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jps@Genesis:1:3 @ And God said: 'Let there be light.' And there was light.

jps@Genesis:1:6 @ And God said: 'Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.'

jps@Genesis:1:9 @ And God said: 'Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear.' And it was so.

jps@Genesis:1:11 @ And God said: 'Let the earth put forth grass, herb yielding seed, and fruit-tree bearing fruit after its kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon the earth.' And it was so.

jps@Genesis:1:14 @ And God said: 'Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;

jps@Genesis:1:20 @ And God said: 'Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let fowl fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.'

jps@Genesis:1:24 @ And God said: 'Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after its kind.' And it was so.

jps@Genesis:1:26 @ And God said: 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.'

jps@Genesis:1:28 @ And God blessed them; and God said unto them: 'Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that creepeth upon the earth.'

jps@Genesis:1:29 @ And God said: 'Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed--to you it shall be for food;

jps@Genesis:2:18 @ And the LORD God said: 'It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.'

jps@Genesis:2:23 @ And the man said: 'This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.'

jps@Genesis:3:1 @ Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman: 'Yea, hath God said: Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'

jps@Genesis:3:2 @ And the woman said unto the serpent: 'Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat;

jps@Genesis:3:3 @ but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said: Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.'

jps@Genesis:3:4 @ And the serpent said unto the woman: 'Ye shall not surely die;

jps@Genesis:3:9 @ And the LORD God called unto the man, and said unto him: 'Where art thou?'

jps@Genesis:3:10 @ And he said: 'I heard Thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.'

jps@Genesis:3:11 @ And He said: 'Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?'

jps@Genesis:3:12 @ And the man said: 'The woman whom Thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.'

jps@Genesis:3:13 @ And the LORD God said unto the woman: 'What is this thou hast done?' And the woman said: 'The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.'

jps@Genesis:3:14 @ And the LORD God said unto the serpent: 'Because thou hast done this, cursed art thou from among all cattle, and from among all beasts of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.

jps@Genesis:3:16 @ Unto the woman He said: 'I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy travail; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.'

jps@Genesis:3:17 @ And unto Adam He said: 'Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying: Thou shalt not eat of it; cursed is the ground for thy sake; in toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.

jps@Genesis:3:22 @ And the LORD God said: 'Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever.'

jps@Genesis:4:1 @ And the man knew Eve his wife; and she conceived and bore Cain, and said: 'I have gotten a man with the help of the LORD.'

jps@Genesis:4:6 @ And the LORD said unto Cain: 'Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?

jps@Genesis:4:9 @ And the LORD said unto Cain: 'Where is Abel thy brother?' And he said: 'I know not; am I my brother's keeper?'

jps@Genesis:4:10 @ And He said: 'What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto Me from the ground.

jps@Genesis:4:13 @ And Cain said unto the LORD: 'My punishment is greater than I can bear.

jps@Genesis:4:15 @ And the LORD said unto him: 'Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.' And the LORD set a sign for Cain, lest any finding him should smite him.

jps@Genesis:4:23 @ And Lamech said unto his wives: Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech; for I have slain a man for wounding me, and a young man for bruising me;

jps@Genesis:6:3 @ And the LORD said: 'My spirit shall not abide in man for ever, for that he also is flesh; therefore shall his days be a hundred and twenty years.'

jps@Genesis:6:7 @ And the LORD said: 'I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and creeping thing, and fowl of the air; for it repenteth Me that I have made them.'

jps@Genesis:6:13 @ And God said unto Noah: 'The end of all flesh is come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

jps@Genesis:7:1 @ And the LORD said unto Noah: 'Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before Me in this generation.

jps@Genesis:8:21 @ And the LORD smelled the sweet savour; and the LORD said in His heart: 'I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

jps@Genesis:9:1 @ And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them: 'Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth.

jps@Genesis:9:12 @ And God said: 'This is the token of the covenant which I make between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:

jps@Genesis:9:17 @ And God said unto Noah: 'This is the token of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is upon the earth.'

jps@Genesis:9:25 @ And he said: Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

jps@Genesis:9:26 @ And he said: Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem; and let Canaan be their servant.

jps@Genesis:10:9 @ He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; wherefore it is said: 'Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the LORD.'

jps@Genesis:11:3 @ And they said one to another: 'Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly.' And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.

jps@Genesis:11:4 @ And they said: 'Come, let us build us a city, and a tower, with its top in heaven, and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.'

jps@Genesis:11:6 @ And the LORD said: 'Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do; and now nothing will be withholden from them, which they purpose to do.

jps@Genesis:12:1 @ Now the LORD said unto Abram: 'Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto the land that I will show thee.

jps@Genesis:12:7 @ And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said: 'Unto thy seed will I give this land'; and he builded there an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.

jps@Genesis:12:11 @ And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife: 'Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon.

jps@Genesis:12:18 @ And Pharaoh called Abram, and said: 'What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?

jps@Genesis:12:19 @ Why saidst thou: She is my sister? so that I took her to be my wife; now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.'

jps@Genesis:13:8 @ And Abram said unto Lot: 'Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we are brethren.

jps@Genesis:13:14 @ And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him: 'Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward and southward and eastward and westward;

jps@Genesis:14:19 @ And he blessed him, and said: 'Blessed be Abram of God Most High, Maker of heaven and earth;

jps@Genesis:14:21 @ And the king of Sodom said unto Abram: 'Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.'

jps@Genesis:14:22 @ And Abram said to the king of Sodom: 'I have lifted up my hand unto the LORD, God Most High, Maker of heaven and earth,

jps@Genesis:15:2 @ And Abram said: 'O Lord GOD, what wilt Thou give me, seeing I go hence childless, and he that shall be possessor of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?'

jps@Genesis:15:3 @ And Abram said: 'Behold, to me Thou hast given no seed, and, lo, one born in my house is to be mine heir.'

jps@Genesis:15:5 @ And He brought him forth abroad, and said: 'Look now toward heaven, and count the stars, if thou be able to count them'; and He said unto him: 'So shall thy seed be.'

jps@Genesis:15:7 @ And He said unto him: 'I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.'

jps@Genesis:15:8 @ And he said: 'O Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?'

jps@Genesis:15:9 @ And He said unto him: 'Take Me a heifer of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon.'

jps@Genesis:15:13 @ And He said unto Abram: 'Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

jps@Genesis:16:2 @ And Sarai said unto Abram: 'Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing; go in, I pray thee, unto my handmaid; it may be that I shall be builded up through her.' And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.

jps@Genesis:16:5 @ And Sarai said unto Abram: 'My wrong be upon thee: I gave my handmaid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.'

jps@Genesis:16:6 @ But Abram said unto Sarai: 'Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her that which is good in thine eyes.' And Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.

jps@Genesis:16:8 @ And he said: 'Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, whence camest thou? and whither goest thou?' And she said: 'I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.'

jps@Genesis:16:9 @ And the angel of the LORD said unto her: 'Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.'

jps@Genesis:16:10 @ And the angel of the LORD said unto her: 'I will greatly multiply thy seed, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

jps@Genesis:16:11 @ And the angel of the LORD said unto her: 'Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son; and thou shalt call his name Ishmael, because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.

jps@Genesis:16:13 @ And she called the name of the LORD that spoke unto her, Thou art a God of seeing; for she said: 'Have I even here seen Him that seeth Me?'

jps@Genesis:17:1 @ And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him: 'I am God Almighty; walk before Me, and be thou wholehearted.

jps@Genesis:17:9 @ And God said unto Abraham: 'And as for thee, thou shalt keep My covenant, thou, and thy seed after thee throughout their generations.

jps@Genesis:17:15 @ And God said unto Abraham: 'As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.

jps@Genesis:17:17 @ Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart: 'Shall a child be born unto him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?'

jps@Genesis:17:18 @ And Abraham said unto God: 'Oh that Ishmael might live before Thee!'

jps@Genesis:17:19 @ And God said: Nay, but Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son; and thou shalt call his name Isaac; and I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.

jps@Genesis:17:23 @ And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.

jps@Genesis:18:3 @ and said: 'My lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant.

jps@Genesis:18:5 @ And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and stay ye your heart; after that ye shall pass on; forasmuch as ye are come to your servant.' And they said: 'So do, as thou hast said.'

jps@Genesis:18:6 @ And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said: 'Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.'

jps@Genesis:18:9 @ And they said unto him: 'Where is Sarah thy wife?' And he said: 'Behold, in the tent.'

jps@Genesis:18:10 @ And He said: 'I will certainly return unto thee when the season cometh round; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son.' And Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.--

jps@Genesis:18:13 @ And the LORD said unto Abraham: 'Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying: Shall I of a surety bear a child, who am old?

jps@Genesis:18:15 @ Then Sarah denied, saying: 'I laughed not'; for she was afraid. And He said: 'Nay; but thou didst laugh.'

jps@Genesis:18:17 @ And the LORD said: 'Shall I hide from Abraham that which I am doing;

jps@Genesis:18:20 @ And the LORD said: 'Verily, the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and, verily, their sin is exceeding grievous.

jps@Genesis:18:23 @ And Abraham drew near, and said: 'Wilt Thou indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked?

jps@Genesis:18:26 @ And the LORD said: 'If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will forgive all the place for their sake.'

jps@Genesis:18:27 @ And Abraham answered and said: 'Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.

jps@Genesis:18:28 @ Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous; wilt Thou destroy all the city for lack of five?' And He said: 'I will not destroy it, if I find there forty and five.'

jps@Genesis:18:29 @ And he spoke unto Him yet again, and said: 'Peradventure there shall be forty found there.' And He said: 'I will not do it for the forty's sake.'

jps@Genesis:18:30 @ And he said: 'Oh, let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak. Peradventure there shall thirty be found there.' And He said: 'I will not do it, if I find thirty there.'

jps@Genesis:18:31 @ And he said: 'Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord. Peradventure there shall be twenty found there.' And He said: 'I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake.'

jps@Genesis:18:32 @ And he said: 'Oh, let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once. Peradventure ten shall be found there.' And He said: 'I will not destroy it for the ten's sake.'

jps@Genesis:19:2 @ and he said: 'Behold now, my lords, turn aside, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your way.' And they said: 'Nay; but we will abide in the broad place all night.'

jps@Genesis:19:5 @ And they called unto Lot, and said unto him: 'Where are the men that came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.'

jps@Genesis:19:7 @ And he said: 'I pray you, my brethren, do not so wickedly.

jps@Genesis:19:9 @ And they said: 'Stand back.' And they said: 'This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs play the judge; now will we deal worse with thee, than with them.' And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and drew near to break the door.

jps@Genesis:19:12 @ And the men said unto Lot: 'Hast thou here any besides? son-in-law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whomsoever thou hast in the city; bring them out of the place;

jps@Genesis:19:14 @ And Lot went out, and spoke unto his sons-in-law, who married his daughters, and said: 'Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy the city.' But he seemed unto his sons-in-law as one that jested.

jps@Genesis:19:17 @ And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said: 'Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the Plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be swept away.'

jps@Genesis:19:18 @ And Lot said unto them: 'Oh, not so, my lord;

jps@Genesis:19:21 @ And he said unto him: 'See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which thou hast spoken.

jps@Genesis:19:31 @ And the first-born said unto the younger: 'Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth.

jps@Genesis:19:34 @ And it came to pass on the morrow, that the first-born said unto the younger: 'Behold, I lay yesternight with my father. Let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.'

jps@Genesis:20:2 @ And Abraham said of Sarah his wife: 'She is my sister.' And Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

jps@Genesis:20:3 @ But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him: 'Behold, thou shalt die, because of the woman whom thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife.'

jps@Genesis:20:4 @ Now Abimelech had not come near her; and he said: 'Lord, wilt Thou slay even a righteous nation?

jps@Genesis:20:5 @ Said he not himself unto me: She is my sister? and she, even she herself said: He is my brother. In the simplicity of my heart and the innocency of my hands have I done this.'

jps@Genesis:20:6 @ And God said unto him in the dream: 'Yea, I know that in the simplicity of thy heart thou hast done this, and I also withheld thee from sinning against Me. Therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.

jps@Genesis:20:9 @ Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him: 'What hast thou done unto us? and wherein have I sinned against thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done.'

jps@Genesis:20:10 @ And Abimelech said unto Abraham: 'What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing?'

jps@Genesis:20:11 @ And Abraham said: 'Because I thought: Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake.

jps@Genesis:20:13 @ And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said unto her: This is thy kindness which thou shalt show unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me: He is my brother.'

jps@Genesis:20:15 @ And Abimelech said: 'Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.'

jps@Genesis:20:16 @ And unto Sarah he said: 'Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver; behold, it is for thee a covering of the eyes to all that are with thee; and before all men thou art righted.'

jps@Genesis:21:1 @ And the LORD remembered Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as He had spoken.

jps@Genesis:21:6 @ And Sarah said: 'God hath made laughter for me; every one that heareth will laugh on account of me.'

jps@Genesis:21:7 @ And she said: 'Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should give children suck? for I have borne him a son in his old age.'

jps@Genesis:21:10 @ Wherefore she said unto Abraham: 'Cast out this bondwoman and her son; for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.'

jps@Genesis:21:12 @ And God said unto Abraham: 'Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah saith unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall seed be called to thee.

jps@Genesis:21:16 @ And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bow-shot; for she said: 'Let me not look upon the death of the child.' And she sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.

jps@Genesis:21:17 @ And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her: 'What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.

jps@Genesis:21:24 @ And Abraham said: 'I will swear.'

jps@Genesis:21:26 @ And Abimelech said: 'I know not who hath done this thing; neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to-day.'

jps@Genesis:21:29 @ And Abimelech said unto Abraham: 'What mean these seven ewe-lambs which thou hast set by themselves?'

jps@Genesis:21:30 @ And he said: 'Verily, these seven ewe-lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that it may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.'

jps@Genesis:22:1 @ And it came to pass after these things, that God did prove Abraham, and said unto him: 'Abraham'; and he said: 'Here am I.'

jps@Genesis:22:2 @ And He said: 'Take now thy son, thine only son, whom thou lovest, even Isaac, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt-offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.'

jps@Genesis:22:5 @ And Abraham said unto his young men: 'Abide ye here with the ass, and I and the lad will go yonder; and we will worship, and come back to you.'

jps@Genesis:22:7 @ And Isaac spoke unto Abraham his father, and said: 'My father.' And he said: 'Here am I, my son.' And he said: 'Behold the fire and the wood; but where is the lamb for a burnt-offering?'

jps@Genesis:22:8 @ And Abraham said: 'God will provide Himself the lamb for a burnt-offering, my son.' So they went both of them together.

jps@Genesis:22:11 @ And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said: 'Abraham, Abraham.' And he said: 'Here am I.'

jps@Genesis:22:12 @ And he said: 'Lay not thy hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him; for now I know that thou art a God-fearing man, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from Me.'

jps@Genesis:22:14 @ And Abraham called the name of that place Adonai-jireh; as it is said to this day: 'In the mount where the LORD is seen.'

jps@Genesis:22:16 @ and said: 'By Myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son,

jps@Genesis:24:2 @ And Abraham said unto his servant, the elder of his house, that ruled over all that he had: 'Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh.

jps@Genesis:24:5 @ And the servant said unto him: 'Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land; must I needs bring thy son back unto the land from whence thou camest?'

jps@Genesis:24:6 @ And Abraham said unto him: 'Beware thou that thou bring not my son back thither.

jps@Genesis:24:12 @ And he said: 'O LORD, the God of my master Abraham, send me, I pray Thee, good speed this day, and show kindness unto my master Abraham.

jps@Genesis:24:17 @ And the servant ran to meet her, and said: 'Give me to drink, I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher.'

jps@Genesis:24:18 @ And she said: 'Drink, my lord'; and she hastened, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.

jps@Genesis:24:19 @ And when she had done giving him drink, she said: 'I will draw for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.'

jps@Genesis:24:23 @ and said: 'Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee. Is there room in thy father's house for us to lodge in?'

jps@Genesis:24:24 @ And she said unto him: 'I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore unto Nahor.'

jps@Genesis:24:25 @ She said moreover unto him: 'We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.'

jps@Genesis:24:27 @ And he said: 'Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who hath not forsaken His mercy and His truth toward my master; as for me, the LORD hath led me in the way to the house of my master's brethren.'

jps@Genesis:24:31 @ And he said: 'Come in, thou blessed of the LORD; wherefore standest thou without? for I have cleared the house, and made room for the camels.'

jps@Genesis:24:33 @ And there was set food before him to eat; but he said: 'I will not eat, until I have told mine errand.' And he said: 'Speak on.'

jps@Genesis:24:34 @ And he said: 'I am Abraham's servant.

jps@Genesis:24:39 @ And I said unto my master: Peradventure the woman will not follow me.

jps@Genesis:24:40 @ And he said unto me: The LORD, before whom I walk, will send His angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father's house;

jps@Genesis:24:42 @ And I came this day unto the fountain, and said: O LORD, the God of my master Abraham, if now Thou do prosper my way which I go:

jps@Genesis:24:45 @ And before I had done speaking to my heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down unto the fountain, and drew. And I said unto her: Let me drink, I pray thee.

jps@Genesis:24:46 @ And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said: Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also. So I drank, and she made the camels drink also.

jps@Genesis:24:47 @ And I asked her, and said: Whose daughter art thou? And she said: The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bore unto him. And I put the ring upon her nose, and the bracelets upon her hands.

jps@Genesis:24:50 @ Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said: 'The thing proceedeth from the LORD; we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.

jps@Genesis:24:54 @ And they did eat and drink, he and the men that were with him, and tarried all night; and they rose up in the morning, and he said: 'Send me away unto my master.'

jps@Genesis:24:55 @ And her brother and her mother said: 'Let the damsel abide with us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go.'

jps@Genesis:24:56 @ And he said unto them: 'Delay me not, seeing the LORD hath prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master.'

jps@Genesis:24:57 @ And they said: 'We will call the damsel, and inquire at her mouth.'

jps@Genesis:24:58 @ And they called Rebekah, and said unto her: 'Wilt thou go with this man?' And she said: 'I will go.'

jps@Genesis:24:60 @ And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her: 'Our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let thy seed possess the gate of those that hate them.'

jps@Genesis:24:65 @ And she said unto the servant: 'What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us?' And the servant said: 'It is my master.' And she took her veil, and covered herself.

jps@Genesis:25:22 @ And the children struggled together within her; and she said: 'If it be so, wherefore do I live?' And she went to inquire of the LORD.

jps@Genesis:25:23 @ And the LORD said unto her: Two nations are in thy womb, and two peoples shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.

jps@Genesis:25:30 @ And Esau said to Jacob: 'Let me swallow, I pray thee, some of this red, red pottage; for I am faint.' Therefore was his name called Edom.

jps@Genesis:25:31 @ And Jacob said: 'Sell me first thy birthright.'

jps@Genesis:25:32 @ And Esau said: 'Behold, I am at the point to die; and what profit shall the birthright do to me?'

jps@Genesis:25:33 @ And Jacob said: 'Swear to me first'; and he swore unto him; and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.

jps@Genesis:26:2 @ And the LORD appeared unto him, and said: 'Go not down unto Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of.

jps@Genesis:26:7 @ And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said: 'She is my sister'; for he feared to say: 'My wife'; 'lest the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah, because she is fair to look upon.'

jps@Genesis:26:9 @ And Abimelech called Isaac, and said: 'Behold, of a surety she is thy wife; and how saidst thou: She is my sister?' And Isaac said unto him: 'Because I said: Lest I die because of her.'

jps@Genesis:26:10 @ And Abimelech said: 'What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might easily have lain with thy wife, and thou wouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.'

jps@Genesis:26:16 @ And Abimelech said unto Isaac: 'Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.'

jps@Genesis:26:22 @ And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not. And he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said: 'For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.'

jps@Genesis:26:24 @ And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said: 'I am the God of Abraham thy father. Fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for My servant Abraham's sake.'

jps@Genesis:26:27 @ And Isaac said unto them: 'Wherefore are ye come unto me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?'

jps@Genesis:26:28 @ And they said: 'We saw plainly that the LORD was with thee; and we said: Let there now be an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;

jps@Genesis:26:32 @ And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him: 'We have found water.'

jps@Genesis:27:1 @ And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said unto him: 'My son'; and he said unto him: 'Here am I.'

jps@Genesis:27:2 @ And he said: 'Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death.

jps@Genesis:27:11 @ And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother: 'Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.

jps@Genesis:27:13 @ And his mother said unto him: 'Upon me be thy curse, my son; only hearken to my voice, and go fetch me them.'

jps@Genesis:27:18 @ And he came unto his father, and said: 'My father'; and he said: 'Here am I; who art thou, my son?'

jps@Genesis:27:19 @ And Jacob said unto his father: 'I am Esau thy first-born; I have done according as thou badest me. Arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.'

jps@Genesis:27:20 @ And Isaac said unto his son: 'How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son?' And he said: 'Because the LORD thy God sent me good speed.'

jps@Genesis:27:21 @ And Isaac said unto Jacob: 'Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not.'

jps@Genesis:27:22 @ And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said: 'The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.'

jps@Genesis:27:24 @ And he said: 'Art thou my very son Esau?' And he said: 'I am.'

jps@Genesis:27:25 @ And he said: 'Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee.' And he brought it near to him, and he did eat; and he brought him wine, and he drank.

jps@Genesis:27:26 @ And his father Isaac said unto him: 'Come near now, and kiss me, my son.'

jps@Genesis:27:27 @ And he came near, and kissed him. And he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said: See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed.

jps@Genesis:27:31 @ And he also made savoury food, and brought it unto his father; and he said unto his father: 'Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me.'

jps@Genesis:27:32 @ And Isaac his father said unto him: 'Who art thou?' And he said: 'I am thy son, thy first-born, Esau.'

jps@Genesis:27:33 @ And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said: 'Who then is he that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him? yea, and he shall be blessed.'

jps@Genesis:27:34 @ When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceeding great and bitter cry, and said unto his father: 'Bless me, even me also, O my father.'

jps@Genesis:27:35 @ And he said: 'Thy brother came with guile, and hath taken away thy blessing.'

jps@Genesis:27:36 @ And he said: 'Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing.' And he said: 'Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?'

jps@Genesis:27:37 @ And Isaac answered and said unto Esau: 'Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him; and what then shall I do for thee, my son?'

jps@Genesis:27:38 @ And Esau said unto his father: 'Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, even me also, O my father.' And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.

jps@Genesis:27:39 @ And Isaac his father answered and said unto him: Behold, of the fat places of the earth shall be thy dwelling, and of the dew of heaven from above;

jps@Genesis:27:41 @ And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him. And Esau said in his heart: 'Let the days of mourning for my father be at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.'

jps@Genesis:27:42 @ And the words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah; and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him: 'Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to kill thee.

jps@Genesis:27:46 @ And Rebekah said to Isaac: 'I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?'

jps@Genesis:28:1 @ And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him: 'Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

jps@Genesis:28:13 @ And, behold, the LORD stood beside him, and said: 'I am the LORD, the God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed.

jps@Genesis:28:16 @ And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said: 'Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not.'

jps@Genesis:28:17 @ And he was afraid, and said: 'How full of awe is this place! this is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.'

jps@Genesis:29:4 @ And Jacob said unto them: 'My brethren, whence are ye?' And they said: 'Of Haran are we.'

jps@Genesis:29:5 @ And he said unto them: 'Know ye Laban the son of Nahor?' And they said: 'We know him.'

jps@Genesis:29:6 @ And he said unto them: 'Is it well with him?' And they said: 'It is well; and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep.'

jps@Genesis:29:7 @ And he said: 'Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it time that the cattle should be gathered together; water ye the sheep, and go and feed them.'

jps@Genesis:29:8 @ And they said: 'We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well's mouth; then we water the sheep.'

jps@Genesis:29:14 @ And Laban said to him: 'Surely thou art my bone and my flesh.' And he abode with him the space of a month.

jps@Genesis:29:15 @ And Laban said unto Jacob: 'Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be?'

jps@Genesis:29:18 @ And Jacob loved Rachel; and he said: 'I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.'

jps@Genesis:29:19 @ And Laban said: 'It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man; abide with me.'

jps@Genesis:29:21 @ And Jacob said unto Laban: 'Give me my wife, for my days are filled, that I may go in unto her.'

jps@Genesis:29:25 @ And it came to pass in the morning that, behold, it was Leah; and he said to Laban: 'What is this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?'

jps@Genesis:29:26 @ And Laban said: 'It is not so done in our place, to give the younger before the first-born.

jps@Genesis:29:32 @ And Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben; for she said: 'Because the LORD hath looked upon my affliction; for now my husband will love me.'

jps@Genesis:29:33 @ And she conceived again, and bore a son; and said: 'Because the LORD hath heard that I am hated, He hath therefore given me this son also.' And she called his name Simeon.

jps@Genesis:29:34 @ And she conceived again, and bore a son; and said: 'Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have borne him three sons.' Therefore was his name called Levi.

jps@Genesis:29:35 @ And she conceived again, and bore a son; and she said: 'This time will I praise the LORD.' Therefore she called his name Judah; and she left off bearing.

jps@Genesis:30:1 @ And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and she said unto Jacob: 'Give me children, or else I die.'

jps@Genesis:30:2 @ And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel; and he said: 'Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?'

jps@Genesis:30:3 @ And she said: 'Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; that she may bear upon my knees, and I also may be builded up through her.'

jps@Genesis:30:6 @ And Rachel said: 'God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son.' Therefore called she his name Daniel.

jps@Genesis:30:8 @ And Rachel said: 'With mighty wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed.' And she called his name Naphtali.

jps@Genesis:30:11 @ And Leah said: 'Fortune is come!' And she called his name Gad.

jps@Genesis:30:13 @ And Leah said: 'Happy am I! for the daughters will call me happy.' And she called his name Asher.

jps@Genesis:30:14 @ And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah: 'Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.'

jps@Genesis:30:15 @ And she said unto her: 'Is it a small matter that thou hast taken away my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's mandrakes also?' And Rachel said: 'Therefore he shall lie with thee to-night for thy son's mandrakes.'

jps@Genesis:30:16 @ And Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said: 'Thou must come in unto me; for I have surely hired thee with my son's mandrakes.' And he lay with her that night.

jps@Genesis:30:18 @ And Leah said: 'God hath given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband. And she called his name Issachar.

jps@Genesis:30:20 @ And Leah said: 'God hath endowed me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons.' And she called his name Zebulun.

jps@Genesis:30:23 @ And she conceived, and bore a son, and said: 'God hath taken away my reproach.'

jps@Genesis:30:25 @ And it came to pass, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban: 'Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country.

jps@Genesis:30:27 @ And Laban said unto him: 'If now I have found favour in thine eyes--I have observed the signs, and the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake.'

jps@Genesis:30:28 @ And he said: 'Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.'

jps@Genesis:30:29 @ And he said unto him: 'Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle have fared with me.

jps@Genesis:30:31 @ And he said: 'What shall I give thee?' And Jacob said: 'Thou shalt not give me aught; if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed thy flock and keep it.

jps@Genesis:30:34 @ And Laban said: 'Behold, would it might be according to thy word.'

jps@Genesis:31:3 @ And the LORD said unto Jacob: 'Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.'

jps@Genesis:31:5 @ and said unto them: 'I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as beforetime; but the God of my father hath been with me.

jps@Genesis:31:8 @ If he said thus: The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the flock bore speckled; and if he said thus: The streaked shall be thy wages; then bore all the flock streaked.

jps@Genesis:31:11 @ And the angel of God said unto me in the dream: Jacob; and I said: Here am I.

jps@Genesis:31:12 @ And he said: Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the he-goats which leap upon the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled; for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.

jps@Genesis:31:14 @ And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him: 'Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?

jps@Genesis:31:16 @ For all the riches which God hath taken away from our father, that is ours and our children's. Now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.'

jps@Genesis:31:24 @ And God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream of the night, and said unto him: 'Take heed to thyself that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.'

jps@Genesis:31:26 @ And Laban said to Jacob: 'What hast thou done, that thou hast outwitted me, and carried away my daughters as though captives of the sword?

jps@Genesis:31:31 @ And Jacob answered and said to Laban: 'Because I was afraid; for I said: Lest thou shouldest take thy daughters from me by force.

jps@Genesis:31:35 @ And she said to her father: 'Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before thee; for the manner of women is upon me.' And he searched, but found not the teraphim.

jps@Genesis:31:36 @ And Jacob was wroth, and strove with Laban. And Jacob answered and said to Laban: 'What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast hotly pursued after me?

jps@Genesis:31:43 @ And Laban answered and said unto Jacob: 'The daughters are my daughters, and the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks, and all that thou seest is mine; and what can I do this day for these my daughters, or for their children whom they have borne?

jps@Genesis:31:46 @ And Jacob said unto his brethren: 'Gather stones'; and they took stones, and made a heap. And they did eat there by the heap.

jps@Genesis:31:48 @ And Laban said: 'This heap is witness between me and thee this day.' Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;

jps@Genesis:31:49 @ and Mizpah, for he said: 'The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.

jps@Genesis:31:51 @ And Laban said to Jacob: 'Behold this heap, and behold the pillar, which I have set up betwixt me and thee.

jps@Genesis:32:2 @ And Jacob said when he saw them: 'This is God's camp.' And he called the name of that place Mahanaim.

jps@Genesis:32:8 @ And he said: 'If Esau come to the one camp, and smite it, then the camp which is left shall escape.'

jps@Genesis:32:9 @ And Jacob said: 'O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, O LORD, who saidst unto me: Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will do thee good;

jps@Genesis:32:12 @ And Thou saidst: I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.'

jps@Genesis:32:16 @ And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself; and said unto his servants: 'Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.'

jps@Genesis:32:20 @ and ye shall say: Moreover, behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us.' For he said: 'I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept me.'

jps@Genesis:32:26 @ And he said: 'Let me go, for the day breaketh.' And he said: 'I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.'

jps@Genesis:32:27 @ And he said unto him: 'What is thy name?' And be said: 'Jacob.'

jps@Genesis:32:28 @ And he said: 'Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel; for thou hast striven with God and with men, and hast prevailed.'

jps@Genesis:32:29 @ And Jacob asked him, and said: 'Tell me, I pray thee, thy name.' And he said: 'Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name?' And he blessed him there.

jps@Genesis:33:5 @ And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said: 'Who are these with thee?' And he said: 'The children whom God hath graciously given thy servant.'

jps@Genesis:33:8 @ And he said: 'What meanest thou by all this camp which I met?' And he said: 'To find favour in the sight of my lord.'

jps@Genesis:33:9 @ And Esau said: 'I have enough; my brother, let that which thou hast be thine.'

jps@Genesis:33:10 @ And Jacob said: 'Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found favour in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand; forasmuch as I have seen thy face, as one seeth the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me.

jps@Genesis:33:12 @ And he said: 'Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee.'

jps@Genesis:33:13 @ And he said unto him: 'My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds giving suck are a care to me; and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.

jps@Genesis:33:15 @ And Esau said: 'Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are with me.' And he said: 'What needeth it? let me find favour in the sight of my lord.'

jps@Genesis:34:11 @ And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren: 'Let me find favour in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give.

jps@Genesis:34:14 @ and said unto them: 'We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us.

jps@Genesis:34:30 @ And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: 'Ye have troubled me, to make me odious unto the inhabitants of the land, even unto the Canaanites and the Perizzites; and, I being few in number, they will gather themselves together against me and smite me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.'

jps@Genesis:34:31 @ And they said: 'Should one deal with our sister as with a harlot?'

jps@Genesis:35:1 @ And God said unto Jacob: 'Arise, go up to Beth-el, and dwell there; and make there an altar unto God, who appeared unto thee when thou didst flee from the face of Esau thy brother.'

jps@Genesis:35:2 @ Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him: 'Put away the strange gods that are among you, and purify yourselves, and change your garments;

jps@Genesis:35:10 @ And God said unto him: 'Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name'; and He called his name Israel.

jps@Genesis:35:11 @ And God said unto him: 'I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;

jps@Genesis:35:17 @ And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the mid-wife said unto her: 'Fear not; for this also is a son for thee.'

jps@Genesis:37:6 @ And he said unto them: 'Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed:

jps@Genesis:37:8 @ And his brethren said to him: 'Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us?' And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.

jps@Genesis:37:9 @ And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brethren, and said: 'Behold, I have dreamed yet a dream: and, behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me.'

jps@Genesis:37:10 @ And he told it to his father, and to his brethren; and his father rebuked him, and said unto him: 'What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down to thee to the earth?'

jps@Genesis:37:13 @ And Israel said unto Joseph: 'Do not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them.' And he said to him: 'Here am I.'

jps@Genesis:37:14 @ And he said to him: 'Go now, see whether it is well with thy brethren, and well with the flock; and bring me back word.' So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

jps@Genesis:37:16 @ And he said: 'I seek my brethren. Tell me, I pray thee, where they are feeding the flock.'

jps@Genesis:37:17 @ And the man said: 'They are departed hence; for I heard them say: Let us go to Dothan.' And Joseph went after his brethren, and found them in Dothan.

jps@Genesis:37:19 @ And they said one to another: 'Behold, this dreamer cometh.

jps@Genesis:37:21 @ And Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand; and said: 'Let us not take his life.'

jps@Genesis:37:22 @ And Reuben said unto them: 'Shed no blood; cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand upon him'--that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.

jps@Genesis:37:26 @ And Judah said unto his brethren: 'What profit is it if we slay our brother and conceal his blood?

jps@Genesis:37:30 @ And he returned unto his brethren, and said: 'The child is not; and as for me, whither shall I go?'

jps@Genesis:37:32 @ and they sent the coat of many colours, and they brought it to their father; and said: 'This have we found. Know now whether it is thy son's coat or not.'

jps@Genesis:37:33 @ And he knew it, and said: 'It is my son's coat; an evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces.'

jps@Genesis:37:35 @ And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said: 'Nay, but I will go down to the grave to my son mourning.' And his father wept for him.

jps@Genesis:38:8 @ And Judah said unto Onan: 'Go in unto thy brother's wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her, and raise up seed to thy brother.'

jps@Genesis:38:11 @ Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter-in-law: 'Remain a widow in thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown up'; for he said: 'Lest he also die, like his brethren.' And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.

jps@Genesis:38:16 @ And he turned unto her by the way, and said: 'Come, I pray thee, let me come in unto thee'; for he knew not that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said: 'What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me?'

jps@Genesis:38:17 @ And he said: 'I will send thee a kid of the goats from the flock.' And she said: 'Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it?'

jps@Genesis:38:18 @ And he said: 'What pledge shall I give thee?' And she said: 'Thy signet and thy cord, and thy staff that is in thy hand.' And he gave them to her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him.

jps@Genesis:38:21 @ Then he asked the men of her place, saying: 'Where is the harlot, that was at Enaim by the wayside?' And they said: 'There hath been no harlot here.'

jps@Genesis:38:22 @ And he returned to Judah, and said: 'I have not found her; and also the men of the place said: There hath been no harlot here.'

jps@Genesis:38:23 @ And Judah said: 'Let her take it, lest we be put to shame; behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her.'

jps@Genesis:38:24 @ And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying: 'Tamar thy daughter-in-law hath played the harlot; and moreover, behold, she is with child by harlotry.' And Judah said: 'Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.'

jps@Genesis:38:25 @ When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying: 'By the man, whose these are, am I with child'; and she said: 'Discern, I pray thee, whose are these, the signet, and the cords, and the staff.'

jps@Genesis:38:26 @ And Judah acknowledged them, and said: 'She is more righteous than I; forasmuch as I gave her not to Shelah my son.' And he knew her again no more.

jps@Genesis:38:29 @ And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold his brother came out; and she said: 'Wherefore hast thou made a breach for thyself?' Therefore his name was called Perez.

jps@Genesis:39:7 @ And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said: 'Lie with me.'

jps@Genesis:39:8 @ But he refused, and said unto his master's wife: 'Behold, my master, having me, knoweth not what is in the house, and he hath put all that he hath into my hand;

jps@Genesis:40:8 @ And they said unto him: 'We have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it.' And Joseph said unto them: 'Do not interpretations belong to God? tell it me, I pray you.'

jps@Genesis:40:9 @ And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him: 'In my dream, behold, a vine was before me;

jps@Genesis:40:12 @ And Joseph said unto him: 'This is the interpretation of it: the three branches are three days;

jps@Genesis:40:16 @ When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph: 'I also saw in my dream, and, behold, three baskets of white bread were on my head;

jps@Genesis:40:18 @ And Joseph answered and said: 'This is the interpretation thereof: the three baskets are three days;

jps@Genesis:41:15 @ And Pharaoh said unto Joseph: 'I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it; and I have heard say of thee, that when thou hearest a dream thou canst interpret it.'

jps@Genesis:41:25 @ And Joseph said unto Pharaoh: 'The dream of Pharaoh is one; what God is about to do He hath declared unto Pharaoh.

jps@Genesis:41:38 @ And Pharaoh said unto his servants: 'Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom the spirit of God is?'

jps@Genesis:41:39 @ And Pharaoh said unto Joseph: 'Forasmuch as God hath shown thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou.

jps@Genesis:41:41 @ And Pharaoh said unto Joseph: 'See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt.'

jps@Genesis:41:44 @ And Pharaoh said unto Joseph: 'I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.'

jps@Genesis:41:54 @ And the seven years of famine began to come, according as Joseph had said; and there was famine in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

jps@Genesis:41:55 @ And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread; and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians: 'Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do.'

jps@Genesis:42:1 @ Now Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, and Jacob said unto his sons: 'Why do ye look one upon another?'

jps@Genesis:42:2 @ And he said: 'Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt. Get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.'

jps@Genesis:42:4 @ But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said: 'Lest peradventure harm befall him.'

jps@Genesis:42:7 @ And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spoke roughly with them; and he said unto them: 'Whence come ye?' And they said: 'From the land of Canaan to buy food.'

jps@Genesis:42:9 @ And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them: 'Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.'

jps@Genesis:42:10 @ And they said unto him: 'Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.

jps@Genesis:42:12 @ And he said unto them: 'Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.'

jps@Genesis:42:13 @ And they said: 'We thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.'

jps@Genesis:42:14 @ And Joseph said unto them: 'That is it that I spoke unto you, saying: Ye are spies.

jps@Genesis:42:18 @ And Joseph said unto them the third day. 'This do, and live; for I fear God:

jps@Genesis:42:21 @ And they said one to another: 'We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.'

jps@Genesis:42:28 @ And he said unto his brethren: 'My money is restored; and, lo, it is even in my sack.' And their heart failed them, and they turned trembling one to another, saying: 'What is this that God hath done unto us?'

jps@Genesis:42:31 @ And we said unto him: We are upright men; we are no spies.

jps@Genesis:42:33 @ And the man, the lord of the land, said unto us: Hereby shall I know that ye are upright men: leave one of your brethren with me, and take corn for the famine of your houses, and go your way.

jps@Genesis:42:36 @ And Jacob their father said unto them: 'Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away; upon me are all these things come.'

jps@Genesis:42:38 @ And he said: 'My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left; if harm befall him by the way in which ye go, then will ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

jps@Genesis:43:2 @ And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, that their father said unto them: 'Go again, buy us a little food.'

jps@Genesis:43:5 @ but if thou wilt not send him, we will not go down, for the man said unto us: Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.'

jps@Genesis:43:6 @ And Israel said: 'Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?'

jps@Genesis:43:7 @ And they said: 'The man asked straitly concerning ourselves, and concerning our kindred, saying: Is your father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words; could we in any wise know that he would say: Bring your brother down?'

jps@Genesis:43:8 @ And Judah said unto Israel his father: 'Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go, that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones.

jps@Genesis:43:11 @ And their father Israel said unto them: 'If it be so now, do this: take of the choice fruits of the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spicery and ladanum, nuts, and almonds;

jps@Genesis:43:16 @ And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house: 'Bring the men into the house, and kill the beasts, and prepare the meat; for the men shall dine with me at noon.'

jps@Genesis:43:18 @ And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph's house; and they said: 'Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses.'

jps@Genesis:43:20 @ and said: 'Oh my lord, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food.

jps@Genesis:43:23 @ And he said: 'Peace be to you, fear not; your God, and the God of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks; I had your money.' And he brought Simeon out unto them.

jps@Genesis:43:27 @ And he asked them of their welfare, and said: 'Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spoke? Is he yet alive?'

jps@Genesis:43:28 @ And they said: 'Thy servant our father is well, he is yet alive.' And they bowed the head, and made obeisance.

jps@Genesis:43:29 @ And he lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin his brother, his mother's son, and said: 'Is this your youngest brother of whom ye spoke unto me?' And he said: 'God be gracious unto thee, my son.'

jps@Genesis:43:31 @ And he washed his face, and came out; and he refrained himself, and said: 'Set on bread.'

jps@Genesis:44:4 @ And when they were gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said unto his steward: 'Up, follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say unto them: Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good?

jps@Genesis:44:7 @ And they said unto him: 'Wherefore speaketh my lord such words as these? Far be it from thy servants that they should do such a thing.

jps@Genesis:44:10 @ And he said: 'Now also let it be according unto your words: he with whom it is found shall be my bondman; and ye shall be blameless.'

jps@Genesis:44:15 @ And Joseph said unto them: 'What deed is this that ye have done? know ye not that such a man as I will indeed divine?'

jps@Genesis:44:16 @ And Judah said: 'What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants; behold, we are my lord's bondmen, both we, and he also in whose hand the cup is found.'

jps@Genesis:44:17 @ And he said: 'Far be it from me that I should do so; the man in whose hand the goblet is found, he shall be my bondman; but as for you, get you up in peace unto your father.'

jps@Genesis:44:18 @ Then Judah came near unto him, and said: 'Oh my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant; for thou art even as Pharaoh.

jps@Genesis:44:20 @ And we said unto my lord: We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.

jps@Genesis:44:21 @ And thou saidst unto thy servants: Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him.

jps@Genesis:44:22 @ And we said unto my lord: The lad cannot leave his father; for if he should leave his father, his father would die.

jps@Genesis:44:23 @ And thou saidst unto thy servants: Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.

jps@Genesis:44:25 @ And our father said: Go again, buy us a little food.

jps@Genesis:44:26 @ And we said: We cannot go down; if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down; for we may not see the man's face, except our youngest brother be with us.

jps@Genesis:44:27 @ And thy servant my father said unto us: Ye know that my wife bore me two sons;

jps@Genesis:44:28 @ and the one went out from me, and I said: Surely he is torn in pieces; and I have not seen him since;

jps@Genesis:45:3 @ And Joseph said unto his brethren: 'I am Joseph; doth my father yet live?' And his brethren could not answer him; for they were affrighted at his presence.

jps@Genesis:45:4 @ And Joseph said unto his brethren: 'Come near to me, I pray you.' And they came near. And he said: 'I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.

jps@Genesis:45:17 @ And Pharaoh said unto Joseph: 'Say unto thy brethren: This do ye: lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan;

jps@Genesis:45:24 @ So he sent his brethren away, and they departed; and he said unto them: 'See that ye fall not out by the way.'

jps@Genesis:45:27 @ And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them; and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived.

jps@Genesis:45:28 @ And Israel said: 'It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive; I will go and see him before I die.'

jps@Genesis:46:2 @ And God spoke unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said: 'Jacob, Jacob.' And he said: 'Here am I.'

jps@Genesis:46:3 @ And He said: 'I am God, the God of thy father; fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation.

