @ And that if anyone did not come before three days were past, as ordered by the rulers and the responsible men, all his goods would be put under the curse. He himself would be cut off from the meeting of the people who had come back.

nsb@Ezra:10:9 @ Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin came together to Jerusalem before three days were past. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people were seated in the wide square in front of the house of God. They shook with fear because of this business of this business and because of the great rain.

nsb@Ezra:10:10 @ Ezra the priest got to his feet and said to them: »You have done wrong and taken strange women for your wives, thus increasing the sin of Israel.

nsb@Ezra:10:11 @ « Give praise to Jehovah, the God of your fathers, and do his will. Separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the strange women.«

nsb@Ezra:10:13 @ »The number of people is great, and it is a time of much rain; it is not possible for us to go on waiting outside. This is not a thing that may be done in one day or even two: for our sin in this business is great.

nsb@Ezra:10:14 @ »So now let our rulers be representatives for all the people. Let all those in our towns who are married to strange women come at fixed times, and with them the responsible men and the judges of every town, till the burning wrath of our God is turned away from us, and this has been done.«

nsb@Ezra:10:15 @ Only Jonathan, the son of Asahel, and Jahzeiah, the son of Tikvah, were against this, Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite supporting them.

nsb@Ezra:10:18 @ Among the sons of the priests who were married to strange women were these: of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak and his brothers, Maaseiah and Eliezer and Jarib and Gedaliah.

nsb@Nehemiah:1:1 @ The history of Nehemiah, the son of Hacaliah. Now it came about, in the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year, when I was in Shushan, the castle,

nsb@Nehemiah:1:2 @ Hanani, one of my brothers, came with men from Judah. This was in answer to my request for news about the Jews who had been prisoners and escaped from captivity and about Jerusalem.

nsb@Nehemiah:1:5 @ I said: »O Jehovah, the God of heaven, the great God, greatly to be respected, keeping faith and mercy with those who have love for him and are true to his laws:

nsb@Nehemiah:1:6 @ »Let your ear now take note and let your eyes be open. Please give ear to the prayer of your servant. At this time, day and night I pray for the children of Israel, your servants. I put before you the sins of the children of Israel that we have done against you: truly, my father’s people and I are sinners.

nsb@Nehemiah:1:11 @ »O Jehovah, let your ear take note of the prayer of your servant. Of the prayers of all your servants, who take delight in worshipping your name: give help, O Jehovah, to your servant this day, and let him have mercy in the eyes of this man.« Now I was the king's wine-servant.

nsb@Nehemiah:2:2 @ The king said to me: »Why is your face sad, seeing that you are not ill? This is nothing but sorrow of heart.« Then I was full of fear.

nsb@Nehemiah:2:8 @ »I need a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the king's park, so that he may give me wood to make boards for the doors of the tower of the house, and for the wall of the town, and for the house which is to be mine.« The king gave me this, for the hand of my God was on me.

nsb@Nehemiah:2:20 @ I answered them: »The God of heaven will be our help; so we, his servants, will go on with our building. But you have no part or right or any name in Jerusalem.«

nsb@Nehemiah:3:1 @ The high priest Eliashib worked with his brother priest to rebuild the Sheep Gateway. They made it holy and put its doors in position. They sanctified everything as far as the tower of Hammeah including to the tower of Hananel.

nsb@Nehemiah:3:10 @ By his side was Jedaiah, the son of Harumaph, opposite his house. And by him was Hattush, the son of Hashabneiah.

nsb@Nehemiah:3:12 @ Near them was Shallum, the son of Hallohesh, the ruler of half Jerusalem, with his daughters.

nsb@Nehemiah:3:16 @ By his side was working Nehemiah, the son of Azbuk, ruler of half the division of Beth-zur, as far as the place opposite the last resting-places of David's family and as far as the pool that had been made and the house of the men of war.

nsb@Nehemiah:3:17 @ Then came the Levites and Rehum the son of Bani. By his side was working Hashabiah, ruler of half the division of Keilah, for his division.

nsb@Nehemiah:3:19 @ And by his side was working Ezer, the son of Jeshua, the ruler of Mizpah, making good another part opposite the way up to the store of arms at the turning of the wall.

nsb@Nehemiah:3:21 @ After him Meremoth, the son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz, was working on another part, from the door of the house of Eliashib as far as the end of his house.

nsb@Nehemiah:3:28 @ Further on, past the Horse Gate, the priests were at work, every one opposite his house.

nsb@Nehemiah:3:29 @ After them Zadok, the son of Immer, was working opposite his house. And after him was Shemaiah, the son of Shecaniah, the keeper of the east door.

nsb@Nehemiah:3:30 @ After him Hananiah, the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun, the sixth son of Zalaph, were making good another part. After him Meshullam, the son of Berechiah, made good the wall opposite his room.

nsb@Nehemiah:4:1 @ Now, Sanballat, hearing that we were building the wall, was very angry, and in his wrath made sport of the Jews.

nsb@Nehemiah:4:2 @ And in the hearing of his countrymen and the army of Samaria he said: »What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they make themselves strong? Will they make offerings? Will they get the work done in a day? Will they make the stones that have been burned come again out of the dust?«

nsb@Nehemiah:4:15 @ When our enemies heard that we had knowledge of their designs and that God had made their purpose come to nothing, we all went back to the wall, everyone to his work.

nsb@Nehemiah:4:17 @ Those who were building the wall and those who were moving material did their part. Everyone worked with one hand and with his spear in the other.

nsb@Nehemiah:4:18 @ Every builder was working with his sword at his side. By my side was a man for sounding the warning horn.

nsb@Nehemiah:4:22 @ At the same time I said to the people: »Let everyone with his servant come inside Jerusalem for the night. At night they may keep watch for us, and go on working by day.«

nsb@Nehemiah:5:5 @ »But our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen, and our children as their children. Now we give our sons and daughters into the hands of others, to be their servants. Some of our daughters are servants even now. We have no power to stop this. For other men have our fields and our vine-gardens.«

nsb@Nehemiah:5:7 @ After giving it much thought, I made a protest to the chiefs and the rulers, and said to them: »Everyone of you is collecting interest from his brothers.« I organized a big meeting of protest.

nsb@Nehemiah:5:10 @ »Even I and my servants have been collecting interest for the money and the grain we have let them have. So now, let us give this up.

nsb@Nehemiah:5:11 @ »Give back to them this very day their fields, their vine-gardens, their olive-gardens, and their houses, as well as a hundredth part of the money and the grain and the wine and the oil that you have taken from them.«

nsb@Nehemiah:5:12 @ They said: »We will give them back, and take nothing for them. We will do as you say.« Then I sent for the priests and made them take an oath that they would keep this agreement.

nsb@Nehemiah:5:13 @ Shaking out the folds of my robe, I said: »So, may God send out from his house and his work every man who does not keep this agreement. Even so let him be sent out and made as nothing.« All the people said: »Amen!« They praised Jehovah. The people did as they said.

nsb@Nehemiah:5:16 @ I kept on with the work of this wall. We got no land for ourselves. All my servants helped with the work.

nsb@Nehemiah:5:19 @ Keep in mind, O my God, for my good, all I have done for this people.

nsb@Nehemiah:6:4 @ They sent this to me four times. I sent them the same answer.

nsb@Nehemiah:6:5 @ Then Sanballat sent his servant to me a fifth time with an open letter in his hand.

nsb@Nehemiah:6:6 @ There was written in it: »It has been heard among the nations what Geshem is saying. / He is saying that you and the Jews are hoping to make yourselves free from the king's authority. That this is why you are building the wall. They say that it is your purpose to be their king.

nsb@Nehemiah:6:10 @ And I went to the house of Shemaiah, the son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was confined in his house. He said: »Let us have a meeting in the house of God, inside the Temple, and let the doors be closed for they will come to kill you. Truly, in the night they will come to kill you.«

nsb@Nehemiah:6:13 @ For this reason they paid him money, in order that I might be overcome by fear and do what he said and do wrong. Then they would have reason to say evil about me and put shame on me.

nsb@Nehemiah:6:16 @ When our enemies had news of this, all the nations round about us were full of fear and were greatly shamed. They saw that our God had done this work.

nsb@Nehemiah:6:18 @ For in Judah there were a number of people who had made an agreement by oath with him. For he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah, the son of Arah and his son Jehohanan had taken as his wife the daughter of Meshullam, the son of Berechiah.

nsb@Nehemiah:7:3 @ I said to them: »Do not let the doors of Jerusalem be open till the sun is high and when the watchmen are in their places. Shut the doors and lock them. Let the people of Jerusalem be responsible for the watch, every one in his watch near his house.«

nsb@Nehemiah:7:6 @ These are the people of the divisions of the kingdom, among those who had been made prisoners by Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, and taken away by him, who went back to Jerusalem and Judah, every one to his town:

nsb@Nehemiah:8:4 @ Ezra the scribe took his place on a tower of wood that they had made for the purpose. By his side were placed Mattithiah and Shema and Anaiah and Uriah and Hilkiah and Maaseiah on the right; and on the left, Pedaiah and Mishael and Malchijah and Hashum and Hashbaddanah, Zechariah and Meshullam.

nsb@Nehemiah:8:9 @ Nehemiah, who was the Tirshatha, and Ezra, the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were the teachers of the people, said to all the people: »This day is holy to Jehovah your God. Let there be no sorrow or weeping.« For all the people were weeping on hearing the words of the law.

nsb@Nehemiah:8:10 @ He said to them: »Go away now, and take the fat for your food and the sweet for your drink, and send some to him for whom nothing is made ready. This day is holy to our Lord. Let there be no grief in your hearts. The joy of Jehovah is your strong place.«

nsb@Nehemiah:8:16 @ The people went out and got them and made themselves tents. Every one on the roof of his house, and in the open spaces and in the open squares of the House of God, and in the wide place of the Water Gate, and the wide place of the Gate of Ephraim.

nsb@Nehemiah:9:1 @ Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel came together, taking no food and putting sackcloth and dust on their bodies.

nsb@Nehemiah:9:8 @ »You saw that his heart was true to you, and made an agreement with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Jebusite and the Girgashite, even to give it to his seed, and you have done what you said; for righteousness is yours.

nsb@Nehemiah:9:10 @ »You did signs and wonders on Pharaoh and all his servants and all the people of his land. You saw how cruel they were to them. So you made a name for yourself as it is today.

nsb@Nehemiah:9:18 @ »Even when they made for themselves a bull out of metal, and said: ‘This is your God who took you up out of Egypt, and had done so much to make you angry.’

nsb@Nehemiah:9:32 @ »Now, our God, the great, the strong, the God who is to be respected, who keeps faith and mercy, do not let his trouble seem small to you. It has come on us, and on our kings and our rulers and on our priests and our prophets and our fathers and on all your people from the time of the kings of Assyria till this day.

nsb@Nehemiah:9:38 @ »And because of all this we are making an agreement in good faith, and putting it in writing. Our rulers, our Levites, and our priests are putting their names to it.«

nsb@Nehemiah:10:29 @ They were united with their brothers, their rulers, and put themselves under a curse and an oath, to keep their steps in the way of God's law, which was given by Moses, the servant of God, and to keep and do all the orders of the Jehovah, our Lord, and his decisions and his rules.

nsb@Nehemiah:10:39 @ The children of Israel and the children of Levi are to take the lifted offering of the grain and wine and oil into the rooms where the vessels of the holy place are. This is together with the priests and the gatekeepers and the makers of music. We will not give up caring for the House of our God.

nsb@Nehemiah:11:3 @ These are the chiefs of the divisions of the country who were living in Jerusalem: but in the towns of Judah everyone was living on his heritage in the towns, that is, Israel, the priests, the Levites, the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants.

nsb@Nehemiah:11:13 @ His brothers, heads of families, two hundred and forty-two; and Amashsai, the son of Azarel, the son of Ahzai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer,

nsb@Nehemiah:11:17 @ And Mattaniah, the son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, who had to give the first note of the song of praise in prayer, and Bakbukiah, the second among his brothers, and Abda, the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.

nsb@Nehemiah:11:20 @ And the rest of Israel, of the priests, the Levites, in all the towns of Judah, every one in his heritage.

nsb@Nehemiah:11:30 @ And Zanoah, Adullam and their villages, Lachish and its fields, Azekah and its villages. So they were living from Beer-sheba to the valley of Hinnom.

nsb@Nehemiah:12:8 @ The Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, who was over the music-makers, he and his brothers.

nsb@Nehemiah:12:23 @ The sons of Levi, heads of families, were recorded in the book of the histories, even till the days of Johanan, the son of Eliashib.

nsb@Nehemiah:12:36 @ His brothers, Shemaiah, and Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel and Judah, Hanani, with the music-instruments of David, the man of God; and Ezra the scribe was at their head;

nsb@Nehemiah:12:44 @ Men were stationed over the houses where the contributions and the first fruits and the tenths were stored. They were to take into them the amounts, from the fields of every town. The law fixed this for the priests and the Levites: Judah was glad on account of the priests and the Levites who were in their places.

nsb@Nehemiah:12:45 @ They kept the watch of their God, and were responsible for making things clean. So did the music-makers and the gatekeepers, as David and Solomon his son ordered it.

nsb@Nehemiah:13:2 @ This is because they did not give the children of Israel bread and water when they came to them, but got Balaam to put a curse on them. Our God turned the curse into a blessing.

nsb@Nehemiah:13:4 @ Before this, Eliashib the priest had been placed over the rooms of the house of our God. He was a friend of Tobiah.

nsb@Nehemiah:13:5 @ Had made a great room ready for him. This is where they once kept the meal offerings, the perfume, the vessels and the tenths of the grain and wine and oil. They were given by order to the Levites and the music-makers and the gatekeepers, and the contributions for the priests.

nsb@Nehemiah:13:6 @ I was not at Jerusalem all this time in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes, king of Babylon. I went to the king; and after some days, I got the king to let me go.

nsb@Nehemiah:13:10 @ I saw that the Levites had not been given what was needed for their support. So the Levites and the music-makers, who did the work, had gone away, everyone to his field.

nsb@Nehemiah:13:14 @ Nehemiah’s prayer: »Keep me in mind, O my God, in connection with this, and do not let the good which I have done for the house of my God and its worship go from your memory completely.«

nsb@Nehemiah:13:17 @ Then I made protests to the chiefs of Judah, and said to them: »What is this evil you are doing, not keeping the Sabbath day holy?

nsb@Nehemiah:13:18 @ »Did not your fathers do the same, and did not our God send all this evil on us and on this town? You are causing more anger to come on Israel by not keeping the Sabbath holy.«

nsb@Nehemiah:13:22 @ I gave the Levites orders to make themselves clean and come and keep the gates and make the Sabbath holy. »Keep this in mind to my credit, O my God, and have mercy on me, for great is your mercy.«

nsb@Nehemiah:13:26 @ »Was it not in these things that Solomon, king of Israel, did wrong? Among a number of nations there was no king like him. He was dear to his God, and God made him king over all Israel. But even he was made to do evil by strange women.

nsb@Nehemiah:13:27 @ »Are we then without protest to let you do all this great evil, sinning against our God by taking strange women for your wives?«

nsb@Nehemiah:13:30 @ I made them clean from all strange people. Regular watches were fixed for the priests and for the Levites, everyone in his work.

nsb@Esther:1:2 @ When King Ahasuerus was ruling in Shushan, his strong town,

nsb@Esther:1:3 @ In the third year of his rule he gave a feast to all his captains and his servants. The captains of the army of Persia and Media, the great men and the rulers of the divisions of his kingdom, were present before him.

nsb@Esther:1:4 @ For a long time, even a hundred and eighty days, he let them see all the wealth and the glory of his kingdom and the great power and honor that was his.

nsb@Esther:1:8 @ The drinking was in keeping with the law. No one was forced: for the king gave orders to all the chief servants of his house to do as was pleasing to every man.

nsb@Esther:1:12 @ But when the servants gave her the king's order, Vashti the queen said she would not come. The king was very angry. His heart was burning with wrath.

nsb@Esther:1:14 @ The closest to the king were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven rulers of Persia and Media. They were friends of the king, and had the first places in the kingdom.

nsb@Esther:1:16 @ Before the king and the captains, Memucan gave his answer: »Vashti the queen has done wrong, not only to the king, but also to all the captains and to all the peoples in all the divisions of the kingdom of King Ahasuerus.

nsb@Esther:1:20 @ »When the king’s order is made public through all his great kingdom all the wives will give honor to their husbands, great as well as small.«

nsb@Esther:1:21 @ This suggestion seemed good to the king and the captains. The king did as Memucan said.

nsb@Esther:1:22 @ He sent letters to all the divisions of the kingdom where their language is used. The letter said that every man was to be the ruler in his house, and that this order was to be given out in the language of his people.

nsb@Esther:2:1 @ When the king's rage subsided, the thought of Vashti and what she had done and the order he had made against her came back to his mind.

nsb@Esther:2:3 @ »Let the king give authority to some men in all the divisions of his kingdom, to get together all the fair young virgins and send them to Shushan, the king's town. Send them to the women's house. This is under the care of Hegai, the king's servant, the keeper of the women. Let the things needed for making them clean be given to them.

nsb@Esther:2:4 @ »And let the girl who is pleasing to the king be queen in place of Vashti.« The king was pleased with this suggestion; and he did so.

nsb@Esther:2:7 @ And he had been a father to Hadassah who is Esther, the daughter of his father's brother: for she had no father or mother. When her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his daughter. She was very beautiful.

nsb@Esther:2:11 @ Every day Mordecai took his walk before the square of the women's house, to see how Esther was and what would be done to her.

nsb@Esther:2:12 @ Now every girl, when her turn came, had to go in to King Ahasuerus. After undergoing, for a space of twelve months, what was ordered by the law for the women for this was the time necessary for making them clean, that is, six months with oil of myrrh and six months with sweet perfumes and such things as are needed for making women clean.

nsb@Esther:2:13 @ In this way the girl was presented to the king. Whatever she desired was given to her to take with her from the women's house into the house of the king.

nsb@Esther:2:15 @ When the time came for Esther, the daughter of Abihail, his father's brother, whom Mordecai had taken as his daughter, to go in to the king, she made request for nothing but what Hegai, the king's servant and keeper of the women, had given her. And all who saw her looked on Esther kindly.

nsb@Esther:2:16 @ Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus in his house in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his rule.

nsb@Esther:2:17 @ Esther was more pleasing to the king than all the women. To his eyes she was fairer and more full of grace than all the other virgins. So he put his crown on her head and made her queen in place of Vashti.

nsb@Esther:2:18 @ The king gave a great feast for all his captains and his servants and Esther. He gave orders through all the divisions of his kingdom for a release to the provinces, and gave wealth from his store.

nsb@Esther:2:19 @ When the virgins came together in the second house of the women, Mordecai took his seat in the gate of the king's house.

nsb@Esther:3:4 @ Now when they repeatedly said this to him day after day and he gave no attention, they told Haman about it. To see if Mordecai's behavior would be overlooked: for he said to them that he was a Jew.

nsb@Esther:3:6 @ But it was not enough for him to attack Mordecai only. They made clear to him who Mordecai's people were. So Haman made it his purpose to put an end to all the Jews, even Mordecai's people, through all the kingdom of Ahasuerus.

nsb@Esther:3:8 @ Haman said to King Ahasuerus, »There is a nation living here and there in small groups among the people in all the divisions of your kingdom. Their laws are different from those of any other nation. They do not keep the king's laws. For this reason it is not right for the king to let them be.

nsb@Esther:3:10 @ The king took his ring from his hand and gave it to Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the hater of the Jews.

nsb@Esther:3:12 @ Then on the thirteenth day of the first month, the king's scribes were summoned. They put in writing Haman's orders to all the king's captains and the rulers of every division of his kingdom and the chiefs of every people. It was to be for every division of the kingdom in the writing commonly used there, and to every people in the language which was theirs. It was signed in the name of King Ahasuerus and stamped with the king's ring.

nsb@Esther:4:1 @ When Mordecai learned what had been done, he tore his clothes in anguish. Then he dressed in sackcloth, covered his head with ashes, and walked through the city, wailing loudly and bitterly,

nsb@Esther:4:4 @ Esther's women and her servants came and gave her word of it. The queen’s grief was great indeed. She sent robes for Mordecai, so that his clothing of haircloth might be taken off; but he would not wear them.

nsb@Esther:4:5 @ Then Esther sent for Hathach, one of the king's eunuchs whom he had given her to wait on her. She gave him orders to go to Mordecai and see what this was and why it was.

nsb@Esther:4:8 @ He gave him the copy of the order that was given in Shushan for their destruction. He ordered him to let Esther see it, and to make it clear to her. To say to her that she was to go in to the king to request his mercy and make prayer for her people.

nsb@Esther:4:11 @ »It is common knowledge among all the king's servants and the people of every part of the kingdom, that if anyone, man or woman, comes to the king in his inner room without being sent for, there is only one law for him, that he is to be put to death. Only those to whom the king's rod of gold is stretched out may keep their lives. I have not been sent for to come before the king in the past thirty days.«

nsb@Esther:4:12 @ They conveyed this message to Mordecai.

nsb@Esther:4:13 @ Mordecai sent this answer back to Esther: »Do not have the idea that you in the king's house will be safe from the fate of all the Jews.

nsb@Esther:4:14 @ »If at this time you say nothing. Then help and salvation will come to the Jews from some other place. But you and your father's family will come to destruction. Who is to say that you have not come to the kingdom even for such a time as this?«

nsb@Esther:4:15 @ Esther sent them back to Mordecai with this answer:

nsb@Esther:5:1 @ Esther put on her queen's robes on the third day and took her place in the inner room of the king's house, facing the king's house. The king was seated on his high seat in the king's house, facing the doorway of the house.

nsb@Esther:5:2 @ When the king saw Esther the queen waiting in the inner room, looking kindly on her he put out the rod of gold in his hand to her. So Esther came near and put her fingers on top of the rod.

nsb@Esther:5:7 @ Esther answered: »My prayer and my request is this:

nsb@Esther:5:9 @ Then on that day Haman went out full of joy and glad in heart. When he saw Mordecai in the king's gate and he did not get to his feet or give any sign of fear before him, Haman was full of wrath against Mordecai.

nsb@Esther:5:10 @ But controlling himself, he went to his house; and he sent for his friends and Zeresh, his wife.

nsb@Esther:5:11 @ He gave them an account of the glories of his wealth. The number of children he had. He recalled the ways in which he had been honored by the king. How the king put him over the captains and servants of the king.

nsb@Esther:5:13 @ »But all this is nothing to me as long as I see Mordecai the Jew seated by the king's gate.«

nsb@Esther:5:14 @ Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him: »Let a pillar, fifty cubits high, be made ready for hanging him. In the morning get the king to give orders for the hanging of Mordecai. Then you will be able to go to the feast with the king with a glad heart.« Haman was pleased with the suggestion, and he had the pillar made.

nsb@Esther:6:3 @ The king said: »What honor and reward have been given to Mordecai for this?« The servants waiting on the king said: »Nothing has been done for him.«

nsb@Esther:6:8 @ »Let them take the robes that the king generally puts on, and the horse on which the king goes, and the crown that is on his head:

nsb@Esther:6:12 @ Mordecai came back to the king's gate. But Haman went quickly back to his house, sad and with his head covered.

nsb@Esther:6:13 @ And Haman gave his wife Zeresh and all his friends an account of what took place. Then his wise men and his wife Zeresh said to him, »If Mordecai, who is starting to get the better of you, is of the seed of the Jews, you will not be able to do anything against him, but you will certainly go down before him.«

nsb@Esther:7:5 @ Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen: »Who is he and where is he who has had this evil thought in his heart?«

nsb@Esther:7:6 @ Esther said: »Our hater and attacker is this evil Haman.« Then Haman was full of fear before the king and the queen.

nsb@Esther:7:7 @ The king in his anger got up from the feast and went into the garden. Haman got to his feet to plead to Esther the queen for his life. He saw that the king had already decided against him.

nsb@Esther:8:2 @ The king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. Esther put Mordecai over the family of Haman.

nsb@Esther:8:3 @ Then Esther again came before the king. She fell down at his feet and wept as she requested: that he would put a stop to the evil purposes of Haman the Agagite and the designs that he had made against the Jews.

nsb@Esther:8:5 @ She said: »If it is the king's pleasure and if I have his approval and this thing seems right to the king and I am pleasing to him, then let letters be sent giving orders against those which Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, sent out for the destruction of the Jews in all divisions of the kingdom.

nsb@Esther:8:7 @ Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew: »See now, I have given Esther the family of Haman, and he has come to his death by hanging, because he made an attack on the Jews.

nsb@Esther:8:10 @ The letters were sent in the name of King Ahasuerus and stamped with his ring, and they were taken by men on horseback, going on the quick-running horses used for the king's business, the offspring of his best horses:

nsb@Esther:8:17 @ And in every part of the kingdom and in every town, wherever the king's letter and his order came, the Jews were glad with great joy. They had a feast and a good day. A large number of the people of the land became Jews: for the fear of the Jews had come on them.

nsb@Esther:9:14 @ The king said that this was to be done, and the order was given out in Shushan. The hanging of Haman's ten sons was carried out.

nsb@Esther:9:17 @ This they did on the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same month they took their rest, and made it a day of feasting and joy.

nsb@Esther:9:25 @ But when the business was put before the king, he gave orders by letters that the evil design that he had made against the Jews was to be turned against him. That he and his sons were to be put to death by hanging.

nsb@Esther:9:26 @ So these days were named Purim, after the name of Pur. And so, because of the words of this letter, and of what they had seen in connection with this business, and what had come to them,

nsb@Esther:9:31 @ Giving the force of law to these days of Purim at their fixed times, as they had been ordered by Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen. This was in keeping with the rules they had made for themselves and their descendents, in connection with their time of going without food and their cry for help.

nsb@Esther:10:2 @ And all his acts of power and his great strength and the full story of the high place that the king gave Mordecai are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Media and Persia?

nsb@Esther:10:3 @ For Mordecai the Jew was second only to King Ahasuerus. He was great among the Jews and respected by the body of his countrymen. He worked for the good of his people. He said words of peace to all his descendents.

nsb@Job:1:5 @ The morning after each feast, Job would get up early to offer sacrifices for each of his children in order to purify them. He always did this because he thought that one of them might have sinned by insulting God unintentionally.

nsb@Job:1:10 @ »You have always protected him and his family and everything he owns. You bless everything he does. You have given him enough cattle to fill the whole country.

nsb@Job:1:20 @ Then Job got up and tore his clothes in grief. He shaved his head and threw himself face down on the ground.

nsb@Job:2:3 @ Jehovah asked Satan: »Have you thought about my servant Job? No one in the world is like him! He is a man of integrity! He is decent and he respects God. He stays away from evil. And he still holds on to his principles. You are trying to provoke me into ruining him for no reason.«

nsb@Job:2:4 @ Satan answered Jehovah: »Skin for skin! Certainly, a man will give everything he has for his life.

nsb@Job:2:5 @ »But stretch out your hand, and strike his flesh and bones and he will curse you to your face!«

nsb@Job:2:6 @ Jehovah told Satan: »He is in your power, but you must spare his life!«

nsb@Job:2:7 @ Satan left Jehovah’s presence and struck Job with painful boils from the bottom of his feet to the top of his head.

nsb@Job:2:8 @ Job took a piece of broken pottery to scratch his sores as he sat in the ashes.

nsb@Job:2:9 @ His wife asked him: »Are you still holding on to your principles? Curse God and die!«

nsb@Job:2:10 @ He said to her: »You are talking like a godless fool. We accept the good that God gives us. Should we not also accept the bad?« Through all this Job did not speak sinful words.

nsb@Job:2:11 @ Job's three friends heard about all the terrible things that happened to him. Each of them came from his home: Eliphaz of Teman, Bildad of Shuah, and Zophar of Naama. They agreed they would go together to sympathize with Job and comfort him.

nsb@Job:2:12 @ They saw him from a distance and did not even recognize him. They cried out loud and wept. Each of them tore his clothes in grief. They threw dust on their heads.

nsb@Job:3:1 @ JOB OPENED HIS MOUTH and cursed the day of his birth.

nsb@Job:3:19 @ »The small and the great are there. The slave is freed from his master.

nsb@Job:4:7 @ »Now think about this: Which innocent person ever died an untimely death? Find me a decent person who has been destroyed.

nsb@Job:4:9 @ »God destroys them with his breath and kills them with a blast of his anger.

nsb@Job:4:12 @ Eliphaz of Teman continued: »I was told something secretly and heard something whispered in my ear.

nsb@Job:4:17 @ »Can any mortal be righteous to God? Can any human being be pure to his maker?

nsb@Job:4:18 @ »You see God does not trust his own servants. He accuses his angels of making mistakes.

nsb@Job:5:3 @ »I have seen a stubborn fool take root and I quickly cursed his house.

nsb@Job:5:4 @ »His children are far from help. They are crushed at the court of justice at the city gate. No one is there to rescue them.

nsb@Job:5:5 @ »Hungry people eat what a stubborn fool gathers. They take it even from among the thorns. Thirsty people pant after his wealth.

nsb@Job:5:18 @ »God inflicts wounds and he bandages. He strikes but his hands make you well.

nsb@Job:5:27 @ »We have studied all of this thoroughly! This is the way it is. Listen to it, and learn it for yourself.«

nsb@Job:6:7 @ »I refuse to touch it! This repugnant food makes me ill.

nsb@Job:6:9 @ »Oh that God would be willing to crush me, to let loose his hand and cut me off!

nsb@Job:6:10 @ »Then I would still have this consolation, my joy in unrelenting pain, that I had not denied the words of the Holy One.

nsb@Job:6:14 @ »A despairing man should have the devotion of his friends, even though he forsakes his reverence for the Almighty.

nsb@Job:7:1 @ »Is this not the struggle of all humanity? A person’s life is long and hard like that of a hired hand.

nsb@Job:7:15 @ »I would rather die of strangulation than go on and on like this.

nsb@Job:8:15 @ »He leans on his web, but it gives way! He clings to it, but it does not hold.

nsb@Job:9:5 @ »He removes the mountains, and they do not know when he overturns them in his anger!

nsb@Job:9:13 @ »God will not withdraw his anger. The allies of the proud lie thrown down beneath him.

nsb@Job:9:33 @ »Nor is there any mediator between us who may lay his hand on us both.

nsb@Job:9:34 @ »Let God remove his rod from me. Do not let dread of him terrify me.

nsb@Job:9:35 @ »I would speak and not respect God. But I cannot do this!

nsb@Job:10:13 @ »‘Yet this is what you concealed in your heart, and I know that this was in your mind:

nsb@Job:11:2 @ »Are all these words to go unanswered? Is this talker to be vindicated?

nsb@Job:11:5 @ »How I wish that God would speak, that he would open his lips against you

nsb@Job:11:6 @ and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know this: God has even forgotten some of your sin.

nsb@Job:12:9 @ »Which of all these does not know that the hand of Jehovah has done this?

nsb@Job:12:10 @ »In his hand are the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.

nsb@Job:12:13 @ »To God belong wisdom and power. Counsel and understanding are his.

nsb@Job:12:16 @ »To him belong strength and victory. Both deceived and deceivers are his.

nsb@Job:13:1 @ »My eyes have seen all this and my ears have heard and understood it.

nsb@Job:13:11 @ »Would not his excellence terrify you? Would not the dread of him fall on you?

nsb@Job:13:16 @ »Indeed, this will turn out for my deliverance, for no godless man would dare come before him!

nsb@Job:14:5 @ »Man’s days are determined. You have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed.

nsb@Job:14:6 @ »So look away from him and let him alone, till he has put in his time like a hired man.

nsb@Job:14:10 @ »On the other hand man dies and is laid low. He breathes his last and is no more!

nsb@Job:14:20 @ »You overpower him once and for all, and he is gone! You change his countenance and send him away.

nsb@Job:14:21 @ »His sons are honored and he does not know it. They are brought low and he does not see it.

nsb@Job:14:22 @ »He feels but the pain of his own body and mourns only for himself.«

nsb@Job:15:15 @ »If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,

nsb@Job:15:20 @ »All his days the wicked man suffers torment and the ruthless through all the years stored up for him.

nsb@Job:15:21 @ »Terrifying sounds fill his ears. When all seems well, marauders attack him.

nsb@Job:15:25 @ »He shakes his fist at God and vaunts himself against the Almighty,

nsb@Job:15:27 @ »His face is covered with fat and his waist bulges with flesh.

nsb@Job:15:29 @ »He will no longer be rich and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.

nsb@Job:15:30 @ »He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God’s mouth will carry him away.

nsb@Job:15:32 @ »Before his time he will be paid in full, and his branches will not flourish.

nsb@Job:16:9 @ »His anger has torn me and hunted me down. He has gnashed at me with his teeth. My adversary glares at me.

nsb@Job:16:12 @ »I was at ease, but he shattered me. He has grabbed me by the neck and has shaken me to pieces. He has also set me up as his target.

nsb@Job:16:13 @ »His arrows surround me. Without mercy he splits my kidneys open. He pours out my gall on the ground.

nsb@Job:16:21 @ »O that a man might plead with God As a man with his neighbor!

nsb@Job:17:5 @ »Whoever turns in friends to get their property should have his children's eyesight fail.

nsb@Job:17:8 @ »This shocks decent people. The innocent are against the godless people.

nsb@Job:17:9 @ »Yet, the righteous person clings to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.

nsb@Job:18:5 @ »The lamp of the wicked is snuffed out. The flame of his fire shall not shine.

nsb@Job:18:6 @ »The light in his tent becomes dark. The lamp beside him will be put out.

nsb@Job:18:7 @ »The vigor of his step is weakened. His own schemes will bring his downfall.

nsb@Job:18:8 @ »His feet cast him into a net and he wanders into its mesh.

nsb@Job:18:10 @ »A noose is hidden for him on the ground and a trap lies in his path.

nsb@Job:18:11 @ »Terrors startle him on every side and chase him at his heels.

nsb@Job:18:13 @ »It eats away parts of his skin. Death’s firstborn devours his limbs.

nsb@Job:18:14 @ »He is torn from the security of his tent and marched off to the king of terrors.

nsb@Job:18:15 @ »Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur is scattered over his dwelling.

nsb@Job:18:16 @ »His roots dry up below and his branches wither above.

nsb@Job:18:19 @ »He has no offspring or descendants among his people, no survivor where once he lived.

nsb@Job:18:21 @ »This is the dwelling of an evil man! This is the place of one who does not know God!«

nsb@Job:19:6 @ then I want you to know that God has wronged me and surrounded me with his net.

nsb@Job:19:11 @ »He is very angry with me. He considers me his enemy.

nsb@Job:19:12 @ »His troops assemble against me. They build a ramp to attack me. They camp around my tent.

nsb@Job:19:25 @ »I know that my redeemer lives, and in later days he will take his stand on the earth.

nsb@Job:19:26 @ »Even after my skin is gone and this body destroyed, I will see God in my own flesh.

nsb@Job:20:6 @ »Though his pride reaches to the heavens and his head touches the clouds,

nsb@Job:20:7 @ he will perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him will say: Where is he?

nsb@Job:20:9 @ »The eye that saw him will not see him again. His place will look on him no more.

nsb@Job:20:10 @ »His children must make amends to the poor. He must give back his wealth.

nsb@Job:20:11 @ »The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie with him in the dust.

nsb@Job:20:12 @ »Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue,

nsb@Job:20:13 @ though he cannot bear to let it go and keeps it in his mouth,

nsb@Job:20:14 @ yet his food will turn sour in his stomach; it will become the venom of serpents within him.

nsb@Job:20:15 @ »He will spit out the riches he swallowed. God will make his stomach vomit them up.

nsb@Job:20:18 @ »What he toiled for he must give back uneaten. He will not enjoy the profit from his trading.

nsb@Job:20:20 @ »He will have no respite from his craving; he cannot save himself by his treasure.

nsb@Job:20:21 @ »There is nothing left for him to devour; his prosperity will not endure.

nsb@Job:20:22 @ »Distress will overtake him in the midst of his plenty. The full force of misery will come upon him.

nsb@Job:20:23 @ »With his belly full, God will vent his burning anger against him and rain down his blows upon him.

nsb@Job:20:25 @ »He pulls it out of his back, the gleaming point out of his liver. Terrors will come over him.

nsb@Job:20:26 @ »Total darkness lies in wait for his treasures. A fire will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.

nsb@Job:20:27 @ »The heavens will expose his guilt. The earth will rise up against him!

nsb@Job:20:28 @ »A flood will carry off his house. Rushing waters will wash away his possessions on the day of God’s wrath.

nsb@Job:20:29 @ »This is the fate God allots the wicked, the heritage appointed for them by God.«

nsb@Job:21:2 @ »Listen carefully to my words, and let this be your consolation.

nsb@Job:21:17 @ »How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? How often does calamity come upon them? How often does God distribute pains and sorrow in his anger?

nsb@Job:21:24 @ »His loins are full of milk and the marrow of his bones is moist.

nsb@Job:22:21 @ »Agree with God, and be at peace. In this way good will come to you.

nsb@Job:22:22 @ »Receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

nsb@Job:23:3 @ »Oh that I knew where I might find him that I might come to his seat!

nsb@Job:23:6 @ »Would He contend with me using his great power? No, surely He would pay attention to me.

nsb@Job:23:11 @ »My foot has held fast to his path. I have kept his way and not turned aside.

nsb@Job:23:12 @ »I have not departed from the command of his lips. I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

nsb@Job:23:15 @ »Therefore, I would be dismayed at his presence. I stand in awe of him.

nsb@Job:24:1 @ »Why does the Almighty not keep time? Why do those who know him never see his days?

nsb@Job:24:15 @ »The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight. He says: ‘No eye will see me.’ Then he disguises his face.

nsb@Job:24:22 @ »Yet God prolongs the life of the mighty by his power and they rise up when they despair of life.

nsb@Job:24:23 @ »He gives them security and they are supported. His eyes are upon their ways.

nsb@Job:25:3 @ »Can his forces be numbered? Upon whom does his light not rise?

nsb@Job:25:5 @ »If even the moon is not bright and the stars are not pure in his eyes,

nsb@Job:26:8 @ »He wraps up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not burst by them.

nsb@Job:26:9 @ »He covers the face of the full moon, and spreads his cloud over it.

nsb@Job:26:11 @ »The pillars of heaven tremble, and are astounded at his rebuke.

nsb@Job:26:12 @ »He stills the sea with his power. He struck down Rahab with his understanding.

nsb@Job:26:13 @ »By his wind the heavens were made fair. His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.

nsb@Job:26:14 @ »These are indeed but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear from him! But who can understand the thunder of his power?

nsb@Job:27:8 @ »What hope doe the godless have when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

nsb@Job:27:9 @ »Does God listen to his cry when distress comes upon him?

nsb@Job:27:12 @ »You have all seen this yourselves. Why then this meaningless talk?

nsb@Job:27:13 @ »Here is the fate God accords the wicked. This is the heritage a ruthless man receives from the Almighty:

nsb@Job:27:14 @ »No mater how many his children, their fate is the sword. His offspring will never have enough to eat.

nsb@Job:27:17 @ what he lays up the righteous will wear, and the innocent will divide his silver.

nsb@Job:27:21 @ »The east wind carries him off. He is gone and it sweeps him out of his place.

nsb@Job:27:23 @ »Men will clap their hands in derision and hiss him out of his place.

nsb@Job:28:4 @ »They open up a mineshaft far from civilization, where no one has set foot. In this shaft men dangle and swing back and forth.

nsb@Job:28:13 @ »No man knows where it is. It cannot be found in this world of the living.

nsb@Job:29:3 @ when his lamp shone over my head, and by his light I walked through darkness.

nsb@Job:29:12 @ »This is because I delivered the poor who cried, and the orphan who had no helper.

nsb@Job:29:25 @ »I chose their way, and sat as chief. I lived like a king among his troops, like one who comforts mourners.

nsb@Job:30:24 @ »Does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand, Or in his disaster cry out for help?

nsb@Job:31:2 @ »What is man’s lot from God above, his heritage from the Almighty on high?

nsb@Job:31:23 @ »I was in terror of destruction from God and I could not face his majesty.

nsb@Job:31:28 @ this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges, for I would have denied God above.

nsb@Job:31:31 @ »If those of my tent ever said: ‘Who is not satisfied with his food?«

nsb@Job:32:1 @ So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

nsb@Job:32:12 @ »I gave you my attention, but there was in fact no one that disproved Job, no one among you that answered his words.

nsb@Job:32:14 @ »He has not directed his words against me. I will not answer him with your speeches.

nsb@Job:33:10 @ »Yet God has found fault with me. He considers me his enemy!

nsb@Job:33:12 @ »But I tell you, Job, in this you are not right, for God is greater than man.

nsb@Job:33:18 @ »It is to preserve him from the pit and keep his life from perishing by the sword.

nsb@Job:33:19 @ »On the other hand a man may be chastened on a bed of pain with constant distress in his bones.

nsb@Job:33:20 @ »His very being finds food repulsive and he loathes the choicest meal.

nsb@Job:33:21 @ »His flesh wastes away to nothing, and his bones, once hidden, now stick out.

nsb@Job:33:23 @ »Yet if there is an angel on his side as a mediator, one out of a thousand, to tell a man what is right for him,

nsb@Job:33:25 @ »His flesh is renewed like a child’s. It is restored as in the days of his youth.

nsb@Job:33:26 @ »He prays to God and finds favor with him. He sees God’s face and shouts for joy! God restores him to his righteous state.

nsb@Job:34:14 @ »If He should determine to do so, If He should gather to himself his spirit and his breath,

nsb@Job:34:16 @ »But if you understand, hear this; Listen to the sound of my words.

nsb@Job:34:19 @ »The one who is righteous and mighty does not grant special favors to princes or prefer important people to poor people because his hands made them all.

nsb@Job:34:21 @ »God's eyes are on a person's ways. He sees all his steps.

nsb@Job:34:27 @ »This is because they turned away from following him. They did not consider any of his ways.

nsb@Job:34:29 @ »If God decided to do nothing at all, no one could criticize him. If he hid his face, we would be helpless.

nsb@Job:34:37 @ »To his sins he adds rebellion and in front of us all he mocks God.

nsb@Job:35:2 @ »Do you think this to be just? You say: ‘I am in the right before God.’

nsb@Job:35:15 @ »Because his anger does not punish, and he does not greatly heed transgression,

nsb@Job:35:16 @ »Job opens his mouth in empty talk. He multiplies words without knowledge.«

nsb@Job:36:7 @ »He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous. He enthrones them with kings and exalts them forever.

nsb@Job:36:22 @ »God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?

nsb@Job:36:23 @ »Who has prescribed his ways for him, or said to him: You have done wrong?

nsb@Job:36:24 @ »Remember to extol his work, which men have praised in song.

