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nkjv@nkjv=/usr/local/pbiblx/resources/nkjv.txt.gz@nkjv|New King James V ersion|Offline

nkjv@Info @ New King James V ersion

nkjv@Info @ About the New King James V ersion –

nkjv@Info @ The New King James V ersion was conceived by Arthur Farstad in an effort to translate into ev eryday English the lit eral context of the scriptures, just as the King James V ersion did in the 16th century.

nkjv@Genesis:1:2 @ The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hov ering ov er the face of the wat ers.

nkjv@Genesis:1:3 @ Then God said, "Let th ere be light"; and th ere was light.

nkjv@Genesis:1:5 @ God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning w ere the first day.

nkjv@Genesis:1:6 @ Then God said, "Let th ere be a firmament in the midst of the wat ers, and let it divide the wat ers from the wat ers."

nkjv@Genesis:1:7 @ Thus God made the firmament, and divided the wat ers which w ere und er the firmament from the wat ers which w ere above the firmament; and it was so.

nkjv@Genesis:1:8 @ And God called the firmament Heaven. So the evening and the morning w ere the second day.

nkjv@Genesis:1:9 @ Then God said, "Let the wat ers und er the heavens be gath ered togeth er into one place, and let the dry land appear"; and it was so.

nkjv@Genesis:1:10 @ And God called the dry land Earth, and the gath ering togeth er of the wat ers He called Seas. And God saw that it was good.

nkjv@Genesis:1:11 @ Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth grass, the h erb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth"; and it was so.

nkjv@Genesis:1:12 @ And the earth brought forth grass, the h erb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

nkjv@Genesis:1:13 @ So the evening and the morning w ere the third day.

nkjv@Genesis:1:14 @ Then God said, "Let th ere be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years;

nkjv@Genesis:1:16 @ Then God made two great lights: the great er light to rule the day, and the less er light to rule the night. He made the stars also.

nkjv@Genesis:1:18 @ and to rule ov er the day and ov er the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.

nkjv@Genesis:1:19 @ So the evening and the morning w ere the fourth day.

nkjv@Genesis:1:20 @ Then God said, "Let the wat ers abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens."

nkjv@Genesis:1:21 @ So God created great sea creatures and ev ery living thing that moves, with which the wat ers abounded, according to their kind, and ev ery winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

nkjv@Genesis:1:22 @ And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the wat ers in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."

nkjv@Genesis:1:23 @ So the evening and the morning w ere the fifth day.

nkjv@Genesis:1:25 @ And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and ev erything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

nkjv@Genesis:1:26 @ Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion ov er the fish of the sea, ov er the birds of the air, and ov er the cattle, ov er all the earth and ov er ev ery creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

nkjv@Genesis:1:28 @ Then God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion ov er the fish of the sea, ov er the birds of the air, and ov er ev ery living thing that moves on the earth."

nkjv@Genesis:1:29 @ And God said, "See, I have given you ev ery h erb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and ev ery tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food.

nkjv@Genesis:1:30 @ Also, to ev ery beast of the earth, to ev ery bird of the air, and to ev erything that creeps on the earth, in which th ere is life, I have given ev ery green h erb for food"; and it was so.

nkjv@Genesis:1:31 @ Then God saw ev erything that He had made, and indeed it was v ery good. So the evening and the morning w ere the sixth day.

nkjv@Genesis:2:1 @ Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, w ere finished.

nkjv@Genesis:2:4 @ This is the history of the heavens and the earth when they w ere created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,

nkjv@Genesis:2:5 @ before any plant of the field was in the earth and before any h erb of the field had grown. For the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and th ere was no man to till the ground;

nkjv@Genesis:2:6 @ but a mist went up from the earth and wat ered the whole face of the ground.

nkjv@Genesis:2:8 @ The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and th ere He put the man whom He had formed.

nkjv@Genesis:2:9 @ And out of the ground the LORD God made ev ery tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

nkjv@Genesis:2:10 @ Now a riv er went out of Eden to wat er the garden, and from th ere it parted and became four riv erheads.

nkjv@Genesis:2:11 @ The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which skirts the whole land of Havilah, wh ere th ere is gold.

nkjv@Genesis:2:12 @ And the gold of that land is good. Bdellium and the onyx stone are th ere.

nkjv@Genesis:2:13 @ The name of the second riv er is Gihon; it is the one which goes around the whole land of Cush.

nkjv@Genesis:2:14 @ The name of the third riv er is Hiddekel; it is the one which goes toward the east of Assyria. The fourth riv er is the Euphrates.

nkjv@Genesis:2:16 @ And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "Of ev ery tree of the garden you may freely eat;

nkjv@Genesis:2:18 @ And the LORD God said, "It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a help er comparable to him."

nkjv@Genesis:2:19 @ Out of the ground the LORD God formed ev ery beast of the field and ev ery bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatev er Adam called each living creature, that was its name.

nkjv@Genesis:2:20 @ So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to ev ery beast of the field. But for Adam th ere was not found a help er comparable to him.

nkjv@Genesis:2:22 @ Then the rib which the LORD God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought h er to the man.

nkjv@Genesis:2:24 @ Th erefore a man shall leave his fath er and moth er and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

nkjv@Genesis:2:25 @ And they w ere both naked, the man and his wife, and w ere not ashamed.

nkjv@Genesis:3:1 @ Now the s erpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, "Has God indeed said, "You shall not eat of ev ery tree of the garden'?"

nkjv@Genesis:3:2 @ And the woman said to the s erpent, "We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden;

nkjv@Genesis:3:4 @ Then the s erpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die.

nkjv@Genesis:3:6 @ So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to h er husband with h er, and he ate.

nkjv@Genesis:3:7 @ Then the eyes of both of them w ere opened, and they knew that they w ere naked; and they sewed fig leaves togeth er and made themselves cov erings.

nkjv@Genesis:3:9 @ Then the LORD God called to Adam and said to him, "Wh ere are you?"

nkjv@Genesis:3:11 @ And He said, "Who told you that you w ere naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?"

nkjv@Genesis:3:13 @ And the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The s erpent deceived me, and I ate."

nkjv@Genesis:3:14 @ So the LORD God said to the s erpent: "Because you have done this, You are cursed more than all cattle, And more than ev ery beast of the field; On your belly you shall go, And you shall eat dust All the days of your life.

nkjv@Genesis:3:15 @ And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and h er Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel."

nkjv@Genesis:3:16 @ To the woman He said: "I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; In pain you shall bring forth children; Your desire shall be for your husband, And he shall rule ov er you."

nkjv@Genesis:3:18 @ Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, And you shall eat the h erb of the field.

nkjv@Genesis:3:19 @ In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread Till you return to the ground, For out of it you w ere taken; For dust you are, And to dust you shall return."

nkjv@Genesis:3:20 @ And Adam called his wife's name Eve, because she was the moth er of all living.

nkjv@Genesis:3:22 @ Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forev er"--

nkjv@Genesis:3:23 @ th erefore the LORD God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken.

nkjv@Genesis:3:24 @ So He drove out the man; and He placed ch erubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned ev ery way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

nkjv@Genesis:4:2 @ Then she bore again, this time his broth er Abel. Now Abel was a keep er of sheep, but Cain was a till er of the ground.

nkjv@Genesis:4:3 @ And in the process of time it came to pass that Cain brought an off ering of the fruit of the ground to the LORD.

nkjv@Genesis:4:4 @ Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat. And the LORD respected Abel and his off ering,

nkjv@Genesis:4:5 @ but He did not respect Cain and his off ering. And Cain was v ery angry, and his countenance fell.

nkjv@Genesis:4:7 @ If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. And its desire is for you, but you should rule ov er it."

nkjv@Genesis:4:8 @ Now Cain talked with Abel his broth er; and it came to pass, when they w ere in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his broth er and killed him.

nkjv@Genesis:4:9 @ Then the LORD said to Cain, "Wh ere is Abel your broth er?" He said, "I do not know. Am I my broth er's keep er?"

nkjv@Genesis:4:10 @ And He said, "What have you done? The voice of your broth er's blood cries out to Me from the ground.

nkjv@Genesis:4:11 @ So now you are cursed from the earth, which has opened its mouth to receive your broth er's blood from your hand.

nkjv@Genesis:4:12 @ When you till the ground, it shall no long er yield its strength to you. A fugitive and a vagabond you shall be on the earth."

nkjv@Genesis:4:13 @ And Cain said to the LORD, "My punishment is great er than I can bear!

nkjv@Genesis:4:15 @ And the LORD said to him, "Th erefore, whoev er kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold." And the LORD set a mark on Cain, lest anyone finding him should kill him.

nkjv@Genesis:4:17 @ And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch. And he built a city, and called the name of the city aft er the name of his son--Enoch.

nkjv@Genesis:4:20 @ And Adah bore Jabal. He was the fath er of those who dwell in tents and have livestock.

nkjv@Genesis:4:21 @ His broth er's name was Jubal. He was the fath er of all those who play the harp and flute.

nkjv@Genesis:4:22 @ And as for Zillah, she also bore Tubal-Cain, an instructor of ev ery craftsman in bronze and iron. And the sist er of Tubal-Cain was Naamah.

nkjv@Genesis:4:25 @ And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and named him Seth, "For God has appointed anoth er seed for me instead of Abel, whom Cain killed."

nkjv@Genesis:5:2 @ He created them male and female, and blessed them and called them Mankind in the day they w ere created.

nkjv@Genesis:5:3 @ And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, aft er his image, and named him Seth.

nkjv@Genesis:5:4 @ Aft er he begot Seth, the days of Adam w ere eight hundred years; and he had sons and daught ers.

nkjv@Genesis:5:5 @ So all the days that Adam lived w ere nine hundred and thirty years; and he died.

nkjv@Genesis:5:7 @ Aft er he begot Enosh, Seth lived eight hundred and seven years, and had sons and daught ers.

nkjv@Genesis:5:8 @ So all the days of Seth w ere nine hundred and twelve years; and he died.

nkjv@Genesis:5:10 @ Aft er he begot Cainan, Enosh lived eight hundred and fifteen years, and had sons and daught ers.

nkjv@Genesis:5:11 @ So all the days of Enosh w ere nine hundred and five years; and he died.

nkjv@Genesis:5:13 @ Aft er he begot Mahalalel, Cainan lived eight hundred and forty years, and had sons and daught ers.

nkjv@Genesis:5:14 @ So all the days of Cainan w ere nine hundred and ten years; and he died.

nkjv@Genesis:5:16 @ Aft er he begot Jared, Mahalalel lived eight hundred and thirty years, and had sons and daught ers.

nkjv@Genesis:5:17 @ So all the days of Mahalalel w ere eight hundred and ninety-five years; and he died.

nkjv@Genesis:5:19 @ Aft er he begot Enoch, Jared lived eight hundred years, and had sons and daught ers.

nkjv@Genesis:5:20 @ So all the days of Jared w ere nine hundred and sixty-two years; and he died.

nkjv@Genesis:5:22 @ Aft er he begot Methuselah, Enoch walked with God three hundred years, and had sons and daught ers.

nkjv@Genesis:5:23 @ So all the days of Enoch w ere three hundred and sixty-five years.

nkjv@Genesis:5:26 @ Aft er he begot Lamech, Methuselah lived seven hundred and eighty-two years, and had sons and daught ers.

nkjv@Genesis:5:27 @ So all the days of Methuselah w ere nine hundred and sixty-nine years; and he died.

nkjv@Genesis:5:29 @ And he called his name Noah, saying, "This one will comfort us conc erning our work and the toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD has cursed."

nkjv@Genesis:5:30 @ Aft er he begot Noah, Lamech lived five hundred and ninety-five years, and had sons and daught ers.

nkjv@Genesis:5:31 @ So all the days of Lamech w ere seven hundred and seventy-seven years; and he died.

nkjv@Genesis:6:1 @ Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daught ers w ere born to them,

nkjv@Genesis:6:2 @ that the sons of God saw the daught ers of men, that they w ere beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.

nkjv@Genesis:6:3 @ And the LORD said, "My Spirit shall not strive with man forev er, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years."

nkjv@Genesis:6:4 @ Th ere w ere giants on the earth in those days, and also aft erward, when the sons of God came in to the daught ers of men and they bore children to them. Those w ere the mighty men who w ere of old, men of renown.

nkjv@Genesis:6:5 @ Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that ev ery intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

nkjv@Genesis:6:9 @ This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, p erfect in his gen erations. Noah walked with God.

nkjv@Genesis:6:14 @ Make yourself an ark of goph erwood; make rooms in the ark, and cov er it inside and outside with pitch.

nkjv@Genesis:6:16 @ You shall make a window for the ark, and you shall finish it to a cubit from above; and set the door of the ark in its side. You shall make it with low er, second, and third decks.

nkjv@Genesis:6:17 @ And behold, I Myself am bringing floodwat ers on the earth, to destroy from und er heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life; ev erything that is on the earth shall die.

nkjv@Genesis:6:19 @ And of ev ery living thing of all flesh you shall bring two of ev ery sort into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.

nkjv@Genesis:6:20 @ Of the birds aft er their kind, of animals aft er their kind, and of ev ery creeping thing of the earth aft er its kind, two of ev ery kind will come to you to keep them alive.

nkjv@Genesis:6:21 @ And you shall take for yourself of all food that is eaten, and you shall gath er it to yourself; and it shall be food for you and for them."

nkjv@Genesis:7:1 @ Then the LORD said to Noah, "Come into the ark, you and all your household, because I have seen that you are righteous before Me in this gen eration.

nkjv@Genesis:7:2 @ You shall take with you seven each of ev ery clean animal, a male and his female; two each of animals that are unclean, a male and his female;

nkjv@Genesis:7:4 @ For aft er seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will destroy from the face of the earth all living things that I have made."

nkjv@Genesis:7:6 @ Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwat ers w ere on the earth.

nkjv@Genesis:7:7 @ So Noah, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, went into the ark because of the wat ers of the flood.

nkjv@Genesis:7:8 @ Of clean animals, of animals that are unclean, of birds, and of ev erything that creeps on the earth,

nkjv@Genesis:7:10 @ And it came to pass aft er seven days that the wat ers of the flood w ere on the earth.

nkjv@Genesis:7:11 @ In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep w ere broken up, and the windows of heaven w ere opened.

nkjv@Genesis:7:13 @ On the v ery same day Noah and Noah's sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them, ent ered the ark--

nkjv@Genesis:7:14 @ they and ev ery beast aft er its kind, all cattle aft er their kind, ev ery creeping thing that creeps on the earth aft er its kind, and ev ery bird aft er its kind, ev ery bird of ev ery sort.

nkjv@Genesis:7:16 @ So those that ent ered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him; and the LORD shut him in.

nkjv@Genesis:7:17 @ Now the flood was on the earth forty days. The wat ers increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.

nkjv@Genesis:7:18 @ The wat ers prevailed and greatly increased on the earth, and the ark moved about on the surface of the wat ers.

nkjv@Genesis:7:19 @ And the wat ers prevailed exceedingly on the earth, and all the high hills und er the whole heaven w ere cov ered.

nkjv@Genesis:7:20 @ The wat ers prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains w ere cov ered.

nkjv@Genesis:7:21 @ And all flesh died that moved on the earth: birds and cattle and beasts and ev ery creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and ev ery man.

nkjv@Genesis:7:23 @ So He destroyed all living things which w ere on the face of the ground: both man and cattle, creeping thing and bird of the air. They w ere destroyed from the earth. Only Noah and those who w ere with him in the ark remained alive.

nkjv@Genesis:7:24 @ And the wat ers prevailed on the earth one hundred and fifty days.

nkjv@Genesis:8:1 @ Then God rememb ered Noah, and ev ery living thing, and all the animals that w ere with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass ov er the earth, and the wat ers subsided.

nkjv@Genesis:8:2 @ The fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven w ere also stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained.

nkjv@Genesis:8:3 @ And the wat ers receded continually from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the wat ers decreased.

nkjv@Genesis:8:5 @ And the wat ers decreased continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains w ere seen.

nkjv@Genesis:8:7 @ Then he sent out a raven, which kept going to and fro until the wat ers had dried up from the earth.

nkjv@Genesis:8:8 @ He also sent out from himself a dove, to see if the wat ers had receded from the face of the ground.

nkjv@Genesis:8:9 @ But the dove found no resting place for the sole of h er foot, and she returned into the ark to him, for the wat ers w ere on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took h er, and drew h er into the ark to himself.

nkjv@Genesis:8:10 @ And he waited yet anoth er seven days, and again he sent the dove out from the ark.

nkjv@Genesis:8:11 @ Then the dove came to him in the evening, and behold, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in h er mouth; and Noah knew that the wat ers had receded from the earth.

nkjv@Genesis:8:12 @ So he waited yet anoth er seven days and sent out the dove, which did not return again to him anymore.

nkjv@Genesis:8:13 @ And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, that the wat ers w ere dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the cov ering of the ark and looked, and indeed the surface of the ground was dry.

nkjv@Genesis:8:17 @ Bring out with you ev ery living thing of all flesh that is with you: birds and cattle and ev ery creeping thing that creeps on the earth, so that they may abound on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth."

nkjv@Genesis:8:19 @ Ev ery animal, ev ery creeping thing, ev ery bird, and whatev er creeps on the earth, according to their families, went out of the ark.

nkjv@Genesis:8:20 @ Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of ev ery clean animal and of ev ery clean bird, and off ered burnt off erings on the altar.

nkjv@Genesis:8:21 @ And the LORD smelled a soothing aroma. Then the LORD said in His heart, "I will nev er again curse the ground for man's sake, although the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again destroy ev ery living thing as I have done.

nkjv@Genesis:8:22 @ "While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, Cold and heat, Wint er and summ er, And day and night Shall not cease."

nkjv@Genesis:9:2 @ And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be on ev ery beast of the earth, on ev ery bird of the air, on all that move on the earth, and on all the fish of the sea. They are given into your hand.

nkjv@Genesis:9:3 @ Ev ery moving thing that lives shall be food for you. I have given you all things, even as the green h erbs.

nkjv@Genesis:9:5 @ Surely for your lifeblood I will demand a reckoning; from the hand of ev ery beast I will require it, and from the hand of man. From the hand of ev ery man's broth er I will require the life of man.

nkjv@Genesis:9:6 @ "Whoev er sheds man's blood, By man his blood shall be shed; For in the image of God He made man.

nkjv@Genesis:9:9 @ "And as for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you and with your descendants aft er you,

nkjv@Genesis:9:10 @ and with ev ery living creature that is with you: the birds, the cattle, and ev ery beast of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ark, ev ery beast of the earth.

nkjv@Genesis:9:11 @ Thus I establish My covenant with you: Nev er again shall all flesh be cut off by the wat ers of the flood; nev er again shall th ere be a flood to destroy the earth."

nkjv@Genesis:9:12 @ And God said: "This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and ev ery living creature that is with you, for p erpetual gen erations:

nkjv@Genesis:9:14 @ It shall be, when I bring a cloud ov er the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud;

nkjv@Genesis:9:15 @ and I will rememb er My covenant which is between Me and you and ev ery living creature of all flesh; the wat ers shall nev er again become a flood to destroy all flesh.

nkjv@Genesis:9:16 @ The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to rememb er the ev erlasting covenant between God and ev ery living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."

nkjv@Genesis:9:18 @ Now the sons of Noah who went out of the ark w ere Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the fath er of Canaan.

nkjv@Genesis:9:19 @ These three w ere the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated.

nkjv@Genesis:9:20 @ And Noah began to be a farm er, and he planted a vineyard.

nkjv@Genesis:9:21 @ Then he drank of the wine and was drunk, and became uncov ered in his tent.

nkjv@Genesis:9:22 @ And Ham, the fath er of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his fath er, and told his two broth ers outside.

nkjv@Genesis:9:23 @ But Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their should ers, and went backward and cov ered the nakedness of their fath er. Their faces w ere turned away, and they did not see their fath er's nakedness.

nkjv@Genesis:9:24 @ So Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his young er son had done to him.

nkjv@Genesis:9:25 @ Then he said: "Cursed be Canaan; A s ervant of s ervants He shall be to his brethren."

nkjv@Genesis:9:26 @ And he said: "Blessed be the LORD, The God of Shem, And may Canaan be his s ervant.

nkjv@Genesis:9:27 @ May God enlarge Japheth, And may he dwell in the tents of Shem; And may Canaan be his s ervant."

nkjv@Genesis:9:28 @ And Noah lived aft er the flood three hundred and fifty years.

nkjv@Genesis:9:29 @ So all the days of Noah w ere nine hundred and fifty years; and he died.

nkjv@Genesis:10:1 @ Now this is the genealogy of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And sons w ere born to them aft er the flood.

nkjv@Genesis:10:2 @ The sons of Japheth w ere Gom er, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

nkjv@Genesis:10:3 @ The sons of Gom er w ere Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.

nkjv@Genesis:10:4 @ The sons of Javan w ere Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

nkjv@Genesis:10:5 @ From these the coastland peoples of the Gentiles w ere separated into their lands, ev eryone according to his language, according to their families, into their nations.

nkjv@Genesis:10:6 @ The sons of Ham w ere Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

nkjv@Genesis:10:7 @ The sons of Cush w ere Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabtechah; and the sons of Raamah w ere Sheba and Dedan.

nkjv@Genesis:10:9 @ He was a mighty hunt er before the LORD; th erefore it is said, "Like Nimrod the mighty hunt er before the LORD."

nkjv@Genesis:10:10 @ And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

nkjv@Genesis:10:18 @ the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. Aft erward the families of the Canaanites w ere disp ersed.

nkjv@Genesis:10:19 @ And the bord er of the Canaanites was from Sidon as you go toward G erar, as far as Gaza; then as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

nkjv@Genesis:10:20 @ These w ere the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their languages, in their lands and in their nations.

nkjv@Genesis:10:21 @ And children w ere born also to Shem, the fath er of all the children of Eb er, the broth er of Japheth the eld er.

nkjv@Genesis:10:22 @ The sons of Shem w ere Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.

nkjv@Genesis:10:23 @ The sons of Aram w ere Uz, Hul, Geth er, and Mash.

nkjv@Genesis:10:24 @ Arphaxad begot Salah, and Salah begot Eb er.

nkjv@Genesis:10:25 @ To Eb er w ere born two sons: the name of one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his broth er's name was Joktan.

nkjv@Genesis:10:26 @ Joktan begot Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, J erah,

nkjv@Genesis:10:29 @ Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these w ere the sons of Joktan.

nkjv@Genesis:10:31 @ These w ere the sons of Shem, according to their families, according to their languages, in their lands, according to their nations.

nkjv@Genesis:10:32 @ These w ere the families of the sons of Noah, according to their gen erations, in their nations; and from these the nations w ere divided on the earth aft er the flood.

nkjv@Genesis:11:2 @ And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt th ere.

nkjv@Genesis:11:3 @ Then they said to one anoth er, "Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.

nkjv@Genesis:11:4 @ And they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tow er whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scatt ered abroad ov er the face of the whole earth."

nkjv@Genesis:11:5 @ But the LORD came down to see the city and the tow er which the sons of men had built.

nkjv@Genesis:11:7 @ Come, let Us go down and th ere confuse their language, that they may not und erstand one anoth er's speech."

nkjv@Genesis:11:8 @ So the LORD scatt ered them abroad from th ere ov er the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city.

nkjv@Genesis:11:9 @ Th erefore its name is called Babel, because th ere the LORD confused the language of all the earth; and from th ere the LORD scatt ered them abroad ov er the face of all the earth.

nkjv@Genesis:11:10 @ This is the genealogy of Shem: Shem was one hundred years old, and begot Arphaxad two years aft er the flood.

nkjv@Genesis:11:11 @ Aft er he begot Arphaxad, Shem lived five hundred years, and begot sons and daught ers.

nkjv@Genesis:11:13 @ Aft er he begot Salah, Arphaxad lived four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daught ers.

nkjv@Genesis:11:14 @ Salah lived thirty years, and begot Eb er.

nkjv@Genesis:11:15 @ Aft er he begot Eb er, Salah lived four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daught ers.

nkjv@Genesis:11:16 @ Eb er lived thirty-four years, and begot Peleg.

nkjv@Genesis:11:17 @ Aft er he begot Peleg, Eb er lived four hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daught ers.

nkjv@Genesis:11:19 @ Aft er he begot Reu, Peleg lived two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daught ers.

nkjv@Genesis:11:20 @ Reu lived thirty-two years, and begot S erug.

nkjv@Genesis:11:21 @ Aft er he begot S erug, Reu lived two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daught ers.

nkjv@Genesis:11:22 @ S erug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor.

nkjv@Genesis:11:23 @ Aft er he begot Nahor, S erug lived two hundred years, and begot sons and daught ers.

nkjv@Genesis:11:24 @ Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begot T erah.

nkjv@Genesis:11:25 @ Aft er he begot T erah, Nahor lived one hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daught ers.

nkjv@Genesis:11:26 @ Now T erah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

nkjv@Genesis:11:27 @ This is the genealogy of T erah: T erah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran begot Lot.

nkjv@Genesis:11:28 @ And Haran died before his fath er T erah in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

nkjv@Genesis:11:29 @ Then Abram and Nahor took wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daught er of Haran the fath er of Milcah and the fath er of Iscah.

nkjv@Genesis:11:31 @ And T erah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daught er-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and dwelt th ere.

nkjv@Genesis:11:32 @ So the days of T erah w ere two hundred and five years, and T erah died in Haran.

nkjv@Genesis:12:1 @ Now the LORD had said to Abram: "Get out of your country, From your family And from your fath er's house, To a land that I will show you.

nkjv@Genesis:12:5 @ Then Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his broth er's son, and all their possessions that they had gath ered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they departed to go to the land of Canaan. So they came to the land of Canaan.

nkjv@Genesis:12:6 @ Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, as far as the t erebinth tree of Moreh. And the Canaanites w ere then in the land.

nkjv@Genesis:12:7 @ Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, "To your descendants I will give this land." And th ere he built an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

nkjv@Genesis:12:8 @ And he moved from th ere to the mountain east of Bethel, and he pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; th ere he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD.

nkjv@Genesis:12:10 @ Now th ere was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to dwell th ere, for the famine was sev ere in the land.

nkjv@Genesis:12:11 @ And it came to pass, when he was close to ent ering Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, "Indeed I know that you are a woman of beautiful countenance.

nkjv@Genesis:12:12 @ Th erefore it will happen, when the Egyptians see you, that they will say, "This is his wife'; and they will kill me, but they will let you live.

nkjv@Genesis:12:13 @ Please say you are my sist er, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that I may live because of you."

nkjv@Genesis:12:14 @ So it was, when Abram came into Egypt, that the Egyptians saw the woman, that she was v ery beautiful.

nkjv@Genesis:12:15 @ The princes of Pharaoh also saw h er and commended h er to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken to Pharaoh's house.

nkjv@Genesis:12:16 @ He treated Abram well for h er sake. He had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male and female s ervants, female donkeys, and camels.

nkjv@Genesis:12:19 @ Why did you say, "She is my sist er'? I might have taken h er as my wife. Now th erefore, h ere is your wife; take h er and go your way."

nkjv@Genesis:12:20 @ So Pharaoh commanded his men conc erning him; and they sent him away, with his wife and all that he had.

nkjv@Genesis:13:2 @ Abram was v ery rich in livestock, in silv er, and in gold.

nkjv@Genesis:13:3 @ And he went on his journey from the South as far as Bethel, to the place wh ere his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,

nkjv@Genesis:13:4 @ to the place of the altar which he had made th ere at first. And th ere Abram called on the name of the LORD.

nkjv@Genesis:13:5 @ Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks and h erds and tents.

nkjv@Genesis:13:6 @ Now the land was not able to support them, that they might dwell togeth er, for their possessions w ere so great that they could not dwell togeth er.

nkjv@Genesis:13:7 @ And th ere was strife between the h erdsmen of Abram's livestock and the h erdsmen of Lot's livestock. The Canaanites and the P erizzites then dwelt in the land.

nkjv@Genesis:13:8 @ So Abram said to Lot, "Please let th ere be no strife between you and me, and between my h erdsmen and your h erdsmen; for we are brethren.

nkjv@Genesis:13:10 @ And Lot lifted his eyes and saw all the plain of Jordan, that it was well wat ered ev erywh ere (before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt as you go toward Zoar.

nkjv@Genesis:13:11 @ Then Lot chose for himself all the plain of Jordan, and Lot journeyed east. And they separated from each oth er.

nkjv@Genesis:13:13 @ But the men of Sodom w ere exceedingly wicked and sinful against the LORD.

nkjv@Genesis:13:14 @ And the LORD said to Abram, aft er Lot had separated from him: "Lift your eyes now and look from the place wh ere you are--northward, southward, eastward, and westward;

nkjv@Genesis:13:15 @ for all the land which you see I give to you and your descendants forev er.

nkjv@Genesis:13:16 @ And I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if a man could numb er the dust of the earth, then your descendants also could be numb ered.

nkjv@Genesis:13:18 @ Then Abram moved his tent, and went and dwelt by the t erebinth trees of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar th ere to the LORD.

nkjv@Genesis:14:1 @ And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaom er king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations,

nkjv@Genesis:14:2 @ that they made war with B era king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeb er king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).

nkjv@Genesis:14:3 @ All these joined togeth er in the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).

nkjv@Genesis:14:4 @ Twelve years they s erved Chedorlaom er, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

nkjv@Genesis:14:5 @ In the fourteenth year Chedorlaom er and the kings that w ere with him came and attacked the Rephaim in Asht eroth Karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,

nkjv@Genesis:14:6 @ and the Horites in their mountain of Seir, as far as El Paran, which is by the wild erness.

nkjv@Genesis:14:8 @ And the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) went out and joined togeth er in battle in the Valley of Siddim

nkjv@Genesis:14:9 @ against Chedorlaom er king of Elam, Tidal king of nations, Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar--four kings against five.

nkjv@Genesis:14:10 @ Now the Valley of Siddim was full of asphalt pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled; some fell th ere, and the remaind er fled to the mountains.

nkjv@Genesis:14:12 @ They also took Lot, Abram's broth er's son who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

nkjv@Genesis:14:13 @ Then one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew, for he dwelt by the t erebinth trees of Mamre the Amorite, broth er of Eshcol and broth er of An er; and they w ere allies with Abram.

nkjv@Genesis:14:14 @ Now when Abram heard that his broth er was taken captive, he armed his three hundred and eighteen trained s ervants who w ere born in his own house, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.

nkjv@Genesis:14:15 @ He divided his forces against them by night, and he and his s ervants attacked them and pursued them as far as Hobah, which is north of Damascus.

nkjv@Genesis:14:16 @ So he brought back all the goods, and also brought back his broth er Lot and his goods, as well as the women and the people.

nkjv@Genesis:14:17 @ And the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King's Valley), aft er his return from the defeat of Chedorlaom er and the kings who w ere with him.

nkjv@Genesis:14:20 @ And blessed be God Most High, Who has deliv ered your enemies into your hand." And he gave him a tithe of all.

nkjv@Genesis:14:21 @ Now the king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the p ersons, and take the goods for yourself."

nkjv@Genesis:14:24 @ except only what the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me: An er, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion."

nkjv@Genesis:15:1 @ Aft er these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward."

nkjv@Genesis:15:2 @ But Abram said, "Lord GOD, what will You give me, seeing I go childless, and the heir of my house is Eliez er of Damascus?"

nkjv@Genesis:15:5 @ Then He brought him outside and said, "Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to numb er them." And He said to him, "So shall your descendants be."

nkjv@Genesis:15:7 @ Then He said to him, "I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to inh erit it."

nkjv@Genesis:15:8 @ And he said, "Lord GOD, how shall I know that I will inh erit it?"

nkjv@Genesis:15:9 @ So He said to him, "Bring Me a three-year-old heif er, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon."

nkjv@Genesis:15:10 @ Then he brought all these to Him and cut them in two, down the middle, and placed each piece opposite the oth er; but he did not cut the birds in two.

nkjv@Genesis:15:13 @ Then He said to Abram: "Know c ertainly that your descendants will be strang ers in a land that is not theirs, and will s erve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years.

nkjv@Genesis:15:14 @ And also the nation whom they s erve I will judge; aft erward they shall come out with great possessions.

nkjv@Genesis:15:15 @ Now as for you, you shall go to your fath ers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age.

nkjv@Genesis:15:16 @ But in the fourth gen eration they shall return h ere, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete."

nkjv@Genesis:15:17 @ And it came to pass, when the sun went down and it was dark, that behold, th ere appeared a smoking oven and a burning torch that passed between those pieces.

nkjv@Genesis:15:18 @ On the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying: "To your descendants I have given this land, from the riv er of Egypt to the great riv er, the Riv er Euphrates--

nkjv@Genesis:15:20 @ the Hittites, the P erizzites, the Rephaim,

nkjv@Genesis:16:1 @ Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. And she had an Egyptian maids ervant whose name was Hagar.

nkjv@Genesis:16:2 @ So Sarai said to Abram, "See now, the LORD has restrained me from bearing children. Please, go in to my maid; p erhaps I shall obtain children by h er." And Abram heeded the voice of Sarai.

nkjv@Genesis:16:3 @ Then Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar h er maid, the Egyptian, and gave h er to h er husband Abram to be his wife, aft er Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan.

nkjv@Genesis:16:4 @ So he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, h er mistress became despised in h er eyes.

nkjv@Genesis:16:5 @ Then Sarai said to Abram, "My wrong be upon you! I gave my maid into your embrace; and when she saw that she had conceived, I became despised in h er eyes. The LORD judge between you and me."

nkjv@Genesis:16:6 @ So Abram said to Sarai, "Indeed your maid is in your hand; do to h er as you please." And when Sarai dealt harshly with h er, she fled from h er presence.

nkjv@Genesis:16:7 @ Now the Angel of the LORD found h er by a spring of wat er in the wild erness, by the spring on the way to Shur.

nkjv@Genesis:16:8 @ And He said, "Hagar, Sarai's maid, wh ere have you come from, and wh ere are you going?" She said, "I am fleeing from the presence of my mistress Sarai."

nkjv@Genesis:16:9 @ The Angel of the LORD said to h er, "Return to your mistress, and submit yourself und er h er hand."

nkjv@Genesis:16:10 @ Then the Angel of the LORD said to h er, "I will multiply your descendants exceedingly, so that they shall not be counted for multitude."

nkjv@Genesis:16:11 @ And the Angel of the LORD said to h er: "Behold, you are with child, And you shall bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, Because the LORD has heard your affliction.

nkjv@Genesis:16:12 @ He shall be a wild man; His hand shall be against ev ery man, And ev ery man's hand against him. And he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren."

nkjv@Genesis:16:13 @ Then she called the name of the LORD who spoke to h er, You-Are-the-God-Who-Sees; for she said, "Have I also h ere seen Him who sees me?"

nkjv@Genesis:16:14 @ Th erefore the well was called Be er Lahai Roi; obs erve, it is between Kadesh and B ered.

nkjv@Genesis:17:4 @ "As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, and you shall be a fath er of many nations.

nkjv@Genesis:17:5 @ No long er shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you a fath er of many nations.

nkjv@Genesis:17:7 @ And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants aft er you in their gen erations, for an ev erlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants aft er you.

nkjv@Genesis:17:8 @ Also I give to you and your descendants aft er you the land in which you are a strang er, all the land of Canaan, as an ev erlasting possession; and I will be their God."

nkjv@Genesis:17:9 @ And God said to Abraham: "As for you, you shall keep My covenant, you and your descendants aft er you throughout their gen erations.

nkjv@Genesis:17:10 @ This is My covenant which you shall keep, between Me and you and your descendants aft er you: Ev ery male child among you shall be circumcised;

nkjv@Genesis:17:12 @ He who is eight days old among you shall be circumcised, ev ery male child in your gen erations, he who is born in your house or bought with money from any foreign er who is not your descendant.

nkjv@Genesis:17:13 @ He who is born in your house and he who is bought with your money must be circumcised, and My covenant shall be in your flesh for an ev erlasting covenant.

nkjv@Genesis:17:14 @ And the uncircumcised male child, who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that p erson shall be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant."

nkjv@Genesis:17:15 @ Then God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call h er name Sarai, but Sarah shall be h er name.

nkjv@Genesis:17:16 @ And I will bless h er and also give you a son by h er; then I will bless h er, and she shall be a moth er of nations; kings of peoples shall be from h er."

nkjv@Genesis:17:19 @ Then God said: "No, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; I will establish My covenant with him for an ev erlasting covenant, and with his descendants aft er him.

nkjv@Genesis:17:23 @ So Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who w ere born in his house and all who w ere bought with his money, ev ery male among the men of Abraham's house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that v ery same day, as God had said to him.

nkjv@Genesis:17:26 @ That v ery same day Abraham was circumcised, and his son Ishmael;

nkjv@Genesis:17:27 @ and all the men of his house, born in the house or bought with money from a foreign er, w ere circumcised with him.

nkjv@Genesis:18:1 @ Then the LORD appeared to him by the t erebinth trees of Mamre, as he was sitting in the tent door in the heat of the day.

nkjv@Genesis:18:2 @ So he lifted his eyes and looked, and behold, three men w ere standing by him; and when he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them, and bowed himself to the ground,

nkjv@Genesis:18:3 @ and said, "My Lord, if I have now found favor in Your sight, do not pass on by Your s ervant.

nkjv@Genesis:18:4 @ Please let a little wat er be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves und er the tree.

nkjv@Genesis:18:5 @ And I will bring a morsel of bread, that you may refresh your hearts. Aft er that you may pass by, inasmuch as you have come to your s ervant." They said, "Do as you have said."

nkjv@Genesis:18:7 @ And Abraham ran to the h erd, took a tend er and good calf, gave it to a young man, and he hastened to prepare it.

nkjv@Genesis:18:8 @ So he took butt er and milk and the calf which he had prepared, and set it before them; and he stood by them und er the tree as they ate.

nkjv@Genesis:18:9 @ Then they said to him, "Wh ere is Sarah your wife?" So he said, "H ere, in the tent."

nkjv@Genesis:18:10 @ And He said, "I will c ertainly return to you according to the time of life, and behold, Sarah your wife shall have a son." (Sarah was listening in the tent door which was behind him.)

nkjv@Genesis:18:11 @ Now Abraham and Sarah w ere old, well advanced in age; and Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.

nkjv@Genesis:18:12 @ Th erefore Sarah laughed within h erself, saying, "Aft er I have grown old, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?"

nkjv@Genesis:18:16 @ Then the men rose from th ere and looked toward Sodom, and Abraham went with them to send them on the way.

nkjv@Genesis:18:19 @ For I have known him, in ord er that he may command his children and his household aft er him, that they keep the way of the LORD, to do righteousness and justice, that the LORD may bring to Abraham what He has spoken to him."

nkjv@Genesis:18:20 @ And the LORD said, "Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is v ery grave,

nkjv@Genesis:18:21 @ I will go down now and see wheth er they have done altogeth er according to the outcry against it that has come to Me; and if not, I will know."

nkjv@Genesis:18:22 @ Then the men turned away from th ere and went toward Sodom, but Abraham still stood before the LORD.

nkjv@Genesis:18:24 @ Suppose th ere w ere fifty righteous within the city; would You also destroy the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous that w ere in it?

nkjv@Genesis:18:27 @ Then Abraham answ ered and said, "Indeed now, I who am but dust and ashes have taken it upon myself to speak to the Lord:

nkjv@Genesis:18:28 @ Suppose th ere w ere five less than the fifty righteous; would You destroy all of the city for lack of five?" So He said, "If I find th ere forty-five, I will not destroy it."

nkjv@Genesis:18:29 @ And he spoke to Him yet again and said, "Suppose th ere should be forty found th ere?" So He said, "I will not do it for the sake of forty."

nkjv@Genesis:18:30 @ Then he said, "Let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Suppose thirty should be found th ere?" So He said, "I will not do it if I find thirty th ere."

nkjv@Genesis:18:31 @ And he said, "Indeed now, I have taken it upon myself to speak to the Lord: Suppose twenty should be found th ere?" So He said, "I will not destroy it for the sake of twenty."

nkjv@Genesis:18:32 @ Then he said, "Let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak but once more: Suppose ten should be found th ere?" And He said, "I will not destroy it for the sake of ten."

nkjv@Genesis:19:2 @ And he said, "H ere now, my lords, please turn in to your s ervant's house and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you may rise early and go on your way." And they said, "No, but we will spend the night in the open square."

nkjv@Genesis:19:3 @ But he insisted strongly; so they turned in to him and ent ered his house. Then he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

nkjv@Genesis:19:4 @ Now before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both old and young, all the people from ev ery quart er, surrounded the house.

nkjv@Genesis:19:5 @ And they called to Lot and said to him, "Wh ere are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may know them carnally."

nkjv@Genesis:19:8 @ See now, I have two daught ers who have not known a man; please, let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them as you wish; only do nothing to these men, since this is the reason they have come und er the shadow of my roof."

nkjv@Genesis:19:9 @ And they said, "Stand back!" Then they said, "This one came in to stay h ere, and he keeps acting as a judge; now we will deal worse with you than with them." So they pressed hard against the man Lot, and came near to break down the door.

nkjv@Genesis:19:11 @ And they struck the men who w ere at the doorway of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they became weary trying to find the door.

nkjv@Genesis:19:12 @ Then the men said to Lot, "Have you anyone else h ere? Son-in-law, your sons, your daught ers, and whomev er you have in the city--take them out of this place!

nkjv@Genesis:19:14 @ So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had married his daught ers, and said, "Get up, get out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city!" But to his sons-in-law he seemed to be joking.

nkjv@Genesis:19:15 @ When the morning dawned, the angels urged Lot to hurry, saying, "Arise, take your wife and your two daught ers who are h ere, lest you be consumed in the punishment of the city."

nkjv@Genesis:19:16 @ And while he ling ered, the men took hold of his hand, his wife's hand, and the hands of his two daught ers, the LORD being m erciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city.

nkjv@Genesis:19:17 @ So it came to pass, when they had brought them outside, that he said, "Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywh ere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be destroyed."

nkjv@Genesis:19:19 @ Indeed now, your s ervant has found favor in your sight, and you have increased your m ercy which you have shown me by saving my life; but I cannot escape to the mountains, lest some evil ov ertake me and I die.

nkjv@Genesis:19:20 @ See now, this city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one; please let me escape th ere (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live."

nkjv@Genesis:19:21 @ And he said to him, "See, I have favored you conc erning this thing also, in that I will not ov erthrow this city for which you have spoken.

nkjv@Genesis:19:22 @ Hurry, escape th ere. For I cannot do anything until you arrive th ere." Th erefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

nkjv@Genesis:19:23 @ The sun had risen upon the earth when Lot ent ered Zoar.

nkjv@Genesis:19:25 @ So He ov erthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.

nkjv@Genesis:19:27 @ And Abraham went early in the morning to the place wh ere he had stood before the LORD.

nkjv@Genesis:19:29 @ And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God rememb ered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the ov erthrow, when He ov erthrew the cities in which Lot had dwelt.

nkjv@Genesis:19:30 @ Then Lot went up out of Zoar and dwelt in the mountains, and his two daught ers w ere with him; for he was afraid to dwell in Zoar. And he and his two daught ers dwelt in a cave.

nkjv@Genesis:19:31 @ Now the firstborn said to the young er, "Our fath er is old, and th ere is no man on the earth to come in to us as is the custom of all the earth.

nkjv@Genesis:19:32 @ Come, let us make our fath er drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may pres erve the lineage of our fath er."

nkjv@Genesis:19:33 @ So they made their fath er drink wine that night. And the firstborn went in and lay with h er fath er, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.

nkjv@Genesis:19:34 @ It happened on the next day that the firstborn said to the young er, "Indeed I lay with my fath er last night; let us make him drink wine tonight also, and you go in and lie with him, that we may pres erve the lineage of our fath er."

nkjv@Genesis:19:35 @ Then they made their fath er drink wine that night also. And the young er arose and lay with him, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.

nkjv@Genesis:19:36 @ Thus both the daught ers of Lot w ere with child by their fath er.

nkjv@Genesis:19:37 @ The firstborn bore a son and called his name Moab; he is the fath er of the Moabites to this day.

nkjv@Genesis:19:38 @ And the young er, she also bore a son and called his name Ben-Ammi; he is the fath er of the people of Ammon to this day.

nkjv@Genesis:20:1 @ And Abraham journeyed from th ere to the South, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur, and stayed in G erar.

nkjv@Genesis:20:2 @ Now Abraham said of Sarah his wife, "She is my sist er." And Abimelech king of G erar sent and took Sarah.

nkjv@Genesis:20:4 @ But Abimelech had not come near h er; and he said, "Lord, will You slay a righteous nation also?

nkjv@Genesis:20:5 @ Did he not say to me, "She is my sist er'? And she, even she h erself said, "He is my broth er.' In the integrity of my heart and innocence of my hands I have done this."

nkjv@Genesis:20:6 @ And God said to him in a dream, "Yes, I know that you did this in the integrity of your heart. For I also withheld you from sinning against Me; th erefore I did not let you touch h er.

nkjv@Genesis:20:7 @ Now th erefore, restore the man's wife; for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you shall live. But if you do not restore h er, know that you shall surely die, you and all who are yours."

nkjv@Genesis:20:8 @ So Abimelech rose early in the morning, called all his s ervants, and told all these things in their hearing; and the men w ere v ery much afraid.

nkjv@Genesis:20:12 @ But indeed she is truly my sist er. She is the daught er of my fath er, but not the daught er of my moth er; and she became my wife.

nkjv@Genesis:20:13 @ And it came to pass, when God caused me to wand er from my fath er's house, that I said to h er, "This is your kindness that you should do for me: in ev ery place, wh erev er we go, say of me, "He is my broth er.""'

nkjv@Genesis:20:14 @ Then Abimelech took sheep, oxen, and male and female s ervants, and gave them to Abraham; and he restored Sarah his wife to him.

nkjv@Genesis:20:15 @ And Abimelech said, "See, my land is before you; dwell wh ere it pleases you."

nkjv@Genesis:20:16 @ Then to Sarah he said, "Behold, I have given your broth er a thousand pieces of silv er; indeed this vindicates you before all who are with you and before ev erybody." Thus she was rebuked.

nkjv@Genesis:20:17 @ So Abraham prayed to God; and God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his female s ervants. Then they bore children;

nkjv@Genesis:21:10 @ Th erefore she said to Abraham, "Cast out this bondwoman and h er son; for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, namely with Isaac."

nkjv@Genesis:21:11 @ And the matt er was v ery displeasing in Abraham's sight because of his son.

nkjv@Genesis:21:12 @ But God said to Abraham, "Do not let it be displeasing in your sight because of the lad or because of your bondwoman. Whatev er Sarah has said to you, listen to h er voice; for in Isaac your seed shall be called.

nkjv@Genesis:21:14 @ So Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of wat er; and putting it on h er should er, he gave it and the boy to Hagar, and sent h er away. Then she departed and wand ered in the Wild erness of Be ersheba.

nkjv@Genesis:21:15 @ And the wat er in the skin was used up, and she placed the boy und er one of the shrubs.

nkjv@Genesis:21:16 @ Then she went and sat down across from him at a distance of about a bowshot; for she said to h erself, "Let me not see the death of the boy." So she sat opposite him, and lifted h er voice and wept.

nkjv@Genesis:21:17 @ And God heard the voice of the lad. Then the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said to h er, "What ails you, Hagar? Fear not, for God has heard the voice of the lad wh ere he is.

nkjv@Genesis:21:19 @ Then God opened h er eyes, and she saw a well of wat er. And she went and filled the skin with wat er, and gave the lad a drink.

nkjv@Genesis:21:20 @ So God was with the lad; and he grew and dwelt in the wild erness, and became an arch er.

nkjv@Genesis:21:21 @ He dwelt in the Wild erness of Paran; and his moth er took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

nkjv@Genesis:21:22 @ And it came to pass at that time that Abimelech and Phichol, the command er of his army, spoke to Abraham, saying, "God is with you in all that you do.

nkjv@Genesis:21:23 @ Now th erefore, swear to me by God that you will not deal falsely with me, with my offspring, or with my post erity; but that according to the kindness that I have done to you, you will do to me and to the land in which you have dwelt."

nkjv@Genesis:21:25 @ Then Abraham rebuked Abimelech because of a well of wat er which Abimelech's s ervants had seized.

nkjv@Genesis:21:31 @ Th erefore he called that place Be ersheba, because the two of them swore an oath th ere.

nkjv@Genesis:21:32 @ Thus they made a covenant at Be ersheba. So Abimelech rose with Phichol, the command er of his army, and they returned to the land of the Philistines.

nkjv@Genesis:21:33 @ Then Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Be ersheba, and th ere called on the name of the LORD, the Ev erlasting God.

nkjv@Genesis:22:1 @ Now it came to pass aft er these things that God tested Abraham, and said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "H ere I am."

nkjv@Genesis:22:2 @ Then He said, "Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and off er him th ere as a burnt off ering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you."

nkjv@Genesis:22:3 @ So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son; and he split the wood for the burnt off ering, and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.

nkjv@Genesis:22:5 @ And Abraham said to his young men, "Stay h ere with the donkey; the lad and I will go yond er and worship, and we will come back to you."

nkjv@Genesis:22:6 @ So Abraham took the wood of the burnt off ering and laid it on Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife, and the two of them went togeth er.

nkjv@Genesis:22:7 @ But Isaac spoke to Abraham his fath er and said, "My fath er!" And he said, "H ere I am, my son." Then he said, "Look, the fire and the wood, but wh ere is the lamb for a burnt off ering?"

nkjv@Genesis:22:8 @ And Abraham said, "My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt off ering." So the two of them went togeth er.

nkjv@Genesis:22:9 @ Then they came to the place of which God had told him. And Abraham built an altar th ere and placed the wood in ord er; and he bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, upon the wood.

nkjv@Genesis:22:11 @ But the Angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" So he said, "H ere I am."

nkjv@Genesis:22:13 @ Then Abraham lifted his eyes and looked, and th ere behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram, and off ered it up for a burnt off ering instead of his son.

nkjv@Genesis:22:19 @ So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose and went togeth er to Be ersheba; and Abraham dwelt at Be ersheba.

nkjv@Genesis:22:20 @ Now it came to pass aft er these things that it was told Abraham, saying, "Indeed Milcah also has borne children to your broth er Nahor:

nkjv@Genesis:22:21 @ Huz his firstborn, Buz his broth er, Kemuel the fath er of Aram,

nkjv@Genesis:22:23 @ And Bethuel begot Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's broth er.

nkjv@Genesis:23:1 @ Sarah lived one hundred and twenty-seven years; these w ere the years of the life of Sarah.

nkjv@Genesis:23:2 @ So Sarah died in Kirjath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah and to weep for h er.

nkjv@Genesis:23:4 @ "I am a foreign er and a visitor among you. Give me prop erty for a burial place among you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."

nkjv@Genesis:23:5 @ And the sons of Heth answ ered Abraham, saying to him,

nkjv@Genesis:23:9 @ that he may give me the cave of Machpelah which he has, which is at the end of his field. Let him give it to me at the full price, as prop erty for a burial place among you."

nkjv@Genesis:23:10 @ Now Ephron dwelt among the sons of Heth; and Ephron the Hittite answ ered Abraham in the presence of the sons of Heth, all who ent ered at the gate of his city, saying,

nkjv@Genesis:23:13 @ and he spoke to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, saying, "If you will give it, please hear me. I will give you money for the field; take it from me and I will bury my dead th ere."

nkjv@Genesis:23:14 @ And Ephron answ ered Abraham, saying to him,

nkjv@Genesis:23:15 @ "My lord, listen to me; the land is worth four hundred shekels of silv er. What is that between you and me? So bury your dead."

nkjv@Genesis:23:16 @ And Abraham listened to Ephron; and Abraham weighed out the silv er for Ephron which he had named in the hearing of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silv er, currency of the m erchants.

nkjv@Genesis:23:17 @ So the field of Ephron which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field and the cave which was in it, and all the trees that w ere in the field, which w ere within all the surrounding bord ers, w ere deeded

nkjv@Genesis:23:19 @ And aft er this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah, before Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.

nkjv@Genesis:23:20 @ So the field and the cave that is in it w ere deeded to Abraham by the sons of Heth as prop erty for a burial place.

nkjv@Genesis:24:2 @ So Abraham said to the oldest s ervant of his house, who ruled ov er all that he had, "Please, put your hand und er my thigh,

nkjv@Genesis:24:3 @ and I will make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daught ers of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell;

nkjv@Genesis:24:5 @ And the s ervant said to him, "P erhaps the woman will not be willing to follow me to this land. Must I take your son back to the land from which you came?"

nkjv@Genesis:24:6 @ But Abraham said to him, "Beware that you do not take my son back th ere.

nkjv@Genesis:24:7 @ The LORD God of heaven, who took me from my fath er's house and from the land of my family, and who spoke to me and swore to me, saying, "To your descendants I give this land,' He will send His angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from th ere.

nkjv@Genesis:24:8 @ And if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you will be released from this oath; only do not take my son back th ere."

nkjv@Genesis:24:9 @ So the s ervant put his hand und er the thigh of Abraham his mast er, and swore to him conc erning this matt er.

nkjv@Genesis:24:10 @ Then the s ervant took ten of his mast er's camels and departed, for all his mast er's goods w ere in his hand. And he arose and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.

nkjv@Genesis:24:11 @ And he made his camels kneel down outside the city by a well of wat er at evening time, the time when women go out to draw wat er.

nkjv@Genesis:24:12 @ Then he said, "O LORD God of my mast er Abraham, please give me success this day, and show kindness to my mast er Abraham.

nkjv@Genesis:24:13 @ Behold, h ere I stand by the well of wat er, and the daught ers of the men of the city are coming out to draw wat er.

nkjv@Genesis:24:14 @ Now let it be that the young woman to whom I say, "Please let down your pitch er that I may drink,' and she says, "Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink'--let h er be the one You have appointed for Your s ervant Isaac. And by this I will know that You have shown kindness to my mast er."

nkjv@Genesis:24:15 @ And it happened, before he had finished speaking, that behold, Rebekah, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's broth er, came out with h er pitch er on h er should er.

nkjv@Genesis:24:16 @ Now the young woman was v ery beautiful to behold, a virgin; no man had known h er. And she went down to the well, filled h er pitch er, and came up.

nkjv@Genesis:24:17 @ And the s ervant ran to meet h er and said, "Please let me drink a little wat er from your pitch er."

nkjv@Genesis:24:18 @ So she said, "Drink, my lord." Then she quickly let h er pitch er down to h er hand, and gave him a drink.

nkjv@Genesis:24:19 @ And when she had finished giving him a drink, she said, "I will draw wat er for your camels also, until they have finished drinking."

nkjv@Genesis:24:20 @ Then she quickly emptied h er pitch er into the trough, ran back to the well to draw wat er, and drew for all his camels.

nkjv@Genesis:24:21 @ And the man, wond ering at h er, remained silent so as to know wheth er the LORD had made his journey prosp erous or not.

nkjv@Genesis:24:22 @ So it was, when the camels had finished drinking, that the man took a golden nose ring weighing half a shekel, and two bracelets for h er wrists weighing ten shekels of gold,

nkjv@Genesis:24:23 @ and said, "Whose daught er are you? Tell me, please, is th ere room in your fath er's house for us to lodge?"

nkjv@Genesis:24:24 @ So she said to him, "I am the daught er of Bethuel, Milcah's son, whom she bore to Nahor."

nkjv@Genesis:24:25 @ Moreov er she said to him, "We have both straw and feed enough, and room to lodge."

nkjv@Genesis:24:27 @ And he said, "Blessed be the LORD God of my mast er Abraham, who has not forsaken His m ercy and His truth toward my mast er. As for me, being on the way, the LORD led me to the house of my mast er's brethren."

nkjv@Genesis:24:28 @ So the young woman ran and told h er moth er's household these things.

nkjv@Genesis:24:29 @ Now Rebekah had a broth er whose name was Laban, and Laban ran out to the man by the well.

nkjv@Genesis:24:30 @ So it came to pass, when he saw the nose ring, and the bracelets on his sist er's wrists, and when he heard the words of his sist er Rebekah, saying, "Thus the man spoke to me," that he went to the man. And th ere he stood by the camels at the well.

nkjv@Genesis:24:32 @ Then the man came to the house. And he unloaded the camels, and provided straw and feed for the camels, and wat er to wash his feet and the feet of the men who w ere with him.

nkjv@Genesis:24:33 @ Food was set before him to eat, but he said, "I will not eat until I have told about my errand." And he said, "Speak on."

nkjv@Genesis:24:34 @ So he said, "I am Abraham's s ervant.

nkjv@Genesis:24:35 @ The LORD has blessed my mast er greatly, and he has become great; and He has given him flocks and h erds, silv er and gold, male and female s ervants, and camels and donkeys.

nkjv@Genesis:24:36 @ And Sarah my mast er's wife bore a son to my mast er when she was old; and to him he has given all that he has.

nkjv@Genesis:24:37 @ Now my mast er made me swear, saying, "You shall not take a wife for my son from the daught ers of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell;

nkjv@Genesis:24:38 @ but you shall go to my fath er's house and to my family, and take a wife for my son.'

nkjv@Genesis:24:39 @ And I said to my mast er, "P erhaps the woman will not follow me.'

nkjv@Genesis:24:40 @ But he said to me, "The LORD, before whom I walk, will send His angel with you and prosp er your way; and you shall take a wife for my son from my family and from my fath er's house.

nkjv@Genesis:24:41 @ You will be clear from this oath when you arrive among my family; for if they will not give h er to you, then you will be released from my oath.'

nkjv@Genesis:24:42 @ "And this day I came to the well and said, "O LORD God of my mast er Abraham, if You will now prosp er the way in which I go,

nkjv@Genesis:24:43 @ behold, I stand by the well of wat er; and it shall come to pass that when the virgin comes out to draw wat er, and I say to h er, "Please give me a little wat er from your pitch er to drink,"

nkjv@Genesis:24:44 @ and she says to me, "Drink, and I will draw for your camels also,"--let h er be the woman whom the LORD has appointed for my mast er's son.'

nkjv@Genesis:24:45 @ "But before I had finished speaking in my heart, th ere was Rebekah, coming out with h er pitch er on h er should er; and she went down to the well and drew wat er. And I said to h er, "Please let me drink.'

nkjv@Genesis:24:46 @ And she made haste and let h er pitch er down from h er should er, and said, "Drink, and I will give your camels a drink also.' So I drank, and she gave the camels a drink also.

nkjv@Genesis:24:47 @ Then I asked h er, and said, "Whose daught er are you?' And she said, "The daught er of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bore to him.' So I put the nose ring on h er nose and the bracelets on h er wrists.

nkjv@Genesis:24:48 @ And I bowed my head and worshiped the LORD, and blessed the LORD God of my mast er Abraham, who had led me in the way of truth to take the daught er of my mast er's broth er for his son.

nkjv@Genesis:24:49 @ Now if you will deal kindly and truly with my mast er, tell me. And if not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand or to the left."

nkjv@Genesis:24:50 @ Then Laban and Bethuel answ ered and said, "The thing comes from the LORD; we cannot speak to you eith er bad or good.

nkjv@Genesis:24:51 @ H ere is Rebekah before you; take h er and go, and let h er be your mast er's son's wife, as the LORD has spoken."

nkjv@Genesis:24:52 @ And it came to pass, when Abraham's s ervant heard their words, that he worshiped the LORD, bowing himself to the earth.

nkjv@Genesis:24:53 @ Then the s ervant brought out jewelry of silv er, jewelry of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious things to h er broth er and to h er moth er.

nkjv@Genesis:24:54 @ And he and the men who w ere with him ate and drank and stayed all night. Then they arose in the morning, and he said, "Send me away to my mast er."

nkjv@Genesis:24:55 @ But h er broth er and h er moth er said, "Let the young woman stay with us a few days, at least ten; aft er that she may go."

nkjv@Genesis:24:56 @ And he said to them, "Do not hind er me, since the LORD has prosp ered my way; send me away so that I may go to my mast er."

nkjv@Genesis:24:57 @ So they said, "We will call the young woman and ask h er p ersonally."

nkjv@Genesis:24:58 @ Then they called Rebekah and said to h er, "Will you go with this man?" And she said, "I will go."

nkjv@Genesis:24:59 @ So they sent away Rebekah their sist er and h er nurse, and Abraham's s ervant and his men.

nkjv@Genesis:24:60 @ And they blessed Rebekah and said to h er: "Our sist er, may you become The moth er of thousands of ten thousands; And may your descendants possess The gates of those who hate them."

nkjv@Genesis:24:61 @ Then Rebekah and h er maids arose, and they rode on the camels and followed the man. So the s ervant took Rebekah and departed.

nkjv@Genesis:24:62 @ Now Isaac came from the way of Be er Lahai Roi, for he dwelt in the South.

nkjv@Genesis:24:63 @ And Isaac went out to meditate in the field in the evening; and he lifted his eyes and looked, and th ere, the camels w ere coming.

nkjv@Genesis:24:64 @ Then Rebekah lifted h er eyes, and when she saw Isaac she dismounted from h er camel;

nkjv@Genesis:24:65 @ for she had said to the s ervant, "Who is this man walking in the field to meet us?" The s ervant said, "It is my mast er." So she took a veil and cov ered h erself.

nkjv@Genesis:24:66 @ And the s ervant told Isaac all the things that he had done.

nkjv@Genesis:24:67 @ Then Isaac brought h er into his moth er Sarah's tent; and he took Rebekah and she became his wife, and he loved h er. So Isaac was comforted aft er his moth er's death.

nkjv@Genesis:25:1 @ Abraham again took a wife, and h er name was Keturah.

nkjv@Genesis:25:3 @ Jokshan begot Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan w ere Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim.

nkjv@Genesis:25:4 @ And the sons of Midian w ere Ephah, Eph er, Hanoch, Abidah, and Eldaah. All these w ere the children of Keturah.

nkjv@Genesis:25:8 @ Then Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gath ered to his people.

nkjv@Genesis:25:10 @ the field which Abraham purchased from the sons of Heth. Th ere Abraham was buried, and Sarah his wife.

nkjv@Genesis:25:11 @ And it came to pass, aft er the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac. And Isaac dwelt at Be er Lahai Roi.

nkjv@Genesis:25:12 @ Now this is the genealogy of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's maids ervant, bore to Abraham.

nkjv@Genesis:25:13 @ And these w ere the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their gen erations: The firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth; then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

nkjv@Genesis:25:16 @ These w ere the sons of Ishmael and these w ere their names, by their towns and their settlements, twelve princes according to their nations.

nkjv@Genesis:25:17 @ These w ere the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred and thirty-seven years; and he breathed his last and died, and was gath ered to his people.

nkjv@Genesis:25:20 @ Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah as wife, the daught er of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan Aram, the sist er of Laban the Syrian.

nkjv@Genesis:25:22 @ But the children struggled togeth er within h er; and she said, "If all is well, why am I like this?

nkjv@Genesis:25:23 @ And the LORD said to h er: "Two nations are in your womb, Two peoples shall be separated from your body; One people shall be strong er than the oth er, And the old er shall s erve the young er."

nkjv@Genesis:25:24 @ So when h er days w ere fulfilled for h er to give birth, indeed th ere w ere twins in h er womb.

nkjv@Genesis:25:25 @ And the first came out red. He was like a hairy garment all ov er; so they called his name Esau.

nkjv@Genesis:25:26 @ Aft erward his broth er came out, and his hand took hold of Esau's heel; so his name was called Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.

nkjv@Genesis:25:27 @ So the boys grew. And Esau was a skillful hunt er, a man of the field; but Jacob was a mild man, dwelling in tents.

nkjv@Genesis:25:30 @ And Esau said to Jacob, "Please feed me with that same red stew, for I am weary." Th erefore his name was called Edom.

nkjv@Genesis:26:1 @ Th ere was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, in G erar.

nkjv@Genesis:26:3 @ Dwell in this land, and I will be with you and bless you; for to you and your descendants I give all these lands, and I will p erform the oath which I swore to Abraham your fath er.

nkjv@Genesis:26:6 @ So Isaac dwelt in G erar.

nkjv@Genesis:26:7 @ And the men of the place asked about his wife. And he said, "She is my sist er"; for he was afraid to say, "She is my wife," because he thought, "lest the men of the place kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to behold."

nkjv@Genesis:26:8 @ Now it came to pass, when he had been th ere a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked through a window, and saw, and th ere was Isaac, showing endearment to Rebekah his wife.

nkjv@Genesis:26:9 @ Then Abimelech called Isaac and said, "Quite obviously she is your wife; so how could you say, "She is my sist er'?" Isaac said to him, "Because I said, "Lest I die on account of h er.'

nkjv@Genesis:26:13 @ The man began to prosp er, and continued prosp ering until he became v ery prosp erous;

nkjv@Genesis:26:14 @ for he had possessions of flocks and possessions of h erds and a great numb er of s ervants. So the Philistines envied him.

nkjv@Genesis:26:15 @ Now the Philistines had stopped up all the wells which his fath er's s ervants had dug in the days of Abraham his fath er, and they had filled them with earth.

nkjv@Genesis:26:16 @ And Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go away from us, for you are much mighti er than we."

nkjv@Genesis:26:17 @ Then Isaac departed from th ere and pitched his tent in the Valley of G erar, and dwelt th ere.

nkjv@Genesis:26:18 @ And Isaac dug again the wells of wat er which they had dug in the days of Abraham his fath er, for the Philistines had stopped them up aft er the death of Abraham. He called them by the names which his fath er had called them.

nkjv@Genesis:26:19 @ Also Isaac's s ervants dug in the valley, and found a well of running wat er th ere.

nkjv@Genesis:26:20 @ But the h erdsmen of G erar quarreled with Isaac's h erdsmen, saying, "The wat er is ours." So he called the name of the well Esek, because they quarreled with him.

nkjv@Genesis:26:21 @ Then they dug anoth er well, and they quarreled ov er that one also. So he called its name Sitnah.

nkjv@Genesis:26:22 @ And he moved from th ere and dug anoth er well, and they did not quarrel ov er it. So he called its name Rehoboth, because he said, "For now the LORD has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land."

nkjv@Genesis:26:23 @ Then he went up from th ere to Be ersheba.

nkjv@Genesis:26:24 @ And the LORD appeared to him the same night and said, "I am the God of your fath er Abraham; do not fear, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for My s ervant Abraham's sake."

nkjv@Genesis:26:25 @ So he built an altar th ere and called on the name of the LORD, and he pitched his tent th ere; and th ere Isaac's s ervants dug a well.

nkjv@Genesis:26:26 @ Then Abimelech came to him from G erar with Ahuzzath, one of his friends, and Phichol the command er of his army.

nkjv@Genesis:26:28 @ But they said, "We have c ertainly seen that the LORD is with you. So we said, "Let th ere now be an oath between us, between you and us; and let us make a covenant with you,

nkjv@Genesis:26:31 @ Then they arose early in the morning and swore an oath with one anoth er; and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

nkjv@Genesis:26:32 @ It came to pass the same day that Isaac's s ervants came and told him about the well which they had dug, and said to him, "We have found wat er."

nkjv@Genesis:26:33 @ So he called it Shebah. Th erefore the name of the city is Be ersheba to this day.

nkjv@Genesis:26:34 @ When Esau was forty years old, he took as wives Judith the daught er of Be eri the Hittite, and Basemath the daught er of Elon the Hittite.

nkjv@Genesis:26:35 @ And they w ere a grief of mind to Isaac and Rebekah.

nkjv@Genesis:27:1 @ Now it came to pass, when Isaac was old and his eyes w ere so dim that he could not see, that he called Esau his old er son and said to him, "My son." And he answ ered him, "H ere I am."

nkjv@Genesis:27:3 @ Now th erefore, please take your weapons, your quiv er and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me.

nkjv@Genesis:27:6 @ So Rebekah spoke to Jacob h er son, saying, "Indeed I heard your fath er speak to Esau your broth er, saying,

nkjv@Genesis:27:8 @ Now th erefore, my son, obey my voice according to what I command you.

nkjv@Genesis:27:9 @ Go now to the flock and bring me from th ere two choice kids of the goats, and I will make savory food from them for your fath er, such as he loves.

nkjv@Genesis:27:10 @ Then you shall take it to your fath er, that he may eat it, and that he may bless you before his death."

nkjv@Genesis:27:11 @ And Jacob said to Rebekah his moth er, "Look, Esau my broth er is a hairy man, and I am a smooth-skinned man.

nkjv@Genesis:27:12 @ P erhaps my fath er will feel me, and I shall seem to be a deceiv er to him; and I shall bring a curse on myself and not a blessing."

nkjv@Genesis:27:13 @ But his moth er said to him, "Let your curse be on me, my son; only obey my voice, and go, get them for me."

nkjv@Genesis:27:14 @ And he went and got them and brought them to his moth er, and his moth er made savory food, such as his fath er loved.

nkjv@Genesis:27:15 @ Then Rebekah took the choice clothes of h er eld er son Esau, which w ere with h er in the house, and put them on Jacob h er young er son.

nkjv@Genesis:27:17 @ Then she gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of h er son Jacob.

nkjv@Genesis:27:18 @ So he went to his fath er and said, "My fath er." And he said, "H ere I am. Who are you, my son?"

nkjv@Genesis:27:19 @ Jacob said to his fath er, "I am Esau your firstborn; I have done just as you told me; please arise, sit and eat of my game, that your soul may bless me."

nkjv@Genesis:27:21 @ Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, wheth er you are really my son Esau or not."

nkjv@Genesis:27:22 @ So Jacob went near to Isaac his fath er, and he felt him and said, "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau."

nkjv@Genesis:27:23 @ And he did not recognize him, because his hands w ere hairy like his broth er Esau's hands; so he blessed him.

nkjv@Genesis:27:26 @ Then his fath er Isaac said to him, "Come near now and kiss me, my son."

nkjv@Genesis:27:28 @ Th erefore may God give you Of the dew of heaven, Of the fatness of the earth, And plenty of grain and wine.

nkjv@Genesis:27:29 @ Let peoples s erve you, And nations bow down to you. Be mast er ov er your brethren, And let your moth er's sons bow down to you. Cursed be ev eryone who curses you, And blessed be those who bless you!"

nkjv@Genesis:27:30 @ Now it happened, as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his fath er, that Esau his broth er came in from his hunting.

nkjv@Genesis:27:31 @ He also had made savory food, and brought it to his fath er, and said to his fath er, "Let my fath er arise and eat of his son's game, that your soul may bless me."

nkjv@Genesis:27:32 @ And his fath er Isaac said to him, "Who are you?" So he said, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau."

nkjv@Genesis:27:33 @ Then Isaac trembled exceedingly, and said, "Who? Wh ere is the one who hunted game and brought it to me? I ate all of it before you came, and I have blessed him--and indeed he shall be blessed."

nkjv@Genesis:27:34 @ When Esau heard the words of his fath er, he cried with an exceedingly great and bitt er cry, and said to his fath er, "Bless me--me also, O my fath er!"

nkjv@Genesis:27:35 @ But he said, "Your broth er came with deceit and has taken away your blessing."

nkjv@Genesis:27:36 @ And Esau said, "Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright, and now look, he has taken away my blessing!" And he said, "Have you not res erved a blessing for me?"

nkjv@Genesis:27:37 @ Then Isaac answ ered and said to Esau, "Indeed I have made him your mast er, and all his brethren I have given to him as s ervants; with grain and wine I have sustained him. What shall I do now for you, my son?"

nkjv@Genesis:27:38 @ And Esau said to his fath er, "Have you only one blessing, my fath er? Bless me--me also, O my fath er!" And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.

nkjv@Genesis:27:39 @ Then Isaac his fath er answ ered and said to him: "Behold, your dwelling shall be of the fatness of the earth, And of the dew of heaven from above.

nkjv@Genesis:27:40 @ By your sword you shall live, And you shall s erve your broth er; And it shall come to pass, when you become restless, That you shall break his yoke from your neck."

nkjv@Genesis:27:41 @ So Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his fath er blessed him, and Esau said in his heart, "The days of mourning for my fath er are at hand; then I will kill my broth er Jacob."

nkjv@Genesis:27:42 @ And the words of Esau h er old er son w ere told to Rebekah. So she sent and called Jacob h er young er son, and said to him, "Surely your broth er Esau comforts himself conc erning you by intending to kill you.

nkjv@Genesis:27:43 @ Now th erefore, my son, obey my voice: arise, flee to my broth er Laban in Haran.

nkjv@Genesis:27:44 @ And stay with him a few days, until your broth er's fury turns away,

nkjv@Genesis:27:45 @ until your broth er's ang er turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him; then I will send and bring you from th ere. Why should I be b ereaved also of you both in one day?"

nkjv@Genesis:27:46 @ And Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am weary of my life because of the daught ers of Heth; if Jacob takes a wife of the daught ers of Heth, like these who are the daught ers of the land, what good will my life be to me?"

nkjv@Genesis:28:1 @ Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him, and charged him, and said to him: "You shall not take a wife from the daught ers of Canaan.

nkjv@Genesis:28:2 @ Arise, go to Padan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your moth er's fath er; and take yourself a wife from th ere of the daught ers of Laban your moth er's broth er.

nkjv@Genesis:28:4 @ And give you the blessing of Abraham, To you and your descendants with you, That you may inh erit the land In which you are a strang er, Which God gave to Abraham."

nkjv@Genesis:28:5 @ So Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Padan Aram, to Laban the son of Bethuel the Syrian, the broth er of Rebekah, the moth er of Jacob and Esau.

nkjv@Genesis:28:6 @ Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Padan Aram to take himself a wife from th ere, and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, "You shall not take a wife from the daught ers of Canaan,"

nkjv@Genesis:28:7 @ and that Jacob had obeyed his fath er and his moth er and had gone to Padan Aram.

nkjv@Genesis:28:8 @ Also Esau saw that the daught ers of Canaan did not please his fath er Isaac.

nkjv@Genesis:28:9 @ So Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath the daught er of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sist er of Nebajoth, to be his wife in addition to the wives he had.

nkjv@Genesis:28:10 @ Now Jacob went out from Be ersheba and went toward Haran.

nkjv@Genesis:28:11 @ So he came to a c ertain place and stayed th ere all night, because the sun had set. And he took one of the stones of that place and put it at his head, and he lay down in that place to sleep.

nkjv@Genesis:28:12 @ Then he dreamed, and behold, a ladd er was set up on the earth, and its top reached to heaven; and th ere the angels of God w ere ascending and descending on it.

nkjv@Genesis:28:13 @ And behold, the LORD stood above it and said: "I am the LORD God of Abraham your fath er and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and your descendants.

nkjv@Genesis:28:15 @ Behold, I am with you and will keep you wh erev er you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you."

nkjv@Genesis:28:17 @ And he was afraid and said, "How awesome is this place! This is none oth er than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven!"

nkjv@Genesis:28:21 @ so that I come back to my fath er's house in peace, then the LORD shall be my God.

nkjv@Genesis:29:2 @ And he looked, and saw a well in the field; and behold, th ere w ere three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they wat ered the flocks. A large stone was on the well's mouth.

nkjv@Genesis:29:3 @ Now all the flocks would be gath ered th ere; and they would roll the stone from the well's mouth, wat er the sheep, and put the stone back in its place on the well's mouth.

nkjv@Genesis:29:4 @ And Jacob said to them, "My brethren, wh ere are you from?" And they said, "We are from Haran."

nkjv@Genesis:29:6 @ So he said to them, "Is he well?" And they said, "He is well. And look, his daught er Rachel is coming with the sheep."

nkjv@Genesis:29:7 @ Then he said, "Look, it is still high day; it is not time for the cattle to be gath ered togeth er. Wat er the sheep, and go and feed them."

nkjv@Genesis:29:8 @ But they said, "We cannot until all the flocks are gath ered togeth er, and they have rolled the stone from the well's mouth; then we wat er the sheep."

nkjv@Genesis:29:9 @ Now while he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with h er fath er's sheep, for she was a sheph erdess.

nkjv@Genesis:29:10 @ And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daught er of Laban his moth er's broth er, and the sheep of Laban his moth er's broth er, that Jacob went near and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and wat ered the flock of Laban his moth er's broth er.

nkjv@Genesis:29:12 @ And Jacob told Rachel that he was h er fath er's relative and that he was Rebekah's son. So she ran and told h er fath er.

nkjv@Genesis:29:13 @ Then it came to pass, when Laban heard the report about Jacob his sist er's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him and kissed him, and brought him to his house. So he told Laban all these things.

nkjv@Genesis:29:15 @ Then Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my relative, should you th erefore s erve me for nothing? Tell me, what should your wages be?

nkjv@Genesis:29:16 @ Now Laban had two daught ers: the name of the eld er was Leah, and the name of the young er was Rachel.

nkjv@Genesis:29:17 @ Leah's eyes w ere delicate, but Rachel was beautiful of form and appearance.

nkjv@Genesis:29:18 @ Now Jacob loved Rachel; so he said, "I will s erve you seven years for Rachel your young er daught er."

nkjv@Genesis:29:19 @ And Laban said, "It is bett er that I give h er to you than that I should give h er to anoth er man. Stay with me."

nkjv@Genesis:29:20 @ So Jacob s erved seven years for Rachel, and they seemed only a few days to him because of the love he had for h er.

nkjv@Genesis:29:21 @ Then Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to h er."

nkjv@Genesis:29:22 @ And Laban gath ered togeth er all the men of the place and made a feast.

nkjv@Genesis:29:23 @ Now it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daught er and brought h er to Jacob; and he went in to h er.

nkjv@Genesis:29:24 @ And Laban gave his maid Zilpah to his daught er Leah as a maid.

nkjv@Genesis:29:25 @ So it came to pass in the morning, that behold, it was Leah. And he said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? Was it not for Rachel that I s erved you? Why then have you deceived me?"

nkjv@Genesis:29:26 @ And Laban said, "It must not be done so in our country, to give the young er before the firstborn.

nkjv@Genesis:29:27 @ Fulfill h er week, and we will give you this one also for the s ervice which you will s erve with me still anoth er seven years."

nkjv@Genesis:29:28 @ Then Jacob did so and fulfilled h er week. So he gave him his daught er Rachel as wife also.

nkjv@Genesis:29:29 @ And Laban gave his maid Bilhah to his daught er Rachel as a maid.

nkjv@Genesis:29:30 @ Then Jacob also went in to Rachel, and he also loved Rachel more than Leah. And he s erved with Laban still anoth er seven years.

nkjv@Genesis:29:31 @ When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened h er womb; but Rachel was barren.

nkjv@Genesis:29:32 @ So Leah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben; for she said, "The LORD has surely looked on my affliction. Now th erefore, my husband will love me."

nkjv@Genesis:29:33 @ Then she conceived again and bore a son, and said, "Because the LORD has heard that I am unloved, He has th erefore given me this son also." And she called his name Simeon.

nkjv@Genesis:29:34 @ She conceived again and bore a son, and said, "Now this time my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons." Th erefore his name was called Levi.

nkjv@Genesis:29:35 @ And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, "Now I will praise the LORD." Th erefore she called his name Judah. Then she stopped bearing.

nkjv@Genesis:30:1 @ Now when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied h er sist er, and said to Jacob, "Give me children, or else I die!"

nkjv@Genesis:30:2 @ And Jacob's ang er was aroused against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"

nkjv@Genesis:30:3 @ So she said, "H ere is my maid Bilhah; go in to h er, and she will bear a child on my knees, that I also may have children by h er."

nkjv@Genesis:30:4 @ Then she gave him Bilhah h er maid as wife, and Jacob went in to h er.

nkjv@Genesis:30:6 @ Then Rachel said, "God has judged my case; and He has also heard my voice and given me a son." Th erefore she called his name Dan.

nkjv@Genesis:30:8 @ Then Rachel said, "With great wrestlings I have wrestled with my sist er, and indeed I have prevailed." So she called his name Naphtali.

nkjv@Genesis:30:9 @ When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing, she took Zilpah h er maid and gave h er to Jacob as wife.

nkjv@Genesis:30:13 @ Then Leah said, "I am happy, for the daught ers will call me blessed." So she called his name Ash er.

nkjv@Genesis:30:14 @ Now Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his moth er Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."

nkjv@Genesis:30:15 @ But she said to h er, "Is it a small matt er that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son's mandrakes also?" And Rachel said, "Th erefore he will lie with you tonight for your son's mandrakes."

nkjv@Genesis:30:16 @ When Jacob came out of the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, "You must come in to me, for I have surely hired you with my son's mandrakes." And he lay with h er that night.

nkjv@Genesis:30:21 @ Aft erward she bore a daught er, and called h er name Dinah.

nkjv@Genesis:30:22 @ Then God rememb ered Rachel, and God listened to h er and opened h er womb.

nkjv@Genesis:30:24 @ So she called his name Joseph, and said, "The LORD shall add to me anoth er son."

nkjv@Genesis:30:26 @ Give me my wives and my children for whom I have s erved you, and let me go; for you know my s ervice which I have done for you."

nkjv@Genesis:30:27 @ And Laban said to him, "Please stay, if I have found favor in your eyes, for I have learned by exp erience that the LORD has blessed me for your sake."

nkjv@Genesis:30:29 @ So Jacob said to him, "You know how I have s erved you and how your livestock has been with me.

nkjv@Genesis:30:32 @ Let me pass through all your flock today, removing from th ere all the speckled and spotted sheep, and all the brown ones among the lambs, and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and these shall be my wages.

nkjv@Genesis:30:33 @ So my righteousness will answ er for me in time to come, when the subject of my wages comes before you: ev ery one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the lambs, will be consid ered stolen, if it is with me."

nkjv@Genesis:30:34 @ And Laban said, "Oh, that it w ere according to your word!"

nkjv@Genesis:30:35 @ So he removed that day the male goats that w ere speckled and spotted, all the female goats that w ere speckled and spotted, ev ery one that had some white in it, and all the brown ones among the lambs, and gave them into the hand of his sons.

nkjv@Genesis:30:38 @ And the rods which he had peeled, he set before the flocks in the gutt ers, in the wat ering troughs wh ere the flocks came to drink, so that they should conceive when they came to drink.

nkjv@Genesis:30:41 @ And it came to pass, whenev er the strong er livestock conceived, that Jacob placed the rods before the eyes of the livestock in the gutt ers, that they might conceive among the rods.

nkjv@Genesis:30:42 @ But when the flocks w ere feeble, he did not put them in; so the feebl er w ere Laban's and the strong er Jacob's.

nkjv@Genesis:30:43 @ Thus the man became exceedingly prosp erous, and had large flocks, female and male s ervants, and camels and donkeys.

nkjv@Genesis:31:1 @ Now Jacob heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, "Jacob has taken away all that was our fath er's, and from what was our fath er's he has acquired all this wealth."

nkjv@Genesis:31:3 @ Then the LORD said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fath ers and to your family, and I will be with you."

nkjv@Genesis:31:5 @ and said to them, "I see your fath er's countenance, that it is not favorable toward me as before; but the God of my fath er has been with me.

nkjv@Genesis:31:6 @ And you know that with all my might I have s erved your fath er.

nkjv@Genesis:31:7 @ Yet your fath er has deceived me and changed my wages ten times, but God did not allow him to hurt me.

nkjv@Genesis:31:9 @ So God has taken away the livestock of your fath er and given them to me.

nkjv@Genesis:31:10 @ "And it happened, at the time when the flocks conceived, that I lifted my eyes and saw in a dream, and behold, the rams which leaped upon the flocks w ere streaked, speckled, and gray-spotted.

nkjv@Genesis:31:11 @ Then the Angel of God spoke to me in a dream, saying, "Jacob.' And I said, "H ere I am.'

nkjv@Genesis:31:13 @ I am the God of Bethel, wh ere you anointed the pillar and wh ere you made a vow to Me. Now arise, get out of this land, and return to the land of your family."'

nkjv@Genesis:31:14 @ Then Rachel and Leah answ ered and said to him, "Is th ere still any portion or inh eritance for us in our fath er's house?

nkjv@Genesis:31:15 @ Are we not consid ered strang ers by him? For he has sold us, and also completely consumed our money.

nkjv@Genesis:31:16 @ For all these riches which God has taken from our fath er are really ours and our children's; now then, whatev er God has said to you, do it."

nkjv@Genesis:31:18 @ And he carried away all his livestock and all his possessions which he had gained, his acquired livestock which he had gained in Padan Aram, to go to his fath er Isaac in the land of Canaan.

nkjv@Genesis:31:19 @ Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel had stolen the household idols that w ere h er fath er's.

nkjv@Genesis:31:21 @ So he fled with all that he had. He arose and crossed the riv er, and headed toward the mountains of Gilead.

nkjv@Genesis:31:23 @ Then he took his brethren with him and pursued him for seven days' journey, and he ov ertook him in the mountains of Gilead.

nkjv@Genesis:31:24 @ But God had come to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said to him, "Be careful that you speak to Jacob neith er good nor bad."

nkjv@Genesis:31:25 @ So Laban ov ertook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountains, and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mountains of Gilead.

nkjv@Genesis:31:26 @ And Laban said to Jacob: "What have you done, that you have stolen away unknown to me, and carried away my daught ers like captives taken with the sword?

nkjv@Genesis:31:28 @ And you did not allow me to kiss my sons and my daught ers. Now you have done foolishly in so doing.

nkjv@Genesis:31:29 @ It is in my pow er to do you harm, but the God of your fath er spoke to me last night, saying, "Be careful that you speak to Jacob neith er good nor bad.'

nkjv@Genesis:31:30 @ And now you have surely gone because you greatly long for your fath er's house, but why did you steal my gods?"

nkjv@Genesis:31:31 @ Then Jacob answ ered and said to Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I said, "P erhaps you would take your daught ers from me by force.'

nkjv@Genesis:31:32 @ With whomev er you find your gods, do not let him live. In the presence of our brethren, identify what I have of yours and take it with you." For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.

nkjv@Genesis:31:33 @ And Laban went into Jacob's tent, into Leah's tent, and into the two maids' tents, but he did not find them. Then he went out of Leah's tent and ent ered Rachel's tent.

nkjv@Genesis:31:35 @ And she said to h er fath er, "Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise before you, for the mann er of women is with me." And he searched but did not find the household idols.

nkjv@Genesis:31:36 @ Then Jacob was angry and rebuked Laban, and Jacob answ ered and said to Laban: "What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have so hotly pursued me?

nkjv@Genesis:31:37 @ Although you have searched all my things, what part of your household things have you found? Set it h ere before my brethren and your brethren, that they may judge between us both!

nkjv@Genesis:31:39 @ That which was torn by beasts I did not bring to you; I bore the loss of it. You required it from my hand, wheth er stolen by day or stolen by night.

nkjv@Genesis:31:40 @ Th ere I was! In the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night, and my sleep departed from my eyes.

nkjv@Genesis:31:41 @ Thus I have been in your house twenty years; I s erved you fourteen years for your two daught ers, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.

nkjv@Genesis:31:42 @ Unless the God of my fath er, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night."

nkjv@Genesis:31:43 @ And Laban answ ered and said to Jacob, "These daught ers are my daught ers, and these children are my children, and this flock is my flock; all that you see is mine. But what can I do this day to these my daught ers or to their children whom they have borne?

nkjv@Genesis:31:44 @ Now th erefore, come, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it be a witness between you and me."

nkjv@Genesis:31:46 @ Then Jacob said to his brethren, "Gath er stones." And they took stones and made a heap, and they ate th ere on the heap.

nkjv@Genesis:31:48 @ And Laban said, "This heap is a witness between you and me this day." Th erefore its name was called Galeed,

nkjv@Genesis:31:49 @ also Mizpah, because he said, "May the LORD watch between you and me when we are absent one from anoth er.

nkjv@Genesis:31:50 @ If you afflict my daught ers, or if you take oth er wives besides my daught ers, although no man is with us--see, God is witness between you and me!"

nkjv@Genesis:31:51 @ Then Laban said to Jacob, "H ere is this heap and h ere is this pillar, which I have placed between you and me.

nkjv@Genesis:31:53 @ The God of Abraham, the God of Nahor, and the God of their fath er judge between us." And Jacob swore by the Fear of his fath er Isaac.

nkjv@Genesis:31:54 @ Then Jacob off ered a sacrifice on the mountain, and called his brethren to eat bread. And they ate bread and stayed all night on the mountain.

nkjv@Genesis:31:55 @ And early in the morning Laban arose, and kissed his sons and daught ers and blessed them. Then Laban departed and returned to his place.

nkjv@Genesis:32:3 @ Then Jacob sent messeng ers before him to Esau his broth er in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

nkjv@Genesis:32:4 @ And he commanded them, saying, "Speak thus to my lord Esau, "Thus your s ervant Jacob says: "I have dwelt with Laban and stayed th ere until now.

nkjv@Genesis:32:5 @ I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, and male and female s ervants; and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.""'

nkjv@Genesis:32:6 @ Then the messeng ers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your broth er Esau, and he also is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him."

nkjv@Genesis:32:7 @ So Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; and he divided the people that w ere with him, and the flocks and h erds and camels, into two companies.

nkjv@Genesis:32:8 @ And he said, "If Esau comes to the one company and attacks it, then the oth er company which is left will escape."

nkjv@Genesis:32:9 @ Then Jacob said, "O God of my fath er Abraham and God of my fath er Isaac, the LORD who said to me, "Return to your country and to your family, and I will deal well with you':

nkjv@Genesis:32:10 @ I am not worthy of the least of all the m ercies and of all the truth which You have shown Your s ervant; for I crossed ov er this Jordan with my staff, and now I have become two companies.

nkjv@Genesis:32:11 @ Deliv er me, I pray, from the hand of my broth er, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and attack me and the moth er with the children.

nkjv@Genesis:32:12 @ For You said, "I will surely treat you well, and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numb ered for multitude."'

nkjv@Genesis:32:13 @ So he lodged th ere that same night, and took what came to his hand as a present for Esau his broth er:

nkjv@Genesis:32:16 @ Then he deliv ered them to the hand of his s ervants, ev ery drove by itself, and said to his s ervants, "Pass ov er before me, and put some distance between successive droves."

nkjv@Genesis:32:17 @ And he commanded the first one, saying, "When Esau my broth er meets you and asks you, saying, "To whom do you belong, and wh ere are you going? Whose are these in front of you?'

nkjv@Genesis:32:18 @ then you shall say, "They are your s ervant Jacob's. It is a present sent to my lord Esau; and behold, he also is behind us."'

nkjv@Genesis:32:19 @ So he commanded the second, the third, and all who followed the droves, saying, "In this mann er you shall speak to Esau when you find him;

nkjv@Genesis:32:20 @ and also say, "Behold, your s ervant Jacob is behind us."' For he said, "I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and aft erward I will see his face; p erhaps he will accept me."

nkjv@Genesis:32:21 @ So the present went on ov er before him, but he himself lodged that night in the camp.

nkjv@Genesis:32:22 @ And he arose that night and took his two wives, his two female s ervants, and his eleven sons, and crossed ov er the ford of Jabbok.

nkjv@Genesis:32:23 @ He took them, sent them ov er the brook, and sent ov er what he had.

nkjv@Genesis:32:28 @ And He said, "Your name shall no long er be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have struggled with God and with men, and have prevailed."

nkjv@Genesis:32:29 @ Then Jacob asked, saying, "Tell me Your name, I pray." And He said, "Why is it that you ask about My name?" And He blessed him th ere.

nkjv@Genesis:32:30 @ So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: "For I have seen God face to face, and my life is pres erved."

nkjv@Genesis:32:31 @ Just as he crossed ov er Penuel the sun rose on him, and he limped on his hip.

nkjv@Genesis:32:32 @ Th erefore to this day the children of Israel do not eat the muscle that shrank, which is on the hip socket, because He touched the socket of Jacob's hip in the muscle that shrank.

nkjv@Genesis:33:1 @ Now Jacob lifted his eyes and looked, and th ere, Esau was coming, and with him w ere four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two maids ervants.

nkjv@Genesis:33:2 @ And he put the maids ervants and their children in front, Leah and h er children behind, and Rachel and Joseph last.

nkjv@Genesis:33:3 @ Then he crossed ov er before them and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his broth er.

nkjv@Genesis:33:5 @ And he lifted his eyes and saw the women and children, and said, "Who are these with you?" So he said, "The children whom God has graciously given your s ervant."

nkjv@Genesis:33:6 @ Then the maids ervants came near, they and their children, and bowed down.

nkjv@Genesis:33:7 @ And Leah also came near with h er children, and they bowed down. Aft erward Joseph and Rachel came near, and they bowed down.

nkjv@Genesis:33:9 @ But Esau said, "I have enough, my broth er; keep what you have for yourself."

nkjv@Genesis:33:10 @ And Jacob said, "No, please, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present from my hand, inasmuch as I have seen your face as though I had seen the face of God, and you w ere pleased with me.

nkjv@Genesis:33:13 @ But Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are weak, and the flocks and h erds which are nursing are with me. And if the men should drive them hard one day, all the flock will die.

nkjv@Genesis:33:14 @ Please let my lord go on ahead before his s ervant. I will lead on slowly at a pace which the livestock that go before me, and the children, are able to endure, until I come to my lord in Seir."

nkjv@Genesis:33:15 @ And Esau said, "Now let me leave with you some of the people who are with me." But he said, "What need is th ere? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord."

nkjv@Genesis:33:17 @ And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, built himself a house, and made booths for his livestock. Th erefore the name of the place is called Succoth.

nkjv@Genesis:33:19 @ And he bought the parcel of land, wh ere he had pitched his tent, from the children of Hamor, Shechem's fath er, for one hundred pieces of money.

nkjv@Genesis:33:20 @ Then he erected an altar th ere and called it El Elohe Israel.

nkjv@Genesis:34:1 @ Now Dinah the daught er of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to see the daught ers of the land.

nkjv@Genesis:34:2 @ And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw h er, he took h er and lay with h er, and violated h er.

nkjv@Genesis:34:3 @ His soul was strongly attracted to Dinah the daught er of Jacob, and he loved the young woman and spoke kindly to the young woman.

nkjv@Genesis:34:4 @ So Shechem spoke to his fath er Hamor, saying, "Get me this young woman as a wife."

nkjv@Genesis:34:5 @ And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daught er. Now his sons w ere with his livestock in the field; so Jacob held his peace until they came.

nkjv@Genesis:34:6 @ Then Hamor the fath er of Shechem went out to Jacob to speak with him.

nkjv@Genesis:34:7 @ And the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it; and the men w ere grieved and v ery angry, because he had done a disgraceful thing in Israel by lying with Jacob's daught er, a thing which ought not to be done.

nkjv@Genesis:34:8 @ But Hamor spoke with them, saying, "The soul of my son Shechem longs for your daught er. Please give h er to him as a wife.

nkjv@Genesis:34:9 @ And make marriages with us; give your daught ers to us, and take our daught ers to yourselves.

nkjv@Genesis:34:11 @ Then Shechem said to h er fath er and h er broth ers, "Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatev er you say to me I will give.

nkjv@Genesis:34:12 @ Ask me ev er so much dowry and gift, and I will give according to what you say to me; but give me the young woman as a wife."

nkjv@Genesis:34:13 @ But the sons of Jacob answ ered Shechem and Hamor his fath er, and spoke deceitfully, because he had defiled Dinah their sist er.

nkjv@Genesis:34:14 @ And they said to them, "We cannot do this thing, to give our sist er to one who is uncircumcised, for that would be a reproach to us.

nkjv@Genesis:34:15 @ But on this condition we will consent to you: If you will become as we are, if ev ery male of you is circumcised,

nkjv@Genesis:34:16 @ then we will give our daught ers to you, and we will take your daught ers to us; and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.

nkjv@Genesis:34:17 @ But if you will not heed us and be circumcised, then we will take our daught er and be gone."

nkjv@Genesis:34:19 @ So the young man did not delay to do the thing, because he delighted in Jacob's daught er. He was more honorable than all the household of his fath er.

nkjv@Genesis:34:21 @ "These men are at peace with us. Th erefore let them dwell in the land and trade in it. For indeed the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daught ers to us as wives, and let us give them our daught ers.

nkjv@Genesis:34:22 @ Only on this condition will the men consent to dwell with us, to be one people: if ev ery male among us is circumcised as they are circumcised.

nkjv@Genesis:34:23 @ Will not their livestock, their prop erty, and ev ery animal of theirs be ours? Only let us consent to them, and they will dwell with us."

nkjv@Genesis:34:24 @ And all who went out of the gate of his city heeded Hamor and Shechem his son; ev ery male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.

nkjv@Genesis:34:25 @ Now it came to pass on the third day, when they w ere in pain, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's broth ers, each took his sword and came boldly upon the city and killed all the males.

nkjv@Genesis:34:27 @ The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and plund ered the city, because their sist er had been defiled.

nkjv@Genesis:34:29 @ and all their wealth. All their little ones and their wives they took captive; and they plund ered even all that was in the houses.

nkjv@Genesis:34:30 @ Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have troubled me by making me obnoxious among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the P erizzites; and since I am few in numb er, they will gath er themselves togeth er against me and kill me. I shall be destroyed, my household and I."

nkjv@Genesis:34:31 @ But they said, "Should he treat our sist er like a harlot?"

nkjv@Genesis:35:1 @ Then God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell th ere; and make an altar th ere to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your broth er."

nkjv@Genesis:35:2 @ And Jacob said to his household and to all who w ere with him, "Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, and change your garments.

nkjv@Genesis:35:3 @ Then let us arise and go up to Bethel; and I will make an altar th ere to God, who answ ered me in the day of my distress and has been with me in the way which I have gone."

nkjv@Genesis:35:4 @ So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods which w ere in their hands, and the earrings which w ere in their ears; and Jacob hid them und er the t erebinth tree which was by Shechem.

nkjv@Genesis:35:5 @ And they journeyed, and the t error of God was upon the cities that w ere all around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

nkjv@Genesis:35:6 @ So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who w ere with him.

nkjv@Genesis:35:7 @ And he built an altar th ere and called the place El Bethel, because th ere God appeared to him when he fled from the face of his broth er.

nkjv@Genesis:35:8 @ Now Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel und er the t erebinth tree. So the name of it was called Allon Bachuth.

nkjv@Genesis:35:12 @ The land which I gave Abraham and Isaac I give to you; and to your descendants aft er you I give this land."

nkjv@Genesis:35:13 @ Then God went up from him in the place wh ere He talked with him.

nkjv@Genesis:35:14 @ So Jacob set up a pillar in the place wh ere He talked with him, a pillar of stone; and he poured a drink off ering on it, and he poured oil on it.

nkjv@Genesis:35:15 @ And Jacob called the name of the place wh ere God spoke with him, Bethel.

nkjv@Genesis:35:16 @ Then they journeyed from Bethel. And when th ere was but a little distance to go to Ephrath, Rachel labored in childbirth, and she had hard labor.

nkjv@Genesis:35:17 @ Now it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said to h er, "Do not fear; you will have this son also."

nkjv@Genesis:35:18 @ And so it was, as h er soul was departing (for she died), that she called his name Ben-Oni; but his fath er called him Benjamin.

nkjv@Genesis:35:20 @ And Jacob set a pillar on h er grave, which is the pillar of Rachel's grave to this day.

nkjv@Genesis:35:21 @ Then Israel journeyed and pitched his tent beyond the tow er of Ed er.

nkjv@Genesis:35:22 @ And it happened, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his fath er's concubine; and Israel heard about it. Now the sons of Jacob w ere twelve:

nkjv@Genesis:35:23 @ the sons of Leah w ere Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun;

nkjv@Genesis:35:24 @ the sons of Rachel w ere Joseph and Benjamin;

nkjv@Genesis:35:25 @ the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's maids ervant, w ere Dan and Naphtali;

nkjv@Genesis:35:26 @ and the sons of Zilpah, Leah's maids ervant, w ere Gad and Ash er. These w ere the sons of Jacob who w ere born to him in Padan Aram.

nkjv@Genesis:35:27 @ Then Jacob came to his fath er Isaac at Mamre, or Kirjath Arba (that is, Hebron), wh ere Abraham and Isaac had dwelt.

nkjv@Genesis:35:28 @ Now the days of Isaac w ere one hundred and eighty years.

nkjv@Genesis:35:29 @ So Isaac breathed his last and died, and was gath ered to his people, being old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

nkjv@Genesis:36:2 @ Esau took his wives from the daught ers of Canaan: Adah the daught er of Elon the Hittite; Aholibamah the daught er of Anah, the daught er of Zibeon the Hivite;

nkjv@Genesis:36:3 @ and Basemath, Ishmael's daught er, sist er of Nebajoth.

nkjv@Genesis:36:5 @ And Aholibamah bore Jeush, Jaalam, and Korah. These w ere the sons of Esau who w ere born to him in the land of Canaan.

nkjv@Genesis:36:6 @ Then Esau took his wives, his sons, his daught ers, and all the p ersons of his household, his cattle and all his animals, and all his goods which he had gained in the land of Canaan, and went to a country away from the presence of his broth er Jacob.

nkjv@Genesis:36:7 @ For their possessions w ere too great for them to dwell togeth er, and the land wh ere they w ere strang ers could not support them because of their livestock.

nkjv@Genesis:36:9 @ And this is the genealogy of Esau the fath er of the Edomites in Mount Seir.

nkjv@Genesis:36:10 @ These w ere the names of Esau's sons: Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau, and Reuel the son of Basemath the wife of Esau.

nkjv@Genesis:36:11 @ And the sons of Eliphaz w ere Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz.

nkjv@Genesis:36:12 @ Now Timna was the concubine of Eliphaz, Esau's son, and she bore Amalek to Eliphaz. These w ere the sons of Adah, Esau's wife.

nkjv@Genesis:36:13 @ These w ere the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Z erah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These w ere the sons of Basemath, Esau's wife.

nkjv@Genesis:36:14 @ These w ere the sons of Aholibamah, Esau's wife, the daught er of Anah, the daught er of Zibeon. And she bore to Esau: Jeush, Jaalam, and Korah.

nkjv@Genesis:36:15 @ These w ere the chiefs of the sons of Esau. The sons of Eliphaz, the firstborn son of Esau, w ere Chief Teman, Chief Omar, Chief Zepho, Chief Kenaz,

nkjv@Genesis:36:16 @ Chief Korah, Chief Gatam, and Chief Amalek. These w ere the chiefs of Eliphaz in the land of Edom. They w ere the sons of Adah.

nkjv@Genesis:36:17 @ These w ere the sons of Reuel, Esau's son: Chief Nahath, Chief Z erah, Chief Shammah, and Chief Mizzah. These w ere the chiefs of Reuel in the land of Edom. These w ere the sons of Basemath, Esau's wife.

nkjv@Genesis:36:18 @ And these w ere the sons of Aholibamah, Esau's wife: Chief Jeush, Chief Jaalam, and Chief Korah. These w ere the chiefs who descended from Aholibamah, Esau's wife, the daught er of Anah.

nkjv@Genesis:36:19 @ These w ere the sons of Esau, who is Edom, and these w ere their chiefs.

nkjv@Genesis:36:20 @ These w ere the sons of Seir the Horite who inhabited the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,

nkjv@Genesis:36:21 @ Dishon, Ez er, and Dishan. These w ere the chiefs of the Horites, the sons of Seir, in the land of Edom.

nkjv@Genesis:36:22 @ And the sons of Lotan w ere Hori and Hemam. Lotan's sist er was Timna.

nkjv@Genesis:36:23 @ These w ere the sons of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.

nkjv@Genesis:36:24 @ These w ere the sons of Zibeon: both Ajah and Anah. This was the Anah who found the wat er in the wild erness as he pastured the donkeys of his fath er Zibeon.

nkjv@Genesis:36:25 @ These w ere the children of Anah: Dishon and Aholibamah the daught er of Anah.

nkjv@Genesis:36:26 @ These w ere the sons of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Ch eran.

nkjv@Genesis:36:27 @ These w ere the sons of Ez er: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan.

nkjv@Genesis:36:28 @ These w ere the sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.

nkjv@Genesis:36:29 @ These w ere the chiefs of the Horites: Chief Lotan, Chief Shobal, Chief Zibeon, Chief Anah,

nkjv@Genesis:36:30 @ Chief Dishon, Chief Ez er, and Chief Dishan. These w ere the chiefs of the Horites, according to their chiefs in the land of Seir.

nkjv@Genesis:36:31 @ Now these w ere the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned ov er the children of Israel:

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

nkjv@Genesis:36:37 @ And when Samlah died, Saul of Rehoboth-by-the-Riv er reigned in his place.

nkjv@Genesis:36:39 @ And when Baal-Hanan the son of Achbor died, Hadar reigned in his place; and the name of his city was Pau. His wife's name was Mehetabel, the daught er of Matred, the daught er of Mezahab.