jps@Genesis:46:30 @ And Israel said unto Joseph: 'Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, that thou art yet alive.'

jps@Genesis:46:31 @ And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father's house: 'I will go up, and tell Pharaoh, and will say unto him: My brethren, and my father's house, who were in the land of Canaan, are come unto me;

jps@Genesis:47:1 @ Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said: 'My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen.'

jps@Genesis:47:3 @ And Pharaoh said unto his brethren: 'What is your occupation?' And they said unto Pharaoh: 'Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers.'

jps@Genesis:47:4 @ And they said unto Pharaoh: 'To sojourn in the land are we come; for there is no pasture for thy servants' flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.'

jps@Genesis:47:8 @ And Pharaoh said unto Jacob: 'How many are the days of the years of thy life?'

jps@Genesis:47:9 @ And Jacob said unto Pharaoh: 'The days of the years of my sojournings are a hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojournings.'

jps@Genesis:47:15 @ And when the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said: 'Give us bread; for why should we die in thy presence? for our money faileth.'

jps@Genesis:47:16 @ And Joseph said: 'Give your cattle, and I will give you bread for your cattle, if money fail.'

jps@Genesis:47:18 @ And when that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him: 'We will not hide from my lord, how that our money is all spent; and the herds of cattle are my lord's; there is nought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands.

jps@Genesis:47:23 @ Then Joseph said unto the people: 'Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh. Lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.

jps@Genesis:47:25 @ And they said: 'Thou hast saved our lives. Let us find favour in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's bondmen.'

jps@Genesis:47:29 @ And the time drew near that Israel must die; and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him: 'If now I have found favour in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt.

jps@Genesis:47:30 @ But when I sleep with my fathers, thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying-place.' And he said: 'I will do as thou hast said.'

jps@Genesis:47:31 @ And he said: 'Swear unto me.' And he swore unto him. And Israel bowed down upon the bed's head.

jps@Genesis:48:1 @ And it came to pass after these things, that one said to Joseph: 'Behold, thy father is sick.' And he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

jps@Genesis:48:2 @ And one told Jacob, and said: 'Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee.' And Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed.

jps@Genesis:48:3 @ And Jacob said unto Joseph: 'God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,

jps@Genesis:48:4 @ and said unto me: Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a company of peoples; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.

jps@Genesis:48:8 @ And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said: 'Who are these?'

jps@Genesis:48:9 @ And Joseph said unto his father: 'They are my sons, whom God hath given me here.' And he said: 'Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them.'

jps@Genesis:48:11 @ And Israel said unto Joseph: 'I had not thought to see thy face; and, lo, God hath let me see thy seed also.'

jps@Genesis:48:15 @ And he blessed Joseph, and said: 'The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who hath been my shepherd all my life long unto this day,

jps@Genesis:48:18 @ And Joseph said unto his father: 'Not so, my father, for this is the first-born; put thy right hand upon his head.'

jps@Genesis:48:19 @ And his father refused, and said: 'I know it, my son, I know it; he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great; howbeit his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.'

jps@Genesis:48:21 @ And Israel said unto Joseph: 'Behold, I die; but God will be with you, and bring you back unto the land of your fathers.

jps@Genesis:49:1 @ And Jacob called unto his sons, and said: 'Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the end of days.

jps@Genesis:49:29 @ And he charged them, and said unto them: 'I am to be gathered unto my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

jps@Genesis:50:6 @ And Pharaoh said: 'Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.'

jps@Genesis:50:11 @ And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said: 'This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians.' Wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.

jps@Genesis:50:15 @ And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said: 'It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully requite us all the evil which we did unto him.'

jps@Genesis:50:18 @ And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said: 'Behold, we are thy bondmen.'

jps@Genesis:50:19 @ And Joseph said unto them: 'Fear not; for am I in the place of God?

jps@Genesis:50:24 @ And Joseph said unto his brethren: 'I die; but God will surely remember you, and bring you up out of this land unto the land which He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.'

jps@Exodus:1:9 @ And he said unto his people: 'Behold, the people of the children of Israel are too many and too mighty for us;

jps@Exodus:1:16 @ and he said: 'When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, ye shall look upon the birthstool: if it be a son, then ye shall kill him; but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.'

jps@Exodus:1:18 @ And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them: 'Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men- children alive?'

jps@Exodus:1:19 @ And the midwives said unto Pharaoh: 'Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwife come unto them.'

jps@Exodus:2:6 @ And she opened it, and saw it, even the child; and behold a boy that wept. And she had compassion on him, and said: 'This is one of the Hebrews' children.'

jps@Exodus:2:7 @ Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter: 'Shall I go and call thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?'

jps@Exodus:2:8 @ And Pharaoh's daughter said to her: 'Go.' And the maiden went and called the child's mother.

jps@Exodus:2:9 @ And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her: 'Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages.' And the woman took the child, and nursed it.

jps@Exodus:2:10 @ And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses, and said: 'Because I drew him out of the water.'

jps@Exodus:2:13 @ And he went out the second day, and, behold, two men of the Hebrews were striving together; and he said to him that did the wrong: 'Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?'

jps@Exodus:2:14 @ And he said: 'Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us? thinkest thou to kill me, as thou didst kill the Egyptian?' And Moses feared, and said: 'Surely the thing is known.'

jps@Exodus:2:18 @ And when they came to Reuel their father, he said: 'How is it that ye are come so soon to-day?'

jps@Exodus:2:19 @ And they said: 'An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock.'

jps@Exodus:2:20 @ And he said unto his daughters: 'And where is he? Why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.'

jps@Exodus:2:22 @ And she bore a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said: 'I have been a stranger in a strange land.'

jps@Exodus:3:3 @ And Moses said: 'I will turn aside now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.'

jps@Exodus:3:4 @ And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said: 'Moses, Moses.' And he said: 'Here am I.'

jps@Exodus:3:5 @ And He said: 'Draw not nigh hither; put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.'

jps@Exodus:3:6 @ Moreover He said: 'I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.

jps@Exodus:3:7 @ And the LORD said: 'I have surely seen the affliction of My people that are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their pains;

jps@Exodus:3:11 @ And Moses said unto God: 'Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?'

jps@Exodus:3:12 @ And He said: 'Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be the token unto thee, that I have sent thee: when thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.'

jps@Exodus:3:13 @ And Moses said unto God: 'Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them: The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me: What is His name? what shall I say unto them?'

jps@Exodus:3:14 @ And God said unto Moses: 'I AM THAT I AM'; and He said: 'Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel: I AM hath sent me unto you.'

jps@Exodus:3:15 @ And God said moreover unto Moses: 'Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel: The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you; this is My name for ever, and this is My memorial unto all generations.

jps@Exodus:3:17 @ And I have said: I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.

jps@Exodus:4:1 @ And Moses answered and said: 'But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice; for they will say: The lord hath not appeared unto thee.'

jps@Exodus:4:2 @ And the LORD said unto him: 'What is that in thy hand?' And he said: 'A rod.'

jps@Exodus:4:3 @ And He said: 'Cast it on the ground.' And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.

jps@Exodus:4:4 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Put forth thy hand, and take it by the tail--and he put forth his hand, and laid hold of it, and it became a rod in his hand--

jps@Exodus:4:6 @ And the LORD said furthermore unto him: 'Put now thy hand into thy bosom.' And he put his hand into his bosom; and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as white as snow.

jps@Exodus:4:7 @ And He said: 'Put thy hand back into thy bosom.--And he put his hand back into his bosom; and when he took it out of his bosom, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.--

jps@Exodus:4:10 @ And Moses said unto the LORD: 'Oh Lord, I am not a man of words, neither heretofore, nor since Thou hast spoken unto Thy servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.'

jps@Exodus:4:11 @ And the LORD said unto him: 'Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh a man dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? is it not I the LORD?

jps@Exodus:4:13 @ And he said: 'Oh Lord, send, I pray Thee, by the hand of him whom Thou wilt send.'

jps@Exodus:4:14 @ And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and He said: 'Is there not Aaron thy brother the Levite? I know that he can speak well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee; and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.

jps@Exodus:4:18 @ And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said unto him: 'Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren that are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive.' And Jethro said to Moses: 'Go in peace.'

jps@Exodus:4:19 @ And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian: 'Go, return into Egypt; for all the men are dead that sought thy life.'

jps@Exodus:4:21 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'When thou goest back into Egypt, see that thou do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in thy hand; but I will harden his heart, and he will not let the people go.

jps@Exodus:4:23 @ And I have said unto thee: Let My son go, that he may serve Me; and thou hast refused to let him go. Behold, I will slay thy son, thy first-born.'--

jps@Exodus:4:25 @ Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said: 'Surely a bridegroom of blood art thou to me.'

jps@Exodus:4:26 @ So He let him alone. Then she said: 'A bridegroom of blood in regard of the circumcision.'

jps@Exodus:4:27 @ And the LORD said to Aaron: 'Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.' And he went, and met him in the mountain of God, and kissed him.

jps@Exodus:5:1 @ And afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said unto Pharaoh: 'Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: Let My people go, that they may hold a feast unto Me in the wilderness.'

jps@Exodus:5:2 @ And Pharaoh said: 'Who is the LORD, that I should hearken unto His voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, and moreover I will not let Israel go.'

jps@Exodus:5:3 @ And they said: 'The God of the Hebrews hath met with us. Let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest He fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.'

jps@Exodus:5:4 @ And the king of Egypt said unto them: 'Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, cause the people to break loose from their work? get you unto your burdens.'

jps@Exodus:5:5 @ And Pharaoh said: 'Behold, the people of the land are now many, and will ye make them rest from their burdens?'

jps@Exodus:5:17 @ But he said: 'Ye are idle, ye are idle; therefore ye say: Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD.

jps@Exodus:5:19 @ And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were set on mischief, when they said: 'Ye shall not diminish aught from your bricks, your daily task.'

jps@Exodus:5:21 @ and they said unto them: 'The LORD look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.'

jps@Exodus:5:22 @ And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said: 'Lord, wherefore hast Thou dealt ill with this people? why is it that Thou hast sent me?

jps@Exodus:6:1 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh; for by a strong hand shall he let them go, and by a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land.'

jps@Exodus:6:2 @ And God spoke unto Moses, and said unto him: 'I am the LORD;

jps@Exodus:6:26 @ These are that Aaron and Moses, to whom the LORD said: 'Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their hosts.'

jps@Exodus:6:30 @ And Moses said before the LORD: 'Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?'

jps@Exodus:7:1 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'See, I have set thee in God's stead to Pharaoh; and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.

jps@Exodus:7:14 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Pharaoh's heart is stubborn, he refuseth to let the people go.

jps@Exodus:7:19 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Say unto Aaron: Take thy rod, and stretch out thy hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and over all their ponds of water, that they may become blood; and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.'

jps@Exodus:8:5 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Say unto Aaron: Stretch forth thy hand with thy rod over the rivers, over the canals, and over the pools, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt.'

jps@Exodus:8:8 @ Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said: 'Entreat the LORD, that He take away the frogs from me, and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice unto the LORD.'

jps@Exodus:8:9 @ And Moses said unto Pharaoh: 'Have thou this glory over me; against what time shall I entreat for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, that the frogs be destroyed from thee and thy houses, and remain in the river only?'

jps@Exodus:8:10 @ And he said: 'Against to-morrow.' And he said: 'Be it according to thy word; that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the LORD our God.

jps@Exodus:8:16 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Say unto Aaron: Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the earth, that it may become gnats throughout all the land of Egypt.'

jps@Exodus:8:19 @ Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh: 'This is the finger of God'; and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had spoken.

jps@Exodus:8:20 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; lo, he cometh forth to the water; and say unto him: Thus saith the LORD: Let My people go, that they may serve Me.

jps@Exodus:8:25 @ And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said: 'Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land.'

jps@Exodus:8:26 @ And Moses said: 'It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God; lo, if we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, will they not stone us?

jps@Exodus:8:28 @ And Pharaoh said: 'I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away; entreat for me.'

jps@Exodus:8:29 @ And Moses said: 'Behold, I go out from thee, and I will entreat the LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, tomorrow; only let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD.'

jps@Exodus:9:1 @ Then the LORD said unto Moses: 'Go in unto Pharaoh, and tell him: Thus saith the LORD, the God of the Hebrews: Let My people go, that they may serve Me.

jps@Exodus:9:8 @ And the LORD said unto Moses and unto Aaron: 'Take to you handfuls of soot of the furnace, and let Moses throw it heavenward in the sight of Pharaoh.

jps@Exodus:9:13 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him: Thus saith the LORD, the God of the Hebrews: Let My people go, that they may serve Me.

jps@Exodus:9:22 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Stretch forth thy hand toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.'

jps@Exodus:9:27 @ And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them: 'I have sinned this time; the LORD is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.

jps@Exodus:9:29 @ And Moses said unto him: 'As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will spread forth my hands unto the LORD; the thunders shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that thou mayest know that the earth is the LORD'S.

jps@Exodus:10:1 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Go in unto Pharaoh; for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might show these My signs in the midst of them;

jps@Exodus:10:3 @ And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him: 'Thus saith the LORD, the God of the Hebrews: How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before Me? let My people go, that they may serve Me.

jps@Exodus:10:7 @ And Pharaoh's servants said unto him: 'How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God, knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?'

jps@Exodus:10:8 @ And Moses and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh; and he said unto them: 'Go, serve the LORD your God; but who are they that shall go?'

jps@Exodus:10:9 @ And Moses said: 'We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds we will go; for we must hold a feast unto the LORD.'

jps@Exodus:10:10 @ And he said unto them: 'So be the LORD with you, as I will let you go, and your little ones; see ye that evil is before your face.

jps@Exodus:10:12 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Stretch out thy hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath left.'

jps@Exodus:10:16 @ Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said: 'I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you.

jps@Exodus:10:21 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Stretch out thy hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.'

jps@Exodus:10:24 @ And Pharaoh called unto Moses, and said: 'Go ye, serve the LORD; only let your flocks and your herds be stayed; let your little ones also go with you.'

jps@Exodus:10:25 @ And Moses said: 'Thou must also give into our hand sacrifices and burnt-offerings, that we may sacrifice unto the LORD our God.

jps@Exodus:10:28 @ And Pharaoh said unto him: 'Get thee from me, take heed to thyself, see my face no more; for in the day thou seest my face thou shalt die.'

jps@Exodus:10:29 @ And Moses said: 'Thou hast spoken well; I will see thy face again no more.'

jps@Exodus:11:1 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Yet one plague more will I bring upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence; when he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you out hence altogether.

jps@Exodus:11:4 @ And Moses said: 'Thus saith the LORD: About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt;

jps@Exodus:11:9 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Pharaoh will not hearken unto you; that My wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.'

jps@Exodus:12:21 @ Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them: 'Draw out, and take you lambs according to your families, and kill the passover lamb.

jps@Exodus:12:31 @ And he called for Moses and Aaron by night and said: 'Rise up, get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as ye have said.

jps@Exodus:12:32 @ Take both your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.'

jps@Exodus:12:33 @ And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, to send them out of the land in haste; for they said: 'We are all dead men.'

jps@Exodus:12:43 @ And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron: 'This is the ordinance of the passover: there shall no alien eat thereof;

jps@Exodus:13:3 @ And Moses said unto the people: 'Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out from this place; there shall no leavened bread be eaten.

jps@Exodus:13:17 @ And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said: 'Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt.'

jps@Exodus:14:5 @ And it was told the king of Egypt that the people were fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned towards the people, and they said: 'What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?

jps@Exodus:14:11 @ And they said unto Moses: 'Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to bring us forth out of Egypt?

jps@Exodus:14:13 @ And Moses said unto the people: 'Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which He will work for you to- day; for whereas ye have seen the Egyptians to-day, ye shall see them again no more for ever.

jps@Exodus:14:15 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Wherefore criest thou unto Me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward.

jps@Exodus:14:25 @ And He took off their chariot wheels, and made them to drive heavily; so that the Egyptians said: 'Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians.'

jps@Exodus:14:26 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Stretch out thy hand over the sea, that the waters may come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.'

jps@Exodus:15:9 @ The enemy said: 'I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.'

jps@Exodus:15:26 @ and He said: 'If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in His eyes, and wilt give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases upon thee, which I have put upon the Egyptians; for I am the LORD that healeth thee.'

jps@Exodus:16:3 @ and the children of Israel said unto them: 'Would that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh-pots, when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.'

jps@Exodus:16:4 @ Then said the LORD unto Moses: 'Behold, I will cause to rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in My law, or not.

jps@Exodus:16:6 @ And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel: 'At even, then ye shall know that the LORD hath brought you out from the land of Egypt;

jps@Exodus:16:8 @ And Moses said: 'This shall be, when the LORD shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that the LORD heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against Him; and what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against the LORD.'

jps@Exodus:16:9 @ And Moses said unto Aaron: 'Say unto all the congregation of the children of Israel: Come near before the LORD; for He hath heard your murmurings.'

jps@Exodus:16:15 @ And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another: 'What is it?' --for they knew not what it was. And Moses said unto them: 'It is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.

jps@Exodus:16:19 @ And Moses said unto them: 'Let no man leave of it till the morning.'

jps@Exodus:16:23 @ And he said unto them: 'This is that which the LORD hath spoken: To-morrow is a solemn rest, a holy sabbath unto the LORD. Bake that which ye will bake, and seethe that which ye will seethe; and all that remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.'

jps@Exodus:16:25 @ And Moses said: 'Eat that to-day; for to-day is a sabbath unto the LORD; to-day ye shall not find it in the field.

jps@Exodus:16:28 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'How long refuse ye to keep My commandments and My laws?

jps@Exodus:16:32 @ And Moses said: 'This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded: Let an omerful of it be kept throughout your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.'

jps@Exodus:16:33 @ And Moses said unto Aaron: 'Take a jar, and put an omerful of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept throughout your generations.'

jps@Exodus:17:2 @ Wherefore the people strove with Moses, and said: 'Give us water that we may drink.' And Moses said unto them: 'Why strive ye with me? wherefore do ye try the LORD?'

jps@Exodus:17:3 @ And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said: 'Wherefore hast thou brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?'

jps@Exodus:17:5 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Pass on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thy hand, and go.

jps@Exodus:17:9 @ And Moses said unto Joshua: 'Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek; tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in my hand.'

jps@Exodus:17:10 @ So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.

jps@Exodus:17:14 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Write this for a memorial in the book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.'

jps@Exodus:17:16 @ And he said: 'The hand upon the throne of the LORD: the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.'

jps@Exodus:18:3 @ and her two sons; of whom the name of the one was Gershom; for he said: 'I have been a stranger in a strange land';

jps@Exodus:18:6 @ and he said unto Moses: 'I thy father-in-law Jethro am coming unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.'

jps@Exodus:18:10 @ And Jethro said: 'Blessed be the LORD, who hath delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh; who hath delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.

jps@Exodus:18:14 @ And when Moses' father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said: 'What is this thing that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand about thee from morning unto even?'

jps@Exodus:18:15 @ And Moses said unto his father-in-law: 'Because the people come unto me to inquire of God;

jps@Exodus:18:17 @ And Moses' father-in-law said unto him: 'The thing that thou doest is not good.

jps@Exodus:18:24 @ So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said.

jps@Exodus:19:8 @ And all the people answered together, and said: 'All that the LORD hath spoken we will do.' And Moses reported the words of the people unto the LORD.

jps@Exodus:19:9 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and may also believe thee for ever.' And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD.

jps@Exodus:19:10 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Go unto the people, and sanctify them to-day and to-morrow, and let them wash their garments,

jps@Exodus:19:15 @ And he said unto the people: 'Be ready against the third day; come not near a woman.'

jps@Exodus:19:21 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.

jps@Exodus:19:23 @ And Moses said unto the LORD: 'The people cannot come up to mount Sinai; for thou didst charge us, saying: Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.'

jps@Exodus:19:24 @ And the LORD said unto him: 'Go, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee; but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the LORD, lest He break forth upon them.'

jps@Exodus:20:19 @ And they said unto Moses: 'Speak thou with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die.'

jps@Exodus:20:20 @ And Moses said unto the people: 'Fear not; for God is come to prove you, and that His fear may be before you, that ye sin not.'

jps@Exodus:20:22 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel: Ye yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.

jps@Exodus:23:13 @ And in all things that I have said unto you take ye heed; and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.

jps@Exodus:24:1 @ And unto Moses He said: 'Come up unto the LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off;

jps@Exodus:24:3 @ And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said: 'All the words which the Lord hath spoken will we do.'

jps@Exodus:24:7 @ And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the hearing of the people; and they said: 'All that the LORD hath spoken will we do, and obey.'

jps@Exodus:24:8 @ And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said: 'Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you in agreement with all these words.'

jps@Exodus:24:12 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Come up to Me into the mount and be there; and I will give thee the tables of stone, and the law and the commandment, which I have written, that thou mayest teach them.'

jps@Exodus:24:14 @ And unto the elders he said: 'Tarry ye here for us, until we come back unto you; and, behold, Aaron and Hur are with you; whosoever hath a cause, let him come near unto them.'

jps@Exodus:30:34 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense; of each shall there be a like weight.

jps@Exodus:32:1 @ And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him: 'Up, make us a god who shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him.'

jps@Exodus:32:2 @ And Aaron said unto them: 'Break off the golden rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me.'

jps@Exodus:32:4 @ And he received it at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, and made it a molten calf; and they said: 'This is thy god, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.'

jps@Exodus:32:5 @ And when Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said: 'To-morrow shall be a feast to the LORD.'

jps@Exodus:32:8 @ they have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed unto it, and said: This is thy god, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.'

jps@Exodus:32:9 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people.

jps@Exodus:32:11 @ And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said: 'LORD, why doth Thy wrath wax hot against Thy people, that Thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

jps@Exodus:32:13 @ Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Thy servants, to whom Thou didst swear by Thine own self, and saidst unto them: I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.'

jps@Exodus:32:14 @ And the LORD repented of the evil which He said He would do unto His people.

jps@Exodus:32:17 @ And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses: 'There is a noise of war in the camp.'

jps@Exodus:32:18 @ And he said: 'It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome, but the noise of them that sing do I hear.'

jps@Exodus:32:21 @ And Moses said unto Aaron: 'What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought a great sin upon them?'

jps@Exodus:32:22 @ And Aaron said: 'Let not the anger of my lord wax hot; thou knowest the people, that they are set on evil.

jps@Exodus:32:23 @ So they said unto me: Make us a god, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him.

jps@Exodus:32:24 @ And I said unto them: Whosoever hath any gold, let them break it off; so they gave it me; and I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf.'

jps@Exodus:32:26 @ then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said: 'Whoso is on the LORD'S side, let him come unto me.' And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him.

jps@Exodus:32:27 @ And he said unto them: 'Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: Put ye every man his sword upon his thigh, and go to and fro from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.'

jps@Exodus:32:29 @ And Moses said: 'Consecrate yourselves to-day to the LORD, for every man hath been against his son and against his brother; that He may also bestow upon you a blessing this day.'

jps@Exodus:32:30 @ And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people: 'Ye have sinned a great sin; and now I will go up unto the LORD, peradventure I shall make atonement for your sin.'

jps@Exodus:32:31 @ And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said: 'Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them a god of gold.

jps@Exodus:32:33 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Whosoever hath sinned against Me, him will I blot out of My book.

jps@Exodus:33:5 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Say unto the children of Israel: Ye are a stiffnecked people; if I go up into the midst of thee for one moment, I shall consume thee; therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.'

jps@Exodus:33:12 @ And Moses said unto the LORD: 'See, Thou sayest unto me: Bring up this people; and Thou hast not let me know whom Thou wilt send with me. Yet Thou hast said: I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in My sight.

jps@Exodus:33:14 @ And He said: 'My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.'

jps@Exodus:33:15 @ And he said unto Him: 'If Thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence.

jps@Exodus:33:17 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken, for thou hast found grace in My sight, and I know thee by name.'

jps@Exodus:33:18 @ And he said: 'Show me, I pray Thee, Thy glory.'

jps@Exodus:33:19 @ And He said: 'I will make all My goodness pass before thee, and will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.'

jps@Exodus:33:20 @ And He said: 'Thou canst not see My face, for man shall not see Me and live.'

jps@Exodus:33:21 @ And the LORD said: 'Behold, there is a place by Me, and thou shalt stand upon the rock.

jps@Exodus:34:1 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first; and I will write upon the tables the words that were on the first tables, which thou didst break.

jps@Exodus:34:9 @ And he said: 'If now I have found grace in Thy sight, O Lord, let the Lord, I pray Thee, go in the midst of us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for Thine inheritance.'

jps@Exodus:34:10 @ And He said: 'Behold, I make a covenant; before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been wrought in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the LORD that I am about to do with thee, that it is tremendous.

jps@Exodus:34:27 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Write thou these words, for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.'

jps@Exodus:35:1 @ And Moses assembled all the congregation of the children of Israel, and said unto them: 'These are the words which the LORD hath commanded, that ye should do them.

jps@Exodus:35:30 @ And Moses said unto the children of Israel: 'See, the LORD hath called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.

jps@Leviticus:8:5 @ And Moses said unto the congregation: 'This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded to be done.'

jps@Leviticus:8:31 @ And Moses said unto Aaron and to his sons: 'Boil the flesh at the door of the tent of meeting; and there eat it and the bread that is in the basket of consecration, as I commanded, saying: Aaron and his sons shall eat it.

jps@Leviticus:9:2 @ and he said unto Aaron: 'Take thee a bull-calf for a sin-offering, and a ram for a burnt-offering, without blemish, and offer them before the LORD.

jps@Leviticus:9:6 @ And Moses said: 'This is the thing which the LORD commanded that ye should do; that the glory of the LORD may appear unto you.'

jps@Leviticus:9:7 @ And Moses said unto Aaron: 'Draw near unto the altar, and offer thy sin-offering, and thy burnt-offering, and make atonement for thyself, and for the people; and present the offering of the people, and make atonement for them; as the LORD commanded.'

jps@Leviticus:10:3 @ Then Moses said unto Aaron: 'This is it that the LORD spoke, saying: Through them that are nigh unto Me I will be sanctified, and before all the people I will be glorified.' And Aaron held his peace.

jps@Leviticus:10:4 @ And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said unto them: 'Draw near, carry your brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp.'

jps@Leviticus:10:5 @ So they drew near, and carried them in their tunics out of the camp, as Moses had said.

jps@Leviticus:10:6 @ And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons: 'Let not the hair of your heads go loose, neither tend your clothes, that ye die not, and that He be not wroth with all the congregation; but let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the LORD hath kindled.

jps@Leviticus:16:2 @ and the LORD said unto Moses: 'Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the veil, before the ark-cover which is upon the ark; that he die not; for I appear in the cloud upon the ark-cover.

jps@Leviticus:17:12 @ Therefore I said unto the children of Israel: No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.

jps@Leviticus:17:14 @ For as to the life of all flesh, the blood thereof is all one with the life thereof; therefore I said unto the children of Israel: Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh; for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof; whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.

jps@Leviticus:20:24 @ But I have said unto you: 'Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey.' I am the LORD your God, who have set you apart from the peoples.

jps@Leviticus:21:1 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them: There shall none defile himself for the dead among his people;

jps@Numbers:3:40 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Number all the first-born males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.

jps@Numbers:7:11 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'They shall present their offering each prince on his day, for the dedication of the altar.'

jps@Numbers:9:7 @ And those men said unto him: 'We are unclean by the dead body of a man; wherefore are we to be kept back, so as not to bring the offering of the LORD in its appointed season among the children of Israel?'

jps@Numbers:9:8 @ And Moses said unto them: 'Stay ye, that I may hear what the LORD will command concerning you.'

jps@Numbers:10:29 @ And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law: 'We are journeying unto the place of which the LORD said: I will give it you; come thou with us, and we will do thee good; for the LORD hath spoken good concerning Israel.'

jps@Numbers:10:30 @ And he said unto him: 'I will not go; but I will depart to mine own land, and to my kindred.'

jps@Numbers:10:31 @ And he said: 'Leave us not, I pray thee; forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou shalt be to us instead of eyes.

jps@Numbers:10:35 @ And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said: 'Rise up, O LORD, and let Thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate Thee flee before Thee.'

jps@Numbers:10:36 @ And when it rested, he said: 'Return, O LORD, unto the ten thousands of the families of Israel.'

jps@Numbers:11:4 @ And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting; and the children of Israel also wept on their part, and said: 'Would that we were given flesh to eat!

jps@Numbers:11:11 @ And Moses said unto the LORD: 'Wherefore hast Thou dealt ill with Thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in Thy sight, that Thou layest the burden of all this people upon me?

jps@Numbers:11:16 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Gather unto Me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tent of meeting, that they may stand there with thee.

jps@Numbers:11:21 @ And Moses said: 'The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand men on foot; and yet Thou hast said: I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month!

jps@Numbers:11:23 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Is the LORD'S hand waxed short? now shalt thou see whether My word shall come to pass unto thee or not.'

jps@Numbers:11:27 @ And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said: 'Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.'

jps@Numbers:11:28 @ And Joshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moses from his youth up, answered and said: 'My lord Moses, shut them in.'

jps@Numbers:11:29 @ And Moses said unto him: 'Art thou jealous for my sake? would that all the LORD'S people were prophets, that the LORD would put His spirit upon them!'

jps@Numbers:12:2 @ And they said: 'Hath the LORD indeed spoken only with Moses? hath He not spoken also with us?' And the LORD heard it.--

jps@Numbers:12:6 @ And He said: 'Hear now My words: if there be a prophet among you, I the LORD do make Myself known unto him in a vision, I do speak with him in a dream.

jps@Numbers:12:11 @ And Aaron said unto Moses: 'Oh my lord, lay not, I pray thee, sin upon us, for that we have done foolishly, and for that we have sinned.

jps@Numbers:12:14 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'If her father had but spit in her face, should she not hide in shame seven days? let her be shut up without the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in again.'

jps@Numbers:13:17 @ And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them: 'Get you up here into the South, and go up into the mountains;

jps@Numbers:13:27 @ And they told him, and said: 'We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.

jps@Numbers:13:30 @ And Caleb stilled the people toward Moses, and said: 'We should go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.'

jps@Numbers:13:31 @ But the men that went up with him said: 'We are not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.'

jps@Numbers:14:2 @ And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron; and the whole congregation said unto them: 'Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would we had died in this wilderness!

jps@Numbers:14:4 @ And they said one to another: 'Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.'

jps@Numbers:14:11 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'How long will this people despise Me? and how long will they not believe in Me, for all the signs which I have wrought among them?

jps@Numbers:14:13 @ And Moses said unto the LORD: 'When the Egyptians shall hear--for Thou broughtest up this people in Thy might from among them--

jps@Numbers:14:20 @ And the LORD said: 'I have pardoned according to thy word.

jps@Numbers:14:31 @ But your little ones, that ye said would be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have rejected.

jps@Numbers:14:41 @ And Moses said: 'Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD, seeing it shall not prosper?

jps@Numbers:15:35 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'The man shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.'

jps@Numbers:16:3 @ and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them: 'Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them; wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the assembly of the LORD?'

jps@Numbers:16:8 @ And Moses said unto Korah: 'Hear now, ye sons of Levi:

jps@Numbers:16:12 @ And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; and they said: 'We will not come up;

jps@Numbers:16:15 @ And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the LORD: 'Respect not Thou their offering; I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them.'

jps@Numbers:16:16 @ And Moses said unto Korah: 'Be thou and all thy congregation before the LORD, thou, and they, and Aaron, to-morrow;

jps@Numbers:16:22 @ And they fell upon their faces, and said: 'O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt Thou be wroth with all the congregation?'

jps@Numbers:16:28 @ And Moses said: 'Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me to do all these works, and that I have not done them of mine own mind.

jps@Numbers:16:34 @ And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them; for they said: 'Lest the earth swallow us up.'

jps@Numbers:16:46 @ And Moses said unto Aaron: 'Take thy fire-pan, and put fire therein from off the altar, and lay incense thereon, and carry it quickly unto the congregation, and make atonement for them; for there is wrath gone out from the LORD: the plague is begun.'

jps@Numbers:17:10 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Put back the rod of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept there, for a token against the rebellious children; that there may be made an end of their murmurings against Me, that they die not.'

jps@Numbers:18:1 @ And the LORD said unto Aaron: 'Thou and thy sons and thy fathers' house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.

jps@Numbers:18:20 @ And the LORD said unto Aaron: 'Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any portion among them; I am thy portion and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.

jps@Numbers:18:24 @ For the tithe of the children of Israel, which they set apart as a gift unto the LORD, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance; therefore I have said unto them: Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.'

jps@Numbers:20:10 @ And Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said unto them: 'Hear now, ye rebels; are we to bring you forth water out of this rock?'

jps@Numbers:20:12 @ And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron: 'Because ye believed not in Me, to sanctify Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.'

jps@Numbers:20:18 @ And Edom said unto him: 'Thou shalt not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against thee.'

jps@Numbers:20:19 @ And the children of Israel said unto him: 'We will go up by the highway; and if we drink of thy water, I and my cattle, then will I give the price thereof; let me only pass through on my feet; there is no hurt.'

jps@Numbers:20:20 @ And he said: 'Thou shalt not pass through.' And Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand.

jps@Numbers:21:2 @ And Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said: 'If Thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.'

jps@Numbers:21:7 @ And the people came to Moses, and said: 'We have sinned, because we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that He take away the serpents from us.' And Moses prayed for the people.

jps@Numbers:21:8 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole; and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he seeth it, shall live.'

jps@Numbers:21:14 @ wherefore it is said in the book of the Wars of the LORD: Vaheb in Suphah, and the valleys of Arnon,

jps@Numbers:21:16 @ And from thence to Beer; that is the well whereof the LORD said unto Moses: 'Gather the people together, and I will give them water.'

jps@Numbers:21:34 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Fear him not; for I have delivered him into thy hand, and all his people, and his land; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.'

jps@Numbers:22:4 @ And Moab said unto the elders of Midian: 'Now will this multitude lick up all that is round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field.'--And Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time.--

jps@Numbers:22:8 @ And he said unto them: 'Lodge here this night, and I will bring you back word, as the LORD may speak unto me'; and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam.

jps@Numbers:22:9 @ And God came unto Balaam, and said: 'What men are these with thee?'

jps@Numbers:22:10 @ And Balaam said unto God: 'Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, hath sent unto me saying:

jps@Numbers:22:12 @ And God said unto Balaam: 'Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people; for they are blessed.'

jps@Numbers:22:13 @ And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said unto the princes of Balak: 'Get you into your land; for the LORD refuseth to give me leave to go with you.'

jps@Numbers:22:14 @ And the princes of Moab rose up, and they went unto Balak, and said: 'Balaam refuseth to come with us.'

jps@Numbers:22:16 @ And they came to Balaam, and said to him: 'Thus saith Balak the son of Zippor: Let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee from coming unto me;

jps@Numbers:22:18 @ And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak: 'If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do any thing, small or great.

jps@Numbers:22:20 @ And God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him: 'If the men are come to call thee, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I speak unto thee, that shalt thou do.'

jps@Numbers:22:28 @ And the LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam: 'What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?'

jps@Numbers:22:29 @ And Balaam said unto the ass: 'Because thou hast mocked me; I would there were a sword in my hand, for now I had killed thee.'

jps@Numbers:22:30 @ And the ass said unto Balaam: 'Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden all thy life long unto this day? was I ever wont to do so unto thee?' And he said: 'Nay.'

jps@Numbers:22:32 @ And the angel of the LORD said unto him: 'Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? behold, I am come forth for an adversary, because thy way is contrary unto me;

jps@Numbers:22:34 @ And Balaam said unto the angel of the LORD: 'I have sinned; for I knew not that thou stoodest in the way against me; now therefore, if it displease thee, I will get me back.'

jps@Numbers:22:35 @ And the angel of the LORD said unto Balaam: 'Go with the men; but only the word that I shall speak unto thee, that thou shalt speak.' So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.

jps@Numbers:22:37 @ And Balak said unto Balaam: 'Did I not earnestly send unto thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me? am I not able indeed to promote thee to honour?'

jps@Numbers:22:38 @ And Balaam said unto Balak: 'Lo, I am come unto thee; have I now any power at all to speak any thing? the word that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak.'

jps@Numbers:23:1 @ And Balaam said unto Balak: 'Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.'

jps@Numbers:23:3 @ And Balaam said unto Balak: 'Stand by thy burnt-offering, and I will go; peradventure the LORD will come to meet me; and whatsoever He showeth me I will tell thee.' And he went to a bare height.

jps@Numbers:23:4 @ And God met Balaam; and he said unto Him: 'I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar.'

jps@Numbers:23:5 @ And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said: 'Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.'

jps@Numbers:23:7 @ And he took up his parable, and said: From Aram Balak bringeth me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East: 'Come, curse me Jacob, and come, execrate Israel.'

jps@Numbers:23:11 @ And Balak said unto Balaam: 'What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.'

jps@Numbers:23:12 @ And he answered and said: 'Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD putteth in my mouth?'

jps@Numbers:23:13 @ And Balak said unto him: 'Come, I pray thee, with me unto another place, from whence thou mayest see them; thou shalt see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all; and curse me them from thence.'

jps@Numbers:23:15 @ And he said unto Balak: 'Stand here by thy burnt-offering, while I go toward a meeting yonder.'

jps@Numbers:23:16 @ And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said: 'Return unto Balak, and thus shalt thou speak.'

jps@Numbers:23:17 @ And he came to him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt-offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him: 'What hath the LORD spoken?'

jps@Numbers:23:18 @ And he took up his parable, and said: Arise, Balak, and hear; give ear unto me, thou son of Zippor:

jps@Numbers:23:19 @ God is not a man, that He should lie; neither the son of man, that He should repent: when He hath said, will He not do it? or when He hath spoken, will He not make it good?

jps@Numbers:23:23 @ For there is no enchantment with Jacob, neither is there any divination with Israel; now is it said of Jacob and of Israel: 'What hath God wrought!'

jps@Numbers:23:25 @ And Balak said unto Balaam: 'Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.'

jps@Numbers:23:26 @ But Balaam answered and said unto Balak: 'Told not I thee, saying: All that the LORD speaketh, that I must do?'

jps@Numbers:23:27 @ And Balak said unto Balaam: 'Come now, I will take thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence.'

jps@Numbers:23:29 @ And Balaam said unto Balak: 'Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.'

jps@Numbers:23:30 @ And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar.

jps@Numbers:24:3 @ And he took up his parable, and said: The saying of Balaam the son of Beor, and the saying of the man whose eye is opened;

jps@Numbers:24:10 @ And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he smote his hands together; and Balak said unto Balaam: 'I called thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast altogether blessed them these three times.

jps@Numbers:24:12 @ And Balaam said unto Balak: 'Spoke I not also to thy messengers that thou didst send unto me, saying:

jps@Numbers:24:15 @ And he took up his parable, and said: The saying of Balaam the son of Beor, and the saying of the man whose eye is opened;

jps@Numbers:24:20 @ And he looked on Amalek, and took up his parable, and said: Amalek was the first of the nations; but his end shall come to destruction.

jps@Numbers:24:21 @ And he looked on the Kenite, and took up his parable, and said: Though firm be thy dwelling-place, and though thy nest be set in the rock;

jps@Numbers:24:23 @ And he took up his parable, and said: Alas, who shall live after God hath appointed him?

jps@Numbers:25:4 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up unto the LORD in face of the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may turn away from Israel.'

jps@Numbers:25:5 @ And Moses said unto the judges of Israel: 'Slay ye every one his men that have joined themselves unto the Baal of Peor.'

jps@Numbers:26:65 @ For the LORD had said of them: 'They shall surely die in the wilderness.' And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

jps@Numbers:27:12 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Get thee up into this mountain of Abarim, and behold the land which I have given unto the children of Israel.

jps@Numbers:27:18 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Take thee Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is spirit, and lay thy hand upon him;

jps@Numbers:31:15 @ And Moses said unto them: 'Have ye saved all the women alive?

jps@Numbers:31:21 @ And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war that went to the battle: 'This is the statute of the law which the LORD hath commanded Moses:

jps@Numbers:31:49 @ and they said unto Moses: 'Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war that are under our charge, and there lacketh not one man of us.

jps@Numbers:32:5 @ And they said: 'If we have found favour in thy sight, let this land be given unto thy servants for a possession; bring us not over the Jordan.'

jps@Numbers:32:6 @ And Moses said unto the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben: 'Shall your brethren go to the war, and shall ye sit here?

jps@Numbers:32:16 @ And they came near unto him, and said: 'We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones;

jps@Numbers:32:20 @ And Moses said unto them: 'If ye will do this thing: if ye will arm yourselves to go before the LORD to the war,

jps@Numbers:32:29 @ And Moses said unto them: 'If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man that is armed to battle, before the LORD, and the land shall be subdued before you, then ye shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession;

jps@Numbers:32:31 @ And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying: 'As the LORD hath said unto thy servants, so will we do.

jps@Numbers:36:2 @ and they said: 'The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the children of Israel; and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters.

jps@Deuteronomy:1:14 @ And ye answered me, and said: 'The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.'

jps@Deuteronomy:1:20 @ And I said unto you: 'Ye are come unto the hill-country of the Amorites, which the LORD our God giveth unto us.

jps@Deuteronomy:1:22 @ And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said: 'Let us send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us back word of the way by which we must go up, and the cities unto which we shall come.'

jps@Deuteronomy:1:25 @ And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us back word, and said: 'Good is the land which the LORD our God giveth unto us.'

jps@Deuteronomy:1:27 @ and ye murmured in your tents, and said: 'Because the LORD hated us, He hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

jps@Deuteronomy:1:29 @ Then I said unto you: 'Dread not, neither be afraid of them.

jps@Deuteronomy:1:39 @ Moreover your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, and your children, that this day have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.

jps@Deuteronomy:1:41 @ Then ye answered and said unto me: 'We have sinned against the LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded us.' And ye girded on every man his weapons of war, and deemed it a light thing to go up into the hill-country.

jps@Deuteronomy:1:42 @ And the LORD said unto me: 'Say unto them: Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies.'

jps@Deuteronomy:2:9 @ And the LORD said unto me: 'Be not at enmity with Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give thee of his land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.--

jps@Deuteronomy:2:31 @ And the LORD said unto me: 'Behold, I have begun to deliver up Sihon and his land before thee; begin to possess his land.'

jps@Deuteronomy:3:2 @ And the LORD said unto me: 'Fear him not; for I have delivered him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.'

jps@Deuteronomy:3:26 @ But the LORD was wroth with me for your sakes, and hearkened not unto me; and the LORD said unto me: 'Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto Me of this matter.

jps@Deuteronomy:4:10 @ the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me: 'Assemble Me the people, and I will make them hear My words that they may learn to fear Me all the days that they live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.'

jps@Deuteronomy:5:1 @ And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them: Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and observe to do them.

jps@Deuteronomy:5:24 @ and ye said: 'Behold, the LORD our God hath shown us His glory and His greatness, and we have heard His voice out of the midst of the fire; we have seen this day that God doth speak with man, and he liveth.

jps@Deuteronomy:5:28 @ And the LORD heard the voice of your words, when ye spoke unto me; and the LORD said unto me: 'I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken unto thee; they have well said all that they have spoken.