nsb@Job:36:26 @ »How great is God! He is beyond our understanding! The number of his years is past finding out.

nsb@Job:36:29 @ »Who can understand how he spreads out the clouds, how he thunders from his pavilion?

nsb@Job:36:30 @ « See how he scatters his lightning, bathing the depths of the sea.

nsb@Job:36:31 @ »This is the way he governs the nations and provides food in abundance.

nsb@Job:36:32 @ »He fills his hands with lightning and commands it to strike its mark.

nsb@Job:36:33 @ »His thunder announces the coming storm. Even the cattle make known its approach.

nsb@Job:37:2 @ »Listen! All of you listen to the voice of God, to the thunder that comes from his mouth.

nsb@Job:37:4 @ »He thunders with the roar of his voice! It is like the majestic sound of thunder, and all the while the lightning flashes.

nsb@Job:37:7 @ »He seals the hand of every man and all men may know His work.

nsb@Job:37:13 @ »He causes it to happen for correction, for his land and for his loving kindness.

nsb@Job:37:14 @ « Listen to this, O Job, Stand and consider the wonders of God.

nsb@Job:38:2 @ »Who is this that conceals counsel using words without knowledge?

nsb@Job:38:11 @ when I said: ‘This far you may come and no farther’; here is where your proud waves halt?

nsb@Job:38:18 @ »Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know all this.

nsb@Job:38:38 @ This when the dust becomes hard and the clods of earth stick together?

nsb@Job:39:6 @ »Whose home I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwelling?

nsb@Job:39:8 @ »The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.

nsb@Job:39:11 @ »Will you rely on him for his great strength? Will you leave your heavy work to him?

nsb@Job:39:17 @ »This is because God has made her forget wisdom. He has not given her a share of understanding.

nsb@Job:39:18 @ »When she lifts herself on high, she laughs at the horse and his rider.

nsb@Job:39:19 @ »Do you give the horse his might? Do you clothe his neck with a mane?

nsb@Job:39:20 @ »Do you make him leap like the locust? His majestic snorting is terrible.

nsb@Job:40:9 @ »Do you have an arm like God’s? Can your voice thunder like his?

nsb@Job:40:16 @ »What strength he has in his loins, what power in the muscles of his belly!

nsb@Job:40:17 @ »His tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are close-knit.

nsb@Job:40:18 @ »His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like rods of iron.

nsb@Job:40:19 @ »He ranks first among the works of God, yet his Maker can approach him with his sword.

nsb@Job:40:23 @ »The river rages, but he is not alarmed. He is secure, though the Jordan should surge against his mouth.

nsb@Job:40:24 @ »Can anyone capture him by the eyes, or trap him and pierce his nose?

nsb@Job:41:2 @ »Can you catch Leviathan with a fishhook or tie his tongue down with a rope?

nsb@Job:41:3 @ »Can you put a rope through his snout or put a hook through his jaws?

nsb@Job:41:8 @ »Can you fill his hide with fishing spears or pierce his head with a harpoon?

nsb@Job:41:12 @ »I will not conceal his limbs, his mighty power, or his graceful proportions.

nsb@Job:41:13 @ »Who can remove his outer coat? Who can approach him with a double bridle?

nsb@Job:41:14 @ »Who can open the doors of his face, with his terrible teeth all around?

nsb@Job:41:15 @ »His rows of scales are his pride, Shut up tightly as a seal.

nsb@Job:42:3 @ »You asked: ‘Who is this that obscures my counsel without knowledge? Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.’

nsb@Job:42:8 @ »So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. You did not speak correctly about me, as my servant Job has.«

nsb@Job:42:10 @ After Job had prayed for his friends, Jehovah made him prosperous again and gave him twice as much as he had before.

nsb@Job:42:11 @ All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble Jehovah allowed to come upon him. Each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.

nsb@Job:42:16 @ After this Job lived a hundred and forty years. He saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.

nsb@Psalms:1:2 @ But his delight is in the law of Jehovah, and on his law he meditates day and night.

nsb@Psalms:1:4 @ This is not so for the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind blows away.

nsb@Psalms:2:2 @ The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against Jehovah and against his Anointed One.

nsb@Psalms:2:5 @ Then he rebukes them in his anger and terrifies them in his rage. He says:

nsb@Psalms:2:12 @ Kiss the Son, lest he be angry and you be destroyed in your way, for his wrath can flare up in a moment. Blessed are all who take refuge in him.

nsb@Psalms:3:2 @ Many are saying about me: »Even with God on his side, he will not have victory.«

nsb@Psalms:3:4 @ I call aloud to Jehovah. He answers me from his holy mountain.

nsb@Psalms:7:3 @ O Jehovah my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands,

nsb@Psalms:7:12 @ If one does not repent God will sharpen his sword. He has bent and strung his bow.

nsb@Psalms:7:13 @ He has prepared his deadly weapons, making his arrows fiery shafts.

nsb@Psalms:7:17 @ I will give to Jehovah the thanks due to his righteousness. I will sing praise to the name of Jehovah, the Most High.

nsb@Psalms:8:6 @ You made him rule what your hands created. You have put everything under his control:

nsb@Psalms:9:7 @ Yet, Jehovah lives forever. He has prepared his throne for judgment.

nsb@Psalms:9:16 @ Jehovah has revealed himself by his righteous judgments. The wicked are trapped by their deeds.

nsb@Psalms:10:3 @ The wicked person boasts about his selfish desires. He blesses the covetous, which Jehovah abhors.

nsb@Psalms:10:4 @ In his arrogant attitude he does not search for God. His faulty reasoning concludes: »There is no God.«

nsb@Psalms:10:5 @ He always succeeds at what he does. Your judgments are beyond his understanding. He scoffs at all his opponents.

nsb@Psalms:10:7 @ His mouth is full of curses, deception, and oppression. Trouble and wrongdoing are on the tip of his tongue.

nsb@Psalms:10:8 @ He waits in ambush in the villages. From his hiding places he kills innocent people. He searches for victims.

nsb@Psalms:10:9 @ He lurks in his hiding place like a lion in his den. He hides there to catch oppressed people. He catches oppressed people after he draws them into his net.

nsb@Psalms:10:10 @ His victims are crushed. They collapse, and they fall into the power of the wicked.

nsb@Psalms:10:11 @ He says in his heart: »God has forgotten. He has hidden his face. He will never see it!«

nsb@Psalms:10:13 @ Why does the wicked person despise God? Why does he say in his heart: »God does not require it?«

nsb@Psalms:10:15 @ Break the arm of the wicked and evil person. Pursue his wickedness until you find no more evil.

nsb@Psalms:10:16 @ Jehovah is king forever and ever. The nations have vanished from his land.

nsb@Psalms:11:4 @ Jehovah is in his holy temple. Jehovah’s throne is in heaven. His eyes see. They examine the sons of men.

nsb@Psalms:11:7 @ Jehovah is righteous. He loves a righteous way of life. Upright people will see his face.

nsb@Psalms:14:1 @ The fool says in his heart: »There is no God (Psalm strkjv@10:4).« They are corrupt. They do disgusting things. No one does good things.

nsb@Psalms:14:7 @ If only salvation for Israel would come from Zion! When Jehovah restores his captive people, Jacob will rejoice. Israel will be glad.

nsb@Psalms:15:2 @ The one who walks with integrity and does what is righteous. He speaks the truth in his heart.

nsb@Psalms:15:3 @ The one who does not malign with his tongue, do evil to a friend, or bring disgrace on his neighbor or close friend.

nsb@Psalms:17:14 @ With your power rescue me from mortals, O Jehovah, from mortals who look forward only to this life. You fill their bellies with your treasure. Their children are satisfied with it, and they leave what remains to their children.

nsb@Psalms:18:6 @ I called on Jehovah in my distress. I cried to my God for help. He heard my voice from his temple, and my cry for help reached his ears.

nsb@Psalms:18:8 @ Smoke went up from his nostrils. A raging fire came out of his mouth. Glowing coals were kindled by it.

nsb@Psalms:18:9 @ He spread apart the heavens and came down with a dark cloud under his feet.

nsb@Psalms:18:11 @ He made the darkness his hiding place, his pavilion round about, the dark rain clouds his covering.

nsb@Psalms:18:13 @ Jehovah thundered in the heavens. The Most High made his voice heard with hailstones and lightning.

nsb@Psalms:18:14 @ He shot his arrows and scattered them. He flashed streaks of lightning to agitate them.

nsb@Psalms:18:22 @ All his judgments are in front of me and I have not turned away from his laws.

nsb@Psalms:18:50 @ He gives great victories to his king. He shows mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his descendants forever.

nsb@Psalms:19:1 @ The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky displays what his hands have made.

nsb@Psalms:20:2 @ He will send you help from his holy place. He will support you from Zion.

nsb@Psalms:20:6 @ Now I know that Jehovah will save his anointed king. He will answer him from his holy heaven with mighty deeds of his powerful hand.

nsb@Psalms:21:2 @ You gave him his heart's desire. You did not refuse the prayer from his lips.

nsb@Psalms:21:3 @ You come to him with the blessings of good things. You set a crown of fine gold on his head.

nsb@Psalms:21:5 @ Because of your salvation his glory is great. You place magnificence and majesty on him.

nsb@Psalms:21:9 @ When you appear, you will make them burn like a blazing furnace. Jehovah will swallow them up in his anger. Fire will devour them.

nsb@Psalms:22:24 @ Jehovah has not despised or been disgusted with the plight of the oppressed one. He has not hidden his face from that person. Jehovah heard when that oppressed person cried out to him for help.

nsb@Psalms:22:28 @ This is because the kingdom belongs to Jehovah and he rules the nations.

nsb@Psalms:23:3 @ He restores me and he leads me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

nsb@Psalms:24:3 @ Who will go up to the mountain of Jehovah? Who may stand in His holy place?

nsb@Psalms:24:5 @ He will obtain blessing from Jehovah and righteousness from the God of his salvation.

nsb@Psalms:24:6 @ This is the person who seeks him, who searches for the face of the God of Jacob.

nsb@Psalms:24:8 @ Who is this king of glory? Jehovah, strong and mighty! Jehovah, powerful in battle!

nsb@Psalms:24:10 @ Who, then, is this king of glory? Jehovah of Hosts is the king of glory!

nsb@Psalms:25:9 @ He leads humble people to do what is right, and he teaches them his way.

nsb@Psalms:25:10 @ All the paths of Jehovah are loving-kindness and truth for those who cling to his promise and written instructions.

nsb@Psalms:25:12 @ Who is this person who respects Jehovah? He is the one whom Jehovah will teach the way he should choose.

nsb@Psalms:25:13 @ He will enjoy good things in life, and his descendants will inherit the land.

nsb@Psalms:25:14 @ Jehovah is intimate with those who respect him. He reveals the intent of his covenant to them.

nsb@Psalms:27:4 @ I have asked one thing from Jehovah. This I will seek: to live in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, to look at Jehovah’s beauty and search for an answer in his temple.

nsb@Psalms:27:5 @ He hides me in his shelter when there is trouble. He keeps me hidden in his tent. He puts me high on a rock.

nsb@Psalms:27:6 @ Now my head will be lifted up above my enemies who surround me. I will offer sacrifices with shouts of joy in his tent. I will sing, yes I will sing praises to Jehovah.

nsb@Psalms:27:13 @ I believe that I will see the goodness of Jehovah in this world of the living.

nsb@Psalms:28:5 @ Jehovah will tear them down and never build them up again. This is because they never consider what he has done or what his hands have made.

nsb@Psalms:28:8 @ Jehovah is the strength of his people and a fortress for the victory of his anointed.

nsb@Psalms:29:2 @ Give to Jehovah the glory his name deserves. Worship Jehovah in his holy splendor.

nsb@Psalms:29:9 @ The voice of Jehovah makes the deer to calve and strips the forests bare. In His temple everything says: »Glory!«

nsb@Psalms:29:11 @ Jehovah will give power to his people. Jehovah will bless his people with peace.

nsb@Psalms:30:4 @ Sing praise to Jehovah, you his godly ones, and give thanks to his holy name.

nsb@Psalms:30:5 @ For His anger is only for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime! Weeping may last for the night but a shout of joy comes in the morning.

nsb@Psalms:31:13 @ I have heard the whispering of many people, terror on every side, while they made plans together against me. They were plotting to take my life.

nsb@Psalms:31:21 @ Blessed is Jehovah! He has shown me the miracle of his loving-kindness in a city under attack.

nsb@Psalms:32:6 @ For this reason let all godly people pray to you when you may be found. Then raging floodwater will not reach them.

nsb@Psalms:33:4 @ The word of Jehovah is upright. All his works are true.

nsb@Psalms:33:6 @ The heavens were made by the word of Jehovah, and by the breath of his mouth their entire host.

nsb@Psalms:33:7 @ He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He puts the ocean depth in his storehouses.

nsb@Psalms:33:11 @ The counsel of Jehovah and the plans of his heart stand from generation to generation, forever.

nsb@Psalms:33:12 @ Blessed is the nation who’s God is Jehovah. Happy are the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.

nsb@Psalms:33:14 @ He looks from his dwelling place on all the inhabitants of the earth,

nsb@Psalms:33:18 @ Remember, the eye of Jehovah is on those who respect him, on those who hope for his loving-kindness.

nsb@Psalms:33:21 @ Our heart rejoices in him, for we trust in his holy name.

nsb@Psalms:34:3 @ Come magnify Jehovah with me. Let us highly honor his name together.

nsb@Psalms:34:6 @ The poor man called out. Jehovah heard him and saved him from all his troubles.

nsb@Psalms:34:15 @ Jehovah’s eyes watch over righteous people. His ears hear their cry for help.

nsb@Psalms:34:20 @ Jehovah guards all of his bones. Not one of them is broken.

nsb@Psalms:34:22 @ Jehovah protects and redeems his servants. All who take refuge in him will never be condemned.

nsb@Psalms:35:9 @ I will find joy in Jehovah and be joyful about his salvation.

nsb@Psalms:35:27 @ Let those who are happy when I am declared innocent joyfully sing and rejoice. Let them continually say: »Jehovah is great. He is happy when his servant has peace.«

nsb@Psalms:36:1 @ Sin speaks to the ungodly deep within his heart. There is no reverence for God before his eyes.

nsb@Psalms:36:2 @ He flatters himself and does not hate or even recognize his sin.

nsb@Psalms:36:3 @ The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit and he ceased to be wise and do good.

nsb@Psalms:36:4 @ He plans wickedness upon his bed. He walks on a path that is not good. He does not despise evil.

nsb@Psalms:37:7 @ Surrender to Jehovah and wait patiently for him. Do not be preoccupied with an evildoer who succeeds in his way when he carries out his schemes.

nsb@Psalms:37:10 @ A short time from now the wicked man will be no more. You will look carefully for his place and he will not be there.

nsb@Psalms:37:12 @ The wicked plots against the righteous and grinds at him with his teeth.

nsb@Psalms:37:13 @ Jehovah laughs at him, for he sees that his day will come.

nsb@Psalms:37:23 @ Jehovah directs a person's steps and Jehovah delights in his way.

nsb@Psalms:37:24 @ When he falls, he will not be thrown down headfirst because Jehovah holds on to his hand.

nsb@Psalms:37:25 @ I have been young, and now I am old, but I have never seen a righteous person abandoned or his descendants begging for food.

nsb@Psalms:37:26 @ He is always generous and lends freely. His descendants are a blessing.

nsb@Psalms:37:28 @ Jehovah loves justice, and he will not abandon his godly ones. They will be kept safe forever, but the descendants of the wicked will be destroyed.

nsb@Psalms:37:30 @ The mouth of the righteous reflects on wisdom. His tongue speaks what is fair.

nsb@Psalms:37:31 @ The law of his God is in his heart. His steps do not waver.

nsb@Psalms:37:33 @ Jehovah will not leave him in his hand or let him be condemned when he is judged.

nsb@Psalms:37:34 @ Wait for Jehovah and keep his way and he will exalt you to inherit the earth. You will see it when the wicked are destroyed.

nsb@Psalms:37:37 @ Mark the blameless man, and behold the upright. His future will be filled with peace.

nsb@Psalms:39:5 @ »Indeed, you have made the length of my days very short. My life span is nothing compared to yours. Certainly, everyone alive is like a whisper in the wind.

nsb@Psalms:39:9 @ »I remained speechless. I did not open my mouth because you have done this.

nsb@Psalms:40:4 @ Blessed is the man who has made Jehovah his security. He has not turned to the proud, or to those who turn aside into falsehood.

nsb@Psalms:41:2 @ Jehovah will guard him and keep him alive. He will be blessed in the land. Do not place him at the mercy of his enemies.

nsb@Psalms:41:3 @ Jehovah will support him on his sickbed. You will restore him to health when he is ill.

nsb@Psalms:41:5 @ My enemies say evil things about me: »When will he die, and when will his family name disappear?«

nsb@Psalms:41:6 @ When one of them comes to visit me, he speaks falsehood. His heart collects gossip. Then he leaves to tell others.

nsb@Psalms:41:7 @ All who hate me whisper together against me; against me they devise my hurt, saying:

nsb@Psalms:41:9 @ Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.

nsb@Psalms:41:11 @ By this I know that you are pleased with me, because my enemy does not shout in triumph over me.

nsb@Psalms:42:8 @ Jehovah commands his mercy during the day, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.

nsb@Psalms:44:16 @ This is because of the words of those who insult and slander us, because of the presence of the enemy and the avenger.

nsb@Psalms:44:17 @ Although all of this happened to us, we never forgot you. We never ignored your promise.

nsb@Psalms:45:1 @ Beautiful words fill my mind and stir my heart, as I compose this song for the king. Like the pen of a skilful writer my tongue is ready with a poem.

nsb@Psalms:46:6 @ The nations made uproar and the kingdoms tumbled. He raised his voice and the earth dissolved.

nsb@Psalms:47:8 @ God rules over the nations, God sits on His holy throne.

nsb@Psalms:48:1 @ Great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God, his sacred mountain.

nsb@Psalms:48:2 @ His situation if beautiful. Mount Zion is the joy of the whole earth. The city of the great King is in the far reaches of the north.

nsb@Psalms:48:3 @ God is in his citadel. He has made himself known.

nsb@Psalms:48:7 @ You break the ships of Tarshish using the east wind.

nsb@Psalms:48:14 @ This God is our God forever and ever. He will lead us until death.

nsb@Psalms:49:1 @ Listen to this, all you people. Open your ears, all who live in the world.

nsb@Psalms:49:7 @ No one can ever redeem his brother or pay God a ransom for his life.

nsb@Psalms:49:13 @ This is the final outcome for fools and their followers who are delighted by what they say:

nsb@Psalms:49:16 @ Do not be afraid when someone becomes rich, when the greatness of his house increases.

nsb@Psalms:49:17 @ He will not take anything with him when he dies. Even his greatness cannot follow him.

nsb@Psalms:49:19 @ He must join the generation of his ancestors who will never see light again.

nsb@Psalms:50:4 @ He addresses heaven and earth to judge his people:

nsb@Psalms:50:6 @ The heavens declare his righteousness because God is the judge.

nsb@Psalms:50:22 @ »Consider this, you who do not remember God. Otherwise, I will tear you to pieces, and there will be no one to deliver.

nsb@Psalms:52:7 @ Here is the man who did not make God his strength. He trusted in the abundance of his riches. He strengthened himself in his wickedness.

nsb@Psalms:53:1 @ The fool has said in his heart: »There is no God *.« They are corrupt and have done abominable iniquity. There are none who do good.

nsb@Psalms:53:6 @ Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When Jehovah brings his people back from captivity, Jacob and Israel will rejoice and be glad.

nsb@Psalms:54:7 @ For he has delivered me out of all trouble: and my eye has seen his defeat of my enemies.

nsb@Psalms:55:3 @ This is because my enemy shouts at me and a wicked person persecutes me. They bring misery crashing down on me, and they attack me out of anger.

nsb@Psalms:55:20 @ He has put forth his hands against those who were at peace with him. He has violated his covenant.

nsb@Psalms:55:21 @ His speech was smoother than butter, but his heart was war! His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

nsb@Psalms:56:9 @ Then my enemies will turn back in the day when I call. This I know, that God is for me!

nsb@Psalms:57:3 @ He will send from heaven, and save me, He rebukes the one who is pursuing me. God will send out his loving kindness and his truth.

nsb@Psalms:58:10 @ The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

nsb@Psalms:59:12 @ This is because of the sins from their mouths and the words on their lips. Let them be trapped by their own arrogance because they speak curses and lies.

nsb@Psalms:60:6 @ God has spoken from his sanctuary: I will triumph. I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth.

nsb@Psalms:62:4 @ They plan to force him out of his high position. They are happy to lie. They bless with their mouths, but in their hearts they curse.

nsb@Psalms:62:8 @ Trust him at all times, you people. Pour out your hearts in his presence. God is our refuge.

nsb@Psalms:64:7 @ But God will shoot his arrows and quickly wound them.

nsb@Psalms:65:6 @ He established the mountains with his power. He is girded with mighty strength.

nsb@Psalms:66:2 @ Praise the glory of his name with music. Make his praise glorious.

nsb@Psalms:66:5 @ Come and see the works of God, his awe-inspiring deeds for the sons of men.

nsb@Psalms:66:7 @ He rules forever with his might. His eyes watch the nations. Rebels will not be able to oppose him.

nsb@Psalms:66:8 @ Bless our God, you peoples. Make the sound of his praise heard.

nsb@Psalms:66:20 @ Thanks be to God, who has not rejected my prayer or taken away his loving kindness from me.

nsb@Psalms:67:1 @ May God be merciful to us and bless us. May he cause his face to shine on us.

nsb@Psalms:68:1 @ Let God arise and let his enemies be scattered. Let those who hate him run from him.

nsb@Psalms:68:4 @ Sing to God, sing praises to his name: extol him who rides upon the heavens by his name, Jehovah, and rejoice before him.

nsb@Psalms:68:5 @ In his holy habitation God is a father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows.

nsb@Psalms:68:17 @ The chariots of God are myriads in number, thousands upon thousands. Jehovah is among them. The God of Sinai is in his holy place.

nsb@Psalms:68:21 @ Certainly, God will crush the heads of his enemies and destroy even the hair on the heads of those who continue to be guilty.

nsb@Psalms:68:33 @ God rides through the highest heavens, which are from ancient times, the highest heaven. Listen! He makes his powerful voice heard.

nsb@Psalms:68:34 @ Acknowledge the power of God. His majesty is over Israel, and his power is in the skies.

nsb@Psalms:68:35 @ God, the God of Israel, is awe-inspiring in his holy place. He gives strength and power to his people. Praise God!

nsb@Psalms:69:33 @ For Jehovah hears the needy and does not despise his captive people.

nsb@Psalms:69:36 @ The children also of his servants shall inherit it. Those who love his name shall dwell in it.

nsb@Psalms:71:18 @ And even when I am old and gray, O God, do not forsake me, until I declare your strength to this generation, your power to all who are to come.

nsb@Psalms:72:7 @ In his day the righteous will flourish. There will be abundance of peace, until the moon is no more.

nsb@Psalms:72:9 @ Those who dwell in the wilderness will bow before him. His enemies shall lick the dust.

nsb@Psalms:72:10 @ The kings of Tarshish and of the isles will bring tribute. The kings of Sheba and Seba will offer gifts.

nsb@Psalms:72:14 @ He will redeem them from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.

nsb@Psalms:72:17 @ His name will endure forever. His name will continue as long as the sun shines. May all nations be blessed through him and call him blessed.

nsb@Psalms:72:19 @ Blessed be to his glorious name forever. May the whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen and amen!

nsb@Psalms:73:10 @ Therefore his people return here and here they drink waters of abundance.

nsb@Psalms:73:16 @ When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me.

nsb@Psalms:74:18 @ Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Jehovah. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.

nsb@Psalms:75:8 @ Jehovah holds a cup in his hand. The wine foams and is well mixed. So he pours from it. Surely all the wicked of the earth must drain and drink down its dregs.

nsb@Psalms:76:1 @ God is known in Judah. His name is great in Israel.

nsb@Psalms:76:2 @ His tabernacle is in Salem. His dwelling place also is in Zion.

nsb@Psalms:76:5 @ The strong and valiant were plundered, they sank into sleep. None of the warriors could use his hands.

nsb@Psalms:77:8 @ Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise fail for generations?

nsb@Psalms:77:9 @ Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?

nsb@Psalms:78:4 @ We will not conceal them from their children, but tell to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, and his strength and his wondrous works that he has done.

nsb@Psalms:78:5 @ He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel. This he commanded our fathers that they should teach them to their children,

nsb@Psalms:78:7 @ That they should put their confidence in God and not forget the works of God but keep his commandments.

nsb@Psalms:78:10 @ They did not keep the covenant of God. They refused to walk in his law.

nsb@Psalms:78:11 @ They forgot his deeds and his miracles that he had shown them.

nsb@Psalms:78:20 @ Behold, He struck the rock so that waters gushed out, and streams were overflowing; Can He give bread also? Will He provide meat for His people?

nsb@Psalms:78:22 @ Because they did not believe in God and did not trust in his salvation.

nsb@Psalms:78:26 @ He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens and by his power he directed the south wind.

nsb@Psalms:78:32 @ In spite of all this they still sinned. They did not believe in his wonderful works.

nsb@Psalms:78:33 @ He brought their days to an end like a whisper in the wind. He brought their years to an end in terror.

nsb@Psalms:78:37 @ Their hearts were not loyal to him. They were not faithful to his promise.

nsb@Psalms:78:38 @ But he is compassionate. He forgave their sin. He did not destroy them. He restrained his anger many times. He did not display all of his fury.

nsb@Psalms:78:42 @ They did not remember his power and the day he freed them from their oppressor,

nsb@Psalms:78:43 @ when he performed his miraculous signs in Egypt, his wonders in the fields of Zoan.

nsb@Psalms:78:49 @ He sent his fierce burning anger, his rage and fury against them. He sent an army of destroying angels.

nsb@Psalms:78:50 @ He cleared a path for his anger. He did not spare them from death. He let the plague take their lives.

nsb@Psalms:78:52 @ He led his own people out like sheep and guided them like a flock through the wilderness.

nsb@Psalms:78:54 @ He brought them into his holy land, to this mountain that his power had won.

nsb@Psalms:78:56 @ They tested God Most High and rebelled against him. They did not obey his written instructions.

nsb@Psalms:78:60 @ He abandoned his dwelling place in Shiloh, the tent where he had lived among humans.

nsb@Psalms:78:61 @ He allowed his power to be taken captive and handed his glory over to an oppressor.

nsb@Psalms:78:62 @ He let swords kill his people. He was furious with those who belonged to him.

nsb@Psalms:78:63 @ Fire consumed his best young men, so his virgins were not given in marriage.

nsb@Psalms:78:64 @ His priests were cut down with swords. The widows of his priests could not even weep for them.

nsb@Psalms:78:66 @ He struck his enemies from behind and disgraced them forever.

nsb@Psalms:78:69 @ He built his holy place to be like the high heavens, like the earth that he made to last for a long time.

nsb@Psalms:78:70 @ He chose his servant David. He took him from the sheep pens.

nsb@Psalms:79:7 @ They have devoured Jacob. They have destroyed his home.

nsb@Psalms:80:12 @ Why did you break down the stone fences around this vine? All who pass by are picking its fruit.

nsb@Psalms:80:14 @ O God, commander of armies, come back! Look from heaven and see! Come to help this vine.

nsb@Psalms:81:4 @ For this is required by the law of Israel. It is an ordinance of the God of Jacob.

nsb@Psalms:81:6 @ »I relieved his shoulder of the burden. His hands were freed from the basket.

nsb@Psalms:85:8 @ I want to hear what the Lord Jehovah says, because he promises peace to his people, to his godly ones. But they must not go back to their stupidity.

nsb@Psalms:85:9 @ Indeed, his salvation is near those who reverence him, and his glory will remain in our land.

nsb@Psalms:85:13 @ Righteousness will go ahead of him and make a path for his steps.

nsb@Psalms:87:1 @ His foundation is in the holy mountains.

nsb@Psalms:87:4 @ I will mention Rahab (Isaiah strkjv@30:7) and Babylon among those who know me. Behold, Philistia and Tyre with Ethiopia: »This one was born there.«

nsb@Psalms:87:5 @ But of Zion it shall be said: »This one and that one were born in her and the Most High will establish her.«

nsb@Psalms:87:6 @ Jehovah will count when he registers the peoples: »This one was born there.«

nsb@Psalms:89:23 @ I will beat down his adversaries before him. I will strike those who hate him.

nsb@Psalms:89:24 @ But my faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him. In my name, his horn will be exalted.

nsb@Psalms:89:25 @ I will set his hand also on the sea, and his right hand on the rivers.

nsb@Psalms:89:29 @ I will make his descendants endure forever and his throne like the days of heaven.

nsb@Psalms:89:30 @ If his descendants abandon my law and do not live by my rules,

nsb@Psalms:89:36 @ His descendants will last forever. His throne will be in my presence like the sun.

nsb@Psalms:89:39 @ You have refused to recognize the covenant to your servant and have thrown his crown into the dirt.

nsb@Psalms:89:40 @ You have broken through all his walls and have laid his fortified cities in ruins.

nsb@Psalms:89:41 @ Everyone who passed by robbed him. He has become the object of his neighbors' scorn.

nsb@Psalms:89:42 @ You lifted up the right hand of his enemies and made all of his adversaries rejoice.

nsb@Psalms:89:43 @ You even took his sword out of his hand and failed to support him in battle.

nsb@Psalms:89:44 @ You put an end to his splendor and hurled his throne to the ground.

nsb@Psalms:89:45 @ You cut short the days of his youth and covered him with shame.

nsb@Psalms:91:4 @ He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge. His truth is your shield and armor.

nsb@Psalms:91:11 @ He will put his angels in charge of you to protect you in all your ways.

nsb@Psalms:92:3 @ To do this on a ten-stringed instrument with a melody on a harp.

nsb@Psalms:94:14 @ Jehovah will not abandon his people. He will not desert those who belong to him.

nsb@Psalms:94:16 @ Who will stand up for me against evildoers? Who will take his stand for me against those who do wickedness?

nsb@Psalms:95:2 @ Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise to him with psalms.

nsb@Psalms:95:4 @ Deep places of the earth are in his hand. The strength of the mountains is also His.

nsb@Psalms:95:5 @ The sea is his. He made it and his hands formed the dry land.

nsb@Psalms:95:7 @ For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today hear His voice!

nsb@Psalms:95:10 @ For forty years I was grieved with this generation. I said: »It is a people who go astray in their hearts, and they have not known my ways.«

nsb@Psalms:96:2 @ Sing to Jehovah, bless his name! Declare the good news of his salvation from day to day.

nsb@Psalms:96:3 @ Proclaim his glory among the nations, his wonders among all people.

nsb@Psalms:96:6 @ Honor and majesty are before him. Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.

nsb@Psalms:96:8 @ Give to Jehovah the glory due to his name. Bring an offering and come into his courts.

nsb@Psalms:96:13 @ He comes before Jehovah! Yes, he comes to judge the earth! He will judge the world with righteousness, and the people with His truth.

nsb@Psalms:97:2 @ Clouds, gloom and darkness are all around Him. Righteousness and judgment are the foundation of his throne.

nsb@Psalms:97:3 @ A fire goes before him and burns up his enemies round about.

nsb@Psalms:97:4 @ His lightning lights up the world. The earth sees and trembles.

nsb@Psalms:97:6 @ The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the people see his glory.

nsb@Psalms:97:10 @ You who love Jehovah hate evil! He preserves his anointed ones. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

nsb@Psalms:97:12 @ Rejoice in Jehovah, you righteous ones; and give thanks at the memory of his holy name.

nsb@Psalms:98:1 @ Sing a new song to Jehovah for he has done miraculous things. His right hand and his holy arm have gained victory for him.

nsb@Psalms:98:2 @ Jehovah has made his salvation known. He has uncovered his righteousness for the nations to see.

nsb@Psalms:98:3 @ He remembered his loving kindness and faithfulness to Israel's descendants. All the ends of the earth have seen how our God saves them.

nsb@Psalms:98:9 @ This is in Jehovah’s presence because he is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness and its people with fairness.

nsb@Psalms:99:5 @ Exalt Jehovah our God and worship at his footstool! (Isaiah strkjv@66:1) He is holy.

nsb@Psalms:99:6 @ Moses and Aaron were among his priests. Samuel was among those who called on his name. They called upon Jehovah and he answered them.

nsb@Psalms:99:7 @ He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud. They kept His testimonies and the commandment that he gave them.

nsb@Psalms:99:9 @ Exalt Jehovah our God and worship at his holy mountain, for Jehovah our God is holy.

nsb@Psalms:100:2 @ Serve Jehovah with gladness and come before his presence with a joyful song.

nsb@Psalms:100:3 @ Know that Jehovah is God. He has made us, and not we ourselves. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

nsb@Psalms:100:4 @ Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, into his courtyard with praise: thank him and bless his name.

nsb@Psalms:100:5 @ For Jehovah is good. His loving kindness is everlasting and his truth endures to all generations.

nsb@Psalms:101:5 @ I will destroy anyone who secretly slanders his neighbor. I will not tolerate anyone with a conceited look or arrogant heart.

nsb@Psalms:102:10 @ This is because of your indignation and your anger. You have lifted me up and cast me away.

nsb@Psalms:102:16 @ For Jehovah has built up Zion. He has appeared in His glory.

nsb@Psalms:102:18 @ This will be written for the generation to come: That a people yet to be created may praise Jehovah.

nsb@Psalms:102:19 @ He looked down from his holy height. Jehovah gazed upon the earth from heaven.

nsb@Psalms:102:21 @ Let men tell of the Jehovah’s name in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem,

nsb@Psalms:103:1 @ Bless Jehovah with all my being. With all that I am I praise his holy name!

nsb@Psalms:103:7 @ He made known his ways to Moses, His deeds to the sons of Israel.

nsb@Psalms:103:9 @ He will not always chasten, nor will he keep his anger forever.

nsb@Psalms:103:11 @ For as the heavens are high above the earth, so is his mercy toward those who reverence him.

nsb@Psalms:103:13 @ Jehovah has compassion for those who reverence him just as a father has compassion for his children.

nsb@Psalms:103:17 @ But the loving kindness of Jehovah is from everlasting to everlasting on those who reverence him, and his righteousness is to the sons of sons.

nsb@Psalms:103:18 @ It is to those who keep his covenant, and to those who remember to do his commandments.

nsb@Psalms:103:19 @ Jehovah has prepared his throne in the heavens. His kingdom rules over all.

nsb@Psalms:103:20 @ Bless Jehovah you angels of his, you who excel in strength, who obey his command, and listen to the voice of his Word.

nsb@Psalms:103:21 @ Bless Jehovah all his hosts. Bless Jehovah you ministers of his who do his will.

nsb@Psalms:103:22 @ Bless Jehovah, all his works in all places he rules. Bless Jehovah with all my being.

nsb@Psalms:104:15 @ And wine which makes man's heart glad. That he may make his face shine with oil, and food, which sustains man's heart.

nsb@Psalms:104:23 @ Man goes to his work and to his labor until evening.

nsb@Psalms:104:31 @ Let the glory of Jehovah endure forever. May Jehovah find joy in his works.

nsb@Psalms:105:1 @ O give thanks to Jehovah! Call upon his name. Make his work known among the people.

nsb@Psalms:105:2 @ Sing to him, give praise to him! Declare all his wondrous works.

nsb@Psalms:105:3 @ Praise his holy name! Let the heart of those rejoice who seek Jehovah.

nsb@Psalms:105:4 @ Seek Jehovah and seek his strength. Seek his presence constantly!

nsb@Psalms:105:5 @ Remember the marvelous works that he has done, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth.

nsb@Psalms:105:6 @ You seed of Abraham his servant, you children of Jacob his chosen ones.

nsb@Psalms:105:7 @ He is Jehovah our God: his judgments are in all the earth.

nsb@Psalms:105:8 @ He has remembered his covenant forever! It is the word he commanded to a thousand generations.

nsb@Psalms:105:9 @ He made this covenant with Abraham and gave his oath to Isaac.

nsb@Psalms:105:19 @ Jehovah’s presence tested him through fiery trials until the time that his word came.

nsb@Psalms:105:21 @ He made Joseph the master of his palace and the ruler of all his possessions.

nsb@Psalms:105:22 @ Joseph trained the king's officers the way he wanted and taught his respected leaders wisdom.

nsb@Psalms:105:24 @ Jehovah made his people grow rapidly in number and stronger than their enemies.

nsb@Psalms:105:25 @ He changed their minds so that they hated his people, and they dealt treacherously with his servants.

nsb@Psalms:105:26 @ He sent his servant Moses, and he sent Aaron, whom he had chosen.

nsb@Psalms:105:27 @ They displayed his miraculous signs among them and did amazing things in the land of Ham.

nsb@Psalms:105:28 @ He sent darkness and made their land dark. They did not rebel against his orders.

nsb@Psalms:105:37 @ He brought Israel out with silver and gold, and no one among his tribes stumbled.

nsb@Psalms:105:42 @ He remembered his holy word to his servant Abraham.

nsb@Psalms:105:43 @ He brought his people out with joy, his chosen ones with a song of joy.

nsb@Psalms:105:45 @ Then they would obey his laws and follow his teachings. Praise Jehovah!

nsb@Psalms:106:1 @ Praise Jehovah! Oh give thanks to Jehovah, for he is good and His loving-kindness endures forever.

nsb@Psalms:106:2 @ Who can speak of the mighty acts of Jehovah? Who can proclaim and perceive all his praise?

nsb@Psalms:106:8 @ Nevertheless he saved them for the sake of his name that he might make his power known.

nsb@Psalms:106:12 @ Then they believed his words. They sang His praise.

nsb@Psalms:106:13 @ They quickly forgot his works and they did not wait for his counsel.

nsb@Psalms:106:23 @ God said he was going to destroy them, but Moses, his chosen one, stood in his way to prevent him from exterminating them.

nsb@Psalms:106:26 @ Raising his hand, he swore that he would kill them in the wilderness,

nsb@Psalms:106:31 @ Because of this, Phinehas was considered righteous forever, throughout every generation.

nsb@Psalms:106:40 @ Jehovah burned with anger against his own people. He was disgusted with those who belonged to him.

nsb@Psalms:106:45 @ He remembered his promise to them. In keeping with his rich mercy, he changed his plans.

nsb@Psalms:107:1 @ Give thanks to Jehovah, for he is good. His loving kindness endures forever.

nsb@Psalms:107:8 @ Let them praise Jehovah for his loving kindness, for his wonderful works to the children of men!

nsb@Psalms:107:15 @ Let them give thanks to Jehovah because of his goodness. He performed his miracles for the sons of men.

nsb@Psalms:107:20 @ He sent his message and healed them. He rescued them from the grave.

nsb@Psalms:107:21 @ Let them give thanks to Jehovah because of his goodness. He performed his miracles for the sons of men.

nsb@Psalms:107:31 @ Let them give thanks to Jehovah because of his goodness. He performed his miracles for the sons of men.

nsb@Psalms:107:42 @ The righteous will see this and rejoice, but all the wicked will shut their mouths.

nsb@Psalms:108:7 @ God has spoken in his holiness: I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.

nsb@Psalms:109:6 @ Appoint the evil one to oppose him. Let an accuser stand at his right hand.

nsb@Psalms:109:7 @ When he stands trial, let him be found guilty. Let his prayer be considered sinful.

nsb@Psalms:109:8 @ Let his days be few in number. Let someone else take his place.

nsb@Psalms:109:9 @ Let his children become fatherless and his wife a widow.

nsb@Psalms:109:10 @ Let his children wander around and beg. Let them seek help far from their ruined homes.

nsb@Psalms:109:12 @ Let no one be kind to him anymore. Let no one show any pity to his fatherless children.

nsb@Psalms:109:13 @ Let his descendants be cut off and their family name be wiped out by the next generation.

nsb@Psalms:109:14 @ Let Jehovah remember the guilt of his ancestors and not wipe out his mother's sin.

nsb@Psalms:109:18 @ He wore cursing as though it were clothing; so cursing entered his body like water and his bones like oil.

nsb@Psalms:109:19 @ Let cursing be his clothing, a belt he always wears.

nsb@Psalms:109:20 @ This is how Jehovah rewards those who accuse me, those who say evil things against me.

nsb@Psalms:109:27 @ Then they will know that this is your doing, that you, O Jehovah, are the one who saved me.

nsb@Psalms:110:4 @ Jehovah has taken an oath and will not change his mind: »You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.«

nsb@Psalms:110:5 @ Jehovah is at your right hand. He will crush kings in the day of his anger.

nsb@Psalms:110:7 @ He will drink from the brook along the road. He will hold his head high.

nsb@Psalms:111:3 @ His work is glorious and majestic. His righteousness endures forever.

nsb@Psalms:111:4 @ He has made his miracles unforgettable. Jehovah is gracious and compassionate.

nsb@Psalms:111:5 @ He provides food for those who reverence him. He always remembers his covenant.

nsb@Psalms:111:6 @ He has revealed the power of his works to his people by giving them the lands of other nations as an inheritance.

nsb@Psalms:111:7 @ His works are done with truth and justice. All his guiding principles are trustworthy.

nsb@Psalms:111:9 @ He has sent deliverance to his people. He has ordered that his covenant should continue forever. His name is holy and awesome.

nsb@Psalms:111:10 @ The respect and reverence for Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom. All who obey his commandments show good sense and understanding. His praise endures forever.

nsb@Psalms:112:1 @ Praise Jehovah! Blessed is the person who respects Jehovah and is happy to obey his commandments.

nsb@Psalms:112:2 @ His descendants will grow strong on the earth. The family of the upright will be blessed.

nsb@Psalms:112:3 @ Wealth and riches will be in his home. His righteousness continues forever.

nsb@Psalms:112:7 @ He is not afraid of bad news. His heart remains secure, full of confidence in Jehovah.

nsb@Psalms:112:8 @ His heart is steady, and he is not afraid. In the end he will look triumphantly at his enemies.

nsb@Psalms:112:9 @ He gives freely to poor. His righteousness continues forever. His head is raised in honor.

nsb@Psalms:112:10 @ The wicked sees this and becomes angry. He angrily grits his teeth and disappears. The hope of the wicked will perish.

nsb@Psalms:113:4 @ Jehovah is high above all the nations. His glory is above the heavens.

nsb@Psalms:113:5 @ Who is like Jehovah our God? He is seated on his high throne.

nsb@Psalms:113:8 @ He seats them with important people, with the leaders of his people.

nsb@Psalms:114:2 @ Judah became his holy place and Israel became his government.

nsb@Psalms:114:3 @ The Red Sea looked at this and ran away. The Jordan River turned back.

nsb@Psalms:116:2 @ I will call on him as long as I live because he turns his ear toward me.