nkjv@Genesis:36:40 @ And these w ere the names of the chiefs of Esau, according to their families and their places, by their names: Chief Timnah, Chief Alvah, Chief Jetheth,

nkjv@Genesis:36:43 @ Chief Magdiel, and Chief Iram. These w ere the chiefs of Edom, according to their dwelling places in the land of their possession. Esau was the fath er of the Edomites.

nkjv@Genesis:37:1 @ Now Jacob dwelt in the land wh ere his fath er was a strang er, in the land of Canaan.

nkjv@Genesis:37:2 @ This is the history of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his broth ers. And the lad was with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his fath er's wives; and Joseph brought a bad report of them to his fath er.

nkjv@Genesis:37:4 @ But when his broth ers saw that their fath er loved him more than all his broth ers, they hated him and could not speak peaceably to him.

nkjv@Genesis:37:5 @ Now Joseph had a dream, and he told it to his broth ers; and they hated him even more.

nkjv@Genesis:37:7 @ Th ere we w ere, binding sheaves in the field. Then behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and indeed your sheaves stood all around and bowed down to my sheaf."

nkjv@Genesis:37:8 @ And his broth ers said to him, "Shall you indeed reign ov er us? Or shall you indeed have dominion ov er us?" So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.

nkjv@Genesis:37:9 @ Then he dreamed still anoth er dream and told it to his broth ers, and said, "Look, I have dreamed anoth er dream. And this time, the sun, the moon, and the eleven stars bowed down to me."

nkjv@Genesis:37:10 @ So he told it to his fath er and his broth ers; and his fath er rebuked him and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall your moth er and I and your broth ers indeed come to bow down to the earth before you?"

nkjv@Genesis:37:11 @ And his broth ers envied him, but his fath er kept the matt er in mind.

nkjv@Genesis:37:12 @ Then his broth ers went to feed their fath er's flock in Shechem.

nkjv@Genesis:37:13 @ And Israel said to Joseph, "Are not your broth ers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, I will send you to them." So he said to him, "H ere I am."

nkjv@Genesis:37:14 @ Then he said to him, "Please go and see if it is well with your broth ers and well with the flocks, and bring back word to me." So he sent him out of the Valley of Hebron, and he went to Shechem.

nkjv@Genesis:37:15 @ Now a c ertain man found him, and th ere he was, wand ering in the field. And the man asked him, saying, "What are you seeking?"

nkjv@Genesis:37:16 @ So he said, "I am seeking my broth ers. Please tell me wh ere they are feeding their flocks."

nkjv@Genesis:37:17 @ And the man said, "They have departed from h ere, for I heard them say, "Let us go to Dothan."' So Joseph went aft er his broth ers and found them in Dothan.

nkjv@Genesis:37:19 @ Then they said to one anoth er, "Look, this dream er is coming!

nkjv@Genesis:37:20 @ Come th erefore, let us now kill him and cast him into some pit; and we shall say, "Some wild beast has devoured him.' We shall see what will become of his dreams!"

nkjv@Genesis:37:21 @ But Reuben heard it, and he deliv ered him out of their hands, and said, "Let us not kill him."

nkjv@Genesis:37:22 @ And Reuben said to them, "Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit which is in the wild erness, and do not lay a hand on him"--that he might deliv er him out of their hands, and bring him back to his fath er.

nkjv@Genesis:37:23 @ So it came to pass, when Joseph had come to his broth ers, that they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the tunic of many colors that was on him.

nkjv@Genesis:37:24 @ Then they took him and cast him into a pit. And the pit was empty; th ere was no wat er in it.

nkjv@Genesis:37:25 @ And they sat down to eat a meal. Then they lifted their eyes and looked, and th ere was a company of Ishmaelites, coming from Gilead with their camels, bearing spices, balm, and myrrh, on their way to carry them down to Egypt.

nkjv@Genesis:37:26 @ So Judah said to his broth ers, "What profit is th ere if we kill our broth er and conceal his blood?

nkjv@Genesis:37:27 @ Come and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our broth er and our flesh." And his broth ers listened.

nkjv@Genesis:37:28 @ Then Midianite trad ers passed by; so the broth ers pulled Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silv er. And they took Joseph to Egypt.

nkjv@Genesis:37:30 @ And he returned to his broth ers and said, "The lad is no more; and I, wh ere shall I go?"

nkjv@Genesis:37:32 @ Then they sent the tunic of many colors, and they brought it to their fath er and said, "We have found this. Do you know wheth er it is your son's tunic or not?"

nkjv@Genesis:37:35 @ And all his sons and all his daught ers arose to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted, and he said, "For I shall go down into the grave to my son in mourning." Thus his fath er wept for him.

nkjv@Genesis:37:36 @ Now the Midianites had sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, an offic er of Pharaoh and captain of the guard.

nkjv@Genesis:38:1 @ It came to pass at that time that Judah departed from his broth ers, and visited a c ertain Adullamite whose name was Hirah.

nkjv@Genesis:38:2 @ And Judah saw th ere a daught er of a c ertain Canaanite whose name was Shua, and he married h er and went in to h er.

nkjv@Genesis:38:3 @ So she conceived and bore a son, and he called his name Er.

nkjv@Genesis:38:6 @ Then Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, and h er name was Tamar.

nkjv@Genesis:38:7 @ But Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD, and the LORD killed him.

nkjv@Genesis:38:8 @ And Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your broth er's wife and marry h er, and raise up an heir to your broth er."

nkjv@Genesis:38:9 @ But Onan knew that the heir would not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in to his broth er's wife, that he emitted on the ground, lest he should give an heir to his broth er.

nkjv@Genesis:38:10 @ And the thing which he did displeased the LORD; th erefore He killed him also.

nkjv@Genesis:38:11 @ Then Judah said to Tamar his daught er-in-law, "Remain a widow in your fath er's house till my son Shelah is grown." For he said, "Lest he also die like his broth ers." And Tamar went and dwelt in h er fath er's house.

nkjv@Genesis:38:12 @ Now in the process of time the daught er of Shua, Judah's wife, died; and Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheepshear ers at Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

nkjv@Genesis:38:13 @ And it was told Tamar, saying, "Look, your fath er-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep."

nkjv@Genesis:38:14 @ So she took off h er widow's garments, cov ered h erself with a veil and wrapped h erself, and sat in an open place which was on the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given to him as a wife.

nkjv@Genesis:38:15 @ When Judah saw h er, he thought she was a harlot, because she had cov ered h er face.

nkjv@Genesis:38:16 @ Then he turned to h er by the way, and said, "Please let me come in to you"; for he did not know that she was his daught er-in-law. So she said, "What will you give me, that you may come in to me?"

nkjv@Genesis:38:18 @ Then he said, "What pledge shall I give you?" So she said, "Your signet and cord, and your staff that is in your hand." Then he gave them to h er, and went in to h er, and she conceived by him.

nkjv@Genesis:38:19 @ So she arose and went away, and laid aside h er veil and put on the garments of h er widowhood.

nkjv@Genesis:38:20 @ And Judah sent the young goat by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive his pledge from the woman's hand, but he did not find h er.

nkjv@Genesis:38:21 @ Then he asked the men of that place, saying, "Wh ere is the harlot who was openly by the roadside?" And they said, "Th ere was no harlot in this place."

nkjv@Genesis:38:22 @ So he returned to Judah and said, "I cannot find h er. Also, the men of the place said th ere was no harlot in this place."

nkjv@Genesis:38:23 @ Then Judah said, "Let h er take them for h erself, lest we be shamed; for I sent this young goat and you have not found h er."

nkjv@Genesis:38:24 @ And it came to pass, about three months aft er, that Judah was told, saying, "Tamar your daught er-in-law has played the harlot; furth ermore she is with child by harlotry." So Judah said, "Bring h er out and let h er be burned!"

nkjv@Genesis:38:25 @ When she was brought out, she sent to h er fath er-in-law, saying, "By the man to whom these belong, I am with child." And she said, "Please det ermine whose these are--the signet and cord, and staff."

nkjv@Genesis:38:26 @ So Judah acknowledged them and said, "She has been more righteous than I, because I did not give h er to Shelah my son." And he nev er knew h er again.

nkjv@Genesis:38:27 @ Now it came to pass, at the time for giving birth, that behold, twins w ere in h er womb.

nkjv@Genesis:38:29 @ Then it happened, as he drew back his hand, that his broth er came out unexpectedly; and she said, "How did you break through? This breach be upon you!" Th erefore his name was called P erez.

nkjv@Genesis:38:30 @ Aft erward his broth er came out who had the scarlet thread on his hand. And his name was called Z erah.

nkjv@Genesis:39:1 @ Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. And Potiphar, an offic er of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him down th ere.

nkjv@Genesis:39:2 @ The LORD was with Joseph, and he was a successful man; and he was in the house of his mast er the Egyptian.

nkjv@Genesis:39:3 @ And his mast er saw that the LORD was with him and that the LORD made all he did to prosp er in his hand.

nkjv@Genesis:39:4 @ So Joseph found favor in his sight, and s erved him. Then he made him ov erse er of his house, and all that he had he put und er his authority.

nkjv@Genesis:39:5 @ So it was, from the time that he had made him ov erse er of his house and all that he had, that the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of the LORD was on all that he had in the house and in the field.

nkjv@Genesis:39:7 @ And it came to pass aft er these things that his mast er's wife cast longing eyes on Joseph, and she said, "Lie with me."

nkjv@Genesis:39:8 @ But he refused and said to his mast er's wife, "Look, my mast er does not know what is with me in the house, and he has committed all that he has to my hand.

nkjv@Genesis:39:9 @ Th ere is no one great er in this house than I, nor has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?"

nkjv@Genesis:39:10 @ So it was, as she spoke to Joseph day by day, that he did not heed h er, to lie with h er or to be with h er.

nkjv@Genesis:39:12 @ that she caught him by his garment, saying, "Lie with me." But he left his garment in h er hand, and fled and ran outside.

nkjv@Genesis:39:13 @ And so it was, when she saw that he had left his garment in h er hand and fled outside,

nkjv@Genesis:39:14 @ that she called to the men of h er house and spoke to them, saying, "See, he has brought in to us a Hebrew to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried out with a loud voice.

nkjv@Genesis:39:16 @ So she kept his garment with h er until his mast er came home.

nkjv@Genesis:39:17 @ Then she spoke to him with words like these, saying, "The Hebrew s ervant whom you brought to us came in to me to mock me;

nkjv@Genesis:39:19 @ So it was, when his mast er heard the words which his wife spoke to him, saying, "Your s ervant did to me aft er this mann er," that his ang er was aroused.

nkjv@Genesis:39:20 @ Then Joseph's mast er took him and put him into the prison, a place wh ere the king's prison ers w ere confined. And he was th ere in the prison.

nkjv@Genesis:39:21 @ But the LORD was with Joseph and showed him m ercy, and He gave him favor in the sight of the keep er of the prison.

nkjv@Genesis:39:22 @ And the keep er of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prison ers who w ere in the prison; whatev er they did th ere, it was his doing.

nkjv@Genesis:39:23 @ The keep er of the prison did not look into anything that was und er Joseph's authority, because the LORD was with him; and whatev er he did, the LORD made it prosp er.

nkjv@Genesis:40:1 @ It came to pass aft er these things that the butl er and the bak er of the king of Egypt offended their lord, the king of Egypt.

nkjv@Genesis:40:2 @ And Pharaoh was angry with his two offic ers, the chief butl er and the chief bak er.

nkjv@Genesis:40:3 @ So he put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the prison, the place wh ere Joseph was confined.

nkjv@Genesis:40:4 @ And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he s erved them; so they w ere in custody for a while.

nkjv@Genesis:40:5 @ Then the butl er and the bak er of the king of Egypt, who w ere confined in the prison, had a dream, both of them, each man's dream in one night and each man's dream with its own int erpretation.

nkjv@Genesis:40:6 @ And Joseph came in to them in the morning and looked at them, and saw that they w ere sad.

nkjv@Genesis:40:7 @ So he asked Pharaoh's offic ers who w ere with him in the custody of his lord's house, saying, "Why do you look so sad today?"

nkjv@Genesis:40:8 @ And they said to him, "We each have had a dream, and th ere is no int erpret er of it." So Joseph said to them, "Do not int erpretations belong to God? Tell them to me, please."

nkjv@Genesis:40:9 @ Then the chief butl er told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, "Behold, in my dream a vine was before me,

nkjv@Genesis:40:10 @ and in the vine w ere three branches; it was as though it budded, its blossoms shot forth, and its clust ers brought forth ripe grapes.

nkjv@Genesis:40:12 @ And Joseph said to him, "This is the int erpretation of it: The three branches are three days.

nkjv@Genesis:40:13 @ Now within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your place, and you will put Pharaoh's cup in his hand according to the form er mann er, when you w ere his butl er.

nkjv@Genesis:40:14 @ But rememb er me when it is well with you, and please show kindness to me; make mention of me to Pharaoh, and get me out of this house.

nkjv@Genesis:40:15 @ For indeed I was stolen away from the land of the Hebrews; and also I have done nothing h ere that they should put me into the dungeon."

nkjv@Genesis:40:16 @ When the chief bak er saw that the int erpretation was good, he said to Joseph, "I also was in my dream, and th ere w ere three white baskets on my head.

nkjv@Genesis:40:17 @ In the upp ermost basket w ere all kinds of baked goods for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head."

nkjv@Genesis:40:18 @ So Joseph answ ered and said, "This is the int erpretation of it: The three baskets are three days.

nkjv@Genesis:40:20 @ Now it came to pass on the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast for all his s ervants; and he lifted up the head of the chief butl er and of the chief bak er among his s ervants.

nkjv@Genesis:40:21 @ Then he restored the chief butl er to his butl ership again, and he placed the cup in Pharaoh's hand.

nkjv@Genesis:40:22 @ But he hanged the chief bak er, as Joseph had int erpreted to them.

nkjv@Genesis:40:23 @ Yet the chief butl er did not rememb er Joseph, but forgot him.

nkjv@Genesis:41:1 @ Then it came to pass, at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh had a dream; and behold, he stood by the riv er.

nkjv@Genesis:41:2 @ Suddenly th ere came up out of the riv er seven cows, fine looking and fat; and they fed in the meadow.

nkjv@Genesis:41:3 @ Then behold, seven oth er cows came up aft er them out of the riv er, ugly and gaunt, and stood by the oth er cows on the bank of the riv er.

nkjv@Genesis:41:6 @ Then behold, seven thin heads, blighted by the east wind, sprang up aft er them.

nkjv@Genesis:41:8 @ Now it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt and all its wise men. And Pharaoh told them his dreams, but th ere was no one who could int erpret them for Pharaoh.

nkjv@Genesis:41:9 @ Then the chief butl er spoke to Pharaoh, saying: "I rememb er my faults this day.

nkjv@Genesis:41:10 @ When Pharaoh was angry with his s ervants, and put me in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, both me and the chief bak er,

nkjv@Genesis:41:11 @ we each had a dream in one night, he and I. Each of us dreamed according to the int erpretation of his own dream.

nkjv@Genesis:41:12 @ Now th ere was a young Hebrew man with us th ere, a s ervant of the captain of the guard. And we told him, and he int erpreted our dreams for us; to each man he int erpreted according to his own dream.

nkjv@Genesis:41:13 @ And it came to pass, just as he int erpreted for us, so it happened. He restored me to my office, and he hanged him."

nkjv@Genesis:41:15 @ And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I have had a dream, and th ere is no one who can int erpret it. But I have heard it said of you that you can und erstand a dream, to int erpret it."

nkjv@Genesis:41:16 @ So Joseph answ ered Pharaoh, saying, "It is not in me; God will give Pharaoh an answ er of peace."

nkjv@Genesis:41:17 @ Then Pharaoh said to Joseph: "Behold, in my dream I stood on the bank of the riv er.

nkjv@Genesis:41:18 @ Suddenly seven cows came up out of the riv er, fine looking and fat; and they fed in the meadow.

nkjv@Genesis:41:19 @ Then behold, seven oth er cows came up aft er them, poor and v ery ugly and gaunt, such ugliness as I have nev er seen in all the land of Egypt.

nkjv@Genesis:41:21 @ When they had eaten them up, no one would have known that they had eaten them, for they w ere just as ugly as at the beginning. So I awoke.

nkjv@Genesis:41:23 @ Then behold, seven heads, with ered, thin, and blighted by the east wind, sprang up aft er them.

nkjv@Genesis:41:24 @ And the thin heads devoured the seven good heads. So I told this to the magicians, but th ere was no one who could explain it to me."

nkjv@Genesis:41:27 @ And the seven thin and ugly cows which came up aft er them are seven years, and the seven empty heads blighted by the east wind are seven years of famine.

nkjv@Genesis:41:30 @ but aft er them seven years of famine will arise, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine will deplete the land.

nkjv@Genesis:41:31 @ So the plenty will not be known in the land because of the famine following, for it will be v ery sev ere.

nkjv@Genesis:41:33 @ "Now th erefore, let Pharaoh select a disc erning and wise man, and set him ov er the land of Egypt.

nkjv@Genesis:41:34 @ Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint offic ers ov er the land, to collect one-fifth of the produce of the land of Egypt in the seven plentiful years.

nkjv@Genesis:41:35 @ And let them gath er all the food of those good years that are coming, and store up grain und er the authority of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.

nkjv@Genesis:41:36 @ Then that food shall be as a res erve for the land for the seven years of famine which shall be in the land of Egypt, that the land may not p erish during the famine."

nkjv@Genesis:41:37 @ So the advice was good in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of all his s ervants.

nkjv@Genesis:41:38 @ And Pharaoh said to his s ervants, "Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?"

nkjv@Genesis:41:39 @ Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Inasmuch as God has shown you all this, th ere is no one as disc erning and wise as you.

nkjv@Genesis:41:40 @ You shall be ov er my house, and all my people shall be ruled according to your word; only in regard to the throne will I be great er than you."

nkjv@Genesis:41:41 @ And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "See, I have set you ov er all the land of Egypt."

nkjv@Genesis:41:43 @ And he had him ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried out before him, "Bow the knee!" So he set him ov er all the land of Egypt.

nkjv@Genesis:41:45 @ And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnath-Paaneah. And he gave him as a wife Asenath, the daught er of Poti-Ph erah priest of On. So Joseph went out ov er all the land of Egypt.

nkjv@Genesis:41:48 @ So he gath ered up all the food of the seven years which w ere in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities; he laid up in ev ery city the food of the fields which surrounded them.

nkjv@Genesis:41:49 @ Joseph gath ered v ery much grain, as the sand of the sea, until he stopped counting, for it was immeasurable.

nkjv@Genesis:41:50 @ And to Joseph w ere born two sons before the years of famine came, whom Asenath, the daught er of Poti-Ph erah priest of On, bore to him.

nkjv@Genesis:41:51 @ Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: "For God has made me forget all my toil and all my fath er's house."

nkjv@Genesis:41:53 @ Then the seven years of plenty which w ere in the land of Egypt ended,

nkjv@Genesis:41:54 @ and the seven years of famine began to come, as Joseph had said. The famine was in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt th ere was bread.

nkjv@Genesis:41:55 @ So when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. Then Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph; whatev er he says to you, do."

nkjv@Genesis:41:56 @ The famine was ov er all the face of the earth, and Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold to the Egyptians. And the famine became sev ere in the land of Egypt.

nkjv@Genesis:41:57 @ So all countries came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine was sev ere in all lands.

nkjv@Genesis:42:1 @ When Jacob saw that th ere was grain in Egypt, Jacob said to his sons, "Why do you look at one anoth er?"

nkjv@Genesis:42:2 @ And he said, "Indeed I have heard that th ere is grain in Egypt; go down to that place and buy for us th ere, that we may live and not die."

nkjv@Genesis:42:3 @ So Joseph's ten broth ers went down to buy grain in Egypt.

nkjv@Genesis:42:4 @ But Jacob did not send Joseph's broth er Benjamin with his broth ers, for he said, "Lest some calamity befall him."

nkjv@Genesis:42:6 @ Now Joseph was gov ernor ov er the land; and it was he who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's broth ers came and bowed down before him with their faces to the earth.

nkjv@Genesis:42:7 @ Joseph saw his broth ers and recognized them, but he acted as a strang er to them and spoke roughly to them. Then he said to them, "Wh ere do you come from?" And they said, "From the land of Canaan to buy food."

nkjv@Genesis:42:8 @ So Joseph recognized his broth ers, but they did not recognize him.

nkjv@Genesis:42:9 @ Then Joseph rememb ered the dreams which he had dreamed about them, and said to them, "You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land!"

nkjv@Genesis:42:10 @ And they said to him, "No, my lord, but your s ervants have come to buy food.

nkjv@Genesis:42:11 @ We are all one man's sons; we are honest men; your s ervants are not spies."

nkjv@Genesis:42:13 @ And they said, "Your s ervants are twelve broth ers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and in fact, the youngest is with our fath er today, and one is no more."

nkjv@Genesis:42:15 @ In this mann er you shall be tested: By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not leave this place unless your youngest broth er comes h ere.

nkjv@Genesis:42:16 @ Send one of you, and let him bring your broth er; and you shall be kept in prison, that your words may be tested to see wheth er th ere is any truth in you; or else, by the life of Pharaoh, surely you are spies!"

nkjv@Genesis:42:17 @ So he put them all togeth er in prison three days.

nkjv@Genesis:42:19 @ If you are honest men, let one of your broth ers be confined to your prison house; but you, go and carry grain for the famine of your houses.

nkjv@Genesis:42:20 @ And bring your youngest broth er to me; so your words will be v erified, and you shall not die." And they did so.

nkjv@Genesis:42:21 @ Then they said to one anoth er, "We are truly guilty conc erning our broth er, for we saw the anguish of his soul when he pleaded with us, and we would not hear; th erefore this distress has come upon us."

nkjv@Genesis:42:22 @ And Reuben answ ered them, saying, "Did I not speak to you, saying, "Do not sin against the boy'; and you would not listen? Th erefore behold, his blood is now required of us."

nkjv@Genesis:42:23 @ But they did not know that Joseph und erstood them, for he spoke to them through an int erpret er.

nkjv@Genesis:42:25 @ Then Joseph gave a command to fill their sacks with grain, to restore ev ery man's money to his sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. Thus he did for them.

nkjv@Genesis:42:26 @ So they loaded their donkeys with the grain and departed from th ere.

nkjv@Genesis:42:27 @ But as one of them opened his sack to give his donkey feed at the encampment, he saw his money; and th ere it was, in the mouth of his sack.

nkjv@Genesis:42:28 @ So he said to his broth ers, "My money has been restored, and th ere it is, in my sack!" Then their hearts failed them and they w ere afraid, saying to one anoth er, "What is this that God has done to us?"

nkjv@Genesis:42:29 @ Then they went to Jacob their fath er in the land of Canaan and told him all that had happened to them, saying:

nkjv@Genesis:42:32 @ We are twelve broth ers, sons of our fath er; one is no more, and the youngest is with our fath er this day in the land of Canaan.'

nkjv@Genesis:42:33 @ Then the man, the lord of the country, said to us, "By this I will know that you are honest men: Leave one of your broth ers h ere with me, take food for the famine of your households, and be gone.

nkjv@Genesis:42:34 @ And bring your youngest broth er to me; so I shall know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. I will grant your broth er to you, and you may trade in the land."'

nkjv@Genesis:42:35 @ Then it happened as they emptied their sacks, that surprisingly each man's bundle of money was in his sack; and when they and their fath er saw the bundles of money, they w ere afraid.

nkjv@Genesis:42:36 @ And Jacob their fath er said to them, "You have b ereaved me: Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin. All these things are against me."

nkjv@Genesis:42:37 @ Then Reuben spoke to his fath er, saying, "Kill my two sons if I do not bring him back to you; put him in my hands, and I will bring him back to you."

nkjv@Genesis:42:38 @ But he said, "My son shall not go down with you, for his broth er is dead, and he is left alone. If any calamity should befall him along the way in which you go, then you would bring down my gray hair with sorrow to the grave."

nkjv@Genesis:43:1 @ Now the famine was sev ere in the land.

nkjv@Genesis:43:2 @ And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the grain which they had brought from Egypt, that their fath er said to them, "Go back, buy us a little food."

nkjv@Genesis:43:3 @ But Judah spoke to him, saying, "The man solemnly warned us, saying, "You shall not see my face unless your broth er is with you.'

nkjv@Genesis:43:4 @ If you send our broth er with us, we will go down and buy you food.

nkjv@Genesis:43:5 @ But if you will not send him, we will not go down; for the man said to us, "You shall not see my face unless your broth er is with you."'

nkjv@Genesis:43:6 @ And Israel said, "Why did you deal so wrongfully with me as to tell the man wheth er you had still anoth er broth er?"

nkjv@Genesis:43:7 @ But they said, "The man asked us pointedly about ourselves and our family, saying, "Is your fath er still alive? Have you anoth er broth er?' And we told him according to these words. Could we possibly have known that he would say, "Bring your broth er down'?"

nkjv@Genesis:43:8 @ Then Judah said to Israel his fath er, "Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go, that we may live and not die, both we and you and also our little ones.

nkjv@Genesis:43:9 @ I myself will be surety for him; from my hand you shall require him. If I do not bring him back to you and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forev er.

nkjv@Genesis:43:10 @ For if we had not ling ered, surely by now we would have returned this second time."

nkjv@Genesis:43:11 @ And their fath er Israel said to them, "If it must be so, then do this: Take some of the best fruits of the land in your vessels and carry down a present for the man--a little balm and a little honey, spices and myrrh, pistachio nuts and almonds.

nkjv@Genesis:43:12 @ Take double money in your hand, and take back in your hand the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks; p erhaps it was an ov ersight.

nkjv@Genesis:43:13 @ Take your broth er also, and arise, go back to the man.

nkjv@Genesis:43:14 @ And may God Almighty give you m ercy before the man, that he may release your oth er broth er and Benjamin. If I am b ereaved, I am b ereaved!"

nkjv@Genesis:43:16 @ When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, "Take these men to my home, and slaught er an animal and make ready; for these men will dine with me at noon."

nkjv@Genesis:43:17 @ Then the man did as Joseph ord ered, and the man brought the men into Joseph's house.

nkjv@Genesis:43:18 @ Now the men w ere afraid because they w ere brought into Joseph's house; and they said, "It is because of the money, which was returned in our sacks the first time, that we are brought in, so that he may make a case against us and seize us, to take us as slaves with our donkeys."

nkjv@Genesis:43:21 @ but it happened, when we came to the encampment, that we opened our sacks, and th ere, each man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight; so we have brought it back in our hand.

nkjv@Genesis:43:22 @ And we have brought down oth er money in our hands to buy food. We do not know who put our money in our sacks."

nkjv@Genesis:43:23 @ But he said, "Peace be with you, do not be afraid. Your God and the God of your fath er has given you treasure in your sacks; I had your money." Then he brought Simeon out to them.

nkjv@Genesis:43:24 @ So the man brought the men into Joseph's house and gave them wat er, and they washed their feet; and he gave their donkeys feed.

nkjv@Genesis:43:25 @ Then they made the present ready for Joseph's coming at noon, for they heard that they would eat bread th ere.

nkjv@Genesis:43:27 @ Then he asked them about their well-being, and said, "Is your fath er well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he still alive?"

nkjv@Genesis:43:28 @ And they answ ered, "Your s ervant our fath er is in good health; he is still alive." And they bowed their heads down and prostrated themselves.

nkjv@Genesis:43:29 @ Then he lifted his eyes and saw his broth er Benjamin, his moth er's son, and said, "Is this your young er broth er of whom you spoke to me?" And he said, "God be gracious to you, my son."

nkjv@Genesis:43:30 @ Now his heart yearned for his broth er; so Joseph made haste and sought somewh ere to weep. And he went into his chamb er and wept th ere.

nkjv@Genesis:43:31 @ Then he washed his face and came out; and he restrained himself, and said, "S erve the bread."

nkjv@Genesis:43:33 @ And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright and the youngest according to his youth; and the men looked in astonishment at one anoth er.

nkjv@Genesis:43:34 @ Then he took s ervings to them from before him, but Benjamin's s erving was five times as much as any of theirs. So they drank and w ere m erry with him.

nkjv@Genesis:44:2 @ Also put my cup, the silv er cup, in the mouth of the sack of the youngest, and his grain money." So he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.

nkjv@Genesis:44:3 @ As soon as the morning dawned, the men w ere sent away, they and their donkeys.

nkjv@Genesis:44:4 @ When they had gone out of the city, and w ere not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, "Get up, follow the men; and when you ov ertake them, say to them, "Why have you repaid evil for good?

nkjv@Genesis:44:6 @ So he ov ertook them, and he spoke to them these same words.

nkjv@Genesis:44:7 @ And they said to him, "Why does my lord say these words? Far be it from us that your s ervants should do such a thing.

nkjv@Genesis:44:8 @ Look, we brought back to you from the land of Canaan the money which we found in the mouth of our sacks. How then could we steal silv er or gold from your lord's house?

nkjv@Genesis:44:9 @ With whomev er of your s ervants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my lord's slaves."

nkjv@Genesis:44:14 @ So Judah and his broth ers came to Joseph's house, and he was still th ere; and they fell before him on the ground.

nkjv@Genesis:44:15 @ And Joseph said to them, "What deed is this you have done? Did you not know that such a man as I can c ertainly practice divination?"

nkjv@Genesis:44:16 @ Then Judah said, "What shall we say to my lord? What shall we speak? Or how shall we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your s ervants; h ere we are, my lord's slaves, both we and he also with whom the cup was found."

nkjv@Genesis:44:17 @ But he said, "Far be it from me that I should do so; the man in whose hand the cup was found, he shall be my slave. And as for you, go up in peace to your fath er."

nkjv@Genesis:44:18 @ Then Judah came near to him and said: "O my lord, please let your s ervant speak a word in my lord's hearing, and do not let your ang er burn against your s ervant; for you are even like Pharaoh.

nkjv@Genesis:44:19 @ My lord asked his s ervants, saying, "Have you a fath er or a broth er?'

nkjv@Genesis:44:20 @ And we said to my lord, "We have a fath er, an old man, and a child of his old age, who is young; his broth er is dead, and he alone is left of his moth er's children, and his fath er loves him.'

nkjv@Genesis:44:21 @ Then you said to your s ervants, "Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.'

nkjv@Genesis:44:22 @ And we said to my lord, "The lad cannot leave his fath er, for if he should leave his fath er, his fath er would die.'

nkjv@Genesis:44:23 @ But you said to your s ervants, "Unless your youngest broth er comes down with you, you shall see my face no more.'

nkjv@Genesis:44:24 @ "So it was, when we went up to your s ervant my fath er, that we told him the words of my lord.

nkjv@Genesis:44:25 @ And our fath er said, "Go back and buy us a little food.'

nkjv@Genesis:44:26 @ But we said, "We cannot go down; if our youngest broth er is with us, then we will go down; for we may not see the man's face unless our youngest broth er is with us.'

nkjv@Genesis:44:27 @ Then your s ervant my fath er said to us, "You know that my wife bore me two sons;

nkjv@Genesis:44:30 @ "Now th erefore, when I come to your s ervant my fath er, and the lad is not with us, since his life is bound up in the lad's life,

nkjv@Genesis:44:31 @ it will happen, when he sees that the lad is not with us, that he will die. So your s ervants will bring down the gray hair of your s ervant our fath er with sorrow to the grave.

nkjv@Genesis:44:32 @ For your s ervant became surety for the lad to my fath er, saying, "If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame before my fath er forev er.'

nkjv@Genesis:44:33 @ Now th erefore, please let your s ervant remain instead of the lad as a slave to my lord, and let the lad go up with his broth ers.

nkjv@Genesis:44:34 @ For how shall I go up to my fath er if the lad is not with me, lest p erhaps I see the evil that would come upon my fath er?"

nkjv@Genesis:45:1 @ Then Joseph could not restrain himself before all those who stood by him, and he cried out, "Make ev eryone go out from me!" So no one stood with him while Joseph made himself known to his broth ers.

nkjv@Genesis:45:3 @ Then Joseph said to his broth ers, "I am Joseph; does my fath er still live?" But his broth ers could not answ er him, for they w ere dismayed in his presence.

nkjv@Genesis:45:4 @ And Joseph said to his broth ers, "Please come near to me." So they came near. Then he said: "I am Joseph your broth er, whom you sold into Egypt.

nkjv@Genesis:45:5 @ But now, do not th erefore be grieved or angry with yourselves because you sold me h ere; for God sent me before you to pres erve life.

nkjv@Genesis:45:6 @ For these two years the famine has been in the land, and th ere are still five years in which th ere will be neith er plowing nor harvesting.

nkjv@Genesis:45:7 @ And God sent me before you to pres erve a post erity for you in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliv erance.

nkjv@Genesis:45:8 @ So now it was not you who sent me h ere, but God; and He has made me a fath er to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a rul er throughout all the land of Egypt.

nkjv@Genesis:45:9 @ "Hurry and go up to my fath er, and say to him, "Thus says your son Joseph: "God has made me lord of all Egypt; come down to me, do not tarry.

nkjv@Genesis:45:10 @ You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near to me, you and your children, your children's children, your flocks and your h erds, and all that you have.

nkjv@Genesis:45:11 @ Th ere I will provide for you, lest you and your household, and all that you have, come to pov erty; for th ere are still five years of famine."'

nkjv@Genesis:45:12 @ "And behold, your eyes and the eyes of my broth er Benjamin see that it is my mouth that speaks to you.

nkjv@Genesis:45:13 @ So you shall tell my fath er of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen; and you shall hurry and bring my fath er down h ere."

nkjv@Genesis:45:14 @ Then he fell on his broth er Benjamin's neck and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.

nkjv@Genesis:45:15 @ Moreov er he kissed all his broth ers and wept ov er them, and aft er that his broth ers talked with him.

nkjv@Genesis:45:16 @ Now the report of it was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, "Joseph's broth ers have come." So it pleased Pharaoh and his s ervants well.

nkjv@Genesis:45:17 @ And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Say to your broth ers, "Do this: Load your animals and depart; go to the land of Canaan.

nkjv@Genesis:45:18 @ Bring your fath er and your households and come to me; I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.

nkjv@Genesis:45:19 @ Now you are commanded--do this: Take carts out of the land of Egypt for your little ones and your wives; bring your fath er and come.

nkjv@Genesis:45:20 @ Also do not be conc erned about your goods, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours."'

nkjv@Genesis:45:22 @ He gave to all of them, to each man, changes of garments; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silv er and five changes of garments.

nkjv@Genesis:45:23 @ And he sent to his fath er these things: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain, bread, and food for his fath er for the journey.

nkjv@Genesis:45:24 @ So he sent his broth ers away, and they departed; and he said to them, "See that you do not become troubled along the way."

nkjv@Genesis:45:25 @ Then they went up out of Egypt, and came to the land of Canaan to Jacob their fath er.

nkjv@Genesis:45:26 @ And they told him, saying, "Joseph is still alive, and he is gov ernor ov er all the land of Egypt." And Jacob's heart stood still, because he did not believe them.

nkjv@Genesis:45:27 @ But when they told him all the words which Joseph had said to them, and when he saw the carts which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their fath er revived.

nkjv@Genesis:46:1 @ So Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Be ersheba, and off ered sacrifices to the God of his fath er Isaac.

nkjv@Genesis:46:2 @ Then God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, "Jacob, Jacob!" And he said, "H ere I am."

nkjv@Genesis:46:3 @ So He said, "I am God, the God of your fath er; do not fear to go down to Egypt, for I will make of you a great nation th ere.

nkjv@Genesis:46:5 @ Then Jacob arose from Be ersheba; and the sons of Israel carried their fath er Jacob, their little ones, and their wives, in the carts which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

nkjv@Genesis:46:7 @ His sons and his sons' sons, his daught ers and his sons' daught ers, and all his descendants he brought with him to Egypt.

nkjv@Genesis:46:8 @ Now these w ere the names of the children of Israel, Jacob and his sons, who went to Egypt: Reuben was Jacob's firstborn.

nkjv@Genesis:46:9 @ The sons of Reuben w ere Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.

nkjv@Genesis:46:10 @ The sons of Simeon w ere Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman.

nkjv@Genesis:46:11 @ The sons of Levi w ere G ershon, Kohath, and M erari.

nkjv@Genesis:46:12 @ The sons of Judah w ere Er, Onan, Shelah, P erez, and Z erah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan). The sons of P erez w ere Hezron and Hamul.

nkjv@Genesis:46:13 @ The sons of Issachar w ere Tola, Puvah, Job, and Shimron.

nkjv@Genesis:46:14 @ The sons of Zebulun w ere S ered, Elon, and Jahleel.

nkjv@Genesis:46:15 @ These w ere the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Padan Aram, with his daught er Dinah. All the p ersons, his sons and his daught ers, w ere thirty-three.

nkjv@Genesis:46:16 @ The sons of Gad w ere Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.

nkjv@Genesis:46:17 @ The sons of Ash er w ere Jimnah, Ishuah, Isui, B eriah, and S erah, their sist er. And the sons of B eriah w ere Heb er and Malchiel.

nkjv@Genesis:46:18 @ These w ere the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daught er; and these she bore to Jacob: sixteen p ersons.

nkjv@Genesis:46:19 @ The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife, w ere Joseph and Benjamin.

nkjv@Genesis:46:20 @ And to Joseph in the land of Egypt w ere born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daught er of Poti-Ph erah priest of On, bore to him.

nkjv@Genesis:46:21 @ The sons of Benjamin w ere Belah, Bech er, Ashbel, G era, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.

nkjv@Genesis:46:22 @ These w ere the sons of Rachel, who w ere born to Jacob: fourteen p ersons in all.

nkjv@Genesis:46:24 @ The sons of Naphtali w ere Jahzeel, Guni, Jez er, and Shillem.

nkjv@Genesis:46:25 @ These w ere the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daught er, and she bore these to Jacob: seven p ersons in all.

nkjv@Genesis:46:26 @ All the p ersons who went with Jacob to Egypt, who came from his body, besides Jacob's sons' wives, w ere sixty-six p ersons in all.

nkjv@Genesis:46:27 @ And the sons of Joseph who w ere born to him in Egypt w ere two p ersons. All the p ersons of the house of Jacob who went to Egypt w ere seventy.

nkjv@Genesis:46:29 @ So Joseph made ready his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet his fath er Israel; and he presented himself to him, and fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while.

nkjv@Genesis:46:31 @ Then Joseph said to his broth ers and to his fath er's household, "I will go up and tell Pharaoh, and say to him, "My broth ers and those of my fath er's house, who w ere in the land of Canaan, have come to me.

nkjv@Genesis:46:32 @ And the men are sheph erds, for their occupation has been to feed livestock; and they have brought their flocks, their h erds, and all that they have.'

nkjv@Genesis:46:34 @ that you shall say, "Your s ervants' occupation has been with livestock from our youth even till now, both we and also our fath ers,' that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for ev ery sheph erd is an abomination to the Egyptians."

nkjv@Genesis:47:1 @ Then Joseph went and told Pharaoh, and said, "My fath er and my broth ers, their flocks and their h erds and all that they possess, have come from the land of Canaan; and indeed they are in the land of Goshen."

nkjv@Genesis:47:2 @ And he took five men from among his broth ers and presented them to Pharaoh.

nkjv@Genesis:47:3 @ Then Pharaoh said to his broth ers, "What is your occupation?" And they said to Pharaoh, "Your s ervants are sheph erds, both we and also our fath ers."

nkjv@Genesis:47:4 @ And they said to Pharaoh, "We have come to dwell in the land, because your s ervants have no pasture for their flocks, for the famine is sev ere in the land of Canaan. Now th erefore, please let your s ervants dwell in the land of Goshen."

nkjv@Genesis:47:5 @ Then Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, "Your fath er and your broth ers have come to you.

nkjv@Genesis:47:6 @ The land of Egypt is before you. Have your fath er and broth ers dwell in the best of the land; let them dwell in the land of Goshen. And if you know any competent men among them, then make them chief h erdsmen ov er my livestock."

nkjv@Genesis:47:7 @ Then Joseph brought in his fath er Jacob and set him before Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

nkjv@Genesis:47:9 @ And Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fath ers in the days of their pilgrimage."

nkjv@Genesis:47:11 @ And Joseph situated his fath er and his broth ers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

nkjv@Genesis:47:12 @ Then Joseph provided his fath er, his broth ers, and all his fath er's household with bread, according to the numb er in their families.

nkjv@Genesis:47:13 @ Now th ere was no bread in all the land; for the famine was v ery sev ere, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished because of the famine.

nkjv@Genesis:47:14 @ And Joseph gath ered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought; and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.

nkjv@Genesis:47:17 @ So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, the flocks, the cattle of the h erds, and for the donkeys. Thus he fed them with bread in exchange for all their livestock that year.

nkjv@Genesis:47:18 @ When that year had ended, they came to him the next year and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord that our money is gone; my lord also has our h erds of livestock. Th ere is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our lands.

nkjv@Genesis:47:19 @ Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be s ervants of Pharaoh; give us seed, that we may live and not die, that the land may not be desolate."

nkjv@Genesis:47:20 @ Then Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for ev ery man of the Egyptians sold his field, because the famine was sev ere upon them. So the land became Pharaoh's.

nkjv@Genesis:47:21 @ And as for the people, he moved them into the cities, from one end of the bord ers of Egypt to the oth er end.

nkjv@Genesis:47:22 @ Only the land of the priests he did not buy; for the priests had rations allotted to them by Pharaoh, and they ate their rations which Pharaoh gave them; th erefore they did not sell their lands.

nkjv@Genesis:47:23 @ Then Joseph said to the people, "Indeed I have bought you and your land this day for Pharaoh. Look, h ere is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.

nkjv@Genesis:47:25 @ So they said, "You have saved our lives; let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's s ervants."

nkjv@Genesis:47:26 @ And Joseph made it a law ov er the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have one-fifth, except for the land of the priests only, which did not become Pharaoh's.

nkjv@Genesis:47:27 @ So Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions th ere and grew and multiplied exceedingly.

nkjv@Genesis:47:29 @ When the time drew near that Israel must die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, "Now if I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand und er my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please do not bury me in Egypt,

nkjv@Genesis:47:30 @ but let me lie with my fath ers; you shall carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial place." And he said, "I will do as you have said."

nkjv@Genesis:48:1 @ Now it came to pass aft er these things that Joseph was told, "Indeed your fath er is sick"; and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

nkjv@Genesis:48:4 @ and said to me, "Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will make of you a multitude of people, and give this land to your descendants aft er you as an ev erlasting possession.'

nkjv@Genesis:48:5 @ And now your two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, who w ere born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.

nkjv@Genesis:48:6 @ Your offspring whom you beget aft er them shall be yours; they will be called by the name of their broth ers in their inh eritance.

nkjv@Genesis:48:7 @ But as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died beside me in the land of Canaan on the way, when th ere was but a little distance to go to Ephrath; and I buried h er th ere on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem)."

nkjv@Genesis:48:9 @ Joseph said to his fath er, "They are my sons, whom God has given me in this place." And he said, "Please bring them to me, and I will bless them."

nkjv@Genesis:48:10 @ Now the eyes of Israel w ere dim with age, so that he could not see. Then Joseph brought them near him, and he kissed them and embraced them.

nkjv@Genesis:48:14 @ Then Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it on Ephraim's head, who was the young er, and his left hand on Manasseh's head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn.

nkjv@Genesis:48:15 @ And he blessed Joseph, and said: "God, before whom my fath ers Abraham and Isaac walked, The God who has fed me all my life long to this day,

nkjv@Genesis:48:16 @ The Angel who has redeemed me from all evil, Bless the lads; Let my name be named upon them, And the name of my fath ers Abraham and Isaac; And let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth."

nkjv@Genesis:48:17 @ Now when Joseph saw that his fath er laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him; so he took hold of his fath er's hand to remove it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head.

nkjv@Genesis:48:18 @ And Joseph said to his fath er, "Not so, my fath er, for this one is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head."

nkjv@Genesis:48:19 @ But his fath er refused and said, "I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great; but truly his young er broth er shall be great er than he, and his descendants shall become a multitude of nations."

nkjv@Genesis:48:21 @ Then Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you and bring you back to the land of your fath ers.

nkjv@Genesis:48:22 @ Moreov er I have given to you one portion above your broth ers, which I took from the hand of the Amorite with my sword and my bow."

nkjv@Genesis:49:1 @ And Jacob called his sons and said, "Gath er togeth er, that I may tell you what shall befall you in the last days:

nkjv@Genesis:49:2 @ "Gath er togeth er and hear, you sons of Jacob, And listen to Israel your fath er.

nkjv@Genesis:49:3 @ "Reuben, you are my firstborn, My might and the beginning of my strength, The excellency of dignity and the excellency of pow er.

nkjv@Genesis:49:4 @ Unstable as wat er, you shall not excel, Because you went up to your fath er's bed; Then you defiled it-- He went up to my couch.

nkjv@Genesis:49:5 @ "Simeon and Levi are broth ers; Instruments of cruelty are in their dwelling place.

nkjv@Genesis:49:6 @ Let not my soul ent er their council; Let not my honor be united to their assembly; For in their ang er they slew a man, And in their self-will they hamstrung an ox.

nkjv@Genesis:49:7 @ Cursed be their ang er, for it is fi erce; And their wrath, for it is cruel! I will divide them in Jacob And scatt er them in Israel.

nkjv@Genesis:49:8 @ "Judah, you are he whom your broth ers shall praise; Your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; Your fath er's children shall bow down before you.

nkjv@Genesis:49:10 @ The scept er shall not depart from Judah, Nor a lawgiv er from between his feet, Until Shiloh comes; And to Him shall be the obedience of the people.

nkjv@Genesis:49:12 @ His eyes are dark er than wine, And his teeth whit er than milk.

nkjv@Genesis:49:13 @ "Zebulun shall dwell by the haven of the sea; He shall become a haven for ships, And his bord er shall adjoin Sidon.

nkjv@Genesis:49:15 @ He saw that rest was good, And that the land was pleasant; He bowed his should er to bear a burden, And became a band of slaves.

nkjv@Genesis:49:17 @ Dan shall be a s erpent by the way, A vip er by the path, That bites the horse's heels So that its rid er shall fall backward.

nkjv@Genesis:49:20 @ "Bread from Ash er shall be rich, And he shall yield royal dainties.

nkjv@Genesis:49:21 @ "Naphtali is a de er let loose; He uses beautiful words.

nkjv@Genesis:49:22 @ "Joseph is a fruitful bough, A fruitful bough by a well; His branches run ov er the wall.

nkjv@Genesis:49:23 @ The arch ers have bitt erly grieved him, Shot at him and hated him.

nkjv@Genesis:49:24 @ But his bow remained in strength, And the arms of his hands w ere made strong By the hands of the Mighty God of Jacob (From th ere is the Sheph erd, the Stone of Israel),

nkjv@Genesis:49:25 @ By the God of your fath er who will help you, And by the Almighty who will bless you With blessings of heaven above, Blessings of the deep that lies beneath, Blessings of the breasts and of the womb.

nkjv@Genesis:49:26 @ The blessings of your fath er Have excelled the blessings of my ancestors, Up to the utmost bound of the ev erlasting hills. They shall be on the head of Joseph, And on the crown of the head of him who was separate from his broth ers.

nkjv@Genesis:49:28 @ All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their fath er spoke to them. And he blessed them; he blessed each one according to his own blessing.

nkjv@Genesis:49:29 @ Then he charged them and said to them: "I am to be gath ered to my people; bury me with my fath ers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

nkjv@Genesis:49:31 @ Th ere they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife, th ere they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and th ere I buried Leah.

nkjv@Genesis:49:32 @ The field and the cave that is th ere w ere purchased from the sons of Heth."

nkjv@Genesis:49:33 @ And when Jacob had finished commanding his sons, he drew his feet up into the bed and breathed his last, and was gath ered to his people.

nkjv@Genesis:50:1 @ Then Joseph fell on his fath er's face and wept ov er him, and kissed him.

nkjv@Genesis:50:2 @ And Joseph commanded his s ervants the physicians to embalm his fath er. So the physicians embalmed Israel.

nkjv@Genesis:50:3 @ Forty days w ere required for him, for such are the days required for those who are embalmed; and the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.

nkjv@Genesis:50:4 @ Now when the days of his mourning w ere past, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the hearing of Pharaoh, saying,

nkjv@Genesis:50:5 @ "My fath er made me swear, saying, "Behold, I am dying; in my grave which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, th ere you shall bury me." Now th erefore, please let me go up and bury my fath er, and I will come back."'

nkjv@Genesis:50:6 @ And Pharaoh said, "Go up and bury your fath er, as he made you swear."

nkjv@Genesis:50:7 @ So Joseph went up to bury his fath er; and with him went up all the s ervants of Pharaoh, the eld ers of his house, and all the eld ers of the land of Egypt,

nkjv@Genesis:50:8 @ as well as all the house of Joseph, his broth ers, and his fath er's house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their h erds they left in the land of Goshen.

nkjv@Genesis:50:9 @ And th ere went up with him both chariots and horsemen, and it was a v ery great gath ering.

nkjv@Genesis:50:10 @ Then they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and they mourned th ere with a great and v ery solemn lamentation. He obs erved seven days of mourning for his fath er.

nkjv@Genesis:50:11 @ And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, "This is a deep mourning of the Egyptians." Th erefore its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.

nkjv@Genesis:50:13 @ For his sons carried him to the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, before Mamre, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as prop erty for a burial place.

nkjv@Genesis:50:14 @ And aft er he had buried his fath er, Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his broth ers and all who went up with him to bury his fath er.

nkjv@Genesis:50:15 @ When Joseph's broth ers saw that their fath er was dead, they said, "P erhaps Joseph will hate us, and may actually repay us for all the evil which we did to him."

nkjv@Genesis:50:16 @ So they sent messeng ers to Joseph, saying, "Before your fath er died he commanded, saying,

nkjv@Genesis:50:17 @ "Thus you shall say to Joseph: "I beg you, please forgive the trespass of your broth ers and their sin; for they did evil to you."' Now, please, forgive the trespass of the s ervants of the God of your fath er." And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

nkjv@Genesis:50:18 @ Then his broth ers also went and fell down before his face, and they said, "Behold, we are your s ervants."

nkjv@Genesis:50:20 @ But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in ord er to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive.

nkjv@Genesis:50:21 @ Now th erefore, do not be afraid; I will provide for you and your little ones." And he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.

nkjv@Genesis:50:22 @ So Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he and his fath er's household. And Joseph lived one hundred and ten years.

nkjv@Genesis:50:23 @ Joseph saw Ephraim's children to the third gen eration. The children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, w ere also brought up on Joseph's knees.

nkjv@Genesis:50:25 @ Then Joseph took an oath from the children of Israel, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from h ere."

nkjv@Exodus:1:4 @ Dan, Naphtali, Gad, and Ash er.

nkjv@Exodus:1:5 @ All those who w ere descendants of Jacob w ere seventy p ersons (for Joseph was in Egypt already).

nkjv@Exodus:1:6 @ And Joseph died, all his broth ers, and all that gen eration.

nkjv@Exodus:1:7 @ But the children of Israel w ere fruitful and increased abundantly, multiplied and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.

nkjv@Exodus:1:8 @ Now th ere arose a new king ov er Egypt, who did not know Joseph.

nkjv@Exodus:1:9 @ And he said to his people, "Look, the people of the children of Israel are more and mighti er than we;

nkjv@Exodus:1:11 @ Th erefore they set taskmast ers ov er them to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh supply cities, Pithom and Raamses.

nkjv@Exodus:1:12 @ But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they w ere in dread of the children of Israel.

nkjv@Exodus:1:13 @ So the Egyptians made the children of Israel s erve with rigor.

nkjv@Exodus:1:14 @ And they made their lives bitt er with hard bondage--in mortar, in brick, and in all mann er of s ervice in the field. All their s ervice in which they made them s erve was with rigor.

nkjv@Exodus:1:15 @ Then the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of one was Shiphrah and the name of the oth er Puah;

nkjv@Exodus:1:16 @ and he said, "When you do the duties of a midwife for the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstools, if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daught er, then she shall live."

nkjv@Exodus:1:20 @ Th erefore God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied and grew v ery mighty.

nkjv@Exodus:1:22 @ So Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, "Ev ery son who is born you shall cast into the riv er, and ev ery daught er you shall save alive."

nkjv@Exodus:2:1 @ And a man of the house of Levi went and took as wife a daught er of Levi.

nkjv@Exodus:2:3 @ But when she could no long er hide him, she took an ark of bulrushes for him, daubed it with asphalt and pitch, put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the riv er's bank.

nkjv@Exodus:2:4 @ And his sist er stood afar off, to know what would be done to him.

nkjv@Exodus:2:5 @ Then the daught er of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the riv er. And h er maidens walked along the riv erside; and when she saw the ark among the reeds, she sent h er maid to get it.

nkjv@Exodus:2:7 @ Then his sist er said to Pharaoh's daught er, "Shall I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?"

nkjv@Exodus:2:8 @ And Pharaoh's daught er said to h er, "Go." So the maiden went and called the child's moth er.

nkjv@Exodus:2:9 @ Then Pharaoh's daught er said to h er, "Take this child away and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages." So the woman took the child and nursed him.

nkjv@Exodus:2:10 @ And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daught er, and he became h er son. So she called his name Moses, saying, "Because I drew him out of the wat er."

nkjv@Exodus:2:13 @ And when he went out the second day, behold, two Hebrew men w ere fighting, and he said to the one who did the wrong, "Why are you striking your companion?"

nkjv@Exodus:2:14 @ Then he said, "Who made you a prince and a judge ov er us? Do you intend to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?" So Moses feared and said, "Surely this thing is known!"

nkjv@Exodus:2:15 @ When Pharaoh heard of this matt er, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of Midian; and he sat down by a well.

nkjv@Exodus:2:16 @ Now the priest of Midian had seven daught ers. And they came and drew wat er, and they filled the troughs to wat er their fath er's flock.

nkjv@Exodus:2:17 @ Then the sheph erds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and wat ered their flock.

nkjv@Exodus:2:18 @ When they came to Reuel their fath er, he said, "How is it that you have come so soon today?"

nkjv@Exodus:2:19 @ And they said, "An Egyptian deliv ered us from the hand of the sheph erds, and he also drew enough wat er for us and wat ered the flock."

nkjv@Exodus:2:20 @ So he said to his daught ers, "And wh ere is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread."

nkjv@Exodus:2:21 @ Then Moses was content to live with the man, and he gave Zipporah his daught er to Moses.

nkjv@Exodus:2:22 @ And she bore him a son. He called his name G ershom, for he said, "I have been a strang er in a foreign land."

nkjv@Exodus:2:24 @ So God heard their groaning, and God rememb ered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

nkjv@Exodus:3:1 @ Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his fath er-in-law, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock to the back of the des ert, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

nkjv@Exodus:3:4 @ So when the LORD saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, "Moses, Moses!" And he said, "H ere I am."

nkjv@Exodus:3:5 @ Then He said, "Do not draw near this place. Take your sandals off your feet, for the place wh ere you stand is holy ground."

nkjv@Exodus:3:6 @ Moreov er He said, "I am the God of your fath er--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.

nkjv@Exodus:3:7 @ And the LORD said: "I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmast ers, for I know their sorrows.

nkjv@Exodus:3:8 @ So I have come down to deliv er them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the P erizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.

nkjv@Exodus:3:9 @ Now th erefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to Me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

nkjv@Exodus:3:10 @ Come now, th erefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt."

nkjv@Exodus:3:12 @ So He said, "I will c ertainly be with you. And this shall be a sign to you that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall s erve God on this mountain."

nkjv@Exodus:3:13 @ Then Moses said to God, "Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, "The God of your fath ers has sent me to you,' and they say to me, "What is His name?' what shall I say to them?"

nkjv@Exodus:3:15 @ Moreov er God said to Moses, "Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: "The LORD God of your fath ers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forev er, and this is My memorial to all gen erations.'

nkjv@Exodus:3:16 @ Go and gath er the eld ers of Israel togeth er, and say to them, "The LORD God of your fath ers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared to me, saying, "I have surely visited you and seen what is done to you in Egypt;

nkjv@Exodus:3:17 @ and I have said I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the P erizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey."'

nkjv@Exodus:3:18 @ Then they will heed your voice; and you shall come, you and the eld ers of Israel, to the king of Egypt; and you shall say to him, "The LORD God of the Hebrews has met with us; and now, please, let us go three days' journey into the wild erness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.'

nkjv@Exodus:3:20 @ So I will stretch out My hand and strike Egypt with all My wond ers which I will do in its midst; and aft er that he will let you go.

nkjv@Exodus:3:22 @ But ev ery woman shall ask of h er neighbor, namely, of h er who dwells near h er house, articles of silv er, articles of gold, and clothing; and you shall put them on your sons and on your daught ers. So you shall plund er the Egyptians."

nkjv@Exodus:4:1 @ Then Moses answ ered and said, "But suppose they will not believe me or listen to my voice; suppose they say, "The LORD has not appeared to you."'

nkjv@Exodus:4:3 @ And He said, "Cast it on the ground." So he cast it on the ground, and it became a s erpent; and Moses fled from it.

nkjv@Exodus:4:5 @ "that they may believe that the LORD God of their fath ers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you."

nkjv@Exodus:4:6 @ Furth ermore the LORD said to him, "Now put your hand in your bosom." And he put his hand in his bosom, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, like snow.

nkjv@Exodus:4:7 @ And He said, "Put your hand in your bosom again." So he put his hand in his bosom again, and drew it out of his bosom, and behold, it was restored like his oth er flesh.

nkjv@Exodus:4:8 @ "Then it will be, if they do not believe you, nor heed the message of the first sign, that they may believe the message of the latt er sign.

nkjv@Exodus:4:9 @ And it shall be, if they do not believe even these two signs, or listen to your voice, that you shall take wat er from the riv er and pour it on the dry land. The wat er which you take from the riv er will become blood on the dry land."

nkjv@Exodus:4:10 @ Then Moses said to the LORD, "O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neith er before nor since You have spoken to Your s ervant; but I am slow of speech and slow of tongue."

nkjv@Exodus:4:12 @ Now th erefore, go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall say."

nkjv@Exodus:4:13 @ But he said, "O my Lord, please send by the hand of whomev er else You may send."

nkjv@Exodus:4:14 @ So the ang er of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and He said: "Is not Aaron the Levite your broth er? I know that he can speak well. And look, he is also coming out to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.

nkjv@Exodus:4:18 @ So Moses went and returned to Jethro his fath er-in-law, and said to him, "Please let me go and return to my brethren who are in Egypt, and see wheth er they are still alive." And Jethro said to Moses, "Go in peace."

nkjv@Exodus:4:21 @ And the LORD said to Moses, "When you go back to Egypt, see that you do all those wond ers before Pharaoh which I have put in your hand. But I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go.

nkjv@Exodus:4:23 @ So I say to you, let My son go that he may s erve Me. But if you refuse to let him go, indeed I will kill your son, your firstborn.""'

nkjv@Exodus:4:25 @ Then Zipporah took a sharp stone and cut off the foreskin of h er son and cast it at Moses' feet, and said, "Surely you are a husband of blood to me!"

nkjv@Exodus:4:27 @ And the LORD said to Aaron, "Go into the wild erness to meet Moses." So he went and met him on the mountain of God, and kissed him.

nkjv@Exodus:4:29 @ Then Moses and Aaron went and gath ered togeth er all the eld ers of the children of Israel.

nkjv@Exodus:5:1 @ Aft erward Moses and Aaron went in and told Pharaoh, "Thus says the LORD God of Israel: "Let My people go, that they may hold a feast to Me in the wild erness."'

nkjv@Exodus:5:3 @ So they said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please, let us go three days' journey into the des ert and sacrifice to the LORD our God, lest He fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword."

nkjv@Exodus:5:6 @ So the same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmast ers of the people and their offic ers, saying,

nkjv@Exodus:5:7 @ "You shall no long er give the people straw to make brick as before. Let them go and gath er straw for themselves.

nkjv@Exodus:5:8 @ And you shall lay on them the quota of bricks which they made before. You shall not reduce it. For they are idle; th erefore they cry out, saying, "Let us go and sacrifice to our God.'

nkjv@Exodus:5:10 @ And the taskmast ers of the people and their offic ers went out and spoke to the people, saying, "Thus says Pharaoh: "I will not give you straw.

nkjv@Exodus:5:11 @ Go, get yourselves straw wh ere you can find it; yet none of your work will be reduced."'

nkjv@Exodus:5:12 @ So the people w ere scatt ered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gath er stubble instead of straw.

nkjv@Exodus:5:13 @ And the taskmast ers forced them to hurry, saying, "Fulfill your work, your daily quota, as when th ere was straw."

nkjv@Exodus:5:14 @ Also the offic ers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmast ers had set ov er them, w ere beaten and w ere asked, "Why have you not fulfilled your task in making brick both yest erday and today, as before?"

nkjv@Exodus:5:15 @ Then the offic ers of the children of Israel came and cried out to Pharaoh, saying, "Why are you dealing thus with your s ervants?

nkjv@Exodus:5:16 @ Th ere is no straw given to your s ervants, and they say to us, "Make brick!' And indeed your s ervants are beaten, but the fault is in your own people."

nkjv@Exodus:5:17 @ But he said, "You are idle! Idle! Th erefore you say, "Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD.'

nkjv@Exodus:5:18 @ Th erefore go now and work; for no straw shall be given you, yet you shall deliv er the quota of bricks."

nkjv@Exodus:5:19 @ And the offic ers of the children of Israel saw that they w ere in trouble aft er it was said, "You shall not reduce any bricks from your daily quota."

nkjv@Exodus:5:20 @ Then, as they came out from Pharaoh, they met Moses and Aaron who stood th ere to meet them.

nkjv@Exodus:5:21 @ And they said to them, "Let the LORD look on you and judge, because you have made us abhorrent in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his s ervants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us."

nkjv@Exodus:5:23 @ For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Your name, he has done evil to this people; neith er have You deliv ered Your people at all."

nkjv@Exodus:6:4 @ I have also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, in which they w ere strang ers.

nkjv@Exodus:6:5 @ And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have rememb ered My covenant.

nkjv@Exodus:6:6 @ Th erefore say to the children of Israel: "I am the LORD; I will bring you out from und er the burdens of the Egyptians, I will rescue you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.

nkjv@Exodus:6:7 @ I will take you as My people, and I will be your God. Then you shall know that I am the LORD your God who brings you out from und er the burdens of the Egyptians.

nkjv@Exodus:6:8 @ And I will bring you into the land which I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and I will give it to you as a h eritage: I am the LORD."'

nkjv@Exodus:6:14 @ These are the heads of their fath ers' houses: The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, w ere Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. These are the families of Reuben.

nkjv@Exodus:6:15 @ And the sons of Simeon w ere Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman. These are the families of Simeon.

nkjv@Exodus:6:16 @ These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their gen erations: G ershon, Kohath, and M erari. And the years of the life of Levi w ere one hundred and thirty-seven.

nkjv@Exodus:6:17 @ The sons of G ershon w ere Libni and Shimi according to their families.

nkjv@Exodus:6:18 @ And the sons of Kohath w ere Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. And the years of the life of Kohath w ere one hundred and thirty-three.

nkjv@Exodus:6:19 @ The sons of M erari w ere Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of Levi according to their gen erations.

nkjv@Exodus:6:20 @ Now Amram took for himself Jochebed, his fath er's sist er, as wife; and she bore him Aaron and Moses. And the years of the life of Amram w ere one hundred and thirty-seven.

nkjv@Exodus:6:21 @ The sons of Izhar w ere Korah, Nepheg, and Zichri.

nkjv@Exodus:6:22 @ And the sons of Uzziel w ere Mishael, Elzaphan, and Zithri.

nkjv@Exodus:6:23 @ Aaron took to himself Elisheba, daught er of Amminadab, sist er of Nahshon, as wife; and she bore him Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

nkjv@Exodus:6:24 @ And the sons of Korah w ere Assir, Elkanah, and Abiasaph. These are the families of the Korahites.

nkjv@Exodus:6:25 @ Eleazar, Aaron's son, took for himself one of the daught ers of Putiel as wife; and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fath ers' houses of the Levites according to their families.

nkjv@Exodus:7:1 @ So the LORD said to Moses: "See, I have made you as God to Pharaoh, and Aaron your broth er shall be your prophet.

nkjv@Exodus:7:2 @ You shall speak all that I command you. And Aaron your broth er shall tell Pharaoh to send the children of Israel out of his land.

nkjv@Exodus:7:3 @ And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply My signs and My wond ers in the land of Egypt.

nkjv@Exodus:7:9 @ "When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, "Show a miracle for yourselves,' then you shall say to Aaron, "Take your rod and cast it before Pharaoh, and let it become a s erpent."'

nkjv@Exodus:7:10 @ So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and they did so, just as the LORD commanded. And Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his s ervants, and it became a s erpent.

nkjv@Exodus:7:11 @ But Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorc er ers; so the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like mann er with their enchantments.

nkjv@Exodus:7:12 @ For ev ery man threw down his rod, and they became s erpents. But Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.

nkjv@Exodus:7:15 @ Go to Pharaoh in the morning, when he goes out to the wat er, and you shall stand by the riv er's bank to meet him; and the rod which was turned to a s erpent you shall take in your hand.

nkjv@Exodus:7:16 @ And you shall say to him, "The LORD God of the Hebrews has sent me to you, saying, "Let My people go, that they may s erve Me in the wild erness"; but indeed, until now you would not hear!

nkjv@Exodus:7:17 @ Thus says the LORD: "By this you shall know that I am the LORD. Behold, I will strike the wat ers which are in the riv er with the rod that is in my hand, and they shall be turned to blood.

nkjv@Exodus:7:18 @ And the fish that are in the riv er shall die, the riv er shall stink, and the Egyptians will loathe to drink the wat er of the riv er.""'

nkjv@Exodus:7:19 @ Then the LORD spoke to Moses, "Say to Aaron, "Take your rod and stretch out your hand ov er the wat ers of Egypt, ov er their streams, ov er their riv ers, ov er their ponds, and ov er all their pools of wat er, that they may become blood. And th ere shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in buckets of wood and pitch ers of stone."'

nkjv@Exodus:7:20 @ And Moses and Aaron did so, just as the LORD commanded. So he lifted up the rod and struck the wat ers that w ere in the riv er, in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his s ervants. And all the wat ers that w ere in the riv er w ere turned to blood.

nkjv@Exodus:7:21 @ The fish that w ere in the riv er died, the riv er stank, and the Egyptians could not drink the wat er of the riv er. So th ere was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.

nkjv@Exodus:7:23 @ And Pharaoh turned and went into his house. Neith er was his heart moved by this.

nkjv@Exodus:7:24 @ So all the Egyptians dug all around the riv er for wat er to drink, because they could not drink the wat er of the riv er.

nkjv@Exodus:7:25 @ And seven days passed aft er the LORD had struck the riv er.

nkjv@Exodus:8:1 @ And the LORD spoke to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh and say to him, "Thus says the LORD: "Let My people go, that they may s erve Me.

nkjv@Exodus:8:2 @ But if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all your t erritory with frogs.

nkjv@Exodus:8:3 @ So the riv er shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into your house, into your bedroom, on your bed, into the houses of your s ervants, on your people, into your ovens, and into your kneading bowls.

nkjv@Exodus:8:4 @ And the frogs shall come up on you, on your people, and on all your s ervants.""'

nkjv@Exodus:8:5 @ Then the LORD spoke to Moses, "Say to Aaron, "Stretch out your hand with your rod ov er the streams, ov er the riv ers, and ov er the ponds, and cause frogs to come up on the land of Egypt."'

nkjv@Exodus:8:6 @ So Aaron stretched out his hand ov er the wat ers of Egypt, and the frogs came up and cov ered the land of Egypt.

nkjv@Exodus:8:9 @ And Moses said to Pharaoh, "Accept the honor of saying when I shall int ercede for you, for your s ervants, and for your people, to destroy the frogs from you and your houses, that they may remain in the riv er only."

nkjv@Exodus:8:10 @ So he said, "Tomorrow." And he said, "Let it be according to your word, that you may know that th ere is no one like the LORD our God.

nkjv@Exodus:8:11 @ And the frogs shall depart from you, from your houses, from your s ervants, and from your people. They shall remain in the riv er only."

nkjv@Exodus:8:12 @ Then Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh. And Moses cried out to the LORD conc erning the frogs which He had brought against Pharaoh.

nkjv@Exodus:8:14 @ They gath ered them togeth er in heaps, and the land stank.

nkjv@Exodus:8:15 @ But when Pharaoh saw that th ere was relief, he hardened his heart and did not heed them, as the LORD had said.

nkjv@Exodus:8:18 @ Now the magicians so worked with their enchantments to bring forth lice, but they could not. So th ere w ere lice on man and beast.

nkjv@Exodus:8:19 @ Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, "This is the fing er of God." But Pharaoh's heart grew hard, and he did not heed them, just as the LORD had said.

nkjv@Exodus:8:20 @ And the LORD said to Moses, "Rise early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh as he comes out to the wat er. Then say to him, "Thus says the LORD: "Let My people go, that they may s erve Me.

nkjv@Exodus:8:21 @ Or else, if you will not let My people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you and your s ervants, on your people and into your houses. The houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground on which they stand.

nkjv@Exodus:8:22 @ And in that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, in which My people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be th ere, in ord er that you may know that I am the LORD in the midst of the land.

nkjv@Exodus:8:23 @ I will make a diff erence between My people and your people. Tomorrow this sign shall be.""'

nkjv@Exodus:8:24 @ And the LORD did so. Thick swarms of flies came into the house of Pharaoh, into his s ervants' houses, and into all the land of Egypt. The land was corrupted because of the swarms of flies.

nkjv@Exodus:8:27 @ We will go three days' journey into the wild erness and sacrifice to the LORD our God as He will command us."

nkjv@Exodus:8:28 @ So Pharaoh said, "I will let you go, that you may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wild erness; only you shall not go v ery far away. Int ercede for me."

nkjv@Exodus:8:29 @ Then Moses said, "Indeed I am going out from you, and I will entreat the LORD, that the swarms of flies may depart tomorrow from Pharaoh, from his s ervants, and from his people. But let Pharaoh not deal deceitfully anymore in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD."

nkjv@Exodus:8:31 @ And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; He removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his s ervants, and from his people. Not one remained.

nkjv@Exodus:8:32 @ But Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also; neith er would he let the people go.

nkjv@Exodus:9:1 @ Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh and tell him, "Thus says the LORD God of the Hebrews: "Let My people go, that they may s erve Me.

nkjv@Exodus:9:3 @ behold, the hand of the LORD will be on your cattle in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the oxen, and on the sheep--a v ery sev ere pestilence.

nkjv@Exodus:9:4 @ And the LORD will make a diff erence between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt. So nothing shall die of all that belongs to the children of Israel.""'

nkjv@Exodus:9:8 @ So the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "Take for yourselves handfuls of ashes from a furnace, and let Moses scatt er it toward the heavens in the sight of Pharaoh.

nkjv@Exodus:9:10 @ Then they took ashes from the furnace and stood before Pharaoh, and Moses scatt ered them toward heaven. And they caused boils that break out in sores on man and beast.

nkjv@Exodus:9:11 @ And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils w ere on the magicians and on all the Egyptians.

nkjv@Exodus:9:13 @ Then the LORD said to Moses, "Rise early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh, and say to him, "Thus says the LORD God of the Hebrews: "Let My people go, that they may s erve Me,

nkjv@Exodus:9:14 @ for at this time I will send all My plagues to your v ery heart, and on your s ervants and on your people, that you may know that th ere is none like Me in all the earth.

nkjv@Exodus:9:16 @ But indeed for this purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My pow er in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth.

nkjv@Exodus:9:18 @ Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause v ery heavy hail to rain down, such as has not been in Egypt since its founding until now.

nkjv@Exodus:9:19 @ Th erefore send now and gath er your livestock and all that you have in the field, for the hail shall come down on ev ery man and ev ery animal which is found in the field and is not brought home; and they shall die.""'

nkjv@Exodus:9:20 @ He who feared the word of the LORD among the s ervants of Pharaoh made his s ervants and his livestock flee to the houses.

nkjv@Exodus:9:21 @ But he who did not regard the word of the LORD left his s ervants and his livestock in the field.

nkjv@Exodus:9:22 @ Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that th ere may be hail in all the land of Egypt--on man, on beast, and on ev ery h erb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt."

nkjv@Exodus:9:23 @ And Moses stretched out his rod toward heaven; and the LORD sent thund er and hail, and fire darted to the ground. And the LORD rained hail on the land of Egypt.

nkjv@Exodus:9:24 @ So th ere was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, so v ery heavy that th ere was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.

nkjv@Exodus:9:25 @ And the hail struck throughout the whole land of Egypt, all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail struck ev ery h erb of the field and broke ev ery tree of the field.

nkjv@Exodus:9:26 @ Only in the land of Goshen, wh ere the children of Israel w ere, th ere was no hail.

nkjv@Exodus:9:28 @ Entreat the LORD, that th ere may be no more mighty thund ering and hail, for it is enough. I will let you go, and you shall stay no long er."

nkjv@Exodus:9:29 @ So Moses said to him, "As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands to the LORD; the thund er will cease, and th ere will be no more hail, that you may know that the earth is the LORD's.

nkjv@Exodus:9:30 @ But as for you and your s ervants, I know that you will not yet fear the LORD God."

nkjv@Exodus:9:31 @ Now the flax and the barley w ere struck, for the barley was in the head and the flax was in bud.

nkjv@Exodus:9:32 @ But the wheat and the spelt w ere not struck, for they are late crops.

nkjv@Exodus:9:33 @ So Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh and spread out his hands to the LORD; then the thund er and the hail ceased, and the rain was not poured on the earth.

nkjv@Exodus:9:34 @ And when Pharaoh saw that the rain, the hail, and the thund er had ceased, he sinned yet more; and he hardened his heart, he and his s ervants.

nkjv@Exodus:9:35 @ So the heart of Pharaoh was hard; neith er would he let the children of Israel go, as the LORD had spoken by Moses.

nkjv@Exodus:10:1 @ Now the LORD said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh; for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his s ervants, that I may show these signs of Mine before him,

nkjv@Exodus:10:3 @ So Moses and Aaron came in to Pharaoh and said to him, "Thus says the LORD God of the Hebrews: "How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, that they may s erve Me.

nkjv@Exodus:10:4 @ Or else, if you refuse to let My people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your t erritory.

nkjv@Exodus:10:5 @ And they shall cov er the face of the earth, so that no one will be able to see the earth; and they shall eat the residue of what is left, which remains to you from the hail, and they shall eat ev ery tree which grows up for you out of the field.

nkjv@Exodus:10:6 @ They shall fill your houses, the houses of all your s ervants, and the houses of all the Egyptians--which neith er your fath ers nor your fath ers' fath ers have seen, since the day that they w ere on the earth to this day."' And he turned and went out from Pharaoh.

nkjv@Exodus:10:7 @ Then Pharaoh's s ervants said to him, "How long shall this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may s erve the LORD their God. Do you not yet know that Egypt is destroyed?"

nkjv@Exodus:10:8 @ So Moses and Aaron w ere brought again to Pharaoh, and he said to them, "Go, s erve the LORD your God. Who are the ones that are going?"

nkjv@Exodus:10:9 @ And Moses said, "We will go with our young and our old; with our sons and our daught ers, with our flocks and our h erds we will go, for we must hold a feast to the LORD."

nkjv@Exodus:10:10 @ Then he said to them, "The LORD had bett er be with you when I let you and your little ones go! Beware, for evil is ahead of you.

nkjv@Exodus:10:11 @ Not so! Go now, you who are men, and s erve the LORD, for that is what you desired." And they w ere driven out from Pharaoh's presence.

nkjv@Exodus:10:12 @ Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand ov er the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come upon the land of Egypt, and eat ev ery h erb of the land--all that the hail has left."

nkjv@Exodus:10:13 @ So Moses stretched out his rod ov er the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind on the land all that day and all that night. When it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.

nkjv@Exodus:10:14 @ And the locusts went up ov er all the land of Egypt and rested on all the t erritory of Egypt. They w ere v ery sev ere; previously th ere had been no such locusts as they, nor shall th ere be such aft er them.

nkjv@Exodus:10:15 @ For they cov ered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they ate ev ery h erb of the land and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. So th ere remained nothing green on the trees or on the plants of the field throughout all the land of Egypt.

nkjv@Exodus:10:17 @ Now th erefore, please forgive my sin only this once, and entreat the LORD your God, that He may take away from me this death only."

nkjv@Exodus:10:19 @ And the LORD turned a v ery strong west wind, which took the locusts away and blew them into the Red Sea. Th ere remained not one locust in all the t erritory of Egypt.

nkjv@Exodus:10:21 @ Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that th ere may be darkness ov er the land of Egypt, darkness which may even be felt."

nkjv@Exodus:10:22 @ So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and th ere was thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.

nkjv@Exodus:10:23 @ They did not see one anoth er; nor did anyone rise from his place for three days. But all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.

nkjv@Exodus:10:24 @ Then Pharaoh called to Moses and said, "Go, s erve the LORD; only let your flocks and your h erds be kept back. Let your little ones also go with you."

nkjv@Exodus:10:25 @ But Moses said, "You must also give us sacrifices and burnt off erings, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.

nkjv@Exodus:10:26 @ Our livestock also shall go with us; not a hoof shall be left behind. For we must take some of them to s erve the LORD our God, and even we do not know with what we must s erve the LORD until we arrive th ere."

nkjv@Exodus:10:29 @ So Moses said, "You have spoken well. I will nev er see your face again."

nkjv@Exodus:11:1 @ And the LORD said to Moses, "I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt. Aft erward he will let you go from h ere. When he lets you go, he will surely drive you out of h ere altogeth er.

nkjv@Exodus:11:2 @ Speak now in the hearing of the people, and let ev ery man ask from his neighbor and ev ery woman from h er neighbor, articles of silv er and articles of gold."

nkjv@Exodus:11:3 @ And the LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreov er the man Moses was v ery great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's s ervants and in the sight of the people.

nkjv@Exodus:11:5 @ and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the female s ervant who is behind the handmill, and all the firstborn of the animals.

nkjv@Exodus:11:6 @ Then th ere shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as was not like it before, nor shall be like it again.

nkjv@Exodus:11:7 @ But against none of the children of Israel shall a dog move its tongue, against man or beast, that you may know that the LORD does make a diff erence between the Egyptians and Israel.'

nkjv@Exodus:11:8 @ And all these your s ervants shall come down to me and bow down to me, saying, "Get out, and all the people who follow you!' Aft er that I will go out." Then he went out from Pharaoh in great ang er.

nkjv@Exodus:11:9 @ But the LORD said to Moses, "Pharaoh will not heed you, so that My wond ers may be multiplied in the land of Egypt."

nkjv@Exodus:11:10 @ So Moses and Aaron did all these wond ers before Pharaoh; and the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the children of Israel go out of his land.

nkjv@Exodus:12:3 @ Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying: "On the tenth of this month ev ery man shall take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his fath er, a lamb for a household.

nkjv@Exodus:12:4 @ And if the household is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the numb er of the p ersons; according to each man's need you shall make your count for the lamb.

nkjv@Exodus:12:7 @ And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses wh ere they eat it.

nkjv@Exodus:12:8 @ Then they shall eat the flesh on that night; roasted in fire, with unleavened bread and with bitt er h erbs they shall eat it.

nkjv@Exodus:12:9 @ Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all with wat er, but roasted in fire--its head with its legs and its entrails.

nkjv@Exodus:12:11 @ And thus you shall eat it: with a belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. So you shall eat it in haste. It is the LORD's Passov er.

nkjv@Exodus:12:13 @ Now the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses wh ere you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass ov er you; and the plague shall not be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

nkjv@Exodus:12:14 @ "So this day shall be to you a memorial; and you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD throughout your gen erations. You shall keep it as a feast by an ev erlasting ordinance.

nkjv@Exodus:12:15 @ Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses. For whoev er eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that p erson shall be cut off from Israel.

nkjv@Exodus:12:16 @ On the first day th ere shall be a holy convocation, and on the seventh day th ere shall be a holy convocation for you. No mann er of work shall be done on them; but that which ev eryone must eat--that only may be prepared by you.

nkjv@Exodus:12:17 @ So you shall obs erve the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this same day I will have brought your armies out of the land of Egypt. Th erefore you shall obs erve this day throughout your gen erations as an ev erlasting ordinance.

nkjv@Exodus:12:19 @ For seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses, since whoev er eats what is leavened, that same p erson shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, wheth er he is a strang er or a native of the land.

nkjv@Exodus:12:21 @ Then Moses called for all the eld ers of Israel and said to them, "Pick out and take lambs for yourselves according to your families, and kill the Passov er lamb.

nkjv@Exodus:12:23 @ For the LORD will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the LORD will pass ov er the door and not allow the destroy er to come into your houses to strike you.

nkjv@Exodus:12:24 @ And you shall obs erve this thing as an ordinance for you and your sons forev er.

nkjv@Exodus:12:25 @ It will come to pass when you come to the land which the LORD will give you, just as He promised, that you shall keep this s ervice.

nkjv@Exodus:12:26 @ And it shall be, when your children say to you, "What do you mean by this s ervice?'

nkjv@Exodus:12:27 @ that you shall say, "It is the Passov er sacrifice of the LORD, who passed ov er the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt when He struck the Egyptians and deliv ered our households."' So the people bowed their heads and worshiped.

nkjv@Exodus:12:30 @ So Pharaoh rose in the night, he, all his s ervants, and all the Egyptians; and th ere was a great cry in Egypt, for th ere was not a house wh ere th ere was not one dead.

nkjv@Exodus:12:31 @ Then he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, "Rise, go out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel. And go, s erve the LORD as you have said.

nkjv@Exodus:12:32 @ Also take your flocks and your h erds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also."

nkjv@Exodus:12:34 @ So the people took their dough before it was leavened, having their kneading bowls bound up in their clothes on their should ers.

nkjv@Exodus:12:35 @ Now the children of Israel had done according to the word of Moses, and they had asked from the Egyptians articles of silv er, articles of gold, and clothing.

nkjv@Exodus:12:36 @ And the LORD had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they granted them what they requested. Thus they plund ered the Egyptians.

nkjv@Exodus:12:38 @ A mixed multitude went up with them also, and flocks and h erds--a great deal of livestock.

nkjv@Exodus:12:39 @ And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they had brought out of Egypt; for it was not leavened, because they w ere driven out of Egypt and could not wait, nor had they prepared provisions for themselves.

nkjv@Exodus:12:41 @ And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years--on that v ery same day--it came to pass that all the armies of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.

nkjv@Exodus:12:42 @ It is a night of solemn obs ervance to the LORD for bringing them out of the land of Egypt. This is that night of the LORD, a solemn obs ervance for all the children of Israel throughout their gen erations.

nkjv@Exodus:12:43 @ And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the ordinance of the Passov er: No foreign er shall eat it.

nkjv@Exodus:12:44 @ But ev ery man's s ervant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then he may eat it.

nkjv@Exodus:12:45 @ A sojourn er and a hired s ervant shall not eat it.

nkjv@Exodus:12:48 @ And when a strang er dwells with you and wants to keep the Passov er to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as a native of the land. For no uncircumcised p erson shall eat it.

nkjv@Exodus:12:49 @ One law shall be for the native-born and for the strang er who dwells among you."

nkjv@Exodus:12:51 @ And it came to pass, on that v ery same day, that the LORD brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt according to their armies.

nkjv@Exodus:13:2 @ "Consecrate to Me all the firstborn, whatev er opens the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and beast; it is Mine."

nkjv@Exodus:13:3 @ And Moses said to the people: "Rememb er this day in which you went out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out of this place. No leavened bread shall be eaten.

nkjv@Exodus:13:5 @ And it shall be, when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, which He swore to your fath ers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this s ervice in this month.

nkjv@Exodus:13:6 @ Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day th ere shall be a feast to the LORD.

nkjv@Exodus:13:7 @ Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days. And no leavened bread shall be seen among you, nor shall leaven be seen among you in all your quart ers.

nkjv@Exodus:13:10 @ You shall th erefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year.

nkjv@Exodus:13:11 @ "And it shall be, when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as He swore to you and your fath ers, and gives it to you,

nkjv@Exodus:13:12 @ that you shall set apart to the LORD all that open the womb, that is, ev ery firstborn that comes from an animal which you have; the males shall be the LORD's.

nkjv@Exodus:13:13 @ But ev ery firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb; and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. And all the firstborn of man among your sons you shall redeem.

nkjv@Exodus:13:15 @ And it came to pass, when Pharaoh was stubborn about letting us go, that the LORD killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man and the firstborn of beast. Th erefore I sacrifice to the LORD all males that open the womb, but all the firstborn of my sons I redeem.'

nkjv@Exodus:13:17 @ Then it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, "Lest p erhaps the people change their minds when they see war, and return to Egypt."

nkjv@Exodus:13:18 @ So God led the people around by way of the wild erness of the Red Sea. And the children of Israel went up in ord erly ranks out of the land of Egypt.

nkjv@Exodus:13:19 @ And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had placed the children of Israel und er solemn oath, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from h ere with you."

nkjv@Exodus:13:20 @ So they took their journey from Succoth and camped in Etham at the edge of the wild erness.

nkjv@Exodus:14:3 @ For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, "They are bewild ered by the land; the wild erness has closed them in.'

nkjv@Exodus:14:4 @ Then I will harden Pharaoh's heart, so that he will pursue them; and I will gain honor ov er Pharaoh and ov er all his army, that the Egyptians may know that I am the LORD." And they did so.

nkjv@Exodus:14:5 @ Now it was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled, and the heart of Pharaoh and his s ervants was turned against the people; and they said, "Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from s erving us?"

nkjv@Exodus:14:7 @ Also, he took six hundred choice chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt with captains ov er ev ery one of them.

nkjv@Exodus:14:9 @ So the Egyptians pursued them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen and his army, and ov ertook them camping by the sea beside Pi Hahiroth, before Baal Zephon.

nkjv@Exodus:14:10 @ And when Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians marched aft er them. So they w ere v ery afraid, and the children of Israel cried out to the LORD.

nkjv@Exodus:14:11 @ Then they said to Moses, "Because th ere w ere no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wild erness? Why have you so dealt with us, to bring us up out of Egypt?

nkjv@Exodus:14:12 @ Is this not the word that we told you in Egypt, saying, "Let us alone that we may s erve the Egyptians'? For it would have been bett er for us to s erve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wild erness."

nkjv@Exodus:14:13 @ And Moses said to the people, "Do not be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which He will accomplish for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall see again no more forev er.

nkjv@Exodus:14:16 @ But lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand ov er the sea and divide it. And the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.

nkjv@Exodus:14:17 @ And I indeed will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them. So I will gain honor ov er Pharaoh and ov er all his army, his chariots, and his horsemen.

nkjv@Exodus:14:18 @ Then the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gained honor for Myself ov er Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen."

nkjv@Exodus:14:20 @ So it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel. Thus it was a cloud and darkness to the one, and it gave light by night to the oth er, so that the one did not come near the oth er all that night.

nkjv@Exodus:14:21 @ Then Moses stretched out his hand ov er the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea into dry land, and the wat ers w ere divided.

nkjv@Exodus:14:22 @ So the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on the dry ground, and the wat ers w ere a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.

nkjv@Exodus:14:23 @ And the Egyptians pursued and went aft er them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.

nkjv@Exodus:14:26 @ Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand ov er the sea, that the wat ers may come back upon the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen."

nkjv@Exodus:14:27 @ And Moses stretched out his hand ov er the sea; and when the morning appeared, the sea returned to its full depth, while the Egyptians w ere fleeing into it. So the LORD ov erthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.

nkjv@Exodus:14:28 @ Then the wat ers returned and cov ered the chariots, the horsemen, and all the army of Pharaoh that came into the sea aft er them. Not so much as one of them remained.

nkjv@Exodus:14:29 @ But the children of Israel had walked on dry land in the midst of the sea, and the wat ers w ere a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.

nkjv@Exodus:14:31 @ Thus Israel saw the great work which the LORD had done in Egypt; so the people feared the LORD, and believed the LORD and His s ervant Moses.

nkjv@Exodus:15:1 @ Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to the LORD, and spoke, saying: "I will sing to the LORD, For He has triumphed gloriously! The horse and its rid er He has thrown into the sea!

nkjv@Exodus:15:2 @ The LORD is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation; He is my God, and I will praise Him; My fath er's God, and I will exalt Him.

nkjv@Exodus:15:5 @ The depths have cov ered them; They sank to the bottom like a stone.

nkjv@Exodus:15:6 @ "Your right hand, O LORD, has become glorious in pow er; Your right hand, O LORD, has dashed the enemy in pieces.

nkjv@Exodus:15:7 @ And in the greatness of Your excellence You have ov erthrown those who rose against You; You sent forth Your wrath; It consumed them like stubble.

nkjv@Exodus:15:8 @ And with the blast of Your nostrils The wat ers w ere gath ered togeth er; The floods stood upright like a heap; The depths congealed in the heart of the sea.

nkjv@Exodus:15:9 @ The enemy said, "I will pursue, I will ov ertake, I will divide the spoil; My desire shall be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, My hand shall destroy them.'

nkjv@Exodus:15:10 @ You blew with Your wind, The sea cov ered them; They sank like lead in the mighty wat ers.

nkjv@Exodus:15:11 @ "Who is like You, O LORD, among the gods? Who is like You, glorious in holiness, Fearful in praises, doing wond ers?

nkjv@Exodus:15:13 @ You in Your m ercy have led forth The people whom You have redeemed; You have guided them in Your strength To Your holy habitation.

nkjv@Exodus:15:16 @ Fear and dread will fall on them; By the greatness of Your arm They will be as still as a stone, Till Your people pass ov er, O LORD, Till the people pass ov er Whom You have purchased.

nkjv@Exodus:15:17 @ You will bring them in and plant them In the mountain of Your inh eritance, In the place, O LORD, which You have made For Your own dwelling, The sanctuary, O LORD, which Your hands have established.

nkjv@Exodus:15:18 @ "The LORD shall reign forev er and ev er."

nkjv@Exodus:15:19 @ For the horses of Pharaoh went with his chariots and his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought back the wat ers of the sea upon them. But the children of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea.

nkjv@Exodus:15:20 @ Then Miriam the prophetess, the sist er of Aaron, took the timbrel in h er hand; and all the women went out aft er h er with timbrels and with dances.

nkjv@Exodus:15:21 @ And Miriam answ ered them: "Sing to the LORD, For He has triumphed gloriously! The horse and its rid er He has thrown into the sea!"

nkjv@Exodus:15:22 @ So Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea; then they went out into the Wild erness of Shur. And they went three days in the wild erness and found no wat er.

nkjv@Exodus:15:23 @ Now when they came to Marah, they could not drink the wat ers of Marah, for they w ere bitt er. Th erefore the name of it was called Marah.

nkjv@Exodus:15:25 @ So he cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a tree. When he cast it into the wat ers, the wat ers w ere made sweet. Th ere He made a statute and an ordinance for them, and th ere He tested them,

nkjv@Exodus:15:27 @ Then they came to Elim, wh ere th ere w ere twelve wells of wat er and seventy palm trees; so they camped th ere by the wat ers.

nkjv@Exodus:16:1 @ And they journeyed from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the Wild erness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month aft er they departed from the land of Egypt.

nkjv@Exodus:16:2 @ Then the whole congregation of the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron in the wild erness.

nkjv@Exodus:16:3 @ And the children of Israel said to them, "Oh, that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat and when we ate bread to the full! For you have brought us out into this wild erness to kill this whole assembly with hung er."

nkjv@Exodus:16:4 @ Then the LORD said to Moses, "Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you. And the people shall go out and gath er a c ertain quota ev ery day, that I may test them, wheth er they will walk in My law or not.

nkjv@Exodus:16:5 @ And it shall be on the sixth day that they shall prepare what they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gath er daily."

nkjv@Exodus:16:10 @ Now it came to pass, as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wild erness, and behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud.

nkjv@Exodus:16:13 @ So it was that quails came up at evening and cov ered the camp, and in the morning the dew lay all around the camp.

nkjv@Exodus:16:14 @ And when the lay er of dew lifted, th ere, on the surface of the wild erness, was a small round substance, as fine as frost on the ground.

nkjv@Exodus:16:15 @ So when the children of Israel saw it, they said to one anoth er, "What is it?" For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, "This is the bread which the LORD has given you to eat.

nkjv@Exodus:16:16 @ This is the thing which the LORD has commanded: "Let ev ery man gath er it according to each one's need, one om er for each p erson, according to the numb er of p ersons; let ev ery man take for those who are in his tent."'

nkjv@Exodus:16:17 @ Then the children of Israel did so and gath ered, some more, some less.

nkjv@Exodus:16:18 @ So when they measured it by om ers, he who gath ered much had nothing left ov er, and he who gath ered little had no lack. Ev ery man had gath ered according to each one's need.

nkjv@Exodus:16:21 @ So they gath ered it ev ery morning, ev ery man according to his need. And when the sun became hot, it melted.

nkjv@Exodus:16:22 @ And so it was, on the sixth day, that they gath ered twice as much bread, two om ers for each one. And all the rul ers of the congregation came and told Moses.

nkjv@Exodus:16:24 @ So they laid it up till morning, as Moses commanded; and it did not stink, nor w ere th ere any worms in it.

nkjv@Exodus:16:26 @ Six days you shall gath er it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, th ere will be none."

nkjv@Exodus:16:27 @ Now it happened that some of the people went out on the seventh day to gath er, but they found none.

nkjv@Exodus:16:29 @ See! For the LORD has given you the Sabbath; th erefore He gives you on the sixth day bread for two days. Let ev ery man remain in his place; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day."

nkjv@Exodus:16:31 @ And the house of Israel called its name Manna. And it was like white coriand er seed, and the taste of it was like waf ers made with honey.

nkjv@Exodus:16:32 @ Then Moses said, "This is the thing which the LORD has commanded: "Fill an om er with it, to be kept for your gen erations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wild erness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt."'

nkjv@Exodus:16:33 @ And Moses said to Aaron, "Take a pot and put an om er of manna in it, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your gen erations."

nkjv@Exodus:16:35 @ And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; they ate manna until they came to the bord er of the land of Canaan.

nkjv@Exodus:16:36 @ Now an om er is one-tenth of an ephah.

nkjv@Exodus:17:1 @ Then all the congregation of the children of Israel set out on their journey from the Wild erness of Sin, according to the commandment of the LORD, and camped in Rephidim; but th ere was no wat er for the people to drink.

nkjv@Exodus:17:2 @ Th erefore the people contended with Moses, and said, "Give us wat er, that we may drink." So Moses said to them, "Why do you contend with me? Why do you tempt the LORD?"

nkjv@Exodus:17:3 @ And the people thirsted th ere for wat er, and the people complained against Moses, and said, "Why is it you have brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?"

nkjv@Exodus:17:5 @ And the LORD said to Moses, "Go on before the people, and take with you some of the eld ers of Israel. Also take in your hand your rod with which you struck the riv er, and go.

nkjv@Exodus:17:6 @ Behold, I will stand before you th ere on the rock in Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and wat er will come out of it, that the people may drink." And Moses did so in the sight of the eld ers of Israel.

nkjv@Exodus:17:7 @ So he called the name of the place Massah and M eribah, because of the contention of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, "Is the LORD among us or not?"

nkjv@Exodus:17:12 @ But Moses' hands became heavy; so they took a stone and put it und er him, and he sat on it. And Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on one side, and the oth er on the oth er side; and his hands w ere steady until the going down of the sun.

nkjv@Exodus:17:14 @ Then the LORD said to Moses, "Write this for a memorial in the book and recount it in the hearing of Joshua, that I will utt erly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from und er heaven."

nkjv@Exodus:17:15 @ And Moses built an altar and called its name, The-LORD-Is-My-Bann er;

nkjv@Exodus:17:16 @ for he said, "Because the LORD has sworn: the LORD will have war with Amalek from gen eration to gen eration."

nkjv@Exodus:18:1 @ And Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' fath er-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel His people--that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.

nkjv@Exodus:18:2 @ Then Jethro, Moses' fath er-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, aft er he had sent h er back,

nkjv@Exodus:18:3 @ with h er two sons, of whom the name of one was G ershom (for he said, "I have been a strang er in a foreign land")

nkjv@Exodus:18:4 @ and the name of the oth er was Eliez er (for he said, "The God of my fath er was my help, and deliv ered me from the sword of Pharaoh");

nkjv@Exodus:18:5 @ and Jethro, Moses' fath er-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses in the wild erness, wh ere he was encamped at the mountain of God.

nkjv@Exodus:18:6 @ Now he had said to Moses, "I, your fath er-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and h er two sons with h er."

nkjv@Exodus:18:7 @ So Moses went out to meet his fath er-in-law, bowed down, and kissed him. And they asked each oth er about their well-being, and they went into the tent.

nkjv@Exodus:18:8 @ And Moses told his fath er-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the hardship that had come upon them on the way, and how the LORD had deliv ered them.

nkjv@Exodus:18:9 @ Then Jethro rejoiced for all the good which the LORD had done for Israel, whom He had deliv ered out of the hand of the Egyptians.

nkjv@Exodus:18:10 @ And Jethro said, "Blessed be the LORD, who has deliv ered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of Pharaoh, and who has deliv ered the people from und er the hand of the Egyptians.

nkjv@Exodus:18:11 @ Now I know that the LORD is great er than all the gods; for in the v ery thing in which they behaved proudly, He was above them."

nkjv@Exodus:18:12 @ Then Jethro, Moses' fath er-in-law, took a burnt off ering and oth er sacrifices to off er to God. And Aaron came with all the eld ers of Israel to eat bread with Moses' fath er-in-law before God.

nkjv@Exodus:18:14 @ So when Moses' fath er-in-law saw all that he did for the people, he said, "What is this thing that you are doing for the people? Why do you alone sit, and all the people stand before you from morning until evening?"

nkjv@Exodus:18:15 @ And Moses said to his fath er-in-law, "Because the people come to me to inquire of God.

nkjv@Exodus:18:16 @ When they have a difficulty, they come to me, and I judge between one and anoth er; and I make known the statutes of God and His laws."

nkjv@Exodus:18:17 @ So Moses' fath er-in-law said to him, "The thing that you do is not good.

nkjv@Exodus:18:18 @ Both you and these people who are with you will surely wear yourselves out. For this thing is too much for you; you are not able to p erform it by yourself.

nkjv@Exodus:18:21 @ Moreov er you shall select from all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such ov er them to be rul ers of thousands, rul ers of hundreds, rul ers of fifties, and rul ers of tens.

nkjv@Exodus:18:22 @ And let them judge the people at all times. Then it will be that ev ery great matt er they shall bring to you, but ev ery small matt er they themselves shall judge. So it will be easi er for you, for they will bear the burden with you.

nkjv@Exodus:18:24 @ So Moses heeded the voice of his fath er-in-law and did all that he had said.

nkjv@Exodus:18:25 @ And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads ov er the people: rul ers of thousands, rul ers of hundreds, rul ers of fifties, and rul ers of tens.

nkjv@Exodus:18:26 @ So they judged the people at all times; the hard cases they brought to Moses, but they judged ev ery small case themselves.

nkjv@Exodus:18:27 @ Then Moses let his fath er-in-law depart, and he went his way to his own land.

nkjv@Exodus:19:1 @ In the third month aft er the children of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on the same day, they came to the Wild erness of Sinai.

nkjv@Exodus:19:2 @ For they had departed from Rephidim, had come to the Wild erness of Sinai, and camped in the wild erness. So Israel camped th ere before the mountain.

nkjv@Exodus:19:5 @ Now th erefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine.

nkjv@Exodus:19:7 @ So Moses came and called for the eld ers of the people, and laid before them all these words which the LORD commanded him.

nkjv@Exodus:19:8 @ Then all the people answ ered togeth er and said, "All that the LORD has spoken we will do." So Moses brought back the words of the people to the LORD.

nkjv@Exodus:19:9 @ And the LORD said to Moses, "Behold, I come to you in the thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and believe you forev er." So Moses told the words of the people to the LORD.

nkjv@Exodus:19:12 @ You shall set bounds for the people all around, saying, "Take heed to yourselves that you do not go up to the mountain or touch its base. Whoev er touches the mountain shall surely be put to death.

nkjv@Exodus:19:13 @ Not a hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot with an arrow; wheth er man or beast, he shall not live.' When the trumpet sounds long, they shall come near the mountain."

nkjv@Exodus:19:16 @ Then it came to pass on the third day, in the morning, that th ere w ere thund erings and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain; and the sound of the trumpet was v ery loud, so that all the people who w ere in the camp trembled.

nkjv@Exodus:19:19 @ And when the blast of the trumpet sounded long and became loud er and loud er, Moses spoke, and God answ ered him by voice.

nkjv@Exodus:19:21 @ And the LORD said to Moses, "Go down and warn the people, lest they break through to gaze at the LORD, and many of them p erish.

nkjv@Exodus:20:3 @ "You shall have no oth er gods before Me.

nkjv@Exodus:20:4 @ "You shall not make for yourself a carved image--any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the wat er und er the earth;

nkjv@Exodus:20:5 @ you shall not bow down to them nor s erve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fath ers upon the children to the third and fourth gen erations of those who hate Me,

nkjv@Exodus:20:6 @ but showing m ercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

nkjv@Exodus:20:8 @ "Rememb er the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

nkjv@Exodus:20:10 @ but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daught er, nor your male s ervant, nor your female s ervant, nor your cattle, nor your strang er who is within your gates.

nkjv@Exodus:20:11 @ For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Th erefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

nkjv@Exodus:20:12 @ "Honor your fath er and your moth er, that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving you.

nkjv@Exodus:20:13 @ "You shall not murd er.

nkjv@Exodus:20:14 @ "You shall not commit adult ery.

nkjv@Exodus:20:17 @ "You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male s ervant, nor his female s ervant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's."

nkjv@Exodus:20:18 @ Now all the people witnessed the thund erings, the lightning flashes, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood afar off.

nkjv@Exodus:20:21 @ So the people stood afar off, but Moses drew near the thick darkness wh ere God was.

nkjv@Exodus:20:23 @ You shall not make anything to be with Me--gods of silv er or gods of gold you shall not make for yourselves.

nkjv@Exodus:20:24 @ An altar of earth you shall make for Me, and you shall sacrifice on it your burnt off erings and your peace off erings, your sheep and your oxen. In ev ery place wh ere I record My name I will come to you, and I will bless you.

nkjv@Exodus:21:2 @ If you buy a Hebrew s ervant, he shall s erve six years; and in the seventh he shall go out free and pay nothing.

nkjv@Exodus:21:4 @ If his mast er has given him a wife, and she has borne him sons or daught ers, the wife and h er children shall be h er mast er's, and he shall go out by himself.

nkjv@Exodus:21:5 @ But if the s ervant plainly says, "I love my mast er, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,'

nkjv@Exodus:21:6 @ then his mast er shall bring him to the judges. He shall also bring him to the door, or to the doorpost, and his mast er shall pi erce his ear with an awl; and he shall s erve him forev er.

nkjv@Exodus:21:7 @ "And if a man sells his daught er to be a female slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do.

nkjv@Exodus:21:8 @ If she does not please h er mast er, who has betrothed h er to himself, then he shall let h er be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell h er to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with h er.

nkjv@Exodus:21:9 @ And if he has betrothed h er to his son, he shall deal with h er according to the custom of daught ers.

nkjv@Exodus:21:10 @ If he takes anoth er wife, he shall not diminish h er food, h er clothing, and h er marriage rights.

nkjv@Exodus:21:11 @ And if he does not do these three for h er, then she shall go out free, without paying money.

nkjv@Exodus:21:13 @ Howev er, if he did not lie in wait, but God deliv ered him into his hand, then I will appoint for you a place wh ere he may flee.

nkjv@Exodus:21:14 @ "But if a man acts with premeditation against his neighbor, to kill him by treach ery, you shall take him from My altar, that he may die.

nkjv@Exodus:21:15 @ "And he who strikes his fath er or his moth er shall surely be put to death.

nkjv@Exodus:21:17 @ "And he who curses his fath er or his moth er shall surely be put to death.

nkjv@Exodus:21:18 @ "If men contend with each oth er, and one strikes the oth er with a stone or with his fist, and he does not die but is confined to his bed,

nkjv@Exodus:21:20 @ "And if a man beats his male or female s ervant with a rod, so that he dies und er his hand, he shall surely be punished.

nkjv@Exodus:21:21 @ Notwithstanding, if he remains alive a day or two, he shall not be punished; for he is his prop erty.

nkjv@Exodus:21:22 @ "If men fight, and hurt a woman with child, so that she gives birth prematurely, yet no harm follows, he shall surely be punished accordingly as the woman's husband imposes on him; and he shall pay as the judges det ermine.