jps@Deuteronomy:9:12 @ And the LORD said unto me: 'Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people that thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have dealt corruptly; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.'

jps@Deuteronomy:9:25 @ So I fell down before the LORD the forty days and forty nights that I fell down; because the LORD had said He would destroy you.

jps@Deuteronomy:9:26 @ And I prayed unto the LORD, and said: 'O Lord GOD, destroy not Thy people and Thine inheritance, that Thou hast redeemed through Thy greatness, that Thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

jps@Deuteronomy:10:1 @ At that time the LORD said unto me: 'Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto Me into the mount; and make thee an ark of wood.

jps@Deuteronomy:10:11 @ And the LORD said unto me: 'Arise, go before the people, causing them to set forward, that they may go in and possess the land, which I swore unto their fathers to give unto them.'

jps@Deuteronomy:17:16 @ Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses; forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you: 'Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.'

jps@Deuteronomy:18:17 @ And the LORD said unto me: 'They have well said that which they have spoken.

jps@Deuteronomy:28:68 @ And the LORD shall bring thee back into Egypt in ships, by the way whereof I said unto thee: 'Thou shalt see it no more again'; and there ye shall sell yourselves unto your enemies for bondmen and for bondwoman, and no man shall buy you.

jps@Deuteronomy:29:2 @ And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them: Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;

jps@Deuteronomy:31:2 @ And he said unto them: 'I am a hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in; and the LORD hath said unto me: Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.

jps@Deuteronomy:31:7 @ And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel: 'Be strong and of good courage; for thou shalt go with this people into the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it.

jps@Deuteronomy:31:14 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Behold, thy days approach that thou must die; call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tent of meeting, that I may give him a charge.' And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tent of meeting.

jps@Deuteronomy:31:16 @ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Behold, thou art about to sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go astray after the foreign gods of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake Me, and break My covenant which I have made with them.

jps@Deuteronomy:31:23 @ And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said: 'Be strong and of good courage; for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore unto them; and I will be with thee.'

jps@Deuteronomy:32:20 @ And He said: 'I will hide My face from them, I will see what their end shall be; for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.

jps@Deuteronomy:32:37 @ And it is said: Where are their gods, the rock in whom they trusted;

jps@Deuteronomy:32:46 @ he said unto them: 'Set your heart unto all the words wherewith I testify against you this day; that ye may charge your children therewith to observe to do all the words of this law.

jps@Deuteronomy:33:2 @ And he said: The LORD came from Sinai, and rose from Seir unto them; He shined forth from mount Paran, and He came from the myriads holy, at His right hand was a fiery law unto them.

jps@Deuteronomy:33:7 @ And this for Judah, and he said: Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah, and bring him in unto his people; his hands shall contend for him, and Thou shalt be a help against his adversaries.

jps@Deuteronomy:33:8 @ And of Levi he said: Thy Thummim and Thy Urim be with Thy holy one, whom Thou didst prove at Massah, with whom Thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;

jps@Deuteronomy:33:9 @ Who said of his father, and of his mother: 'I have not seen him'; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew he his own children; for they have observed Thy word, and keep Thy covenant.

jps@Deuteronomy:33:12 @ Of Benjamin he said: The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety by Him; He covereth him all the day, and He dwelleth between his shoulders.

jps@Deuteronomy:33:13 @ And of Joseph he said: Blessed of the LORD be his land; for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath,

jps@Deuteronomy:33:18 @ And of Zebulun he said: Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going out, and, Issachar, in thy tents.

jps@Deuteronomy:33:20 @ And of Gad he said: Blessed be He that enlargeth Gad; he dwelleth as a lioness, and teareth the arm, yea, the crown of the head.

jps@Deuteronomy:33:22 @ And of Dan he said: Dan is a lion's whelp, that leapeth forth from Bashan.

jps@Deuteronomy:33:23 @ And of Naphtali he said: O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and full with the blessing of the LORD: possess thou the sea and the south.

jps@Deuteronomy:33:24 @ And of Asher he said: Blessed be Asher above sons; let him be the favoured of his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil.

jps@Deuteronomy:33:27 @ The eternal God is a dwelling-place, and underneath are the everlasting arms; and He thrust out the enemy from before thee, and said: 'Destroy.'

jps@Deuteronomy:34:4 @ And the LORD said unto him: 'This is the land which I swore unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying: I will give it unto thy seed; I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.'

jps@Joshua:2:4 @ And the woman took the two men, and hid them; and she said: 'Yea, the men came unto me, but I knew not whence they were;

jps@Joshua:2:9 @ and she said unto the men: 'I know that the LORD hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.

jps@Joshua:2:14 @ And the men said unto her: 'Our life for yours, if ye tell not this our business; and it shall be, when the LORD giveth us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.'

jps@Joshua:2:16 @ And she said unto them: 'Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers light upon you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned; and afterward may ye go your way.'

jps@Joshua:2:17 @ And the men said unto her: 'We will be guiltless of this thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.

jps@Joshua:2:21 @ And she said: 'According unto your words, so be it.' And she sent them away, and they departed; and she bound the scarlet line in the window.

jps@Joshua:2:24 @ And they said unto Joshua: 'Truly the LORD hath delivered into our hands all the land; and moreover all the inhabitants of the land do melt away before us.'

jps@Joshua:3:5 @ And Joshua said unto the people: 'Sanctify yourselves; for to-morrow the LORD will do wonders among you.'

jps@Joshua:3:7 @ And the LORD said unto Joshua: 'This day will I begin to magnify thee in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee.

jps@Joshua:3:9 @ And Joshua said unto the children of Israel: 'Come hither, and hear the words of the LORD your God.'

jps@Joshua:3:10 @ And Joshua said: 'Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you, and that He will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Hivite, and the Perizzite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Jebusite.

jps@Joshua:4:5 @ and Joshua said unto them: 'Pass on before the ark of the LORD your God into the midst of the Jordan, and take you up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according unto the number of the tribes of the children of Israel;

jps@Joshua:5:2 @ At that time the LORD said unto Joshua: 'Make thee knives of flint, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.'

jps@Joshua:5:9 @ And the LORD said unto Joshua: 'This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you.' Wherefore the name of that place was called Gilgal, unto this day.

jps@Joshua:5:13 @ And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand; and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him: 'Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?'

jps@Joshua:5:14 @ And he said: 'Nay, but I am captain of the host of the LORD; I am now come.' And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and bowed down, and said unto him: 'What saith my lord unto his servant?'

jps@Joshua:5:15 @ And the captain of the LORD'S host said unto Joshua: 'Put off thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy.' And Joshua did so.

jps@Joshua:6:2 @ And the LORD said unto Joshua: 'See, I have given into thy hand Jericho, and the king thereof, even the mighty men of valour.

jps@Joshua:6:6 @ And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said unto them: 'Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven rams' horns before the ark of the LORD.'

jps@Joshua:6:7 @ And he said unto the people: 'Pass on, and compass the city, and let the armed body pass on before the ark of the LORD.'

jps@Joshua:6:16 @ And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew with the horns, that Joshua said unto the people: 'Shout; for the LORD hath given you the city.

jps@Joshua:6:22 @ And Joshua said unto the two men that had spied out the land: 'Go into the harlot's house, and bring out thence the woman, and all that she hath, as ye swore unto her.'

jps@Joshua:7:3 @ And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him: 'Let not all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai; make not all the people to toil thither; for they are but few.'

jps@Joshua:7:7 @ And Joshua said: 'Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast Thou at all brought this people over the Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? would that we had been content and dwelt beyond the Jordan!

jps@Joshua:7:10 @ And the LORD said unto Joshua: 'Get thee up; wherefore, now, art thou fallen upon thy face?

jps@Joshua:7:19 @ And Joshua said unto Achan: 'My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the LORD, the God of Israel, and make confession unto Him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide nothing from me.'

jps@Joshua:7:20 @ And Achan answered Joshua, and said: 'Of a truth I have sinned against the LORD, the God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done.

jps@Joshua:7:25 @ And Joshua said: 'Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee this day.' And all Israel stoned him with stones; and they burned them with fire, and stoned them with stones.

jps@Joshua:8:1 @ And the LORD said unto Joshua: 'Fear not, neither be thou dismayed; take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai; see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land.

jps@Joshua:8:18 @ And the LORD said unto Joshua: 'Stretch out the javelin that is in thy hand toward Ai; for I will give it into thy hand.' And Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.

jps@Joshua:9:6 @ And they went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and said unto him, and to the men of Israel: 'We are come from a far country; now therefore make ye a covenant with us.'

jps@Joshua:9:7 @ And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites: 'Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a covenant with you?'

jps@Joshua:9:8 @ And they said unto Joshua: 'We are thy servants.' And Joshua said unto them: 'Who are ye? and from whence come ye?'

jps@Joshua:9:9 @ And they said unto him: 'From a very far country thy servants are come because of the name of the LORD thy God; for we have heard the fame of Him, and all that He did in Egypt,

jps@Joshua:9:19 @ But all the princes said unto all the congregation: 'We have sworn unto them by the LORD, the God of Israel; now therefore we may not touch them.

jps@Joshua:9:21 @ And the princes said concerning them: 'Let them live'; so they became hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation, as the princes had spoken concerning them.

jps@Joshua:9:24 @ And they answered Joshua, and said: 'Because it was certainly told thy servants, how that the LORD thy God commanded His servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you; therefore we were sore afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.

jps@Joshua:10:8 @ And the LORD said unto Joshua: 'Fear them not; for I have delivered them into thy hand; there shall not a man of them stand against thee.'

jps@Joshua:10:12 @ Then spoke Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel; and he said in the sight of Israel: 'Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Aijalon.'

jps@Joshua:10:18 @ And Joshua said: 'Roll great stones unto the mouth of the cave, and set men by it to keep them;

jps@Joshua:10:22 @ Then said Joshua: 'Open the mouth of the cave, and bring forth those five kings unto me out of the cave.'

jps@Joshua:10:24 @ And it came to pass, when they brought forth those kings unto Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said unto the chiefs of the men of war that went with him: 'Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings.' And they came near, and put their feet upon the necks of them.

jps@Joshua:10:25 @ And Joshua said unto them: 'Fear not, nor be dismayed; be strong and of good courage; for thus shall the LORD do to all your enemies against whom ye fight.'

jps@Joshua:11:6 @ And the LORD said unto Joshua: 'Be not afraid because of them; for to-morrow at this time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel; thou shalt hough their horses, and burn their chariots with fire.'

jps@Joshua:13:1 @ Now Joshua was old and well stricken in years; and the LORD said unto him: 'Thou art old and well stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very much land to be possessed.

jps@Joshua:14:6 @ Then the children of Judah drew nigh unto Joshua in Gilgal; and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said unto him: 'Thou knowest the thing that the LORD spoke unto Moses the man of God concerning me and concerning thee in Kadesh-barnea.

jps@Joshua:15:16 @ And Caleb said: 'He that smiteth Kiriath-sepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.'

jps@Joshua:15:18 @ And it came to pass, when she came unto him, that she persuaded him to ask of her father a field; and she alighted from off her ass; and Caleb said unto her: 'What wouldest thou?'

jps@Joshua:15:19 @ And she said: 'Give me a blessing; for that thou hast set me in the Southland, give me therefore springs of water.' And he gave her the Upper Springs and the Nether Springs.

jps@Joshua:17:15 @ And Joshua said unto them: 'If thou be a great people, get thee up to the forest, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim; since the hill-country of Ephraim is too narrow for thee.'

jps@Joshua:17:16 @ And the children of Joseph said: 'The hill-country will not be enough for us; and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both they who are in Beth-shean and its towns, and they who are in the valley of Jezreel.'

jps@Joshua:18:3 @ And Joshua said unto the children of Israel: 'How long are ye slack to go in to possess the land, which the LORD, the God of your fathers, hath given you?

jps@Joshua:22:2 @ and said unto them: 'Ye have kept all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, and have hearkened unto my voice in all that I commanded you;

jps@Joshua:22:26 @ Therefore we said: Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt-offering, nor for sacrifice;

jps@Joshua:22:28 @ Therefore said we: It shall be, when they so say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we shall say: Behold the pattern of the altar of the LORD, which our fathers made, not for burnt-offering, nor for sacrifice; but it is a witness between us and you.

jps@Joshua:22:31 @ And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh: 'This day we know that the LORD is in the midst of us, because ye have not committed this treachery against the LORD; now have ye delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the LORD.'

jps@Joshua:23:2 @ that Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders and for their heads, and for their judges and for their officers, and said unto them: 'I am old and well stricken in years.

jps@Joshua:24:2 @ And Joshua said unto all the people: 'Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: Your fathers dwelt of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor; and they served other gods.

jps@Joshua:24:16 @ And the people answered and said: 'Far be it from us that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;

jps@Joshua:24:19 @ And Joshua said unto the people: 'Ye cannot serve the LORD; for He is a holy God; He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your transgression nor your sins.

jps@Joshua:24:21 @ And the people said unto Joshua: 'Nay; but we will serve the LORD.'

jps@Joshua:24:22 @ And Joshua said unto the people: 'Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve Him.--And they said: 'We are witnesses.'--

jps@Joshua:24:24 @ And the people said unto Joshua: 'The LORD our God will we serve, and unto His voice will we hearken.'

jps@Joshua:24:27 @ And Joshua said unto all the people: 'Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us; for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which He spoke unto us; it shall be therefore a witness against you, lest ye deny your God.'

jps@Judges:1:2 @ And LORD said: 'Judah shall go up; behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.'

jps@Judges:1:3 @ And Judah said unto Simeon his brother: 'Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with thee into thy lot.' So Simeon went with him.

jps@Judges:1:7 @ And Adoni-bezek said: 'Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered food under my table; as I have done, so God hath requited me.' And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

jps@Judges:1:12 @ And Caleb said: 'He that smiteth Kiriath-sepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.'

jps@Judges:1:14 @ And it came to pass, when she came unto him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field; and she alighted from off her ass; and Caleb said unto her: 'What wouldest thou?'

jps@Judges:1:15 @ And she said unto him: 'Give me a blessing; for that thou hast set me in the Southland, give me therefore springs of water.' And Caleb gave her the Upper Springs and the Nether Springs.

jps@Judges:1:24 @ And the watchers saw a man come forth out of the city, and they said unto him: 'Show us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city, and we will deal kindly with thee.'

jps@Judges:2:1 @ And the angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said: 'I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I swore unto your fathers; and I said: I will never break My covenant with you;

jps@Judges:2:3 @ Wherefore I also said: I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be unto you as snares, and their gods shall be a trap unto you.'

jps@Judges:2:20 @ And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel; and He said: 'Because this nation have transgressed My covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto My voice;

jps@Judges:3:19 @ But he himself turned back from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said: 'I have a secret errand unto thee, O king.' And he said: 'Keep silence.' And all that stood by him went out from him.

jps@Judges:3:20 @ And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting by himself alone in his cool upper chamber. And Ehud said: 'I have a message from God unto thee.' And he arose out of his seat.

jps@Judges:3:24 @ Now when he was gone out, his servants came; and they saw, and, behold, the doors of the upper chamber were locked; and they said: 'Surely he is covering his feet in the cabinet of the cool chamber.'

jps@Judges:3:28 @ And he said unto them: 'Follow after me; for the LORD hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand.' And they went down after him, and took the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites, and suffered not a man to pass over.

jps@Judges:4:6 @ And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh-naphtali, and said unto him: 'Hath not the LORD, the God of Israel, commanded, saying: Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?

jps@Judges:4:8 @ And Barak said unto her: 'If thou wilt go with me, then I will go; but if thou wilt not go with me, I will not go.'

jps@Judges:4:9 @ And she said: 'I will surely go with thee; notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thy honour; for the LORD will give Sisera over into the hand of a woman.' And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.

jps@Judges:4:14 @ And Deborah said unto Barak: 'Up; for this is the day in which the LORD hath delivered Sisera into thy hand; is not the LORD gone out before thee?' So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.

jps@Judges:4:18 @ And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him: 'Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not.' And he turned in unto her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.

jps@Judges:4:19 @ And he said unto her: 'Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink; for I am thirsty.' And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.

jps@Judges:4:20 @ And he said unto her: 'Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man doth come and inquire of thee, and say: Is there any man here? that thou shalt say: No.'

jps@Judges:4:22 @ And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him: 'Come, and I will show thee the man whom thou seekest.' And he came unto her; and, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the tent-pin was in his temples.

jps@Judges:5:23 @ 'Curse ye Meroz', said the angel of the LORD, 'Curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof, because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.'

jps@Judges:6:8 @ that the LORD sent a prophet unto the children of Israel; and he said unto them: 'Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the house of bondage;

jps@Judges:6:10 @ And I said unto you: I am the LORD your God; ye shall not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell; but ye have not hearkened unto My voice.'

jps@Judges:6:12 @ And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and said unto him: 'The LORD is with thee, thou mighty man of valour.'

jps@Judges:6:13 @ And Gideon said unto him: 'Oh, my lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where are all His wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying: Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian.'

jps@Judges:6:14 @ And the LORD turned towards him, and said: 'Go in this thy might, and save Israel from the hand of Midian; have not I sent thee?'

jps@Judges:6:15 @ And he said unto him: 'Oh, my lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.'

jps@Judges:6:16 @ And the LORD said unto him: 'Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man.'

jps@Judges:6:17 @ And he said unto him: 'If now I have found favour in thy sight, then show me a sign that it is thou that talkest with me.

jps@Judges:6:18 @ Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring forth my present, and lay it before thee.' And he said: 'I will tarry until thou come back.'

jps@Judges:6:20 @ And the angel of God said unto him: 'Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and lay them upon this rock, and pour out the broth.' And he did so.

jps@Judges:6:22 @ And Gideon saw that he was the angel of the LORD; and Gideon said: 'Alas, O Lord GOD! forasmuch as I have seen the angel of the LORD face to face.'

jps@Judges:6:23 @ And the LORD said unto him: 'Peace be unto thee; fear not; thou shalt not die.'

jps@Judges:6:25 @ And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him: 'Take thy father's bullock, and the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the Asherah that is by it;

jps@Judges:6:29 @ And they said one to another: 'Who hath done this thing?' And when they inquired and asked, they said: 'Gideon the son of Joash hath done this thing.'

jps@Judges:6:30 @ Then the men of the city said unto Joash: 'Bring out thy son, that he may die; because he hath broken down the altar of Baal, and because he hath cut down the Asherah that was by it.'

jps@Judges:6:31 @ And Joash said unto all that stood against him: 'Will ye contend for Baal? or will ye save him? he that will contend for him, shall be put to death before morning; if he be a god, let him contend for himself, because one hath broken down his altar.'

jps@Judges:6:36 @ And Gideon said unto God: 'If Thou wilt save Israel by my hand, as Thou hast spoken,

jps@Judges:6:39 @ And Gideon said unto God: 'Let not Thine anger be kindled against me, and I will speak but this once: let me make trial, I pray Thee, but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew.'

jps@Judges:7:2 @ And the LORD said unto Gideon: 'The people that are with thee are too many for Me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel vaunt themselves against Me, saying: mine own hand hath saved me.

jps@Judges:7:4 @ And the LORD said unto Gideon: 'The people are yet too many; bring them down unto the water, and I will try them for thee there; and it shall be, that of whom I say to thee: This shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto thee: This shall not go with thee, the same shall not go.'

jps@Judges:7:5 @ So he brought down the people unto the water; and the LORD said unto Gideon: 'Everyone that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.'

jps@Judges:7:7 @ And the LORD said unto Gideon: 'By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thy hand; and let all the people go every man unto his place.'

jps@Judges:7:9 @ And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him: 'Arise, get thee down upon the camp; for I have delivered it into thy hand.

jps@Judges:7:14 @ And his fellow answered and said: 'This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: into his hand God hath delivered Midian, and all the host.'

jps@Judges:7:15 @ And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped; and he returned into the camp of Israel, and said: 'Arise; for the LORD hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian.'

jps@Judges:7:17 @ And he said unto them: 'Look on me, and do likewise; and, behold, when I come to the outermost part of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so shall ye do.

jps@Judges:8:1 @ And the men of Ephraim said unto him: 'Why hast thou served us thus, that thou didst not call us when thou wentest to fight with Midian?' And they did chide with him sharply.

jps@Judges:8:2 @ And he said unto them: 'What have I now done in comparison with you? Is not the gleaning of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?

jps@Judges:8:3 @ God hath delivered into your hand the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; and what was I able to do in comparison with you?' Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that.

jps@Judges:8:5 @ And he said unto the men of Succoth: 'Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they are faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.'

jps@Judges:8:6 @ And the princes of Succoth said: 'Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thy power, that we should give bread unto thine army?'

jps@Judges:8:7 @ And Gideon said: 'Therefore when the LORD hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.'

jps@Judges:8:15 @ And he came unto the men of Succoth, and said: 'Behold Zebah and Zalmunna, concerning whom ye did taunt me, saying: Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thy power, that we should give bread unto thy men that are weary?'

jps@Judges:8:18 @ Then said he unto Zebah and Zalmunna: 'Where are the men whom ye slew at Tabor?' And they answered: 'As thou art, so were they; of one form with the children of a king.'

jps@Judges:8:19 @ And he said: 'They were my brethren, the sons of my mother; as the LORD liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay you.'

jps@Judges:8:20 @ And he said unto Jether his first-born: 'Up, and slay them.' But the youth drew not his sword; for he feared, because he was yet a youth.

jps@Judges:8:21 @ Then Zebah and Zalmunna said: 'Rise thou, and fall upon us; for as the man is, so is his strength.' And Gideon arose, and slew Zebah and Zalmunna, and took the crescents that were on their camels' necks.

jps@Judges:8:22 @ Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon: 'Rule thou over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son's son also; for thou hast saved us out of the hand of Midian.'

jps@Judges:8:23 @ And Gideon said unto them: 'I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you; the LORD shall rule over you.'

jps@Judges:8:24 @ And Gideon said unto them: 'I would make a request of you, that ye would give me every man the ear-rings of his spoil.'--For they had golden ear-rings, because they were Ishmaelites.

jps@Judges:9:3 @ And his mother's brethren spoke of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words; and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said: 'He is our brother.'

jps@Judges:9:7 @ And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them: 'Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you.

jps@Judges:9:8 @ The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive-tree: Reign thou over us.

jps@Judges:9:9 @ But the olive-tree said unto them: Should I leave my fatness, seeing that by me they honour God and man, and go to hold sway over the trees?

jps@Judges:9:10 @ And the trees said to the fig-tree: Come thou, and reign over us.

jps@Judges:9:11 @ But the fig-tree said unto them: Should I leave my sweetness, and my good fruitage, and go to hold sway over the trees?

jps@Judges:9:12 @ And the trees said unto the vine: Come thou, and reign over us.

jps@Judges:9:13 @ And the vine said unto them: Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to hold sway over the trees?

jps@Judges:9:14 @ Then said all the trees unto the bramble: Come thou, and reign over us.

jps@Judges:9:15 @ And the bramble said unto the trees: If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shadow; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.

jps@Judges:9:28 @ And Gaal the son of Ebed said: 'Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? is not he the son of Jerubbaal? and Zebul his officer? serve ye the men of Hamor the father of Shechem; but why should we serve him?

jps@Judges:9:29 @ And would that this people were under my hand! then would I remove Abimelech.' And he said to Abimelech: 'Increase thine army, and come out.'

jps@Judges:9:36 @ And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul: 'Behold, there come people down from the tops of the mountains.' And Zebul said unto him: 'Thou seest the shadow of the mountains as if they were men.'

jps@Judges:9:37 @ And Gaal spoke again and said: 'See, there come people down by the middle of the land, and one company cometh by the way of Elon-meonenim.'

jps@Judges:9:38 @ Then said Zebul unto him: 'Where is now thy mouth, that thou saidst: Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? is not this the people that thou hast despised? go out now, I pray, and fight with them.'

jps@Judges:9:48 @ And Abimelech got him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it up, and laid it on his shoulder; and he said unto the people that were with him: 'What ye have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done.'

jps@Judges:9:54 @ Then he called hastily unto the young man his armour-bearer, and said unto him: 'Draw thy sword, and kill me, that men say not of me: A woman slew him.' And his young man thrust him through, and he died.

jps@Judges:10:11 @ And the LORD said unto the children of Israel: 'Did not I save you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?

jps@Judges:10:15 @ And the children of Israel said unto the LORD: 'We have sinned; do Thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto Thee; only deliver us, we pray Thee, this day.'

jps@Judges:10:18 @ And the people, the princes of Gilead, said one to another: 'What man is he that will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? he shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.'

jps@Judges:11:2 @ And Gilead's wife bore him sons; and when his wife's sons grew up, they drove out Jephthah, and said unto him: 'Thou shalt not inherit in our father's house; for thou art the son of another woman.'

jps@Judges:11:6 @ And they said unto Jephthah: 'Come and be our chief, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.'

jps@Judges:11:7 @ And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead: 'Did not ye hate me, and drive me out of my father's house? and why are ye come unto me now when ye are in distress?'

jps@Judges:11:8 @ And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah: 'Therefore are we returned to thee now, that thou mayest go with us, and fight with the children of Ammon, and thou shalt be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.'

jps@Judges:11:9 @ And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead: 'If ye bring me back home to fight with the children of Ammon, and the LORD deliver them before me, I will be your head.'

jps@Judges:11:10 @ And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah: 'The LORD shall be witness between us; surely according to thy word so will we do.'

jps@Judges:11:15 @ and he said unto him: 'Thus saith Jephthah: Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon.

jps@Judges:11:19 @ And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said unto him: Let us pass, we pray thee, through thy land unto my place.

jps@Judges:11:30 @ And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said: 'If Thou wilt indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand,

jps@Judges:11:35 @ And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said: 'Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art become my troubler; for I have opened my mouth unto the LORD, and I cannot go back.'

jps@Judges:11:36 @ And she said unto him: 'My father, thou hast opened thy mouth unto the LORD; do unto me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the LORD hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon.'

jps@Judges:11:37 @ And she said unto her father: 'Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may depart and go down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions.'

jps@Judges:11:38 @ And he said: 'Go.' And he sent her away for two months; and she departed, she and her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.

jps@Judges:12:1 @ And the men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed to Zaphon; and they said unto Jephthah: 'Wherefore didst thou pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? we will burn thy house upon thee with fire.'

jps@Judges:12:2 @ And Jephthah said unto them: 'I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye saved me not out of their hand.

jps@Judges:12:4 @ Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim; and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said: 'Ye are fugitives of Ephraim, ye Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim, and in the midst of Manasseh.'

jps@Judges:12:5 @ And the Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites; and it was so, that when any of the fugitives of Ephraim said: 'Let me go over,' the men of Gilead said unto him: 'Art thou an Ephraimite?' If he said: 'Nay';

jps@Judges:12:6 @ then said they unto him: 'Say now Shibboleth'; and he said 'Sibboleth'; for he could not frame to pronounce it right; then they laid hold on him, and slew him at the fords of the Jordan; and there fell at that time of Ephraim forty and two thousand.

jps@Judges:13:3 @ And the angel of the LORD appeared unto the woman, and said unto her: 'Behold now, thou art barren, and hast not borne; but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son.

jps@Judges:13:7 @ but he said unto me: Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing; for the child shall be a Nazirite unto God from the womb to the day of his death.'

jps@Judges:13:8 @ Then Manoah entreated the LORD, and said: 'Oh, LORD, I pray Thee, let the man of God whom Thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born.'

jps@Judges:13:10 @ And the woman made haste, and ran, and told her husband, and said unto him: 'Behold, the man hath appeared unto me, that came unto me that day.'

jps@Judges:13:11 @ And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said unto him: 'Art thou the man that spokest unto the woman?' And he said: 'I am.'

jps@Judges:13:12 @ And Manoah said: 'Now when thy word cometh to pass, what shall be the rule for the child, and what shall be done with him?'

jps@Judges:13:13 @ And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah: 'Of all that I said unto the woman let her beware.

jps@Judges:13:15 @ And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD: 'I pray thee, let us detain thee, that we may make ready a kid for thee.'

jps@Judges:13:16 @ And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah: 'Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread; and if thou wilt make ready a burnt-offering, thou must offer it unto the LORD.' For Manoah knew not that he was the angel of the LORD.

jps@Judges:13:17 @ And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD: 'What is thy name, that when thy words come to pass we may do thee honour?'

jps@Judges:13:18 @ And the angel of the LORD said unto him: 'Wherefore askest thou after my name, seeing it is hidden?'

jps@Judges:13:22 @ And Manoah said unto his wife: 'We shall surely die, because we have seen God.'

jps@Judges:13:23 @ But his wife said unto him: 'If the LORD were pleased to kill us, He would not have received a burnt-offering and a meal- offering at our hand, neither would He have shown us all these things, nor would at this time have told such things as these.'

jps@Judges:14:2 @ And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said: 'I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines; now therefore get her for me to wife.'

jps@Judges:14:3 @ Then his father and his mother said unto him: 'Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines?' And Samson said unto his father: 'Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well.'

jps@Judges:14:12 @ And Samson said unto them: 'Let me now put forth a riddle unto you; if ye can declare it me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of raiment;

jps@Judges:14:13 @ but if ye cannot declare it me, then shall ye give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of raiment.' And they said unto him: 'Put forth thy riddle, that we may hear it.'

jps@Judges:14:14 @ And he said unto them: Out of the eater came forth food, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not in three days declare the riddle.

jps@Judges:14:15 @ And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said unto Samson's wife: 'Entice thy husband, that he may declare unto us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father's house with fire; have ye called us hither to impoverish us?'

jps@Judges:14:16 @ And Samson's wife wept before him, and said: 'Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not; thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children of my people, and wilt thou not tell it me?' And he said unto her: 'Behold, I have not told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell thee?'

jps@Judges:14:18 @ And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down: What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said unto them: If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.

jps@Judges:15:1 @ But it came to pass after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said: 'I will go in to my wife into the chamber.' But her father would not suffer him to go in.

jps@Judges:15:2 @ And her father said: 'I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion; is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.'

jps@Judges:15:3 @ And Samson said unto them: 'This time shall I be quits with the Philistines, when I do them a mischief.'

jps@Judges:15:6 @ Then the Philistines said: 'Who hath done this?' And they said: 'Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he hath taken his wife, and given her to his companion.' And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.

jps@Judges:15:7 @ And Samson said unto them: 'If ye do after this manner, surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.'

jps@Judges:15:10 @ And the men of Judah said: 'Why are ye come up against us?' And they said: 'To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he hath done to us.'

jps@Judges:15:11 @ Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson: 'Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what then is this that thou hast done unto us?' And he said unto them: 'As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.'

jps@Judges:15:12 @ And they said unto him: 'We are come down to bind thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines.' And Samson said unto them: 'Swear unto me, that ye will not fall upon me yourselves.'

jps@Judges:15:16 @ And Samson said: With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jawbone of an ass have I smitten a thousand men.

jps@Judges:15:18 @ And he was sore athirst, and called on the LORD, and said: 'Thou hast given this great deliverance by the hand of Thy servant; and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?'

jps@Judges:16:5 @ And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her: 'Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.'

jps@Judges:16:6 @ And Delilah said to Samson: 'Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.'

jps@Judges:16:7 @ And Samson said unto her: 'If they bind me with seven fresh bowstrings that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as any other man.'

jps@Judges:16:9 @ Now she had liers-in-wait abiding in the inner chamber. And she said unto him: 'The Philistines are upon thee, Samson.' And he broke the bowstrings as a string of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known.

jps@Judges:16:10 @ And Delilah said unto Samson: 'Behold, thou hast mocked me, and told me lies; now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be bound.'

jps@Judges:16:11 @ And he said unto her: 'If they only bind me with new ropes wherewith no work hath been done, then shall I become weak, and be as any other man.'

jps@Judges:16:12 @ So Delilah took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him: 'The Philistines are upon thee, Samson.' And the liers-in-wait were abiding in the inner chamber. And he broke them from off his arms like a thread.

jps@Judges:16:13 @ And Delilah said unto Samson: 'Hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told me lies; tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound.' And he said unto her: 'If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web.'

jps@Judges:16:14 @ And she fastened it with the pin, and said unto him: 'The Philistines are upon thee, Samson.' And he awoke out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam, and the web.

jps@Judges:16:15 @ And she said unto him: 'How canst thou say: I love thee, when thy heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth.'

jps@Judges:16:17 @ And he told her all his heart, and said unto her: 'There hath not come a razor upon my head; for I have been a Nazirite unto God from my mother's womb; if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.'

jps@Judges:16:20 @ And she said: 'The Philistines are upon thee, Samson.' And he awoke out of his sleep, and said: 'I will go out as at other times, and shake myself.' But he knew not that the LORD was departed from him.

jps@Judges:16:23 @ And the lords of the Philistines gathered them together to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said: 'Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.'

jps@Judges:16:24 @ And when the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said: 'Our god hath delivered into our hand our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, who hath slain many of us.'

jps@Judges:16:25 @ And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said: 'Call for Samson, that he may make us sport.' And they called for Samson out of the prison-house; and he made sport before them; and they set him between the pillars.

jps@Judges:16:26 @ And Samson said unto the lad that held him by the hand: 'Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house resteth, that I may lean upon them.'

jps@Judges:16:28 @ And Samson called unto the LORD, and said: 'O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray Thee, and strengthen me, I pray Thee, only this once, O God, that I may be this once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.'

jps@Judges:16:30 @ And Samson said: 'Let me die with the Philistines.' And he bent with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead that he slew at his death were more than they that he slew in his life.

jps@Judges:17:2 @ And he said unto his mother: 'The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou didst utter a curse, and didst also speak it in mine ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it.' And his mother said: 'Blessed be my son of the LORD.'

jps@Judges:17:3 @ And he restored the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother, and his mother said: 'I verily dedicate the silver unto the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image; now therefore I will restore it unto thee.'

jps@Judges:17:9 @ And Micah said unto him: 'Whence comest thou?' And he said unto him: 'I am a Levite of Beth-lehem in Judah, and I go to sojourn where I may find a place.'

jps@Judges:17:10 @ And Micah said unto him: 'Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten pieces of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals.' So the Levite went in.

jps@Judges:17:13 @ Then said Micah: 'Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite as my priest.'

jps@Judges:18:2 @ And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their whole number, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them: 'Go, search the land'; and they came to the hill-country of Ephraim, unto the house of Micah, and lodged there.

jps@Judges:18:3 @ When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite; and they turned aside thither, and said unto him: 'Who brought thee hither? and what doest thou in this place? and what hast thou here?'

jps@Judges:18:4 @ And he said unto them: 'Thus and thus hath Micah dealt with me, and he hath hired me, and I am become his priest.'

jps@Judges:18:5 @ And they said unto him: 'Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God, that we may know whether our way which we are going shall be prosperous.'

jps@Judges:18:6 @ And the priest said unto them: 'Go in peace; before the LORD is your way wherein ye go.'

jps@Judges:18:8 @ And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol; and their brethren said unto them: 'What say ye?'

jps@Judges:18:9 @ And they said: 'Arise, and let us go up against them; for we have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good; and are ye still? be not slothful to go and to enter in to possess the land.

jps@Judges:18:14 @ Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren: 'Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.'

jps@Judges:18:18 @ And when these went into Micah's house, and fetched the graven image of the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image, the priest said unto them: 'What do ye?'

jps@Judges:18:19 @ And they said unto him: 'Hold thy peace, lay thy hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest; is it better for thee to be priest unto the house of one man, or to be priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel?'

jps@Judges:18:23 @ And they cried unto the children of Daniel. And they turned their faces, and said unto Micah: 'What aileth thee, that thou comest with such a company?'

jps@Judges:18:24 @ And he said: 'Ye have taken away my god which I made, and the priest, and are gone away, and what have I more? and how then say ye unto me: What aileth thee?'

jps@Judges:18:25 @ And the children of Dan said unto him: 'Let not thy voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows fall upon you, and thou lose thy life, with the lives of thy household.'

jps@Judges:19:5 @ And it came to pass on the fourth day, that they arose early in the morning, and he rose up to depart; and the damsel's father said unto his son-in-law: 'Stay thy heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward ye shall go your way.'

jps@Judges:19:6 @ So they sat down, and did eat and drink, both of them together; and the damsel's father said unto the man: 'Be content, I pray thee, and tarry all night, and let thy heart be merry.'

jps@Judges:19:8 @ And he arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart; and the damsel's father said: 'Stay thy heart, I pray thee, and tarry ye until the day declineth'; and they did eat, both of them.

jps@Judges:19:9 @ And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father-in-law, the damsel's father, said unto him: 'Behold, now the day draweth toward evening; tarry, I pray you, all night; behold, the day groweth to an end; lodge here, that thy heart may be merry; and to-morrow get you early on your way, that thou mayest go home.'

jps@Judges:19:11 @ When they were by Jebus--the day was far spent--the servant said unto his master: 'Come, I pray thee, and let us turn aside into this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it.'

jps@Judges:19:12 @ And his master said unto him: 'We will not turn aside into the city of a foreigner, that is not of the children of Israel; but we will pass over to Gibeah.'

jps@Judges:19:13 @ And he said unto his servant: 'Come and let us draw near to one of these places; and we will lodge in Gibeah, or in Ramah.'

jps@Judges:19:17 @ And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfaring man in the broad place of the city; and the old man said: 'Whither goest thou? and whence comest thou?'

jps@Judges:19:18 @ And he said unto him: 'We are passing from Beth-lehem in Judah unto the farther side of the hill-country of Ephraim; from thence am I, and I went to Beth-lehem in Judah, and I am now going to the house of the LORD; and there is no man that taketh me into his house.

jps@Judges:19:20 @ And the old man said: 'Peace be unto thee; howsoever let all thy wants lie upon me; only lodge not in the broad place.'

jps@Judges:19:23 @ And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them, and said unto them: 'Nay, my brethren, I pray you, do not so wickedly; seeing that this man is come into my house, do not this wanton deed.

jps@Judges:19:28 @ And he said unto her. 'Up, and let us be going'; but none answered; then he took her up upon the ass; and the man rose up, and got him unto his place.

jps@Judges:19:30 @ And it was so, that all that saw it said: 'Such a thing hath not happened nor been seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day; consider it, take counsel, and speak.'

jps@Judges:20:3 @ Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpah.--And the children of Israel said: 'Tell us, how was this wickedness brought to pass?'

jps@Judges:20:4 @ And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was murdered, answered and said: 'I came into Gibeah that belongeth to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge.

jps@Judges:20:18 @ And the children of Israel arose, and went up to Beth-el, and asked counsel of God; and they said: 'Who shall go up for us first to battle against the children of Benjamin?' And the LORD said: 'Judah first.'

jps@Judges:20:23 @ And the children of Israel went up and wept before the LORD until even; and they asked of the LORD, saying: 'Shall I again draw nigh to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother?' And the LORD said: 'Go up against him.'

jps@Judges:20:28 @ and Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days--saying: 'Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease?' And the LORD said: 'Go up; for to-morrow I will deliver him into thy hand.'

jps@Judges:20:32 @ And the children of Benjamin said: 'They are smitten down before us, as at the first.' But the children of Israel said: 'Let us flee, and draw them away from the city unto the highways.'

jps@Judges:20:39 @ And the men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to smite and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; for they said: 'Surely they are smitten down before us, as in the first battle.'

jps@Judges:21:3 @ And they said: 'O LORD, the God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to-day one tribe lacking in Israel?'

jps@Judges:21:5 @ And the children of Israel said: 'Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up in the assembly unto the LORD?' For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up unto the LORD to Mizpah, saying: 'He shall surely be put to death.'

jps@Judges:21:6 @ And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said: 'There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.

jps@Judges:21:8 @ And they said: 'What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up unto the LORD to Mizpah?' And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabesh-gilead to the assembly.

jps@Judges:21:16 @ Then the elders of the congregation said: 'How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?'

jps@Judges:21:17 @ And they said: 'They that are escaped must be as an inheritance for Benjamin, that a tribe be not blotted out from Israel.

jps@Judges:21:19 @ And they said: 'Behold, there is the feast of the LORD from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north of Beth-el, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Beth-el to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.'

jps@Ruth:1:8 @ And Naomi said unto her two daughters-in-law: 'Go, return each of you to her mother's house; the LORD deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me.

jps@Ruth:1:10 @ And they said unto her: 'Nay, but we will return with thee unto thy people.'

jps@Ruth:1:11 @ And Naomi said: 'Turn back, my daughters; why will ye go with me? have I yet sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?

jps@Ruth:1:15 @ And she said: 'Behold, thy sister-in-law is gone back unto her people, and unto her god; return thou after thy sister-in- law.'

jps@Ruth:1:16 @ And Ruth said: 'Entreat me not to leave thee, and to return from following after thee; for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God;

jps@Ruth:1:19 @ So they two went until they came to Beth-lehem. And it came to pass, when they were come to Beth-lehem, that all the city was astir concerning them, and the women said: 'Is this Naomi?'

jps@Ruth:1:20 @ And she said unto them: 'Call me not Naomi, call me Marah; for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.

jps@Ruth:2:2 @ And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi: 'Let me now go to the field, and glean among the ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find favour.' And she said unto her: 'Go, my daughter.'

jps@Ruth:2:4 @ And, behold, Boaz came from Beth-lehem, and said unto the reapers: 'The LORD be with you.' And they answered him: 'The LORD bless thee.'

jps@Ruth:2:5 @ Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers: 'Whose damsel is this?'

jps@Ruth:2:6 @ And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said: 'It is a Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the field of Moab;

jps@Ruth:2:7 @ and she said: Let me glean, I pray you, and gather after the reapers among the sheaves; so she came, and hath continued even from the morning until now, save that she tarried a little in the house.'

jps@Ruth:2:8 @ Then said Boaz unto Ruth: 'Hearest thou not, my daughter? Go not to glean in another field, neither pass from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens.

jps@Ruth:2:10 @ Then she fell on her face, and bowed down to the ground, and said unto him: 'Why have I found favour in thy sight, that thou shouldest take cognizance of me, seeing I am a foreigner?'

jps@Ruth:2:11 @ And Boaz answered and said unto her: 'It hath fully been told me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother-in-law since the death of thy husband; and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people that thou knewest not heretofore.

jps@Ruth:2:13 @ Then she said: 'Let me find favour in thy sight, my LORD; for that thou hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken to the heart of thy handmaid, though I be not as one of thy handmaidens.'

jps@Ruth:2:14 @ And Boaz said unto her at meal-time: 'Come hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar.' And she sat beside the reapers; and they reached her parched corn, and she did eat and was satisfied, and left thereof.

jps@Ruth:2:19 @ And her mother-in-law said unto her: 'Where hast thou gleaned to-day? and where wroughtest thou? blessed be he that did take knowledge of thee.' And she told her mother-in-law with whom she had wrought, and said: 'The man's name with whom I wrought to-day is Boaz.'

jps@Ruth:2:20 @ And Naomi said unto her daughter-in-law: 'Blessed be he of the LORD, who hath not left off His kindness to the living and to the dead.' And Naomi said unto her: 'The man is nigh of kin unto us, one of our near kinsmen.'

jps@Ruth:2:21 @ And Ruth the Moabitess said: 'Yea, he said unto me: Thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest.'