nsb@Psalms:116:14 @ I will keep my vows to Jehovah in the presence of all his people.

nsb@Psalms:116:15 @ Precious in the sight of Jehovah is the death of his godly ones.

nsb@Psalms:116:18 @ I will keep my vows to Jehovah in the presence of all his people,

nsb@Psalms:117:2 @ His loving kindness toward us is powerful. Jehovah’s truth endures forever. Praise Jehovah!

nsb@Psalms:118:1 @ O Give thanks to Jehovah because he is good and his loving kindness is eternal.

nsb@Psalms:118:2 @ Let the people of Israel say: »His loving kindness is eternal.«

nsb@Psalms:118:3 @ Let the priests of God say: »His loving kindness is eternal.«

nsb@Psalms:118:4 @ Let all who worship him say: »His loving kindness is eternal.«

nsb@Psalms:118:16 @ His power has brought us victory, his mighty power in battle!

nsb@Psalms:118:20 @ This is the gate of Jehovah; only the righteous can come in.

nsb@Psalms:118:23 @ Jehovah did this and what a wonderful sight it is!

nsb@Psalms:118:24 @ This is the day Jehovah has made let us rejoice and be glad in it!

nsb@Psalms:118:29 @ Give thanks to Jehovah, for he is good, and his loving kindness is eternal.

nsb@Psalms:119:2 @ Blessed are those who obey his written word. They seek him with all their heart.

nsb@Psalms:119:3 @ They also do no unrighteousness. They walk in his ways.

nsb@Psalms:119:9 @ How can a young man keep his way pure? By keeping it according to your word.

nsb@Psalms:119:50 @ This is my comfort in my affliction: That your word has revived me.

nsb@Psalms:119:56 @ This has become mine, that I observe your precepts.

nsb@Psalms:119:91 @ They stand this day according to your ordinances, for all things are your servants.

nsb@Psalms:119:118 @ You have rejected all those who wander from your statutes. This is because their deceitfulness is useless.

nsb@Psalms:119:164 @ Seven times a day I praise you! This is because of your righteous ordinances.

nsb@Psalms:121:8 @ May Jehovah guard your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forever.

nsb@Psalms:125:2 @ As the mountains are all around Jerusalem, so Jehovah is all around his people from this time and forever.

nsb@Psalms:126:6 @ The person who goes out weeping, carrying his bag of seed, will come home singing, carrying his bundles of grain.

nsb@Psalms:127:5 @ Blessed is the man who has filled his quiver with them. He will not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the city gate.

nsb@Psalms:128:1 @ Blessed are all who reverence Jehovah and live his way.

nsb@Psalms:128:4 @ This is how Jehovah will bless the person who fears him.

nsb@Psalms:129:7 @ The reaper does not fill his hand with it, or the binder of sheaves his bosom.

nsb@Psalms:130:5 @ I wait for Jehovah, I do wait. And in his word I do hope.

nsb@Psalms:130:8 @ He will save his people Israel from all their sins.

nsb@Psalms:131:2 @ Surely I am composed and quiet. I am like a weaned child who rests against his mother. Inside of me I am like a weaned child.

nsb@Psalms:131:3 @ O Israel, hope in Jehovah from this time and forever.

nsb@Psalms:132:1 @ Jehovah, remember David and all his affliction.

nsb@Psalms:132:2 @ Remember how he swore an oath to Jehovah and made this vow to the Mighty One of Jacob.

nsb@Psalms:132:7 @ Let us go to his dwelling place. Let us worship at his footstool.

nsb@Psalms:132:11 @ Jehovah swore an oath to David: »This is a truth he will not take back: I will set one of your own descendants on your throne.

nsb@Psalms:132:13 @ Jehovah has chosen Zion. He wants it for his home.

nsb@Psalms:132:14 @ This will be my resting place forever. Here I will sit enthroned because I want Zion.

nsb@Psalms:132:18 @ I will clothe his enemies with shame, but the crown on my anointed one will shine.

nsb@Psalms:133:2 @ It is like the precious oil upon the head, coming down upon the beard, Aaron's beard, coming down upon the edge of his robes.

nsb@Psalms:135:3 @ Praise Jehovah for Jehovah is good! Sing praises to his name for it is delightful.

nsb@Psalms:135:4 @ For Jehovah has chosen Jacob for Himself and Israel for his special treasure.

nsb@Psalms:135:7 @ He causes the vapors to rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain. He brings wind out of his storehouses.

nsb@Psalms:135:9 @ He sent signs and wonders into your midst, O Egypt, on Pharaoh and on all his servants.

nsb@Psalms:135:12 @ and gave their land as an inheritance, an inheritance to Israel His people.

nsb@Psalms:135:14 @ For Jehovah will judge his people, and he will have pity on his servants.

nsb@Psalms:136:1 @ Give thanks to Jehovah, for he is good. His loving kindness is everlasting.

nsb@Psalms:136:2 @ Give thanks to the God of gods. His loving kindness is everlasting.

nsb@Psalms:136:3 @ Give thanks to the Lord of lords. His loving kindness is everlasting.

nsb@Psalms:136:4 @ To the one who alone does wonderful thing. His loving kindness is everlasting.

nsb@Psalms:136:5 @ To the one who made the heavens with skill. His loving kindness is everlasting.

nsb@Psalms:136:6 @ To him who spread out the earth above the waters. His loving kindness is everlasting.

nsb@Psalms:136:7 @ To him who made the great lights. His loving kindness is everlasting:

nsb@Psalms:136:8 @ The sun to rule by day, for His loving kindness is everlasting,

nsb@Psalms:136:9 @ The moon and stars to rule by night, for His loving kindness is everlasting.

nsb@Psalms:136:10 @ To him who destroyed the Egyptians in their firstborn. His loving kindness is everlasting.

nsb@Psalms:136:11 @ And brought Israel out from their midst, for his loving kindness is everlasting.

nsb@Psalms:136:12 @ With a strong hand and an outstretched arm, for his loving kindness is everlasting.

nsb@Psalms:136:13 @ To Him who divided the Red Sea asunder. His loving kindness is everlasting.

nsb@Psalms:136:14 @ And made Israel pass through the midst of it. For his loving kindness is everlasting.

nsb@Psalms:136:15 @ But he overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea, for his loving kindness is everlasting.

nsb@Psalms:136:16 @ To him who led his people through the wilderness, for his loving kindness is everlasting.

nsb@Psalms:136:17 @ To him who destroyed great kings. His loving kindness is everlasting.

nsb@Psalms:136:18 @ And struck mighty kings, for his loving kindness is everlasting:

nsb@Psalms:136:19 @ Sihon, king of the Amorites, for his loving kindness is everlasting,

nsb@Psalms:136:20 @ And Og, king of Bashan, for his loving kindness is everlasting,

nsb@Psalms:136:21 @ And gave their land as a heritage, for his loving kindness is everlasting,

nsb@Psalms:136:22 @ Even a heritage to Israel his servant, for his loving kindness is everlasting.

nsb@Psalms:136:23 @ He remembered us in our low estate. His loving kindness is everlasting.

nsb@Psalms:136:24 @ He has rescued us from our adversaries, for his loving kindness is everlasting.

nsb@Psalms:136:25 @ He gives food to all flesh, for his loving kindness is everlasting.

nsb@Psalms:136:26 @ Give thanks to the God of heaven, for his loving kindness is everlasting.

nsb@Psalms:138:5 @ They will sing this about the ways of Jehovah: Jehovah’s honor is great!

nsb@Psalms:139:6 @ Knowing this is too wonderful for me! It is too high, I cannot attain to it.

nsb@Psalms:139:14 @ I will praise you, for in an awesome way I am wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful and I know this very well.

nsb@Psalms:139:16 @ Your eyes saw my embryo and all were written in your book; the days ordained for me. Even this before one had taken place.

nsb@Psalms:142:2 @ I pour out my complaints in his presence and tell him my troubles.

nsb@Psalms:142:5 @ I call out to you, O Jehovah. I say: »You are my refuge, my own inheritance in this world of the living.«

nsb@Psalms:144:4 @ Man is like a mere breath. His days are like a passing shadow.

nsb@Psalms:145:3 @ Great is Jehovah, and highly to be praised. His greatness is unsearchable.

nsb@Psalms:145:9 @ Jehovah is good to all and his mercies are over all his works.

nsb@Psalms:145:17 @ Jehovah is righteous in all his ways. He is kind in all his deeds.

nsb@Psalms:145:21 @ My mouth will speak the praise of Jehovah! All flesh will praise his holy name forever and ever.

nsb@Psalms:146:4 @ His spirit departs, he returns to the earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

nsb@Psalms:146:5 @ How blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in Jehovah his God!

nsb@Psalms:147:1 @ Praise Jehovah! It is good to sing praise to our God. It is pleasant to sing his praise beautifully.

nsb@Psalms:147:5 @ Our Lord is great, and his power is great. There is no limit to his understanding.

nsb@Psalms:147:11 @ Jehovah is pleased with those who fear him, with those who wait with hope for his mercy.

nsb@Psalms:147:15 @ He is the one who sends his promise throughout the earth. His word travels with great speed.

nsb@Psalms:147:17 @ He is the one who throws his hailstones like breadcrumbs. Who can withstand his chilling blast?

nsb@Psalms:147:18 @ He sends out his word and melts his hailstones. He makes wind blow and water flow.

nsb@Psalms:147:19 @ He speaks his word to Jacob, his laws and judgments to Israel.

nsb@Psalms:147:20 @ He has done nothing like this for any other nation. The other nations do not know the decisions he has handed down. Praise Jehovah!

nsb@Psalms:148:2 @ Praise him, all his angels. Praise him, his entire heavenly army.

nsb@Psalms:148:5 @ Let them praise the name of Jehovah for they were created by his command.

nsb@Psalms:148:8 @ Praise him lightning and hail, snow and fog, strong winds that obey his commands.

nsb@Psalms:148:13 @ Let them praise the name of Jehovah because his name is high above all others. His glory is above heaven and earth.

nsb@Psalms:148:14 @ He has given his people a strong leader, someone praiseworthy for his faithful ones, for the people of Israel, the people who are close to him. Praise Jehovah!

nsb@Psalms:149:1 @ Praise Jehovah! Sing a new song to Jehovah. Sing his praise in the congregation of godly people.

nsb@Psalms:149:3 @ Let them praise his name with dancing. Let them make music to him with tambourines and lyres.

nsb@Psalms:149:4 @ Jehovah takes pleasure in his people. He crowns those who are oppressed with salvation.

nsb@Psalms:149:9 @ to carry out the judgment that is written against them. This is an honor that belongs to all his God-like ones. Praise Jehovah!

nsb@Psalms:150:1 @ Praise Jehovah! Praise God in his holy place. Praise him in his mighty heavens.

nsb@Psalms:150:2 @ Praise him for his mighty acts. Praise him for his immense greatness.

nsb@Proverbs:1:6 @ This will help him understand a proverb and the interpretation as well as the words of the wise and their riddles.

nsb@Proverbs:2:6 @ Jehovah gives wisdom. From his mouth come knowledge and understanding.

nsb@Proverbs:2:8 @ He guards those on paths of justice. He watches over the way of his godly ones.

nsb@Proverbs:3:8 @ This will make you healthy, and you will feel strong.

nsb@Proverbs:3:11 @ My son, do not despise Jehovah’s discipline or be weary of his correction.

nsb@Proverbs:3:20 @ By his knowledge the depths are broken up and the clouds drop down the dew.

nsb@Proverbs:3:32 @ Jehovah hates people who do evil. He takes righteous people into his confidence.

nsb@Proverbs:5:21 @ The ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah. He ponders all his paths.

nsb@Proverbs:5:22 @ His own iniquities will catch the wicked. He will be held with the cords of his sins.

nsb@Proverbs:5:23 @ He dies without instruction. He goes astray because of his foolishness.

nsb@Proverbs:6:4 @ Do this before you fall asleep. Do not allow your eyes to close.

nsb@Proverbs:6:13 @ He winks with his eyes, he speaks with his feet, he teaches with his fingers.

nsb@Proverbs:6:14 @ Fraud is in his heart, he devises mischief continually; he sows discord.

nsb@Proverbs:6:15 @ His disaster will come suddenly. Suddenly he is broken beyond repair.

nsb@Proverbs:6:24 @ This will keep you from the evil woman and from the smooth tongue of an adulterous woman.

nsb@Proverbs:6:27 @ Can a man have fire in his lap and his clothes not be burned?

nsb@Proverbs:6:28 @ Can one walk on hot coals, and his feet not be burned?

nsb@Proverbs:6:30 @ Men do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger when he is starving.

nsb@Proverbs:6:31 @ But if he is caught, he must repay sevenfold. He must give everything in his house.

nsb@Proverbs:6:33 @ He will get wounds and be dishonored. His shame will not be wiped away.

nsb@Proverbs:7:23 @ Till a dart strikes through his liver. The bird hurries to the snare without knowing it would cost his life.

nsb@Proverbs:8:22 @ »Jehovah created me in the beginning of his way, before his works of antiquity.

nsb@Proverbs:8:29 @ »When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his command, when he appointed the foundations of the earth,

nsb@Proverbs:8:30 @ »Then I was beside him, as a master workman with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him.

nsb@Proverbs:9:9 @ Give instruction to a wise man and he will become even wiser. Teach a righteous man, and he will increase his learning.

nsb@Proverbs:10:1 @ A wise son makes a father glad: but a foolish son is sorrow for his mother.

nsb@Proverbs:10:9 @ He who walks with integrity walks safely. He who perverts his ways will be found out.

nsb@Proverbs:10:15 @ The rich man's wealth is his strength. The destruction of the poor is their poverty.

nsb@Proverbs:10:19 @ Sin does not hide from a multitude of words. The wise controls his lips.

nsb@Proverbs:11:1 @ A false scale balance is an abomination to Jehovah. A perfect weight is his delight.

nsb@Proverbs:11:5 @ Righteousness of the undefiled directs his way! Wickedness causes the evil to fall.

nsb@Proverbs:11:7 @ When a wicked man dies his expectation perishes, indeed the hope of unjust men perishes.

nsb@Proverbs:11:8 @ The righteous is delivered from trouble. The wicked goes in his place.

nsb@Proverbs:11:9 @ A godless hypocrite destroys his neighbor with his mouth. The righteous will be delivered through knowledge.

nsb@Proverbs:11:12 @ He who is void of wisdom despises his neighbor, but a man of understanding holds his peace.

nsb@Proverbs:11:17 @ The merciful man does himself good. The cruel man troubles his own flesh.

nsb@Proverbs:11:19 @ Righteousness leads to life and he that pursues evil participates in his own death.

nsb@Proverbs:11:20 @ Those who are of a perverse heart are abomination to Jehovah. The way of the upright is his delight.

nsb@Proverbs:11:28 @ He who trusts in his riches will fall. The righteous will flourish as a leaf on a branch.

nsb@Proverbs:11:29 @ He who troubles his own house will inherit the wind. The fool will serve the wise of heart.

nsb@Proverbs:12:4 @ A virtuous wife is a crown to her husband. She who acts shameful is rottenness in his bones.

nsb@Proverbs:12:8 @ A man is commended according to his wisdom. He with a perverse heart will be despised.

nsb@Proverbs:12:10 @ A righteous man has regard for the life of his animal, but the compassion of the wicked is terrible.

nsb@Proverbs:12:11 @ He who tills his land will have plenty of bread. He who follows worthless people lacks sense.

nsb@Proverbs:12:13 @ The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips. The righteous will depart from trouble.

nsb@Proverbs:12:14 @ A man will be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth. The deeds of a man's hands will return to him.

nsb@Proverbs:12:15 @ The way of a fool is right in his own eyes. He who listens to counsel is wise.

nsb@Proverbs:12:22 @ Lying lips are an abomination to Jehovah. Those who deal truly are his delight.

nsb@Proverbs:12:26 @ The righteous is a guide to his neighbor. The way of the wicked leads others astray.

nsb@Proverbs:13:1 @ A wise son heeds his father's instruction. A scoffer does not listen to discipline.

nsb@Proverbs:13:2 @ A man eats well by the fruit of his mouth. Transgressors eat violence.

nsb@Proverbs:13:3 @ He who keeps his mouth keeps his life. He who opens wide his lips will have destruction.

nsb@Proverbs:13:8 @ The ransom of a man's life is his riches. The poor does not listen to rebuke.

nsb@Proverbs:13:16 @ Every prudent man acts with knowledge. A fool displays his folly.

nsb@Proverbs:13:22 @ A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children. The wealth of the sinner is preserved for the righteous.

nsb@Proverbs:13:24 @ He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him promptly.

nsb@Proverbs:14:2 @ He who walks in uprightness respects Jehovah. He who is perverse in his ways despises him.

nsb@Proverbs:14:8 @ The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way. The folly of fools is deception.

nsb@Proverbs:14:14 @ The faithless in heart will be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from above.

nsb@Proverbs:14:15 @ The simple believes every word, but the prudent man gives thought to his steps.

nsb@Proverbs:14:20 @ The poor is hated by his neighbor, but the rich have many friends.

nsb@Proverbs:14:21 @ He who despises his neighbor sins. He who has mercy on the poor is happy.

nsb@Proverbs:14:31 @ He who oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker. He who honors his Maker has mercy for the poor.

nsb@Proverbs:14:32 @ The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous has hope in his death.

nsb@Proverbs:14:35 @ The king's favor is toward a wise servant. His anger is against the one who causes shame.

nsb@Proverbs:15:5 @ A fool despises his father's instruction, but he who accepts discipline is prudent.

nsb@Proverbs:15:8 @ The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to Jehovah! The prayer of the upright is his delight.

nsb@Proverbs:15:20 @ A wise son makes a father glad. A foolish man despises his mother.

nsb@Proverbs:15:23 @ A man has joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken at the right time, how good it is!

nsb@Proverbs:15:27 @ He who is greedy of gain troubles his own house. But he who hates gifts will live.

nsb@Proverbs:15:32 @ He who refuses instruction despises his own life. But he who listens to reproof understands.

nsb@Proverbs:16:2 @ All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes. But Jehovah weighs the motives.

nsb@Proverbs:16:7 @ When a man's ways please Jehovah he makes even his enemies live in peace with him.

nsb@Proverbs:16:9 @ A man's heart determines his way. Jehovah directs his steps.

nsb@Proverbs:16:15 @ The light of the king's face causes life. His favor is like a gentle rain in spring.

nsb@Proverbs:16:17 @ The highway of the upright departs from evil. He who guards his way preserves his life.

nsb@Proverbs:16:23 @ The heart of the wise teaches his mouth. It adds learning to his lips.

nsb@Proverbs:16:26 @ He who works labors for himself. His hungry mouth spurs him on.

nsb@Proverbs:16:27 @ An ungodly man digs up evil. It lies on his lips like a burning fire.

nsb@Proverbs:16:28 @ A perverse man sows discord. A whisperer separates good friends.

nsb@Proverbs:16:29 @ A violent man entices his neighbor and leads him in bad ways.

nsb@Proverbs:16:30 @ He shuts his eyes to devise perversity. He moves his lips to bring evil.

nsb@Proverbs:17:12 @ Better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs then a fool in his foolishness.

nsb@Proverbs:17:18 @ A man without understanding shakes hands and becomes surety for his friend.

nsb@Proverbs:17:19 @ He who loves transgression loves discord. He who opens his door seeks destruction.

nsb@Proverbs:17:21 @ He who gives birth to a fool does it to his sorrow because the father of a fool has no joy.

nsb@Proverbs:17:25 @ A foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to his mother.

nsb@Proverbs:17:27 @ The man with knowledge restrains his words. A man of understanding has a quiet spirit.

nsb@Proverbs:17:28 @ Even a fool, when he holds his peace, is counted wise! He who shuts his mouth is esteemed a man of understanding.

nsb@Proverbs:18:1 @ A man of solitude seeks his own desire. He objects to sound wisdom.

nsb@Proverbs:18:2 @ A fool does not like understanding when revealing his thoughts.

nsb@Proverbs:18:6 @ A fool's lips want to argue. His mouth calls for blows.

nsb@Proverbs:18:7 @ A fool's mouth is his ruin. His lips are the snares of his life.

nsb@Proverbs:18:9 @ He is lazy in his work. His brother destroys.

nsb@Proverbs:18:11 @ The rich man's wealth is his strong city. It is his high wall of vanity.

nsb@Proverbs:18:17 @ The first to present his cause seems right. But another comes and examines him.

nsb@Proverbs:18:20 @ A man's stomach will be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth. He will be filled with the produce from his lips.

nsb@Proverbs:19:3 @ Man ruins his life by his own foolishness. His heart chafes with anger against Jehovah.

nsb@Proverbs:19:7 @ The brothers of the poor hate him. His friends leave him. He pursues them with words but they do not listen!

nsb@Proverbs:19:11 @ The discretion of a man defers anger. It is his glory to overlook a transgression.

nsb@Proverbs:19:12 @ The king's anger is like the roaring of a lion but his favor is like dew upon the grass.

nsb@Proverbs:19:13 @ A foolish son is a disgrace to his father. A contentious wife is like drips from a leaky roof.

nsb@Proverbs:19:16 @ He who obeys the commandment saves his life. But he who is careless of his ways will die.

nsb@Proverbs:19:18 @ Correct your son while there is hope. Do not contribute to his death.

nsb@Proverbs:19:24 @ A lazy man hides his hand in the dish and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

nsb@Proverbs:19:26 @ He who assaults his father and chases away his mother is a shameful and disgraceful son.

nsb@Proverbs:20:7 @ The righteous man walks in his integrity. He blesses his children.

nsb@Proverbs:20:8 @ When a king sits on the throne of judgment he scatters away evil with his eyes.

nsb@Proverbs:20:11 @ Even a child is known by his deeds, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.

nsb@Proverbs:20:14 @ »Good for nothing,« cries the buyer. But when he goes his way he boasts about the purchase.

nsb@Proverbs:20:16 @ Take his garment that is surety for a stranger and hold it as a pledge for a seductress.

nsb@Proverbs:20:17 @ Bread taken by deceit tastes sweet to a man. Afterwards his mouth will be filled with gravel.

nsb@Proverbs:20:20 @ He who curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in obscure darkness.

nsb@Proverbs:20:24 @ Jehovah directs man’s steps. How can man understand his own way?

nsb@Proverbs:20:28 @ Loving-kindness and truth preserve the king and his throne is upheld by loving-kindness.

nsb@Proverbs:21:2 @ Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Jehovah measures the hearts.

nsb@Proverbs:21:10 @ The wicked person desires evil. His neighbor finds no favor in his eyes.

nsb@Proverbs:21:13 @ Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he also will cry, but will not be heard.

nsb@Proverbs:21:23 @ He who guards his mouth and holds his tongue stays out of trouble.

nsb@Proverbs:21:24 @ »Proud and haughty mocker« is his name. He acts with overbearing pride.

nsb@Proverbs:21:25 @ The desire of the lazy killed him for his hands refuse to work.

nsb@Proverbs:21:29 @ A wicked man hardens his face. The upright proceeds with care.

nsb@Proverbs:22:5 @ Thorns and snares are in the way of the wicked. He who guards his life will stay far away from them.

nsb@Proverbs:22:8 @ He who sows unrighteousness will reap vanity. The rod of his anger will fail.

nsb@Proverbs:22:9 @ He who has a bountiful eye will be blessed for he gives of his bread to the poor.

nsb@Proverbs:22:11 @ He who loves pureness of heart, for the charm of his lips the king will be his friend.

nsb@Proverbs:22:25 @ If you do you will learn his ways and you will become trapped.

nsb@Proverbs:22:29 @ Do you see a man diligent in his business? He will stand before kings. He will not stand before unknown men.

nsb@Proverbs:23:3 @ Do not crave his delicacies for it is deceptive food.

nsb@Proverbs:23:6 @ Do not eat the bread of a selfish man nor desire his delicacies.

nsb@Proverbs:23:7 @ Just as he thinks in his heart: »Eat and drink,« he says to you. But his heart is not with you.

nsb@Proverbs:24:7 @ Wisdom is too exalted for a fool. He does not open his mouth at the gate.

nsb@Proverbs:24:12 @ You may say: »We did not know this,« but God knows and judges your motives. He keeps watch on you and knows. He will reward each man according to his deeds.

nsb@Proverbs:24:15 @ Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous. Do not destroy his resting place.

nsb@Proverbs:24:18 @ Jehovah will see it and be displeased and turn his anger away from him.

nsb@Proverbs:24:29 @ Do not say: »I will do to him as he has done to me. I will render to the man according to his work.«

nsb@Proverbs:25:5 @ Take away the wicked before the king, and his throne will be established in righteousness.

nsb@Proverbs:25:13 @ As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to those who send him. He refreshes his masters.

nsb@Proverbs:25:18 @ A man who bears false witness against his neighbor is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.

nsb@Proverbs:25:22 @ You will heap coals of fire upon his head, and Jehovah will reward you.

nsb@Proverbs:25:28 @ He who cannot control his own spirit is as helpless as a city without walls, open to trouble.

nsb@Proverbs:26:4 @ Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you will be like him.

nsb@Proverbs:26:5 @ Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own pride.

nsb@Proverbs:26:11 @ As a dog returns to his vomit so a fool returns to his folly.

nsb@Proverbs:26:12 @ See a man wise in his own conceit? »There is more hope for a fool than for him.«

nsb@Proverbs:26:14 @ As the door turns on its hinges, so does the lazy man on his bed.

nsb@Proverbs:26:15 @ The lazy man hides his hand in his bosom. It wearies him to lift it to his mouth.

nsb@Proverbs:26:16 @ The lazy man is wiser in his own conceit than seven men who can answer with good sense.

nsb@Proverbs:26:18 @ This is like a mad man who throws firebrands, arrows, and death.

nsb@Proverbs:26:19 @ So is the man who deceives his neighbor, and says: »I was only joking.«

nsb@Proverbs:26:24 @ He who hates disguises with his lips, and stores deceit within him.

nsb@Proverbs:26:25 @ When he speaks kind words do not believe him. There are seven abominations in his heart.

nsb@Proverbs:27:8 @ As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his place.

nsb@Proverbs:27:9 @ As oil and perfume delight the heart so the sweetness of a man's friend delights his heart.

nsb@Proverbs:27:13 @ Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take him as pledge as surety for a fornicator.

nsb@Proverbs:27:14 @ He that blesses his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.

nsb@Proverbs:27:18 @ When you keep a fig tree you eat the fruit. He who waits on his master will be honored.

nsb@Proverbs:27:22 @ Though you grind a fool in mortar his foolishness will not depart from him.

nsb@Proverbs:28:6 @ Better is the poor man who walks in uprightness, than the rich man who is perverse in his ways.

nsb@Proverbs:28:7 @ He who obeys the law is a wise son. But he who is a companion of worthless men shames his father.

nsb@Proverbs:28:10 @ Whoever leads decent people into evil will fall into his own pit. Innocent people will inherit good things.

nsb@Proverbs:28:11 @ A rich person is wise in his own eyes, but the poor who has understanding, sees right through him.

nsb@Proverbs:28:13 @ The man who covers his sins will not be blessed; but whoever confesses and leaves them will have mercy.

nsb@Proverbs:28:14 @ Blessed is the man reverencing God. He who hardens his heart will fall into trouble.

nsb@Proverbs:28:16 @ The ruler who lacks understanding is a great oppressor. He who hates covetousness will prolong his days.

nsb@Proverbs:28:18 @ Whoever walks blamelessly will be saved: but he who is perverse in his ways will fall at once.

nsb@Proverbs:28:19 @ He who tills his land will have plenty of bread. He who follows after vain persons will have poverty.

nsb@Proverbs:28:24 @ Whoever robs his father or mother, and says: »It is no transgression;« the same is the companion of a man who destroys.

nsb@Proverbs:28:26 @ He who trusts in his own heart is a fool. He who walks wisely will be delivered.

nsb@Proverbs:28:27 @ He who gives to the poor will not lack. But he who hides his eyes will have many curses.

nsb@Proverbs:29:1 @ He who is often reprimanded and hardens his neck will suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

nsb@Proverbs:29:3 @ He who loves wisdom makes his father rejoice. But he who keeps company with fornicators wastes his wealth.

nsb@Proverbs:29:5 @ A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

nsb@Proverbs:29:10 @ The bloodthirsty hate the upright. The righteous are concerned for his life.

nsb@Proverbs:29:11 @ A fool loses his temper. But a wise man holds it back.

nsb@Proverbs:29:12 @ If a ruler listens to lies, all his servants are wicked.

nsb@Proverbs:29:13 @ The poor and the deceitful have this in common: Jehovah lightens their eyes.

nsb@Proverbs:29:14 @ The king who faithfully judges the poor will have his throne established forever.

nsb@Proverbs:29:15 @ The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

nsb@Proverbs:29:21 @ The man who brings up his servant from childhood will in the future have him become like his son.

nsb@Proverbs:29:24 @ The partner of a thief hates his life. He hears the oath but tells nothing.

nsb@Proverbs:30:4 @ Who ascended up into heaven, or descended? Who gathered the wind in his hands? Who bound the waters in a garment? Who established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name, if you can tell me?

nsb@Proverbs:30:6 @ Do not add to his words of he will reprove you. You will be found to be a liar.

nsb@Proverbs:30:10 @ Do not incriminate a servant to his master, or he will curse you could be found guilty.

nsb@Proverbs:30:17 @ The eye that mocks his father, and rejects obedience to his mother, the ravens of the valley pick it out, and the young eagles eat it.

nsb@Proverbs:31:1 @ The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him.

nsb@Proverbs:31:7 @ Let him drink and forget his poverty. Let him remember his misery no more.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:1:3 @ What profit does a man have of all his labor that he works under the sun?

nsb@Ecclesiastes:1:10 @ Is there anything of which it may be said: »See, this is new?« It has already existed in days of old, which were before us.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:1:17 @ I gave my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I know that this also is a striving after wind.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:2:1 @ I said in my heart, »Come now, I will test you with rejoicing. Consider goodness.« This also is vanity.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:2:10 @ Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I did not withhold joy from my heart. My heart took pleasure in all my work and this was my reward.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:2:14 @ The wise man's eyes are in his head, but the foolish man walks in darkness. Yet I saw that the same event happens to them all.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:2:15 @ Then I said in my heart: »As it happens to the fool, so it will happen to me. Why have I been so wise?« Then I said in my heart: »This also is vanity.«

nsb@Ecclesiastes:2:19 @ Who knows if he will be a wise man or a fool? But he will have power over all the work that I have done and in which I have been wise under the sun. This too is vanity.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:2:21 @ Because there is a man whose work has been done with wisdom, with knowledge, and with an expert hand. But one who has done nothing for it will have it for his heritage. This also is vanity and a great evil.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:2:22 @ What does a man get for all his work, and for the desire of his heart with which he has done his work under the sun?

nsb@Ecclesiastes:2:23 @ All his days are sorrow, and his work is full of grief. Even in the night his heart has no rest. This again is vanity.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:2:24 @ There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink, and delight in his work. This also I saw was from the hand of God.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:2:26 @ To the man who is good, God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy. But to the sinner he gives the work of getting goods together and storing up wealth, to give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:3:9 @ What profit is there to the worker in his work?

nsb@Ecclesiastes:3:13 @ Every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor. It is the gift of God.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:3:22 @ I see there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his own works. That is his portion. Who will bring him to see what will happen after him?

nsb@Ecclesiastes:4:8 @ There is a man who is by himself, without a companion. He is without son or brother. There is no end to all his work. He never has enough wealth. Nor is his eye satisfied with riches. He never asks: »For whom do I labor and deprive myself of pleasure?« This too is vanity and a terrible problem.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:4:10 @ If they fall, the one will lift up his companion. Woe to him who is alone when he falls for he has no one to help him.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:4:14 @ He comes out of prison to rule as king. He that is born in his kingdom becomes poor.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:4:16 @ There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them. Those who come later will not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and grasping for the wind.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:5:10 @ He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth, with gain. This too is vanity.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:5:13 @ I have seen a grievous evil under the sun. I have seen riches being hoarded by their owner to his downfall.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:5:15 @ We entered this world with nothing and naked and we will leave this world with nothing and naked.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:5:16 @ This also is a serious evil. Just as we came we will go. Whatever profit or gain we earned we loose as if we labored for the wind.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:5:17 @ All his days he eats in darkness. He has much sorrow and anger with his sickness.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:5:18 @ This is what I have seen. It is good and fitting for one to eat and drink and enjoy the good of his labor. He labors under the sun all the days of his life. For God gives this to him as his allotment.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:5:19 @ For every man to whom God has given riches and wealth, He has empowered him to eat because of them. He should receive his reward and rejoice in his labor. This is the gift of God.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:5:20 @ He will not often remember the years of his life. This is because God keeps him occupied with the gladness of his heart.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:6:2 @ God has given man riches, wealth and honor, so that he lacks nothing of all that he desires. Yet God has not empowered him to partake of them for a foreigner enjoys them. This is vanity and a severe affliction.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:6:4 @ For he comes in with vanity and departs in darkness, and his name will be covered with darkness.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:6:7 @ All the labor of man is for his mouth and yet the appetite is not satisfied.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:6:9 @ Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering after the desire. This is also vanity and a striving after wind.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:6:12 @ Who knows what is good for man in this life? Are all the days of his vain life that he spends like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will happen after his existence under the sun?

nsb@Ecclesiastes:7:6 @ For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:7:10 @ Do not ask: »Why were the old days better then these?« You do not inquire wisely about this.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:7:15 @ I have seen all things in the days of my vanity. There is a just man who perished in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolonged his life in his wickedness.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:7:18 @ It is good that you should take hold of this and also from this not withdraw your hand, for he who respects God will come forth from them all.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:7:23 @ I have tried and proved all this by wisdom. I said: »I will be wise« but it was far from me.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:7:27 @ »Behold, this I have found,« says the preacher, »counting one by one to find out the account:«

nsb@Ecclesiastes:7:29 @ »You see! I have found only this, that God made man upright. But they have sought out many devices.«

nsb@Ecclesiastes:8:1 @ Who is like the wise man? Who knows the interpretation of a message? A man's wisdom illuminates him, and the hardness of his countenance is changed.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:8:6 @ This is because to every purpose there is time and judgment. Even so man’s misery is great.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:8:9 @ I have seen all this and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time when one man rules over another to his own misery and harm.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:8:10 @ I saw the wicked buried, those who had come and gone out of the holy place. They were forgotten in the city where they had so done. This also is vanity.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:8:13 @ Things will not go well with the wicked. He will not prolong his days. His days are like a shadow. He does not respect God.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:8:14 @ There is a futility that is done upon the earth. There are righteous men who get along as though they were wicked and there are wicked men who get along as though they were righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:8:15 @ Then I commended enjoyment, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry. That will remain with him in his labor all the days of his life, which God gives him under the sun.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:9:1 @ I considered all this in my heart and declared that the righteous and their works are in the hand of God. No man knows if love or hatred awaits him in the future.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:9:3 @ This evil is in all things that are done under the sun. There is one event that comes to all. The heart of the sons of men is full of evil. Madness is in their heart while they live. After that they go to the dead.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:9:9 @ Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of the life he has given you under the sun, all the days of your vanity. That is your share in this life and in your labor under the sun.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:9:12 @ For man does not know his time. Like fish caught in an evil net, and like birds caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:9:13 @ I have seen this wisdom under the sun, and it seemed important to me.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:9:15 @ Now there was found in it a poor wise man. By his wisdom he delivered the city. Yet no man remembered that same poor man.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:9:16 @ Then I said: »Wisdom is better than strength.« Nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:10:2 @ A wise man's heart is at his right hand and a fool's heart at his left.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:10:3 @ When he who is a fool walks along the path, his wisdom fails him, and he says to every one that he is a fool.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:10:13 @ The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness. The result of his talk is mischievous madness.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:12:5 @ Also when they will be afraid of what is high, and fears will be in the way, and the almond tree will flourish, and the grasshopper will be a burden, and the caper berry breaks and desire fails, man goes to his long lasting home and the mourners go about the streets.

nsb@Ecclesiastes:12:13 @ Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Respect God, and obey his commandments for this is the whole duty of man.

nsb@Songs:1:2 @ »Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth. Your love is better than wine.

nsb@Songs:1:4 @ »Draw me away. »We will run after you.« »The king brought me into his chambers.« »We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will remember your love more than wine!« »They are right to love you.«

nsb@Songs:1:12 @ »While the king sits at his table, my perfume sends forth its fragrance.

nsb@Songs:2:3 @ »Just like the apple tree among the trees of the wood so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.«

nsb@Songs:2:4 @ »He brought me to the banquet hall. His banner over me was love.

nsb@Songs:2:6 @ »His left hand is under my head. His right hand embraces me.«

nsb@Songs:2:16 @ »My beloved is mine and I am his. He feeds among the lilies.

nsb@Songs:3:6 @ »Who is this that comes out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?

nsb@Songs:3:8 @ »They all hold swords. They are experts in war. Every man has his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night.

nsb@Songs:3:11 @ »Go forth, O you daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown that his mother crowned him with in the day of his wedding, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.«

nsb@Songs:4:16 @ »Awake, O north wind; and come south; blow upon my garden that the spices may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.«

nsb@Songs:5:4 @ »My beloved extended his hand through the latch opening of the door. My heart yearned for him.

nsb@Songs:5:11 @ »His head is as the finest gold. His locks are like date clusters, bushy and black as a raven.

nsb@Songs:5:12 @ »His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set.

nsb@Songs:5:13 @ »His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers. His lips are like lilies, dripping sweet smelling myrrh.

nsb@Songs:5:14 @ »His hands are as gold rings set with beryl. His belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.

nsb@Songs:5:15 @ »His legs are like pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold. His countenance is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.

nsb@Songs:5:16 @ »His mouth is very sweet: yes, he is altogether handsome. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.«

nsb@Songs:6:2 @ »My beloved went to his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

nsb@Songs:7:10 @ »I belong to my beloved. His desire is toward me.

nsb@Songs:8:3 @ »His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.

nsb@Songs:8:5 @ »Who is this woman who comes up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved?« »I raised you up under the apple tree. There your mother experienced birth pains.«

nsb@Songs:8:7 @ »Many waters cannot quench love. Rivers cannot wash it away. If a man would give all the riches of his house for love, it would be utterly despised.«

nsb@Songs:8:10 @ »I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers. I was the one who found favor in his eyes.

nsb@Isaiah:1:1 @ This is the vision seen by Isaiah the son of Amoz. It is about Judah and Jerusalem at the time of Kings Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah.

nsb@Isaiah:2:3 @ Then many people will come and say: »Let us go to the mountain of Jehovah, to the House of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways so that we may live by them.« The law will go out from Zion. The word of Jehovah will go out from Jerusalem.

nsb@Isaiah:2:10 @ Go in among the rocks and hide underground because of Jehovah’s terrifying presence and the magnificence of his majesty.

nsb@Isaiah:2:12 @ All who are proud will be humbled. Jehovah of Hosts will have his day against all who are arrogant and conceited.

nsb@Isaiah:2:16 @ and also against all the large ships of Tarshish and all the beautiful boats.

nsb@Isaiah:2:19 @ People will go into caves in the rocks and into holes in the ground because of Jehovah’s terrifying presence and the honor of his majesty when he rises to shake the earth.

nsb@Isaiah:2:21 @ They will go into caves in the rocks and into cracks in the cliffs because of Jehovah’s terrifying presence and the honor of his majesty when he rises to shake the earth.

nsb@Isaiah:3:5 @ People will oppress each other. Everyone will harass his neighbor. The young will tyrannize the old. The common people will taunt their superiors.

nsb@Isaiah:3:6 @ A person will grab one of his relatives from his father's family and say: »You have a coat. You will be our leader. This pile of ruins will be under your control.«

nsb@Isaiah:3:8 @ Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, because what they say and what they do is against Jehovah! They are defiant in his honored presence.

nsb@Isaiah:3:13 @ Jehovah stands erect to assert his power. He stands to judge the people.

nsb@Isaiah:3:14 @ Jehovah enters into judgment with the elders and princes of his people: »It is you who have devoured the vineyard. The plunder of the poor is in your houses.

nsb@Isaiah:5:1 @ Let me sing to my loved one a song of my beloved concerning his vineyard: My loved one had a vineyard on a fertile hill.

nsb@Isaiah:5:12 @ At their feasts there are lyres and harps, tambourines and flutes, and wine. Yet, they do not pay attention to what Jehovah is doing or respect what his hands have done.

nsb@Isaiah:5:16 @ Jehovah of Hosts shows his greatness by doing what is right. He reveals his holiness by judging his people.

nsb@Isaiah:5:19 @ You say: »Let Jehovah hurry up and do what he says he will, so that we can see it. Let Israel's holy God carry out his plans. Let us see what he has in mind.«

nsb@Isaiah:5:25 @ You are Jehovah’s people, but you made him terribly angry, and he struck you with his mighty arm. Mountains shook, and dead bodies covered the streets like garbage. Jehovah is still angry. He is ready to strike you again.

nsb@Isaiah:5:26 @ Jehovah raises up a flag for the nations far away. With a whistle he signals those at the ends of the earth. Look, they are coming very quickly!

nsb@Isaiah:6:1 @ In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw Jehovah seated on a throne, high and exalted. The train of his robe filled the Temple.

nsb@Isaiah:6:3 @ They called to one another: »Holy, holy, holy is Jehovah of Hosts. All the earth is full of his glory.«

nsb@Isaiah:6:6 @ Then one of the seraphs flew to me with a live coal in his hand. With tongs he seized it from the altar.

nsb@Isaiah:6:7 @ He touched my mouth with it and said: »See! This has touched your lips, your guilt is taken away and your sin forgiven.«

nsb@Isaiah:6:9 @ He said: »Go and tell this people: ‘Hear constantly but do not understand. See constantly but do not perceive.’

nsb@Isaiah:6:10 @ »This people’s heart has become calloused. They hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.«

nsb@Isaiah:7:2 @ A report was made to the house of David saying: Aram has allied itself with Ephraim.« The heart of Ahaz and the heart of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake before the wind.

nsb@Isaiah:7:7 @ »‘This is what the Lord Jehovah says: »It will not take place! It will not happen!

nsb@Isaiah:7:13 @ Isaiah said: »Hear this you house of David! Is it not enough to try the patience of men? Will you try the patience of my God also?«

nsb@Isaiah:7:18 @ »In that day Jehovah will whistle for the flies that are at the distant branches of the Nile River in Egypt and for the bees that are in Assyria.

nsb@Isaiah:8:7 @ »That is why Jehovah is going to bring against them the raging and powerful floodwaters of the Euphrates River, that is, the king of Assyria with all his power. It will overflow all its channels and go over all its banks.