nkjv@Exodus:21:26 @ "If a man strikes the eye of his male or female s ervant, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for the sake of his eye.

nkjv@Exodus:21:27 @ And if he knocks out the tooth of his male or female s ervant, he shall let him go free for the sake of his tooth.

nkjv@Exodus:21:28 @ "If an ox gores a man or a woman to death, then the ox shall surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the own er of the ox shall be acquitted.

nkjv@Exodus:21:29 @ But if the ox tended to thrust with its horn in times past, and it has been made known to his own er, and he has not kept it confined, so that it has killed a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned and its own er also shall be put to death.

nkjv@Exodus:21:30 @ If th ere is imposed on him a sum of money, then he shall pay to redeem his life, whatev er is imposed on him.

nkjv@Exodus:21:31 @ Wheth er it has gored a son or gored a daught er, according to this judgment it shall be done to him.

nkjv@Exodus:21:32 @ If the ox gores a male or female s ervant, he shall give to their mast er thirty shekels of silv er, and the ox shall be stoned.

nkjv@Exodus:21:33 @ "And if a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and does not cov er it, and an ox or a donkey falls in it,

nkjv@Exodus:21:34 @ the own er of the pit shall make it good; he shall give money to their own er, but the dead animal shall be his.

nkjv@Exodus:21:35 @ "If one man's ox hurts anoth er's, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live ox and divide the money from it; and the dead ox they shall also divide.

nkjv@Exodus:21:36 @ Or if it was known that the ox tended to thrust in time past, and its own er has not kept it confined, he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead animal shall be his own.

nkjv@Exodus:22:1 @ "If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and slaught ers it or sells it, he shall restore five oxen for an ox and four sheep for a sheep.

nkjv@Exodus:22:2 @ If the thief is found breaking in, and he is struck so that he dies, th ere shall be no guilt for his bloodshed.

nkjv@Exodus:22:3 @ If the sun has risen on him, th ere shall be guilt for his bloodshed. He should make full restitution; if he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

nkjv@Exodus:22:4 @ If the theft is c ertainly found alive in his hand, wheth er it is an ox or donkey or sheep, he shall restore double.

nkjv@Exodus:22:5 @ "If a man causes a field or vineyard to be grazed, and lets loose his animal, and it feeds in anoth er man's field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field and the best of his own vineyard.

nkjv@Exodus:22:7 @ "If a man deliv ers to his neighbor money or articles to keep, and it is stolen out of the man's house, if the thief is found, he shall pay double.

nkjv@Exodus:22:8 @ If the thief is not found, then the mast er of the house shall be brought to the judges to see wheth er he has put his hand into his neighbor's goods.

nkjv@Exodus:22:9 @ "For any kind of trespass, wheth er it conc erns an ox, a donkey, a sheep, or clothing, or for any kind of lost thing which anoth er claims to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whomev er the judges condemn shall pay double to his neighbor.

nkjv@Exodus:22:10 @ If a man deliv ers to his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep, and it dies, is hurt, or driven away, no one seeing it,

nkjv@Exodus:22:11 @ then an oath of the LORD shall be between them both, that he has not put his hand into his neighbor's goods; and the own er of it shall accept that, and he shall not make it good.

nkjv@Exodus:22:12 @ But if, in fact, it is stolen from him, he shall make restitution to the own er of it.

nkjv@Exodus:22:14 @ "And if a man borrows anything from his neighbor, and it becomes injured or dies, the own er of it not being with it, he shall surely make it good.

nkjv@Exodus:22:15 @ If its own er was with it, he shall not make it good; if it was hired, it came for its hire.

nkjv@Exodus:22:16 @ "If a man entices a virgin who is not betrothed, and lies with h er, he shall surely pay the bride-price for h er to be his wife.

nkjv@Exodus:22:17 @ If h er fath er utt erly refuses to give h er to him, he shall pay money according to the bride-price of virgins.

nkjv@Exodus:22:18 @ "You shall not p ermit a sorc eress to live.

nkjv@Exodus:22:19 @ "Whoev er lies with an animal shall surely be put to death.

nkjv@Exodus:22:20 @ "He who sacrifices to any god, except to the LORD only, he shall be utt erly destroyed.

nkjv@Exodus:22:21 @ "You shall neith er mistreat a strang er nor oppress him, for you w ere strang ers in the land of Egypt.

nkjv@Exodus:22:22 @ "You shall not afflict any widow or fath erless child.

nkjv@Exodus:22:24 @ and My wrath will become hot, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives shall be widows, and your children fath erless.

nkjv@Exodus:22:25 @ "If you lend money to any of My people who are poor among you, you shall not be like a moneylend er to him; you shall not charge him int erest.

nkjv@Exodus:22:26 @ If you ev er take your neighbor's garment as a pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down.

nkjv@Exodus:22:27 @ For that is his only cov ering, it is his garment for his skin. What will he sleep in? And it will be that when he cries to Me, I will hear, for I am gracious.

nkjv@Exodus:22:28 @ "You shall not revile God, nor curse a rul er of your people.

nkjv@Exodus:22:29 @ "You shall not delay to off er the first of your ripe produce and your juices. The firstborn of your sons you shall give to Me.

nkjv@Exodus:22:30 @ Likewise you shall do with your oxen and your sheep. It shall be with its moth er seven days; on the eighth day you shall give it to Me.

nkjv@Exodus:23:2 @ You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside aft er many to p erv ert justice.

nkjv@Exodus:23:5 @ If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying und er its burden, and you would refrain from helping it, you shall surely help him with it.

nkjv@Exodus:23:6 @ "You shall not p erv ert the judgment of your poor in his dispute.

nkjv@Exodus:23:7 @ Keep yourself far from a false matt er; do not kill the innocent and righteous. For I will not justify the wicked.

nkjv@Exodus:23:8 @ And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the disc erning and p erv erts the words of the righteous.

nkjv@Exodus:23:9 @ "Also you shall not oppress a strang er, for you know the heart of a strang er, because you w ere strang ers in the land of Egypt.

nkjv@Exodus:23:10 @ "Six years you shall sow your land and gath er in its produce,

nkjv@Exodus:23:11 @ but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave, the beasts of the field may eat. In like mann er you shall do with your vineyard and your olive grove.

nkjv@Exodus:23:12 @ Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female s ervant and the strang er may be refreshed.

nkjv@Exodus:23:13 @ "And in all that I have said to you, be circumspect and make no mention of the name of oth er gods, nor let it be heard from your mouth.

nkjv@Exodus:23:16 @ and the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors which you have sown in the field; and the Feast of Ingath ering at the end of the year, when you have gath ered in the fruit of your labors from the field.

nkjv@Exodus:23:18 @ "You shall not off er the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread; nor shall the fat of My sacrifice remain until morning.

nkjv@Exodus:23:19 @ The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring into the house of the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its moth er's milk.

nkjv@Exodus:23:22 @ But if you indeed obey His voice and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adv ersary to your adv ersaries.

nkjv@Exodus:23:23 @ For My Angel will go before you and bring you in to the Amorites and the Hittites and the P erizzites and the Canaanites and the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I will cut them off.

nkjv@Exodus:23:24 @ You shall not bow down to their gods, nor s erve them, nor do according to their works; but you shall utt erly ov erthrow them and completely break down their sacred pillars.

nkjv@Exodus:23:25 @ "So you shall s erve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your wat er. And I will take sickness away from the midst of you.

nkjv@Exodus:23:26 @ No one shall suff er miscarriage or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the numb er of your days.

nkjv@Exodus:23:29 @ I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the beasts of the field become too num erous for you.

nkjv@Exodus:23:30 @ Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased, and you inh erit the land.

nkjv@Exodus:23:31 @ And I will set your bounds from the Red Sea to the sea, Philistia, and from the des ert to the Riv er. For I will deliv er the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.

nkjv@Exodus:23:33 @ They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against Me. For if you s erve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you."

nkjv@Exodus:24:1 @ Now He said to Moses, "Come up to the LORD, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the eld ers of Israel, and worship from afar.

nkjv@Exodus:24:3 @ So Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD and all the judgments. And all the people answ ered with one voice and said, "All the words which the LORD has said we will do."

nkjv@Exodus:24:5 @ Then he sent young men of the children of Israel, who off ered burnt off erings and sacrificed peace off erings of oxen to the LORD.

nkjv@Exodus:24:9 @ Then Moses went up, also Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the eld ers of Israel,

nkjv@Exodus:24:10 @ and they saw the God of Israel. And th ere was und er His feet as it w ere a paved work of sapphire stone, and it was like the v ery heavens in its clarity.

nkjv@Exodus:24:12 @ Then the LORD said to Moses, "Come up to Me on the mountain and be th ere; and I will give you tablets of stone, and the law and commandments which I have written, that you may teach them."

nkjv@Exodus:24:14 @ And he said to the eld ers, "Wait h ere for us until we come back to you. Indeed, Aaron and Hur are with you. If any man has a difficulty, let him go to them."

nkjv@Exodus:24:15 @ Then Moses went up into the mountain, and a cloud cov ered the mountain.

nkjv@Exodus:24:16 @ Now the glory of the LORD rested on Mount Sinai, and the cloud cov ered it six days. And on the seventh day He called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.

nkjv@Exodus:25:2 @ "Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring Me an off ering. From ev eryone who gives it willingly with his heart you shall take My off ering.

nkjv@Exodus:25:3 @ And this is the off ering which you shall take from them: gold, silv er, and bronze;

nkjv@Exodus:25:5 @ ram skins dyed red, badg er skins, and acacia wood;

nkjv@Exodus:25:9 @ According to all that I show you, that is, the patt ern of the tab ernacle and the patt ern of all its furnishings, just so you shall make it.

nkjv@Exodus:25:11 @ And you shall ov erlay it with pure gold, inside and out you shall ov erlay it, and shall make on it a molding of gold all around.

nkjv@Exodus:25:12 @ You shall cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in its four corn ers; two rings shall be on one side, and two rings on the oth er side.

nkjv@Exodus:25:13 @ And you shall make poles of acacia wood, and ov erlay them with gold.

nkjv@Exodus:25:17 @ "You shall make a m ercy seat of pure gold; two and a half cubits shall be its length and a cubit and a half its width.

nkjv@Exodus:25:18 @ And you shall make two ch erubim of gold; of hamm ered work you shall make them at the two ends of the m ercy seat.

nkjv@Exodus:25:19 @ Make one ch erub at one end, and the oth er ch erub at the oth er end; you shall make the ch erubim at the two ends of it of one piece with the m ercy seat.

nkjv@Exodus:25:20 @ And the ch erubim shall stretch out their wings above, cov ering the m ercy seat with their wings, and they shall face one anoth er; the faces of the ch erubim shall be toward the m ercy seat.

nkjv@Exodus:25:21 @ You shall put the m ercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the Testimony that I will give you.

nkjv@Exodus:25:22 @ And th ere I will meet with you, and I will speak with you from above the m ercy seat, from between the two ch erubim which are on the ark of the Testimony, about ev erything which I will give you in commandment to the children of Israel.

nkjv@Exodus:25:24 @ And you shall ov erlay it with pure gold, and make a molding of gold all around.

nkjv@Exodus:25:26 @ And you shall make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings on the four corn ers that are at its four legs.

nkjv@Exodus:25:27 @ The rings shall be close to the frame, as hold ers for the poles to bear the table.

nkjv@Exodus:25:28 @ And you shall make the poles of acacia wood, and ov erlay them with gold, that the table may be carried with them.

nkjv@Exodus:25:29 @ You shall make its dishes, its pans, its pitch ers, and its bowls for pouring. You shall make them of pure gold.

nkjv@Exodus:25:31 @ "You shall also make a lampstand of pure gold; the lampstand shall be of hamm ered work. Its shaft, its branches, its bowls, its ornamental knobs, and flow ers shall be of one piece.

nkjv@Exodus:25:32 @ And six branches shall come out of its sides: three branches of the lampstand out of one side, and three branches of the lampstand out of the oth er side.

nkjv@Exodus:25:33 @ Three bowls shall be made like almond blossoms on one branch, with an ornamental knob and a flow er, and three bowls made like almond blossoms on the oth er branch, with an ornamental knob and a flow er--and so for the six branches that come out of the lampstand.

nkjv@Exodus:25:34 @ On the lampstand itself four bowls shall be made like almond blossoms, each with its ornamental knob and flow er.

nkjv@Exodus:25:35 @ And th ere shall be a knob und er the first two branches of the same, a knob und er the second two branches of the same, and a knob und er the third two branches of the same, according to the six branches that extend from the lampstand.

nkjv@Exodus:25:36 @ Their knobs and their branches shall be of one piece; all of it shall be one hamm ered piece of pure gold.

nkjv@Exodus:25:38 @ And its wick-trimm ers and their trays shall be of pure gold.

nkjv@Exodus:25:40 @ And see to it that you make them according to the patt ern which was shown you on the mountain.

nkjv@Exodus:26:1 @ "Moreov er you shall make the tab ernacle with ten curtains of fine woven linen and blue, purple, and scarlet thread; with artistic designs of ch erubim you shall weave them.

nkjv@Exodus:26:2 @ The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits. And ev ery one of the curtains shall have the same measurements.

nkjv@Exodus:26:3 @ Five curtains shall be coupled to one anoth er, and the oth er five curtains shall be coupled to one anoth er.

nkjv@Exodus:26:4 @ And you shall make loops of blue yarn on the edge of the curtain on the selvedge of one set, and likewise you shall do on the out er edge of the oth er curtain of the second set.

nkjv@Exodus:26:5 @ Fifty loops you shall make in the one curtain, and fifty loops you shall make on the edge of the curtain that is on the end of the second set, that the loops may be clasped to one anoth er.

nkjv@Exodus:26:6 @ And you shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains togeth er with the clasps, so that it may be one tab ernacle.

nkjv@Exodus:26:7 @ "You shall also make curtains of goats' hair, to be a tent ov er the tab ernacle. You shall make eleven curtains.

nkjv@Exodus:26:9 @ And you shall couple five curtains by themselves and six curtains by themselves, and you shall double ov er the sixth curtain at the forefront of the tent.

nkjv@Exodus:26:10 @ You shall make fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is out ermost in one set, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain of the second set.

nkjv@Exodus:26:11 @ And you shall make fifty bronze clasps, put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent togeth er, that it may be one.

nkjv@Exodus:26:12 @ The remnant that remains of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remains, shall hang ov er the back of the tab ernacle.

nkjv@Exodus:26:13 @ And a cubit on one side and a cubit on the oth er side, of what remains of the length of the curtains of the tent, shall hang ov er the sides of the tab ernacle, on this side and on that side, to cov er it.

nkjv@Exodus:26:14 @ "You shall also make a cov ering of ram skins dyed red for the tent, and a cov ering of badg er skins above that.

nkjv@Exodus:26:15 @ "And for the tab ernacle you shall make the boards of acacia wood, standing upright.

nkjv@Exodus:26:17 @ Two tenons shall be in each board for binding one to anoth er. Thus you shall make for all the boards of the tab ernacle.

nkjv@Exodus:26:18 @ And you shall make the boards for the tab ernacle, twenty boards for the south side.

nkjv@Exodus:26:19 @ You shall make forty sockets of silv er und er the twenty boards: two sockets und er each of the boards for its two tenons.

nkjv@Exodus:26:20 @ And for the second side of the tab ernacle, the north side, th ere shall be twenty boards

nkjv@Exodus:26:21 @ and their forty sockets of silv er: two sockets und er each of the boards.

nkjv@Exodus:26:22 @ For the far side of the tab ernacle, westward, you shall make six boards.

nkjv@Exodus:26:23 @ And you shall also make two boards for the two back corn ers of the tab ernacle.

nkjv@Exodus:26:24 @ They shall be coupled togeth er at the bottom and they shall be coupled togeth er at the top by one ring. Thus it shall be for both of them. They shall be for the two corn ers.

nkjv@Exodus:26:25 @ So th ere shall be eight boards with their sockets of silv er--sixteen sockets--two sockets und er each of the boards.

nkjv@Exodus:26:26 @ "And you shall make bars of acacia wood: five for the boards on one side of the tab ernacle,

nkjv@Exodus:26:27 @ five bars for the boards on the oth er side of the tab ernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tab ernacle, for the far side westward.

nkjv@Exodus:26:29 @ You shall ov erlay the boards with gold, make their rings of gold as hold ers for the bars, and ov erlay the bars with gold.

nkjv@Exodus:26:30 @ And you shall raise up the tab ernacle according to its patt ern which you w ere shown on the mountain.

nkjv@Exodus:26:31 @ "You shall make a veil woven of blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine woven linen. It shall be woven with an artistic design of ch erubim.

nkjv@Exodus:26:32 @ You shall hang it upon the four pillars of acacia wood ov erlaid with gold. Their hooks shall be gold, upon four sockets of silv er.

nkjv@Exodus:26:33 @ And you shall hang the veil from the clasps. Then you shall bring the ark of the Testimony in th ere, behind the veil. The veil shall be a divid er for you between the holy place and the Most Holy.

nkjv@Exodus:26:34 @ You shall put the m ercy seat upon the ark of the Testimony in the Most Holy.

nkjv@Exodus:26:35 @ You shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand across from the table on the side of the tab ernacle toward the south; and you shall put the table on the north side.

nkjv@Exodus:26:36 @ "You shall make a screen for the door of the tab ernacle, woven of blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine woven linen, made by a weav er.

nkjv@Exodus:26:37 @ And you shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia wood, and ov erlay them with gold; their hooks shall be gold, and you shall cast five sockets of bronze for them.

nkjv@Exodus:27:2 @ You shall make its horns on its four corn ers; its horns shall be of one piece with it. And you shall ov erlay it with bronze.

nkjv@Exodus:27:4 @ You shall make a grate for it, a network of bronze; and on the network you shall make four bronze rings at its four corn ers.

nkjv@Exodus:27:5 @ You shall put it und er the rim of the altar beneath, that the network may be midway up the altar.

nkjv@Exodus:27:6 @ And you shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and ov erlay them with bronze.

nkjv@Exodus:27:9 @ "You shall also make the court of the tab ernacle. For the south side th ere shall be hangings for the court made of fine woven linen, one hundred cubits long for one side.

nkjv@Exodus:27:10 @ And its twenty pillars and their twenty sockets shall be bronze. The hooks of the pillars and their bands shall be silv er.

nkjv@Exodus:27:11 @ Likewise along the length of the north side th ere shall be hangings one hundred cubits long, with its twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of bronze, and the hooks of the pillars and their bands of silv er.

nkjv@Exodus:27:15 @ And on the oth er side shall be hangings of fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and their three sockets.

nkjv@Exodus:27:16 @ "For the gate of the court th ere shall be a screen twenty cubits long, woven of blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine woven linen, made by a weav er. It shall have four pillars and four sockets.

nkjv@Exodus:27:17 @ All the pillars around the court shall have bands of silv er; their hooks shall be of silv er and their sockets of bronze.

nkjv@Exodus:27:19 @ All the utensils of the tab ernacle for all its s ervice, all its pegs, and all the pegs of the court, shall be of bronze.

nkjv@Exodus:27:21 @ In the tab ernacle of meeting, outside the veil which is before the Testimony, Aaron and his sons shall tend it from evening until morning before the LORD. It shall be a statute forev er to their gen erations on behalf of the children of Israel.

nkjv@Exodus:28:1 @ "Now take Aaron your broth er, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minist er to Me as priest, Aaron and Aaron's sons: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

nkjv@Exodus:28:2 @ And you shall make holy garments for Aaron your broth er, for glory and for beauty.

nkjv@Exodus:28:3 @ So you shall speak to all who are gifted artisans, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron's garments, to consecrate him, that he may minist er to Me as priest.

nkjv@Exodus:28:4 @ And these are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate, an ephod, a robe, a skillfully woven tunic, a turban, and a sash. So they shall make holy garments for Aaron your broth er and his sons, that he may minist er to Me as priest.

nkjv@Exodus:28:7 @ It shall have two should er straps joined at its two edges, and so it shall be joined togeth er.

nkjv@Exodus:28:10 @ six of their names on one stone and six names on the oth er stone, in ord er of their birth.

nkjv@Exodus:28:11 @ With the work of an engrav er in stone, like the engravings of a signet, you shall engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel. You shall set them in settings of gold.

nkjv@Exodus:28:12 @ And you shall put the two stones on the should ers of the ephod as memorial stones for the sons of Israel. So Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD on his two should ers as a memorial.

nkjv@Exodus:28:17 @ And you shall put settings of stones in it, four rows of stones: The first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and an em erald; this shall be the first row;

nkjv@Exodus:28:20 @ and the fourth row, a b eryl, an onyx, and a jasp er. They shall be set in gold settings.

nkjv@Exodus:28:25 @ and the oth er two ends of the two braided chains you shall fasten to the two settings, and put them on the should er straps of the ephod in the front.

nkjv@Exodus:28:26 @ "You shall make two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on the edge of it, which is on the inn er side of the ephod.

nkjv@Exodus:28:27 @ And two oth er rings of gold you shall make, and put them on the two should er straps, und erneath the ephod toward its front, right at the seam above the intricately woven band of the ephod.

nkjv@Exodus:28:29 @ "So Aaron shall bear the names of the sons of Israel on the breastplate of judgment ov er his heart, when he goes into the holy place, as a memorial before the LORD continually.

nkjv@Exodus:28:30 @ And you shall put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim, and they shall be ov er Aaron's heart when he goes in before the LORD. So Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel ov er his heart before the LORD continually.

nkjv@Exodus:28:32 @ Th ere shall be an opening for his head in the middle of it; it shall have a woven binding all around its opening, like the opening in a coat of mail, so that it does not tear.

nkjv@Exodus:28:35 @ And it shall be upon Aaron when he minist ers, and its sound will be heard when he goes into the holy place before the LORD and when he comes out, that he may not die.

nkjv@Exodus:28:41 @ So you shall put them on Aaron your broth er and on his sons with him. You shall anoint them, consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minist er to Me as priests.

nkjv@Exodus:28:42 @ And you shall make for them linen trous ers to cov er their nakedness; they shall reach from the waist to the thighs.

nkjv@Exodus:28:43 @ They shall be on Aaron and on his sons when they come into the tab ernacle of meeting, or when they come near the altar to minist er in the holy place, that they do not incur iniquity and die. It shall be a statute forev er to him and his descendants aft er him.

nkjv@Exodus:29:1 @ "And this is what you shall do to them to hallow them for minist ering to Me as priests: Take one young bull and two rams without blemish,

nkjv@Exodus:29:2 @ and unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened waf ers anointed with oil (you shall make them of wheat flour).

nkjv@Exodus:29:4 @ "And Aaron and his sons you shall bring to the door of the tab ernacle of meeting, and you shall wash them with wat er.

nkjv@Exodus:29:9 @ And you shall gird them with sashes, Aaron and his sons, and put the hats on them. The priesthood shall be theirs for a p erpetual statute. So you shall consecrate Aaron and his sons.

nkjv@Exodus:29:10 @ "You shall also have the bull brought before the tab ernacle of meeting, and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands on the head of the bull.

nkjv@Exodus:29:11 @ Then you shall kill the bull before the LORD, by the door of the tab ernacle of meeting.

nkjv@Exodus:29:12 @ You shall take some of the blood of the bull and put it on the horns of the altar with your fing er, and pour all the blood beside the base of the altar.

nkjv@Exodus:29:13 @ And you shall take all the fat that cov ers the entrails, the fatty lobe attached to the liv er, and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, and burn them on the altar.

nkjv@Exodus:29:14 @ But the flesh of the bull, with its skin and its offal, you shall burn with fire outside the camp. It is a sin off ering.

nkjv@Exodus:29:18 @ And you shall burn the whole ram on the altar. It is a burnt off ering to the LORD; it is a sweet aroma, an off ering made by fire to the LORD.

nkjv@Exodus:29:19 @ "You shall also take the oth er ram, and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands on the head of the ram.

nkjv@Exodus:29:22 @ "Also you shall take the fat of the ram, the fat tail, the fat that cov ers the entrails, the fatty lobe attached to the liv er, the two kidneys and the fat on them, the right thigh (for it is a ram of consecration),

nkjv@Exodus:29:23 @ one loaf of bread, one cake made with oil, and one waf er from the basket of the unleavened bread that is before the LORD;

nkjv@Exodus:29:24 @ and you shall put all these in the hands of Aaron and in the hands of his sons, and you shall wave them as a wave off ering before the LORD.

nkjv@Exodus:29:25 @ You shall receive them back from their hands and burn them on the altar as a burnt off ering, as a sweet aroma before the LORD. It is an off ering made by fire to the LORD.

nkjv@Exodus:29:26 @ "Then you shall take the breast of the ram of Aaron's consecration and wave it as a wave off ering before the LORD; and it shall be your portion.

nkjv@Exodus:29:27 @ And from the ram of the consecration you shall consecrate the breast of the wave off ering which is waved, and the thigh of the heave off ering which is raised, of that which is for Aaron and of that which is for his sons.

nkjv@Exodus:29:28 @ It shall be from the children of Israel for Aaron and his sons by a statute forev er. For it is a heave off ering; it shall be a heave off ering from the children of Israel from the sacrifices of their peace off erings, that is, their heave off ering to the LORD.

nkjv@Exodus:29:29 @ "And the holy garments of Aaron shall be his sons' aft er him, to be anointed in them and to be consecrated in them.

nkjv@Exodus:29:30 @ That son who becomes priest in his place shall put them on for seven days, when he ent ers the tab ernacle of meeting to minist er in the holy place.

nkjv@Exodus:29:32 @ Then Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, by the door of the tab ernacle of meeting.

nkjv@Exodus:29:33 @ They shall eat those things with which the atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them; but an outsid er shall not eat them, because they are holy.

nkjv@Exodus:29:34 @ And if any of the flesh of the consecration off erings, or of the bread, remains until the morning, then you shall burn the remaind er with fire. It shall not be eaten, because it is holy.

nkjv@Exodus:29:36 @ And you shall off er a bull ev ery day as a sin off ering for atonement. You shall cleanse the altar when you make atonement for it, and you shall anoint it to sanctify it.

nkjv@Exodus:29:37 @ Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and sanctify it. And the altar shall be most holy. Whatev er touches the altar must be holy.

nkjv@Exodus:29:38 @ "Now this is what you shall off er on the altar: two lambs of the first year, day by day continually.

nkjv@Exodus:29:39 @ One lamb you shall off er in the morning, and the oth er lamb you shall off er at twilight.

nkjv@Exodus:29:40 @ With the one lamb shall be one-tenth of an ephah of flour mixed with one-fourth of a hin of pressed oil, and one-fourth of a hin of wine as a drink off ering.

nkjv@Exodus:29:41 @ And the oth er lamb you shall off er at twilight; and you shall off er with it the grain off ering and the drink off ering, as in the morning, for a sweet aroma, an off ering made by fire to the LORD.

nkjv@Exodus:29:42 @ This shall be a continual burnt off ering throughout your gen erations at the door of the tab ernacle of meeting before the LORD, wh ere I will meet you to speak with you.

nkjv@Exodus:29:43 @ And th ere I will meet with the children of Israel, and the tab ernacle shall be sanctified by My glory.

nkjv@Exodus:29:44 @ So I will consecrate the tab ernacle of meeting and the altar. I will also consecrate both Aaron and his sons to minist er to Me as priests.

nkjv@Exodus:30:3 @ And you shall ov erlay its top, its sides all around, and its horns with pure gold; and you shall make for it a molding of gold all around.

nkjv@Exodus:30:4 @ Two gold rings you shall make for it, und er the molding on both its sides. You shall place them on its two sides, and they will be hold ers for the poles with which to bear it.

nkjv@Exodus:30:5 @ You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and ov erlay them with gold.

nkjv@Exodus:30:6 @ And you shall put it before the veil that is before the ark of the Testimony, before the m ercy seat that is ov er the Testimony, wh ere I will meet with you.

nkjv@Exodus:30:7 @ "Aaron shall burn on it sweet incense ev ery morning; when he tends the lamps, he shall burn incense on it.

nkjv@Exodus:30:8 @ And when Aaron lights the lamps at twilight, he shall burn incense on it, a p erpetual incense before the LORD throughout your gen erations.

nkjv@Exodus:30:9 @ You shall not off er strange incense on it, or a burnt off ering, or a grain off ering; nor shall you pour a drink off ering on it.

nkjv@Exodus:30:10 @ And Aaron shall make atonement upon its horns once a year with the blood of the sin off ering of atonement; once a year he shall make atonement upon it throughout your gen erations. It is most holy to the LORD."

nkjv@Exodus:30:12 @ "When you take the census of the children of Israel for their numb er, then ev ery man shall give a ransom for himself to the LORD, when you numb er them, that th ere may be no plague among them when you numb er them.

nkjv@Exodus:30:13 @ This is what ev eryone among those who are numb ered shall give: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (a shekel is twenty g erahs). The half-shekel shall be an off ering to the LORD.

nkjv@Exodus:30:14 @ Ev eryone included among those who are numb ered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an off ering to the LORD.

nkjv@Exodus:30:15 @ The rich shall not give more and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when you give an off ering to the LORD, to make atonement for yourselves.

nkjv@Exodus:30:16 @ And you shall take the atonement money of the children of Israel, and shall appoint it for the s ervice of the tab ernacle of meeting, that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD, to make atonement for yourselves."

nkjv@Exodus:30:18 @ "You shall also make a lav er of bronze, with its base also of bronze, for washing. You shall put it between the tab ernacle of meeting and the altar. And you shall put wat er in it,

nkjv@Exodus:30:19 @ for Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet in wat er from it.

nkjv@Exodus:30:20 @ When they go into the tab ernacle of meeting, or when they come near the altar to minist er, to burn an off ering made by fire to the LORD, they shall wash with wat er, lest they die.

nkjv@Exodus:30:21 @ So they shall wash their hands and their feet, lest they die. And it shall be a statute forev er to them--to him and his descendants throughout their gen erations."

nkjv@Exodus:30:22 @ Moreov er the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

nkjv@Exodus:30:25 @ And you shall make from these a holy anointing oil, an ointment compounded according to the art of the p erfum er. It shall be a holy anointing oil.

nkjv@Exodus:30:26 @ With it you shall anoint the tab ernacle of meeting and the ark of the Testimony;

nkjv@Exodus:30:28 @ the altar of burnt off ering with all its utensils, and the lav er and its base.

nkjv@Exodus:30:29 @ You shall consecrate them, that they may be most holy; whatev er touches them must be holy.

nkjv@Exodus:30:30 @ And you shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may minist er to Me as priests.

nkjv@Exodus:30:31 @ "And you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying: "This shall be a holy anointing oil to Me throughout your gen erations.

nkjv@Exodus:30:32 @ It shall not be poured on man's flesh; nor shall you make any oth er like it, according to its composition. It is holy, and it shall be holy to you.

nkjv@Exodus:30:33 @ Whoev er compounds any like it, or whoev er puts any of it on an outsid er, shall be cut off from his people."'

nkjv@Exodus:30:34 @ And the LORD said to Moses: "Take sweet spices, stacte and onycha and galbanum, and pure frankincense with these sweet spices; th ere shall be equal amounts of each.

nkjv@Exodus:30:35 @ You shall make of these an incense, a compound according to the art of the p erfum er, salted, pure, and holy.

nkjv@Exodus:30:36 @ And you shall beat some of it v ery fine, and put some of it before the Testimony in the tab ernacle of meeting wh ere I will meet with you. It shall be most holy to you.

nkjv@Exodus:30:38 @ Whoev er makes any like it, to smell it, he shall be cut off from his people."

nkjv@Exodus:31:3 @ And I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in und erstanding, in knowledge, and in all mann er of workmanship,

nkjv@Exodus:31:4 @ to design artistic works, to work in gold, in silv er, in bronze,

nkjv@Exodus:31:5 @ in cutting jewels for setting, in carving wood, and to work in all mann er of workmanship.

nkjv@Exodus:31:7 @ the tab ernacle of meeting, the ark of the Testimony and the m ercy seat that is on it, and all the furniture of the tab ernacle--

nkjv@Exodus:31:9 @ the altar of burnt off ering with all its utensils, and the lav er and its base--

nkjv@Exodus:31:10 @ the garments of ministry, the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons, to minist er as priests,

nkjv@Exodus:31:13 @ "Speak also to the children of Israel, saying: "Surely My Sabbaths you shall keep, for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your gen erations, that you may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you.

nkjv@Exodus:31:14 @ You shall keep the Sabbath, th erefore, for it is holy to you. Ev eryone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoev er does any work on it, that p erson shall be cut off from among his people.

nkjv@Exodus:31:15 @ Work shall be done for six days, but the seventh is the Sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD. Whoev er does any work on the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.

nkjv@Exodus:31:16 @ Th erefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to obs erve the Sabbath throughout their gen erations as a p erpetual covenant.

nkjv@Exodus:31:17 @ It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forev er; for in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed."'

nkjv@Exodus:31:18 @ And when He had made an end of speaking with him on Mount Sinai, He gave Moses two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone, written with the fing er of God.

nkjv@Exodus:32:1 @ Now when the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gath ered togeth er to Aaron, and said to him, "Come, make us gods that shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him."

nkjv@Exodus:32:2 @ And Aaron said to them, "Break off the golden earrings which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daught ers, and bring them to me."

nkjv@Exodus:32:3 @ So all the people broke off the golden earrings which w ere in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.

nkjv@Exodus:32:6 @ Then they rose early on the next day, off ered burnt off erings, and brought peace off erings; and the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

nkjv@Exodus:32:10 @ Now th erefore, let Me alone, that My wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them. And I will make of you a great nation."

nkjv@Exodus:32:11 @ Then Moses pleaded with the LORD his God, and said: "LORD, why does Your wrath burn hot against Your people whom You have brought out of the land of Egypt with great pow er and with a mighty hand?

nkjv@Exodus:32:12 @ Why should the Egyptians speak, and say, "He brought them out to harm them, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth'? Turn from Your fi erce wrath, and relent from this harm to Your people.

nkjv@Exodus:32:13 @ Rememb er Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your s ervants, to whom You swore by Your own self, and said to them, "I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven; and all this land that I have spoken of I give to your descendants, and they shall inh erit it forev er."'

nkjv@Exodus:32:15 @ And Moses turned and went down from the mountain, and the two tablets of the Testimony w ere in his hand. The tablets w ere written on both sides; on the one side and on the oth er they w ere written.

nkjv@Exodus:32:16 @ Now the tablets w ere the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God engraved on the tablets.

nkjv@Exodus:32:17 @ And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, "Th ere is a noise of war in the camp."

nkjv@Exodus:32:19 @ So it was, as soon as he came near the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing. So Moses' ang er became hot, and he cast the tablets out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain.

nkjv@Exodus:32:20 @ Then he took the calf which they had made, burned it in the fire, and ground it to powd er; and he scatt ered it on the wat er and made the children of Israel drink it.

nkjv@Exodus:32:22 @ So Aaron said, "Do not let the ang er of my lord become hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil.

nkjv@Exodus:32:24 @ And I said to them, "Whoev er has any gold, let them break it off.' So they gave it to me, and I cast it into the fire, and this calf came out."

nkjv@Exodus:32:25 @ Now when Moses saw that the people w ere unrestrained (for Aaron had not restrained them, to their shame among their enemies),

nkjv@Exodus:32:26 @ then Moses stood in the entrance of the camp, and said, "Whoev er is on the LORD's side--come to me!" And all the sons of Levi gath ered themselves togeth er to him.

nkjv@Exodus:32:27 @ And he said to them, "Thus says the LORD God of Israel: "Let ev ery man put his sword on his side, and go in and out from entrance to entrance throughout the camp, and let ev ery man kill his broth er, ev ery man his companion, and ev ery man his neighbor."'

nkjv@Exodus:32:29 @ Then Moses said, "Consecrate yourselves today to the LORD, that He may bestow on you a blessing this day, for ev ery man has opposed his son and his broth er."

nkjv@Exodus:32:30 @ Now it came to pass on the next day that Moses said to the people, "You have committed a great sin. So now I will go up to the LORD; p erhaps I can make atonement for your sin."

nkjv@Exodus:32:33 @ And the LORD said to Moses, "Whoev er has sinned against Me, I will blot him out of My book.

nkjv@Exodus:32:34 @ Now th erefore, go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. Behold, My Angel shall go before you. Nev ertheless, in the day when I visit for punishment, I will visit punishment upon them for their sin."

nkjv@Exodus:33:1 @ Then the LORD said to Moses, "Depart and go up from h ere, you and the people whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, "To your descendants I will give it.'

nkjv@Exodus:33:2 @ And I will send My Angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanite and the Amorite and the Hittite and the P erizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.

nkjv@Exodus:33:5 @ For the LORD had said to Moses, "Say to the children of Israel, "You are a stiff-necked people. I could come up into your midst in one moment and consume you. Now th erefore, take off your ornaments, that I may know what to do to you."'

nkjv@Exodus:33:7 @ Moses took his tent and pitched it outside the camp, far from the camp, and called it the tab ernacle of meeting. And it came to pass that ev eryone who sought the LORD went out to the tab ernacle of meeting which was outside the camp.

nkjv@Exodus:33:8 @ So it was, whenev er Moses went out to the tab ernacle, that all the people rose, and each man stood at his tent door and watched Moses until he had gone into the tab ernacle.

nkjv@Exodus:33:9 @ And it came to pass, when Moses ent ered the tab ernacle, that the pillar of cloud descended and stood at the door of the tab ernacle, and the LORD talked with Moses.

nkjv@Exodus:33:10 @ All the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the tab ernacle door, and all the people rose and worshiped, each man in his tent door.

nkjv@Exodus:33:11 @ So the LORD spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. And he would return to the camp, but his s ervant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the tab ernacle.

nkjv@Exodus:33:13 @ Now th erefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight. And consid er that this nation is Your people."

nkjv@Exodus:33:15 @ Then he said to Him, "If Your Presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from h ere.

nkjv@Exodus:33:21 @ And the LORD said, "H ere is a place by Me, and you shall stand on the rock.

nkjv@Exodus:33:22 @ So it shall be, while My glory passes by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock, and will cov er you with My hand while I pass by.

nkjv@Exodus:34:1 @ And the LORD said to Moses, "Cut two tablets of stone like the first ones, and I will write on these tablets the words that w ere on the first tablets which you broke.

nkjv@Exodus:34:2 @ So be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself to Me th ere on the top of the mountain.

nkjv@Exodus:34:3 @ And no man shall come up with you, and let no man be seen throughout all the mountain; let neith er flocks nor h erds feed before that mountain."

nkjv@Exodus:34:5 @ Now the LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him th ere, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.

nkjv@Exodus:34:6 @ And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD God, m erciful and gracious, longsuff ering, and abounding in goodness and truth,

nkjv@Exodus:34:7 @ keeping m ercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fath ers upon the children and the children's children to the third and the fourth gen eration."

nkjv@Exodus:34:9 @ Then he said, "If now I have found grace in Your sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray, go among us, even though we are a stiff-necked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us as Your inh eritance."

nkjv@Exodus:34:11 @ Obs erve what I command you this day. Behold, I am driving out from before you the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the P erizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.

nkjv@Exodus:34:12 @ Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land wh ere you are going, lest it be a snare in your midst.

nkjv@Exodus:34:14 @ (for you shall worship no oth er god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God),

nkjv@Exodus:34:16 @ and you take of his daught ers for your sons, and his daught ers play the harlot with their gods and make your sons play the harlot with their gods.

nkjv@Exodus:34:19 @ "All that open the womb are Mine, and ev ery male firstborn among your livestock, wheth er ox or sheep.

nkjv@Exodus:34:22 @ "And you shall obs erve the Feast of Weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingath ering at the year's end.

nkjv@Exodus:34:24 @ For I will cast out the nations before you and enlarge your bord ers; neith er will any man covet your land when you go up to appear before the LORD your God three times in the year.

nkjv@Exodus:34:25 @ "You shall not off er the blood of My sacrifice with leaven, nor shall the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passov er be left until morning.

nkjv@Exodus:34:26 @ "The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring to the house of the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its moth er's milk."

nkjv@Exodus:34:28 @ So he was th ere with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he neith er ate bread nor drank wat er. And He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.

nkjv@Exodus:34:29 @ Now it was so, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai (and the two tablets of the Testimony w ere in Moses' hand when he came down from the mountain), that Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone while he talked with Him.

nkjv@Exodus:34:30 @ So when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they w ere afraid to come near him.

nkjv@Exodus:34:31 @ Then Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rul ers of the congregation returned to him; and Moses talked with them.

nkjv@Exodus:34:32 @ Aft erward all the children of Israel came near, and he gave them as commandments all that the LORD had spoken with him on Mount Sinai.

nkjv@Exodus:34:34 @ But whenev er Moses went in before the LORD to speak with Him, he would take the veil off until he came out; and he would come out and speak to the children of Israel whatev er he had been commanded.

nkjv@Exodus:34:35 @ And whenev er the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone, then Moses would put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with Him.

nkjv@Exodus:35:1 @ Then Moses gath ered all the congregation of the children of Israel togeth er, and said to them, "These are the words which the LORD has commanded you to do:

nkjv@Exodus:35:2 @ Work shall be done for six days, but the seventh day shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of rest to the LORD. Whoev er does any work on it shall be put to death.

nkjv@Exodus:35:5 @ "Take from among you an off ering to the LORD. Whoev er is of a willing heart, let him bring it as an off ering to the LORD: gold, silv er, and bronze;

nkjv@Exodus:35:7 @ ram skins dyed red, badg er skins, and acacia wood;

nkjv@Exodus:35:11 @ the tab ernacle, its tent, its cov ering, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets;

nkjv@Exodus:35:12 @ the ark and its poles, with the m ercy seat, and the veil of the cov ering;

nkjv@Exodus:35:15 @ the incense altar, its poles, the anointing oil, the sweet incense, and the screen for the door at the entrance of the tab ernacle;

nkjv@Exodus:35:16 @ the altar of burnt off ering with its bronze grating, its poles, all its utensils, and the lav er and its base;

nkjv@Exodus:35:18 @ the pegs of the tab ernacle, the pegs of the court, and their cords;

nkjv@Exodus:35:19 @ the garments of ministry, for minist ering in the holy place--the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons, to minist er as priests."'

nkjv@Exodus:35:21 @ Then ev eryone came whose heart was stirred, and ev eryone whose spirit was willing, and they brought the LORD's off ering for the work of the tab ernacle of meeting, for all its s ervice, and for the holy garments.

nkjv@Exodus:35:22 @ They came, both men and women, as many as had a willing heart, and brought earrings and nose rings, rings and necklaces, all jewelry of gold, that is, ev ery man who made an off ering of gold to the LORD.

nkjv@Exodus:35:23 @ And ev ery man, with whom was found blue, purple, and scarlet thread, fine linen, goats' hair, red skins of rams, and badg er skins, brought them.

nkjv@Exodus:35:24 @ Ev eryone who off ered an off ering of silv er or bronze brought the LORD's off ering. And ev eryone with whom was found acacia wood for any work of the s ervice, brought it.

nkjv@Exodus:35:25 @ All the women who w ere gifted artisans spun yarn with their hands, and brought what they had spun, of blue, purple, and scarlet, and fine linen.

nkjv@Exodus:35:27 @ The rul ers brought onyx stones, and the stones to be set in the ephod and in the breastplate,

nkjv@Exodus:35:29 @ The children of Israel brought a freewill off ering to the LORD, all the men and women whose hearts w ere willing to bring mat erial for all kinds of work which the LORD, by the hand of Moses, had commanded to be done.

nkjv@Exodus:35:31 @ and He has filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom and und erstanding, in knowledge and all mann er of workmanship,

nkjv@Exodus:35:32 @ to design artistic works, to work in gold and silv er and bronze,

nkjv@Exodus:35:33 @ in cutting jewels for setting, in carving wood, and to work in all mann er of artistic workmanship.

nkjv@Exodus:35:35 @ He has filled them with skill to do all mann er of work of the engrav er and the design er and the tapestry mak er, in blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine linen, and of the weav er--those who do ev ery work and those who design artistic works.

nkjv@Exodus:36:1 @ "And Bezalel and Aholiab, and ev ery gifted artisan in whom the LORD has put wisdom and und erstanding, to know how to do all mann er of work for the s ervice of the sanctuary, shall do according to all that the LORD has commanded."

nkjv@Exodus:36:2 @ Then Moses called Bezalel and Aholiab, and ev ery gifted artisan in whose heart the LORD had put wisdom, ev eryone whose heart was stirred, to come and do the work.

nkjv@Exodus:36:3 @ And they received from Moses all the off ering which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the s ervice of making the sanctuary. So they continued bringing to him freewill off erings ev ery morning.

nkjv@Exodus:36:4 @ Then all the craftsmen who w ere doing all the work of the sanctuary came, each from the work he was doing,

nkjv@Exodus:36:5 @ and they spoke to Moses, saying, "The people bring much more than enough for the s ervice of the work which the LORD commanded us to do."

nkjv@Exodus:36:6 @ So Moses gave a commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, "Let neith er man nor woman do any more work for the off ering of the sanctuary." And the people w ere restrained from bringing,

nkjv@Exodus:36:7 @ for the mat erial they had was sufficient for all the work to be done--indeed too much.

nkjv@Exodus:36:8 @ Then all the gifted artisans among them who worked on the tab ernacle made ten curtains woven of fine linen, and of blue, purple, and scarlet thread; with artistic designs of ch erubim they made them.

nkjv@Exodus:36:9 @ The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; the curtains w ere all the same size.

nkjv@Exodus:36:10 @ And he coupled five curtains to one anoth er, and the oth er five curtains he coupled to one anoth er.

nkjv@Exodus:36:11 @ He made loops of blue yarn on the edge of the curtain on the selvedge of one set; likewise he did on the out er edge of the oth er curtain of the second set.

nkjv@Exodus:36:12 @ Fifty loops he made on one curtain, and fifty loops he made on the edge of the curtain on the end of the second set; the loops held one curtain to anoth er.

nkjv@Exodus:36:13 @ And he made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains to one anoth er with the clasps, that it might be one tab ernacle.

nkjv@Exodus:36:14 @ He made curtains of goats' hair for the tent ov er the tab ernacle; he made eleven curtains.

nkjv@Exodus:36:15 @ The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; the eleven curtains w ere the same size.

nkjv@Exodus:36:17 @ And he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is out ermost in one set, and fifty loops he made on the edge of the curtain of the second set.

nkjv@Exodus:36:18 @ He also made fifty bronze clasps to couple the tent togeth er, that it might be one.

nkjv@Exodus:36:19 @ Then he made a cov ering for the tent of ram skins dyed red, and a cov ering of badg er skins above that.

nkjv@Exodus:36:20 @ For the tab ernacle he made boards of acacia wood, standing upright.

nkjv@Exodus:36:22 @ Each board had two tenons for binding one to anoth er. Thus he made for all the boards of the tab ernacle.

nkjv@Exodus:36:23 @ And he made boards for the tab ernacle, twenty boards for the south side.

nkjv@Exodus:36:24 @ Forty sockets of silv er he made to go und er the twenty boards: two sockets und er each of the boards for its two tenons.

nkjv@Exodus:36:25 @ And for the oth er side of the tab ernacle, the north side, he made twenty boards

nkjv@Exodus:36:26 @ and their forty sockets of silv er: two sockets und er each of the boards.

nkjv@Exodus:36:27 @ For the west side of the tab ernacle he made six boards.

nkjv@Exodus:36:28 @ He also made two boards for the two back corn ers of the tab ernacle.

nkjv@Exodus:36:29 @ And they w ere coupled at the bottom and coupled togeth er at the top by one ring. Thus he made both of them for the two corn ers.

nkjv@Exodus:36:30 @ So th ere w ere eight boards and their sockets--sixteen sockets of silv er--two sockets und er each of the boards.

nkjv@Exodus:36:31 @ And he made bars of acacia wood: five for the boards on one side of the tab ernacle,

nkjv@Exodus:36:32 @ five bars for the boards on the oth er side of the tab ernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tab ernacle on the far side westward.

nkjv@Exodus:36:33 @ And he made the middle bar to pass through the boards from one end to the oth er.

nkjv@Exodus:36:34 @ He ov erlaid the boards with gold, made their rings of gold to be hold ers for the bars, and ov erlaid the bars with gold.

nkjv@Exodus:36:35 @ And he made a veil of blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine woven linen; it was worked with an artistic design of ch erubim.

nkjv@Exodus:36:36 @ He made for it four pillars of acacia wood, and ov erlaid them with gold, with their hooks of gold; and he cast four sockets of silv er for them.

nkjv@Exodus:36:37 @ He also made a screen for the tab ernacle door, of blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine woven linen, made by a weav er,

nkjv@Exodus:36:38 @ and its five pillars with their hooks. And he ov erlaid their capitals and their rings with gold, but their five sockets w ere bronze.

nkjv@Exodus:37:2 @ He ov erlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and made a molding of gold all around it.

nkjv@Exodus:37:3 @ And he cast for it four rings of gold to be set in its four corn ers: two rings on one side, and two rings on the oth er side of it.

nkjv@Exodus:37:4 @ He made poles of acacia wood, and ov erlaid them with gold.

nkjv@Exodus:37:6 @ He also made the m ercy seat of pure gold; two and a half cubits was its length and a cubit and a half its width.

nkjv@Exodus:37:7 @ He made two ch erubim of beaten gold; he made them of one piece at the two ends of the m ercy seat:

nkjv@Exodus:37:8 @ one ch erub at one end on this side, and the oth er ch erub at the oth er end on that side. He made the ch erubim at the two ends of one piece with the m ercy seat.

nkjv@Exodus:37:9 @ The ch erubim spread out their wings above, and cov ered the m ercy seat with their wings. They faced one anoth er; the faces of the ch erubim w ere toward the m ercy seat.

nkjv@Exodus:37:11 @ And he ov erlaid it with pure gold, and made a molding of gold all around it.

nkjv@Exodus:37:13 @ And he cast for it four rings of gold, and put the rings on the four corn ers that w ere at its four legs.

nkjv@Exodus:37:14 @ The rings w ere close to the frame, as hold ers for the poles to bear the table.

nkjv@Exodus:37:15 @ And he made the poles of acacia wood to bear the table, and ov erlaid them with gold.

nkjv@Exodus:37:16 @ He made of pure gold the utensils which w ere on the table: its dishes, its cups, its bowls, and its pitch ers for pouring.

nkjv@Exodus:37:17 @ He also made the lampstand of pure gold; of hamm ered work he made the lampstand. Its shaft, its branches, its bowls, its ornamental knobs, and its flow ers w ere of the same piece.

nkjv@Exodus:37:18 @ And six branches came out of its sides: three branches of the lampstand out of one side, and three branches of the lampstand out of the oth er side.

nkjv@Exodus:37:19 @ Th ere w ere three bowls made like almond blossoms on one branch, with an ornamental knob and a flow er, and three bowls made like almond blossoms on the oth er branch, with an ornamental knob and a flow er--and so for the six branches coming out of the lampstand.

nkjv@Exodus:37:20 @ And on the lampstand itself w ere four bowls made like almond blossoms, each with its ornamental knob and flow er.

nkjv@Exodus:37:21 @ Th ere was a knob und er the first two branches of the same, a knob und er the second two branches of the same, and a knob und er the third two branches of the same, according to the six branches extending from it.

nkjv@Exodus:37:22 @ Their knobs and their branches w ere of one piece; all of it was one hamm ered piece of pure gold.

nkjv@Exodus:37:23 @ And he made its seven lamps, its wick-trimm ers, and its trays of pure gold.

nkjv@Exodus:37:25 @ He made the incense altar of acacia wood. Its length was a cubit and its width a cubit--it was square--and two cubits was its height. Its horns w ere of one piece with it.

nkjv@Exodus:37:26 @ And he ov erlaid it with pure gold: its top, its sides all around, and its horns. He also made for it a molding of gold all around it.

nkjv@Exodus:37:27 @ He made two rings of gold for it und er its molding, by its two corn ers on both sides, as hold ers for the poles with which to bear it.

nkjv@Exodus:37:28 @ And he made the poles of acacia wood, and ov erlaid them with gold.

nkjv@Exodus:37:29 @ He also made the holy anointing oil and the pure incense of sweet spices, according to the work of the p erfum er.

nkjv@Exodus:38:1 @ He made the altar of burnt off ering of acacia wood; five cubits was its length and five cubits its width--it was square--and its height was three cubits.

nkjv@Exodus:38:2 @ He made its horns on its four corn ers; the horns w ere of one piece with it. And he ov erlaid it with bronze.

nkjv@Exodus:38:4 @ And he made a grate of bronze network for the altar, und er its rim, midway from the bottom.

nkjv@Exodus:38:5 @ He cast four rings for the four corn ers of the bronze grating, as hold ers for the poles.

nkjv@Exodus:38:6 @ And he made the poles of acacia wood, and ov erlaid them with bronze.

nkjv@Exodus:38:8 @ He made the lav er of bronze and its base of bronze, from the bronze mirrors of the s erving women who assembled at the door of the tab ernacle of meeting.

nkjv@Exodus:38:9 @ Then he made the court on the south side; the hangings of the court w ere of fine woven linen, one hundred cubits long.

nkjv@Exodus:38:10 @ Th ere w ere twenty pillars for them, with twenty bronze sockets. The hooks of the pillars and their bands w ere silv er.

nkjv@Exodus:38:11 @ On the north side the hangings w ere one hundred cubits long, with twenty pillars and their twenty bronze sockets. The hooks of the pillars and their bands w ere silv er.

nkjv@Exodus:38:12 @ And on the west side th ere w ere hangings of fifty cubits, with ten pillars and their ten sockets. The hooks of the pillars and their bands w ere silv er.

nkjv@Exodus:38:13 @ For the east side the hangings w ere fifty cubits.

nkjv@Exodus:38:14 @ The hangings of one side of the gate w ere fifteen cubits long, with their three pillars and their three sockets,

nkjv@Exodus:38:15 @ and the same for the oth er side of the court gate; on this side and that w ere hangings of fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and their three sockets.

nkjv@Exodus:38:16 @ All the hangings of the court all around w ere of fine woven linen.

nkjv@Exodus:38:17 @ The sockets for the pillars w ere bronze, the hooks of the pillars and their bands w ere silv er, and the ov erlay of their capitals was silv er; and all the pillars of the court had bands of silv er.

nkjv@Exodus:38:19 @ And th ere w ere four pillars with their four sockets of bronze; their hooks w ere silv er, and the ov erlay of their capitals and their bands was silv er.

nkjv@Exodus:38:20 @ All the pegs of the tab ernacle, and of the court all around, w ere bronze.

nkjv@Exodus:38:21 @ This is the inventory of the tab ernacle, the tab ernacle of the Testimony, which was counted according to the commandment of Moses, for the s ervice of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son of Aaron the priest.

nkjv@Exodus:38:23 @ And with him was Aholiab the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engrav er and design er, a weav er of blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and of fine linen.

nkjv@Exodus:38:24 @ All the gold that was used in all the work of the holy place, that is, the gold of the off ering, was twenty-nine talents and seven hundred and thirty shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.

nkjv@Exodus:38:25 @ And the silv er from those who w ere numb ered of the congregation was one hundred talents and one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary:

nkjv@Exodus:38:26 @ a bekah for each man (that is, half a shekel, according to the shekel of the sanctuary), for ev eryone included in the numb ering from twenty years old and above, for six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty men.

nkjv@Exodus:38:27 @ And from the hundred talents of silv er w ere cast the sockets of the sanctuary and the bases of the veil: one hundred sockets from the hundred talents, one talent for each socket.

nkjv@Exodus:38:28 @ Then from the one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, ov erlaid their capitals, and made bands for them.

nkjv@Exodus:38:29 @ The off ering of bronze was seventy talents and two thousand four hundred shekels.

nkjv@Exodus:38:30 @ And with it he made the sockets for the door of the tab ernacle of meeting, the bronze altar, the bronze grating for it, and all the utensils for the altar,

nkjv@Exodus:38:31 @ the sockets for the court all around, the bases for the court gate, all the pegs for the tab ernacle, and all the pegs for the court all around.

nkjv@Exodus:39:1 @ Of the blue, purple, and scarlet thread they made garments of ministry, for minist ering in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

nkjv@Exodus:39:4 @ They made should er straps for it to couple it togeth er; it was coupled togeth er at its two edges.

nkjv@Exodus:39:6 @ And they set onyx stones, enclosed in settings of gold; they w ere engraved, as signets are engraved, with the names of the sons of Israel.

nkjv@Exodus:39:7 @ He put them on the should ers of the ephod as memorial stones for the sons of Israel, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

nkjv@Exodus:39:10 @ And they set in it four rows of stones: a row with a sardius, a topaz, and an em erald was the first row;

nkjv@Exodus:39:13 @ the fourth row, a b eryl, an onyx, and a jasp er. They w ere enclosed in settings of gold in their mountings.

nkjv@Exodus:39:14 @ Th ere w ere twelve stones according to the names of the sons of Israel: according to their names, engraved like a signet, each one with its own name according to the twelve tribes.

nkjv@Exodus:39:18 @ The two ends of the two braided chains they fastened in the two settings, and put them on the should er straps of the ephod in the front.

nkjv@Exodus:39:20 @ They made two oth er gold rings and put them on the two should er straps, und erneath the ephod toward its front, right at the seam above the intricately woven band of the ephod.

nkjv@Exodus:39:23 @ And th ere was an opening in the middle of the robe, like the opening in a coat of mail, with a woven binding all around the opening, so that it would not tear.

nkjv@Exodus:39:26 @ a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, all around the hem of the robe to minist er in, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

nkjv@Exodus:39:28 @ a turban of fine linen, exquisite hats of fine linen, short trous ers of fine woven linen,

nkjv@Exodus:39:29 @ and a sash of fine woven linen with blue, purple, and scarlet thread, made by a weav er, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

nkjv@Exodus:39:32 @ Thus all the work of the tab ernacle of the tent of meeting was finished. And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD had commanded Moses; so they did.

nkjv@Exodus:39:33 @ And they brought the tab ernacle to Moses, the tent and all its furnishings: its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets;

nkjv@Exodus:39:34 @ the cov ering of ram skins dyed red, the cov ering of badg er skins, and the veil of the cov ering;

nkjv@Exodus:39:35 @ the ark of the Testimony with its poles, and the m ercy seat;

nkjv@Exodus:39:37 @ the pure gold lampstand with its lamps (the lamps set in ord er), all its utensils, and the oil for light;

nkjv@Exodus:39:38 @ the gold altar, the anointing oil, and the sweet incense; the screen for the tab ernacle door;

nkjv@Exodus:39:39 @ the bronze altar, its grate of bronze, its poles, and all its utensils; the lav er with its base;

nkjv@Exodus:39:40 @ the hangings of the court, its pillars and its sockets, the screen for the court gate, its cords, and its pegs; all the utensils for the s ervice of the tab ernacle, for the tent of meeting;

nkjv@Exodus:39:41 @ and the garments of ministry, to minist er in the holy place: the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and his sons' garments, to minist er as priests.

nkjv@Exodus:39:43 @ Then Moses looked ov er all the work, and indeed they had done it; as the LORD had commanded, just so they had done it. And Moses blessed them.

nkjv@Exodus:40:2 @ "On the first day of the first month you shall set up the tab ernacle of the tent of meeting.

nkjv@Exodus:40:4 @ You shall bring in the table and arrange the things that are to be set in ord er on it; and you shall bring in the lampstand and light its lamps.

nkjv@Exodus:40:5 @ You shall also set the altar of gold for the incense before the ark of the Testimony, and put up the screen for the door of the tab ernacle.

nkjv@Exodus:40:6 @ Then you shall set the altar of the burnt off ering before the door of the tab ernacle of the tent of meeting.

nkjv@Exodus:40:7 @ And you shall set the lav er between the tab ernacle of meeting and the altar, and put wat er in it.

nkjv@Exodus:40:9 @ "And you shall take the anointing oil, and anoint the tab ernacle and all that is in it; and you shall hallow it and all its utensils, and it shall be holy.

nkjv@Exodus:40:10 @ You shall anoint the altar of the burnt off ering and all its utensils, and consecrate the altar. The altar shall be most holy.

nkjv@Exodus:40:11 @ And you shall anoint the lav er and its base, and consecrate it.

nkjv@Exodus:40:12 @ "Then you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tab ernacle of meeting and wash them with wat er.

nkjv@Exodus:40:13 @ You shall put the holy garments on Aaron, and anoint him and consecrate him, that he may minist er to Me as priest.

nkjv@Exodus:40:15 @ You shall anoint them, as you anointed their fath er, that they may minist er to Me as priests; for their anointing shall surely be an ev erlasting priesthood throughout their gen erations."

nkjv@Exodus:40:17 @ And it came to pass in the first month of the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tab ernacle was raised up.

nkjv@Exodus:40:18 @ So Moses raised up the tab ernacle, fastened its sockets, set up its boards, put in its bars, and raised up its pillars.

nkjv@Exodus:40:19 @ And he spread out the tent ov er the tab ernacle and put the cov ering of the tent on top of it, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

nkjv@Exodus:40:20 @ He took the Testimony and put it into the ark, ins erted the poles through the rings of the ark, and put the m ercy seat on top of the ark.

nkjv@Exodus:40:21 @ And he brought the ark into the tab ernacle, hung up the veil of the cov ering, and partitioned off the ark of the Testimony, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

nkjv@Exodus:40:22 @ He put the table in the tab ernacle of meeting, on the north side of the tab ernacle, outside the veil;

nkjv@Exodus:40:23 @ and he set the bread in ord er upon it before the LORD, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

nkjv@Exodus:40:24 @ He put the lampstand in the tab ernacle of meeting, across from the table, on the south side of the tab ernacle;

nkjv@Exodus:40:26 @ He put the gold altar in the tab ernacle of meeting in front of the veil;

nkjv@Exodus:40:28 @ He hung up the screen at the door of the tab ernacle.

nkjv@Exodus:40:29 @ And he put the altar of burnt off ering before the door of the tab ernacle of the tent of meeting, and off ered upon it the burnt off ering and the grain off ering, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

nkjv@Exodus:40:30 @ He set the lav er between the tab ernacle of meeting and the altar, and put wat er th ere for washing;

nkjv@Exodus:40:31 @ and Moses, Aaron, and his sons would wash their hands and their feet with wat er from it.

nkjv@Exodus:40:32 @ Whenev er they went into the tab ernacle of meeting, and when they came near the altar, they washed, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

nkjv@Exodus:40:33 @ And he raised up the court all around the tab ernacle and the altar, and hung up the screen of the court gate. So Moses finished the work.

nkjv@Exodus:40:34 @ Then the cloud cov ered the tab ernacle of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tab ernacle.

nkjv@Exodus:40:35 @ And Moses was not able to ent er the tab ernacle of meeting, because the cloud rested above it, and the glory of the LORD filled the tab ernacle.

nkjv@Exodus:40:36 @ Whenev er the cloud was taken up from above the tab ernacle, the children of Israel would go onward in all their journeys.

nkjv@Exodus:40:38 @ For the cloud of the LORD was above the tab ernacle by day, and fire was ov er it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.

nkjv@Leviticus:1:1 @ Now the LORD called to Moses, and spoke to him from the tab ernacle of meeting, saying,

nkjv@Leviticus:1:2 @ "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: "When any one of you brings an off ering to the LORD, you shall bring your off ering of the livestock--of the h erd and of the flock.

nkjv@Leviticus:1:3 @ "If his off ering is a burnt sacrifice of the h erd, let him off er a male without blemish; he shall off er it of his own free will at the door of the tab ernacle of meeting before the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:1:4 @ Then he shall put his hand on the head of the burnt off ering, and it will be accepted on his behalf to make atonement for him.

nkjv@Leviticus:1:5 @ He shall kill the bull before the LORD; and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall bring the blood and sprinkle the blood all around on the altar that is by the door of the tab ernacle of meeting.

nkjv@Leviticus:1:6 @ And he shall skin the burnt off ering and cut it into its pieces.

nkjv@Leviticus:1:7 @ The sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire on the altar, and lay the wood in ord er on the fire.

nkjv@Leviticus:1:8 @ Then the priests, Aaron's sons, shall lay the parts, the head, and the fat in ord er on the wood that is on the fire upon the altar;

nkjv@Leviticus:1:9 @ but he shall wash its entrails and its legs with wat er. And the priest shall burn all on the altar as a burnt sacrifice, an off ering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:1:10 @ "If his off ering is of the flocks--of the sheep or of the goats--as a burnt sacrifice, he shall bring a male without blemish.

nkjv@Leviticus:1:12 @ And he shall cut it into its pieces, with its head and its fat; and the priest shall lay them in ord er on the wood that is on the fire upon the altar;

nkjv@Leviticus:1:13 @ but he shall wash the entrails and the legs with wat er. Then the priest shall bring it all and burn it on the altar; it is a burnt sacrifice, an off ering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:1:14 @ "And if the burnt sacrifice of his off ering to the LORD is of birds, then he shall bring his off ering of turtledoves or young pigeons.

nkjv@Leviticus:1:16 @ And he shall remove its crop with its feath ers and cast it beside the altar on the east side, into the place for ashes.

nkjv@Leviticus:1:17 @ Then he shall split it at its wings, but shall not divide it completely; and the priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire. It is a burnt sacrifice, an off ering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:2:1 @ "When anyone off ers a grain off ering to the LORD, his off ering shall be of fine flour. And he shall pour oil on it, and put frankincense on it.

nkjv@Leviticus:2:2 @ He shall bring it to Aaron's sons, the priests, one of whom shall take from it his handful of fine flour and oil with all the frankincense. And the priest shall burn it as a memorial on the altar, an off ering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:2:3 @ The rest of the grain off ering shall be Aaron's and his sons'. It is most holy of the off erings to the LORD made by fire.

nkjv@Leviticus:2:4 @ "And if you bring as an off ering a grain off ering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened waf ers anointed with oil.

nkjv@Leviticus:2:5 @ But if your off ering is a grain off ering baked in a pan, it shall be of fine flour, unleavened, mixed with oil.

nkjv@Leviticus:2:6 @ You shall break it in pieces and pour oil on it; it is a grain off ering.

nkjv@Leviticus:2:7 @ "If your off ering is a grain off ering baked in a cov ered pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.

nkjv@Leviticus:2:8 @ You shall bring the grain off ering that is made of these things to the LORD. And when it is presented to the priest, he shall bring it to the altar.

nkjv@Leviticus:2:9 @ Then the priest shall take from the grain off ering a memorial portion, and burn it on the altar. It is an off ering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:2:10 @ And what is left of the grain off ering shall be Aaron's and his sons'. It is most holy of the off erings to the LORD made by fire.

nkjv@Leviticus:2:11 @ "No grain off ering which you bring to the LORD shall be made with leaven, for you shall burn no leaven nor any honey in any off ering to the LORD made by fire.

nkjv@Leviticus:2:12 @ As for the off ering of the firstfruits, you shall off er them to the LORD, but they shall not be burned on the altar for a sweet aroma.

nkjv@Leviticus:2:13 @ And ev ery off ering of your grain off ering you shall season with salt; you shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your grain off ering. With all your off erings you shall off er salt.

nkjv@Leviticus:2:14 @ "If you off er a grain off ering of your firstfruits to the LORD, you shall off er for the grain off ering of your firstfruits green heads of grain roasted on the fire, grain beaten from full heads.

nkjv@Leviticus:2:15 @ And you shall put oil on it, and lay frankincense on it. It is a grain off ering.

nkjv@Leviticus:2:16 @ Then the priest shall burn the memorial portion: part of its beaten grain and part of its oil, with all the frankincense, as an off ering made by fire to the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:3:1 @ "When his off ering is a sacrifice of a peace off ering, if he off ers it of the h erd, wheth er male or female, he shall off er it without blemish before the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:3:2 @ And he shall lay his hand on the head of his off ering, and kill it at the door of the tab ernacle of meeting; and Aaron's sons, the priests, shall sprinkle the blood all around on the altar.

nkjv@Leviticus:3:3 @ Then he shall off er from the sacrifice of the peace off ering an off ering made by fire to the LORD. The fat that cov ers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails,

nkjv@Leviticus:3:4 @ the two kidneys and the fat that is on them by the flanks, and the fatty lobe attached to the liv er above the kidneys, he shall remove;

nkjv@Leviticus:3:5 @ and Aaron's sons shall burn it on the altar upon the burnt sacrifice, which is on the wood that is on the fire, as an off ering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:3:6 @ "If his off ering as a sacrifice of a peace off ering to the LORD is of the flock, wheth er male or female, he shall off er it without blemish.

nkjv@Leviticus:3:7 @ If he off ers a lamb as his off ering, then he shall off er it before the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:3:8 @ And he shall lay his hand on the head of his off ering, and kill it before the tab ernacle of meeting; and Aaron's sons shall sprinkle its blood all around on the altar.

nkjv@Leviticus:3:9 @ "Then he shall off er from the sacrifice of the peace off ering, as an off ering made by fire to the LORD, its fat and the whole fat tail which he shall remove close to the backbone. And the fat that cov ers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails,

nkjv@Leviticus:3:10 @ the two kidneys and the fat that is on them by the flanks, and the fatty lobe attached to the liv er above the kidneys, he shall remove;

nkjv@Leviticus:3:11 @ and the priest shall burn them on the altar as food, an off ering made by fire to the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:3:12 @ "And if his off ering is a goat, then he shall off er it before the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:3:13 @ He shall lay his hand on its head and kill it before the tab ernacle of meeting; and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle its blood all around on the altar.

nkjv@Leviticus:3:14 @ Then he shall off er from it his off ering, as an off ering made by fire to the LORD. The fat that cov ers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails,

nkjv@Leviticus:3:15 @ the two kidneys and the fat that is on them by the flanks, and the fatty lobe attached to the liv er above the kidneys, he shall remove;

nkjv@Leviticus:3:16 @ and the priest shall burn them on the altar as food, an off ering made by fire for a sweet aroma; all the fat is the LORD's.

nkjv@Leviticus:3:17 @ "This shall be a p erpetual statute throughout your gen erations in all your dwellings: you shall eat neith er fat nor blood."'

nkjv@Leviticus:4:2 @ "Speak to the children of Israel, saying: "If a p erson sins unintentionally against any of the commandments of the LORD in anything which ought not to be done, and does any of them,

nkjv@Leviticus:4:3 @ if the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt on the people, then let him off er to the LORD for his sin which he has sinned a young bull without blemish as a sin off ering.

nkjv@Leviticus:4:4 @ He shall bring the bull to the door of the tab ernacle of meeting before the LORD, lay his hand on the bull's head, and kill the bull before the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:4:5 @ Then the anointed priest shall take some of the bull's blood and bring it to the tab ernacle of meeting.

nkjv@Leviticus:4:6 @ The priest shall dip his fing er in the blood and sprinkle some of the blood seven times before the LORD, in front of the veil of the sanctuary.

nkjv@Leviticus:4:7 @ And the priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the LORD, which is in the tab ernacle of meeting; and he shall pour the remaining blood of the bull at the base of the altar of the burnt off ering, which is at the door of the tab ernacle of meeting.

nkjv@Leviticus:4:8 @ He shall take from it all the fat of the bull as the sin off ering. The fat that cov ers the entrails and all the fat which is on the entrails,

nkjv@Leviticus:4:9 @ the two kidneys and the fat that is on them by the flanks, and the fatty lobe attached to the liv er above the kidneys, he shall remove,

nkjv@Leviticus:4:10 @ as it was taken from the bull of the sacrifice of the peace off ering; and the priest shall burn them on the altar of the burnt off ering.

nkjv@Leviticus:4:12 @ the whole bull he shall carry outside the camp to a clean place, wh ere the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire; wh ere the ashes are poured out it shall be burned.

nkjv@Leviticus:4:14 @ when the sin which they have committed becomes known, then the assembly shall off er a young bull for the sin, and bring it before the tab ernacle of meeting.

nkjv@Leviticus:4:15 @ And the eld ers of the congregation shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before the LORD. Then the bull shall be killed before the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:4:16 @ The anointed priest shall bring some of the bull's blood to the tab ernacle of meeting.

nkjv@Leviticus:4:17 @ Then the priest shall dip his fing er in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before the LORD, in front of the veil.

nkjv@Leviticus:4:18 @ And he shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar which is before the LORD, which is in the tab ernacle of meeting; and he shall pour the remaining blood at the base of the altar of burnt off ering, which is at the door of the tab ernacle of meeting.

nkjv@Leviticus:4:20 @ And he shall do with the bull as he did with the bull as a sin off ering; thus he shall do with it. So the priest shall make atonement for them, and it shall be forgiven them.

nkjv@Leviticus:4:21 @ Then he shall carry the bull outside the camp, and burn it as he burned the first bull. It is a sin off ering for the assembly.

nkjv@Leviticus:4:22 @ "When a rul er has sinned, and done something unintentionally against any of the commandments of the LORD his God in anything which should not be done, and is guilty,

nkjv@Leviticus:4:23 @ or if his sin which he has committed comes to his knowledge, he shall bring as his off ering a kid of the goats, a male without blemish.

nkjv@Leviticus:4:24 @ And he shall lay his hand on the head of the goat, and kill it at the place wh ere they kill the burnt off ering before the LORD. It is a sin off ering.

nkjv@Leviticus:4:25 @ The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin off ering with his fing er, put it on the horns of the altar of burnt off ering, and pour its blood at the base of the altar of burnt off ering.

nkjv@Leviticus:4:26 @ And he shall burn all its fat on the altar, like the fat of the sacrifice of the peace off ering. So the priest shall make atonement for him conc erning his sin, and it shall be forgiven him.

nkjv@Leviticus:4:28 @ or if his sin which he has committed comes to his knowledge, then he shall bring as his off ering a kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he has committed.

nkjv@Leviticus:4:29 @ And he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin off ering, and kill the sin off ering at the place of the burnt off ering.

nkjv@Leviticus:4:30 @ Then the priest shall take some of its blood with his fing er, put it on the horns of the altar of burnt off ering, and pour all the remaining blood at the base of the altar.

nkjv@Leviticus:4:31 @ He shall remove all its fat, as fat is removed from the sacrifice of the peace off ering; and the priest shall burn it on the altar for a sweet aroma to the LORD. So the priest shall make atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him.

nkjv@Leviticus:4:32 @ "If he brings a lamb as his sin off ering, he shall bring a female without blemish.

nkjv@Leviticus:4:33 @ Then he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin off ering, and kill it as a sin off ering at the place wh ere they kill the burnt off ering.

nkjv@Leviticus:4:34 @ The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin off ering with his fing er, put it on the horns of the altar of burnt off ering, and pour all the remaining blood at the base of the altar.

nkjv@Leviticus:4:35 @ He shall remove all its fat, as the fat of the lamb is removed from the sacrifice of the peace off ering. Then the priest shall burn it on the altar, according to the off erings made by fire to the LORD. So the priest shall make atonement for his sin that he has committed, and it shall be forgiven him.

nkjv@Leviticus:5:1 @ "If a p erson sins in hearing the utt erance of an oath, and is a witness, wheth er he has seen or known of the matt er--if he does not tell it, he bears guilt.

nkjv@Leviticus:5:2 @ "Or if a p erson touches any unclean thing, wheth er it is the carcass of an unclean beast, or the carcass of unclean livestock, or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and he is unaware of it, he also shall be unclean and guilty.

nkjv@Leviticus:5:3 @ Or if he touches human uncleanness--whatev er uncleanness with which a man may be defiled, and he is unaware of it--when he realizes it, then he shall be guilty.

nkjv@Leviticus:5:4 @ "Or if a p erson swears, speaking thoughtlessly with his lips to do evil or to do good, whatev er it is that a man may pronounce by an oath, and he is unaware of it--when he realizes it, then he shall be guilty in any of these matt ers.

nkjv@Leviticus:5:5 @ "And it shall be, when he is guilty in any of these matt ers, that he shall confess that he has sinned in that thing;

nkjv@Leviticus:5:6 @ and he shall bring his trespass off ering to the LORD for his sin which he has committed, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats as a sin off ering. So the priest shall make atonement for him conc erning his sin.

nkjv@Leviticus:5:7 @ "If he is not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring to the LORD, for his trespass which he has committed, two turtledoves or two young pigeons: one as a sin off ering and the oth er as a burnt off ering.

nkjv@Leviticus:5:8 @ And he shall bring them to the priest, who shall off er that which is for the sin off ering first, and wring off its head from its neck, but shall not divide it completely.

nkjv@Leviticus:5:9 @ Then he shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin off ering on the side of the altar, and the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar. It is a sin off ering.

nkjv@Leviticus:5:10 @ And he shall off er the second as a burnt off ering according to the prescribed mann er. So the priest shall make atonement on his behalf for his sin which he has committed, and it shall be forgiven him.

nkjv@Leviticus:5:11 @ "But if he is not able to bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons, then he who sinned shall bring for his off ering one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a sin off ering. He shall put no oil on it, nor shall he put frankincense on it, for it is a sin off ering.

nkjv@Leviticus:5:12 @ Then he shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it as a memorial portion, and burn it on the altar according to the off erings made by fire to the LORD. It is a sin off ering.

nkjv@Leviticus:5:13 @ The priest shall make atonement for him, for his sin that he has committed in any of these matt ers; and it shall be forgiven him. The rest shall be the priest's as a grain off ering."'

nkjv@Leviticus:5:15 @ "If a p erson commits a trespass, and sins unintentionally in regard to the holy things of the LORD, then he shall bring to the LORD as his trespass off ering a ram without blemish from the flocks, with your valuation in shekels of silv er according to the shekel of the sanctuary, as a trespass off ering.

nkjv@Leviticus:5:16 @ And he shall make restitution for the harm that he has done in regard to the holy thing, and shall add one-fifth to it and give it to the priest. So the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass off ering, and it shall be forgiven him.

nkjv@Leviticus:5:17 @ "If a p erson sins, and commits any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD, though he does not know it, yet he is guilty and shall bear his iniquity.

nkjv@Leviticus:5:18 @ And he shall bring to the priest a ram without blemish from the flock, with your valuation, as a trespass off ering. So the priest shall make atonement for him regarding his ignorance in which he erred and did not know it, and it shall be forgiven him.

nkjv@Leviticus:5:19 @ It is a trespass off ering; he has c ertainly trespassed against the LORD."

nkjv@Leviticus:6:2 @ "If a p erson sins and commits a trespass against the LORD by lying to his neighbor about what was deliv ered to him for safekeeping, or about a pledge, or about a robb ery, or if he has extorted from his neighbor,

nkjv@Leviticus:6:3 @ or if he has found what was lost and lies conc erning it, and swears falsely--in any one of these things that a man may do in which he sins:

nkjv@Leviticus:6:4 @ then it shall be, because he has sinned and is guilty, that he shall restore what he has stolen, or the thing which he has extorted, or what was deliv ered to him for safekeeping, or the lost thing which he found,

nkjv@Leviticus:6:5 @ or all that about which he has sworn falsely. He shall restore its full value, add one-fifth more to it, and give it to whomev er it belongs, on the day of his trespass off ering.

nkjv@Leviticus:6:6 @ And he shall bring his trespass off ering to the LORD, a ram without blemish from the flock, with your valuation, as a trespass off ering, to the priest.

nkjv@Leviticus:6:9 @ "Command Aaron and his sons, saying, "This is the law of the burnt off ering: The burnt off ering shall be on the hearth upon the altar all night until morning, and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it.

nkjv@Leviticus:6:10 @ And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his linen trous ers he shall put on his body, and take up the ashes of the burnt off ering which the fire has consumed on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar.

nkjv@Leviticus:6:11 @ Then he shall take off his garments, put on oth er garments, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place.

nkjv@Leviticus:6:12 @ And the fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it; it shall not be put out. And the priest shall burn wood on it ev ery morning, and lay the burnt off ering in ord er on it; and he shall burn on it the fat of the peace off erings.

nkjv@Leviticus:6:13 @ A fire shall always be burning on the altar; it shall nev er go out.

nkjv@Leviticus:6:14 @ "This is the law of the grain off ering: The sons of Aaron shall off er it on the altar before the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:6:15 @ He shall take from it his handful of the fine flour of the grain off ering, with its oil, and all the frankincense which is on the grain off ering, and shall burn it on the altar for a sweet aroma, as a memorial to the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:6:16 @ And the remaind er of it Aaron and his sons shall eat; with unleavened bread it shall be eaten in a holy place; in the court of the tab ernacle of meeting they shall eat it.

nkjv@Leviticus:6:17 @ It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their portion of My off erings made by fire; it is most holy, like the sin off ering and the trespass off ering.

nkjv@Leviticus:6:18 @ All the males among the children of Aaron may eat it. It shall be a statute forev er in your gen erations conc erning the off erings made by fire to the LORD. Ev eryone who touches them must be holy."'

nkjv@Leviticus:6:20 @ "This is the off ering of Aaron and his sons, which they shall off er to the LORD, beginning on the day when he is anointed: one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a daily grain off ering, half of it in the morning and half of it at night.

nkjv@Leviticus:6:21 @ It shall be made in a pan with oil. When it is mixed, you shall bring it in. The baked pieces of the grain off ering you shall off er for a sweet aroma to the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:6:22 @ The priest from among his sons, who is anointed in his place, shall off er it. It is a statute forev er to the LORD. It shall be wholly burned.

nkjv@Leviticus:6:23 @ For ev ery grain off ering for the priest shall be wholly burned. It shall not be eaten."

nkjv@Leviticus:6:25 @ "Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, "This is the law of the sin off ering: In the place wh ere the burnt off ering is killed, the sin off ering shall be killed before the LORD. It is most holy.

nkjv@Leviticus:6:26 @ The priest who off ers it for sin shall eat it. In a holy place it shall be eaten, in the court of the tab ernacle of meeting.

nkjv@Leviticus:6:27 @ Ev eryone who touches its flesh must be holy. And when its blood is sprinkled on any garment, you shall wash that on which it was sprinkled, in a holy place.

nkjv@Leviticus:6:28 @ But the earthen vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken. And if it is boiled in a bronze pot, it shall be both scoured and rinsed in wat er.

nkjv@Leviticus:6:30 @ But no sin off ering from which any of the blood is brought into the tab ernacle of meeting, to make atonement in the holy place, shall be eaten. It shall be burned in the fire.

nkjv@Leviticus:7:1 @ "Likewise this is the law of the trespass off ering (it is most holy):

nkjv@Leviticus:7:2 @ In the place wh ere they kill the burnt off ering they shall kill the trespass off ering. And its blood he shall sprinkle all around on the altar.

nkjv@Leviticus:7:3 @ And he shall off er from it all its fat. The fat tail and the fat that cov ers the entrails,

nkjv@Leviticus:7:4 @ the two kidneys and the fat that is on them by the flanks, and the fatty lobe attached to the liv er above the kidneys, he shall remove;

nkjv@Leviticus:7:5 @ and the priest shall burn them on the altar as an off ering made by fire to the LORD. It is a trespass off ering.

nkjv@Leviticus:7:6 @ Ev ery male among the priests may eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy.

nkjv@Leviticus:7:7 @ The trespass off ering is like the sin off ering; th ere is one law for them both: the priest who makes atonement with it shall have it.

nkjv@Leviticus:7:8 @ And the priest who off ers anyone's burnt off ering, that priest shall have for himself the skin of the burnt off ering which he has off ered.

nkjv@Leviticus:7:9 @ Also ev ery grain off ering that is baked in the oven and all that is prepared in the cov ered pan, or in a pan, shall be the priest's who off ers it.

nkjv@Leviticus:7:10 @ Ev ery grain off ering, wheth er mixed with oil or dry, shall belong to all the sons of Aaron, to one as much as the oth er.

nkjv@Leviticus:7:11 @ "This is the law of the sacrifice of peace off erings which he shall off er to the LORD:

nkjv@Leviticus:7:12 @ If he off ers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall off er, with the sacrifice of thanksgiving, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, unleavened waf ers anointed with oil, or cakes of blended flour mixed with oil.

nkjv@Leviticus:7:13 @ Besides the cakes, as his off ering he shall off er leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace off ering.

nkjv@Leviticus:7:14 @ And from it he shall off er one cake from each off ering as a heave off ering to the LORD. It shall belong to the priest who sprinkles the blood of the peace off ering.

nkjv@Leviticus:7:15 @ "The flesh of the sacrifice of his peace off ering for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day it is off ered. He shall not leave any of it until morning.

nkjv@Leviticus:7:16 @ But if the sacrifice of his off ering is a vow or a voluntary off ering, it shall be eaten the same day that he off ers his sacrifice; but on the next day the remaind er of it also may be eaten;

nkjv@Leviticus:7:17 @ the remaind er of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day must be burned with fire.

nkjv@Leviticus:7:18 @ And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace off ering is eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted, nor shall it be imputed to him; it shall be an abomination to him who off ers it, and the p erson who eats of it shall bear guilt.

nkjv@Leviticus:7:20 @ But the p erson who eats the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace off ering that belongs to the LORD, while he is unclean, that p erson shall be cut off from his people.

nkjv@Leviticus:7:21 @ Moreov er the p erson who touches any unclean thing, such as human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any abominable unclean thing, and who eats the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace off ering that belongs to the LORD, that p erson shall be cut off from his people."'

nkjv@Leviticus:7:24 @ And the fat of an animal that dies naturally, and the fat of what is torn by wild beasts, may be used in any oth er way; but you shall by no means eat it.

nkjv@Leviticus:7:25 @ For whoev er eats the fat of the animal of which men off er an off ering made by fire to the LORD, the p erson who eats it shall be cut off from his people.

nkjv@Leviticus:7:26 @ Moreov er you shall not eat any blood in any of your dwellings, wheth er of bird or beast.

nkjv@Leviticus:7:27 @ Whoev er eats any blood, that p erson shall be cut off from his people."'

nkjv@Leviticus:7:29 @ "Speak to the children of Israel, saying: "He who off ers the sacrifice of his peace off ering to the LORD shall bring his off ering to the LORD from the sacrifice of his peace off ering.

nkjv@Leviticus:7:30 @ His own hands shall bring the off erings made by fire to the LORD. The fat with the breast he shall bring, that the breast may be waved as a wave off ering before the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:7:32 @ Also the right thigh you shall give to the priest as a heave off ering from the sacrifices of your peace off erings.

nkjv@Leviticus:7:33 @ He among the sons of Aaron, who off ers the blood of the peace off ering and the fat, shall have the right thigh for his part.

nkjv@Leviticus:7:34 @ For the breast of the wave off ering and the thigh of the heave off ering I have taken from the children of Israel, from the sacrifices of their peace off erings, and I have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons from the children of Israel by a statute forev er."'

nkjv@Leviticus:7:35 @ This is the consecrated portion for Aaron and his sons, from the off erings made by fire to the LORD, on the day when Moses presented them to minist er to the LORD as priests.

nkjv@Leviticus:7:36 @ The LORD commanded this to be given to them by the children of Israel, on the day that He anointed them, by a statute forev er throughout their gen erations.

nkjv@Leviticus:7:37 @ This is the law of the burnt off ering, the grain off ering, the sin off ering, the trespass off ering, the consecrations, and the sacrifice of the peace off ering,

nkjv@Leviticus:7:38 @ which the LORD commanded Moses on Mount Sinai, on the day when He commanded the children of Israel to off er their off erings to the LORD in the Wild erness of Sinai.

nkjv@Leviticus:8:2 @ "Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, the anointing oil, a bull as the sin off ering, two rams, and a basket of unleavened bread;

nkjv@Leviticus:8:3 @ and gath er all the congregation togeth er at the door of the tab ernacle of meeting."

nkjv@Leviticus:8:4 @ So Moses did as the LORD commanded him. And the congregation was gath ered togeth er at the door of the tab ernacle of meeting.

nkjv@Leviticus:8:6 @ Then Moses brought Aaron and his sons and washed them with wat er.

nkjv@Leviticus:8:10 @ Also Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tab ernacle and all that was in it, and consecrated them.

nkjv@Leviticus:8:11 @ He sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times, anointed the altar and all its utensils, and the lav er and its base, to consecrate them.

nkjv@Leviticus:8:14 @ And he brought the bull for the sin off ering. Then Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull for the sin off ering,

nkjv@Leviticus:8:15 @ and Moses killed it. Then he took the blood, and put some on the horns of the altar all around with his fing er, and purified the altar. And he poured the blood at the base of the altar, and consecrated it, to make atonement for it.

nkjv@Leviticus:8:16 @ Then he took all the fat that was on the entrails, the fatty lobe attached to the liv er, and the two kidneys with their fat, and Moses burned them on the altar.

nkjv@Leviticus:8:18 @ Then he brought the ram as the burnt off ering. And Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram,

nkjv@Leviticus:8:21 @ Then he washed the entrails and the legs in wat er. And Moses burned the whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt sacrifice for a sweet aroma, an off ering made by fire to the LORD, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

nkjv@Leviticus:8:25 @ Then he took the fat and the fat tail, all the fat that was on the entrails, the fatty lobe attached to the liv er, the two kidneys and their fat, and the right thigh;

nkjv@Leviticus:8:26 @ and from the basket of unleavened bread that was before the LORD he took one unleavened cake, a cake of bread anointed with oil, and one waf er, and put them on the fat and on the right thigh;

nkjv@Leviticus:8:27 @ and he put all these in Aaron's hands and in his sons' hands, and waved them as a wave off ering before the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:8:28 @ Then Moses took them from their hands and burned them on the altar, on the burnt off ering. They w ere consecration off erings for a sweet aroma. That was an off ering made by fire to the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:8:29 @ And Moses took the breast and waved it as a wave off ering before the LORD. It was Moses' part of the ram of consecration, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

nkjv@Leviticus:8:31 @ And Moses said to Aaron and his sons, "Boil the flesh at the door of the tab ernacle of meeting, and eat it th ere with the bread that is in the basket of consecration off erings, as I commanded, saying, "Aaron and his sons shall eat it.'

nkjv@Leviticus:8:33 @ And you shall not go outside the door of the tab ernacle of meeting for seven days, until the days of your consecration are ended. For seven days he shall consecrate you.

nkjv@Leviticus:8:35 @ Th erefore you shall stay at the door of the tab ernacle of meeting day and night for seven days, and keep the charge of the LORD, so that you may not die; for so I have been commanded."

nkjv@Leviticus:9:1 @ It came to pass on the eighth day that Moses called Aaron and his sons and the eld ers of Israel.

nkjv@Leviticus:9:2 @ And he said to Aaron, "Take for yourself a young bull as a sin off ering and a ram as a burnt off ering, without blemish, and off er them before the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:9:3 @ And to the children of Israel you shall speak, saying, "Take a kid of the goats as a sin off ering, and a calf and a lamb, both of the first year, without blemish, as a burnt off ering,

nkjv@Leviticus:9:4 @ also a bull and a ram as peace off erings, to sacrifice before the LORD, and a grain off ering mixed with oil; for today the LORD will appear to you."'

nkjv@Leviticus:9:5 @ So they brought what Moses commanded before the tab ernacle of meeting. And all the congregation drew near and stood before the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:9:7 @ And Moses said to Aaron, "Go to the altar, off er your sin off ering and your burnt off ering, and make atonement for yourself and for the people. Off er the off ering of the people, and make atonement for them, as the LORD commanded."

nkjv@Leviticus:9:8 @ Aaron th erefore went to the altar and killed the calf of the sin off ering, which was for himself.

nkjv@Leviticus:9:9 @ Then the sons of Aaron brought the blood to him. And he dipped his fing er in the blood, put it on the horns of the altar, and poured the blood at the base of the altar.

nkjv@Leviticus:9:10 @ But the fat, the kidneys, and the fatty lobe from the liv er of the sin off ering he burned on the altar, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

nkjv@Leviticus:9:12 @ And he killed the burnt off ering; and Aaron's sons presented to him the blood, which he sprinkled all around on the altar.

nkjv@Leviticus:9:13 @ Then they presented the burnt off ering to him, with its pieces and head, and he burned them on the altar.

nkjv@Leviticus:9:14 @ And he washed the entrails and the legs, and burned them with the burnt off ering on the altar.

nkjv@Leviticus:9:15 @ Then he brought the people's off ering, and took the goat, which was the sin off ering for the people, and killed it and off ered it for sin, like the first one.

nkjv@Leviticus:9:16 @ And he brought the burnt off ering and off ered it according to the prescribed mann er.

nkjv@Leviticus:9:17 @ Then he brought the grain off ering, took a handful of it, and burned it on the altar, besides the burnt sacrifice of the morning.

nkjv@Leviticus:9:18 @ He also killed the bull and the ram as sacrifices of peace off erings, which w ere for the people. And Aaron's sons presented to him the blood, which he sprinkled all around on the altar,

nkjv@Leviticus:9:19 @ and the fat from the bull and the ram--the fatty tail, what cov ers the entrails and the kidneys, and the fatty lobe attached to the liv er;

nkjv@Leviticus:9:21 @ but the breasts and the right thigh Aaron waved as a wave off ering before the LORD, as Moses had commanded.

nkjv@Leviticus:9:22 @ Then Aaron lifted his hand toward the people, blessed them, and came down from off ering the sin off ering, the burnt off ering, and peace off erings.

nkjv@Leviticus:9:23 @ And Moses and Aaron went into the tab ernacle of meeting, and came out and blessed the people. Then the glory of the LORD appeared to all the people,

nkjv@Leviticus:9:24 @ and fire came out from before the LORD and consumed the burnt off ering and the fat on the altar. When all the people saw it, they shouted and fell on their faces.

nkjv@Leviticus:10:1 @ Then Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his cens er and put fire in it, put incense on it, and off ered profane fire before the LORD, which He had not commanded them.

nkjv@Leviticus:10:6 @ And Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons, "Do not uncov er your heads nor tear your clothes, lest you die, and wrath come upon all the people. But let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the LORD has kindled.

nkjv@Leviticus:10:7 @ You shall not go out from the door of the tab ernacle of meeting, lest you die, for the anointing oil of the LORD is upon you." And they did according to the word of Moses.

nkjv@Leviticus:10:9 @ "Do not drink wine or intoxicating drink, you, nor your sons with you, when you go into the tab ernacle of meeting, lest you die. It shall be a statute forev er throughout your gen erations,

nkjv@Leviticus:10:12 @ And Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons who w ere left: "Take the grain off ering that remains of the off erings made by fire to the LORD, and eat it without leaven beside the altar; for it is most holy.

nkjv@Leviticus:10:14 @ The breast of the wave off ering and the thigh of the heave off ering you shall eat in a clean place, you, your sons, and your daught ers with you; for they are your due and your sons' due, which are given from the sacrifices of peace off erings of the children of Israel.

nkjv@Leviticus:10:15 @ The thigh of the heave off ering and the breast of the wave off ering they shall bring with the off erings of fat made by fire, to off er as a wave off ering before the LORD. And it shall be yours and your sons' with you, by a statute forev er, as the LORD has commanded."

nkjv@Leviticus:10:16 @ Then Moses made careful inquiry about the goat of the sin off ering, and th ere it was--burned up. And he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron who w ere left, saying,

nkjv@Leviticus:10:17 @ "Why have you not eaten the sin off ering in a holy place, since it is most holy, and God has given it to you to bear the guilt of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the LORD?

nkjv@Leviticus:10:19 @ And Aaron said to Moses, "Look, this day they have off ered their sin off ering and their burnt off ering before the LORD, and such things have befallen me! If I had eaten the sin off ering today, would it have been accepted in the sight of the LORD?"

nkjv@Leviticus:11:3 @ Among the animals, whatev er divides the hoof, having cloven hooves and chewing the cud--that you may eat.

nkjv@Leviticus:11:4 @ Nev ertheless these you shall not eat among those that chew the cud or those that have cloven hooves: the camel, because it chews the cud but does not have cloven hooves, is unclean to you;

nkjv@Leviticus:11:9 @ "These you may eat of all that are in the wat er: whatev er in the wat er has fins and scales, wheth er in the seas or in the riv ers--that you may eat.

nkjv@Leviticus:11:10 @ But all in the seas or in the riv ers that do not have fins and scales, all that move in the wat er or any living thing which is in the wat er, they are an abomination to you.

nkjv@Leviticus:11:12 @ Whatev er in the wat er does not have fins or scales--that shall be an abomination to you.

nkjv@Leviticus:11:14 @ the kite, and the falcon aft er its kind;

nkjv@Leviticus:11:15 @ ev ery raven aft er its kind,

nkjv@Leviticus:11:16 @ the ostrich, the short-eared owl, the sea gull, and the hawk aft er its kind;

nkjv@Leviticus:11:17 @ the little owl, the fish er owl, and the screech owl;

nkjv@Leviticus:11:19 @ the stork, the h eron aft er its kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.

nkjv@Leviticus:11:21 @ Yet these you may eat of ev ery flying insect that creeps on all fours: those which have jointed legs above their feet with which to leap on the earth.

nkjv@Leviticus:11:22 @ These you may eat: the locust aft er its kind, the destroying locust aft er its kind, the cricket aft er its kind, and the grasshopp er aft er its kind.

nkjv@Leviticus:11:23 @ But all oth er flying insects which have four feet shall be an abomination to you.

nkjv@Leviticus:11:24 @ "By these you shall become unclean; whoev er touches the carcass of any of them shall be unclean until evening;

nkjv@Leviticus:11:25 @ whoev er carries part of the carcass of any of them shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening:

nkjv@Leviticus:11:26 @ The carcass of any animal which divides the foot, but is not cloven-hoofed or does not chew the cud, is unclean to you. Ev eryone who touches it shall be unclean.

nkjv@Leviticus:11:27 @ And whatev er goes on its paws, among all kinds of animals that go on all fours, those are unclean to you. Whoev er touches any such carcass shall be unclean until evening.

nkjv@Leviticus:11:28 @ Whoev er carries any such carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening. It is unclean to you.

nkjv@Leviticus:11:29 @ "These also shall be unclean to you among the creeping things that creep on the earth: the mole, the mouse, and the large lizard aft er its kind;

nkjv@Leviticus:11:31 @ These are unclean to you among all that creep. Whoev er touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until evening.

nkjv@Leviticus:11:32 @ Anything on which any of them falls, when they are dead shall be unclean, wheth er it is any item of wood or clothing or skin or sack, whatev er item it is, in which any work is done, it must be put in wat er. And it shall be unclean until evening; then it shall be clean.

nkjv@Leviticus:11:33 @ Any earthen vessel into which any of them falls you shall break; and whatev er is in it shall be unclean:

nkjv@Leviticus:11:34 @ in such a vessel, any edible food upon which wat er falls becomes unclean, and any drink that may be drunk from it becomes unclean.

nkjv@Leviticus:11:35 @ And ev erything on which a part of any such carcass falls shall be unclean; wheth er it is an oven or cooking stove, it shall be broken down; for they are unclean, and shall be unclean to you.

nkjv@Leviticus:11:36 @ Nev ertheless a spring or a cist ern, in which th ere is plenty of wat er, shall be clean, but whatev er touches any such carcass becomes unclean.

nkjv@Leviticus:11:38 @ But if wat er is put on the seed, and if a part of any such carcass falls on it, it becomes unclean to you.

nkjv@Leviticus:11:41 @ "And ev ery creeping thing that creeps on the earth shall be an abomination. It shall not be eaten.

nkjv@Leviticus:11:42 @ Whatev er crawls on its belly, whatev er goes on all fours, or whatev er has many feet among all creeping things that creep on the earth--these you shall not eat, for they are an abomination.

nkjv@Leviticus:11:44 @ For I am the LORD your God. You shall th erefore consecrate yourselves, and you shall be holy; for I am holy. Neith er shall you defile yourselves with any creeping thing that creeps on the earth.

nkjv@Leviticus:11:45 @ For I am the LORD who brings you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall th erefore be holy, for I am holy.

nkjv@Leviticus:11:46 @ "This is the law of the animals and the birds and ev ery living creature that moves in the wat ers, and of ev ery creature that creeps on the earth,

nkjv@Leviticus:12:2 @ "Speak to the children of Israel, saying: "If a woman has conceived, and borne a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of h er customary impurity she shall be unclean.

nkjv@Leviticus:12:4 @ She shall then continue in the blood of h er purification thirty-three days. She shall not touch any hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary until the days of h er purification are fulfilled.

nkjv@Leviticus:12:5 @ "But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in h er customary impurity, and she shall continue in the blood of h er purification sixty-six days.

nkjv@Leviticus:12:6 @ "When the days of h er purification are fulfilled, wheth er for a son or a daught er, she shall bring to the priest a lamb of the first year as a burnt off ering, and a young pigeon or a turtledove as a sin off ering, to the door of the tab ernacle of meeting.

nkjv@Leviticus:12:7 @ Then he shall off er it before the LORD, and make atonement for h er. And she shall be clean from the flow of h er blood. This is the law for h er who has borne a male or a female.

nkjv@Leviticus:12:8 @ "And if she is not able to bring a lamb, then she may bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons--one as a burnt off ering and the oth er as a sin off ering. So the priest shall make atonement for h er, and she will be clean."'

nkjv@Leviticus:13:3 @ The priest shall examine the sore on the skin of the body; and if the hair on the sore has turned white, and the sore appears to be deep er than the skin of his body, it is a leprous sore. Then the priest shall examine him, and pronounce him unclean.

nkjv@Leviticus:13:4 @ But if the bright spot is white on the skin of his body, and does not appear to be deep er than the skin, and its hair has not turned white, then the priest shall isolate the one who has the sore seven days.

nkjv@Leviticus:13:5 @ And the priest shall examine him on the seventh day; and indeed if the sore appears to be as it was, and the sore has not spread on the skin, then the priest shall isolate him anoth er seven days.

nkjv@Leviticus:13:7 @ But if the scab should at all spread ov er the skin, aft er he has been seen by the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen by the priest again.

nkjv@Leviticus:13:9 @ "When the leprous sore is on a p erson, then he shall be brought to the priest.

nkjv@Leviticus:13:10 @ And the priest shall examine him; and indeed if the swelling on the skin is white, and it has turned the hair white, and th ere is a spot of raw flesh in the swelling,

nkjv@Leviticus:13:12 @ "And if leprosy breaks out all ov er the skin, and the leprosy cov ers all the skin of the one who has the sore, from his head to his foot, wh erev er the priest looks,

nkjv@Leviticus:13:13 @ then the priest shall consid er; and indeed if the leprosy has cov ered all his body, he shall pronounce him clean who has the sore. It has all turned white. He is clean.

nkjv@Leviticus:13:19 @ and in the place of the boil th ere comes a white swelling or a bright spot, reddish-white, then it shall be shown to the priest;

nkjv@Leviticus:13:20 @ and if, when the priest sees it, it indeed appears deep er than the skin, and its hair has turned white, the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a leprous sore which has broken out of the boil.

nkjv@Leviticus:13:21 @ But if the priest examines it, and indeed th ere are no white hairs in it, and it is not deep er than the skin, but has faded, then the priest shall isolate him seven days;

nkjv@Leviticus:13:22 @ and if it should at all spread ov er the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a leprous sore.

nkjv@Leviticus:13:25 @ then the priest shall examine it; and indeed if the hair of the bright spot has turned white, and it appears deep er than the skin, it is leprosy broken out in the burn. Th erefore the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a leprous sore.

nkjv@Leviticus:13:26 @ But if the priest examines it, and indeed th ere are no white hairs in the bright spot, and it is not deep er than the skin, but has faded, then the priest shall isolate him seven days.

nkjv@Leviticus:13:27 @ And the priest shall examine him on the seventh day. If it has at all spread ov er the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a leprous sore.

nkjv@Leviticus:13:30 @ then the priest shall examine the sore; and indeed if it appears deep er than the skin, and th ere is in it thin yellow hair, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a scaly leprosy of the head or beard.

nkjv@Leviticus:13:31 @ But if the priest examines the scaly sore, and indeed it does not appear deep er than the skin, and th ere is no black hair in it, then the priest shall isolate the one who has the scale seven days.

nkjv@Leviticus:13:32 @ And on the seventh day the priest shall examine the sore; and indeed if the scale has not spread, and th ere is no yellow hair in it, and the scale does not appear deep er than the skin,

nkjv@Leviticus:13:33 @ he shall shave himself, but the scale he shall not shave. And the priest shall isolate the one who has the scale anoth er seven days.

nkjv@Leviticus:13:34 @ On the seventh day the priest shall examine the scale; and indeed if the scale has not spread ov er the skin, and does not appear deep er than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. He shall wash his clothes and be clean.

nkjv@Leviticus:13:35 @ But if the scale should at all spread ov er the skin aft er his cleansing,

nkjv@Leviticus:13:36 @ then the priest shall examine him; and indeed if the scale has spread ov er the skin, the priest need not seek for yellow hair. He is unclean.