jps@Ruth:2:22 @ And Naomi said unto Ruth her daughter-in-law: 'It is good, my daughter, that thou go out with his maidens, and that thou be not met in any other field.'

jps@Ruth:3:1 @ And Naomi her mother-in-law said unto her: 'My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee?

jps@Ruth:3:5 @ And she said unto her: 'All that thou sayest unto me I will do.'

jps@Ruth:3:9 @ And he said: 'Who art thou?' And she answered: 'I am Ruth thine handmaid; spread therefore thy skirt over thy handmaid; for thou art a near kinsman.'

jps@Ruth:3:10 @ And he said: 'Blessed be thou of the LORD, my daughter; thou hast shown more kindness in the end than at the beginning, inasmuch as thou didst not follow the young men, whether poor or rich.

jps@Ruth:3:14 @ And she lay at his feet until the morning; and she rose up before one could discern another. For he said: 'Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing-floor.'

jps@Ruth:3:15 @ And he said: 'Bring the mantle that is upon thee, and hold it'; and she held it; and he measured six measures of barley, and laid it on her; and he went into the city.

jps@Ruth:3:16 @ And when she came to her mother-in-law, she said: 'Who art thou, my daughter?' And she told her all that the man had done to her.

jps@Ruth:3:17 @ And she said: 'These six measures of barley gave he me; for he said to me: Go not empty unto thy mother-in-law.'

jps@Ruth:3:18 @ Then said she: 'Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall; for the man will not rest, until he have finished the thing this day.'

jps@Ruth:4:1 @ Now Boaz went up to the gate, and sat him down there; and, behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by; unto whom he said: 'Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here.' And he turned aside, and sat down.

jps@Ruth:4:2 @ And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said: 'Sit ye down here.' And they sat down.

jps@Ruth:4:3 @ And he said unto the near kinsman: 'Naomi, that is come back out of the field of Moab, selleth the parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech's;

jps@Ruth:4:4 @ and I thought to disclose it unto thee, saying: Buy it before them that sit here, and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem it, redeem it; but if it will not be redeemed, then tell me, that I may know; for there is none to redeem it beside thee; and I am after thee.' And he said: 'I will redeem it.'

jps@Ruth:4:5 @ Then said Boaz: 'What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi--hast thou also bought of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance?'

jps@Ruth:4:6 @ And the near kinsman said: 'I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance; take thou my right of redemption on thee; for I cannot redeem it.'--

jps@Ruth:4:8 @ So the near kinsman said unto Boaz: 'Buy it for thyself.' And he drew off his shoe.

jps@Ruth:4:9 @ And Boaz said unto the elders, and unto all the people: 'Ye are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech's, and all that was Chilion's and Mahlon's, of the hand of Naomi.

jps@Ruth:4:11 @ And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said: 'We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thy house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel; and do thou worthily in Ephrath, and be famous in Beth-lehem;

jps@Ruth:4:14 @ And the women said unto Naomi: 'Blessed be the LORD, who hath not left thee this day without a near kinsman, and let his name be famous in Israel.

jps@1Samuel:1:8 @ And Elkanah her husband said unto her: 'Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons?'

jps@1Samuel:1:11 @ And she vowed a vow, and said: 'O LORD of hosts, if Thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of Thy handmaid, and remember me, and not forget Thy handmaid, but wilt give unto Thy handmaid a man-child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head.'

jps@1Samuel:1:14 @ And Eli said unto her: 'How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.'

jps@1Samuel:1:15 @ And Hannah answered and said: 'No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit; I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I poured out my soul before the LORD.

jps@1Samuel:1:17 @ Then Eli answered and said: 'Go in peace, and the God of Israel grant thy petition that thou hast asked of Him.'

jps@1Samuel:1:18 @ And she said: 'Let thy servant find favour in thy sight.' So the woman went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more sad.

jps@1Samuel:1:22 @ But Hannah went not up; for she said unto her husband: 'Until the child be weaned, when I will bring him, that he may appear before the LORD, and there abide for ever.'

jps@1Samuel:1:23 @ And Elkanah her husband said unto her: 'Do what seemeth thee good; tarry until thou have weaned him; only the LORD establish His word.' So the woman tarried and gave her son suck, until she weaned him.

jps@1Samuel:1:26 @ And she said: 'Oh, my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord, I am the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the LORD.

jps@1Samuel:2:1 @ And Hannah prayed, and said: my heart exulteth in the LORD, my horn is exalted in the LORD; my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in Thy salvation.

jps@1Samuel:2:15 @ Yea, before the fat was made to smoke, the priest's servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed: 'Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw.'

jps@1Samuel:2:16 @ And if the man said unto him: 'Let the fat be made to smoke first of all, and then take as much as thy soul desireth'; then he would say: 'Nay, but thou shalt give it me now; and if not, I will take it by force.'

jps@1Samuel:2:23 @ And he said unto them: 'Why do ye such things? for I hear evil reports concerning you from all this people.

jps@1Samuel:2:27 @ And there came a man of God unto Eli, and said unto him: 'Thus saith the LORD: Did I reveal Myself unto the house of thy father, when they were in Egypt in bondage to Pharaoh's house?

jps@1Samuel:2:30 @ Therefore the LORD, the God of Israel, saith: I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before Me for ever; but now the LORD saith: Be it far from Me: for them that honour Me I will honour, and they that despise Me shall be lightly esteemed.

jps@1Samuel:3:4 @ that the LORD called Samuel; and he said: 'Here am I.'

jps@1Samuel:3:5 @ And he ran unto Eli, and said: 'Here am I; for thou didst call me.' And he said: 'I called not; lie down again.' And he went and lay down.

jps@1Samuel:3:6 @ And the LORD called yet again Samuel. And Samuel arose and went to Eli, and said: 'Here am I; for thou didst call me.' And he answered: 'I called not, my son; lie down again.'

jps@1Samuel:3:8 @ And the LORD called Samuel again the third time. And he arose and went to Eli, and said: 'Here am I; for thou didst call me.' And Eli perceived that the LORD was calling the child.

jps@1Samuel:3:9 @ Therefore Eli said unto Samuel: 'Go, lie down; and it shall be, if thou be called, that thou shalt say: Speak, LORD; for Thy servant heareth.' So Samuel went and lay down in his place.

jps@1Samuel:3:10 @ And the LORD came, and stood, and called as at other times: 'Samuel, Samuel.' Then Samuel said: 'Speak; for Thy servant heareth.'

jps@1Samuel:3:11 @ And the LORD said to Samuel: 'Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle.

jps@1Samuel:3:16 @ Then Eli called Samuel, and said: 'Samuel, my son.' And he said: 'Here am I.'

jps@1Samuel:3:17 @ And he said: 'What is the thing that He hath spoken unto thee? I pray thee, hide it not from me, God do so to thee, and more also, if thou hide any thing from me of all the things that He spoke unto thee.'

jps@1Samuel:3:18 @ And Samuel told him all the words, and hid nothing from him. And he said: 'It is the LORD; let Him do what seemeth Him good.'

jps@1Samuel:4:3 @ And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said: 'Wherefore hath the LORD smitten us to-day before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of Shiloh unto us, that He may come among us, and save us out of the hand of our enemies.'

jps@1Samuel:4:6 @ And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said: 'What meaneth the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews?' And they knew that the ark of the LORD was come into the camp.

jps@1Samuel:4:7 @ And the Philistines were afraid, for they said: 'God is come into the camp.' And they said: 'Woe unto us! for there was not such a thing yesterday and the day before.

jps@1Samuel:4:14 @ And when Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said: 'What meaneth the noise of this tumult?' And the man made haste, and came and told Eli.

jps@1Samuel:4:16 @ And the man said unto Eli: 'I am he that came out of the army, and I fled to-day out of the army.' And he said: 'How went the matter, my son?'

jps@1Samuel:4:17 @ And he that brought the tidings answered and said: 'Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.'

jps@1Samuel:4:20 @ And about the time of her death the women that stood by her said unto her: 'Fear not; for thou hast brought forth a son.' But she answered not, neither did she regard it.

jps@1Samuel:4:22 @ And she said: 'The glory is departed from Israel; for the ark of God is taken.'

jps@1Samuel:5:7 @ And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said: 'The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us; for His hand is sore upon us, and upon Dagon our god.'

jps@1Samuel:5:8 @ They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines unto them, and said: 'What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?' And they answered: 'Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried about unto Gath.' And they carried the ark of the God of Israel about thither.

jps@1Samuel:5:11 @ They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said: 'Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go back to its own place, that it slay us not, and our people'; for there was a deadly discomfiture throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.

jps@1Samuel:6:3 @ And they said: 'If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty; but in any wise return Him a guilt-offering; then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why His hand is not removed from you.'

jps@1Samuel:6:4 @ Then said they: 'What shall be the guilt-offering which we shall return to Him?' And they said: 'Five golden emerods, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines; for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.

jps@1Samuel:6:20 @ And the men of Beth-shemesh said: 'Who is able to stand before the LORD, this holy God? and to whom shall it go up from us?'

jps@1Samuel:7:5 @ And Samuel said: 'Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray for you unto the LORD.'

jps@1Samuel:7:6 @ And they gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there: 'We have sinned against the LORD.' And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah.

jps@1Samuel:7:8 @ And the children of Israel said to Samuel: 'Cease not to cry unto the LORD our God for us, that He save us out of the hand of the Philistines.'

jps@1Samuel:8:5 @ And they said unto him: 'Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways; now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.'

jps@1Samuel:8:6 @ But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said: 'Give us a king to judge us.' And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.

jps@1Samuel:8:7 @ And the LORD said unto Samuel: 'Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee; for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected Me, that I should not be king over them.

jps@1Samuel:8:11 @ And he said: 'This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them unto him, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they shall run before his chariots.

jps@1Samuel:8:19 @ But the people refused to hearken unto the voice of Samuel; and they said: 'Nay; but there shall be a king over us;

jps@1Samuel:8:22 @ And the LORD said to Samuel: 'Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king.' And Samuel said unto the men of Israel: 'Go ye every man unto his city.'

jps@1Samuel:9:3 @ Now the asses of Kish Saul's father were lost. And Kish said to Saul his son: 'Take now one of the servants with thee, and arise, go seek the asses.'

jps@1Samuel:9:5 @ When they were come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant that was with him: 'Come and let us return; lest my father leave caring for the asses, and become anxious concerning us.'

jps@1Samuel:9:6 @ And he said unto him: 'Behold now, there is in this city a man of God, and he is a man that is held in honour; all that he saith cometh surely to pass; now let us go thither; peradventure he can tell us concerning our journey whereon we go.'

jps@1Samuel:9:7 @ Then said Saul to his servant: 'But, behold, if we go, what shall we bring the man? for the bread is spent in our vessels, and there is not a present to bring to the man of God; what have we?'

jps@1Samuel:9:8 @ And the servant answered Saul again, and said: 'Behold, I have in my hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver, that will I give to the man of God, to tell us our way.'--

jps@1Samuel:9:9 @ Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, thus he said: 'Come and let us go to the seer'; for he that is now called a prophet was beforetime called a seer.--

jps@1Samuel:9:10 @ Then said Saul to his servant: 'Well said; come, let us go.' So they went unto the city where the man of God was.

jps@1Samuel:9:11 @ As they went up the ascent to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them: 'Is the seer here?'

jps@1Samuel:9:12 @ And they answered them, and said: 'He is; behold, he is before thee; make haste now, for he is come to-day into the city; for the people have a sacrifice to-day in the high place.

jps@1Samuel:9:17 @ And when Samuel saw Saul, the LORD spoke unto him: 'Behold the man of whom I said unto thee: This same shall have authority over My people.'

jps@1Samuel:9:18 @ Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the gate, and said: 'Tell me, I pray thee, where the seer's house is.'

jps@1Samuel:9:19 @ And Samuel answered Saul, and said: 'I am the seer; go up before me unto the high place, for ye shall eat with me to-day; and in the morning I will let thee go, and will tell thee all that is in thy heart.

jps@1Samuel:9:21 @ And Saul answered and said: 'Am not I a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then speakest thou to me after this manner?'

jps@1Samuel:9:23 @ And Samuel said unto the cook: 'Bring the portion which I gave thee, of which I said unto thee: Set it by thee.'

jps@1Samuel:9:24 @ And the cook took up the thigh, and that which was upon it, and set it before Saul. And Samuel said: 'Behold that which hath been reserved! set it before thee and eat; because unto the appointed time hath it been kept for thee, for I said: I have invited the people.' So Saul did eat with Samuel that day.

jps@1Samuel:9:27 @ As they were going down at the end of the city, Samuel said to Saul: 'Bid the servant pass on before us--and he passed on--but stand thou still at this time, that I may cause thee to hear the word of God.'

jps@1Samuel:10:1 @ Then Samuel took the vial of oil, and poured it upon his head, and kissed him, and said: 'Is it not that the LORD hath anointed thee to be prince over His inheritance?

jps@1Samuel:10:11 @ And it came to pass, when all that knew him beforetime saw that, behold, he prophesied with the prophets, then the people said one to another: 'What is this that is come unto the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?'

jps@1Samuel:10:12 @ And one of the same place answered and said: 'And who is their father?' Therefore it became a proverb: 'Is Saul also among the prophets?'

jps@1Samuel:10:14 @ And Saul's uncle said unto him and to his servant: 'Whither went ye?' And he said: 'To seek the asses; and when we saw that they were not found, we came to Samuel.'

jps@1Samuel:10:15 @ And Saul's uncle said: 'Tell me, I pray thee, what Samuel said unto you.'

jps@1Samuel:10:16 @ And Saul said unto his uncle: 'He told us plainly that the asses were found.' But concerning the matter of the kingdom, whereof Samuel spoke, he told him not.

jps@1Samuel:10:18 @ And he said unto the children of Israel: 'Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all the kingdoms that oppressed you.

jps@1Samuel:10:19 @ But ye have this day rejected your God, who Himself saveth you out of all your calamities and your distresses; and ye have said unto Him: Nay, but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes, and by your thousands.'

jps@1Samuel:10:24 @ And Samuel said to all the people: 'See ye him whom the LORD hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people?' And all the people shouted, and said: 'Long live the king.'

jps@1Samuel:10:27 @ But certain base fellows said: 'How shall this man save us?' And they despised him, and brought him no present. But he was as one that held his peace.

jps@1Samuel:11:1 @ Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabesh-gilead; and all the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash: 'Make a covenant with us, and we will serve thee.'

jps@1Samuel:11:2 @ And Nahash the Ammonite said unto them: 'On this condition will I make it with you, that all your right eyes be put out; and I will lay it for a reproach upon all Israel.'

jps@1Samuel:11:3 @ And the elders of Jabesh said unto him: 'Give us seven days' respite, that we may send messengers unto all the borders of Israel; and then, if there be none to deliver us, we will come out to thee.'

jps@1Samuel:11:5 @ And, behold, Saul came following the oxen out of the field; and Saul said: 'What aileth the people that they weep?' And they told him the words of the men of Jabesh.

jps@1Samuel:11:9 @ And they said unto the messengers that came: 'Thus shall ye say unto the men of Jabesh-gilead: To-morrow, by the time the sun is hot, ye shall have deliverance.' And the messengers came and told the men of Jabesh; and they were glad.

jps@1Samuel:11:10 @ And the men of Jabesh said: 'To-morrow we will come out unto you, and ye shall do with us all that seemeth good unto you.'

jps@1Samuel:11:12 @ And the people said unto Samuel: 'Who is he that said: Shall Saul reign over us? bring the men, that we may put them to death.'

jps@1Samuel:11:13 @ And Saul said: 'There shall not a man be put to death this day; for to-day the LORD hath wrought deliverance in Israel.'

jps@1Samuel:11:14 @ Then said Samuel to the people: 'Come and let us go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there.'

jps@1Samuel:12:1 @ And Samuel said unto all Israel: 'Behold, I have hearkened unto your voice in all that ye said unto me, and have made a king over you.

jps@1Samuel:12:4 @ And they said: 'Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken aught of any man's hand.'

jps@1Samuel:12:5 @ And he said unto them: 'The LORD is witness against you, and His anointed is witness this day, that ye have not found aught in my hand.' And they said: 'He is witness.'

jps@1Samuel:12:6 @ And Samuel said unto the people: 'It is the LORD that made Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.

jps@1Samuel:12:10 @ And they cried unto the LORD, and said: We have sinned, because we have forsaken the LORD, and have served the Baalim and the Ashtaroth; but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve Thee.

jps@1Samuel:12:12 @ And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, ye said unto me: Nay, but a king shall reign over us; when the LORD your God was your king.

jps@1Samuel:12:19 @ And all the people said unto Samuel: 'Pray for thy servants unto the LORD thy God, that we die not; for we have added unto all our sins this evil, to ask us a king.'

jps@1Samuel:12:20 @ And Samuel said unto the people: 'Fear not; ye have indeed done all this evil; yet turn not aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart;

jps@1Samuel:13:9 @ And Saul said: 'Bring hither to me the burnt-offering and the peace-offerings.' And he offered the burnt-offering.

jps@1Samuel:13:11 @ And Samuel said: 'What hast thou done?' And Saul said: 'Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that thou camest not within the days appointed, and that the Philistines assembled themselves together against Michmas;

jps@1Samuel:13:12 @ therefore said I: Now will the Philistines come down upon me to Gilgal, and I have not entreated the favour of the LORD; I forced myself therefore, and offered the burnt-offering.'

jps@1Samuel:13:13 @ And Samuel said to Saul: 'Thou hast done foolishly; thou hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which He commanded thee; for now would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever.

jps@1Samuel:13:19 @ Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel; for the Philistines said: 'Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears';

jps@1Samuel:14:1 @ Now it fell upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said unto the young man that bore his armour: 'Come and let us go over to the Philistines' garrison, that is on yonder side. But he told not his father.

jps@1Samuel:14:6 @ And Jonathan said to the young man that bore his armour: 'Come and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised; it may be that the LORD will work for us; for there is no restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few.'

jps@1Samuel:14:7 @ And his armour-bearer said unto him: 'Do all that is in thy heart; turn thee, behold I am with thee according to thy heart.'

jps@1Samuel:14:8 @ Then said Jonathan: 'Behold, we will pass over unto the men, and we will disclose ourselves unto them.

jps@1Samuel:14:11 @ And both of them disclosed themselves unto the garrison of the Philistines; and the Philistines said: 'Behold Hebrews coming forth out of the holes where they hid themselves.'

jps@1Samuel:14:12 @ And the men of the garrison spoke to Jonathan and his armour-bearer, and said: 'Come up to us, and we will show you a thing.' And Jonathan said unto his armour-bearer: 'Come up after me; for the LORD hath delivered them into the hand of Israel.'

jps@1Samuel:14:17 @ Then said Saul unto the people that were with him: 'Number now, and see who is gone from us.' And when they had numbered, behold, Jonathan and his armour-bearer were not there.

jps@1Samuel:14:18 @ And Saul said unto Ahijah: 'Bring hither the ark of God.' For the ark of God was there at that time with the children of Israel.

jps@1Samuel:14:19 @ And it came to pass, while Saul talked unto the priest, that the tumult that was in the camp of the Philistines went on and increased; and Saul said unto the priest: 'Withdraw thy hand.'

jps@1Samuel:14:28 @ Then answered one of the people, and said: 'Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath, saying: Cursed be the man that eateth food this day; and the people are faint.'

jps@1Samuel:14:29 @ Then said Jonathan: 'My father hath troubled the land; see, I pray you, how mine eyes are brightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.

jps@1Samuel:14:33 @ Then they told Saul, saying: 'Behold, the people sin against the LORD, in that they eat with the blood.' And he said: 'Ye have dealt treacherously; roll a great stone unto me this day.'

jps@1Samuel:14:34 @ And Saul said: 'Disperse yourselves among the people, and say unto them: Bring me hither every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and slay them here, and eat; and sin not against the LORD in eating with the blood.' And all the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and slew them there.

jps@1Samuel:14:36 @ And Saul said: 'Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and spoil them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them.' And they said: 'Do whatsoever seemeth good unto thee.' Then said the priest: 'Let us draw near hither unto God.'

jps@1Samuel:14:38 @ And Saul said: 'Draw nigh hither, all ye chiefs of the people; and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day.

jps@1Samuel:14:40 @ Then said he unto all Israel: 'Be ye on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side.' And the people said unto Saul: 'Do what seemeth good unto thee.'

jps@1Samuel:14:41 @ Therefore Saul said unto the LORD, the God of Israel: 'Declare the right.' And Jonathan and Saul were taken by lot; but the people escaped.

jps@1Samuel:14:42 @ And Saul said: 'Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son.' And Jonathan was taken.

jps@1Samuel:14:43 @ Then Saul said to Jonathan: 'Tell me what thou hast done.' And Jonathan told him, and said: 'I did certainly taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in my hand; here am I: I will die.'

jps@1Samuel:14:44 @ And Saul said: 'God do so and more also; thou shalt surely die, Jonathan.'

jps@1Samuel:14:45 @ And the people said unto Saul: 'Shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel? Far from it; as the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he hath wrought with God this day.' So the people rescued Jonathan, that he died not.

jps@1Samuel:15:1 @ And Samuel said unto Saul: 'The LORD sent me to anoint thee to be king over His people, over Israel; now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the LORD.

jps@1Samuel:15:6 @ And Saul said unto the Kenites: 'Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for ye showed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt.' So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.

jps@1Samuel:15:13 @ And Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said unto him: 'Blessed be thou of the LORD; I have performed the commandment of the LORD.'

jps@1Samuel:15:14 @ And Samuel said: 'What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?'

jps@1Samuel:15:15 @ And Saul said: 'They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.'

jps@1Samuel:15:16 @ Then Samuel said unto Saul: 'Stay, and I will tell thee what the LORD hath said to me this night.' And he said unto him: 'Say on.'

jps@1Samuel:15:17 @ And Samuel said: 'Though thou be little in thine own sight, art thou not head of the tribes of Israel? And the LORD anointed thee king over Israel;

jps@1Samuel:15:18 @ and the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said: Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.

jps@1Samuel:15:20 @ And Saul said unto Samuel: 'Yea, I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

jps@1Samuel:15:22 @ And Samuel said: 'Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices, as in hearkening to the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.

jps@1Samuel:15:24 @ And Saul said unto Samuel: 'I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD, and thy words; because I feared the people, and hearkened to their voice.

jps@1Samuel:15:26 @ And Samuel said unto Saul: 'I will not return with thee; for thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD hath rejected thee from being king over Israel.'

jps@1Samuel:15:28 @ And Samuel said unto him: 'The LORD hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbour of thine, that is better than thou.

jps@1Samuel:15:30 @ Then he said: 'I have sinned; yet honour me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and return with me, that I may worship the LORD thy God.'

jps@1Samuel:15:32 @ Then said Samuel: 'Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites.' And Agag came unto him in chains. And Agag said: 'Surely the bitterness of death is at hand.'

jps@1Samuel:15:33 @ And Samuel said: As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.

jps@1Samuel:16:1 @ And the LORD said unto Samuel: 'How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from being king over Israel? fill thy horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Beth-lehemite; for I have provided Me a king among his sons.'

jps@1Samuel:16:2 @ And Samuel said: 'How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me.' And the LORD said: 'Take a heifer with thee, and say: I am come to sacrifice to the LORD.

jps@1Samuel:16:4 @ And Samuel did that which the LORD spoke, and came to Beth-lehem. And the elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said: 'Comest thou peaceably?'

jps@1Samuel:16:5 @ And he said: 'Peaceably; I am come to sacrifice unto the LORD; sanctify yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice.' And he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.

jps@1Samuel:16:6 @ And it came to pass, when they were come, that he beheld Eliab, and said: 'Surely the LORD'S anointed is before Him.'

jps@1Samuel:16:7 @ But the LORD said unto Samuel: 'Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him; for it is not as man seeth: for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.'

jps@1Samuel:16:8 @ Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. And he said: 'Neither hath the LORD chosen this.'

jps@1Samuel:16:9 @ Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. And he said: 'Neither hath the LORD chosen this.'

jps@1Samuel:16:10 @ And Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. And Samuel said unto Jesse: 'The LORD hath not chosen these.'

jps@1Samuel:16:11 @ And Samuel said unto Jesse: 'Are here all thy children?' And he said: 'There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep.' And Samuel said unto Jesse: 'Send and fetch him; for we will not sit down till he come hither.'

jps@1Samuel:16:12 @ And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of beautiful eyes, and goodly to look upon. And the LORD said: 'Arise, anoint him; for this is he.'

jps@1Samuel:16:15 @ And Saul's servants said unto him: 'Behold now, an evil spirit from God terrifieth thee.

jps@1Samuel:16:17 @ And Saul said unto his servants: 'Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me.'

jps@1Samuel:16:18 @ Then answered one of the young men, and said: 'Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Beth-lehemite, that is skilful in playing, and a mighty man of valour, and a man of war, and prudent in affairs, and a comely person, and the LORD is with him.'

jps@1Samuel:16:19 @ Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said: 'Send me David thy son, who is with the sheep.'

jps@1Samuel:17:8 @ And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said unto them: 'Why do ye come out to set your battle in array? am not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me.

jps@1Samuel:17:10 @ And the Philistine said: 'I do taunt the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.'

jps@1Samuel:17:17 @ And Jesse said unto David his son: 'Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched corn, and these ten loaves, and carry them quickly to the camp to thy brethren.

jps@1Samuel:17:25 @ And the men of Israel said: 'Have ye seen this man that is come up? surely to taunt Israel is he come up; and it shall be, that the man who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel.'

jps@1Samuel:17:28 @ And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke unto the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said: 'Why art thou come down? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy presumptuousness, and the naughtiness of thy heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.'

jps@1Samuel:17:29 @ And David said: 'What have I now done? Was it not but a word?'

jps@1Samuel:17:32 @ And David said to Saul: 'Let no man's heart fail within him; thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine.'

jps@1Samuel:17:33 @ And Saul said to David: 'Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.'

jps@1Samuel:17:34 @ And David said unto Saul: 'Thy servant kept his father's sheep; and when there came a lion, or a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock,

jps@1Samuel:17:37 @ And David said: 'The LORD that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, He will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.' And Saul said unto David: 'Go, and the LORD shall be with thee.'

jps@1Samuel:17:39 @ And David girded his sword upon his apparel, and he essayed to go,but could not; for he had not tried it. And David said unto Saul: 'I cannot go with these; for I have not tried them.' And David put them off him.

jps@1Samuel:17:43 @ And the Philistine said unto David: 'Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves?' And the Philistine cursed David by his god.

jps@1Samuel:17:44 @ And the Philistine said to David: 'Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field.'

jps@1Samuel:17:45 @ Then said David to the Philistine: 'Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a javelin; but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast taunted.

jps@1Samuel:17:55 @ And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said unto Abner, the captain of the host: 'Abner, whose son is this youth?' And Abner said: 'As thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell.'

jps@1Samuel:17:56 @ And the king said: 'Inquire thou whose son the stripling is.'

jps@1Samuel:17:58 @ And Saul said to him: 'Whose son art thou, thou young man?' And David answered: 'I am the son of thy servant Jesse the Beth-lehemite.'

jps@1Samuel:18:7 @ And the women sang one to another in their play, and said: Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.

jps@1Samuel:18:8 @ And Saul was very wroth, and this saying displeased him; and he said: 'They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands; and all he lacketh is the kingdom!'

jps@1Samuel:18:11 @ And Saul cast the spear; for he said: 'I will smite David even to the wall.' And David stepped aside out of his presence twice.

jps@1Samuel:18:17 @ And Saul said to David: 'Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife; only be thou valiant for me, and fight the LORD'S battles.' For Saul said: 'Let not my hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.'

jps@1Samuel:18:18 @ And David said unto Saul: 'Who am I, and what is my life, or my father's family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?'

jps@1Samuel:18:21 @ And Saul said: 'I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.' Wherefore Saul said to David: 'Thou shalt this day be my son-in-law through the one of the twain.'

jps@1Samuel:18:23 @ And Saul's servants spoke those words in the ears of David. And David said: 'Seemeth it to you a light thing to be the king's son-in-law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?'

jps@1Samuel:18:25 @ And Saul said: 'Thus shall ye say to David: The king desireth not any dowry, but a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies.' For Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

jps@1Samuel:19:4 @ And Jonathan spoke good of David unto Saul his father, and said unto him: 'Let not the king sin against his servant, against David; because he hath not sinned against thee, and because his work hath been very good towards thee;

jps@1Samuel:19:14 @ And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said: 'He is sick.'

jps@1Samuel:19:17 @ And Saul said unto Michal: 'Why hast thou deceived me thus, and let mine enemy go, that he is escaped?' And Michal answered Saul: 'He said unto me: Let me go; why should I kill thee?'

jps@1Samuel:19:22 @ Then went he also to Ramah, and came to the great cistern that is in Secu; and he asked and said: 'Where are Samuel and David?' And one said: 'Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah.'

jps@1Samuel:20:1 @ And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan: 'What have I done? what is mine iniquity? and what is my sin before thy father, that he seeketh my life?'

jps@1Samuel:20:2 @ And he said unto him: 'Far from it; thou shalt not die; behold, my father doeth nothing either great or small, but that he discloseth it unto me; and why should my father hide this thing from me? it is not so.'

jps@1Samuel:20:3 @ And David swore moreover, and said: 'Thy father knoweth well that I have found favour in thine eyes; and he saith: Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved; but truly as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death.'

jps@1Samuel:20:4 @ Then said Jonathan unto David: 'What doth thy soul desire, that I should do it for thee?'

jps@1Samuel:20:5 @ And David said unto Jonathan: 'Behold, to-morrow is the new moon, when I should sit with the king to eat; so let me go, that I may hide myself in the field unto the third day at even.

jps@1Samuel:20:9 @ And Jonathan said: 'Far be it from thee; for if I should at all know that evil were determined by my father to come upon thee, then would not I tell it thee?

jps@1Samuel:20:10 @ Then said David to Jonathan: 'Who shall tell me if perchance thy father answer thee roughly?'

jps@1Samuel:20:11 @ And Jonathan said unto David: 'Come and let us go out into the field.' And they went out both of them into the field.

jps@1Samuel:20:12 @ And Jonathan said unto David: 'The LORD, the God of Israel--when I have sounded my father about this time to-morrow, or the third day, behold, if there be good toward David, shall I not then send unto thee, and disclose it unto thee?

jps@1Samuel:20:18 @ And Jonathan said unto him: 'To-morrow is the new moon; and thou wilt be missed, thy seat will be empty.

jps@1Samuel:20:27 @ And it came to pass on the morrow after the new moon, which was the second day, that David's place was empty; and Saul said unto Jonathan his son: 'Wherefore cometh not the son of Jesse to the meal, neither yesterday, nor to-day?'

jps@1Samuel:20:29 @ and he said: Let me go, I pray thee; for our family hath a sacrifice in the city; and my brother, he hath commanded me; and now, if I have found favour in thine eyes, let me get away, I pray thee, and see my brethren. Therefore he is not come unto the king's table.'

jps@1Samuel:20:30 @ Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said unto him: 'Thou son of perverse rebellion, do not I know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own shame, and unto the shame of thy mother's nakedness?

jps@1Samuel:20:32 @ And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him: 'Wherefore should he be put to death? what hath he done?'

jps@1Samuel:20:36 @ And he said unto his lad: 'Run, find now the arrows which I shoot.' And as the lad ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.

jps@1Samuel:20:37 @ And when the lad was come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the lad, and said: 'Is not the arrow beyond thee?'

jps@1Samuel:20:40 @ And Jonathan gave his weapons unto his lad, and said unto him: 'Go, carry them to the city.'

jps@1Samuel:20:42 @ And Jonathan said to David: 'Go in peace, forasmuch as we have sworn both of us in the name of the LORD, saying: The LORD shall be between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed, for ever.' And he arose and departed; and Jonathan went into the city.

jps@1Samuel:21:1 @ Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest; and Ahimelech came to meet David trembling, and said unto him: 'Why art thou alone, and no man with thee?'

jps@1Samuel:21:2 @ And David said unto Ahimelech the priest: 'The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me: Let no man know any thing of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee; and the young men have I appointed to such and such a place.

jps@1Samuel:21:4 @ And the priest answered David, and said: 'There is no common bread under my hand, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.'

jps@1Samuel:21:5 @ And David answered the priest, and said unto him: 'Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days; when I came out, the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was but a common journey; how much more then to-day, when there shall be holy bread in their vessels?'

jps@1Samuel:21:8 @ And David said unto Ahimelech: 'And is there peradventure here under thy hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste.'

jps@1Samuel:21:9 @ And the priest said: 'The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the vale of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod; if thou wilt take that, take it; for there is no other save that here.' And David said: 'There is none like that; give it me.'

jps@1Samuel:21:11 @ And the servants of Achish said unto him: 'Is not this David the king of the land? Did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying: Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?'

jps@1Samuel:21:14 @ Then said Achish unto his servants: 'Lo, when ye see a man that is mad, wherefore do ye bring him to me?

jps@1Samuel:22:3 @ And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab; and he said unto the king of Moab: 'Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth, and be with you, till I know what God will do for me.'

jps@1Samuel:22:5 @ And the prophet Gad said unto David: 'Abide not in the stronghold; depart, and get thee into the land of Judah.' Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hereth.

jps@1Samuel:22:7 @ And Saul said unto his servants that stood about him: 'Hear now, ye Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards, will he make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds;

jps@1Samuel:22:9 @ Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who was set over the servants of Saul, and said: 'I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.

jps@1Samuel:22:12 @ And Saul said: 'Hear now, thou son of Ahitub.' And he answered: 'Here I am, my lord.'

jps@1Samuel:22:13 @ And Saul said unto him: 'Why have ye conspired against me, thou and the son of Jesse, in that thou hast given him bread, and a sword, and hast inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?'

jps@1Samuel:22:14 @ Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said: 'And who among all thy servants is so trusted as David, who is the king's son- in-law, and giveth heed unto thy bidding, and is honourable in thy house?

jps@1Samuel:22:16 @ And the king said: 'Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father's house.'

jps@1Samuel:22:17 @ And the king said unto the guard that stood about him: 'Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and did not disclose it to me.' But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the LORD.

jps@1Samuel:22:18 @ And the king said to Doeg: 'Turn thou, and fall upon the priests.' And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and he slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.

jps@1Samuel:22:22 @ And David said unto Abiathar: 'I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul; I have brought about the death of all the persons of thy father's house.

jps@1Samuel:23:2 @ Therefore David inquired of the LORD, saying: 'Shall I go and smite these Philistines?' And the LORD said unto David: 'Go, and smite the Philistines, and save Keilah.'

jps@1Samuel:23:3 @ And David's men said unto him: 'Behold, we are afraid here in Judah; how much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?'

jps@1Samuel:23:4 @ Then David inquired of the LORD yet again. And the LORD answered him and said: 'Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into thy hand.'

jps@1Samuel:23:7 @ And it was told Saul that David was come to Keilah. And Saul said: 'God hath delivered him into my hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that hath gates and bars.'

jps@1Samuel:23:9 @ And David knew that Saul devised mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest: 'Bring hither the ephod.'

jps@1Samuel:23:10 @ Then said David: 'O LORD, the God of Israel, Thy servant hath surely heard that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.

jps@1Samuel:23:11 @ Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul come down, as Thy servant hath heard?' O LORD, the God of Israel, I beseech Thee, tell Thy servant.' And the LORD said: 'He will come down.'

jps@1Samuel:23:12 @ Then said David: 'Will the men of Keilah deliver up me and my men into the hand of Saul?' And the LORD said: 'They will deliver thee up.'

jps@1Samuel:23:17 @ And he said unto him: 'Fear not; for the hand of Saul my father shall not find thee; and thou shalt be king over Israel, and I shall be next unto thee; and that also Saul my father knoweth.'

jps@1Samuel:23:21 @ And Saul said: 'Blessed be ye of the LORD; for ye have had compassion on me.

jps@1Samuel:24:4 @ And the men of David said unto him: 'Behold the day in which the LORD hath said unto thee: Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into thy hand, and thou shalt do to him as it shall seem good unto thee.' Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe privily.

jps@1Samuel:24:6 @ And he said unto his men: 'The LORD forbid it me, that I should do this thing unto my lord, the LORD'S anointed, to put forth my hand against him, seeing he is the LORD'S anointed.'

jps@1Samuel:24:9 @ And David said to Saul: 'Wherefore hearkenest thou to men's words, saying: Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?

jps@1Samuel:24:10 @ Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the LORD had delivered thee to-day into my hand in the cave; and some bade me kill thee; but mine eye spared thee; and I said: I will not put forth my hand against my lord; for he is the LORD'S anointed.

jps@1Samuel:24:16 @ And it came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking these words unto Saul, that Saul said: 'Is this thy voice, my son David?' And Saul lifted up his voice, and wept.

jps@1Samuel:24:17 @ And he said to David: 'Thou art more righteous than I; for thou hast rendered unto me good, whereas I have rendered unto thee evil.

jps@1Samuel:25:5 @ And David sent ten young men, and David said unto the young men: 'Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name;

jps@1Samuel:25:10 @ And Nabal answered David's servants, and said: 'Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there are many servants now-a- days that break away every man from his master;

jps@1Samuel:25:13 @ And David said unto his men: 'Gird ye on every man his sword.' And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword; and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the baggage.

jps@1Samuel:25:19 @ And she said unto her young men: 'Go on before me; behold, I come after you.' But she told not her husband Nabal.

jps@1Samuel:25:21 @ Now David had said: 'Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him; and he hath returned me evil for good.

jps@1Samuel:25:24 @ And she fell at his feet, and said: 'Upon me, my lord, upon me be the iniquity; and let thy handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine ears, and hear thou the words of thy handmaid.

jps@1Samuel:25:32 @ And David said to Abigail: 'Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who sent thee this day to meet me;

jps@1Samuel:25:35 @ So David received of her hand that which she had brought him; and he said unto her: 'Go up in peace to thy house; see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person.'

jps@1Samuel:25:39 @ And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said: 'Blessed be the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept back His servant from evil; and the evil-doing of Nabal hath the LORD returned upon his own head.' And David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to him to wife.

jps@1Samuel:25:41 @ And she arose, and bowed down with her face to the earth, and said: 'Behold, thy handmaid is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.'

jps@1Samuel:26:6 @ Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying: 'Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp?' And Abishai said: 'I will go down with thee.'

jps@1Samuel:26:8 @ Then said Abishai to David: 'God hath delivered up thine enemy into thy hand this day; now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not smite him the second time.'

jps@1Samuel:26:9 @ And David said to Abishai: 'Destroy him not; for who can put forth his hand against the LORD'S anointed, and be guiltless?'

jps@1Samuel:26:10 @ And David said: 'As the LORD liveth, nay, but the LORD shall smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle, and be swept away.

jps@1Samuel:26:14 @ And David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying: 'Answerest thou not, Abner?' Then Abner answered and said: 'Who art thou that criest to the king?'

jps@1Samuel:26:15 @ And David said to Abner: 'Art not thou a valiant man? and who is like to thee in Israel? wherefore then hast thou not kept watch over thy lord the king? for there came one of the people in to destroy the king thy lord.

jps@1Samuel:26:17 @ And Saul knew David's voice, and said: 'Is this thy voice, my son David?' And David said: 'It is my voice, my lord, O king.'

jps@1Samuel:26:18 @ And he said: 'Wherefore doth my lord pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in my hand?

jps@1Samuel:26:21 @ Then said Saul: 'I have sinned; return, my son David; for I will no more do thee harm, because my life was precious in thine eyes this day; behold, I have played the fool and erred exceedingly.'

jps@1Samuel:26:22 @ And David answered and said: 'Behold the king's spear! let then one of the young men come over and fetch it.

jps@1Samuel:26:25 @ Then Saul said to David: 'Blessed be thou, my son David; thou shalt both do mightily, and shalt surely prevail.' So David went his way, and Saul returned to his place.

jps@1Samuel:27:1 @ And David said in his heart: 'I shall now be swept away one day by the hand of Saul; there is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel; so shall I escape out of his hand.'

jps@1Samuel:27:5 @ And David said unto Achish: 'If now I have found favour in thine eyes, let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country, that I may dwell there; for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?'

jps@1Samuel:27:10 @ And Achish said: 'Whither have ye made a raid to-day?' And David said: 'Against the South of Judah, and against the South of the Jerahmeelites, and against the South of the Kenites.'

jps@1Samuel:28:1 @ And it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered their hosts together for warfare, to fight with Israel. And Achish said unto David: 'Know thou assuredly, that thou shalt go out with me in the host, thou and thy men.'

jps@1Samuel:28:2 @ And David said to Achish: 'Therefore thou shalt know what thy servant will do.' And Achish said to David: 'Therefore will I make thee keeper of my head for ever.'

jps@1Samuel:28:7 @ Then said Saul unto his servants: 'Seek me a woman that divineth by a ghost, that I may go to her, and inquire of her.' And his servants said to him: 'Behold, there is a woman that divineth by a ghost at En-dor.'

jps@1Samuel:28:8 @ And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and went, he and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night; and he said: 'Divine unto me, I pray thee, by a ghost, and bring me up whomsoever I shall name unto thee.'

jps@1Samuel:28:9 @ And the woman said unto him: 'Behold, thou knowest what Saul hath done, how he hath cut off those that divine by a ghost or a familiar spirit out of the land; wherefore then layest thou a snare for my life, to cause me to die?'

jps@1Samuel:28:11 @ Then said the woman: 'Whom shall I bring up unto thee?' And he said: 'Bring me up Samuel.'

jps@1Samuel:28:13 @ And the king said unto her: 'Be not afraid; for what seest thou?' And the woman said unto Saul: 'I see a godlike being coming up out of the earth.'

jps@1Samuel:28:14 @ And he said unto her: 'What form is he of?' And she said: 'An old man cometh up; and he is covered with a robe.' And Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he bowed with his face to the ground, and prostrated himself.

jps@1Samuel:28:15 @ And Samuel said to Saul: 'Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up?' And Saul answered: 'I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams; therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.'

jps@1Samuel:28:16 @ And Samuel said: 'Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine adversary?

jps@1Samuel:28:21 @ And the woman came unto Saul, and saw that he was sore affrighted, and said unto him: 'Behold, thy handmaid hath hearkened unto thy voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have hearkened unto thy words which thou spokest unto me.

jps@1Samuel:28:23 @ But he refused, and said: 'I will not eat.' But his servants, together with the woman, urged him; and he hearkened unto their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat upon the bed.

jps@1Samuel:29:3 @ Then said the princes of the Philistines: 'What do these Hebrews here?' And Achish said unto the princes of the Philistines: 'Is not this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, who hath been with me these days or these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell away unto me unto this day?'

jps@1Samuel:29:4 @ But the princes of the Philistines were wroth with him; and the princes of the Philistines said unto him: 'Make the man return, that he may go back to his place where thou hast appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become an adversary to us; for wherewith should this fellow reconcile himself unto his lord? should it not be with the heads of these men?

jps@1Samuel:29:6 @ Then Achish called David, and said unto him: 'As the LORD liveth, thou hast been upright, and thy going out and thy coming in with me in the host is good in my sight; for I have not found evil in thee since the day of thy coming unto me unto this day; nevertheless the lords favour thee not.