nsb@Isaiah:8:11 @ This is what Jehovah said with his powerful hand on me. He warned me not to follow the ways of these people:

nsb@Isaiah:8:17 @ I will wait for Jehovah, who hides his face from the descendants of Jacob. I will hope in him.

nsb@Isaiah:8:19 @ People will say to you: »Ask for help from the mediums and the fortunetellers, who whisper and mutter.« Should people ask their God for help instead? Why should they ask the dead to help the living?

nsb@Isaiah:9:4 @ As in the day of Midian’s defeat, you have shattered the yoke of his burdens: the bar across their shoulders, the rod of their oppressor.

nsb@Isaiah:9:6 @ For unto us a child is born. Unto us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. He will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, and Prince of Peace.

nsb@Isaiah:9:7 @ Of the increase of his government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on David’s throne and over his kingdom. He will establish and uphold it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever. The zeal of Jehovah of Hosts will accomplish this.

nsb@Isaiah:9:12 @ The Arameans from the east and the Philistines from the west have devoured Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger has not turned away. His hand is still stretched out.

nsb@Isaiah:9:16 @ Those who led this people led them astray. And those who were led by them were left in confusion.

nsb@Isaiah:9:17 @ That is why Jehovah did not rejoice in their young people, nor show compassion to their orphans and widows. Everyone was godless and an evildoer, and every mouth spoke wickedness. In all this his anger has not turned away. His hand is stretched out still.

nsb@Isaiah:9:18 @ This wickedness is like a brushfire. It burns not only briers and thorns but the forests, too. It sends up vast clouds of smoke.

nsb@Isaiah:9:21 @ Manasseh will feed on Ephraim, Ephraim will feed on Manasseh, and both will devour Judah. But even then Jehovah’s anger will not be satisfied. His hand is still poised to unleash his power.

nsb@Isaiah:10:4 @ There is nothing left but to crouch among prisoners and to fall with those who are killed. Even after all this, his anger will not disappear. His hand is stretched out.

nsb@Isaiah:10:7 @ »But the Assyrian emperor has his own violent plans in mind. He is determined to destroy many nations.

nsb@Isaiah:10:12 @ »It will happen when Jehovah has performed all his work on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem. He will say: I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his haughty appearance.

nsb@Isaiah:10:16 @ That is why the Almighty Jehovah of Hosts will send a degenerative disease against brave men. A flame will be turned into a raging fire under his power.

nsb@Isaiah:10:17 @ The Light of Israel will become a fire and his Holy One a flame. It will burn and consume his thorns and his briers in a single day!

nsb@Isaiah:10:18 @ It will completely destroy the splendor of his forests and fertile fields, as when a sick man wastes away.

nsb@Isaiah:10:19 @ And the remaining trees of his forests will be so few that a child could write them down.

nsb@Isaiah:10:24 @ Therefore, this is what the Lord Jehovah of Hosts, declares: »O my people who live in Zion, do not be afraid of the Assyrians. They beat you with a rod and lift up a club against you, as Egypt did.

nsb@Isaiah:10:26 @ »Jehovah of Hosts will stir up enemies against you as when he struck down Midian at the rock of Oreb. His wrath will come by way of the sea, as he did in Egypt.

nsb@Isaiah:10:32 @ This day they will halt at Nob. They will shake their fist at the mount of the Daughter of Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem.

nsb@Isaiah:11:1 @ There must go forth a twig out of the stump of Jesse. A branch from his roots will bear fruit.

nsb@Isaiah:11:2 @ The Spirit of Jehovah will rest on him. The spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and strength, the spirit of knowledge and respect for Jehovah will be his.

nsb@Isaiah:11:3 @ He will delight in the reverence of Jehovah. He will not judge by what his eyes see, nor make a decision by what his ears hear.

nsb@Isaiah:11:4 @ But with righteousness he will judge the poor, and decide with fairness for the afflicted of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the spirit of his lips he will destroy the wicked.

nsb@Isaiah:11:5 @ Righteousness will be the belt around his loins. Faithfulness will be the belt around His waist.

nsb@Isaiah:11:8 @ The nursing child will play by the hole of the cobra. The weaned child will put his hand on the viper's den.

nsb@Isaiah:11:9 @ They will not hurt or destroy in my entire holy mountain. This is because the earth will be full of the knowledge of Jehovah just as the waters cover the sea.

nsb@Isaiah:11:10 @ Then in that day the nations will search for and turn to the root of Jesse. He will stand as a signal for the peoples. His resting place will be glorious.

nsb@Isaiah:11:11 @ Then it will happen in that day that Jehovah will again recover the second time with his hand the remnant of his people. They will remain, from Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

nsb@Isaiah:11:15 @ Jehovah will utterly destroy the tongue of the Sea of Egypt. He will wave his hand, his mighty Spirit, over the River. He will strike it into seven streams and make men walk over on dry land.

nsb@Isaiah:11:16 @ There will be a highway from Assyria for the remnant of his people who will be left. This will be as it was for Israel when they came up out of the land of Egypt.

nsb@Isaiah:12:4 @ In that day you will say: »Give thanks to Jehovah, call on his name; make known among the nations what he has done, and proclaim that his name is exalted.

nsb@Isaiah:12:5 @ »Sing to Jehovah, for he has done glorious things. Let this be known to the entire world.

nsb@Isaiah:13:5 @ »They come from a far country, from the extremities of the heavens. Jehovah and his instruments of indignation come to destroy the whole land.

nsb@Isaiah:13:13 @ »Therefore I will make the heavens tremble. The earth will shake from its place at the fury of Jehovah of Hosts in the day of his burning anger.

nsb@Isaiah:13:14 @ »They will each turn to his own people, and each one escape to his own land just like a hunted gazelle, or like sheep without a shepherd.

nsb@Isaiah:13:20 @ »It will never be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation! Nor will the Arab pitch his tent there. Nor will shepherds take their flocks there.

nsb@Isaiah:14:4 @ You will mock the king of Babylon with this saying: »How the tyrant has come to an end! How his attacks have come to an end!

nsb@Isaiah:14:16 @ »‘Those who see you stare at you. They look at you closely and say: ‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook the kingdoms,

nsb@Isaiah:14:17 @ who made the world like a desert and tore down its cities and did not let his prisoners go home?’

nsb@Isaiah:14:18 @ All the kings of the nations, all of them, have been buried with honor, each in his own tomb.

nsb@Isaiah:14:21 @ »Prepare a slaughtering place! The sons of this king will die because of their ancestors' sins. None of them will ever rule the earth or cover it with cities.«

nsb@Isaiah:14:26 @ This is my purpose for the world, and my arm is stretched out to punish the nations.

nsb@Isaiah:14:27 @ Jehovah of Hosts is determined to do this. He has stretched out his arm to punish, and no one can stop him.

nsb@Isaiah:14:28 @ This message was proclaimed in the year that King Ahaz died:

nsb@Isaiah:14:30 @ »Jehovah will be a shepherd to the poor of his people and will let them live in safety. But he will send a terrible famine on you Philistines. It will not leave any of you alive.

nsb@Isaiah:14:32 @ What then will one answer the messengers that come to us from Philistia? We will tell them that Jehovah has established Zion and in her the poor and afflicted of his people find refuge.

nsb@Isaiah:16:6 @ We have heard of the pride of Moab and of his arrogance. We know of his pride, conceit and empty boasting.

nsb@Isaiah:16:13 @ This is the message Jehovah spoke about Moab in the past.

nsb@Isaiah:17:4 @ »Then the glory of Jacob will be brought low, and the fat of his flesh will grow lean.

nsb@Isaiah:17:14 @ In the evening, sudden terror! Before the morning, they are gone! This is the portion of those who loot us, the lot of those who rob us.

nsb@Isaiah:18:4 @ Jehovah says this to me: »I will be still and watch from my dwelling place. My presence will be like scorching heat in the sunshine, like heavy dew in the heat of the harvest.

nsb@Isaiah:19:4 @ »I will hand the Egyptians over to the power of a cruel master, and a fierce king will rule over them.« This is the declaration of Jehovah of Hosts, the Almighty.

nsb@Isaiah:19:13 @ The officials of Zoan have become fools. The leaders of Memphis are deceived. The cornerstones of her peoples have led Egypt astray.

nsb@Isaiah:19:14 @ Jehovah has poured into them a spirit of dizziness. They make Egypt stagger in all that she does, as a drunkard staggers around in his vomit.

nsb@Isaiah:19:16 @ A time is coming when the people of Egypt will be as timid as women. They will tremble in terror when they see that Jehovah of Hosts has stretched out his hand to punish them.

nsb@Isaiah:20:2 @ At that time Jehovah spoke through Isaiah son of Amoz. He said to him: »Take off the sackcloth from your body and the sandals from your feet.« He did this and went around stripped and barefoot.

nsb@Isaiah:20:6 @ »That day the people who live on this coast will say: ‘See what has happened to those we relied on, those we fled to for help and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we escape?« ’

nsb@Isaiah:21:6 @ For this is what Jehovah says to me: »Go, station the lookout, and let him report what he sees.

nsb@Isaiah:21:11 @ This is the divine REVELATION ABOUT EDOM. He calls to me from Seir: »Watchman, what of the night? How much of the night is left? Watchman, what of the night?«

nsb@Isaiah:21:16 @ This is what Jehovah says to me: »Within one year, as a servant bound by contract would count it, all the pomp of Kedar will come to an end.

nsb@Isaiah:22:14 @ Jehovah of Hosts has disclosed himself in my ears: »Surely this iniquity will not be forgiven you until you die,« says Jehovah of Hosts.

nsb@Isaiah:22:15 @ Jehovah of Hosts says: »Go to this steward, to Shebna, who is master of the household, and say to him:

nsb@Isaiah:22:21 @ »‘I will clothe him with your robe and strengthen him with your belt. I will commit your responsibility into his hand. He will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.

nsb@Isaiah:22:22 @ »‘I will lay the key of the house of David on his shoulder. He will open, and no one will shut and he will shut, and no one will open.

nsb@Isaiah:22:23 @ »‘I will fasten him as a peg in a secure place. He will become a glorious throne to his father’s house.

nsb@Isaiah:22:24 @ »‘They will hang all the glory of his father’s house on him, the offspring and the posterity, all vessels of small quantity, from the cups to all the pitchers.

nsb@Isaiah:23:1 @ Wail, O ships of Tarshish! For Tyre is destroyed and left without house or harbor. From the land of Cyprus word has come to them.

nsb@Isaiah:23:6 @ Crossover to Tarshish and cry you people of the island.

nsb@Isaiah:23:7 @ Is this your exultant city founded in antiquity? Is this the city that sent its people to settle in distant lands?

nsb@Isaiah:23:9 @ Jehovah of Hosts planned this in order to dishonor all arrogant people and to humiliate all the honored people of the world.

nsb@Isaiah:23:10 @ Travel through your country like the Nile, people of Tarshish. You no longer have a harbor.

nsb@Isaiah:23:11 @ Jehovah has stretched his hand over the sea to shake kingdoms. He has commanded that Canaan's fortifications be destroyed.

nsb@Isaiah:23:13 @ Look at the land of the Chaldeans. This is the people that were not. Assyria appointed it for desert creatures. They erected their siege towers and they stripped its palaces. They made it a ruin!

nsb@Isaiah:23:14 @ Cry out O ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is destroyed.

nsb@Isaiah:24:2 @ The people will be like the one officiating, the servant like his master, the maid like her mistress, the buyer like the seller, the lender like the borrower, the creditor like the debtor.

nsb@Isaiah:24:3 @ The earth will be completely uninhabitable and totally plundered. Jehovah has spoken this word.

nsb@Isaiah:24:23 @ Then the moon will be abashed and the sun ashamed, For Jehovah of Hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, And his glory will be before his elders.

nsb@Isaiah:25:6 @ On this mountain Jehovah of Hosts will make a feast of rich food for all peoples, a feast of well-aged wines, of rich food filled with marrow, of well-aged wines strained clear of dregs.

nsb@Isaiah:25:7 @ On this mountain He will destroy the shroud that is cast over all peoples, the sheet that is spread over all nations.

nsb@Isaiah:25:8 @ He will swallow up death forever! The Sovereign Lord Jehovah will wipe away the tears from all faces. He will take away the disgrace of His people from the earth. Jehovah has spoken!

nsb@Isaiah:25:9 @ On that day his people will say: »This is our God! We have waited for Him and now He will save us. This is Jehovah. We have waited for Him. Let us rejoice and be glad because He will save us.«

nsb@Isaiah:25:10 @ Jehovah’s power will be on this mountain. Moab will be trampled beneath him like straw that is trampled in a pile of manure.

nsb@Isaiah:26:16 @ Jehovah, they came to you in their distress. When you disciplined them, they could barely whisper a prayer.

nsb@Isaiah:26:20 @ Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut the doors behind you. Hide yourselves for a little while until his rage has passed by.

nsb@Isaiah:26:21 @ Behold! Jehovah is coming out of his dwelling to punish the people of the earth for their sins. The earth will disclose the bloodshed upon her. She will conceal her slain no longer.

nsb@Isaiah:27:1 @ In that day Jehovah will punish with his sword, his fierce, great and powerful sword. He will slay Leviathan the fleeing, coiling serpent, the monster of the sea.

nsb@Isaiah:27:8 @ By warfare and exile you contend with her. With his fierce blast he drives her out, as on a day the east wind blows.

nsb@Isaiah:27:9 @ By this Jacob’s guilt will be atoned for, and this will be the full fruitage of the removal of his sin. When he makes all the altar stones to be like chalk stones crushed to pieces, no Asherah poles or incense altars will be left standing.

nsb@Isaiah:28:4 @ The fading flower of his glorious beauty is found at the head of the fertile valley. He looks at the first-ripe fig before the summer. He picks it with his hand and eats it.

nsb@Isaiah:28:5 @ Jehovah of armies will then become a crown of glory and beauty to the remnant of his people.

nsb@Isaiah:28:9 @ »Who is he is trying to teach? To whom is he explaining his message? To children weaned from their milk, to those just taken from the breast?

nsb@Isaiah:28:11 @ With stammering lips and another tongue he will speak to this people.

nsb@Isaiah:28:12 @ He said: »This is the rest with which you may cause the weary to rest, and, this is the refreshing.« Yet they would not listen.

nsb@Isaiah:28:14 @ Therefore hear the word of Jehovah, you scornful men, who rule this people who are in Jerusalem,

nsb@Isaiah:28:16 @ Therefore this is what The Sovereign Lord Jehovah says: »Behold, I lay in Zion a stone for a foundation. It is a tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; whoever believes will not act hastily.

nsb@Isaiah:28:21 @ Jehovah will rise up as at Mount Perazim. He will be angry as in the Valley of Gibeon. That he may do his work, his awesome work, and bring to pass his act, his unusual act.

nsb@Isaiah:28:24 @ Does the plowman keep plowing all day in order to sow seed? Does he keep turning his soil and breaking the clods?

nsb@Isaiah:28:26 @ He instructs him in right judgment and his God teaches him.

nsb@Isaiah:28:28 @ Bread flour must be ground. Therefore he does not thresh it forever, break it with his cartwheel, or crush it with his horsemen.

nsb@Isaiah:28:29 @ This also comes from Jehovah of Hosts. He is wonderful in counsel and excellent in guidance.

nsb@Isaiah:29:4 @ »From deep in the earth, you will call out for help. Your voice will sound like a mumble from out of the dust. It will be faint like a whisper.

nsb@Isaiah:29:8 @ It will be like a hungry man who dreams that he eats. But when he awakes he is empty and still hungry! It will also be like a thirsty man who dreams that he drinks. When he awakes he is thirsty and weak and hungry. The multitude of nations that fight against Mount Zion will be like this.

nsb@Isaiah:29:11 @ His message is like a sealed book to you. You say to someone read this out loud. And they respond, »We cannot read it, because it is sealed.«

nsb@Isaiah:30:8 @ Write this on a tablet for them, and inscribe it in a book so that it will be there in the future as a permanent witness.

nsb@Isaiah:30:12 @ This is what the Holy One of Israel says: »You have rejected this warning, trusted oppression and deceit, and you leaned upon them for support.

nsb@Isaiah:30:21 @ You will hear a voice behind you say: »This is the way. Walk in it,« whether it turns to the right or to the left.

nsb@Isaiah:30:26 @ Then the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun. The light of the sun will be seven times as strong, like the light of seven days. When that day comes, Jehovah will bandage his people's injuries and heal the wounds he inflicted.

nsb@Isaiah:30:27 @ The name of Jehovah is going to come from far away. His anger is burning. His burden is heavy. His lips are filled with fury. His tongue is like a devouring flame.

nsb@Isaiah:30:28 @ His breath is like an overflowing stream. It raises neck high and sifts the nations with a sieve of destruction. It places a bit in the mouths of the people to lead them astray.

nsb@Isaiah:30:30 @ Jehovah will make his majestic voice heard. He will come with all his might, with furious anger, with firestorms, windstorms, rainstorms, and hailstones.

nsb@Isaiah:30:31 @ The people of Assyria will be shattered at the sound of Jehovah’s voice. He will strike them with his rod.

nsb@Isaiah:30:32 @ To the sound of tambourines and lyres, Jehovah will pound on them. He will fight them in battle, swinging his fists.

nsb@Isaiah:31:2 @ He is wise and can bring about disaster. He does not take back his words. He rises against wicked people and against those who help troublemakers.

nsb@Isaiah:31:3 @ The Egyptians are humans, not God. Their horses are flesh and blood, not spirit. Jehovah will stretch out his powerful hand. The one who gives help will stumble. The one who receives help will fall. Both will die together.

nsb@Isaiah:31:4 @ This is what Jehovah said to me: »A lion, even a young lion, growls over its prey when a crowd of shepherds is called to fight it. It is not frightened by their voices or disturbed by the noise they make. So Jehovah of Hosts will come to fight for Mount Zion and on its hill.

nsb@Isaiah:31:9 @ »In terror they will run to their stronghold, and their officers will be frightened at the sight of the battle flag.« Jehovah declares this. His fire is in Zion and his furnace is in Jerusalem.

nsb@Isaiah:32:7 @ As for a rogue, his weapons are evil. He devises wicked schemes to destroy the afflicted with slander, even though the needy one speaks what is right.

nsb@Isaiah:33:6 @ He will be the sure foundation for your times, a rich store of salvation and wisdom and knowledge. Respect for Jehovah is the key to this treasure.

nsb@Isaiah:33:15 @ He who walks righteously and speaks what is right, who rejects gain from extortion and keeps his hand from accepting bribes, who stops his ears against plots of murder and shuts his eyes against contemplating evil.

nsb@Isaiah:33:16 @ This man will dwell on the heights. His refuge will be the mountain fortress. His bread will be supplied, and he will have water.

nsb@Isaiah:33:17 @ Your eyes will see the king in his beauty and view a land that stretches afar.

nsb@Isaiah:34:13 @ Its palaces are covered with thorns. Its fortresses have nettles and thistles. It will become a home for jackals and a place for ostriches.

nsb@Isaiah:34:16 @ Search Jehovah’s book and read it out loud. Not one of these animals will be missing. Not one will lack a mate, because Jehovah has commanded it, and his Spirit will gather them together.

nsb@Isaiah:34:17 @ He is the one who casts the lot for them, and his hand divides up the land for them with a measuring line. They will possess it permanently and live there for generations.

nsb@Isaiah:35:2 @ The desert will sing and shout for joy! It will be beautiful like the Lebanon Mountains. It will be fertile as the fields of Carmel and Sharon. Everyone will see Jehovah’s splendor. They will see his greatness and power.

nsb@Isaiah:36:2 @ The king of Assyria sent his field commander with a large army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. He stood at the channel for the Upper Pool on the road to the Laundryman's Field.

nsb@Isaiah:36:3 @ Eliakim, who was in charge of the palace and was the son of Hilkiah, Shebna the scribe, and Joah, who was the royal historian and the son of Asaph, went out to the field commander.

nsb@Isaiah:36:4 @ He said to them: »Tell Hezekiah, This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: ‘What makes you so confident?

nsb@Isaiah:36:6 @ »When you trust Egypt, you trust a broken stick for a staff. If you lean on it, it stabs your hand and goes through it. This is what Pharaoh king of Egypt is like for everyone who trusts him.

nsb@Isaiah:36:7 @ »‘Suppose you say: ‘We are trusting Jehovah our God. He is the god whose places of worship and altars Hezekiah got rid of. Hezekiah told Judah and Jerusalem: Worship at this altar.’« ’

nsb@Isaiah:36:10 @ »Have I come to destroy this country without Jehovah on my side? Jehovah said to me: Attack this country, and destroy it.’« ’

nsb@Isaiah:36:14 @ »‘This is what the king says: ‘Do not let Hezekiah deceive you. He cannot rescue you.

nsb@Isaiah:36:15 @ »‘Do not let Hezekiah get you to trust Jehovah by saying: ‘Jehovah will certainly rescue us, and this city will not be put under the control of the king of Assyria.

nsb@Isaiah:36:16 @ »‘Do not listen to Hezekiah, because this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me! Come out, and give yourselves up to me! Everyone will eat from his own grapevine and fig tree and drink from his own cistern.

nsb@Isaiah:36:22 @ Then Eliakim, who was in charge of the palace and was son of Hilkiah, Shebna the scribe, and Joah, who was the royal historian and the son of Asaph, went to Hezekiah with their clothes torn in grief. They told him the message from the field commander.

nsb@Isaiah:37:1 @ King Hezekiah heard it and he tore his clothes. He covered himself with sackcloth and entered the house of Jehovah.

nsb@Isaiah:37:3 @ They said to him: »Hezekiah says: ‘This day is a day of distress, rebuke and rejection. Children have come to birth, and there is no strength to deliver.

nsb@Isaiah:37:4 @ »‘Perhaps Jehovah your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh. His master the king of Assyria has sent him to reproach the living God! He will rebuke the words Jehovah your God has heard. Therefore, offer a prayer for the remnant that survives.’«

nsb@Isaiah:37:7 @ »‘»Listen! I will put a spirit in him so that he will hear a rumor and return to his own land. I will make him fall by the sword in his own land.« ’«

nsb@Isaiah:37:8 @ Then Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah. He had heard a report that the king had left Lachish.

nsb@Isaiah:37:9 @ He heard this concerning Tirhakah king of Cush: »He has come out to fight against you.« So he sent messengers to Hezekiah and said:

nsb@Isaiah:37:20 @ »Now, O Jehovah our God, deliver us from his hand. That way all kingdoms on earth may know that you alone, O Jehovah, are God.

nsb@Isaiah:37:21 @ Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: »This is what Jehovah, the God of Israel, says: ‘Because you have prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria,

nsb@Isaiah:37:22 @ this is the word Jehovah spoke against him: »The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises and mocks you. The Daughter of Jerusalem tosses her head as you flee.

nsb@Isaiah:37:30 @ »‘This will be the sign for you, O Hezekiah: ‘This year you will eat what grows by itself. The second year you will eat what springs from that. But in the third year sow and reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

nsb@Isaiah:37:32 @ »‘Out of Jerusalem will come a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the Lord Jehovah will accomplish this.

nsb@Isaiah:37:33 @ »‘Therefore this is what Jehovah says concerning the king of Assyria: »He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow here. He will not come before it with shield, or build a siege ramp against it.

nsb@Isaiah:37:34 @ »‘He will return by the way that he came. He will not enter this city, declares Jehovah.

nsb@Isaiah:37:35 @ »‘I will defend this city and save it, for my sake and for the sake of David my servant!’«

nsb@Isaiah:37:38 @ One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer cut him down with the sword. They escaped to the land of Ararat. Esarhaddon his son succeeded him as king.

nsb@Isaiah:38:2 @ Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to Jehovah:

nsb@Isaiah:38:6 @ »I will rescue you and this city of Jerusalem from the king of Assyria, and I will continue to protect the city.«

nsb@Isaiah:38:7 @ Isaiah said:« This is your sign from Jehovah that he will do what he promises.

nsb@Isaiah:38:9 @ King Hezekiah of Judah wrote this after he was sick and became well again:

nsb@Isaiah:38:11 @ »I thought that I would not see Jehovah in this world. Even with all the people in the world, I thought I would never see another person.

nsb@Isaiah:38:15 @ »There is nothing I can say in answer to you. For you are the one who has done this to me. My life has turned sour. I will limp until I die.

nsb@Isaiah:39:1 @ At that time Merodach-Baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent Hezekiah letters and a gift, because he had heard of his illness and recovery.

nsb@Isaiah:39:2 @ Hezekiah received the envoys gladly and showed them what was in his storehouses. He showed them the silver, the gold, the spices, the fine oil, his entire armory and everything found among his treasures. There was nothing in his palace or in his entire kingdom that Hezekiah did not show them.

nsb@Isaiah:39:6 @ »‘The time will come when everything in your palace, and all that your fathers have stored up until this day, will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left,’ says Jehovah.

nsb@Isaiah:40:10 @ See the Sovereign Lord Jehovah comes with power. His arm rules for him. See, his reward is with him and his recompense accompanies him.

nsb@Isaiah:40:11 @ He tends his flock like a shepherd. He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart. He gently leads those that have young.

nsb@Isaiah:40:12 @ Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or with the span of his hand marked off the heavens? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on the scales and the hills in a balance of the scale?

nsb@Isaiah:40:13 @ Who has understood the mind of Jehovah, or has instructed him, as his counselor?

nsb@Isaiah:40:23 @ He brings princes to nothing and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing.

nsb@Isaiah:40:26 @ »Lift your eyes and look to the heavens. Who created all these? The being that brings out the starry host one by one, and calls them each by name created all these! Because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.

nsb@Isaiah:40:28 @ »Do you not know? Have you not heard? JEHOVAH IS THE EVERLASTING GOD, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and no one can measure his understanding.

nsb@Isaiah:41:2 @ »Who has stirred up one from the east, calling him in righteousness to his service? He hands nations over to him and subdues kings before him. He turns them to dust with his sword, to windblown chaff with his bow.

nsb@Isaiah:41:3 @ »He pursues them and moves on unscathed. He goes by a path his feet have not traveled before.

nsb@Isaiah:41:4 @ »Who has done this and carried it through, calling forth the generations from the beginning? I, Jehovah have done this with the first of them and with the last. I am he!«

nsb@Isaiah:41:6 @ Each helps the other and says to his brother: »Be strong!«

nsb@Isaiah:41:14 @ »Do not be afraid, O worm Jacob, O little Israel, for I will help you. This is the declaration of Jehovah, your Redeemer, and the Holy One of Israel.

nsb@Isaiah:41:20 @ »People may see and know, may consider and understand, that the hand of Jehovah has done this, that the Holy One of Israel has created it.

nsb@Isaiah:41:26 @ »Who told of this from the beginning, so we could know, or beforehand, so we could say: He was right? No one told of this, no one foretold it. No one heard any words from you!«

nsb@Isaiah:42:2 @ He will not shout or raise his voice or make loud speeches in the streets.

nsb@Isaiah:42:4 @ He will not lose hope or courage. He will establish justice on the earth. Distant lands eagerly wait for his law.

nsb@Isaiah:42:5 @ God created the heavens and stretched them out. He fashioned the earth and all that lives there. He gave life and breath to all its people. And now Jehovah God says to his servant:

nsb@Isaiah:42:10 @ Sing a new song to Jehovah. Sing his praise, all the world! Praise him, you that sail the sea. Praise him, all creatures of the sea! Sing, distant lands and all who live there!

nsb@Isaiah:42:13 @ Jehovah goes out to fight like a warrior. He is ready and eager for battle. He gives a war cry, a battle shout and he shows his power against his enemies.

nsb@Isaiah:42:21 @ Jehovah is a God who is eager to save. He exalted his laws and teachings, and he wanted his people to honor them.

nsb@Isaiah:42:22 @ Now his people have been plundered. They are locked up in dungeons and hidden away in prisons. They were robbed and plundered, with no one to come to their rescue.

nsb@Isaiah:42:23 @ Will any of you listen to this? From now on will you listen with care?

nsb@Isaiah:42:25 @ So he made us feel the force of his anger and suffer the violence of war. Like fire his anger burned throughout Israel. Yet we never knew what was happening. We learned nothing at all from it.

nsb@Isaiah:43:9 @ »‘All nations have gathered together, and people have assembled. Who among them could have revealed this? Who among them could have foretold this to us? They should bring their witnesses to prove that they were right. Let the people hear them. Then they will say: ‘It is the truth.’«

nsb@Isaiah:43:10 @ »YOU ARE MY WITNESSES,« DECLARES JEHOVAH! »I have chosen you as my servant so that you can know and believe in me and understand that I am the one who did this. No god was formed before me, and there will be none after me.

nsb@Isaiah:43:13 @ »From the beginning I was the one who did this. No one can rescue people from my power. When I do something, who can undo it?«

nsb@Isaiah:43:14 @ This is what Jehovah, your redeemer, and the Holy One of Israel, says: »For your sake I will send an army to Babylon. I will bring back all the Babylonian refugees in the ships that they take pride in.

nsb@Isaiah:43:17 @ He leads chariots and horses, an army and reinforcements. »They lie down together and do not get up again. They are extinguished and snuffed out like a wick.« This is what Jehovah says:

nsb@Isaiah:44:2 @ »‘This is what Jehovah says, the one who made you, who formed you in the womb, and who will help you: ‘Do not be afraid, O Jacob, my servant, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

nsb@Isaiah:44:5 @ »‘»One person will say: »I belong to Jehovah.« Another person will call himself by the name of Jacob. Still another will write on his hand: »Jehovah’s.« And he will take the name Israel.’

nsb@Isaiah:44:6 @ »This is what Jehovah, Israel’s King and Redeemer, Jehovah of Hosts says: ‘I AM THE FIRST AND I AM THE LAST- APART FROM ME THERE IS NO GOD!

nsb@Isaiah:44:8 @ »‘Do not tremble. Do not be afraid. Did I not proclaim this and foretell it long ago? You are my witnesses! Is there any God besides me? No, there is no other Rock. There is not one!’«

nsb@Isaiah:44:11 @ He and his kind will be put to shame. Craftsmen are merely men. Let them all come together and take their stand for they will be brought down to terror and infamy.

nsb@Isaiah:44:12 @ The blacksmith takes a tool and works with it in the coals. He shapes an idol with hammers; he forges it with the might of his arm. He gets hungry and loses his strength. He drinks no water and grows faint.

nsb@Isaiah:44:13 @ The carpenter measures with a line and makes an outline with a red chalk marker. He roughs it out with chisels and marks it with a compass. He shapes it in the form of man in all his glory, that it may dwell in a shrine.

nsb@Isaiah:44:16 @ Half of the wood they burn in the fire. Over this half they roast meat that they can eat until they are full. They also warm themselves and say: We are warm. We can see the fire!

nsb@Isaiah:44:21 @ Jehovah says: »Israel, remember this! Remember that you are my servant. I created you to be my servant, and I will never forget you.

nsb@Isaiah:44:23 @ »Shout for joy, you heavens! Shout, deep places of the earth! Shout for joy, mountains, and every tree of the forest! Jehovah has shown his greatness by saving his people Israel.«

nsb@Isaiah:45:1 @ This is WHAT JEHOVAH SAYS ABOUT CYRUS, his anointed one: »I have held him by his right hand so he could conquer the nations ahead of him; that he could strip kings of their power, and open doors ahead of him so that the gates would not be shut.

nsb@Isaiah:45:10 @ »‘Do we dare say to our parents: ‘Why did you make me like this?’

nsb@Isaiah:45:13 @ »I have stirred Cyrus to action to fulfill my purpose and put things right. I will straighten out every road that he travels. He will rebuild my city, Jerusalem, and set my captive people free. No one has hired him or bribed him to do this.« Jehovah of Hosts has spoken.

nsb@Isaiah:45:14 @ This is what Jehovah says: »The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush, and those tall Sabeans will come over to you and will be yours. They will walk behind you. They will come to you in chains. They will bow down before you and plead with you. They will say: ‘God is with you and there is no other. There is no other god!’

nsb@Isaiah:45:21 @ »Speak and present your case. Yes, let them consult one another. Who revealed this in the distant past and predicted it long ago? Was it not I, Jehovah? There is no other God except me. There is no other righteous God and Savior besides me.

nsb@Isaiah:46:7 @ »They lift it to their shoulders and carry it. They set it up in its place and there it stands. From that spot it cannot move. Though one cries out to it, it does not answer. It cannot save him from his troubles!

nsb@Isaiah:46:8 @ »Remember this! Keep it in mind and take it to heart, you rebels.

nsb@Isaiah:47:4 @ Our Redeemer, Jehovah of Hosts is His name, The Holy One of Israel.

nsb@Isaiah:47:8 @ »Hear this you sensual one! You dwell securely and say in your heart: ‘I am, and there is no one besides me. I will not sit as a widow. I will not lose children.’ (Revelation strkjv@18:2-8)

nsb@Isaiah:47:15 @ »That is all they can do for you, these you have labored with and trafficked with since childhood. Each of them goes on in his error. No one can save you.

nsb@Isaiah:48:1 @ Listen to this, people of Israel, you that are descended from Judah. You swear by the name of Jehovah and claim to worship the God of Israel. However you do not mean a word you say.

nsb@Isaiah:48:14 @ »Gather together, all of you, and listen. What idol has revealed such things? Jehovah loves Cyrus. He will carry out Jehovah’s plan against Babylon. He will use his strength against the Babylonians.

nsb@Isaiah:48:16 @ »Come here. Listen to this! From the beginning I have spoken nothing in private. From the time it took place, I was there. Now the Lord Jehovah has sent me, and his Spirit.

nsb@Isaiah:48:17 @ This is what Jehovah your Defender, the Holy One of Israel, says: »I am Jehovah your God. I teach you what is best for you. I lead you where you should go.

nsb@Isaiah:48:20 @ Get out of Babylon! Flee from the Babylonians! Shout for joy as you tell it and announce it. Shout it out to the ends of the earth. Say: »Jehovah has reclaimed his servant Jacob.

nsb@Isaiah:49:1 @ Listen to this, you islands! Pay attention you people far away. Jehovah chose me long before I was born. He recorded my name while I was in my mother’s womb.

nsb@Isaiah:49:2 @ He made my tongue like a sharp sword. He hid me in the palm of his hand. He made me like a sharpened arrow and hid me in his quiver.

nsb@Isaiah:49:5 @ Jehovah formed me in the womb to be his servant. I am to bring Jacob back to him and gather Israel to him. Jehovah honors me. My God has become my strength.

nsb@Isaiah:49:8 @ This is what Jehovah says: »In the time of favor I will answer you. I will appoint you as my promise to the people. You will restore the land. You will make them inherit the desolate inheritance.«

nsb@Isaiah:49:13 @ Shout for joy, O heavens! Rejoice, O earth! Break into joyful shouting, O mountains! For Jehovah has comforted his people. He will have compassion on his afflicted.

nsb@Isaiah:49:20 @ »‘The children removed from you will say to you: ‘This place is too crowed for me. Make room for me to live here.’

nsb@Isaiah:50:1 @ This is what Jehovah says: »Where are your mother's divorce papers? Did I give her any to get rid of her? To which of my creditors did I sell you? You were sold because of your sins. I got rid of your mother because of your rebellion.

nsb@Isaiah:50:10 @ Who among you respects Jehovah and obeys his servant? Let those who walk in darkness and have no light trust the name of Jehovah and depend upon their God.

nsb@Isaiah:50:11 @ But all of you light fires and arm yourselves with flaming torches. So walk in your own light and among the torches you have lit. This is what you will receive from me: You will be tormented.

nsb@Isaiah:51:15 @ »I am Jehovah your God, who churns up the sea so that its waves roar. Jehovah of Hosts is his name.

nsb@Isaiah:51:17 @ Awake, awake! Rise up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of Jehovah the cup of his wrath, you who have drained to its dregs the goblet that makes men stagger.

nsb@Isaiah:51:21 @ Therefore hear this, you afflicted one, made drunk, but not with wine.

nsb@Isaiah:51:22 @ This is what your Lord Jehovah says, your God, who defends his people: »See, I have taken out of your hand the cup that made you stagger. You will never drink from that cup, that cup of wrath, again.

nsb@Isaiah:52:3 @ For this is what Jehovah says: »You were sold for nothing, and without money you will be redeemed.«

nsb@Isaiah:52:9 @ Burst into songs of joy together, you ruins of Jerusalem! Jehovah has comforted his people. He has redeemed Jerusalem.

nsb@Isaiah:52:10 @ Jehovah will lay bare his holy arm in the sight of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.

nsb@Isaiah:52:14 @ There were many who were appalled at him and his appearance was disfigured beyond that of any man and his form marred beyond human likeness.

nsb@Isaiah:53:1 @ THIS IS THE PEOPHESY ABOUT THE MESSIAH. Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of Jehovah been revealed?

nsb@Isaiah:53:2 @ He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him. Nothing in his appearance will make us desire him.

nsb@Isaiah:53:5 @ But he was pierced for our transgressions! He was crushed for our iniquities! The punishment that brought us peace was upon him. There has been healing for us because of his wounds.

nsb@Isaiah:53:6 @ We are all like sheep. We have gone astray! Each of us has turned to his own way. Jehovah has caused the iniquity of all of us to be laid on him.

nsb@Isaiah:53:7 @ He was oppressed and afflicted and yet he did not open his mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter. He was silent like sheep ready to be sheared. He did not open his mouth.

nsb@Isaiah:53:8 @ He was oppressed, judged and taken away. And who can speak of his descendants? He was removed from the land of the living. He was destroyed because of the transgression of my people.

nsb@Isaiah:53:9 @ He was buried like a criminal in a rich mans grave. He had done no wrong, nor was any deceit in his mouth.

nsb@Isaiah:53:10 @ It was Jehovah’s will to allow him to be crushed. Even though Jehovah makes his life a guilt offering, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of Jehovah will prosper in his hand.

nsb@Isaiah:53:11 @ After his suffering he will see the light and be satisfied. By his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many. He will bear their iniquities.

nsb@Isaiah:53:12 @ Therefore I will give him a portion among the great. He will divide the spoils with the strong. This is because he poured out his life unto death. He was numbered with the transgressors. He bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

nsb@Isaiah:54:5 @ »For your Maker is your husband. Jehovah of Hosts is his name! The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer. He is called the God of all the earth.

nsb@Isaiah:54:9 @ »To me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So now I have sworn not to be angry with you, never to rebuke you again.

nsb@Isaiah:54:17 @ »Weapons forged against you will not prevail! You will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of Jehovah and this is their vindication from me,« declares Jehovah.

nsb@Isaiah:55:7 @ Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man his thoughts. Let him turn to Jehovah, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will freely pardon.

nsb@Isaiah:55:13 @ »Instead of the thornbush the pine tree will grow. Instead of briers the myrtle will grow. This will be for Jehovah’s fame. It will be for an everlasting sign, which will not be destroyed.«

nsb@Isaiah:56:2 @ »Blessed is the man who does this, the man who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath without desecrating it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil.

nsb@Isaiah:56:3 @ »‘No foreigner bound to Jehovah should say: ‘Jehovah will surely exclude me from his people. No eunuch should complain: I am only a dry tree.’«

nsb@Isaiah:57:2 @ He will enter into peace. The honorable and honest will rest in his bed.

nsb@Isaiah:57:6 @ »Is your portion among the smooth stones of the stream? They indeed are your lot! Even to them you have poured a drink offering. You have offered a grain offering. Should this give me comfort?

nsb@Isaiah:57:13 @ »When you cry out, let your collection of idols deliver you. But the wind will carry them all away. A breath will take them. But he who puts his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain.

nsb@Isaiah:57:17 @ Because of the iniquity of his covetousness gain I was angry and struck him. I hid and was angry. He went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

nsb@Isaiah:57:18 @ I have seen his ways, and will heal him. I will also lead him, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.

nsb@Isaiah:58:5 @ »Is it a fast like this which I choose, a day for a man to humble himself? Is it for bowing one's head like a reed and for spreading out sackcloth and ashes as a bed? Will you call this a fast, even an acceptable day to Jehovah?

nsb@Isaiah:58:6 @ »Is this not the fast I choose to loosen the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free and break every yoke?

nsb@Isaiah:59:1 @ The hand of Jehovah is not too weak to save or his ear too deaf to hear.

nsb@Isaiah:59:2 @ But your wrongs have separated you from your God. Your sins have made him hide his face so that he does not even hear you.

nsb@Isaiah:59:4 @ No one calls for justice and no one pleads his case truthfully. People trust pointless arguments and speak lies. They conceive trouble and give birth to evil.

nsb@Isaiah:59:16 @ He sees that there is no one to help. He is astounded that there is no one to intercede. So he saves him with his own power. His righteousness supports him.

nsb@Isaiah:59:17 @ He puts on righteousness like a coat of armor and a helmet of salvation on his head. He wears clothes of vengeance. He wraps himself with zeal as a coat.

nsb@Isaiah:59:18 @ He will pay them back according to their deeds. He will pay back his opponents with wrath and punish his enemies. He will pay back the people who live on the coastlands.

nsb@Isaiah:59:19 @ The people from the sunset will respect the name of Jehovah. Those from the rising of the sun will reverence his glory. He will come like a rushing stream that the Spirit of Jehovah drives.

nsb@Isaiah:59:21 @ »This is my promise to them,« says Jehovah. »My Spirit is on you and my words that I put in your mouth will not leave you. They will be with your children and your grandchildren permanently,« says Jehovah

nsb@Isaiah:60:2 @ »Darkness now covers the earth! Thick darkness overwhelms the nations. But Jehovah shines for you. His glory appears to you.

nsb@Isaiah:60:5 @ »Then you will see this and rejoice. Your heart will shake with joy. The riches of the sea will be brought to you. The wealth of the nations will come to you.

nsb@Isaiah:60:9 @ »Surely the coastlands wait with hope for me. The ships from Tarshish are the first to bring your children from far away. They bring their silver and their gold with them to honor the name of Jehovah your God, the Holy One of Israel, because he has honored you.

nsb@Isaiah:62:5 @ »Your sons will marry you like a young man marries a woman. Your God will rejoice over the same way a bridegroom rejoices over his bride.

nsb@Isaiah:62:8 @ Jehovah has sworn with his right hand and with his mighty arm: »I will never again let your enemies eat your grain, nor will foreigners drink the new wine that you produced.

nsb@Isaiah:62:11 @ Jehovah has announced to the ends of the earth: »Tell my people, Zion, your salvation is coming. His reward for us and recompense are with him.’«

nsb@Isaiah:63:1 @ Who is this coming from Bozrah in Edom with his clothes stained bright red? Who is this dressed in splendor, going forward with great strength? It is I, Jehovah! I am coming to announce my victory. I am powerful enough to save you!

nsb@Isaiah:63:7 @ I will acknowledge Jehovah’s acts of loving-kindness, and sing the praises of Jehovah, because of everything that Jehovah has done for us. He has done many good things for the nation of Israel because of his compassion and the abundance of his loving-kindness.