nkjv@Leviticus:13:37 @ But if the scale appears to be at a standstill, and th ere is black hair grown up in it, the scale has healed. He is clean, and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

nkjv@Leviticus:13:42 @ And if th ere is on the bald head or bald forehead a reddish-white sore, it is leprosy breaking out on his bald head or his bald forehead.

nkjv@Leviticus:13:45 @ "Now the lep er on whom the sore is, his clothes shall be torn and his head bare; and he shall cov er his mustache, and cry, "Unclean! Unclean!'

nkjv@Leviticus:13:47 @ "Also, if a garment has a leprous plague in it, wheth er it is a woolen garment or a linen garment,

nkjv@Leviticus:13:48 @ wheth er it is in the warp or woof of linen or wool, wheth er in leath er or in anything made of leath er,

nkjv@Leviticus:13:49 @ and if the plague is greenish or reddish in the garment or in the leath er, wheth er in the warp or in the woof, or in anything made of leath er, it is a leprous plague and shall be shown to the priest.

nkjv@Leviticus:13:51 @ And he shall examine the plague on the seventh day. If the plague has spread in the garment, eith er in the warp or in the woof, in the leath er or in anything made of leath er, the plague is an active leprosy. It is unclean.

nkjv@Leviticus:13:52 @ He shall th erefore burn that garment in which is the plague, wheth er warp or woof, in wool or in linen, or anything of leath er, for it is an active leprosy; the garment shall be burned in the fire.

nkjv@Leviticus:13:53 @ "But if the priest examines it, and indeed the plague has not spread in the garment, eith er in the warp or in the woof, or in anything made of leath er,

nkjv@Leviticus:13:54 @ then the priest shall command that they wash the thing in which is the plague; and he shall isolate it anoth er seven days.

nkjv@Leviticus:13:55 @ Then the priest shall examine the plague aft er it has been washed; and indeed if the plague has not changed its color, though the plague has not spread, it is unclean, and you shall burn it in the fire; it continues eating away, wheth er the damage is outside or inside.

nkjv@Leviticus:13:56 @ If the priest examines it, and indeed the plague has faded aft er washing it, then he shall tear it out of the garment, wheth er out of the warp or out of the woof, or out of the leath er.

nkjv@Leviticus:13:57 @ But if it appears again in the garment, eith er in the warp or in the woof, or in anything made of leath er, it is a spreading plague; you shall burn with fire that in which is the plague.

nkjv@Leviticus:13:58 @ And if you wash the garment, eith er warp or woof, or whatev er is made of leath er, if the plague has disappeared from it, then it shall be washed a second time, and shall be clean.

nkjv@Leviticus:13:59 @ "This is the law of the leprous plague in a garment of wool or linen, eith er in the warp or woof, or in anything made of leath er, to pronounce it clean or to pronounce it unclean."

nkjv@Leviticus:14:2 @ "This shall be the law of the lep er for the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought to the priest.

nkjv@Leviticus:14:3 @ And the priest shall go out of the camp, and the priest shall examine him; and indeed, if the leprosy is healed in the lep er,

nkjv@Leviticus:14:5 @ And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel ov er running wat er.

nkjv@Leviticus:14:6 @ As for the living bird, he shall take it, the cedar wood and the scarlet and the hyssop, and dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed ov er the running wat er.

nkjv@Leviticus:14:8 @ He who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and wash himself in wat er, that he may be clean. Aft er that he shall come into the camp, and shall stay outside his tent seven days.

nkjv@Leviticus:14:9 @ But on the seventh day he shall shave all the hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows--all his hair he shall shave off. He shall wash his clothes and wash his body in wat er, and he shall be clean.

nkjv@Leviticus:14:10 @ "And on the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish, one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain off ering, and one log of oil.

nkjv@Leviticus:14:11 @ Then the priest who makes him clean shall present the man who is to be made clean, and those things, before the LORD, at the door of the tab ernacle of meeting.

nkjv@Leviticus:14:12 @ And the priest shall take one male lamb and off er it as a trespass off ering, and the log of oil, and wave them as a wave off ering before the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:14:13 @ Then he shall kill the lamb in the place wh ere he kills the sin off ering and the burnt off ering, in a holy place; for as the sin off ering is the priest's, so is the trespass off ering. It is most holy.

nkjv@Leviticus:14:14 @ The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass off ering, and the priest shall put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.

nkjv@Leviticus:14:16 @ Then the priest shall dip his right fing er in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle some of the oil with his fing er seven times before the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:14:17 @ And of the rest of the oil in his hand, the priest shall put some on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the blood of the trespass off ering.

nkjv@Leviticus:14:19 @ "Then the priest shall off er the sin off ering, and make atonement for him who is to be cleansed from his uncleanness. Aft erward he shall kill the burnt off ering.

nkjv@Leviticus:14:20 @ And the priest shall off er the burnt off ering and the grain off ering on the altar. So the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean.

nkjv@Leviticus:14:21 @ "But if he is poor and cannot afford it, then he shall take one male lamb as a trespass off ering to be waved, to make atonement for him, one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain off ering, a log of oil,

nkjv@Leviticus:14:22 @ and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, such as he is able to afford: one shall be a sin off ering and the oth er a burnt off ering.

nkjv@Leviticus:14:23 @ He shall bring them to the priest on the eighth day for his cleansing, to the door of the tab ernacle of meeting, before the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:14:24 @ And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass off ering and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them as a wave off ering before the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:14:25 @ Then he shall kill the lamb of the trespass off ering, and the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass off ering and put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.

nkjv@Leviticus:14:27 @ Then the priest shall sprinkle with his right fing er some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:14:28 @ And the priest shall put some of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, on the thumb of the right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the trespass off ering.

nkjv@Leviticus:14:30 @ And he shall off er one of the turtledoves or young pigeons, such as he can afford--

nkjv@Leviticus:14:31 @ such as he is able to afford, the one as a sin off ering and the oth er as a burnt off ering, with the grain off ering. So the priest shall make atonement for him who is to be cleansed before the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:14:35 @ and he who owns the house comes and tells the priest, saying, "It seems to me that th ere is some plague in the house,'

nkjv@Leviticus:14:36 @ then the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest goes into it to examine the plague, that all that is in the house may not be made unclean; and aft erward the priest shall go in to examine the house.

nkjv@Leviticus:14:42 @ Then they shall take oth er stones and put them in the place of those stones, and he shall take oth er mortar and plast er the house.

nkjv@Leviticus:14:43 @ "Now if the plague comes back and breaks out in the house, aft er he has taken away the stones, aft er he has scraped the house, and aft er it is plast ered,

nkjv@Leviticus:14:45 @ And he shall break down the house, its stones, its timb er, and all the plast er of the house, and he shall carry them outside the city to an unclean place.

nkjv@Leviticus:14:46 @ Moreov er he who goes into the house at all while it is shut up shall be unclean until evening.

nkjv@Leviticus:14:48 @ "But if the priest comes in and examines it, and indeed the plague has not spread in the house aft er the house was plast ered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.

nkjv@Leviticus:14:50 @ Then he shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel ov er running wat er;

nkjv@Leviticus:14:51 @ and he shall take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird and in the running wat er, and sprinkle the house seven times.

nkjv@Leviticus:14:52 @ And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird and the running wat er and the living bird, with the cedar wood, the hyssop, and the scarlet.

nkjv@Leviticus:15:3 @ And this shall be his uncleanness in regard to his discharge--wheth er his body runs with his discharge, or his body is stopped up by his discharge, it is his uncleanness.

nkjv@Leviticus:15:4 @ Ev ery bed is unclean on which he who has the discharge lies, and ev erything on which he sits shall be unclean.

nkjv@Leviticus:15:5 @ And whoev er touches his bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in wat er, and be unclean until evening.

nkjv@Leviticus:15:6 @ He who sits on anything on which he who has the discharge sat shall wash his clothes and bathe in wat er, and be unclean until evening.

nkjv@Leviticus:15:7 @ And he who touches the body of him who has the discharge shall wash his clothes and bathe in wat er, and be unclean until evening.

nkjv@Leviticus:15:8 @ If he who has the discharge spits on him who is clean, then he shall wash his clothes and bathe in wat er, and be unclean until evening.

nkjv@Leviticus:15:10 @ Whoev er touches anything that was und er him shall be unclean until evening. He who carries any of those things shall wash his clothes and bathe in wat er, and be unclean until evening.

nkjv@Leviticus:15:11 @ And whomev er the one who has the discharge touches, and has not rinsed his hands in wat er, he shall wash his clothes and bathe in wat er, and be unclean until evening.

nkjv@Leviticus:15:12 @ The vessel of earth that he who has the discharge touches shall be broken, and ev ery vessel of wood shall be rinsed in wat er.

nkjv@Leviticus:15:13 @ "And when he who has a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then he shall count for himself seven days for his cleansing, wash his clothes, and bathe his body in running wat er; then he shall be clean.

nkjv@Leviticus:15:14 @ On the eighth day he shall take for himself two turtledoves or two young pigeons, and come before the LORD, to the door of the tab ernacle of meeting, and give them to the priest.

nkjv@Leviticus:15:15 @ Then the priest shall off er them, the one as a sin off ering and the oth er as a burnt off ering. So the priest shall make atonement for him before the LORD because of his discharge.

nkjv@Leviticus:15:16 @ "If any man has an emission of semen, then he shall wash all his body in wat er, and be unclean until evening.

nkjv@Leviticus:15:17 @ And any garment and any leath er on which th ere is semen, it shall be washed with wat er, and be unclean until evening.

nkjv@Leviticus:15:18 @ Also, when a woman lies with a man, and th ere is an emission of semen, they shall bathe in wat er, and be unclean until evening.

nkjv@Leviticus:15:19 @ "If a woman has a discharge, and the discharge from h er body is blood, she shall be set apart seven days; and whoev er touches h er shall be unclean until evening.

nkjv@Leviticus:15:20 @ Ev erything that she lies on during h er impurity shall be unclean; also ev erything that she sits on shall be unclean.

nkjv@Leviticus:15:21 @ Whoev er touches h er bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in wat er, and be unclean until evening.

nkjv@Leviticus:15:22 @ And whoev er touches anything that she sat on shall wash his clothes and bathe in wat er, and be unclean until evening.

nkjv@Leviticus:15:23 @ If anything is on h er bed or on anything on which she sits, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until evening.

nkjv@Leviticus:15:24 @ And if any man lies with h er at all, so that h er impurity is on him, he shall be unclean seven days; and ev ery bed on which he lies shall be unclean.

nkjv@Leviticus:15:25 @ "If a woman has a discharge of blood for many days, oth er than at the time of h er customary impurity, or if it runs beyond h er usual time of impurity, all the days of h er unclean discharge shall be as the days of h er customary impurity. She shall be unclean.

nkjv@Leviticus:15:26 @ Ev ery bed on which she lies all the days of h er discharge shall be to h er as the bed of h er impurity; and whatev er she sits on shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of h er impurity.

nkjv@Leviticus:15:27 @ Whoev er touches those things shall be unclean; he shall wash his clothes and bathe in wat er, and be unclean until evening.

nkjv@Leviticus:15:28 @ "But if she is cleansed of h er discharge, then she shall count for h erself seven days, and aft er that she shall be clean.

nkjv@Leviticus:15:29 @ And on the eighth day she shall take for h erself two turtledoves or two young pigeons, and bring them to the priest, to the door of the tab ernacle of meeting.

nkjv@Leviticus:15:30 @ Then the priest shall off er the one as a sin off ering and the oth er as a burnt off ering, and the priest shall make atonement for h er before the LORD for the discharge of h er uncleanness.

nkjv@Leviticus:15:31 @ "Thus you shall separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, lest they die in their uncleanness when they defile My tab ernacle that is among them.

nkjv@Leviticus:15:32 @ This is the law for one who has a discharge, and for him who emits semen and is unclean th ereby,

nkjv@Leviticus:15:33 @ and for h er who is indisposed because of h er customary impurity, and for one who has a discharge, eith er man or woman, and for him who lies with h er who is unclean."'

nkjv@Leviticus:16:1 @ Now the LORD spoke to Moses aft er the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they off ered profane fire before the LORD, and died;

nkjv@Leviticus:16:2 @ and the LORD said to Moses: "Tell Aaron your broth er not to come at just any time into the Holy Place inside the veil, before the m ercy seat which is on the ark, lest he die; for I will appear in the cloud above the m ercy seat.

nkjv@Leviticus:16:3 @ "Thus Aaron shall come into the Holy Place: with the blood of a young bull as a sin off ering, and of a ram as a burnt off ering.

nkjv@Leviticus:16:4 @ He shall put the holy linen tunic and the linen trous ers on his body; he shall be girded with a linen sash, and with the linen turban he shall be attired. These are holy garments. Th erefore he shall wash his body in wat er, and put them on.

nkjv@Leviticus:16:5 @ And he shall take from the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats as a sin off ering, and one ram as a burnt off ering.

nkjv@Leviticus:16:6 @ "Aaron shall off er the bull as a sin off ering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself and for his house.

nkjv@Leviticus:16:7 @ He shall take the two goats and present them before the LORD at the door of the tab ernacle of meeting.

nkjv@Leviticus:16:8 @ Then Aaron shall cast lots for the two goats: one lot for the LORD and the oth er lot for the scapegoat.

nkjv@Leviticus:16:9 @ And Aaron shall bring the goat on which the LORD's lot fell, and off er it as a sin off ering.

nkjv@Leviticus:16:10 @ But the goat on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make atonement upon it, and to let it go as the scapegoat into the wild erness.

nkjv@Leviticus:16:11 @ "And Aaron shall bring the bull of the sin off ering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself and for his house, and shall kill the bull as the sin off ering which is for himself.

nkjv@Leviticus:16:12 @ Then he shall take a cens er full of burning coals of fire from the altar before the LORD, with his hands full of sweet incense beaten fine, and bring it inside the veil.

nkjv@Leviticus:16:13 @ And he shall put the incense on the fire before the LORD, that the cloud of incense may cov er the m ercy seat that is on the Testimony, lest he die.

nkjv@Leviticus:16:14 @ He shall take some of the blood of the bull and sprinkle it with his fing er on the m ercy seat on the east side; and before the m ercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his fing er seven times.

nkjv@Leviticus:16:15 @ "Then he shall kill the goat of the sin off ering, which is for the people, bring its blood inside the veil, do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the m ercy seat and before the m ercy seat.

nkjv@Leviticus:16:16 @ So he shall make atonement for the Holy Place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions, for all their sins; and so he shall do for the tab ernacle of meeting which remains among them in the midst of their uncleanness.

nkjv@Leviticus:16:17 @ Th ere shall be no man in the tab ernacle of meeting when he goes in to make atonement in the Holy Place, until he comes out, that he may make atonement for himself, for his household, and for all the assembly of Israel.

nkjv@Leviticus:16:19 @ Then he shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his fing er seven times, cleanse it, and consecrate it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.

nkjv@Leviticus:16:20 @ "And when he has made an end of atoning for the Holy Place, the tab ernacle of meeting, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat.

nkjv@Leviticus:16:21 @ Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, confess ov er it all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, conc erning all their sins, putting them on the head of the goat, and shall send it away into the wild erness by the hand of a suitable man.

nkjv@Leviticus:16:22 @ The goat shall bear on itself all their iniquities to an uninhabited land; and he shall release the goat in the wild erness.

nkjv@Leviticus:16:23 @ "Then Aaron shall come into the tab ernacle of meeting, shall take off the linen garments which he put on when he went into the Holy Place, and shall leave them th ere.

nkjv@Leviticus:16:24 @ And he shall wash his body with wat er in a holy place, put on his garments, come out and off er his burnt off ering and the burnt off ering of the people, and make atonement for himself and for the people.

nkjv@Leviticus:16:25 @ The fat of the sin off ering he shall burn on the altar.

nkjv@Leviticus:16:26 @ And he who released the goat as the scapegoat shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in wat er, and aft erward he may come into the camp.

nkjv@Leviticus:16:27 @ The bull for the sin off ering and the goat for the sin off ering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be carried outside the camp. And they shall burn in the fire their skins, their flesh, and their offal.

nkjv@Leviticus:16:28 @ Then he who burns them shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in wat er, and aft erward he may come into the camp.

nkjv@Leviticus:16:29 @ "This shall be a statute forev er for you: In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, wheth er a native of your own country or a strang er who dwells among you.

nkjv@Leviticus:16:31 @ It is a sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall afflict your souls. It is a statute forev er.

nkjv@Leviticus:16:32 @ And the priest, who is anointed and consecrated to minist er as priest in his fath er's place, shall make atonement, and put on the linen clothes, the holy garments;

nkjv@Leviticus:16:33 @ then he shall make atonement for the Holy Sanctuary, and he shall make atonement for the tab ernacle of meeting and for the altar, and he shall make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly.

nkjv@Leviticus:16:34 @ This shall be an ev erlasting statute for you, to make atonement for the children of Israel, for all their sins, once a year." And he did as the LORD commanded Moses.

nkjv@Leviticus:17:3 @ "Whatev er man of the house of Israel who kills an ox or lamb or goat in the camp, or who kills it outside the camp,

nkjv@Leviticus:17:4 @ and does not bring it to the door of the tab ernacle of meeting to off er an off ering to the LORD before the tab ernacle of the LORD, the guilt of bloodshed shall be imputed to that man. He has shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people,

nkjv@Leviticus:17:5 @ to the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices which they off er in the open field, that they may bring them to the LORD at the door of the tab ernacle of meeting, to the priest, and off er them as peace off erings to the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:17:6 @ And the priest shall sprinkle the blood on the altar of the LORD at the door of the tab ernacle of meeting, and burn the fat for a sweet aroma to the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:17:7 @ They shall no more off er their sacrifices to demons, aft er whom they have played the harlot. This shall be a statute forev er for them throughout their gen erations."'

nkjv@Leviticus:17:8 @ "Also you shall say to them: "Whatev er man of the house of Israel, or of the strang ers who dwell among you, who off ers a burnt off ering or sacrifice,

nkjv@Leviticus:17:9 @ and does not bring it to the door of the tab ernacle of meeting, to off er it to the LORD, that man shall be cut off from among his people.

nkjv@Leviticus:17:10 @ "And whatev er man of the house of Israel, or of the strang ers who dwell among you, who eats any blood, I will set My face against that p erson who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

nkjv@Leviticus:17:12 @ Th erefore I said to the children of Israel, "No one among you shall eat blood, nor shall any strang er who dwells among you eat blood.'

nkjv@Leviticus:17:13 @ "Whatev er man of the children of Israel, or of the strang ers who dwell among you, who hunts and catches any animal or bird that may be eaten, he shall pour out its blood and cov er it with dust;

nkjv@Leviticus:17:14 @ for it is the life of all flesh. Its blood sustains its life. Th erefore I said to the children of Israel, "You shall not eat the blood of any flesh, for the life of all flesh is its blood. Whoev er eats it shall be cut off.'

nkjv@Leviticus:17:15 @ "And ev ery p erson who eats what died naturally or what was torn by beasts, wheth er he is a native of your own country or a strang er, he shall both wash his clothes and bathe in wat er, and be unclean until evening. Then he shall be clean.

nkjv@Leviticus:18:3 @ According to the doings of the land of Egypt, wh ere you dwelt, you shall not do; and according to the doings of the land of Canaan, wh ere I am bringing you, you shall not do; nor shall you walk in their ordinances.

nkjv@Leviticus:18:4 @ You shall obs erve My judgments and keep My ordinances, to walk in them: I am the LORD your God.

nkjv@Leviticus:18:5 @ You shall th erefore keep My statutes and My judgments, which if a man does, he shall live by them: I am the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:18:6 @ "None of you shall approach anyone who is near of kin to him, to uncov er his nakedness: I am the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:18:7 @ The nakedness of your fath er or the nakedness of your moth er you shall not uncov er. She is your moth er; you shall not uncov er h er nakedness.

nkjv@Leviticus:18:8 @ The nakedness of your fath er's wife you shall not uncov er; it is your fath er's nakedness.

nkjv@Leviticus:18:9 @ The nakedness of your sist er, the daught er of your fath er, or the daught er of your moth er, wheth er born at home or elsewh ere, their nakedness you shall not uncov er.

nkjv@Leviticus:18:10 @ The nakedness of your son's daught er or your daught er's daught er, their nakedness you shall not uncov er; for theirs is your own nakedness.

nkjv@Leviticus:18:11 @ The nakedness of your fath er's wife's daught er, begotten by your fath er--she is your sist er--you shall not uncov er h er nakedness.

nkjv@Leviticus:18:12 @ You shall not uncov er the nakedness of your fath er's sist er; she is near of kin to your fath er.

nkjv@Leviticus:18:13 @ You shall not uncov er the nakedness of your moth er's sist er, for she is near of kin to your moth er.

nkjv@Leviticus:18:14 @ You shall not uncov er the nakedness of your fath er's broth er. You shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt.

nkjv@Leviticus:18:15 @ You shall not uncov er the nakedness of your daught er-in-law--she is your son's wife--you shall not uncov er h er nakedness.

nkjv@Leviticus:18:16 @ You shall not uncov er the nakedness of your broth er's wife; it is your broth er's nakedness.

nkjv@Leviticus:18:17 @ You shall not uncov er the nakedness of a woman and h er daught er, nor shall you take h er son's daught er or h er daught er's daught er, to uncov er h er nakedness. They are near of kin to h er. It is wickedness.

nkjv@Leviticus:18:18 @ Nor shall you take a woman as a rival to h er sist er, to uncov er h er nakedness while the oth er is alive.

nkjv@Leviticus:18:19 @ "Also you shall not approach a woman to uncov er h er nakedness as long as she is in h er customary impurity.

nkjv@Leviticus:18:20 @ Moreov er you shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, to defile yourself with h er.

nkjv@Leviticus:18:23 @ Nor shall you mate with any animal, to defile yourself with it. Nor shall any woman stand before an animal to mate with it. It is p erv ersion.

nkjv@Leviticus:18:25 @ For the land is defiled; th erefore I visit the punishment of its iniquity upon it, and the land vomits out its inhabitants.

nkjv@Leviticus:18:26 @ You shall th erefore keep My statutes and My judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations, eith er any of your own nation or any strang er who dwells among you

nkjv@Leviticus:18:27 @ (for all these abominations the men of the land have done, who w ere before you, and thus the land is defiled),

nkjv@Leviticus:18:28 @ lest the land vomit you out also when you defile it, as it vomited out the nations that w ere before you.

nkjv@Leviticus:18:29 @ For whoev er commits any of these abominations, the p ersons who commit them shall be cut off from among their people.

nkjv@Leviticus:18:30 @ "Th erefore you shall keep My ordinance, so that you do not commit any of these abominable customs which w ere committed before you, and that you do not defile yourselves by them: I am the LORD your God."'

nkjv@Leviticus:19:3 @ "Ev ery one of you shall rev ere his moth er and his fath er, and keep My Sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.

nkjv@Leviticus:19:5 @ "And if you off er a sacrifice of a peace off ering to the LORD, you shall off er it of your own free will.

nkjv@Leviticus:19:6 @ It shall be eaten the same day you off er it, and on the next day. And if any remains until the third day, it shall be burned in the fire.

nkjv@Leviticus:19:8 @ Th erefore ev eryone who eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the hallowed off ering of the LORD; and that p erson shall be cut off from his people.

nkjv@Leviticus:19:9 @ "When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corn ers of your field, nor shall you gath er the gleanings of your harvest.

nkjv@Leviticus:19:10 @ And you shall not glean your vineyard, nor shall you gath er ev ery grape of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and the strang er: I am the LORD your God.

nkjv@Leviticus:19:11 @ "You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one anoth er.

nkjv@Leviticus:19:15 @ "You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor honor the p erson of the mighty. In righteousness you shall judge your neighbor.

nkjv@Leviticus:19:16 @ You shall not go about as a talebear er among your people; nor shall you take a stand against the life of your neighbor: I am the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:19:17 @ "You shall not hate your broth er in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

nkjv@Leviticus:19:19 @ "You shall keep My statutes. You shall not let your livestock breed with anoth er kind. You shall not sow your field with mixed seed. Nor shall a garment of mixed linen and wool come upon you.

nkjv@Leviticus:19:20 @ "Whoev er lies carnally with a woman who is betrothed to a man as a concubine, and who has not at all been redeemed nor given h er freedom, for this th ere shall be scourging; but they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.

nkjv@Leviticus:19:21 @ And he shall bring his trespass off ering to the LORD, to the door of the tab ernacle of meeting, a ram as a trespass off ering.

nkjv@Leviticus:19:22 @ The priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass off ering before the LORD for his sin which he has committed. And the sin which he has committed shall be forgiven him.

nkjv@Leviticus:19:29 @ "Do not prostitute your daught er, to cause h er to be a harlot, lest the land fall into harlotry, and the land become full of wickedness.

nkjv@Leviticus:19:30 @ "You shall keep My Sabbaths and rev erence My sanctuary: I am the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:19:31 @ "Give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits; do not seek aft er them, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.

nkjv@Leviticus:19:33 @ "And if a strang er dwells with you in your land, you shall not mistreat him.

nkjv@Leviticus:19:34 @ The strang er who dwells among you shall be to you as one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you w ere strang ers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

nkjv@Leviticus:19:37 @ "Th erefore you shall obs erve all My statutes and all My judgments, and p erform them: I am the LORD."'

nkjv@Leviticus:20:2 @ "Again, you shall say to the children of Israel: "Whoev er of the children of Israel, or of the strang ers who dwell in Israel, who gives any of his descendants to Molech, he shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones.

nkjv@Leviticus:20:6 @ "And the p erson who turns to mediums and familiar spirits, to prostitute himself with them, I will set My face against that p erson and cut him off from his people.

nkjv@Leviticus:20:7 @ Consecrate yourselves th erefore, and be holy, for I am the LORD your God.

nkjv@Leviticus:20:8 @ And you shall keep My statutes, and p erform them: I am the LORD who sanctifies you.

nkjv@Leviticus:20:9 @ "For ev eryone who curses his fath er or his moth er shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his fath er or his moth er. His blood shall be upon him.

nkjv@Leviticus:20:10 @ "The man who commits adult ery with anoth er man's wife, he who commits adult ery with his neighbor's wife, the adult er er and the adult eress, shall surely be put to death.

nkjv@Leviticus:20:11 @ The man who lies with his fath er's wife has uncov ered his fath er's nakedness; both of them shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.

nkjv@Leviticus:20:12 @ If a man lies with his daught er-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death. They have committed p erv ersion. Their blood shall be upon them.

nkjv@Leviticus:20:14 @ If a man marries a woman and h er moth er, it is wickedness. They shall be burned with fire, both he and they, that th ere may be no wickedness among you.

nkjv@Leviticus:20:17 @ "If a man takes his sist er, his fath er's daught er or his moth er's daught er, and sees h er nakedness and she sees his nakedness, it is a wicked thing. And they shall be cut off in the sight of their people. He has uncov ered his sist er's nakedness. He shall bear his guilt.

nkjv@Leviticus:20:18 @ If a man lies with a woman during h er sickness and uncov ers h er nakedness, he has exposed h er flow, and she has uncov ered the flow of h er blood. Both of them shall be cut off from their people.

nkjv@Leviticus:20:19 @ "You shall not uncov er the nakedness of your moth er's sist er nor of your fath er's sist er, for that would uncov er his near of kin. They shall bear their guilt.

nkjv@Leviticus:20:20 @ If a man lies with his uncle's wife, he has uncov ered his uncle's nakedness. They shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.

nkjv@Leviticus:20:21 @ If a man takes his broth er's wife, it is an unclean thing. He has uncov ered his broth er's nakedness. They shall be childless.

nkjv@Leviticus:20:22 @ "You shall th erefore keep all My statutes and all My judgments, and p erform them, that the land wh ere I am bringing you to dwell may not vomit you out.

nkjv@Leviticus:20:23 @ And you shall not walk in the statutes of the nation which I am casting out before you; for they commit all these things, and th erefore I abhor them.

nkjv@Leviticus:20:24 @ But I have said to you, "You shall inh erit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey." I am the LORD your God, who has separated you from the peoples.

nkjv@Leviticus:20:25 @ You shall th erefore distinguish between clean animals and unclean, between unclean birds and clean, and you shall not make yourselves abominable by beast or by bird, or by any kind of living thing that creeps on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.

nkjv@Leviticus:21:2 @ except for his relatives who are nearest to him: his moth er, his fath er, his son, his daught er, and his broth er;

nkjv@Leviticus:21:3 @ also his virgin sist er who is near to him, who has had no husband, for h er he may defile himself.

nkjv@Leviticus:21:4 @ Oth erwise he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.

nkjv@Leviticus:21:6 @ They shall be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God, for they off er the off erings of the LORD made by fire, and the bread of their God; th erefore they shall be holy.

nkjv@Leviticus:21:7 @ They shall not take a wife who is a harlot or a defiled woman, nor shall they take a woman divorced from h er husband; for the priest is holy to his God.

nkjv@Leviticus:21:8 @ Th erefore you shall consecrate him, for he off ers the bread of your God. He shall be holy to you, for I the LORD, who sanctify you, am holy.

nkjv@Leviticus:21:9 @ The daught er of any priest, if she profanes h erself by playing the harlot, she profanes h er fath er. She shall be burned with fire.

nkjv@Leviticus:21:10 @ "He who is the high priest among his brethren, on whose head the anointing oil was poured and who is consecrated to wear the garments, shall not uncov er his head nor tear his clothes;

nkjv@Leviticus:21:11 @ nor shall he go near any dead body, nor defile himself for his fath er or his moth er;

nkjv@Leviticus:21:13 @ And he shall take a wife in h er virginity.

nkjv@Leviticus:21:15 @ Nor shall he profane his post erity among his people, for I the LORD sanctify him."'

nkjv@Leviticus:21:17 @ "Speak to Aaron, saying: "No man of your descendants in succeeding gen erations, who has any defect, may approach to off er the bread of his God.

nkjv@Leviticus:21:21 @ No man of the descendants of Aaron the priest, who has a defect, shall come near to off er the off erings made by fire to the LORD. He has a defect; he shall not come near to off er the bread of his God.

nkjv@Leviticus:22:3 @ Say to them: "Whoev er of all your descendants throughout your gen erations, who goes near the holy things which the children of Israel dedicate to the LORD, while he has uncleanness upon him, that p erson shall be cut off from My presence: I am the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:22:4 @ "Whatev er man of the descendants of Aaron, who is a lep er or has a discharge, shall not eat the holy off erings until he is clean. And whoev er touches anything made unclean by a corpse, or a man who has had an emission of semen,

nkjv@Leviticus:22:5 @ or whoev er touches any creeping thing by which he would be made unclean, or any p erson by whom he would become unclean, whatev er his uncleanness may be--

nkjv@Leviticus:22:6 @ the p erson who has touched any such thing shall be unclean until evening, and shall not eat the holy off erings unless he washes his body with wat er.

nkjv@Leviticus:22:7 @ And when the sun goes down he shall be clean; and aft erward he may eat the holy off erings, because it is his food.

nkjv@Leviticus:22:8 @ Whatev er dies naturally or is torn by beasts he shall not eat, to defile himself with it: I am the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:22:9 @ "They shall th erefore keep My ordinance, lest they bear sin for it and die th ereby, if they profane it: I the LORD sanctify them.

nkjv@Leviticus:22:10 @ "No outsid er shall eat the holy off ering; one who dwells with the priest, or a hired s ervant, shall not eat the holy thing.

nkjv@Leviticus:22:11 @ But if the priest buys a p erson with his money, he may eat it; and one who is born in his house may eat his food.

nkjv@Leviticus:22:12 @ If the priest's daught er is married to an outsid er, she may not eat of the holy off erings.

nkjv@Leviticus:22:13 @ But if the priest's daught er is a widow or divorced, and has no child, and has returned to h er fath er's house as in h er youth, she may eat h er fath er's food; but no outsid er shall eat it.

nkjv@Leviticus:22:14 @ "And if a man eats the holy off ering unintentionally, then he shall restore a holy off ering to the priest, and add one-fifth to it.

nkjv@Leviticus:22:15 @ They shall not profane the holy off erings of the children of Israel, which they off er to the LORD,

nkjv@Leviticus:22:16 @ or allow them to bear the guilt of trespass when they eat their holy off erings; for I the LORD sanctify them."'

nkjv@Leviticus:22:18 @ "Speak to Aaron and his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them: "Whatev er man of the house of Israel, or of the strang ers in Israel, who off ers his sacrifice for any of his vows or for any of his freewill off erings, which they off er to the LORD as a burnt off ering--

nkjv@Leviticus:22:19 @ you shall off er of your own free will a male without blemish from the cattle, from the sheep, or from the goats.

nkjv@Leviticus:22:20 @ Whatev er has a defect, you shall not off er, for it shall not be acceptable on your behalf.

nkjv@Leviticus:22:21 @ And whoev er off ers a sacrifice of a peace off ering to the LORD, to fulfill his vow, or a freewill off ering from the cattle or the sheep, it must be p erfect to be accepted; th ere shall be no defect in it.

nkjv@Leviticus:22:22 @ Those that are blind or broken or maimed, or have an ulc er or eczema or scabs, you shall not off er to the LORD, nor make an off ering by fire of them on the altar to the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:22:23 @ Eith er a bull or a lamb that has any limb too long or too short you may off er as a freewill off ering, but for a vow it shall not be accepted.

nkjv@Leviticus:22:24 @ "You shall not off er to the LORD what is bruised or crushed, or torn or cut; nor shall you make any off ering of them in your land.

nkjv@Leviticus:22:25 @ Nor from a foreign er's hand shall you off er any of these as the bread of your God, because their corruption is in them, and defects are in them. They shall not be accepted on your behalf."'

nkjv@Leviticus:22:27 @ "When a bull or a sheep or a goat is born, it shall be seven days with its moth er; and from the eighth day and th ereaft er it shall be accepted as an off ering made by fire to the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:22:28 @ Wheth er it is a cow or ewe, do not kill both h er and h er young on the same day.

nkjv@Leviticus:22:29 @ And when you off er a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the LORD, off er it of your own free will.

nkjv@Leviticus:22:31 @ "Th erefore you shall keep My commandments, and p erform them: I am the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:23:5 @ On the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight is the LORD's Passov er.

nkjv@Leviticus:23:8 @ But you shall off er an off ering made by fire to the LORD for seven days. The seventh day shall be a holy convocation; you shall do no customary work on it."'

nkjv@Leviticus:23:11 @ He shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted on your behalf; on the day aft er the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.

nkjv@Leviticus:23:12 @ And you shall off er on that day, when you wave the sheaf, a male lamb of the first year, without blemish, as a burnt off ering to the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:23:13 @ Its grain off ering shall be two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, an off ering made by fire to the LORD, for a sweet aroma; and its drink off ering shall be of wine, one-fourth of a hin.

nkjv@Leviticus:23:14 @ You shall eat neith er bread nor parched grain nor fresh grain until the same day that you have brought an off ering to your God; it shall be a statute forev er throughout your gen erations in all your dwellings.

nkjv@Leviticus:23:15 @ "And you shall count for yourselves from the day aft er the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave off ering: seven Sabbaths shall be completed.

nkjv@Leviticus:23:16 @ Count fifty days to the day aft er the seventh Sabbath; then you shall off er a new grain off ering to the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:23:18 @ And you shall off er with the bread seven lambs of the first year, without blemish, one young bull, and two rams. They shall be as a burnt off ering to the LORD, with their grain off ering and their drink off erings, an off ering made by fire for a sweet aroma to the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:23:19 @ Then you shall sacrifice one kid of the goats as a sin off ering, and two male lambs of the first year as a sacrifice of a peace off ering.

nkjv@Leviticus:23:20 @ The priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits as a wave off ering before the LORD, with the two lambs. They shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.

nkjv@Leviticus:23:21 @ And you shall proclaim on the same day that it is a holy convocation to you. You shall do no customary work on it. It shall be a statute forev er in all your dwellings throughout your gen erations.

nkjv@Leviticus:23:22 @ "When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corn ers of your field when you reap, nor shall you gath er any gleaning from your harvest. You shall leave them for the poor and for the strang er: I am the LORD your God."'

nkjv@Leviticus:23:25 @ You shall do no customary work on it; and you shall off er an off ering made by fire to the LORD."'

nkjv@Leviticus:23:27 @ "Also the tenth day of this seventh month shall be the Day of Atonement. It shall be a holy convocation for you; you shall afflict your souls, and off er an off ering made by fire to the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:23:29 @ For any p erson who is not afflicted in soul on that same day shall be cut off from his people.

nkjv@Leviticus:23:30 @ And any p erson who does any work on that same day, that p erson I will destroy from among his people.

nkjv@Leviticus:23:31 @ You shall do no mann er of work; it shall be a statute forev er throughout your gen erations in all your dwellings.

nkjv@Leviticus:23:34 @ "Speak to the children of Israel, saying: "The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the Feast of Tab ernacles for seven days to the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:23:35 @ On the first day th ere shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work on it.

nkjv@Leviticus:23:36 @ For seven days you shall off er an off ering made by fire to the LORD. On the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall off er an off ering made by fire to the LORD. It is a sacred assembly, and you shall do no customary work on it.

nkjv@Leviticus:23:37 @ "These are the feasts of the LORD which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to off er an off ering made by fire to the LORD, a burnt off ering and a grain off ering, a sacrifice and drink off erings, ev erything on its day--

nkjv@Leviticus:23:38 @ besides the Sabbaths of the LORD, besides your gifts, besides all your vows, and besides all your freewill off erings which you give to the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:23:39 @ "Also on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gath ered in the fruit of the land, you shall keep the feast of the LORD for seven days; on the first day th ere shall be a sabbath-rest, and on the eighth day a sabbath-rest.

nkjv@Leviticus:23:41 @ You shall keep it as a feast to the LORD for seven days in the year. It shall be a statute forev er in your gen erations. You shall celebrate it in the seventh month.

nkjv@Leviticus:23:43 @ that your gen erations may know that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God."'

nkjv@Leviticus:24:3 @ Outside the veil of the Testimony, in the tab ernacle of meeting, Aaron shall be in charge of it from evening until morning before the LORD continually; it shall be a statute forev er in your gen erations.

nkjv@Leviticus:24:7 @ And you shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, an off ering made by fire to the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:24:8 @ Ev ery Sabbath he shall set it in ord er before the LORD continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an ev erlasting covenant.

nkjv@Leviticus:24:9 @ And it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy to him from the off erings of the LORD made by fire, by a p erpetual statute."

nkjv@Leviticus:24:10 @ Now the son of an Israelite woman, whose fath er was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and this Israelite woman's son and a man of Israel fought each oth er in the camp.

nkjv@Leviticus:24:11 @ And the Israelite woman's son blasphemed the name of the LORD and cursed; and so they brought him to Moses. (His moth er's name was Shelomith the daught er of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)

nkjv@Leviticus:24:15 @ "Then you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying: "Whoev er curses his God shall bear his sin.

nkjv@Leviticus:24:16 @ And whoev er blasphemes the name of the LORD shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall c ertainly stone him, the strang er as well as him who is born in the land. When he blasphemes the name of the LORD, he shall be put to death.

nkjv@Leviticus:24:17 @ "Whoev er kills any man shall surely be put to death.

nkjv@Leviticus:24:18 @ Whoev er kills an animal shall make it good, animal for animal.

nkjv@Leviticus:24:21 @ And whoev er kills an animal shall restore it; but whoev er kills a man shall be put to death.

nkjv@Leviticus:24:22 @ You shall have the same law for the strang er and for one from your own country; for I am the LORD your God."'

nkjv@Leviticus:25:3 @ Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gath er its fruit;

nkjv@Leviticus:25:4 @ but in the seventh year th ere shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath to the LORD. You shall neith er sow your field nor prune your vineyard.

nkjv@Leviticus:25:5 @ What grows of its own accord of your harvest you shall not reap, nor gath er the grapes of your untended vine, for it is a year of rest for the land.

nkjv@Leviticus:25:6 @ And the sabbath produce of the land shall be food for you: for you, your male and female s ervants, your hired man, and the strang er who dwells with you,

nkjv@Leviticus:25:10 @ And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim lib erty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you; and each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you shall return to his family.

nkjv@Leviticus:25:11 @ That fiftieth year shall be a Jubilee to you; in it you shall neith er sow nor reap what grows of its own accord, nor gath er the grapes of your untended vine.

nkjv@Leviticus:25:14 @ And if you sell anything to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor's hand, you shall not oppress one anoth er.

nkjv@Leviticus:25:15 @ According to the numb er of years aft er the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor, and according to the numb er of years of crops he shall sell to you.

nkjv@Leviticus:25:16 @ According to the multitude of years you shall increase its price, and according to the few er numb er of years you shall diminish its price; for he sells to you according to the numb er of the years of the crops.

nkjv@Leviticus:25:17 @ Th erefore you shall not oppress one anoth er, but you shall fear your God; for I am the LORD your God.

nkjv@Leviticus:25:18 @ "So you shall obs erve My statutes and keep My judgments, and p erform them; and you will dwell in the land in safety.

nkjv@Leviticus:25:19 @ Then the land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill, and dwell th ere in safety.

nkjv@Leviticus:25:20 @ "And if you say, "What shall we eat in the seventh year, since we shall not sow nor gath er in our produce?"

nkjv@Leviticus:25:23 @ "The land shall not be sold p ermanently, for the land is Mine; for you are strang ers and sojourn ers with Me.

nkjv@Leviticus:25:25 @ "If one of your brethren becomes poor, and has sold some of his possession, and if his redeeming relative comes to redeem it, then he may redeem what his broth er sold.

nkjv@Leviticus:25:27 @ then let him count the years since its sale, and restore the remaind er to the man to whom he sold it, that he may return to his possession.

nkjv@Leviticus:25:29 @ "If a man sells a house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year aft er it is sold; within a full year he may redeem it.

nkjv@Leviticus:25:30 @ But if it is not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house in the walled city shall belong p ermanently to him who bought it, throughout his gen erations. It shall not be released in the Jubilee.

nkjv@Leviticus:25:31 @ Howev er the houses of villages which have no wall around them shall be counted as the fields of the country. They may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.

nkjv@Leviticus:25:32 @ Nev ertheless the cities of the Levites, and the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites may redeem at any time.

nkjv@Leviticus:25:34 @ But the field of the common-land of their cities may not be sold, for it is their p erpetual possession.

nkjv@Leviticus:25:35 @ "If one of your brethren becomes poor, and falls into pov erty among you, then you shall help him, like a strang er or a sojourn er, that he may live with you.

nkjv@Leviticus:25:36 @ Take no usury or int erest from him; but fear your God, that your broth er may live with you.

nkjv@Leviticus:25:39 @ "And if one of your brethren who dwells by you becomes poor, and sells himself to you, you shall not compel him to s erve as a slave.

nkjv@Leviticus:25:40 @ As a hired s ervant and a sojourn er he shall be with you, and shall s erve you until the Year of Jubilee.

nkjv@Leviticus:25:41 @ And then he shall depart from you--he and his children with him--and shall return to his own family. He shall return to the possession of his fath ers.

nkjv@Leviticus:25:42 @ For they are My s ervants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves.

nkjv@Leviticus:25:43 @ You shall not rule ov er him with rigor, but you shall fear your God.

nkjv@Leviticus:25:45 @ Moreov er you may buy the children of the strang ers who dwell among you, and their families who are with you, which they beget in your land; and they shall become your prop erty.

nkjv@Leviticus:25:46 @ And you may take them as an inh eritance for your children aft er you, to inh erit them as a possession; they shall be your p ermanent slaves. But regarding your brethren, the children of Israel, you shall not rule ov er one anoth er with rigor.

nkjv@Leviticus:25:47 @ "Now if a sojourn er or strang er close to you becomes rich, and one of your brethren who dwells by him becomes poor, and sells himself to the strang er or sojourn er close to you, or to a memb er of the strang er's family,

nkjv@Leviticus:25:48 @ aft er he is sold he may be redeemed again. One of his broth ers may redeem him;

nkjv@Leviticus:25:50 @ Thus he shall reckon with him who bought him: The price of his release shall be according to the numb er of years, from the year that he was sold to him until the Year of Jubilee; it shall be according to the time of a hired s ervant for him.

nkjv@Leviticus:25:51 @ If th ere are still many years remaining, according to them he shall repay the price of his redemption from the money with which he was bought.

nkjv@Leviticus:25:52 @ And if th ere remain but a few years until the Year of Jubilee, then he shall reckon with him, and according to his years he shall repay him the price of his redemption.

nkjv@Leviticus:25:53 @ He shall be with him as a yearly hired s ervant, and he shall not rule with rigor ov er him in your sight.

nkjv@Leviticus:25:55 @ For the children of Israel are s ervants to Me; they are My s ervants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

nkjv@Leviticus:26:1 @ "You shall not make idols for yourselves; neith er a carved image nor a sacred pillar shall you rear up for yourselves; nor shall you set up an engraved stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am the LORD your God.

nkjv@Leviticus:26:2 @ You shall keep My Sabbaths and rev erence My sanctuary: I am the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:26:3 @ "If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments, and p erform them,

nkjv@Leviticus:26:11 @ I will set My tab ernacle among you, and My soul shall not abhor you.

nkjv@Leviticus:26:14 @ "But if you do not obey Me, and do not obs erve all these commandments,

nkjv@Leviticus:26:15 @ and if you despise My statutes, or if your soul abhors My judgments, so that you do not p erform all My commandments, but break My covenant,

nkjv@Leviticus:26:16 @ I also will do this to you: I will even appoint t error ov er you, wasting disease and fev er which shall consume the eyes and cause sorrow of heart. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

nkjv@Leviticus:26:17 @ I will set My face against you, and you shall be defeated by your enemies. 1 Those who hate you shall reign ov er you, and you shall flee when no one pursues you.

nkjv@Leviticus:26:18 @ "And aft er all this, if you do not obey Me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.

nkjv@Leviticus:26:19 @ I will break the pride of your pow er; I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.

nkjv@Leviticus:26:22 @ I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in numb er; and your highways shall be desolate.

nkjv@Leviticus:26:25 @ And I will bring a sword against you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant; when you are gath ered togeth er within your cities I will send pestilence among you; and you shall be deliv ered into the hand of the enemy.

nkjv@Leviticus:26:27 @ "And aft er all this, if you do not obey Me, but walk contrary to Me,

nkjv@Leviticus:26:29 @ You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daught ers.

nkjv@Leviticus:26:33 @ I will scatt er you among the nations and draw out a sword aft er you; your land shall be desolate and your cities waste.

nkjv@Leviticus:26:37 @ They shall stumble ov er one anoth er, as it w ere before a sword, when no one pursues; and you shall have no pow er to stand before your enemies.

nkjv@Leviticus:26:38 @ You shall p erish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

nkjv@Leviticus:26:39 @ And those of you who are left shall waste away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; also in their fath ers' iniquities, which are with them, they shall waste away.

nkjv@Leviticus:26:40 @ "But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fath ers, with their unfaithfulness in which they w ere unfaithful to Me, and that they also have walked contrary to Me,

nkjv@Leviticus:26:42 @ then I will rememb er My covenant with Jacob, and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham I will rememb er; I will rememb er the land.

nkjv@Leviticus:26:44 @ Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, nor shall I abhor them, to utt erly destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God.

nkjv@Leviticus:26:45 @ But for their sake I will rememb er the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the LORD."'

nkjv@Leviticus:27:2 @ "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: "When a man consecrates by a vow c ertain p ersons to the LORD, according to your valuation,

nkjv@Leviticus:27:3 @ if your valuation is of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old, then your valuation shall be fifty shekels of silv er, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.

nkjv@Leviticus:27:6 @ and if from a month old up to five years old, then your valuation for a male shall be five shekels of silv er, and for a female your valuation shall be three shekels of silv er;

nkjv@Leviticus:27:9 @ "If it is an animal that men may bring as an off ering to the LORD, all that anyone gives to the LORD shall be holy.

nkjv@Leviticus:27:11 @ If it is an unclean animal which they do not off er as a sacrifice to the LORD, then he shall present the animal before the priest;

nkjv@Leviticus:27:12 @ and the priest shall set a value for it, wheth er it is good or bad; as you, the priest, value it, so it shall be.

nkjv@Leviticus:27:14 @ "And when a man dedicates his house to be holy to the LORD, then the priest shall set a value for it, wheth er it is good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand.

nkjv@Leviticus:27:16 @ "If a man dedicates to the LORD part of a field of his possession, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it. A hom er of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silv er.

nkjv@Leviticus:27:18 @ But if he dedicates his field aft er the Jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the money due according to the years that remain till the Year of Jubilee, and it shall be deducted from your valuation.

nkjv@Leviticus:27:19 @ And if he who dedicates the field ev er wishes to redeem it, then he must add one-fifth of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall belong to him.

nkjv@Leviticus:27:20 @ But if he does not want to redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to anoth er man, it shall not be redeemed anymore;

nkjv@Leviticus:27:23 @ then the priest shall reckon to him the worth of your valuation, up to the Year of Jubilee, and he shall give your valuation on that day as a holy off ering to the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:27:25 @ And all your valuations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty g erahs to the shekel.

nkjv@Leviticus:27:26 @ "But the firstborn of the animals, which should be the LORD's firstborn, no man shall dedicate; wheth er it is an ox or sheep, it is the LORD's.

nkjv@Leviticus:27:28 @ "Nev ertheless no devoted off ering that a man may devote to the LORD of all that he has, both man and beast, or the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed; ev ery devoted off ering is most holy to the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:27:29 @ No p erson und er the ban, who may become doomed to destruction among men, shall be redeemed, but shall surely be put to death.

nkjv@Leviticus:27:30 @ And all the tithe of the land, wheth er of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD's. It is holy to the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:27:32 @ And conc erning the tithe of the h erd or the flock, of whatev er passes und er the rod, the tenth one shall be holy to the LORD.

nkjv@Leviticus:27:33 @ He shall not inquire wheth er it is good or bad, nor shall he exchange it; and if he exchanges it at all, then both it and the one exchanged for it shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed."'

nkjv@Numb ers:1:1 @ Now the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wild erness of Sinai, in the tab ernacle of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year aft er they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying:

nkjv@Numb ers:1:2 @ "Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fath ers' houses, according to the numb er of names, ev ery male individually,

nkjv@Numb ers:1:3 @ from twenty years old and above--all who are able to go to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall numb er them by their armies.

nkjv@Numb ers:1:4 @ And with you th ere shall be a man from ev ery tribe, each one the head of his fath er's house.

nkjv@Numb ers:1:5 @ "These are the names of the men who shall stand with you: from Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur;

nkjv@Numb ers:1:6 @ from Simeon, Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai;

nkjv@Numb ers:1:7 @ from Judah, Nahshon the son of Amminadab;

nkjv@Numb ers:1:8 @ from Issachar, Nethanel the son of Zuar;

nkjv@Numb ers:1:9 @ from Zebulun, Eliab the son of Helon;

nkjv@Numb ers:1:10 @ from the sons of Joseph: from Ephraim, Elishama the son of Ammihud; from Manasseh, Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur;

nkjv@Numb ers:1:11 @ from Benjamin, Abidan the son of Gideoni;

nkjv@Numb ers:1:12 @ from Dan, Ahiez er the son of Ammishaddai;

nkjv@Numb ers:1:13 @ from Ash er, Pagiel the son of Ocran;

nkjv@Numb ers:1:14 @ from Gad, Eliasaph the son of Deuel;

nkjv@Numb ers:1:15 @ from Naphtali, Ahira the son of Enan."

nkjv@Numb ers:1:16 @ These w ere chosen from the congregation, lead ers of their fath ers' tribes, heads of the divisions in Israel.

nkjv@Numb ers:1:17 @ Then Moses and Aaron took these men who had been mentioned by name,

nkjv@Numb ers:1:18 @ and they assembled all the congregation togeth er on the first day of the second month; and they recited their ancestry by families, by their fath ers' houses, according to the numb er of names, from twenty years old and above, each one individually.

nkjv@Numb ers:1:19 @ As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numb ered them in the Wild erness of Sinai.

nkjv@Numb ers:1:20 @ Now the children of Reuben, Israel's oldest son, their genealogies by their families, by their fath ers' house, according to the numb er of names, ev ery male individually, from twenty years old and above, all who w ere able to go to war:

nkjv@Numb ers:1:21 @ those who w ere numb ered of the tribe of Reuben w ere forty-six thousand five hundred.

nkjv@Numb ers:1:22 @ From the children of Simeon, their genealogies by their families, by their fath ers' house, of those who w ere numb ered, according to the numb er of names, ev ery male individually, from twenty years old and above, all who w ere able to go to war:

nkjv@Numb ers:1:23 @ those who w ere numb ered of the tribe of Simeon w ere fifty-nine thousand three hundred.

nkjv@Numb ers:1:24 @ From the children of Gad, their genealogies by their families, by their fath ers' house, according to the numb er of names, from twenty years old and above, all who w ere able to go to war:

nkjv@Numb ers:1:25 @ those who w ere numb ered of the tribe of Gad w ere forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty.

nkjv@Numb ers:1:26 @ From the children of Judah, their genealogies by their families, by their fath ers' house, according to the numb er of names, from twenty years old and above, all who w ere able to go to war:

nkjv@Numb ers:1:27 @ those who w ere numb ered of the tribe of Judah w ere seventy-four thousand six hundred.

nkjv@Numb ers:1:28 @ From the children of Issachar, their genealogies by their families, by their fath ers' house, according to the numb er of names, from twenty years old and above, all who w ere able to go to war:

nkjv@Numb ers:1:29 @ those who w ere numb ered of the tribe of Issachar w ere fifty-four thousand four hundred.

nkjv@Numb ers:1:30 @ From the children of Zebulun, their genealogies by their families, by their fath ers' house, according to the numb er of names, from twenty years old and above, all who w ere able to go to war:

nkjv@Numb ers:1:31 @ those who w ere numb ered of the tribe of Zebulun w ere fifty-seven thousand four hundred.

nkjv@Numb ers:1:32 @ From the sons of Joseph, the children of Ephraim, their genealogies by their families, by their fath ers' house, according to the numb er of names, from twenty years old and above, all who w ere able to go to war:

nkjv@Numb ers:1:33 @ those who w ere numb ered of the tribe of Ephraim w ere forty thousand five hundred.

nkjv@Numb ers:1:34 @ From the children of Manasseh, their genealogies by their families, by their fath ers' house, according to the numb er of names, from twenty years old and above, all who w ere able to go to war:

nkjv@Numb ers:1:35 @ those who w ere numb ered of the tribe of Manasseh w ere thirty-two thousand two hundred.

nkjv@Numb ers:1:36 @ From the children of Benjamin, their genealogies by their families, by their fath ers' house, according to the numb er of names, from twenty years old and above, all who w ere able to go to war:

nkjv@Numb ers:1:37 @ those who w ere numb ered of the tribe of Benjamin w ere thirty-five thousand four hundred.

nkjv@Numb ers:1:38 @ From the children of Dan, their genealogies by their families, by their fath ers' house, according to the numb er of names, from twenty years old and above, all who w ere able to go to war:

nkjv@Numb ers:1:39 @ those who w ere numb ered of the tribe of Dan w ere sixty-two thousand seven hundred.

nkjv@Numb ers:1:40 @ From the children of Ash er, their genealogies by their families, by their fath ers' house, according to the numb er of names, from twenty years old and above, all who w ere able to go to war:

nkjv@Numb ers:1:41 @ those who w ere numb ered of the tribe of Ash er w ere forty-one thousand five hundred.

nkjv@Numb ers:1:42 @ From the children of Naphtali, their genealogies by their families, by their fath ers' house, according to the numb er of names, from twenty years old and above, all who w ere able to go to war:

nkjv@Numb ers:1:43 @ those who w ere numb ered of the tribe of Naphtali w ere fifty-three thousand four hundred.

nkjv@Numb ers:1:44 @ These are the ones who w ere numb ered, whom Moses and Aaron numb ered, with the lead ers of Israel, twelve men, each one representing his fath er's house.

nkjv@Numb ers:1:45 @ So all who w ere numb ered of the children of Israel, by their fath ers' houses, from twenty years old and above, all who w ere able to go to war in Israel--

nkjv@Numb ers:1:46 @ all who w ere numb ered w ere six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.

nkjv@Numb ers:1:47 @ But the Levites w ere not numb ered among them by their fath ers' tribe;

nkjv@Numb ers:1:48 @ for the LORD had spoken to Moses, saying:

nkjv@Numb ers:1:49 @ "Only the tribe of Levi you shall not numb er, nor take a census of them among the children of Israel;

nkjv@Numb ers:1:50 @ but you shall appoint the Levites ov er the tab ernacle of the Testimony, ov er all its furnishings, and ov er all things that belong to it; they shall carry the tab ernacle and all its furnishings; they shall attend to it and camp around the tab ernacle.

nkjv@Numb ers:1:51 @ And when the tab ernacle is to go forward, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tab ernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall set it up. The outsid er who comes near shall be put to death.

nkjv@Numb ers:1:52 @ The children of Israel shall pitch their tents, ev eryone by his own camp, ev eryone by his own standard, according to their armies;

nkjv@Numb ers:1:53 @ but the Levites shall camp around the tab ernacle of the Testimony, that th ere may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel; and the Levites shall keep charge of the tab ernacle of the Testimony."

nkjv@Numb ers:1:54 @ Thus the children of Israel did; according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so they did.

nkjv@Numb ers:2:1 @ And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:

nkjv@Numb ers:2:2 @ "Ev eryone of the children of Israel shall camp by his own standard, beside the emblems of his fath er's house; they shall camp some distance from the tab ernacle of meeting.

nkjv@Numb ers:2:3 @ On the east side, toward the rising of the sun, those of the standard of the forces with Judah shall camp according to their armies; and Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be the lead er of the children of Judah."

nkjv@Numb ers:2:4 @ And his army was numb ered at seventy-four thousand six hundred.

nkjv@Numb ers:2:5 @ "Those who camp next to him shall be the tribe of Issachar, and Nethanel the son of Zuar shall be the lead er of the children of Issachar."

nkjv@Numb ers:2:6 @ And his army was numb ered at fifty-four thousand four hundred.

nkjv@Numb ers:2:7 @ "Then comes the tribe of Zebulun, and Eliab the son of Helon shall be the lead er of the children of Zebulun."

nkjv@Numb ers:2:8 @ And his army was numb ered at fifty-seven thousand four hundred.

nkjv@Numb ers:2:9 @ "All who w ere numb ered according to their armies of the forces with Judah, one hundred and eighty-six thousand four hundred--these shall break camp first.

nkjv@Numb ers:2:10 @ "On the south side shall be the standard of the forces with Reuben according to their armies, and the lead er of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur."

nkjv@Numb ers:2:11 @ And his army was numb ered at forty-six thousand five hundred.

nkjv@Numb ers:2:12 @ "Those who camp next to him shall be the tribe of Simeon, and the lead er of the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai."

nkjv@Numb ers:2:13 @ And his army was numb ered at fifty-nine thousand three hundred.

nkjv@Numb ers:2:14 @ "Then comes the tribe of Gad, and the lead er of the children of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel."

nkjv@Numb ers:2:15 @ And his army was numb ered at forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty.

nkjv@Numb ers:2:16 @ "All who w ere numb ered according to their armies of the forces with Reuben, one hundred and fifty-one thousand four hundred and fifty--they shall be the second to break camp.

nkjv@Numb ers:2:17 @ "And the tab ernacle of meeting shall move out with the camp of the Levites in the middle of the camps; as they camp, so they shall move out, ev eryone in his place, by their standards.

nkjv@Numb ers:2:18 @ "On the west side shall be the standard of the forces with Ephraim according to their armies, and the lead er of the children of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud."

nkjv@Numb ers:2:19 @ And his army was numb ered at forty thousand five hundred.

nkjv@Numb ers:2:20 @ "Next to him comes the tribe of Manasseh, and the lead er of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur."

nkjv@Numb ers:2:21 @ And his army was numb ered at thirty-two thousand two hundred.

nkjv@Numb ers:2:22 @ "Then comes the tribe of Benjamin, and the lead er of the children of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni."

nkjv@Numb ers:2:23 @ And his army was numb ered at thirty-five thousand four hundred.

nkjv@Numb ers:2:24 @ "All who w ere numb ered according to their armies of the forces with Ephraim, one hundred and eight thousand one hundred--they shall be the third to break camp.

nkjv@Numb ers:2:25 @ "The standard of the forces with Dan shall be on the north side according to their armies, and the lead er of the children of Dan shall be Ahiez er the son of Ammishaddai."

nkjv@Numb ers:2:26 @ And his army was numb ered at sixty-two thousand seven hundred.

nkjv@Numb ers:2:27 @ "Those who camp next to him shall be the tribe of Ash er, and the lead er of the children of Ash er shall be Pagiel the son of Ocran."

nkjv@Numb ers:2:28 @ And his army was numb ered at forty-one thousand five hundred.

nkjv@Numb ers:2:29 @ "Then comes the tribe of Naphtali, and the lead er of the children of Naphtali shall be Ahira the son of Enan."

nkjv@Numb ers:2:30 @ And his army was numb ered at fifty-three thousand four hundred.

nkjv@Numb ers:2:31 @ "All who w ere numb ered of the forces with Dan, one hundred and fifty-seven thousand six hundred--they shall break camp last, with their standards."

nkjv@Numb ers:2:32 @ These are the ones who w ere numb ered of the children of Israel by their fath ers' houses. All who w ere numb ered according to their armies of the forces w ere six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.

nkjv@Numb ers:2:33 @ But the Levites w ere not numb ered among the children of Israel, just as the LORD commanded Moses.

nkjv@Numb ers:2:34 @ Thus the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses; so they camped by their standards and so they broke camp, each one by his family, according to their fath ers' houses.

nkjv@Numb ers:3:1 @ Now these are the records of Aaron and Moses when the LORD spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.

nkjv@Numb ers:3:2 @ And these are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab, the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

nkjv@Numb ers:3:3 @ These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, whom he consecrated to minist er as priests.

nkjv@Numb ers:3:4 @ Nadab and Abihu had died before the LORD when they off ered profane fire before the LORD in the Wild erness of Sinai; and they had no children. So Eleazar and Ithamar minist ered as priests in the presence of Aaron their fath er.

nkjv@Numb ers:3:5 @ And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

nkjv@Numb ers:3:6 @ "Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may s erve him.

nkjv@Numb ers:3:7 @ And they shall attend to his needs and the needs of the whole congregation before the tab ernacle of meeting, to do the work of the tab ernacle.

nkjv@Numb ers:3:8 @ Also they shall attend to all the furnishings of the tab ernacle of meeting, and to the needs of the children of Israel, to do the work of the tab ernacle.

nkjv@Numb ers:3:9 @ And you shall give the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they are given entirely to him from among the children of Israel.

nkjv@Numb ers:3:10 @ So you shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall attend to their priesthood; but the outsid er who comes near shall be put to death."

nkjv@Numb ers:3:11 @ Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

nkjv@Numb ers:3:12 @ "Now behold, I Myself have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of ev ery firstborn who opens the womb among the children of Israel. Th erefore the Levites shall be Mine,

nkjv@Numb ers:3:13 @ because all the firstborn are Mine. On the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified to Myself all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast. They shall be Mine: I am the LORD."

nkjv@Numb ers:3:14 @ Then the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wild erness of Sinai, saying:

nkjv@Numb ers:3:15 @ "Numb er the children of Levi by their fath ers' houses, by their families; you shall numb er ev ery male from a month old and above."

nkjv@Numb ers:3:16 @ So Moses numb ered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded.

nkjv@Numb ers:3:17 @ These w ere the sons of Levi by their names: G ershon, Kohath, and M erari.

nkjv@Numb ers:3:18 @ And these are the names of the sons of G ershon by their families: Libni and Shimei.

nkjv@Numb ers:3:19 @ And the sons of Kohath by their families: Amram, Izehar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

nkjv@Numb ers:3:20 @ And the sons of M erari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites by their fath ers' houses.

nkjv@Numb ers:3:21 @ From G ershon came the family of the Libnites and the family of the Shimites; these w ere the families of the G ershonites.

nkjv@Numb ers:3:22 @ Those who w ere numb ered, according to the numb er of all the males from a month old and above--of those who w ere numb ered th ere w ere seven thousand five hundred.

nkjv@Numb ers:3:23 @ The families of the G ershonites w ere to camp behind the tab ernacle westward.

nkjv@Numb ers:3:24 @ And the lead er of the fath er's house of the G ershonites was Eliasaph the son of Lael.

nkjv@Numb ers:3:25 @ The duties of the children of G ershon in the tab ernacle of meeting included the tab ernacle, the tent with its cov ering, the screen for the door of the tab ernacle of meeting,

nkjv@Numb ers:3:26 @ the screen for the door of the court, the hangings of the court which are around the tab ernacle and the altar, and their cords, according to all the work relating to them.

nkjv@Numb ers:3:27 @ From Kohath came the family of the Amramites, the family of the Izharites, the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites; these w ere the families of the Kohathites.

nkjv@Numb ers:3:28 @ According to the numb er of all the males, from a month old and above, th ere w ere eight thousand six hundred keeping charge of the sanctuary.

nkjv@Numb ers:3:29 @ The families of the children of Kohath w ere to camp on the south side of the tab ernacle.

nkjv@Numb ers:3:30 @ And the lead er of the fath ers' house of the families of the Kohathites was Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.

nkjv@Numb ers:3:31 @ Their duty included the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, the utensils of the sanctuary with which they minist ered, the screen, and all the work relating to them.

nkjv@Numb ers:3:32 @ And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest was to be chief ov er the lead ers of the Levites, with ov ersight of those who kept charge of the sanctuary.

nkjv@Numb ers:3:33 @ From M erari came the family of the Mahlites and the family of the Mushites; these w ere the families of M erari.

nkjv@Numb ers:3:34 @ And those who w ere numb ered, according to the numb er of all the males from a month old and above, w ere six thousand two hundred.

nkjv@Numb ers:3:35 @ The lead er of the fath ers' house of the families of M erari was Zuriel the son of Abihail. These w ere to camp on the north side of the tab ernacle.

nkjv@Numb ers:3:36 @ And the appointed duty of the children of M erari included the boards of the tab ernacle, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, its utensils, all the work relating to them,

nkjv@Numb ers:3:37 @ and the pillars of the court all around, with their sockets, their pegs, and their cords.

nkjv@Numb ers:3:38 @ Moreov er those who w ere to camp before the tab ernacle on the east, before the tab ernacle of meeting, w ere Moses, Aaron, and his sons, keeping charge of the sanctuary, to meet the needs of the children of Israel; but the outsid er who came near was to be put to death.

nkjv@Numb ers:3:39 @ All who w ere numb ered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numb ered at the commandment of the LORD, by their families, all the males from a month old and above, w ere twenty-two thousand.

nkjv@Numb ers:3:40 @ Then the LORD said to Moses: "Numb er all the firstborn males of the children of Israel from a month old and above, and take the numb er of their names.

nkjv@Numb ers:3:41 @ And you shall take the Levites for Me--I am the LORD--instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the livestock of the children of Israel."

nkjv@Numb ers:3:42 @ So Moses numb ered all the firstborn among the children of Israel, as the LORD commanded him.

nkjv@Numb ers:3:43 @ And all the firstborn males, according to the numb er of names from a month old and above, of those who w ere numb ered of them, w ere twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three.

nkjv@Numb ers:3:44 @ Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

nkjv@Numb ers:3:45 @ "Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock. The Levites shall be Mine: I am the LORD.

nkjv@Numb ers:3:46 @ And for the redemption of the two hundred and seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel, who are more than the numb er of the Levites,

nkjv@Numb ers:3:47 @ you shall take five shekels for each one individually; you shall take them in the currency of the shekel of the sanctuary, the shekel of twenty g erahs.

nkjv@Numb ers:3:48 @ And you shall give the money, with which the excess numb er of them is redeemed, to Aaron and his sons."

nkjv@Numb ers:3:49 @ So Moses took the redemption money from those who w ere ov er and above those who w ere redeemed by the Levites.

nkjv@Numb ers:3:50 @ From the firstborn of the children of Israel he took the money, one thousand three hundred and sixty-five shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.

nkjv@Numb ers:3:51 @ And Moses gave their redemption money to Aaron and his sons, according to the word of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.

nkjv@Numb ers:4:1 @ Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:

nkjv@Numb ers:4:2 @ "Take a census of the sons of Kohath from among the children of Levi, by their families, by their fath ers' house,

nkjv@Numb ers:4:3 @ from thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, all who ent er the s ervice to do the work in the tab ernacle of meeting.

nkjv@Numb ers:4:4 @ "This is the s ervice of the sons of Kohath in the tab ernacle of meeting, relating to the most holy things:

nkjv@Numb ers:4:5 @ When the camp prepares to journey, Aaron and his sons shall come, and they shall take down the cov ering veil and cov er the ark of the Testimony with it.

nkjv@Numb ers:4:6 @ Then they shall put on it a cov ering of badg er skins, and spread ov er that a cloth entirely of blue; and they shall ins ert its poles.

nkjv@Numb ers:4:7 @ "On the table of showbread they shall spread a blue cloth, and put on it the dishes, the pans, the bowls, and the pitch ers for pouring; and the showbread shall be on it.

nkjv@Numb ers:4:8 @ They shall spread ov er them a scarlet cloth, and cov er the same with a cov ering of badg er skins; and they shall ins ert its poles.

nkjv@Numb ers:4:9 @ And they shall take a blue cloth and cov er the lampstand of the light, with its lamps, its wick-trimm ers, its trays, and all its oil vessels, with which they s ervice it.

nkjv@Numb ers:4:10 @ Then they shall put it with all its utensils in a cov ering of badg er skins, and put it on a carrying beam.

nkjv@Numb ers:4:11 @ "Ov er the golden altar they shall spread a blue cloth, and cov er it with a cov ering of badg er skins; and they shall ins ert its poles.

nkjv@Numb ers:4:12 @ Then they shall take all the utensils of s ervice with which they minist er in the sanctuary, put them in a blue cloth, cov er them with a cov ering of badg er skins, and put them on a carrying beam.

nkjv@Numb ers:4:13 @ Also they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth ov er it.

nkjv@Numb ers:4:14 @ They shall put on it all its implements with which they minist er th ere--the firepans, the forks, the shovels, the basins, and all the utensils of the altar--and they shall spread on it a cov ering of badg er skins, and ins ert its poles.

nkjv@Numb ers:4:15 @ And when Aaron and his sons have finished cov ering the sanctuary and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, when the camp is set to go, then the sons of Kohath shall come to carry them; but they shall not touch any holy thing, lest they die. "These are the things in the tab ernacle of meeting which the sons of Kohath are to carry.

nkjv@Numb ers:4:16 @ "The appointed duty of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest is the oil for the light, the sweet incense, the daily grain off ering, the anointing oil, the ov ersight of all the tab ernacle, of all that is in it, with the sanctuary and its furnishings."

nkjv@Numb ers:4:17 @ Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:

nkjv@Numb ers:4:18 @ "Do not cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites;

nkjv@Numb ers:4:19 @ but do this in regard to them, that they may live and not die when they approach the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in and appoint each of them to his s ervice and his task.

nkjv@Numb ers:4:20 @ But they shall not go in to watch while the holy things are being cov ered, lest they die."

nkjv@Numb ers:4:21 @ Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

nkjv@Numb ers:4:22 @ "Also take a census of the sons of G ershon, by their fath ers' house, by their families.

nkjv@Numb ers:4:23 @ From thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, you shall numb er them, all who ent er to p erform the s ervice, to do the work in the tab ernacle of meeting.

nkjv@Numb ers:4:24 @ This is the s ervice of the families of the G ershonites, in s erving and carrying:

nkjv@Numb ers:4:25 @ They shall carry the curtains of the tab ernacle and the tab ernacle of meeting with its cov ering, the cov ering of badg er skins that is on it, the screen for the door of the tab ernacle of meeting,

nkjv@Numb ers:4:26 @ the screen for the door of the gate of the court, the hangings of the court which are around the tab ernacle and altar, and their cords, all the furnishings for their s ervice and all that is made for these things: so shall they s erve.

nkjv@Numb ers:4:27 @ "Aaron and his sons shall assign all the s ervice of the sons of the G ershonites, all their tasks and all their s ervice. And you shall appoint to them all their tasks as their duty.

nkjv@Numb ers:4:28 @ This is the s ervice of the families of the sons of G ershon in the tab ernacle of meeting. And their duties shall be und er the authority of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

nkjv@Numb ers:4:29 @ "As for the sons of M erari, you shall numb er them by their families and by their fath ers' house.

nkjv@Numb ers:4:30 @ From thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, you shall numb er them, ev eryone who ent ers the s ervice to do the work of the tab ernacle of meeting.

nkjv@Numb ers:4:31 @ And this is what they must carry as all their s ervice for the tab ernacle of meeting: the boards of the tab ernacle, its bars, its pillars, its sockets,

nkjv@Numb ers:4:32 @ and the pillars around the court with their sockets, pegs, and cords, with all their furnishings and all their s ervice; and you shall assign to each man by name the items he must carry.

nkjv@Numb ers:4:33 @ This is the s ervice of the families of the sons of M erari, as all their s ervice for the tab ernacle of meeting, und er the authority of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest."

nkjv@Numb ers:4:34 @ And Moses, Aaron, and the lead ers of the congregation numb ered the sons of the Kohathites by their families and by their fath ers' house,

nkjv@Numb ers:4:35 @ from thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, ev eryone who ent ered the s ervice for work in the tab ernacle of meeting;

nkjv@Numb ers:4:36 @ and those who w ere numb ered by their families w ere two thousand seven hundred and fifty.

nkjv@Numb ers:4:37 @ These w ere the ones who w ere numb ered of the families of the Kohathites, all who might s erve in the tab ernacle of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numb ered according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

nkjv@Numb ers:4:38 @ And those who w ere numb ered of the sons of G ershon, by their families and by their fath ers' house,

nkjv@Numb ers:4:39 @ from thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, ev eryone who ent ered the s ervice for work in the tab ernacle of meeting--

nkjv@Numb ers:4:40 @ those who w ere numb ered by their families, by their fath ers' house, w ere two thousand six hundred and thirty.

nkjv@Numb ers:4:41 @ These are the ones who w ere numb ered of the families of the sons of G ershon, of all who might s erve in the tab ernacle of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numb ered according to the commandment of the LORD.

nkjv@Numb ers:4:42 @ Those of the families of the sons of M erari who w ere numb ered, by their families, by their fath ers' house,

nkjv@Numb ers:4:43 @ from thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, ev eryone who ent ered the s ervice for work in the tab ernacle of meeting--

nkjv@Numb ers:4:44 @ those who w ere numb ered by their families w ere three thousand two hundred.

nkjv@Numb ers:4:45 @ These are the ones who w ere numb ered of the families of the sons of M erari, whom Moses and Aaron numb ered according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

nkjv@Numb ers:4:46 @ All who w ere numb ered of the Levites, whom Moses, Aaron, and the lead ers of Israel numb ered, by their families and by their fath ers' houses,

nkjv@Numb ers:4:47 @ from thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, ev eryone who came to do the work of s ervice and the work of bearing burdens in the tab ernacle of meeting--

nkjv@Numb ers:4:48 @ those who w ere numb ered w ere eight thousand five hundred and eighty.

nkjv@Numb ers:4:49 @ According to the commandment of the LORD they w ere numb ered by the hand of Moses, each according to his s ervice and according to his task; thus w ere they numb ered by him, as the LORD commanded Moses.

nkjv@Numb ers:5:1 @ And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

nkjv@Numb ers:5:2 @ "Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp ev ery lep er, ev eryone who has a discharge, and whoev er becomes defiled by a corpse.

nkjv@Numb ers:5:3 @ You shall put out both male and female; you shall put them outside the camp, that they may not defile their camps in the midst of which I dwell."

nkjv@Numb ers:5:4 @ And the children of Israel did so, and put them outside the camp; as the LORD spoke to Moses, so the children of Israel did.

nkjv@Numb ers:5:5 @ Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

nkjv@Numb ers:5:6 @ "Speak to the children of Israel: "When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit in unfaithfulness against the LORD, and that p erson is guilty,

nkjv@Numb ers:5:7 @ then he shall confess the sin which he has committed. He shall make restitution for his trespass in full, plus one-fifth of it, and give it to the one he has wronged.

nkjv@Numb ers:5:8 @ But if the man has no relative to whom restitution may be made for the wrong, the restitution for the wrong must go to the LORD for the priest, in addition to the ram of the atonement with which atonement is made for him.

nkjv@Numb ers:5:9 @ Ev ery off ering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they bring to the priest, shall be his.

nkjv@Numb ers:5:10 @ And ev ery man's holy things shall be his; whatev er any man gives the priest shall be his."'

nkjv@Numb ers:5:11 @ And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

nkjv@Numb ers:5:12 @ "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: "If any man's wife goes astray and behaves unfaithfully toward him,

nkjv@Numb ers:5:13 @ and a man lies with h er carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of h er husband, and it is concealed that she has defiled h erself, and th ere was no witness against h er, nor was she caught--

nkjv@Numb ers:5:14 @ if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him and he becomes jealous of his wife, who has defiled h erself; or if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him and he becomes jealous of his wife, although she has not defiled h erself--

nkjv@Numb ers:5:15 @ then the man shall bring his wife to the priest. He shall bring the off ering required for h er, one-tenth of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil on it and put no frankincense on it, because it is a grain off ering of jealousy, an off ering for rememb ering, for bringing iniquity to remembrance.

nkjv@Numb ers:5:16 @ "And the priest shall bring h er near, and set h er before the LORD.

nkjv@Numb ers:5:17 @ The priest shall take holy wat er in an earthen vessel, and take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tab ernacle and put it into the wat er.

nkjv@Numb ers:5:18 @ Then the priest shall stand the woman before the LORD, uncov er the woman's head, and put the off ering for rememb ering in h er hands, which is the grain off ering of jealousy. And the priest shall have in his hand the bitt er wat er that brings a curse.

nkjv@Numb ers:5:19 @ And the priest shall put h er und er oath, and say to the woman, "If no man has lain with you, and if you have not gone astray to uncleanness while und er your husband's authority, be free from this bitt er wat er that brings a curse.

nkjv@Numb ers:5:20 @ But if you have gone astray while und er your husband's authority, and if you have defiled yourself and some man oth er than your husband has lain with you"--

nkjv@Numb ers:5:21 @ then the priest shall put the woman und er the oath of the curse, and he shall say to the woman--"the LORD make you a curse and an oath among your people, when the LORD makes your thigh rot and your belly swell;

nkjv@Numb ers:5:22 @ and may this wat er that causes the curse go into your stomach, and make your belly swell and your thigh rot." "Then the woman shall say, "Amen, so be it."

nkjv@Numb ers:5:23 @ "Then the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall scrape them off into the bitt er wat er.

nkjv@Numb ers:5:24 @ And he shall make the woman drink the bitt er wat er that brings a curse, and the wat er that brings the curse shall ent er h er to become bitt er.

nkjv@Numb ers:5:25 @ Then the priest shall take the grain off ering of jealousy from the woman's hand, shall wave the off ering before the LORD, and bring it to the altar;

nkjv@Numb ers:5:26 @ and the priest shall take a handful of the off ering, as its memorial portion, burn it on the altar, and aft erward make the woman drink the wat er.

nkjv@Numb ers:5:27 @ When he has made h er drink the wat er, then it shall be, if she has defiled h erself and behaved unfaithfully toward h er husband, that the wat er that brings a curse will ent er h er and become bitt er, and h er belly will swell, h er thigh will rot, and the woman will become a curse among h er people.

nkjv@Numb ers:5:28 @ But if the woman has not defiled h erself, and is clean, then she shall be free and may conceive children.

nkjv@Numb ers:5:29 @ "This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, while und er h er husband's authority, goes astray and defiles h erself,

nkjv@Numb ers:5:30 @ or when the spirit of jealousy comes upon a man, and he becomes jealous of his wife; then he shall stand the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute all this law upon h er.

nkjv@Numb ers:5:31 @ Then the man shall be free from iniquity, but that woman shall bear h er guilt."'

nkjv@Numb ers:6:1 @ Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

nkjv@Numb ers:6:2 @ "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: "When eith er a man or woman consecrates an off ering to take the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the LORD,

nkjv@Numb ers:6:3 @ he shall separate himself from wine and similar drink; he shall drink neith er vinegar made from wine nor vinegar made from similar drink; neith er shall he drink any grape juice, nor eat fresh grapes or raisins.

nkjv@Numb ers:6:4 @ All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is produced by the grapevine, from seed to skin.

nkjv@Numb ers:6:5 @ "All the days of the vow of his separation no razor shall come upon his head; until the days are fulfilled for which he separated himself to the LORD, he shall be holy. Then he shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.

nkjv@Numb ers:6:6 @ All the days that he separates himself to the LORD he shall not go near a dead body.

nkjv@Numb ers:6:7 @ He shall not make himself unclean even for his fath er or his moth er, for his broth er or his sist er, when they die, because his separation to God is on his head.

nkjv@Numb ers:6:8 @ All the days of his separation he shall be holy to the LORD.

nkjv@Numb ers:6:9 @ "And if anyone dies v ery suddenly beside him, and he defiles his consecrated head, then he shall shave his head on the day of his cleansing; on the seventh day he shall shave it.

nkjv@Numb ers:6:10 @ Then on the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the door of the tab ernacle of meeting;

nkjv@Numb ers:6:11 @ and the priest shall off er one as a sin off ering and the oth er as a burnt off ering, and make atonement for him, because he sinned in regard to the corpse; and he shall sanctify his head that same day.

nkjv@Numb ers:6:12 @ He shall consecrate to the LORD the days of his separation, and bring a male lamb in its first year as a trespass off ering; but the form er days shall be lost, because his separation was defiled.

nkjv@Numb ers:6:13 @ "Now this is the law of the Nazirite: When the days of his separation are fulfilled, he shall be brought to the door of the tab ernacle of meeting.

nkjv@Numb ers:6:14 @ And he shall present his off ering to the LORD: one male lamb in its first year without blemish as a burnt off ering, one ewe lamb in its first year without blemish as a sin off ering, one ram without blemish as a peace off ering,

nkjv@Numb ers:6:15 @ a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, unleavened waf ers anointed with oil, and their grain off ering with their drink off erings.

nkjv@Numb ers:6:16 @ "Then the priest shall bring them before the LORD and off er his sin off ering and his burnt off ering;

nkjv@Numb ers:6:17 @ and he shall off er the ram as a sacrifice of a peace off ering to the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread; the priest shall also off er its grain off ering and its drink off ering.

nkjv@Numb ers:6:18 @ Then the Nazirite shall shave his consecrated head at the door of the tab ernacle of meeting, and shall take the hair from his consecrated head and put it on the fire which is und er the sacrifice of the peace off ering.

nkjv@Numb ers:6:19 @ "And the priest shall take the boiled should er of the ram, one unleavened cake from the basket, and one unleavened waf er, and put them upon the hands of the Nazirite aft er he has shaved his consecrated hair,

nkjv@Numb ers:6:20 @ and the priest shall wave them as a wave off ering before the LORD; they are holy for the priest, togeth er with the breast of the wave off ering and the thigh of the heave off ering. Aft er that the Nazirite may drink wine.'

nkjv@Numb ers:6:21 @ "This is the law of the Nazirite who vows to the LORD the off ering for his separation, and besides that, whatev er else his hand is able to provide; according to the vow which he takes, so he must do according to the law of his separation."

nkjv@Numb ers:6:22 @ And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

nkjv@Numb ers:6:23 @ "Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, "This is the way you shall bless the children of Israel. Say to them:

nkjv@Numb ers:6:24 @ "The LORD bless you and keep you;

nkjv@Numb ers:6:25 @ The LORD make His face shine upon you, And be gracious to you;

nkjv@Numb ers:6:26 @ The LORD lift up His countenance upon you, And give you peace."'

nkjv@Numb ers:6:27 @ "So they shall put My name on the children of Israel, and I will bless them."

nkjv@Numb ers:7:1 @ Now it came to pass, when Moses had finished setting up the tab ernacle, that he anointed it and consecrated it and all its furnishings, and the altar and all its utensils; so he anointed them and consecrated them.

nkjv@Numb ers:7:2 @ Then the lead ers of Israel, the heads of their fath ers' houses, who w ere the lead ers of the tribes and ov er those who w ere numb ered, made an off ering.

nkjv@Numb ers:7:3 @ And they brought their off ering before the LORD, six cov ered carts and twelve oxen, a cart for ev ery two of the lead ers, and for each one an ox; and they presented them before the tab ernacle.

nkjv@Numb ers:7:4 @ Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

nkjv@Numb ers:7:5 @ "Accept these from them, that they may be used in doing the work of the tab ernacle of meeting; and you shall give them to the Levites, to ev ery man according to his s ervice."

nkjv@Numb ers:7:6 @ So Moses took the carts and the oxen, and gave them to the Levites.

nkjv@Numb ers:7:7 @ Two carts and four oxen he gave to the sons of G ershon, according to their s ervice;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:8 @ and four carts and eight oxen he gave to the sons of M erari, according to their s ervice, und er the authority of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

nkjv@Numb ers:7:9 @ But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because theirs was the s ervice of the holy things, which they carried on their should ers.

nkjv@Numb ers:7:10 @ Now the lead ers off ered the dedication off ering for the altar when it was anointed; so the lead ers off ered their off ering before the altar.

nkjv@Numb ers:7:11 @ For the LORD said to Moses, "They shall off er their off ering, one lead er each day, for the dedication of the altar."

nkjv@Numb ers:7:12 @ And the one who off ered his off ering on the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, from the tribe of Judah.

nkjv@Numb ers:7:13 @ His off ering was one silv er platt er, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty shekels, and one silv er bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain off ering;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:14 @ one gold pan of ten shekels, full of incense;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:15 @ one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, as a burnt off ering;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:16 @ one kid of the goats as a sin off ering;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:17 @ and for the sacrifice of peace off erings: two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs in their first year. This was the off ering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

nkjv@Numb ers:7:18 @ On the second day Nethanel the son of Zuar, lead er of Issachar, presented an off ering.

nkjv@Numb ers:7:19 @ For his off ering he off ered one silv er platt er, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty shekels, and one silv er bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain off ering;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:20 @ one gold pan of ten shekels, full of incense;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:21 @ one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, as a burnt off ering;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:22 @ one kid of the goats as a sin off ering;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:23 @ and as the sacrifice of peace off erings: two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs in their first year. This was the off ering of Nethanel the son of Zuar.

nkjv@Numb ers:7:24 @ On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, lead er of the children of Zebulun, presented an off ering.

nkjv@Numb ers:7:25 @ His off ering was one silv er platt er, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty shekels, and one silv er bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain off ering;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:26 @ one gold pan of ten shekels, full of incense;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:27 @ one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, as a burnt off ering;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:28 @ one kid of the goats as a sin off ering;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:29 @ and for the sacrifice of peace off erings: two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs in their first year. This was the off ering of Eliab the son of Helon.

nkjv@Numb ers:7:30 @ On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, lead er of the children of Reuben, presented an off ering.

nkjv@Numb ers:7:31 @ His off ering was one silv er platt er, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty shekels, and one silv er bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain off ering;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:32 @ one gold pan of ten shekels, full of incense;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:33 @ one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, as a burnt off ering;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:34 @ one kid of the goats as a sin off ering;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:35 @ and as the sacrifice of peace off erings: two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs in their first year. This was the off ering of Elizur the son of Shedeur.

nkjv@Numb ers:7:36 @ On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, lead er of the children of Simeon, presented an off ering.

nkjv@Numb ers:7:37 @ His off ering was one silv er platt er, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty shekels, and one silv er bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain off ering;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:38 @ one gold pan of ten shekels, full of incense;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:39 @ one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, as a burnt off ering;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:40 @ one kid of the goats as a sin off ering;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:41 @ and as the sacrifice of peace off erings: two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs in their first year. This was the off ering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

nkjv@Numb ers:7:42 @ On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of Deuel, lead er of the children of Gad, presented an off ering.

nkjv@Numb ers:7:43 @ His off ering was one silv er platt er, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty shekels, and one silv er bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain off ering;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:44 @ one gold pan of ten shekels, full of incense;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:45 @ one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, as a burnt off ering;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:46 @ one kid of the goats as a sin off ering;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:47 @ and as the sacrifice of peace off erings: two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs in their first year. This was the off ering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.

nkjv@Numb ers:7:48 @ On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, lead er of the children of Ephraim, presented an off ering.

nkjv@Numb ers:7:49 @ His off ering was one silv er platt er, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty shekels, and one silv er bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain off ering;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:50 @ one gold pan of ten shekels, full of incense;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:51 @ one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, as a burnt off ering;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:52 @ one kid of the goats as a sin off ering;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:53 @ and as the sacrifice of peace off erings: two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs in their first year. This was the off ering of Elishama the son of Ammihud.

nkjv@Numb ers:7:54 @ On the eighth day Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, lead er of the children of Manasseh, presented an off ering.

nkjv@Numb ers:7:55 @ His off ering was one silv er platt er, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty shekels, and one silv er bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain off ering;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:56 @ one gold pan of ten shekels, full of incense;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:57 @ one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, as a burnt off ering;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:58 @ one kid of the goats as a sin off ering;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:59 @ and as the sacrifice of peace off erings: two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs in their first year. This was the off ering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

nkjv@Numb ers:7:60 @ On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, lead er of the children of Benjamin, presented an off ering.

nkjv@Numb ers:7:61 @ His off ering was one silv er platt er, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty shekels, and one silv er bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain off ering;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:62 @ one gold pan of ten shekels, full of incense;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:63 @ one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, as a burnt off ering;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:64 @ one kid of the goats as a sin off ering;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:65 @ and as the sacrifice of peace off erings: two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs in their first year. This was the off ering of Abidan the son of Gideoni.

nkjv@Numb ers:7:66 @ On the tenth day Ahiez er the son of Ammishaddai, lead er of the children of Dan, presented an off ering.

nkjv@Numb ers:7:67 @ His off ering was one silv er platt er, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty shekels, and one silv er bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain off ering;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:68 @ one gold pan of ten shekels, full of incense;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:69 @ one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, as a burnt off ering;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:70 @ one kid of the goats as a sin off ering;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:71 @ and as the sacrifice of peace off erings: two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs in their first year. This was the off ering of Ahiez er the son of Ammishaddai.

nkjv@Numb ers:7:72 @ On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ocran, lead er of the children of Ash er, presented an off ering.

nkjv@Numb ers:7:73 @ His off ering was one silv er platt er, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty shekels, and one silv er bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain off ering;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:74 @ one gold pan of ten shekels, full of incense;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:75 @ one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, as a burnt off ering;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:76 @ one kid of the goats as a sin off ering;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:77 @ and as the sacrifice of peace off erings: two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs in their first year. This was the off ering of Pagiel the son of Ocran.

nkjv@Numb ers:7:78 @ On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, lead er of the children of Naphtali, presented an off ering.

nkjv@Numb ers:7:79 @ His off ering was one silv er platt er, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty shekels, and one silv er bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain off ering;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:80 @ one gold pan of ten shekels, full of incense;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:81 @ one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, as a burnt off ering;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:82 @ one kid of the goats as a sin off ering;

nkjv@Numb ers:7:83 @ and as the sacrifice of peace off erings: two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs in their first year. This was the off ering of Ahira the son of Enan.

nkjv@Numb ers:7:84 @ This was the dedication off ering for the altar from the lead ers of Israel, when it was anointed: twelve silv er platt ers, twelve silv er bowls, and twelve gold pans.

nkjv@Numb ers:7:85 @ Each silv er platt er weighed one hundred and thirty shekels and each bowl seventy shekels. All the silv er of the vessels weighed two thousand four hundred shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.

nkjv@Numb ers:7:86 @ The twelve gold pans full of incense weighed ten shekels apiece, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; all the gold of the pans weighed one hundred and twenty shekels.

nkjv@Numb ers:7:87 @ All the oxen for the burnt off ering w ere twelve young bulls, the rams twelve, the male lambs in their first year twelve, with their grain off ering, and the kids of the goats as a sin off ering twelve.

nkjv@Numb ers:7:88 @ And all the oxen for the sacrifice of peace off erings w ere twenty-four bulls, the rams sixty, the male goats sixty, and the lambs in their first year sixty. This was the dedication off ering for the altar aft er it was anointed.

nkjv@Numb ers:7:89 @ Now when Moses went into the tab ernacle of meeting to speak with Him, he heard the voice of One speaking to him from above the m ercy seat that was on the ark of the Testimony, from between the two ch erubim; thus He spoke to him.

nkjv@Numb ers:8:1 @ And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

nkjv@Numb ers:8:2 @ "Speak to Aaron, and say to him, "When you arrange the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the lampstand."'

nkjv@Numb ers:8:3 @ And Aaron did so; he arranged the lamps to face toward the front of the lampstand, as the LORD commanded Moses.

nkjv@Numb ers:8:4 @ Now this workmanship of the lampstand was hamm ered gold; from its shaft to its flow ers it was hamm ered work. According to the patt ern which the LORD had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.

nkjv@Numb ers:8:5 @ Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

nkjv@Numb ers:8:6 @ "Take the Levites from among the children of Israel and cleanse them c eremonially.

nkjv@Numb ers:8:7 @ Thus you shall do to them to cleanse them: Sprinkle wat er of purification on them, and let them shave all their body, and let them wash their clothes, and so make themselves clean.

nkjv@Numb ers:8:8 @ Then let them take a young bull with its grain off ering of fine flour mixed with oil, and you shall take anoth er young bull as a sin off ering.

nkjv@Numb ers:8:9 @ And you shall bring the Levites before the tab ernacle of meeting, and you shall gath er togeth er the whole congregation of the children of Israel.

nkjv@Numb ers:8:10 @ So you shall bring the Levites before the LORD, and the children of Israel shall lay their hands on the Levites;

nkjv@Numb ers:8:11 @ and Aaron shall off er the Levites before the LORD like a wave off ering from the children of Israel, that they may p erform the work of the LORD.

nkjv@Numb ers:8:12 @ Then the Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the young bulls, and you shall off er one as a sin off ering and the oth er as a burnt off ering to the LORD, to make atonement for the Levites.

nkjv@Numb ers:8:13 @ "And you shall stand the Levites before Aaron and his sons, and then off er them like a wave off ering to the LORD.

nkjv@Numb ers:8:14 @ Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be Mine.

nkjv@Numb ers:8:15 @ Aft er that the Levites shall go in to s ervice the tab ernacle of meeting. So you shall cleanse them and off er them like a wave off ering.

nkjv@Numb ers:8:16 @ For they are wholly given to Me from among the children of Israel; I have taken them for Myself instead of all who open the womb, the firstborn of all the children of Israel.

nkjv@Numb ers:8:17 @ For all the firstborn among the children of Israel are Mine, both man and beast; on the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them to Myself.

nkjv@Numb ers:8:18 @ I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn of the children of Israel.

nkjv@Numb ers:8:19 @ And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the work for the children of Israel in the tab ernacle of meeting, and to make atonement for the children of Israel, that th ere be no plague among the children of Israel when the children of Israel come near the sanctuary."

nkjv@Numb ers:8:20 @ Thus Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel did to the Levites; according to all that the LORD commanded Moses conc erning the Levites, so the children of Israel did to them.

nkjv@Numb ers:8:21 @ And the Levites purified themselves and washed their clothes; then Aaron presented them like a wave off ering before the LORD, and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them.

nkjv@Numb ers:8:22 @ Aft er that the Levites went in to do their work in the tab ernacle of meeting before Aaron and his sons; as the LORD commanded Moses conc erning the Levites, so they did to them.

nkjv@Numb ers:8:23 @ Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

nkjv@Numb ers:8:24 @ "This is what p ertains to the Levites: From twenty-five years old and above one may ent er to p erform s ervice in the work of the tab ernacle of meeting;

nkjv@Numb ers:8:25 @ and at the age of fifty years they must cease p erforming this work, and shall work no more.

nkjv@Numb ers:8:26 @ They may minist er with their brethren in the tab ernacle of meeting, to attend to needs, but they themselves shall do no work. Thus you shall do to the Levites regarding their duties."

nkjv@Numb ers:9:1 @ Now the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wild erness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year aft er they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying:

nkjv@Numb ers:9:2 @ "Let the children of Israel keep the Passov er at its appointed time.

nkjv@Numb ers:9:3 @ On the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you shall keep it at its appointed time. According to all its rites and c eremonies you shall keep it."

nkjv@Numb ers:9:4 @ So Moses told the children of Israel that they should keep the Passov er.

nkjv@Numb ers:9:5 @ And they kept the Passov er on the fourteenth day of the first month, at twilight, in the Wild erness of Sinai; according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did.

nkjv@Numb ers:9:6 @ Now th ere w ere c ertain men who w ere defiled by a human corpse, so that they could not keep the Passov er on that day; and they came before Moses and Aaron that day.

nkjv@Numb ers:9:7 @ And those men said to him, "We became defiled by a human corpse. Why are we kept from presenting the off ering of the LORD at its appointed time among the children of Israel?"

nkjv@Numb ers:9:8 @ And Moses said to them, "Stand still, that I may hear what the LORD will command conc erning you."

nkjv@Numb ers:9:9 @ Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

nkjv@Numb ers:9:10 @ "Speak to the children of Israel, saying: "If anyone of you or your post erity is unclean because of a corpse, or is far away on a journey, he may still keep the LORD's Passov er.

nkjv@Numb ers:9:11 @ On the fourteenth day of the second month, at twilight, they may keep it. They shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitt er h erbs.

nkjv@Numb ers:9:12 @ They shall leave none of it until morning, nor break one of its bones. According to all the ordinances of the Passov er they shall keep it.

nkjv@Numb ers:9:13 @ But the man who is clean and is not on a journey, and ceases to keep the Passov er, that same p erson shall be cut off from among his people, because he did not bring the off ering of the LORD at its appointed time; that man shall bear his sin.

nkjv@Numb ers:9:14 @ "And if a strang er dwells among you, and would keep the LORD's Passov er, he must do so according to the rite of the Passov er and according to its c eremony; you shall have one ordinance, both for the strang er and the native of the land."'

nkjv@Numb ers:9:15 @ Now on the day that the tab ernacle was raised up, the cloud cov ered the tab ernacle, the tent of the Testimony; from evening until morning it was above the tab ernacle like the appearance of fire.

nkjv@Numb ers:9:16 @ So it was always: the cloud cov ered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.

nkjv@Numb ers:9:17 @ Whenev er the cloud was taken up from above the tab ernacle, aft er that the children of Israel would journey; and in the place wh ere the cloud settled, th ere the children of Israel would pitch their tents.

nkjv@Numb ers:9:18 @ At the command of the LORD the children of Israel would journey, and at the command of the LORD they would camp; as long as the cloud stayed above the tab ernacle they remained encamped.

nkjv@Numb ers:9:19 @ Even when the cloud continued long, many days above the tab ernacle, the children of Israel kept the charge of the LORD and did not journey.

nkjv@Numb ers:9:20 @ So it was, when the cloud was above the tab ernacle a few days: according to the command of the LORD they would remain encamped, and according to the command of the LORD they would journey.

nkjv@Numb ers:9:21 @ So it was, when the cloud remained only from evening until morning: when the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they would journey; wheth er by day or by night, whenev er the cloud was taken up, they would journey.

nkjv@Numb ers:9:22 @ Wheth er it was two days, a month, or a year that the cloud remained above the tab ernacle, the children of Israel would remain encamped and not journey; but when it was taken up, they would journey.

nkjv@Numb ers:9:23 @ At the command of the LORD they remained encamped, and at the command of the LORD they journeyed; they kept the charge of the LORD, at the command of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

nkjv@Numb ers:10:1 @ And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

nkjv@Numb ers:10:2 @ "Make two silv er trumpets for yourself; you shall make them of hamm ered work; you shall use them for calling the congregation and for directing the movement of the camps.

nkjv@Numb ers:10:3 @ When they blow both of them, all the congregation shall gath er before you at the door of the tab ernacle of meeting.

nkjv@Numb ers:10:4 @ But if they blow only one, then the lead ers, the heads of the divisions of Israel, shall gath er to you.

nkjv@Numb ers:10:5 @ When you sound the advance, the camps that lie on the east side shall then begin their journey.

nkjv@Numb ers:10:6 @ When you sound the advance the second time, then the camps that lie on the south side shall begin their journey; they shall sound the call for them to begin their journeys.

nkjv@Numb ers:10:7 @ And when the assembly is to be gath ered togeth er, you shall blow, but not sound the advance.

nkjv@Numb ers:10:8 @ The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets; and these shall be to you as an ordinance forev er throughout your gen erations.

nkjv@Numb ers:10:9 @ "When you go to war in your land against the enemy who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, and you will be rememb ered before the LORD your God, and you will be saved from your enemies.

nkjv@Numb ers:10:10 @ Also in the day of your gladness, in your appointed feasts, and at the beginning of your months, you shall blow the trumpets ov er your burnt off erings and ov er the sacrifices of your peace off erings; and they shall be a memorial for you before your God: I am the LORD your God."

nkjv@Numb ers:10:11 @ Now it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from above the tab ernacle of the Testimony.

nkjv@Numb ers:10:12 @ And the children of Israel set out from the Wild erness of Sinai on their journeys; then the cloud settled down in the Wild erness of Paran.

nkjv@Numb ers:10:13 @ So they started out for the first time according to the command of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

nkjv@Numb ers:10:14 @ The standard of the camp of the children of Judah set out first according to their armies; ov er their army was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

nkjv@Numb ers:10:15 @ Ov er the army of the tribe of the children of Issachar was Nethanel the son of Zuar.

nkjv@Numb ers:10:16 @ And ov er the army of the tribe of the children of Zebulun was Eliab the son of Helon.

nkjv@Numb ers:10:17 @ Then the tab ernacle was taken down; and the sons of G ershon and the sons of M erari set out, carrying the tab ernacle.

nkjv@Numb ers:10:18 @ And the standard of the camp of Reuben set out according to their armies; ov er their army was Elizur the son of Shedeur.

nkjv@Numb ers:10:19 @ Ov er the army of the tribe of the children of Simeon was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

nkjv@Numb ers:10:20 @ And ov er the army of the tribe of the children of Gad was Eliasaph the son of Deuel.

nkjv@Numb ers:10:21 @ Then the Kohathites set out, carrying the holy things. (The tab ernacle would be prepared for their arrival.)

nkjv@Numb ers:10:22 @ And the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set out according to their armies; ov er their army was Elishama the son of Ammihud.

nkjv@Numb ers:10:23 @ Ov er the army of the tribe of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

nkjv@Numb ers:10:24 @ And ov er the army of the tribe of the children of Benjamin was Abidan the son of Gideoni.

nkjv@Numb ers:10:25 @ Then the standard of the camp of the children of Dan (the rear guard of all the camps) set out according to their armies; ov er their army was Ahiez er the son of Ammishaddai.

nkjv@Numb ers:10:26 @ Ov er the army of the tribe of the children of Ash er was Pagiel the son of Ocran.

nkjv@Numb ers:10:27 @ And ov er the army of the tribe of the children of Naphtali was Ahira the son of Enan.

nkjv@Numb ers:10:28 @ Thus was the ord er of march of the children of Israel, according to their armies, when they began their journey.

nkjv@Numb ers:10:29 @ Now Moses said to Hobab the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' fath er-in-law, "We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said, "I will give it to you.' Come with us, and we will treat you well; for the LORD has promised good things to Israel."

nkjv@Numb ers:10:30 @ And he said to him, "I will not go, but I will depart to my own land and to my relatives."

nkjv@Numb ers:10:31 @ So Moses said, "Please do not leave, inasmuch as you know how we are to camp in the wild erness, and you can be our eyes.

nkjv@Numb ers:10:32 @ And it shall be, if you go with us--indeed it shall be--that whatev er good the LORD will do to us, the same we will do to you."

nkjv@Numb ers:10:33 @ So they departed from the mountain of the LORD on a journey of three days; and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them for the three days' journey, to search out a resting place for them.

nkjv@Numb ers:10:34 @ And the cloud of the LORD was above them by day when they went out from the camp.

nkjv@Numb ers:10:35 @ So it was, whenev er the ark set out, that Moses said: "Rise up, O LORD! Let Your enemies be scatt ered, And let those who hate You flee before You."

nkjv@Numb ers:10:36 @ And when it rested, he said: "Return, O LORD, To the many thousands of Israel."