jps@1Samuel:29:8 @ And David said unto Achish: 'But what have I done? and what hast thou found in thy servant so long as I have been before thee unto this day, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?'

jps@1Samuel:29:9 @ And Achish answered and said to David: 'I know that thou art good in my sight, as an angel of God; notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said: He shall not go up with us to the battle.

jps@1Samuel:30:7 @ And David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech: 'I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod.' And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David.

jps@1Samuel:30:13 @ And David said unto him: 'To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou?' And he said: 'I am a young Egyptian, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days ago I fell sick.

jps@1Samuel:30:15 @ And David said to him: 'Wilt thou bring me down to this troop?' And he said: 'Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me, nor deliver me up into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee down to this troop.'

jps@1Samuel:30:20 @ And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before those other cattle, and said: 'This is David's spoil.'

jps@1Samuel:30:22 @ Then answered all the wicked men and base fellows, of those that went with David, and said: 'Because they went not with us, we will not give them aught of the spoil that we have recovered, save to every man his wife and his children, that they may lead them away, and depart.'

jps@1Samuel:30:23 @ Then said David: 'Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that which the LORD hath given unto us, who hath preserved us, and delivered the troop that came against us into our hand.

jps@1Samuel:31:4 @ Then said Saul to his armour-bearer: 'Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and make a mock of me.' But his armour-bearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took his sword, and fell upon it.

jps@2Samuel:1:3 @ And David said unto him: 'From whence comest thou?' And he said unto him: 'Out of the camp of Israel am I escaped.'

jps@2Samuel:1:4 @ And David said unto him: 'How went the matter? I pray thee, tell me.' And he answered: 'The people are fled from the battle, and many of the people also are fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also.'

jps@2Samuel:1:5 @ And David said unto the young man that told him: 'How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?'

jps@2Samuel:1:6 @ And the young man that told him said: 'As I happened by chance upon mount Gilboa, behold, Saul leaned upon his spear; and, lo, the chariots and the horsemen pressed hard upon him.

jps@2Samuel:1:8 @ And he said unto me: Who art thou? And I answered him: I am an Amalekite.

jps@2Samuel:1:9 @ And he said unto me: Stand, I pray thee, beside me, and slay me, for the agony hath taken hold of me; because my life is just yet in me.

jps@2Samuel:1:13 @ And David said unto the young man that told him: 'Whence art thou?' And he answered: 'I am the son of an Amalekite stranger.'

jps@2Samuel:1:14 @ And David said unto him: 'How wast thou not afraid to put forth thy hand to destroy the LORD'S anointed?'

jps@2Samuel:1:15 @ And David called one of the young men, and said: 'Go near, and fall upon him.' And he smote him that he died.

jps@2Samuel:1:16 @ And David said unto him: 'Thy blood be upon thy head; for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying: I have slain the LORD'S anointed.'

jps@2Samuel:1:18 @ and said--To teach the sons of Judah the bow. Behold, it is written in the book of Jashar:

jps@2Samuel:2:1 @ And it came to pass after this, that David inquired of the LORD, saying: 'Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah?' And the LORD said unto him: 'Go up.' And David said: 'Whither shall I go up?' And He said: 'Unto Hebron.'

jps@2Samuel:2:5 @ And David sent messengers unto the men of Jabesh-gilead, and said unto them: 'Blessed be ye of the LORD, that ye have shown this kindness unto your lord, even unto Saul, and have buried him.

jps@2Samuel:2:14 @ And Abner said to Joab: 'Let the young men, I pray thee, arise and play before us.' And Joab said: 'Let them arise.'

jps@2Samuel:2:20 @ Then Abner looked behind him, and said: 'Is it thou, Asahel?' And he answered: 'It is I.'

jps@2Samuel:2:21 @ And Abner said to him: 'Turn thee aside to thy right hand or to thy left, and lay thee hold on one of the young men, and take thee his armour.' But Asahel would not turn aside from following him.

jps@2Samuel:2:22 @ And Abner said again to Asahel: 'Turn thee aside from following me; wherefore should I smite thee to the ground? how then should I hold up my face to Joab thy brother?'

jps@2Samuel:2:26 @ Then Abner called to Joab, and said: 'Shall the sword devour for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the end? how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren?'

jps@2Samuel:2:27 @ And Joab said: 'As God liveth, if thou hadst not spoken, surely then only after the morning the people had gone away, every one from following his brother.'

jps@2Samuel:3:7 @ Now Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah; and Ish-bosheth said to Abner: 'Wherefore hast thou gone in unto my father's concubine?'

jps@2Samuel:3:8 @ Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ish-bosheth, and said: 'Am I a dog's head that belongeth to Judah? This day do I show kindness unto the house of Saul thy father, to his brethren, and to his friends, and have not delivered thee into the hand of David, and yet thou chargest me this day with a fault concerning this woman.

jps@2Samuel:3:13 @ And he said: 'Well; I will make a league with thee; but one thing I require of thee, that is, thou shalt not see my face, except thou first bring Michal Saul's daughter, when thou comest to see my face.'

jps@2Samuel:3:16 @ And her husband went with her, weeping as he went, and followed her to Bahurim. Then said Abner unto him: 'Go, return'; and he returned.

jps@2Samuel:3:21 @ And Abner said unto David: 'I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel unto my lord the king, that they may make a covenant with thee, and that thou mayest reign over all that thy soul desireth.' And David sent Abner away; and he went in peace.

jps@2Samuel:3:24 @ Then Joab came to the king, and said: 'What hast thou done? behold, Abner came unto thee; why is it that thou hast sent him away, and he is quite gone?

jps@2Samuel:3:28 @ And afterward when David heard it, he said: 'I and my kingdom are guiltless before the LORD for ever from the blood of Abner the son of Ner;

jps@2Samuel:3:31 @ And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him: 'Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and wail before Abner.' And king David followed the bier.

jps@2Samuel:3:33 @ And the king lamented for Abner, and said: Should Abner die as a churl dieth?

jps@2Samuel:3:38 @ And the king said unto his servants: 'Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?

jps@2Samuel:4:8 @ And they brought the head of Ish-bosheth unto David to Hebron, and said to the king: 'Behold the head of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul thine enemy, who sought thy life; and the LORD hath avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed.'

jps@2Samuel:4:9 @ And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them: 'As the LORD liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity,

jps@2Samuel:5:2 @ In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was thou that didst lead out and bring in Israel; and the LORD said to thee: Thou shalt feed My people Israel, and thou shalt be prince over Israel.'

jps@2Samuel:5:8 @ And David said on that day: 'Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites, and getteth up to the gutter, and taketh away the lame and the blind, that are hated of David's soul--.' Wherefore they say: 'There are the blind and the lame; he cannot come into the house.'

jps@2Samuel:5:19 @ And David inquired of the LORD, saying: 'Shall I go up against the Philistines? wilt Thou deliver them into my hand?' And the LORD said unto David: 'Go up; for I will certainly deliver the Philistines into thy hand.'

jps@2Samuel:5:20 @ And David came to Baal-perazim, and David smote them there; and he said: 'The LORD hath broken mine enemies before me, like the breach of waters.' Therefore the name of that place was called Baal-perazim.

jps@2Samuel:5:23 @ And when David inquired of the LORD, He said: 'Thou shalt not go up; make a circuit behind them, and come upon them over against the mulberry-trees.

jps@2Samuel:6:9 @ And David was afraid of the LORD that day; and he said: 'How shall the ark of the LORD come unto me?'

jps@2Samuel:6:20 @ Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said: 'How did the king of Israel get him honour to-day, who uncovered himself to-day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself!'

jps@2Samuel:6:21 @ And David said unto Michal: 'Before the LORD, who chose me above thy father, and above all his house, to appoint me prince over the people of the LORD, over Israel, before the LORD will I make merry.

jps@2Samuel:7:2 @ that the king said unto Nathan the prophet: 'See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.'

jps@2Samuel:7:3 @ And Nathan said to the king: 'Go, do all that is in thy heart; for the LORD is with thee.'

jps@2Samuel:7:18 @ Then David the king went in, and sat before the LORD; and he said: 'Who am I, O Lord GOD, and what is my house, that Thou hast brought me thus far?

jps@2Samuel:7:26 @ And let Thy name be magnified for ever, that it may be said: The LORD of hosts is God over Israel; and the house of Thy servant David shall be established before Thee.

jps@2Samuel:9:1 @ And David said: 'Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake?'

jps@2Samuel:9:2 @ Now there was of the house of Saul a servant whose name was Ziba, and they called him unto David; and the king said unto him: 'Art thou Ziba?' And he said: 'Thy servant is he.'

jps@2Samuel:9:3 @ And the king said: 'Is there not yet any of the house of Saul, that I may show the kindness of God unto him?' And Ziba said unto the king: 'Jonathan hath yet a son, who is lame on his feet.'

jps@2Samuel:9:4 @ And the king said unto him: 'Where is he?' And Ziba said unto the king: 'Behold, he is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, in Lo-debar.'

jps@2Samuel:9:6 @ And Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came unto David, and fell on his face, and prostrated himself. And David said: 'Mephibosheth!' And he answered: 'Behold thy servant!'

jps@2Samuel:9:7 @ And David said unto him: 'Fear not; for I will surely show thee kindness for Jonathan thy father's sake, and will restore thee all the land of Saul thy father; and thou shalt eat bread at my table continually.'

jps@2Samuel:9:8 @ And he bowed down, and said: 'What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?'

jps@2Samuel:9:9 @ Then the king called to Ziba, Saul's servant, and said unto him: 'All that pertained to Saul and to all his house have I given unto thy master's son.

jps@2Samuel:9:11 @ Then said Ziba unto the king: 'According to all that my lord the king commandeth his servant, so shall thy servant do; but Mephibosheth eateth at my table as one of the king's sons.'

jps@2Samuel:10:2 @ And David said: 'I will show kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father showed kindness unto me.' So David sent by the hand of his servants to comfort him concerning his father. And David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.

jps@2Samuel:10:3 @ But the princes of the children of Ammon said unto Hanun their lord: 'Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? hath not David sent his servants unto thee to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?'

jps@2Samuel:10:5 @ When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them; for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said: 'Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.'

jps@2Samuel:10:11 @ And he said: 'If the Arameans be too strong for me, then thou shalt help me, but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee, then I will come and help thee.

jps@2Samuel:11:3 @ And David sent and inquired after the woman. And one said: 'Is not this Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?'

jps@2Samuel:11:5 @ And the woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said: 'I am with child.'

jps@2Samuel:11:8 @ And David said to Uriah: 'Go down to thy house, and wash thy feet.' And Uriah departed out of the king's house, and there followed him a mess of food from the king.

jps@2Samuel:11:10 @ And when they had told David, saying: 'Uriah went not down unto his house', David said unto Uriah: 'Art thou not come from a journey? wherefore didst thou not go down unto thy house?'

jps@2Samuel:11:11 @ And Uriah said unto David: 'The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in booths; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open field; shall I then go into my house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing.'

jps@2Samuel:11:12 @ And David said to Uriah: 'Tarry here to-day also, and to-morrow I will let thee depart.' So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day, and the morrow.

jps@2Samuel:11:23 @ And the messenger said unto David: 'The men prevailed against us, and came out unto us into the field, and we were upon them even unto the entrance of the gate.

jps@2Samuel:11:25 @ Then David said unto the messenger: 'Thus shalt thou say unto Joab: Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth in one manner or another; make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it; and encourage thou him.'

jps@2Samuel:12:1 @ And the LORD sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him, and said unto him: 'There were two men in one city: the one rich, and the other poor.

jps@2Samuel:12:5 @ And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan: 'As the LORD liveth, the man that hath done this deserveth to die;

jps@2Samuel:12:7 @ And Nathan said to David: 'Thou art the man. Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul;

jps@2Samuel:12:13 @ And David said unto Nathan: 'I have sinned against the LORD.' And Nathan said unto David: 'The LORD also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.

jps@2Samuel:12:18 @ And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead; for they said: 'Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke unto him, and he hearkened not unto our voice; how then shall we tell him that the child is dead, so that he do himself some harm?'

jps@2Samuel:12:19 @ But when David saw that his servants whispered together, David perceived that the child was dead; and David said unto his servants: 'Is the child dead?' And they said: 'He is dead.'

jps@2Samuel:12:21 @ Then said his servants unto him: 'What thing is this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, while it was alive; but when the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread.'

jps@2Samuel:12:22 @ And he said: 'While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept; for I said: Who knoweth whether the LORD will not be gracious to me, that the child may live?

jps@2Samuel:12:27 @ And Joab sent messengers to David, and said: 'I have fought against Rabbah, yea, I have taken the city of waters.

jps@2Samuel:13:4 @ And he said unto him: 'Why, O son of the king, art thou thus becoming leaner from day to day? wilt thou not tell me?' And Amnon said unto him: 'I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.'

jps@2Samuel:13:5 @ And Jonadab said unto him: 'Lay thee down on thy bed, and feign thyself sick; and when thy father cometh to see thee, say unto him: Let my sister Tamar come, I pray thee, and give me bread to eat, and dress the food in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it at her hand.'

jps@2Samuel:13:6 @ So Amnon lay down, and feigned himself sick; and when the king was come to see him, Amnon said unto the king: 'Let my sister Tamar come, I pray thee, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat at her hand.'

jps@2Samuel:13:9 @ And she took the pan, and poured them out before him; but he refused to eat. And Amnon said: 'Have out all men from me.' And they went out every man from him.

jps@2Samuel:13:10 @ And Amnon said unto Tamar: 'Bring the food into the chamber, that I may eat of thy hand.' And Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother.

jps@2Samuel:13:11 @ And when she had brought them near unto him to eat, he took hold of her, and said unto her: 'Come lie with me, my sister.'

jps@2Samuel:13:15 @ Then Amnon hated her with exceeding great hatred; for the hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love wherewith he had loved her. And Amnon said unto her: 'Arise, be gone.'

jps@2Samuel:13:16 @ And she said unto him: 'Not so, because this great wrong in putting me forth is worse than the other that thou didst unto me.' But he would not hearken unto her.

jps@2Samuel:13:17 @ Then he called his servant that ministered unto him, and said: 'Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her.'--

jps@2Samuel:13:20 @ And Absalom her brother said unto her: 'Hath Amnon thy brother been with thee? but now hold thy peace, my sister: he is thy brother; take not this thing to heart.' So Tamar remained desolate in her brother Absalom's house.

jps@2Samuel:13:24 @ And Absalom came to the king, and said: 'Behold now, thy servant hath sheep-shearers; let the king, I pray thee, and his servants go with thy servant.'

jps@2Samuel:13:25 @ And the king said to Absalom: 'Nay, my son, let us not all go, lest we be burdensome unto thee.' And he pressed him; howbeit he would not go, but blessed him.

jps@2Samuel:13:26 @ Then said Absalom: 'If not, I pray thee, let my brother Amnon go with us.' And the king said unto him: 'Why should he go with thee?'

jps@2Samuel:13:32 @ And Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother, answered and said: 'Let not my lord suppose that they have killed all the young men the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead; for by the appointment of Absalom this hath been determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar.

jps@2Samuel:13:35 @ And Jonadab said unto the king: 'Behold, the king's sons are come; as thy servant said, so it is.'

jps@2Samuel:14:2 @ And Joab sent to Tekoa, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her: 'I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on mourning apparel, I pray thee, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead;

jps@2Samuel:14:4 @ And when the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and prostrated herself, and said: 'Help, O king.'

jps@2Samuel:14:5 @ And the king said unto her: 'What aileth thee?' And she answered: 'Of a truth I am a widow, my husband being dead.

jps@2Samuel:14:7 @ And, behold, the whole family is risen against thy handmaid, and they said: Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he slew, and so destroy the heir also. Thus will they quench my coal which is left, and will leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the face of the earth.'

jps@2Samuel:14:8 @ And the king said unto the woman: 'Go to thy house, and I will give charge concerning thee.'

jps@2Samuel:14:9 @ And the woman of Tekoa said unto the king: 'My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on my father's house; and the king and his throne be guiltless.'

jps@2Samuel:14:10 @ And the king said: 'Whosoever saith aught unto thee, bring him to me, and he shall not touch thee any more.'

jps@2Samuel:14:11 @ Then said she: 'I pray thee, let the king remember the LORD thy God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son.' And he said: 'As the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.'

jps@2Samuel:14:12 @ Then the woman said: 'Let thy handmaid, I pray thee, speak a word unto my lord the king.' And he said: 'Say on.'

jps@2Samuel:14:13 @ And the woman said: 'Wherefore then hast thou devised such a thing against the people of God? for in speaking this word the king is as one that is guilty, in that the king doth not fetch home again his banished one.

jps@2Samuel:14:15 @ Now therefore seeing that I am come to speak this word unto my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid; and thy handmaid said: I will now speak unto the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.

jps@2Samuel:14:17 @ Then thy handmaid said: Let, I pray thee, the word of my lord the king be for my comfort; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad; and the LORD thy God be with thee.'

jps@2Samuel:14:18 @ Then the king answered and said unto the woman: 'Hide not from me, I pray thee, aught that I shall ask thee.' And the woman said: 'Let my lord the king now speak.'

jps@2Samuel:14:19 @ And the king said: 'Is the hand of Joab with thee in all this?' And the woman answered and said: 'As thy soul liveth, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from aught that my lord the king hath spoken; for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thy handmaid;

jps@2Samuel:14:21 @ And the king said unto Joab: 'Behold now, I have granted this request; go therefore, bring the young man Absalom back.'

jps@2Samuel:14:22 @ And Joab fell to the ground on his face, and prostrated himself, and blessed the king; and Joab said: 'To-day thy servant knoweth that I have found favour in thy sight, my lord, O king, in that the king hath performed the request of thy servant.'

jps@2Samuel:14:24 @ And the king said: 'Let him turn to his own house, but let him not see my face.' So Absalom turned to his own house, and saw not the king's face.

jps@2Samuel:14:30 @ Therefore he said unto his servants: 'See, Joab's field is near mine, and he hath barley there; go and set it on fire.' And Absalom's servants set the field on fire.

jps@2Samuel:14:31 @ Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom unto his house, and said unto him: 'Wherefore have thy servants set my field on fire?'

jps@2Samuel:15:2 @ And Absalom used to rise up early, and stand beside the way of the gate; and it was so, that when any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called unto him, and said: 'Of what city art thou?' And he said: 'Thy servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.'

jps@2Samuel:15:3 @ And Absalom said unto him: 'See, thy matters are good and right; but there is no man deputed of the king to hear thee.'

jps@2Samuel:15:4 @ Absalom said moreover: 'Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who hath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I would do him justice!'

jps@2Samuel:15:7 @ And it came to pass at the end of forty years, that Absalom said unto the king: 'I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed unto the LORD, in Hebron.

jps@2Samuel:15:9 @ And the king said unto him: 'Go in peace.' So he arose, and went to Hebron.

jps@2Samuel:15:14 @ And David said unto all his servants that were with him at Jerusalem: 'Arise, and let us flee; or else none of us shall escape from Absalom; make speed to depart, lest he overtake us quickly, and bring down evil upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the sword.'

jps@2Samuel:15:15 @ And the king's servants said unto the king: 'Behold, thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall choose.'

jps@2Samuel:15:19 @ Then said the king to Ittai the Gittite: 'Wherefore goest thou also with us? return, and abide with the king; for thou art a foreigner, and also an exile from thine own place.

jps@2Samuel:15:21 @ And Ittai answered the king, and said: 'As the LORD liveth, and as my lord the king liveth, surely in what place my lord the king shall be, whether for death or for life, even there also will thy servant be.'

jps@2Samuel:15:22 @ And David said to Ittai: 'Go and pass over.' And Ittai the Gittite passed over, and all his men, and all the little ones that were with him.

jps@2Samuel:15:25 @ And the king said unto Zadok: 'Carry back the ark of God into the city; if I shall find favour in the eyes of the LORD, He will bring me back, and show me both it, and His habitation;

jps@2Samuel:15:27 @ The king said also unto Zadok the priest: 'Seest thou? return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz thy son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.

jps@2Samuel:15:31 @ And one told David, saying: 'Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.' And David said: 'O LORD, I pray Thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.'

jps@2Samuel:15:33 @ And David said unto him: 'If thou passest on with me, then thou wilt be a burden unto Me;

jps@2Samuel:16:2 @ And the king said unto Ziba: 'What meanest thou by these?' And Ziba said: 'The asses are for the king's household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as are faint in the wilderness may drink.'

jps@2Samuel:16:3 @ And the king said: 'And where is thy master's son?' And Ziba said unto the king: 'Behold, he abideth at Jerusalem; for he said: To-day will the house of Israel restore me the kingdom of my father.'

jps@2Samuel:16:4 @ Then said the king to Ziba: 'Behold, thine is all that pertaineth unto Mephibosheth.' And Ziba said: 'I prostrate myself; let me find favour in thy sight, my lord, O king.'

jps@2Samuel:16:7 @ And thus said Shimei when he cursed: 'Begone, begone, thou man of blood, and base fellow;

jps@2Samuel:16:9 @ Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king: 'Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head.'

jps@2Samuel:16:10 @ And the king said: 'What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? So let him curse, because the LORD hath said unto him: Curse David; who then shall say: Wherefore hast thou done so?'

jps@2Samuel:16:11 @ And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants: 'Behold, my son, who came forth of my body, seeketh my life; how much more this Benjamite now? let him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD hath bidden him.

jps@2Samuel:16:16 @ And it came to pass, when Hushai the Archite, David's friend, was come unto Absalom, that Hushai said unto Absalom: 'Long live the king, long live the king.'

jps@2Samuel:16:17 @ And Absalom said to Hushai: 'Is this thy kindness to thy friend? why wentest thou not with thy friend?'

jps@2Samuel:16:18 @ And Hushai said unto Absalom: 'Nay; but whom the LORD, and this people, and all the men of Israel have chosen, his will I be, and with him will I abide.

jps@2Samuel:16:20 @ Then said Absalom to Ahithophel: 'Give your counsel what we shall do.'

jps@2Samuel:16:21 @ And Ahithophel said unto Absalom: 'Go in unto thy father's concubines, that he hath left to keep the house; and all Israel will hear that thou art abhorred of thy father; then will the hands of all that are with thee be strong.'

jps@2Samuel:17:1 @ Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom: 'Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night;

jps@2Samuel:17:5 @ Then said Absalom: 'Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear likewise what he saith.'

jps@2Samuel:17:7 @ And Hushai said unto Absalom: 'The counsel that Ahithophel hath given this time is not good.'

jps@2Samuel:17:8 @ Hushai said moreover: 'Thou knowest thy father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are embittered in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field; and thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.

jps@2Samuel:17:14 @ And Absalom and all the men of Israel said: 'The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.'--For the LORD had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.

jps@2Samuel:17:15 @ Then said Hushai unto Zadok and to Abiathar the priests: 'Thus and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel; and thus and thus have I counselled.

jps@2Samuel:17:20 @ And Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house; and they said: 'Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?' And the woman said unto them: 'They are gone over the brook of water.' And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.

jps@2Samuel:17:21 @ And it came to pass, after they were departed, that they came up out of the well, and went and told king David; and they said unto David: 'Arise ye, and pass quickly over the water; for thus hath Ahithophel counselled against you.'

jps@2Samuel:17:29 @ and honey, and curd, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat; for they said: 'The people is hungry, and faint, and thirsty, in the wilderness.'

jps@2Samuel:18:2 @ And David sent forth the people, a third part under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. And the king said unto the people: 'I will surely go forth with you myself also.'

jps@2Samuel:18:3 @ But the people said: 'Thou shalt not go forth; for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us; but thou art worth ten thousand of us: therefore now it is better that thou be ready to succour us out of the city.'

jps@2Samuel:18:4 @ And the king said unto them: 'What seemeth you best I will do.' And the king stood by the gate-side, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands.

jps@2Samuel:18:10 @ And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said: 'Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in a terebinth.'

jps@2Samuel:18:11 @ And Joab said unto the man that told him: 'And, behold, thou sawest it, and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have had to give thee ten pieces of silver, and a girdle.'

jps@2Samuel:18:12 @ And the man said unto Joab: 'Though I should receive a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, yet would I not put forth my hand against the king's son; for in our hearing the king charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying: Beware that none touch the young man Absalom.

jps@2Samuel:18:14 @ Then said Joab: 'I may not tarry thus with thee.' And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the terebinth.

jps@2Samuel:18:18 @ Now Absalom in his life-time had taken and reared up for himself the pillar, which is in the king's dale; for he said: 'I have no son to keep my name in remembrance'; and he called the pillar after his own name; and it is called Absalom's monument unto this day.

jps@2Samuel:18:19 @ Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok: 'Let me now run, and bear the king tidings, how that the LORD hath avenged him of his enemies.'

jps@2Samuel:18:20 @ And Joab said unto him: 'Thou shalt not be the bearer of tidings this day, but thou shalt bear tidings another day; but this day thou shalt bear no tidings, forasmuch as the king's son is dead.'

jps@2Samuel:18:21 @ Then said Joab to the Cushite: 'Go tell the king what thou hast seen.' And the Cushite bowed down unto Joab, and ran.

jps@2Samuel:18:22 @ Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok yet again to Joab: 'But come what may, let me, I pray thee, also run after the Cushite.' And Joab said: 'Wherefore wilt thou run, my son, seeing that thou wilt have no reward for the tidings?'

jps@2Samuel:18:23 @ 'But come what may, said he, I will run.' And he said unto him: 'Run.' Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the Plain, and overran the Cushite.

jps@2Samuel:18:25 @ And the watchman cried, and told the king. And the king said: 'If he be alone, there is tidings in his mouth.' And he came apace, and drew near.

jps@2Samuel:18:26 @ And the watchman saw another man running; and the watchman called unto the porter, and said: 'Behold another man running alone.' And the king said: 'He also bringeth tidings.'

jps@2Samuel:18:27 @ And the watchman said: 'I think the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok.' And the king said: 'He is a good man, and cometh with good tidings.'

jps@2Samuel:18:28 @ And Ahimaaz called, and said unto the king: 'All is well.' And he bowed down before the king with his face to the earth, and said: 'Blessed be the LORD thy God, who hath delivered up the men that lifted up their hand against my lord the king.'

jps@2Samuel:18:29 @ And the king said: 'Is it well with the young man Absalom?' And Ahimaaz answered: 'When Joab sent the king's servant, and me thy servant, I saw a great tumult, but I knew not what it was.'

jps@2Samuel:18:30 @ And the king said: 'Turn aside, and stand here.' And he turned aside, and stood still.

jps@2Samuel:18:31 @ And, behold, the Cushite came; and the Cushite said: 'Tidings for my lord the king; for the LORD hath avenged thee this day of all them that rose up against thee.'

jps@2Samuel:18:32 @ And the king said unto the Cushite: 'Is it well with the young man Absalom?' And the Cushite answered: 'The enemies of my lord the king and all that rise up against thee to do thee hurt, be as that young man is.'

jps@2Samuel:18:33 @ And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept; and as he went, thus he said: 'O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!'

jps@2Samuel:19:5 @ And Joab came into the house to the king, and said: 'Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, who this day have saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy wives, and the lives of thy concubines;

jps@2Samuel:19:19 @ And he said unto the king: 'Let not my lord impute iniquity unto me, neither do thou remember that which thy servant did iniquitously the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.

jps@2Samuel:19:21 @ But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said: 'Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD'S anointed?'

jps@2Samuel:19:22 @ And David said: 'What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye should this day be adversaries unto me? shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel? for do not I know that I am this day king over Israel?'

jps@2Samuel:19:23 @ And the king said unto Shimei: 'Thou shalt not die.' And the king swore unto him.

jps@2Samuel:19:25 @ And it came to pass, when he was come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said unto him: 'Wherefore wentest not thou with me, Mephibosheth?'

jps@2Samuel:19:26 @ And he answered: 'My lord, O king, my servant deceived me; for thy servant said: I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon, and go with the king; because thy servant is lame.

jps@2Samuel:19:29 @ And the king said unto him: 'Why speakest thou any more of thy matters? I say: Thou and Ziba divide the land.'

jps@2Samuel:19:30 @ And Mephibosheth said unto the king: 'Yea, let him take all, forasmuch as my lord the king is come in peace unto his own house.'

jps@2Samuel:19:33 @ And the king said unto Barzillai: 'Come thou over with me, and I will sustain thee with me in Jerusalem.'

jps@2Samuel:19:34 @ And Barzillai said unto the king: 'How many are the days of the years of my life, that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem?

jps@2Samuel:19:41 @ And, behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said unto the king: 'Why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen thee away, and brought the king, and his household, over the Jordan, and all David's men with him?'

jps@2Samuel:19:43 @ And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said: 'We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye; why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king?' And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.

jps@2Samuel:20:1 @ Now there happened to be there a base fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite; and he blew the horn, and said: 'We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse; every man to his tents, O Israel.'

jps@2Samuel:20:4 @ Then said the king to Amasa: 'Call me the men of Judah together within three days, and be thou here present.'

jps@2Samuel:20:6 @ And David said to Abishai: 'Now will Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Absalom; take thou thy lord's servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fortified cities, and escape out of our sight.'

jps@2Samuel:20:9 @ And Joab said to Amasa: 'Is it well with thee, my brother?' And Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.

jps@2Samuel:20:11 @ And there stood by him one of Joab's young men, and said: 'He that favoureth Joab, and he that is for David let him follow Joab.'

jps@2Samuel:20:17 @ And he came near unto her; and the woman said: 'Art thou Joab?' And he answered: 'I am.' Then she said unto him: 'Hear the words of thy handmaid.' And he answered: 'I do hear.'

jps@2Samuel:20:20 @ And Joab answered and said: 'Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.

jps@2Samuel:20:21 @ The matter is not so; but a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, hath lifted up his hand against the king, even against David; deliver him only, and I will depart from the city.' And the woman said unto Joab: 'Behold, his head shall be thrown to thee over the wall.'

jps@2Samuel:21:1 @ And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said: 'It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Gibeonites.'

jps@2Samuel:21:2 @ And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them--now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them; and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah--

jps@2Samuel:21:3 @ and David said unto the Gibeonites: 'What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the LORD?'

jps@2Samuel:21:4 @ And the Gibeonites said unto him: 'It is no matter of silver or gold between us and Saul, or his house; neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel.' And he said: 'What say ye that I should do for you?'

jps@2Samuel:21:5 @ And they said unto the king: 'The man that consumed us, and that devised against us, so that we have been destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel,

jps@2Samuel:21:6 @ let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of the LORD.' And the king said: 'I will deliver them.'

jps@2Samuel:22:2 @ and he said: The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;

jps@2Samuel:23:3 @ The God of Israel said, The Rock of Israel spoke to me: 'Ruler over men shall be the righteous, even he that ruleth in the fear of God,

jps@2Samuel:23:15 @ And David longed, and said: 'Oh that one would give me water to drink of the well of Beth-lehem, which is by the gate!'

jps@2Samuel:23:17 @ And he said: 'Be it far from me, O LORD, that I should do this; shall I drink the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives?' therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.

jps@2Samuel:24:2 @ And the king said to Joab the captain of the host that was with him: 'Go now to and fro through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the sum of the people.'

jps@2Samuel:24:3 @ And Joab said unto the king: 'Now the LORD thy God add unto the people, how many soever they may be, a hundredfold, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it; but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing?'

jps@2Samuel:24:10 @ And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the LORD: 'I have sinned greatly in what I have done; but now, O LORD, put away, I beseech Thee, the iniquity of Thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.'

jps@2Samuel:24:13 @ So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him: 'Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thy foes while they pursue thee? or shall there be three days' pestilence in thy land? now advise thee, and consider what answer I shall return to Him that sent Me.'

jps@2Samuel:24:14 @ And David said unto Gad: 'I am in a great strait; let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for His mercies are great; and let me not fall into the hand of man.'

jps@2Samuel:24:16 @ And when the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented Him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people: 'It is enough; now stay thy hand.' And the angel of the LORD was by the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

jps@2Samuel:24:17 @ And David spoke unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said: 'Lo, I have sinned, and I have done iniquitously; but these sheep, what have they done? let Thy hand, I pray Thee, be against me, and against my father's house.'

jps@2Samuel:24:18 @ And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him: 'Go up, rear an altar unto the LORD in the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.'

jps@2Samuel:24:21 @ And Araunah said: 'Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant?' And David said: 'To buy the threshing-floor of thee, to build an altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the people.'

jps@2Samuel:24:22 @ And Araunah said unto David: 'Let my lord the king take and offer up what seemeth good unto him; behold the oxen for the burnt-offering, and the threshing-instruments and the furniture of the oxen for the wood.'

jps@2Samuel:24:23 @ All this did Araunah the king give unto the king. And Araunah said unto the king: 'The LORD thy God accept thee.'

jps@2Samuel:24:24 @ And the king said unto Araunah: 'Nay; but I will verily buy it of thee at a price; neither will I offer burnt-offerings unto the LORD my God which cost me nothing.' So David bought the threshing-floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

jps@1Kings:1:2 @ Wherefore his servants said unto him: 'Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin; and let her stand before the king, and be a companion unto him; and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat.'

jps@1Kings:1:16 @ And Bath-sheba bowed, and prostrated herself unto the king. And the king said: 'What wouldest thou?'

jps@1Kings:1:17 @ And she said unto him: 'My lord, thou didst swear by the LORD thy God unto thy handmaid: Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne.

jps@1Kings:1:24 @ And Nathan said: 'My lord, O king, hast thou said: Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne?

jps@1Kings:1:28 @ Then king David answered and said: 'Call me Bath-sheba.' And she came into the king's presence, and stood before the king.

jps@1Kings:1:29 @ And the king swore and said: 'As the LORD liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity,

jps@1Kings:1:31 @ Then Bath-sheba bowed with her face to the earth, and prostrated herself to the king, and said: 'Let my lord king David live for ever.'

jps@1Kings:1:32 @ And king David said: 'Call me Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada.' And they came before the king.

jps@1Kings:1:33 @ And the king said unto them: 'Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule, and bring him down to Gihon.

jps@1Kings:1:36 @ And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said: 'Amen; so say the LORD, the God of my lord the king.

jps@1Kings:1:39 @ And Zadok the priest took the horn of oil out of the Tent, and anointed Solomon. And they blew the ram's horn; and all the people said: 'Long live king Solomon.'

jps@1Kings:1:41 @ And Adonijah and all the guests that were with him heard it as they had made an end of eating. And when Joab heard the sound of the horn, he said: 'Wherefore is this noise of the city being in an uproar?'

jps@1Kings:1:42 @ While he yet spoke, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came; and Adonijah said: 'Come in; for thou art a worthy man, and bringest good tidings.'

jps@1Kings:1:43 @ And Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah: 'Verily our lord king David hath made Solomon king.

jps@1Kings:1:48 @ And also thus said the king: Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who hath given one to sit on my throne this day, mine eyes even seeing it.'

jps@1Kings:1:52 @ And Solomon said: 'If he shall show himself a worthy man, there shall not a hair of him fall to the earth; but if wickedness be found in him, he shall die.'

jps@1Kings:1:53 @ So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. And he came and prostrated himself before king Solomon; and Solomon said unto him: 'Go to thy house.'

jps@1Kings:2:4 @ that the LORD may establish His word which He spoke concerning me, saying: If thy children take heed to their way, to walk before Me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail thee, said He, a man on the throne of Israel.

jps@1Kings:2:13 @ Then Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bath-sheba the mother of Solomon. And she said: 'Comest thou peaceably?' And he said: 'Peaceably.'

jps@1Kings:2:14 @ He said moreover: 'I have somewhat to say unto thee.' And she said: 'Say on.'

jps@1Kings:2:15 @ And he said: 'Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign; howbeit the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother's; for it was his from the LORD.

jps@1Kings:2:16 @ And now I ask one petition of thee, deny me not.' And she said unto him: 'Say on.'

jps@1Kings:2:17 @ And he said: 'Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king--for he will not say thee nay--that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to wife.'

jps@1Kings:2:18 @ And Bath-sheba said: 'Well; I will speak for thee unto the king.'

jps@1Kings:2:20 @ Then she said: 'I ask one small petition of thee; deny me not.' And the king said unto her: 'Ask on, my mother; for I will not deny thee.'

jps@1Kings:2:21 @ And she said: 'Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother to wife.'

jps@1Kings:2:22 @ And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother: 'And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he is mine elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.'

jps@1Kings:2:26 @ And unto Abiathar the priest said the king: 'Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art deserving of death; but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou didst bear the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, and because thou wast afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.'

jps@1Kings:2:30 @ And Benaiah came to the Tent of the LORD, and said unto him: 'Thus saith the king: Come forth.' And he said: 'Nay; but I will die here.' And Benaiah brought back word unto the king, saying: 'Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me.'

jps@1Kings:2:31 @ And the king said unto him: 'Do as he hath said, and fall upon him, and bury him; that thou mayest take away the blood, which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father's house.

jps@1Kings:2:36 @ And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him: Build thee a house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and go not forth thence any whither.

jps@1Kings:2:38 @ And Shimei said unto the king: 'The saying is good; as my lord the king hath said, so will thy servant do.' And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days.

jps@1Kings:2:42 @ And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him: 'Did I not make thee to swear by the LORD, and forewarned thee, saying: Know for certain, that on the day thou goest out, and walkest abroad any whither, thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst unto me: The saying is good; I have heard it.

jps@1Kings:2:44 @ The king said moreover to Shimei: 'Thou knowest all the wickedness which thy heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father; therefore the LORD shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head.

jps@1Kings:3:5 @ In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said: 'Ask what I shall give thee.'

jps@1Kings:3:6 @ And Solomon said: 'Thou hast shown unto Thy servant David my father great kindness, according as he walked before Thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with Thee; and Thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that Thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.

jps@1Kings:3:11 @ And God said unto him: 'Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern justice;

jps@1Kings:3:17 @ And the one woman said: 'Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.

jps@1Kings:3:22 @ And the other woman said: 'Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son.' And this said: 'No; but the dead is thy son, and the living is my son.' Thus they spoke before the king.

jps@1Kings:3:23 @ Then said the king: 'The one saith: This is my son that liveth, and thy son is the dead; and the other saith: Nay; but thy son is the dead, and my son is the living.'

jps@1Kings:3:24 @ And the king said: 'Fetch me a sword.' And they brought a sword before the king.

jps@1Kings:3:25 @ And the king said: 'Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.'

jps@1Kings:3:26 @ Then spoke the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her heart yearned upon her son, and she said: 'Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it.' But the other said: 'It shall be neither mine nor thine; divide it.'

jps@1Kings:3:27 @ Then the king answered and said: 'Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.'

jps@1Kings:5:7 @ And it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said: 'Blessed be the LORD this day, who hath given unto David a wise son over this great people.'

jps@1Kings:8:12 @ Then spoke Solomon: The LORD hath said that He would dwell in the thick darkness.

jps@1Kings:8:15 @ And he said: 'Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who spoke with His mouth unto David my father, and hath with His hand fulfilled it, saying:

jps@1Kings:8:18 @ But the LORD said unto David my father: Whereas it was in thy heart to build a house for My name, thou didst well that it was in thy heart;

jps@1Kings:8:23 @ and he said: 'O LORD, the God of Israel, there is no God like Thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath; who keepest covenant and mercy with Thy servants, that walk before Thee with all their heart;

jps@1Kings:8:29 @ that Thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place whereof Thou hast said: My name shall be there; to hearken unto the prayer which Thy servant shall pray toward this place.

jps@1Kings:9:3 @ And the LORD said unto him: 'I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before Me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put My name there for ever; and Mine eyes and My heart shall be there perpetually.

jps@1Kings:9:13 @ And he said: 'What cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother?' And they were called the land of Cabul, unto this day.

jps@1Kings:10:6 @ And she said to the king: 'It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom.

jps@1Kings:11:2 @ of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel: 'Ye shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods'; Solomon did cleave unto these in love.

jps@1Kings:11:11 @ Wherefore the LORD said unto Solomon: 'Forasmuch as this hath been in thy mind, and thou hast not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant.

jps@1Kings:11:21 @ And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh: 'Let me depart, that I may go to mine own country.'

jps@1Kings:11:22 @ Then Pharaoh said unto him: 'But what hast thou lacked with me, that, behold, thou seekest to go to thine own country?' And he answered: 'Nothing; howbeit let me depart in any wise.'

jps@1Kings:11:31 @ And he said to Jeroboam: 'Take thee ten pieces; for thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee--

jps@1Kings:12:5 @ And he said unto them: 'Depart yet for three days, then come again to me.' And the people departed.

jps@1Kings:12:9 @ And he said unto them: 'What counsel give ye, that we may return answer to this people, who have spoken to me, saying: Make the yoke that thy father did put upon us lighter?'

jps@1Kings:12:26 @ And Jeroboam said in his heart: 'Now will the kingdom return to the house of David.

jps@1Kings:12:28 @ Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said unto them: 'Ye have gone up long enough to Jerusalem; behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.'

jps@1Kings:13:2 @ And he cried against the altar by the word of the LORD, and said: 'O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD: Behold, a son shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he sacrifice the priests of the high places that offer upon thee, and men's bones shall they burn upon thee.'

jps@1Kings:13:6 @ And the king answered and said unto the man of God: 'Entreat now the favour of the LORD thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me.' And the man of God entreated the LORD, and the king's hand was restored him, and became as it was before.

jps@1Kings:13:7 @ And the king said unto the man of God: 'Come home with me, and refresh thyself, and I will give thee a reward.'

jps@1Kings:13:8 @ And the man of God said unto the king: 'If thou wilt give me half thy house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this place.

jps@1Kings:13:12 @ And their father said unto them: 'What way went he?' For his sons had seen what way the man of God went, that came from Judah.

jps@1Kings:13:13 @ And he said unto his sons: 'Saddle me the ass.' So they saddled him the ass; and he rode thereon.

jps@1Kings:13:14 @ And he went after the man of God, and found him sitting under a terebinth; and he said unto him: 'Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah?' And he said: 'I am.'

jps@1Kings:13:15 @ Then he said unto him: 'Come home with me, and eat bread.'

jps@1Kings:13:16 @ And he said: 'I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee; neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place.

jps@1Kings:13:17 @ For it was said to me by the word of the LORD: Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn back to go by the way that thou camest.'

jps@1Kings:13:18 @ And he said unto him: 'I also am a prophet as thou art; and an angel spoke unto me by the word of the LORD, saying: Bring him back with thee into thy house, that he may eat bread and drink water.'--He lied unto him.--

jps@1Kings:13:22 @ but camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which He said to thee: Eat no bread, and drink no water; thy carcass shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers.'

jps@1Kings:13:26 @ And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard thereof, he said: 'It is the man of God, who rebelled against the word of the LORD; therefore the LORD hath delivered him unto the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the LORD, which He spoke unto him.'

jps@1Kings:14:2 @ And Jeroboam said to his wife: 'Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh; behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, who spoke concerning me that I should be king over this people.

jps@1Kings:14:5 @ Now the LORD had said unto Ahijah: 'Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to inquire of thee concerning her son; for he is sick; thus and thus shalt thou say unto her; for it will be, when she cometh in, that she will feign herself to be another woman.'