nsb@Isaiah:63:9 @ In all their difficulty he was concerned, and he was the messenger who saved them. In his love and compassion he reclaimed them. He always held them and carried them in the past.

nsb@Isaiah:63:10 @ But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit. So he turned against them as their enemy. He fought against them.

nsb@Isaiah:63:11 @ His people finally remembered Moses and the days of old. Where is the one who brought them out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is the one who put his Holy Spirit in the midst of them?

nsb@Isaiah:63:12 @ Where is the one who sent his powerful arm to support the right hand of Moses? Where is the one who divided the water in front of them to make an everlasting name for himself?

nsb@Isaiah:63:14 @ Just like animals going down into a valley, they were given rest by Jehovah’s Spirit. In this way you guided your people to make an honored name for yourself.

nsb@Isaiah:65:7 @ both your sins and the sins of your fathers, says Jehovah. This is because they burned sacrifices on the mountains and defied me on the hills. I will measure into their laps the full payment for their former deeds.«

nsb@Isaiah:65:13 @ Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah says: My servants will eat, but you will go hungry. My servants will drink, but you will go thirsty. My servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame!

nsb@Isaiah:65:15 @ You will leave your name to my chosen ones as a curse. The Sovereign Lord Jehovah will put you to death, but to his servants he will give another name.

nsb@Isaiah:65:20 @ »Never again will there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not live out his years. He who dies at a hundred will be thought a mere youth. The sinner who reaches a hundred will be considered accursed.

nsb@Isaiah:66:1 @ This is what Jehovah says: »Heaven is my throne. Earth is my footstool. Where can you people build a house or resting place for me?

nsb@Isaiah:66:5 @ »Listen to the word of Jehovah, all who tremble at his word. Your brothers, who hate you, exclude you because of my name. They say: Let Jehovah show his glory and then we will see your joy. But they will be put to shame.

nsb@Isaiah:66:6 @ »Listen to the uproar from the city. Listen to the sound from the temple. It is the sound of Jehovah paying back his enemies as they deserve.

nsb@Isaiah:66:12 @ This is what Jehovah says: »I will offer you peace like a river and the wealth of the nations like an overflowing stream. You will nurse and be carried in Jerusalem's arms and cuddled on her knees.

nsb@Isaiah:66:14 @ When you see it, your heart will rejoice and you will flourish like new grass. The power of Jehovah will be made known to his servants, but he will condemn his enemies.

nsb@Isaiah:66:15 @ Jehovah will come with fire and with his chariots like a thunderstorm. He will pay them back with his burning anger and punish them with flames of fire.

nsb@Isaiah:66:16 @ Jehovah will judge with fire, and he will judge all people with his sword. Jehovah will strike many people dead.

nsb@Isaiah:66:19 @ »I will set up a sign among them and send some of their survivors to the nations: to Tarshish, Put and Lud, Meshech, Rosh, Tubal, Javan, and to the distant coastlands who have not heard of my fame or seen my glory. They will tell about my glory among the nations.

nsb@Jeremiah:1:2 @ Jehovah spoke his word to Jeremiah. This happened when King Josiah, son of Amon, was in his thirteenth year as king of Judah.

nsb@Jeremiah:1:4 @ Jehovah spoke his word to me, Jeremiah, He said:

nsb@Jeremiah:1:9 @ Then Jehovah stretched out his hand and touched my mouth. Jehovah said to me: »I have put my words in your mouth.

nsb@Jeremiah:1:11 @ Jehovah spoke his word to me again. He asked: »What do you see Jeremiah?« I answered: »I see a branch of an almond tree.«

nsb@Jeremiah:2:1 @ Jehovah spoke his word to me:

nsb@Jeremiah:2:2 @ »Go and announce to Jerusalem, ‘This is what Jehovah says: »I remember the unfailing loyalty of your youth, the love you had for me as a bride. I remember how you followed me into the desert, into a land that was not sown.

nsb@Jeremiah:2:10 @ »Go over to the coasts of Cyprus, and see. Send someone to Kedar and observe closely. See if there has ever been such a thing as this.

nsb@Jeremiah:2:12 @ »Be horrified over this, heaven. Be terribly afraid,« declares Jehovah.

nsb@Jeremiah:2:17 @ »You have done this to yourself by abandoning Jehovah your God when he led you on his way.

nsb@Jeremiah:2:31 @ »O you people of this generation consider the word of Jehovah! Have I been a wilderness, a land of thick darkness, for Israel? Why do my people say that they are free to wander around and no longer come to me?

nsb@Jeremiah:2:35 @ »‘After all this you say: ‘I am innocent. God will turn his anger from me. For I have not sinned.’«

nsb@Jeremiah:2:37 @ »You will also leave this place with your hands over your head, because Jehovah has rejected those you trust. They will not help you.«

nsb@Jeremiah:3:1 @ It is said: »If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and marries another man, her first husband should not go back to her again.« The land would become completely polluted. »You have behaved like a prostitute who has many lovers. Now you want to come back to me!« Says Jehovah.

nsb@Jeremiah:3:7 @ »I thought that after she had done all this she would come back to me. But she did not come back, and her treacherous sister Judah saw her.

nsb@Jeremiah:3:10 @ »Even after all this, Israel's treacherous sister Judah did not return to me with all her heart. She was deceitful,« says Jehovah.

nsb@Jeremiah:3:12 @ »‘Go and proclaim this message to the north: ‘Come back, unfaithful Israel. It is Jehovah speaking. I will no longer frown on you because I am merciful,’ declares Jehovah. ‘I will no longer be angry with you.

nsb@Jeremiah:4:4 @ »Be circumcised by Jehovah, and get rid of the foreskins of your hearts, people of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. If you do not, my fury will blaze like a fire. It will burn, and no one will be able to put it out. This is because of the evil you do.«

nsb@Jeremiah:4:5 @ Report this message in Judah. Make it heard in Jerusalem. Say: »Blow the ram's horn throughout the land. Shout loudly and say: ‘Assemble together! Let us go into the fortified cities.’

nsb@Jeremiah:4:7 @ »A lion has come out of its lair. A destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his place and is on his way to destroy your land. Your cities will be ruined. No one will live in them.

nsb@Jeremiah:4:13 @ »The enemy comes up like clouds. His chariots are like a raging wind. His horses are swifter than eagles. How horable it will be for us! We will be destroyed!«

nsb@Jeremiah:4:16 @ »Warn the nations about this. Tell it to Jerusalem. Hostile troops are coming from a distant country. They shout battle cries against the cities of Judah.«

nsb@Jeremiah:4:18 @ »You brought this on yourself. This is your punishment. It is bitter. It breaks your heart.«

nsb@Jeremiah:4:26 @ I see that the fertile land has become a desert. Its cities are torn down because of Jehovah and his burning anger.

nsb@Jeremiah:5:8 @ They were like well-fed stallions wild with desire, each lusting for his neighbor's wife.

nsb@Jeremiah:5:14 @ Jehovah, the God of hosts says: »Because you have spoken this word and I am making my words fire in your mouth. This people are wood and will be consumed.

nsb@Jeremiah:5:19 @ »‘They will ask: ‘Why has Jehovah our God done all this to us?’ Answer them: »You have abandoned me and served foreign gods in your land. So you will serve foreigners in a land that is not yours.« ’«

nsb@Jeremiah:5:20 @ »Declare this to the house of Jacob, and make this heard in Judah:

nsb@Jeremiah:5:21 @ »‘Hear this, you stupid and senseless people! You have eyes, but you cannot see. You have ears, but you cannot hear.’«

nsb@Jeremiah:5:31 @ ‘Prophets prophesy falsehoods. Priests rule under the prophets' directions, and my people love this. But what will you do when the end comes?’«

nsb@Jeremiah:6:3 @ Shepherds and their flocks will come to her. They will pitch their tents around her. They will pasture each in his place.

nsb@Jeremiah:6:6 @ Jehovah of Hosts says: »Cut down trees and build up a siege against Jerusalem. This city should be punished, for there is only oppression in her.

nsb@Jeremiah:6:19 @ »Hear, O earth: behold, I am bringing disaster on this people as the fruit of their plans. This is because they have not listened to my words, and have rejected my law.

nsb@Jeremiah:6:21 @ Therefore, Jehovah says: »I am laying stumbling blocks before this people. They will stumble against them, Fathers and sons together; Neighbors and friends will perish.«

nsb@Jeremiah:7:1 @ This is the word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah:

nsb@Jeremiah:7:2 @ »Stand at the gate of Jehovah’s house and proclaim there this word: ‘Hear the word of Jehovah, all you of Judah who enter by these gates to worship Jehovah!

nsb@Jeremiah:7:3 @ »‘Thus says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel: »Amend your ways and your deeds, and I will let you dwell in this place.

nsb@Jeremiah:7:4 @ »‘»Do not trust in deceptive words. They say: ‘This is the Temple of Jehovah, the Temple of Jehovah, and the Temple of Jehovah.

nsb@Jeremiah:7:5 @ »‘»For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly practice justice between a man and his neighbor,

nsb@Jeremiah:7:6 @ if you do not oppress the alien, the orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your own ruin,

nsb@Jeremiah:7:7 @ then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land I gave to your fathers from generation to generation and for a very long time.« ’«

nsb@Jeremiah:7:10 @ »Then come and stand before me in this house. It is called by my name. You say, ‘We are safe to do all these abominations.’

nsb@Jeremiah:7:11 @ »Has this house, called by my name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Behold, I, even I, have seen it,« declares Jehovah.

nsb@Jeremiah:7:16 @ »As for you, do not pray for this people. Do not lift up cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with me for I do not hear you.

nsb@Jeremiah:7:20 @ Therefore the Lord Jehovah says: »My anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, on man and on beast, on the trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground. It will burn and not be quenched.«

nsb@Jeremiah:7:23 @ »‘I gave them this command: ‘Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you will be my people. You will walk in all the way that I command you that it may be well with you.’«

nsb@Jeremiah:7:25 @ »Since the day your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent you all my servants the prophets, daily rising early and sending them.

nsb@Jeremiah:7:28 @ »You will say to them: ‘This is the nation that did not obey the voice of Jehovah their God or accept correction. Truth has perished and truth has been removed from their mouth.

nsb@Jeremiah:7:29 @ ‘Cut off your hair and cast it away. Take up a cry of sorrow and grief on the bare heights. Jehovah has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.’

nsb@Jeremiah:7:31 @ »They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire. I did not command this. I would never think of such a thing.

nsb@Jeremiah:7:33 @ »The dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the sky and for the beasts of the earth. No one will frighten them away.

nsb@Jeremiah:8:4 @ »Say to them: ‘This is what Jehovah says: »When someone falls, he gets back up. When someone turns away from me, he returns.« ’«

nsb@Jeremiah:8:16 @ From Dan is heard the snorting of his horses. At the sound of the neighing of his stallions the whole land quakes. For they come and devour the land and its fullness, the city and its inhabitants.

nsb@Jeremiah:9:4 @ »Let everyone be on guard against his neighbor. Do not trust any brother because every brother deals craftily, and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.

nsb@Jeremiah:9:5 @ »Everyone deceives his neighbor and does not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They wear themselves out committing sin.

nsb@Jeremiah:9:8 @ »Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit! With the mouth one speaks peace to his neighbor, but inwardly he sets an ambush for him.«

nsb@Jeremiah:9:9 @ »I will punish them for these things,« declares Jehovah. »I will punish this nation and I will not be satisfied.«

nsb@Jeremiah:9:12 @ »Who is the wise man that may understand this? Who is he to whom the mouth of Jehovah has spoken? Let him declare it? Why is the land ruined, laid waste like a desert, so that no one passes through?«

nsb@Jeremiah:9:15 @ »‘Therefore Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel says: ‘Behold! I will feed this people with wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.’

nsb@Jeremiah:9:20 @ Listen to the word of Jehovah, you women, and open your ears to hear his words. Teach your daughters how to cry. Teach your neighbors funeral songs.

nsb@Jeremiah:9:22 @ »‘This is what Jehovah says: »Dead bodies will fall like manure on the field. They will be like grain that has been cut but not gathered.« ’«

nsb@Jeremiah:9:23 @ This is what Jehovah says: »Do not let wise people brag about their wisdom. Do not let strong people brag about their strength. Do not let rich people brag about their riches.«

nsb@Jeremiah:9:24 @ »If they want to brag, instead let them advocate that they understand and know me. They should advocate that I, Jehovah, act out of love, righteousness, and justice on the earth. This kind of celebration pleases me,« declares Jehovah.

nsb@Jeremiah:10:2 @ This is what Jehovah says: »Do not learn the practices of the nations. Do not be frightened by the signs in the sky because they frighten the nations.«

nsb@Jeremiah:10:9 @ Beaten silver is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz. It is the work of a craftsman and of the hands of a goldsmith. Violet and purple are their clothing. They are all the work of skilled men.

nsb@Jeremiah:10:10 @ Jehovah is the true God! He is the living God and the everlasting king. The earth quakes at his wrath. The nations cannot endure his indignation.

nsb@Jeremiah:10:12 @ He who made the earth by his power, and established the world by his wisdom; also stretched out the heavens by his understanding.

nsb@Jeremiah:10:13 @ He speaks, and the water in the sky produces a storm. He makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning flash with the rain. He brings wind out of his storehouses.

nsb@Jeremiah:10:14 @ Every man is stupid lacking knowledge. Every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. His molten images are deceitful. There is no breath in them.

nsb@Jeremiah:10:16 @ Jacob’s share is not like this. For he made everything! Israel is the tribe of his inheritance. Jehovah of Hosts is his name.

nsb@Jeremiah:10:18 @ Jehovah says: »I am evicting the inhabitants of the land at this time. I will cause them distress that they may be found.«

nsb@Jeremiah:10:19 @ Oh, I am wounded! My wound is serious. Then I thought that this is my punishment, and I will bear it.

nsb@Jeremiah:11:3 @ »Jehovah the God of Israel says, ‘Cursed is everyone who does not obey the terms of this covenant.’

nsb@Jeremiah:11:7 @ »I solemnly warned your fathers in the day that I brought them up from the land of Egypt. Even to this day I persistently warned them, saying: ‘Listen to my voice.’

nsb@Jeremiah:11:8 @ »Yet they did not obey or incline their ear. They walked, each one, in the stubbornness of his evil heart! Therefore I brought on them all the words of the covenant I commanded them to do. But they did not do it.’«

nsb@Jeremiah:11:17 @ »Jehovah of Hosts planted you. He has pronounced disaster on you. This is because of the evil things that Israel and Judah have done. They have made him infuriated by burning incense as an offering to Baal.

nsb@Jeremiah:11:19 @ I was like an unquestioning lamb brought to the slaughter. I did not know that they were plotting against me. They were saying: »Let us destroy the tree with its fruit. Let us cut Jeremiah off from this world of the living so that we will not be reminded of him anymore.«

nsb@Jeremiah:11:21 @ This is what Jehovah says: »The people of Anathoth want to kill you. They say: Do not prophesy in the name of Jehovah, or we will kill you.«

nsb@Jeremiah:11:22 @ This is what Jehovah of Hosts says: »I am going to punish them. The young men will die by the sword because of war. Their sons and daughters will die by famine.

nsb@Jeremiah:13:10 @ »The people of Judah are evil and stubborn. They do not listen to me. They do whatever they want and even worship other gods. When I am finished with these people, they will be good for nothing, just like this linen belt.

nsb@Jeremiah:13:11 @ »This belt is tight around your waist, and that is how tightly I held onto the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. I wanted them to be my people. I wanted to make them famous, so that other nations would praise and honor me, but they refused to obey me.

nsb@Jeremiah:13:12 @ »Speak this word to them: ‘Thus says Jehovah, the God of Israel, »Every jug is to be filled with wine. When they say to you, Do we not know that every jug is to be filled with wine?

nsb@Jeremiah:13:13 @ »‘»Say to them: Jehovah says I am about to fill all the inhabitants of this land, the kings that sit for David on his throne, the priests, the prophets and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with drunkenness!

nsb@Jeremiah:13:18 @ Say to the king and his mother: »Come down from your thrones, because your crowns have fallen off your heads.«

nsb@Jeremiah:13:25 @ »This is your fate, the destiny I have planned for you,« proclaims Jehovah. »You have forgotten me and trusted in false gods.

nsb@Jeremiah:14:1 @ Jehovah spoke his word about the drought to Jeremiah:

nsb@Jeremiah:14:10 @ This is what Jehovah says about these people: »They love to wander. They do not keep their feet where they belong. Therefore Jehovah is not happy with them. He will remember their crimes and punish their sins.«

nsb@Jeremiah:14:13 @ I said: »Alas, O Lord Jehovah, prophets are telling them: ‘You will not see wars or famines, for I will give you lasting peace in this place.«

nsb@Jeremiah:14:15 @ »I did not send these prophets. Yet, they prophesy in my name that there will be no wars or famines in this land. So this is what I, Jehovah, say about them: ‘Wars and famines will bring an end to these prophets.

nsb@Jeremiah:14:17 @ »Say this to them: ‘My eyes flow with tears day and night without stopping because my dear people will suffer massive destruction. It will be a very serious blow.

nsb@Jeremiah:15:2 @ »When they ask you where they should go, say to them: This is what Jehovah says: Those who are to die will die. Those who are to die in wars will die in wars. Those who are to die in famines will die in famines. Those who are to die in captivity will die in captivity.

nsb@Jeremiah:15:4 @ »I will make these people a horrifying sight to all the kingdoms on the earth. This will happen because of what Judah's King Manasseh, son of Hezekiah, did in Jerusalem.

nsb@Jeremiah:15:13 @ »Jehovah said to me: ‘I will send enemies to carry away the wealth and treasures of my people. This will punish them for the sins they have committed throughout the land.

nsb@Jeremiah:16:2 @ »You shall not take a wife for yourself nor have sons or daughters in this place.

nsb@Jeremiah:16:3 @ Jehovah says this about the sons and daughters born in this place, and about their mothers who bear them, and their fathers who begot them in this land:

nsb@Jeremiah:16:5 @ Jehovah says: »Do not enter a house of mourning, or go to lament or to console them. I have withdrawn my peace from this people,« declares Jehovah, »even my loving kindness and compassion.«

nsb@Jeremiah:16:6 @ »Both great and small men will die in this land. They will not be buried, they will not be lamented, nor will anyone gash himself or shave his head for them.

nsb@Jeremiah:16:9 @ »This is what Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I am going to put a stop to the sounds of joy and happiness and the sounds of brides and grooms in this place. This will happen in your lifetime, even as you watch.’«

nsb@Jeremiah:16:13 @ »Therefore I will throw you out of this land into a land that you and your ancestors have not heard of. There you will serve other gods day and night because I will no longer have pity on you.« ’

nsb@Jeremiah:16:15 @ »But they will say: Jehovah brought the people of Israel out of the land of the north and all the lands where he had scattered them. They will say this because I will bring them back to the land that I gave their fathers.

nsb@Jeremiah:16:21 @ »That is what I will teach them. This time I will make my power and my strength known to them. THEN THEY WILL KNOW THAT MY NAME IS JEHOVAH.«

nsb@Jeremiah:17:3 @ and on mountains in the open country. I will turn your wealth and all your treasures into loot. I will do this because of your worship sites and your sin throughout all your territory.

nsb@Jeremiah:17:4 @ You will lose the inheritance that I gave you. I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you have not heard of. I will do this because you have stirred up the fire of my anger. It will burn for a very long time.

nsb@Jeremiah:17:5 @ This is what Jehovah says: »Cursed is the person who trusts humans, who makes flesh and blood his strength and whose heart turns away from Jehovah.

nsb@Jeremiah:17:10 @ »I, Jehovah, search the heart and examine the mind. I give to each man according to his ways, according to the results of his deeds.

nsb@Jeremiah:17:11 @ »A person who gets rich dishonestly is like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay. During his lifetime, he will lose his wealth. In the end, he will be a wicked fool.«

nsb@Jeremiah:17:24 @ »But it will come about, if you listen attentively to me, declares Jehovah, to bring no load in through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but to keep the Sabbath day holy by doing no work on it,

nsb@Jeremiah:17:25 @ then there will come in through the gates of this city kings and princes sitting on the throne of David. They will ride in chariots and on horses, they and their princes, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. This city will be inhabited for a very long time.

nsb@Jeremiah:18:1 @ Jehovah spoke his word to Jeremiah:

nsb@Jeremiah:18:3 @ I went to the potter's house, and he was working there at his wheel.

nsb@Jeremiah:18:5 @ Jehovah spoke his word to me. Jehovah asked:

nsb@Jeremiah:18:6 @ »Nation of Israel, can I do with you as this potter does with clay?« Nation of Israel, »You are in my hands like the clay in the potter's hands.

nsb@Jeremiah:18:11 @ »Now say to the people of Judah and to those who live in Jerusalem, This is what Jehovah says: ‘I am going to prepare a disaster and make a plot against you. Turn from your evil ways, change your lives, and do good.’

nsb@Jeremiah:18:13 @ »This is what Jehovah says: ‘Ask among the nations if anyone has ever heard anything like this. The people of Israel have done a very horrible thing.

nsb@Jeremiah:18:16 @ »‘They make their land desolation. It becomes an object of perpetual hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and shake his head.

nsb@Jeremiah:18:18 @ Then they said: »Come and let us devise plans against Jeremiah. Surely the law is not going to be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise man, nor the divine word to the prophet! Come on and let us strike him with our tongue, and let us pay no attention to any of his words.«

nsb@Jeremiah:19:3 @ Say: »Hear the word of Jehovah, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: thus says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, »‘»Behold I am about to bring adversity upon this place. The ears of everyone who hears of it will quiver with fear.

nsb@Jeremiah:19:4 @ »‘»This is because they have forsaken me. They have made this an alien place and have burned sacrifices in it to other gods. These are gods that neither they nor their forefathers nor the kings of Judah had ever known. They have filled this place with the blood of the blameless.« ’«

nsb@Jeremiah:19:5 @ »‘They have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal. This is not something I commanded or spoke of, nor did it ever enter my mind.« ’

nsb@Jeremiah:19:6 @ »‘»Therefore days are coming, declares Jehovah, when this place will no longer be called Topheth or the valley of Ben-hinnom, but rather the valley of Slaughter.

nsb@Jeremiah:19:7 @ »I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place. I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hand of those who seek their life. I will give their carcasses as food for the birds of the sky and the animals of the earth.

nsb@Jeremiah:19:8 @ »I will also make this city a desolation and an object of hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its disasters.

nsb@Jeremiah:19:11 @ »‘Say to them: ‘Jehovah of Hosts says: »Like this I will break this people and this city. It is just like one breaks a potter's vessel that cannot again be repaired. They will bury in Topheth because there is no other place for burial.« ’

nsb@Jeremiah:19:12 @ »‘This is how I will treat this place and its inhabitants,’declares Jehovah, ‘I will make this city like Topheth.

nsb@Jeremiah:19:15 @ »Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel says: ‘I am about to bring on this city and all its towns the entire disaster that I have declared against it. This is because they have stiffened their necks so as not to heed my words.’«

nsb@Jeremiah:20:5 @ »‘I will also hand over all the wealth of this city, all its produce and all its costly things. I will even give all the treasures of the kings of Judah to the hand of their enemies. They will plunder them and take them away to Babylon.

nsb@Jeremiah:20:9 @ But if I say: »I will not remember him or speak anymore in his name,« then in my heart it becomes like a burning fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in. I cannot endure it.

nsb@Jeremiah:20:10 @ For I have heard the whispering of many: »Terror on every side! Denounce him; yes, let us denounce him!« All my trusted friends are watching for my fall. They say: »Perhaps he will be deceived, so that we may prevail against him and take our revenge on him.«

nsb@Jeremiah:21:1 @ This is the word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah. King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur the son of Malchijah, and Zephaniah the priest, the son of Maaseiah. The king said to Jeremiah:

nsb@Jeremiah:21:2 @ »Please inquire of Jehovah on our behalf. Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon is warring against us. Perhaps Jehovah will deal with us with all his wonderful acts, so that the enemy will withdraw from us.«

nsb@Jeremiah:21:4 @ ‘Jehovah the God of Israel says: »Behold, I am about to turn back the weapons of war you control. The weapons you use to make war against the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the wall. I will gather them into the center of this city.

nsb@Jeremiah:21:6 @ ‘»I will also strike down the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast. They will die of a great pestilence.« ’

nsb@Jeremiah:21:7 @ »‘»Afterwards,« declares Jehovah: »I will hand over Judah's King Zedekiah, his officials, the people, and everyone else in this city who survives the plague, war, and famine. They will be handed over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and to their enemies who want to kill them. Nebuchadnezzar will kill them with swords. He will not spare them, show them compassion, or care for them.« ’

nsb@Jeremiah:21:8 @ »Also say to this people, ‘Jehovah says: »Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.

nsb@Jeremiah:21:9 @ »‘He who dwells in this city will die by the sword and by famine and by pestilence. He who goes out and surrenders to the Chaldeans who are besieging you will live. He will have his own life as booty.« ’

nsb@Jeremiah:21:10 @ »‘»For I have set my face against this city for harm and not for good, declares Jehovah. It will be surrendered to the king of Babylon and he will burn it with fire.«

nsb@Jeremiah:21:12 @ »‘O house of David, Jehovah says: »Administer justice every morning. Deliver the person who has been robbed from the power of his oppressor. That way I may not have to offer my wrath like fire and burn with none to extinguish it, because of the evil of your deeds.« ’

nsb@Jeremiah:22:1 @ This is what Jehovah says: »Go to the palace of the king of Judah, and speak this message there:

nsb@Jeremiah:22:3 @ This is what Jehovah says: »Judge fairly, and do what is right. Rescue those who have been robbed from those who oppress them. Do not mistreat foreigners, orphans, or widows, and do not oppress them. Do not kill innocent people in this place.

nsb@Jeremiah:22:4 @ »‘If you do what I say, then the kings who sit on David's throne will ride through the gates of this palace in chariots and on horses along with their officials and their people.« ’

nsb@Jeremiah:22:5 @ »‘But if you do not do what I say, I will take an oath on myself,’ declares Jehovah, ‘this palace will become a pile of rubble.’

nsb@Jeremiah:22:7 @ »I will set apart destroyers against you, each with his weapons. They will cut down your choicest cedars and throw them on the fire.

nsb@Jeremiah:22:8 @ »Many nations will pass by this city. They will say to one another: Why has Jehovah done thus to this great city?

nsb@Jeremiah:22:10 @ »Do not weep for the dead or mourn for him. Weep continually for the one who goes away. For he will never return or see his native land.

nsb@Jeremiah:22:11 @ »‘This is what Jehovah says about King Josiah's son Shallum, who succeeded his father as king of Judah and left this place: ‘He will never come back here again.

nsb@Jeremiah:22:12 @ »‘He will die in the place where they led him captive. He will not see this land again.’

nsb@Jeremiah:22:13 @ »Woe to him who builds his house without righteousness and his upper rooms without justice. Woe to him who uses his neighbor's services without pay and does not give him his wages.

nsb@Jeremiah:22:18 @ Therefore Jehovah tells us about Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: »They will not cry for him: ‘Alas, my brother!’ And, ‘Alas, sister!’ They will not mourn him: ‘Alas for the master!’ And, »Alas for his splendor!«

nsb@Jeremiah:22:21 @ I spoke to you in your prosperity. But you said: ‘I will not listen!’ This has been your practice from your youth, that you have not obeyed my voice.

nsb@Jeremiah:22:27 @ »You will want to return to this land, but you will not be allowed to come home.

nsb@Jeremiah:22:28 @ »This Jehoiakin is like a rejected and broken pot that no one wants. Is that why he and his descendants will be thrown out and cast into another land they have never heard of?

nsb@Jeremiah:22:30 @ »This is what Jehovah says: ‘Write this about Jehoiakin: »He will be childless. He will not prosper in his lifetime. None of his descendants will succeed him as king. They will not sit on David's throne and rule Judah again.« ’«

nsb@Jeremiah:23:2 @ This is what Jehovah the God of Israel says concerning the shepherds who are tending my people: »You have scattered my flock and driven them away. You have not attended to them. I am about to attend to you for the evil of your deeds,« says Jehovah.

nsb@Jeremiah:23:6 @ »In His days Judah will be saved. Israel will dwell securely. This is his name by which he will be called, Jehovah Is Our Righteousness.

nsb@Jeremiah:23:9 @ My heart is broken within me. All my bones tremble! I have become like a drunken man, even like a man overcome with wine. This is because of Jehovah and because of his holy words.

nsb@Jeremiah:23:13 @ »Say this about the prophets of Samaria: ‘I saw something disgusting. The prophets of Samaria prophesied by Baal and led my people Israel astray.’

nsb@Jeremiah:23:14 @ »Say this about the prophets of Jerusalem: ‘I see something horrible. The prophets of Jerusalem commit adultery and live a lie. They support those who do evil so that no one turns back from his wickedness. They are all like Sodom to me, and those who live in Jerusalem are like Gomorrah.’«

nsb@Jeremiah:23:15 @ This is what Jehovah of Hosts says about the prophets: »I will give them wormwood to eat and poison to drink. The prophets of Jerusalem have spread godlessness throughout the land.«

nsb@Jeremiah:23:16 @ This is what Jehovah of Hosts says: »Do not listen to what the prophets are saying to you. They fill you with false hope. They speak about visions that they dreamed up. These visions are not from Jehovah.

nsb@Jeremiah:23:18 @ Who is in Jehovah’s inner circle and sees and hears his word? Who pays attention and listens to his word?

nsb@Jeremiah:23:19 @ The storm of Jehovah vents his wrath. A whirling tempest will swirl down on the head of the wicked.

nsb@Jeremiah:23:20 @ The anger of Jehovah will not turn back until he has performed and carried out the purposes of his heart. In the last days you will clearly understand it.

nsb@Jeremiah:23:38 @ »‘If you disobey my command and use the words: ‘Jehovah’s utterance,’ then hear this.

nsb@Jeremiah:24:5 @ »Jehovah the God of Israel says: ‘Like these good figs, so I will regard the captives of Judah as good. I have sent them out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans.

nsb@Jeremiah:24:6 @ »‘I will watch over them for their good, and I will bring them to this land again. I will build them up and not overthrow them. I will plant them and not uproot them.

nsb@Jeremiah:24:8 @ »‘Like the bad figs that cannot be eaten because they are rotten,« says Jehovah, »so I will abandon Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land and the ones who dwell in the land of Egypt.

nsb@Jeremiah:25:1 @ Jehovah spoke his word to Jeremiah about all the people of Judah when Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, was in his fourth year as king. This was the first year that Nebuchadnezzar was king of Babylon.

nsb@Jeremiah:25:3 @ »Jehovah continued to speak his word to me for twenty-three years. This covered the time from when Josiah, son of Amon, was in his thirteenth year as king of Judah until today. I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened.

nsb@Jeremiah:25:4 @ »Jehovah has sent all his servants the prophets to you. Yet, you have not listened or paid attention to them.«

nsb@Jeremiah:25:8 @ »This is what Jehovah of Hosts says: ‘»You did not listen to my words,

nsb@Jeremiah:25:9 @ so I am going to send for all the families from the north. I will also send for my servant King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon,« says Jehovah. »I will bring the families from the north to attack this land, its people, and all these surrounding nations. I am going to destroy them and turn them into something terrible, something ridiculed, and something permanently ruined.

nsb@Jeremiah:25:11 @ »This whole land will be ruined and become a wasteland. These nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.« ’

nsb@Jeremiah:25:13 @ »‘I will bring on that land all the disasters I threatened to do to it, everything that Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations, everything written in this book.

nsb@Jeremiah:25:15 @ »This is what Jehovah the God of Israel said to me: ‘Take from my hand this cup filled with the wine of my fury, and make all the nations to whom I am sending you drink from it.

nsb@Jeremiah:25:19 @ I also made these people drink from it: Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, officials, all his people,

nsb@Jeremiah:25:27 @ »Jehovah said: ‘Say to them, This is what Jehovah of Hosts, »the God of Israel, says: ‘Drink, get drunk, vomit, fall down, and do not get up because of the wars that I am going to send you.« ’

nsb@Jeremiah:25:28 @ »‘If they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink from it, say to them: ‘This is what Jehovah of Hosts says: »You must drink from it!

nsb@Jeremiah:25:30 @ »That is why you will prophecy all these things to them and say: Jehovah roars from above. He thunders from his holy dwelling place. He roars against his land. He shouts like those who stomp grapes. He shouts against all those who live on earth.

nsb@Jeremiah:25:32 @ »This is what Jehovah of Hosts says: ‘Disaster is spreading from nation to nation. A great storm is brewing from the distant corners of the earth.

nsb@Jeremiah:25:38 @ »He has left his lair like a lion. Their land has been ruined because of the heat of the oppressor, because of the fury of his anger.«

nsb@Jeremiah:26:6 @ If you continue to disobey I will do to this Temple what I did to Shiloh, and all the nations of the world will use the name of this city as a curse.’« ’«

nsb@Jeremiah:26:8 @ As soon as I had finished saying all that Jehovah commanded me to say, they grabbed me and shouted: »You ought to be killed for this!

nsb@Jeremiah:26:9 @ »Why have you said in Jehovah’s name that this Temple will become like Shiloh and that this city will be destroyed and no one will live in it?’« Then the people crowded around me.

nsb@Jeremiah:26:11 @ The priests and the prophets said to the leaders and to the people: »This man deserves to be sentenced to death because he has spoken against our city. You heard him with your own ears.«

nsb@Jeremiah:26:12 @ Then I Jeremiah said: »Jehovah sent me to proclaim everything that you heard me say against this Temple and against this city.

nsb@Jeremiah:26:13 @ »You must change the way you are living and the things you are doing. You must obey Jehovah your God. If you do, he will change his mind about the destruction that he said he would bring on you.

nsb@Jeremiah:26:15 @ »But if you put me to death, you and everyone else in Jerusalem will be guilty of murdering an innocent man. This is because everything I spoke came from Jehovah.«

nsb@Jeremiah:26:20 @ »There was another man prophesying in the name of Jehovah. His name was Uriah, son of Shemaiah, from Kiriath Jearim. He prophesied against this city and this land as Jeremiah did.

nsb@Jeremiah:26:21 @ »When King Jehoiakim and all his personal troops and officials heard what Uriah said the king wanted to put him to death. But Uriah heard about it and fled in fear to Egypt.

nsb@Jeremiah:26:23 @ »They brought Uriah from Egypt and took him to King Jehoiakim. The king executed Uriah and threw his body into the burial ground for the common people.«

nsb@Jeremiah:27:1 @ Jehovah spoke his word to Jeremiah when Zedekiah, son of King Josiah of Judah, began to rule.

nsb@Jeremiah:27:2 @ This is what Jehovah said to me: »Make leather straps and a wooden yoke, and strap the yoke on your neck.

nsb@Jeremiah:27:4 @ »Give them an order for their masters: This is what Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Say this to your masters,

nsb@Jeremiah:27:7 @ »All nations will serve him, his son, and his grandson until Babylon is defeated. Then many nations and great kings will make him their slave.

nsb@Jeremiah:27:12 @ I spoke the same message to King Zedekiah of Judah: »Surrender to the king of Babylon, serve him and his people, and you will stay alive.

nsb@Jeremiah:27:16 @ I also spoke this message to the priests and all the people. This is what Jehovah said to me: »Do not listen to the prophets who tell you that the utensils of Jehovah’s Temple will be brought back from Babylon soon. They prophesy lies to you.«

nsb@Jeremiah:27:17 @ »Do not listen to them. Instead, serve the king of Babylon, and live. Why should this city be turned into rubble?

nsb@Jeremiah:27:19 @ »Jehovah of Host reports concerning the pillars, concerning the sea, concerning the stands and concerning the rest of the vessels that are left in this city,

nsb@Jeremiah:27:22 @ »They will be carried to Babylon and they will be there until the day I visit them,« declares Jehovah. »Then I will bring them back and restore them to this place.« ’«

nsb@Jeremiah:28:3 @ »Within two years I will bring back to this place all the temple treasures that King Nebuchadnezzar took to Babylon.’«

nsb@Jeremiah:28:6 @ »Amen! I hope Jehovah will do this! I certainly hope he will make the prophecy come true and will bring back from Babylon all the Temple treasures and all the people who were taken away as prisoners.

nsb@Jeremiah:28:11 @ He said in the presence of all the people: »Jehovah said that this is how he will break the yoke that King Nebuchadnezzar has put on the neck of all the nations. He will do this within two years.« Then I left.

nsb@Jeremiah:28:12 @ Some time after this Jehovah told me:

nsb@Jeremiah:28:16 @ »Because of this, Jehovah says: ‘I am going to get rid of you. Before this year is over you will die because you have told the people to rebel against Jehovah.’«

nsb@Jeremiah:29:2 @ This was after King Jehoiakin and his mother, the court officials, the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and metal workers left Jerusalem.

nsb@Jeremiah:29:4 @ »This is what Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, says to all those who were taken captive from Jerusalem to Babylon:

nsb@Jeremiah:29:8 @ »This is what Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Do not let the prophets or the mediums among you trick you. Do not even listen to your own dreams.

nsb@Jeremiah:29:10 @ »This is what Jehovah says: ‘When Babylon's seventy years are over I will come to you. I will keep my promise to you and bring you back to this place.

nsb@Jeremiah:29:16 @ »This is what Jehovah says about the king who sits on David's throne. And this is what he says about all the people who live in this city, the people who are your relatives and who were not taken away as captives:

nsb@Jeremiah:29:18 @ »‘I will chase them with wars, famines, and plagues. I will make them a terror to all the kingdoms on the earth. They will become something cursed, ridiculed, and hissed at, and they will be a disgrace among all the nations where I scatter them.

nsb@Jeremiah:29:21 @ »This is what Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, says about Kolaiah's son Ahab and about Maaseiah's son Zedekiah, who prophesy lies to you in my name: ‘I am going to hand them over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. I will kill them as you watch.

nsb@Jeremiah:29:22 @ ‘Because of them, all the captives from Judah who are in Babylon will use this curse: »May Jehovah curse you as he cursed Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon burned to death.«

nsb@Jeremiah:29:23 @ They have done scandalous and disgraceful things in Israel. They committed adultery with their neighbors' wives and spoke lies in my name. I did not command them to do this. »‘»I know what they have done. I am a witness,« says Jehovah.’«

nsb@Jeremiah:29:25 @ ‘This is what Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: »You sent letters in your own name to all the people who are in Jerusalem, to the priest Zephaniah, son of Maaseiah, and to all the priests. These letters said:

nsb@Jeremiah:29:28 @ ‘That is why Jeremiah sent this message to us in Babylon: You will be captives a long time. Build houses, and live in them. Plant gardens, and eat what they produce,--’« ’«»

nsb@Jeremiah:29:29 @ The priest Zephaniah read this letter to the prophet Jeremiah.

nsb@Jeremiah:29:30 @ Then Jehovah spoke his word to Jeremiah. He said:

nsb@Jeremiah:29:31 @ »Send this message to all the captives. This is what Jehovah says about Shemaiah from Nehelam: »Shemaiah prophesied to you, but I did not send him. He has made you believe a lie.

nsb@Jeremiah:29:32 @ »Jehovah says: ‘I will punish Shemaiah from Nehelam. I will also punish his descendants. No one from his family will be left alive. He will not see the blessings that I am going to send my people,’ declares Jehovah, ‘because he has encouraged rebellion against Jehovah.’« ’«

nsb@Jeremiah:30:1 @ Jehovah spoke his word to Jeremiah:

nsb@Jeremiah:30:2 @ This is what Jehovah the God of Israel says: »Write in a book everything that I tell you.

nsb@Jeremiah:30:6 @ »Ask now and see: Can a man give birth to a child? Why, then, do I see every strong man holding his stomach in pain like a woman giving birth to a child? Why has every face turned pale?

nsb@Jeremiah:30:12 @ This is what Jehovah says: »Your wound is incurable. Your injury is beyond healing.

nsb@Jeremiah:30:15 @ »Why do you cry about your wound, your injury that cannot be cured? I have done this to you. You are very wicked, and you have many sins.

nsb@Jeremiah:30:18 @ »This is what Jehovah says: »I am going to bring the captives back to Jacob's tents and show compassion on their homes. Cities will be built on the ruins, and fortified palaces will be built in their rightful place.

nsb@Jeremiah:30:23 @ The storm of Jehovah will come with his anger. Like a driving wind, it will swirl down on the heads of the wicked.

nsb@Jeremiah:30:24 @ Jehovah’s burning rage will not turn back until he has done everything he intends to do. You will understand this clearly in the last days.

nsb@Jeremiah:31:10 @ Hear the word of Jehovah, O nations. Declare in the coastlands afar off. Say: »He who scattered Israel will gather him and keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.

nsb@Jeremiah:31:15 @ »This is what Jehovah says: ‘A sound is heard in Ramah, the sound of crying in bitter grief. Rachel is crying for her children. She refuses to be comforted, because they are dead.’«

nsb@Jeremiah:31:16 @ This is what Jehovah says: »‘Stop your crying, and wipe away your tears. You will be rewarded for your work,’ declares Jehovah. ‘You will return from the land of the enemy.’

nsb@Jeremiah:31:23 @ Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel says: »Once again they will speak this word in the land of Judah and in its cities when I restore their prosperity. They will say: ‘Jehovah bless you, O abode of righteousness, O holy mountain!’

nsb@Jeremiah:31:26 @ At this, I woke up and looked around. My sleep had been pleasant.

nsb@Jeremiah:31:30 @ »Each person will die for his own sin. Whoever eats sour grapes will have his own teeth set on edge.«

nsb@Jeremiah:31:33 @ »This is the covenant that I will make with Israel after those days,« declares Jehovah. »I will put my teachings inside them. I will write those teachings on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.«

nsb@Jeremiah:31:34 @ »No longer will each person teach his neighbors or his relatives by saying: ‘Know Jehovah.’ »All of them, from the least important to the most important, will know me,« declares Jehovah. »I will forgive their wickedness and I will no longer hold their sins against them.«

nsb@Jeremiah:31:35 @ Jehovah provides the sun to be a light during the day. He orders the moon and stars to be lights during the night. He stirs up the sea so that its waves roar. His name is Jehovah of Hosts. This is what Jehovah says:

nsb@Jeremiah:31:36 @ »Only if this covenant is removed,« declares Jehovah, »will Israel's descendants stop being a nation in my presence.«

nsb@Jeremiah:31:37 @ This is what Jehovah says: »‘If the heavens could be measured or the foundations of the earth could be searched, I would reject all of Israel's descendants because of everything that they have done,’ declares Jehovah.«

nsb@Jeremiah:32:1 @ Jehovah spoke his word to Jeremiah during Zedekiah's tenth year as king of Judah. This was Nebuchadnezzar's eighteenth year as king.