nkjv@Numb ers:11:1 @ Now when the people complained, it displeased the LORD; for the LORD heard it, and His ang er was aroused. So the fire of the LORD burned among them, and consumed some in the outskirts of the camp.

nkjv@Numb ers:11:2 @ Then the people cried out to Moses, and when Moses prayed to the LORD, the fire was quenched.

nkjv@Numb ers:11:3 @ So he called the name of the place Tab erah, because the fire of the LORD had burned among them.

nkjv@Numb ers:11:4 @ Now the mixed multitude who w ere among them yielded to intense craving; so the children of Israel also wept again and said: "Who will give us meat to eat?

nkjv@Numb ers:11:5 @ We rememb er the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumb ers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic;

nkjv@Numb ers:11:6 @ but now our whole being is dried up; th ere is nothing at all except this manna before our eyes!"

nkjv@Numb ers:11:7 @ Now the manna was like coriand er seed, and its color like the color of bdellium.

nkjv@Numb ers:11:8 @ The people went about and gath ered it, ground it on millstones or beat it in the mortar, cooked it in pans, and made cakes of it; and its taste was like the taste of pastry prepared with oil.

nkjv@Numb ers:11:9 @ And when the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it.

nkjv@Numb ers:11:10 @ Then Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, ev eryone at the door of his tent; and the ang er of the LORD was greatly aroused; Moses also was displeased.

nkjv@Numb ers:11:11 @ So Moses said to the LORD, "Why have You afflicted Your s ervant? And why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid the burden of all these people on me?

nkjv@Numb ers:11:12 @ Did I conceive all these people? Did I beget them, that You should say to me, "Carry them in your bosom, as a guardian carries a nursing child,' to the land which You swore to their fath ers?

nkjv@Numb ers:11:13 @ Wh ere am I to get meat to give to all these people? For they weep all ov er me, saying, "Give us meat, that we may eat.'

nkjv@Numb ers:11:14 @ I am not able to bear all these people alone, because the burden is too heavy for me.

nkjv@Numb ers:11:15 @ If You treat me like this, please kill me h ere and now--if I have found favor in Your sight--and do not let me see my wretchedness!"

nkjv@Numb ers:11:16 @ So the LORD said to Moses: "Gath er to Me seventy men of the eld ers of Israel, whom you know to be the eld ers of the people and offic ers ov er them; bring them to the tab ernacle of meeting, that they may stand th ere with you.

nkjv@Numb ers:11:17 @ Then I will come down and talk with you th ere. I will take of the Spirit that is upon you and will put the same upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you may not bear it yourself alone.

nkjv@Numb ers:11:18 @ Then you shall say to the people, "Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat; for you have wept in the hearing of the LORD, saying, "Who will give us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt." Th erefore the LORD will give you meat, and you shall eat.

nkjv@Numb ers:11:19 @ You shall eat, not one day, nor two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days,

nkjv@Numb ers:11:20 @ but for a whole month, until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you, because you have despised the LORD who is among you, and have wept before Him, saying, "Why did we ev er come up out of Egypt?""'

nkjv@Numb ers:11:21 @ And Moses said, "The people whom I am among are six hundred thousand men on foot; yet You have said, "I will give them meat, that they may eat for a whole month.'

nkjv@Numb ers:11:22 @ Shall flocks and h erds be slaught ered for them, to provide enough for them? Or shall all the fish of the sea be gath ered togeth er for them, to provide enough for them?"

nkjv@Numb ers:11:23 @ And the LORD said to Moses, "Has the LORD's arm been shortened? Now you shall see wheth er what I say will happen to you or not."

nkjv@Numb ers:11:24 @ So Moses went out and told the people the words of the LORD, and he gath ered the seventy men of the eld ers of the people and placed them around the tab ernacle.

nkjv@Numb ers:11:25 @ Then the LORD came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was upon him, and placed the same upon the seventy eld ers; and it happened, when the Spirit rested upon them, that they prophesied, although they nev er did so again.

nkjv@Numb ers:11:26 @ But two men had remained in the camp: the name of one was Eldad, and the name of the oth er Medad. And the Spirit rested upon them. Now they w ere among those listed, but who had not gone out to the tab ernacle; yet they prophesied in the camp.

nkjv@Numb ers:11:27 @ And a young man ran and told Moses, and said, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp."

nkjv@Numb ers:11:28 @ So Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' assistant, one of his choice men, answ ered and said, "Moses my lord, forbid them!"

nkjv@Numb ers:11:29 @ Then Moses said to him, "Are you zealous for my sake? Oh, that all the LORD's people w ere prophets and that the LORD would put His Spirit upon them!"

nkjv@Numb ers:11:30 @ And Moses returned to the camp, he and the eld ers of Israel.

nkjv@Numb ers:11:31 @ Now a wind went out from the LORD, and it brought quail from the sea and left them flutt ering near the camp, about a day's journey on this side and about a day's journey on the oth er side, all around the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the ground.

nkjv@Numb ers:11:32 @ And the people stayed up all that day, all night, and all the next day, and gath ered the quail (he who gath ered least gath ered ten hom ers); and they spread them out for themselves all around the camp.

nkjv@Numb ers:11:33 @ But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was aroused against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a v ery great plague.

nkjv@Numb ers:11:34 @ So he called the name of that place Kibroth Hattaavah, because th ere they buried the people who had yielded to craving.

nkjv@Numb ers:11:35 @ From Kibroth Hattaavah the people moved to Haz eroth, and camped at Haz eroth.

nkjv@Numb ers:12:1 @ Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married; for he had married an Ethiopian woman.

nkjv@Numb ers:12:2 @ So they said, "Has the LORD indeed spoken only through Moses? Has He not spoken through us also?" And the LORD heard it.

nkjv@Numb ers:12:3 @ (Now the man Moses was v ery humble, more than all men who w ere on the face of the earth.)

nkjv@Numb ers:12:4 @ Suddenly the LORD said to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, "Come out, you three, to the tab ernacle of meeting!" So the three came out.

nkjv@Numb ers:12:5 @ Then the LORD came down in the pillar of cloud and stood in the door of the tab ernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam. And they both went forward.

nkjv@Numb ers:12:6 @ Then He said, If th ere is a prophet among you, I, the LORD, make Myself known to him in a vision; I speak to him in a dream.

nkjv@Numb ers:12:7 @ Not so with My s ervant Moses; He is faithful in all My house.

nkjv@Numb ers:12:8 @ I speak with him face to face, Even plainly, and not in dark sayings; And he sees the form of the LORD. Why then w ere you not afraid To speak against My s ervant Moses?"

nkjv@Numb ers:12:9 @ So the ang er of the LORD was aroused against them, and He departed.

nkjv@Numb ers:12:10 @ And when the cloud departed from above the tab ernacle, suddenly Miriam became leprous, as white as snow. Then Aaron turned toward Miriam, and th ere she was, a lep er.

nkjv@Numb ers:12:11 @ So Aaron said to Moses, "Oh, my lord! Please do not lay this sin on us, in which we have done foolishly and in which we have sinned.

nkjv@Numb ers:12:12 @ Please do not let h er be as one dead, whose flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his moth er's womb!"

nkjv@Numb ers:12:13 @ So Moses cried out to the LORD, saying, "Please heal h er, O God, I pray!"

nkjv@Numb ers:12:14 @ Then the LORD said to Moses, "If h er fath er had but spit in h er face, would she not be shamed seven days? Let h er be shut out of the camp seven days, and aft erward she may be received again."

nkjv@Numb ers:12:15 @ So Miriam was shut out of the camp seven days, and the people did not journey till Miriam was brought in again.

nkjv@Numb ers:12:16 @ And aft erward the people moved from Haz eroth and camped in the Wild erness of Paran.

nkjv@Numb ers:13:1 @ And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

nkjv@Numb ers:13:2 @ "Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel; from each tribe of their fath ers you shall send a man, ev ery one a lead er among them."

nkjv@Numb ers:13:3 @ So Moses sent them from the Wild erness of Paran according to the command of the LORD, all of them men who w ere heads of the children of Israel.

nkjv@Numb ers:13:4 @ Now these w ere their names: from the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur;

nkjv@Numb ers:13:5 @ from the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori;

nkjv@Numb ers:13:6 @ from the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh;

nkjv@Numb ers:13:7 @ from the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph;

nkjv@Numb ers:13:8 @ from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun;

nkjv@Numb ers:13:9 @ from the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu;

nkjv@Numb ers:13:10 @ from the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi;

nkjv@Numb ers:13:11 @ from the tribe of Joseph, that is, from the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi;

nkjv@Numb ers:13:12 @ from the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli;

nkjv@Numb ers:13:13 @ from the tribe of Ash er, Sethur the son of Michael;

nkjv@Numb ers:13:14 @ from the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi;

nkjv@Numb ers:13:15 @ from the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.

nkjv@Numb ers:13:16 @ These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun, Joshua.

nkjv@Numb ers:13:17 @ Then Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, "Go up this way into the South, and go up to the mountains,

nkjv@Numb ers:13:18 @ and see what the land is like: wheth er the people who dwell in it are strong or weak, few or many;

nkjv@Numb ers:13:19 @ wheth er the land they dwell in is good or bad; wheth er the cities they inhabit are like camps or strongholds;

nkjv@Numb ers:13:20 @ wheth er the land is rich or poor; and wheth er th ere are forests th ere or not. Be of good courage. And bring some of the fruit of the land." Now the time was the season of the first ripe grapes.

nkjv@Numb ers:13:21 @ So they went up and spied out the land from the Wild erness of Zin as far as Rehob, near the entrance of Hamath.

nkjv@Numb ers:13:22 @ And they went up through the South and came to Hebron; Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, w ere th ere. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

nkjv@Numb ers:13:23 @ Then they came to the Valley of Eshcol, and th ere cut down a branch with one clust er of grapes; they carried it between two of them on a pole. They also brought some of the pomegranates and figs.

nkjv@Numb ers:13:24 @ The place was called the Valley of Eshcol, because of the clust er which the men of Israel cut down th ere.

nkjv@Numb ers:13:25 @ And they returned from spying out the land aft er forty days.

nkjv@Numb ers:13:26 @ Now they departed and came back to Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel in the Wild erness of Paran, at Kadesh; they brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.

nkjv@Numb ers:13:27 @ Then they told him, and said: "We went to the land wh ere you sent us. It truly flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.

nkjv@Numb ers:13:28 @ Nev ertheless the people who dwell in the land are strong; the cities are fortified and v ery large; moreov er we saw the descendants of Anak th ere.

nkjv@Numb ers:13:29 @ The Amalekites dwell in the land of the South; the Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan."

nkjv@Numb ers:13:30 @ Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, "Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to ov ercome it."

nkjv@Numb ers:13:31 @ But the men who had gone up with him said, "We are not able to go up against the people, for they are strong er than we."

nkjv@Numb ers:13:32 @ And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, "The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature.

nkjv@Numb ers:13:33 @ Th ere we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we w ere like grasshopp ers in our own sight, and so we w ere in their sight."

nkjv@Numb ers:14:1 @ So all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night.

nkjv@Numb ers:14:2 @ And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, "If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wild erness!

nkjv@Numb ers:14:3 @ Why has the LORD brought us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should become victims? Would it not be bett er for us to return to Egypt?"

nkjv@Numb ers:14:4 @ So they said to one anoth er, "Let us select a lead er and return to Egypt."

nkjv@Numb ers:14:5 @ Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.

nkjv@Numb ers:14:6 @ But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who w ere among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes;

nkjv@Numb ers:14:7 @ and they spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying: "The land we passed through to spy out is an exceedingly good land.

nkjv@Numb ers:14:8 @ If the LORD delights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us, "a land which flows with milk and honey.'

nkjv@Numb ers:14:9 @ Only do not rebel against the LORD, nor fear the people of the land, for they are our bread; their protection has departed from them, and the LORD is with us. Do not fear them."

nkjv@Numb ers:14:10 @ And all the congregation said to stone them with stones. Now the glory of the LORD appeared in the tab ernacle of meeting before all the children of Israel.

nkjv@Numb ers:14:11 @ Then the LORD said to Moses: "How long will these people reject Me? And how long will they not believe Me, with all the signs which I have p erformed among them?

nkjv@Numb ers:14:12 @ I will strike them with the pestilence and disinh erit them, and I will make of you a nation great er and mighti er than they."

nkjv@Numb ers:14:13 @ And Moses said to the LORD: "Then the Egyptians will hear it, for by Your might You brought these people up from among them,

nkjv@Numb ers:14:14 @ and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that You, LORD, are among these people; that You, LORD, are seen face to face and Your cloud stands above them, and You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.

nkjv@Numb ers:14:15 @ Now if You kill these people as one man, then the nations which have heard of Your fame will speak, saying,

nkjv@Numb ers:14:16 @ "Because the LORD was not able to bring this people to the land which He swore to give them, th erefore He killed them in the wild erness.'

nkjv@Numb ers:14:17 @ And now, I pray, let the pow er of my Lord be great, just as You have spoken, saying,

nkjv@Numb ers:14:18 @ "The LORD is longsuff ering and abundant in m ercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He by no means clears the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fath ers on the children to the third and fourth gen eration.'

nkjv@Numb ers:14:19 @ Pardon the iniquity of this people, I pray, according to the greatness of Your m ercy, just as You have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now."

nkjv@Numb ers:14:20 @ Then the LORD said: "I have pardoned, according to your word;

nkjv@Numb ers:14:21 @ but truly, as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD--

nkjv@Numb ers:14:22 @ because all these men who have seen My glory and the signs which I did in Egypt and in the wild erness, and have put Me to the test now these ten times, and have not heeded My voice,

nkjv@Numb ers:14:23 @ they c ertainly shall not see the land of which I swore to their fath ers, nor shall any of those who rejected Me see it.

nkjv@Numb ers:14:24 @ But My s ervant Caleb, because he has a diff erent spirit in him and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land wh ere he went, and his descendants shall inh erit it.

nkjv@Numb ers:14:25 @ Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valley; tomorrow turn and move out into the wild erness by the Way of the Red Sea."

nkjv@Numb ers:14:26 @ And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

nkjv@Numb ers:14:27 @ "How long shall I bear with this evil congregation who complain against Me? I have heard the complaints which the children of Israel make against Me.

nkjv@Numb ers:14:28 @ Say to them, "As I live,' says the LORD, "just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you:

nkjv@Numb ers:14:29 @ The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wild erness, all of you who w ere numb ered, according to your entire numb er, from twenty years old and above.

nkjv@Numb ers:14:30 @ Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, you shall by no means ent er the land which I swore I would make you dwell in.

nkjv@Numb ers:14:31 @ But your little ones, whom you said would be victims, I will bring in, and they shall know the land which you have despised.

nkjv@Numb ers:14:32 @ But as for you, your carcasses shall fall in this wild erness.

nkjv@Numb ers:14:33 @ And your sons shall be sheph erds in the wild erness forty years, and bear the brunt of your infidelity, until your carcasses are consumed in the wild erness.

nkjv@Numb ers:14:34 @ According to the numb er of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, for each day you shall bear your guilt one year, namely forty years, and you shall know My rejection.

nkjv@Numb ers:14:35 @ I the LORD have spoken this. I will surely do so to all this evil congregation who are gath ered togeth er against Me. In this wild erness they shall be consumed, and th ere they shall die."'

nkjv@Numb ers:14:36 @ Now the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation complain against him by bringing a bad report of the land,

nkjv@Numb ers:14:37 @ those v ery men who brought the evil report about the land, died by the plague before the LORD.

nkjv@Numb ers:14:38 @ But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive, of the men who went to spy out the land.

nkjv@Numb ers:14:39 @ Then Moses told these words to all the children of Israel, and the people mourned greatly.

nkjv@Numb ers:14:40 @ And they rose early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, "H ere we are, and we will go up to the place which the LORD has promised, for we have sinned!"

nkjv@Numb ers:14:41 @ And Moses said, "Now why do you transgress the command of the LORD? For this will not succeed.

nkjv@Numb ers:14:42 @ Do not go up, lest you be defeated by your enemies, for the LORD is not among you.

nkjv@Numb ers:14:43 @ For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are th ere before you, and you shall fall by the sword; because you have turned away from the LORD, the LORD will not be with you."

nkjv@Numb ers:14:44 @ But they presumed to go up to the mountaintop. Nev ertheless, neith er the ark of the covenant of the LORD nor Moses departed from the camp.

nkjv@Numb ers:14:45 @ Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who dwelt in that mountain came down and attacked them, and drove them back as far as Hormah.

nkjv@Numb ers:15:1 @ And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

nkjv@Numb ers:15:2 @ "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: "When you have come into the land you are to inhabit, which I am giving to you,

nkjv@Numb ers:15:3 @ and you make an off ering by fire to the LORD, a burnt off ering or a sacrifice, to fulfill a vow or as a freewill off ering or in your appointed feasts, to make a sweet aroma to the LORD, from the h erd or the flock,

nkjv@Numb ers:15:4 @ then he who presents his off ering to the LORD shall bring a grain off ering of one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with one-fourth of a hin of oil;

nkjv@Numb ers:15:5 @ and one-fourth of a hin of wine as a drink off ering you shall prepare with the burnt off ering or the sacrifice, for each lamb.

nkjv@Numb ers:15:6 @ Or for a ram you shall prepare as a grain off ering two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with one-third of a hin of oil;

nkjv@Numb ers:15:7 @ and as a drink off ering you shall off er one-third of a hin of wine as a sweet aroma to the LORD.

nkjv@Numb ers:15:8 @ And when you prepare a young bull as a burnt off ering, or as a sacrifice to fulfill a vow, or as a peace off ering to the LORD,

nkjv@Numb ers:15:9 @ then shall be off ered with the young bull a grain off ering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil;

nkjv@Numb ers:15:10 @ and you shall bring as the drink off ering half a hin of wine as an off ering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the LORD.

nkjv@Numb ers:15:11 @ "Thus it shall be done for each young bull, for each ram, or for each lamb or young goat.

nkjv@Numb ers:15:12 @ According to the numb er that you prepare, so you shall do with ev eryone according to their numb er.

nkjv@Numb ers:15:13 @ All who are native-born shall do these things in this mann er, in presenting an off ering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the LORD.

nkjv@Numb ers:15:14 @ And if a strang er dwells with you, or whoev er is among you throughout your gen erations, and would present an off ering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the LORD, just as you do, so shall he do.

nkjv@Numb ers:15:15 @ One ordinance shall be for you of the assembly and for the strang er who dwells with you, an ordinance forev er throughout your gen erations; as you are, so shall the strang er be before the LORD.

nkjv@Numb ers:15:16 @ One law and one custom shall be for you and for the strang er who dwells with you."'

nkjv@Numb ers:15:17 @ Again the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

nkjv@Numb ers:15:18 @ "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: "When you come into the land to which I bring you,

nkjv@Numb ers:15:19 @ then it will be, when you eat of the bread of the land, that you shall off er up a heave off ering to the LORD.

nkjv@Numb ers:15:20 @ You shall off er up a cake of the first of your ground meal as a heave off ering; as a heave off ering of the threshing floor, so shall you off er it up.

nkjv@Numb ers:15:21 @ Of the first of your ground meal you shall give to the LORD a heave off ering throughout your gen erations.

nkjv@Numb ers:15:22 @ "If you sin unintentionally, and do not obs erve all these commandments which the LORD has spoken to Moses--

nkjv@Numb ers:15:23 @ all that the LORD has commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day the LORD gave commandment and onward throughout your gen erations--

nkjv@Numb ers:15:24 @ then it will be, if it is unintentionally committed, without the knowledge of the congregation, that the whole congregation shall off er one young bull as a burnt off ering, as a sweet aroma to the LORD, with its grain off ering and its drink off ering, according to the ordinance, and one kid of the goats as a sin off ering.

nkjv@Numb ers:15:25 @ So the priest shall make atonement for the whole congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them, for it was unintentional; they shall bring their off ering, an off ering made by fire to the LORD, and their sin off ering before the LORD, for their unintended sin.

nkjv@Numb ers:15:26 @ It shall be forgiven the whole congregation of the children of Israel and the strang er who dwells among them, because all the people did it unintentionally.

nkjv@Numb ers:15:27 @ "And if a p erson sins unintentionally, then he shall bring a female goat in its first year as a sin off ering.

nkjv@Numb ers:15:28 @ So the priest shall make atonement for the p erson who sins unintentionally, when he sins unintentionally before the LORD, to make atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him.

nkjv@Numb ers:15:29 @ You shall have one law for him who sins unintentionally, for him who is native-born among the children of Israel and for the strang er who dwells among them.

nkjv@Numb ers:15:30 @ "But the p erson who does anything presumptuously, wheth er he is native-born or a strang er, that one brings reproach on the LORD, and he shall be cut off from among his people.

nkjv@Numb ers:15:31 @ Because he has despised the word of the LORD, and has broken His commandment, that p erson shall be completely cut off; his guilt shall be upon him."'

nkjv@Numb ers:15:32 @ Now while the children of Israel w ere in the wild erness, they found a man gath ering sticks on the Sabbath day.

nkjv@Numb ers:15:33 @ And those who found him gath ering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation.

nkjv@Numb ers:15:34 @ They put him und er guard, because it had not been explained what should be done to him.

nkjv@Numb ers:15:35 @ Then the LORD said to Moses, "The man must surely be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp."

nkjv@Numb ers:15:36 @ So, as the LORD commanded Moses, all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him with stones, and he died.

nkjv@Numb ers:15:37 @ Again the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

nkjv@Numb ers:15:38 @ "Speak to the children of Israel: Tell them to make tassels on the corn ers of their garments throughout their gen erations, and to put a blue thread in the tassels of the corn ers.

nkjv@Numb ers:15:39 @ And you shall have the tassel, that you may look upon it and rememb er all the commandments of the LORD and do them, and that you may not follow the harlotry to which your own heart and your own eyes are inclined,

nkjv@Numb ers:15:40 @ and that you may rememb er and do all My commandments, and be holy for your God.

nkjv@Numb ers:15:41 @ I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD your God."

nkjv@Numb ers:16:1 @ Now Korah the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and On the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men;

nkjv@Numb ers:16:2 @ and they rose up before Moses with some of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty lead ers of the congregation, representatives of the congregation, men of renown.

nkjv@Numb ers:16:3 @ They gath ered togeth er against Moses and Aaron, and said to them, "You take too much upon yourselves, for all the congregation is holy, ev ery one of them, and the LORD is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the LORD?"

nkjv@Numb ers:16:4 @ So when Moses heard it, he fell on his face;

nkjv@Numb ers:16:5 @ and he spoke to Korah and all his company, saying, "Tomorrow morning the LORD will show who is His and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to Him. That one whom He chooses He will cause to come near to Him.

nkjv@Numb ers:16:6 @ Do this: Take cens ers, Korah and all your company;

nkjv@Numb ers:16:7 @ put fire in them and put incense in them before the LORD tomorrow, and it shall be that the man whom the LORD chooses is the holy one. You take too much upon yourselves, you sons of Levi!"

nkjv@Numb ers:16:8 @ Then Moses said to Korah, "Hear now, you sons of Levi:

nkjv@Numb ers:16:9 @ Is it a small thing to you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to Himself, to do the work of the tab ernacle of the LORD, and to stand before the congregation to s erve them;

nkjv@Numb ers:16:10 @ and that He has brought you near to Himself, you and all your brethren, the sons of Levi, with you? And are you seeking the priesthood also?

nkjv@Numb ers:16:11 @ Th erefore you and all your company are gath ered togeth er against the LORD. And what is Aaron that you complain against him?"

nkjv@Numb ers:16:12 @ And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, but they said, "We will not come up!

nkjv@Numb ers:16:13 @ Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wild erness, that you should keep acting like a prince ov er us?

nkjv@Numb ers:16:14 @ Moreov er you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inh eritance of fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up!"

nkjv@Numb ers:16:15 @ Then Moses was v ery angry, and said to the LORD, "Do not respect their off ering. I have not taken one donkey from them, nor have I hurt one of them."

nkjv@Numb ers:16:16 @ And Moses said to Korah, "Tomorrow, you and all your company be present before the LORD--you and they, as well as Aaron.

nkjv@Numb ers:16:17 @ Let each take his cens er and put incense in it, and each of you bring his cens er before the LORD, two hundred and fifty cens ers; both you and Aaron, each with his cens er."

nkjv@Numb ers:16:18 @ So ev ery man took his cens er, put fire in it, laid incense on it, and stood at the door of the tab ernacle of meeting with Moses and Aaron.

nkjv@Numb ers:16:19 @ And Korah gath ered all the congregation against them at the door of the tab ernacle of meeting. Then the glory of the LORD appeared to all the congregation.

nkjv@Numb ers:16:20 @ And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

nkjv@Numb ers:16:21 @ "Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment."

nkjv@Numb ers:16:22 @ Then they fell on their faces, and said, "O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and You be angry with all the congregation?"

nkjv@Numb ers:16:23 @ So the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

nkjv@Numb ers:16:24 @ "Speak to the congregation, saying, "Get away from the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram."'

nkjv@Numb ers:16:25 @ Then Moses rose and went to Dathan and Abiram, and the eld ers of Israel followed him.

nkjv@Numb ers:16:26 @ And he spoke to the congregation, saying, "Depart now from the tents of these wicked men! Touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins."

nkjv@Numb ers:16:27 @ So they got away from around the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram; and Dathan and Abiram came out and stood at the door of their tents, with their wives, their sons, and their little children.

nkjv@Numb ers:16:28 @ And Moses said: "By this you shall know that the LORD has sent me to do all these works, for I have not done them of my own will.

nkjv@Numb ers:16:29 @ If these men die naturally like all men, or if they are visited by the common fate of all men, then the LORD has not sent me.

nkjv@Numb ers:16:30 @ But if the LORD creates a new thing, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into the pit, then you will und erstand that these men have rejected the LORD."

nkjv@Numb ers:16:31 @ Now it came to pass, as he finished speaking all these words, that the ground split apart und er them,

nkjv@Numb ers:16:32 @ and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the men with Korah, with all their goods.

nkjv@Numb ers:16:33 @ So they and all those with them went down alive into the pit; the earth closed ov er them, and they p erished from among the assembly.

nkjv@Numb ers:16:34 @ Then all Israel who w ere around them fled at their cry, for they said, "Lest the earth swallow us up also!"

nkjv@Numb ers:16:35 @ And a fire came out from the LORD and consumed the two hundred and fifty men who w ere off ering incense.

nkjv@Numb ers:16:36 @ Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

nkjv@Numb ers:16:37 @ "Tell Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, to pick up the cens ers out of the blaze, for they are holy, and scatt er the fire some distance away.

nkjv@Numb ers:16:38 @ The cens ers of these men who sinned against their own souls, let them be made into hamm ered plates as a cov ering for the altar. Because they presented them before the LORD, th erefore they are holy; and they shall be a sign to the children of Israel."

nkjv@Numb ers:16:39 @ So Eleazar the priest took the bronze cens ers, which those who w ere burned up had presented, and they w ere hamm ered out as a cov ering on the altar,

nkjv@Numb ers:16:40 @ to be a memorial to the children of Israel that no outsid er, who is not a descendant of Aaron, should come near to off er incense before the LORD, that he might not become like Korah and his companions, just as the LORD had said to him through Moses.

nkjv@Numb ers:16:41 @ On the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, saying, "You have killed the people of the LORD."

nkjv@Numb ers:16:42 @ Now it happened, when the congregation had gath ered against Moses and Aaron, that they turned toward the tab ernacle of meeting; and suddenly the cloud cov ered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared.

nkjv@Numb ers:16:43 @ Then Moses and Aaron came before the tab ernacle of meeting.

nkjv@Numb ers:16:44 @ And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

nkjv@Numb ers:16:45 @ "Get away from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment." And they fell on their faces.

nkjv@Numb ers:16:46 @ So Moses said to Aaron, "Take a cens er and put fire in it from the altar, put incense on it, and take it quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them; for wrath has gone out from the LORD. The plague has begun."

nkjv@Numb ers:16:47 @ Then Aaron took it as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the assembly; and already the plague had begun among the people. So he put in the incense and made atonement for the people.

nkjv@Numb ers:16:48 @ And he stood between the dead and the living; so the plague was stopped.

nkjv@Numb ers:16:49 @ Now those who died in the plague w ere fourteen thousand seven hundred, besides those who died in the Korah incident.

nkjv@Numb ers:16:50 @ So Aaron returned to Moses at the door of the tab ernacle of meeting, for the plague had stopped.

nkjv@Numb ers:17:1 @ And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

nkjv@Numb ers:17:2 @ "Speak to the children of Israel, and get from them a rod from each fath er's house, all their lead ers according to their fath ers' houses--twelve rods. Write each man's name on his rod.

nkjv@Numb ers:17:3 @ And you shall write Aaron's name on the rod of Levi. For th ere shall be one rod for the head of each fath er's house.

nkjv@Numb ers:17:4 @ Then you shall place them in the tab ernacle of meeting before the Testimony, wh ere I meet with you.

nkjv@Numb ers:17:5 @ And it shall be that the rod of the man whom I choose will blossom; thus I will rid Myself of the complaints of the children of Israel, which they make against you."

nkjv@Numb ers:17:6 @ So Moses spoke to the children of Israel, and each of their lead ers gave him a rod apiece, for each lead er according to their fath ers' houses, twelve rods; and the rod of Aaron was among their rods.

nkjv@Numb ers:17:7 @ And Moses placed the rods before the LORD in the tab ernacle of witness.

nkjv@Numb ers:17:8 @ Now it came to pass on the next day that Moses went into the tab ernacle of witness, and behold, the rod of Aaron, of the house of Levi, had sprouted and put forth buds, had produced blossoms and yielded ripe almonds.

nkjv@Numb ers:17:9 @ Then Moses brought out all the rods from before the LORD to all the children of Israel; and they looked, and each man took his rod.

nkjv@Numb ers:17:10 @ And the LORD said to Moses, "Bring Aaron's rod back before the Testimony, to be kept as a sign against the rebels, that you may put their complaints away from Me, lest they die."

nkjv@Numb ers:17:11 @ Thus did Moses; just as the LORD had commanded him, so he did.

nkjv@Numb ers:17:12 @ So the children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, "Surely we die, we p erish, we all p erish!

nkjv@Numb ers:17:13 @ Whoev er even comes near the tab ernacle of the LORD must die. Shall we all utt erly die?"

nkjv@Numb ers:18:1 @ Then the LORD said to Aaron: "You and your sons and your fath er's house with you shall bear the iniquity related to the sanctuary, and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity associated with your priesthood.

nkjv@Numb ers:18:2 @ Also bring with you your brethren of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your fath er, that they may be joined with you and s erve you while you and your sons are with you before the tab ernacle of witness.

nkjv@Numb ers:18:3 @ They shall attend to your needs and all the needs of the tab ernacle; but they shall not come near the articles of the sanctuary and the altar, lest they die--they and you also.

nkjv@Numb ers:18:4 @ They shall be joined with you and attend to the needs of the tab ernacle of meeting, for all the work of the tab ernacle; but an outsid er shall not come near you.

nkjv@Numb ers:18:5 @ And you shall attend to the duties of the sanctuary and the duties of the altar, that th ere may be no more wrath on the children of Israel.

nkjv@Numb ers:18:6 @ Behold, I Myself have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel; they are a gift to you, given by the LORD, to do the work of the tab ernacle of meeting.

nkjv@Numb ers:18:7 @ Th erefore you and your sons with you shall attend to your priesthood for ev erything at the altar and behind the veil; and you shall s erve. I give your priesthood to you as a gift for s ervice, but the outsid er who comes near shall be put to death."

nkjv@Numb ers:18:8 @ And the LORD spoke to Aaron: "H ere, I Myself have also given you charge of My heave off erings, all the holy gifts of the children of Israel; I have given them as a portion to you and your sons, as an ordinance forev er.

nkjv@Numb ers:18:9 @ This shall be yours of the most holy things res erved from the fire: ev ery off ering of theirs, ev ery grain off ering and ev ery sin off ering and ev ery trespass off ering which they rend er to Me, shall be most holy for you and your sons.

nkjv@Numb ers:18:10 @ In a most holy place you shall eat it; ev ery male shall eat it. It shall be holy to you.

nkjv@Numb ers:18:11 @ "This also is yours: the heave off ering of their gift, with all the wave off erings of the children of Israel; I have given them to you, and your sons and daught ers with you, as an ordinance forev er. ev eryone who is clean in your house may eat it.

nkjv@Numb ers:18:12 @ "All the best of the oil, all the best of the new wine and the grain, their firstfruits which they off er to the LORD, I have given them to you.

nkjv@Numb ers:18:13 @ Whatev er first ripe fruit is in their land, which they bring to the LORD, shall be yours. Ev eryone who is clean in your house may eat it.

nkjv@Numb ers:18:14 @ "Ev ery devoted thing in Israel shall be yours.

nkjv@Numb ers:18:15 @ "Ev erything that first opens the womb of all flesh, which they bring to the LORD, wheth er man or beast, shall be yours; nev ertheless the firstborn of man you shall surely redeem, and the firstborn of unclean animals you shall redeem.

nkjv@Numb ers:18:16 @ And those redeemed of the devoted things you shall redeem when one month old, according to your valuation, for five shekels of silv er, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty g erahs.

nkjv@Numb ers:18:17 @ But the firstborn of a cow, the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat you shall not redeem; they are holy. You shall sprinkle their blood on the altar, and burn their fat as an off ering made by fire for a sweet aroma to the LORD.

nkjv@Numb ers:18:18 @ And their flesh shall be yours, just as the wave breast and the right thigh are yours.

nkjv@Numb ers:18:19 @ "All the heave off erings of the holy things, which the children of Israel off er to the LORD, I have given to you and your sons and daught ers with you as an ordinance forev er; it is a covenant of salt forev er before the LORD with you and your descendants with you."

nkjv@Numb ers:18:20 @ Then the LORD said to Aaron: "You shall have no inh eritance in their land, nor shall you have any portion among them; I am your portion and your inh eritance among the children of Israel.

nkjv@Numb ers:18:21 @ "Behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tithes in Israel as an inh eritance in return for the work which they p erform, the work of the tab ernacle of meeting.

nkjv@Numb ers:18:22 @ H ereaft er the children of Israel shall not come near the tab ernacle of meeting, lest they bear sin and die.

nkjv@Numb ers:18:23 @ But the Levites shall p erform the work of the tab ernacle of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity; it shall be a statute forev er, throughout your gen erations, that among the children of Israel they shall have no inh eritance.

nkjv@Numb ers:18:24 @ For the tithes of the children of Israel, which they off er up as a heave off ering to the LORD, I have given to the Levites as an inh eritance; th erefore I have said to them, "Among the children of Israel they shall have no inh eritance."'

nkjv@Numb ers:18:25 @ Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

nkjv@Numb ers:18:26 @ "Speak thus to the Levites, and say to them: "When you take from the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them as your inh eritance, then you shall off er up a heave off ering of it to the LORD, a tenth of the tithe.

nkjv@Numb ers:18:27 @ And your heave off ering shall be reckoned to you as though it w ere the grain of the threshing floor and as the fullness of the winepress.

nkjv@Numb ers:18:28 @ Thus you shall also off er a heave off ering to the LORD from all your tithes which you receive from the children of Israel, and you shall give the LORD's heave off ering from it to Aaron the priest.

nkjv@Numb ers:18:29 @ Of all your gifts you shall off er up ev ery heave off ering due to the LORD, from all the best of them, the consecrated part of them.'

nkjv@Numb ers:18:30 @ Th erefore you shall say to them: "When you have lifted up the best of it, then the rest shall be accounted to the Levites as the produce of the threshing floor and as the produce of the winepress.

nkjv@Numb ers:18:31 @ You may eat it in any place, you and your households, for it is your reward for your work in the tab ernacle of meeting.

nkjv@Numb ers:18:32 @ And you shall bear no sin because of it, when you have lifted up the best of it. But you shall not profane the holy gifts of the children of Israel, lest you die."'

nkjv@Numb ers:19:1 @ Now the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

nkjv@Numb ers:19:2 @ "This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD has commanded, saying: "Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring you a red heif er without blemish, in which th ere is no defect and on which a yoke has nev er come.

nkjv@Numb ers:19:3 @ You shall give it to Eleazar the priest, that he may take it outside the camp, and it shall be slaught ered before him;

nkjv@Numb ers:19:4 @ and Eleazar the priest shall take some of its blood with his fing er, and sprinkle some of its blood seven times directly in front of the tab ernacle of meeting.

nkjv@Numb ers:19:5 @ Then the heif er shall be burned in his sight: its hide, its flesh, its blood, and its offal shall be burned.

nkjv@Numb ers:19:6 @ And the priest shall take cedar wood and hyssop and scarlet, and cast them into the midst of the fire burning the heif er.

nkjv@Numb ers:19:7 @ Then the priest shall wash his clothes, he shall bathe in wat er, and aft erward he shall come into the camp; the priest shall be unclean until evening.

nkjv@Numb ers:19:8 @ And the one who burns it shall wash his clothes in wat er, bathe in wat er, and shall be unclean until evening.

nkjv@Numb ers:19:9 @ Then a man who is clean shall gath er up the ashes of the heif er, and store them outside the camp in a clean place; and they shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for the wat er of purification; it is for purifying from sin.

nkjv@Numb ers:19:10 @ And the one who gath ers the ashes of the heif er shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until evening. It shall be a statute forev er to the children of Israel and to the strang er who dwells among them.

nkjv@Numb ers:19:11 @ "He who touches the dead body of anyone shall be unclean seven days.

nkjv@Numb ers:19:12 @ He shall purify himself with the wat er on the third day and on the seventh day; then he will be clean. But if he does not purify himself on the third day and on the seventh day, he will not be clean.

nkjv@Numb ers:19:13 @ Whoev er touches the body of anyone who has died, and does not purify himself, defiles the tab ernacle of the LORD. That p erson shall be cut off from Israel. He shall be unclean, because the wat er of purification was not sprinkled on him; his uncleanness is still on him.

nkjv@Numb ers:19:14 @ "This is the law when a man dies in a tent: All who come into the tent and all who are in the tent shall be unclean seven days;

nkjv@Numb ers:19:15 @ and ev ery open vessel, which has no cov er fastened on it, is unclean.

nkjv@Numb ers:19:16 @ Whoev er in the open field touches one who is slain by a sword or who has died, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

nkjv@Numb ers:19:17 @ "And for an unclean p erson they shall take some of the ashes of the heif er burnt for purification from sin, and running wat er shall be put on them in a vessel.

nkjv@Numb ers:19:18 @ A clean p erson shall take hyssop and dip it in the wat er, sprinkle it on the tent, on all the vessels, on the p ersons who w ere th ere, or on the one who touched a bone, the slain, the dead, or a grave.

nkjv@Numb ers:19:19 @ The clean p erson shall sprinkle the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day; and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, wash his clothes, and bathe in wat er; and at evening he shall be clean.

nkjv@Numb ers:19:20 @ "But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself, that p erson shall be cut off from among the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. The wat er of purification has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.

nkjv@Numb ers:19:21 @ It shall be a p erpetual statute for them. He who sprinkles the wat er of purification shall wash his clothes; and he who touches the wat er of purification shall be unclean until evening.

nkjv@Numb ers:19:22 @ Whatev er the unclean p erson touches shall be unclean; and the p erson who touches it shall be unclean until evening."'

nkjv@Numb ers:20:1 @ Then the children of Israel, the whole congregation, came into the Wild erness of Zin in the first month, and the people stayed in Kadesh; and Miriam died th ere and was buried th ere.

nkjv@Numb ers:20:2 @ Now th ere was no wat er for the congregation; so they gath ered togeth er against Moses and Aaron.

nkjv@Numb ers:20:3 @ And the people contended with Moses and spoke, saying: "If only we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!

nkjv@Numb ers:20:4 @ Why have you brought up the assembly of the LORD into this wild erness, that we and our animals should die h ere?

nkjv@Numb ers:20:5 @ And why have you made us come up out of Egypt, to bring us to this evil place? It is not a place of grain or figs or vines or pomegranates; nor is th ere any wat er to drink."

nkjv@Numb ers:20:6 @ So Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the tab ernacle of meeting, and they fell on their faces. And the glory of the LORD appeared to them.

nkjv@Numb ers:20:7 @ Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

nkjv@Numb ers:20:8 @ "Take the rod; you and your broth er Aaron gath er the congregation togeth er. Speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will yield its wat er; thus you shall bring wat er for them out of the rock, and give drink to the congregation and their animals."

nkjv@Numb ers:20:9 @ So Moses took the rod from before the LORD as He commanded him.

nkjv@Numb ers:20:10 @ And Moses and Aaron gath ered the assembly togeth er before the rock; and he said to them, "Hear now, you rebels! Must we bring wat er for you out of this rock?"

nkjv@Numb ers:20:11 @ Then Moses lifted his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod; and wat er came out abundantly, and the congregation and their animals drank.

nkjv@Numb ers:20:12 @ Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, "Because you did not believe Me, to hallow Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, th erefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them."

nkjv@Numb ers:20:13 @ This was the wat er of M eribah, because the children of Israel contended with the LORD, and He was hallowed among them.

nkjv@Numb ers:20:14 @ Now Moses sent messeng ers from Kadesh to the king of Edom. "Thus says your broth er Israel: "You know all the hardship that has befallen us,

nkjv@Numb ers:20:15 @ how our fath ers went down to Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians afflicted us and our fath ers.

nkjv@Numb ers:20:16 @ When we cried out to the LORD, He heard our voice and sent the Angel and brought us up out of Egypt; now h ere we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your bord er.

nkjv@Numb ers:20:17 @ Please let us pass through your country. We will not pass through fields or vineyards, nor will we drink wat er from wells; we will go along the King's Highway; we will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left until we have passed through your t erritory."'

nkjv@Numb ers:20:18 @ Then Edom said to him, "You shall not pass through my land, lest I come out against you with the sword."

nkjv@Numb ers:20:19 @ So the children of Israel said to him, "We will go by the Highway, and if I or my livestock drink any of your wat er, then I will pay for it; let me only pass through on foot, nothing more."

nkjv@Numb ers:20:20 @ Then he said, "You shall not pass through." So Edom came out against them with many men and with a strong hand.

nkjv@Numb ers:20:21 @ Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his t erritory; so Israel turned away from him.

nkjv@Numb ers:20:22 @ Now the children of Israel, the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh and came to Mount Hor.

nkjv@Numb ers:20:23 @ And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor by the bord er of the land of Edom, saying:

nkjv@Numb ers:20:24 @ "Aaron shall be gath ered to his people, for he shall not ent er the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against My word at the wat er of M eribah.

nkjv@Numb ers:20:25 @ Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up to Mount Hor;

nkjv@Numb ers:20:26 @ and strip Aaron of his garments and put them on Eleazar his son; for Aaron shall be gath ered to his people and die th ere."

nkjv@Numb ers:20:27 @ So Moses did just as the LORD commanded, and they went up to Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.

nkjv@Numb ers:20:28 @ Moses stripped Aaron of his garments and put them on Eleazar his son; and Aaron died th ere on the top of the mountain. Then Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.

nkjv@Numb ers:20:29 @ Now when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, all the house of Israel mourned for Aaron thirty days.

nkjv@Numb ers:21:1 @ The king of Arad, the Canaanite, who dwelt in the South, heard that Israel was coming on the road to Atharim. Then he fought against Israel and took some of them prison ers.

nkjv@Numb ers:21:2 @ So Israel made a vow to the LORD, and said, "If You will indeed deliv er this people into my hand, then I will utt erly destroy their cities."

nkjv@Numb ers:21:3 @ And the LORD listened to the voice of Israel and deliv ered up the Canaanites, and they utt erly destroyed them and their cities. So the name of that place was called Hormah.

nkjv@Numb ers:21:4 @ Then they journeyed from Mount Hor by the Way of the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; and the soul of the people became v ery discouraged on the way.

nkjv@Numb ers:21:5 @ And the people spoke against God and against Moses: "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wild erness? For th ere is no food and no wat er, and our soul loathes this worthless bread."

nkjv@Numb ers:21:6 @ So the LORD sent fi ery s erpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many of the people of Israel died.

nkjv@Numb ers:21:7 @ Th erefore the people came to Moses, and said, "We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD and against you; pray to the LORD that He take away the s erpents from us." So Moses prayed for the people.

nkjv@Numb ers:21:8 @ Then the LORD said to Moses, "Make a fi ery s erpent, and set it on a pole; and it shall be that ev eryone who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live."

nkjv@Numb ers:21:9 @ So Moses made a bronze s erpent, and put it on a pole; and so it was, if a s erpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze s erpent, he lived.

nkjv@Numb ers:21:10 @ Now the children of Israel moved on and camped in Oboth.

nkjv@Numb ers:21:11 @ And they journeyed from Oboth and camped at Ije Abarim, in the wild erness which is east of Moab, toward the sunrise.

nkjv@Numb ers:21:12 @ From th ere they moved and camped in the Valley of Z ered.

nkjv@Numb ers:21:13 @ From th ere they moved and camped on the oth er side of the Arnon, which is in the wild erness that extends from the bord er of the Amorites; for the Arnon is the bord er of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.

nkjv@Numb ers:21:14 @ Th erefore it is said in the Book of the Wars of the LORD: "Waheb in Suphah, The brooks of the Arnon,

nkjv@Numb ers:21:15 @ And the slope of the brooks That reaches to the dwelling of Ar, And lies on the bord er of Moab."

nkjv@Numb ers:21:16 @ From th ere they went to Be er, which is the well wh ere the LORD said to Moses, "Gath er the people togeth er, and I will give them wat er."

nkjv@Numb ers:21:17 @ Then Israel sang this song: "Spring up, O well! All of you sing to it--

nkjv@Numb ers:21:18 @ The well the lead ers sank, Dug by the nation's nobles, By the lawgiv er, with their staves." And from the wild erness they went to Mattanah,

nkjv@Numb ers:21:19 @ from Mattanah to Nahaliel, from Nahaliel to Bamoth,

nkjv@Numb ers:21:20 @ and from Bamoth, in the valley that is in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah which looks down on the wasteland.

nkjv@Numb ers:21:21 @ Then Israel sent messeng ers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,

nkjv@Numb ers:21:22 @ "Let me pass through your land. We will not turn aside into fields or vineyards; we will not drink wat er from wells. We will go by the King's Highway until we have passed through your t erritory."

nkjv@Numb ers:21:23 @ But Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his t erritory. So Sihon gath ered all his people togeth er and went out against Israel in the wild erness, and he came to Jahaz and fought against Israel.

nkjv@Numb ers:21:24 @ Then Israel defeated him with the edge of the sword, and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the people of Ammon; for the bord er of the people of Ammon was fortified.

nkjv@Numb ers:21:25 @ So Israel took all these cities, and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon and in all its villages.

nkjv@Numb ers:21:26 @ For Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had fought against the form er king of Moab, and had taken all his land from his hand as far as the Arnon.

nkjv@Numb ers:21:27 @ Th erefore those who speak in prov erbs say: "Come to Heshbon, let it be built; Let the city of Sihon be repaired.

nkjv@Numb ers:21:28 @ "For fire went out from Heshbon, A flame from the city of Sihon; It consumed Ar of Moab, The lords of the heights of the Arnon.

nkjv@Numb ers:21:29 @ Woe to you, Moab! You have p erished, O people of Chemosh! He has given his sons as fugitives, And his daught ers into captivity, To Sihon king of the Amorites.

nkjv@Numb ers:21:30 @ "But we have shot at them; Heshbon has p erished as far as Dibon. Then we laid waste as far as Nophah, Which reaches to Medeba."

nkjv@Numb ers:21:31 @ Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.

nkjv@Numb ers:21:32 @ Then Moses sent to spy out Jaz er; and they took its villages and drove out the Amorites who w ere th ere.

nkjv@Numb ers:21:33 @ And they turned and went up by the way to Bashan. So Og king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.

nkjv@Numb ers:21:34 @ Then the LORD said to Moses, "Do not fear him, for I have deliv ered him into your hand, with all his people and his land; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon."

nkjv@Numb ers:21:35 @ So they defeated him, his sons, and all his people, until th ere was no survivor left him; and they took possession of his land.

nkjv@Numb ers:22:1 @ Then the children of Israel moved, and camped in the plains of Moab on the side of the Jordan across from J ericho.

nkjv@Numb ers:22:2 @ Now Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.

nkjv@Numb ers:22:3 @ And Moab was exceedingly afraid of the people because they w ere many, and Moab was sick with dread because of the children of Israel.

nkjv@Numb ers:22:4 @ So Moab said to the eld ers of Midian, "Now this company will lick up ev erything around us, as an ox licks up the grass of the field." And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time.

nkjv@Numb ers:22:5 @ Then he sent messeng ers to Balaam the son of Beor at Pethor, which is near the Riv er in the land of the sons of his people, to call him, saying: "Look, a people has come from Egypt. See, they cov er the face of the earth, and are settling next to me!

nkjv@Numb ers:22:6 @ Th erefore please come at once, curse this people for me, for they are too mighty for me. P erhaps I shall be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land, for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed."

nkjv@Numb ers:22:7 @ So the eld ers of Moab and the eld ers of Midian departed with the divin er's fee in their hand, and they came to Balaam and spoke to him the words of Balak.

nkjv@Numb ers:22:8 @ And he said to them, "Lodge h ere tonight, and I will bring back word to you, as the LORD speaks to me." So the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.

nkjv@Numb ers:22:9 @ Then God came to Balaam and said, "Who are these men with you?"

nkjv@Numb ers:22:10 @ So Balaam said to God, "Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent to me, saying,

nkjv@Numb ers:22:11 @ "Look, a people has come out of Egypt, and they cov er the face of the earth. Come now, curse them for me; p erhaps I shall be able to ov erpow er them and drive them out."'

nkjv@Numb ers:22:12 @ And God said to Balaam, "You shall not go with them; you shall not curse the people, for they are blessed."

nkjv@Numb ers:22:13 @ So Balaam rose in the morning and said to the princes of Balak, "Go back to your land, for the LORD has refused to give me p ermission to go with you."

nkjv@Numb ers:22:14 @ And the princes of Moab rose and went to Balak, and said, "Balaam refuses to come with us."

nkjv@Numb ers:22:15 @ Then Balak again sent princes, more num erous and more honorable than they.

nkjv@Numb ers:22:16 @ And they came to Balaam and said to him, "Thus says Balak the son of Zippor: "Please let nothing hind er you from coming to me;

nkjv@Numb ers:22:17 @ for I will c ertainly honor you greatly, and I will do whatev er you say to me. Th erefore please come, curse this people for me."'

nkjv@Numb ers:22:18 @ Then Balaam answ ered and said to the s ervants of Balak, "Though Balak w ere to give me his house full of silv er and gold, I could not go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more.

nkjv@Numb ers:22:19 @ Now th erefore, please, you also stay h ere tonight, that I may know what more the LORD will say to me."

nkjv@Numb ers:22:20 @ And God came to Balaam at night and said to him, "If the men come to call you, rise and go with them; but only the word which I speak to you--that you shall do."

nkjv@Numb ers:22:21 @ So Balaam rose in the morning, saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab.

nkjv@Numb ers:22:22 @ Then God's ang er was aroused because he went, and the Angel of the LORD took His stand in the way as an adv ersary against him. And he was riding on his donkey, and his two s ervants w ere with him.

nkjv@Numb ers:22:23 @ Now the donkey saw the Angel of the LORD standing in the way with His drawn sword in His hand, and the donkey turned aside out of the way and went into the field. So Balaam struck the donkey to turn h er back onto the road.

nkjv@Numb ers:22:24 @ Then the Angel of the LORD stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, with a wall on this side and a wall on that side.

nkjv@Numb ers:22:25 @ And when the donkey saw the Angel of the LORD, she pushed h erself against the wall and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall; so he struck h er again.

nkjv@Numb ers:22:26 @ Then the Angel of the LORD went furth er, and stood in a narrow place wh ere th ere was no way to turn eith er to the right hand or to the left.

nkjv@Numb ers:22:27 @ And when the donkey saw the Angel of the LORD, she lay down und er Balaam; so Balaam's ang er was aroused, and he struck the donkey with his staff.

nkjv@Numb ers:22:28 @ Then the LORD opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, "What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?"

nkjv@Numb ers:22:29 @ And Balaam said to the donkey, "Because you have abused me. I wish th ere w ere a sword in my hand, for now I would kill you!"

nkjv@Numb ers:22:30 @ So the donkey said to Balaam, "Am I not your donkey on which you have ridden, ev er since I became yours, to this day? Was I ev er disposed to do this to you?" And he said, "No."

nkjv@Numb ers:22:31 @ Then the LORD opened Balaam's eyes, and he saw the Angel of the LORD standing in the way with His drawn sword in His hand; and he bowed his head and fell flat on his face.

nkjv@Numb ers:22:32 @ And the Angel of the LORD said to him, "Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out to stand against you, because your way is p erv erse before Me.

nkjv@Numb ers:22:33 @ The donkey saw Me and turned aside from Me these three times. If she had not turned aside from Me, surely I would also have killed you by now, and let h er live."

nkjv@Numb ers:22:34 @ And Balaam said to the Angel of the LORD, "I have sinned, for I did not know You stood in the way against me. Now th erefore, if it displeases You, I will turn back."

nkjv@Numb ers:22:35 @ Then the Angel of the LORD said to Balaam, "Go with the men, but only the word that I speak to you, that you shall speak." So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.

nkjv@Numb ers:22:36 @ Now when Balak heard that Balaam was coming, he went out to meet him at the city of Moab, which is on the bord er at the Arnon, the boundary of the t erritory.

nkjv@Numb ers:22:37 @ Then Balak said to Balaam, "Did I not earnestly send to you, calling for you? Why did you not come to me? Am I not able to honor you?"

nkjv@Numb ers:22:38 @ And Balaam said to Balak, "Look, I have come to you! Now, have I any pow er at all to say anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that I must speak."

nkjv@Numb ers:22:39 @ So Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kirjath Huzoth.

nkjv@Numb ers:22:40 @ Then Balak off ered oxen and sheep, and he sent some to Balaam and to the princes who w ere with him.

nkjv@Numb ers:22:41 @ So it was, the next day, that Balak took Balaam and brought him up to the high places of Baal, that from th ere he might obs erve the extent of the people.

nkjv@Numb ers:23:1 @ Then Balaam said to Balak, "Build seven altars for me h ere, and prepare for me h ere seven bulls and seven rams."

nkjv@Numb ers:23:2 @ And Balak did just as Balaam had spoken, and Balak and Balaam off ered a bull and a ram on each altar.

nkjv@Numb ers:23:3 @ Then Balaam said to Balak, "Stand by your burnt off ering, and I will go; p erhaps the LORD will come to meet me, and whatev er He shows me I will tell you." So he went to a desolate height.

nkjv@Numb ers:23:4 @ And God met Balaam, and he said to Him, "I have prepared the seven altars, and I have off ered on each altar a bull and a ram."

nkjv@Numb ers:23:5 @ Then the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, "Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak."

nkjv@Numb ers:23:6 @ So he returned to him, and th ere he was, standing by his burnt off ering, he and all the princes of Moab.

nkjv@Numb ers:23:7 @ And he took up his oracle and said: "Balak the king of Moab has brought me from Aram, From the mountains of the east. "Come, curse Jacob for me, And come, denounce Israel!'

nkjv@Numb ers:23:8 @ "How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? And how shall I denounce whom the LORD has not denounced?

nkjv@Numb ers:23:9 @ For from the top of the rocks I see him, And from the hills I behold him; Th ere! A people dwelling alone, Not reckoning itself among the nations.

nkjv@Numb ers:23:10 @ "Who can count the dust of Jacob, Or numb er one-fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, And let my end be like his!"

nkjv@Numb ers:23:11 @ Then Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and look, you have blessed them bountifully!"

nkjv@Numb ers:23:12 @ So he answ ered and said, "Must I not take heed to speak what the LORD has put in my mouth?"

nkjv@Numb ers:23:13 @ Then Balak said to him, "Please come with me to anoth er place from which you may see them; you shall see only the out er part of them, and shall not see them all; curse them for me from th ere."

nkjv@Numb ers:23:14 @ So he brought him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and off ered a bull and a ram on each altar.

nkjv@Numb ers:23:15 @ And he said to Balak, "Stand h ere by your burnt off ering while I meet the LORD ov er th ere."

nkjv@Numb ers:23:16 @ Then the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, "Go back to Balak, and thus you shall speak."

nkjv@Numb ers:23:17 @ So he came to him, and th ere he was, standing by his burnt off ering, and the princes of Moab w ere with him. And Balak said to him, "What has the LORD spoken?"

nkjv@Numb ers:23:18 @ Then he took up his oracle and said: "Rise up, Balak, and hear! Listen to me, son of Zippor!

nkjv@Numb ers:23:19 @ "God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?

nkjv@Numb ers:23:20 @ Behold, I have received a command to bless; He has blessed, and I cannot rev erse it.

nkjv@Numb ers:23:21 @ "He has not obs erved iniquity in Jacob, Nor has He seen wickedness in Israel. The LORD his God is with him, And the shout of a King is among them.

nkjv@Numb ers:23:22 @ God brings them out of Egypt; He has strength like a wild ox.

nkjv@Numb ers:23:23 @ "For th ere is no sorc ery against Jacob, Nor any divination against Israel. It now must be said of Jacob And of Israel, "Oh, what God has done!'

nkjv@Numb ers:23:24 @ Look, a people rises like a lioness, And lifts itself up like a lion; It shall not lie down until it devours the prey, And drinks the blood of the slain."

nkjv@Numb ers:23:25 @ Then Balak said to Balaam, "Neith er curse them at all, nor bless them at all!"

nkjv@Numb ers:23:26 @ So Balaam answ ered and said to Balak, "Did I not tell you, saying, "All that the LORD speaks, that I must do'?"

nkjv@Numb ers:23:27 @ Then Balak said to Balaam, "Please come, I will take you to anoth er place; p erhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from th ere."

nkjv@Numb ers:23:28 @ So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that ov erlooks the wasteland.

nkjv@Numb ers:23:29 @ Then Balaam said to Balak, "Build for me h ere seven altars, and prepare for me h ere seven bulls and seven rams."

nkjv@Numb ers:23:30 @ And Balak did as Balaam had said, and off ered a bull and a ram on ev ery altar.

nkjv@Numb ers:24:1 @ Now when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he did not go as at oth er times, to seek to use sorc ery, but he set his face toward the wild erness.

nkjv@Numb ers:24:2 @ And Balaam raised his eyes, and saw Israel encamped according to their tribes; and the Spirit of God came upon him.

nkjv@Numb ers:24:3 @ Then he took up his oracle and said: "The utt erance of Balaam the son of Beor, The utt erance of the man whose eyes are opened,

nkjv@Numb ers:24:4 @ The utt erance of him who hears the words of God, Who sees the vision of the Almighty, Who falls down, with eyes wide open:

nkjv@Numb ers:24:5 @ "How lovely are your tents, O Jacob! Your dwellings, O Israel!

nkjv@Numb ers:24:6 @ Like valleys that stretch out, Like gardens by the riv erside, Like aloes planted by the LORD, Like cedars beside the wat ers.

nkjv@Numb ers:24:7 @ He shall pour wat er from his buckets, And his seed shall be in many wat ers. "His king shall be high er than Agag, And his kingdom shall be exalted.

nkjv@Numb ers:24:8 @ "God brings him out of Egypt; He has strength like a wild ox; He shall consume the nations, his enemies; He shall break their bones And pi erce them with his arrows.

nkjv@Numb ers:24:9 @ "He bows down, he lies down as a lion; And as a lion, who shall rouse him?' "Blessed is he who blesses you, And cursed is he who curses you."

nkjv@Numb ers:24:10 @ Then Balak's ang er was aroused against Balaam, and he struck his hands togeth er; and Balak said to Balaam, "I called you to curse my enemies, and look, you have bountifully blessed them these three times!

nkjv@Numb ers:24:11 @ Now th erefore, flee to your place. I said I would greatly honor you, but in fact, the LORD has kept you back from honor."

nkjv@Numb ers:24:12 @ So Balaam said to Balak, "Did I not also speak to your messeng ers whom you sent to me, saying,

nkjv@Numb ers:24:13 @ "If Balak w ere to give me his house full of silv er and gold, I could not go beyond the word of the LORD, to do good or bad of my own will. What the LORD says, that I must speak'?

nkjv@Numb ers:24:14 @ And now, indeed, I am going to my people. Come, I will advise you what this people will do to your people in the latt er days."

nkjv@Numb ers:24:15 @ So he took up his oracle and said: "The utt erance of Balaam the son of Beor, And the utt erance of the man whose eyes are opened;

nkjv@Numb ers:24:16 @ The utt erance of him who hears the words of God, And has the knowledge of the Most High, Who sees the vision of the Almighty, Who falls down, with eyes wide open:

nkjv@Numb ers:24:17 @ "I see Him, but not now; I behold Him, but not near; A Star shall come out of Jacob; A Scept er shall rise out of Israel, And batt er the brow of Moab, And destroy all the sons of tumult.

nkjv@Numb ers:24:18 @ "And Edom shall be a possession; Seir also, his enemies, shall be a possession, While Israel does valiantly.

nkjv@Numb ers:24:19 @ Out of Jacob One shall have dominion, And destroy the remains of the city."

nkjv@Numb ers:24:20 @ Then he looked on Amalek, and he took up his oracle and said: "Amalek was first among the nations, But shall be last until he p erishes."

nkjv@Numb ers:24:21 @ Then he looked on the Kenites, and he took up his oracle and said: "Firm is your dwelling place, And your nest is set in the rock;

nkjv@Numb ers:24:22 @ Nev ertheless Kain shall be burned. How long until Asshur carries you away captive?"

nkjv@Numb ers:24:23 @ Then he took up his oracle and said: "Alas! Who shall live when God does this?

nkjv@Numb ers:24:24 @ But ships shall come from the coasts of Cyprus, And they shall afflict Asshur and afflict Eb er, And so shall Amalek, until he p erishes."

nkjv@Numb ers:24:25 @ So Balaam rose and departed and returned to his place; Balak also went his way.

nkjv@Numb ers:25:1 @ Now Israel remained in Acacia Grove, and the people began to commit harlotry with the women of Moab.

nkjv@Numb ers:25:2 @ They invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.

nkjv@Numb ers:25:3 @ So Israel was joined to Baal of Peor, and the ang er of the LORD was aroused against Israel.

nkjv@Numb ers:25:4 @ Then the LORD said to Moses, "Take all the lead ers of the people and hang the offend ers before the LORD, out in the sun, that the fi erce ang er of the LORD may turn away from Israel."

nkjv@Numb ers:25:5 @ So Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Ev ery one of you kill his men who w ere joined to Baal of Peor."

nkjv@Numb ers:25:6 @ And indeed, one of the children of Israel came and presented to his brethren a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who w ere weeping at the door of the tab ernacle of meeting.

nkjv@Numb ers:25:7 @ Now when Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose from among the congregation and took a javelin in his hand;

nkjv@Numb ers:25:8 @ and he went aft er the man of Israel into the tent and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through h er body. So the plague was stopped among the children of Israel.

nkjv@Numb ers:25:9 @ And those who died in the plague w ere twenty-four thousand.

nkjv@Numb ers:25:10 @ Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

nkjv@Numb ers:25:11 @ "Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned back My wrath from the children of Israel, because he was zealous with My zeal among them, so that I did not consume the children of Israel in My zeal.

nkjv@Numb ers:25:12 @ Th erefore say, "Behold, I give to him My covenant of peace;

nkjv@Numb ers:25:13 @ and it shall be to him and his descendants aft er him a covenant of an ev erlasting priesthood, because he was zealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel."'

nkjv@Numb ers:25:14 @ Now the name of the Israelite who was killed, who was killed with the Midianite woman, was Zimri the son of Salu, a lead er of a fath er's house among the Simeonites.

nkjv@Numb ers:25:15 @ And the name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Cozbi the daught er of Zur; he was head of the people of a fath er's house in Midian.

nkjv@Numb ers:25:16 @ Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

nkjv@Numb ers:25:17 @ "Harass the Midianites, and attack them;

nkjv@Numb ers:25:18 @ for they harassed you with their schemes by which they seduced you in the matt er of Peor and in the matt er of Cozbi, the daught er of a lead er of Midian, their sist er, who was killed in the day of the plague because of Peor."

nkjv@Numb ers:26:1 @ And it came to pass, aft er the plague, that the LORD spoke to Moses and Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying:

nkjv@Numb ers:26:2 @ "Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel from twenty years old and above, by their fath ers' houses, all who are able to go to war in Israel."

nkjv@Numb ers:26:3 @ So Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from J ericho, saying:

nkjv@Numb ers:26:4 @ "Take a census of the people from twenty years old and above, just as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel who came out of the land of Egypt."

nkjv@Numb ers:26:5 @ Reuben was the firstborn of Israel. The children of Reuben w ere: of Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites;

nkjv@Numb ers:26:6 @ of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.

nkjv@Numb ers:26:7 @ These are the families of the Reubenites: those who w ere numb ered of them w ere forty-three thousand seven hundred and thirty.

nkjv@Numb ers:26:8 @ And the son of Pallu was Eliab.

nkjv@Numb ers:26:9 @ The sons of Eliab w ere Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. These are the Dathan and Abiram, representatives of the congregation, who contended against Moses and Aaron in the company of Korah, when they contended against the LORD;

nkjv@Numb ers:26:10 @ and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up togeth er with Korah when that company died, when the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men; and they became a sign.

nkjv@Numb ers:26:11 @ Nev ertheless the children of Korah did not die.

nkjv@Numb ers:26:12 @ The sons of Simeon according to their families w ere: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites; of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites; of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites;

nkjv@Numb ers:26:13 @ of Z erah, the family of the Zarhites; of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.

nkjv@Numb ers:26:14 @ These are the families of the Simeonites: twenty-two thousand two hundred.

nkjv@Numb ers:26:15 @ The sons of Gad according to their families w ere: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites; of Haggi, the family of the Haggites; of Shuni, the family of the Shunites;

nkjv@Numb ers:26:16 @ of Ozni, the family of the Oznites; of Eri, the family of the Erites;

nkjv@Numb ers:26:17 @ of Arod, the family of the Arodites; of Areli, the family of the Arelites.

nkjv@Numb ers:26:18 @ These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those who w ere numb ered of them: forty thousand five hundred.

nkjv@Numb ers:26:19 @ The sons of Judah w ere Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.

nkjv@Numb ers:26:20 @ And the sons of Judah according to their families w ere: of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of P erez, the family of the Parzites; of Z erah, the family of the Zarhites.

nkjv@Numb ers:26:21 @ And the sons of P erez w ere: of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.

nkjv@Numb ers:26:22 @ These are the families of Judah according to those who w ere numb ered of them: seventy-six thousand five hundred.

nkjv@Numb ers:26:23 @ The sons of Issachar according to their families w ere: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites; of Puah, the family of the Punites;

nkjv@Numb ers:26:24 @ of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites; of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites.

nkjv@Numb ers:26:25 @ These are the families of Issachar according to those who w ere numb ered of them: sixty-four thousand three hundred.

nkjv@Numb ers:26:26 @ The sons of Zebulun according to their families w ere: of S ered, the family of the Sardites; of Elon, the family of the Elonites; of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.

nkjv@Numb ers:26:27 @ These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those who w ere numb ered of them: sixty thousand five hundred.

nkjv@Numb ers:26:28 @ The sons of Joseph according to their families, by Manasseh and Ephraim, w ere:

nkjv@Numb ers:26:29 @ The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites; and Machir begot Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.

nkjv@Numb ers:26:30 @ These are the sons of Gilead: of Jeez er, the family of the Jeez erites; of Helek, the family of the Helekites;

nkjv@Numb ers:26:31 @ of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites;

nkjv@Numb ers:26:32 @ of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; of Heph er, the family of the Heph erites.

nkjv@Numb ers:26:33 @ Now Zelophehad the son of Heph er had no sons, but daught ers; and the names of the daught ers of Zelophehad w ere Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

nkjv@Numb ers:26:34 @ These are the families of Manasseh; and those who w ere numb ered of them w ere fifty-two thousand seven hundred.

nkjv@Numb ers:26:35 @ These are the sons of Ephraim according to their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthalhites; of Bech er, the family of the Bachrites; of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.

nkjv@Numb ers:26:36 @ And these are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites.

nkjv@Numb ers:26:37 @ These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those who w ere numb ered of them: thirty-two thousand five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph according to their families.

nkjv@Numb ers:26:38 @ The sons of Benjamin according to their families w ere: of Bela, the family of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites;

nkjv@Numb ers:26:39 @ of Shupham, the family of the Shuphamites; of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.

nkjv@Numb ers:26:40 @ And the sons of Bela w ere Ard and Naaman: of Ard, the family of the Ardites; of Naaman, the family of the Naamites.

nkjv@Numb ers:26:41 @ These are the sons of Benjamin according to their families; and those who w ere numb ered of them w ere forty-five thousand six hundred.

nkjv@Numb ers:26:42 @ These are the sons of Dan according to their families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan according to their families.

nkjv@Numb ers:26:43 @ All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those who w ere numb ered of them, w ere sixty-four thousand four hundred.

nkjv@Numb ers:26:44 @ The sons of Ash er according to their families w ere: of Jimna, the family of the Jimnites; of Jesui, the family of the Jesuites; of B eriah, the family of the B eriites.

nkjv@Numb ers:26:45 @ Of the sons of B eriah: of Heb er, the family of the Heb erites; of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.

nkjv@Numb ers:26:46 @ And the name of the daught er of Ash er was S erah.

nkjv@Numb ers:26:47 @ These are the families of the sons of Ash er according to those who w ere numb ered of them: fifty-three thousand four hundred.

nkjv@Numb ers:26:48 @ The sons of Naphtali according to their families w ere: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites; of Guni, the family of the Gunites;

nkjv@Numb ers:26:49 @ of Jez er, the family of the Jez erites; of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.

nkjv@Numb ers:26:50 @ These are the families of Naphtali according to their families; and those who w ere numb ered of them w ere forty-five thousand four hundred.

nkjv@Numb ers:26:51 @ These are those who w ere numb ered of the children of Israel: six hundred and one thousand seven hundred and thirty.

nkjv@Numb ers:26:52 @ Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

nkjv@Numb ers:26:53 @ "To these the land shall be divided as an inh eritance, according to the numb er of names.

nkjv@Numb ers:26:54 @ To a large tribe you shall give a larg er inh eritance, and to a small tribe you shall give a small er inh eritance. Each shall be given its inh eritance according to those who w ere numb ered of them.

nkjv@Numb ers:26:55 @ But the land shall be divided by lot; they shall inh erit according to the names of the tribes of their fath ers.

nkjv@Numb ers:26:56 @ According to the lot their inh eritance shall be divided between the larg er and the small er."

nkjv@Numb ers:26:57 @ And these are those who w ere numb ered of the Levites according to their families: of G ershon, the family of the G ershonites; of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites; of M erari, the family of the M erarites.

nkjv@Numb ers:26:58 @ These are the families of the Levites: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, and the family of the Korathites. And Kohath begot Amram.

nkjv@Numb ers:26:59 @ The name of Amram's wife was Jochebed the daught er of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt; and to Amram she bore Aaron and Moses and their sist er Miriam.

nkjv@Numb ers:26:60 @ To Aaron w ere born Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

nkjv@Numb ers:26:61 @ And Nadab and Abihu died when they off ered profane fire before the LORD.

nkjv@Numb ers:26:62 @ Now those who w ere numb ered of them w ere twenty-three thousand, ev ery male from a month old and above; for they w ere not numb ered among the oth er children of Israel, because th ere was no inh eritance given to them among the children of Israel.

nkjv@Numb ers:26:63 @ These are those who w ere numb ered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numb ered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from J ericho.

nkjv@Numb ers:26:64 @ But among these th ere was not a man of those who w ere numb ered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they numb ered the children of Israel in the Wild erness of Sinai.

nkjv@Numb ers:26:65 @ For the LORD had said of them, "They shall surely die in the wild erness." So th ere was not left a man of them, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.

nkjv@Numb ers:27:1 @ Then came the daught ers of Zelophehad the son of Heph er, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, from the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph; and these w ere the names of his daught ers: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

nkjv@Numb ers:27:2 @ And they stood before Moses, before Eleazar the priest, and before the lead ers and all the congregation, by the doorway of the tab ernacle of meeting, saying:

nkjv@Numb ers:27:3 @ "Our fath er died in the wild erness; but he was not in the company of those who gath ered togeth er against the LORD, in company with Korah, but he died in his own sin; and he had no sons.

nkjv@Numb ers:27:4 @ Why should the name of our fath er be removed from among his family because he had no son? Give us a possession among our fath er's broth ers."

nkjv@Numb ers:27:5 @ So Moses brought their case before the LORD.

nkjv@Numb ers:27:6 @ And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

nkjv@Numb ers:27:7 @ "The daught ers of Zelophehad speak what is right; you shall surely give them a possession of inh eritance among their fath er's broth ers, and cause the inh eritance of their fath er to pass to them.

nkjv@Numb ers:27:8 @ And you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying: "If a man dies and has no son, then you shall cause his inh eritance to pass to his daught er.

nkjv@Numb ers:27:9 @ If he has no daught er, then you shall give his inh eritance to his broth ers.

nkjv@Numb ers:27:10 @ If he has no broth ers, then you shall give his inh eritance to his fath er's broth ers.

nkjv@Numb ers:27:11 @ And if his fath er has no broth ers, then you shall give his inh eritance to the relative closest to him in his family, and he shall possess it."' And it shall be to the children of Israel a statute of judgment, just as the LORD commanded Moses.

nkjv@Numb ers:27:12 @ Now the LORD said to Moses: "Go up into this Mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the children of Israel.

nkjv@Numb ers:27:13 @ And when you have seen it, you also shall be gath ered to your people, as Aaron your broth er was gath ered.

nkjv@Numb ers:27:14 @ For in the Wild erness of Zin, during the strife of the congregation, you rebelled against My command to hallow Me at the wat ers before their eyes." (These are the wat ers of M eribah, at Kadesh in the Wild erness of Zin.)

nkjv@Numb ers:27:15 @ Then Moses spoke to the LORD, saying:

nkjv@Numb ers:27:16 @ "Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man ov er the congregation,

nkjv@Numb ers:27:17 @ who may go out before them and go in before them, who may lead them out and bring them in, that the congregation of the LORD may not be like sheep which have no sheph erd."

nkjv@Numb ers:27:18 @ And the LORD said to Moses: "Take Joshua the son of Nun with you, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him;

nkjv@Numb ers:27:19 @ set him before Eleazar the priest and before all the congregation, and inaugurate him in their sight.

nkjv@Numb ers:27:20 @ And you shall give some of your authority to him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient.

nkjv@Numb ers:27:21 @ He shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire before the LORD for him by the judgment of the Urim. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, he and all the children of Israel with him--all the congregation."

nkjv@Numb ers:27:22 @ So Moses did as the LORD commanded him. He took Joshua and set him before Eleazar the priest and before all the congregation.

nkjv@Numb ers:27:23 @ And he laid his hands on him and inaugurated him, just as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.

nkjv@Numb ers:28:1 @ Now the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

nkjv@Numb ers:28:2 @ "Command the children of Israel, and say to them, "My off ering, My food for My off erings made by fire as a sweet aroma to Me, you shall be careful to off er to Me at their appointed time.'

nkjv@Numb ers:28:3 @ "And you shall say to them, "This is the off ering made by fire which you shall off er to the LORD: two male lambs in their first year without blemish, day by day, as a regular burnt off ering.

nkjv@Numb ers:28:4 @ The one lamb you shall off er in the morning, the oth er lamb you shall off er in the evening,

nkjv@Numb ers:28:5 @ and one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a grain off ering mixed with one-fourth of a hin of pressed oil.

nkjv@Numb ers:28:6 @ It is a regular burnt off ering which was ordained at Mount Sinai for a sweet aroma, an off ering made by fire to the LORD.

nkjv@Numb ers:28:7 @ And its drink off ering shall be one-fourth of a hin for each lamb; in a holy place you shall pour out the drink to the LORD as an off ering.

nkjv@Numb ers:28:8 @ The oth er lamb you shall off er in the evening; as the morning grain off ering and its drink off ering, you shall off er it as an off ering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the LORD.

nkjv@Numb ers:28:9 @ "And on the Sabbath day two lambs in their first year, without blemish, and two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour as a grain off ering, mixed with oil, with its drink off ering--

nkjv@Numb ers:28:10 @ this is the burnt off ering for ev ery Sabbath, besides the regular burnt off ering with its drink off ering.

nkjv@Numb ers:28:11 @ "At the beginnings of your months you shall present a burnt off ering to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, and seven lambs in their first year, without blemish;

nkjv@Numb ers:28:12 @ three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour as a grain off ering, mixed with oil, for each bull; two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour as a grain off ering, mixed with oil, for the one ram;

nkjv@Numb ers:28:13 @ and one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with oil, as a grain off ering for each lamb, as a burnt off ering of sweet aroma, an off ering made by fire to the LORD.

nkjv@Numb ers:28:14 @ Their drink off ering shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, one-third of a hin for a ram, and one-fourth of a hin for a lamb; this is the burnt off ering for each month throughout the months of the year.

nkjv@Numb ers:28:15 @ Also one kid of the goats as a sin off ering to the LORD shall be off ered, besides the regular burnt off ering and its drink off ering.

nkjv@Numb ers:28:16 @ "On the fourteenth day of the first month is the Passov er of the LORD.

nkjv@Numb ers:28:17 @ And on the fifteenth day of this month is the feast; unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days.

nkjv@Numb ers:28:18 @ On the first day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work.

nkjv@Numb ers:28:19 @ And you shall present an off ering made by fire as a burnt off ering to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, and seven lambs in their first year. Be sure they are without blemish.

nkjv@Numb ers:28:20 @ Their grain off ering shall be of fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths of an ephah you shall off er for a bull, and two-tenths for a ram;

nkjv@Numb ers:28:21 @ you shall off er one-tenth of an ephah for each of the seven lambs;

nkjv@Numb ers:28:22 @ also one goat as a sin off ering, to make atonement for you.

nkjv@Numb ers:28:23 @ You shall off er these besides the burnt off ering of the morning, which is for a regular burnt off ering.

nkjv@Numb ers:28:24 @ In this mann er you shall off er the food of the off ering made by fire daily for seven days, as a sweet aroma to the LORD; it shall be off ered besides the regular burnt off ering and its drink off ering.

nkjv@Numb ers:28:25 @ And on the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work.

nkjv@Numb ers:28:26 @ "Also on the day of the firstfruits, when you bring a new grain off ering to the LORD at your Feast of Weeks, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work.

nkjv@Numb ers:28:27 @ You shall present a burnt off ering as a sweet aroma to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, and seven lambs in their first year,

nkjv@Numb ers:28:28 @ with their grain off ering of fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths of an ephah for each bull, two-tenths for the one ram,

nkjv@Numb ers:28:29 @ and one-tenth for each of the seven lambs;

nkjv@Numb ers:28:30 @ also one kid of the goats, to make atonement for you.

nkjv@Numb ers:28:31 @ Be sure they are without blemish. You shall present them with their drink off erings, besides the regular burnt off ering with its grain off ering.

nkjv@Numb ers:29:1 @ "And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work. For you it is a day of blowing the trumpets.

nkjv@Numb ers:29:2 @ You shall off er a burnt off ering as a sweet aroma to the LORD: one young bull, one ram, and seven lambs in their first year, without blemish.

nkjv@Numb ers:29:3 @ Their grain off ering shall be fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths of an ephah for the bull, two-tenths for the ram,

nkjv@Numb ers:29:4 @ and one-tenth for each of the seven lambs;

nkjv@Numb ers:29:5 @ also one kid of the goats as a sin off ering, to make atonement for you;

nkjv@Numb ers:29:6 @ besides the burnt off ering with its grain off ering for the New Moon, the regular burnt off ering with its grain off ering, and their drink off erings, according to their ordinance, as a sweet aroma, an off ering made by fire to the LORD.

nkjv@Numb ers:29:7 @ "On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall afflict your souls; you shall not do any work.

nkjv@Numb ers:29:8 @ You shall present a burnt off ering to the LORD as a sweet aroma: one young bull, one ram, and seven lambs in their first year. Be sure they are without blemish.

nkjv@Numb ers:29:9 @ Their grain off ering shall be of fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths of an ephah for the bull, two-tenths for the one ram,

nkjv@Numb ers:29:10 @ and one-tenth for each of the seven lambs;

nkjv@Numb ers:29:11 @ also one kid of the goats as a sin off ering, besides the sin off ering for atonement, the regular burnt off ering with its grain off ering, and their drink off erings. ]

nkjv@Numb ers:29:12 @ "On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work, and you shall keep a feast to the LORD seven days.

nkjv@Numb ers:29:13 @ You shall present a burnt off ering, an off ering made by fire as a sweet aroma to the LORD: thirteen young bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs in their first year. They shall be without blemish.

nkjv@Numb ers:29:14 @ Their grain off ering shall be of fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths of an ephah for each of the thirteen bulls, two-tenths for each of the two rams,

nkjv@Numb ers:29:15 @ and one-tenth for each of the fourteen lambs;

nkjv@Numb ers:29:16 @ also one kid of the goats as a sin off ering, besides the regular burnt off ering, its grain off ering, and its drink off ering.

nkjv@Numb ers:29:17 @ "On the second day present twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs in their first year without blemish,

nkjv@Numb ers:29:18 @ and their grain off ering and their drink off erings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, by their numb er, according to the ordinance;

nkjv@Numb ers:29:19 @ also one kid of the goats as a sin off ering, besides the regular burnt off ering with its grain off ering, and their drink off erings.

nkjv@Numb ers:29:20 @ "On the third day present eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs in their first year without blemish,

nkjv@Numb ers:29:21 @ and their grain off ering and their drink off erings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, by their numb er, according to the ordinance;

nkjv@Numb ers:29:22 @ also one goat as a sin off ering, besides the regular burnt off ering, its grain off ering, and its drink off ering.

nkjv@Numb ers:29:23 @ "On the fourth day present ten bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs in their first year, without blemish,

nkjv@Numb ers:29:24 @ and their grain off ering and their drink off erings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, by their numb er, according to the ordinance;

nkjv@Numb ers:29:25 @ also one kid of the goats as a sin off ering, besides the regular burnt off ering, its grain off ering, and its drink off ering.

nkjv@Numb ers:29:26 @ "On the fifth day present nine bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs in their first year without blemish,

nkjv@Numb ers:29:27 @ and their grain off ering and their drink off erings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, by their numb er, according to the ordinance;

nkjv@Numb ers:29:28 @ also one goat as a sin off ering, besides the regular burnt off ering, its grain off ering, and its drink off ering.

nkjv@Numb ers:29:29 @ "On the sixth day present eight bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs in their first year without blemish,

nkjv@Numb ers:29:30 @ and their grain off ering and their drink off erings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, by their numb er, according to the ordinance;

nkjv@Numb ers:29:31 @ also one goat as a sin off ering, besides the regular burnt off ering, its grain off ering, and its drink off ering.

nkjv@Numb ers:29:32 @ "On the seventh day present seven bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs in their first year without blemish,

nkjv@Numb ers:29:33 @ and their grain off ering and their drink off erings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, by their numb er, according to the ordinance;

nkjv@Numb ers:29:34 @ also one goat as a sin off ering, besides the regular burnt off ering, its grain off ering, and its drink off ering.

nkjv@Numb ers:29:35 @ "On the eighth day you shall have a sacred assembly. You shall do no customary work.

nkjv@Numb ers:29:36 @ You shall present a burnt off ering, an off ering made by fire as a sweet aroma to the LORD: one bull, one ram, seven lambs in their first year without blemish,

nkjv@Numb ers:29:37 @ and their grain off ering and their drink off erings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, by their numb er, according to the ordinance;

nkjv@Numb ers:29:38 @ also one goat as a sin off ering, besides the regular burnt off ering, its grain off ering, and its drink off ering.

nkjv@Numb ers:29:39 @ "These you shall present to the LORD at your appointed feasts (besides your vowed off erings and your freewill off erings) as your burnt off erings and your grain off erings, as your drink off erings and your peace off erings."'

nkjv@Numb ers:29:40 @ So Moses told the children of Israel ev erything, just as the LORD commanded Moses.

nkjv@Numb ers:30:1 @ Then Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes conc erning the children of Israel, saying, "This is the thing which the LORD has commanded:

nkjv@Numb ers:30:2 @ If a man makes a vow to the LORD, or swears an oath to bind himself by some agreement, he shall not break his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

nkjv@Numb ers:30:3 @ "Or if a woman makes a vow to the LORD, and binds h erself by some agreement while in h er fath er's house in h er youth,

nkjv@Numb ers:30:4 @ and h er fath er hears h er vow and the agreement by which she has bound h erself, and h er fath er holds his peace, then all h er vows shall stand, and ev ery agreement with which she has bound h erself shall stand.

nkjv@Numb ers:30:5 @ But if h er fath er ov errules h er on the day that he hears, then none of h er vows nor h er agreements by which she has bound h erself shall stand; and the LORD will release h er, because h er fath er ov erruled h er.

nkjv@Numb ers:30:6 @ "If indeed she takes a husband, while bound by h er vows or by a rash utt erance from h er lips by which she bound h erself,

nkjv@Numb ers:30:7 @ and h er husband hears it, and makes no response to h er on the day that he hears, then h er vows shall stand, and h er agreements by which she bound h erself shall stand.

nkjv@Numb ers:30:8 @ But if h er husband ov errules h er on the day that he hears it, he shall make void h er vow which she took and what she utt ered with h er lips, by which she bound h erself, and the LORD will release h er.

nkjv@Numb ers:30:9 @ "Also any vow of a widow or a divorced woman, by which she has bound h erself, shall stand against h er.

nkjv@Numb ers:30:10 @ "If she vowed in h er husband's house, or bound h erself by an agreement with an oath,

nkjv@Numb ers:30:11 @ and h er husband heard it, and made no response to h er and did not ov errule h er, then all h er vows shall stand, and ev ery agreement by which she bound h erself shall stand.

nkjv@Numb ers:30:12 @ But if h er husband truly made them void on the day he heard them, then whatev er proceeded from h er lips conc erning h er vows or conc erning the agreement binding h er, it shall not stand; h er husband has made them void, and the LORD will release h er.

nkjv@Numb ers:30:13 @ Ev ery vow and ev ery binding oath to afflict h er soul, h er husband may confirm it, or h er husband may make it void.

nkjv@Numb ers:30:14 @ Now if h er husband makes no response whatev er to h er from day to day, then he confirms all h er vows or all the agreements that bind h er; he confirms them, because he made no response to h er on the day that he heard them.

nkjv@Numb ers:30:15 @ But if he does make them void aft er he has heard them, then he shall bear h er guilt."

nkjv@Numb ers:30:16 @ These are the statutes which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, and between a fath er and his daught er in h er youth in h er fath er's house.

nkjv@Numb ers:31:1 @ And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

nkjv@Numb ers:31:2 @ "Take vengeance on the Midianites for the children of Israel. Aft erward you shall be gath ered to your people."

nkjv@Numb ers:31:3 @ So Moses spoke to the people, saying, "Arm some of yourselves for war, and let them go against the Midianites to take vengeance for the LORD on Midian.

nkjv@Numb ers:31:4 @ A thousand from each tribe of all the tribes of Israel you shall send to the war."

nkjv@Numb ers:31:5 @ So th ere w ere recruited from the divisions of Israel one thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

nkjv@Numb ers:31:6 @ Then Moses sent them to the war, one thousand from each tribe; he sent them to the war with Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, with the holy articles and the signal trumpets in his hand.

nkjv@Numb ers:31:7 @ And they warred against the Midianites, just as the LORD commanded Moses, and they killed all the males.

nkjv@Numb ers:31:8 @ They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of those who w ere killed--Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. Balaam the son of Beor they also killed with the sword.

nkjv@Numb ers:31:9 @ And the children of Israel took the women of Midian captive, with their little ones, and took as spoil all their cattle, all their flocks, and all their goods.

nkjv@Numb ers:31:10 @ They also burned with fire all the cities wh ere they dwelt, and all their forts.

nkjv@Numb ers:31:11 @ And they took all the spoil and all the booty--of man and beast.

nkjv@Numb ers:31:12 @ Then they brought the captives, the booty, and the spoil to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Israel, to the camp in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from J ericho.

nkjv@Numb ers:31:13 @ And Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the lead ers of the congregation, went to meet them outside the camp.

nkjv@Numb ers:31:14 @ But Moses was angry with the offic ers of the army, with the captains ov er thousands and captains ov er hundreds, who had come from the battle.

nkjv@Numb ers:31:15 @ And Moses said to them: "Have you kept all the women alive?

nkjv@Numb ers:31:16 @ Look, these women caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to trespass against the LORD in the incident of Peor, and th ere was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.

nkjv@Numb ers:31:17 @ Now th erefore, kill ev ery male among the little ones, and kill ev ery woman who has known a man intimately.

nkjv@Numb ers:31:18 @ But keep alive for yourselves all the young girls who have not known a man intimately.

nkjv@Numb ers:31:19 @ And as for you, remain outside the camp seven days; whoev er has killed any p erson, and whoev er has touched any slain, purify yourselves and your captives on the third day and on the seventh day.

nkjv@Numb ers:31:20 @ Purify ev ery garment, ev erything made of leath er, ev erything woven of goats' hair, and ev erything made of wood."

nkjv@Numb ers:31:21 @ Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had gone to the battle, "This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD commanded Moses:

nkjv@Numb ers:31:22 @ "Only the gold, the silv er, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

nkjv@Numb ers:31:23 @ ev erything that can endure fire, you shall put through the fire, and it shall be clean; and it shall be purified with the wat er of purification. But all that cannot endure fire you shall put through wat er.

nkjv@Numb ers:31:24 @ And you shall wash your clothes on the seventh day and be clean, and aft erward you may come into the camp."

nkjv@Numb ers:31:25 @ Now the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

nkjv@Numb ers:31:26 @ "Count up the plund er that was taken--of man and beast--you and Eleazar the priest and the chief fath ers of the congregation;

nkjv@Numb ers:31:27 @ and divide the plund er into two parts, between those who took part in the war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation.

nkjv@Numb ers:31:28 @ And levy a tribute for the LORD on the men of war who went out to battle: one of ev ery five hundred of the p ersons, the cattle, the donkeys, and the sheep;

nkjv@Numb ers:31:29 @ take it from their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest as a heave off ering to the LORD.

nkjv@Numb ers:31:30 @ And from the children of Israel's half you shall take one of ev ery fifty, drawn from the p ersons, the cattle, the donkeys, and the sheep, from all the livestock, and give them to the Levites who keep charge of the tab ernacle of the LORD."

nkjv@Numb ers:31:31 @ So Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses.

nkjv@Numb ers:31:32 @ The booty remaining from the plund er, which the men of war had taken, was six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep,

nkjv@Numb ers:31:33 @ seventy-two thousand cattle,

nkjv@Numb ers:31:34 @ sixty-one thousand donkeys,

nkjv@Numb ers:31:35 @ and thirty-two thousand p ersons in all, of women who had not known a man intimately.

nkjv@Numb ers:31:36 @ And the half, the portion for those who had gone out to war, was in numb er three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep;

nkjv@Numb ers:31:37 @ and the LORD's tribute of the sheep was six hundred and seventy-five.

nkjv@Numb ers:31:38 @ The cattle w ere thirty-six thousand, of which the LORD's tribute was seventy-two.

nkjv@Numb ers:31:39 @ The donkeys w ere thirty thousand five hundred, of which the LORD's tribute was sixty-one.

nkjv@Numb ers:31:40 @ The p ersons w ere sixteen thousand, of which the LORD's tribute was thirty-two p ersons.

nkjv@Numb ers:31:41 @ So Moses gave the tribute which was the LORD's heave off ering to Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.

nkjv@Numb ers:31:42 @ And from the children of Israel's half, which Moses separated from the men who fought--

nkjv@Numb ers:31:43 @ now the half belonging to the congregation was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,

nkjv@Numb ers:31:44 @ thirty-six thousand cattle,

nkjv@Numb ers:31:45 @ thirty thousand five hundred donkeys,

nkjv@Numb ers:31:46 @ and sixteen thousand p ersons--

nkjv@Numb ers:31:47 @ and from the children of Israel's half Moses took one of ev ery fifty, drawn from man and beast, and gave them to the Levites, who kept charge of the tab ernacle of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.

nkjv@Numb ers:31:48 @ Then the offic ers who w ere ov er thousands of the army, the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, came near to Moses;

nkjv@Numb ers:31:49 @ and they said to Moses, "Your s ervants have taken a count of the men of war who are und er our command, and not a man of us is missing.

nkjv@Numb ers:31:50 @ Th erefore we have brought an off ering for the LORD, what ev ery man found of ornaments of gold: armlets and bracelets and signet rings and earrings and necklaces, to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD."

nkjv@Numb ers:31:51 @ So Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from them, all the fashioned ornaments.

nkjv@Numb ers:31:52 @ And all the gold of the off ering that they off ered to the LORD, from the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels.

nkjv@Numb ers:31:53 @ (The men of war had taken spoil, ev ery man for himself.)

nkjv@Numb ers:31:54 @ And Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tab ernacle of meeting as a memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD.

nkjv@Numb ers:32:1 @ Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a v ery great multitude of livestock; and when they saw the land of Jaz er and the land of Gilead, that indeed the region was a place for livestock,

nkjv@Numb ers:32:2 @ the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the lead ers of the congregation, saying,

nkjv@Numb ers:32:3 @ "Ataroth, Dibon, Jaz er, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Shebam, Nebo, and Beon,

nkjv@Numb ers:32:4 @ the country which the LORD defeated before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock, and your s ervants have livestock."

nkjv@Numb ers:32:5 @ Th erefore they said, "If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your s ervants as a possession. Do not take us ov er the Jordan."

nkjv@Numb ers:32:6 @ And Moses said to the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben: "Shall your brethren go to war while you sit h ere?

nkjv@Numb ers:32:7 @ Now why will you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going ov er into the land which the LORD has given them?

nkjv@Numb ers:32:8 @ Thus your fath ers did when I sent them away from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.

nkjv@Numb ers:32:9 @ For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, so that they did not go into the land which the LORD had given them.

nkjv@Numb ers:32:10 @ So the LORD's ang er was aroused on that day, and He swore an oath, saying,

nkjv@Numb ers:32:11 @ "Surely none of the men who came up from Egypt, from twenty years old and above, shall see the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, because they have not wholly followed Me,

nkjv@Numb ers:32:12 @ except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have wholly followed the LORD.'

nkjv@Numb ers:32:13 @ So the LORD's ang er was aroused against Israel, and He made them wand er in the wild erness forty years, until all the gen eration that had done evil in the sight of the LORD was gone.

nkjv@Numb ers:32:14 @ And look! You have risen in your fath ers' place, a brood of sinful men, to increase still more the fi erce ang er of the LORD against Israel.

nkjv@Numb ers:32:15 @ For if you turn away from following Him, He will once again leave them in the wild erness, and you will destroy all these people."

nkjv@Numb ers:32:16 @ Then they came near to him and said: "We will build sheepfolds h ere for our livestock, and cities for our little ones,

nkjv@Numb ers:32:17 @ but we ourselves will be armed, ready to go before the children of Israel until we have brought them to their place; and our little ones will dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

nkjv@Numb ers:32:18 @ We will not return to our homes until ev ery one of the children of Israel has received his inh eritance.

nkjv@Numb ers:32:19 @ For we will not inh erit with them on the oth er side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inh eritance has fallen to us on this east ern side of the Jordan."

nkjv@Numb ers:32:20 @ Then Moses said to them: "If you do this thing, if you arm yourselves before the LORD for the war,

nkjv@Numb ers:32:21 @ and all your armed men cross ov er the Jordan before the LORD until He has driven out His enemies from before Him,

nkjv@Numb ers:32:22 @ and the land is subdued before the LORD, then aft erward you may return and be blameless before the LORD and before Israel; and this land shall be your possession before the LORD.

nkjv@Numb ers:32:23 @ But if you do not do so, then take note, you have sinned against the LORD; and be sure your sin will find you out.

nkjv@Numb ers:32:24 @ Build cities for your little ones and folds for your sheep, and do what has proceeded out of your mouth."

nkjv@Numb ers:32:25 @ And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying: "Your s ervants will do as my lord commands.

nkjv@Numb ers:32:26 @ Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock will be th ere in the cities of Gilead;

nkjv@Numb ers:32:27 @ but your s ervants will cross ov er, ev ery man armed for war, before the LORD to battle, just as my lord says."

nkjv@Numb ers:32:28 @ So Moses gave command conc erning them to Eleazar the priest, to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the chief fath ers of the tribes of the children of Israel.

nkjv@Numb ers:32:29 @ And Moses said to them: "If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben cross ov er the Jordan with you, ev ery man armed for battle before the LORD, and the land is subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead as a possession.

nkjv@Numb ers:32:30 @ But if they do not cross ov er armed with you, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan."

nkjv@Numb ers:32:31 @ Then the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answ ered, saying: "As the LORD has said to your s ervants, so we will do.

nkjv@Numb ers:32:32 @ We will cross ov er armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, but the possession of our inh eritance shall remain with us on this side of the Jordan."

nkjv@Numb ers:32:33 @ So Moses gave to the children of Gad, to the children of Reuben, and to half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land with its cities within the bord ers, the cities of the surrounding country.

nkjv@Numb ers:32:34 @ And the children of Gad built Dibon and Ataroth and Aro er,

nkjv@Numb ers:32:35 @ Atroth and Shophan and Jaz er and Jogbehah,

nkjv@Numb ers:32:36 @ Beth Nimrah and Beth Haran, fortified cities, and folds for sheep.

nkjv@Numb ers:32:37 @ And the children of Reuben built Heshbon and Elealeh and Kirjathaim,

nkjv@Numb ers:32:38 @ Nebo and Baal Meon (their names being changed) and Shibmah; and they gave oth er names to the cities which they built.

nkjv@Numb ers:32:39 @ And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who w ere in it.

nkjv@Numb ers:32:40 @ So Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh, and he dwelt in it.

nkjv@Numb ers:32:41 @ Also Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its small towns, and called them Havoth Jair.

nkjv@Numb ers:32:42 @ Then Nobah went and took Kenath and its villages, and he called it Nobah, aft er his own name.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:1 @ These are the journeys of the children of Israel, who went out of the land of Egypt by their armies und er the hand of Moses and Aaron.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:2 @ Now Moses wrote down the starting points of their journeys at the command of the LORD. And these are their journeys according to their starting points:

nkjv@Numb ers:33:3 @ They departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the day aft er the Passov er the children of Israel went out with boldness in the sight of all the Egyptians.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:4 @ For the Egyptians w ere burying all their firstborn, whom the LORD had killed among them. Also on their gods the LORD had executed judgments.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:5 @ Then the children of Israel moved from Rameses and camped at Succoth.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:6 @ They departed from Succoth and camped at Etham, which is on the edge of the wild erness.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:7 @ They moved from Etham and turned back to Pi Hahiroth, which is east of Baal Zephon; and they camped near Migdol.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:8 @ They departed from before Hahiroth and passed through the midst of the sea into the wild erness, went three days' journey in the Wild erness of Etham, and camped at Marah.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:9 @ They moved from Marah and came to Elim. At Elim w ere twelve springs of wat er and seventy palm trees; so they camped th ere.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:10 @ They moved from Elim and camped by the Red Sea.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:11 @ They moved from the Red Sea and camped in the Wild erness of Sin.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:12 @ They journeyed from the Wild erness of Sin and camped at Dophkah.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:13 @ They departed from Dophkah and camped at Alush.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:14 @ They moved from Alush and camped at Rephidim, wh ere th ere was no wat er for the people to drink.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:15 @ They departed from Rephidim and camped in the Wild erness of Sinai.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:16 @ They moved from the Wild erness of Sinai and camped at Kibroth Hattaavah.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:17 @ They departed from Kibroth Hattaavah and camped at Haz eroth.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:18 @ They departed from Haz eroth and camped at Rithmah.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:19 @ They departed from Rithmah and camped at Rimmon P erez.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:20 @ They departed from Rimmon P erez and camped at Libnah.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:21 @ They moved from Libnah and camped at Rissah.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:22 @ They journeyed from Rissah and camped at Kehelathah.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:23 @ They went from Kehelathah and camped at Mount Sheph er.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:24 @ They moved from Mount Sheph er and camped at Haradah.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:25 @ They moved from Haradah and camped at Makheloth.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:26 @ They moved from Makheloth and camped at Tahath.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:27 @ They departed from Tahath and camped at T erah.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:28 @ They moved from T erah and camped at Mithkah.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:29 @ They went from Mithkah and camped at Hashmonah.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:30 @ They departed from Hashmonah and camped at Mos eroth.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:31 @ They departed from Mos eroth and camped at Bene Jaakan.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:32 @ They moved from Bene Jaakan and camped at Hor Hagidgad.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:33 @ They went from Hor Hagidgad and camped at Jotbathah.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:34 @ They moved from Jotbathah and camped at Abronah.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:35 @ They departed from Abronah and camped at Ezion Geb er.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:36 @ They moved from Ezion Geb er and camped in the Wild erness of Zin, which is Kadesh.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:37 @ They moved from Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor, on the boundary of the land of Edom.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:38 @ Then Aaron the priest went up to Mount Hor at the command of the LORD, and died th ere in the fortieth year aft er the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, on the first day of the fifth month.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:39 @ Aaron was one hundred and twenty-three years old when he died on Mount Hor.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:40 @ Now the king of Arad, the Canaanite, who dwelt in the South in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:41 @ So they departed from Mount Hor and camped at Zalmonah.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:42 @ They departed from Zalmonah and camped at Punon.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:43 @ They departed from Punon and camped at Oboth.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:44 @ They departed from Oboth and camped at Ije Abarim, at the bord er of Moab.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:45 @ They departed from Ijim and camped at Dibon Gad.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:46 @ They moved from Dibon Gad and camped at Almon Diblathaim.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:47 @ They moved from Almon Diblathaim and camped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:48 @ They departed from the mountains of Abarim and camped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from J ericho.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:49 @ They camped by the Jordan, from Beth Jesimoth as far as the Abel Acacia Grove in the plains of Moab.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:50 @ Now the LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from J ericho, saying,

nkjv@Numb ers:33:51 @ "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: "When you have crossed the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

nkjv@Numb ers:33:52 @ then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their engraved stones, destroy all their molded images, and demolish all their high places;

nkjv@Numb ers:33:53 @ you shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land and dwell in it, for I have given you the land to possess.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:54 @ And you shall divide the land by lot as an inh eritance among your families; to the larg er you shall give a larg er inh eritance, and to the small er you shall give a small er inh eritance; th ere ev eryone's inh eritance shall be whatev er falls to him by lot. You shall inh erit according to the tribes of your fath ers.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:55 @ But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall be that those whom you let remain shall be irritants in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall harass you in the land wh ere you dwell.

nkjv@Numb ers:33:56 @ Moreov er it shall be that I will do to you as I thought to do to them."'

nkjv@Numb ers:34:1 @ Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

nkjv@Numb ers:34:2 @ "Command the children of Israel, and say to them: "When you come into the land of Canaan, this is the land that shall fall to you as an inh eritance--the land of Canaan to its boundaries.

nkjv@Numb ers:34:3 @ Your south ern bord er shall be from the Wild erness of Zin along the bord er of Edom; then your south ern bord er shall extend eastward to the end of the Salt Sea;

nkjv@Numb ers:34:4 @ your bord er shall turn from the south ern side of the Ascent of Akrabbim, continue to Zin, and be on the south of Kadesh Barnea; then it shall go on to Hazar Addar, and continue to Azmon;

nkjv@Numb ers:34:5 @ the bord er shall turn from Azmon to the Brook of Egypt, and it shall end at the Sea.

nkjv@Numb ers:34:6 @ "As for the west ern bord er, you shall have the Great Sea for a bord er; this shall be your west ern bord er.

nkjv@Numb ers:34:7 @ "And this shall be your north ern bord er: From the Great Sea you shall mark out your bord er line to Mount Hor;

nkjv@Numb ers:34:8 @ from Mount Hor you shall mark out your bord er to the entrance of Hamath; then the direction of the bord er shall be toward Zedad;

nkjv@Numb ers:34:9 @ the bord er shall proceed to Ziphron, and it shall end at Hazar Enan. This shall be your north ern bord er.

nkjv@Numb ers:34:10 @ "You shall mark out your east ern bord er from Hazar Enan to Shepham;

nkjv@Numb ers:34:11 @ the bord er shall go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain; the bord er shall go down and reach to the east ern side of the Sea of Chinn ereth;

nkjv@Numb ers:34:12 @ the bord er shall go down along the Jordan, and it shall end at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land with its surrounding boundaries."'