jps@1Kings:14:6 @ And it was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said: 'Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why feignest thou thyself to be another? for I am sent to thee with heavy tidings.

jps@1Kings:17:1 @ And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the settlers of Gilead, said unto Ahab: 'As the LORD, the God of Israel, liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.'

jps@1Kings:17:10 @ So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks; and he called to her, and said: 'Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.'

jps@1Kings:17:11 @ And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said: 'Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thy hand.'

jps@1Kings:17:12 @ And she said: 'As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, only a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the cruse; and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.'

jps@1Kings:17:13 @ And Elijah said unto her: 'Fear not; go and do as thou hast said; but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it forth unto me, and afterward make for thee and for thy son.

jps@1Kings:17:18 @ And she said unto Elijah: 'What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come unto me to bring my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son?'

jps@1Kings:17:19 @ And he said unto her: 'Give me thy son.' And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the upper chamber, where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed.

jps@1Kings:17:20 @ And he cried unto the LORD, and said: 'O LORD my God, hast Thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?'

jps@1Kings:17:21 @ And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the LORD, and said: 'O LORD my God, I pray thee, let this child's soul come back into him.'

jps@1Kings:17:23 @ And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the upper chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother; and Elijah said: 'See, thy son liveth.'

jps@1Kings:17:24 @ And the woman said to Elijah: 'Now I know that thou art a man of God, and that the word of the LORD in thy mouth is truth.'

jps@1Kings:18:5 @ And Ahab said unto Obadiah: 'Go through the land, unto all the springs of water, and unto all the brooks; peradventure we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.'

jps@1Kings:18:7 @ And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him; and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said: 'Is it thou, my lord Elijah?'

jps@1Kings:18:9 @ And he said: 'Wherein have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?

jps@1Kings:18:10 @ As the LORD thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee; and when they said: He is not here, he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they found thee not.

jps@1Kings:18:15 @ And Elijah said: 'As the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself unto him to-day.'

jps@1Kings:18:17 @ And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him: 'Is it thou, thou troubler of Israel?'

jps@1Kings:18:21 @ And Elijah came near unto all the people, and said: 'How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him.' And the people answered him not a word.

jps@1Kings:18:22 @ Then said Elijah unto the people: 'I, even I only, am left a prophet of the LORD; but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men.

jps@1Kings:18:24 @ And call ye on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the LORD; and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God.' And all the people answered and said: 'It is well spoken.'

jps@1Kings:18:25 @ And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal: 'Choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first; for ye are many; and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under.'

jps@1Kings:18:27 @ And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said: 'Cry aloud; for he is a god; either he is musing, or he is gone aside, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.'

jps@1Kings:18:30 @ And Elijah said unto all the people: 'Come near unto me'; and all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD that was thrown down.

jps@1Kings:18:34 @ And he said: 'Fill four jars with water, and pour it on the burnt-offering, and on the wood.' And he said: 'Do it the second time'; and they did it the second time. And he said: 'Do it the third time'; and they did it the third time.

jps@1Kings:18:36 @ And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening offering, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said: 'O LORD, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that Thou art God in Israel, and that I am Thy servant, and that I have done all these things at Thy word.

jps@1Kings:18:39 @ And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they said: 'The LORD, He is God; the LORD, He is God.'

jps@1Kings:18:40 @ And Elijah said unto them: 'Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape.' And they took them; and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.

jps@1Kings:18:41 @ And Elijah said unto Ahab: 'Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain.'

jps@1Kings:18:43 @ And he said to his servant: 'Go up now, look toward the sea.' And he went up, and looked, and said: 'There is nothing.' And he said: 'Go again seven times.'

jps@1Kings:18:44 @ And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said: 'Behold, there ariseth a cloud out of the sea, as small as a man's hand.' And he said: 'Go up, say unto Ahab: Make ready thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not.'

jps@1Kings:19:4 @ But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom-tree; and he requested for himself that he might die; and said: 'It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.'

jps@1Kings:19:5 @ And he lay down and slept under a broom-tree; and, behold, an angel touched him, and said unto him: 'Arise and eat.'

jps@1Kings:19:7 @ And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and touched him, and said: 'Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee.'

jps@1Kings:19:9 @ And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and He said unto him: 'What doest thou here, Elijah?'

jps@1Kings:19:10 @ And he said: 'I have been very jealous for the LORD, the God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken Thy covenant, thrown down Thine altars, and slain Thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.'

jps@1Kings:19:11 @ And He said: 'Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD.' And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake;

jps@1Kings:19:13 @ And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entrance of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said: 'What doest thou here, Elijah?'

jps@1Kings:19:14 @ And he said: 'I have been very jealous for the LORD, the God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken Thy covenant, thrown down Thine altars, and slain Thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.'

jps@1Kings:19:15 @ And the LORD said unto him: 'Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus; and when thou comest, thou shalt anoint Hazael to be king over Aram;

jps@1Kings:19:20 @ And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said: 'Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee.' And he said unto him: 'Go back; for what have I done to thee?'

jps@1Kings:20:3 @ and said unto him: 'Thus saith Ben-hadad: Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and thy children, even the goodliest, are mine.'

jps@1Kings:20:4 @ And the king of Israel answered and said: 'It is according to thy saying, my lord, O king: I am thine, and all that I have.'

jps@1Kings:20:5 @ And the messengers came again, and said: 'Thus speaketh Ben-hadad, saying: I sent indeed unto thee, saying: Thou shalt deliver me thy silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy children;

jps@1Kings:20:7 @ Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said: 'Mark, I pray you, and see how this man seeketh mischief; for he sent unto me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I denied him not.'

jps@1Kings:20:8 @ And all the elders and all the people said unto him: 'Hearken thou not, neither consent.'

jps@1Kings:20:9 @ Wherefore he said unto the messengers of Ben-hadad: 'Tell my lord the king: All that thou didst send for to thy servant at the first I will do; but this thing I may not do.' And the messengers departed, and brought him back word.

jps@1Kings:20:10 @ And Ben-hadad sent unto him, and said: 'The gods do so unto me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me.'

jps@1Kings:20:11 @ And the king of Israel answered and said: 'Tell him: Let not him that girdeth on his armour boast himself as he that putteth it off.'

jps@1Kings:20:12 @ And it came to pass, when Ben-hadad heard this message, as he was drinking, he and the kings, in the booths, that he said unto his servants: 'Set yourselves in array.' And they set themselves in array against the city.

jps@1Kings:20:13 @ And, behold, a prophet came near unto Ahab king of Israel, and said: 'Thus saith the LORD: Hast thou seen all this great multitude? behold, I will deliver it into thy hand this day; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.'

jps@1Kings:20:14 @ And Ahab said: 'By whom?' And he said: 'Thus saith the LORD: By the young men of the princes of the provinces.' Then he said: 'Who shall begin the battle?' And he answered: 'Thou.'

jps@1Kings:20:18 @ And he said: 'Whether they are come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they are come out for war, take them alive.'

jps@1Kings:20:22 @ And the prophet came near to the king of Israel, and said unto him: 'Go, strengthen thyself, and mark, and see what thou doest; for at the return of the year the king of Aram will come up against thee.'

jps@1Kings:20:23 @ And the servants of the king of Aram said unto him: 'Their God is a God of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we; but let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they.

jps@1Kings:20:28 @ And a man of God came near and spoke unto the king of Israel, and said: 'Thus saith the LORD: Because the Arameans have said: The LORD is a God of the hills, but he is not a God of the valleys; therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thy hand, and ye shall know that I am the LORD.'

jps@1Kings:20:31 @ And his servants said unto him: 'Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings; let us, we pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel; peradventure he will save thy life.'

jps@1Kings:20:32 @ So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said: 'Thy servant Ben-hadad saith: I pray thee, let me live.' And he said: 'Is he yet alive? he is my brother.'

jps@1Kings:20:33 @ Now the men took it for a sign, and hastened to catch it from him; and they said: 'Thy brother Ben-hadad.' Then he said: 'Go ye, bring him.' Then Ben-hadad came forth to him; and he caused him to come up into his chariot.

jps@1Kings:20:34 @ And Ben-hadad said unto him: 'The cities which my father took from thy father I will restore; and thou shalt make streets for thee in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria.' 'And I,said Ahab, will let thee go with this covenant.' So he made a covenant with him, and let him go.

jps@1Kings:20:35 @ And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said unto his fellow by the word of the LORD: 'Smite me, I pray thee.' And the man refused to smite him.

jps@1Kings:20:36 @ Then said he unto him: 'Because thou hast not hearkened to the voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall slay thee.' And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him; and slew him.

jps@1Kings:20:37 @ Then he found another man, and said: 'Smite me, I pray thee.' And the man smote him, smiting and wounding him.

jps@1Kings:20:39 @ And as the king passed by, he cried unto the king; and he said: 'Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man unto me, and said: Keep this man; if by any means he be missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else thou shalt pay a talent of silver.

jps@1Kings:20:40 @ And as thy servant was busy here and there, he was gone.' And the king of Israel said unto him: 'So shall thy judgment be; thyself hast decided it.'

jps@1Kings:20:42 @ And he said unto him: 'Thus saith the LORD: Because thou hast let go out of thy hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for his people.'

jps@1Kings:21:3 @ And Naboth said to Ahab: 'The LORD forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee.'

jps@1Kings:21:4 @ And Ahab came into his house sullen and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him; for he had said: 'I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers.' And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.

jps@1Kings:21:5 @ But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him: 'Why is thy spirit so sullen, that thou eatest no bread?'

jps@1Kings:21:6 @ And he said unto her: 'Because I spoke unto Naboth the Jezreelite, and said unto him: Give me thy vineyard for money; or else, if it please thee, I will give thee another vineyard for it; and he answered: I will not give thee my vineyard.'

jps@1Kings:21:7 @ And Jezebel his wife said unto him: 'Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let thy heart be merry; I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.'

jps@1Kings:21:15 @ And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned, and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab: 'Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give thee for money; for Naboth is not alive, but dead.'

jps@1Kings:21:20 @ And Ahab said to Elijah: 'Hast thou found me, O mine enemy?' And he answered: 'I have found thee; because thou hast given thyself over to do that which is evil in the sight of the LORD.

jps@1Kings:22:3 @ And the king of Israel said unto his servants: 'Know ye that Ramoth-gilead is ours, and we are still, and take it not out of the hand of the king of Aram?'

jps@1Kings:22:4 @ And he said unto Jehoshaphat: 'Wilt thou go with me to battle to Ramoth-gilead?' And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel: 'I am as thou art, my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses.'

jps@1Kings:22:5 @ And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel: 'Inquire, I pray thee, at the word of the LORD today.'

jps@1Kings:22:6 @ Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said unto them: 'Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear?' And they said: 'Go up; for the LORD will deliver it into the hand of the king.'

jps@1Kings:22:7 @ But Jehoshaphat said: 'Is there not here besides a prophet of the LORD, that we might inquire of him?'

jps@1Kings:22:8 @ And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat: 'There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the LORD, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.' And Jehoshaphat said: 'Let not the king say so.'

jps@1Kings:22:9 @ Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said: 'Fetch quickly Micaiah the son of Imlah.'

jps@1Kings:22:11 @ And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron, and said: 'Thus saith the LORD: With these shalt thou gore the Arameans, until they be consumed.'

jps@1Kings:22:14 @ And Micaiah said: 'As the LORD liveth, what the LORD saith unto me, that will I speak.'

jps@1Kings:22:15 @ And when he was come to the king, the king said unto him: 'Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall we forbear?' And he answered him: 'Go up, and prosper; and the LORD will deliver it into the hand of the king.'

jps@1Kings:22:16 @ And the king said unto him: 'How many times shall I adjure thee that thou speak unto me nothing but the truth in the name of the LORD?'

jps@1Kings:22:17 @ And he said: 'I saw all Israel scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd; and the LORD said: These have no master; let them return every man to his house in peace.'

jps@1Kings:22:18 @ And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat: 'Did I not tell thee that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?'

jps@1Kings:22:19 @ And he said: 'Therefore hear thou the word of the LORD. I saw the LORD sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing by Him on His right hand and on his left.

jps@1Kings:22:20 @ And the LORD said: Who shall entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead. And one said: On this manner; and another said: On that manner.

jps@1Kings:22:21 @ And there came forth the spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said: I will entice him.

jps@1Kings:22:22 @ And the LORD said unto him: Wherewith? And he said: I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And He said: Thou shalt entice him, and shalt prevail also; go forth, and do so.

jps@1Kings:22:24 @ Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and smote Micaiah on the check, and said: 'Which way went the spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee?'

jps@1Kings:22:25 @ And Micaiah said: 'Behold, thou shalt see on that day, when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.'

jps@1Kings:22:26 @ And the king of Israel said: 'Take Micaiah, and carry him back unto Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;

jps@1Kings:22:28 @ And Micaiah said: 'If thou return at all in peace, the LORD hath not spoken by me.' And he said: 'Hear, ye peoples, all of you.'

jps@1Kings:22:30 @ And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat: 'I will disguise myself, and go into the battle; but put thou on thy robes.' And the king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.

jps@1Kings:22:32 @ And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said: 'Surely it is the king of Israel'; and they turned aside to fight against him; and Jehoshaphat cried out.

jps@1Kings:22:34 @ And a certain man drew his bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the lower armour and the breastplate; wherefore he said unto the driver of his chariot: 'Turn thy hand, and carry me out of the host; for I am sore wounded.'

jps@1Kings:22:49 @ Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat: 'Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships.' But Jehoshaphat would not.

jps@2Kings:1:2 @ And Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick; and he sent messengers, and said unto them: 'Go, inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this sickness.'

jps@2Kings:1:3 @ But an angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite: 'Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them: Is it because there is no God in Israel, that ye go to inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron?

jps@2Kings:1:5 @ And the messengers returned unto him, and he said unto them: 'Why is it that ye are returned?'

jps@2Kings:1:6 @ And they said unto him: 'There came up a man to meet us, and said unto us: Go, return unto the king that sent you, and say unto him: Thus saith the LORD: Is it because there is no God in Israel, that thou sendest to inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from the bed whither thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.'

jps@2Kings:1:7 @ And he said unto them: 'What manner of man was he that came up to meet you, and told you these words?'

jps@2Kings:1:8 @ And they answered him: 'He was a hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins.' And he said: 'It is Elijah the Tishbite.'

jps@2Kings:1:9 @ Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him; and, behold, he sat on the top of the hill. And he spoke unto him: 'O man of God, the king hath said: Come down.'

jps@2Kings:1:10 @ And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty: 'If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty.' And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.

jps@2Kings:1:11 @ And again he sent unto him another captain of fifty with his fifty. And he answered and said unto him: 'O man of God, thus hath the king said: Come down quickly.'

jps@2Kings:1:12 @ And Elijah answered and said unto them: 'If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty.' And the fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.

jps@2Kings:1:13 @ And again he sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said unto him: 'O man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight.

jps@2Kings:1:15 @ And the angel of the LORD said unto Elijah: 'Go down with him; be not afraid of him.' And he arose, and went down with him unto the king.

jps@2Kings:1:16 @ And he said unto him: 'Thus saith the LORD: Forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron, is it because there is no God in Israel to inquire of His word? therefore thou shalt not come down from the bed whether thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.'

jps@2Kings:2:2 @ And Elijah said unto Elisha: 'Tarry here, I pray thee; for the LORD hath sent me as far as Beth-el.' And Elisha said: 'As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee.' So they went down to Beth-el.--

jps@2Kings:2:3 @ And the sons of the prophets that were at Beth-el came forth to Elisha, and said unto him: 'Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master from thy head to-day?' And he said: 'Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace.'--

jps@2Kings:2:4 @ And Elijah said unto him: 'Elisha, tarry here, I pray thee; for the LORD hath sent me to Jericho.' And he said: 'As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee.' So they came to Jericho.--

jps@2Kings:2:5 @ And the sons of the prophets that were at Jericho came near to Elisha, and said unto him: 'Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master from thy head to-day?' And he answered: 'Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace.'--

jps@2Kings:2:6 @ And Elijah said unto him: 'Tarry here, I pray thee; for the LORD hath sent me to the Jordan.' And he said: 'As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee.' And they two went on.

jps@2Kings:2:9 @ And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha: 'Ask what I shall do for thee, before I am taken from thee.' And Elisha said: 'I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.'

jps@2Kings:2:10 @ And he said: 'Thou hast asked a hard thing; nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so.'

jps@2Kings:2:14 @ And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said: 'Where is the LORD, the God of Elijah?' and when he also had smitten the waters, they were divided hither and thither; and Elisha went over.

jps@2Kings:2:15 @ And when the sons of the prophets that were at Jericho some way off saw him, they said: 'The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha.' And they came to meet him, and bowed down to the ground before him.

jps@2Kings:2:16 @ And they said unto him: 'Behold now, there are with thy servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master; lest peradventure the spirit of the LORD hath taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley.' And he said: 'Ye shall not send.'

jps@2Kings:2:17 @ And when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said: 'Send.' They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, but found him not.

jps@2Kings:2:18 @ And they came back to him, while he tarried at Jericho; and he said unto them: 'Did I not say unto you: Go not?'

jps@2Kings:2:19 @ And the men of the city said unto Elisha: 'Behold, we pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth; but the water is bad, and the land miscarrieth.

jps@2Kings:2:20 @ And he said: 'Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein.' And they brought it to him.

jps@2Kings:2:21 @ And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast salt therein, and said: 'Thus saith the LORD: I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or miscarrying.'

jps@2Kings:2:23 @ And he went up from thence unto Beth-el; and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him: 'Go up, thou baldhead; go up, thou baldhead.'

jps@2Kings:3:7 @ And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying: 'The king of Moab hath rebelled against me; wilt thou go with me against Moab to battle?' And he said: 'I will go up; I am as thou art, my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses.'

jps@2Kings:3:8 @ And he said: 'Which way shall we go up?' And he answered: 'The way of the wilderness of Edom.'

jps@2Kings:3:10 @ And the king of Israel said: 'Alas! for the LORD hath called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.'

jps@2Kings:3:11 @ But Jehoshaphat said: 'Is there not here a prophet of the LORD, that we may inquire of the LORD by him?' And one of the king of Israel's servants answered and said: 'Elisha the son of Shaphat is here, who poured water on the hands of Elijah.'

jps@2Kings:3:12 @ And Jehoshaphat said: 'The word of the LORD is with him.' So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.

jps@2Kings:3:13 @ And Elisha said unto the king of Israel: 'What have I to do with thee? get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to the prophets of thy mother.' And the king of Israel said unto him: 'Nay; for the LORD hath called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.'

jps@2Kings:3:14 @ And Elisha said: 'As the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look toward thee, nor see thee.

jps@2Kings:3:16 @ And he said: 'Thus saith the LORD: Make this valley full of trenches.

jps@2Kings:3:23 @ and they said: 'This is blood: the kings have surely fought together, and they have smitten each man his fellow; now therefore, Moab, to the spoil.'

jps@2Kings:4:2 @ And Elisha said unto her: 'What shall I do for thee? tell me; what hast thou in the house?' And she said: 'Thy handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil.'

jps@2Kings:4:3 @ Then he said: 'Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.

jps@2Kings:4:6 @ And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said unto her son: 'Bring me yet a vessel.' And he said unto her: 'There is not a vessel more.' And the oil stayed.

jps@2Kings:4:7 @ Then she came and told the man of God. And he said: 'Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy sons of the rest.'

jps@2Kings:4:9 @ And she said unto her husband: 'Behold now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, that passeth by us continually.

jps@2Kings:4:12 @ And he said to Gehazi his servant: 'Call this Shunammite.' And when he had called her, she stood before him.

jps@2Kings:4:13 @ And he said unto him: 'Say now unto her: Behold, thou hast been careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for thee? wouldest thou be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host?' And she answered: 'I dwell among mine own people.'

jps@2Kings:4:14 @ And he said: 'What then is to be done for her?' And Gehazi answered: 'Verily she hath no son, and her husband is old.'

jps@2Kings:4:15 @ And he said: 'Call her.' And when he had called her, she stood in the door.

jps@2Kings:4:16 @ And he said: 'At this season, when the time cometh round, thou shalt embrace a son.' And she said: 'Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thy handmaid.'

jps@2Kings:4:17 @ And the woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came round, as Elisha had said unto her.

jps@2Kings:4:19 @ And he said unto his father: 'My head, my head.' And he said to his servant: 'Carry him to his mother.'

jps@2Kings:4:22 @ And she called unto her husband, and said: 'Send me, I pray thee, one of the servants, and one of the asses, that I may run to the man of God, and come back.'

jps@2Kings:4:23 @ And he said: Wherefore wilt thou go to him today? it is neither new moon nor sabbath.' And she said: 'It shall be well.'

jps@2Kings:4:24 @ Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant: 'Drive, and go forward; slacken me not the riding, except I bid thee.'

jps@2Kings:4:25 @ So she went, and came unto the man of God to mount Carmel. And it came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his servant: 'Behold, yonder is that Shunammite.

jps@2Kings:4:27 @ And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. And Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said: 'Let her alone; for her soul is bitter within her; and the LORD hath hid it from me, and hath not told Me.'

jps@2Kings:4:28 @ Then she said: 'Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say: Do not deceive me?'

jps@2Kings:4:29 @ Then he said to Gehazi: 'Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thy hand, and go thy way; if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if any salute thee, answer him not; and lay my staff upon the face of the child.'

jps@2Kings:4:30 @ And the mother of the child said: 'As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee.' And he arose, and followed her.

jps@2Kings:4:36 @ And he called Gehazi, and said: 'Call this Shunammite.' So he called her. And when she was come in unto him, he said: 'Take up thy son.'

jps@2Kings:4:38 @ And Elisha came again to Gilgal; and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said unto his servant: 'Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.'

jps@2Kings:4:40 @ So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said: 'O man of God, there is death in the pot.' And they could not eat thereof.

jps@2Kings:4:41 @ But he said: 'Then bring meal.' And he cast it into the pot; and he said: 'Pour out for the people, that they may eat.' And there was no harm in the pot.

jps@2Kings:4:42 @ And there came a man from Baal-shalishah, and brought the man of God bread of the first-fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and fresh ears of corn in his sack. And he said: 'Give unto the people, that they may eat.'

jps@2Kings:4:43 @ And his servant said: 'How should I set this before a hundred men?' But he said: 'Give the people, that they may eat; for thus saith the LORD: They shall eat, and shall leave thereof.'

jps@2Kings:5:3 @ And she said unto her mistress: 'Would that my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! then would he recover him of his leprosy.'

jps@2Kings:5:4 @ And he went in, and told his lord, saying: 'Thus and thus said the maid that is of the land of Israel.'

jps@2Kings:5:5 @ And the king of Aram said: 'Go now, and I will send a letter unto the king of Israel.' And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiment.

jps@2Kings:5:7 @ And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said: 'Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? but consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh an occasion against me.'

jps@2Kings:5:11 @ But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said: 'Behold, I thought: He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and wave his hand over the place, and recover the leper.

jps@2Kings:5:13 @ And his servants came near, and spoke unto him, and said: 'My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee: Wash, and be clean?'

jps@2Kings:5:15 @ And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him; and he said: 'Behold now, I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel; now therefore, I pray thee, take a present of thy servant.'

jps@2Kings:5:16 @ But he said: 'As the LORD liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none.' And he urged him to take it; but he refused.

jps@2Kings:5:17 @ And Naaman said: 'If not, yet I pray thee let there be given to thy servant two mules' burden of earth; for thy servant will henceforth offer neither burnt-offering nor sacrifice unto other gods, but unto the LORD.

jps@2Kings:5:19 @ And he said unto him: 'Go in peace.' So he departed from him some way.

jps@2Kings:5:20 @ But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said: 'Behold, my master hath spared this Naaman the Aramean, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought; as the LORD liveth, I will surely run after him, and take somewhat of him.'

jps@2Kings:5:21 @ So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw one running after him, he alighted from the chariot to meet him, and said: 'Is all well?'

jps@2Kings:5:22 @ And he said: 'All is well. My master hath sent me, saying: Behold, even now there are come to me from the hill-country of Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets; give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of raiment.'

jps@2Kings:5:23 @ And Naaman said: 'Be content, take two talents.' And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of raiment, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they bore them before him.

jps@2Kings:5:25 @ But he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said unto him: 'Whence comest thou, Gehazi?' And he said: 'Thy servant went no whither.'

jps@2Kings:5:26 @ And he said unto him: 'Went not my heart with thee, when the man turned back from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards and vineyards, and sheep and oxen, and men-servants and maid-servants?

jps@2Kings:6:1 @ And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha: 'Behold now, the place where we dwell before thee is too strait for us.

jps@2Kings:6:3 @ And one said: 'Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants.' And he answered: 'I will go.'

jps@2Kings:6:5 @ But as one was felling a beam, the axe-head fell into the water; and he cried, and said: 'Alas, my master! for it was borrowed.'

jps@2Kings:6:6 @ And the man of God said: 'Where fell it?' And he showed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither, and made the iron to swim.

jps@2Kings:6:7 @ And he said: 'Take it up to thee.' So he put out his hand, and took it.

jps@2Kings:6:11 @ And the heart of the king of Aram was sore troubled for this thing; and he called his servants, and said unto them: 'Will ye not tell me which of us is for the king of Israel?'

jps@2Kings:6:12 @ And one of his servants said: 'Nay, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bed-chamber.'

jps@2Kings:6:13 @ And he said: 'Go and see where he is, that I may send and fetch him.' And it was told him, saying: 'Behold, he is in Dothan.'

jps@2Kings:6:15 @ And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, a host with horses and chariots was round about the city. And his servant said unto him: 'Alas, my master! how shall we do?'

jps@2Kings:6:17 @ And Elisha prayed, and said: 'LORD, I pray Thee, open his eyes, that he may see.' And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw; and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.

jps@2Kings:6:18 @ And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the LORD, and said: 'Smite this people, I pray Thee, with blindness.' And He smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.

jps@2Kings:6:19 @ And Elisha said unto them: 'This is not the way, neither is this the city; follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye seek.' And he led them to Samaria.

jps@2Kings:6:20 @ And it came to pass, when they were come into Samaria, that Elisha said: 'LORD, open the eyes of these men, that they may see.' And the LORD opened their eyes, and they saw; and, behold, they were in the midst of Samaria.

jps@2Kings:6:21 @ And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw them: 'My father, shall I smite them? shall I smite them?'

jps@2Kings:6:27 @ And he said: 'If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the threshingfloor, or out of the winepress?'

jps@2Kings:6:28 @ And the king said unto her: 'What aileth thee?' And she answered: 'This woman said unto me: Give thy son, that we may eat him to-day, and we will eat my son to-morrow.

jps@2Kings:6:29 @ So we boiled my son, and did eat him; and I said unto her on the next day: Give thy son, that we may eat him; and she hath hid her son.'

jps@2Kings:6:31 @ Then he said: 'God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day.'

jps@2Kings:6:32 @ But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and the king sent a man from before him; but ere the messenger came to him, he said to the elders: 'See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head? look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold the door fast against him; is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?'

jps@2Kings:6:33 @ And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him; and the king said: 'Behold, this evil is of the LORD; why should I wait for the LORD any longer?'

jps@2Kings:7:1 @ And Elisha said: 'Hear ye the word of the LORD; thus saith the LORD: To-morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.'

jps@2Kings:7:2 @ Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said: 'Behold, if the LORD should make windows in heaven, might this thing be?' And he said: 'Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.'

jps@2Kings:7:3 @ Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate; and they said one to another: 'Why sit we here until we die?

jps@2Kings:7:6 @ For the Lord had made the host of the Arameans to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host; and they said one to another: 'Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.'

jps@2Kings:7:9 @ Then they said one to another: 'We do not well; this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace; if we tarry till the morning light, punishment will overtake us; now therefore come, let us go and tell the king's household.'

jps@2Kings:7:12 @ And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants: 'I will now tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know that we are hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying: When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive, and get into the city.'

jps@2Kings:7:13 @ And one of his servants answered and said: 'Let some take, I pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city--behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel that are left in it; behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel that are consumed--and let us send and see.'

jps@2Kings:7:17 @ And the king appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate; and the people trod upon him in the gate, and he died as the man of God had said, who spoke when the king came down to him.

jps@2Kings:7:19 @ and that captain answered the man of God, and said: 'Now, behold, if the LORD should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be?' and he said: 'Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof';

jps@2Kings:8:5 @ And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had restored to life him that was dead, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said: 'My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.'

jps@2Kings:8:8 @ And the king said unto Hazael: 'Take a present in thy hand, and go meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD by him, saying: Shall I recover of this sickness?'

jps@2Kings:8:9 @ So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and came and stood before him, and said: 'Thy son Ben-hadad king of Aram hath sent me to thee, saying: Shall I recover of this sickness?'

jps@2Kings:8:10 @ And Elisha said unto him: 'Go, say unto him: Thou shalt surely recover; howbeit the LORD hath shown me that he shall surely die.'

jps@2Kings:8:12 @ And Hazael said: 'Why weepeth my lord?' And he answered: 'Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strongholds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash in pieces their little ones, and rip up their women with child.'

jps@2Kings:8:13 @ And Hazael said: 'But what is thy servant, who is but a dog, that he should do this great thing?' And Elisha answered: 'The LORD hath shown me that thou shalt be king over Aram.'

jps@2Kings:8:14 @ Then he departed from Elisha, and came to his master, who said to him: 'What said Elisha to thee?' And he answered: 'He told me that thou wouldest surely recover.'

jps@2Kings:9:1 @ And Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and said unto him: 'Gird up thy loins, and take this vial of oil in thy hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead.

jps@2Kings:9:5 @ And when he came, behold, the captains of the host were sitting; and he said: 'I have an errand to thee, O captain.' And Jehu said: 'Unto which of us all?' And he said: 'To thee, O captain.'

jps@2Kings:9:6 @ And he arose, and went into the house; and he poured the oil on his head, and said unto him: 'Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: I have anointed thee king over the people of the LORD, even over Israel.

jps@2Kings:9:11 @ Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord; and one said unto him: 'Is all well? wherefore came this mad fellow to thee?' And he said unto them: 'Ye know the man and what his talk was.'

jps@2Kings:9:12 @ And they said: 'It is false; tell us now.' And he said: 'Thus and thus spoke he to me, saying: Thus saith the LORD: I have anointed thee king over Israel.'

jps@2Kings:9:15 @ but king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Arameans had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Aram.--And Jehu said: 'If this be your mind, then let none escape and go forth out of the city, to go to tell it in Jezreel.'

jps@2Kings:9:17 @ Now the watchman stood on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said: 'I see a company.' And Joram said: 'Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say: Is it peace?'

jps@2Kings:9:18 @ So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said: 'Thus saith the king: Is it peace?' And Jehu said: 'What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me.' And the watchman told, saying: 'The messenger came to them, but he cometh not back.'

jps@2Kings:9:19 @ Then he sent out a second on horseback, who came to them, and said: 'Thus saith the king: Is it peace?' And Jehu answered: 'What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me.'

jps@2Kings:9:21 @ And Joram said: 'Make ready.' And they made ready his chariot. And Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out to meet Jehu, and found him in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite.

jps@2Kings:9:22 @ And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said: 'Is it peace, Jehu?' And he answered: 'What peace, so long as the harlotries of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?'

jps@2Kings:9:23 @ And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah: 'There is treachery, O Ahaziah.'

jps@2Kings:9:25 @ Then said Jehu to Bidkar his captain: 'Take up, and cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember how that, when I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, the LORD pronounced this burden against him:

jps@2Kings:9:27 @ But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden-house. And Jehu followed after him, and said: 'Smite him also in the chariot'; and they smote him at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo, and died there.

jps@2Kings:9:31 @ And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said: 'Is it peace, thou Zimri, thy master's murderer?'

jps@2Kings:9:32 @ And he lifted up his face to the window, and said: 'Who is on my side? who?' And there looked out to him two or three officers.

jps@2Kings:9:33 @ And he said: 'Throw her down.' So they threw her down; and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses; and she was trodden under foot.

jps@2Kings:9:34 @ And when he was come in, he did eat and drink; and he said: 'Look now after this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king's daughter.'

jps@2Kings:9:36 @ Wherefore they came back, and told him. And he said: 'This is the word of the LORD, which He spoke by His servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying: In the portion of Jezreel shall the dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel;

jps@2Kings:10:4 @ But they were exceedingly afraid, and said: 'Behold, the two kings stood not before him; how then shall we stand?'

jps@2Kings:10:8 @ And there came a messenger, and told him, saying: 'They have brought the heads of the king's sons.' And he said: 'Lay ye them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning.'

jps@2Kings:10:9 @ And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and said to all the people: 'Ye are righteous; behold, I conspired against my master, and slew him; but who smote all these?

jps@2Kings:10:13 @ Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said: 'Who are ye?' And they answered: 'We are the brethren of Ahaziah; and we go down to salute the children of the king and the children of the queen.'

jps@2Kings:10:14 @ And he said: 'Take them alive.' And they took them alive, and slew them at the pit of the shearing-house, even two and forty men; neither left he any of them.

jps@2Kings:10:15 @ And when he was departed thence, he lighted on Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him; and he saluted him, and said to him: 'Is thy heart right, as my heart is with thy heart?' And Jehonadab answered: 'It is.' 'If it be, said Jehu, give me thy hand.' And he gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot.

jps@2Kings:10:16 @ And he said: 'Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD.' So they made him ride in his chariot.

jps@2Kings:10:18 @ And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said unto them: 'Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu will serve him much.

jps@2Kings:10:20 @ And Jehu said: 'Sanctify a solemn assembly for Baal.' And they proclaimed it.

jps@2Kings:10:22 @ And he said unto him that was over the vestry: 'Bring forth vestments for all the worshippers of Baal.' And he brought them forth vestments.

jps@2Kings:10:23 @ And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the house of Baal; and he said unto the worshippers of Baal: 'Search, and look that there be here with you none of the servants of the LORD, but the worshippers of Baal only.'

jps@2Kings:10:24 @ And they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt-offerings. Now Jehu had appointed him fourscore men without, and said: 'If any of the men whom I bring into your hands escape, his life shall be for the life of him.'

jps@2Kings:10:25 @ And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt-offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains: 'Go in, and slay them; let none come forth.' And they smote them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast them out, and went to the city of the house of Baal.

jps@2Kings:10:30 @ And the LORD said unto Jehu: 'Because thou hast done well in executing that which is right in Mine eyes, and hast done unto the house of Ahab according to all that was in My heart, thy sons of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.'

jps@2Kings:11:12 @ Then he brought out the king's son, and put upon him the crown and the insignia; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said: 'Long live the king.'

jps@2Kings:11:15 @ And Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them: 'Have her forth between the ranks; and him that followeth her slay with the sword'; for the priest said: 'Let her not be slain in the house of the LORD.'

jps@2Kings:12:4 @ And Jehoash said to the priests: 'All the money of the hallowed things that is brought into the house of the LORD, in current money, the money of the persons for whom each man is rated, all the money that cometh into any man's heart to bring into the house of the LORD,

jps@2Kings:12:7 @ Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said unto them: 'Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore take no longer money from them that bestow it upon you, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.'

jps@2Kings:13:14 @ Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he was to die; and Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over him, and said: 'My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof!'

jps@2Kings:13:15 @ And Elisha said unto him: 'Take bow and arrows'; and he took unto him bow and arrows.

jps@2Kings:13:16 @ And he said to the king of Israel: 'Put thy hand upon the bow'; and he put his hand upon it. And Elisha laid his hands upon the king's hands.

jps@2Kings:13:17 @ And he said: 'Open the window eastward'; and he opened it. Then Elisha said: 'Shoot'; and he shot. And he said: 'The LORD'S arrow of victory, even the arrow of victory against Aram; for thou shalt smite the Arameans in Aphek, till thou have consumed them.'

jps@2Kings:13:18 @ And he said: 'Take the arrows'; and he took them. And he said unto the king of Israel: 'Smite upon the ground'; and he smote thrice, and stayed.

jps@2Kings:13:19 @ And the man of God was wroth with him, and said: 'Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten Aram till thou hadst consumed it; whereas now thou shalt smite Aram but thrice.'

jps@2Kings:14:27 @ And the LORD said not that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven; but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.

jps@2Kings:17:12 @ and they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them: 'Ye shall not do this thing';

jps@2Kings:18:19 @ And Rab-shakeh said unto them: 'Say ye now to Hezekiah: Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria: What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?

jps@2Kings:18:22 @ But if ye say unto me: We trust in the LORD our God; is not that He, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and to Jerusalem: Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?

jps@2Kings:18:25 @ Am I now come up without the LORD against this place to destroy it? The LORD said unto me: Go up against this land, destroy it.'

jps@2Kings:18:26 @ Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah, unto Rab-shakeh: 'Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Aramean language; for we understand it; and speak not with us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.'

jps@2Kings:18:27 @ But Rab-shakeh said unto them: 'Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own water with you?'

jps@2Kings:19:3 @ And they said unto him: 'Thus saith Hezekiah: This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of contumely; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.

jps@2Kings:19:6 @ And Isaiah said unto them: 'Thus shall ye say to your master: Thus saith the LORD: Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.

jps@2Kings:19:15 @ And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said: 'O LORD, the God of Israel, that sittest upon the cherubim, Thou art the God, even Thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; Thou hast made heaven and earth.

jps@2Kings:19:23 @ By the messengers thou hast taunted the Lord, and hast said: With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I have cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice cypresses thereof; and I have entered into his farthest lodge, the forest of his fruitful field.

jps@2Kings:20:1 @ In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him: 'Thus saith the LORD: Set thy house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.'

jps@2Kings:20:7 @ And Isaiah said: 'Take a cake of figs.' And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.

jps@2Kings:20:8 @ And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah: 'What shall be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up unto the house of the LORD the third day?'

jps@2Kings:20:9 @ And Isaiah said: 'This shall be the sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that He hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?

jps@2Kings:20:14 @ Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him: 'What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee?' And Hezekiah said: 'They are come from a far country, even from Babylon.'

jps@2Kings:20:15 @ And he said: 'What have they seen in thy house?' And Hezekiah answered: 'All that is in my house have they seen; there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.'

jps@2Kings:20:16 @ And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah: 'Hear the word of the LORD.

jps@2Kings:20:19 @ Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah: 'Good is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken.' He said moreover: 'Is it not so, if peace and truth shall be in my days?'

jps@2Kings:21:4 @ And he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD said: 'In Jerusalem will I put My name.'

jps@2Kings:21:7 @ And he set the graven image of Asherah, that he had made, in the house of which the LORD said to David and to Solomon his son: 'In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put My name for ever;

jps@2Kings:22:8 @ And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe: 'I have found the book of the Law in the house of the LORD.' And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan, and he read it.

jps@2Kings:22:9 @ And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought back word unto the king, and said: 'Thy servants have poured out the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of the workmen that have the oversight of the house of the LORD.'

jps@2Kings:22:15 @ And she said unto them: 'Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: Tell ye the man that sent you unto me:

jps@2Kings:23:17 @ Then he said: 'What monument is that which I see?' And the men of the city told him: 'It is the sepulchre of the man of God, who came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Beth-el.'

jps@2Kings:23:18 @ And he said: 'Let him be; let no man move his bones.' So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.

jps@2Kings:23:27 @ And the LORD said: 'I will remove Judah also out of My sight, as I have removed Israel, and I will cast off this city which I have chosen, even Jerusalem, and the house of which I said: My name shall be there.'

jps@2Kings:24:13 @ And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said.

jps@2Kings:25:24 @ And Gedaliah swore to them and to their men, and said unto them: 'Fear not because of the servants of the Chaldeans; dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.'

jps@1Chronicles:10:4 @ Then said Saul unto his armour-bearer: 'Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and make a mock of me.' But his armour-bearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took his sword, and fell upon it.

jps@1Chronicles:11:2 @ In times past, even when Saul was king, it was thou that didst lead out and bring in Israel; and the LORD thy God said unto thee: Thou shalt feed My people Israel, and thou shalt be prince over My people Israel.'

jps@1Chronicles:11:5 @ And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David: 'Thou shalt not come in hither.' Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the city of David.

jps@1Chronicles:11:6 @ And David said: 'Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain.' And Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first, and was made chief.

jps@1Chronicles:11:17 @ And David longed, and said: 'Oh that one would give me water to drink of the well of Beth-lehem, which is by the gate!'

jps@1Chronicles:11:19 @ and said: 'My God forbid it me, that I should do this; shall I drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in jeopardy? for with the jeopardy of their lives they brought it.' Therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.

jps@1Chronicles:12:17 @ And David went out to meet them, and answered and said unto them: 'If ye be come peaceably unto me to help me, my heart shall be knit unto you; but if ye be come to betray me to mine adversaries, seeing there is no wrong in my hands, the God of our fathers look thereon, and give judgment.'

jps@1Chronicles:13:2 @ And David said unto all the assembly of Israel: 'If it seem good unto you, and if it be of the LORD our God, let us send abroad everywhere unto our brethren that are left in all the land of Israel, and with them to the priests and Levites that are in their cities that have open land about them, that they may gather themselves unto us;

jps@1Chronicles:13:4 @ And all the assembly said that they would do so; for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.

jps@1Chronicles:14:10 @ And David inquired of God, saying: 'Shall I go up against the Philistines? and wilt Thou deliver them into my hand?' And the LORD said unto him: 'Go up; for I will deliver them into thy hand.'

jps@1Chronicles:14:11 @ So they came up to Baal-perazim, and David smote them there; and David said: 'God hath broken mine enemies by my hand, like the breach of waters.' Therefore they called the name of that place Baal-perazim.

jps@1Chronicles:14:14 @ And David inquired again of God; and God said unto him: 'Thou shalt not go up after them; turn away from them, and come upon them over against the mulberry-trees.

jps@1Chronicles:15:2 @ Then David said: 'None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites; for them hath the LORD chosen to carry the ark of the LORD, and to minister unto Him for ever.'

jps@1Chronicles:15:12 @ and said unto them: 'Ye are the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites; sanctify yourselves, both ye and your brethren, that ye may bring up the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel, unto the place that I have prepared for it.

jps@1Chronicles:16:36 @ Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting. And all the people said: 'Amen,' and praised the LORD.

jps@1Chronicles:17:1 @ And it came to pass, when David dwelt in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet: 'Lo, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD dwelleth under curtains.'

jps@1Chronicles:17:2 @ And Nathan said unto David: 'Do all that is in thy heart; for God is with thee.'

jps@1Chronicles:17:16 @ Then David the king went in, and sat before the LORD; and he said: 'Who am I, O LORD God, and what is my house, that Thou hast brought me thus far?

jps@1Chronicles:17:24 @ Yea, let it be established, and let Thy name be magnified for ever, that it may be said: The LORD of hosts is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel; and the house of David Thy servant shall be established before Thee.

jps@1Chronicles:19:2 @ And David said: 'l will show kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me.' So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. And David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.

jps@1Chronicles:19:3 @ But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun: 'Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? are not his servants come unto thee to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land?'