nsb@Jeremiah:32:2 @ At that time the army of the king of Babylon was blockading Jerusalem. The prophet Jeremiah was locked up in the courtyard of the prison. This prison was in the palace of the king of Judah.

nsb@Jeremiah:32:3 @ When King Zedekiah of Judah locked up Jeremiah, Zedekiah asked him: »Why are you prophesying? You are saying, ‘this is what Jehovah says: »I am going to hand this city over to the king of Babylon, and he will capture it.

nsb@Jeremiah:32:8 @ »Then Hanamel my uncle's son came to me in the court of the guard according to the word of Jehovah and said to me: ‘Buy my field, please, that is at Anathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin. You have the right of possession and the redemption is yours;. Buy it for yourself.’ »Then I knew that this was the word of Jehovah.

nsb@Jeremiah:32:14 @ ‘Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel says: »Take these deeds, this sealed deed of purchase and this open deed, and put them in an earthenware jar, that they may be preserved a long time.«

nsb@Jeremiah:32:15 @ ‘Jehovah of Host, the God of Israel says: »Houses and fields and vineyards will again be bought in this land.’«

nsb@Jeremiah:32:18 @ »You show loving kindness to thousands, but repay the iniquity of fathers into the bosom of their children after them. O great and mighty God. Jehovah of Hosts is his name.

nsb@Jeremiah:32:19 @ »You are great in counsel and mighty in deed. Your eyes are open to all the ways of the sons of men. You give to everyone according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.

nsb@Jeremiah:32:20 @ »You set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt. Even to this day both in Israel and among mankind you have made a name for yourself.

nsb@Jeremiah:32:21 @ »You brought your people Israel out of the land of Egypt using signs and wonders. You did this with a strong hand, with an outstretched arm and with great terror.

nsb@Jeremiah:32:22 @ »You gave them this land. You swore to their forefathers to give them a land flowing with milk and honey.

nsb@Jeremiah:32:23 @ »They came in and took possession of it. But they did not obey your voice or walk in your Law. They have done nothing of all that you commanded them to do. Therefore you made this calamity come upon them.

nsb@Jeremiah:32:24 @ »The siege ramps have reached the city to take it. The city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans who fight against it, because of the sword, the famine and the pestilence. You brought all this disaster on them.

nsb@Jeremiah:32:26 @ Jehovah continued to speak his word to Jeremiah:

nsb@Jeremiah:32:28 @ »This is what Jehovah says: ‘I am going to hand this city over to the Babylonians and King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. They will capture it.

nsb@Jeremiah:32:29 @ ‘The Babylonians who are attacking this city will break in, set this city on fire, and burn it down. They will burn down the houses of people who made me furious by going up to the roofs to burn incense to Baal and to pour out wine offerings to other gods.’

nsb@Jeremiah:32:31 @ ‘The people in this city have made me so angry and furious from the day they built it to this day. So now I must remove this city from my presence.

nsb@Jeremiah:32:35 @ In the valley of Ben Hinnom they built worship sites for Baal to sacrifice their sons and daughters to Molech. I did not ask them to do this. It never entered my heart. I did not make Judah sin.’

nsb@Jeremiah:32:36 @ »You have said this about the city: Because of wars, famines, and plagues it will be handed over to the king of Babylon. Jehovah the God of Israel says:

nsb@Jeremiah:32:37 @ ‘I am going to gather the people from all the lands where I scattered them in my anger, fury, and terrifying wrath. I will bring them back to this place and make them live here securely.

nsb@Jeremiah:32:39 @ »I will give them the same attitude and the same purpose so that they will respect and reverence me as long as they live. This will be for their good and for the good of their children.

nsb@Jeremiah:32:41 @ »I will enjoy blessing them. With all my heart and all my being I will faithfully plant them in this land.’«

nsb@Jeremiah:32:42 @ »This is what Jehovah says: ‘As I brought all these disasters on these people, so I will bring on them all these blessings that I have promised them.

nsb@Jeremiah:32:43 @ »Fields will be bought in this land of which you say: It is desolation, without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.« ’

nsb@Jeremiah:33:2 @ »Jehovah is the maker of the earth. Jehovah is the one who formed and established it. Jehovah is His name.

nsb@Jeremiah:33:4 @ »The houses in this city and the palaces of the kings of Judah have been torn down. They are used against the dirt ramps and weapons of the Babylonians. This is what Jehovah the God of Israel says about this:

nsb@Jeremiah:33:5 @ »The people of Israel fought the Babylonians. Now their houses are filled with the bodies of their own people I killed in my anger and my fury. I will hide my face from this city because of its wickedness.

nsb@Jeremiah:33:6 @ »However I will heal this city and restore it to health. I will heal its people, and I will give them peace and security.

nsb@Jeremiah:33:10 @ »This is what Jehovah says: ‘You have said that this place is ruined and that no people or animals live in it. It is true! The cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem are deserted. No people or animals live there. But once again you will hear,

nsb@Jeremiah:33:11 @ »Yes, you will hear the sounds of joy and happiness and the sounds of brides and grooms. You will hear those who bring thank offerings to Jehovah’s Temple.« ’ »‘They will say: Give thanks to Jehovah of Hosts because Jehovah is good, because his mercy endures forever. I will restore the prosperity of the land to what they were before,« ’ says Jehovah.

nsb@Jeremiah:33:12 @ »Jehovah of Hosts said: ‘In this land that is like a desert and where no people or animals live, there will once again be pastures where shepherds can take their sheep.’

nsb@Jeremiah:33:21 @ then my covenant may also be broken with David my servant so that he will not have a son to reign on his throne, with the Levitical priests as my ministers.

nsb@Jeremiah:33:24 @ »Have you not observed what this people have said. They say, ‘The two families Jehovah chose, he has rejected?’ Thus they despise my people, no longer are they as a nation in their sight.

nsb@Jeremiah:33:26 @ then I would reject the descendants of Jacob and David my servant. And I would not take from his descendants rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. But I will restore their prosperity and will show them love and compassion.’«

nsb@Jeremiah:34:1 @ Jehovah spoke his word to Jeremiah when King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, his entire army, and all the kingdoms and people that he ruled were attacking Jerusalem and all its cities. This is what he said:

nsb@Jeremiah:34:2 @ »This is what Jehovah the God of Israel says: ‘Go to King Zedekiah of Judah, and tell him, Jehovah says: »I am going to hand this city over to the king of Babylon. He will burn it down.

nsb@Jeremiah:34:4 @ »Listen to the word of Jehovah, King Zedekiah of Judah. This is what Jehovah says about you: ‘You will not die in war.

nsb@Jeremiah:34:7 @ He did this when the army of the king of Babylon was attacking Jerusalem and the cities of Lachish and Azekah. These were the only fortified cities of Judah that were left.

nsb@Jeremiah:34:8 @ Jehovah spoke his word to Jeremiah after King Zedekiah and all the people in Jerusalem promised to free their slaves.

nsb@Jeremiah:34:9 @ Everyone was supposed to free his Hebrew slaves, both male and female. No one was supposed to keep another Jew as a slave.

nsb@Jeremiah:34:12 @ Jehovah continued to speak his word to Jeremiah:

nsb@Jeremiah:34:13 @ »This is what Jehovah the God of Israel says: ‘I put a condition on the covenant I made to your ancestors when I brought them from Egypt, where they were slaves. I said:

nsb@Jeremiah:34:17 @ »This is what Jehovah says: ‘You did not obey me. You have not freed your relatives and neighbors. Now I am going to free you,’ declares Jehovah. ‘I will free you to die in wars, plagues, and famines. I will make all the kingdoms of the world horrified at the thought of you.

nsb@Jeremiah:34:21 @ I will hand King Zedekiah of Judah and his officials over to their enemies who want to kill them and to the army of the king of Babylon, the army that has withdrawn from you.’

nsb@Jeremiah:34:22 @ »‘I am going to give a command,’ declares Jehovah. ‘I will bring that army back to this city to attack it, capture it, and burn it down. I will destroy the cities of Judah so that no one will live there.’«

nsb@Jeremiah:35:1 @ This is the word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, in the days of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah:

nsb@Jeremiah:35:3 @ I took Jaazaniah, the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habazziniah, and his brothers and all his sons and all the Rechabites.

nsb@Jeremiah:35:4 @ I took them into the House of Jehovah, into the room of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, the man of God. This was near the rulers' room, over the room of Maaseiah, the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door.

nsb@Jeremiah:35:7 @ or build houses or plant crops and vineyards. Instead, you must always live in tents and move from place to place. If you obey this command, you will live a long time.’

nsb@Jeremiah:35:11 @ »But when King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon invaded this land, we said: ‘Let's go to Jerusalem to escape the Babylonian and Aramean armies. That is why we are living in Jerusalem.’«

nsb@Jeremiah:35:12 @ Then Jehovah spoke his word to Jeremiah. He said:

nsb@Jeremiah:35:13 @ »This is what Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Tell the people of Judah and those who live in Jerusalem, Will you ever learn your lesson and obey my words?« Declares Jehovah.

nsb@Jeremiah:35:14 @ »Jonadab, Rechab's son, ordered his descendants not to drink wine. This order has been carried out. His descendants have not drunk any wine to this day, because they have obeyed their ancestor's order. I have spoken to you again and again, but you have refused to listen to me.

nsb@Jeremiah:35:17 @ »This is what Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I am going to bring on Judah and on all those who live in Jerusalem all the disasters that I threatened. I have spoken to them, but they did not listen. I called to them, but they did not answer.’«

nsb@Jeremiah:35:18 @ Then Jeremiah said to the family of Rechab: »This is what Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘You obeyed the order of your ancestor Jonadab, followed all his instructions, and did exactly what he told you to do.

nsb@Jeremiah:35:19 @ So this is what Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: »A descendant of Jonadab, Rechab's son, will always serve me.« ’«

nsb@Jeremiah:36:1 @ In the fourth year of the reign of Jehoiakim, son of King Josiah of Judah, Jehovah spoke his word to Jeremiah:

nsb@Jeremiah:36:7 @ »Maybe their prayers will come into Jehovah’s presence, and they will turn from their evil ways. Jehovah has threatened these people with his terrifying anger and fury.«

nsb@Jeremiah:36:17 @ They asked Baruch: »Please tell us how you wrote all this. Did Jeremiah dictate it to you?«

nsb@Jeremiah:36:22 @ It was the ninth month, and the king was in his winter house sitting in front of the fire in the fireplace.

nsb@Jeremiah:36:23 @ As Jehudi read three or four columns, the king would cut them off with a scribe's knife and throw them into the fire in the fireplace. He did this until the whole scroll was burned up.

nsb@Jeremiah:36:24 @ The king and all his attendants did not show any fear or tear their clothes in fear when they heard everything being read.

nsb@Jeremiah:36:27 @ After the king burned up the scroll that Baruch had written and that Jeremiah had dictated, Jehovah spoke his word to Jeremiah:

nsb@Jeremiah:36:29 @ »Say about King Jehoiakim of Judah: ‘This is what Jehovah says: You burned this scroll, and you asked Jeremiah: »Why did you write that the king of Babylon would certainly come to destroy this land and take away people and animals?« ’«

nsb@Jeremiah:36:30 @ »‘This is what Jehovah says about King Jehoiakim of Judah: ‘He will have no one to sit on David's throne, and his own corpse will be thrown out and exposed to the heat of day and the cold of night.

nsb@Jeremiah:36:31 @ ‘»‘»I will punish him, his descendants, and his attendants for their wickedness. They refused to listen. So I will bring on them, on those who live in Jerusalem, and on the people of Judah all the disasters that I have threatened.’« ’«

nsb@Jeremiah:37:2 @ Zedekiah, his administrators, and the common people did not listen to what Jehovah spoke through the prophet Jeremiah.

nsb@Jeremiah:37:5 @ Pharaoh's army came from Egypt. When the Babylonians who were blockading Jerusalem heard this news, they retreated from Jerusalem.

nsb@Jeremiah:37:6 @ Jehovah spoke his word to the prophet Jeremiah:

nsb@Jeremiah:37:7 @ »This is what Jehovah the God of Israel says: ‘Say this to the king of Judah, who sent you to get advice from me: »Pharaoh's army has come out to help you. But it will go back to Egypt, its own land.

nsb@Jeremiah:37:10 @ »Even if you would defeat the entire Babylonian army so that they had only a few badly wounded men left in their tents, they would get up and burn down this city!« ’«

nsb@Jeremiah:37:12 @ Jeremiah wanted to leave Jerusalem and go to the territory of Benjamin to take possession of his property there among the people.

nsb@Jeremiah:37:19 @ »Where are the prophets who told you that the king of Babylon would not attack you and this land?

nsb@Jeremiah:38:4 @ The officials went to the king and said: »This man must be put to death. By talking like this he is making the soldiers in the city lose their courage. He is doing the same thing to everyone else left in the city. He is not trying to help the people. He only wants to hurt them.«

nsb@Jeremiah:38:12 @ He told me to put the rags under my arms, so that the ropes would not hurt me. I did this.

nsb@Jeremiah:38:17 @ Then I told Zedekiah that Jehovah, the God of Israel said: »If you surrender to the king of Babylon’s officers, your life will be spared, and this city will not be burned down. Both you and your family will be spared.

nsb@Jeremiah:38:18 @ »But if you do not surrender, then this city will be handed over to the Babylonians. They will burn it down, and you will not escape from them.«

nsb@Jeremiah:38:22 @ »In it I saw all the women left in Judah's royal palace being led out to the king of Babylonia's officers. Listen to what they were saying as they went. The king's best friends misled him, they overruled him. And now that his feet have sunk in the mud, his friends have left him.«

nsb@Jeremiah:38:23 @ Then I added: »All your women and children will be taken out to the Babylonians. You will not escape from them. You will be taken prisoner by the king of Babylonia. And this city will be burned to the ground.«

nsb@Jeremiah:38:24 @ Zedekiah replied: »Do not let anyone know about this conversation, and your life will not be in danger.

nsb@Jeremiah:39:1 @ In the tenth month of the ninth year that Zedekiah was king of Judah, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia came with his whole army and attacked Jerusalem.

nsb@Jeremiah:39:4 @ When King Zedekiah and all his soldiers saw what was happening, they tried to escape from the city during the night. They left by way of the royal garden, went through the gateway connecting the two walls, and escaped in the direction of the Jordan Valley.

nsb@Jeremiah:39:16 @ »Tell Ebedmelech the Ethiopian that Jehovah, the God of Israel, said: ‘Just as I said I would, I am going to bring upon this city destruction and not prosperity. When this happens, you will be there to see it.

nsb@Jeremiah:40:1 @ Jehovah spoke his word to Jeremiah after Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, let him go at Ramah. Nebuzaradan found Jeremiah in chains along with the captives of Jerusalem and Judah who were being taken to Babylon.

nsb@Jeremiah:40:2 @ The captain of the guard took Jeremiah aside and said to him: »Jehovah your God threatened to bring this disaster on this place.

nsb@Jeremiah:40:3 @ »He has carried out his threat. Jehovah did as he promised because you Israelites have sinned against him and refused to obey him. That is why this has happened to you.

nsb@Jeremiah:40:9 @ Gedaliah, son of Ahikam and grandson of Shaphan, swore an oath to them and their men. He said: »Do not be afraid to serve the Babylonians. Live in this country, serve the king of Babylon, and you will prosper.

nsb@Jeremiah:41:7 @ When they came into the city, Ishmael, son of Nethaniah, and his men slaughtered them and threw them into a cistern.

nsb@Jeremiah:41:9 @ The cistern where Ishmael threw all the bodies of the men he had killed was the same one that King Asa made as a part of his defense against King Baasha of Israel. Ishmael, son of Nethaniah, filled it with the bodies.

nsb@Jeremiah:41:15 @ Ishmael and eight of his men escaped from Johanan and fled to Ammon.

nsb@Jeremiah:42:10 @ ‘If you are willing to go on living in this land I will build you up and not tear you down. I will plant you and not uproot you. The destruction I brought on you has caused me great sorrow.

nsb@Jeremiah:42:11 @ ‘Stop being afraid of the king of Babylon. I am with you. I will rescue you from his power.’

nsb@Jeremiah:42:13 @ »‘If you say: »We will not stay in this land, and you disobey Jehovah your God.«

nsb@Jeremiah:42:15 @ Listen to the word of Jehovah, you people who are left in Judah. This is what Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: »Suppose you are determined to go to Egypt, and you go and live there.

nsb@Jeremiah:42:18 @ »Jehovah, the God of Israel, says: ‘Just as my anger and fury were poured out on the people of Jerusalem, so my fury will be poured out on you if you go to Egypt. You will be a horrifying sight. People will make fun of you and use your name as a curse. You will never see this place again.’

nsb@Jeremiah:42:22 @ »So then, remember this: you will die in war or of starvation or disease in the land where you want to go and live.«

nsb@Jeremiah:43:8 @ Then Jehovah spoke his word to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes. He said:

nsb@Jeremiah:43:9 @ »Take some large stones, and bury them under the brick pavement at the entrance to the Pharaoh's palace in Tahpanhes. Do this while the people of Judah watch you.

nsb@Jeremiah:43:10 @ »Say to them: ‘This is what Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to send for my servant King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. I will set his throne over these stones that I buried, and I will spread his royal canopy above them.

nsb@Jeremiah:43:12 @ »He will set fire to the temples of Egypt's gods. He will burn down the temples and take their gods captive. Nebuchadnezzar will put on Egypt as his coat as a shepherd puts on his coat. He will leave Egypt peacefully.

nsb@Jeremiah:44:1 @ Jehovah spoke to me concerning all the Israelites living in Egypt, in the cities of Migdol, Tahpanhes, and Memphis, and in the southern part of the country«

nsb@Jeremiah:44:3 @ »‘This is because their people had done evil and had made me angry. They offered sacrifices to other gods and served gods that neither they nor you nor your ancestors ever worshiped.

nsb@Jeremiah:44:4 @ »‘I kept sending you my servants the prophets, who told you not to do this terrible thing that I hate.

nsb@Jeremiah:44:8 @ »‘Why do you make me angry by worshiping idols and by sacrificing to other gods here in Egypt, where you have come to live? Are you doing this just to destroy yourselves, so that every nation on earth will make fun of you and use your name as a curse?

nsb@Jeremiah:44:10 @ »‘You have not humbled yourselves to this very day. You have not honored me or lived according to all the laws that I gave you and your ancestors.’«

nsb@Jeremiah:44:20 @ Then I said to all the men and the women who had answered me in this way:

nsb@Jeremiah:44:22 @ »This very day your land lies in ruins and no one lives in it. It has become a horrifying sight. People use its name as a curse because Jehovah could no longer endure your wicked and evil practices.

nsb@Jeremiah:44:23 @ »This present disaster has come on you because you offered sacrifices to other gods and sinned against Jehovah by not obeying all his commandments.«

nsb@Jeremiah:44:29 @ »‘I Jehovah will give you proof that I will punish you in this place and that my promise to bring destruction on you will come true.

nsb@Jeremiah:44:30 @ »Jehovah says, ‘I will hand over King Hophra of Egypt to his enemies who want to kill him, just as I handed over King Zedekiah of Judah to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, who was his enemy and wanted to kill him.« ’«

nsb@Jeremiah:45:1 @ This is the message that the prophet Jeremiah spoke to Baruch, son of Neriah. Baruch wrote these things on a scroll as Jeremiah dictated them during the fourth year that Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, was king of Judah. Jeremiah said:

nsb@Jeremiah:45:2 @ »This is what Jehovah the God of Israel says to you, Baruch:

nsb@Jeremiah:45:4 @ »Say this to Baruch: ‘This is what Jehovah says: »I will tear down what I have built. I will uproot what I have planted throughout the earth.

nsb@Jeremiah:46:1 @ Jehovah spoke this message to the prophet Jeremiah about the nations.

nsb@Jeremiah:46:2 @ This is the message about EGYPT, about the army of Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt. King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon defeated his army at Carchemish along the Euphrates River during the fourth year that Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, was king of Judah.

nsb@Jeremiah:46:7 @ Who is this, rising like the Nile River, like streams that flow swiftly?

nsb@Jeremiah:46:10 @ That day belongs to Jehovah of Hosts. It is a day of vengeance when he will take revenge on his enemies. His sword will devour until it has had enough, and it will drink their blood until it is full. The Almighty Jehovah of Hosts will offer them as sacrifices in the north by the Euphrates River.

nsb@Jeremiah:46:13 @ Jehovah spoke this message to the prophet Jeremiah about the coming of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, who will defeat Egypt.

nsb@Jeremiah:46:14 @ »Tell this in Egypt. Announce this in Migdol. Make it known in Memphis and in Tahpanhes. Say: ‘Take your positions, and get ready. Swords will kill those around you.

nsb@Jeremiah:46:17 @ »There they will cry: ‘Pharaoh, king of Egypt, is a big windbag. He has missed his chance.’

nsb@Jeremiah:46:19 @ »‘Pack your bags inhabitants of Egypt, because you will be taken away as captives. Memphis will become a dreary wasteland, a pile of rubble where no one lives.

nsb@Jeremiah:46:22 @ »‘Egypt will hiss like a snake as it slithers away. Its enemies will come with full force. They will attack it with axes like those who chop wood.

nsb@Jeremiah:46:26 @ »‘I will hand them over to those who want to kill them, to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and his officers. Afterward, they will live in peace as they did long ago,’declares Jehovah.

nsb@Jeremiah:48:1 @ This is what the Lord Jehovah said about MOAB: »Pity the people of Nebo. Their town is destroyed! Kiriathaim is captured, its mighty fortress torn down, and its people put to shame.

nsb@Jeremiah:48:7 @ Moab, you trusted in your strength and your wealth, but now even you will be conquered. Your god Chemosh will go into exile, along with his princes and priests.

nsb@Jeremiah:48:40 @ »This is what Jehovah says: ‘Look! Someone is coming like an eagle diving down from the sky and spreading its wings over Moab.

nsb@Jeremiah:48:42 @ »‘The nation of Moab will be destroyed. This is because they thought they were greater than Jehovah.

nsb@Jeremiah:49:1 @ This is what Jehovah says about the people of AMMON: »Does Israel not have any children? Does it not have any heirs? Why has the god Milcom taken over the inheritance of Gad's descendants? Why do Milcom's people live in Gad's cities?«

nsb@Jeremiah:49:7 @ This is what Jehovah of Hosts says about Edom: »Is there no longer any wisdom in Teman? Has wisdom disappeared from your people? Has their wisdom vanished?

nsb@Jeremiah:49:12 @ This is what Jehovah says: »If those who do not deserve to drink from the cup still drink from it, why should you go unpunished? You will not go unpunished. You must drink from it.«

nsb@Jeremiah:49:23 @ This is what Jehovah said about Damascus: The people in the cities of Hamath and Arpad are worried and troubled because they have heard bad news. Anxiety rolls over them like a sea, and they cannot rest.

nsb@Jeremiah:49:28 @ This is what Jehovah says about the Kedar tribe and the desert villages that were conquered by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia: »Listen, you people of Kedar and the other tribes of the eastern desert. I have told Nebuchadnezzar to attack and destroy you.

nsb@Jeremiah:49:29 @ »His fearsome army will surround you. They will take your tents and possessions, your sheep and camels.

nsb@Jeremiah:49:34 @ Early in the rule of King Zedekiah of Judah, Jehovah spoke his word to the prophet Jeremiah about Elam.

nsb@Jeremiah:49:35 @ »This is what Jehovah of Hosts says: ‘I am going to break the bows of Elam's archers, the most important weapon of their strength.

nsb@Jeremiah:50:13 @ »No one will live in Babylon because of Jehovah’s anger. It will be completely abandoned. Everyone who passes by Babylon will be horrified and hiss at all its wounds.

nsb@Jeremiah:50:15 @ »Shout a war cry against them on every side. They will surrender. Their towers will fall and their walls will be torn down. Since this is Jehovah’s vengeance, take revenge against them. Do to them what they did to others.

nsb@Jeremiah:50:16 @ »Do not allow anyone in Babylon to plant or harvest. Everyone will turn to his own people and flee to his own homeland because of the enemies' swords.

nsb@Jeremiah:50:18 @ »This is what Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I am going to punish the king of Babylon and his land as I punished the king of Assyria.

nsb@Jeremiah:50:25 @ Jehovah will open his armory and bring out the weapons of his fury, because Jehovah of Hosts has a job to do in the land of the Babylonians.

nsb@Jeremiah:50:28 @ Fugitives and refugees from Babylon are coming to Zion to tell about the vengeance of Jehovah our God, the vengeance for his temple.

nsb@Jeremiah:50:34 @ »Their defender is strong. His name is Jehovah of Hosts. He will certainly take up their cause in order to bring rest to the land of Israel and unrest to the people who live in Babylon.

nsb@Jeremiah:51:9 @ »Foreigners living there said: ‘We tried to help Babylon, but it was too late. Let us leave now and go back home. God has punished Babylon with all his might and has destroyed it completely.’«

nsb@Jeremiah:51:11 @ »Jehovah has stirred up the kings of Media, because he intends to destroy Babylon. That is how he will take revenge for the destruction of his Temple. The attacking officers command: Sharpen your arrows! Get your shields ready!

nsb@Jeremiah:51:14 @ Jehovah has sworn by his own life: »I will bring many men to attack Babylon like a swarm of locusts, and they will shout with victory.«

nsb@Jeremiah:51:15 @ Jehovah made the earth by his power. By his wisdom he created the world and stretched out the heavens.

nsb@Jeremiah:51:16 @ When He utters His voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens. He causes the clouds to ascend from the end of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain and brings forth the wind from his storehouses.

nsb@Jeremiah:51:17 @ All mankind is stupid and devoid of knowledge. Every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. His molten images are deceitful, and there is no breath in them.

nsb@Jeremiah:51:19 @ The portion of Jacob is not like these. He is the maker of all and of the tribe of his inheritance. Jehovah of Hosts is his name.

nsb@Jeremiah:51:29 @ The earth trembles and writhes in pain. Jehovah carries out his plans against Babylon to make Babylon a wasteland so that no one will live there.

nsb@Jeremiah:51:31 @ Runners run to meet runners. Messengers follow messengers. They inform the king of Babylon that his entire city is captured.

nsb@Jeremiah:51:33 @ »I am the All-Powerful Jehovah, the God of Israel, and I make this promise: Soon Babylon will be leveled and packed down like a threshing place at harvest time.

nsb@Jeremiah:51:37 @ »Babylon will become a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals, an object of horror and hissing, without inhabitants.

nsb@Jeremiah:51:58 @ This is what Jehovah of Hosts says: The thick walls of Babylon will be leveled, and its high gates will be set on fire. People exhaust themselves for nothing. The nations wear themselves out only to have a fire.

nsb@Jeremiah:51:59 @ This is the message that the prophet Jeremiah gave to Seraiah, son of Neriah and grandson of Mahseiah, when Seraiah went to Babylon with King Zedekiah of Judah in the fourth year of Zedekiah's rule. Seraiah was the quartermaster.

nsb@Jeremiah:51:61 @ Jeremiah said to Seraiah: »When you come to Babylon, see that you read all this.

nsb@Jeremiah:51:62 @ Then says: ‘Jehovah, you have threatened to destroy this place so that no person or animal will live here. It will become a permanent ruin.’

nsb@Jeremiah:51:63 @ »When you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone to it and throw it into the middle of the Euphrates River.

nsb@Jeremiah:51:64 @ »Say: ‘Babylon will sink like this scroll. It will never rise again because of the disasters that I will bring on it.’« The words of Jeremiah end here.

nsb@Jeremiah:52:1 @ Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to rule. He ruled for eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hamutal, daughter of Jeremiah from Libnah.

nsb@Jeremiah:52:3 @ Jehovah became angry at Jerusalem and Judah and threw the people out of his sight. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

nsb@Jeremiah:52:4 @ On the tenth day of the tenth month of the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked Jerusalem with his entire army. They set up camp and built dirt ramps around the city walls.

nsb@Jeremiah:52:8 @ The Babylonian army pursued King Zedekiah and caught up with him in the plain of Jericho. His entire army had deserted him.

nsb@Jeremiah:52:28 @ These are the people whom Nebuchadnezzar took captive: In his seventh year as king, he took three thousand and twenty-three Jews.

nsb@Jeremiah:52:29 @ In his eighteenth year, Nebuchadnezzar took eight hundred and thirty-two people from Jerusalem.

nsb@Jeremiah:52:31 @ On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the imprisonment of King Jehoiakin of Judah, King Evil Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, freed King Jehoiakin of Judah and released him from prison.

nsb@Jeremiah:52:33 @ Jehoiakin no longer wore prison clothes, and he ate his meals in the king's presence as long as he lived.

nsb@Lamentations:1:8 @ Great is the sin of Jerusalem! For this cause she has become an unclean thing. Those who gave her honor are looking down on her. They see her shame. Now truly, sighing out grief, she turns back.

nsb@Lamentations:1:12 @ »Come to me all you who go by, keep your eyes on me! See if there is any pain like the pain of my wound. For Jehovah has sent it to me in the day of his burning anger.

nsb@Lamentations:1:13 @ »He sends fire into my bones from on high. It overcomes them. His net is stretched out for my feet. He turns me back. He made me waste and feeble all the day.

nsb@Lamentations:1:14 @ »He keeps watch on my sins. They are joined together by his hand, they have come on to my neck; he makes my strength give way. Jehovah gives me into the hands of those against whom I have no power.

nsb@Lamentations:2:1 @ In his anger Jehovah covered Zion with clouds of darkness. He changed its heavenly splendor into ruins. On the day of his anger he abandoned even his footstool.

nsb@Lamentations:2:3 @ In his burning anger he cut down every horn of Israel. He turned his right hand back from before the enemy. He has put a fire in Jacob devouring and destroying all around.

nsb@Lamentations:2:4 @ He bends his bow for the attack. He takes his place with his hand ready. In his hate he puts to death all those pleasing to the eye in the tent of the daughter of Zion. He poured out his rage just like fire.

nsb@Lamentations:2:5 @ Jehovah has become like an enemy fighting against her, sending destruction on Israel. He has sent destruction on all her great houses, turning his strong places into waste. He increases the grief and the sorrow of the daughter of Judah.

nsb@Lamentations:2:6 @ He violently takes away his tent, as from a garden. And he lays waste his meeting-place. Jehovah has taken away the memory of feast and Sabbath in Zion. In the passion of his wrath he is against king and priest.

nsb@Lamentations:2:7 @ Jehovah rejected his altar and disowned his holy place. He gave up into the hands of the attacker the walls of her great houses. Their voices have been loud in the house of Jehovah as in the day of a holy meeting.

nsb@Lamentations:2:8 @ It is Jehovah’s purpose to turn the wall of the daughter of Zion into waste. His line has been stretched out. He has not kept back his hand from destruction. He has sent sorrow on tower and wall. They have become feeble together.

nsb@Lamentations:2:15 @ All who go by make a noise with their hands at you. They make hisses, shaking their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem. They say: »Is this the town that was the crown of everything beautiful, the joy of all the earth?«

nsb@Lamentations:2:16 @ All your enemies are opening their mouths wide against you. They hiss and whistle through their teeth and say: »We have made a meal of her. Certainly this is the day we have been looking for. It has come and we see it.«

nsb@Lamentations:2:17 @ Jehovah accomplished his purpose. He accomplished what he said he would with the orders he gave in the days that are past. He tore down and shows no compassion. He causes your enemies to rejoice. He lifted up the horn of your adversaries.

nsb@Lamentations:2:20 @ Look, O Jehovah! Why are you punishing us like this? Women are eating the bodies of the children they loved! Priests and prophets are killed in the Temple!

nsb@Lamentations:3:1 @ I am the man who has seen trouble by the rod of his fury.

nsb@Lamentations:3:3 @ Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all day long.

nsb@Lamentations:3:12 @ With his bow bent, he made me the target for his arrows.

nsb@Lamentations:3:13 @ He has let fly his arrows into the inmost parts of my body.

nsb@Lamentations:3:21 @ I remember this and I have hope.

nsb@Lamentations:3:22 @ We have not come to destruction because of Jehovah’s loving kindness. His mercies are without end.

nsb@Lamentations:3:24 @ I said to myself, »Jehovah is my heritage. For this reason I will hope in him.«

nsb@Lamentations:3:29 @ Let him put his mouth in the dust for perhaps there exists hope.

nsb@Lamentations:3:30 @ Let his face be turned to him who gives him blows; let him be full of shame.

nsb@Lamentations:3:32 @ For though he sends grief, still he will have pity in the full measure of his love.

nsb@Lamentations:3:33 @ He takes no pleasure in troubling and causing grief to the children of men, it is not within his heart.

nsb@Lamentations:3:34 @ A man crushes under his feet all the prisoners of the earth.

nsb@Lamentations:3:39 @ What protest may a living man make? Can a man protest about the punishment for his sin?

nsb@Lamentations:4:4 @ The tongue of the child at the breast is fixed to the roof of his mouth for need of drink. The young children cry out for bread, and no man gives it to them.

nsb@Lamentations:4:11 @ Jehovah has given full vent to his rage. He has poured out his burning anger. He set a fire in Zion causing the destruction of its foundation.

nsb@Lamentations:4:22 @ The punishment of your evil doing is complete, O daughter of Zion; never again will he take you away as a prisoner. He has turned his attention to your error, O daughter of Edom. He has uncovered your sin.

nsb@Lamentations:5:17 @ Because of this our hearts are feeble. For these things our eyes are dark.

nsb@Ezekiel:1:10 @ Their faces looked like this: From the front, each creature had the face of a human. From the right side, each one had the face of a lion. From the left, each one had the face of a bull. And from the back, each one had the face of an eagle.

nsb@Ezekiel:1:16 @ This is how the wheels looked and how they were made: They looked like beryl. All four wheels looked the same. They looked like a wheel within a wheel.

nsb@Ezekiel:1:21 @ When the creatures moved, the wheels moved. When the creatures stood still, the wheels stood still. And when the creatures rose from the earth, the wheels rose with them. This is because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

nsb@Ezekiel:2:3 @ He said: »Son of man, I am sending you to the people of Israel. They are people from a nation that has rebelled against me. They and their ancestors have transgressed against me to this day.

nsb@Ezekiel:2:4 @ »I am sending you to these defiant and stubborn children.« Tell them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah says:

nsb@Ezekiel:2:6 @ »Son of man, do not be afraid of them or the things they say. Do not be afraid, even though thorns and thistles are around you and you live among scorpions. Do not let the things they say frighten you. Do not be terrified in their presence even though they are rebellious people.

nsb@Ezekiel:3:1 @ Jehovah said to me: »Son of man, eat what you find. Eat this scroll. Then speak to the people of Israel.«

nsb@Ezekiel:3:3 @ He said: »Son of man, eat this scroll I am giving you, and fill your stomach with it.« So I ate it, and it tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth.

nsb@Ezekiel:3:11 @ »Go to the exiles, to your people. Whether they listen or not, tell them: This is what the Lord Jehovah says.«

nsb@Ezekiel:3:12 @ Then the Spirit lifted me, and behind me I heard a loud thundering voice say: »Blessed is Jehovah’s glory from this place.«

nsb@Ezekiel:3:16 @ After seven days Jehovah spoke his word to me:

nsb@Ezekiel:3:18 @ »When I tell a wicked man that he will surely die, but you do not warn him or speak out so that he can change his wicked way in order to save his life; that wicked man will die because of his sin. I will hold you responsible for his death.

nsb@Ezekiel:3:19 @ »When you warn the wicked man, and he does not turn from his wicked way; he will die because of his sin, but you will save yourself.

nsb@Ezekiel:3:27 @ »But when I speak to you, I will open your mouth. You will tell them: ‘This is what the Lord Jehovah says.’ Some will listen and some will refuse to listen for they are a rebellious people.

nsb@Ezekiel:4:3 @ »Take an iron pan and place it as an iron wall between you and the city. Then turn your face toward it. It will be under siege, and you shall besiege it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel.

nsb@Ezekiel:4:6 @ »After you have finished this lie down again. This time lie on your right side, and bear the sin of the house of Judah. I have assigned you forty days, a day for each year.

nsb@Ezekiel:4:13 @ Jehovah said: »This represents the way the Israelites will have to eat food which the Law forbids when I scatter them to foreign countries.«

nsb@Ezekiel:5:5 @ »This is what the Lord Jehovah says: This is Jerusalem. I have set her at the center of the nations with countries all around her.

nsb@Ezekiel:6:1 @ Jehovah continued to speak his word to me:

nsb@Ezekiel:6:3 @ »Say this: ‘You mountains of Israel listen to the word of the Lord Jehovah! This is what the Lord Jehovah says to the mountains and hills and to the ravines and valleys: »I am going to attack you with a sword and destroy your worship sites.

nsb@Ezekiel:6:12 @ ‘»Plagues will kill those who are far away. Those who are near will die in wars. Anyone who is left and has escaped will die of famine. This is how I will unleash my rage.

nsb@Ezekiel:7:19 @ ‘»They will throw their gold and silver away in the streets like garbage, because neither silver nor gold can save them when Jehovah pours out his fury. They cannot use it to satisfy their desires or fill their stomachs. Gold and silver led them into sin.

nsb@Ezekiel:8:11 @ Standing in front of them were seventy elders of the house of Israel. Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan stood among them. Each man had his censer in his hand and the fragrance of the cloud of incense was rising.

nsb@Ezekiel:8:12 @ Then he said: »Son of man, do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are committing in the dark, each man in the room of his carved images? For they say: ‘Jehovah does not see us! Jehovah has forsaken the land!’«

nsb@Ezekiel:8:15 @ He said to me: »Do you see this, son of man? Yet you will see still greater abominations than these.«

nsb@Ezekiel:9:2 @ Six men came from the direction of the upper gate that faces north. Each had his shattering weapon in his hand. Among them was a certain man clothed in linen with a writing case at his side. They went in and stood beside the copper altar.

nsb@Ezekiel:9:6 @ »Kill the old men, young men, young women, mothers, and children. But do not touch anyone who has the mark on his forehead. Start here at my Temple.« So they began with the elders who were standing there at the Temple.

nsb@Ezekiel:10:7 @ One of the angels reached into the fire that was between the angels and took out some coals. This angel put them in the hands of the person dressed in linen. The person took them and left.

nsb@Ezekiel:11:2 @ Jehovah said to me: »Son of man, these are the men who plan evil and give bad advice in this city.

nsb@Ezekiel:11:3 @ »They say: ‘It is almost time to rebuild houses. This city is a cooking pot, and we are the meat.’

nsb@Ezekiel:11:5 @ Jehovah’s Spirit came to me and told me to say: »This is what Jehovah says: ‘You are saying these things, nation of Israel. But I know what is going through your mind.

nsb@Ezekiel:11:6 @ ‘»You have killed many people in this city and have filled its streets with corpses.« ’

nsb@Ezekiel:11:7 @ »I, the Lord Jehovah, say to you: ‘This city is a cooking pot all right, but what is the meat? The corpses of those you have killed! You will not be here. I will throw you out of the city!’«

nsb@Ezekiel:11:11 @ ‘»This city will not protect you the way a cooking pot protects the meat in it. I will punish you wherever you may be in the land of Israel.

nsb@Ezekiel:11:15 @ »Son of man, your brothers, your relatives, your fellow exiles and the whole house of Israel, all of them are those to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said: ‘Go far from Jehovah. This land has been given us as a possession.’

nsb@Ezekiel:11:20 @ ‘»In this way they may walk in my statutes and obey my ordinances. Then they will be my people, and I will be their God.

nsb@Ezekiel:12:1 @ Jehovah continued to speak his word to me, He said:

nsb@Ezekiel:12:4 @ »Bring out your bags as if you were going into exile. Let them see this in the daylight. In the evening let them see you leave like a captive going into exile.

nsb@Ezekiel:12:8 @ The next morning Jehovah spoke his word to me, He said:

nsb@Ezekiel:12:10 @ »Tell them: This is what the Lord Jehovah says: ‘This is the divine revelation about the prince from Jerusalem and about all the people of Israel who live there.’«

nsb@Ezekiel:12:12 @ ‘»The prince who is among you will put his bags on his shoulders in the dark and leave. People will dig holes in the wall to go through. The prince will cover his face so that he cannot see the land.’«

nsb@Ezekiel:12:14 @ »I will scatter to every wind all who are around him, his helpers and all his troops. I will draw out a sword after them.

nsb@Ezekiel:12:22 @ »Son of man, what is this proverb you people have concerning the land of Israel. You say: ‘The days are long and every vision fails?’

nsb@Ezekiel:12:23 @ »Therefore say to them: ‘The Lord Jehovah says: ‘I will make this proverb cease so that they will no longer use it as a proverb in Israel. Tell them: ‘The days draw near as well as the fulfillment of every vision.’

nsb@Ezekiel:12:26 @ Jehovah continued to speak his word to me:

nsb@Ezekiel:12:28 @ »Tell them: ‘This is what the Lord Jehovah says:’ »Everything that I say will no longer be delayed. Whatever I say will happen, declares the Lord Jehovah.« ’«

nsb@Ezekiel:13:13 @ »This is what the Lord Jehovah says: ‘In my fury I will cause a storm to break out. In my anger rain will pour down, and hailstones will destroy the wall.

nsb@Ezekiel:13:18 @ »Tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Jehovah says: »How horrible it will be for women who sew magic charms for people's wrists and make magic veils of every size for people's heads. You want to trap people. You want to control the lives of my people for your own profit.

nsb@Ezekiel:13:20 @ »This is what the Lord Jehovah says: ‘I am against the magic charms that you use to trap people like birds. I will tear them from your arms and free the people that you have trapped.

nsb@Ezekiel:14:2 @ Jehovah then spoke his word to me:

nsb@Ezekiel:14:4 @ »Speak to them. Tell them, ‘This is what Jehovah says: Suppose an Israelite is devoted to idols and allows himself to sin. Suppose he goes to a prophet to ask for my help. I, Jehovah, will give that Israelite an answer, the answer that his many idolaters deserve.

nsb@Ezekiel:14:5 @ »‘I will do this to recapture the hearts of the nation of Israel. They have deserted me because of their disgusting idols.’«

nsb@Ezekiel:14:6 @ »Therefore tell the nation of Israel: This is what the Lord Jehovah says: »Change the way you think and act! Turn away from your idols, and do not return to any of your disgusting things.

nsb@Ezekiel:14:10 @ ‘»Both of you will suffer for your sins. The prophet will be as guilty as you are when you ask for his help.

nsb@Ezekiel:14:12 @ Jehovah continued to speak his word to me, He said:

nsb@Ezekiel:14:17 @ ‘»What if I bring a war against that country by saying I will let a war go throughout this country. And then I destroy the people and the animals in it.

nsb@Ezekiel:14:21 @ ‘»This is what the Lord Jehovah says: ‘I will surely send four terrible punishments against Jerusalem. I will send wars, famines, wild animals, and plagues. They will destroy people and animals.