nkjv@Numb ers:34:13 @ Then Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying: "This is the land which you shall inh erit by lot, which the LORD has commanded to give to the nine tribes and to the half-tribe.

nkjv@Numb ers:34:14 @ For the tribe of the children of Reuben according to the house of their fath ers, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to the house of their fath ers, have received their inh eritance; and the half-tribe of Manasseh has received its inh eritance.

nkjv@Numb ers:34:15 @ The two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inh eritance on this side of the Jordan, across from J ericho eastward, toward the sunrise."

nkjv@Numb ers:34:16 @ And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

nkjv@Numb ers:34:17 @ "These are the names of the men who shall divide the land among you as an inh eritance: Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun.

nkjv@Numb ers:34:18 @ And you shall take one lead er of ev ery tribe to divide the land for the inh eritance.

nkjv@Numb ers:34:19 @ These are the names of the men: from the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh;

nkjv@Numb ers:34:20 @ from the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud;

nkjv@Numb ers:34:21 @ from the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon;

nkjv@Numb ers:34:22 @ a lead er from the tribe of the children of Dan, Bukki the son of Jogli;

nkjv@Numb ers:34:23 @ from the sons of Joseph: a lead er from the tribe of the children of Manasseh, Hanniel the son of Ephod,

nkjv@Numb ers:34:24 @ and a lead er from the tribe of the children of Ephraim, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan;

nkjv@Numb ers:34:25 @ a lead er from the tribe of the children of Zebulun, Elizaphan the son of Parnach;

nkjv@Numb ers:34:26 @ a lead er from the tribe of the children of Issachar, Paltiel the son of Azzan;

nkjv@Numb ers:34:27 @ a lead er from the tribe of the children of Ash er, Ahihud the son of Shelomi;

nkjv@Numb ers:34:28 @ and a lead er from the tribe of the children of Naphtali, Pedahel the son of Ammihud."

nkjv@Numb ers:34:29 @ These are the ones the LORD commanded to divide the inh eritance among the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.

nkjv@Numb ers:35:1 @ And the LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from J ericho, saying:

nkjv@Numb ers:35:2 @ "Command the children of Israel that they give the Levites cities to dwell in from the inh eritance of their possession, and you shall also give the Levites common-land around the cities.

nkjv@Numb ers:35:3 @ They shall have the cities to dwell in; and their common-land shall be for their cattle, for their h erds, and for all their animals.

nkjv@Numb ers:35:4 @ The common-land of the cities which you will give the Levites shall extend from the wall of the city outward a thousand cubits all around.

nkjv@Numb ers:35:5 @ And you shall measure outside the city on the east side two thousand cubits, on the south side two thousand cubits, on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits. The city shall be in the middle. This shall belong to them as common-land for the cities.

nkjv@Numb ers:35:6 @ "Now among the cities which you will give to the Levites you shall appoint six cities of refuge, to which a manslay er may flee. And to these you shall add forty-two cities.

nkjv@Numb ers:35:7 @ So all the cities you will give to the Levites shall be forty-eight; these you shall give with their common-land.

nkjv@Numb ers:35:8 @ And the cities which you will give shall be from the possession of the children of Israel; from the larg er tribe you shall give many, from the small er you shall give few. Each shall give some of its cities to the Levites, in proportion to the inh eritance that each receives."

nkjv@Numb ers:35:9 @ Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

nkjv@Numb ers:35:10 @ "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: "When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

nkjv@Numb ers:35:11 @ then you shall appoint cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslay er who kills any p erson accidentally may flee th ere.

nkjv@Numb ers:35:12 @ They shall be cities of refuge for you from the aveng er, that the manslay er may not die until he stands before the congregation in judgment.

nkjv@Numb ers:35:13 @ And of the cities which you give, you shall have six cities of refuge.

nkjv@Numb ers:35:14 @ You shall appoint three cities on this side of the Jordan, and three cities you shall appoint in the land of Canaan, which will be cities of refuge.

nkjv@Numb ers:35:15 @ These six cities shall be for refuge for the children of Israel, for the strang er, and for the sojourn er among them, that anyone who kills a p erson accidentally may flee th ere.

nkjv@Numb ers:35:16 @ "But if he strikes him with an iron implement, so that he dies, he is a murd er er; the murd er er shall surely be put to death.

nkjv@Numb ers:35:17 @ And if he strikes him with a stone in the hand, by which one could die, and he does die, he is a murd er er; the murd er er shall surely be put to death.

nkjv@Numb ers:35:18 @ Or if he strikes him with a wooden hand weapon, by which one could die, and he does die, he is a murd er er; the murd er er shall surely be put to death.

nkjv@Numb ers:35:19 @ The aveng er of blood himself shall put the murd er er to death; when he meets him, he shall put him to death.

nkjv@Numb ers:35:20 @ If he pushes him out of hatred or, while lying in wait, hurls something at him so that he dies,

nkjv@Numb ers:35:21 @ or in enmity he strikes him with his hand so that he dies, the one who struck him shall surely be put to death. He is a murd er er. The aveng er of blood shall put the murd er er to death when he meets him.

nkjv@Numb ers:35:22 @ "Howev er, if he pushes him suddenly without enmity, or throws anything at him without lying in wait,

nkjv@Numb ers:35:23 @ or uses a stone, by which a man could die, throwing it at him without seeing him, so that he dies, while he was not his enemy or seeking his harm,

nkjv@Numb ers:35:24 @ then the congregation shall judge between the manslay er and the aveng er of blood according to these judgments.

nkjv@Numb ers:35:25 @ So the congregation shall deliv er the manslay er from the hand of the aveng er of blood, and the congregation shall return him to the city of refuge wh ere he had fled, and he shall remain th ere until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.

nkjv@Numb ers:35:26 @ But if the manslay er at any time goes outside the limits of the city of refuge wh ere he fled,

nkjv@Numb ers:35:27 @ and the aveng er of blood finds him outside the limits of his city of refuge, and the aveng er of blood kills the manslay er, he shall not be guilty of blood,

nkjv@Numb ers:35:28 @ because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. But aft er the death of the high priest the manslay er may return to the land of his possession.

nkjv@Numb ers:35:29 @ "And these things shall be a statute of judgment to you throughout your gen erations in all your dwellings.

nkjv@Numb ers:35:30 @ Whoev er kills a p erson, the murd er er shall be put to death on the testimony of witnesses; but one witness is not sufficient testimony against a p erson for the death penalty.

nkjv@Numb ers:35:31 @ Moreov er you shall take no ransom for the life of a murd er er who is guilty of death, but he shall surely be put to death.

nkjv@Numb ers:35:32 @ And you shall take no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may return to dwell in the land before the death of the priest.

nkjv@Numb ers:35:33 @ So you shall not pollute the land wh ere you are; for blood defiles the land, and no atonement can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of him who shed it.

nkjv@Numb ers:35:34 @ Th erefore do not defile the land which you inhabit, in the midst of which I dwell; for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel."'

nkjv@Numb ers:36:1 @ Now the chief fath ers of the families of the children of Gilead the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near and spoke before Moses and before the lead ers, the chief fath ers of the children of Israel.

nkjv@Numb ers:36:2 @ And they said: "The LORD commanded my lord Moses to give the land as an inh eritance by lot to the children of Israel, and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inh eritance of our broth er Zelophehad to his daught ers.

nkjv@Numb ers:36:3 @ Now if they are married to any of the sons of the oth er tribes of the children of Israel, then their inh eritance will be taken from the inh eritance of our fath ers, and it will be added to the inh eritance of the tribe into which they marry; so it will be taken from the lot of our inh eritance.

nkjv@Numb ers:36:4 @ And when the Jubilee of the children of Israel comes, then their inh eritance will be added to the inh eritance of the tribe into which they marry; so their inh eritance will be taken away from the inh eritance of the tribe of our fath ers."

nkjv@Numb ers:36:5 @ Then Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of the LORD, saying: "What the tribe of the sons of Joseph speaks is right.

nkjv@Numb ers:36:6 @ This is what the LORD commands conc erning the daught ers of Zelophehad, saying, "Let them marry whom they think best, but they may marry only within the family of their fath er's tribe.'

nkjv@Numb ers:36:7 @ So the inh eritance of the children of Israel shall not change hands from tribe to tribe, for ev ery one of the children of Israel shall keep the inh eritance of the tribe of his fath ers.

nkjv@Numb ers:36:8 @ And ev ery daught er who possesses an inh eritance in any tribe of the children of Israel shall be the wife of one of the family of h er fath er's tribe, so that the children of Israel each may possess the inh eritance of his fath ers.

nkjv@Numb ers:36:9 @ Thus no inh eritance shall change hands from one tribe to anoth er, but ev ery tribe of the children of Israel shall keep its own inh eritance."

nkjv@Numb ers:36:10 @ Just as the LORD commanded Moses, so did the daught ers of Zelophehad;

nkjv@Numb ers:36:11 @ for Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daught ers of Zelophehad, w ere married to the sons of their fath er's broth ers.

nkjv@Numb ers:36:12 @ They w ere married into the families of the children of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inh eritance remained in the tribe of their fath er's family.

nkjv@Numb ers:36:13 @ These are the commandments and the judgments which the LORD commanded the children of Israel by the hand of Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from J ericho.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:1:1 @ These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel on this side of the Jordan in the wild erness, in the plain opposite Suph, between Paran, Tophel, Laban, Haz eroth, and Dizahab.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:1:2 @ It is eleven days' journey from Horeb by way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:1:3 @ Now it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to all that the LORD had given him as commandments to them,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:1:4 @ aft er he had killed Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan, who dwelt at Ashtaroth in Edrei.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:1:5 @ On this side of the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses began to explain this law, saying,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:1:6 @ "The LORD our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying: "You have dwelt long enough at this mountain.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:1:7 @ Turn and take your journey, and go to the mountains of the Amorites, to all the neighboring places in the plain, in the mountains and in the lowland, in the South and on the seacoast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great riv er, the Riv er Euphrates.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:1:8 @ See, I have set the land before you; go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fath ers--to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob--to give to them and their descendants aft er them.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:1:9 @ "And I spoke to you at that time, saying: "I alone am not able to bear you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:1:10 @ The LORD your God has multiplied you, and h ere you are today, as the stars of heaven in multitude.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:1:11 @ May the LORD God of your fath ers make you a thousand times more num erous than you are, and bless you as He has promised you!

nkjv@Deut eronomy:1:12 @ How can I alone bear your problems and your burdens and your complaints?

nkjv@Deut eronomy:1:13 @ Choose wise, und erstanding, and knowledgeable men from among your tribes, and I will make them heads ov er you.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:1:14 @ And you answ ered me and said, "The thing which you have told us to do is good.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:1:15 @ So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and knowledgeable men, and made them heads ov er you, lead ers of thousands, lead ers of hundreds, lead ers of fifties, lead ers of tens, and offic ers for your tribes.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:1:16 @ "Then I commanded your judges at that time, saying, "Hear the cases between your brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his broth er or the strang er who is with him.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:1:17 @ You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small as well as the great; you shall not be afraid in any man's presence, for the judgment is God's. The case that is too hard for you, bring to me, and I will hear it.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:1:18 @ And I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:1:19 @ "So we departed from Horeb, and went through all that great and t errible wild erness which you saw on the way to the mountains of the Amorites, as the LORD our God had commanded us. Then we came to Kadesh Barnea.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:1:20 @ And I said to you, "You have come to the mountains of the Amorites, which the LORD our God is giving us.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:1:21 @ Look, the LORD your God has set the land before you; go up and possess it, as the LORD God of your fath ers has spoken to you; do not fear or be discouraged.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:1:22 @ "And ev ery one of you came near to me and said, "Let us send men before us, and let them search out the land for us, and bring back word to us of the way by which we should go up, and of the cities into which we shall come.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:1:23 @ "The plan pleased me well; so I took twelve of your men, one man from each tribe.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:1:24 @ And they departed and went up into the mountains, and came to the Valley of Eshcol, and spied it out.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:1:25 @ They also took some of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us; and they brought back word to us, saying, "It is a good land which the LORD our God is giving us.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:1:26 @ "Nev ertheless you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the LORD your God;

nkjv@Deut eronomy:1:27 @ and you complained in your tents, and said, "Because the LORD hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliv er us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:1:28 @ Wh ere can we go up? Our brethren have discouraged our hearts, saying, "The people are great er and tall er than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; moreov er we have seen the sons of the Anakim th ere."'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:1:29 @ "Then I said to you, "Do not be t errified, or afraid of them.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:1:30 @ The LORD your God, who goes before you, He will fight for you, according to all He did for you in Egypt before your eyes,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:1:31 @ and in the wild erness wh ere you saw how the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:1:32 @ Yet, for all that, you did not believe the LORD your God,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:1:33 @ who went in the way before you to search out a place for you to pitch your tents, to show you the way you should go, in the fire by night and in the cloud by day.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:1:34 @ "And the LORD heard the sound of your words, and was angry, and took an oath, saying,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:1:35 @ "Surely not one of these men of this evil gen eration shall see that good land of which I swore to give to your fath ers,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:1:36 @ except Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him and his children I am giving the land on which he walked, because he wholly followed the LORD.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:1:37 @ The LORD was also angry with me for your sakes, saying, "Even you shall not go in th ere.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:1:38 @ Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall go in th ere. Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inh erit it.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:1:39 @ "Moreov er your little ones and your children, who you say will be victims, who today have no knowledge of good and evil, they shall go in th ere; to them I will give it, and they shall possess it.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:1:40 @ But as for you, turn and take your journey into the wild erness by the Way of the Red Sea.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:1:41 @ "Then you answ ered and said to me, "We have sinned against the LORD; we will go up and fight, just as the LORD our God commanded us.' And when ev eryone of you had girded on his weapons of war, you w ere ready to go up into the mountain.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:1:42 @ "And the LORD said to me, "Tell them, "Do not go up nor fight, for I am not among you; lest you be defeated before your enemies."'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:1:43 @ So I spoke to you; yet you would not listen, but rebelled against the command of the LORD, and presumptuously went up into the mountain.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:1:44 @ And the Amorites who dwelt in that mountain came out against you and chased you as bees do, and drove you back from Seir to Hormah.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:1:45 @ Then you returned and wept before the LORD, but the LORD would not listen to your voice nor give ear to you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:1:46 @ "So you remained in Kadesh many days, according to the days that you spent th ere.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:2:1 @ "Then we turned and journeyed into the wild erness of the Way of the Red Sea, as the LORD spoke to me, and we skirted Mount Seir for many days.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:2:2 @ "And the LORD spoke to me, saying:

nkjv@Deut eronomy:2:3 @ "You have skirted this mountain long enough; turn northward.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:2:4 @ And command the people, saying, "You are about to pass through the t erritory of your brethren, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. Th erefore watch yourselves carefully.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:2:5 @ Do not meddle with them, for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as one footstep, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:2:6 @ You shall buy food from them with money, that you may eat; and you shall also buy wat er from them with money, that you may drink.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:2:7 @ "For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand. He knows your trudging through this great wild erness. These forty years the LORD your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing."'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:2:8 @ "And when we passed beyond our brethren, the descendants of Esau who dwell in Seir, away from the road of the plain, away from Elath and Ezion Geb er, we turned and passed by way of the Wild erness of Moab.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:2:9 @ Then the LORD said to me, "Do not harass Moab, nor contend with them in battle, for I will not give you any of their land as a possession, because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as a possession."'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:2:10 @ (The Emim had dwelt th ere in times past, a people as great and num erous and tall as the Anakim.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:2:11 @ They w ere also regarded as giants, like the Anakim, but the Moabites call them Emim.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:2:12 @ The Horites form erly dwelt in Seir, but the descendants of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their place, just as Israel did to the land of their possession which the LORD gave them.)

nkjv@Deut eronomy:2:13 @ ""Now rise and cross ov er the Valley of the Z ered.' So we crossed ov er the Valley of the Z ered.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:2:14 @ And the time we took to come from Kadesh Barnea until we crossed ov er the Valley of the Z ered was thirty-eight years, until all the gen eration of the men of war was consumed from the midst of the camp, just as the LORD had sworn to them.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:2:15 @ For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp until they w ere consumed.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:2:16 @ "So it was, when all the men of war had finally p erished from among the people,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:2:17 @ that the LORD spoke to me, saying:

nkjv@Deut eronomy:2:18 @ "This day you are to cross ov er at Ar, the boundary of Moab.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:2:19 @ And when you come near the people of Ammon, do not harass them or meddle with them, for I will not give you any of the land of the people of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to the descendants of Lot as a possession."'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:2:20 @ (That was also regarded as a land of giants; giants form erly dwelt th ere. But the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:2:21 @ a people as great and num erous and tall as the Anakim. But the LORD destroyed them before them, and they dispossessed them and dwelt in their place,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:2:22 @ just as He had done for the descendants of Esau, who dwelt in Seir, when He destroyed the Horites from before them. They dispossessed them and dwelt in their place, even to this day.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:2:23 @ And the Avim, who dwelt in villages as far as Gaza--the Caphtorim, who came from Caphtor, destroyed them and dwelt in their place.)

nkjv@Deut eronomy:2:24 @ ""Rise, take your journey, and cross ov er the Riv er Arnon. Look, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to possess it, and engage him in battle.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:2:25 @ This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon the nations und er the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of you, and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:2:26 @ "And I sent messeng ers from the Wild erness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon, with words of peace, saying,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:2:27 @ "Let me pass through your land; I will keep strictly to the road, and I will turn neith er to the right nor to the left.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:2:28 @ You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat, and give me wat er for money, that I may drink; only let me pass through on foot,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:2:29 @ just as the descendants of Esau who dwell in Seir and the Moabites who dwell in Ar did for me, until I cross the Jordan to the land which the LORD our God is giving us.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:2:30 @ "But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through, for the LORD your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that He might deliv er him into your hand, as it is this day.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:2:31 @ "And the LORD said to me, "See, I have begun to give Sihon and his land ov er to you. Begin to possess it, that you may inh erit his land.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:2:32 @ Then Sihon and all his people came out against us to fight at Jahaz.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:2:33 @ And the LORD our God deliv ered him ov er to us; so we defeated him, his sons, and all his people.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:2:34 @ We took all his cities at that time, and we utt erly destroyed the men, women, and little ones of ev ery city; we left none remaining.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:2:35 @ We took only the livestock as plund er for ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we took.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:2:36 @ From Aro er, which is on the bank of the Riv er Arnon, and from the city that is in the ravine, as far as Gilead, th ere was not one city too strong for us; the LORD our God deliv ered all to us.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:2:37 @ Only you did not go near the land of the people of Ammon--anywh ere along the Riv er Jabbok, or to the cities of the mountains, or wh erev er the LORD our God had forbidden us.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:3:1 @ "Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan; and Og king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:3:2 @ And the LORD said to me, "Do not fear him, for I have deliv ered him and all his people and his land into your hand; you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:3:3 @ "So the LORD our God also deliv ered into our hands Og king of Bashan, with all his people, and we attacked him until he had no survivors remaining.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:3:4 @ And we took all his cities at that time; th ere was not a city which we did not take from them: sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:3:5 @ All these cities w ere fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides a great many rural towns.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:3:6 @ And we utt erly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utt erly destroying the men, women, and children of ev ery city.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:3:7 @ But all the livestock and the spoil of the cities we took as booty for ourselves.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:3:8 @ "And at that time we took the land from the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who w ere on this side of the Jordan, from the Riv er Arnon to Mount H ermon

nkjv@Deut eronomy:3:9 @ (the Sidonians call H ermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir),

nkjv@Deut eronomy:3:10 @ all the cities of the plain, all Gilead, and all Bashan, as far as Salcah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:3:11 @ "For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the giants. Indeed his bedstead was an iron bedstead. (Is it not in Rabbah of the people of Ammon?) Nine cubits is its length and four cubits its width, according to the standard cubit.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:3:12 @ "And this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aro er, which is by the Riv er Arnon, and half the mountains of Gilead and its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:3:13 @ The rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to half the tribe of Manasseh. (All the region of Argob, with all Bashan, was called the land of the giants.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:3:14 @ Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, as far as the bord er of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and called Bashan aft er his own name, Havoth Jair, to this day.)

nkjv@Deut eronomy:3:15 @ "Also I gave Gilead to Machir.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:3:16 @ And to the Reubenites and the Gadites I gave from Gilead as far as the Riv er Arnon, the middle of the riv er as the bord er, as far as the Riv er Jabbok, the bord er of the people of Ammon;

nkjv@Deut eronomy:3:17 @ the plain also, with the Jordan as the bord er, from Chinn ereth as far as the east side of the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea), below the slopes of Pisgah.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:3:18 @ "Then I commanded you at that time, saying: "The LORD your God has given you this land to possess. All you men of valor shall cross ov er armed before your brethren, the children of Israel.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:3:19 @ But your wives, your little ones, and your livestock (I know that you have much livestock) shall stay in your cities which I have given you,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:3:20 @ until the LORD has given rest to your brethren as to you, and they also possess the land which the LORD your God is giving them beyond the Jordan. Then each of you may return to his possession which I have given you.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:3:21 @ "And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, "Your eyes have seen all that the LORD your God has done to these two kings; so will the LORD do to all the kingdoms through which you pass.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:3:22 @ You must not fear them, for the LORD your God Himself fights for you.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:3:23 @ "Then I pleaded with the LORD at that time, saying:

nkjv@Deut eronomy:3:24 @ "O Lord GOD, You have begun to show Your s ervant Your greatness and Your mighty hand, for what god is th ere in heaven or on earth who can do anything like Your works and Your mighty deeds?

nkjv@Deut eronomy:3:25 @ I pray, let me cross ov er and see the good land beyond the Jordan, those pleasant mountains, and Lebanon.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:3:26 @ "But the LORD was angry with me on your account, and would not listen to me. So the LORD said to me: "Enough of that! Speak no more to Me of this matt er.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:3:27 @ Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift your eyes toward the west, the north, the south, and the east; behold it with your eyes, for you shall not cross ov er this Jordan.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:3:28 @ But command Joshua, and encourage him and strengthen him; for he shall go ov er before this people, and he shall cause them to inh erit the land which you will see.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:3:29 @ "So we stayed in the valley opposite Beth Peor.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:1 @ "Now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the judgments which I teach you to obs erve, that you may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fath ers is giving you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:2 @ You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:3 @ Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal Peor; for the LORD your God has destroyed from among you all the men who followed Baal of Peor.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:4 @ But you who held fast to the LORD your God are alive today, ev ery one of you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:5 @ "Surely I have taught you statutes and judgments, just as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should act according to them in the land which you go to possess.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:6 @ Th erefore be careful to obs erve them; for this is your wisdom and your und erstanding in the sight of the peoples who will hear all these statutes, and say, "Surely this great nation is a wise and und erstanding people.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:7 @ "For what great nation is th ere that has God so near to it, as the LORD our God is to us, for whatev er reason we may call upon Him?

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:8 @ And what great nation is th ere that has such statutes and righteous judgments as are in all this law which I set before you this day?

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:9 @ Only take heed to yourself, and diligently keep yourself, lest you forget the things your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. And teach them to your children and your grandchildren,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:10 @ especially conc erning the day you stood before the LORD your God in Horeb, when the LORD said to me, "Gath er the people to Me, and I will let them hear My words, that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:11 @ "Then you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire to the midst of heaven, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:12 @ And the LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. You heard the sound of the words, but saw no form; you only heard a voice.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:13 @ So He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to p erform, the Ten Commandments; and He wrote them on two tablets of stone.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:14 @ And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that you might obs erve them in the land which you cross ov er to possess.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:15 @ "Take careful heed to yourselves, for you saw no form when the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:16 @ lest you act corruptly and make for yourselves a carved image in the form of any figure: the likeness of male or female,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:17 @ the likeness of any animal that is on the earth or the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:18 @ the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground or the likeness of any fish that is in the wat er beneath the earth.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:19 @ And take heed, lest you lift your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the host of heaven, you feel driven to worship them and s erve them, which the LORD your God has given to all the peoples und er the whole heaven as a h eritage.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:20 @ But the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be His people, an inh eritance, as you are this day.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:21 @ Furth ermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I would not cross ov er the Jordan, and that I would not ent er the good land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inh eritance.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:22 @ But I must die in this land, I must not cross ov er the Jordan; but you shall cross ov er and possess that good land.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:23 @ Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God which He made with you, and make for yourselves a carved image in the form of anything which the LORD your God has forbidden you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:24 @ For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:25 @ "When you beget children and grandchildren and have grown old in the land, and act corruptly and make a carved image in the form of anything, and do evil in the sight of the LORD your God to provoke Him to ang er,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:26 @ I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you will soon utt erly p erish from the land which you cross ov er the Jordan to possess; you will not prolong your days in it, but will be utt erly destroyed.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:27 @ And the LORD will scatt er you among the peoples, and you will be left few in numb er among the nations wh ere the LORD will drive you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:28 @ And th ere you will s erve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neith er see nor hear nor eat nor smell.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:29 @ But from th ere you will seek the LORD your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:30 @ When you are in distress, and all these things come upon you in the latt er days, when you turn to the LORD your God and obey His voice

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:31 @ (for the LORD your God is a m erciful God), He will not forsake you nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fath ers which He swore to them.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:32 @ "For ask now conc erning the days that are past, which w ere before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the oth er, wheth er any great thing like this has happened, or anything like it has been heard.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:33 @ Did any people ev er hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:34 @ Or did God ev er try to go and take for Himself a nation from the midst of anoth er nation, by trials, by signs, by wond ers, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great t errors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:35 @ To you it was shown, that you might know that the LORD Himself is God; th ere is none oth er besides Him.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:36 @ Out of heaven He let you hear His voice, that He might instruct you; on earth He showed you His great fire, and you heard His words out of the midst of the fire.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:37 @ And because He loved your fath ers, th erefore He chose their descendants aft er them; and He brought you out of Egypt with His Presence, with His mighty pow er,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:38 @ driving out from before you nations great er and mighti er than you, to bring you in, to give you their land as an inh eritance, as it is this day.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:39 @ Th erefore know this day, and consid er it in your heart, that the LORD Himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; th ere is no oth er.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:40 @ You shall th erefore keep His statutes and His commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children aft er you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which the LORD your God is giving you for all time."

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:41 @ Then Moses set apart three cities on this side of the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:42 @ that the manslay er might flee th ere, who kills his neighbor unintentionally, without having hated him in time past, and that by fleeing to one of these cities he might live:

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:43 @ Bez er in the wild erness on the plateau for the Reubenites, Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:44 @ Now this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:45 @ These are the testimonies, the statutes, and the judgments which Moses spoke to the children of Israel aft er they came out of Egypt,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:46 @ on this side of the Jordan, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel defeated aft er they came out of Egypt.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:47 @ And they took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, who w ere on this side of the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:48 @ from Aro er, which is on the bank of the Riv er Arnon, even to Mount Sion (that is, H ermon),

nkjv@Deut eronomy:4:49 @ and all the plain on the east side of the Jordan as far as the Sea of the Arabah, below the slopes of Pisgah.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:5:1 @ And Moses called all Israel, and said to them: "Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your hearing today, that you may learn them and be careful to obs erve them.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:5:2 @ The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:5:3 @ The LORD did not make this covenant with our fath ers, but with us, those who are h ere today, all of us who are alive.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:5:4 @ The LORD talked with you face to face on the mountain from the midst of the fire.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:5:5 @ I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the LORD; for you w ere afraid because of the fire, and you did not go up the mountain. He said:

nkjv@Deut eronomy:5:6 @ "I am the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:5:7 @ "You shall have no oth er gods before Me.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:5:8 @ "You shall not make for yourself a carved image--any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the wat er und er the earth;

nkjv@Deut eronomy:5:9 @ you shall not bow down to them nor s erve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fath ers upon the children to the third and fourth gen erations of those who hate Me,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:5:10 @ but showing m ercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:5:11 @ "You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:5:12 @ "Obs erve the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:5:13 @ Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:5:14 @ but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daught er, nor your male s ervant, nor your female s ervant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle, nor your strang er who is within your gates, that your male s ervant and your female s ervant may rest as well as you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:5:15 @ And rememb er that you w ere a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out from th ere by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; th erefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:5:16 @ "Honor your fath er and your moth er, as the LORD your God has commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may be well with you in the land which the LORD your God is giving you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:5:17 @ "You shall not murd er.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:5:18 @ "You shall not commit adult ery.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:5:19 @ "You shall not steal.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:5:20 @ "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:5:21 @ "You shall not covet your neighbor's wife; and you shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, his male s ervant, his female s ervant, his ox, his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:5:22 @ "These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly, in the mountain from the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, with a loud voice; and He added no more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:5:23 @ "So it was, when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, that you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes and your eld ers.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:5:24 @ And you said: "Surely the LORD our God has shown us His glory and His greatness, and we have heard His voice from the midst of the fire. We have seen this day that God speaks with man; yet he still lives.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:5:25 @ Now th erefore, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us; if we hear the voice of the LORD our God anymore, then we shall die.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:5:26 @ For who is th ere of all flesh who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?

nkjv@Deut eronomy:5:27 @ You go near and hear all that the LORD our God may say, and tell us all that the LORD our God says to you, and we will hear and do it.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:5:28 @ "Then the LORD heard the voice of your words when you spoke to me, and the LORD said to me: "I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken to you. They are right in all that they have spoken.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:5:29 @ Oh, that they had such a heart in them that they would fear Me and always keep all My commandments, that it might be well with them and with their children forev er!

nkjv@Deut eronomy:5:30 @ Go and say to them, "Return to your tents."

nkjv@Deut eronomy:5:31 @ But as for you, stand h ere by Me, and I will speak to you all the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments which you shall teach them, that they may obs erve them in the land which I am giving them to possess.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:5:32 @ "Th erefore you shall be careful to do as the LORD your God has commanded you; you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:5:33 @ You shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God has commanded you, that you may live and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:6:1 @ "Now this is the commandment, and these are the statutes and judgments which the LORD your God has commanded to teach you, that you may obs erve them in the land which you are crossing ov er to possess,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:6:2 @ that you may fear the LORD your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you, you and your son and your grandson, all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:6:3 @ Th erefore hear, O Israel, and be careful to obs erve it, that it may be well with you, and that you may multiply greatly as the LORD God of your fath ers has promised you--"a land flowing with milk and honey.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:6:4 @ "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one!

nkjv@Deut eronomy:6:5 @ You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:6:6 @ "And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:6:7 @ You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:6:8 @ You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:6:9 @ You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:6:10 @ "So it shall be, when the LORD your God brings you into the land of which He swore to your fath ers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you large and beautiful cities which you did not build,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:6:11 @ houses full of all good things, which you did not fill, hewn-out wells which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant--when you have eaten and are full--

nkjv@Deut eronomy:6:12 @ then beware, lest you forget the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:6:13 @ You shall fear the LORD your God and s erve Him, and shall take oaths in His name.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:6:14 @ You shall not go aft er oth er gods, the gods of the peoples who are all around you

nkjv@Deut eronomy:6:15 @ (for the LORD your God is a jealous God among you), lest the ang er of the LORD your God be aroused against you and destroy you from the face of the earth.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:6:16 @ "You shall not tempt the LORD your God as you tempted Him in Massah.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:6:17 @ You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, His testimonies, and His statutes which He has commanded you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:6:18 @ And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land of which the LORD swore to your fath ers,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:6:19 @ to cast out all your enemies from before you, as the LORD has spoken.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:6:20 @ "When your son asks you in time to come, saying, "What is the meaning of the testimonies, the statutes, and the judgments which the LORD our God has commanded you?'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:6:21 @ then you shall say to your son: "We w ere slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand;

nkjv@Deut eronomy:6:22 @ and the LORD showed signs and wond ers before our eyes, great and sev ere, against Egypt, Pharaoh, and all his household.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:6:23 @ Then He brought us out from th ere, that He might bring us in, to give us the land of which He swore to our fath ers.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:6:24 @ And the LORD commanded us to obs erve all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that He might pres erve us alive, as it is this day.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:6:25 @ Then it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to obs erve all these commandments before the LORD our God, as He has commanded us.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:7:1 @ "When the LORD your God brings you into the land which you go to possess, and has cast out many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the P erizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations great er and mighti er than you,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:7:2 @ and when the LORD your God deliv ers them ov er to you, you shall conqu er them and utt erly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them nor show m ercy to them.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:7:3 @ Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daught er to their son, nor take their daught er for your son.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:7:4 @ For they will turn your sons away from following Me, to s erve oth er gods; so the ang er of the LORD will be aroused against you and destroy you suddenly.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:7:5 @ But thus you shall deal with them: you shall destroy their altars, and break down their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images, and burn their carved images with fire.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:7:6 @ "For you are a holy people to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:7:7 @ The LORD did not set His love on you nor choose you because you w ere more in numb er than any oth er people, for you w ere the least of all peoples;

nkjv@Deut eronomy:7:8 @ but because the LORD loves you, and because He would keep the oath which He swore to your fath ers, the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:7:9 @ "Th erefore know that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and m ercy for a thousand gen erations with those who love Him and keep His commandments;

nkjv@Deut eronomy:7:10 @ and He repays those who hate Him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack with him who hates Him; He will repay him to his face.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:7:11 @ Th erefore you shall keep the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments which I command you today, to obs erve them.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:7:12 @ "Then it shall come to pass, because you listen to these judgments, and keep and do them, that the LORD your God will keep with you the covenant and the m ercy which He swore to your fath ers.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:7:13 @ And He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flock, in the land of which He swore to your fath ers to give you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:7:14 @ You shall be blessed above all peoples; th ere shall not be a male or female barren among you or among your livestock.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:7:15 @ And the LORD will take away from you all sickness, and will afflict you with none of the t errible diseases of Egypt which you have known, but will lay them on all those who hate you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:7:16 @ Also you shall destroy all the peoples whom the LORD your God deliv ers ov er to you; your eye shall have no pity on them; nor shall you s erve their gods, for that will be a snare to you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:7:17 @ "If you should say in your heart, "These nations are great er than I; how can I dispossess them?'--

nkjv@Deut eronomy:7:18 @ you shall not be afraid of them, but you shall rememb er well what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt:

nkjv@Deut eronomy:7:19 @ the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs and the wond ers, the mighty hand and the outstretched arm, by which the LORD your God brought you out. So shall the LORD your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:7:20 @ Moreov er the LORD your God will send the hornet among them until those who are left, who hide themselves from you, are destroyed.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:7:21 @ You shall not be t errified of them; for the LORD your God, the great and awesome God, is among you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:7:22 @ And the LORD your God will drive out those nations before you little by little; you will be unable to destroy them at once, lest the beasts of the field become too num erous for you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:7:23 @ But the LORD your God will deliv er them ov er to you, and will inflict defeat upon them until they are destroyed.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:7:24 @ And He will deliv er their kings into your hand, and you will destroy their name from und er heaven; no one shall be able to stand against you until you have destroyed them.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:7:25 @ You shall burn the carved images of their gods with fire; you shall not covet the silv er or gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, lest you be snared by it; for it is an abomination to the LORD your God.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:7:26 @ Nor shall you bring an abomination into your house, lest you be doomed to destruction like it. You shall utt erly detest it and utt erly abhor it, for it is an accursed thing.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:8:1 @ "Ev ery commandment which I command you today you must be careful to obs erve, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land of which the LORD swore to your fath ers.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:8:2 @ And you shall rememb er that the LORD your God led you all the way these forty years in the wild erness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, wheth er you would keep His commandments or not.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:8:3 @ So He humbled you, allowed you to hung er, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fath ers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by ev ery word that proceeds from the mouth of the LORD.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:8:4 @ Your garments did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:8:5 @ You should know in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so the LORD your God chastens you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:8:6 @ "Th erefore you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:8:7 @ For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of wat er, of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills;

nkjv@Deut eronomy:8:8 @ a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey;

nkjv@Deut eronomy:8:9 @ a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing; a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills you can dig copp er.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:8:10 @ When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land which He has given you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:8:11 @ "Beware that you do not forget the LORD your God by not keeping His commandments, His judgments, and His statutes which I command you today,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:8:12 @ lest--when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them;

nkjv@Deut eronomy:8:13 @ and when your h erds and your flocks multiply, and your silv er and your gold are multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;

nkjv@Deut eronomy:8:14 @ when your heart is lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;

nkjv@Deut eronomy:8:15 @ who led you through that great and t errible wild erness, in which w ere fi ery s erpents and scorpions and thirsty land wh ere th ere was no wat er; who brought wat er for you out of the flinty rock;

nkjv@Deut eronomy:8:16 @ who fed you in the wild erness with manna, which your fath ers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might test you, to do you good in the end--

nkjv@Deut eronomy:8:17 @ then you say in your heart, "My pow er and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:8:18 @ "And you shall rememb er the LORD your God, for it is He who gives you pow er to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fath ers, as it is this day.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:8:19 @ Then it shall be, if you by any means forget the LORD your God, and follow oth er gods, and s erve them and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely p erish.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:8:20 @ As the nations which the LORD destroys before you, so you shall p erish, because you would not be obedient to the voice of the LORD your God.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:9:1 @ "Hear, O Israel: You are to cross ov er the Jordan today, and go in to dispossess nations great er and mighti er than yourself, cities great and fortified up to heaven,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:9:2 @ a people great and tall, the descendants of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you heard it said, "Who can stand before the descendants of Anak?'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:9:3 @ Th erefore und erstand today that the LORD your God is He who goes ov er before you as a consuming fire. He will destroy them and bring them down before you; so you shall drive them out and destroy them quickly, as the LORD has said to you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:9:4 @ "Do not think in your heart, aft er the LORD your God has cast them out before you, saying, "Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land'; but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is driving them out from before you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:9:5 @ It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you go in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD your God drives them out from before you, and that He may fulfill the word which the LORD swore to your fath ers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:9:6 @ Th erefore und erstand that the LORD your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:9:7 @ "Rememb er! Do not forget how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wild erness. From the day that you departed from the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:9:8 @ Also in Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry enough with you to have destroyed you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:9:9 @ When I went up into the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neith er ate bread nor drank wat er.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:9:10 @ Then the LORD deliv ered to me two tablets of stone written with the fing er of God, and on them w ere all the words which the LORD had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:9:11 @ And it came to pass, at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:9:12 @ "Then the LORD said to me, "Arise, go down quickly from h ere, for your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly; they have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them; they have made themselves a molded image.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:9:13 @ "Furth ermore the LORD spoke to me, saying, "I have seen this people, and indeed they are a stiff-necked people.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:9:14 @ Let Me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from und er heaven; and I will make of you a nation mighti er and great er than they.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:9:15 @ "So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire; and the two tablets of the covenant w ere in my two hands.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:9:16 @ And I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the LORD your God--had made for yourselves a molded calf! You had turned aside quickly from the way which the LORD had commanded you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:9:17 @ Then I took the two tablets and threw them out of my two hands and broke them before your eyes.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:9:18 @ And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I neith er ate bread nor drank wat er, because of all your sin which you committed in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to ang er.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:9:19 @ For I was afraid of the ang er and hot displeasure with which the LORD was angry with you, to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me at that time also.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:9:20 @ And the LORD was v ery angry with Aaron and would have destroyed him; so I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:9:21 @ Then I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it and ground it v ery small, until it was as fine as dust; and I threw its dust into the brook that descended from the mountain.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:9:22 @ "Also at Tab erah and Massah and Kibroth Hattaavah you provoked the LORD to wrath.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:9:23 @ Likewise, when the LORD sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, "Go up and possess the land which I have given you,' then you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and you did not believe Him nor obey His voice.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:9:24 @ You have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:9:25 @ "Thus I prostrated myself before the LORD; forty days and forty nights I kept prostrating myself, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:9:26 @ Th erefore I prayed to the LORD, and said: "O Lord GOD, do not destroy Your people and Your inh eritance whom You have redeemed through Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:9:27 @ Rememb er Your s ervants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look on the stubbornness of this people, or on their wickedness or their sin,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:9:28 @ lest the land from which You brought us should say, "Because the LORD was not able to bring them to the land which He promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the wild erness."

nkjv@Deut eronomy:9:29 @ Yet they are Your people and Your inh eritance, whom You brought out by Your mighty pow er and by Your outstretched arm.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:10:1 @ "At that time the LORD said to me, "Hew for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to Me on the mountain and make yourself an ark of wood.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:10:2 @ And I will write on the tablets the words that w ere on the first tablets, which you broke; and you shall put them in the ark.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:10:3 @ "So I made an ark of acacia wood, hewed two tablets of stone like the first, and went up the mountain, having the two tablets in my hand.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:10:4 @ And He wrote on the tablets according to the first writing, the Ten Commandments, which the LORD had spoken to you in the mountain from the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly; and the LORD gave them to me.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:10:5 @ Then I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tablets in the ark which I had made; and th ere they are, just as the LORD commanded me."

nkjv@Deut eronomy:10:6 @ (Now the children of Israel journeyed from the wells of Bene Jaakan to Mos erah, wh ere Aaron died, and wh ere he was buried; and Eleazar his son minist ered as priest in his stead.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:10:7 @ From th ere they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of riv ers of wat er.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:10:8 @ At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minist er to Him and to bless in His name, to this day.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:10:9 @ Th erefore Levi has no portion nor inh eritance with his brethren; the LORD is his inh eritance, just as the LORD your God promised him.)

nkjv@Deut eronomy:10:10 @ "As at the first time, I stayed in the mountain forty days and forty nights; the LORD also heard me at that time, and the LORD chose not to destroy you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:10:11 @ Then the LORD said to me, "Arise, begin your journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land which I swore to their fath ers to give them.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:10:12 @ "And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to s erve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:10:13 @ and to keep the commandments of the LORD and His statutes which I command you today for your good?

nkjv@Deut eronomy:10:14 @ Indeed heaven and the highest heavens belong to the LORD your God, also the earth with all that is in it.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:10:15 @ The LORD delighted only in your fath ers, to love them; and He chose their descendants aft er them, you above all peoples, as it is this day.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:10:16 @ Th erefore circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and be stiff-necked no long er.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:10:17 @ For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality nor takes a bribe.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:10:18 @ He administ ers justice for the fath erless and the widow, and loves the strang er, giving him food and clothing.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:10:19 @ Th erefore love the strang er, for you w ere strang ers in the land of Egypt.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:10:20 @ You shall fear the LORD your God; you shall s erve Him, and to Him you shall hold fast, and take oaths in His name.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:10:21 @ He is your praise, and He is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things which your eyes have seen.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:10:22 @ Your fath ers went down to Egypt with seventy p ersons, and now the LORD your God has made you as the stars of heaven in multitude.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:11:1 @ "Th erefore you shall love the LORD your God, and keep His charge, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments always.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:11:2 @ Know today that I do not speak with your children, who have not known and who have not seen the chastening of the LORD your God, His greatness and His mighty hand and His outstretched arm--

nkjv@Deut eronomy:11:3 @ His signs and His acts which He did in the midst of Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to all his land;

nkjv@Deut eronomy:11:4 @ what He did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and their chariots: how He made the wat ers of the Red Sea ov erflow them as they pursued you, and how the LORD has destroyed them to this day;

nkjv@Deut eronomy:11:5 @ what He did for you in the wild erness until you came to this place;

nkjv@Deut eronomy:11:6 @ and what He did to Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, their households, their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel--

nkjv@Deut eronomy:11:7 @ but your eyes have seen ev ery great act of the LORD which He did.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:11:8 @ "Th erefore you shall keep ev ery commandment which I command you today, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land which you cross ov er to possess,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:11:9 @ and that you may prolong your days in the land which the LORD swore to give your fath ers, to them and their descendants, "a land flowing with milk and honey.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:11:10 @ For the land which you go to possess is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come, wh ere you sowed your seed and wat ered it by foot, as a vegetable garden;

nkjv@Deut eronomy:11:11 @ but the land which you cross ov er to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks wat er from the rain of heaven,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:11:12 @ a land for which the LORD your God cares; the eyes of the LORD your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the v ery end of the year.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:11:13 @ "And it shall be that if you earnestly obey My commandments which I command you today, to love the LORD your God and s erve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:11:14 @ then I will give you the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latt er rain, that you may gath er in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:11:15 @ And I will send grass in your fields for your livestock, that you may eat and be filled.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:11:16 @ Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and s erve oth er gods and worship them,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:11:17 @ lest the LORD's ang er be aroused against you, and He shut up the heavens so that th ere be no rain, and the land yield no produce, and you p erish quickly from the good land which the LORD is giving you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:11:18 @ "Th erefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:11:19 @ You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:11:20 @ And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:11:21 @ that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land of which the LORD swore to your fath ers to give them, like the days of the heavens above the earth.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:11:22 @ "For if you carefully keep all these commandments which I command you to do--to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him--

nkjv@Deut eronomy:11:23 @ then the LORD will drive out all these nations from before you, and you will dispossess great er and mighti er nations than yourselves.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:11:24 @ Ev ery place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wild erness and Lebanon, from the riv er, the Riv er Euphrates, even to the West ern Sea, shall be your t erritory.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:11:25 @ No man shall be able to stand against you; the LORD your God will put the dread of you and the fear of you upon all the land wh ere you tread, just as He has said to you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:11:26 @ "Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse:

nkjv@Deut eronomy:11:27 @ the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you today;

nkjv@Deut eronomy:11:28 @ and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way which I command you today, to go aft er oth er gods which you have not known.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:11:29 @ Now it shall be, when the LORD your God has brought you into the land which you go to possess, that you shall put the blessing on Mount G erizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:11:30 @ Are they not on the oth er side of the Jordan, toward the setting sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the plain opposite Gilgal, beside the t erebinth trees of Moreh?

nkjv@Deut eronomy:11:31 @ For you will cross ov er the Jordan and go in to possess the land which the LORD your God is giving you, and you will possess it and dwell in it.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:11:32 @ And you shall be careful to obs erve all the statutes and judgments which I set before you today.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:12:1 @ "These are the statutes and judgments which you shall be careful to obs erve in the land which the LORD God of your fath ers is giving you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:12:2 @ You shall utt erly destroy all the places wh ere the nations which you shall dispossess s erved their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and und er ev ery green tree.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:12:3 @ And you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and burn their wooden images with fire; you shall cut down the carved images of their gods and destroy their names from that place.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:12:4 @ You shall not worship the LORD your God with such things.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:12:5 @ "But you shall seek the place wh ere the LORD your God chooses, out of all your tribes, to put His name for His dwelling place; and th ere you shall go.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:12:6 @ Th ere you shall take your burnt off erings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the heave off erings of your hand, your vowed off erings, your freewill off erings, and the firstborn of your h erds and flocks.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:12:7 @ And th ere you shall eat before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice in all to which you have put your hand, you and your households, in which the LORD your God has blessed you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:12:8 @ "You shall not at all do as we are doing h ere today--ev ery man doing whatev er is right in his own eyes--

nkjv@Deut eronomy:12:9 @ for as yet you have not come to the rest and the inh eritance which the LORD your God is giving you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:12:10 @ But when you cross ov er the Jordan and dwell in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to inh erit, and He gives you rest from all your enemies round about, so that you dwell in safety,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:12:11 @ then th ere will be the place wh ere the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide. Th ere you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt off erings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the heave off erings of your hand, and all your choice off erings which you vow to the LORD.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:12:12 @ And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your sons and your daught ers, your male and female s ervants, and the Levite who is within your gates, since he has no portion nor inh eritance with you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:12:13 @ Take heed to yourself that you do not off er your burnt off erings in ev ery place that you see;

nkjv@Deut eronomy:12:14 @ but in the place which the LORD chooses, in one of your tribes, th ere you shall off er your burnt off erings, and th ere you shall do all that I command you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:12:15 @ "Howev er, you may slaught er and eat meat within all your gates, whatev er your heart desires, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which He has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat of it, of the gazelle and the de er alike.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:12:16 @ Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it on the earth like wat er.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:12:17 @ You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain or your new wine or your oil, of the firstborn of your h erd or your flock, of any of your off erings which you vow, of your freewill off erings, or of the heave off ering of your hand.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:12:18 @ But you must eat them before the LORD your God in the place which the LORD your God chooses, you and your son and your daught er, your male s ervant and your female s ervant, and the Levite who is within your gates; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in all to which you put your hands.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:12:19 @ Take heed to yourself that you do not forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:12:20 @ "When the LORD your God enlarges your bord er as He has promised you, and you say, "Let me eat meat,' because you long to eat meat, you may eat as much meat as your heart desires.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:12:21 @ If the place wh ere the LORD your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, then you may slaught er from your h erd and from your flock which the LORD has given you, just as I have commanded you, and you may eat within your gates as much as your heart desires.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:12:22 @ Just as the gazelle and the de er are eaten, so you may eat them; the unclean and the clean alike may eat them.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:12:23 @ Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life; you may not eat the life with the meat.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:12:24 @ You shall not eat it; you shall pour it on the earth like wat er.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:12:25 @ You shall not eat it, that it may go well with you and your children aft er you, when you do what is right in the sight of the LORD.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:12:26 @ Only the holy things which you have, and your vowed off erings, you shall take and go to the place which the LORD chooses.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:12:27 @ And you shall off er your burnt off erings, the meat and the blood, on the altar of the LORD your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the LORD your God, and you shall eat the meat.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:12:28 @ Obs erve and obey all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you and your children aft er you forev er, when you do what is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:12:29 @ "When the LORD your God cuts off from before you the nations which you go to dispossess, and you displace them and dwell in their land,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:12:30 @ take heed to yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them, aft er they are destroyed from before you, and that you do not inquire aft er their gods, saying, "How did these nations s erve their gods? I also will do likewise.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:12:31 @ You shall not worship the LORD your God in that way; for ev ery abomination to the LORD which He hates they have done to their gods; for they burn even their sons and daught ers in the fire to their gods.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:12:32 @ "Whatev er I command you, be careful to obs erve it; you shall not add to it nor take away from it.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:13:1 @ "If th ere arises among you a prophet or a dream er of dreams, and he gives you a sign or a wond er,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:13:2 @ and the sign or the wond er comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, "Let us go aft er oth er gods'--which you have not known--"and let us s erve them,'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:13:3 @ you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dream er of dreams, for the LORD your God is testing you to know wheth er you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:13:4 @ You shall walk aft er the LORD your God and fear Him, and keep His commandments and obey His voice; you shall s erve Him and hold fast to Him.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:13:5 @ But that prophet or that dream er of dreams shall be put to death, because he has spoken in ord er to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of bondage, to entice you from the way in which the LORD your God commanded you to walk. So you shall put away the evil from your midst.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:13:6 @ "If your broth er, the son of your moth er, your son or your daught er, the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, secretly entices you, saying, "Let us go and s erve oth er gods,' which you have not known, neith er you nor your fath ers,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:13:7 @ of the gods of the people which are all around you, near to you or far off from you, from one end of the earth to the oth er end of the earth,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:13:8 @ you shall not consent to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him or conceal him;

nkjv@Deut eronomy:13:9 @ but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and aft erward the hand of all the people.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:13:10 @ And you shall stone him with stones until he dies, because he sought to entice you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:13:11 @ So all Israel shall hear and fear, and not again do such wickedness as this among you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:13:12 @ "If you hear someone in one of your cities, which the LORD your God gives you to dwell in, saying,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:13:13 @ "Corrupt men have gone out from among you and enticed the inhabitants of their city, saying, "Let us go and s erve oth er gods"'--which you have not known--

nkjv@Deut eronomy:13:14 @ then you shall inquire, search out, and ask diligently. And if it is indeed true and c ertain that such an abomination was committed among you,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:13:15 @ you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, utt erly destroying it, all that is in it and its livestock--with the edge of the sword.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:13:16 @ And you shall gath er all its plund er into the middle of the street, and completely burn with fire the city and all its plund er, for the LORD your God. It shall be a heap forev er; it shall not be built again.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:13:17 @ So none of the accursed things shall remain in your hand, that the LORD may turn from the fi erceness of His ang er and show you m ercy, have compassion on you and multiply you, just as He swore to your fath ers,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:13:18 @ because you have listened to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep all His commandments which I command you today, to do what is right in the eyes of the LORD your God.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:14:1 @ "You are the children of the LORD your God; you shall not cut yourselves nor shave the front of your head for the dead.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:14:2 @ For you are a holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:14:3 @ "You shall not eat any detestable thing.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:14:4 @ These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:14:5 @ the de er, the gazelle, the roe de er, the wild goat, the mountain goat, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:14:6 @ And you may eat ev ery animal with cloven hooves, having the hoof split into two parts, and that chews the cud, among the animals.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:14:7 @ Nev ertheless, of those that chew the cud or have cloven hooves, you shall not eat, such as these: the camel, the hare, and the rock hyrax; for they chew the cud but do not have cloven hooves; they are unclean for you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:14:8 @ Also the swine is unclean for you, because it has cloven hooves, yet does not chew the cud; you shall not eat their flesh or touch their dead carcasses.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:14:9 @ "These you may eat of all that are in the wat ers: you may eat all that have fins and scales.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:14:10 @ And whatev er does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:14:11 @ "All clean birds you may eat.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:14:12 @ But these you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the buzzard,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:14:13 @ the red kite, the falcon, and the kite aft er their kinds;

nkjv@Deut eronomy:14:14 @ ev ery raven aft er its kind;

nkjv@Deut eronomy:14:15 @ the ostrich, the short-eared owl, the sea gull, and the hawk aft er their kinds;

nkjv@Deut eronomy:14:16 @ the little owl, the screech owl, the white owl,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:14:17 @ the jackdaw, the carrion vulture, the fish er owl,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:14:18 @ the stork, the h eron aft er its kind, and the hoopoe and the bat.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:14:19 @ "Also ev ery creeping thing that flies is unclean for you; they shall not be eaten.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:14:20 @ "You may eat all clean birds.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:14:21 @ "You shall not eat anything that dies of itself; you may give it to the alien who is within your gates, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreign er; for you are a holy people to the LORD your God. "You shall not boil a young goat in its moth er's milk.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:14:22 @ "You shall truly tithe all the increase of your grain that the field produces year by year.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:14:23 @ And you shall eat before the LORD your God, in the place wh ere He chooses to make His name abide, the tithe of your grain and your new wine and your oil, of the firstborn of your h erds and your flocks, that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:14:24 @ But if the journey is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry the tithe, or if the place wh ere the LORD your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, when the LORD your God has blessed you,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:14:25 @ then you shall exchange it for money, take the money in your hand, and go to the place which the LORD your God chooses.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:14:26 @ And you shall spend that money for whatev er your heart desires: for oxen or sheep, for wine or similar drink, for whatev er your heart desires; you shall eat th ere before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:14:27 @ You shall not forsake the Levite who is within your gates, for he has no part nor inh eritance with you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:14:28 @ "At the end of ev ery third year you shall bring out the tithe of your produce of that year and store it up within your gates.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:14:29 @ And the Levite, because he has no portion nor inh eritance with you, and the strang er and the fath erless and the widow who are within your gates, may come and eat and be satisfied, that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:15:1 @ "At the end of ev ery seven years you shall grant a release of debts.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:15:2 @ And this is the form of the release: Ev ery creditor who has lent anything to his neighbor shall release it; he shall not require it of his neighbor or his broth er, because it is called the LORD's release.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:15:3 @ Of a foreign er you may require it; but you shall give up your claim to what is owed by your broth er,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:15:4 @ except when th ere may be no poor among you; for the LORD will greatly bless you in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to possess as an inh eritance--

nkjv@Deut eronomy:15:5 @ only if you carefully obey the voice of the LORD your God, to obs erve with care all these commandments which I command you today.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:15:6 @ For the LORD your God will bless you just as He promised you; you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; you shall reign ov er many nations, but they shall not reign ov er you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:15:7 @ "If th ere is among you a poor man of your brethren, within any of the gates in your land which the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart nor shut your hand from your poor broth er,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:15:8 @ but you shall open your hand wide to him and willingly lend him sufficient for his need, whatev er he needs.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:15:9 @ Beware lest th ere be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, "The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,' and your eye be evil against your poor broth er and you give him nothing, and he cry out to the LORD against you, and it become sin among you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:15:10 @ You shall surely give to him, and your heart should not be grieved when you give to him, because for this thing the LORD your God will bless you in all your works and in all to which you put your hand.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:15:11 @ For the poor will nev er cease from the land; th erefore I command you, saying, "You shall open your hand wide to your broth er, to your poor and your needy, in your land.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:15:12 @ "If your broth er, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you and s erves you six years, then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:15:13 @ And when you send him away free from you, you shall not let him go away empty-handed;

nkjv@Deut eronomy:15:14 @ you shall supply him lib erally from your flock, from your threshing floor, and from your winepress. From what the LORD has blessed you with, you shall give to him.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:15:15 @ You shall rememb er that you w ere a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you; th erefore I command you this thing today.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:15:16 @ And if it happens that he says to you, "I will not go away from you,' because he loves you and your house, since he prosp ers with you,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:15:17 @ then you shall take an awl and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your s ervant forev er. Also to your female s ervant you shall do likewise.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:15:18 @ It shall not seem hard to you when you send him away free from you; for he has been worth a double hired s ervant in s erving you six years. Then the LORD your God will bless you in all that you do.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:15:19 @ "All the firstborn males that come from your h erd and your flock you shall sanctify to the LORD your God; you shall do no work with the firstborn of your h erd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:15:20 @ You and your household shall eat it before the LORD your God year by year in the place which the LORD chooses.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:15:21 @ But if th ere is a defect in it, if it is lame or blind or has any s erious defect, you shall not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:15:22 @ You may eat it within your gates; the unclean and the clean p erson alike may eat it, as if it w ere a gazelle or a de er.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:15:23 @ Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it on the ground like wat er.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:16:1 @ "Obs erve the month of Abib, and keep the Passov er to the LORD your God, for in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:16:2 @ Th erefore you shall sacrifice the Passov er to the LORD your God, from the flock and the h erd, in the place wh ere the LORD chooses to put His name.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:16:3 @ You shall eat no leavened bread with it; seven days you shall eat unleavened bread with it, that is, the bread of affliction (for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste), that you may rememb er the day in which you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:16:4 @ And no leaven shall be seen among you in all your t erritory for seven days, nor shall any of the meat which you sacrifice the first day at twilight remain ov ernight until morning.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:16:5 @ "You may not sacrifice the Passov er within any of your gates which the LORD your God gives you;

nkjv@Deut eronomy:16:6 @ but at the place wh ere the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide, th ere you shall sacrifice the Passov er at twilight, at the going down of the sun, at the time you came out of Egypt.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:16:7 @ And you shall roast and eat it in the place which the LORD your God chooses, and in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:16:8 @ Six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day th ere shall be a sacred assembly to the LORD your God. You shall do no work on it.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:16:9 @ "You shall count seven weeks for yourself; begin to count the seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the grain.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:16:10 @ Then you shall keep the Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God with the tribute of a freewill off ering from your hand, which you shall give as the LORD your God blesses you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:16:11 @ You shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your son and your daught er, your male s ervant and your female s ervant, the Levite who is within your gates, the strang er and the fath erless and the widow who are among you, at the place wh ere the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:16:12 @ And you shall rememb er that you w ere a slave in Egypt, and you shall be careful to obs erve these statutes.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:16:13 @ "You shall obs erve the Feast of Tab ernacles seven days, when you have gath ered from your threshing floor and from your winepress.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:16:14 @ And you shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daught er, your male s ervant and your female s ervant and the Levite, the strang er and the fath erless and the widow, who are within your gates.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:16:15 @ Seven days you shall keep a sacred feast to the LORD your God in the place which the LORD chooses, because the LORD your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you surely rejoice.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:16:16 @ "Three times a year all your males shall appear before the LORD your God in the place which He chooses: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Tab ernacles; and they shall not appear before the LORD empty-handed.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:16:17 @ Ev ery man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which He has given you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:16:18 @ "You shall appoint judges and offic ers in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with just judgment.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:16:19 @ You shall not p erv ert justice; you shall not show partiality, nor take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:16:20 @ You shall follow what is altogeth er just, that you may live and inh erit the land which the LORD your God is giving you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:16:21 @ "You shall not plant for yourself any tree, as a wooden image, near the altar which you build for yourself to the LORD your God.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:16:22 @ You shall not set up a sacred pillar, which the LORD your God hates.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:17:1 @ "You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God a bull or sheep which has any blemish or defect, for that is an abomination to the LORD your God.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:17:2 @ "If th ere is found among you, within any of your gates which the LORD your God gives you, a man or a woman who has been wicked in the sight of the LORD your God, in transgressing His covenant,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:17:3 @ who has gone and s erved oth er gods and worshiped them, eith er the sun or moon or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:17:4 @ and it is told you, and you hear of it, then you shall inquire diligently. And if it is indeed true and c ertain that such an abomination has been committed in Israel,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:17:5 @ then you shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has committed that wicked thing, and shall stone to death that man or woman with stones.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:17:6 @ Whoev er is des erving of death shall be put to death on the testimony of two or three witnesses; he shall not be put to death on the testimony of one witness.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:17:7 @ The hands of the witnesses shall be the first against him to put him to death, and aft erward the hands of all the people. So you shall put away the evil from among you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:17:8 @ "If a matt er arises which is too hard for you to judge, between degrees of guilt for bloodshed, between one judgment or anoth er, or between one punishment or anoth er, matt ers of controv ersy within your gates, then you shall arise and go up to the place which the LORD your God chooses.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:17:9 @ And you shall come to the priests, the Levites, and to the judge th ere in those days, and inquire of them; they shall pronounce upon you the sentence of judgment.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:17:10 @ You shall do according to the sentence which they pronounce upon you in that place which the LORD chooses. And you shall be careful to do according to all that they ord er you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:17:11 @ According to the sentence of the law in which they instruct you, according to the judgment which they tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left from the sentence which they pronounce upon you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:17:12 @ Now the man who acts presumptuously and will not heed the priest who stands to minist er th ere before the LORD your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So you shall put away the evil from Israel.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:17:13 @ And all the people shall hear and fear, and no long er act presumptuously.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:17:14 @ "When you come to the land which the LORD your God is giving you, and possess it and dwell in it, and say, "I will set a king ov er me like all the nations that are around me,'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:17:15 @ you shall surely set a king ov er you whom the LORD your God chooses; one from among your brethren you shall set as king ov er you; you may not set a foreign er ov er you, who is not your broth er.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:17:16 @ But he shall not multiply horses for himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt to multiply horses, for the LORD has said to you, "You shall not return that way again.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:17:17 @ Neith er shall he multiply wives for himself, lest his heart turn away; nor shall he greatly multiply silv er and gold for himself.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:17:18 @ "Also it shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write for himself a copy of this law in a book, from the one before the priests, the Levites.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:17:19 @ And it shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the LORD his God and be careful to obs erve all the words of this law and these statutes,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:17:20 @ that his heart may not be lifted above his brethren, that he may not turn aside from the commandment to the right hand or to the left, and that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children in the midst of Israel.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:18:1 @ "The priests, the Levites--all the tribe of Levi--shall have no part nor inh eritance with Israel; they shall eat the off erings of the LORD made by fire, and His portion.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:18:2 @ Th erefore they shall have no inh eritance among their brethren; the LORD is their inh eritance, as He said to them.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:18:3 @ "And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from those who off er a sacrifice, wheth er it is bull or sheep: they shall give to the priest the should er, the cheeks, and the stomach.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:18:4 @ The firstfruits of your grain and your new wine and your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, you shall give him.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:18:5 @ For the LORD your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand to minist er in the name of the LORD, him and his sons forev er.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:18:6 @ "So if a Levite comes from any of your gates, from wh ere he dwells among all Israel, and comes with all the desire of his mind to the place which the LORD chooses,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:18:7 @ then he may s erve in the name of the LORD his God as all his brethren the Levites do, who stand th ere before the LORD.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:18:8 @ They shall have equal portions to eat, besides what comes from the sale of his inh eritance.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:18:9 @ "When you come into the land which the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominations of those nations.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:18:10 @ Th ere shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daught er pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsay er, or one who int erprets omens, or a sorc er er,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:18:11 @ or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:18:12 @ For all who do these things are an abomination to the LORD, and because of these abominations the LORD your God drives them out from before you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:18:13 @ You shall be blameless before the LORD your God.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:18:14 @ For these nations which you will dispossess listened to soothsay ers and divin ers; but as for you, the LORD your God has not appointed such for you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:18:15 @ "The LORD your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren. Him you shall hear,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:18:16 @ according to all you desired of the LORD your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, "Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, nor let me see this great fire anymore, lest I die.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:18:17 @ "And the LORD said to me: "What they have spoken is good.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:18:18 @ I will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their brethren, and will put My words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:18:19 @ And it shall be that whoev er will not hear My words, which He speaks in My name, I will require it of him.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:18:20 @ But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of oth er gods, that prophet shall die.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:18:21 @ And if you say in your heart, "How shall we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?'--

nkjv@Deut eronomy:18:22 @ when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing does not happen or come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:19:1 @ "When the LORD your God has cut off the nations whose land the LORD your God is giving you, and you dispossess them and dwell in their cities and in their houses,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:19:2 @ you shall separate three cities for yourself in the midst of your land which the LORD your God is giving you to possess.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:19:3 @ You shall prepare roads for yourself, and divide into three parts the t erritory of your land which the LORD your God is giving you to inh erit, that any manslay er may flee th ere.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:19:4 @ "And this is the case of the manslay er who flees th ere, that he may live: Whoev er kills his neighbor unintentionally, not having hated him in time past--

nkjv@Deut eronomy:19:5 @ as when a man goes to the woods with his neighbor to cut timb er, and his hand swings a stroke with the ax to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies--he shall flee to one of these cities and live;

nkjv@Deut eronomy:19:6 @ lest the aveng er of blood, while his ang er is hot, pursue the manslay er and ov ertake him, because the way is long, and kill him, though he was not des erving of death, since he had not hated the victim in time past.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:19:7 @ Th erefore I command you, saying, "You shall separate three cities for yourself.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:19:8 @ "Now if the LORD your God enlarges your t erritory, as He swore to your fath ers, and gives you the land which He promised to give to your fath ers,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:19:9 @ and if you keep all these commandments and do them, which I command you today, to love the LORD your God and to walk always in His ways, then you shall add three more cities for yourself besides these three,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:19:10 @ lest innocent blood be shed in the midst of your land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inh eritance, and thus guilt of bloodshed be upon you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:19:11 @ "But if anyone hates his neighbor, lies in wait for him, rises against him and strikes him mortally, so that he dies, and he flees to one of these cities,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:19:12 @ then the eld ers of his city shall send and bring him from th ere, and deliv er him ov er to the hand of the aveng er of blood, that he may die.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:19:13 @ Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:19:14 @ "You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which the men of old have set, in your inh eritance which you will inh erit in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:19:15 @ "One witness shall not rise against a man conc erning any iniquity or any sin that he commits; by the mouth of two or three witnesses the matt er shall be established.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:19:16 @ If a false witness rises against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:19:17 @ then both men in the controv ersy shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who s erve in those days.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:19:18 @ And the judges shall make careful inquiry, and indeed, if the witness is a false witness, who has testified falsely against his broth er,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:19:19 @ then you shall do to him as he thought to have done to his broth er; so you shall put away the evil from among you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:19:20 @ And those who remain shall hear and fear, and h ereaft er they shall not again commit such evil among you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:19:21 @ Your eye shall not pity: life shall be for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:20:1 @ "When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see horses and chariots and people more num erous than you, do not be afraid of them; for the LORD your God is with you, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:20:2 @ So it shall be, when you are on the v erge of battle, that the priest shall approach and speak to the people.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:20:3 @ And he shall say to them, "Hear, O Israel: Today you are on the v erge of battle with your enemies. Do not let your heart faint, do not be afraid, and do not tremble or be t errified because of them;

nkjv@Deut eronomy:20:4 @ for the LORD your God is He who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:20:5 @ "Then the offic ers shall speak to the people, saying: "What man is th ere who has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and anoth er man dedicate it.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:20:6 @ Also what man is th ere who has planted a vineyard and has not eaten of it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and anoth er man eat of it.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:20:7 @ And what man is th ere who is betrothed to a woman and has not married h er? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and anoth er man marry h er.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:20:8 @ "The offic ers shall speak furth er to the people, and say, "What man is th ere who is fearful and fainthearted? Let him go and return to his house, lest the heart of his brethren faint like his heart.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:20:9 @ And so it shall be, when the offic ers have finished speaking to the people, that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:20:10 @ "When you go near a city to fight against it, then proclaim an off er of peace to it.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:20:11 @ And it shall be that if they accept your off er of peace, and open to you, then all the people who are found in it shall be placed und er tribute to you, and s erve you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:20:12 @ Now if the city will not make peace with you, but war against you, then you shall besiege it.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:20:13 @ And when the LORD your God deliv ers it into your hands, you shall strike ev ery male in it with the edge of the sword.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:20:14 @ But the women, the little ones, the livestock, and all that is in the city, all its spoil, you shall plund er for yourself; and you shall eat the enemies' plund er which the LORD your God gives you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:20:15 @ Thus you shall do to all the cities which are v ery far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:20:16 @ "But of the cities of these peoples which the LORD your God gives you as an inh eritance, you shall let nothing that breathes remain alive,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:20:17 @ but you shall utt erly destroy them: the Hittite and the Amorite and the Canaanite and the P erizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, just as the LORD your God has commanded you,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:20:18 @ lest they teach you to do according to all their abominations which they have done for their gods, and you sin against the LORD your God.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:20:19 @ "When you besiege a city for a long time, while making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them; if you can eat of them, do not cut them down to use in the siege, for the tree of the field is man's food.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:20:20 @ Only the trees which you know are not trees for food you may destroy and cut down, to build siegeworks against the city that makes war with you, until it is subdued.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:21:1 @ "If anyone is found slain, lying in the field in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who killed him,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:21:2 @ then your eld ers and your judges shall go out and measure the distance from the slain man to the surrounding cities.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:21:3 @ And it shall be that the eld ers of the city nearest to the slain man will take a heif er which has not been worked and which has not pulled with a yoke.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:21:4 @ The eld ers of that city shall bring the heif er down to a valley with flowing wat er, which is neith er plowed nor sown, and they shall break the heif er's neck th ere in the valley.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:21:5 @ Then the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come near, for the LORD your God has chosen them to minist er to Him and to bless in the name of the LORD; by their word ev ery controv ersy and ev ery assault shall be settled.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:21:6 @ And all the eld ers of that city nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands ov er the heif er whose neck was broken in the valley.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:21:7 @ Then they shall answ er and say, "Our hands have not shed this blood, nor have our eyes seen it.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:21:8 @ Provide atonement, O LORD, for Your people Israel, whom You have redeemed, and do not lay innocent blood to the charge of Your people Israel.' And atonement shall be provided on their behalf for the blood.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:21:9 @ So you shall put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you when you do what is right in the sight of the LORD.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:21:10 @ "When you go out to war against your enemies, and the LORD your God deliv ers them into your hand, and you take them captive,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:21:11 @ and you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and desire h er and would take h er for your wife,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:21:12 @ then you shall bring h er home to your house, and she shall shave h er head and trim h er nails.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:21:13 @ She shall put off the clothes of h er captivity, remain in your house, and mourn h er fath er and h er moth er a full month; aft er that you may go in to h er and be h er husband, and she shall be your wife.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:21:14 @ And it shall be, if you have no delight in h er, then you shall set h er free, but you c ertainly shall not sell h er for money; you shall not treat h er brutally, because you have humbled h er.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:21:15 @ "If a man has two wives, one loved and the oth er unloved, and they have borne him children, both the loved and the unloved, and if the firstborn son is of h er who is unloved,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:21:16 @ then it shall be, on the day he bequeaths his possessions to his sons, that he must not bestow firstborn status on the son of the loved wife in pref erence to the son of the unloved, the true firstborn.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:21:17 @ But he shall acknowledge the son of the unloved wife as the firstborn by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:21:18 @ "If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his fath er or the voice of his moth er, and who, when they have chastened him, will not heed them,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:21:19 @ then his fath er and his moth er shall take hold of him and bring him out to the eld ers of his city, to the gate of his city.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:21:20 @ And they shall say to the eld ers of his city, "This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:21:21 @ Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones; so you shall put away the evil from among you, and all Israel shall hear and fear.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:21:22 @ "If a man has committed a sin des erving of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:21:23 @ his body shall not remain ov ernight on the tree, but you shall surely bury him that day, so that you do not defile the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inh eritance; for he who is hanged is accursed of God.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:22:1 @ "You shall not see your broth er's ox or his sheep going astray, and hide yourself from them; you shall c ertainly bring them back to your broth er.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:22:2 @ And if your broth er is not near you, or if you do not know him, then you shall bring it to your own house, and it shall remain with you until your broth er seeks it; then you shall restore it to him.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:22:3 @ You shall do the same with his donkey, and so shall you do with his garment; with any lost thing of your broth er's, which he has lost and you have found, you shall do likewise; you must not hide yourself.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:22:4 @ "You shall not see your broth er's donkey or his ox fall down along the road, and hide yourself from them; you shall surely help him lift them up again.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:22:5 @ "A woman shall not wear anything that p ertains to a man, nor shall a man put on a woman's garment, for all who do so are an abomination to the LORD your God.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:22:6 @ "If a bird's nest happens to be before you along the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, with the moth er sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the moth er with the young;

nkjv@Deut eronomy:22:7 @ you shall surely let the moth er go, and take the young for yourself, that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:22:8 @ "When you build a new house, then you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you may not bring guilt of bloodshed on your household if anyone falls from it.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:22:9 @ "You shall not sow your vineyard with diff erent kinds of seed, lest the yield of the seed which you have sown and the fruit of your vineyard be defiled.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:22:10 @ "You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey togeth er.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:22:11 @ "You shall not wear a garment of diff erent sorts, such as wool and linen mixed togeth er.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:22:12 @ "You shall make tassels on the four corn ers of the clothing with which you cov er yourself.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:22:13 @ "If any man takes a wife, and goes in to h er, and detests h er,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:22:14 @ and charges h er with shameful conduct, and brings a bad name on h er, and says, "I took this woman, and when I came to h er I found she was not a virgin,'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:22:15 @ then the fath er and moth er of the young woman shall take and bring out the evidence of the young woman's virginity to the eld ers of the city at the gate.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:22:16 @ And the young woman's fath er shall say to the eld ers, "I gave my daught er to this man as wife, and he detests h er.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:22:17 @ Now he has charged h er with shameful conduct, saying, "I found your daught er was not a virgin," and yet these are the evidences of my daught er's virginity.' And they shall spread the cloth before the eld ers of the city.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:22:18 @ Then the eld ers of that city shall take that man and punish him;

nkjv@Deut eronomy:22:19 @ and they shall fine him one hundred shekels of silv er and give them to the fath er of the young woman, because he has brought a bad name on a virgin of Israel. And she shall be his wife; he cannot divorce h er all his days.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:22:20 @ "But if the thing is true, and evidences of virginity are not found for the young woman,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:22:21 @ then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of h er fath er's house, and the men of h er city shall stone h er to death with stones, because she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel, to play the harlot in h er fath er's house. So you shall put away the evil from among you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:22:22 @ "If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then both of them shall die--the man that lay with the woman, and the woman; so you shall put away the evil from Israel.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:22:23 @ "If a young woman who is a virgin is betrothed to a husband, and a man finds h er in the city and lies with h er,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:22:24 @ then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones, the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he humbled his neighbor's wife; so you shall put away the evil from among you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:22:25 @ "But if a man finds a betrothed young woman in the countryside, and the man forces h er and lies with h er, then only the man who lay with h er shall die.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:22:26 @ But you shall do nothing to the young woman; th ere is in the young woman no sin des erving of death, for just as when a man rises against his neighbor and kills him, even so is this matt er.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:22:27 @ For he found h er in the countryside, and the betrothed young woman cried out, but th ere was no one to save h er.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:22:28 @ "If a man finds a young woman who is a virgin, who is not betrothed, and he seizes h er and lies with h er, and they are found out,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:22:29 @ then the man who lay with h er shall give to the young woman's fath er fifty shekels of silv er, and she shall be his wife because he has humbled h er; he shall not be p ermitted to divorce h er all his days.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:22:30 @ "A man shall not take his fath er's wife, nor uncov er his fath er's bed.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:23:1 @ "He who is emasculated by crushing or mutilation shall not ent er the assembly of the LORD.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:23:2 @ "One of illegitimate birth shall not ent er the assembly of the LORD; even to the tenth gen eration none of his descendants shall ent er the assembly of the LORD.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:23:3 @ "An Ammonite or Moabite shall not ent er the assembly of the LORD; even to the tenth gen eration none of his descendants shall ent er the assembly of the LORD forev er,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:23:4 @ because they did not meet you with bread and wat er on the road when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:23:5 @ Nev ertheless the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam, but the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loves you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:23:6 @ You shall not seek their peace nor their prosp erity all your days forev er.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:23:7 @ "You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your broth er. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you w ere an alien in his land.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:23:8 @ The children of the third gen eration born to them may ent er the assembly of the LORD.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:23:9 @ "When the army goes out against your enemies, then keep yourself from ev ery wicked thing.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:23:10 @ If th ere is any man among you who becomes unclean by some occurrence in the night, then he shall go outside the camp; he shall not come inside the camp.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:23:11 @ But it shall be, when evening comes, that he shall wash with wat er; and when the sun sets, he may come into the camp.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:23:12 @ "Also you shall have a place outside the camp, wh ere you may go out;

nkjv@Deut eronomy:23:13 @ and you shall have an implement among your equipment, and when you sit down outside, you shall dig with it and turn and cov er your refuse.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:23:14 @ For the LORD your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliv er you and give your enemies ov er to you; th erefore your camp shall be holy, that He may see no unclean thing among you, and turn away from you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:23:15 @ "You shall not give back to his mast er the slave who has escaped from his mast er to you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:23:16 @ He may dwell with you in your midst, in the place which he chooses within one of your gates, wh ere it seems best to him; you shall not oppress him.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:23:17 @ "Th ere shall be no ritual harlot of the daught ers of Israel, or a p erv erted one of the sons of Israel.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:23:18 @ You shall not bring the wages of a harlot or the price of a dog to the house of the LORD your God for any vowed off ering, for both of these are an abomination to the LORD your God.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:23:19 @ "You shall not charge int erest to your broth er--int erest on money or food or anything that is lent out at int erest.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:23:20 @ To a foreign er you may charge int erest, but to your broth er you shall not charge int erest, that the LORD your God may bless you in all to which you set your hand in the land which you are ent ering to possess.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:23:21 @ "When you make a vow to the LORD your God, you shall not delay to pay it; for the LORD your God will surely require it of you, and it would be sin to you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:23:22 @ But if you abstain from vowing, it shall not be sin to you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:23:23 @ That which has gone from your lips you shall keep and p erform, for you voluntarily vowed to the LORD your God what you have promised with your mouth.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:23:24 @ "When you come into your neighbor's vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes at your pleasure, but you shall not put any in your contain er.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:23:25 @ When you come into your neighbor's standing grain, you may pluck the heads with your hand, but you shall not use a sickle on your neighbor's standing grain.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:24:1 @ "When a man takes a wife and marries h er, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some uncleanness in h er, and he writes h er a c ertificate of divorce, puts it in h er hand, and sends h er out of his house,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:24:2 @ when she has departed from his house, and goes and becomes anoth er man's wife,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:24:3 @ if the latt er husband detests h er and writes h er a c ertificate of divorce, puts it in h er hand, and sends h er out of his house, or if the latt er husband dies who took h er as his wife,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:24:4 @ then h er form er husband who divorced h er must not take h er back to be his wife aft er she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before the LORD, and you shall not bring sin on the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inh eritance.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:24:5 @ "When a man has taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war or be charged with any business; he shall be free at home one year, and bring happiness to his wife whom he has taken.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:24:6 @ "No man shall take the low er or the upp er millstone in pledge, for he takes one's living in pledge.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:24:7 @ "If a man is found kidnapping any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and mistreats him or sells him, then that kidnapp er shall die; and you shall put away the evil from among you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:24:8 @ "Take heed in an outbreak of leprosy, that you carefully obs erve and do according to all that the priests, the Levites, shall teach you; just as I commanded them, so you shall be careful to do.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:24:9 @ Rememb er what the LORD your God did to Miriam on the way when you came out of Egypt!

nkjv@Deut eronomy:24:10 @ "When you lend your broth er anything, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:24:11 @ You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you lend shall bring the pledge out to you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:24:12 @ And if the man is poor, you shall not keep his pledge ov ernight.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:24:13 @ You shall in any case return the pledge to him again when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his own garment and bless you; and it shall be righteousness to you before the LORD your God.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:24:14 @ "You shall not oppress a hired s ervant who is poor and needy, wheth er one of your brethren or one of the aliens who is in your land within your gates.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:24:15 @ Each day you shall give him his wages, and not let the sun go down on it, for he is poor and has set his heart on it; lest he cry out against you to the LORD, and it be sin to you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:24:16 @ "Fath ers shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall children be put to death for their fath ers; a p erson shall be put to death for his own sin.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:24:17 @ "You shall not p erv ert justice due the strang er or the fath erless, nor take a widow's garment as a pledge.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:24:18 @ But you shall rememb er that you w ere a slave in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you from th ere; th erefore I command you to do this thing.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:24:19 @ "When you reap your harvest in your field, and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it; it shall be for the strang er, the fath erless, and the widow, that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:24:20 @ When you beat your olive trees, you shall not go ov er the boughs again; it shall be for the strang er, the fath erless, and the widow.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:24:21 @ When you gath er the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean it aft erward; it shall be for the strang er, the fath erless, and the widow.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:24:22 @ And you shall rememb er that you w ere a slave in the land of Egypt; th erefore I command you to do this thing.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:25:1 @ "If th ere is a dispute between men, and they come to court, that the judges may judge them, and they justify the righteous and condemn the wicked,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:25:2 @ then it shall be, if the wicked man des erves to be beaten, that the judge will cause him to lie down and be beaten in his presence, according to his guilt, with a c ertain numb er of blows.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:25:3 @ Forty blows he may give him and no more, lest he should exceed this and beat him with many blows above these, and your broth er be humiliated in your sight.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:25:4 @ "You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:25:5 @ "If broth ers dwell togeth er, and one of them dies and has no son, the widow of the dead man shall not be married to a strang er outside the family; h er husband's broth er shall go in to h er, take h er as his wife, and p erform the duty of a husband's broth er to h er.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:25:6 @ And it shall be that the firstborn son which she bears will succeed to the name of his dead broth er, that his name may not be blotted out of Israel.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:25:7 @ But if the man does not want to take his broth er's wife, then let his broth er's wife go up to the gate to the eld ers, and say, "My husband's broth er refuses to raise up a name to his broth er in Israel; he will not p erform the duty of my husband's broth er.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:25:8 @ Then the eld ers of his city shall call him and speak to him. But if he stands firm and says, "I do not want to take h er,'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:25:9 @ then his broth er's wife shall come to him in the presence of the eld ers, remove his sandal from his foot, spit in his face, and answ er and say, "So shall it be done to the man who will not build up his broth er's house.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:25:10 @ And his name shall be called in Israel, "The house of him who had his sandal removed.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:25:11 @ "If two men fight togeth er, and the wife of one draws near to rescue h er husband from the hand of the one attacking him, and puts out h er hand and seizes him by the genitals,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:25:12 @ then you shall cut off h er hand; your eye shall not pity h er.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:25:13 @ "You shall not have in your bag diff ering weights, a heavy and a light.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:25:14 @ You shall not have in your house diff ering measures, a large and a small.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:25:15 @ You shall have a p erfect and just weight, a p erfect and just measure, that your days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD your God is giving you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:25:16 @ For all who do such things, all who behave unrighteously, are an abomination to the LORD your God.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:25:17 @ "Rememb er what Amalek did to you on the way as you w ere coming out of Egypt,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:25:18 @ how he met you on the way and attacked your rear ranks, all the straggl ers at your rear, when you w ere tired and weary; and he did not fear God.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:25:19 @ Th erefore it shall be, when the LORD your God has given you rest from your enemies all around, in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to possess as an inh eritance, that you will blot out the remembrance of Amalek from und er heaven. You shall not forget.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:26:1 @ "And it shall be, when you come into the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inh eritance, and you possess it and dwell in it,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:26:2 @ that you shall take some of the first of all the produce of the ground, which you shall bring from your land that the LORD your God is giving you, and put it in a basket and go to the place wh ere the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:26:3 @ And you shall go to the one who is priest in those days, and say to him, "I declare today to the LORD your God that I have come to the country which the LORD swore to our fath ers to give us.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:26:4 @ "Then the priest shall take the basket out of your hand and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:26:5 @ And you shall answ er and say before the LORD your God: "My fath er was a Syrian, about to p erish, and he went down to Egypt and dwelt th ere, few in numb er; and th ere he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:26:6 @ But the Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and laid hard bondage on us.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:26:7 @ Then we cried out to the LORD God of our fath ers, and the LORD heard our voice and looked on our affliction and our labor and our oppression.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:26:8 @ So the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm, with great t error and with signs and wond ers.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:26:9 @ He has brought us to this place and has given us this land, "a land flowing with milk and honey";

nkjv@Deut eronomy:26:10 @ and now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land which you, O LORD, have given me.' "Then you shall set it before the LORD your God, and worship before the LORD your God.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:26:11 @ So you shall rejoice in ev ery good thing which the LORD your God has given to you and your house, you and the Levite and the strang er who is among you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:26:12 @ "When you have finished laying aside all the tithe of your increase in the third year--the year of tithing--and have given it to the Levite, the strang er, the fath erless, and the widow, so that they may eat within your gates and be filled,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:26:13 @ then you shall say before the LORD your God: "I have removed the holy tithe from my house, and also have given them to the Levite, the strang er, the fath erless, and the widow, according to all Your commandments which You have commanded me; I have not transgressed Your commandments, nor have I forgotten them.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:26:14 @ I have not eaten any of it when in mourning, nor have I removed any of it for an unclean use, nor given any of it for the dead. I have obeyed the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that You have commanded me.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:26:15 @ Look down from Your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the land which You have given us, just as You swore to our fath ers, "a land flowing with milk and honey."'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:26:16 @ "This day the LORD your God commands you to obs erve these statutes and judgments; th erefore you shall be careful to obs erve them with all your heart and with all your soul.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:26:17 @ Today you have proclaimed the LORD to be your God, and that you will walk in His ways and keep His statutes, His commandments, and His judgments, and that you will obey His voice.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:26:18 @ Also today the LORD has proclaimed you to be His special people, just as He promised you, that you should keep all His commandments,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:26:19 @ and that He will set you high above all nations which He has made, in praise, in name, and in honor, and that you may be a holy people to the LORD your God, just as He has spoken."

nkjv@Deut eronomy:27:1 @ Now Moses, with the eld ers of Israel, commanded the people, saying: "Keep all the commandments which I command you today.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:27:2 @ And it shall be, on the day when you cross ov er the Jordan to the land which the LORD your God is giving you, that you shall set up for yourselves large stones, and whitewash them with lime.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:27:3 @ You shall write on them all the words of this law, when you have crossed ov er, that you may ent er the land which the LORD your God is giving you, "a land flowing with milk and honey,' just as the LORD God of your fath ers promised you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:27:4 @ Th erefore it shall be, when you have crossed ov er the Jordan, that on Mount Ebal you shall set up these stones, which I command you today, and you shall whitewash them with lime.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:27:5 @ And th ere you shall build an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones; you shall not use an iron tool on them.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:27:6 @ You shall build with whole stones the altar of the LORD your God, and off er burnt off erings on it to the LORD your God.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:27:7 @ You shall off er peace off erings, and shall eat th ere, and rejoice before the LORD your God.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:27:8 @ And you shall write v ery plainly on the stones all the words of this law."

nkjv@Deut eronomy:27:9 @ Then Moses and the priests, the Levites, spoke to all Israel, saying, "Take heed and listen, O Israel: This day you have become the people of the LORD your God.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:27:10 @ Th erefore you shall obey the voice of the LORD your God, and obs erve His commandments and His statutes which I command you today."

nkjv@Deut eronomy:27:11 @ And Moses commanded the people on the same day, saying,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:27:12 @ "These shall stand on Mount G erizim to bless the people, when you have crossed ov er the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin;

nkjv@Deut eronomy:27:13 @ and these shall stand on Mount Ebal to curse: Reuben, Gad, Ash er, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:27:14 @ "And the Levites shall speak with a loud voice and say to all the men of Israel:

nkjv@Deut eronomy:27:15 @ "Cursed is the one who makes a carved or molded image, an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.' "And all the people shall answ er and say, "Amen!'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:27:16 @ "Cursed is the one who treats his fath er or his moth er with contempt.' "And all the people shall say, "Amen!'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:27:17 @ "Cursed is the one who moves his neighbor's landmark.' "And all the people shall say, "Amen!'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:27:18 @ "Cursed is the one who makes the blind to wand er off the road.' "And all the people shall say, "Amen!'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:27:19 @ "Cursed is the one who p erv erts the justice due the strang er, the fath erless, and widow.' "And all the people shall say, "Amen!'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:27:20 @ "Cursed is the one who lies with his fath er's wife, because he has uncov ered his fath er's bed.' "And all the people shall say, "Amen!'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:27:21 @ "Cursed is the one who lies with any kind of animal.' "And all the people shall say, "Amen!'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:27:22 @ "Cursed is the one who lies with his sist er, the daught er of his fath er or the daught er of his moth er.' "And all the people shall say, "Amen!'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:27:23 @ "Cursed is the one who lies with his moth er-in-law.' "And all the people shall say, "Amen!'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:27:24 @ "Cursed is the one who attacks his neighbor secretly.' "And all the people shall say, "Amen!'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:27:25 @ "Cursed is the one who takes a bribe to slay an innocent p erson.' "And all the people shall say, "Amen!'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:27:26 @ "Cursed is the one who does not confirm all the words of this law.' "And all the people shall say, "Amen!"'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:1 @ "Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God, to obs erve carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that the LORD your God will set you high above all nations of the earth.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:2 @ And all these blessings shall come upon you and ov ertake you, because you obey the voice of the LORD your God:

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:3 @ "Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the country.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:4 @ "Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, the produce of your ground and the increase of your h erds, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:5 @ "Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:6 @ "Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:7 @ "The LORD will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before your face; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:8 @ "The LORD will command the blessing on you in your storehouses and in all to which you set your hand, and He will bless you in the land which the LORD your God is giving you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:9 @ "The LORD will establish you as a holy people to Himself, just as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:10 @ Then all peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they shall be afraid of you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:11 @ And the LORD will grant you plenty of goods, in the fruit of your body, in the increase of your livestock, and in the produce of your ground, in the land of which the LORD swore to your fath ers to give you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:12 @ The LORD will open to you His good treasure, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:13 @ And the LORD will make you the head and not the tail; you shall be above only, and not be beneath, if you heed the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you today, and are careful to obs erve them.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:14 @ So you shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right or the left, to go aft er oth er gods to s erve them.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:15 @ "But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the LORD your God, to obs erve carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you and ov ertake you:

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:16 @ "Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the country.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:17 @ "Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:18 @ "Cursed shall be the fruit of your body and the produce of your land, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:19 @ "Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:20 @ "The LORD will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all that you set your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you p erish quickly, because of the wickedness of your doings in which you have forsaken Me.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:21 @ The LORD will make the plague cling to you until He has consumed you from the land which you are going to possess.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:22 @ The LORD will strike you with consumption, with fev er, with inflammation, with sev ere burning fev er, with the sword, with scorching, and with mildew; they shall pursue you until you p erish.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:23 @ And your heavens which are ov er your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is und er you shall be iron.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:24 @ The LORD will change the rain of your land to powd er and dust; from the heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:25 @ "The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them; and you shall become troublesome to all the kingdoms of the earth.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:26 @ Your carcasses shall be food for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and no one shall frighten them away.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:27 @ The LORD will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors, with the scab, and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:28 @ The LORD will strike you with madness and blindness and confusion of heart.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:29 @ And you shall grope at noonday, as a blind man gropes in darkness; you shall not prosp er in your ways; you shall be only oppressed and plund ered continually, and no one shall save you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:30 @ "You shall betroth a wife, but anoth er man shall lie with h er; you shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it; you shall plant a vineyard, but shall not gath er its grapes.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:31 @ Your ox shall be slaught ered before your eyes, but you shall not eat of it; your donkey shall be violently taken away from before you, and shall not be restored to you; your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have no one to rescue them.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:32 @ Your sons and your daught ers shall be given to anoth er people, and your eyes shall look and fail with longing for them all day long; and th ere shall be no strength in your hand.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:33 @ A nation whom you have not known shall eat the fruit of your land and the produce of your labor, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:34 @ So you shall be driven mad because of the sight which your eyes see.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:35 @ The LORD will strike you in the knees and on the legs with sev ere boils which cannot be healed, and from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:36 @ "The LORD will bring you and the king whom you set ov er you to a nation which neith er you nor your fath ers have known, and th ere you shall s erve oth er gods--wood and stone.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:37 @ And you shall become an astonishment, a prov erb, and a byword among all nations wh ere the LORD will drive you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:38 @ "You shall carry much seed out to the field but gath er little in, for the locust shall consume it.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:39 @ You shall plant vineyards and tend them, but you shall neith er drink of the wine nor gath er the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:40 @ You shall have olive trees throughout all your t erritory, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olives shall drop off.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:41 @ You shall beget sons and daught ers, but they shall not be yours; for they shall go into captivity.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:42 @ Locusts shall consume all your trees and the produce of your land.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:43 @ "The alien who is among you shall rise high er and high er above you, and you shall come down low er and low er.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:44 @ He shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:45 @ "Moreov er all these curses shall come upon you and pursue and ov ertake you, until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:46 @ And they shall be upon you for a sign and a wond er, and on your descendants forev er.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:47 @ "Because you did not s erve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of ev erything,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:48 @ th erefore you shall s erve your enemies, whom the LORD will send against you, in hung er, in thirst, in nakedness, and in need of ev erything; and He will put a yoke of iron on your neck until He has destroyed you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:49 @ The LORD will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not und erstand,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:50 @ a nation of fi erce countenance, which does not respect the eld erly nor show favor to the young.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:51 @ And they shall eat the increase of your livestock and the produce of your land, until you are destroyed; they shall not leave you grain or new wine or oil, or the increase of your cattle or the offspring of your flocks, until they have destroyed you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:52 @ "They shall besiege you at all your gates until your high and fortified walls, in which you trust, come down throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you at all your gates throughout all your land which the LORD your God has given you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:53 @ You shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and your daught ers whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and desp erate straits in which your enemy shall distress you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:54 @ The sensitive and v ery refined man among you will be hostile toward his broth er, toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the rest of his children whom he leaves behind,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:55 @ so that he will not give any of them the flesh of his children whom he will eat, because he has nothing left in the siege and desp erate straits in which your enemy shall distress you at all your gates.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:56 @ The tend er and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of h er foot on the ground because of h er delicateness and sensitivity, will refuse to the husband of h er bosom, and to h er son and h er daught er,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:57 @ h er placenta which comes out from between h er feet and h er children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of ev erything in the siege and desp erate straits in which your enemy shall distress you at all your gates.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:58 @ "If you do not carefully obs erve all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, THE LORD YOUR GOD,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:59 @ then the LORD will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary plagues--great and prolonged plagues--and s erious and prolonged sicknesses.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:60 @ Moreov er He will bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt, of which you w ere afraid, and they shall cling to you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:61 @ Also ev ery sickness and ev ery plague, which is not written in this Book of the Law, will the LORD bring upon you until you are destroyed.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:62 @ You shall be left few in numb er, wh ereas you w ere as the stars of heaven in multitude, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:63 @ And it shall be, that just as the LORD rejoiced ov er you to do you good and multiply you, so the LORD will rejoice ov er you to destroy you and bring you to nothing; and you shall be plucked from off the land which you go to possess.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:64 @ "Then the LORD will scatt er you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the oth er, and th ere you shall s erve oth er gods, which neith er you nor your fath ers have known--wood and stone.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:65 @ And among those nations you shall find no rest, nor shall the sole of your foot have a resting place; but th ere the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and anguish of soul.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:66 @ Your life shall hang in doubt before you; you shall fear day and night, and have no assurance of life.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:67 @ In the morning you shall say, "Oh, that it w ere evening!' And at evening you shall say, "Oh, that it w ere morning!' because of the fear which t errifies your heart, and because of the sight which your eyes see.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:28:68 @ "And the LORD will take you back to Egypt in ships, by the way of which I said to you, "You shall nev er see it again.' And th ere you shall be off ered for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you."

nkjv@Deut eronomy:29:1 @ These are the words of the covenant which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which He made with them in Horeb.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:29:2 @ Now Moses called all Israel and said to them: "You have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his s ervants and to all his land--

nkjv@Deut eronomy:29:3 @ the great trials which your eyes have seen, the signs, and those great wond ers.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:29:4 @ Yet the LORD has not given you a heart to p erceive and eyes to see and ears to hear, to this v ery day.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:29:5 @ And I have led you forty years in the wild erness. Your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandals have not worn out on your feet.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:29:6 @ You have not eaten bread, nor have you drunk wine or similar drink, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:29:7 @ And when you came to this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out against us to battle, and we conqu ered them.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:29:8 @ We took their land and gave it as an inh eritance to the Reubenites, to the Gadites, and to half the tribe of Manasseh.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:29:9 @ Th erefore keep the words of this covenant, and do them, that you may prosp er in all that you do.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:29:10 @ "All of you stand today before the LORD your God: your lead ers and your tribes and your eld ers and your offic ers, all the men of Israel,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:29:11 @ your little ones and your wives--also the strang er who is in your camp, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your wat er--

nkjv@Deut eronomy:29:12 @ that you may ent er into covenant with the LORD your God, and into His oath, which the LORD your God makes with you today,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:29:13 @ that He may establish you today as a people for Himself, and that He may be God to you, just as He has spoken to you, and just as He has sworn to your fath ers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:29:14 @ "I make this covenant and this oath, not with you alone,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:29:15 @ but with him who stands h ere with us today before the LORD our God, as well as with him who is not h ere with us today

nkjv@Deut eronomy:29:16 @ (for you know that we dwelt in the land of Egypt and that we came through the nations which you passed by,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:29:17 @ and you saw their abominations and their idols which w ere among them--wood and stone and silv er and gold);

nkjv@Deut eronomy:29:18 @ so that th ere may not be among you man or woman or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the LORD our God, to go and s erve the gods of these nations, and that th ere may not be among you a root bearing bitt erness or wormwood;

nkjv@Deut eronomy:29:19 @ and so it may not happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying, "I shall have peace, even though I follow the dictates of my heart'--as though the drunkard could be included with the sob er.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:29:20 @ "The LORD would not spare him; for then the ang er of the LORD and His jealousy would burn against that man, and ev ery curse that is written in this book would settle on him, and the LORD would blot out his name from und er heaven.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:29:21 @ And the LORD would separate him from all the tribes of Israel for adv ersity, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this Book of the Law,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:29:22 @ so that the coming gen eration of your children who rise up aft er you, and the foreign er who comes from a far land, would say, when they see the plagues of that land and the sicknesses which the LORD has laid on it:

nkjv@Deut eronomy:29:23 @ "The whole land is brimstone, salt, and burning; it is not sown, nor does it bear, nor does any grass grow th ere, like the ov erthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the LORD ov erthrew in His ang er and His wrath.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:29:24 @ All nations would say, "Why has the LORD done so to this land? What does the heat of this great ang er mean?'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:29:25 @ Then people would say: "Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fath ers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt;

nkjv@Deut eronomy:29:26 @ for they went and s erved oth er gods and worshiped them, gods that they did not know and that He had not given to them.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:29:27 @ Then the ang er of the LORD was aroused against this land, to bring on it ev ery curse that is written in this book.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:29:28 @ And the LORD uprooted them from their land in ang er, in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into anoth er land, as it is this day.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:29:29 @ "The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forev er, that we may do all the words of this law.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:30:1 @ "Now it shall come to pass, when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations wh ere the LORD your God drives you,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:30:2 @ and you return to the LORD your God and obey His voice, according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:30:3 @ that the LORD your God will bring you back from captivity, and have compassion on you, and gath er you again from all the nations wh ere the LORD your God has scatt ered you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:30:4 @ If any of you are driven out to the farthest parts und er heaven, from th ere the LORD your God will gath er you, and from th ere He will bring you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:30:5 @ Then the LORD your God will bring you to the land which your fath ers possessed, and you shall possess it. He will prosp er you and multiply you more than your fath ers.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:30:6 @ And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:30:7 @ "Also the LORD your God will put all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you, who p ersecuted you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:30:8 @ And you will again obey the voice of the LORD and do all His commandments which I command you today.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:30:9 @ The LORD your God will make you abound in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, in the increase of your livestock, and in the produce of your land for good. For the LORD will again rejoice ov er you for good as He rejoiced ov er your fath ers,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:30:10 @ if you obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in this Book of the Law, and if you turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:30:11 @ "For this commandment which I command you today is not too myst erious for you, nor is it far off.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:30:12 @ It is not in heaven, that you should say, "Who will ascend into heaven for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:30:13 @ Nor is it beyond the sea, that you should say, "Who will go ov er the sea for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:30:14 @ But the word is v ery near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:30:15 @ "See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:30:16 @ in that I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, His statutes, and His judgments, that you may live and multiply; and the LORD your God will bless you in the land which you go to possess.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:30:17 @ But if your heart turns away so that you do not hear, and are drawn away, and worship oth er gods and s erve them,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:30:18 @ I announce to you today that you shall surely p erish; you shall not prolong your days in the land which you cross ov er the Jordan to go in and possess.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:30:19 @ I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; th erefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live;

nkjv@Deut eronomy:30:20 @ that you may love the LORD your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days; and that you may dwell in the land which the LORD swore to your fath ers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them."

nkjv@Deut eronomy:31:1 @ Then Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:31:2 @ And he said to them: "I am one hundred and twenty years old today. I can no long er go out and come in. Also the LORD has said to me, "You shall not cross ov er this Jordan.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:31:3 @ The LORD your God Himself crosses ov er before you; He will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them. Joshua himself crosses ov er before you, just as the LORD has said.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:31:4 @ And the LORD will do to them as He did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites and their land, when He destroyed them.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:31:5 @ The LORD will give them ov er to you, that you may do to them according to ev ery commandment which I have commanded you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:31:6 @ Be strong and of good courage, do not fear nor be afraid of them; for the LORD your God, He is the One who goes with you. He will not leave you nor forsake you."

nkjv@Deut eronomy:31:7 @ Then Moses called Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, "Be strong and of good courage, for you must go with this people to the land which the LORD has sworn to their fath ers to give them, and you shall cause them to inh erit it.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:31:8 @ And the LORD, He is the One who goes before you. He will be with you, He will not leave you nor forsake you; do not fear nor be dismayed."

nkjv@Deut eronomy:31:9 @ So Moses wrote this law and deliv ered it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and to all the eld ers of Israel.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:31:10 @ And Moses commanded them, saying: "At the end of ev ery seven years, at the appointed time in the year of release, at the Feast of Tab ernacles,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:31:11 @ when all Israel comes to appear before the LORD your God in the place which He chooses, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:31:12 @ Gath er the people togeth er, men and women and little ones, and the strang er who is within your gates, that they may hear and that they may learn to fear the LORD your God and carefully obs erve all the words of this law,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:31:13 @ and that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God as long as you live in the land which you cross the Jordan to possess."

nkjv@Deut eronomy:31:14 @ Then the LORD said to Moses, "Behold, the days approach when you must die; call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tab ernacle of meeting, that I may inaugurate him." So Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves in the tab ernacle of meeting.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:31:15 @ Now the LORD appeared at the tab ernacle in a pillar of cloud, and the pillar of cloud stood above the door of the tab ernacle.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:31:16 @ And the LORD said to Moses: "Behold, you will rest with your fath ers; and this people will rise and play the harlot with the gods of the foreign ers of the land, wh ere they go to be among them, and they will forsake Me and break My covenant which I have made with them.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:31:17 @ Then My ang er shall be aroused against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide My face from them, and they shall be devoured. And many evils and troubles shall befall them, so that they will say in that day, "Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:31:18 @ And I will surely hide My face in that day because of all the evil which they have done, in that they have turned to oth er gods.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:31:19 @ "Now th erefore, write down this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel; put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for Me against the children of Israel.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:31:20 @ When I have brought them to the land flowing with milk and honey, of which I swore to their fath ers, and they have eaten and filled themselves and grown fat, then they will turn to oth er gods and s erve them; and they will provoke Me and break My covenant.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:31:21 @ Then it shall be, when many evils and troubles have come upon them, that this song will testify against them as a witness; for it will not be forgotten in the mouths of their descendants, for I know the inclination of their behavior today, even before I have brought them to the land of which I swore to give them."

nkjv@Deut eronomy:31:22 @ Th erefore Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it to the children of Israel.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:31:23 @ Then He inaugurated Joshua the son of Nun, and said, "Be strong and of good courage; for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land of which I swore to them, and I will be with you."

nkjv@Deut eronomy:31:24 @ So it was, when Moses had completed writing the words of this law in a book, when they w ere finished,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:31:25 @ that Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying:

nkjv@Deut eronomy:31:26 @ "Take this Book of the Law, and put it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be th ere as a witness against you;

nkjv@Deut eronomy:31:27 @ for I know your rebellion and your stiff neck. If today, while I am yet alive with you, you have been rebellious against the LORD, then how much more aft er my death?

nkjv@Deut eronomy:31:28 @ Gath er to me all the eld ers of your tribes, and your offic ers, that I may speak these words in their hearing and call heaven and earth to witness against them.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:31:29 @ For I know that aft er my death you will become utt erly corrupt, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you. And evil will befall you in the latt er days, because you will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to ang er through the work of your hands."

nkjv@Deut eronomy:31:30 @ Then Moses spoke in the hearing of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song until they w ere ended:

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:1 @ "Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; And hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:2 @ Let my teaching drop as the rain, My speech distill as the dew, As raindrops on the tend er h erb, And as show ers on the grass.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:3 @ For I proclaim the name of the LORD: Ascribe greatness to our God.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:4 @ He is the Rock, His work is p erfect; For all His ways are justice, A God of truth and without injustice; Righteous and upright is He.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:5 @ "They have corrupted themselves; They are not His children, Because of their blemish: A p erv erse and crooked gen eration.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:6 @ Do you thus deal with the LORD, O foolish and unwise people? Is He not your Fath er, who bought you? Has He not made you and established you?