jps@1Chronicles:19:5 @ Then there went certain persons, and told David how the men were served. And he sent to meet them; for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said: 'Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.'

jps@1Chronicles:19:12 @ And he said: 'If the Arameans be too strong for me, then thou shalt help me; but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee, then I will help thee.

jps@1Chronicles:21:2 @ And David said to Joab and to the princes of the people: 'Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know the sum of them.'

jps@1Chronicles:21:3 @ And Joab said: 'The LORD make His people a hundred times so many more as they are; but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of guilt unto Israel?'

jps@1Chronicles:21:8 @ And David said unto God: 'I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing; but now, put away, I beseech Thee, the iniquity of Thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.'

jps@1Chronicles:21:11 @ So Gad came to David, and said unto him: 'Thus saith the LORD: Take which thou wilt:

jps@1Chronicles:21:13 @ And David said unto Gad: 'I am in a great strait; let me fall now into the hand of the LORD, for very great are His mercies; and let me not fall into the hand of man.'

jps@1Chronicles:21:15 @ And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it; and as he was about to destroy, the LORD beheld, and He repented Him of the evil, and said to the destroying angel: 'It is enough; now stay thy hand.' And the angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

jps@1Chronicles:21:17 @ And David said unto God: 'Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? let Thy hand, I pray Thee, O LORD my God, be against me, and against my father's house; but not against Thy people, that they should be plagued.'

jps@1Chronicles:21:22 @ Then David said to Ornan: 'Give me the place of this threshing-floor, that I may build thereon an altar unto the LORD; for the full price shalt thou give it me; that the plague may be stayed from the people.'

jps@1Chronicles:21:23 @ And Ornan said unto David: 'Take it to thee, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes; lo, I give thee the oxen for burnt-offerings, and the threshing-instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meal-offering; I give it all'

jps@1Chronicles:21:24 @ And king David said to Ornan: 'Nay, but I will verily buy it for the full price; for I will not take that which is thine for the LORD, nor offer a burnt-offering without cost.'

jps@1Chronicles:22:1 @ Then David said: 'This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of burnt-offering for Israel.'

jps@1Chronicles:22:5 @ And David said: 'Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be builded for the LORD must be exceeding magnificent, of fame and of glory throughout all countries; I will therefore make preparation for him.' So David prepared abundantly before his death.

jps@1Chronicles:22:7 @ And David said to Solomon: 'My son, as for me, it was in my heart to build a house unto the name of the LORD my God.

jps@1Chronicles:23:25 @ For David said: 'The LORD, the God of Israel, hath given rest unto His people, and He dwelleth in Jerusalem for ever;

jps@1Chronicles:27:23 @ But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under; because the LORD had said He would increase Israel like to the stars of heaven.

jps@1Chronicles:28:2 @ Then David the king stood up upon his feet, and said: 'Hear me, my brethren, and my people; as for me, it was in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and for the footstool of our God; and I had made ready for the building.

jps@1Chronicles:28:3 @ But God said unto me: Thou shalt not build a house for My name, because thou art a man of war, and hast shed blood.

jps@1Chronicles:28:6 @ And He said unto me: Solomon thy son, he shall build My house and My courts; for I have chosen him to be to Me for a son, and I will be to him for a father.

jps@1Chronicles:28:20 @ And David said to Solomon his son: 'Be strong and of good courage, and do it; fear not, nor be dismayed; for the LORD God, even my God, is with thee; He will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until all the work for the service of the house of the LORD be finished.

jps@1Chronicles:29:1 @ And David the king said unto all the congregation: 'Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great; for the palace is not for man, but for the LORD God.

jps@1Chronicles:29:10 @ Wherefore David blessed the LORD before all the congregation; and David said: 'Blessed be Thou, O LORD, the God of Israel our father, for ever and ever.

jps@1Chronicles:29:20 @ And David said to all the congregation: 'Now bless the LORD your God.' And all the congregation blessed the LORD, the God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and prostrated themselves before the LORD, and before the king.

jps@2Chronicles:1:7 @ In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and said unto him: 'Ask what I shall give thee.'

jps@2Chronicles:1:8 @ And Solomon said unto God: 'Thou hast shown great kindness unto David my father, and hast made me king in his stead.

jps@2Chronicles:1:11 @ And God said to Solomon: 'Because this was in thy heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honour, nor the life of them that hate thee, neither yet hast asked long life, but hast asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself, that thou mayest judge My people, over whom I have made thee king;

jps@2Chronicles:2:12 @ Huram said moreover: 'Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, that made heaven and earth, who hath given to David the king a wise son, endued with discretion and understanding, that should build a house for the LORD, and a house for his kingdom.

jps@2Chronicles:6:1 @ Then spoke Solomon: The LORD hath said that He would dwell in the thick darkness.

jps@2Chronicles:6:4 @ And he said: 'Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who spoke with His mouth unto David my father, and hath with His hands fulfilled it, saying:

jps@2Chronicles:6:8 @ But the LORD said unto David my father: Whereas it was in thy heart to build a house for My name, thou didst well that it was in thy heart;

jps@2Chronicles:6:14 @ and he said: 'O LORD, the God of Israel, there is no God like Thee, in the heaven, or in the earth; who keepest covenant and mercy with Thy servants, that walk before Thee with all their heart;

jps@2Chronicles:6:20 @ that Thine eyes may be open toward this house day and night, even toward the place whereof Thou hast said that thou wouldest put Thy name there; to hearken unto the prayer which Thy servant shall pray toward this place.

jps@2Chronicles:7:12 @ And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him: 'I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to Myself for a house of sacrifice.

jps@2Chronicles:8:11 @ And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that he had built for her; for he said: 'No wife of mine shall dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of the LORD hath come.'

jps@2Chronicles:9:5 @ And she said to the king: 'It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom.

jps@2Chronicles:10:5 @ And he said unto them: 'Come again unto me after three days.' And the people departed.

jps@2Chronicles:10:9 @ And he said unto them: 'What counsel give ye, that we may return answer to this people, who have spoken to me, saying: Make the yoke that thy father did put upon us lighter?'

jps@2Chronicles:12:5 @ Now Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said unto them: 'Thus saith the LORD: Ye have forsaken Me, therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.'

jps@2Chronicles:12:6 @ Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said: 'The LORD is righteous.'

jps@2Chronicles:13:4 @ And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in the hill-country of Ephraim, and said: 'Hear me, O Jeroboam and all Israel;

jps@2Chronicles:14:7 @ For he said unto Judah: 'Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars; the land is yet before us, because we have sought the LORD our God; we have sought Him, and He hath given us rest on every side.' So they built and prospered.

jps@2Chronicles:14:11 @ And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said: 'LORD, there is none beside Thee to help, between the mighty and him that hath no strength; help us, O LORD our God; for we rely on Thee, and in Thy name are we come against this multitude. Thou art the LORD our God; let not man prevail against Thee.'

jps@2Chronicles:15:2 @ and he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him: 'Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: the LORD is with you, while ye are with Him; and if ye seek Him, He will be found of you; but if ye forsake Him, He will forsake you.

jps@2Chronicles:16:7 @ And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said unto him: 'Because thou hast relied on the king of Aram, and hast not relied on the LORD thy God, therefore is the host of the king of Aram escaped out of thy hand.

jps@2Chronicles:18:3 @ And Ahab king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat king of Judah: 'Wilt thou go with me to Ramoth-gilead?' And he answered him: 'I am as thou art, and my people as thy people; and we will be with thee in the war.'

jps@2Chronicles:18:4 @ And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel: 'Inquire, I pray thee, at the word of the LORD today.'

jps@2Chronicles:18:5 @ Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, four hundred men, and said unto them: 'Shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear?' And they said: 'Go up; for God will deliver it into the hand of the king.'

jps@2Chronicles:18:6 @ But Jehoshaphat said: 'Is there not here besides a prophet of the LORD, that we might inquire of him?'

jps@2Chronicles:18:7 @ And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat: 'There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the LORD; but I hate him; for he never prophesieth good concerning me, but always evil; the same is Micaiah the son of Imla.' And Jehoshaphat said: 'Let not the king say so.'

jps@2Chronicles:18:8 @ Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said: 'Fetch quickly Micaiah the son of Imla.'

jps@2Chronicles:18:10 @ And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron, and said: 'Thus saith the LORD: With these shalt thou gore the Arameans, until they be consumed.'

jps@2Chronicles:18:13 @ And Micaiah said: 'As the LORD liveth, what my God saith, that will I speak.'

jps@2Chronicles:18:14 @ And when he was come to the king, the king said unto him: 'Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear?' And he said: 'Go ye up, and prosper; and they shall be delivered into your hand.'

jps@2Chronicles:18:15 @ And the king said to him: 'How many times shall I adjure thee that thou speak unto me nothing but the truth in the name of the LORD.'

jps@2Chronicles:18:16 @ And he said: 'I saw all Israel scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd; and the LORD said: These have no master, let them return every man to his house in peace.'

jps@2Chronicles:18:17 @ And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat: 'Did I not tell thee that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?'

jps@2Chronicles:18:18 @ And he said: 'Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting upon His throne, and all the host of heaven standing on His right hand and on His left.

jps@2Chronicles:18:19 @ And the LORD said: who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one spoke saying after this manner, and another saying after that manner.

jps@2Chronicles:18:20 @ And there came forth the spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said: I will entice him. And the LORD said unto him: Wherewith?

jps@2Chronicles:18:21 @ And he said: I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And He said: Thou shalt entice him, and shalt prevail also; go forth, and do so.

jps@2Chronicles:18:23 @ Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and smote Micaiah upon the check, and said: 'Which way went the spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee?'

jps@2Chronicles:18:24 @ And Micaiah said: 'Behold, thou shalt see on that day, when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.'

jps@2Chronicles:18:25 @ And the king of Israel said: 'Take ye Micaiah; and carry him back unto Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;

jps@2Chronicles:18:27 @ And Micaiah said: 'If thou return at all in peace, the LORD hath not spoken by me.' And he said: 'Hear, ye peoples, all of you.'

jps@2Chronicles:18:29 @ And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat: 'I will disguise myself, and go into the battle; but put thou on thy robes.' So the king of Israel disguised himself; and they went into the battle.

jps@2Chronicles:18:31 @ And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said: 'It is the king of Israel.' Therefore they turned about to fight against him; but Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD helped him; and God moved them to depart from him.

jps@2Chronicles:18:33 @ And a certain man drew his bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the lower armour and the breastplate; wherefore he said to the driver of the chariot: 'Turn thy hand, and carry me out of the host; for I am sore wounded.'

jps@2Chronicles:19:2 @ And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat: 'Shouldest thou help the wicked, and love them that hate the LORD? for this thing wrath is upon thee from before the LORD.

jps@2Chronicles:19:6 @ and said to the judges: 'Consider what ye do; for ye judge not for man, but for the LORD; and He is with you in giving judgment.

jps@2Chronicles:20:6 @ and he said: 'O LORD, the God of our fathers, art not Thou alone God in heaven? and art not Thou ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? and in Thy hand is power and might, so that none is able to withstand Thee.

jps@2Chronicles:20:15 @ and he said: 'Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat: thus saith the LORD unto you: Fear not ye, neither be dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's.

jps@2Chronicles:20:20 @ And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa; and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said: 'Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe His prophets, so shall ye prosper.'

jps@2Chronicles:22:9 @ And he sought Ahaziah, and they caught him--now he was hiding in Samaria--and they brought him to Jehu, and slew him; and they buried him, for they said: 'He is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart.' And there was none of the house of Ahaziah that had power to hold the kingdom.

jps@2Chronicles:23:3 @ And all the congregation made a covenant with the king in the house of God. And he said unto them: 'Behold, the king's son shall reign, as the LORD hath spoken concerning the sons of David.

jps@2Chronicles:23:11 @ Then they brought out the king's son, and put upon him the crown and the insignia, and made him king; and Jehoiada and his sons anointed him; and they said: 'Long live the king.'

jps@2Chronicles:23:13 @ and she looked, and, behold, the king stood on his platform at the entrance, and the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets; the singers also played on instruments of music, and led the singing of praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said: 'Treason, treason.'

jps@2Chronicles:23:14 @ And Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds that were set over the host, and said unto them: 'Have her forth between the ranks; and whoso followeth her, let him be slain with the sword'; for the priest said: 'Slay her not in the house of the LORD.'

jps@2Chronicles:24:5 @ And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them: 'Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that ye hasten the matter.' Howbeit the Levites hastened it not.

jps@2Chronicles:24:20 @ And the spirit of God clothed Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people, and said unto them: 'Thus saith God: Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the LORD, He hath also forsaken you.'

jps@2Chronicles:24:22 @ Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said: 'The LORD look upon it, and require it.'

jps@2Chronicles:25:9 @ And Amaziah said to the man of God: 'But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel?' And the man of God answered: 'The LORD is able to give thee much more than this.'

jps@2Chronicles:25:15 @ Wherefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Amaziah, and He sent unto him a prophet, who said unto him: 'Why hast thou sought after the gods of the people, which have not delivered their own people out of thy hand?'

jps@2Chronicles:25:16 @ And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said unto him: 'Have we made thee of the king's counsel? forbear; why shouldest thou be smitten?' Then the prophet forbore, and said: 'I know that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel.'

jps@2Chronicles:26:18 @ and they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him: 'It pertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the LORD, but to the priests the sons of Aaron that are consecrated it pertaineth to burn incense; go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; neither shall it be for thy honour from the LORD God.'

jps@2Chronicles:26:23 @ So Uzziah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the field of burial which belonged to the kings; for they said: 'He is a leper'; and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.

jps@2Chronicles:28:9 @ But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded; and he went out to meet the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them: 'Behold, because the LORD, the God of your fathers, was wroth with Judah, He hath delivered them into your hand, and ye have slain them in a rage which hath reached up unto heaven.

jps@2Chronicles:28:13 @ and said unto them: 'Ye shall not bring in the captives hither; for ye purpose that which will bring upon us guilt against the LORD, to add unto our sins and to our guilt; for our guilt is great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.'

jps@2Chronicles:28:23 @ For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him; and he said: 'Because the gods of the kings of Aram helped them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me.' But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.

jps@2Chronicles:29:5 @ and said unto them: 'Hear me, ye Levites: now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD, the God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.

jps@2Chronicles:29:18 @ Then they went in to Hezekiah the king within the palace, and said: 'We have cleansed all the house of the LORD, even the altar of burnt-offering, with all the vessels thereof, and the table of showbread, with all the vessels thereof.

jps@2Chronicles:29:31 @ Then Hezekiah answered and said: 'Now ye have consecrated yourselves unto the LORD, come near and bring sacrifices and thank-offerings into the house of the LORD.' And the congregation brought in sacrifices and thank-offerings; and as many as were of a willing heart brought burnt-offerings.

jps@2Chronicles:31:10 @ And Azariah the chief priest, of the house of Zadok, answered him and said: 'Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the LORD, we have eaten and had enough, and have left plenty; for the LORD hath blessed His people; and that which is left is this great store.'

jps@2Chronicles:33:4 @ And he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD said: 'In Jerusalem shall My name be for ever.'

jps@2Chronicles:33:7 @ And he set the graven image of the idol, which he had made, in the house of God, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son: 'In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put My name for ever;

jps@2Chronicles:34:15 @ and Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe: 'I have found the book of the Law in the house of the LORD.' And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan.

jps@2Chronicles:34:23 @ And she said unto them: 'Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: Tell ye the man that sent you unto me:

jps@2Chronicles:35:3 @ And he said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, that were holy unto the LORD: 'Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; there shall no more be a burden upon your shoulders; now serve the LORD your God, and His people Israel.

jps@2Chronicles:35:23 @ And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants: 'Have me away; for I am sore wounded.'

jps@Ezra:2:63 @ And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim.

jps@Ezra:4:2 @ then they drew near to Zerubbabel, and to the heads of fathers' houses, and said unto them: 'Let us build with you; for we seek your God, as ye do; and we do sacrifice unto Him since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assyria, who brought us up hither.'

jps@Ezra:4:3 @ But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of fathers' houses of Israel, said unto them: 'Ye have nothing to do with us to build a house unto our God; but we ourselves together will build unto the LORD, the God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us.'

jps@Ezra:5:3 @ At the same time came to them Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, and Shethar-bozenai, and their companions, and said thus unto them: 'Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this structure?'

jps@Ezra:5:9 @ Then asked we those elders, and said unto them thus: Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?

jps@Ezra:5:15 @ and he said unto him: Take these vessels, go, put them in the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be builded in its place.

jps@Ezra:8:28 @ And I said unto them: 'Ye are holy unto the LORD, and the vessels are holy; and the silver and the gold are a freewill-offering unto the LORD, the God of your fathers.

jps@Ezra:9:6 @ and I said: 'O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to Thee, my God; for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our guiltiness is grown up unto the heavens.

jps@Ezra:10:2 @ And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra: 'We have broken faith with our God, and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land; yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing.

jps@Ezra:10:10 @ And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them: 'Ye have broken faith, and have married foreign women, to increase the guilt of Israel.

jps@Ezra:10:12 @ Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice: 'As thou hast said, so it is for us to do.

jps@Nehemiah:1:3 @ And they said unto me: 'The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach; the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.'

jps@Nehemiah:1:5 @ and said: 'I beseech Thee, O LORD, the God of heaven, the great and awful God, that keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love Him and keep His commandments;

jps@Nehemiah:2:2 @ And the king said unto me: 'Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart.' Then I was very sore afraid.

jps@Nehemiah:2:3 @ And I said unto the king: 'Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?'

jps@Nehemiah:2:4 @ Then the king said unto me: 'For what dost thou make request?' So I prayed to the God of heaven.

jps@Nehemiah:2:5 @ And I said unto the king: 'If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it.'

jps@Nehemiah:2:6 @ And the king said unto me, the queen also sitting by him: 'For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return?' So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.

jps@Nehemiah:2:7 @ Moreover I said unto the king: 'If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the River, that they may let me pass through till I come unto Judah;

jps@Nehemiah:2:17 @ Then said I unto them: 'Ye see the evil case that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire; come and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.'

jps@Nehemiah:2:18 @ And I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as also of the king's words that he had spoken unto me. And they said: 'Let us rise up and build.' So they strengthened their hands for the good work.

jps@Nehemiah:2:19 @ But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said: 'What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?'

jps@Nehemiah:2:20 @ Then answered I them, and said unto them: 'The God of heaven, He will prosper us; therefore we His servants will arise and build; but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.'

jps@Nehemiah:4:2 @ And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said: 'What do these feeble Jews? will they restore at will? will they sacrifice? will they make an end this day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, seeing they are burned?'

jps@Nehemiah:4:3 @ Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said: 'Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall break down their stone wall.'

jps@Nehemiah:4:10 @ And Judah said: 'The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.'

jps@Nehemiah:4:11 @ And our adversaries said: 'They shall not know, neither see, till we come into the midst of them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease.'

jps@Nehemiah:4:12 @ And it came to pass that, when the Jews that dwelt by them came, they said unto us ten times: 'Ye must return unto us from all places.'

jps@Nehemiah:4:14 @ And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people: 'Be not ye afraid of them; remember the Lord, who is great and awful, and fight for your brethren, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your houses.'

jps@Nehemiah:4:19 @ And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers and to the rest of the people: 'The work is great and large, and we are separated upon the wall, one far from another;

jps@Nehemiah:4:22 @ Likewise at the same time said I unto the people: 'Let every one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and may labour in the day.'

jps@Nehemiah:5:2 @ For there were that said: 'We, our sons and our daughters, are many; let us get for them corn, that we may eat and live.'

jps@Nehemiah:5:3 @ Some also there were that said: 'We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses; let us get corn, because of the dearth.'

jps@Nehemiah:5:4 @ There were also that said: 'We have borrowed money for the king's tribute upon our fields and our vineyards.

jps@Nehemiah:5:7 @ Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said unto them: 'Ye lend upon pledge, every one to his brother.' And I held a great assembly against them.

jps@Nehemiah:5:8 @ And I said unto them: 'We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, that sold themselves unto the heathen; and would ye nevertheless sell your brethren, and should they sell themselves unto us?' Then held they their peace, and found never a word.

jps@Nehemiah:5:9 @ Also I said: 'The thing that ye do is not good; ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?

jps@Nehemiah:5:12 @ Then said they: 'We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do, even as thou sayest.' Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do according to this promise.

jps@Nehemiah:5:13 @ Also I shook out my lap, and said: 'So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise; even thus be he shaken out, and emptied.' And all the congregation said: 'Amen', and praised the LORD. And the people did according to this promise.

jps@Nehemiah:6:10 @ And as for me, I went unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, who was shut up; and he said: 'Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple; for they will come to slay thee; yea, in the night will they come to slay thee.'

jps@Nehemiah:6:11 @ And I said: 'Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being such as I, could go into the temple and live? I will not go in.'

jps@Nehemiah:7:3 @ And I said unto them: 'Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun be hot; and while they stand on guard, let them shut the doors, and bar ye them; and let watches be appointed of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one in his watch, and every one to be over against his house.'

jps@Nehemiah:7:65 @ And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and Thummim.

jps@Nehemiah:8:9 @ And Nehemiah, who was the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people: 'This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep.' For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the Law.

jps@Nehemiah:8:10 @ Then he said unto them: 'Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto him for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy unto our Lord; neither be ye grieved; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.'

jps@Nehemiah:9:5 @ Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said: 'Stand up and bless the LORD your God from everlasting to everlasting; and let them say: Blessed be Thy glorious Name, that is exalted above all blessing and praise.

jps@Nehemiah:9:18 @ Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said: 'This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations;

jps@Nehemiah:13:11 @ Then contended I with the rulers, and said: 'Why is the house of God forsaken?' And I gathered them together, and set them in their place.

jps@Nehemiah:13:17 @ Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them: 'What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day?

jps@Nehemiah:13:21 @ Then I forewarned them, and said unto them: 'Why lodge ye about the wall? if ye do so again, I will lay hands on you.' From that time forth came they no more on the sabbath.

jps@Esther:1:13 @ Then the king said to the wise men, who knew the times--for so was the king's manner toward all that knew law and judgment;

jps@Esther:1:17 @ For this deed of the queen will come abroad unto all women, to make their husbands contemptible in their eyes, when it will be said: The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not.

jps@Esther:2:2 @ Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him: 'Let there be sought for the king young virgins fair to look on;

jps@Esther:3:3 @ Then the king's servants, that were in the king's gate, said unto Mordecai: 'Why transgressest thou the king's commandment?'

jps@Esther:3:8 @ And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus: 'There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from those of every people; neither keep they the king's laws; therefore it profiteth not the king to suffer them.

jps@Esther:3:11 @ And the king said unto Haman: 'The silver is given to thee, the people also, to do with them as it seemeth good to thee.'

jps@Esther:5:3 @ Then said the king unto her: 'What wilt thou, queen Esther? for whatever thy request, even to the half of the kingdom, it shall be given thee.'

jps@Esther:5:4 @ And Esther said: 'If it seem good unto the king, let the king and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have prepared for him.'

jps@Esther:5:5 @ Then the king said: 'Cause Haman to make haste, that it may be done as Esther hath said.' So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

jps@Esther:5:6 @ And the king said unto Esther at the banquet of wine: 'Whatever thy petition, it shall be granted thee; and whatever thy request, even to the half of the kingdom, it shall be performed.'

jps@Esther:5:7 @ Then answered Esther, and said: 'My petition and my request is--

jps@Esther:5:8 @ if I have found favour in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my request--let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I will do to-morrow as the king hath said.'

jps@Esther:5:12 @ Haman said moreover: 'Yea, Esther the queen did let no man come in with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and to-morrow also am I invited by her together with the king.

jps@Esther:5:14 @ Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him: 'Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon; then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet.' And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.

jps@Esther:6:3 @ And the king said: 'What honour and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this?' Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him: 'There is nothing done for him.'

jps@Esther:6:4 @ And the king said: 'Who is in the court?'--Now Haman was come into the outer court of the king's house, to speak unto the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.--

jps@Esther:6:5 @ And the king's servants said unto him: 'Behold, Haman standeth in the court.' And the king said: 'Let him come in.'

jps@Esther:6:6 @ So Haman came in. And the king said unto him: 'What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour?'--Now Haman said in his heart: 'Whom would the king delight to honour besides myself?'--

jps@Esther:6:7 @ And Haman said unto the king: 'For the man whom the king delighteth to honour,

jps@Esther:6:10 @ Then the king said to Haman: 'Make haste, and take the apparel and the horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, that sitteth at the king's gate; let nothing fail of all that thou hast spoken.'

jps@Esther:6:13 @ And Haman recounted unto Zeresh his wife and all his friends every thing that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him: 'If Mordecai, before whom thou hast begun to fall, be of the seed of the Jews, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before him.'

jps@Esther:7:2 @ And the king said again unto Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine: 'Whatever thy petition, queen Esther, it shall be granted thee; and whatever thy request, even to the half of the kingdom, it shall be performed.'

jps@Esther:7:3 @ Then Esther the queen answered and said: 'If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request;

jps@Esther:7:5 @ Then spoke the king Ahasuerus and said unto Esther the queen: 'Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so?'

jps@Esther:7:6 @ And Esther said: 'An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman.' Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen.

jps@Esther:7:8 @ Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the couch whereon Esther was. Then said the king: 'Will he even force the queen before me in the house?' As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.

jps@Esther:7:9 @ Then said Harbonah, one of the chamberlains that were before the king: 'Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman hath made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman.' And the king said: 'Hang him thereon.'

jps@Esther:8:5 @ And she said: 'If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews that are in all the king's provinces;

jps@Esther:8:7 @ Then the king Ahasuerus said unto Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew: 'Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged upon the gallows, because he laid his hand upon the Jews.

jps@Esther:9:12 @ And the king said unto Esther the queen: 'The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the castle, and the ten sons of Haman; what then have they done in the rest of the king's provinces! Now whatever thy petition, it shall be granted thee; and whatever thy request further, it shall be done.'

jps@Esther:9:13 @ Then said Esther: 'If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews that are in Shushan to do to-morrow also according unto this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged upon the gallows.'

jps@Job:1:5 @ And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt-offerings according to the number of them all; for Job said: 'It may be that my sons have sinned, and blasphemed God in their hearts.' Thus did Job continually.

jps@Job:1:7 @ And the LORD said unto Satan: 'Whence comest thou?' Then Satan answered the LORD, and said: 'From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.'

jps@Job:1:8 @ And the LORD said unto Satan: 'Hast thou considered My servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a whole-hearted and an upright man, one that feareth God, and shunneth evil?'

jps@Job:1:9 @ Then Satan answered the LORD, and said: 'Doth Job fear God for nought?

jps@Job:1:12 @ And the LORD said unto Satan: 'Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thy hand.' So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.

jps@Job:1:14 @ that there came a messenger unto Job, and said: 'The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them;

jps@Job:1:16 @ While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said: 'A fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.'

jps@Job:1:17 @ While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said: 'The Chaldeans set themselves in three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have taken them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.'

jps@Job:1:18 @ While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said: 'Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house;

jps@Job:1:21 @ And he said; naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither; the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.

jps@Job:2:2 @ And the LORD said unto Satan: 'From whence comest thou?' And Satan answered the LORD, and said: 'From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.'

jps@Job:2:3 @ And the LORD said unto Satan: 'Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a whole-hearted and an upright man, one that feareth God, and shunneth evil? and he still holdeth fast his integrity, although thou didst move Me against him, to destroy him without cause.'

jps@Job:2:4 @ And Satan answered the LORD, and said: 'Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.

jps@Job:2:6 @ And the LORD said unto Satan: 'Behold, he is in thy hand; only spare his life.'

jps@Job:2:9 @ Then said his wife unto him: 'Dost thou still hold fast thine integrity? blaspheme God, and die.'

jps@Job:2:10 @ But he said unto her: 'Thou speakest as one of the impious women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?' For all this did not Job sin with his lips.

jps@Job:3:2 @ And Job spoke, and said:

jps@Job:3:3 @ Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night wherein it was said: 'A man-child is brought forth.'

jps@Job:4:1 @ Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said:

jps@Job:6:1 @ Then Job answered and said:

jps@Job:8:1 @ Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said:

jps@Job:9:1 @ Then Job answered and said:

jps@Job:11:1 @ Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said:

jps@Job:11:4 @ And thou hast said: 'My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in Thine eyes.'

jps@Job:12:1 @ Then Job answered and said:

jps@Job:15:1 @ Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said:

jps@Job:16:1 @ Then Job answered and said:

jps@Job:17:14 @ If I have said to corruption: 'Thou art my father', to the worm: 'Thou art my mother, and my sister';

jps@Job:18:1 @ Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said:

jps@Job:19:1 @ Then Job answered and said:

jps@Job:20:1 @ Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said:

jps@Job:21:1 @ Then Job answered and said:

jps@Job:21:14 @ Yet they said unto God: 'Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of Thy ways.

jps@Job:22:1 @ Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said:

jps@Job:22:17 @ Who said unto God: 'Depart from us'; and what could the Almighty do unto them?

jps@Job:23:1 @ Then Job answered and said:

jps@Job:25:1 @ Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said:

jps@Job:26:1 @ Then Job answered and said:

jps@Job:27:1 @ And Job again took up his parable, and said:

jps@Job:28:28 @ And unto man He said: 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.'

jps@Job:29:1 @ And Job again took up his parable, and said:

jps@Job:29:18 @ Then I said: 'I shall die with my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the phoenix;

jps@Job:31:24 @ If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold: 'Thou art my confidence';

jps@Job:31:31 @ If the men of my tent said not: 'Who can find one that hath not been satisfied with his meat?'

jps@Job:32:6 @ And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said: I am young, and ye are very old; wherefore I held back, and durst not declare you mine opinion.

jps@Job:32:7 @ I said: 'Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.'

jps@Job:34:1 @ Moreover Elihu answered and said:

jps@Job:34:5 @ For Job hath said: 'I am righteous, and God hath taken away my right;

jps@Job:34:9 @ For he hath said: 'It profiteth a man nothing that he should be in accord with God.'

jps@Job:34:31 @ For hath any said unto God: 'I have borne chastisement, though I offend not;

jps@Job:35:1 @ Moreover Elihu answered and said:

jps@Job:36:1 @ Elihu also proceeded, and said:

jps@Job:36:23 @ Who hath enjoined Him His way? Or who hath said: 'Thou hast wrought unrighteousness'?

jps@Job:38:1 @ Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said:

jps@Job:38:11 @ And said: 'Thus far shalt thou come, but no further; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed'?

jps@Job:40:1 @ Moreover the LORD answered Job, and said:

jps@Job:40:3 @ Then Job answered the LORD, and said:

jps@Job:40:6 @ Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said:

jps@Job:42:1 @ Then Job answered the LORD, and said:

jps@Job:42:7 @ And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite: 'My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends; for ye have not spoken of Me the thing that is right, as My servant Job hath.

jps@Psalms:2:7 @ I will tell of the decree: the LORD said unto me: 'Thou art My son, this day have I begotten thee.

jps@Psalms:10:11 @ He hath said in his heart: 'God hath forgotten; He hideth His face; He will never see.'

jps@Psalms:12:4 @ Who have said: 'Our tongue will we make mighty; our lips are with us: who is lord over us?'

jps@Psalms:14:1 @ For the Leader. A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart: 'There is no God'; they have dealt corruptly, they have done abominably; there is none that doeth good.

jps@Psalms:16:2 @ I have said unto the LORD: 'Thou art my Lord; I have no good but in Thee';

jps@Psalms:18:1 @ And he said: I love thee, O LORD, my strength.

jps@Psalms:27:8 @ In Thy behalf my heart hath said: 'Seek ye My face'; Thy face, LORD, will I seek.

jps@Psalms:30:6 @ Now I had said in my security: 'I shall never be moved.'

jps@Psalms:31:14 @ But as for me, I have trusted in Thee, O LORD; I have said: 'Thou art my God.'

jps@Psalms:31:22 @ As for me, I said in my haste: 'I am cut off from before Thine eyes'; nevertheless Thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto Thee.

jps@Psalms:32:5 @ I acknowledged my sin unto Thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid; I said: 'I will make confession concerning my transgressions unto the LORD'--and Thou, Thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah

jps@Psalms:38:16 @ For I said: 'Lest they rejoice over me; when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.'

jps@Psalms:39:1 @ I said: 'I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue; I will keep a curb upon my mouth, while the wicked is before me.'

jps@Psalms:40:7 @ Then said I: 'Lo, I am come with the roll of a book which is prescribed for me;

jps@Psalms:41:4 @ As for me, I said: 'O LORD, be gracious unto me; heal my soul; for I have sinned against Thee.'

jps@Psalms:53:1 @ The fool hath said in his heart: 'There is no God'; they have dealt corruptly, and have done abominable iniquity; there is none that doeth good.

jps@Psalms:55:6 @ And I said: 'Oh that I had wings like a dove! then would I fly away, and be at rest.

jps@Psalms:68:22 @ The Lord said: 'I will bring back from Bashan, I will bring them back from the depths of the sea;

jps@Psalms:73:15 @ If I had said: 'I will speak thus', behold, I had been faithless to the generation of Thy children.

jps@Psalms:74:8 @ They said in their heart: 'Let us make havoc of them altogether'; they have burned up all the meeting-places of God in the land.

jps@Psalms:78:19 @ Yea, they spoke against God; they said: 'Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

jps@Psalms:82:6 @ I said: Ye are godlike beings, and all of you sons of the Most High.

jps@Psalms:83:4 @ They have said: 'Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.'

jps@Psalms:83:12 @ Who said: 'Let us take to ourselves in possession the habitations of God.'

jps@Psalms:87:5 @ But of Zion it shall be said: 'This man and that was born in her; and the Most High Himself doth establish her.'

jps@Psalms:89:2 @ For I have said: 'For ever is mercy built; in the very heavens Thou dost establish Thy faithfulness.

jps@Psalms:89:19 @ Then Thou spokest in vision to Thy godly ones, and saidst: 'I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.

jps@Psalms:95:10 @ For forty years was I wearied with that generation, and said: It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known My ways;

jps@Psalms:106:23 @ Therefore He said that He would destroy them, had not Moses His chosen stood before Him in the breach, to turn back His wrath, lest He should destroy them.

jps@Psalms:116:11 @ I said in my haste: 'All men are liars.'

jps@Psalms:119:57 @ HETH. My portion is the LORD, I have said that I would observe Thy words.

jps@Psalms:122:1 @ A Song of Ascents; of David. I rejoiced when they said unto me: 'Let us go unto the house of the LORD.'

jps@Psalms:126:2 @ Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing; then said they among the nations: 'The LORD hath done great things with these.'

jps@Psalms:137:7 @ Remember, O LORD, against the children of Edom the day of Jerusalem; who said: 'Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.'

jps@Psalms:140:6 @ I have said unto the LORD: 'Thou art my God'; give ear, O LORD, unto the voice of my supplications.

jps@Psalms:142:5 @ I have cried unto Thee, O LORD; I have said: 'Thou art my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.'

jps@Proverbs:4:4 @ And he taught me, and said unto me: 'Let thy heart hold fast my words, keep my commandments, and live;

jps@Proverbs:7:13 @ So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face she said unto him:

jps@Proverbs:25:7 @ For better is it that it be said unto thee: 'Come up hither', than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince, whom thine eyes have seen.

jps@Ecclesiastes:1:10 @ Is there a thing whereof it is said: 'See, this is new'?--it hath been already, in the ages which were before us.

jps@Ecclesiastes:2:1 @ I said in my heart: 'Come now, I will try thee with mirth, and enjoy pleasure'; and, behold, this also was vanity.

jps@Ecclesiastes:2:2 @ I said of laughter: 'It is mad'; and of mirth: 'What doth it accomplish?'

jps@Ecclesiastes:2:15 @ Then said I in my heart: 'As it happeneth to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?' Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.

jps@Ecclesiastes:3:17 @ I said in my heart: 'The righteous and the wicked God will judge; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.'

jps@Ecclesiastes:3:18 @ I said in my heart: 'It is because of the sons of men, that God may sift them, and that they may see that they themselves are but as beasts.'

jps@Ecclesiastes:7:23 @ All this have I tried by wisdom; I said: 'I will get wisdom'; but it was far from me.

jps@Ecclesiastes:8:14 @ There is a vanity which is done upon the earth: that there are righteous men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous--I said that this also is vanity.

jps@Ecclesiastes:9:16 @ Then said I: 'Wisdom is better than strength; nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.'

jps@Songs:2:10 @ My beloved spoke, and said unto me: 'Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.

jps@Songs:7:8 @ I said: 'I will climb up into the palm-tree, I will take hold of the branches thereof; and let thy breasts be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy countenance like apples;

jps@Isaiah:3:16 @ Moreover the LORD said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched-forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet;

jps@Isaiah:5:9 @ In mine ears said the LORD of hosts: of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

jps@Isaiah:6:3 @ And one called unto another, and said: Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory.

jps@Isaiah:6:5 @ Then said I: Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.

jps@Isaiah:6:7 @ and he touched my mouth with it, and said: Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin expiated.

jps@Isaiah:6:8 @ And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then I said: 'Here am I; send me.'

jps@Isaiah:6:9 @ And He said: 'Go, and tell this people: hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.

jps@Isaiah:6:11 @ Then said I: 'Lord, how long?' And He answered: 'Until cities be waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land become utterly waste,

jps@Isaiah:7:3 @ Then said the LORD unto Isaiah: 'Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, in the highway of the fullers' field;

jps@Isaiah:7:12 @ But Ahaz said: 'I will not ask, neither will I try the LORD.'

jps@Isaiah:7:13 @ And he said: 'Hear ye now, O house of David: Is it a small thing for you to weary men, that ye will weary my God also?

jps@Isaiah:8:1 @ And the LORD said unto me: 'Take thee a great tablet, and write upon it in common script: The spoil speedeth, the prey hasteth;

jps@Isaiah:8:3 @ And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bore a son. Then said the LORD unto me: 'Call his name Maher-shalal- hashbaz.

jps@Isaiah:10:13 @ For he hath said: by the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I am prudent; in that I have removed the bounds of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures, and have brought down as one mighty the inhabitants;

jps@Isaiah:14:13 @ And thou saidst in thy heart: 'I will ascend into heaven, above the stars of God will I exalt my throne, and I will sit upon the mount of meeting, in the uttermost parts of the north;

jps@Isaiah:18:4 @ For thus hath the LORD said unto me: I will hold Me still, and I will look on in My dwelling-place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

jps@Isaiah:20:3 @ And the LORD said: 'Like as My servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot to be for three years a sign and a wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia,

jps@Isaiah:21:6 @ For thus hath the Lord said unto me: Go, set a watchman; let him declare what he seeth!

jps@Isaiah:21:9 @ And, behold, there came a troop of men, horsemen by pairs. And he spoke and said: 'Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the graven images of her gods are broken unto the ground.'

jps@Isaiah:21:12 @ The watchman said: 'The morning cometh, and also the night--if ye will inquire, inquire ye; return, come.'

jps@Isaiah:21:16 @ For thus hath the Lord said unto me: 'Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail;

jps@Isaiah:22:4 @ Therefore said I: 'Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; strain not to comfort me, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.'

jps@Isaiah:23:12 @ And He said: 'Thou shalt no more rejoice.' O thou oppressed virgin daughter of Zidon, arise, pass over to Kittim; even there shalt thou have no rest.

jps@Isaiah:25:9 @ And it shall be said in that day: 'Lo, this is our God, for whom we waited, that He might save us; this is the LORD, for whom we waited, we will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.'

jps@Isaiah:28:12 @ To whom it was said: 'This is the rest, give ye rest to the weary; and this is the refreshing'; yet they would not hear.

jps@Isaiah:28:15 @ Because ye have said: 'We have made a covenant with death, and with the nether-world are we at agreement; when the scouring scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us; for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood have we hid ourselves';

jps@Isaiah:29:13 @ And the Lord said: Forasmuch as this people draw near, and with their mouth and with their lips do honour Me, but have removed their heart far from Me, and their fear of Me is a commandment of men learned by rote;

jps@Isaiah:30:15 @ For thus said the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel: in sitting still and rest shall ye be saved, in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength; and ye would not.

jps@Isaiah:30:16 @ But ye said: 'No, for we will flee upon horses'; therefore shall ye flee; and: 'We will ride upon the swift'; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.

jps@Isaiah:32:5 @ The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be noble.

jps@Isaiah:36:4 @ And Rab-shakeh said unto them: 'Say ye now to Hezekiah: Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria: What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?

jps@Isaiah:36:5 @ I said: It is but vain words; for counsel and strength are for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou hast rebelled against me?

jps@Isaiah:36:7 @ But if thou say unto me: We trust in the LORD our God; is not that He, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and to Jerusalem: Ye shall worship before this altar?

jps@Isaiah:36:10 @ And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? The LORD said unto me: Go up against this land, and destroy it.'

jps@Isaiah:36:11 @ Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rab-shakeh: 'Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Aramean language, for we understand it; and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.'

jps@Isaiah:36:12 @ But Rab-shakeh said: 'Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own water with you?'

jps@Isaiah:36:13 @ Then Rab-shakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and said: 'Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.

jps@Isaiah:37:3 @ And they said unto him: 'Thus saith Hezekiah: This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of contumely; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.

jps@Isaiah:37:6 @ And Isaiah said unto them: 'Thus shall ye say to your master: Thus saith the LORD: Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.

jps@Isaiah:37:24 @ By thy servants hast thou taunted the Lord, and hast said: With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I have cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice cypress-trees thereof; and I have entered into his farthest height, the forest of his fruitful field.

jps@Isaiah:38:1 @ In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him: 'Thus saith the LORD: Set thy house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.'

jps@Isaiah:38:3 @ and said: 'Remember now, O LORD, I beseech Thee, how I have walked before Thee in truth and with a whole heart, and have done that which is good in Thy sight.' And Hezekiah wept sore.

jps@Isaiah:38:10 @ I said: In the noontide of my days I shall go, even to the gates of the nether-world; I am deprived of the residue of my years.

jps@Isaiah:38:11 @ I said: I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD in the land of the living; I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

jps@Isaiah:38:21 @ And Isaiah said: 'Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover.'

jps@Isaiah:38:22 @ And Hezekiah said. 'What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?'

jps@Isaiah:39:3 @ Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him: 'What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee?' And Hezekiah said: 'They are come from a far country unto me, even from Babylon.'

jps@Isaiah:39:4 @ Then said he: 'What have they seen in thy house?' And Hezekiah answered: 'All that is in my house have they seen; there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.'

jps@Isaiah:39:5 @ Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah: 'Hear the word of the LORD of hosts:

jps@Isaiah:39:8 @ Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah: 'Good is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken.' He said moreover: 'If but there shall be peace and truth in my days.'

jps@Isaiah:41:6 @ They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his brother: 'Be of good courage.'

jps@Isaiah:41:9 @ Thou whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the uttermost parts thereof, and said unto thee: 'Thou art My servant, I have chosen thee and not cast thee away';

jps@Isaiah:45:19 @ I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness; I said not unto the seed of Jacob: 'Seek ye Me in vain'; I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.

jps@Isaiah:47:7 @ And thou saidst: 'For ever shall I be mistress'; so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the end thereof.

jps@Isaiah:47:10 @ And thou hast been secure in thy wickedness, thou hast said: 'None seeth me'; thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thy heart. 'I am, and there is none else beside me.'