nsb@Ezekiel:15:1 @ Jehovah continued to speak his word to me:

nsb@Ezekiel:16:3 @ »Say this, ‘The Lord Jehovah says this to Jerusalem: »Your ancestry and birth were in the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

nsb@Ezekiel:16:16 @ »‘You took some of your clothes and made your worship sites colorful. This is where you acted like a prostitute. Such things should not happen. They should not occur.

nsb@Ezekiel:16:19 @ »‘You also offered them sweet and fragrant sacrifices. You gave flour, olive oil, and honey-all the food that I gave you to eat. This is what happened,’ declares the Lord Jehovah.«

nsb@Ezekiel:16:43 @ ‘»You have not remembered the days of your youth but have enraged me by all these things. I will therefore bring your conduct down on your own head,’ declares the Lord Jehovah. ‘That way you will not commit this lewdness on top of all your other abominations.

nsb@Ezekiel:16:44 @ ‘»Everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb concerning you: »Like mother, like daughter.«

nsb@Ezekiel:16:49 @ ‘»This was the guilt of your sister Sodom. She and her daughters had arrogance, abundant food and careless ease, but she did not help the poor and needy.

nsb@Ezekiel:16:50 @ ‘»They were arrogant and did disgusting things in front of me. So I did away with them when I saw this.

nsb@Ezekiel:16:61 @ ‘»You will remember how you have acted, and be ashamed of it when you get your older sister and your younger sister back. I will let them be like daughters to you, even though this was not part of my covenant with you.’

nsb@Ezekiel:17:1 @ Jehovah continued to speak his word to me:

nsb@Ezekiel:17:2 @ »Son of man, tell this riddle. Give this illustration to the nation of Israel.

nsb@Ezekiel:17:7 @ »‘»There was another large eagle with large wings and many feathers. Now, the vine stretched its roots toward this eagle and sent its branches toward the eagle so that the eagle could water it. The vine turned away from the garden where it was planted.

nsb@Ezekiel:17:14 @ that the kingdom might be in subjection, not exalting itself, but keeping his covenant that it might continue.

nsb@Ezekiel:17:15 @ »But he rebelled against him! He sent his envoys to Egypt that they might give him horses and many troops. Will he succeed? Will he who does such things escape? Can he indeed break the covenant and escape?’

nsb@Ezekiel:17:16 @ »‘»As I am alive,’ says the Lord Jehovah, ‘this king will die in Babylon because he broke his oath and the treaty with the one who put him on the throne the king of Babylon.

nsb@Ezekiel:17:18 @ ‘»He broke his oath and the treaty he had made. He did all these things, and now he will not escape.« ’

nsb@Ezekiel:17:21 @ ‘»His best troops will be killed in battle, and the survivors will be scattered in every direction. I Jehovah have spoken.« ’

nsb@Ezekiel:18:2 @ »What do you mean by using this proverb concerning the land of Israel: ‘The fathers eat sour grapes, but the children's teeth are set on edge?’

nsb@Ezekiel:18:3 @ ‘»As I live, declares the Lord Jehovah: ‘You are surely not going to use this proverb in Israel anymore.

nsb@Ezekiel:18:6 @ and does not eat at the mountain shrines or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, or defile his neighbor's wife or approach a woman during her menstrual period;

nsb@Ezekiel:18:7 @ ‘»if a man does not oppress anyone, but restores to the debtor his pledge, does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.

nsb@Ezekiel:18:8 @ ‘»If he does not lend money on interest or take increase, if he keeps his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between man and man,

nsb@Ezekiel:18:9 @ ‘»if he lives by my rules and obeys my laws faithfully this person is righteous. He will certainly live,’ declares the Lord Jehovah.

nsb@Ezekiel:18:10 @ ‘»Suppose this person has a son who robs and murders. The son does all these other things

nsb@Ezekiel:18:11 @ that his father never did. He eats at the illegal mountain worship sites. He dishonors his neighbor's wife.

nsb@Ezekiel:18:13 @ ‘»He lends money for interest and makes excessive profits. Will this person live? He will not live. He has done all these disgusting things. So he must die, and he will be responsible for his own death.

nsb@Ezekiel:18:14 @ ‘»Now suppose this son has a son. The son sees all the sins that his father does. He is afraid, so he does not do such things.

nsb@Ezekiel:18:15 @ ‘»He does not eat at the illegal mountain worship sites or look for help from the idols of the nation of Israel. He does not dishonor his neighbor's wife.

nsb@Ezekiel:18:17 @ ‘»He keeps his hand from the poor and does not take interest or increase, but executes my ordinances, and walks in my statutes. He will not die for his father's iniquity. He will surely live.

nsb@Ezekiel:18:18 @ ‘»As for his father, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother and did what was not good among his people, he will die for his iniquity.

nsb@Ezekiel:18:21 @ ‘»If the wicked man turns from all his sins and observes all my statutes and practices justice and righteousness, he shall live; he shall not die.

nsb@Ezekiel:18:22 @ ‘»All his transgressions he has committed will not be remembered against him. He will live because of his righteousness he has practiced.’

nsb@Ezekiel:18:23 @ ‘»Do I have any pleasure in the death of the wicked, declares the Lord Jehovah, that he should turn from his ways and live?

nsb@Ezekiel:18:24 @ ‘»But suppose a righteous person turns away from doing right and he does evil things. He does all the disgusting things that the wicked person did. Will he live? All the right things that he has done will not be remembered because of his unfaithfulness and because of his sin. He will die because of them.

nsb@Ezekiel:19:7 @ ‘»He broke down their strongholds and devastated their towns. His roaring terrified the residents of the land.

nsb@Ezekiel:19:9 @ ‘»With hooks they pulled him into a cage and brought him to the king of Babylon. They put him in prison. Therefore his roar was heard no longer on the mountains of Israel.

nsb@Ezekiel:19:14 @ ‘»Fire spread from one of its main branches and consumed its fruit. No strong branch is left on it fit for a ruler’s scepter. This is a song of grief and is to be used as a song of grief.’«

nsb@Ezekiel:20:15 @ ‘»»I also swore an oath to them in the desert. I swore that I would not bring them into the land that I had promised to give them. This land is the most beautiful land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

nsb@Ezekiel:20:24 @ »I did this because they had rejected my commands, broken my laws, profaned the Sabbath, and worshiped the same idols their ancestors had served.

nsb@Ezekiel:20:26 @ »I let them defile themselves with their own offerings, and I let them sacrifice their first-born sons. This was to punish them and show them that I am Jehovah.« ’

nsb@Ezekiel:20:27 @ »Now then, son of man, tell the Israelites what I, the Lord Jehovah, am saying to them. This is another way their ancestors insulted me by their unfaithfulness.

nsb@Ezekiel:20:29 @ »Then I asked them: ‘What is this worship site you are going to? So it is still called a worship site today.’«

nsb@Ezekiel:20:30 @ »Tell the nation of Israel: ‘This is what the Lord Jehovah says: »Will you dishonor yourselves the way your ancestors did? Will you chase their detestable idols like a prostitute?

nsb@Ezekiel:20:31 @ ‘»You offer your children as sacrifices by burning them alive. You dishonor yourselves with all your disgusting idols to this day. Should you be allowed to ask me for help, nation of Israel? As I am alive, declares the Lord Jehovah, you will not be allowed to ask me for help.« ’

nsb@Ezekiel:20:39 @ »The Lord Jehovah says: ‘The Lord Jehovah tells all you Israelites to suit yourselves! Go on and serve your idols! But I warn you that after this you will have to obey me and stop dishonoring my holy name by offering gifts to your idols.’

nsb@Ezekiel:20:45 @ Jehovah spoke his word to me, He said:

nsb@Ezekiel:20:47 @ »Tell the forest in the Negev: ‘Listen to the word of Jehovah. This is what the Lord Jehovah says: »I am about to set fire to you to destroy all your green trees and all your dry trees. The blazing fire will not be put out. It will burn the whole land from the south to the north.

nsb@Ezekiel:21:1 @ Jehovah continued to speak his word to me:

nsb@Ezekiel:21:3 @ »Tell the land of Israel: ‘This is what Jehovah says: »I am against you. I will take my sword out of its sheath and kill the righteous people and the wicked people among you.

nsb@Ezekiel:21:7 @ »When they ask why you are groaning tell this: ‘News has come that will discourage everyone. People's hands will hang limp, their hearts will lose courage, and their knees will become as weak as water. It is coming! It will surely take place!’ Declares the Lord Jehovah.«

nsb@Ezekiel:21:9 @ »Son of man, prophecy and say, ‘this is what Jehovah says: »A sword, a sword is sharpened and also polished!

nsb@Ezekiel:21:19 @ »Son of man, mark two roads that the king of Babylon and his sword can take. Both of these roads should start from the same country. Make a signpost and put it at the fork of the roads that go toward the cities.

nsb@Ezekiel:21:20 @ »Mark the road that the king and his sword can take to the Ammonite city of Rabbah. Then mark the road that leads to Judah and the fortified city of Jerusalem.

nsb@Ezekiel:21:22 @ »The divination will indicate that he should go to the right, to Jerusalem. So he will set up his battering rams there, and give the order to kill. He will raise a battle cry and aim the battering rams against the city gates. He will put up ramps and set up blockades.

nsb@Ezekiel:21:23 @ »The people will think it is false divination and not believe this because they have made treaties with other nations. But the king of Babylon will remind them of their sins, and they will be captured.

nsb@Ezekiel:21:24 @ »This is what the Lord Jehovah says: ‘People remember how sinful you are because you openly do wrong. You show your sins in everything you do. Because of this you will be taken captive.

nsb@Ezekiel:21:27 @ »A ruin, a ruin, a ruin! Yes, I will make the city a ruin. But this will not happen until the one comes whom I have chosen and who has the legal right to punish the city. To him I will give it.

nsb@Ezekiel:22:1 @ Jehovah continued to speak his word to me:

nsb@Ezekiel:22:3 @ »Tell it: ‘This is what the Lord Jehovah says: »Jerusalem, you are the city that murders people who live in you. Your time has come. You dishonor yourself with disgusting idols.

nsb@Ezekiel:22:19 @ »Therefore, the Lord Jehovah says: ‘I am going to gather you into Jerusalem. This is because all of you have become dross.

nsb@Ezekiel:22:23 @ Jehovah continued to speak his word to me, He said:

nsb@Ezekiel:22:28 @ ‘»Her prophets have smeared whitewash for them. They see false visions and divine lies for them. They say: »This is what the Lord Jehovah says, when Jehovah has not spoken.«

nsb@Ezekiel:23:1 @ Jehovah spoke his word to me again:

nsb@Ezekiel:23:11 @ »Now her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt in her lust than she. Her prostitution was more than the fornication of her sister.

nsb@Ezekiel:23:32 @ »The Lord Jehovah says this: ‘You will drink your sister's cup, which is deep and wide. You will be laughed at and held in derision; it contains much.

nsb@Ezekiel:23:38 @ »Again, they have done this to me: they have defiled my sanctuary on the same day and have profaned my Sabbaths.

nsb@Ezekiel:24:2 @ »Son of man, write the name of the day, this very day. The king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem this very day.

nsb@Ezekiel:24:14 @ ‘»I, Jehovah, have spoken. It is coming and I will act. I will not relent, and I will not pity and I will not be sorry! I will judge you according to your ways and according to your deeds.’ This is a declaration of the Lord Jehovah.«

nsb@Ezekiel:24:15 @ Jehovah continued to speak his word to me:

nsb@Ezekiel:25:1 @ Jehovah continued to speak his word to me:

nsb@Ezekiel:26:9 @ »‘He will direct the blow of his battering rams against your walls. He will break down your towers with his axes.

nsb@Ezekiel:26:10 @ »‘Dust raised by the vast number of his horses will cover you. The noise of cavalry, wagons and chariots will shake your walls. He will enter your gates as men enter a city that is breached.

nsb@Ezekiel:26:11 @ »‘The hoofs of his horses will trample all your streets. He will slay your people with the sword and your strong pillars will come down to the ground.

nsb@Ezekiel:27:12 @ People from Tarshish traded with you because you were so very rich. They exchanged silver, iron, tin, and lead for your merchandise.

nsb@Ezekiel:27:25 @ »‘»The ships of Tarshish were the carriers for your merchandise. And you were filled and were very glorious in the heart of the seas.

nsb@Ezekiel:27:36 @ »‘»The merchants among the peoples hiss at you. You have become terrified and you will cease to be forever.« ’«

nsb@Ezekiel:28:2 @ »Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre: ‘This is what the Lord Jehovah says: »‘»In your arrogance you say, ‘I am a god. I sit on God's throne in the sea.’ But you are only human and not a god, although you think you are a god. (2 Thes strkjv@2:4)

nsb@Ezekiel:28:11 @ Jehovah continued to speak his word to me:

nsb@Ezekiel:28:12 @ »Son of man, sing a funeral song for the ruler of Tyre. Tell him: ‘This is what the Lord Jehovah says: »‘»You were the perfect example, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

nsb@Ezekiel:29:3 @ »Say this, ‘The Lord Jehovah says: »I am against you Pharaoh, king of Egypt, the great monster (Psalm strkjv@74:13,14) that lies in the midst of his rivers. You have said: ‘My Nile is mine! I have made it!’«

nsb@Ezekiel:29:6 @ »Then all the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am Jehovah. This is because they have been only a staff made of reed to the house of Israel.

nsb@Ezekiel:29:18 @ »Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre. Every head was made bald and every shoulder was rubbed bare. But he and his army had no wages from Tyre for the labor that he had performed against it.

nsb@Ezekiel:29:19 @ »The Lord Jehovah says: ‘I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. He will carry off her wealth and capture her spoil and seize her plunder. It will serve as wages for his army.

nsb@Ezekiel:30:1 @ Jehovah continued to speak his word to me:

nsb@Ezekiel:30:6 @ »This is what Jehovah says: ‘All Egypt's allies will die. Egypt's strength will disappear. People will die in war from Migdol to Syene, declares the Lord Jehovah!’

nsb@Ezekiel:30:10 @ »This is what the Lord Jehovah says: I will use King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon to bring an end to Egypt.

nsb@Ezekiel:30:11 @ »He and his troops, the most ruthless troops among the nations, will be brought to destroy the land. They will draw their swords to attack Egypt and fill the land with dead bodies.

nsb@Ezekiel:30:13 @ »This is what the Lord Jehovah says: ‘I will destroy the statues and put an end to the idols in Memphis. A prince will never rise again in Egypt. I will spread fear throughout Egypt.

nsb@Ezekiel:30:16 @ »‘I will set fire to Egypt. Sin will be in much pain. Thebes will be broken into pieces, and Memphis will be in trouble every day.

nsb@Ezekiel:30:20 @ On the seventh day of the first month in the eleventh year, Jehovah spoke his word to me:

nsb@Ezekiel:30:21 @ »Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. His arm is not bandaged, so it cannot heal and be strong enough to hold a sword.«

nsb@Ezekiel:30:22 @ »The Lord Jehovah says: ‘I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt. I will break his arms, both the strong and the broken. I will make the sword fall from his hand.

nsb@Ezekiel:30:24 @ ‘»For I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put my sword in his hand. I will break the arms of Pharaoh. He will groan before him with the groanings of a wounded man.

nsb@Ezekiel:31:2 @ »Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his hordes: »‘Who are you like in your greatness?

nsb@Ezekiel:31:18 @ »‘Which of the trees of Eden are you equal to in glory and greatness? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the earth beneath. You will lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those who were slain by the sword. So is Pharaoh and all his hordes!’ Declares the Lord Jehovah.« ’

nsb@Ezekiel:32:10 @ »‘I will make many peoples astonished at you. Their kings will be dreadfully afraid of you when I brandish my sword before them. They will tremble every moment, every man for his own life, on the day of your fall.’

nsb@Ezekiel:32:16 @ »‘This is a funeral song. The people from the nations will sing this song. They will sing it as they mourn for Egypt and its many people, declares the Lord Jehovah.«

nsb@Ezekiel:32:17 @ On the fifteenth day of the month in the twelfth year, Jehovah spoke his word to me. He said:

nsb@Ezekiel:32:31 @ »‘Pharaoh and his army will see these things and be comforted over all the soldiers who have been killed in battle,’ proclaims the Lord Jehovah.

nsb@Ezekiel:32:32 @ »‘I terrified people in the land of the living. Pharaoh and all his soldiers will be laid among the godless people who were killed in battle,’ proclaims the Lord Jehovah.«

nsb@Ezekiel:33:2 @ »Son of man, speak to your people. Tell them: ‘Suppose I bring war on this country and the people of this country choose one of their men and make him their watchman.

nsb@Ezekiel:33:3 @ »‘If he sees the enemy coming to attack the country he will blow his horn to warn the people.

nsb@Ezekiel:33:6 @ »‘But if the watchman sees the enemy coming and does not blow his horn to warn the people and the enemy comes and kills someone, that watchman must die because of his sin. I will hold him responsible for their deaths.’

nsb@Ezekiel:33:8 @ »Suppose I say to a wicked person, ‘You wicked person, you will certainly die.’ And you say nothing to warn him to change his ways. That wicked person will die because of his sin. I will hold you responsible for his death.

nsb@Ezekiel:33:9 @ »But if you warn a wicked man to turn from his way and he does not turn from his way, he will die in his iniquity, but you have delivered your life.

nsb@Ezekiel:33:11 @ Say to them: ‘»As I am alive!« Declares the Lord Jehovah. »I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked. Only that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn back! Turn back from your evil ways! Why then will you die, O house of Israel?« ’

nsb@Ezekiel:33:12 @ »Son of man, tell the Israelites that when someone good sins, the good he has done will not save him. If an evil person stops doing evil he will not be punished, and if a good man starts sinning, his life will not be spared.

nsb@Ezekiel:33:13 @ »I may promise life to someone good, but if he starts thinking that his past goodness is enough and begins to sin, I will not remember any of the good he did. He will die because of his sins.

nsb@Ezekiel:33:19 @ »If the wicked person turns from his wickedness and does what is fair and right, he will live because of it.

nsb@Ezekiel:33:23 @ Jehovah spoke his word to me:

nsb@Ezekiel:33:27 @ »Tell them: ‘This is what the Lord Jehovah says: »As I am alive, whoever is in the ruined cities will be killed in battle. Whoever is in the open field will become food for wild animals. Whoever is in fortified places and caves will die from plagues.

nsb@Ezekiel:33:29 @ »Then people will know that I am Jehovah, when I make the land a barren wasteland. This is because of all the disgusting things that they have done.« ’

nsb@Ezekiel:34:12 @ »As a shepherd cares for his herd in the day when he is among his scattered sheep, so I will care for my sheep and will deliver them from all the places where they were scattered on a cloudy and gloomy day.

nsb@Ezekiel:34:17 @ »‘As for you, my sheep, this is what the Lord Jehovah says: »I will judge disputes between one sheep and another, between rams and male goats.

nsb@Ezekiel:34:20 @ »‘This is what the Lord Jehovah says to them: I will judge disputes between the fat sheep and the skinny sheep.

nsb@Ezekiel:35:3 @ »Say this, ‘the Lord Jehovah says: »I am against you, Mount Seir! I will stretch out my hand against you and make you a desolation and a waste.

nsb@Ezekiel:36:6 @ »Prophesy about Israel and tell the mountains and hills and the ravines and valleys: ‘This is what the Lord Jehovah says: »I am speaking in my anger and fury because you have been insulted by the nations.

nsb@Ezekiel:36:7 @ »This is what the Lord Jehovah says: ‘I raise my hand and swear that the nations that surround you will be insulted.

nsb@Ezekiel:36:16 @ Jehovah continued to speak his word to me, He said:

nsb@Ezekiel:36:20 @ »Wherever they went among the nations, they dishonored my holy name. People said about them: ‘These are Jehovah’s people, yet they had to leave his land.’

nsb@Ezekiel:36:22 @ »So tell the people of Israel, ‘the Lord Jehovah says: »I am about to do something, people of Israel. I will not do this for your sake but for the sake of my holy name, which you have dishonored among the nations wherever you have gone.« ’

nsb@Ezekiel:36:23 @ »I will reveal the holiness of my great name, which has been dishonored by the nations. It is the name that you have dishonored among them. Then the nations will know that I am Jehovah. This is because I will reveal my holiness among you as they watch,’ declares the Lord Jehovah.

nsb@Ezekiel:36:32 @ »‘I want you to know that I am not doing this for your sake,’ proclaims the Lord Jehovah. ‘Be ashamed and disgraced because of your ways, people of Israel.’

nsb@Ezekiel:36:33 @ »This is what the Lord Jehovah says: ‘On the day that I cleanse you from all your wickedness, I will cause your cities to be lived in again, and your ruins will be rebuilt.

nsb@Ezekiel:36:35 @ People will say: »This wasteland has become like the Garden of Eden. The cities were destroyed. They were empty and ruined, but now they are fortified and have people living in them.

nsb@Ezekiel:36:37 @ »This is what the Lord Jehovah says: ‘I will also let the people of Israel ask me to make them as numerous as sheep.

nsb@Ezekiel:37:9 @ Then Jehovah said to me: »Prophesy to the wind! Prophesy, son of man. Tell the wind, this is what the Lord Jehovah says: ‘Come from the four winds, O Breath, and breathe on these people who were killed so that they will live.« ’«

nsb@Ezekiel:37:12 @ Prophesy and tell them: ‘This is what the Lord Jehovah says: »My people, I will open your graves and take you out of them. I will bring you to Israel.

nsb@Ezekiel:37:15 @ Jehovah spoke his word to me again:

nsb@Ezekiel:37:18 @ ‘Tell us what you mean by this.’

nsb@Ezekiel:37:19 @ Then say to them: ‘This is what the Lord Jehovah says: I will take Joseph's stick, which is in Ephraim's hand, and the tribes of Israel associated with it, and I will put them with Judah's stick. I will make them into one stick. They will be one in my hand.« ’

nsb@Ezekiel:37:26 @ »‘»I will promise them peace. This will be a long lasting promise. I will establish them and make them increase in number. I will put my holy place among them for a very long time.

nsb@Ezekiel:38:13 @ ‘»Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish with all its villages will say to you: Have you come to capture spoil? Have you assembled your company to seize plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to capture great spoil?« ’

nsb@Ezekiel:38:21 @ »‘I will call for a sword against Gog on all my mountains,’ declares the Lord Jehovah. ‘Every man's sword will be against his brother.

nsb@Ezekiel:38:22 @ »‘With pestilence and with blood I will enter into judgment on him. I will rain on him and on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, a torrential rain, with hailstones, fire and brimstone.

nsb@Ezekiel:39:1 @ »The Lord Jehovah says: ‘Son of man, denounce Gog, the chief ruler of the nations of Meshech and Tubal. »Tell him that I am his enemy.

nsb@Ezekiel:39:3 @ »‘I will knock his bow out of his left hand and his arrows out of his right hand.

nsb@Ezekiel:39:4 @ »‘Gog and his army and his allies will fall dead on the mountains of Israel. I will let their bodies be food for all the birds and wild animals.« ’

nsb@Ezekiel:39:11 @ »‘On that day I will give Gog a burial ground there in Israel, the valley of those who pass by east of the sea. It will block off those who would pass by. So they will bury Gog there with his entire horde, and they will call it the valley of Hamon-gog.

nsb@Ezekiel:39:16 @ »‘Even the name of the city will be Hamonah. In this way they will cleanse the land.’

nsb@Ezekiel:39:25 @ »This is what the Lord Jehovah says: ‘Now I will bring back Jacob's captives and have compassion for the whole nation of Israel. I will stand up for my holy name.

nsb@Ezekiel:40:20 @ The man measured the length and width of the gateway, leading to the outer courtyard. This was the gateway that faced north.

nsb@Ezekiel:40:38 @ There was a room with a door that opened toward the entrance hall of the gateway. This is the room where the priests washed the animals for the burnt offerings.

nsb@Ezekiel:40:45 @ The man said to me: »This room that faces south is for the priests who serve in the temple.

nsb@Ezekiel:41:4 @ He measured the room at the end of the holy place. It was thirty-five feet long and thirty-five feet wide. The man said: »This is the Most Holy Place.«

nsb@Ezekiel:41:8 @ I also saw a raised base all around the Temple. This base was the foundation for the side rooms. It measured the full length of the measuring rod, ten and one half feet.

nsb@Ezekiel:41:13 @ The man measured the Temple. It was one hundred and seventy-five feet long. This included the open area with the building and its walls. All together it was one hundred and seventy-five feet long.

nsb@Ezekiel:41:22 @ There was a wooden altar. It was five feet high and three and one half feet wide. Its corners, its base, and its sides were made of wood. Then the man told me: This is the table that is in the presence of Jehovah.

nsb@Ezekiel:43:2 @ I saw the glory of the God of Israel coming from the east. His voice was like the sound of rushing water, and the earth was shining because of his glory.

nsb@Ezekiel:43:3 @ This vision was like the one I saw when he came to destroy Jerusalem and like the one I saw by the Chebar River. I immediately bowed down.

nsb@Ezekiel:43:7 @ The voice said: »Son of man, this is the place where my throne is and the place where my feet rest. This is where I will live among the Israelites for a very long time. Then the people of Israel and their kings will no longer dishonor my holy name by acting like prostitutes. They will not dishonor it with the dead bodies of their kings.

nsb@Ezekiel:43:10 @ »Son of man, describe this Temple to the people of Israel. Then they will be ashamed because of their sins. Let them study the plans.

nsb@Ezekiel:43:12 @ »This is a regulation of the Temple: The whole area all the way around the top of the mountain is most holy. Indeed, this is a regulation of the Temple.

nsb@Ezekiel:43:13 @ »These are the measurements of the altar, using royal measurements. The royal measuring stick was twenty-one inches long. The base of the altar was twenty-one inches high and twenty-one inches wide. All around the edge of the altar was a rim measuring nine inches wide. This was the height of the altar:

nsb@Ezekiel:43:18 @ The man said: »Son of man, this is what the Lord Jehovah says: ‘These are the rules for sacrificing burnt offerings and for sprinkling blood on the altar after the altar is built.’

nsb@Ezekiel:43:20 @ »‘Take some of the bull's blood, and put it on the altars four horns, on the four corners of the ledge, and on the rim all the way around the altar. When you do this, you will remove sin from the altar and make peace with Jehovah.

nsb@Ezekiel:44:2 @ Jehovah said to me: »This gate will stay shut and will not be opened. No one may enter through it because the Lord Jehovah of Israel entered through it. It must be kept shut.

nsb@Ezekiel:44:6 @ »‘Tell the rebellious people of Israel: ‘This is what the Lord Jehovah says: I have had enough of all the disgusting things that you have done, people of Israel.

nsb@Ezekiel:44:25 @ »‘A priest must not make himself unclean by going near a dead body. But a priest may become unclean if the dead person is his father, mother, son, daughter, brother, or unmarried sister.

nsb@Ezekiel:44:27 @ »‘When he enters the inner courtyard of the holy place to serve in the holy place, he must bring his offering for sin, declares the Lord Jehovah.

nsb@Ezekiel:44:30 @ »‘The priests should have the best of all the first ripened fruits. The best of every gift from all your contributions must go to the priests. The best of your dough must go to the priests. This will cause a blessing to rest on your home.

nsb@Ezekiel:45:3 @ »‘Measure off an area forty-three thousand seven hundred and fifty feet long and seventeen thousand five hundred feet wide. The Holy Place, that is, the Most Holy Place, will be in this area.

nsb@Ezekiel:45:4 @ »‘This holy part of the land will belong to the priests who serve in the Holy Place, the priests who come near to serve Jehovah. They will use this place for their homes, and it will be the location for the Holy Place.

nsb@Ezekiel:45:7 @ »‘The prince will have all the land on both sides of the holy area and on both sides of the property belonging to the city. From the western boundary of the holy area, his land will extend to the Mediterranean Sea. From the eastern boundary of the holy area, his land will extend to the eastern border of the country. His territory will be as large as the territory of one of the tribes.

nsb@Ezekiel:45:8 @ »‘This land will belong to the prince in Israel. Then my princes will no longer oppress my people. They will give land to each tribe of the nation of Israel.’

nsb@Ezekiel:45:9 @ »This is what the Lord Jehovah says: ‘I have had enough of you, you princes of Israel.’ »‘Stop your violence and looting, and do what is fair and right. Stop evicting my people,’ declares the Lord Jehovah.

nsb@Ezekiel:45:13 @ »‘This is the contribution you must give to Jehovah: seventeen percent of your wheat and seventeen percent of your barley.

nsb@Ezekiel:45:16 @ »‘All the common people must give this contribution to the prince in Israel.

nsb@Ezekiel:45:18 @ »This is what the Lord Jehovah says: ‘On the first day of the first month, take a young bull that has no defects and remove sin from the holy place.

nsb@Ezekiel:46:1 @ »This is what the Lord Jehovah says: ‘The east gate of the inner courtyard must be closed during the six working days, but it must be opened on the weekly day of worship. It must also be opened on the New Moon Festival.

nsb@Ezekiel:46:13 @ »‘Prepare a year-old lamb that has no defects every day as a burnt offering to Jehovah. Do this every morning.

nsb@Ezekiel:46:16 @ »The Lord Jehovah says: ‘Suppose the prince offers one of his sons a gift from his property. The gift will belong to his descendants because it is their inheritance.

nsb@Ezekiel:46:17 @ »‘Suppose the prince offers a gift from his property to one of his servants. The gift will belong to the servant only until the year of freedom. Then the gift will go back to the prince. Only his sons can inherit his property.

nsb@Ezekiel:46:18 @ »‘The prince must not take any of the people's property. He must not force them to give up their property. He must give his own property as an inheritance to his sons so that none of my people will be separated from their property.’«

nsb@Ezekiel:46:20 @ He said to me: »This is the place where the priests must boil the meat for the guilt offering and the offering for sin. This is the place where they must bake grain offerings so that they do not have to bring the offerings into the outer courtyard. This way they will not transfer holiness to the people.«

nsb@Ezekiel:47:3 @ With a measuring line in his hand, the man went eastward. He measured off fifteen hundred feet and led me through the water. The water came up to my ankles.

nsb@Ezekiel:47:6 @ He asked me: »Son of man, do you see this?«

nsb@Ezekiel:47:8 @ He said: »This water flows through the land to the east, down into the Jordan Valley, and into the Dead Sea. When the water flows into the Dead Sea, it will replace the salt water there with fresh water.

nsb@Ezekiel:47:12 @ »All kinds of fruit trees will grow on both sides of the river. Their leaves will not wither, and they will not fail to produce fruit. Each month they will produce fresh fruit because this water flows from the Holy Place. The fruit will be good food, and the leaves will be used for healing.«

nsb@Ezekiel:47:13 @ This is what the Lord Jehovah says: »These are the borders of the land that is to be divided among the twelve tribes of Israel. Joseph gets two parts.

nsb@Ezekiel:47:14 @ »Divide the land equally. I raised my hand and swore that I would give the land to your ancestors. So this land will be your inheritance.

nsb@Ezekiel:47:15 @ »This is the northern border for the land: On the north side the border will run from the Mediterranean Sea all the way to Hethlon and Hamath Pass. It will run through the city of Zedad and through

nsb@Ezekiel:47:17 @ »So the border will run from the Mediterranean Sea to Hazar Enon on the border of Damascus. The border of Hamath will lie to the north. This is the north side.

nsb@Ezekiel:47:18 @ »On the east side the border will run between Hauran and Damascus. The Jordan River will serve as the border between Gilead and the land of Israel. The border will continue from the Dead Sea down to Tamar. This is the east side.

nsb@Ezekiel:47:19 @ »On the south side the border will run from Tamar to the oasis at Meribah in Kadesh along the ravine to the Mediterranean Sea. This is the southern border.

nsb@Ezekiel:47:20 @ »On the west side the Mediterranean Sea is the border up to a point opposite Hamath Pass. This is the west side.«

nsb@Ezekiel:47:21 @ »Divide this land for each of the tribes of Israel.

nsb@Ezekiel:47:22 @ »Divide it by drawing lots. This land will be for you. It will also be for the foreign residents who live among you and have given birth to children while they lived with you. Think of them as Israelites. They will draw lots with you for their inheritance among the tribes of Israel.

nsb@Ezekiel:48:9 @ »This special land that you set aside for Jehovah will be forty-three thousand seven hundred and fifty feet long and seventeen thousand five hundred feet wide.

nsb@Ezekiel:48:10 @ »This holy area will belong to the priests. On the north side it will be forty-three thousand seven hundred and fifty feet long. On the west side it will be seventeen thousand five hundred feet wide. On the east side it will be seventeen thousand five hundred feet wide. On the south side it will be forty-three thousand seven hundred and fifty feet long. Jehovah’s holy place will be in the middle of it.

nsb@Ezekiel:48:11 @ »This land that has been set apart will belong to the priests who are descendants of Zadok. They took care of my holy place. They did not wander away with the Israelites as the Levites did.

nsb@Ezekiel:48:18 @ »The rest of the land borders the holy area and runs lengthwise. This land will be seventeen thousand five hundred feet on both east and west sides. It will be used to provide food for the city workers.

nsb@Ezekiel:48:20 @ »The whole area will be forty-three thousand seven hundred and fifty feet square. You must give this land as a special gift to Jehovah along with the city property.

nsb@Ezekiel:48:21 @ »Whatever is left on the east side and west side of the holy area and the city property will belong to the prince. This land will extend eastward from the holy area to the eastern border, and it will extend westward to the western border. Both of these areas are as long as one of the sections of the tribes. These areas belong to the prince, and the holy area with the Holy Place of the Temple will be between them.

nsb@Ezekiel:48:23 @ »This is what the rest of the tribes will receive: Benjamin will have one part of the land. It will extend from the eastern border to the western border.

nsb@Ezekiel:48:29 @ »This is the land you will divide as your inheritance among the tribes of Israel, and these are their areas, declares the Lord Jehovah.

nsb@Daniel:1:2 @ Jehovah allowed Nebuchadnezzar to capture Jehoiakim king of Judah. Nebuchadnezzar carried part of the vessels of the house of God into the Plain of Shinar. He brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god.

nsb@Daniel:1:3 @ The king ordered Ashpenaz the chief of his officials to bring in some of the Israelites including some of the royal family and nobles.

nsb@Daniel:1:8 @ Daniel determined in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king's special food and wine. He requested permission from the officer in charge that he might not defile himself.

nsb@Daniel:1:20 @ The king found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters in his entire realm. This was in every matter of wisdom and understanding.

nsb@Daniel:2:1 @ It was the second year of his reign. He was troubled and could not sleep. Nebuchadnezzar had dreams and was disturbed by them.

nsb@Daniel:2:2 @ The king summoned the magicians, enchanters, sorcerers, and the Chaldeans and commanded them to tell the king about his dreams. They came in and stood before the king.

nsb@Daniel:2:7 @ They answered the second time. They said: »Let the king tell his servants the dream. Then we will tell the interpretation.«

nsb@Daniel:2:12 @ This caused the king to be angry. In fact he became furious! He commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be destroyed.

nsb@Daniel:2:13 @ So the decree was delivered. The wise men were to be executed. They searched for Daniel and his companions to execute them.

nsb@Daniel:2:17 @ Then Daniel went back to his house, and explained everything to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions:

nsb@Daniel:2:18 @ that they would request mercies from the God of heaven concerning this secret. And they would request that Daniel and his companions would not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

nsb@Daniel:2:20 @ Daniel said: »Praise be the name of God forever and ever, for wisdom and might are his.

nsb@Daniel:2:30 @ »Concerning me, this secret is not revealed to me to give me more wisdom than anyone else. It is for the purpose that the interpretation may be made known to the king; that you may know the thoughts of your mind.

nsb@Daniel:2:31 @ »You, O king, saw a large statue. This statue was in fact very large. It was very bright as it stood before you. Its appearance was awesome.

nsb@Daniel:2:36 @ »This was the dream! We will interpret it for the king.

nsb@Daniel:2:46 @ King Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face and worshipped Daniel. He commanded that they present an offering and burn incense to him.

nsb@Daniel:2:47 @ The king spoke to Daniel: »It is true, your God is the God of gods, and the Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing you were able to reveal this secret.«

nsb@Daniel:3:4 @ Then the herald proclaimed: »You are commanded to do this, O peoples, nations, and men of every language.

nsb@Daniel:3:13 @ Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. They brought these men before the king.

nsb@Daniel:3:16 @ Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the king: »O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.

nsb@Daniel:3:19 @ Nebuchadnezzar was furious. The expression on his face changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He commanded that they heat the furnace seven times more than its required heat.

nsb@Daniel:3:20 @ He commanded the mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to throw them into the blazing furnace.

nsb@Daniel:3:24 @ Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished. He hurried to speak to his counselors: / »Did we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire?« They answered: »True O king.«

nsb@Daniel:3:28 @ Nebuchadnezzar said: »Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego! He sent his angel and delivered his servants who trusted in him. They violated the king's command and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.

nsb@Daniel:3:29 @ »Therefore I decree that the people of any nation or language who say anything against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut into pieces. Their houses shall be made a dunghill. There is no other god that is able to deliver like this.«

nsb@Daniel:4:3 @ »How great are his signs! How mighty are his wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.

nsb@Daniel:4:5 @ »I saw a dream that made me afraid. When I saw this vision my thoughts troubled me.

nsb@Daniel:4:18 @ ‘»I, king Nebuchadnezzar, have seen this dream and you O Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation! For all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make the interpretation known to me. You are able for the spirit of the holy gods is in you!’

nsb@Daniel:4:19 @ »Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was stricken dumb for a while, and his thoughts troubled him. The king said, Belteshazzar, do not let the dream or the interpretation trouble you. Belteshazzar answered: My lord, the dream may be to them that hate you and the interpretation to your adversaries.

nsb@Daniel:4:24 @ This is the interpretation, O king. It is the decree from the Most High that has come to my lord the king.

nsb@Daniel:4:28 @ All this happened to king Nebuchadnezzar.

nsb@Daniel:4:30 @ The king spoke: »Is this not great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling-place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?«

nsb@Daniel:4:33 @ That same hour it was fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar. He was driven from men and did eat grass like bulls. His body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hair grew like eagles' feathers, and his fingernails like birds' claws.

nsb@Daniel:4:34 @ »At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven and my understanding returned to me. I blessed the Most High and I praised and honored the one who lives forever. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation.

nsb@Daniel:4:35 @ All the inhabitants of the earth are considered as nothing. He does according to his will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of earth. None can stop him, or say to him: ‘What do you do?’

nsb@Daniel:4:37 @ »Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise, extol and honor the King of heaven. All his works are truth, and his ways justice. He is able to abase those who walk in pride.«

nsb@Daniel:5:1 @ King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his lords, and drank wine with them.

nsb@Daniel:5:2 @ While he tasted the wine, Belshazzar commanded to bring the gold and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the Temple in Jerusalem. This way the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink from them.

nsb@Daniel:5:3 @ Then they brought the gold vessels that were taken out of the Temple of the House of God that was at Jerusalem. The king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, drank from them.

nsb@Daniel:5:6 @ Then the king's countenance changed in him. His thoughts troubled him. The joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees struck one against the other.

nsb@Daniel:5:7 @ The king cried aloud to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. / The king spoke to the wise men of Babylon: »Whoever reads this writing, and shows me the interpretation of it will be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about his neck. He will be the third ruler in the kingdom«.

nsb@Daniel:5:9 @ King Belshazzar was greatly troubled, and his appearance changed. His lords were perplexed.

nsb@Daniel:5:15 @ »The wise men and the enchanters, have been brought in before me to read this writing, and make known the interpretation of it. But they could not show the interpretation.

nsb@Daniel:5:20 @ »But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened with pride he dealt proudly. He was deposed from his kingly throne and they took his glory from him:

nsb@Daniel:5:21 @ »He was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the beasts. His dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that he sets up over it whomever he will.

nsb@Daniel:5:22 @ »You his son, O Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you know all this.

nsb@Daniel:5:23 @ »You lifted yourself up against the Lord of heaven. They have brought the vessels of his house before you and your lords, wives and concubines. They drank wine from them. You praise the gods of silver and gold, of copper, iron, wood, and stone, which you do not see, nor hear, nor know. You have not glorified the God whose hand holds your breath and life.

nsb@Daniel:5:24 @ »Then the part of the hand was sent from before him, and this writing was inscribed.

nsb@Daniel:5:25 @ »This is the writing that was inscribed: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN.

nsb@Daniel:5:26 @ »This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God has numbered your kingdom, and brought it to an end;

nsb@Daniel:5:29 @ Then Belshazzar commanded, and they clothed Daniel with purple, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made proclamation concerning him that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.

nsb@Daniel:6:5 @ These men said: »We shall not find any charge against Daniel, unless we find it against him in the Law of his God.«

nsb@Daniel:6:10 @ Daniel knew that the decree was signed. He went into his house. His windows were open in his chamber toward Jerusalem. He kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, like he did before.

nsb@Daniel:6:11 @ These men assembled together. They found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God.

nsb@Daniel:6:12 @ They approached the king about his decree: »Did you sign a decree stating that every man that shall make petition to any god or man within thirty days, except to you, O king, shall be thrown into the den of lions?« The king answered: »The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which may not be altered.«

nsb@Daniel:6:13 @ Then they said: »Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Judah, does not show you respect, O king, nor the decree that you signed. He offers his prayer three times a day.«

nsb@Daniel:6:17 @ A stone was placed over the mouth of the den. The king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel.

nsb@Daniel:6:18 @ The king went to his palace and did not eat. He refused musical entertainment and he could not sleep.

nsb@Daniel:6:22 @ « My God sent his angel, and shut the lions' mouths. They did not hurt me. I was found innocent before him. I have done no wrong before you, O king.«

nsb@Daniel:6:23 @ The king was very happy. He commanded that they take Daniel out of the den. So Daniel was taken out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found on him, because he trusted in his God.

nsb@Daniel:6:26 @ »I make a decree, that in all the dominion of my kingdom men tremble with respect before the God of Daniel. He is the living God, and steadfast forever! His kingdom will not be destroyed. His dominion will be even unto the end.

nsb@Daniel:7:1 @ Daniel had a dream and visions. He wrote the summery of the dream that came to his mind while he was in bed. It was the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon.

nsb@Daniel:7:7 @ »After this I saw more visions in the night. I saw a FOURTH BEAST terrible and powerful, and exceedingly strong! It had great iron teeth. It devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet. It was different from the beasts that came before it. It had ten horns!

nsb@Daniel:7:8 @ »I looked at the horns and another one, a little horn came. This horn had eyes like the eyes of a man. It had a mouth that spoke great things. The three first horns were plucked up roots and all.