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:7 @ "Rememb er the days of old, Consid er the years of many gen erations. Ask your fath er, and he will show you; Your eld ers, and they will tell you:

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:8 @ When the Most High divided their inh eritance to the nations, When He separated the sons of Adam, He set the boundaries of the peoples According to the numb er of the children of Israel.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:9 @ For the LORD's portion is His people; Jacob is the place of His inh eritance.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:10 @ "He found him in a des ert land And in the wasteland, a howling wild erness; He encircled him, He instructed him, He kept him as the apple of His eye.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:11 @ As an eagle stirs up its nest, Hov ers ov er its young, Spreading out its wings, taking them up, Carrying them on its wings,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:12 @ So the LORD alone led him, And th ere was no foreign god with him.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:13 @ "He made him ride in the heights of the earth, That he might eat the produce of the fields; He made him draw honey from the rock, And oil from the flinty rock;

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:14 @ Curds from the cattle, and milk of the flock, With fat of lambs; And rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, With the choicest wheat; And you drank wine, the blood of the grapes.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:15 @ "But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; You grew fat, you grew thick, You are obese! Then he forsook God who made him, And scornfully esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:16 @ They provoked Him to jealousy with foreign gods; With abominations they provoked Him to ang er.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:17 @ They sacrificed to demons, not to God, To gods they did not know, To new gods, new arrivals That your fath ers did not fear.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:18 @ Of the Rock who begot you, you are unmindful, And have forgotten the God who fath ered you.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:19 @ "And when the LORD saw it, He spurned them, Because of the provocation of His sons and His daught ers.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:20 @ And He said: "I will hide My face from them, I will see what their end will be, For they are a p erv erse gen eration, Children in whom is no faith.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:21 @ They have provoked Me to jealousy by what is not God; They have moved Me to ang er by their foolish idols. But I will provoke them to jealousy by those who are not a nation; I will move them to ang er by a foolish nation.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:22 @ For a fire is kindled in My ang er, And shall burn to the lowest hell; It shall consume the earth with h er increase, And set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:23 @ "I will heap disast ers on them; I will spend My arrows on them.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:24 @ They shall be wasted with hung er, Devoured by pestilence and bitt er destruction; I will also send against them the teeth of beasts, With the poison of s erpents of the dust.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:25 @ The sword shall destroy outside; Th ere shall be t error within For the young man and virgin, The nursing child with the man of gray hairs.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:26 @ I would have said, "I will dash them in pieces, I will make the memory of them to cease from among men,"

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:27 @ Had I not feared the wrath of the enemy, Lest their adv ersaries should misund erstand, Lest they should say, "Our hand is high; And it is not the LORD who has done all this."'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:28 @ "For they are a nation void of counsel, Nor is th ere any und erstanding in them.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:29 @ Oh, that they w ere wise, that they und erstood this, That they would consid er their latt er end!

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:30 @ How could one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Unless their Rock had sold them, And the LORD had surrend ered them?

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:31 @ For their rock is not like our Rock, Even our enemies themselves being judges.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:32 @ For their vine is of the vine of Sodom And of the fields of Gomorrah; Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clust ers are bitt er.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:33 @ Their wine is the poison of s erpents, And the cruel venom of cobras.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:34 @ "Is this not laid up in store with Me, Sealed up among My treasures?

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:35 @ Vengeance is Mine, and recompense; Their foot shall slip in due time; For the day of their calamity is at hand, And the things to come hasten upon them.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:36 @ "For the LORD will judge His people And have compassion on His s ervants, When He sees that their pow er is gone, And th ere is no one remaining, bond or free.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:37 @ He will say: "Wh ere are their gods, The rock in which they sought refuge?

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:38 @ Who ate the fat of their sacrifices, And drank the wine of their drink off ering? Let them rise and help you, And be your refuge.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:39 @ "Now see that I, even I, am He, And th ere is no God besides Me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; Nor is th ere any who can deliv er from My hand.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:40 @ For I raise My hand to heaven, And say, "As I live forev er,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:41 @ If I whet My glitt ering sword, And My hand takes hold on judgment, I will rend er vengeance to My enemies, And repay those who hate Me.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:42 @ I will make My arrows drunk with blood, And My sword shall devour flesh, With the blood of the slain and the captives, From the heads of the lead ers of the enemy."'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:43 @ "Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people; For He will avenge the blood of His s ervants, And rend er vengeance to His adv ersaries; He will provide atonement for His land and His people."

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:44 @ So Moses came with Joshua the son of Nun and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:45 @ Moses finished speaking all these words to all Israel,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:46 @ and he said to them: "Set your hearts on all the words which I testify among you today, which you shall command your children to be careful to obs erve--all the words of this law.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:47 @ For it is not a futile thing for you, because it is your life, and by this word you shall prolong your days in the land which you cross ov er the Jordan to possess."

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:48 @ Then the LORD spoke to Moses that v ery same day, saying:

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:49 @ "Go up this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, across from J ericho; view the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel as a possession;

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:50 @ and die on the mountain which you ascend, and be gath ered to your people, just as Aaron your broth er died on Mount Hor and was gath ered to his people;

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:51 @ because you trespassed against Me among the children of Israel at the wat ers of M eribah Kadesh, in the Wild erness of Zin, because you did not hallow Me in the midst of the children of Israel.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:32:52 @ Yet you shall see the land before you, though you shall not go th ere, into the land which I am giving to the children of Israel."

nkjv@Deut eronomy:33:1 @ Now this is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:33:2 @ And he said: "The LORD came from Sinai, And dawned on them from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran, And He came with ten thousands of saints; From His right hand Came a fi ery law for them.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:33:3 @ Yes, He loves the people; All His saints are in Your hand; They sit down at Your feet; ev eryone receives Your words.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:33:4 @ Moses commanded a law for us, A h eritage of the congregation of Jacob.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:33:5 @ And He was King in Jeshurun, When the lead ers of the people w ere gath ered, All the tribes of Israel togeth er.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:33:6 @ "Let Reuben live, and not die, Nor let his men be few."

nkjv@Deut eronomy:33:7 @ And this he said of Judah: "Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah, And bring him to his people; Let his hands be sufficient for him, And may You be a help against his enemies."

nkjv@Deut eronomy:33:8 @ And of Levi he said: "Let Your Thummim and Your Urim be with Your holy one, Whom You tested at Massah, And with whom You contended at the wat ers of M eribah,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:33:9 @ Who says of his fath er and moth er, "I have not seen them'; Nor did he acknowledge his broth ers, Or know his own children; For they have obs erved Your word And kept Your covenant.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:33:10 @ They shall teach Jacob Your judgments, And Israel Your law. They shall put incense before You, And a whole burnt sacrifice on Your altar.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:33:11 @ Bless his substance, LORD, And accept the work of his hands; Strike the loins of those who rise against him, And of those who hate him, that they rise not again."

nkjv@Deut eronomy:33:12 @ Of Benjamin he said: "The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety by Him, Who shelt ers him all the day long; And he shall dwell between His should ers."

nkjv@Deut eronomy:33:13 @ And of Joseph he said: "Blessed of the LORD is his land, With the precious things of heaven, with the dew, And the deep lying beneath,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:33:14 @ With the precious fruits of the sun, With the precious produce of the months,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:33:15 @ With the best things of the ancient mountains, With the precious things of the ev erlasting hills,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:33:16 @ With the precious things of the earth and its fullness, And the favor of Him who dwelt in the bush. Let the blessing come "on the head of Joseph, And on the crown of the head of him who was separate from his broth ers.'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:33:17 @ His glory is like a firstborn bull, And his horns like the horns of the wild ox; Togeth er with them He shall push the peoples To the ends of the earth; They are the ten thousands of Ephraim, And they are the thousands of Manasseh."

nkjv@Deut eronomy:33:18 @ And of Zebulun he said: "Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out, And Issachar in your tents!

nkjv@Deut eronomy:33:19 @ They shall call the peoples to the mountain; Th ere they shall off er sacrifices of righteousness; For they shall partake of the abundance of the seas And of treasures hidden in the sand."

nkjv@Deut eronomy:33:20 @ And of Gad he said: "Blessed is he who enlarges Gad; He dwells as a lion, And tears the arm and the crown of his head.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:33:21 @ He provided the first part for himself, Because a lawgiv er's portion was res erved th ere. He came with the heads of the people; He administ ered the justice of the LORD, And His judgments with Israel."

nkjv@Deut eronomy:33:22 @ And of Dan he said: "Dan is a lion's whelp; He shall leap from Bashan."

nkjv@Deut eronomy:33:23 @ And of Naphtali he said: "O Naphtali, satisfied with favor, And full of the blessing of the LORD, Possess the west and the south."

nkjv@Deut eronomy:33:24 @ And of Ash er he said: "Ash er is most blessed of sons; Let him be favored by his broth ers, And let him dip his foot in oil.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:33:25 @ Your sandals shall be iron and bronze; As your days, so shall your strength be.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:33:26 @ "Th ere is no one like the God of Jeshurun, Who rides the heavens to help you, And in His excellency on the clouds.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:33:27 @ The et ernal God is your refuge, And und erneath are the ev erlasting arms; He will thrust out the enemy from before you, And will say, "Destroy!'

nkjv@Deut eronomy:33:28 @ Then Israel shall dwell in safety, The fountain of Jacob alone, In a land of grain and new wine; His heavens shall also drop dew.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:33:29 @ Happy are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD, The shield of your help And the sword of your majesty! Your enemies shall submit to you, And you shall tread down their high places."

nkjv@Deut eronomy:34:1 @ Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is across from J ericho. And the LORD showed him all the land of Gilead as far as Dan,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:34:2 @ all Naphtali and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the West ern Sea,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:34:3 @ the South, and the plain of the Valley of J ericho, the city of palm trees, as far as Zoar.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:34:4 @ Then the LORD said to him, "This is the land of which I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, "I will give it to your descendants.' I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you shall not cross ov er th ere."

nkjv@Deut eronomy:34:5 @ So Moses the s ervant of the LORD died th ere in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:34:6 @ And He buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, opposite Beth Peor; but no one knows his grave to this day.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:34:7 @ Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died. His eyes w ere not dim nor his natural vigor diminished.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:34:8 @ And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days. So the days of weeping and mourning for Moses ended.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:34:9 @ Now Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him; so the children of Israel heeded him, and did as the LORD had commanded Moses.

nkjv@Deut eronomy:34:10 @ But since then th ere has not arisen in Israel a prophet like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:34:11 @ in all the signs and wond ers which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt, before Pharaoh, before all his s ervants, and in all his land,

nkjv@Deut eronomy:34:12 @ and by all that mighty pow er and all the great t error which Moses p erformed in the sight of all Israel.

nkjv@Joshua:1:1 @ Aft er the death of Moses the s ervant of the LORD, it came to pass that the LORD spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' assistant, saying:

nkjv@Joshua:1:2 @ "Moses My s ervant is dead. Now th erefore, arise, go ov er this Jordan, you and all this people, to the land which I am giving to them--the children of Israel.

nkjv@Joshua:1:3 @ Ev ery place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given you, as I said to Moses.

nkjv@Joshua:1:4 @ From the wild erness and this Lebanon as far as the great riv er, the Riv er Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your t erritory.

nkjv@Joshua:1:6 @ Be strong and of good courage, for to this people you shall divide as an inh eritance the land which I swore to their fath ers to give them.

nkjv@Joshua:1:7 @ Only be strong and v ery courageous, that you may obs erve to do according to all the law which Moses My s ervant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may prosp er wh erev er you go.

nkjv@Joshua:1:8 @ This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may obs erve to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosp erous, and then you will have good success.

nkjv@Joshua:1:9 @ Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wh erev er you go."

nkjv@Joshua:1:10 @ Then Joshua commanded the offic ers of the people, saying,

nkjv@Joshua:1:11 @ "Pass through the camp and command the people, saying, "Prepare provisions for yourselves, for within three days you will cross ov er this Jordan, to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God is giving you to possess."'

nkjv@Joshua:1:13 @ "Rememb er the word which Moses the s ervant of the LORD commanded you, saying, "The LORD your God is giving you rest and is giving you this land.'

nkjv@Joshua:1:15 @ until the LORD has given your brethren rest, as He gave you, and they also have taken possession of the land which the LORD your God is giving them. Then you shall return to the land of your possession and enjoy it, which Moses the LORD's s ervant gave you on this side of the Jordan toward the sunrise."

nkjv@Joshua:1:16 @ So they answ ered Joshua, saying, "All that you command us we will do, and wh erev er you send us we will go.

nkjv@Joshua:1:18 @ Whoev er rebels against your command and does not heed your words, in all that you command him, shall be put to death. Only be strong and of good courage."

nkjv@Joshua:2:1 @ Now Joshua the son of Nun sent out two men from Acacia Grove to spy secretly, saying, "Go, view the land, especially J ericho." So they went, and came to the house of a harlot named Rahab, and lodged th ere.

nkjv@Joshua:2:2 @ And it was told the king of J ericho, saying, "Behold, men have come h ere tonight from the children of Israel to search out the country."

nkjv@Joshua:2:3 @ So the king of J ericho sent to Rahab, saying, "Bring out the men who have come to you, who have ent ered your house, for they have come to search out all the country."

nkjv@Joshua:2:4 @ Then the woman took the two men and hid them. So she said, "Yes, the men came to me, but I did not know wh ere they w ere from.

nkjv@Joshua:2:5 @ And it happened as the gate was being shut, when it was dark, that the men went out. Wh ere the men went I do not know; pursue them quickly, for you may ov ertake them."

nkjv@Joshua:2:6 @ (But she had brought them up to the roof and hidden them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in ord er on the roof.)

nkjv@Joshua:2:9 @ and said to the men: "I know that the LORD has given you the land, that the t error of you has fallen on us, and that all the inhabitants of the land are fainthearted because of you.

nkjv@Joshua:2:10 @ For we have heard how the LORD dried up the wat er of the Red Sea for you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who w ere on the oth er side of the Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom you utt erly destroyed.

nkjv@Joshua:2:11 @ And as soon as we heard these things, our hearts melted; neith er did th ere remain any more courage in anyone because of you, for the LORD your God, He is God in heaven above and on earth beneath.

nkjv@Joshua:2:12 @ Now th erefore, I beg you, swear to me by the LORD, since I have shown you kindness, that you also will show kindness to my fath er's house, and give me a true token,

nkjv@Joshua:2:13 @ and spare my fath er, my moth er, my broth ers, my sist ers, and all that they have, and deliv er our lives from death."

nkjv@Joshua:2:14 @ So the men answ ered h er, "Our lives for yours, if none of you tell this business of ours. And it shall be, when the LORD has given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you."

nkjv@Joshua:2:15 @ Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for h er house was on the city wall; she dwelt on the wall.

nkjv@Joshua:2:16 @ And she said to them, "Get to the mountain, lest the pursu ers meet you. Hide th ere three days, until the pursu ers have returned. Aft erward you may go your way."

nkjv@Joshua:2:17 @ So the men said to h er: "We will be blameless of this oath of yours which you have made us swear,

nkjv@Joshua:2:18 @ unless, when we come into the land, you bind this line of scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and unless you bring your fath er, your moth er, your broth ers, and all your fath er's household to your own home.

nkjv@Joshua:2:19 @ So it shall be that whoev er goes outside the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be on his own head, and we will be guiltless. And whoev er is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head if a hand is laid on him.

nkjv@Joshua:2:22 @ They departed and went to the mountain, and stayed th ere three days until the pursu ers returned. The pursu ers sought them all along the way, but did not find them.

nkjv@Joshua:2:23 @ So the two men returned, descended from the mountain, and crossed ov er; and they came to Joshua the son of Nun, and told him all that had befallen them.

nkjv@Joshua:2:24 @ And they said to Joshua, "Truly the LORD has deliv ered all the land into our hands, for indeed all the inhabitants of the country are fainthearted because of us."

nkjv@Joshua:3:1 @ Then Joshua rose early in the morning; and they set out from Acacia Grove and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, and lodged th ere before they crossed ov er.

nkjv@Joshua:3:2 @ So it was, aft er three days, that the offic ers went through the camp;

nkjv@Joshua:3:3 @ and they commanded the people, saying, "When you see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, and the priests, the Levites, bearing it, then you shall set out from your place and go aft er it.

nkjv@Joshua:3:4 @ Yet th ere shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure. Do not come near it, that you may know the way by which you must go, for you have not passed this way before."

nkjv@Joshua:3:5 @ And Joshua said to the people, "Sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do wond ers among you."

nkjv@Joshua:3:6 @ Then Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, "Take up the ark of the covenant and cross ov er before the people." So they took up the ark of the covenant and went before the people.

nkjv@Joshua:3:8 @ You shall command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, saying, "When you have come to the edge of the wat er of the Jordan, you shall stand in the Jordan."'

nkjv@Joshua:3:9 @ So Joshua said to the children of Israel, "Come h ere, and hear the words of the LORD your God."

nkjv@Joshua:3:10 @ And Joshua said, "By this you shall know that the living God is among you, and that He will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Hivites and the P erizzites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Jebusites:

nkjv@Joshua:3:11 @ Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth is crossing ov er before you into the Jordan.

nkjv@Joshua:3:12 @ Now th erefore, take for yourselves twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one man from ev ery tribe.

nkjv@Joshua:3:13 @ And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the wat ers of the Jordan, that the wat ers of the Jordan shall be cut off, the wat ers that come down from upstream, and they shall stand as a heap."

nkjv@Joshua:3:14 @ So it was, when the people set out from their camp to cross ov er the Jordan, with the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people,

nkjv@Joshua:3:15 @ and as those who bore the ark came to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore the ark dipped in the edge of the wat er (for the Jordan ov erflows all its banks during the whole time of harvest),

nkjv@Joshua:3:16 @ that the wat ers which came down from upstream stood still, and rose in a heap v ery far away at Adam, the city that is beside Zaretan. So the wat ers that went down into the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, failed, and w ere cut off; and the people crossed ov er opposite J ericho.

nkjv@Joshua:3:17 @ Then the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan; and all Israel crossed ov er on dry ground, until all the people had crossed completely ov er the Jordan.

nkjv@Joshua:4:1 @ And it came to pass, when all the people had completely crossed ov er the Jordan, that the LORD spoke to Joshua, saying:

nkjv@Joshua:4:2 @ "Take for yourselves twelve men from the people, one man from ev ery tribe,

nkjv@Joshua:4:3 @ and command them, saying, "Take for yourselves twelve stones from h ere, out of the midst of the Jordan, from the place wh ere the priests' feet stood firm. You shall carry them ov er with you and leave them in the lodging place wh ere you lodge tonight."'

nkjv@Joshua:4:4 @ Then Joshua called the twelve men whom he had appointed from the children of Israel, one man from ev ery tribe;

nkjv@Joshua:4:5 @ and Joshua said to them: "Cross ov er before the ark of the LORD your God into the midst of the Jordan, and each one of you take up a stone on his should er, according to the numb er of the tribes of the children of Israel,

nkjv@Joshua:4:7 @ Then you shall answ er them that the wat ers of the Jordan w ere cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it crossed ov er the Jordan, the wat ers of the Jordan w ere cut off. And these stones shall be for a memorial to the children of Israel forev er."

nkjv@Joshua:4:8 @ And the children of Israel did so, just as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones from the midst of the Jordan, as the LORD had spoken to Joshua, according to the numb er of the tribes of the children of Israel, and carried them ov er with them to the place wh ere they lodged, and laid them down th ere.

nkjv@Joshua:4:9 @ Then Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place wh ere the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood; and they are th ere to this day.

nkjv@Joshua:4:10 @ So the priests who bore the ark stood in the midst of the Jordan until ev erything was finished that the LORD had commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses had commanded Joshua; and the people hurried and crossed ov er.

nkjv@Joshua:4:11 @ Then it came to pass, when all the people had completely crossed ov er, that the ark of the LORD and the priests crossed ov er in the presence of the people.

nkjv@Joshua:4:12 @ And the men of Reuben, the men of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh crossed ov er armed before the children of Israel, as Moses had spoken to them.

nkjv@Joshua:4:13 @ About forty thousand prepared for war crossed ov er before the LORD for battle, to the plains of J ericho.

nkjv@Joshua:4:17 @ Joshua th erefore commanded the priests, saying, "Come up from the Jordan."

nkjv@Joshua:4:18 @ And it came to pass, when the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD had come from the midst of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet touched the dry land, that the wat ers of the Jordan returned to their place and ov erflowed all its banks as before.

nkjv@Joshua:4:19 @ Now the people came up from the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they camped in Gilgal on the east bord er of J ericho.

nkjv@Joshua:4:21 @ Then he spoke to the children of Israel, saying: "When your children ask their fath ers in time to come, saying, "What are these stones?'

nkjv@Joshua:4:22 @ then you shall let your children know, saying, "Israel crossed ov er this Jordan on dry land';

nkjv@Joshua:4:23 @ for the LORD your God dried up the wat ers of the Jordan before you until you had crossed ov er, as the LORD your God did to the Red Sea, which He dried up before us until we had crossed ov er,

nkjv@Joshua:4:24 @ that all the peoples of the earth may know the hand of the LORD, that it is mighty, that you may fear the LORD your God forev er."

nkjv@Joshua:5:1 @ So it was, when all the kings of the Amorites who w ere on the west side of the Jordan, and all the kings of the Canaanites who w ere by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the wat ers of the Jordan from before the children of Israel until we had crossed ov er, that their heart melted; and th ere was no spirit in them any long er because of the children of Israel.

nkjv@Joshua:5:4 @ And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised them: All the people who came out of Egypt who w ere males, all the men of war, had died in the wild erness on the way, aft er they had come out of Egypt.

nkjv@Joshua:5:5 @ For all the people who came out had been circumcised, but all the people born in the wild erness, on the way as they came out of Egypt, had not been circumcised.

nkjv@Joshua:5:6 @ For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wild erness, till all the people who w ere men of war, who came out of Egypt, w ere consumed, because they did not obey the voice of the LORD--to whom the LORD swore that He would not show them the land which the LORD had sworn to their fath ers that He would give us, "a land flowing with milk and honey."

nkjv@Joshua:5:7 @ Then Joshua circumcised their sons whom He raised up in their place; for they w ere uncircumcised, because they had not been circumcised on the way.

nkjv@Joshua:5:8 @ So it was, when they had finished circumcising all the people, that they stayed in their places in the camp till they w ere healed.

nkjv@Joshua:5:9 @ Then the LORD said to Joshua, "This day I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you." Th erefore the name of the place is called Gilgal to this day.

nkjv@Joshua:5:10 @ Now the children of Israel camped in Gilgal, and kept the Passov er on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight on the plains of J ericho.

nkjv@Joshua:5:11 @ And they ate of the produce of the land on the day aft er the Passov er, unleavened bread and parched grain, on the v ery same day.

nkjv@Joshua:5:12 @ Then the manna ceased on the day aft er they had eaten the produce of the land; and the children of Israel no long er had manna, but they ate the food of the land of Canaan that year.

nkjv@Joshua:5:13 @ And it came to pass, when Joshua was by J ericho, that he lifted his eyes and looked, and behold, a Man stood opposite him with His sword drawn in His hand. And Joshua went to Him and said to Him, "Are You for us or for our adv ersaries?"

nkjv@Joshua:5:14 @ So He said, "No, but as Command er of the army of the LORD I have now come." And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped, and said to Him, "What does my Lord say to His s ervant?"

nkjv@Joshua:5:15 @ Then the Command er of the LORD's army said to Joshua, "Take your sandal off your foot, for the place wh ere you stand is holy." And Joshua did so.

nkjv@Joshua:6:1 @ Now J ericho was securely shut up because of the children of Israel; none went out, and none came in.

nkjv@Joshua:6:2 @ And the LORD said to Joshua: "See! I have given J ericho into your hand, its king, and the mighty men of valor.

nkjv@Joshua:6:5 @ It shall come to pass, when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, that all the people shall shout with a great shout; then the wall of the city will fall down flat. And the people shall go up ev ery man straight before him."

nkjv@Joshua:6:9 @ The armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the rear guard came aft er the ark, while the priests continued blowing the trumpets.

nkjv@Joshua:6:13 @ Then seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD went on continually and blew with the trumpets. And the armed men went before them. But the rear guard came aft er the ark of the LORD, while the priests continued blowing the trumpets.

nkjv@Joshua:6:15 @ But it came to pass on the seventh day that they rose early, about the dawning of the day, and marched around the city seven times in the same mann er. On that day only they marched around the city seven times.

nkjv@Joshua:6:17 @ Now the city shall be doomed by the LORD to destruction, it and all who are in it. Only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all who are with h er in the house, because she hid the messeng ers that we sent.

nkjv@Joshua:6:19 @ But all the silv er and gold, and vessels of bronze and iron, are consecrated to the LORD; they shall come into the treasury of the LORD."

nkjv@Joshua:6:20 @ So the people shouted when the priests blew the trumpets. And it happened when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat. Then the people went up into the city, ev ery man straight before him, and they took the city.

nkjv@Joshua:6:21 @ And they utt erly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, ox and sheep and donkey, with the edge of the sword.

nkjv@Joshua:6:22 @ But Joshua had said to the two men who had spied out the country, "Go into the harlot's house, and from th ere bring out the woman and all that she has, as you swore to h er."

nkjv@Joshua:6:23 @ And the young men who had been spies went in and brought out Rahab, h er fath er, h er moth er, h er broth ers, and all that she had. So they brought out all h er relatives and left them outside the camp of Israel.

nkjv@Joshua:6:24 @ But they burned the city and all that was in it with fire. Only the silv er and gold, and the vessels of bronze and iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD.

nkjv@Joshua:6:25 @ And Joshua spared Rahab the harlot, h er fath er's household, and all that she had. So she dwells in Israel to this day, because she hid the messeng ers whom Joshua sent to spy out J ericho.

nkjv@Joshua:6:26 @ Then Joshua charged them at that time, saying, "Cursed be the man before the LORD who rises up and builds this city J ericho; he shall lay its foundation with his firstborn, and with his youngest he shall set up its gates."

nkjv@Joshua:7:1 @ But the children of Israel committed a trespass regarding the accursed things, for Achan the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Z erah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed things; so the ang er of the LORD burned against the children of Israel.

nkjv@Joshua:7:2 @ Now Joshua sent men from J ericho to Ai, which is beside Beth Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, "Go up and spy out the country." So the men went up and spied out Ai.

nkjv@Joshua:7:3 @ And they returned to Joshua and said to him, "Do not let all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and attack Ai. Do not weary all the people th ere, for the people of Ai are few."

nkjv@Joshua:7:4 @ So about three thousand men went up th ere from the people, but they fled before the men of Ai.

nkjv@Joshua:7:5 @ And the men of Ai struck down about thirty-six men, for they chased them from before the gate as far as Shebarim, and struck them down on the descent; th erefore the hearts of the people melted and became like wat er.

nkjv@Joshua:7:6 @ Then Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of the LORD until evening, he and the eld ers of Israel; and they put dust on their heads.

nkjv@Joshua:7:7 @ And Joshua said, "Alas, Lord GOD, why have You brought this people ov er the Jordan at all--to deliv er us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? Oh, that we had been content, and dwelt on the oth er side of the Jordan!

nkjv@Joshua:7:12 @ Th erefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they have become doomed to destruction. Neith er will I be with you anymore, unless you destroy the accursed from among you.

nkjv@Joshua:7:13 @ Get up, sanctify the people, and say, "Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, because thus says the LORD God of Israel: "Th ere is an accursed thing in your midst, O Israel; you cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the accursed thing from among you."

nkjv@Joshua:7:14 @ In the morning th erefore you shall be brought according to your tribes. And it shall be that the tribe which the LORD takes shall come according to families; and the family which the LORD takes shall come by households; and the household which the LORD takes shall come man by man.

nkjv@Joshua:7:18 @ Then he brought his household man by man, and Achan the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Z erah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.

nkjv@Joshua:7:20 @ And Achan answ ered Joshua and said, "Indeed I have sinned against the LORD God of Israel, and this is what I have done:

nkjv@Joshua:7:21 @ When I saw among the spoils a beautiful Babylonian garment, two hundred shekels of silv er, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. And th ere they are, hidden in the earth in the midst of my tent, with the silv er und er it."

nkjv@Joshua:7:22 @ So Joshua sent messeng ers, and they ran to the tent; and th ere it was, hidden in his tent, with the silv er und er it.

nkjv@Joshua:7:24 @ Then Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Z erah, the silv er, the garment, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daught ers, his oxen, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had, and they brought them to the Valley of Achor.

nkjv@Joshua:7:25 @ And Joshua said, "Why have you troubled us? The LORD will trouble you this day." So all Israel stoned him with stones; and they burned them with fire aft er they had stoned them with stones.

nkjv@Joshua:7:26 @ Then they raised ov er him a great heap of stones, still th ere to this day. So the LORD turned from the fi erceness of His ang er. Th erefore the name of that place has been called the Valley of Achor to this day.

nkjv@Joshua:8:2 @ And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to J ericho and its king. Only its spoil and its cattle you shall take as booty for yourselves. Lay an ambush for the city behind it."

nkjv@Joshua:8:4 @ And he commanded them, saying: "Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Do not go v ery far from the city, but all of you be ready.

nkjv@Joshua:8:6 @ For they will come out aft er us till we have drawn them from the city, for they will say, "They are fleeing before us as at the first.' Th erefore we will flee before them.

nkjv@Joshua:8:7 @ Then you shall rise from the ambush and seize the city, for the LORD your God will deliv er it into your hand.

nkjv@Joshua:8:9 @ Joshua th erefore sent them out; and they went to lie in ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai; but Joshua lodged that night among the people.

nkjv@Joshua:8:10 @ Then Joshua rose up early in the morning and must ered the people, and went up, he and the eld ers of Israel, before the people to Ai.

nkjv@Joshua:8:11 @ And all the people of war who w ere with him went up and drew near; and they came before the city and camped on the north side of Ai. Now a valley lay between them and Ai.

nkjv@Joshua:8:14 @ Now it happened, when the king of Ai saw it, that the men of the city hurried and rose early and went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at an appointed place before the plain. But he did not know that th ere was an ambush against him behind the city.

nkjv@Joshua:8:15 @ And Joshua and all Israel made as if they w ere beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wild erness.

nkjv@Joshua:8:16 @ So all the people who w ere in Ai w ere called togeth er to pursue them. And they pursued Joshua and w ere drawn away from the city.

nkjv@Joshua:8:17 @ Th ere was not a man left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out aft er Israel. So they left the city open and pursued Israel.

nkjv@Joshua:8:19 @ So those in ambush arose quickly out of their place; they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand, and they ent ered the city and took it, and hurried to set the city on fire.

nkjv@Joshua:8:20 @ And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and behold, the smoke of the city ascended to heaven. So they had no pow er to flee this way or that way, and the people who had fled to the wild erness turned back on the pursu ers.

nkjv@Joshua:8:22 @ Then the oth ers came out of the city against them; so they w ere caught in the midst of Israel, some on this side and some on that side. And they struck them down, so that they let none of them remain or escape.

nkjv@Joshua:8:24 @ And it came to pass when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wild erness wh ere they pursued them, and when they all had fallen by the edge of the sword until they w ere consumed, that all the Israelites returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword.

nkjv@Joshua:8:25 @ So it was that all who fell that day, both men and women, w ere twelve thousand--all the people of Ai.

nkjv@Joshua:8:26 @ For Joshua did not draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the spear, until he had utt erly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

nkjv@Joshua:8:28 @ So Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap forev er, a desolation to this day.

nkjv@Joshua:8:29 @ And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until evening. And as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his corpse down from the tree, cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raise ov er it a great heap of stones that remains to this day.

nkjv@Joshua:8:31 @ as Moses the s ervant of the LORD had commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the Book of the Law of Moses: "an altar of whole stones ov er which no man has wielded an iron tool." And they off ered on it burnt off erings to the LORD, and sacrificed peace off erings.

nkjv@Joshua:8:32 @ And th ere, in the presence of the children of Israel, he wrote on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written.

nkjv@Joshua:8:33 @ Then all Israel, with their eld ers and offic ers and judges, stood on eith er side of the ark before the priests, the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, the strang er as well as he who was born among them. Half of them w ere in front of Mount G erizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the s ervant of the LORD had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel.

nkjv@Joshua:8:34 @ And aft erward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and the cursings, according to all that is written in the Book of the Law.

nkjv@Joshua:8:35 @ Th ere was not a word of all that Moses had commanded which Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, with the women, the little ones, and the strang ers who w ere living among them.

nkjv@Joshua:9:1 @ And it came to pass when all the kings who w ere on this side of the Jordan, in the hills and in the lowland and in all the coasts of the Great Sea toward Lebanon--the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the P erizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite--heard about it,

nkjv@Joshua:9:2 @ that they gath ered togeth er to fight with Joshua and Israel with one accord.

nkjv@Joshua:9:3 @ But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to J ericho and Ai,

nkjv@Joshua:9:6 @ And they went to Joshua, to the camp at Gilgal, and said to him and to the men of Israel, "We have come from a far country; now th erefore, make a covenant with us."

nkjv@Joshua:9:7 @ Then the men of Israel said to the Hivites, "P erhaps you dwell among us; so how can we make a covenant with you?"

nkjv@Joshua:9:8 @ But they said to Joshua, "We are your s ervants." And Joshua said to them, "Who are you, and wh ere do you come from?"

nkjv@Joshua:9:9 @ So they said to him: "From a v ery far country your s ervants have come, because of the name of the LORD your God; for we have heard of His fame, and all that He did in Egypt,

nkjv@Joshua:9:10 @ and all that He did to the two kings of the Amorites who w ere beyond the Jordan--to Sihon king of Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan, who was at Ashtaroth.

nkjv@Joshua:9:11 @ Th erefore our eld ers and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, "Take provisions with you for the journey, and go to meet them, and say to them, "We are your s ervants; now th erefore, make a covenant with us."'

nkjv@Joshua:9:13 @ And these wineskins which we filled w ere new, and see, they are torn; and these our garments and our sandals have become old because of the v ery long journey."

nkjv@Joshua:9:15 @ So Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them to let them live; and the rul ers of the congregation swore to them.

nkjv@Joshua:9:16 @ And it happened at the end of three days, aft er they had made a covenant with them, that they heard that they w ere their neighbors who dwelt near them.

nkjv@Joshua:9:17 @ Then the children of Israel journeyed and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities w ere Gibeon, Chephirah, Be eroth, and Kirjath Jearim.

nkjv@Joshua:9:18 @ But the children of Israel did not attack them, because the rul ers of the congregation had sworn to them by the LORD God of Israel. And all the congregation complained against the rul ers.

nkjv@Joshua:9:19 @ Then all the rul ers said to all the congregation, "We have sworn to them by the LORD God of Israel; now th erefore, we may not touch them.

nkjv@Joshua:9:21 @ And the rul ers said to them, "Let them live, but let them be woodcutt ers and wat er carri ers for all the congregation, as the rul ers had promised them."

nkjv@Joshua:9:22 @ Then Joshua called for them, and he spoke to them, saying, "Why have you deceived us, saying, "We are v ery far from you,' when you dwell near us?

nkjv@Joshua:9:23 @ Now th erefore, you are cursed, and none of you shall be freed from being slaves--woodcutt ers and wat er carri ers for the house of my God."

nkjv@Joshua:9:24 @ So they answ ered Joshua and said, "Because your s ervants w ere clearly told that the LORD your God commanded His s ervant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you; th erefore we w ere v ery much afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.

nkjv@Joshua:9:25 @ And now, h ere we are, in your hands; do with us as it seems good and right to do to us."

nkjv@Joshua:9:26 @ So he did to them, and deliv ered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, so that they did not kill them.

nkjv@Joshua:9:27 @ And that day Joshua made them woodcutt ers and wat er carri ers for the congregation and for the altar of the LORD, in the place which He would choose, even to this day.

nkjv@Joshua:10:1 @ Now it came to pass when Adoni-Zedek king of J erusalem heard how Joshua had taken Ai and had utt erly destroyed it--as he had done to J ericho and its king, so he had done to Ai and its king--and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and w ere among them,

nkjv@Joshua:10:2 @ that they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities, and because it was great er than Ai, and all its men w ere mighty.

nkjv@Joshua:10:3 @ Th erefore Adoni-Zedek king of J erusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, Piram king of Jarmuth, Japhia king of Lachish, and Debir king of Eglon, saying,

nkjv@Joshua:10:5 @ Th erefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of J erusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon, gath ered togeth er and went up, they and all their armies, and camped before Gibeon and made war against it.

nkjv@Joshua:10:6 @ And the men of Gibeon sent to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, saying, "Do not forsake your s ervants; come up to us quickly, save us and help us, for all the kings of the Amorites who dwell in the mountains have gath ered togeth er against us."

nkjv@Joshua:10:8 @ And the LORD said to Joshua, "Do not fear them, for I have deliv ered them into your hand; not a man of them shall stand before you."

nkjv@Joshua:10:9 @ Joshua th erefore came upon them suddenly, having marched all night from Gilgal.

nkjv@Joshua:10:10 @ So the LORD routed them before Israel, killed them with a great slaught er at Gibeon, chased them along the road that goes to Beth Horon, and struck them down as far as Azekah and Makkedah.

nkjv@Joshua:10:11 @ And it happened, as they fled before Israel and w ere on the descent of Beth Horon, that the LORD cast down large hailstones from heaven on them as far as Azekah, and they died. Th ere w ere more who died from the hailstones than the children of Israel killed with the sword.

nkjv@Joshua:10:12 @ Then Joshua spoke to the LORD in the day when the LORD deliv ered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel: "Sun, stand still ov er Gibeon; And Moon, in the Valley of Aijalon."

nkjv@Joshua:10:13 @ So the sun stood still, And the moon stopped, Till the people had revenge Upon their enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jash er? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and did not hasten to go down for about a whole day.

nkjv@Joshua:10:14 @ And th ere has been no day like that, before it or aft er it, that the LORD heeded the voice of a man; for the LORD fought for Israel.

nkjv@Joshua:10:19 @ And do not stay th ere yourselves, but pursue your enemies, and attack their rear guard. Do not allow them to ent er their cities, for the LORD your God has deliv ered them into your hand."

nkjv@Joshua:10:20 @ Then it happened, while Joshua and the children of Israel made an end of slaying them with a v ery great slaught er, till they had finished, that those who escaped ent ered fortified cities.

nkjv@Joshua:10:23 @ And they did so, and brought out those five kings to him from the cave: the king of J erusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.

nkjv@Joshua:10:26 @ And aft erward Joshua struck them and killed them, and hanged them on five trees; and they w ere hanging on the trees until evening.

nkjv@Joshua:10:27 @ So it was at the time of the going down of the sun that Joshua commanded, and they took them down from the trees, cast them into the cave wh ere they had been hidden, and laid large stones against the cave's mouth, which remain until this v ery day.

nkjv@Joshua:10:28 @ On that day Joshua took Makkedah, and struck it and its king with the edge of the sword. He utt erly destroyed them --all the people who w ere in it. He let none remain. He also did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of J ericho.

nkjv@Joshua:10:30 @ And the LORD also deliv ered it and its king into the hand of Israel; he struck it and all the people who w ere in it with the edge of the sword. He let none remain in it, but did to its king as he had done to the king of J ericho.

nkjv@Joshua:10:32 @ And the LORD deliv ered Lachish into the hand of Israel, who took it on the second day, and struck it and all the people who w ere in it with the edge of the sword, according to all that he had done to Libnah.

nkjv@Joshua:10:33 @ Then Horam king of Gez er came up to help Lachish; and Joshua struck him and his people, until he left him none remaining.

nkjv@Joshua:10:35 @ They took it on that day and struck it with the edge of the sword; all the people who w ere in it he utt erly destroyed that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish.

nkjv@Joshua:10:37 @ And they took it and struck it with the edge of the sword--its king, all its cities, and all the people who w ere in it; he left none remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon, but utt erly destroyed it and all the people who w ere in it.

nkjv@Joshua:10:39 @ And he took it and its king and all its cities; they struck them with the edge of the sword and utt erly destroyed all the people who w ere in it. He left none remaining; as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir and its king, as he had done also to Libnah and its king.

nkjv@Joshua:10:40 @ So Joshua conqu ered all the land: the mountain country and the South and the lowland and the wild erness slopes, and all their kings; he left none remaining, but utt erly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD God of Israel had commanded.

nkjv@Joshua:10:41 @ And Joshua conqu ered them from Kadesh Barnea as far as Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even as far as Gibeon.

nkjv@Joshua:11:2 @ and to the kings who w ere from the north, in the mountains, in the plain south of Chinn eroth, in the lowland, and in the heights of Dor on the west,

nkjv@Joshua:11:3 @ to the Canaanites in the east and in the west, the Amorite, the Hittite, the P erizzite, the Jebusite in the mountains, and the Hivite below H ermon in the land of Mizpah.

nkjv@Joshua:11:4 @ So they went out, they and all their armies with them, as many people as the sand that is on the seashore in multitude, with v ery many horses and chariots.

nkjv@Joshua:11:5 @ And when all these kings had met togeth er, they came and camped togeth er at the wat ers of M erom to fight against Israel.

nkjv@Joshua:11:6 @ But the LORD said to Joshua, "Do not be afraid because of them, for tomorrow about this time I will deliv er all of them slain before Israel. You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire."

nkjv@Joshua:11:7 @ So Joshua and all the people of war with him came against them suddenly by the wat ers of M erom, and they attacked them.

nkjv@Joshua:11:8 @ And the LORD deliv ered them into the hand of Israel, who defeated them and chased them to Great er Sidon, to the Brook Misrephoth, and to the Valley of Mizpah eastward; they attacked them until they left none of them remaining.

nkjv@Joshua:11:10 @ Joshua turned back at that time and took Hazor, and struck its king with the sword; for Hazor was form erly the head of all those kingdoms.

nkjv@Joshua:11:11 @ And they struck all the people who w ere in it with the edge of the sword, utt erly destroying them. Th ere was none left breathing. Then he burned Hazor with fire.

nkjv@Joshua:11:12 @ So all the cities of those kings, and all their kings, Joshua took and struck with the edge of the sword. He utt erly destroyed them, as Moses the s ervant of the LORD had commanded.

nkjv@Joshua:11:14 @ And all the spoil of these cities and the livestock, the children of Israel took as booty for themselves; but they struck ev ery man with the edge of the sword until they had destroyed them, and they left none breathing.

nkjv@Joshua:11:15 @ As the LORD had commanded Moses his s ervant, so Moses commanded Joshua, and so Joshua did. He left nothing undone of all that the LORD had commanded Moses.

nkjv@Joshua:11:17 @ from Mount Halak and the ascent to Seir, even as far as Baal Gad in the Valley of Lebanon below Mount H ermon. He captured all their kings, and struck them down and killed them.

nkjv@Joshua:11:19 @ Th ere was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon. All the oth ers they took in battle.

nkjv@Joshua:11:20 @ For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that He might utt erly destroy them, and that they might receive no m ercy, but that He might destroy them, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

nkjv@Joshua:11:21 @ And at that time Joshua came and cut off the Anakim from the mountains: from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, from all the mountains of Judah, and from all the mountains of Israel; Joshua utt erly destroyed them with their cities.

nkjv@Joshua:11:22 @ None of the Anakim w ere left in the land of the children of Israel; they remained only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod.

nkjv@Joshua:11:23 @ So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD had said to Moses; and Joshua gave it as an inh eritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. Then the land rested from war.

nkjv@Joshua:12:1 @ These are the kings of the land whom the children of Israel defeated, and whose land they possessed on the oth er side of the Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the Riv er Arnon to Mount H ermon, and all the east ern Jordan plain:

nkjv@Joshua:12:2 @ One king was Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon and ruled half of Gilead, from Aro er, which is on the bank of the Riv er Arnon, from the middle of that riv er, even as far as the Riv er Jabbok, which is the bord er of the Ammonites,

nkjv@Joshua:12:3 @ and the east ern Jordan plain from the Sea of Chinn eroth as far as the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea), the road to Beth Jeshimoth, and southward below the slopes of Pisgah.

nkjv@Joshua:12:4 @ The oth er king was Og king of Bashan and his t erritory, who was of the remnant of the giants, who dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,

nkjv@Joshua:12:5 @ and reigned ov er Mount H ermon, ov er Salcah, ov er all Bashan, as far as the bord er of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and ov er half of Gilead to the bord er of Sihon king of Heshbon.

nkjv@Joshua:12:6 @ These Moses the s ervant of the LORD and the children of Israel had conqu ered; and Moses the s ervant of the LORD had given it as a possession to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh.

nkjv@Joshua:12:7 @ And these are the kings of the country which Joshua and the children of Israel conqu ered on this side of the Jordan, on the west, from Baal Gad in the Valley of Lebanon as far as Mount Halak and the ascent to Seir, which Joshua gave to the tribes of Israel as a possession according to their divisions,

nkjv@Joshua:12:8 @ in the mountain country, in the lowlands, in the Jordan plain, in the slopes, in the wild erness, and in the South--the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the P erizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites:

nkjv@Joshua:12:9 @ the king of J ericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;

nkjv@Joshua:12:10 @ the king of J erusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;

nkjv@Joshua:12:12 @ the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gez er, one;

nkjv@Joshua:12:13 @ the king of Debir, one; the king of Ged er, one;

nkjv@Joshua:12:17 @ the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Heph er, one;

nkjv@Joshua:12:20 @ the king of Shimron M eron, one; the king of Achshaph, one;

nkjv@Joshua:13:1 @ Now Joshua was old, advanced in years. And the LORD said to him: "You are old, advanced in years, and th ere remains v ery much land yet to be possessed.

nkjv@Joshua:13:2 @ This is the land that yet remains: all the t erritory of the Philistines and all that of the Geshurites,

nkjv@Joshua:13:3 @ from Sihor, which is east of Egypt, as far as the bord er of Ekron northward (which is counted as Canaanite); the five lords of the Philistines--the Gazites, the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites;

nkjv@Joshua:13:4 @ from the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians as far as Aphek, to the bord er of the Amorites;

nkjv@Joshua:13:5 @ the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from Baal Gad below Mount H ermon as far as the entrance to Hamath;

nkjv@Joshua:13:6 @ all the inhabitants of the mountains from Lebanon as far as the Brook Misrephoth, and all the Sidonians--them I will drive out from before the children of Israel; only divide it by lot to Israel as an inh eritance, as I have commanded you.

nkjv@Joshua:13:7 @ Now th erefore, divide this land as an inh eritance to the nine tribes and half the tribe of Manasseh."

nkjv@Joshua:13:8 @ With the oth er half-tribe the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inh eritance, which Moses had given them, beyond the Jordan eastward, as Moses the s ervant of the LORD had given them:

nkjv@Joshua:13:9 @ from Aro er which is on the bank of the Riv er Arnon, and the town that is in the midst of the ravine, and all the plain of Medeba as far as Dibon;

nkjv@Joshua:13:10 @ all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the bord er of the children of Ammon;

nkjv@Joshua:13:11 @ Gilead, and the bord er of the Geshurites and Maachathites, all Mount H ermon, and all Bashan as far as Salcah;

nkjv@Joshua:13:13 @ Nev ertheless the children of Israel did not drive out the Geshurites or the Maachathites, but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day.

nkjv@Joshua:13:14 @ Only to the tribe of Levi he had given no inh eritance; the sacrifices of the LORD God of Israel made by fire are their inh eritance, as He said to them.

nkjv@Joshua:13:15 @ And Moses had given to the tribe of the children of Reuben an inh eritance according to their families.

nkjv@Joshua:13:16 @ Their t erritory was from Aro er, which is on the bank of the Riv er Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the ravine, and all the plain by Medeba;

nkjv@Joshua:13:19 @ Kirjathaim, Sibmah, Z ereth Shahar on the mountain of the valley,

nkjv@Joshua:13:21 @ all the cities of the plain and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses had struck with the princes of Midian: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, who w ere princes of Sihon dwelling in the country.

nkjv@Joshua:13:22 @ The children of Israel also killed with the sword Balaam the son of Beor, the soothsay er, among those who w ere killed by them.

nkjv@Joshua:13:23 @ And the bord er of the children of Reuben was the bank of the Jordan. This was the inh eritance of the children of Reuben according to their families, the cities and their villages.

nkjv@Joshua:13:24 @ Moses also had given an inh eritance to the tribe of Gad, to the children of Gad according to their families.

nkjv@Joshua:13:25 @ Their t erritory was Jaz er, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites as far as Aro er, which is before Rabbah,

nkjv@Joshua:13:26 @ and from Heshbon to Ramath Mizpah and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the bord er of Debir,

nkjv@Joshua:13:27 @ and in the valley Beth Haram, Beth Nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, with the Jordan as its bord er, as far as the edge of the Sea of Chinn ereth, on the oth er side of the Jordan eastward.

nkjv@Joshua:13:28 @ This is the inh eritance of the children of Gad according to their families, the cities and their villages.

nkjv@Joshua:13:29 @ Moses also had given an inh eritance to half the tribe of Manasseh; it was for half the tribe of the children of Manasseh according to their families:

nkjv@Joshua:13:30 @ Their t erritory was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair which are in Bashan, sixty cities;

nkjv@Joshua:13:31 @ half of Gilead, and Ashtaroth and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, w ere for the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, for half of the children of Machir according to their families.

nkjv@Joshua:13:32 @ These are the areas which Moses had distributed as an inh eritance in the plains of Moab on the oth er side of the Jordan, by J ericho eastward.

nkjv@Joshua:13:33 @ But to the tribe of Levi Moses had given no inh eritance; the LORD God of Israel was their inh eritance, as He had said to them.

nkjv@Joshua:14:1 @ These are the areas which the children of Israel inh erited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fath ers of the tribes of the children of Israel distributed as an inh eritance to them.

nkjv@Joshua:14:2 @ Their inh eritance was by lot, as the LORD had commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes and the half-tribe.

nkjv@Joshua:14:3 @ For Moses had given the inh eritance of the two tribes and the half-tribe on the oth er side of the Jordan; but to the Levites he had given no inh eritance among them.

nkjv@Joshua:14:4 @ For the children of Joseph w ere two tribes: Manasseh and Ephraim. And they gave no part to the Levites in the land, except cities to dwell in, with their common-lands for their livestock and their prop erty.

nkjv@Joshua:14:6 @ Then the children of Judah came to Joshua in Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him: "You know the word which the LORD said to Moses the man of God conc erning you and me in Kadesh Barnea.

nkjv@Joshua:14:7 @ I was forty years old when Moses the s ervant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land, and I brought back word to him as it was in my heart.

nkjv@Joshua:14:8 @ Nev ertheless my brethren who went up with me made the heart of the people melt, but I wholly followed the LORD my God.

nkjv@Joshua:14:9 @ So Moses swore on that day, saying, "Surely the land wh ere your foot has trodden shall be your inh eritance and your children's forev er, because you have wholly followed the LORD my God.'

nkjv@Joshua:14:10 @ And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, as He said, these forty-five years, ev er since the LORD spoke this word to Moses while Israel wand ered in the wild erness; and now, h ere I am this day, eighty-five years old.

nkjv@Joshua:14:12 @ Now th erefore, give me this mountain of which the LORD spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim w ere th ere, and that the cities w ere great and fortified. It may be that the LORD will be with me, and I shall be able to drive them out as the LORD said."

nkjv@Joshua:14:13 @ And Joshua blessed him, and gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as an inh eritance.

nkjv@Joshua:14:14 @ Hebron th erefore became the inh eritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he wholly followed the LORD God of Israel.

nkjv@Joshua:14:15 @ And the name of Hebron form erly was Kirjath Arba (Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim). Then the land had rest from war.

nkjv@Joshua:15:1 @ So this was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families: The bord er of Edom at the Wild erness of Zin southward was the extreme south ern boundary.

nkjv@Joshua:15:2 @ And their south ern bord er began at the shore of the Salt Sea, from the bay that faces southward.

nkjv@Joshua:15:3 @ Then it went out to the south ern side of the Ascent of Akrabbim, passed along to Zin, ascended on the south side of Kadesh Barnea, passed along to Hezron, went up to Adar, and went around to Karkaa.

nkjv@Joshua:15:4 @ From th ere it passed toward Azmon and went out to the Brook of Egypt; and the bord er ended at the sea. This shall be your south ern bord er.

nkjv@Joshua:15:5 @ The east bord er was the Salt Sea as far as the mouth of the Jordan. And the bord er on the north ern quart er began at the bay of the sea at the mouth of the Jordan.

nkjv@Joshua:15:6 @ The bord er went up to Beth Hoglah and passed north of Beth Arabah; and the bord er went up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben.

nkjv@Joshua:15:7 @ Then the bord er went up toward Debir from the Valley of Achor, and it turned northward toward Gilgal, which is before the Ascent of Adummim, which is on the south side of the valley. The bord er continued toward the wat ers of En Shemesh and ended at En Rogel.

nkjv@Joshua:15:8 @ And the bord er went up by the Valley of the Son of Hinnom to the south ern slope of the Jebusite city (which is J erusalem). The bord er went up to the top of the mountain that lies before the Valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the end of the Valley of Rephaim northward.

nkjv@Joshua:15:9 @ Then the bord er went around from the top of the hill to the fountain of the wat er of Nephtoah, and extended to the cities of Mount Ephron. And the bord er went around to Baalah (which is Kirjath Jearim).

nkjv@Joshua:15:10 @ Then the bord er turned westward from Baalah to Mount Seir, passed along to the side of Mount Jearim on the north (which is Chesalon), went down to Beth Shemesh, and passed on to Timnah.

nkjv@Joshua:15:11 @ And the bord er went out to the side of Ekron northward. Then the bord er went around to Shicron, passed along to Mount Baalah, and extended to Jabneel; and the bord er ended at the sea.

nkjv@Joshua:15:12 @ The west bord er was the coastline of the Great Sea. This is the boundary of the children of Judah all around according to their families.

nkjv@Joshua:15:13 @ Now to Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a share among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of the LORD to Joshua, namely, Kirjath Arba, which is Hebron (Arba was the fath er of Anak).

nkjv@Joshua:15:14 @ Caleb drove out the three sons of Anak from th ere: Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.

nkjv@Joshua:15:15 @ Then he went up from th ere to the inhabitants of Debir (form erly the name of Debir was Kirjath Seph er).

nkjv@Joshua:15:16 @ And Caleb said, "He who attacks Kirjath Seph er and takes it, to him I will give Achsah my daught er as wife."

nkjv@Joshua:15:17 @ So Othniel the son of Kenaz, the broth er of Caleb, took it; and he gave him Achsah his daught er as wife.

nkjv@Joshua:15:18 @ Now it was so, when she came to him, that she p ersuaded him to ask h er fath er for a field. So she dismounted from h er donkey, and Caleb said to h er, "What do you wish?"

nkjv@Joshua:15:19 @ She answ ered, "Give me a blessing; since you have given me land in the South, give me also springs of wat er." So he gave h er the upp er springs and the low er springs.

nkjv@Joshua:15:20 @ This was the inh eritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families:

nkjv@Joshua:15:21 @ The cities at the limits of the tribe of the children of Judah, toward the bord er of Edom in the South, w ere Kabzeel, Ed er, Jagur,

nkjv@Joshua:15:25 @ Hazor, Hadattah, K erioth, Hezron (which is Hazor),

nkjv@Joshua:15:28 @ Hazar Shual, Be ersheba, Bizjothjah,

nkjv@Joshua:15:36 @ Sharaim, Adithaim, Ged erah, and Ged erothaim: fourteen cities with their villages;

nkjv@Joshua:15:41 @ Ged eroth, Beth Dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah: sixteen cities with their villages;

nkjv@Joshua:15:42 @ Libnah, Eth er, Ashan,

nkjv@Joshua:15:61 @ In the wild erness: Beth Arabah, Middin, Secacah,

nkjv@Joshua:15:63 @ As for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of J erusalem, the children of Judah could not drive them out; but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at J erusalem to this day.

nkjv@Joshua:16:1 @ The lot fell to the children of Joseph from the Jordan, by J ericho, to the wat ers of J ericho on the east, to the wild erness that goes up from J ericho through the mountains to Bethel,

nkjv@Joshua:16:2 @ then went out from Bethel to Luz, passed along to the bord er of the Archites at Ataroth,

nkjv@Joshua:16:3 @ and went down westward to the boundary of the Japhletites, as far as the boundary of Low er Beth Horon to Gez er; and it ended at the sea.

nkjv@Joshua:16:4 @ So the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inh eritance.

nkjv@Joshua:16:5 @ The bord er of the children of Ephraim, according to their families, was thus: The bord er of their inh eritance on the east side was Ataroth Addar as far as Upp er Beth Horon.

nkjv@Joshua:16:6 @ And the bord er went out toward the sea on the north side of Michmethath; then the bord er went around eastward to Taanath Shiloh, and passed by it on the east of Janohah.

nkjv@Joshua:16:7 @ Then it went down from Janohah to Ataroth and Naarah, reached to J ericho, and came out at the Jordan.

nkjv@Joshua:16:8 @ The bord er went out from Tappuah westward to the Brook Kanah, and it ended at the sea. This was the inh eritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim according to their families.

nkjv@Joshua:16:9 @ The separate cities for the children of Ephraim w ere among the inh eritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages.

nkjv@Joshua:16:10 @ And they did not drive out the Canaanites who dwelt in Gez er; but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites to this day and have become forced labor ers.

nkjv@Joshua:17:1 @ Th ere was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph: namely for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the fath er of Gilead, because he was a man of war; th erefore he was given Gilead and Bashan.

nkjv@Joshua:17:2 @ And th ere was a lot for the rest of the children of Manasseh according to their families: for the children of Abiez er, the children of Helek, the children of Asriel, the children of Shechem, the children of Heph er, and the children of Shemida; these w ere the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph according to their families.

nkjv@Joshua:17:3 @ But Zelophehad the son of Heph er, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but only daught ers. And these are the names of his daught ers: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

nkjv@Joshua:17:4 @ And they came near before Eleazar the priest, before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the rul ers, saying, "The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inh eritance among our broth ers." Th erefore, according to the commandment of the LORD, he gave them an inh eritance among their fath er's broth ers.

nkjv@Joshua:17:5 @ Ten shares fell to Manasseh, besides the land of Gilead and Bashan, which w ere on the oth er side of the Jordan,

nkjv@Joshua:17:6 @ because the daught ers of Manasseh received an inh eritance among his sons; and the rest of Manasseh's sons had the land of Gilead.

nkjv@Joshua:17:7 @ And the t erritory of Manasseh was from Ash er to Michmethath, that lies east of Shechem; and the bord er went along south to the inhabitants of En Tappuah.

nkjv@Joshua:17:8 @ Manasseh had the land of Tappuah, but Tappuah on the bord er of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim.

nkjv@Joshua:17:9 @ And the bord er descended to the Brook Kanah, southward to the brook. These cities of Ephraim are among the cities of Manasseh. The bord er of Manasseh was on the north side of the brook; and it ended at the sea.

nkjv@Joshua:17:10 @ Southward it was Ephraim's, northward it was Manasseh's, and the sea was its bord er. Manasseh's t erritory was adjoining Ash er on the north and Issachar on the east.

nkjv@Joshua:17:11 @ And in Issachar and in Ash er, Manasseh had Beth Shean and its towns, Ibleam and its towns, the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, the inhabitants of En Dor and its towns, the inhabitants of Taanach and its towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns--three hilly regions.

nkjv@Joshua:17:12 @ Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities, but the Canaanites w ere det ermined to dwell in that land.

nkjv@Joshua:17:13 @ And it happened, when the children of Israel grew strong, that they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but did not utt erly drive them out.

nkjv@Joshua:17:14 @ Then the children of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, "Why have you given us only one lot and one share to inh erit, since we are a great people, inasmuch as the LORD has blessed us until now?"

nkjv@Joshua:17:15 @ So Joshua answ ered them, "If you are a great people, then go up to the forest country and clear a place for yourself th ere in the land of the P erizzites and the giants, since the mountains of Ephraim are too confined for you."

nkjv@Joshua:17:17 @ And Joshua spoke to the house of Joseph--to Ephraim and Manasseh--saying, "You are a great people and have great pow er; you shall not have only one lot,

nkjv@Joshua:18:1 @ Now the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled togeth er at Shiloh, and set up the tab ernacle of meeting th ere. And the land was subdued before them.

nkjv@Joshua:18:2 @ But th ere remained among the children of Israel seven tribes which had not yet received their inh eritance.

nkjv@Joshua:18:3 @ Then Joshua said to the children of Israel: "How long will you neglect to go and possess the land which the LORD God of your fath ers has given you?

nkjv@Joshua:18:4 @ Pick out from among you three men for each tribe, and I will send them; they shall rise and go through the land, survey it according to their inh eritance, and come back to me.

nkjv@Joshua:18:5 @ And they shall divide it into seven parts. Judah shall remain in their t erritory on the south, and the house of Joseph shall remain in their t erritory on the north.

nkjv@Joshua:18:6 @ You shall th erefore survey the land in seven parts and bring the survey h ere to me, that I may cast lots for you h ere before the LORD our God.

nkjv@Joshua:18:7 @ But the Levites have no part among you, for the priesthood of the LORD is their inh eritance. And Gad, Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inh eritance beyond the Jordan on the east, which Moses the s ervant of the LORD gave them."

nkjv@Joshua:18:8 @ Then the men arose to go away; and Joshua charged those who went to survey the land, saying, "Go, walk through the land, survey it, and come back to me, that I may cast lots for you h ere before the LORD in Shiloh."

nkjv@Joshua:18:10 @ Then Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD, and th ere Joshua divided the land to the children of Israel according to their divisions.

nkjv@Joshua:18:11 @ Now the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families, and the t erritory of their lot came out between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.

nkjv@Joshua:18:12 @ Their bord er on the north side began at the Jordan, and the bord er went up to the side of J ericho on the north, and went up through the mountains westward; it ended at the Wild erness of Beth Aven.

nkjv@Joshua:18:13 @ The bord er went ov er from th ere toward Luz, to the side of Luz (which is Bethel) southward; and the bord er descended to Ataroth Addar, near the hill that lies on the south side of Low er Beth Horon.

nkjv@Joshua:18:14 @ Then the bord er extended around the west side to the south, from the hill that lies before Beth Horon southward; and it ended at Kirjath Baal (which is Kirjath Jearim), a city of the children of Judah. This was the west side.

nkjv@Joshua:18:15 @ The south side began at the end of Kirjath Jearim, and the bord er extended on the west and went out to the spring of the wat ers of Nephtoah.

nkjv@Joshua:18:16 @ Then the bord er came down to the end of the mountain that lies before the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, which is in the Valley of the Rephaim on the north, descended to the Valley of Hinnom, to the side of the Jebusite city on the south, and descended to En Rogel.

nkjv@Joshua:18:19 @ And the bord er passed along to the north side of Beth Hoglah; then the bord er ended at the north bay at the Salt Sea, at the south end of the Jordan. This was the south ern boundary.

nkjv@Joshua:18:20 @ The Jordan was its bord er on the east side. This was the inh eritance of the children of Benjamin, according to its boundaries all around, according to their families.

nkjv@Joshua:18:21 @ Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, according to their families, w ere J ericho, Beth Hoglah, Emek Keziz,

nkjv@Joshua:18:25 @ Gibeon, Ramah, Be eroth,

nkjv@Joshua:18:28 @ Zelah, Eleph, Jebus (which is J erusalem), Gibeath, and Kirjath: fourteen cities with their villages. This was the inh eritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.

nkjv@Joshua:19:1 @ The second lot came out for Simeon, for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families. And their inh eritance was within the inh eritance of the children of Judah.

nkjv@Joshua:19:2 @ They had in their inh eritance Be ersheba (Sheba), Moladah,

nkjv@Joshua:19:7 @ Ain, Rimmon, Eth er, and Ashan: four cities and their villages;

nkjv@Joshua:19:8 @ and all the villages that w ere all around these cities as far as Baalath Be er, Ramah of the South. This was the inh eritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families.

nkjv@Joshua:19:9 @ The inh eritance of the children of Simeon was included in the share of the children of Judah, for the share of the children of Judah was too much for them. Th erefore the children of Simeon had their inh eritance within the inh eritance of that people.

nkjv@Joshua:19:10 @ The third lot came out for the children of Zebulun according to their families, and the bord er of their inh eritance was as far as Sarid.

nkjv@Joshua:19:11 @ Their bord er went toward the west and to Maralah, went to Dabbasheth, and extended along the brook that is east of Jokneam.

nkjv@Joshua:19:12 @ Then from Sarid it went eastward toward the sunrise along the bord er of Chisloth Tabor, and went out toward Dab erath, bypassing Japhia.

nkjv@Joshua:19:13 @ And from th ere it passed along on the east of Gath Heph er, toward Eth Kazin, and extended to Rimmon, which bord ers on Neah.

nkjv@Joshua:19:14 @ Then the bord er went around it on the north side of Hannathon, and it ended in the Valley of Jiphthah El.

nkjv@Joshua:19:15 @ Included w ere Kattath, Nahallal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.

nkjv@Joshua:19:16 @ This was the inh eritance of the children of Zebulun according to their families, these cities with their villages.

nkjv@Joshua:19:18 @ And their t erritory went to Jezreel, and included Chesulloth, Shunem,

nkjv@Joshua:19:22 @ And the bord er reached to Tabor, Shahazimah, and Beth Shemesh; their bord er ended at the Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages.

nkjv@Joshua:19:23 @ This was the inh eritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families, the cities and their villages.

nkjv@Joshua:19:24 @ The fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Ash er according to their families.

nkjv@Joshua:19:25 @ And their t erritory included Helkath, Hali, Beten, Achshaph,

nkjv@Joshua:19:28 @ including Ebron, Rehob, Hammon, and Kanah, as far as Great er Sidon.

nkjv@Joshua:19:29 @ And the bord er turned to Ramah and to the fortified city of Tyre; then the bord er turned to Hosah, and ended at the sea by the region of Achzib.

nkjv@Joshua:19:30 @ Also Ummah, Aphek, and Rehob w ere included: twenty-two cities with their villages.

nkjv@Joshua:19:31 @ This was the inh eritance of the tribe of the children of Ash er according to their families, these cities with their villages.

nkjv@Joshua:19:33 @ And their bord er began at Heleph, enclosing the t erritory from the t erebinth tree in Zaanannim, Adami Nekeb, and Jabneel, as far as Lakkum; it ended at the Jordan.

nkjv@Joshua:19:34 @ From Heleph the bord er extended westward to Aznoth Tabor, and went out from th ere toward Hukkok; it adjoined Zebulun on the south side and Ash er on the west side, and ended at Judah by the Jordan toward the sunrise.

nkjv@Joshua:19:35 @ And the fortified cities are Ziddim, Z er, Hammath, Rakkath, Chinn ereth,

nkjv@Joshua:19:39 @ This was the inh eritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families, the cities and their villages.

nkjv@Joshua:19:41 @ And the t erritory of their inh eritance was Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir Shemesh,

nkjv@Joshua:19:45 @ Jehud, Bene B erak, Gath Rimmon,

nkjv@Joshua:19:47 @ And the bord er of the children of Dan went beyond these, because the children of Dan went up to fight against Leshem and took it; and they struck it with the edge of the sword, took possession of it, and dwelt in it. They called Leshem, Dan, aft er the name of Dan their fath er.

nkjv@Joshua:19:48 @ This is the inh eritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages.

nkjv@Joshua:19:49 @ When they had made an end of dividing the land as an inh eritance according to their bord ers, the children of Israel gave an inh eritance among them to Joshua the son of Nun.

nkjv@Joshua:19:50 @ According to the word of the LORD they gave him the city which he asked for, Timnath S erah in the mountains of Ephraim; and he built the city and dwelt in it.

nkjv@Joshua:19:51 @ These w ere the inh eritances which Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fath ers of the tribes of the children of Israel divided as an inh eritance by lot in Shiloh before the LORD, at the door of the tab ernacle of meeting. So they made an end of dividing the country.

nkjv@Joshua:20:3 @ that the slay er who kills a p erson accidentally or unintentionally may flee th ere; and they shall be your refuge from the aveng er of blood.

nkjv@Joshua:20:4 @ And when he flees to one of those cities, and stands at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declares his case in the hearing of the eld ers of that city, they shall take him into the city as one of them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.

nkjv@Joshua:20:5 @ Then if the aveng er of blood pursues him, they shall not deliv er the slay er into his hand, because he struck his neighbor unintentionally, but did not hate him beforehand.

nkjv@Joshua:20:6 @ And he shall dwell in that city until he stands before the congregation for judgment, and until the death of the one who is high priest in those days. Then the slay er may return and come to his own city and his own house, to the city from which he fled."'

nkjv@Joshua:20:8 @ And on the oth er side of the Jordan, by J ericho eastward, they assigned Bez er in the wild erness on the plain, from the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead, from the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan, from the tribe of Manasseh.

nkjv@Joshua:20:9 @ These w ere the cities appointed for all the children of Israel and for the strang er who dwelt among them, that whoev er killed a p erson accidentally might flee th ere, and not die by the hand of the aveng er of blood until he stood before the congregation.

nkjv@Joshua:21:1 @ Then the heads of the fath ers' houses of the Levites came near to Eleazar the priest, to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fath ers' houses of the tribes of the children of Israel.

nkjv@Joshua:21:3 @ So the children of Israel gave to the Levites from their inh eritance, at the commandment of the LORD, these cities and their common-lands:

nkjv@Joshua:21:4 @ Now the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites. And the children of Aaron the priest, who w ere of the Levites, had thirteen cities by lot from the tribe of Judah, from the tribe of Simeon, and from the tribe of Benjamin.

nkjv@Joshua:21:6 @ And the children of G ershon had thirteen cities by lot from the families of the tribe of Issachar, from the tribe of Ash er, from the tribe of Naphtali, and from the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.

nkjv@Joshua:21:7 @ The children of M erari according to their families had twelve cities from the tribe of Reuben, from the tribe of Gad, and from the tribe of Zebulun.

nkjv@Joshua:21:10 @ which w ere for the children of Aaron, one of the families of the Kohathites, who w ere of the children of Levi; for the lot was theirs first.

nkjv@Joshua:21:11 @ And they gave them Kirjath Arba (Arba was the fath er of Anak), which is Hebron, in the mountains of Judah, with the common-land surrounding it.

nkjv@Joshua:21:13 @ Thus to the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with its common-land (a city of refuge for the slay er), Libnah with its common-land,

nkjv@Joshua:21:19 @ All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, w ere thirteen cities with their common-lands.

nkjv@Joshua:21:21 @ For they gave them Shechem with its common-land in the mountains of Ephraim (a city of refuge for the slay er), Gez er with its common-land,

nkjv@Joshua:21:26 @ All the ten cities with their common-lands w ere for the rest of the families of the children of Kohath.

nkjv@Joshua:21:27 @ Also to the children of G ershon, of the families of the Levites, from the oth er half-tribe of Manasseh, they gave Golan in Bashan with its common-land (a city of refuge for the slay er), and Be Esht erah with its common-land: two cities;

nkjv@Joshua:21:28 @ and from the tribe of Issachar, Kishion with its common-land, Dab erath with its common-land,

nkjv@Joshua:21:30 @ and from the tribe of Ash er, Mishal with its common-land, Abdon with its common-land,

nkjv@Joshua:21:32 @ and from the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its common-land (a city of refuge for the slay er), Hammoth Dor with its common-land, and Kartan with its common-land: three cities.

nkjv@Joshua:21:33 @ All the cities of the G ershonites according to their families w ere thirteen cities with their common-lands.

nkjv@Joshua:21:34 @ And to the families of the children of M erari, the rest of the Levites, from the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with its common-land, Kartah with its common-land,

nkjv@Joshua:21:36 @ and from the tribe of Reuben, Bez er with its common-land, Jahaz with its common-land,

nkjv@Joshua:21:38 @ and from the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its common-land (a city of refuge for the slay er), Mahanaim with its common-land,

nkjv@Joshua:21:39 @ Heshbon with its common-land, and Jaz er with its common-land: four cities in all.

nkjv@Joshua:21:40 @ So all the cities for the children of M erari according to their families, the rest of the families of the Levites, w ere by their lot twelve cities.

nkjv@Joshua:21:41 @ All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel w ere forty-eight cities with their common-lands.

nkjv@Joshua:21:42 @ Ev ery one of these cities had its common-land surrounding it; thus w ere all these cities.

nkjv@Joshua:21:43 @ So the LORD gave to Israel all the land of which He had sworn to give to their fath ers, and they took possession of it and dwelt in it.

nkjv@Joshua:21:44 @ The LORD gave them rest all around, according to all that He had sworn to their fath ers. And not a man of all their enemies stood against them; the LORD deliv ered all their enemies into their hand.

nkjv@Joshua:22:2 @ and said to them: "You have kept all that Moses the s ervant of the LORD commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you.

nkjv@Joshua:22:4 @ And now the LORD your God has given rest to your brethren, as He promised them; now th erefore, return and go to your tents and to the land of your possession, which Moses the s ervant of the LORD gave you on the oth er side of the Jordan.

nkjv@Joshua:22:5 @ But take careful heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the s ervant of the LORD commanded you, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, to keep His commandments, to hold fast to Him, and to s erve Him with all your heart and with all your soul."

nkjv@Joshua:22:7 @ Now to half the tribe of Manasseh Moses had given a possession in Bashan, but to the oth er half of it Joshua gave a possession among their brethren on this side of the Jordan, westward. And indeed, when Joshua sent them away to their tents, he blessed them,

nkjv@Joshua:22:8 @ and spoke to them, saying, "Return with much riches to your tents, with v ery much livestock, with silv er, with gold, with bronze, with iron, and with v ery much clothing. Divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren."

nkjv@Joshua:22:10 @ And when they came to the region of the Jordan which is in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben, the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh built an altar th ere by the Jordan--a great, impressive altar.

nkjv@Joshua:22:11 @ Now the children of Israel heard someone say, "Behold, the children of Reuben, the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh have built an altar on the fronti er of the land of Canaan, in the region of the Jordan--on the children of Israel's side."

nkjv@Joshua:22:12 @ And when the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gath ered togeth er at Shiloh to go to war against them.

nkjv@Joshua:22:14 @ and with him ten rul ers, one rul er each from the chief house of ev ery tribe of Israel; and each one was the head of the house of his fath er among the divisions of Israel.

nkjv@Joshua:22:16 @ "Thus says the whole congregation of the LORD: "What treach ery is this that you have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following the LORD, in that you have built for yourselves an altar, that you might rebel this day against the LORD?

nkjv@Joshua:22:17 @ Is the iniquity of Peor not enough for us, from which we are not cleansed till this day, although th ere was a plague in the congregation of the LORD,

nkjv@Joshua:22:19 @ Nev ertheless, if the land of your possession is unclean, then cross ov er to the land of the possession of the LORD, wh ere the LORD's tab ernacle stands, and take possession among us; but do not rebel against the LORD, nor rebel against us, by building yourselves an altar besides the altar of the LORD our God.

nkjv@Joshua:22:20 @ Did not Achan the son of Z erah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? And that man did not p erish alone in his iniquity."'

nkjv@Joshua:22:21 @ Then the children of Reuben, the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh answ ered and said to the heads of the divisions of Israel:

nkjv@Joshua:22:22 @ "The LORD God of gods, the LORD God of gods, He knows, and let Israel itself know--if it is in rebellion, or if in treach ery against the LORD, do not save us this day.

nkjv@Joshua:22:23 @ If we have built ourselves an altar to turn from following the LORD, or if to off er on it burnt off erings or grain off erings, or if to off er peace off erings on it, let the LORD Himself require an account.

nkjv@Joshua:22:25 @ For the LORD has made the Jordan a bord er between you and us, you children of Reuben and children of Gad. You have no part in the LORD." So your descendants would make our descendants cease fearing the LORD.'

nkjv@Joshua:22:26 @ Th erefore we said, "Let us now prepare to build ourselves an altar, not for burnt off ering nor for sacrifice,

nkjv@Joshua:22:27 @ but that it may be a witness between you and us and our gen erations aft er us, that we may p erform the s ervice of the LORD before Him with our burnt off erings, with our sacrifices, and with our peace off erings; that your descendants may not say to our descendants in time to come, "You have no part in the LORD."'

nkjv@Joshua:22:28 @ Th erefore we said that it will be, when they say this to us or to our gen erations in time to come, that we may say, "H ere is the replica of the altar of the LORD which our fath ers made, though not for burnt off erings nor for sacrifices; but it is a witness between you and us.'

nkjv@Joshua:22:29 @ Far be it from us that we should rebel against the LORD, and turn from following the LORD this day, to build an altar for burnt off erings, for grain off erings, or for sacrifices, besides the altar of the LORD our God which is before His tab ernacle."

nkjv@Joshua:22:30 @ Now when Phinehas the priest and the rul ers of the congregation, the heads of the divisions of Israel who w ere with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben, the children of Gad, and the children of Manasseh spoke, it pleased them.

nkjv@Joshua:22:31 @ Then Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said to the children of Reuben, the children of Gad, and the children of Manasseh, "This day we p erceive that the LORD is among us, because you have not committed this treach ery against the LORD. Now you have deliv ered the children of Israel out of the hand of the LORD."

nkjv@Joshua:22:32 @ And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the rul ers, returned from the children of Reuben and the children of Gad, from the land of Gilead to the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought back word to them.

nkjv@Joshua:22:33 @ So the thing pleased the children of Israel, and the children of Israel blessed God; they spoke no more of going against them in battle, to destroy the land wh ere the children of Reuben and Gad dwelt.

nkjv@Joshua:23:1 @ Now it came to pass, a long time aft er the LORD had given rest to Israel from all their enemies round about, that Joshua was old, advanced in age.

nkjv@Joshua:23:2 @ And Joshua called for all Israel, for their eld ers, for their heads, for their judges, and for their offic ers, and said to them: "I am old, advanced in age.

nkjv@Joshua:23:4 @ See, I have divided to you by lot these nations that remain, to be an inh eritance for your tribes, from the Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, as far as the Great Sea westward.

nkjv@Joshua:23:6 @ Th erefore be v ery courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, lest you turn aside from it to the right hand or to the left,

nkjv@Joshua:23:7 @ and lest you go among these nations, these who remain among you. You shall not make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause anyone to swear by them; you shall not s erve them nor bow down to them,

nkjv@Joshua:23:11 @ Th erefore take careful heed to yourselves, that you love the LORD your God.

nkjv@Joshua:23:13 @ know for c ertain that the LORD your God will no long er drive out these nations from before you. But they shall be snares and traps to you, and scourges on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you p erish from this good land which the LORD your God has given you.

nkjv@Joshua:23:14 @ "Behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth. And you know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one thing has failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spoke conc erning you. All have come to pass for you; not one word of them has failed.

nkjv@Joshua:23:15 @ Th erefore it shall come to pass, that as all the good things have come upon you which the LORD your God promised you, so the LORD will bring upon you all harmful things, until He has destroyed you from this good land which the LORD your God has given you.

nkjv@Joshua:23:16 @ When you have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, and have gone and s erved oth er gods, and bowed down to them, then the ang er of the LORD will burn against you, and you shall p erish quickly from the good land which He has given you."

nkjv@Joshua:24:1 @ Then Joshua gath ered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem and called for the eld ers of Israel, for their heads, for their judges, and for their offic ers; and they presented themselves before God.

nkjv@Joshua:24:2 @ And Joshua said to all the people, "Thus says the LORD God of Israel: "Your fath ers, including T erah, the fath er of Abraham and the fath er of Nahor, dwelt on the oth er side of the Riv er in old times; and they s erved oth er gods.

nkjv@Joshua:24:3 @ Then I took your fath er Abraham from the oth er side of the Riv er, led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his descendants and gave him Isaac.

nkjv@Joshua:24:5 @ Also I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to what I did among them. Aft erward I brought you out.

nkjv@Joshua:24:6 @ "Then I brought your fath ers out of Egypt, and you came to the sea; and the Egyptians pursued your fath ers with chariots and horsemen to the Red Sea.

nkjv@Joshua:24:7 @ So they cried out to the LORD; and He put darkness between you and the Egyptians, brought the sea upon them, and cov ered them. And your eyes saw what I did in Egypt. Then you dwelt in the wild erness a long time.

nkjv@Joshua:24:8 @ And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, who dwelt on the oth er side of the Jordan, and they fought with you. But I gave them into your hand, that you might possess their land, and I destroyed them from before you.

nkjv@Joshua:24:10 @ But I would not listen to Balaam; th erefore he continued to bless you. So I deliv ered you out of his hand.

nkjv@Joshua:24:11 @ Then you went ov er the Jordan and came to J ericho. And the men of J ericho fought against you--also the Amorites, the P erizzites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. But I deliv ered them into your hand.

nkjv@Joshua:24:14 @ "Now th erefore, fear the LORD, s erve Him in sinc erity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fath ers s erved on the oth er side of the Riv er and in Egypt. S erve the LORD!

nkjv@Joshua:24:15 @ And if it seems evil to you to s erve the LORD, choose for yourselves this day whom you will s erve, wheth er the gods which your fath ers s erved that w ere on the oth er side of the Riv er, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will s erve the LORD."

nkjv@Joshua:24:16 @ So the people answ ered and said: "Far be it from us that we should forsake the LORD to s erve oth er gods;

nkjv@Joshua:24:17 @ for the LORD our God is He who brought us and our fath ers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, who did those great signs in our sight, and pres erved us in all the way that we went and among all the people through whom we passed.

nkjv@Joshua:24:18 @ And the LORD drove out from before us all the people, including the Amorites who dwelt in the land. We also will s erve the LORD, for He is our God."

nkjv@Joshua:24:19 @ But Joshua said to the people, "You cannot s erve the LORD, for He is a holy God. He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.

nkjv@Joshua:24:20 @ If you forsake the LORD and s erve foreign gods, then He will turn and do you harm and consume you, aft er He has done you good."

nkjv@Joshua:24:21 @ And the people said to Joshua, "No, but we will s erve the LORD!"

nkjv@Joshua:24:22 @ So Joshua said to the people, "You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the LORD for yourselves, to s erve Him." And they said, "We are witnesses!"

nkjv@Joshua:24:23 @ "Now th erefore," he said, "put away the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to the LORD God of Israel."

nkjv@Joshua:24:24 @ And the people said to Joshua, "The LORD our God we will s erve, and His voice we will obey!"

nkjv@Joshua:24:26 @ Then Joshua wrote these words in the Book of the Law of God. And he took a large stone, and set it up th ere und er the oak that was by the sanctuary of the LORD.

nkjv@Joshua:24:27 @ And Joshua said to all the people, "Behold, this stone shall be a witness to us, for it has heard all the words of the LORD which He spoke to us. It shall th erefore be a witness to you, lest you deny your God."

nkjv@Joshua:24:28 @ So Joshua let the people depart, each to his own inh eritance.

nkjv@Joshua:24:29 @ Now it came to pass aft er these things that Joshua the son of Nun, the s ervant of the LORD, died, being one hundred and ten years old.

nkjv@Joshua:24:30 @ And they buried him within the bord er of his inh eritance at Timnath S erah, which is in the mountains of Ephraim, on the north side of Mount Gaash.

nkjv@Joshua:24:31 @ Israel s erved the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the eld ers who outlived Joshua, who had known all the works of the LORD which He had done for Israel.

nkjv@Joshua:24:32 @ The bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel had brought up out of Egypt, they buried at Shechem, in the plot of ground which Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor the fath er of Shechem for one hundred pieces of silv er, and which had become an inh eritance of the children of Joseph.

nkjv@Judges:1:1 @ Now aft er the death of Joshua it came to pass that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, "Who shall be first to go up for us against the Canaanites to fight against them?"

nkjv@Judges:1:2 @ And the LORD said, "Judah shall go up. Indeed I have deliv ered the land into his hand."

nkjv@Judges:1:3 @ So Judah said to Simeon his broth er, "Come up with me to my allotted t erritory, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I will likewise go with you to your allotted t erritory." And Simeon went with him.

nkjv@Judges:1:4 @ Then Judah went up, and the LORD deliv ered the Canaanites and the P erizzites into their hand; and they killed ten thousand men at Bezek.

nkjv@Judges:1:5 @ And they found Adoni-Bezek in Bezek, and fought against him; and they defeated the Canaanites and the P erizzites.

nkjv@Judges:1:7 @ And Adoni-Bezek said, "Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off used to gath er scraps und er my table; as I have done, so God has repaid me." Then they brought him to J erusalem, and th ere he died.

nkjv@Judges:1:8 @ Now the children of Judah fought against J erusalem and took it; they struck it with the edge of the sword and set the city on fire.

nkjv@Judges:1:9 @ And aft erward the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who dwelt in the mountains, in the South, and in the lowland.

nkjv@Judges:1:10 @ Then Judah went against the Canaanites who dwelt in Hebron. (Now the name of Hebron was form erly Kirjath Arba.) And they killed Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.

nkjv@Judges:1:11 @ From th ere they went against the inhabitants of Debir. (The name of Debir was form erly Kirjath Seph er.)

nkjv@Judges:1:12 @ Then Caleb said, "Whoev er attacks Kirjath Seph er and takes it, to him I will give my daught er Achsah as wife."

nkjv@Judges:1:13 @ And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's young er broth er, took it; so he gave him his daught er Achsah as wife.

nkjv@Judges:1:14 @ Now it happened, when she came to him, that she urged him to ask h er fath er for a field. And she dismounted from h er donkey, and Caleb said to h er, "What do you wish?"

nkjv@Judges:1:15 @ So she said to him, "Give me a blessing; since you have given me land in the South, give me also springs of wat er." And Caleb gave h er the upp er springs and the low er springs.

nkjv@Judges:1:16 @ Now the children of the Kenite, Moses' fath er-in-law, went up from the City of Palms with the children of Judah into the Wild erness of Judah, which lies in the South near Arad; and they went and dwelt among the people.

nkjv@Judges:1:17 @ And Judah went with his broth er Simeon, and they attacked the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath, and utt erly destroyed it. So the name of the city was called Hormah.

nkjv@Judges:1:18 @ Also Judah took Gaza with its t erritory, Ashkelon with its t erritory, and Ekron with its t erritory.

nkjv@Judges:1:19 @ So the LORD was with Judah. And they drove out the mountaine ers, but they could not drive out the inhabitants of the lowland, because they had chariots of iron.

nkjv@Judges:1:20 @ And they gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had said. Then he expelled from th ere the three sons of Anak.

nkjv@Judges:1:21 @ But the children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who inhabited J erusalem; so the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in J erusalem to this day.

nkjv@Judges:1:23 @ So the house of Joseph sent men to spy out Bethel. (The name of the city was form erly Luz.)

nkjv@Judges:1:24 @ And when the spies saw a man coming out of the city, they said to him, "Please show us the entrance to the city, and we will show you m ercy."

nkjv@Judges:1:27 @ Howev er, Manasseh did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth Shean and its villages, or Taanach and its villages, or the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, or the inhabitants of Ibleam and its villages, or the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages; for the Canaanites w ere det ermined to dwell in that land.

nkjv@Judges:1:28 @ And it came to pass, when Israel was strong, that they put the Canaanites und er tribute, but did not completely drive them out.

nkjv@Judges:1:29 @ Nor did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites who dwelt in Gez er; so the Canaanites dwelt in Gez er among them.

nkjv@Judges:1:30 @ Nor did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron or the inhabitants of Nahalol; so the Canaanites dwelt among them, and w ere put und er tribute.

nkjv@Judges:1:31 @ Nor did Ash er drive out the inhabitants of Acco or the inhabitants of Sidon, or of Ahlab, Achzib, Helbah, Aphik, or Rehob.

nkjv@Judges:1:32 @ So the Ash erites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; for they did not drive them out.

nkjv@Judges:1:33 @ Nor did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh or the inhabitants of Beth Anath; but they dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land. Nev ertheless the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh and Beth Anath w ere put und er tribute to them.

nkjv@Judges:1:35 @ and the Amorites w ere det ermined to dwell in Mount H eres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim; yet when the strength of the house of Joseph became great er, they w ere put und er tribute.

nkjv@Judges:2:1 @ Then the Angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said: "I led you up from Egypt and brought you to the land of which I swore to your fath ers; and I said, "I will nev er break My covenant with you.

nkjv@Judges:2:3 @ Th erefore I also said, "I will not drive them out before you; but they shall be thorns in your side, and their gods shall be a snare to you."'

nkjv@Judges:2:5 @ Then they called the name of that place Bochim; and they sacrificed th ere to the LORD.

nkjv@Judges:2:6 @ And when Joshua had dismissed the people, the children of Israel went each to his own inh eritance to possess the land.

nkjv@Judges:2:7 @ So the people s erved the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the eld ers who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the LORD which He had done for Israel.

nkjv@Judges:2:8 @ Now Joshua the son of Nun, the s ervant of the LORD, died when he was one hundred and ten years old.

nkjv@Judges:2:9 @ And they buried him within the bord er of his inh eritance at Timnath H eres, in the mountains of Ephraim, on the north side of Mount Gaash.

nkjv@Judges:2:10 @ When all that gen eration had been gath ered to their fath ers, anoth er gen eration arose aft er them who did not know the LORD nor the work which He had done for Israel.

nkjv@Judges:2:11 @ Then the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and s erved the Baals;

nkjv@Judges:2:12 @ and they forsook the LORD God of their fath ers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt; and they followed oth er gods from among the gods of the people who w ere all around them, and they bowed down to them; and they provoked the LORD to ang er.

nkjv@Judges:2:13 @ They forsook the LORD and s erved Baal and the Ashtoreths.

nkjv@Judges:2:14 @ And the ang er of the LORD was hot against Israel. So He deliv ered them into the hands of plund er ers who despoiled them; and He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they could no long er stand before their enemies.

nkjv@Judges:2:15 @ Wh erev er they went out, the hand of the LORD was against them for calamity, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworn to them. And they w ere greatly distressed.

nkjv@Judges:2:16 @ Nev ertheless, the LORD raised up judges who deliv ered them out of the hand of those who plund ered them.

nkjv@Judges:2:17 @ Yet they would not listen to their judges, but they played the harlot with oth er gods, and bowed down to them. They turned quickly from the way in which their fath ers walked, in obeying the commandments of the LORD; they did not do so.

nkjv@Judges:2:18 @ And when the LORD raised up judges for them, the LORD was with the judge and deliv ered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who oppressed them and harassed them.

nkjv@Judges:2:19 @ And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they rev erted and behaved more corruptly than their fath ers, by following oth er gods, to s erve them and bow down to them. They did not cease from their own doings nor from their stubborn way.

nkjv@Judges:2:20 @ Then the ang er of the LORD was hot against Israel; and He said, "Because this nation has transgressed My covenant which I commanded their fath ers, and has not heeded My voice,

nkjv@Judges:2:21 @ I also will no long er drive out before them any of the nations which Joshua left when he died,

nkjv@Judges:2:22 @ so that through them I may test Israel, wheth er they will keep the ways of the LORD, to walk in them as their fath ers kept them, or not."

nkjv@Judges:2:23 @ Th erefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them out immediately; nor did He deliv er them into the hand of Joshua.

nkjv@Judges:3:2 @ (this was only so that the gen erations of the children of Israel might be taught to know war, at least those who had not form erly known it),

nkjv@Judges:3:3 @ namely, five lords of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who dwelt in Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal H ermon to the entrance of Hamath.

nkjv@Judges:3:4 @ And they w ere left, that He might test Israel by them, to know wheth er they would obey the commandments of the LORD, which He had commanded their fath ers by the hand of Moses.

nkjv@Judges:3:5 @ Thus the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the P erizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

nkjv@Judges:3:6 @ And they took their daught ers to be their wives, and gave their daught ers to their sons; and they s erved their gods.

nkjv@Judges:3:7 @ So the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD. They forgot the LORD their God, and s erved the Baals and Ash erahs.

nkjv@Judges:3:8 @ Th erefore the ang er of the LORD was hot against Israel, and He sold them into the hand of Cushan-Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia; and the children of Israel s erved Cushan-Rishathaim eight years.

nkjv@Judges:3:9 @ When the children of Israel cried out to the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliv er er for the children of Israel, who deliv ered them: Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's young er broth er.

nkjv@Judges:3:10 @ The Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he judged Israel. He went out to war, and the LORD deliv ered Cushan-Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his hand prevailed ov er Cushan-Rishathaim.

nkjv@Judges:3:13 @ Then he gath ered to himself the people of Ammon and Amalek, went and defeated Israel, and took possession of the City of Palms.

nkjv@Judges:3:14 @ So the children of Israel s erved Eglon king of Moab eighteen years.

nkjv@Judges:3:15 @ But when the children of Israel cried out to the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliv er er for them: Ehud the son of G era, the Benjamite, a left-handed man. By him the children of Israel sent tribute to Eglon king of Moab.

nkjv@Judges:3:16 @ Now Ehud made himself a dagg er (it was double-edged and a cubit in length) and fastened it und er his clothes on his right thigh.

nkjv@Judges:3:17 @ So he brought the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. (Now Eglon was a v ery fat man.)

nkjv@Judges:3:19 @ But he himself turned back from the stone images that w ere at Gilgal, and said, "I have a secret message for you, O king." He said, "Keep silence!" And all who attended him went out from him.

nkjv@Judges:3:20 @ So Ehud came to him (now he was sitting upstairs in his cool private chamb er). Then Ehud said, "I have a message from God for you." So he arose from his seat.

nkjv@Judges:3:21 @ Then Ehud reached with his left hand, took the dagg er from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly.

nkjv@Judges:3:22 @ Even the hilt went in aft er the blade, and the fat closed ov er the blade, for he did not draw the dagg er out of his belly; and his entrails came out.

nkjv@Judges:3:23 @ Then Ehud went out through the porch and shut the doors of the upp er room behind him and locked them.

nkjv@Judges:3:24 @ When he had gone out, Eglon's s ervants came to look, and to their surprise, the doors of the upp er room w ere locked. So they said, "He is probably attending to his needs in the cool chamb er."

nkjv@Judges:3:25 @ So they waited till they w ere embarrassed, and still he had not opened the doors of the upp er room. Th erefore they took the key and opened them. And th ere was their mast er, fallen dead on the floor.

nkjv@Judges:3:28 @ Then he said to them, "Follow me, for the LORD has deliv ered your enemies the Moabites into your hand." So they went down aft er him, seized the fords of the Jordan leading to Moab, and did not allow anyone to cross ov er.

nkjv@Judges:3:30 @ So Moab was subdued that day und er the hand of Israel. And the land had rest for eighty years.

nkjv@Judges:3:31 @ Aft er him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who killed six hundred men of the Philistines with an ox goad; and he also deliv ered Israel.

nkjv@Judges:4:2 @ So the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The command er of his army was Sis era, who dwelt in Harosheth Hagoyim.

nkjv@Judges:4:5 @ And she would sit und er the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the mountains of Ephraim. And the children of Israel came up to h er for judgment.

nkjv@Judges:4:7 @ and against you I will deploy Sis era, the command er of Jabin's army, with his chariots and his multitude at the Riv er Kishon; and I will deliv er him into your hand'?"

nkjv@Judges:4:8 @ And Barak said to h er, "If you will go with me, then I will go; but if you will not go with me, I will not go!"

nkjv@Judges:4:9 @ So she said, "I will surely go with you; nev ertheless th ere will be no glory for you in the journey you are taking, for the LORD will sell Sis era into the hand of a woman." Then Deborah arose and went with Barak to Kedesh.

nkjv@Judges:4:10 @ And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; he went up with ten thousand men und er his command, and Deborah went up with him.

nkjv@Judges:4:11 @ Now Heb er the Kenite, of the children of Hobab the fath er-in-law of Moses, had separated himself from the Kenites and pitched his tent near the t erebinth tree at Zaanaim, which is beside Kedesh.

nkjv@Judges:4:12 @ And they reported to Sis era that Barak the son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor.

nkjv@Judges:4:13 @ So Sis era gath ered togeth er all his chariots, nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people who w ere with him, from Harosheth Hagoyim to the Riv er Kishon.

nkjv@Judges:4:14 @ Then Deborah said to Barak, "Up! For this is the day in which the LORD has deliv ered Sis era into your hand. Has not the LORD gone out before you?" So Barak went down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him.

nkjv@Judges:4:15 @ And the LORD routed Sis era and all his chariots and all his army with the edge of the sword before Barak; and Sis era alighted from his chariot and fled away on foot.

nkjv@Judges:4:16 @ But Barak pursued the chariots and the army as far as Harosheth Hagoyim, and all the army of Sis era fell by the edge of the sword; not a man was left.

nkjv@Judges:4:17 @ Howev er, Sis era had fled away on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heb er the Kenite; for th ere was peace between Jabin king of Hazor and the house of Heb er the Kenite.

nkjv@Judges:4:18 @ And Jael went out to meet Sis era, and said to him, "Turn aside, my lord, turn aside to me; do not fear." And when he had turned aside with h er into the tent, she cov ered him with a blanket.

nkjv@Judges:4:19 @ Then he said to h er, "Please give me a little wat er to drink, for I am thirsty." So she opened a jug of milk, gave him a drink, and cov ered him.

nkjv@Judges:4:20 @ And he said to h er, "Stand at the door of the tent, and if any man comes and inquires of you, and says, "Is th ere any man h ere?' you shall say, "No."'

nkjv@Judges:4:21 @ Then Jael, Heb er's wife, took a tent peg and took a hamm er in h er hand, and went softly to him and drove the peg into his temple, and it went down into the ground; for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.

nkjv@Judges:4:22 @ And then, as Barak pursued Sis era, Jael came out to meet him, and said to him, "Come, I will show you the man whom you seek." And when he went into h er tent, th ere lay Sis era, dead with the peg in his temple.

nkjv@Judges:4:24 @ And the hand of the children of Israel grew strong er and strong er against Jabin king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.

nkjv@Judges:5:2 @ "When lead ers lead in Israel, When the people willingly off er themselves, Bless the LORD!

nkjv@Judges:5:4 @ "LORD, when You went out from Seir, When You marched from the field of Edom, The earth trembled and the heavens poured, The clouds also poured wat er;

nkjv@Judges:5:6 @ "In the days of Shamgar, son of Anath, In the days of Jael, The highways w ere des erted, And the travel ers walked along the byways.

nkjv@Judges:5:7 @ Village life ceased, it ceased in Israel, Until I, Deborah, arose, Arose a moth er in Israel.

nkjv@Judges:5:8 @ They chose new gods; Then th ere was war in the gates; Not a shield or spear was seen among forty thousand in Israel.

nkjv@Judges:5:9 @ My heart is with the rul ers of Israel Who off ered themselves willingly with the people. Bless the LORD!

nkjv@Judges:5:11 @ Far from the noise of the arch ers, among the wat ering places, Th ere they shall recount the righteous acts of the LORD, The righteous acts for His villag ers in Israel; Then the people of the LORD shall go down to the gates.

nkjv@Judges:5:14 @ From Ephraim w ere those whose roots w ere in Amalek. Aft er you, Benjamin, with your peoples, From Machir rul ers came down, And from Zebulun those who bear the recruit er's staff.

nkjv@Judges:5:15 @ And the princes of Issachar w ere with Deborah; As Issachar, so was Barak Sent into the valley und er his command; Among the divisions of Reuben Th ere w ere great resolves of heart.

nkjv@Judges:5:17 @ Gilead stayed beyond the Jordan, And why did Dan remain on ships? Ash er continued at the seashore, And stayed by his inlets.

nkjv@Judges:5:19 @ "The kings came and fought, Then the kings of Canaan fought In Taanach, by the wat ers of Megiddo; They took no spoils of silv er.

nkjv@Judges:5:20 @ They fought from the heavens; The stars from their courses fought against Sis era.

nkjv@Judges:5:23 @ "Curse M eroz,' said the angel of the LORD, "Curse its inhabitants bitt erly, Because they did not come to the help of the LORD, To the help of the LORD against the mighty.'

nkjv@Judges:5:24 @ "Most blessed among women is Jael, The wife of Heb er the Kenite; Blessed is she among women in tents.

nkjv@Judges:5:25 @ He asked for wat er, she gave milk; She brought out cream in a lordly bowl.

nkjv@Judges:5:26 @ She stretched h er hand to the tent peg, H er right hand to the workmen's hamm er; She pounded Sis era, she pi erced his head, She split and struck through his temple.

nkjv@Judges:5:27 @ At h er feet he sank, he fell, he lay still; At h er feet he sank, he fell; Wh ere he sank, th ere he fell dead.

nkjv@Judges:5:28 @ "The moth er of Sis era looked through the window, And cried out through the lattice, "Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why tarries the clatt er of his chariots?'

nkjv@Judges:5:29 @ H er wisest ladies answ ered h er, Yes, she answ ered h erself,

nkjv@Judges:5:30 @ "Are they not finding and dividing the spoil: To ev ery man a girl or two; For Sis era, plund er of dyed garments, Plund er of garments embroid ered and dyed, Two pieces of dyed embroid ery for the neck of the loot er?'

nkjv@Judges:5:31 @ "Thus let all Your enemies p erish, O LORD! But let those who love Him be like the sun When it comes out in full strength." So the land had rest for forty years.

nkjv@Judges:6:1 @ Then the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD. So the LORD deliv ered them into the hand of Midian for seven years,

nkjv@Judges:6:3 @ So it was, whenev er Israel had sown, Midianites would come up; also Amalekites and the people of the East would come up against them.

nkjv@Judges:6:4 @ Then they would encamp against them and destroy the produce of the earth as far as Gaza, and leave no sustenance for Israel, neith er sheep nor ox nor donkey.

nkjv@Judges:6:5 @ For they would come up with their livestock and their tents, coming in as num erous as locusts; both they and their camels w ere without numb er; and they would ent er the land to destroy it.

nkjv@Judges:6:6 @ So Israel was greatly impov erished because of the Midianites, and the children of Israel cried out to the LORD.

nkjv@Judges:6:9 @ and I deliv ered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of all who oppressed you, and drove them out before you and gave you their land.

nkjv@Judges:6:11 @ Now the Angel of the LORD came and sat und er the t erebinth tree which was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, while his son Gideon threshed wheat in the winepress, in ord er to hide it from the Midianites.

nkjv@Judges:6:13 @ Gideon said to Him, "O my lord, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And wh ere are all His miracles which our fath ers told us about, saying, "Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt?' But now the LORD has forsaken us and deliv ered us into the hands of the Midianites."

nkjv@Judges:6:15 @ So he said to Him, "O my Lord, how can I save Israel? Indeed my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my fath er's house."

nkjv@Judges:6:18 @ Do not depart from h ere, I pray, until I come to You and bring out my off ering and set it before You." And He said, "I will wait until you come back."

nkjv@Judges:6:19 @ So Gideon went in and prepared a young goat, and unleavened bread from an ephah of flour. The meat he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot; and he brought them out to Him und er the t erebinth tree and presented them.

nkjv@Judges:6:22 @ Now Gideon p erceived that He was the Angel of the LORD. So Gideon said, "Alas, O Lord GOD! For I have seen the Angel of the LORD face to face."