jps@Isaiah:49:3 @ And He said unto me: 'Thou art My servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified.'

jps@Isaiah:49:4 @ But I said: 'I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and vanity; yet surely my right is with the LORD, and my recompense with my God.'

jps@Isaiah:49:14 @ But Zion said: 'The LORD hath forsaken me, and the Lord hath forgotten me.'

jps@Isaiah:51:23 @ And I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; that have said to thy soul: 'Bow down, that we may go over'; and thou hast laid thy back as the ground, and as the street, to them that go over.

jps@Isaiah:57:10 @ Thou wast wearied with the length of thy way; yet saidst thou not: 'There is no hope'; thou didst find a renewal of thy strength, therefore thou wast not affected.

jps@Isaiah:63:8 @ For He said: 'Surely, they are My people, children that will not deal falsely'; so He was their Saviour.

jps@Isaiah:65:1 @ I gave access to them that asked not for Me, I was at hand to them that sought Me not; I said: 'Behold Me, behold Me', unto a nation that was not called by My name.

jps@Isaiah:66:5 @ Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at His word: Your brethren that hate you, that cast you out for My name's sake, have said: 'Let the LORD be glorified, that we may gaze upon your joy', but they shall be ashamed.

jps@Jeremiah:1:6 @ Then said I: 'Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak; for I am a child.'

jps@Jeremiah:1:7 @ But the LORD said unto me: say not: I am a child; for to whomsoever I shall send thee thou shalt go, and whatsoever I shall command thee thou shalt speak.

jps@Jeremiah:1:9 @ Then the LORD put forth His hand, and touched my mouth; and the LORD said unto me: Behold, I have put My words in thy mouth;

jps@Jeremiah:1:11 @ Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying: 'Jeremiah, what seest thou?' And I said: 'I see a rod of an almond-tree.'

jps@Jeremiah:1:12 @ Then said the LORD unto me: 'Thou hast well seen; for I watch over My word to perform it.'

jps@Jeremiah:1:13 @ And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying: 'What seest thou?' And I said: 'I see a seething pot; and the face thereof is from the north.'

jps@Jeremiah:1:14 @ Then the LORD said unto me: 'Out of the north the evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.

jps@Jeremiah:2:6 @ Neither said they: 'Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt; that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?'

jps@Jeremiah:2:8 @ The priests said not: 'Where is the LORD?' And they that handle the law knew Me not, and the rulers transgressed against Me; the prophets also prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

jps@Jeremiah:2:20 @ For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands, and thou saidst: 'I will not transgress'; upon every high hill and under every leafy tree thou didst recline, playing the harlot.

jps@Jeremiah:2:25 @ Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst; but thou saidst: 'There is no hope; no, for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.'

jps@Jeremiah:2:35 @ Thou saidst: 'I am innocent; surely His anger is turned away from me'--behold, I will enter into judgment with thee, because thou sayest: 'I have not sinned.'

jps@Jeremiah:3:6 @ And the LORD said unto me in the days of Josiah the king: 'Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel did? she went up upon every high mountain and under every leafy tree, and there played the harlot.

jps@Jeremiah:3:7 @ And I said: After she hath done all these things, she will return unto me; but she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.

jps@Jeremiah:3:11 @ even the LORD said unto me--backsliding Israel hath proved herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.

jps@Jeremiah:3:19 @ But I said: 'How would I put thee among the sons, and give thee a pleasant land, the goodliest heritage of the nations!' And I said: 'Thou shalt call Me, My father; and shalt not turn away from following Me.'

jps@Jeremiah:4:10 @ Then said I: 'Ah, Lord GOD! surely Thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying: Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul.'

jps@Jeremiah:4:11 @ At that time shall it be said of this people and of Jerusalem; A hot wind of the high hills in the wilderness toward the daughter of My people, not to fan, nor to cleanse;

jps@Jeremiah:5:4 @ And I said: 'Surely these are poor, they are foolish, for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the ordinance of their God;

jps@Jeremiah:5:12 @ They have belied the LORD, and said: 'It is not He, neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine;

jps@Jeremiah:6:6 @ For thus hath the LORD of hosts said: hew ye down her trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem; this is the city to be punished; everywhere there is oppression in the midst of her.

jps@Jeremiah:6:16 @ Thus saith the LORD: Stand ye in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said: 'We will not walk therein.'

jps@Jeremiah:6:17 @ And I set watchmen over you: 'Attend to the sound of the horn', but they said: 'We will not attend.'

jps@Jeremiah:10:19 @ Woe is me for my hurt! My wound is grievous; but I said: 'This is but a sickness, and I must bear it.'

jps@Jeremiah:11:5 @ that I may establish the oath which I swore unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day.' Then answered I, and said: 'Amen, O LORD.'

jps@Jeremiah:11:6 @ And the LORD said unto me: 'Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying: Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them.

jps@Jeremiah:11:9 @ And the LORD said unto me: 'A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

jps@Jeremiah:12:4 @ How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole field wither? For the wickedness of them that dwell therein, the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said: 'He seeth not our end.'

jps@Jeremiah:13:1 @ Thus said the LORD unto me: 'Go, and get thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water.'

jps@Jeremiah:13:6 @ And it came to pass after many days, that the LORD said unto me: 'Arise, go to Perath, and take the girdle from thence, which I commanded thee to hide there.'

jps@Jeremiah:14:11 @ And the LORD said unto me: 'Pray not for this people for their good.

jps@Jeremiah:14:13 @ Then said I: 'Ah, Lord GOD! behold, the prophets say unto them: Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.'

jps@Jeremiah:14:14 @ Then the LORD said unto me: 'The prophets prophesy lies in My name; I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spoke I unto them; they prophesy unto you a lying vision, and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their own heart.

jps@Jeremiah:15:1 @ Then said the LORD unto me: 'Though Moses and Samuel stood before Me, yet My mind could not be toward this people; cast them out of My sight, and let them go forth.

jps@Jeremiah:15:11 @ The LORD said: 'Verily I will release thee for good; verily I will cause the enemy to make supplication unto thee in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.

jps@Jeremiah:16:14 @ Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be said: 'As the LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt,'

jps@Jeremiah:17:19 @ Thus said the LORD unto me: Go, and stand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;

jps@Jeremiah:18:10 @ but if it do evil in My sight, that it hearken not to My voice, then I repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit it.

jps@Jeremiah:18:18 @ Then said they: 'Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for instruction shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.'

jps@Jeremiah:19:1 @ Thus said the LORD: Go, and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;

jps@Jeremiah:19:14 @ Then came Jeremiah from Topheth, whither the LORD had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD'S house, and said to all the people:

jps@Jeremiah:20:3 @ And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashhur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him: 'The LORD hath not called thy name Pashhur, but Magormissabib.

jps@Jeremiah:21:3 @ Then said Jeremiah unto them: Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah:

jps@Jeremiah:22:1 @ Thus said the LORD: Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,

jps@Jeremiah:22:21 @ I spoke unto thee in thy prosperity, but thou saidst: 'I will not hear.' This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou hearkenedst not to My voice.

jps@Jeremiah:23:17 @ They say continually unto them that despise Me: 'The LORD hath said: Ye shall have peace'; and unto every one that walketh in the stubbornness of his own heart they say: 'No evil shall come upon you';

jps@Jeremiah:23:25 @ I have heard what the prophets have said, that prophesy lies in My name, saying: 'I have dreamed, I have dreamed.'

jps@Jeremiah:24:3 @ Then said the LORD unto me: 'What seest thou, Jeremiah?' And I said: 'Figs; the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, that cannot be eaten, they are so bad.'

jps@Jeremiah:26:16 @ Then said the princes and all the people unto the priests and to the prophets: 'This man is not worthy of death; for he hath spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God.'

jps@Jeremiah:28:5 @ Then the prophet Jeremiah said unto the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people that stood in the house of the LORD,

jps@Jeremiah:28:6 @ even the prophet Jeremiah said: 'Amen! the LORD do so! the LORD perform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bring back the vessels of the LORD'S house, and all them that are carried away captive, from Babylon unto this place!

jps@Jeremiah:28:15 @ Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet: 'Hear now, Hananiah; the LORD hath not sent thee; but thou makest this people to trust in a lie.

jps@Jeremiah:29:15 @ For ye have said: 'The LORD hath raised us up prophets in Babylon.'

jps@Jeremiah:32:6 @ And Jeremiah said: 'The word of the LORD came unto me, saying:

jps@Jeremiah:32:8 @ So Hanamel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of the guard according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me: 'Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin; for the right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is thine; buy it for thyself.' Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.

jps@Jeremiah:32:25 @ Yet Thou hast said unto me, O Lord GOD: Buy thee the field for money, and call witnesses; whereas the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.'

jps@Jeremiah:35:5 @ and I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites goblets full of wine, and cups, and I said unto them: 'Drink ye wine.'

jps@Jeremiah:35:6 @ But they said: 'We will drink no wine; for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us, saying: Ye shall drink no wine, neither ye, nor your sons, for ever;

jps@Jeremiah:35:11 @ But it came to pass, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up against the land, that we said: Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Arameans; so we dwell at Jerusalem.'

jps@Jeremiah:35:18 @ And unto the house of the Rechabites Jeremiah said: Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Because ye have hearkened to the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he commanded you;

jps@Jeremiah:36:15 @ And they said unto him: 'Sit down now, and read it in our ears.' So Baruch read it in their ears.

jps@Jeremiah:36:16 @ Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they turned in fear one toward another, and said unto Baruch: 'We will surely tell the king of all these words.'

jps@Jeremiah:36:19 @ Then said the princes unto Baruch: 'Go, hide thee, thou and Jeremiah, and let no man know where ye are.'

jps@Jeremiah:37:14 @ Then said Jeremiah: 'It is false; I fall not away to the Chaldeans'; but he hearkened not to him; so Irijah laid hold on Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.

jps@Jeremiah:37:17 @ then Zedekiah the king sent, and fetched him; and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said: 'Is there any word from the LORD?' And Jeremiah said: 'There is.' He said also: 'Thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.'

jps@Jeremiah:37:18 @ Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah: 'Wherein have I sinned against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people, that ye have put me in prison?

jps@Jeremiah:38:4 @ Then the princes said unto the king: 'Let this man, we pray thee, be put to death; forasmuch as he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them; for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.'

jps@Jeremiah:38:5 @ Then Zedekiah the king said: 'Behold, he is in your hand; for the king is not he that can do any thing against you.'

jps@Jeremiah:38:12 @ And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah: 'Put now these worn clouts and rags under thine armholes under the cords.' And Jeremiah did so.

jps@Jeremiah:38:14 @ Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet unto him into the third entry that was in the house of the LORD; and the king said unto Jeremiah: 'I will ask thee a thing; hide nothing from me.'

jps@Jeremiah:38:15 @ Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah: 'If I declare it unto thee, wilt thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, thou wilt not hearken unto me.'

jps@Jeremiah:38:17 @ Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah: 'Thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: If thou wilt go forth unto the king of Babylon's princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, thou, and thy house;

jps@Jeremiah:38:19 @ And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah: 'I am afraid of the Jews that are fallen away to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.'

jps@Jeremiah:38:20 @ But Jeremiah said: 'They shall not deliver thee. Hearken, I beseech thee, to the voice of the LORD, in that which I speak unto thee; so it shall be well with thee, and thy soul shall live.

jps@Jeremiah:38:24 @ Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah: 'Let no man know of these words, and thou shalt not die.

jps@Jeremiah:38:25 @ But if the princes hear that I have talked with thee, and they come unto thee, and say unto thee: Declare unto us now what thou hast said unto the king; hide it not from us, and we will not put thee to death; also what the king said unto thee;

jps@Jeremiah:40:2 @ And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him: 'The LORD thy God pronounced this evil upon this place;

jps@Jeremiah:40:14 @ and said unto him: 'Dost thou know that Baalis the king of the children of Ammon hath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to take thy life?' But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them not.

jps@Jeremiah:40:16 @ But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said unto Johanan the son of Kareah: 'Thou shalt not do this thing; for thou speakest falsely of Ishmael.'

jps@Jeremiah:41:6 @ And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah to meet them, weeping all along as he went; and it came to pass, as he met them, he said unto them: 'Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam.'

jps@Jeremiah:41:8 @ But ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael: 'Slay us not; for we have stores hidden in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey.' So he forbore, and slew them not among their brethren.

jps@Jeremiah:42:2 @ and said unto Jeremiah the prophet: 'Let, we pray thee, our supplication be accepted before thee, and pray for us unto the LORD thy God, even for all this remnant; for we are left but a few of many, as thine eyes do behold us;

jps@Jeremiah:42:4 @ Then Jeremiah the prophet said unto them: 'I have heard you; behold, I will pray unto the LORD your God according to your words; and it shall come to pass, that whatsoever thing the LORD shall answer you, I will declare it unto you; I will keep nothing back from you.'

jps@Jeremiah:42:5 @ Then they said to Jeremiah: 'The LORD be a true and faithful witness against us, if we do not even according to all the word wherewith the LORD thy God shall send thee to us.

jps@Jeremiah:42:9 @ and said unto them: 'Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto whom ye sent me to present your supplication before Him:

jps@Jeremiah:44:20 @ Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, even to all the people that had given him that answer, saying:

jps@Jeremiah:44:24 @ Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people, and to all the women: 'Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah that are in the land of Egypt:

jps@Jeremiah:46:16 @ He made many to stumble; yea, they fell one upon another, and said: 'Arise, and let us return to our own people, and to the land of our birth, from the oppressing sword.'

jps@Jeremiah:50:7 @ All that found them have devoured them; and their adversaries said: 'We are not guilty'; because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.

jps@Jeremiah:51:61 @ And Jeremiah said to Seraiah: 'When thou comest to Babylon, then see that thou read all these words,

jps@Lamentations:3:18 @ And I said: 'My strength is perished, and mine expectation from the LORD.'

jps@Lamentations:3:54 @ Waters flowed over my head; I said: 'I am cut off.'

jps@Lamentations:3:57 @ Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon Thee; Thou saidst: 'Fear not.'

jps@Lamentations:4:15 @ 'Depart ye! unclean!' men cried unto them, 'Depart, depart, touch not'; yea, they fled away and wandered; men said among the nations: 'They shall no more sojourn here.'

jps@Lamentations:4:20 @ The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits; of whom we said: 'Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.'

jps@Ezekiel:2:1 @ And He said unto me: 'Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak with thee.'

jps@Ezekiel:2:3 @ And He said unto me: 'Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to rebellious nations, that have rebelled against Me; they and their fathers have transgressed against Me, even unto this very day;

jps@Ezekiel:3:1 @ And He said unto me: 'Son of man, eat that which thou findest; eat this roll, and go, speak unto the house of Israel.'

jps@Ezekiel:3:3 @ And He said unto me: 'Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee.' Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.

jps@Ezekiel:3:4 @ And He said unto me: 'Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with My words unto them.

jps@Ezekiel:3:10 @ Moreover He said unto me: 'Son of man, all My words that I shall speak unto thee receive in thy heart, and hear with thine ears.

jps@Ezekiel:3:22 @ And the hand of the LORD came there upon me; and He said unto me: 'Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there speak with thee.'

jps@Ezekiel:3:24 @ Then spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet; and He spoke with me, and said unto me: 'Go, shut thyself within thy house.

jps@Ezekiel:4:13 @ And the LORD said: 'Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations whither I will drive them.'

jps@Ezekiel:4:14 @ Then said I: 'Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted; for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn of beasts; neither came there abhorred flesh into my mouth.'

jps@Ezekiel:4:15 @ Then He said unto me: 'See, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread thereon.'

jps@Ezekiel:4:16 @ Moreover He said unto me: 'Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they shall eat bread by weight, and with anxiety; and they shall drink water by measure, and in appalment;

jps@Ezekiel:6:10 @ And they shall know that I am the LORD; I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them.

jps@Ezekiel:8:5 @ Then said He unto me: 'Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north.' So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward of the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.

jps@Ezekiel:8:6 @ And He said unto me: 'Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel do commit here, that I should go far off from My sanctuary? but thou shalt again see yet greater abominations.'

jps@Ezekiel:8:8 @ Then said He unto me: 'Son of man, dig now in the wall'; and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door.

jps@Ezekiel:8:9 @ And He said unto me: 'Go in, and see the wicked abominations that they do here.'

jps@Ezekiel:8:12 @ Then said He unto me: 'Son of man, hast thou seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his chambers of imagery? for they say: The LORD seeth us not, the LORD hath forsaken the land.'

jps@Ezekiel:8:13 @ He said also unto me: 'Thou shalt again see yet greater abominations which they do.'

jps@Ezekiel:8:15 @ Then said He unto me: 'Hast thou seen this, O son of man? thou shalt again see yet greater abominations than these.'

jps@Ezekiel:8:17 @ Then He said unto me: 'Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here in that they fill the land with violence, and provoke Me still more, and, lo, they put the branch to their nose?

jps@Ezekiel:9:4 @ And the LORD said unto him: 'Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that are done in the midst thereof.'

jps@Ezekiel:9:5 @ And to the others He said in my hearing: 'Go ye through the city after him, and smite; let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity;

jps@Ezekiel:9:7 @ And He said unto them: 'Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain; go ye forth.' And they went forth, and smote in the city.

jps@Ezekiel:9:8 @ And it came to pass, while they were smiting, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said: 'Ah Lord GOD! wilt Thou destroy all the residue of Israel in Thy pouring out of Thy fury upon Jerusalem?'

jps@Ezekiel:9:9 @ Then said He unto me: 'The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of wresting of judgment; for they say: The LORD hath forsaken the land, and the LORD seeth not.

jps@Ezekiel:10:2 @ And He spoke unto the man clothed in linen, and said: 'Go in between the wheelwork, even under the cherub, and fill both thy hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and dash them against the city.' And he went in in my sight.

jps@Ezekiel:11:2 @ And He said unto me: 'Son of man, these are the men that devise iniquity, and that give wicked counsel in this city;

jps@Ezekiel:11:5 @ And the spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and He said unto me: 'Speak: Thus saith the LORD: Thus have ye said, O house of Israel; for I know the things that come into your mind.

jps@Ezekiel:11:13 @ And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said: 'Ah Lord GOD! wilt Thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel?'

jps@Ezekiel:11:15 @ 'Son of man, as for thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel, all of them, concerning whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said: Get you far from the LORD! unto us is this land given for a possession;

jps@Ezekiel:12:9 @ 'Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said unto thee: What doest thou?

jps@Ezekiel:13:12 @ and, lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you: Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it?

jps@Ezekiel:16:6 @ And when I passed by thee, and saw thee wallowing in thy blood, I said unto thee: In thy blood, live; yea, I said unto thee: In thy blood, live;

jps@Ezekiel:20:7 @ and I said unto them: Cast ye away every man the detestable things of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.

jps@Ezekiel:20:8 @ But they rebelled against Me, and would not hearken unto Me; they did not every man cast away the detestable things of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt; then I said I would pour out My fury upon them, to spend My anger upon them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

jps@Ezekiel:20:13 @ But the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness; they walked not in My statutes, and they rejected Mine ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live by them, and My sabbaths they greatly profaned; then I said I would pour out My fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.

jps@Ezekiel:20:18 @ And I said unto their children in the wilderness: Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols;

jps@Ezekiel:20:21 @ But the children rebelled against Me; they walked not in My statutes, neither kept Mine ordinances to do them, which if a man do, he shall live by them; they profaned My sabbaths; then I said I would pour out My fury upon them, to spend My anger upon them in the wilderness.

jps@Ezekiel:20:29 @ Then I said unto them: What meaneth the high place whereunto ye go? So the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day.

jps@Ezekiel:20:49 @ Then said I: 'Ah Lord GOD! they say of me: Is he not a maker of parables?'

jps@Ezekiel:23:36 @ The LORD said moreover unto me: 'Son of man, wilt thou judge Oholah and Oholibah? then declare unto them their abominations.

jps@Ezekiel:23:43 @ Then said I of her that was worn out by adulteries: Still they commit harlotries with her, even her.

jps@Ezekiel:24:19 @ And the people said unto me: 'Wilt thou not tell us what these things are to us, that thou doest so?'

jps@Ezekiel:24:20 @ Then I said unto them: 'The word of the LORD came unto me, saying:

jps@Ezekiel:25:3 @ and say unto the children of Ammon: Hear the word of the Lord GOD: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Because thou saidst: Aha! against My sanctuary, when it was profaned, and against the land of Israel, when it was made desolate, and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity;

jps@Ezekiel:26:2 @ 'Son of man, because that Tyre hath said against Jerusalem: Aha, she is broken that was the gate of the peoples; she is turned unto me; I shall be filled with her that is laid waste;

jps@Ezekiel:27:3 @ and say unto Tyre, that dwelleth at the entry of the sea, that is the merchant of the peoples unto many isles: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Thou, O Tyre, hast said: I am of perfect beauty.

jps@Ezekiel:28:2 @ 'Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou hast said: I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the heart of the seas; yet thou art man, and not God, though thou didst set thy heart as the heart of God--

jps@Ezekiel:29:3 @ speak, and say: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh King of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, that hath said: My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.

jps@Ezekiel:29:9 @ And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste, and they shall know that I am the LORD; because he hath said: The river is mine, and I have made it.

jps@Ezekiel:35:10 @ Because thou hast said: These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the LORD was there;

jps@Ezekiel:36:2 @ Thus saith the Lord GOD: Because the enemy hath said against you: Aha! even the ancient high places are ours in possession;

jps@Ezekiel:36:20 @ And when they came unto the nations, whither they came, they profaned My holy name; in that men said of them: These are the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of His land.

jps@Ezekiel:37:3 @ And He said unto me: 'Son of man, can these bones live?' And I answered: 'O Lord GOD, Thou knowest.'

jps@Ezekiel:37:4 @ Then He said unto me: 'Prophesy over these bones, and say unto them: O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD:

jps@Ezekiel:37:9 @ Then said He unto me: 'Prophesy unto the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.'

jps@Ezekiel:37:11 @ Then He said unto me: 'Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel; behold, they say: Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.

jps@Ezekiel:40:4 @ And the man said unto me: 'Son of man, behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears, and set thy heart upon all that I shall show thee, for to the intent that I might show them unto thee art thou brought thither; declare all that thou seest to the house of Israel.'

jps@Ezekiel:40:45 @ And he said unto me: 'This chamber, whose prospect is toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house.

jps@Ezekiel:41:4 @ And he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple; and he said unto me: 'This is the most holy place.'

jps@Ezekiel:41:22 @ The altar, three cubits high, and the length thereof two cubits, was of wood, and so the corners thereof; the length thereof, and the walls thereof, were also of wood; and he said unto me: 'This is the table that is before the LORD.'

jps@Ezekiel:42:13 @ Then said he unto me: 'The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they are the holy chambers, where the priests that are near unto the LORD shall eat the most holy things; there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meal-offering, and the sin-offering, and the guilt-offering; for the place is holy.

jps@Ezekiel:43:7 @ And He said unto me: 'Son of man, this is the place of My throne, and the place of the soles of My feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever; and the house of Israel shall no more defile My holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their harlotry, and by the carcasses of their kings in their high places;

jps@Ezekiel:43:18 @ And He said unto me: 'Son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD: These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt-offerings thereon, and to dash blood against it.

jps@Ezekiel:44:2 @ And the LORD said unto me: 'This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, neither shall any man enter in by it, for the LORD, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it; therefore it shall be shut.

jps@Ezekiel:44:5 @ And the LORD said unto me: 'Son of man, mark well, and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD, and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entering in of the house, with every going forth of the sanctuary.

jps@Ezekiel:46:20 @ And he said unto me: 'This is the place where the priests shall boil the guilt-offering and the sin-offering, where they shall bake the meal-offering; that they bring them not forth into the outer court, to sanctify the people.'

jps@Ezekiel:46:24 @ Then said he unto me: 'These are the boiling-places, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifices of the people.'

jps@Ezekiel:47:6 @ And he said unto me: 'Hast thou seen this, O son of man?' Then he led me, and caused me to return to the bank of the river.

jps@Ezekiel:47:8 @ Then said he unto me: 'These waters issue forth toward the eastern region, and shall go down into the Arabah; and when they shall enter into the sea, into the sea of the putrid waters, the waters shall be healed.

jps@Daniel:1:10 @ And the chief of the officers said unto Daniel: 'I fear my lord the king, who hath appointed your food and your drink; for why should he see your faces sad in comparison with the youths that are of your own age? so would ye endanger my head with the king.'

jps@Daniel:1:11 @ Then said Daniel to the steward, whom the chief of the officers had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:

jps@Daniel:2:3 @ And the king said unto them: 'I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream.'

jps@Daniel:2:5 @ The king answered and said to the Chaldeans: 'The thing is certain with me; if ye make not known unto me the dream and the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.

jps@Daniel:2:7 @ They answered the second time and said: 'Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will declare the interpretation.'

jps@Daniel:2:8 @ The king answered and said: 'I know of a truth that ye would gain time, inasmuch as ye see the thing is certain with me,

jps@Daniel:2:10 @ The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said: 'There is not a man upon the earth that can declare the king's matter; forasmuch as no great and powerful king hath asked such a thing of any magician, or enchanter, or Chaldean.

jps@Daniel:2:15 @ he answered and said to Arioch the king's captain: 'Wherefore is the decree so peremptory from the king?' Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel.

jps@Daniel:2:20 @ Daniel spoke and said: Blessed be the name of God from everlasting even unto everlasting; for wisdom and might are His;

jps@Daniel:2:24 @ Therefore Daniel went in unto Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon; he went and said thus unto him: 'Destroy not the wise men of Babylon; bring me in before the king, and I will declare unto the king the interpretation.'

jps@Daniel:2:25 @ Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said thus unto him: 'I have found a man of the children of the captivity of Judah, that will make known unto the king the interpretation.'

jps@Daniel:2:26 @ The king spoke and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar: 'Art thou able to make known unto me the dream which I have seen, and the interpretation thereof?'

jps@Daniel:2:27 @ Daniel answered before the king, and said: 'The secret which the king hath asked can neither wise men, enchanters, magicians, nor astrologers, declare unto the king;

jps@Daniel:2:47 @ The king spoke unto Daniel, and said: 'Of a truth it is, that your God is the God of gods, and the Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing thou hast been able to reveal this secret.'

jps@Daniel:3:9 @ They spoke and said to Nebuchadnezzar the king: 'O king, live for ever!

jps@Daniel:3:14 @ Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said unto them: 'Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, that ye serve not my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?

jps@Daniel:3:16 @ Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, answered and said to the king: 'O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer thee in this matter.

jps@Daniel:3:24 @ Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was alarmed, and rose up in haste; he spoke and said unto his ministers: 'Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire?' They answered and said unto the king: 'True, O king.'

jps@Daniel:3:25 @ He answered and said: 'Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods.'

jps@Daniel:3:26 @ Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace; he spoke and said: 'Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed- nego, ye servants of God Most High, come forth, and come hither.' Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, came forth out of the midst of the fire.

jps@Daniel:3:28 @ Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said: 'Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who hath sent His angel, and delivered His servants that trusted in Him, and have changed the king's word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.

jps@Daniel:4:14 @ He cried aloud, and said thus: Hew down the tree, and cut off its branches, shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit; let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from its branches.

jps@Daniel:4:19 @ Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was appalled for a while, and his thoughts affrighted him. The king spoke and said: 'Belteshazzar, let not the dream, or the interpretation, affright thee.' Belteshazzar answered and said: 'My lord, the dream be to them that hate thee, and the interpretation thereof to thine adversaries.

jps@Daniel:4:30 @ The king spoke, and said: 'Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for a royal dwelling-place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?'

jps@Daniel:5:7 @ The king cried aloud to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the astrologers. The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon: 'Whosoever shall read this writing, and declare unto me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall rule as one of three in the kingdom.'

jps@Daniel:5:10 @ Now the queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house; the queen spoke and said: 'O king, live for ever! let not thy thoughts affright thee, nor let thy countenance be changed;

jps@Daniel:5:13 @ Then was Daniel brought in before the king. The king spoke and said unto Daniel: 'Art thou Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Judah?

jps@Daniel:5:17 @ Then Daniel answered and said before the king: 'Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another; nevertheless I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpretation.

jps@Daniel:6:5 @ Then said these men: 'We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him in the matter of the law of his God.'

jps@Daniel:6:6 @ Then these presidents and satraps came tumultuously to the king, and said thus unto him: 'King Darius, live for ever!

jps@Daniel:6:12 @ Then they came near, and spoke before the king concerning the king's interdict: 'Hast thou not signed an interdict, that every man that shall make petition unto any god or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions?' The king answered and said: 'The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.'

jps@Daniel:6:13 @ Then answered they and said before the king: 'That Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O king, nor the interdict that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three times a day.'

jps@Daniel:6:15 @ Then these men came tumultuously unto the king, and said unto the king: 'Know, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians, that no interdict nor statute which the king establisheth may be changed.'

jps@Daniel:6:16 @ Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spoke and said unto Daniel: 'Thy God whom thou servest continually, He will deliver thee.'

jps@Daniel:6:20 @ And when he came near unto the den to Daniel, he cried with a pained voice; the king spoke and said to Daniel: 'O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions?'

jps@Daniel:6:21 @ Then said Daniel unto the king: 'O king, live for ever!

jps@Daniel:7:2 @ Daniel spoke and said: I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven broke forth upon the great sea.

jps@Daniel:7:5 @ And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth; and it was said thus unto it: 'Arise, devour much flesh.'

jps@Daniel:7:23 @ Thus he said: 'The fourth beast shall be a fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all the kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.

jps@Daniel:8:13 @ Then I heard a holy one speaking; and another holy one said unto that certain one who spoke: 'How long shall be the vision concerning the continual burnt-offering, and the transgression that causes appalment, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trampled under foot?'

jps@Daniel:8:14 @ And he said unto me: 'Unto two thousand and three hundred evenings and mornings; then shall the sanctuary be victorious.'

jps@Daniel:8:16 @ And I heard the voice of a man between the banks of Ulai, who called, and said: 'Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision.'

jps@Daniel:8:17 @ So he came near where I stood; and when he came, I was terrified, and fell upon my face; but he said unto me: 'Understand, O son of man; for the vision belongeth to the time of the end.'

jps@Daniel:8:19 @ And he said: 'Behold, I will make thee know what shall be in the latter time of the indignation; for it belongeth to the appointed time of the end.

jps@Daniel:9:4 @ And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made confession, and said: 'O Lord, the great and awful God, who keepest covenant and mercy with them that love Thee and keep Thy commandments,

jps@Daniel:9:22 @ And he made me to understand, and talked with me, and said: 'O Daniel, I am now come forth to make thee skilful of understanding.

jps@Daniel:10:11 @ And he said unto me: 'O Daniel, thou man greatly beloved, give heed unto the words that I speak unto thee, and stand upright; for now am I sent unto thee'; and when he had spoken this word unto me, I stood trembling.

jps@Daniel:10:12 @ Then said he unto me: 'Fear not, Daniel; for from the first day that thou didst set thy heart to understand, and to humble thyself before thy God, thy words were heard; and I am come because of thy words.

jps@Daniel:10:16 @ And, behold, one like the similitude of the sons of men touched my lips; then I opened my mouth, and spoke and said unto him that stood before me: 'O my lord, by reason of the vision my pains are come upon me, and I retain no strength.

jps@Daniel:10:19 @ And he said: 'O man greatly beloved, fear not! peace be unto thee, be strong, yea, be strong.' And when he had spoken unto me, I was strengthened, and said: 'Let my lord speak; for thou hast strengthened me.'

jps@Daniel:10:20 @ Then said he: Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia; and when I go forth, lo, the prince of Greece shall come.

jps@Daniel:12:6 @ And one said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river: 'How long shall it be to the end of the wonders?'

jps@Daniel:12:8 @ And I heard, but I understood not; then said I: 'O my Lord, what shall be the latter end of these things?'

jps@Daniel:12:9 @ And he said: 'Go thy way, Daniel; for the words are shut up and sealed till the time of the end.

jps@Hosea:1:2 @ When the LORD spoke at first with Hosea, the LORD said unto Hosea: 'Go, take unto thee a wife of harlotry and children of harlotry; for the land doth commit great harlotry, departing from the LORD.'

jps@Hosea:1:4 @ And the LORD said unto him: 'Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will visit the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.

jps@Hosea:1:6 @ And she conceived again, and bore a daughter. And He said unto him: 'Call her name Lo-ruhamah; for I will no more have compassion upon the house of Israel, that I should in any wise pardon them.

jps@Hosea:1:9 @ And He said: 'Call his name Lo-ammi; for ye are not My people, and I will not be yours.'

jps@Hosea:1:10 @ Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass that, instead of that which was said unto them: 'Ye are not My people', it shall be said unto them: 'Ye are the children of the living God.'

jps@Hosea:2:5 @ For their mother hath played the harlot, she that conceived them hath done shamefully; for she said: 'I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.'

jps@Hosea:2:12 @ And I will lay waste her vines and her fig-trees, whereof she hath said: 'These are my hire that my lovers have given me'; and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.

jps@Hosea:3:1 @ And the LORD said unto me: 'Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend and an adulteress, even as the LORD loveth the children of Israel, though they turn unto other gods, and love cakes of raisins.

jps@Hosea:3:3 @ and I said unto her: 'Thou shalt sit solitary for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be any man's wife; nor will I be thine.'

jps@Hosea:12:8 @ And Ephraim said: 'Surely I am become rich, I have found me wealth; in all my labours they shall find in me no iniquity that were sin.'

jps@Hosea:13:10 @ Ho, now, thy king, that he may save thee in all thy cities! and thy judges, of whom thou saidst: 'Give me a king and princes!'

jps@Joel:2:19 @ And the LORD answered and said unto His people: 'Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations;

jps@Joel:2:32 @ And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered; for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those that escape, as the LORD hath said, and among the remnant those whom the LORD shall call.

jps@Amos:1:2 @ And he said: The LORD roareth from Zion, and uttereth His voice from Jerusalem; and the pastures of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.

jps@Amos:7:2 @ And if it had come to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land--so I said: O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech Thee; how shall Jacob stand? for he is small.

jps@Amos:7:5 @ Then said I: O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech Thee; how shall Jacob stand? for he is small.

jps@Amos:7:8 @ And the LORD said unto me: 'Amos, what seest thou?' And I said: 'A plumbline.' Then said the Lord: Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of My people Israel; I will not again pardon them any more;

jps@Amos:7:12 @ Also Amaziah said unto Amos: 'O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there;

jps@Amos:7:14 @ Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah: 'I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was a herdman, and a dresser of sycamore-trees;

jps@Amos:7:15 @ and the LORD took me from following the flock, and the LORD said unto me: Go, prophesy unto My people Israel.

jps@Amos:8:2 @ And He said: 'Amos, what seest thou?' And I said: 'A basket of summer fruit.' Then said the LORD unto me: The end is come upon My people Israel; I will not again pardon them any more.

jps@Amos:9:1 @ I saw the Lord standing beside the altar; and He said: Smite the capitals, that the posts may shake; and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will slay the residue of them with the sword; there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of them escape.

jps@Jonah:1:6 @ So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him: 'What meanest thou that thou sleepest? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.'

jps@Jonah:1:7 @ And they said every one to his fellow: 'Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us.' So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.

jps@Jonah:1:8 @ Then said they unto him: 'Tell us, we pray thee, for whose cause this evil is upon us: what is thine occupation? and whence comest thou? what is thy country? and of what people art thou?'

jps@Jonah:1:9 @ And he said unto them: 'I am an Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, who hath made the sea and the dry land.'

jps@Jonah:1:10 @ Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him: 'What is this that thou hast done?' For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.

jps@Jonah:1:11 @ Then said they unto him: 'What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us?' for the sea grew more and more tempestuous.

jps@Jonah:1:12 @ And he said unto them: 'Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you; for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.'

jps@Jonah:1:14 @ Wherefore they cried unto the LORD, and said: 'We beseech Thee, O LORD, we beseech Thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood; for Thou, O LORD, hast done as it pleased Thee.'

jps@Jonah:2:2 @ And he said: I called out of mine affliction unto the LORD, and He answered me; out of the belly of the nether-world cried I, and Thou heardest my voice.

jps@Jonah:2:4 @ And I said: 'I am cast out from before Thine eyes'; yet I will look again toward Thy holy temple.

jps@Jonah:3:4 @ And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he proclaimed, and said: 'Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.'

jps@Jonah:3:10 @ And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, which He said He would do unto them; and He did it not.

jps@Jonah:4:2 @ And he prayed unto the LORD, and said: 'I pray Thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in mine own country? Therefore I fled beforehand unto Tarshish; for I knew that Thou art a gracious God, and compassionate, long- suffering, and abundant in mercy, and repentest Thee of the evil.

jps@Jonah:4:4 @ And the LORD said: 'Art thou greatly angry?'

jps@Jonah:4:8 @ And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said: 'It is better for me to die than to live.'

jps@Jonah:4:9 @ And God said to Jonah: 'Art thou greatly angry for the gourd?' And he said: 'I am greatly angry, even unto death.'

jps@Jonah:4:10 @ And the LORD said: 'Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow, which came up in a night, and perished in a night;

jps@Micah:3:1 @ And I said: Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: is it not for you to know justice?

jps@Micah:7:10 @ Then mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her; who said unto me: Where is the LORD thy God? Mine eyes shall gaze upon her; now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.'

jps@Habakkuk:2:2 @ And the LORD answered me, and said: 'Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that a man may read it swiftly.

jps@Zephaniah:2:15 @ This is the joyous city that dwelt without care, that said in her heart: 'I am, and there is none else beside me'; how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! Every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.

jps@Zephaniah:3:7 @ I said: 'Surely thou wilt fear Me, thou wilt receive correction; so her dwelling shall not be cut off, despite all that I have visited upon her'; but they betimes corrupted all their doings.

jps@Zephaniah:3:16 @ In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem: 'Fear thou not; O Zion, let not thy hands be slack.

jps@Haggai:2:12 @ If one bear hallowed flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any food, shall it be holy?' And the priests answered and said: 'No.'

jps@Haggai:2:13 @ Then said Haggai: 'If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean?' And the priests answered and said: 'It shall be unclean.'

jps@Haggai:2:14 @ Then answered Haggai, and said: 'So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the LORD; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.

jps@Zechariah:1:6 @ But My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? so that they turned and said: Like as the LORD of hosts purposed to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath He dealt with us.'

jps@Zechariah:1:9 @ Then said I: 'O my lord, what are these?' And the angel that spoke with me said unto me: 'I will show thee what these are.'

jps@Zechariah:1:10 @ And the man that stood among the myrtle-trees answered and said: 'These are they whom the LORD hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth.'

jps@Zechariah:1:11 @ And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the myrtle-trees, and said: 'We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest.'

jps@Zechariah:1:12 @ Then the angel of the LORD spoke and said: 'O LORD of hosts, how long wilt Thou not have compassion on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which Thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?

jps@Zechariah:1:14 @ so the angel that spoke with me said unto me: 'Proclaim thou, saying: Thus saith the LORD of hosts: I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy;

jps@Zechariah:1:19 @ And I said unto the angel that spoke with me: 'What are these?' And he said unto me: 'These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.'

jps@Zechariah:1:21 @ Then said I: 'What come these to do?' And he spoke, saying: 'These--the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head--these then are come to frighten them, to cast down the horns of the nations, which lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.'

jps@Zechariah:2:2 @ Then said I: 'Whither goest thou?' And he said unto me: 'To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof.'

jps@Zechariah:2:4 @ and said unto him: 'Run, speak to this young man, saying: 'Jerusalem shall be inhabited without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein.

jps@Zechariah:3:2 @ And the LORD said unto Satan: 'The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan, yea, the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee; is not this man a brand plucked out of the fire?'

jps@Zechariah:3:4 @ And he answered and spoke unto those that stood before him, saying: 'Take the filthy garments from off him.' And unto him he said: 'Behold, I cause thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with robes.'

jps@Zechariah:3:5 @ And I said: 'Let them set a fair mitre upon his head.' So they set a fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments; and the angel of the LORD stood by.

jps@Zechariah:4:2 @ And he said unto me: 'What seest thou?' And I said: 'I have seen, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and its seven lamps thereon; there are seven pipes, yea, seven, to the lamps, which are upon the top thereof;

jps@Zechariah:4:5 @ Then the angel that spoke with me answered and said unto me: 'Knowest thou not what these are?' And I said: 'No, my lord.'

jps@Zechariah:4:11 @ Then answered I, and said unto him: 'What are these two olive-trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof?'

jps@Zechariah:4:12 @ And I answered the second time, and said unto him: 'What are these two olive branches, which are beside the two golden spouts, that empty the golden oil out of themselves?'

jps@Zechariah:4:13 @ And he answered me and said: 'Knowest thou not what these are?' And I said: 'No, my lord.'

jps@Zechariah:4:14 @ Then said he: 'These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth.'

jps@Zechariah:5:2 @ And he said unto me: 'What seest thou?' And I answered: 'I see a flying roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits.'

jps@Zechariah:5:3 @ Then said he unto me: 'This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole land; for every one that stealeth shall be swept away on the one side like it; and every one that sweareth shall be swept away on the other side like it.

jps@Zechariah:5:5 @ Then the angel that spoke with me went forth, and said unto me: 'Lift up now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth forth.'

jps@Zechariah:5:6 @ And I said: 'What is it?' And he said: 'This is the measure that goeth forth.' He said moreover: 'This is their eye in all the land--

jps@Zechariah:5:8 @ And he said: 'This is Wickedness.' And he cast her down into the midst of the measure, and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.

jps@Zechariah:5:10 @ Then said I to the angel that spoke with me: 'Whither do these bear the measure?'

jps@Zechariah:5:11 @ And he said unto me: 'To build her a house in the land of Shinar; and when it is prepared, she shall be set there in her own place.

jps@Zechariah:6:4 @ Then I answered and said unto the angel that spoke with me: 'What are these, my lord?'

jps@Zechariah:6:5 @ And the angel answered and said unto me: 'These chariots go forth to the four winds of heaven, after presenting themselves before the Lord of all the earth.

jps@Zechariah:6:7 @ and the bay went forth'. And they sought to go that they might walk to and fro through the earth; and he said: 'Get you hence, walk to and fro through the earth.' So they walked to and fro through the earth.

jps@Zechariah:7:13 @ And it came to pass that, as He called, and they would not hear; so they shall call, and I will not hear, said the LORD of hosts;

jps@Zechariah:11:4 @ Thus said the LORD my God: 'Feed the flock of slaughter;

jps@Zechariah:11:9 @ Then said I: 'I will not feed you; that which dieth, let it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let them that are left eat every one the flesh of another.'

jps@Zechariah:11:12 @ And I said unto them: 'If ye think good, give me my hire; and if not, forbear.' So they weighed for my hire thirty pieces of silver.

jps@Zechariah:11:13 @ And the LORD said unto me: 'Cast it into the treasury, the goodly price that I was prized at of them.' And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them into the treasury, in the house of the LORD.

jps@Zechariah:11:15 @ And the LORD said unto me: 'Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.

jps@Malachi:3:14 @ Ye have said: 'It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept His charge, and that we have walked mournfully because of the LORD of hosts?

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