nsb@Daniel:7:9 @ »I watched as thrones were placed. The ANCIENT OF DAYS sat on one throne. His clothing was white as snow. His hair was like pure wool. His throne was like fiery flames, and the wheels on it were like burning fire.

nsb@Daniel:7:14 @ »He was given legal power and a kingdom. Out of his glory all the peoples, nations, and languages will serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away. His kingdom will not be destroyed. (Revelation strkjv@11:15) (Daniel strkjv@2:44) (Psalm strkjv@45:6)

nsb@Daniel:7:16 @ I came near to one of them that stood nearby, and asked him the truth concerning all this. So he told me. ‘HE MADE ME KNOW THE INTERPRETATION OF EVERYTHING.

nsb@Daniel:7:19 @ »I desired to know the truth about the fourth beast that was different from the others. This beast was exceeding terrible. It had teeth made of iron. Its claws were made of copper. It devoured, broke in pieces, and stamped what was left with its feet.

nsb@Daniel:7:24 @ ‘»The ten horns are ten kings that will arise out of this kingdom! Another will arise after them. He will be different from the former, and he will subdue three kings.

nsb@Daniel:7:26 @ ‘»But the judgment shall be set and they will take away his power forever.

nsb@Daniel:7:27 @ ‘»The kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven will be given to the people who are the holy ones of the Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom! All dominions will serve and obey him.’

nsb@Daniel:7:28 @ »This is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts were very troubled. My appearance was changed. I kept the matter in my heart.«

nsb@Daniel:8:4 @ I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward. No beasts could stand before him. Neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand. He did what ever he wanted and boasted about himself.

nsb@Daniel:8:5 @ As I observed a he-goat came from the west over the face of the whole earth. It did not touch the ground. The goat had a notable horn between his eyes.

nsb@Daniel:8:6 @ He approached the ram that had the two horns, which I saw standing next to the river. He charged him with the full fury of his power.

nsb@Daniel:8:7 @ I saw him come close to the ram. He was driven with anger and he struck the ram and broke his two horns. The ram had no power to stand before him. He threw him down to the ground, and trampled upon him. No one could deliver the ram out of his hand.

nsb@Daniel:8:11 @ It magnified itself, even to the prince of the host. It took the continual burnt offering from him and the place of his sanctuary was thrown down.

nsb@Daniel:8:16 @ I heard a man's voice from the banks of the Ulai River. He called to Gabriel: »Make this man understand the vision of the time of the end.«

nsb@Daniel:8:21 @ »And the rough he-goat is the king of GREECE. The great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.

nsb@Daniel:8:22 @ »As for that which was broken, in the place where four stood up, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not with his power.

nsb@Daniel:8:24 @ »He will be mighty, but not by his own power. He will destroy excessively and will prosper and do anything he wants to do. He will destroy the mighty ones and the holy people.

nsb@Daniel:8:25 @ »Through his policy he will cause deceit to prosper in his hand. He will boast about himself in his heart. In their security they will destroy many. He will even stand up against the prince of princes; but he will be destroyed without human power.

nsb@Daniel:9:2 @ It was the first year of his reign. I, Daniel, understood from The Books the number of the years in the word of Jehovah to Jeremiah the prophet. It was seventy years since the destruction of Jerusalem.

nsb@Daniel:9:4 @ And I prayed to Jehovah my God, and made confession, and said, »Oh, Jehovah, the great and fear-inspiring God, who keeps his covenant and loving kindness for those who love him and keep his commandments.

nsb@Daniel:9:7 @ »O Jehovah, righteousness belongs to you! Shame belongs to us this day! To the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.

nsb@Daniel:9:10 @ »We have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.

nsb@Daniel:9:12 @ »He confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who ruled us. He brought a great evil on us. Nothing under heaven has been done like what was done to Jerusalem.

nsb@Daniel:9:13 @ »As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this evil has come upon us. Yet we have not earnestly requested the favor of Jehovah our God. We should turn from our iniquities, and have discernment in your truth.

nsb@Daniel:9:14 @ »Therefore Jehovah watched over the evil and brought it upon us. Jehovah our God is righteous in all his works. We have not obeyed his voice.

nsb@Daniel:9:17 @ »Now therefore, O our God, listen to the prayer of your servant, and to his supplications, and cause your face to shine upon your sanctuary that is desolate, for Jehovah’s sake.

nsb@Daniel:10:5 @ I looked up to see a man clothed in linen. His loins were girded with pure gold of the Uphaz region.

nsb@Daniel:10:6 @ His body also was like chrysolite and his face as the appearance of lightning. His eyes were like flaming torches and his arms and his feet like burnished copper. The sound of his words was like the sound of a crowd.

nsb@Daniel:10:8 @ I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me. My appearance turned deathlike and I had no strength.

nsb@Daniel:10:9 @ Yet I heard the sound of his words. When I heard the sound of his words I fell with my face toward the ground into a deep sleep.

nsb@Daniel:11:1 @ »I stood up to confirm and strengthen Darius the Mede in his first year.

nsb@Daniel:11:2 @ »Now I will tell you the truth. Look, there will be three more kings in Persia. Then the fourth will be richer than the others. When he is strong because of his riches he will stir up everyone against the kingdom of Greece.

nsb@Daniel:11:3 @ »A mighty king will stand up and rule with great dominion, and do according to his will.

nsb@Daniel:11:4 @ »After he appears his kingdom will be broken. It will be divided toward the four winds of heaven, but not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion as he ruled. His kingdom will be plucked up, even for others besides these.

nsb@Daniel:11:5 @ »The king of the south will be strong along with one of his princes. His prince will be stronger than him, and have dominion. His dominion will be a great dominion.

nsb@Daniel:11:6 @ »At the end of years they will become allies. The daughter of the king of the south will come to the king of the north to make an agreement. But she will not retain the strength of her arm; neither will he stand, nor his arm; but she will be given up, and they that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in those times.

nsb@Daniel:11:7 @ »But out of a shoot from her roots will one stand up in his place. He will come with the army and enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and will fight against them, and will prevail.

nsb@Daniel:11:9 @ »The king of the north will come into the realm of the king of the south, but he will return into his own land.

nsb@Daniel:11:10 @ »And his sons will be warlike and will assemble a multitude of great forces, which will come on, and overflow, and pass through; and they will return and fight, even to his fortress.

nsb@Daniel:11:12 @ »The army will be lifted up, and his heart will be filled with pride. He will cast down tens of thousands, but he will not prevail.

nsb@Daniel:11:15 @ »So the king of the north will come, and cast up a siege ramp, and capture a well-fortified city. The forces of the south will not stand, neither his chosen people, neither will there be any strength to stand.

nsb@Daniel:11:16 @ »But he that comes against him will do according to his own will, and none will stand against him. He will stand in the glorious land, and in his hand will be destruction.

nsb@Daniel:11:17 @ »And he will be determined to come with the strength of his whole kingdom, and with him equitable conditions. He will perform them. He will give him the daughter of women, to corrupt her; but she will not stand or be on his side.

nsb@Daniel:11:18 @ »He will turn back to the coastlands and will capture many. However, a prince will cause the reproach offered by him to cease. He will cause his reproach to turn upon him.

nsb@Daniel:11:19 @ »Then he will turn his attention toward the fortresses of his own land; but he shall stumble and fall, and will not be found.

nsb@Daniel:11:20 @ »Then one will stand up in his place who will send an oppressor to pass through the glory of the kingdom. However, he will be destroyed within a few days, neither in anger, nor in battle.

nsb@Daniel:11:21 @ »A contemptible person will stand in his place. He will be one whom they had not given the honor of the kingdom. He will come in time of security, and will obtain the kingdom by flatteries.

nsb@Daniel:11:24 @ »In time of security he will come even upon the richest places of the province. He will do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers. He will scatter among them prey, and spoil, and substance. He will devise his devices against the strongholds, even for a time.

nsb@Daniel:11:25 @ »He will stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army. The king of the south will war in battle with an exceeding great and mighty army, but he will not stand. This is because they will devise schemes against him.

nsb@Daniel:11:26 @ »Those who eat of his rich foods will destroy him. His army will overflow and many will fall down slain.

nsb@Daniel:11:28 @ »Then king of the north will return to his land with great wealth. His heart will be against the holy covenant. He will do what he pleases and return to his own land.

nsb@Daniel:11:31 @ »His armed forces will stand with him, and they will profane the sanctuary, even the fortress, and will take away the continual burnt offering. They will set up the abomination that makes desolate.

nsb@Daniel:11:35 @ »Some of them who are wise will fall. This will refine them, and purify them, and make them clean, even to the time of the end, because it is yet for the time appointed.

nsb@Daniel:11:36 @ »The king will do according to his will. He will exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god. He will speak horrable things against the God of gods. He will be successful until the indignation is accomplished for that which is determined will be done.

nsb@Daniel:11:37 @ »Neither will he honor the gods of his father’s, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god for he will magnify himself above them all.

nsb@Daniel:11:38 @ »He will honor the god of military fortresses, a god whom his fathers did not know. He will honor with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and expensive gifts.

nsb@Daniel:11:41 @ »He will also invade the glorious land, and many countries will be overthrown. These will be delivered out of his hand: Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.

nsb@Daniel:11:42 @ »He will stretch forth his power and authority over many countries, and the land of Egypt will not escape.

nsb@Daniel:11:43 @ »He will exercise power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt. The Libyans and the Ethiopians will be under his control.

nsb@Daniel:11:45 @ »He will plant the tents of his palace between the sea and the glorious holy mountain. But he will come to his end, and none will help him.

nsb@Daniel:12:5 @ Then I, Daniel, looked, and, behold, there stood two others, one on the bank of the river on this side, and the other on the bank of the river on that side.

nsb@Daniel:12:7 @ I heard the man clothed in linen, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by him that lives forever: »It will be for three and one half years; and when they have made an end of breaking in pieces the power of the holy people, all these things will be finished.«

nsb@Daniel:12:8 @ I heard but I did not understand. I said: »O my lord, how will this all end?«

nsb@Hosea:1:3 @ So he took as his wife Gomer the daughter of Diblaim. She conceived, and gave birth to a son.

nsb@Hosea:2:12 @ »I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees. Of this she said: These are my loose woman’s hire that my lovers have given me. I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field will eat them.

nsb@Hosea:3:5 @ Afterward the children of Israel will return and seek Jehovah their God. David their king will come with trembling to Jehovah and to his goodness in the last days.

nsb@Hosea:5:1 @ »Hear this, O you priests and pay attention, O house of Israel. Give ear! O house of the king the judgment is about you. You have been a snare at Mizpah and a net spread upon Tabor.

nsb@Hosea:5:13 @ »When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, Ephraim went to Assyria and sent to King Jareb. He is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound.

nsb@Hosea:7:2 @ »It never enters their hearts that I will remember all this evil. But their sins surround them, and I cannot avoid seeing them.

nsb@Hosea:7:10 @ »Israel, your arrogance testifies against you. Even after all this, you do not return to Jehovah your God or look to him for help.

nsb@Hosea:7:16 @ »They do not turn upward. They are like a loose bow. Their princes will fall by the sword because of the insolence of their tongue. This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.«

nsb@Hosea:8:4 @ »They chose their own kings. I did not approve. They chose their own princes. Princes I did not know. They made idols with their own silver and gold. Because of this, they will be destroyed!

nsb@Hosea:9:6 @ »Even if they escape without being destroyed, Egypt will capture them and Memphis will bury them. Weeds will grow over their silver treasures. Thorns will grow over their tents.

nsb@Hosea:9:7 @ The time for them to be punished will come. The time for them to pay for their sins will come. When this happens, Israel will know it. They think that prophets are fools and that spiritual people are crazy. They have sinned a lot, and are filled with hostility.«

nsb@Hosea:9:13 @ »I have seen Ephraim planted in a pleasant meadow like Tyre. But Ephraim will bring out his children for slaughter.«

nsb@Hosea:10:10 @ »I will attack this sinful people and punish them. Nations will join together against them, and they will be punished for their many sins.

nsb@Hosea:10:13 @ »But instead you plowed evil and harvested unrighteousness. You have eaten the fruit produced by your lies. This is because you trusted in your way and in the large number of your soldiers.

nsb@Hosea:11:10 @ »They will follow Jehovah! He will roar like a lion. When he roars, his children will come trembling from the west.

nsb@Hosea:12:3 @ »Their ancestor Jacob held on to his brother's heel while the two of them were in their mother's womb. When Jacob became a man, he struggled with God.

nsb@Hosea:12:8 @ »The people of Ephraim say: We are rich. We have made a fortune. With all this wealth, no one will find us guilty of any sin.

nsb@Hosea:13:2 @ »They sin more and more. They make idols from silver for themselves. These idols are skillfully made. All of them are the work of craftsmen. People say this about the Israelites: They offer sacrifices and kiss calf-shaped idols.

nsb@Hosea:14:6 @ »His shoots will sprout and his beauty will be like the olive tree. His fragrance will be like the cedars of Lebanon.

nsb@Hosea:14:7 @ »Those who live in his shadow will raise grain again. They will blossom like the vine. His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.

nsb@Joel:1:2 @ »Hear this, you older men! Listen all you inhabitants of the land. Did this take place in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

nsb@Joel:1:6 @ »A nation has invaded my land. It is strong and very large. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the jaw-teeth of a lioness.

nsb@Joel:2:2 @ »It is a day of darkness and gloom! It is a day of clouds and thick darkness! The dawn spreads upon the mountains. This great and mighty people have never seen anything like this. Nor will it be like this again even to the years of many generations.

nsb@Joel:2:7 @ »They run like mighty men. They climb the wall like men of war. They march every one on his way and do not break their ranks.

nsb@Joel:2:8 @ »They do not crowd each other. They march every one in his path. They burst through the weapons and do not break ranks.

nsb@Joel:2:11 @ »Jehovah speaks before his army. His camp is very great! He is strong that executes his word. The Day of Jehovah is great and very terrible! Who can endure it?«

nsb@Joel:2:16 @ »Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts. Let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.

nsb@Joel:2:18 @ Jehovah was zealous for his land, and had pity on his people.

nsb@Joel:2:19 @ Jehovah answered his people: »Behold, I will send you grain, new wine and oil. You will be satisfied with it. I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.«

nsb@Joel:3:9 @ »Proclaim this among the nations! Prepare for war! Stir up the mighty men. Let all the men of war draw near let them come up.

nsb@Joel:3:16 @ »Jehovah will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem. The heavens and the earth will shake: but Jehovah will be a refuge to his people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel.

nsb@Joel:3:19 @ »Egypt will be desolation, and Edom will be a desolate wilderness. This is because of the violence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

nsb@Amos:1:2 @ He said: »Jehovah roars from Zion! He utters his voice from Jerusalem! The pastures of the shepherds mourn for lack of water. The top of Carmel withers.«

nsb@Amos:1:3 @ »I will not hold back punishment,« said Jehovah, »For the many transgressions of Damascus. This is because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron.

nsb@Amos:1:11 @ Jehovah declared: »For three and four transgressions of Edom, I will not withdraw punishment. He pursued his brother with the sword. He showed no compassion but was driven with anger and eternal wrath.

nsb@Amos:1:15 @ »Their king and his princes will go into captivity,« said Jehovah.

nsb@Amos:2:4 @ Jehovah continued: »I will not withdraw punishment for the many transgressions of Judah. For they have rejected the Law of Jehovah! They have not kept his statutes. Their lies have led them astray, those after which their fathers walked.

nsb@Amos:2:7 @ »They pant after the dust of the earth on the head of lowly persons. They reject the humble! A man and his father have sexual relations with the same maiden, to profane my holy name.

nsb@Amos:2:9 @ »Before them I destroyed the Amorite. His height was like the height of the cedars. He was strong like the oaks. Yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath!

nsb@Amos:2:11 @ »I ordained some of your sons for prophets and some of your young men for Nazirites. Is this true, O you children of Israel?«: said Jehovah.

nsb@Amos:2:13 @ »Consider this, I will weigh you down just as a wagon is weighed down when it is full of grain.

nsb@Amos:2:14 @ »Flight will perish from the swift! The strong will not increase his strength. The mighty will not save himself.

nsb@Amos:3:1 @ Hear this word Jehovah spoke against you, O children of Israel! It is against the whole family that I brought out of the land of Egypt:

nsb@Amos:3:4 @ »Will a lion roar in the forest when he has no prey? Will a young lion cry out from his den if he has captured nothing?

nsb@Amos:3:7 @ »The Lord Jehovah will do nothing without revealing his secrets to his servants the prophets.

nsb@Amos:4:1 @ »Hear this word you cows of Bashan who live on the mountain of Samaria. You oppress the poor. You crush the needy. You say to your masters, »Bring us drink.«

nsb@Amos:4:2 @ »The Lord Jehovah has sworn by his holiness that the day will come when they will take you away with meat hooks, and those who remain with fish-hooks.

nsb@Amos:4:5 @ »Offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened. Proclaim freewill-offerings and make them known. This pleases you, O you children of Israel,« said the Lord Jehovah.

nsb@Amos:4:12 @ »This is what I will do to you, O Israel. Because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel!

nsb@Amos:4:13 @ »Behold he who formed the mountains and created the wind and declared to man his thoughts, also made the morning darkness and treads upon the high places of the Earth: Jehovah, the God of Hosts, is his name.«

nsb@Amos:5:1 @ Hear this word that I take up for a cry of sorrow over you, O house of Israel.

nsb@Amos:5:8 @ seek the creator of the cluster of stars named Pleiades and the star constellation Orion. He turns the shadow of death into morning, and makes the day dark with night. He calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the face of the earth. Jehovah is his name!

nsb@Amos:5:19 @ »Like a man who ran from a lion, and a bear met him! So he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

nsb@Amos:6:8 @ The Lord Jehovah has sworn by himself. Jehovah, the God of Hosts declares: »I abhor the pride of Jacob, and hate his palaces. Therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is in it.

nsb@Amos:7:1 @ This is what the Lord Jehovah showed me: Behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the sprouting of the second crop. It was the later growth after the king’s mowing.

nsb@Amos:7:3 @ Jehovah changed his mind about this. »It will not be,« said Jehovah.

nsb@Amos:7:6 @ Jehovah changed his mind concerning this: »This also will not be,« said the Lord Jehovah.

nsb@Amos:7:7 @ He showed me: and, behold, Jehovah stood beside a wall made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.

nsb@Amos:7:10 @ Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying: »Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words.«

nsb@Amos:7:11 @ Amos said: »Jeroboam will die by the sword. Israel will surely be led away captive out of his land.«

nsb@Amos:7:17 @ Jehovah proclaims: »Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword. Your land will be divided by measuring line. You will die in a land that is unclean. Israel will surely be led away captive out of his land.«

nsb@Amos:8:4 @ »Hear this, you who would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail.

nsb@Amos:8:8 @ »Will the land not tremble for this, and every one who dwells there mourn? I will rise up like the river. It will be troubled and sink again, like the River of Egypt.

nsb@Amos:9:6 @ »He builds his chambers in the heavens. He founded his dome over the earth. He calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the face of the earth. Jehovah is his name.

nsb@Obadiah:1:6 @ »How is Esau searched, his hidden treasures sought?

nsb@Obadiah:1:11 @ »In that day you stood on the other side! In that day strangers carried away his wealth. Foreigners entered his gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem! It was as if you were one of them!

nsb@Obadiah:1:14 @ »Do not stand in the way of those who escape and do not hand over his survivors in the day of distress.

nsb@Obadiah:1:20 @ »The captives of this host of the children of Israel among the Canaanites, will possess Zarephath. The captives of Jerusalem in Sepharad will possess the cities of the South.

nsb@Jonah:1:3 @ Jonah tried to run away from the presence of Jehovah. He went to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. He paid the fare and boarded it to go with them to Tarshish away from the presence of Jehovah.

nsb@Jonah:1:5 @ The sailors were so afraid that each man cried out to his own god. They threw the cargo that was on the ship into the sea to lighten the load. At that time Jonah was fast asleep down in the innermost parts of the ship.

nsb@Jonah:1:7 @ The sailors said to each other, »Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know whom to blame for this evil.« So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.

nsb@Jonah:1:8 @ Then they said to him, »Please tell us who is the cause of this evil? What is your occupation? Where do you come from? What is your country? What people are they?«

nsb@Jonah:1:10 @ Then the men were very afraid, and they asked: »What is this you have done?« For the men knew that he was running away from the presence of Jehovah, because he told them.

nsb@Jonah:1:14 @ So they cried to Jehovah, and said: »We earnestly request that you, O Jehovah, do not let us perish because of this man. Do not allow the loss of innocent blood! For you, O Jehovah, have done as you pleased.«

nsb@Jonah:2:1 @ Then Jonah prayed to Jehovah his God from inside the fish's belly.

nsb@Jonah:3:6 @ The news reached the king of Nineveh. He left his throne, and took off his robe and covered himself with sackcloth. Then he sat in ashes.

nsb@Jonah:3:7 @ He made proclamation and published it in Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying: »Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not eat, nor drink water.

nsb@Jonah:3:8 @ »Let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and beast. Let them sincerely call on God! Let them turn away each one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands.

nsb@Jonah:3:9 @ »Who knows whether God will turn back and change his mind, and turn away from his fierce anger that we will not perish?«

nsb@Jonah:4:2 @ He prayed to Jehovah: »I pray to you, O Jehovah, was this what I said, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish. Because I knew that you are a gracious God. You are merciful, slow to anger, abundant in loving kindness, and one who takes pity over calamity.

nsb@Jonah:4:6 @ And Jehovah God prepared a gourd plant. He made it grow up over Jonah. That way it would be a shade over his head. It would deliver him from his disastrous attitude. So Jonah was very glad to have the gourd plant.

nsb@Micah:1:1 @ The word of Jehovah that came to Micah of Moresheth in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. This is the vision he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem:

nsb@Micah:1:2 @ »Hear, all you peoples! Listen, O earth, and all who are in it! Let the Sovereign Lord Jehovah be a witness against you, Jehovah from his Holy Temple.

nsb@Micah:1:3 @ »For, behold, Jehovah comes out of his place! He comes down and treads upon the high places of the earth.

nsb@Micah:1:5 @ »This is because of the transgression of Jacob and the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? What is Judah’s high place? Is it not Jerusalem?

nsb@Micah:1:13 @ »Bind the chariot to the swift steed, O lady inhabitant of Lachish! You were the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion. The transgressions of Israel were found in you.

nsb@Micah:2:2 @ »They covet fields and seize them. They covet houses and confiscate them! They oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.«

nsb@Micah:2:3 @ Therefore Jehovah says: »Behold, against this family I plan bad things, from which you will not remove the burden. You will not be able to show pride for it is an evil time.

nsb@Micah:2:7 @ »Will it be said, O house of Jacob, ‘Is the Spirit of Jehovah impatient? Are these his doings? Do my words not do good for he who walks uprightly?’

nsb@Micah:2:10 @ »Get up and go because this is not your resting-place. Uncleanness brings on destruction, a painful destruction.

nsb@Micah:2:11 @ »If a man who is a constant liar tells a lie saying: ‘I will prophesy to you about wine and of strong drink;’ he would be the prophet of this people.

nsb@Micah:3:4 @ »They will cry to Jehovah but he will not answer them. In fact, he will hide his face from them at that time because they have done evil things.«

nsb@Micah:3:8 @ Jehovah’s Spirit fills me with power! I have judgment and mightiness to declare to Jacob, his evil behavior, to tell Israel about his sin!

nsb@Micah:3:9 @ Please hear this you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel. You who abhor justice, and pervert honesty!

nsb@Micah:4:2 @ Many nations will come. They will say: »Come you people, let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, and we will walk in his paths!« For out of Zion will go forth the law, and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.

nsb@Micah:4:4 @ Each man will sit under his vine and under his fig tree. No one will make them afraid! The mouth of Jehovah of Hosts has spoken.

nsb@Micah:4:12 @ »They do not know Jehovah’s thoughts. Neither do they understand his counsel. He has gathered them like the sheaves of cut grain to the threshing floor.

nsb@Micah:5:2 @ »You Bethlehem Ephrathah who are little to be among the thousands of Judah. Out of you one will come to me who is to be ruler in Israel! His origin is from of old, from everlasting.

nsb@Micah:5:3 @ »He will give them up, until the time that she who is giving birth delivers. Then the remainder of his brothers will return to the children of Israel.

nsb@Micah:5:4 @ »He will stand and shepherd his flock in the strength of Jehovah. They will abide in the majesty of the name of Jehovah his God! Now he will be great to the ends of the earth.

nsb@Micah:5:5 @ »This man will be our peace. When the Assyrian invades our land and tramples our palaces we will raise against him seven shepherds, and eight leaders of men.

nsb@Micah:6:2 @ Hear Jehovah’s indictment you mountains and you enduring foundations of the earth! Jehovah argues a case against his people. He will contend with Israel:

nsb@Micah:6:16 @ »The statutes of Omri and the works of the house of Ahab are observed. You walk in their counsels. I will make you desolation! The inhabitants will be hissed. You will bear the reproach of my people.«

nsb@Micah:7:2 @ The godly man has perished from the earth. There is none upright among men! They all lie in wait for blood. Every man hunts his own brother with a net.

nsb@Micah:7:3 @ They diligently seek to do evil with their hands. The prince asks and the judge is ready for a bribe. The great man utters his own evil desire. They weave it together.

nsb@Micah:7:6 @ The son dishonors the father. The daughter rises up against her mother and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man's enemies are the men of his own house.

nsb@Micah:7:9 @ I will bear the indignation of Jehovah, because I have sinned against him. He will plead my cause, and execute judgment for me. He will bring me forth to the light and I will see his righteousness.

nsb@Micah:7:18 @ Who is a God like you who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? You do not keep your anger forever, because you delight in loving-kindness.

nsb@Micah:7:20 @ You will give truth to Jacob, and show loving-kindness to Abraham. For you have sworn this to our fathers from the days of old.

nsb@Nahum:1:2 @ Jehovah is a zealous God requiring exclusive devotion. Jehovah takes vengeance against his adversaries. He reserves wrath against his enemies.

nsb@Nahum:1:3 @ Jehovah is slow to anger, and great in power! He will by no means reprieve the guilty. Jehovah has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm. The clouds are the dust of his feet.

nsb@Nahum:1:5 @ The mountains quake because of him, and the hills melt. The earth trembles at his presence, yes, the world, and all that dwells in it.

nsb@Nahum:1:6 @ Who can stand before his indignation? Who can resist the heat of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken to pieces by him.

nsb@Nahum:1:8 @ He will exterminate adversaries with an over flowing flood and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

nsb@Nahum:2:3 @ The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are dressed in scarlet: the chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the cypress tree are brandished.

nsb@Nahum:2:5 @ He remembers his majestic ones. They stumble as they march. They hurry to the wall to prepare the barricade.

nsb@Nahum:2:12 @ The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses. He filled his caves and dens with prey.

nsb@Nahum:3:4 @ This is because of Nineveh's constant prostitution, this very charming mistress of evil magic. She used to sell nations by her prostitution and people by her evil magic.

nsb@Habakkuk:1:1 @ This is the message Jehovah revealed to Habakkuk the prophet:

nsb@Habakkuk:1:15 @ He brings them all up with the hook. He gathers them away in his net. He gladly gathers them and rejoices.

nsb@Habakkuk:1:16 @ He offers sacrifices and burns incense to his fishing net. For it is through this their catch is great and the food is plentiful.

nsb@Habakkuk:2:6 @ »Will they all taunt him by directing clever sayings and riddles at him? They will say: How horrible it will be for the one who makes himself rich with what is not his own and makes himself wealthy on loans. How long will this go on?

nsb@Habakkuk:2:9 @ »He who receives a dishonest profit for his house will have trouble. He may set his nest on high in order to be delivered from the hand of evil!

nsb@Habakkuk:2:15 @ »Woe to anyone who gives his neighbors drink and empties his bottle. He makes them drunk and then looks on their nakedness.

nsb@Habakkuk:2:20 @ »Jehovah is in his Holy Temple. Let all the earth be silent before him.«

nsb@Habakkuk:3:3 @ God came from Teman. He is the Holy One from Mount Paran. His glory covered the heavens! The earth is full of his praise.

nsb@Habakkuk:3:4 @ His brightness is like the sun. He has rays of power coming from his hand! There was protection in his power.

nsb@Habakkuk:3:5 @ Before him go the pestilence, and fiery bolts go forth at his feet.

nsb@Habakkuk:3:6 @ He stood and measured the earth. He looked and agitated the nations. The everlasting mountains were shattered! The ancient hills collapsed. His ways are eternal!

nsb@Habakkuk:3:14 @ You pierced the head of his warriors. They came as a whirlwind to scatter me. They secretly devour the oppressed.

nsb@Zephaniah:1:1 @ This is the word Jehovah spoke to Zephaniah. Zephaniah was the son of Cushi, the grandson of Gedaliah, and the great-grandson of Amariah, son of Hezekiah. Jehovah spoke his word in the days of Judah's King Josiah, son of Amon.

nsb@Zephaniah:1:4 @ »I will use my power against Judah and against the inhabitants of Jerusalem. I will destroy followers of Baal in this place. I will remove the names of the pagan priests along with my priests.

nsb@Zephaniah:1:7 @ Be silent before the Sovereign Lord Jehovah! For the day of Jehovah is near! Jehovah has prepared a sacrifice. He has sanctified His guests.

nsb@Zephaniah:1:18 @ »Their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the Day of Jehovah’s anger. He will devour all the nations by the fire of his zeal! He will exterminate all the inhabitants of the earth!«

nsb@Zephaniah:2:3 @ Seek Jehovah all you meek ones of the earth, you who have obeyed his Law! Seek righteousness! Seek meekness that you may be hidden in the Day of Jehovah's anger. (Zephaniah strkjv@1:2) (Amos strkjv@5:15)

nsb@Zephaniah:2:10 @ »They will have this instead of their pride. This is because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Jehovah of Hosts.

nsb@Zephaniah:2:11 @ »Jehovah will fill them with fear for he will starve all the gods of the earth! Men will worship him, each one from his place, even the coastlands of the nations.

nsb@Zephaniah:2:13 @ »He will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria. He will make Nineveh a desolation. It will be barren like the desert wilderness.

nsb@Zephaniah:2:15 @ »This is the joyous city that dwelled in security. She said in her heart, ‘I am! There is no one else!’ She has become an object of desolation, a place for wild animals to lie down in. Every one who passes by her will hiss, and wag his hand.«

nsb@Zephaniah:3:7 @ »I said, show me respect and receive discipline! That way she would not loose her dwelling. This is according to all that I have appointed concerning her. But they rose early to corrupt all their deeds.«

nsb@Zephaniah:3:15 @ Jehovah has removed his judgments against you. He has turned aside your enemies. The King of Israel, Jehovah, is in your midst! You will fear calamity no more.

nsb@Zephaniah:3:17 @ »Jehovah your God is with you! He is a mighty one. He will exult over you with joy. He will refresh you with his love. He will rejoice over you with shouts of joy.

nsb@Zephaniah:3:20 @ »At that time I will bring you in! At that time I will gather you together. I will give you a name and praise among all the peoples of the earth! This will happen when I gather back your captive ones before your very eyes,« declares Jehovah.

nsb@Haggai:1:2 @ Jehovah of Hosts said to Haggai: »These people say that this is not the right time to rebuild the Temple.«

nsb@Haggai:1:4 @ »Is it time for you to dwell in your roofed and covered houses, while this house is desolate?«

nsb@Haggai:1:9 @ »You looked for much harvest and you received little. When you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?« Said Jehovah of Hosts. »Because my house lies in waste, while each of you run to his house.

nsb@Haggai:1:15 @ This was on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month of the second year that Darius was king.

nsb@Haggai:2:3 @ ‘Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How do you see it now? Is it nothing in your eyes?’

nsb@Haggai:2:7 @ »I will shake all the nations and make them afraid. The treasures of all the nations will be brought here. I will fill this house with glory.

nsb@Haggai:2:9 @ »The glory of this house will be greater than it was before. I will give my people peace.« Jehovah of Hosts has spoken.

nsb@Haggai:2:11 @ He said: »Ask the priests for a ruling on this question of law.

nsb@Haggai:2:12 @ »A man takes a piece of consecrated meat from a sacrifice and carries it in a fold of his robe. He then lets his robe touch any bread, cooked food, wine, olive oil, or any kind of food at all. Will it make that food consecrated also?« When the question was asked, the priests answered, »No.«

nsb@Haggai:2:13 @ Then Haggai asked: »This person is defiled because he has touched a dead body. If he then touches any of these foods, will that make them defiled too?« The priests answered, »Yes.«

nsb@Haggai:2:14 @ Then Haggai said: »Jehovah declared that the same thing applies to the people of this nation and to everything they produce; and so everything they offer on the altar is defiled.«

nsb@Zechariah:1:14 @ The angel said: »Call out, say, this is what Jehovah of Hosts has said: ‘I am zealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with intense ardor.

nsb@Zechariah:1:21 @ I asked: »What did these come to do?« He answered: »These are the horns that scattered Judah! No man lifted up his head for these came to terrify them. They will cast down the horns of the nations that lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.«

nsb@Zechariah:2:1 @ I lifted up my eyes and saw, behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand.

nsb@Zechariah:2:4 @ He said to him: »Run and speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem will be inhabited as villages without walls, by reason of the multitude of men and cattle there.«

nsb@Zechariah:2:8 @ »Jehovah of Hosts proclaims: ‘He sent me after glory! He sent me to the nations that plundered you. For he that touches you touches the pupil of his eye.’

nsb@Zechariah:2:12 @ Jehovah will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and will yet choose Jerusalem.

nsb@Zechariah:2:13 @ Be silent, all flesh, before Jehovah, for he is aroused out of his holy dwelling.

nsb@Zechariah:3:1 @ He showed me Joshua the high priest. Joshua was standing before the angel of Jehovah, and Satan was standing at his right hand to be his adversary.

nsb@Zechariah:3:2 @ Jehovah said to Satan: »Jehovah rebukes you, O Satan; yes, Jehovah, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebukes you. Is this a brand plucked out of the fire?«

nsb@Zechariah:3:5 @ I said: »Let them set a clean headdress upon his head.« So they set a clean headdress upon his head, and clothed him with garments. The angel of Jehovah was standing nearby.

nsb@Zechariah:3:10 @ »In that day,« said Jehovah of Hosts, »you will invite every man and his neighbor under the vine and under the fig tree.’«

nsb@Zechariah:4:6 @ He answered: »This is the word of Jehovah to Zerubbabel.« Then Jehovah of Hosts said: ‘Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit.’«

nsb@Zechariah:4:9 @ »The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house. His hands will also finish it! You should know that Jehovah of Hosts has sent me to you.

nsb@Zechariah:5:3 @ He continued: »This is the curse that is upon the land. Every one who steals will be acquitted. Every one who swears falsely will be innocent.«

nsb@Zechariah:5:4 @ »I will cause it to happen,« said Jehovah of Hosts, »and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of he who swears falsely by my name. The curse will abide in the midst of his house and will consume it with the timber and the stones of the house.«

nsb@Zechariah:5:5 @ Then the angel said: »Lift up your eyes and see what this is that goes forth.«

nsb@Zechariah:5:6 @ I asked: »What is it?« And he replied: »This is the ephah measure that goes forth. This is their appearance in all the land«

nsb@Zechariah:5:8 @ He said: »This is Wickedness.« He tossed her down into the middle of the ephah measure. He threw the weight of lead on the opening.

nsb@Zechariah:6:13 @ »Yes, he will build the Temple of Jehovah. He will receive the glory, and will sit and rule upon his throne. He will be a priest upon his throne and the counsel of peace will be between the two offices.

nsb@Zechariah:6:14 @ »And the crowns will be given to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah. This will be for a memorial in the Temple of Jehovah.

nsb@Zechariah:6:15 @ »Those who are far off will come and build in the Temple of Jehovah.« You will know that Jehovah of Hosts sent me to you. This will come to pass if you will diligently obey the voice of Jehovah your God.«

nsb@Zechariah:7:1 @ The word of Jehovah came to Zechariah in the fourth year of King Darius. It was the fourth day of the ninth month that is Chislev.

nsb@Zechariah:7:9 @ »Jehovah of Hosts has spoken: Every man should execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion to his brother!

nsb@Zechariah:7:12 @ »They made their hearts hard like flint and would not listen to the law, and the words that Jehovah of Hosts sent by his Spirit through the former prophets. Great anger came from Jehovah of Hosts!«

nsb@Zechariah:8:6 @ Jehovah of hosts proclaims: »If it is marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be marvelous in my eyes?« Said Jehovah of Hosts.

nsb@Zechariah:8:10 @ »Before those days, there was no wage for man or beast. The enemy set everyone against his neighbor and going or coming there was no peace.«

nsb@Zechariah:8:11 @ »I will not treat the remnant of this people the same as it was in the former days,« said Jehovah of Hosts.

nsb@Zechariah:8:12 @ »There will be peace for the seed. The vine will give its fruit. The ground will yield its increase. The heavens will offer their dew and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things!

nsb@Zechariah:8:16 @ »These are the things that you should do. Every man should speak the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates.

nsb@Zechariah:8:17 @ »Let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor. Do not love a false oath: for all these are things that I hate,« said Jehovah.

nsb@Zechariah:9:7 @ »And I will remove his blood from his mouth, and his detestable things from between his teeth. He will remain for our God. He will be like a chieftain in Judah, and in Ekron like a Jebusite.

nsb@Zechariah:9:10 @ »I will destroy the war chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem. The battle bow will be dismantled. He will speak peace to the nations! His dominion will be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.

nsb@Zechariah:9:11 @ »I set your prisoners free from the waterless pit. This is because of the blood of your covenant!

nsb@Zechariah:9:14 @ »Jehovah will be seen over them. His arrow will go forth like lightning! The Sovereign Lord Jehovah will blow the trumpet and will go with windstorms of the south.

nsb@Zechariah:9:16 @ »Jehovah their God will save them in that day like the flock of his people. They will be like the stones in a crown lifted high over his land.

nsb@Zechariah:9:17 @ »How great is his goodness! How great is his beauty! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.«

nsb@Zechariah:10:3 @ »I am angry with the shepherds! I will punish the male goats. Jehovah of Hosts visited his flock, the house of Judah. He will make them as his majestic horse in the battle.

nsb@Zechariah:10:8 @ »I will whistle for them, and gather them. I have redeemed them and they will increase the same as they have increased.

nsb@Zechariah:10:12 @ »I will strengthen them in Jehovah and they will walk in his name,« declared Jehovah.

nsb@Zechariah:11:6 @ »I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land,« said Jehovah. »I will deliver every one into his neighbor's hand, and into the hand of his king. They will strike the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.

nsb@Zechariah:11:11 @ It was broken in that day. In this way, the poor of the flock listened to me and knew that it was the word of Jehovah.

nsb@Zechariah:11:16 @ »Warning! I will allow a shepherd in the land, who will not visit those who are perishing, and will not seek those that are scattered. This shepherd will not heal that which is broken, nor feed that which is hungry. He will eat the flesh of the fat sheep, and will tear their hoofs in pieces.

nsb@Zechariah:11:17 @ »Woe to the worthless shepherd that leaves the flock! The sword will be upon his arm, and upon his right eye. His arm will be withered and dried up, and his right eye will be blind.«

nsb@Zechariah:12:4 @ »In that day,« said Jehovah, »I will strike every horse with terror and his rider with madness! I will watch the house of Judah. Every horse of the people will be struck with blindness.

nsb@Zechariah:12:10 @ »I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of kindness and of supplication. They will look to the one whom they pierced; and they will mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son. There will be a bitter lamentation for him, like one who grieves for his first-born.

nsb@Zechariah:13:4 @ »It will happen! The prophets, each one of them will be ashamed of his vision and his prophesy. They will not wear a hairy mantle to deceive.

nsb@Zechariah:14:4 @ »His feet will stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east. The Mount of Olives will be split in half toward the east and toward the west. There will be a very large valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

nsb@Zechariah:14:9 @ »Jehovah will be King over all the earth. Jehovah will be the only one and his name will be the only one in that day.

nsb@Zechariah:14:13 @ »It will happen! A great tumult from Jehovah will fall on them. Everyone of them will lay hold on the hand of his neighbor, and his hand will rise up against the hand of his neighbor.

nsb@Zechariah:14:15 @ »This will be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the donkey, and of all the beasts that will be in those camps, as that plague.

nsb@Zechariah:14:19 @ »This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that do not keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

nsb@Malachi:1:1 @ This is Jehovah’s Word, a divine revelation to Israel through His Messenger, Malachi:

nsb@Malachi:1:3 @ »And yet I hated Esau and his descendants. I devastated Esau's hill country and abandoned his inheritance to the desert jackals.«

nsb@Malachi:1:5 @ The people of Israel will see this with their own eyes. They will say: Jehovah is mighty even outside the land of Israel!«

nsb@Malachi:1:7 @ »This is how you despise me. You offer worthless food on my altar. Then you ask: ‘How have we failed to respect you?’ I tell you it is by showing contempt for my altar.

nsb@Malachi:1:13 @ »And you say: ‘We are tired of all this!’ You turn up your nose at me. You offer the lame and the sick and even stolen animals,« said Jehovah. »Do you think I will accept that from you?

nsb@Malachi:1:14 @ »The cheater who sacrifices a worthless animal to me will be cursed. For he has in his flock a good animal that he promised to give me! I am a great King,« Jehovah of Hosts declares. »People of all nations will respect my name!«

nsb@Malachi:2:1 @ »This command is for you.

nsb@Malachi:2:4 @ »You will know I sent this commandment to you! This way my covenant with Levi will continue,« said Jehovah of Hosts.

nsb@Malachi:2:6 @ »The law of truth was in his mouth. Unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness. He turned many away from iniquity.

nsb@Malachi:2:12 @ »Jehovah will remove from the community of Israel those who did this. They will never again participate in the national offerings to Jehovah of Hosts.

nsb@Malachi:2:13 @ »Another thing you do is drown Jehovah’s altar with tears, weeping and wailing. This is because he no longer accepts the offerings you bring him.

nsb@Malachi:2:16 @ ‘»I hate divorce and he who covers his garment with violence,’ said Jehovah, the God of Israel. Jehovah of Hosts declares: ‘Guard yourselves and do not deal treacherously.’«

nsb@Malachi:3:1 @ »Behold, I send my messenger! He will prepare the way before me. Seek Jehovah! He will suddenly come to his Temple along with the messenger of the covenant. He is one you desire, behold, he comes,« said Jehovah of Hosts.

nsb@Malachi:3:2 @ »Who can endure the day of his coming? Who can stand when he appears? He is like a refiner's fire and like laundry soap.

nsb@Malachi:3:16 @ Those who respected Jehovah spoke to one another, and Jehovah listened to what they had to say. In his presence a memorial record was written down in a book listing those who reverence Jehovah and respect his name.

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