nkjv@Judges:6:24 @ So Gideon built an altar th ere to the LORD, and called it The-LORD-Is-Peace. To this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

nkjv@Judges:6:25 @ Now it came to pass the same night that the LORD said to him, "Take your fath er's young bull, the second bull of seven years old, and tear down the altar of Baal that your fath er has, and cut down the wooden image that is beside it;

nkjv@Judges:6:26 @ and build an altar to the LORD your God on top of this rock in the prop er arrangement, and take the second bull and off er a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the image which you shall cut down."

nkjv@Judges:6:27 @ So Gideon took ten men from among his s ervants and did as the LORD had said to him. But because he feared his fath er's household and the men of the city too much to do it by day, he did it by night.

nkjv@Judges:6:28 @ And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, th ere was the altar of Baal, torn down; and the wooden image that was beside it was cut down, and the second bull was being off ered on the altar which had been built.

nkjv@Judges:6:29 @ So they said to one anoth er, "Who has done this thing?" And when they had inquired and asked, they said, "Gideon the son of Joash has done this thing."

nkjv@Judges:6:32 @ Th erefore on that day he called him J erubbaal, saying, "Let Baal plead against him, because he has torn down his altar."

nkjv@Judges:6:33 @ Then all the Midianites and Amalekites, the people of the East, gath ered togeth er; and they crossed ov er and encamped in the Valley of Jezreel.

nkjv@Judges:6:34 @ But the Spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon; then he blew the trumpet, and the Abiezrites gath ered behind him.

nkjv@Judges:6:35 @ And he sent messeng ers throughout all Manasseh, who also gath ered behind him. He also sent messeng ers to Ash er, Zebulun, and Naphtali; and they came up to meet them.

nkjv@Judges:6:37 @ look, I shall put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor; if th ere is dew on the fleece only, and it is dry on all the ground, then I shall know that You will save Israel by my hand, as You have said."

nkjv@Judges:6:38 @ And it was so. When he rose early the next morning and squeezed the fleece togeth er, he wrung the dew out of the fleece, a bowlful of wat er.

nkjv@Judges:6:39 @ Then Gideon said to God, "Do not be angry with me, but let me speak just once more: Let me test, I pray, just once more with the fleece; let it now be dry only on the fleece, but on all the ground let th ere be dew."

nkjv@Judges:6:40 @ And God did so that night. It was dry on the fleece only, but th ere was dew on all the ground.

nkjv@Judges:7:1 @ Then J erubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the people who w ere with him rose early and encamped beside the well of Harod, so that the camp of the Midianites was on the north side of them by the hill of Moreh in the valley.

nkjv@Judges:7:3 @ Now th erefore, proclaim in the hearing of the people, saying, "Whoev er is fearful and afraid, let him turn and depart at once from Mount Gilead."' And twenty-two thousand of the people returned, and ten thousand remained.

nkjv@Judges:7:4 @ But the LORD said to Gideon, "The people are still too many; bring them down to the wat er, and I will test them for you th ere. Then it will be, that of whom I say to you, "This one shall go with you,' the same shall go with you; and of whomev er I say to you, "This one shall not go with you,' the same shall not go."

nkjv@Judges:7:5 @ So he brought the people down to the wat er. And the LORD said to Gideon, "Ev eryone who laps from the wat er with his tongue, as a dog laps, you shall set apart by himself; likewise ev eryone who gets down on his knees to drink."

nkjv@Judges:7:6 @ And the numb er of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people got down on their knees to drink wat er.

nkjv@Judges:7:7 @ Then the LORD said to Gideon, "By the three hundred men who lapped I will save you, and deliv er the Midianites into your hand. Let all the oth er people go, ev ery man to his place."

nkjv@Judges:7:8 @ So the people took provisions and their trumpets in their hands. And he sent away all the rest of Israel, ev ery man to his tent, and retained those three hundred men. Now the camp of Midian was below him in the valley.

nkjv@Judges:7:9 @ It happened on the same night that the LORD said to him, "Arise, go down against the camp, for I have deliv ered it into your hand.

nkjv@Judges:7:10 @ But if you are afraid to go down, go down to the camp with Purah your s ervant,

nkjv@Judges:7:11 @ and you shall hear what they say; and aft erward your hands shall be strengthened to go down against the camp." Then he went down with Purah his s ervant to the outpost of the armed men who w ere in the camp.

nkjv@Judges:7:12 @ Now the Midianites and Amalekites, all the people of the East, w ere lying in the valley as num erous as locusts; and their camels w ere without numb er, as the sand by the seashore in multitude.

nkjv@Judges:7:13 @ And when Gideon had come, th ere was a man telling a dream to his companion. He said, "I have had a dream: To my surprise, a loaf of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian; it came to a tent and struck it so that it fell and ov erturned, and the tent collapsed."

nkjv@Judges:7:14 @ Then his companion answ ered and said, "This is nothing else but the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel! Into his hand God has deliv ered Midian and the whole camp."

nkjv@Judges:7:15 @ And so it was, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its int erpretation, that he worshiped. He returned to the camp of Israel, and said, "Arise, for the LORD has deliv ered the camp of Midian into your hand."

nkjv@Judges:7:16 @ Then he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet into ev ery man's hand, with empty pitch ers, and torches inside the pitch ers.

nkjv@Judges:7:18 @ When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then you also blow the trumpets on ev ery side of the whole camp, and say, "The sword of the LORD and of Gideon!"'

nkjv@Judges:7:19 @ So Gideon and the hundred men who w ere with him came to the outpost of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just as they had posted the watch; and they blew the trumpets and broke the pitch ers that w ere in their hands.

nkjv@Judges:7:20 @ Then the three companies blew the trumpets and broke the pitch ers--they held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands for blowing--and they cried, "The sword of the LORD and of Gideon!"

nkjv@Judges:7:21 @ And ev ery man stood in his place all around the camp; and the whole army ran and cried out and fled.

nkjv@Judges:7:22 @ When the three hundred blew the trumpets, the LORD set ev ery man's sword against his companion throughout the whole camp; and the army fled to Beth Acacia, toward Z er erah, as far as the bord er of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath.

nkjv@Judges:7:23 @ And the men of Israel gath ered togeth er from Naphtali, Ash er, and all Manasseh, and pursued the Midianites.

nkjv@Judges:7:24 @ Then Gideon sent messeng ers throughout all the mountains of Ephraim, saying, "Come down against the Midianites, and seize from them the wat ering places as far as Beth Barah and the Jordan." Then all the men of Ephraim gath ered togeth er and seized the wat ering places as far as Beth Barah and the Jordan.

nkjv@Judges:7:25 @ And they captured two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they killed at the winepress of Zeeb. They pursued Midian and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the oth er side of the Jordan.

nkjv@Judges:8:2 @ So he said to them, "What have I done now in comparison with you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim bett er than the vintage of Abiez er?

nkjv@Judges:8:3 @ God has deliv ered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. And what was I able to do in comparison with you?" Then their ang er toward him subsided when he said that.

nkjv@Judges:8:4 @ When Gideon came to the Jordan, he and the three hundred men who w ere with him crossed ov er, exhausted but still in pursuit.

nkjv@Judges:8:6 @ And the lead ers of Succoth said, "Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your army?"

nkjv@Judges:8:7 @ So Gideon said, "For this cause, when the LORD has deliv ered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wild erness and with bri ers!"

nkjv@Judges:8:8 @ Then he went up from th ere to Penuel and spoke to them in the same way. And the men of Penuel answ ered him as the men of Succoth had answ ered.

nkjv@Judges:8:9 @ So he also spoke to the men of Penuel, saying, "When I come back in peace, I will tear down this tow er!"

nkjv@Judges:8:10 @ Now Zebah and Zalmunna w ere at Karkor, and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand, all who w ere left of all the army of the people of the East; for one hundred and twenty thousand men who drew the sword had fallen.

nkjv@Judges:8:13 @ Then Gideon the son of Joash returned from battle, from the Ascent of H eres.

nkjv@Judges:8:14 @ And he caught a young man of the men of Succoth and int errogated him; and he wrote down for him the lead ers of Succoth and its eld ers, seventy-seven men.

nkjv@Judges:8:15 @ Then he came to the men of Succoth and said, "H ere are Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you ridiculed me, saying, "Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your weary men?"'

nkjv@Judges:8:16 @ And he took the eld ers of the city, and thorns of the wild erness and bri ers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.

nkjv@Judges:8:17 @ Then he tore down the tow er of Penuel and killed the men of the city.

nkjv@Judges:8:18 @ And he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, "What kind of men w ere they whom you killed at Tabor?" So they answ ered, "As you are, so w ere they; each one resembled the son of a king."

nkjv@Judges:8:19 @ Then he said, "They w ere my broth ers, the sons of my moth er. As the LORD lives, if you had let them live, I would not kill you."

nkjv@Judges:8:20 @ And he said to Jeth er his firstborn, "Rise, kill them!" But the youth would not draw his sword; for he was afraid, because he was still a youth.

nkjv@Judges:8:21 @ So Zebah and Zalmunna said, "Rise yourself, and kill us; for as a man is, so is his strength." So Gideon arose and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and took the crescent ornaments that w ere on their camels' necks.

nkjv@Judges:8:22 @ Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, "Rule ov er us, both you and your son, and your grandson also; for you have deliv ered us from the hand of Midian."

nkjv@Judges:8:23 @ But Gideon said to them, "I will not rule ov er you, nor shall my son rule ov er you; the LORD shall rule ov er you."

nkjv@Judges:8:24 @ Then Gideon said to them, "I would like to make a request of you, that each of you would give me the earrings from his plund er." For they had golden earrings, because they w ere Ishmaelites.

nkjv@Judges:8:25 @ So they answ ered, "We will gladly give them." And they spread out a garment, and each man threw into it the earrings from his plund er.

nkjv@Judges:8:26 @ Now the weight of the gold earrings that he requested was one thousand seven hundred shekels of gold, besides the crescent ornaments, pendants, and purple robes which w ere on the kings of Midian, and besides the chains that w ere around their camels' necks.

nkjv@Judges:8:27 @ Then Gideon made it into an ephod and set it up in his city, Ophrah. And all Israel played the harlot with it th ere. It became a snare to Gideon and to his house.

nkjv@Judges:8:29 @ Then J erubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house.

nkjv@Judges:8:30 @ Gideon had seventy sons who w ere his own offspring, for he had many wives.

nkjv@Judges:8:32 @ Now Gideon the son of Joash died at a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of Joash his fath er, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

nkjv@Judges:8:33 @ So it was, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel again played the harlot with the Baals, and made Baal-B erith their god.

nkjv@Judges:8:34 @ Thus the children of Israel did not rememb er the LORD their God, who had deliv ered them from the hands of all their enemies on ev ery side;

nkjv@Judges:8:35 @ nor did they show kindness to the house of J erubbaal (Gideon) in accordance with the good he had done for Israel.

nkjv@Judges:9:1 @ Then Abimelech the son of J erubbaal went to Shechem, to his moth er's broth ers, and spoke with them and with all the family of the house of his moth er's fath er, saying,

nkjv@Judges:9:2 @ "Please speak in the hearing of all the men of Shechem: "Which is bett er for you, that all seventy of the sons of J erubbaal reign ov er you, or that one reign ov er you?' Rememb er that I am your own flesh and bone."

nkjv@Judges:9:3 @ And his moth er's broth ers spoke all these words conc erning him in the hearing of all the men of Shechem; and their heart was inclined to follow Abimelech, for they said, "He is our broth er."

nkjv@Judges:9:4 @ So they gave him seventy shekels of silv er from the temple of Baal-B erith, with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless men; and they followed him.

nkjv@Judges:9:5 @ Then he went to his fath er's house at Ophrah and killed his broth ers, the seventy sons of J erubbaal, on one stone. But Jotham the youngest son of J erubbaal was left, because he hid himself.

nkjv@Judges:9:6 @ And all the men of Shechem gath ered togeth er, all of Beth Millo, and they went and made Abimelech king beside the t erebinth tree at the pillar that was in Shechem.

nkjv@Judges:9:7 @ Now when they told Jotham, he went and stood on top of Mount G erizim, and lifted his voice and cried out. And he said to them: "Listen to me, you men of Shechem, That God may listen to you!

nkjv@Judges:9:8 @ "The trees once went forth to anoint a king ov er them. And they said to the olive tree, "Reign ov er us!'

nkjv@Judges:9:9 @ But the olive tree said to them, "Should I cease giving my oil, With which they honor God and men, And go to sway ov er trees?'

nkjv@Judges:9:10 @ "Then the trees said to the fig tree, "You come and reign ov er us!'

nkjv@Judges:9:11 @ But the fig tree said to them, "Should I cease my sweetness and my good fruit, And go to sway ov er trees?'

nkjv@Judges:9:12 @ "Then the trees said to the vine, "You come and reign ov er us!'

nkjv@Judges:9:13 @ But the vine said to them, "Should I cease my new wine, Which che ers both God and men, And go to sway ov er trees?'

nkjv@Judges:9:14 @ "Then all the trees said to the bramble, "You come and reign ov er us!'

nkjv@Judges:9:15 @ And the bramble said to the trees, "If in truth you anoint me as king ov er you, Then come and take shelt er in my shade; But if not, let fire come out of the bramble And devour the cedars of Lebanon!'

nkjv@Judges:9:16 @ "Now th erefore, if you have acted in truth and sinc erity in making Abimelech king, and if you have dealt well with J erubbaal and his house, and have done to him as he des erves--

nkjv@Judges:9:17 @ for my fath er fought for you, risked his life, and deliv ered you out of the hand of Midian;

nkjv@Judges:9:18 @ but you have risen up against my fath er's house this day, and killed his seventy sons on one stone, and made Abimelech, the son of his female s ervant, king ov er the men of Shechem, because he is your broth er--

nkjv@Judges:9:19 @ if then you have acted in truth and sinc erity with J erubbaal and with his house this day, then rejoice in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you.

nkjv@Judges:9:21 @ And Jotham ran away and fled; and he went to Be er and dwelt th ere, for fear of Abimelech his broth er.

nkjv@Judges:9:22 @ Aft er Abimelech had reigned ov er Israel three years,

nkjv@Judges:9:23 @ God sent a spirit of ill will between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treach erously with Abimelech,

nkjv@Judges:9:24 @ that the crime done to the seventy sons of J erubbaal might be settled and their blood be laid on Abimelech their broth er, who killed them, and on the men of Shechem, who aided him in the killing of his broth ers.

nkjv@Judges:9:26 @ Now Gaal the son of Ebed came with his broth ers and went ov er to Shechem; and the men of Shechem put their confidence in him.

nkjv@Judges:9:27 @ So they went out into the fields, and gath ered grapes from their vineyards and trod them, and made m erry. And they went into the house of their god, and ate and drank, and cursed Abimelech.

nkjv@Judges:9:28 @ Then Gaal the son of Ebed said, "Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should s erve him? Is he not the son of J erubbaal, and is not Zebul his offic er? S erve the men of Hamor the fath er of Shechem; but why should we s erve him?

nkjv@Judges:9:29 @ If only this people w ere und er my authority! Then I would remove Abimelech." So he said to Abimelech, "Increase your army and come out!"

nkjv@Judges:9:30 @ When Zebul, the rul er of the city, heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his ang er was aroused.

nkjv@Judges:9:31 @ And he sent messeng ers to Abimelech secretly, saying, "Take note! Gaal the son of Ebed and his broth ers have come to Shechem; and h ere they are, fortifying the city against you.

nkjv@Judges:9:32 @ Now th erefore, get up by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field.

nkjv@Judges:9:34 @ So Abimelech and all the people who w ere with him rose by night, and lay in wait against Shechem in four companies.

nkjv@Judges:9:35 @ When Gaal the son of Ebed went out and stood in the entrance to the city gate, Abimelech and the people who w ere with him rose from lying in wait.

nkjv@Judges:9:36 @ And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, "Look, people are coming down from the tops of the mountains!" But Zebul said to him, "You see the shadows of the mountains as if they w ere men."

nkjv@Judges:9:37 @ So Gaal spoke again and said, "See, people are coming down from the cent er of the land, and anoth er company is coming from the Divin ers' T erebinth Tree."

nkjv@Judges:9:38 @ Then Zebul said to him, "Wh ere indeed is your mouth now, with which you said, "Who is Abimelech, that we should s erve him?' Are not these the people whom you despised? Go out, if you will, and fight with them now."

nkjv@Judges:9:40 @ And Abimelech chased him, and he fled from him; and many fell wounded, to the v ery entrance of the gate.

nkjv@Judges:9:41 @ Then Abimelech dwelt at Arumah, and Zebul drove out Gaal and his broth ers, so that they would not dwell in Shechem.

nkjv@Judges:9:43 @ So he took his people, divided them into three companies, and lay in wait in the field. And he looked, and th ere w ere the people, coming out of the city; and he rose against them and attacked them.

nkjv@Judges:9:44 @ Then Abimelech and the company that was with him rushed forward and stood at the entrance of the gate of the city; and the oth er two companies rushed upon all who w ere in the fields and killed them.

nkjv@Judges:9:45 @ So Abimelech fought against the city all that day; he took the city and killed the people who w ere in it; and he demolished the city and sowed it with salt.

nkjv@Judges:9:46 @ Now when all the men of the tow er of Shechem had heard that, they ent ered the stronghold of the temple of the god B erith.

nkjv@Judges:9:47 @ And it was told Abimelech that all the men of the tow er of Shechem w ere gath ered togeth er.

nkjv@Judges:9:48 @ Then Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the people who w ere with him. And Abimelech took an ax in his hand and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it and laid it on his should er; then he said to the people who w ere with him, "What you have seen me do, make haste and do as I have done."

nkjv@Judges:9:49 @ So each of the people likewise cut down his own bough and followed Abimelech, put them against the stronghold, and set the stronghold on fire above them, so that all the people of the tow er of Shechem died, about a thousand men and women.

nkjv@Judges:9:51 @ But th ere was a strong tow er in the city, and all the men and women--all the people of the city--fled th ere and shut themselves in; then they went up to the top of the tow er.

nkjv@Judges:9:52 @ So Abimelech came as far as the tow er and fought against it; and he drew near the door of the tow er to burn it with fire.

nkjv@Judges:9:53 @ But a c ertain woman dropped an upp er millstone on Abimelech's head and crushed his skull.

nkjv@Judges:9:54 @ Then he called quickly to the young man, his armorbear er, and said to him, "Draw your sword and kill me, lest men say of me, "A woman killed him."' So his young man thrust him through, and he died.

nkjv@Judges:9:55 @ And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed, ev ery man to his place.

nkjv@Judges:9:56 @ Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he had done to his fath er by killing his seventy broth ers.

nkjv@Judges:9:57 @ And all the evil of the men of Shechem God returned on their own heads, and on them came the curse of Jotham the son of J erubbaal.

nkjv@Judges:10:1 @ Aft er Abimelech th ere arose to save Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in the mountains of Ephraim.

nkjv@Judges:10:3 @ Aft er him arose Jair, a Gileadite; and he judged Israel twenty-two years.

nkjv@Judges:10:6 @ Then the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD, and s erved the Baals and the Ashtoreths, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the people of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines; and they forsook the LORD and did not s erve Him.

nkjv@Judges:10:7 @ So the ang er of the LORD was hot against Israel; and He sold them into the hands of the Philistines and into the hands of the people of Ammon.

nkjv@Judges:10:8 @ From that year they harassed and oppressed the children of Israel for eighteen years--all the children of Israel who w ere on the oth er side of the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, in Gilead.

nkjv@Judges:10:9 @ Moreov er the people of Ammon crossed ov er the Jordan to fight against Judah also, against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was sev erely distressed.

nkjv@Judges:10:10 @ And the children of Israel cried out to the LORD, saying, "We have sinned against You, because we have both forsaken our God and s erved the Baals!"

nkjv@Judges:10:11 @ So the LORD said to the children of Israel, "Did I not deliv er you from the Egyptians and from the Amorites and from the people of Ammon and from the Philistines?

nkjv@Judges:10:12 @ Also the Sidonians and Amalekites and Maonites oppressed you; and you cried out to Me, and I deliv ered you from their hand.

nkjv@Judges:10:13 @ Yet you have forsaken Me and s erved oth er gods. Th erefore I will deliv er you no more.

nkjv@Judges:10:14 @ Go and cry out to the gods which you have chosen; let them deliv er you in your time of distress."

nkjv@Judges:10:15 @ And the children of Israel said to the LORD, "We have sinned! Do to us whatev er seems best to You; only deliv er us this day, we pray."

nkjv@Judges:10:16 @ So they put away the foreign gods from among them and s erved the LORD. And His soul could no long er endure the mis ery of Israel.

nkjv@Judges:10:17 @ Then the people of Ammon gath ered togeth er and encamped in Gilead. And the children of Israel assembled togeth er and encamped in Mizpah.

nkjv@Judges:10:18 @ And the people, the lead ers of Gilead, said to one anoth er, "Who is the man who will begin the fight against the people of Ammon? He shall be head ov er all the inhabitants of Gilead."

nkjv@Judges:11:2 @ Gilead's wife bore sons; and when his wife's sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out, and said to him, "You shall have no inh eritance in our fath er's house, for you are the son of anoth er woman."

nkjv@Judges:11:3 @ Then Jephthah fled from his broth ers and dwelt in the land of Tob; and worthless men banded togeth er with Jephthah and went out raiding with him.

nkjv@Judges:11:4 @ It came to pass aft er a time that the people of Ammon made war against Israel.

nkjv@Judges:11:5 @ And so it was, when the people of Ammon made war against Israel, that the eld ers of Gilead went to get Jephthah from the land of Tob.

nkjv@Judges:11:6 @ Then they said to Jephthah, "Come and be our command er, that we may fight against the people of Ammon."

nkjv@Judges:11:7 @ So Jephthah said to the eld ers of Gilead, "Did you not hate me, and expel me from my fath er's house? Why have you come to me now when you are in distress?"

nkjv@Judges:11:8 @ And the eld ers of Gilead said to Jephthah, "That is why we have turned again to you now, that you may go with us and fight against the people of Ammon, and be our head ov er all the inhabitants of Gilead."

nkjv@Judges:11:9 @ So Jephthah said to the eld ers of Gilead, "If you take me back home to fight against the people of Ammon, and the LORD deliv ers them to me, shall I be your head?"

nkjv@Judges:11:10 @ And the eld ers of Gilead said to Jephthah, "The LORD will be a witness between us, if we do not do according to your words."

nkjv@Judges:11:11 @ Then Jephthah went with the eld ers of Gilead, and the people made him head and command er ov er them; and Jephthah spoke all his words before the LORD in Mizpah.

nkjv@Judges:11:12 @ Now Jephthah sent messeng ers to the king of the people of Ammon, saying, "What do you have against me, that you have come to fight against me in my land?"

nkjv@Judges:11:13 @ And the king of the people of Ammon answ ered the messeng ers of Jephthah, "Because Israel took away my land when they came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok, and to the Jordan. Now th erefore, restore those lands peaceably."

nkjv@Judges:11:14 @ So Jephthah again sent messeng ers to the king of the people of Ammon,

nkjv@Judges:11:16 @ for when Israel came up from Egypt, they walked through the wild erness as far as the Red Sea and came to Kadesh.

nkjv@Judges:11:17 @ Then Israel sent messeng ers to the king of Edom, saying, "Please let me pass through your land." But the king of Edom would not heed. And in like mann er they sent to the king of Moab, but he would not consent. So Israel remained in Kadesh.

nkjv@Judges:11:18 @ And they went along through the wild erness and bypassed the land of Edom and the land of Moab, came to the east side of the land of Moab, and encamped on the oth er side of the Arnon. But they did not ent er the bord er of Moab, for the Arnon was the bord er of Moab.

nkjv@Judges:11:19 @ Then Israel sent messeng ers to Sihon king of the Amorites, king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, "Please let us pass through your land into our place."

nkjv@Judges:11:20 @ But Sihon did not trust Israel to pass through his t erritory. So Sihon gath ered all his people togeth er, encamped in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.

nkjv@Judges:11:21 @ And the LORD God of Israel deliv ered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they defeated them. Thus Israel gained possession of all the land of the Amorites, who inhabited that country.

nkjv@Judges:11:22 @ They took possession of all the t erritory of the Amorites, from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the wild erness to the Jordan.

nkjv@Judges:11:24 @ Will you not possess whatev er Chemosh your god gives you to possess? So whatev er the LORD our God takes possession of before us, we will possess.

nkjv@Judges:11:25 @ And now, are you any bett er than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ev er strive against Israel? Did he ev er fight against them?

nkjv@Judges:11:26 @ While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and its villages, in Aro er and its villages, and in all the cities along the banks of the Arnon, for three hundred years, why did you not recov er them within that time?

nkjv@Judges:11:27 @ Th erefore I have not sinned against you, but you wronged me by fighting against me. May the LORD, the Judge, rend er judgment this day between the children of Israel and the people of Ammon."'

nkjv@Judges:11:28 @ Howev er, the king of the people of Ammon did not heed the words which Jephthah sent him.

nkjv@Judges:11:30 @ And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD, and said, "If You will indeed deliv er the people of Ammon into my hands,

nkjv@Judges:11:31 @ then it will be that whatev er comes out of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the people of Ammon, shall surely be the LORD's, and I will off er it up as a burnt off ering."

nkjv@Judges:11:32 @ So Jephthah advanced toward the people of Ammon to fight against them, and the LORD deliv ered them into his hands.

nkjv@Judges:11:33 @ And he defeated them from Aro er as far as Minnith--twenty cities--and to Abel K eramim, with a v ery great slaught er. Thus the people of Ammon w ere subdued before the children of Israel.

nkjv@Judges:11:34 @ When Jephthah came to his house at Mizpah, th ere was his daught er, coming out to meet him with timbrels and dancing; and she was his only child. Besides h er he had neith er son nor daught er.

nkjv@Judges:11:35 @ And it came to pass, when he saw h er, that he tore his clothes, and said, "Alas, my daught er! You have brought me v ery low! You are among those who trouble me! For I have given my word to the LORD, and I cannot go back on it."

nkjv@Judges:11:36 @ So she said to him, "My fath er, if you have given your word to the LORD, do to me according to what has gone out of your mouth, because the LORD has avenged you of your enemies, the people of Ammon."

nkjv@Judges:11:37 @ Then she said to h er fath er, "Let this thing be done for me: let me alone for two months, that I may go and wand er on the mountains and bewail my virginity, my friends and I."

nkjv@Judges:11:38 @ So he said, "Go." And he sent h er away for two months; and she went with h er friends, and bewailed h er virginity on the mountains.

nkjv@Judges:11:39 @ And it was so at the end of two months that she returned to h er fath er, and he carried out his vow with h er which he had vowed. She knew no man. And it became a custom in Israel

nkjv@Judges:11:40 @ that the daught ers of Israel went four days each year to lament the daught er of Jephthah the Gileadite.

nkjv@Judges:12:1 @ Then the men of Ephraim gath ered togeth er, crossed ov er toward Zaphon, and said to Jephthah, "Why did you cross ov er to fight against the people of Ammon, and did not call us to go with you? We will burn your house down on you with fire!"

nkjv@Judges:12:2 @ And Jephthah said to them, "My people and I w ere in a great struggle with the people of Ammon; and when I called you, you did not deliv er me out of their hands.

nkjv@Judges:12:3 @ So when I saw that you would not deliv er me, I took my life in my hands and crossed ov er against the people of Ammon; and the LORD deliv ered them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me this day to fight against me?"

nkjv@Judges:12:4 @ Now Jephthah gath ered togeth er all the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim. And the men of Gilead defeated Ephraim, because they said, "You Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites and among the Manassites."

nkjv@Judges:12:5 @ The Gileadites seized the fords of the Jordan before the Ephraimites arrived. And when any Ephraimite who escaped said, "Let me cross ov er," the men of Gilead would say to him, "Are you an Ephraimite?" If he said, "No,"

nkjv@Judges:12:6 @ then they would say to him, "Then say, "Shibboleth'!" And he would say, "Sibboleth," for he could not pronounce it right. Then they would take him and kill him at the fords of the Jordan. Th ere fell at that time forty-two thousand Ephraimites.

nkjv@Judges:12:8 @ Aft er him, Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.

nkjv@Judges:12:9 @ He had thirty sons. And he gave away thirty daught ers in marriage, and brought in thirty daught ers from elsewh ere for his sons. He judged Israel seven years.

nkjv@Judges:12:11 @ Aft er him, Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel. He judged Israel ten years.

nkjv@Judges:12:13 @ Aft er him, Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel.

nkjv@Judges:13:1 @ Again the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and the LORD deliv ered them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.

nkjv@Judges:13:2 @ Now th ere was a c ertain man from Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren and had no children.

nkjv@Judges:13:3 @ And the Angel of the LORD appeared to the woman and said to h er, "Indeed now, you are barren and have borne no children, but you shall conceive and bear a son.

nkjv@Judges:13:4 @ Now th erefore, please be careful not to drink wine or similar drink, and not to eat anything unclean.

nkjv@Judges:13:5 @ For behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. And no razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb; and he shall begin to deliv er Israel out of the hand of the Philistines."

nkjv@Judges:13:6 @ So the woman came and told h er husband, saying, "A Man of God came to me, and His countenance was like the countenance of the Angel of God, v ery awesome; but I did not ask Him wh ere He was from, and He did not tell me His name.

nkjv@Judges:13:9 @ And God listened to the voice of Manoah, and the Angel of God came to the woman again as she was sitting in the field; but Manoah h er husband was not with h er.

nkjv@Judges:13:10 @ Then the woman ran in haste and told h er husband, and said to him, "Look, the Man who came to me the oth er day has just now appeared to me!"

nkjv@Judges:13:13 @ So the Angel of the LORD said to Manoah, "Of all that I said to the woman let h er be careful.

nkjv@Judges:13:14 @ She may not eat anything that comes from the vine, nor may she drink wine or similar drink, nor eat anything unclean. All that I commanded h er let h er obs erve."

nkjv@Judges:13:16 @ And the Angel of the LORD said to Manoah, "Though you detain Me, I will not eat your food. But if you off er a burnt off ering, you must off er it to the LORD." (For Manoah did not know He was the Angel of the LORD.)

nkjv@Judges:13:18 @ And the Angel of the LORD said to him, "Why do you ask My name, seeing it is wond erful?"

nkjv@Judges:13:19 @ So Manoah took the young goat with the grain off ering, and off ered it upon the rock to the LORD. And He did a wondrous thing while Manoah and his wife looked on--

nkjv@Judges:13:23 @ But his wife said to him, "If the LORD had desired to kill us, He would not have accepted a burnt off ering and a grain off ering from our hands, nor would He have shown us all these things, nor would He have told us such things as these at this time."

nkjv@Judges:14:1 @ Now Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daught ers of the Philistines.

nkjv@Judges:14:2 @ So he went up and told his fath er and moth er, saying, "I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daught ers of the Philistines; now th erefore, get h er for me as a wife."

nkjv@Judges:14:3 @ Then his fath er and moth er said to him, "Is th ere no woman among the daught ers of your brethren, or among all my people, that you must go and get a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?" And Samson said to his fath er, "Get h er for me, for she pleases me well."

nkjv@Judges:14:4 @ But his fath er and moth er did not know that it was of the LORD--that He was seeking an occasion to move against the Philistines. For at that time the Philistines had dominion ov er Israel.

nkjv@Judges:14:5 @ So Samson went down to Timnah with his fath er and moth er, and came to the vineyards of Timnah. Now to his surprise, a young lion came roaring against him.

nkjv@Judges:14:6 @ And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he tore the lion apart as one would have torn apart a young goat, though he had nothing in his hand. But he did not tell his fath er or his moth er what he had done.

nkjv@Judges:14:8 @ Aft er some time, when he returned to get h er, he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion. And behold, a swarm of bees and honey w ere in the carcass of the lion.

nkjv@Judges:14:9 @ He took some of it in his hands and went along, eating. When he came to his fath er and moth er, he gave some to them, and they also ate. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey out of the carcass of the lion.

nkjv@Judges:14:10 @ So his fath er went down to the woman. And Samson gave a feast th ere, for young men used to do so.

nkjv@Judges:14:14 @ So he said to them: "Out of the eat er came something to eat, And out of the strong came something sweet." Now for three days they could not explain the riddle.

nkjv@Judges:14:15 @ But it came to pass on the seventh day that they said to Samson's wife, "Entice your husband, that he may explain the riddle to us, or else we will burn you and your fath er's house with fire. Have you invited us in ord er to take what is ours? Is that not so?"

nkjv@Judges:14:16 @ Then Samson's wife wept on him, and said, "You only hate me! You do not love me! You have posed a riddle to the sons of my people, but you have not explained it to me." And he said to h er, "Look, I have not explained it to my fath er or my moth er; so should I explain it to you?"

nkjv@Judges:14:17 @ Now she had wept on him the seven days while their feast lasted. And it happened on the seventh day that he told h er, because she pressed him so much. Then she explained the riddle to the sons of h er people.

nkjv@Judges:14:18 @ So the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down: "What is sweet er than honey? And what is strong er than a lion?" And he said to them: "If you had not plowed with my heif er, You would not have solved my riddle!"

nkjv@Judges:14:19 @ Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon him mightily, and he went down to Ashkelon and killed thirty of their men, took their apparel, and gave the changes of clothing to those who had explained the riddle. So his ang er was aroused, and he went back up to his fath er's house.

nkjv@Judges:15:1 @ Aft er a while, in the time of wheat harvest, it happened that Samson visited his wife with a young goat. And he said, "Let me go in to my wife, into h er room." But h er fath er would not p ermit him to go in.

nkjv@Judges:15:2 @ H er fath er said, "I really thought that you thoroughly hated h er; th erefore I gave h er to your companion. Is not h er young er sist er bett er than she? Please, take h er instead."

nkjv@Judges:15:6 @ Then the Philistines said, "Who has done this?" And they answ ered, "Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given h er to his companion." So the Philistines came up and burned h er and h er fath er with fire.

nkjv@Judges:15:7 @ Samson said to them, "Since you would do a thing like this, I will surely take revenge on you, and aft er that I will cease."

nkjv@Judges:15:8 @ So he attacked them hip and thigh with a great slaught er; then he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

nkjv@Judges:15:10 @ And the men of Judah said, "Why have you come up against us?" So they answ ered, "We have come up to arrest Samson, to do to him as he has done to us."

nkjv@Judges:15:11 @ Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, "Do you not know that the Philistines rule ov er us? What is this you have done to us?" And he said to them, "As they did to me, so I have done to them."

nkjv@Judges:15:12 @ But they said to him, "We have come down to arrest you, that we may deliv er you into the hand of the Philistines." Then Samson said to them, "Swear to me that you will not kill me yourselves."

nkjv@Judges:15:13 @ So they spoke to him, saying, "No, but we will tie you securely and deliv er you into their hand; but we will surely not kill you." And they bound him with two new ropes and brought him up from the rock.

nkjv@Judges:15:14 @ When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting against him. Then the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him; and the ropes that w ere on his arms became like flax that is burned with fire, and his bonds broke loose from his hands.

nkjv@Judges:15:18 @ Then he became v ery thirsty; so he cried out to the LORD and said, "You have given this great deliv erance by the hand of Your s ervant; and now shall I die of thirst and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?"

nkjv@Judges:15:19 @ So God split the hollow place that is in Lehi, and wat er came out, and he drank; and his spirit returned, and he revived. Th erefore he called its name En Hakkore, which is in Lehi to this day.

nkjv@Judges:16:1 @ Now Samson went to Gaza and saw a harlot th ere, and went in to h er.

nkjv@Judges:16:2 @ When the Gazites w ere told, "Samson has come h ere!" they surrounded the place and lay in wait for him all night at the gate of the city. They w ere quiet all night, saying, "In the morning, when it is daylight, we will kill him."

nkjv@Judges:16:3 @ And Samson lay low till midnight; then he arose at midnight, took hold of the doors of the gate of the city and the two gateposts, pulled them up, bar and all, put them on his should ers, and carried them to the top of the hill that faces Hebron.

nkjv@Judges:16:4 @ Aft erward it happened that he loved a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

nkjv@Judges:16:5 @ And the lords of the Philistines came up to h er and said to h er, "Entice him, and find out wh ere his great strength lies, and by what means we may ov erpow er him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and ev ery one of us will give you eleven hundred pieces of silv er."

nkjv@Judges:16:6 @ So Delilah said to Samson, "Please tell me wh ere your great strength lies, and with what you may be bound to afflict you."

nkjv@Judges:16:7 @ And Samson said to h er, "If they bind me with seven fresh bowstrings, not yet dried, then I shall become weak, and be like any oth er man."

nkjv@Judges:16:8 @ So the lords of the Philistines brought up to h er seven fresh bowstrings, not yet dried, and she bound him with them.

nkjv@Judges:16:9 @ Now men w ere lying in wait, staying with h er in the room. And she said to him, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" But he broke the bowstrings as a strand of yarn breaks when it touches fire. So the secret of his strength was not known.

nkjv@Judges:16:11 @ So he said to h er, "If they bind me securely with new ropes that have nev er been used, then I shall become weak, and be like any oth er man."

nkjv@Judges:16:12 @ Th erefore Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them, and said to him, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" And men w ere lying in wait, staying in the room. But he broke them off his arms like a thread.

nkjv@Judges:16:13 @ Delilah said to Samson, "Until now you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me what you may be bound with." And he said to h er, "If you weave the seven locks of my head into the web of the loom"--

nkjv@Judges:16:15 @ Then she said to him, "How can you say, "I love you,' when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me wh ere your great strength lies."

nkjv@Judges:16:16 @ And it came to pass, when she pest ered him daily with h er words and pressed him, so that his soul was vexed to death,

nkjv@Judges:16:17 @ that he told h er all his heart, and said to h er, "No razor has ev er come upon my head, for I have been a Nazirite to God from my moth er's womb. If I am shaven, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak, and be like any oth er man."

nkjv@Judges:16:18 @ When Delilah saw that he had told h er all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, "Come up once more, for he has told me all his heart." So the lords of the Philistines came up to h er and brought the money in their hand.

nkjv@Judges:16:19 @ Then she lulled him to sleep on h er knees, and called for a man and had him shave off the seven locks of his head. Then she began to torment him, and his strength left him.

nkjv@Judges:16:20 @ And she said, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" So he awoke from his sleep, and said, "I will go out as before, at oth er times, and shake myself free!" But he did not know that the LORD had departed from him.

nkjv@Judges:16:21 @ Then the Philistines took him and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza. They bound him with bronze fett ers, and he became a grind er in the prison.

nkjv@Judges:16:22 @ Howev er, the hair of his head began to grow again aft er it had been shaven.

nkjv@Judges:16:23 @ Now the lords of the Philistines gath ered togeth er to off er a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice. And they said: "Our god has deliv ered into our hands Samson our enemy!"

nkjv@Judges:16:24 @ When the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said: "Our god has deliv ered into our hands our enemy, The destroy er of our land, And the one who multiplied our dead."

nkjv@Judges:16:25 @ So it happened, when their hearts w ere m erry, that they said, "Call for Samson, that he may p erform for us." So they called for Samson from the prison, and he p erformed for them. And they stationed him between the pillars.

nkjv@Judges:16:27 @ Now the temple was full of men and women. All the lords of the Philistines w ere th ere--about three thousand men and women on the roof watching while Samson p erformed.

nkjv@Judges:16:28 @ Then Samson called to the LORD, saying, "O Lord GOD, rememb er me, I pray! Strengthen me, I pray, just this once, O God, that I may with one blow take vengeance on the Philistines for my two eyes!"

nkjv@Judges:16:29 @ And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars which supported the temple, and he braced himself against them, one on his right and the oth er on his left.

nkjv@Judges:16:30 @ Then Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines!" And he pushed with all his might, and the temple fell on the lords and all the people who w ere in it. So the dead that he killed at his death w ere more than he had killed in his life.

nkjv@Judges:16:31 @ And his broth ers and all his fath er's household came down and took him, and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of his fath er Manoah. He had judged Israel twenty years.

nkjv@Judges:17:1 @ Now th ere was a man from the mountains of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.

nkjv@Judges:17:2 @ And he said to his moth er, "The eleven hundred shekels of silv er that w ere taken from you, and on which you put a curse, even saying it in my ears--h ere is the silv er with me; I took it." And his moth er said, "May you be blessed by the LORD, my son!"

nkjv@Judges:17:3 @ So when he had returned the eleven hundred shekels of silv er to his moth er, his moth er said, "I had wholly dedicated the silv er from my hand to the LORD for my son, to make a carved image and a molded image; now th erefore, I will return it to you."

nkjv@Judges:17:4 @ Thus he returned the silv er to his moth er. Then his moth er took two hundred shekels of silv er and gave them to the silv ersmith, and he made it into a carved image and a molded image; and they w ere in the house of Micah.

nkjv@Judges:17:6 @ In those days th ere was no king in Israel; ev eryone did what was right in his own eyes.

nkjv@Judges:17:7 @ Now th ere was a young man from Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah; he was a Levite, and was staying th ere.

nkjv@Judges:17:8 @ The man departed from the city of Bethlehem in Judah to stay wh erev er he could find a place. Then he came to the mountains of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.

nkjv@Judges:17:9 @ And Micah said to him, "Wh ere do you come from?" So he said to him, "I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah, and I am on my way to find a place to stay."

nkjv@Judges:17:10 @ Micah said to him, "Dwell with me, and be a fath er and a priest to me, and I will give you ten shekels of silv er p er year, a suit of clothes, and your sustenance." So the Levite went in.

nkjv@Judges:18:1 @ In those days th ere was no king in Israel. And in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking an inh eritance for itself to dwell in; for until that day their inh eritance among the tribes of Israel had not fallen to them.

nkjv@Judges:18:2 @ So the children of Dan sent five men of their family from their t erritory, men of valor from Zorah and Eshtaol, to spy out the land and search it. They said to them, "Go, search the land." So they went to the mountains of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged th ere.

nkjv@Judges:18:3 @ While they w ere at the house of Micah, they recognized the voice of the young Levite. They turned aside and said to him, "Who brought you h ere? What are you doing in this place? What do you have h ere?"

nkjv@Judges:18:5 @ So they said to him, "Please inquire of God, that we may know wheth er the journey on which we go will be prosp erous."

nkjv@Judges:18:7 @ So the five men departed and went to Laish. They saw the people who w ere th ere, how they dwelt safely, in the mann er of the Sidonians, quiet and secure. Th ere w ere no rul ers in the land who might put them to shame for anything. They w ere far from the Sidonians, and they had no ties with anyone.

nkjv@Judges:18:9 @ So they said, "Arise, let us go up against them. For we have seen the land, and indeed it is v ery good. Would you do nothing? Do not hesitate to go, and ent er to possess the land.

nkjv@Judges:18:10 @ When you go, you will come to a secure people and a large land. For God has given it into your hands, a place wh ere th ere is no lack of anything that is on the earth."

nkjv@Judges:18:11 @ And six hundred men of the family of the Danites went from th ere, from Zorah and Eshtaol, armed with weapons of war.

nkjv@Judges:18:12 @ Then they went up and encamped in Kirjath Jearim in Judah. (Th erefore they call that place Mahaneh Dan to this day. Th ere it is, west of Kirjath Jearim.)

nkjv@Judges:18:13 @ And they passed from th ere to the mountains of Ephraim, and came to the house of Micah.

nkjv@Judges:18:14 @ Then the five men who had gone to spy out the country of Laish answ ered and said to their brethren, "Do you know that th ere are in these houses an ephod, household idols, a carved image, and a molded image? Now th erefore, consid er what you should do."

nkjv@Judges:18:15 @ So they turned aside th ere, and came to the house of the young Levite man--to the house of Micah--and greeted him.

nkjv@Judges:18:16 @ The six hundred men armed with their weapons of war, who w ere of the children of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate.

nkjv@Judges:18:17 @ Then the five men who had gone to spy out the land went up. Ent ering th ere, they took the carved image, the ephod, the household idols, and the molded image. The priest stood at the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men who w ere armed with weapons of war.

nkjv@Judges:18:19 @ And they said to him, "Be quiet, put your hand ov er your mouth, and come with us; be a fath er and a priest to us. Is it bett er for you to be a priest to the household of one man, or that you be a priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?"

nkjv@Judges:18:22 @ When they w ere a good way from the house of Micah, the men who w ere in the houses near Micah's house gath ered togeth er and ov ertook the children of Dan.

nkjv@Judges:18:23 @ And they called out to the children of Dan. So they turned around and said to Micah, "What ails you, that you have gath ered such a company?"

nkjv@Judges:18:26 @ Then the children of Dan went their way. And when Micah saw that they w ere too strong for him, he turned and went back to his house.

nkjv@Judges:18:28 @ Th ere was no deliv er er, because it was far from Sidon, and they had no ties with anyone. It was in the valley that belongs to Beth Rehob. So they rebuilt the city and dwelt th ere.

nkjv@Judges:18:29 @ And they called the name of the city Dan, aft er the name of Dan their fath er, who was born to Israel. Howev er, the name of the city form erly was Laish.

nkjv@Judges:18:30 @ Then the children of Dan set up for themselves the carved image; and Jonathan the son of G ershom, the son of Manasseh, and his sons w ere priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land.

nkjv@Judges:19:1 @ And it came to pass in those days, when th ere was no king in Israel, that th ere was a c ertain Levite staying in the remote mountains of Ephraim. He took for himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.

nkjv@Judges:19:2 @ But his concubine played the harlot against him, and went away from him to h er fath er's house at Bethlehem in Judah, and was th ere four whole months.

nkjv@Judges:19:3 @ Then h er husband arose and went aft er h er, to speak kindly to h er and bring h er back, having his s ervant and a couple of donkeys with him. So she brought him into h er fath er's house; and when the fath er of the young woman saw him, he was glad to meet him.

nkjv@Judges:19:4 @ Now his fath er-in-law, the young woman's fath er, detained him; and he stayed with him three days. So they ate and drank and lodged th ere.

nkjv@Judges:19:5 @ Then it came to pass on the fourth day that they arose early in the morning, and he stood to depart; but the young woman's fath er said to his son-in-law, "Refresh your heart with a morsel of bread, and aft erward go your way."

nkjv@Judges:19:6 @ So they sat down, and the two of them ate and drank togeth er. Then the young woman's fath er said to the man, "Please be content to stay all night, and let your heart be m erry."

nkjv@Judges:19:7 @ And when the man stood to depart, his fath er-in-law urged him; so he lodged th ere again.

nkjv@Judges:19:8 @ Then he arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart, but the young woman's fath er said, "Please refresh your heart." So they delayed until aft ernoon; and both of them ate.

nkjv@Judges:19:9 @ And when the man stood to depart--he and his concubine and his s ervant--his fath er-in-law, the young woman's fath er, said to him, "Look, the day is now drawing toward evening; please spend the night. See, the day is coming to an end; lodge h ere, that your heart may be m erry. Tomorrow go your way early, so that you may get home."

nkjv@Judges:19:10 @ Howev er, the man was not willing to spend that night; so he rose and departed, and came opposite Jebus (that is, J erusalem). With him w ere the two saddled donkeys; his concubine was also with him.

nkjv@Judges:19:11 @ They w ere near Jebus, and the day was far spent; and the s ervant said to his mast er, "Come, please, and let us turn aside into this city of the Jebusites and lodge in it."

nkjv@Judges:19:12 @ But his mast er said to him, "We will not turn aside h ere into a city of foreign ers, who are not of the children of Israel; we will go on to Gibeah."

nkjv@Judges:19:13 @ So he said to his s ervant, "Come, let us draw near to one of these places, and spend the night in Gibeah or in Ramah."

nkjv@Judges:19:15 @ They turned aside th ere to go in to lodge in Gibeah. And when he went in, he sat down in the open square of the city, for no one would take them into his house to spend the night.

nkjv@Judges:19:16 @ Just then an old man came in from his work in the field at evening, who also was from the mountains of Ephraim; he was staying in Gibeah, wh ereas the men of the place w ere Benjamites.

nkjv@Judges:19:17 @ And when he raised his eyes, he saw the travel er in the open square of the city; and the old man said, "Wh ere are you going, and wh ere do you come from?"

nkjv@Judges:19:18 @ So he said to him, "We are passing from Bethlehem in Judah toward the remote mountains of Ephraim; I am from th ere. I went to Bethlehem in Judah; now I am going to the house of the LORD. But th ere is no one who will take me into his house,

nkjv@Judges:19:19 @ although we have both straw and fodd er for our donkeys, and bread and wine for myself, for your female s ervant, and for the young man who is with your s ervant; th ere is no lack of anything."

nkjv@Judges:19:20 @ And the old man said, "Peace be with you! Howev er, let all your needs be my responsibility; only do not spend the night in the open square."

nkjv@Judges:19:21 @ So he brought him into his house, and gave fodd er to the donkeys. And they washed their feet, and ate and drank.

nkjv@Judges:19:22 @ As they w ere enjoying themselves, suddenly c ertain men of the city, p erv erted men, surrounded the house and beat on the door. They spoke to the mast er of the house, the old man, saying, "Bring out the man who came to your house, that we may know him carnally!"

nkjv@Judges:19:23 @ But the man, the mast er of the house, went out to them and said to them, "No, my brethren! I beg you, do not act so wickedly! Seeing this man has come into my house, do not commit this outrage.

nkjv@Judges:19:24 @ Look, h ere is my virgin daught er and the man's concubine; let me bring them out now. Humble them, and do with them as you please; but to this man do not do such a vile thing!"

nkjv@Judges:19:25 @ But the men would not heed him. So the man took his concubine and brought h er out to them. And they knew h er and abused h er all night until morning; and when the day began to break, they let h er go.

nkjv@Judges:19:26 @ Then the woman came as the day was dawning, and fell down at the door of the man's house wh ere h er mast er was, till it was light.

nkjv@Judges:19:27 @ When h er mast er arose in the morning, and opened the doors of the house and went out to go his way, th ere was his concubine, fallen at the door of the house with h er hands on the threshold.

nkjv@Judges:19:28 @ And he said to h er, "Get up and let us be going." But th ere was no answ er. So the man lifted h er onto the donkey; and the man got up and went to his place.

nkjv@Judges:19:29 @ When he ent ered his house he took a knife, laid hold of his concubine, and divided h er into twelve pieces, limb by limb, and sent h er throughout all the t erritory of Israel.

nkjv@Judges:19:30 @ And so it was that all who saw it said, "No such deed has been done or seen from the day that the children of Israel came up from the land of Egypt until this day. Consid er it, conf er, and speak up!"

nkjv@Judges:20:1 @ So all the children of Israel came out, from Dan to Be ersheba, as well as from the land of Gilead, and the congregation gath ered togeth er as one man before the LORD at Mizpah.

nkjv@Judges:20:2 @ And the lead ers of all the people, all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand foot soldi ers who drew the sword.

nkjv@Judges:20:4 @ So the Levite, the husband of the woman who was murd ered, answ ered and said, "My concubine and I went into Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin, to spend the night.

nkjv@Judges:20:6 @ So I took hold of my concubine, cut h er in pieces, and sent h er throughout all the t erritory of the inh eritance of Israel, because they committed lewdness and outrage in Israel.

nkjv@Judges:20:7 @ Look! All of you are children of Israel; give your advice and counsel h ere and now!"

nkjv@Judges:20:10 @ We will take ten men out of ev ery hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, a hundred out of ev ery thousand, and a thousand out of ev ery ten thousand, to make provisions for the people, that when they come to Gibeah in Benjamin, they may repay all the vileness that they have done in Israel."

nkjv@Judges:20:11 @ So all the men of Israel w ere gath ered against the city, united togeth er as one man.

nkjv@Judges:20:13 @ Now th erefore, deliv er up the men, the p erv erted men who are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death and remove the evil from Israel!" But the children of Benjamin would not listen to the voice of their brethren, the children of Israel.

nkjv@Judges:20:14 @ Instead, the children of Benjamin gath ered togeth er from their cities to Gibeah, to go to battle against the children of Israel.

nkjv@Judges:20:15 @ And from their cities at that time the children of Benjamin numb ered twenty-six thousand men who drew the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who numb ered seven hundred select men.

nkjv@Judges:20:16 @ Among all this people w ere seven hundred select men who w ere left-handed; ev ery one could sling a stone at a hair's breadth and not miss.

nkjv@Judges:20:17 @ Now besides Benjamin, the men of Israel numb ered four hundred thousand men who drew the sword; all of these w ere men of war.

nkjv@Judges:20:22 @ And the people, that is, the men of Israel, encouraged themselves and again formed the battle line at the place wh ere they had put themselves in array on the first day.

nkjv@Judges:20:23 @ Then the children of Israel went up and wept before the LORD until evening, and asked counsel of the LORD, saying, "Shall I again draw near for battle against the children of my broth er Benjamin?" And the LORD said, "Go up against him."

nkjv@Judges:20:26 @ Then all the children of Israel, that is, all the people, went up and came to the house of God and wept. They sat th ere before the LORD and fasted that day until evening; and they off ered burnt off erings and peace off erings before the LORD.

nkjv@Judges:20:27 @ So the children of Israel inquired of the LORD (the ark of the covenant of God was th ere in those days,

nkjv@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 my broth er Benjamin, or shall I cease?" And the LORD said, "Go up, for tomorrow I will deliv er them into your hand."

nkjv@Judges:20:30 @ And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in battle array against Gibeah as at the oth er times.

nkjv@Judges:20:31 @ So the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and w ere drawn away from the city. They began to strike down and kill some of the people, as at the oth er times, in the highways (one of which goes up to Bethel and the oth er to Gibeah) and in the field, about thirty men of Israel.

nkjv@Judges:20:34 @ And ten thousand select men from all Israel came against Gibeah, and the battle was fi erce. But the Benjamites did not know that disast er was upon them.

nkjv@Judges:20:36 @ So the children of Benjamin saw that they w ere defeated. The men of Israel had given ground to the Benjamites, because they relied on the men in ambush whom they had set against Gibeah.

nkjv@Judges:20:39 @ wh ereupon the men of Israel would turn in battle. Now Benjamin had begun to strike and kill about thirty of the men of Israel. For they said, "Surely they are defeated before us, as in the first battle."

nkjv@Judges:20:40 @ But when the cloud began to rise from the city in a column of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and th ere was the whole city going up in smoke to heaven.

nkjv@Judges:20:41 @ And when the men of Israel turned back, the men of Benjamin panicked, for they saw that disast er had come upon them.

nkjv@Judges:20:42 @ Th erefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel in the direction of the wild erness; but the battle ov ertook them, and whoev er came out of the cities they destroyed in their midst.

nkjv@Judges:20:44 @ And eighteen thousand men of Benjamin fell; all these w ere men of valor.

nkjv@Judges:20:45 @ Then they turned and fled toward the wild erness to the rock of Rimmon; and they cut down five thousand of them on the highways. Then they pursued them relentlessly up to Gidom, and killed two thousand of them.

nkjv@Judges:20:46 @ So all who fell of Benjamin that day w ere twenty-five thousand men who drew the sword; all these w ere men of valor.

nkjv@Judges:20:47 @ But six hundred men turned and fled toward the wild erness to the rock of Rimmon, and they stayed at the rock of Rimmon for four months.

nkjv@Judges:20:48 @ And the men of Israel turned back against the children of Benjamin, and struck them down with the edge of the sword--from ev ery city, men and beasts, all who w ere found. They also set fire to all the cities they came to.

nkjv@Judges:21:1 @ Now the men of Israel had sworn an oath at Mizpah, saying, "None of us shall give his daught er to Benjamin as a wife."

nkjv@Judges:21:2 @ Then the people came to the house of God, and remained th ere before God till evening. They lifted up their voices and wept bitt erly,

nkjv@Judges:21:3 @ and said, "O LORD God of Israel, why has this come to pass in Israel, that today th ere should be one tribe missing in Israel?"

nkjv@Judges:21:4 @ So it was, on the next morning, that the people rose early and built an altar th ere, and off ered burnt off erings and peace off erings.

nkjv@Judges:21:5 @ The children of Israel said, "Who is th ere among all the tribes of Israel who did not come up with the assembly to the LORD?" For they had made a great oath conc erning anyone who had not come up to the LORD at Mizpah, saying, "He shall surely be put to death."

nkjv@Judges:21:6 @ And the children of Israel grieved for Benjamin their broth er, and said, "One tribe is cut off from Israel today.

nkjv@Judges:21:7 @ What shall we do for wives for those who remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them our daught ers as wives?"

nkjv@Judges:21:8 @ And they said, "What one is th ere from the tribes of Israel who did not come up to Mizpah to the LORD?" And, in fact, no one had come to the camp from Jabesh Gilead to the assembly.

nkjv@Judges:21:9 @ For when the people w ere counted, indeed, not one of the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead was th ere.

nkjv@Judges:21:10 @ So the congregation sent out th ere twelve thousand of their most valiant men, and commanded them, saying, "Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, including the women and children.

nkjv@Judges:21:11 @ And this is the thing that you shall do: You shall utt erly destroy ev ery male, and ev ery woman who has known a man intimately."

nkjv@Judges:21:13 @ Then the whole congregation sent word to the children of Benjamin who w ere at the rock of Rimmon, and announced peace to them.

nkjv@Judges:21:16 @ Then the eld ers of the congregation said, "What shall we do for wives for those who remain, since the women of Benjamin have been destroyed?"

nkjv@Judges:21:17 @ And they said, "Th ere must be an inh eritance for the survivors of Benjamin, that a tribe may not be destroyed from Israel.

nkjv@Judges:21:18 @ Howev er, we cannot give them wives from our daught ers, for the children of Israel have sworn an oath, saying, "Cursed be the one who gives a wife to Benjamin."'

nkjv@Judges:21:19 @ Then they said, "In fact, th ere is a yearly feast of the LORD in Shiloh, which is north of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah."

nkjv@Judges:21:20 @ Th erefore they instructed the children of Benjamin, saying, "Go, lie in wait in the vineyards,

nkjv@Judges:21:21 @ and watch; and just when the daught ers of Shiloh come out to p erform their dances, then come out from the vineyards, and ev ery man catch a wife for himself from the daught ers of Shiloh; then go to the land of Benjamin.

nkjv@Judges:21:22 @ Then it shall be, when their fath ers or their broth ers come to us to complain, that we will say to them, "Be kind to them for our sakes, because we did not take a wife for any of them in the war; for it is not as though you have given the women to them at this time, making yourselves guilty of your oath."'

nkjv@Judges:21:23 @ And the children of Benjamin did so; they took enough wives for their numb er from those who danced, whom they caught. Then they went and returned to their inh eritance, and they rebuilt the cities and dwelt in them.

nkjv@Judges:21:24 @ So the children of Israel departed from th ere at that time, ev ery man to his tribe and family; they went out from th ere, ev ery man to his inh eritance.

nkjv@Judges:21:25 @ In those days th ere was no king in Israel; ev eryone did what was right in his own eyes.

nkjv@Ruth:1:1 @ Now it came to pass, in the days when the judges ruled, that th ere was a famine in the land. And a c ertain man of Bethlehem, Judah, went to dwell in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons.

nkjv@Ruth:1:2 @ The name of the man was Elimelech, the name of his wife was Naomi, and the names of his two sons w ere Mahlon and Chilion--Ephrathites of Bethlehem, Judah. And they went to the country of Moab and remained th ere.

nkjv@Ruth:1:3 @ Then Elimelech, Naomi's husband, died; and she was left, and h er two sons.

nkjv@Ruth:1:4 @ Now they took wives of the women of Moab: the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the oth er Ruth. And they dwelt th ere about ten years.

nkjv@Ruth:1:5 @ Then both Mahlon and Chilion also died; so the woman survived h er two sons and h er husband.

nkjv@Ruth:1:6 @ Then she arose with h er daught ers-in-law that she might return from the country of Moab, for she had heard in the country of Moab that the LORD had visited His people by giving them bread.

nkjv@Ruth:1:7 @ Th erefore she went out from the place wh ere she was, and h er two daught ers-in-law with h er; and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah.

nkjv@Ruth:1:8 @ And Naomi said to h er two daught ers-in-law, "Go, return each to h er moth er's house. The LORD deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me.

nkjv@Ruth:1:9 @ The LORD grant that you may find rest, each in the house of h er husband." So she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices and wept.

nkjv@Ruth:1:10 @ And they said to h er, "Surely we will return with you to your people."

nkjv@Ruth:1:11 @ But Naomi said, "Turn back, my daught ers; why will you go with me? Are th ere still sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?

nkjv@Ruth:1:12 @ Turn back, my daught ers, go--for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say I have hope, if I should have a husband tonight and should also bear sons,

nkjv@Ruth:1:13 @ would you wait for them till they w ere grown? Would you restrain yourselves from having husbands? No, my daught ers; for it grieves me v ery much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD has gone out against me!"

nkjv@Ruth:1:14 @ Then they lifted up their voices and wept again; and Orpah kissed h er moth er-in-law, but Ruth clung to h er.

nkjv@Ruth:1:15 @ And she said, "Look, your sist er-in-law has gone back to h er people and to h er gods; return aft er your sist er-in-law."

nkjv@Ruth:1:16 @ But Ruth said: "Entreat me not to leave you, Or to turn back from following aft er you; For wh erev er you go, I will go; And wh erev er you lodge, I will lodge; Your people shall be my people, And your God, my God.

nkjv@Ruth:1:17 @ Wh ere you die, I will die, And th ere will I be buried. The LORD do so to me, and more also, If anything but death parts you and me."

nkjv@Ruth:1:18 @ When she saw that she was det ermined to go with h er, she stopped speaking to h er.

nkjv@Ruth:1:20 @ But she said to them, "Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt v ery bitt erly with me.

nkjv@Ruth:1:22 @ So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess h er daught er-in-law with h er, who returned from the country of Moab. Now they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of barley harvest.

nkjv@Ruth:2:1 @ Th ere was a relative of Naomi's husband, a man of great wealth, of the family of Elimelech. His name was Boaz.

nkjv@Ruth:2:2 @ So Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, "Please let me go to the field, and glean heads of grain aft er him in whose sight I may find favor." And she said to h er, "Go, my daught er."

nkjv@Ruth:2:3 @ Then she left, and went and gleaned in the field aft er the reap ers. And she happened to come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.

nkjv@Ruth:2:4 @ Now behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said to the reap ers, "The LORD be with you!" And they answ ered him, "The LORD bless you!"

nkjv@Ruth:2:5 @ Then Boaz said to his s ervant who was in charge of the reap ers, "Whose young woman is this?"

nkjv@Ruth:2:6 @ So the s ervant who was in charge of the reap ers answ ered and said, "It is the young Moabite woman who came back with Naomi from the country of Moab.

nkjv@Ruth:2:7 @ And she said, "Please let me glean and gath er aft er the reap ers among the sheaves.' So she came and has continued from morning until now, though she rested a little in the house."

nkjv@Ruth:2:8 @ Then Boaz said to Ruth, "You will listen, my daught er, will you not? Do not go to glean in anoth er field, nor go from h ere, but stay close by my young women.

nkjv@Ruth:2:9 @ Let your eyes be on the field which they reap, and go aft er them. Have I not commanded the young men not to touch you? And when you are thirsty, go to the vessels and drink from what the young men have drawn."

nkjv@Ruth:2:10 @ So she fell on h er face, bowed down to the ground, and said to him, "Why have I found favor in your eyes, that you should take notice of me, since I am a foreign er?"

nkjv@Ruth:2:11 @ And Boaz answ ered and said to h er, "It has been fully reported to me, all that you have done for your moth er-in-law since the death of your husband, and how you have left your fath er and your moth er and the land of your birth, and have come to a people whom you did not know before.

nkjv@Ruth:2:12 @ The LORD repay your work, and a full reward be given you by the LORD God of Israel, und er whose wings you have come for refuge."

nkjv@Ruth:2:13 @ Then she said, "Let me find favor in your sight, my lord; for you have comforted me, and have spoken kindly to your maids ervant, though I am not like one of your maids ervants."

nkjv@Ruth:2:14 @ Now Boaz said to h er at mealtime, "Come h ere, and eat of the bread, and dip your piece of bread in the vinegar." So she sat beside the reap ers, and he passed parched grain to h er; and she ate and was satisfied, and kept some back.

nkjv@Ruth:2:15 @ And when she rose up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, "Let h er glean even among the sheaves, and do not reproach h er.

nkjv@Ruth:2:16 @ Also let grain from the bundles fall purposely for h er; leave it that she may glean, and do not rebuke h er."

nkjv@Ruth:2:18 @ Then she took it up and went into the city, and h er moth er-in-law saw what she had gleaned. So she brought out and gave to h er what she had kept back aft er she had been satisfied.

nkjv@Ruth:2:19 @ And h er moth er-in-law said to h er, "Wh ere have you gleaned today? And wh ere did you work? Blessed be the one who took notice of you." So she told h er moth er-in-law with whom she had worked, and said, "The man's name with whom I worked today is Boaz."

nkjv@Ruth:2:20 @ Then Naomi said to h er daught er-in-law, "Blessed be he of the LORD, who has not forsaken His kindness to the living and the dead!" And Naomi said to h er, "This man is a relation of ours, one of our close relatives."

nkjv@Ruth:2:22 @ And Naomi said to Ruth h er daught er-in-law, "It is good, my daught er, that you go out with his young women, and that people do not meet you in any oth er field."

nkjv@Ruth:2:23 @ So she stayed close by the young women of Boaz, to glean until the end of barley harvest and wheat harvest; and she dwelt with h er moth er-in-law.

nkjv@Ruth:3:1 @ Then Naomi h er moth er-in-law said to h er, "My daught er, shall I not seek security for you, that it may be well with you?

nkjv@Ruth:3:2 @ Now Boaz, whose young women you w ere with, is he not our relative? In fact, he is winnowing barley tonight at the threshing floor.

nkjv@Ruth:3:3 @ Th erefore wash yourself and anoint yourself, put on your best garment and go down to the threshing floor; but do not make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking.

nkjv@Ruth:3:4 @ Then it shall be, when he lies down, that you shall notice the place wh ere he lies; and you shall go in, uncov er his feet, and lie down; and he will tell you what you should do."

nkjv@Ruth:3:5 @ And she said to h er, "All that you say to me I will do."

nkjv@Ruth:3:6 @ So she went down to the threshing floor and did according to all that h er moth er-in-law instructed h er.

nkjv@Ruth:3:7 @ And aft er Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was che erful, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain; and she came softly, uncov ered his feet, and lay down.

nkjv@Ruth:3:8 @ Now it happened at midnight that the man was startled, and turned himself; and th ere, a woman was lying at his feet.

nkjv@Ruth:3:9 @ And he said, "Who are you?" So she answ ered, "I am Ruth, your maids ervant. Take your maids ervant und er your wing, for you are a close relative."

nkjv@Ruth:3:10 @ Then he said, "Blessed are you of the LORD, my daught er! For you have shown more kindness at the end than at the beginning, in that you did not go aft er young men, wheth er poor or rich.

nkjv@Ruth:3:11 @ And now, my daught er, do not fear. I will do for you all that you request, for all the people of my town know that you are a virtuous woman.

nkjv@Ruth:3:12 @ Now it is true that I am a close relative; howev er, th ere is a relative clos er than I.

nkjv@Ruth:3:13 @ Stay this night, and in the morning it shall be that if he will p erform the duty of a close relative for you--good; let him do it. But if he does not want to p erform the duty for you, then I will p erform the duty for you, as the LORD lives! Lie down until morning."

nkjv@Ruth:3:14 @ So she lay at his feet until morning, and she arose before one could recognize anoth er. Then he said, "Do not let it be known that the woman came to the threshing floor."

nkjv@Ruth:3:15 @ Also he said, "Bring the shawl that is on you and hold it." And when she held it, he measured six ephahs of barley, and laid it on h er. Then she went into the city.

nkjv@Ruth:3:16 @ When she came to h er moth er-in-law, she said, "Is that you, my daught er?" Then she told h er all that the man had done for h er.

nkjv@Ruth:3:17 @ And she said, "These six ephahs of barley he gave me; for he said to me, "Do not go empty-handed to your moth er-in-law."'

nkjv@Ruth:3:18 @ Then she said, "Sit still, my daught er, until you know how the matt er will turn out; for the man will not rest until he has concluded the matt er this day."

nkjv@Ruth:4:1 @ Now Boaz went up to the gate and sat down th ere; and behold, the close relative of whom Boaz had spoken came by. So Boaz said, "Come aside, friend, sit down h ere." So he came aside and sat down.

nkjv@Ruth:4:2 @ And he took ten men of the eld ers of the city, and said, "Sit down h ere." So they sat down.

nkjv@Ruth:4:3 @ Then he said to the close relative, "Naomi, who has come back from the country of Moab, sold the piece of land which belonged to our broth er Elimelech.

nkjv@Ruth:4:4 @ And I thought to inform you, saying, "Buy it back in the presence of the inhabitants and the eld ers of my people. If you will redeem it, redeem it; but if you will not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know; for th ere is no one but you to redeem it, and I am next aft er you."' And he said, "I will redeem it."

nkjv@Ruth:4:5 @ Then Boaz said, "On the day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you must also buy it from Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to p erpetuate the name of the dead through his inh eritance."

nkjv@Ruth:4:6 @ And the close relative said, "I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I ruin my own inh eritance. You redeem my right of redemption for yourself, for I cannot redeem it."

nkjv@Ruth:4:7 @ Now this was the custom in form er times in Israel conc erning redeeming and exchanging, to confirm anything: one man took off his sandal and gave it to the oth er, and this was a confirmation in Israel.

nkjv@Ruth:4:8 @ Th erefore the close relative said to Boaz, "Buy it for yourself." So he took off his sandal.

nkjv@Ruth:4:9 @ And Boaz said to the eld ers and all the people, "You are witnesses this day that I have bought all that was Elimelech's, and all that was Chilion's and Mahlon's, from the hand of Naomi.

nkjv@Ruth:4:10 @ Moreov er, Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of Mahlon, I have acquired as my wife, to p erpetuate the name of the dead through his inh eritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brethren and from his position at the gate. You are witnesses this day."

nkjv@Ruth:4:11 @ And all the people who w ere at the gate, and the eld ers, said, "We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman who is coming to your house like Rachel and Leah, the two who built the house of Israel; and may you prosp er in Ephrathah and be famous in Bethlehem.

nkjv@Ruth:4:12 @ May your house be like the house of P erez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring which the LORD will give you from this young woman."

nkjv@Ruth:4:13 @ So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife; and when he went in to h er, the LORD gave h er conception, and she bore a son.

nkjv@Ruth:4:15 @ And may he be to you a restor er of life and a nourish er of your old age; for your daught er-in-law, who loves you, who is bett er to you than seven sons, has borne him."

nkjv@Ruth:4:16 @ Then Naomi took the child and laid him on h er bosom, and became a nurse to him.

nkjv@Ruth:4:17 @ Also the neighbor women gave him a name, saying, "Th ere is a son born to Naomi." And they called his name Obed. He is the fath er of Jesse, the fath er of David.

nkjv@Ruth:4:18 @ Now this is the genealogy of P erez: P erez begot Hezron;

nkjv@1Samuel:1:1 @ Now th ere was a c ertain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the mountains of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah the son of J eroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.

nkjv@1Samuel:1:2 @ And he had two wives: the name of one was Hannah, and the name of the oth er Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.

nkjv@1Samuel:1:3 @ This man went up from his city yearly to worship and sacrifice to the LORD of hosts in Shiloh. Also the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the LORD, w ere th ere.

nkjv@1Samuel:1:4 @ And whenev er the time came for Elkanah to make an off ering, he would give portions to Peninnah his wife and to all h er sons and daught ers.

nkjv@1Samuel:1:5 @ But to Hannah he would give a double portion, for he loved Hannah, although the LORD had closed h er womb.

nkjv@1Samuel:1:6 @ And h er rival also provoked h er sev erely, to make h er mis erable, because the LORD had closed h er womb.

nkjv@1Samuel:1:7 @ So it was, year by year, when she went up to the house of the LORD, that she provoked h er; th erefore she wept and did not eat.

nkjv@1Samuel:1:8 @ Then Elkanah h er husband said to h er, "Hannah, why do you weep? Why do you not eat? And why is your heart grieved? Am I not bett er to you than ten sons?"

nkjv@1Samuel:1:9 @ So Hannah arose aft er they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh. Now Eli the priest was sitting on the seat by the doorpost of the tab ernacle of the LORD.

nkjv@1Samuel:1:10 @ And she was in bitt erness of soul, and prayed to the LORD and wept in anguish.

nkjv@1Samuel:1:11 @ Then she made a vow and said, "O LORD of hosts, if You will indeed look on the affliction of Your maids ervant and rememb er me, and not forget Your maids ervant, but will give Your maids ervant a male child, then I will give him to the LORD all the days of his life, and no razor shall come upon his head."

nkjv@1Samuel:1:12 @ And it happened, as she continued praying before the LORD, that Eli watched h er mouth.

nkjv@1Samuel:1:13 @ Now Hannah spoke in h er heart; only h er lips moved, but h er voice was not heard. Th erefore Eli thought she was drunk.

nkjv@1Samuel:1:14 @ So Eli said to h er, "How long will you be drunk? Put your wine away from you!"

nkjv@1Samuel:1:15 @ But Hannah answ ered and said, "No, my lord, I am a woman of sorrowful spirit. I have drunk neith er wine nor intoxicating drink, but have poured out my soul before the LORD.

nkjv@1Samuel:1:16 @ Do not consid er your maids ervant a wicked woman, for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief I have spoken until now."

nkjv@1Samuel:1:17 @ Then Eli answ ered and said, "Go in peace, and the God of Israel grant your petition which you have asked of Him."

nkjv@1Samuel:1:18 @ And she said, "Let your maids ervant find favor in your sight." So the woman went h er way and ate, and h er face was no long er sad.

nkjv@1Samuel:1:19 @ Then they rose early in the morning and worshiped before the LORD, and returned and came to their house at Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and the LORD rememb ered h er.

nkjv@1Samuel:1:21 @ Now the man Elkanah and all his house went up to off er to the LORD the yearly sacrifice and his vow.

nkjv@1Samuel:1:22 @ But Hannah did not go up, for she said to h er husband, "Not until the child is weaned; then I will take him, that he may appear before the LORD and remain th ere forev er."

nkjv@1Samuel:1:23 @ So Elkanah h er husband said to h er, "Do what seems best to you; wait until you have weaned him. Only let the LORD establish His word." Then the woman stayed and nursed h er son until she had weaned him.

nkjv@1Samuel:1:24 @ Now when she had weaned him, she took him up with h er, with three bulls, one ephah of flour, and a skin of wine, and brought him to the house of the LORD in Shiloh. And the child was young.

nkjv@1Samuel:1:25 @ Then they slaught ered a bull, and brought the child to Eli.

nkjv@1Samuel:1:26 @ And she said, "O my lord! As your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood by you h ere, praying to the LORD.

nkjv@1Samuel:1:28 @ Th erefore I also have lent him to the LORD; as long as he lives he shall be lent to the LORD." So they worshiped the LORD th ere.

nkjv@1Samuel:2:2 @ "No one is holy like the LORD, For th ere is none besides You, Nor is th ere any rock like our God.

nkjv@1Samuel:2:3 @ "Talk no more so v ery proudly; Let no arrogance come from your mouth, For the LORD is the God of knowledge; And by Him actions are weighed.

nkjv@1Samuel:2:5 @ Those who w ere full have hired themselves out for bread, And the hungry have ceased to hung er. Even the barren has borne seven, And she who has many children has become feeble.

nkjv@1Samuel:2:8 @ He raises the poor from the dust And lifts the beggar from the ash heap, To set them among princes And make them inh erit the throne of glory. "For the pillars of the earth are the LORD's, And He has set the world upon them.

nkjv@1Samuel:2:10 @ The adv ersaries of the LORD shall be broken in pieces; From heaven He will thund er against them. The LORD will judge the ends of the earth. "He will give strength to His king, And exalt the horn of His anointed."

nkjv@1Samuel:2:11 @ Then Elkanah went to his house at Ramah. But the child minist ered to the LORD before Eli the priest.

nkjv@1Samuel:2:12 @ Now the sons of Eli w ere corrupt; they did not know the LORD.

nkjv@1Samuel:2:13 @ And the priests' custom with the people was that when any man off ered a sacrifice, the priest's s ervant would come with a three-pronged fleshhook in his hand while the meat was boiling.

nkjv@1Samuel:2:14 @ Then he would thrust it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; and the priest would take for himself all that the fleshhook brought up. So they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came th ere.

nkjv@1Samuel:2:15 @ Also, before they burned the fat, the priest's s ervant would come and say to the man who sacrificed, "Give meat for roasting to the priest, for he will not take boiled meat from you, but raw."

nkjv@1Samuel:2:16 @ And if the man said to him, "They should really burn the fat first; then you may take as much as your heart desires," he would then answ er him, "No, but you must give it now; and if not, I will take it by force."

nkjv@1Samuel:2:17 @ Th erefore the sin of the young men was v ery great before the LORD, for men abhorred the off ering of the LORD.

nkjv@1Samuel:2:18 @ But Samuel minist ered before the LORD, even as a child, wearing a linen ephod.

nkjv@1Samuel:2:19 @ Moreov er his moth er used to make him a little robe, and bring it to him year by year when she came up with h er husband to off er the yearly sacrifice.

nkjv@1Samuel:2:21 @ And the LORD visited Hannah, so that she conceived and bore three sons and two daught ers. Meanwhile the child Samuel grew before the LORD.

nkjv@1Samuel:2:22 @ Now Eli was v ery old; and he heard ev erything his sons did to all Israel, and how they lay with the women who assembled at the door of the tab ernacle of meeting.

nkjv@1Samuel:2:25 @ If one man sins against anoth er, God will judge him. But if a man sins against the LORD, who will int ercede for him?" Nev ertheless they did not heed the voice of their fath er, because the LORD desired to kill them.

nkjv@1Samuel:2:27 @ Then a man of God came to Eli and said to him, "Thus says the LORD: "Did I not clearly reveal Myself to the house of your fath er when they w ere in Egypt in Pharaoh's house?

nkjv@1Samuel:2:28 @ Did I not choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be My priest, to off er upon My altar, to burn incense, and to wear an ephod before Me? And did I not give to the house of your fath er all the off erings of the children of Israel made by fire?

nkjv@1Samuel:2:29 @ Why do you kick at My sacrifice and My off ering which I have commanded in My dwelling place, and honor your sons more than Me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the off erings of Israel My people?'

nkjv@1Samuel:2:30 @ Th erefore the LORD God of Israel says: "I said indeed that your house and the house of your fath er would walk before Me forev er.' But now the LORD says: "Far be it from Me; for those who honor Me I will honor, and those who despise Me shall be lightly esteemed.

nkjv@1Samuel:2:31 @ Behold, the days are coming that I will cut off your arm and the arm of your fath er's house, so that th ere will not be an old man in your house.

nkjv@1Samuel:2:32 @ And you will see an enemy in My dwelling place, despite all the good which God does for Israel. And th ere shall not be an old man in your house forev er.

nkjv@1Samuel:2:33 @ But any of your men whom I do not cut off from My altar shall consume your eyes and grieve your heart. And all the descendants of your house shall die in the flow er of their age.

nkjv@1Samuel:2:35 @ Then I will raise up for Myself a faithful priest who shall do according to what is in My heart and in My mind. I will build him a sure house, and he shall walk before My anointed forev er.

nkjv@1Samuel:2:36 @ And it shall come to pass that ev eryone who is left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silv er and a morsel of bread, and say, "Please, put me in one of the priestly positions, that I may eat a piece of bread.""'

nkjv@1Samuel:3:1 @ Now the boy Samuel minist ered to the LORD before Eli. And the word of the LORD was rare in those days; th ere was no widespread revelation.

nkjv@1Samuel:3:3 @ and before the lamp of God went out in the tab ernacle of the LORD wh ere the ark of God was, and while Samuel was lying down,

nkjv@1Samuel:3:4 @ that the LORD called Samuel. And he answ ered, "H ere I am!"

nkjv@1Samuel:3:5 @ So he ran to Eli and said, "H ere I am, for you called me." And he said, "I did not call; lie down again." And he went and lay down.

nkjv@1Samuel:3:6 @ Then the LORD called yet again, "Samuel!" So Samuel arose and went to Eli, and said, "H ere I am, for you called me." He answ ered, "I did not call, my son; lie down again."

nkjv@1Samuel:3:8 @ And the LORD called Samuel again the third time. So he arose and went to Eli, and said, "H ere I am, for you did call me." Then Eli p erceived that the LORD had called the boy.

nkjv@1Samuel:3:9 @ Th erefore Eli said to Samuel, "Go, lie down; and it shall be, if He calls you, that you must say, "Speak, LORD, for Your s ervant hears."' So Samuel went and lay down in his place.

nkjv@1Samuel:3:10 @ Now the LORD came and stood and called as at oth er times, "Samuel! Samuel!" And Samuel answ ered, "Speak, for Your s ervant hears."

nkjv@1Samuel:3:11 @ Then the LORD said to Samuel: "Behold, I will do something in Israel at which both ears of ev eryone who hears it will tingle.

nkjv@1Samuel:3:12 @ In that day I will p erform against Eli all that I have spoken conc erning his house, from beginning to end.

nkjv@1Samuel:3:13 @ For I have told him that I will judge his house forev er for the iniquity which he knows, because his sons made themselves vile, and he did not restrain them.

nkjv@1Samuel:3:14 @ And th erefore I have sworn to the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be atoned for by sacrifice or off ering forev er."

nkjv@1Samuel:3:16 @ Then Eli called Samuel and said, "Samuel, my son!" He answ ered, "H ere I am."

nkjv@1Samuel:3:18 @ Then Samuel told him ev erything, and hid nothing from him. And he said, "It is the LORD. Let Him do what seems good to Him."

nkjv@1Samuel:3:20 @ And all Israel from Dan to Be ersheba knew that Samuel had been established as a prophet of the LORD.

nkjv@1Samuel:4:1 @ And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out to battle against the Philistines, and encamped beside Ebenez er; and the Philistines encamped in Aphek.

nkjv@1Samuel:4:3 @ And when the people had come into the camp, the eld ers of Israel said, "Why has the LORD defeated us today before the Philistines? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD from Shiloh to us, that when it comes among us it may save us from the hand of our enemies."

nkjv@1Samuel:4:4 @ So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from th ere the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts, who dwells between the ch erubim. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, w ere th ere with the ark of the covenant of God.

nkjv@1Samuel:4:6 @ Now when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, "What does the sound of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews mean?" Then they und erstood that the ark of the LORD had come into the camp.

nkjv@1Samuel:4:7 @ So the Philistines w ere afraid, for they said, "God has come into the camp!" And they said, "Woe to us! For such a thing has nev er happened before.

nkjv@1Samuel:4:8 @ Woe to us! Who will deliv er us from the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck the Egyptians with all the plagues in the wild erness.

nkjv@1Samuel:4:9 @ Be strong and conduct yourselves like men, you Philistines, that you do not become s ervants of the Hebrews, as they have been to you. Conduct yourselves like men, and fight!"

nkjv@1Samuel:4:10 @ So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and ev ery man fled to his tent. Th ere was a v ery great slaught er, and th ere fell of Israel thirty thousand foot soldi ers.

nkjv@1Samuel:4:13 @ Now when he came, th ere was Eli, sitting on a seat by the wayside watching, for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man came into the city and told it, all the city cried out.

nkjv@1Samuel:4:15 @ Eli was ninety-eight years old, and his eyes w ere so dim that he could not see.

nkjv@1Samuel:4:17 @ So the messeng er answ ered and said, "Israel has fled before the Philistines, and th ere has been a great slaught er among the people. Also your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead; and the ark of God has been captured."

nkjv@1Samuel:4:19 @ Now his daught er-in-law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, due to be deliv ered; and when she heard the news that the ark of God was captured, and that h er fath er-in-law and h er husband w ere dead, she bowed h erself and gave birth, for h er labor pains came upon h er.

nkjv@1Samuel:4:20 @ And about the time of h er death the women who stood by h er said to h er, "Do not fear, for you have borne a son." But she did not answ er, nor did she regard it.

nkjv@1Samuel:4:21 @ Then she named the child Ichabod, saying, "The glory has departed from Israel!" because the ark of God had been captured and because of h er fath er-in-law and h er husband.

nkjv@1Samuel:5:1 @ Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it from Ebenez er to Ashdod.

nkjv@1Samuel:5:3 @ And when the people of Ashdod arose early in the morning, th ere was Dagon, fallen on its face to the earth before the ark of the LORD. So they took Dagon and set it in its place again.

nkjv@1Samuel:5:4 @ And when they arose early the next morning, th ere was Dagon, fallen on its face to the ground before the ark of the LORD. The head of Dagon and both the palms of its hands w ere broken off on the threshold; only Dagon's torso was left of it.

nkjv@1Samuel:5:5 @ Th erefore neith er the priests of Dagon nor any who come into Dagon's house tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod to this day.

nkjv@1Samuel:5:6 @ But the hand of the LORD was heavy on the people of Ashdod, and He ravaged them and struck them with tumors, both Ashdod and its t erritory.

nkjv@1Samuel:5:8 @ Th erefore they sent and gath ered to themselves all the lords of the Philistines, and said, "What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?" And they answ ered, "Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried away to Gath." So they carried the ark of the God of Israel away.

nkjv@1Samuel:5:9 @ So it was, aft er they had carried it away, that the hand of the LORD was against the city with a v ery great destruction; and He struck the men of the city, both small and great, and tumors broke out on them.

nkjv@1Samuel:5:10 @ Th erefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. So it was, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, "They have brought the ark of the God of Israel to us, to kill us and our people!"

nkjv@1Samuel:5:11 @ So they sent and gath ered togeth er all the lords of the Philistines, and said, "Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go back to its own place, so that it does not kill us and our people." For th ere was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was v ery heavy th ere.

nkjv@1Samuel:5:12 @ And the men who did not die w ere stricken with the tumors, and the cry of the city went up to heaven.

nkjv@1Samuel:6:2 @ And the Philistines called for the priests and the divin ers, saying, "What shall we do with the ark of the LORD? Tell us how we should send it to its place."

nkjv@1Samuel:6:3 @ So they said, "If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it empty; but by all means return it to Him with a trespass off ering. Then you will be healed, and it will be known to you why His hand is not removed from you."

nkjv@1Samuel:6:4 @ Then they said, "What is the trespass off ering which we shall return to Him?" They answ ered, "Five golden tumors and five golden rats, according to the numb er of the lords of the Philistines. For the same plague was on all of you and on your lords.

nkjv@1Samuel:6:5 @ Th erefore you shall make images of your tumors and images of your rats that ravage the land, and you shall give glory to the God of Israel; p erhaps He will lighten His hand from you, from your gods, and from your land.

nkjv@1Samuel:6:7 @ Now th erefore, make a new cart, take two milk cows which have nev er been yoked, and hitch the cows to the cart; and take their calves home, away from them.

nkjv@1Samuel:6:8 @ Then take the ark of the LORD and set it on the cart; and put the articles of gold which you are returning to Him as a trespass off ering in a chest by its side. Then send it away, and let it go.

nkjv@1Samuel:6:9 @ And watch: if it goes up the road to its own t erritory, to Beth Shemesh, then He has done us this great evil. But if not, then we shall know that it is not His hand that struck us--it happened to us by chance."

nkjv@1Samuel:6:12 @ Then the cows headed straight for the road to Beth Shemesh, and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and did not turn aside to the right hand or the left. And the lords of the Philistines went aft er them to the bord er of Beth Shemesh.

nkjv@1Samuel:6:13 @ Now the people of Beth Shemesh w ere reaping their wheat harvest in the valley; and they lifted their eyes and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it.

nkjv@1Samuel:6:14 @ Then the cart came into the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh, and stood th ere; a large stone was th ere. So they split the wood of the cart and off ered the cows as a burnt off ering to the LORD.

nkjv@1Samuel:6:15 @ The Levites took down the ark of the LORD and the chest that was with it, in which w ere the articles of gold, and put them on the large stone. Then the men of Beth Shemesh off ered burnt off erings and made sacrifices the same day to the LORD.

nkjv@1Samuel:6:17 @ These are the golden tumors which the Philistines returned as a trespass off ering to the LORD: one for Ashdod, one for Gaza, one for Ashkelon, one for Gath, one for Ekron;

nkjv@1Samuel:6:18 @ and the golden rats, according to the numb er of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both fortified cities and country villages, even as far as the large stone of Abel on which they set the ark of the LORD, which stone remains to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh.

nkjv@1Samuel:6:19 @ Then He struck the men of Beth Shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD. He struck fifty thousand and seventy men of the people, and the people lamented because the LORD had struck the people with a great slaught er.

nkjv@1Samuel:6:21 @ So they sent messeng ers to the inhabitants of Kirjath Jearim, saying, "The Philistines have brought back the ark of the LORD; come down and take it up with you."

nkjv@1Samuel:7:2 @ So it was that the ark remained in Kirjath Jearim a long time; it was th ere twenty years. And all the house of Israel lamented aft er the LORD.

nkjv@1Samuel:7:3 @ Then Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, "If you return to the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtoreths from among you, and prepare your hearts for the LORD, and s erve Him only; and He will deliv er you from the hand of the Philistines."

nkjv@1Samuel:7:4 @ So the children of Israel put away the Baals and the Ashtoreths, and s erved the LORD only.

nkjv@1Samuel:7:5 @ And Samuel said, "Gath er all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray to the LORD for you."

nkjv@1Samuel:7:6 @ So they gath ered togeth er at Mizpah, drew wat er, and poured it out before the LORD. And they fasted that day, and said th ere, "We have sinned against the LORD." And Samuel judged the children of Israel at Mizpah.

nkjv@1Samuel:7:7 @ Now when the Philistines heard that the children of Israel had gath ered togeth er at Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. And when the children of Israel heard of it, they w ere afraid of the Philistines.

nkjv@1Samuel:7:9 @ And Samuel took a suckling lamb and off ered it as a whole burnt off ering to the LORD. Then Samuel cried out to the LORD for Israel, and the LORD answ ered him.

nkjv@1Samuel:7:10 @ Now as Samuel was off ering up the burnt off ering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel. But the LORD thund ered with a loud thund er upon the Philistines that day, and so confused them that they w ere ov ercome before Israel.

nkjv@1Samuel:7:12 @ Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name Ebenez er, saying, "Thus far the LORD has helped us."

nkjv@1Samuel:7:13 @ So the Philistines w ere subdued, and they did not come anymore into the t erritory of Israel. And the hand of the LORD was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.

nkjv@1Samuel:7:14 @ Then the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel w ere restored to Israel, from Ekron to Gath; and Israel recov ered its t erritory from the hands of the Philistines. Also th ere was peace between Israel and the Amorites.

nkjv@1Samuel:7:17 @ But he always returned to Ramah, for his home was th ere. Th ere he judged Israel, and th ere he built an altar to the LORD.

nkjv@1Samuel:8:1 @ Now it came to pass when Samuel was old that he made his sons judges ov er Israel.

nkjv@1Samuel:8:2 @ The name of his firstborn was Joel, and the name of his second, Abijah; they w ere judges in Be ersheba.

nkjv@1Samuel:8:3 @ But his sons did not walk in his ways; they turned aside aft er dishonest gain, took bribes, and p erv erted justice.

nkjv@1Samuel:8:4 @ Then all the eld ers of Israel gath ered togeth er and came to Samuel at Ramah,

nkjv@1Samuel:8:7 @ And the LORD said to Samuel, "Heed the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me, that I should not reign ov er them.

nkjv@1Samuel:8:8 @ According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt, even to this day--with which they have forsaken Me and s erved oth er gods--so they are doing to you also.

nkjv@1Samuel:8:9 @ Now th erefore, heed their voice. Howev er, you shall solemnly forewarn them, and show them the behavior of the king who will reign ov er them."

nkjv@1Samuel:8:11 @ And he said, "This will be the behavior of the king who will reign ov er you: He will take your sons and appoint them for his own chariots and to be his horsemen, and some will run before his chariots.

nkjv@1Samuel:8:12 @ He will appoint captains ov er his thousands and captains ov er his fifties, will set some to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and some to make his weapons of war and equipment for his chariots.

nkjv@1Samuel:8:13 @ He will take your daught ers to be p erfum ers, cooks, and bak ers.

nkjv@1Samuel:8:14 @ And he will take the best of your fields, your vineyards, and your olive groves, and give them to his s ervants.

nkjv@1Samuel:8:15 @ He will take a tenth of your grain and your vintage, and give it to his offic ers and s ervants.

nkjv@1Samuel:8:16 @ And he will take your male s ervants, your female s ervants, your finest young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work.

nkjv@1Samuel:8:17 @ He will take a tenth of your sheep. And you will be his s ervants.

nkjv@1Samuel:8:19 @ Nev ertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, "No, but we will have a king ov er us,

nkjv@1Samuel:8:22 @ So the LORD said to Samuel, "Heed their voice, and make them a king." And Samuel said to the men of Israel, "Ev ery man go to his city."

nkjv@1Samuel:9:1 @ Th ere was a man of Benjamin whose name was Kish the son of Abiel, the son of Z eror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, a Benjamite, a mighty man of pow er.

nkjv@1Samuel:9:2 @ And he had a choice and handsome son whose name was Saul. Th ere was not a more handsome p erson than he among the children of Israel. From his should ers upward he was tall er than any of the people.

nkjv@1Samuel:9:3 @ Now the donkeys of Kish, Saul's fath er, w ere lost. And Kish said to his son Saul, "Please take one of the s ervants with you, and arise, go and look for the donkeys."

nkjv@1Samuel:9:4 @ So he passed through the mountains of Ephraim and through the land of Shalisha, but they did not find them. Then they passed through the land of Shaalim, and they w ere not th ere. Then he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they did not find them.

nkjv@1Samuel:9:5 @ When they had come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his s ervant who was with him, "Come, let us return, lest my fath er cease caring about the donkeys and become worried about us."

nkjv@1Samuel:9:6 @ And he said to him, "Look now, th ere is in this city a man of God, and he is an honorable man; all that he says surely comes to pass. So let us go th ere; p erhaps he can show us the way that we should go."

nkjv@1Samuel:9:7 @ Then Saul said to his s ervant, "But look, if we go, what shall we bring the man? For the bread in our vessels is all gone, and th ere is no present to bring to the man of God. What do we have?"

nkjv@1Samuel:9:8 @ And the s ervant answ ered Saul again and said, "Look, I have h ere at hand one-fourth of a shekel of silv er. I will give that to the man of God, to tell us our way."

nkjv@1Samuel:9:9 @ (Form erly in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he spoke thus: "Come, let us go to the se er"; for he who is now called a prophet was form erly called a se er.)

nkjv@1Samuel:9:10 @ Then Saul said to his s ervant, "Well said; come, let us go." So they went to the city wh ere the man of God was.

nkjv@1Samuel:9:11 @ As they went up the hill to the city, they met some young women going out to draw wat er, and said to them, "Is the se er h ere?"

nkjv@1Samuel:9:12 @ And they answ ered them and said, "Yes, th ere he is, just ahead of you. Hurry now; for today he came to this city, because th ere is a sacrifice of the people today on the high place.

nkjv@1Samuel:9:13 @ As soon as you come into the city, you will surely find him before he goes up to the high place to eat. For the people will not eat until he comes, because he must bless the sacrifice; aft erward those who are invited will eat. Now th erefore, go up, for about this time you will find him."

nkjv@1Samuel:9:14 @ So they went up to the city. As they w ere coming into the city, th ere was Samuel, coming out toward them on his way up to the high place.

nkjv@1Samuel:9:16 @ "Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him command er ov er My people Israel, that he may save My people from the hand of the Philistines; for I have looked upon My people, because their cry has come to Me."

nkjv@1Samuel:9:17 @ So when Samuel saw Saul, the LORD said to him, "Th ere he is, the man of whom I spoke to you. This one shall reign ov er My people."

nkjv@1Samuel:9:18 @ Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the gate, and said, "Please tell me, wh ere is the se er's house?"

nkjv@1Samuel:9:19 @ Samuel answ ered Saul and said, "I am the se er. Go up before me to the high place, for you shall eat with me today; and tomorrow I will let you go and will tell you all that is in your heart.

nkjv@1Samuel:9:20 @ But as for your donkeys that w ere lost three days ago, do not be anxious about them, for they have been found. And on whom is all the desire of Israel? Is it not on you and on all your fath er's house?"

nkjv@1Samuel:9:21 @ And Saul answ ered and said, "Am I not a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel, and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? Why then do you speak like this to me?"

nkjv@1Samuel:9:22 @ Now Samuel took Saul and his s ervant and brought them into the hall, and had them sit in the place of honor among those who w ere invited; th ere w ere about thirty p ersons.

nkjv@1Samuel:9:24 @ So the cook took up the thigh with its upp er part and set it before Saul. And Samuel said, "H ere it is, what was kept back. It was set apart for you. Eat; for until this time it has been kept for you, since I said I invited the people." So Saul ate with Samuel that day.

nkjv@1Samuel:9:27 @ As they w ere going down to the outskirts of the city, Samuel said to Saul, "Tell the s ervant to go on ahead of us." And he went on. "But you stand h ere awhile, that I may announce to you the word of God."

nkjv@1Samuel:10:1 @ Then Samuel took a flask of oil and poured it on his head, and kissed him and said: "Is it not because the LORD has anointed you command er ov er His inh eritance?

nkjv@1Samuel:10:2 @ When you have departed from me today, you will find two men by Rachel's tomb in the t erritory of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say to you, "The donkeys which you went to look for have been found. And now your fath er has ceased caring about the donkeys and is worrying about you, saying, "What shall I do about my son?"'

nkjv@1Samuel:10:3 @ Then you shall go on forward from th ere and come to the t erebinth tree of Tabor. Th ere three men going up to God at Bethel will meet you, one carrying three young goats, anoth er carrying three loaves of bread, and anoth er carrying a skin of wine.

nkjv@1Samuel:10:5 @ Aft er that you shall come to the hill of God wh ere the Philistine garrison is. And it will happen, when you have come th ere to the city, that you will meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place with a stringed instrument, a tambourine, a flute, and a harp before them; and they will be prophesying.

nkjv@1Samuel:10:6 @ Then the Spirit of the LORD will come upon you, and you will prophesy with them and be turned into anoth er man.

nkjv@1Samuel:10:8 @ You shall go down before me to Gilgal; and surely I will come down to you to off er burnt off erings and make sacrifices of peace off erings. Seven days you shall wait, till I come to you and show you what you should do."

nkjv@1Samuel:10:9 @ So it was, when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, that God gave him anoth er heart; and all those signs came to pass that day.

nkjv@1Samuel:10:10 @ When they came th ere to the hill, th ere was a group of prophets to meet him; then the Spirit of God came upon him, and he prophesied among them.

nkjv@1Samuel:10:11 @ And it happened, when all who knew him form erly saw that he indeed prophesied among the prophets, that the people said to one anoth er, "What is this that has come upon the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?"

nkjv@1Samuel:10:12 @ Then a man from th ere answ ered and said, "But who is their fath er?" Th erefore it became a prov erb: "Is Saul also among the prophets?"

nkjv@1Samuel:10:14 @ Then Saul's uncle said to him and his s ervant, "Wh ere did you go?" So he said, "To look for the donkeys. When we saw that they w ere nowh ere to be found, we went to Samuel."

nkjv@1Samuel:10:16 @ So Saul said to his uncle, "He told us plainly that the donkeys had been found." But about the matt er of the kingdom, he did not tell him what Samuel had said.

nkjv@1Samuel:10:17 @ Then Samuel called the people togeth er to the LORD at Mizpah,

nkjv@1Samuel:10:18 @ and said to the children of Israel, "Thus says the LORD God of Israel: "I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and deliv ered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of all kingdoms and from those who oppressed you.'

nkjv@1Samuel:10:19 @ But you have today rejected your God, who Himself saved you from all your adv ersities and your tribulations; and you have said to Him, "No, set a king ov er us!' Now th erefore, present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes and by your clans."

nkjv@1Samuel:10:22 @ Th erefore they inquired of the LORD furth er, "Has the man come h ere yet?" And the LORD answ ered, "Th ere he is, hidden among the equipment."

nkjv@1Samuel:10:23 @ So they ran and brought him from th ere; and when he stood among the people, he was tall er than any of the people from his should ers upward.

nkjv@1Samuel:10:24 @ And Samuel said to all the people, "Do you see him whom the LORD has chosen, that th ere is no one like him among all the people?" So all the people shouted and said, "Long live the king!"

nkjv@1Samuel:10:25 @ Then Samuel explained to the people the behavior of royalty, and wrote it in a book and laid it up before the LORD. And Samuel sent all the people away, ev ery man to his house.

nkjv@1Samuel:11:1 @ Then Nahash the Ammonite came up and encamped against Jabesh Gilead; and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, "Make a covenant with us, and we will s erve you."

nkjv@1Samuel:11:2 @ And Nahash the Ammonite answ ered them, "On this condition I will make a covenant with you, that I may put out all your right eyes, and bring reproach on all Israel."

nkjv@1Samuel:11:3 @ Then the eld ers of Jabesh said to him, "Hold off for seven days, that we may send messeng ers to all the t erritory of Israel. And then, if th ere is no one to save us, we will come out to you."

nkjv@1Samuel:11:4 @ So the messeng ers came to Gibeah of Saul and told the news in the hearing of the people. And all the people lifted up their voices and wept.

nkjv@1Samuel:11:5 @ Now th ere was Saul, coming behind the h erd from the field; and Saul said, "What troubles the people, that they weep?" And they told him the words of the men of Jabesh.

nkjv@1Samuel:11:6 @ Then the Spirit of God came upon Saul when he heard this news, and his ang er was greatly aroused.

nkjv@1Samuel:11:7 @ So he took a yoke of oxen and cut them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the t erritory of Israel by the hands of messeng ers, saying, "Whoev er does not go out with Saul and Samuel to battle, so it shall be done to his oxen." And the fear of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out with one consent.

nkjv@1Samuel:11:8 @ When he numb ered them in Bezek, the children of Israel w ere three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.

nkjv@1Samuel:11:9 @ And they said to the messeng ers who came, "Thus you shall say to the men of Jabesh Gilead: "Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you shall have help."' Then the messeng ers came and reported it to the men of Jabesh, and they w ere glad.

nkjv@1Samuel:11:10 @ Th erefore the men of Jabesh said, "Tomorrow we will come out to you, and you may do with us whatev er seems good to you."

nkjv@1Samuel:11:11 @ So it was, on the next day, that Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the camp in the morning watch, and killed Ammonites until the heat of the day. And it happened that those who survived w ere scatt ered, so that no two of them w ere left togeth er.

nkjv@1Samuel:11:12 @ Then the people said to Samuel, "Who is he who said, "Shall Saul reign ov er us?' Bring the men, that we may put them to death."

nkjv@1Samuel:11:14 @ Then Samuel said to the people, "Come, let us go to Gilgal and renew the kingdom th ere."

nkjv@1Samuel:11:15 @ So all the people went to Gilgal, and th ere they made Saul king before the LORD in Gilgal. Th ere they made sacrifices of peace off erings before the LORD, and th ere Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.

nkjv@1Samuel:12:1 @ Now Samuel said to all Israel: "Indeed I have heeded your voice in all that you said to me, and have made a king ov er you.

nkjv@1Samuel:12:2 @ And now h ere is the king, walking before you; and I am old and grayheaded, and look, my sons are with you. I have walked before you from my childhood to this day.

nkjv@1Samuel:12:3 @ H ere I am. Witness against me before the LORD and before His anointed: Whose ox have I taken, or whose donkey have I taken, or whom have I cheated? Whom have I oppressed, or from whose hand have I received any bribe with which to blind my eyes? I will restore it to you."

nkjv@1Samuel:12:5 @ Then he said to them, "The LORD is witness against you, and His anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand." And they answ ered, "He is witness."

nkjv@1Samuel:12:6 @ Then Samuel said to the people, "It is the LORD who raised up Moses and Aaron, and who brought your fath ers up from the land of Egypt.

nkjv@1Samuel:12:7 @ Now th erefore, stand still, that I may reason with you before the LORD conc erning all the righteous acts of the LORD which He did to you and your fath ers:

nkjv@1Samuel:12:8 @ When Jacob had gone into Egypt, and your fath ers cried out to the LORD, then the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your fath ers out of Egypt and made them dwell in this place.

nkjv@1Samuel:12:9 @ And when they forgot the LORD their God, He sold them into the hand of Sis era, command er of the army of Hazor, into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab; and they fought against them.

nkjv@1Samuel:12:10 @ Then they cried out to the LORD, and said, "We have sinned, because we have forsaken the LORD and s erved the Baals and Ashtoreths; but now deliv er us from the hand of our enemies, and we will s erve You.'

nkjv@1Samuel:12:11 @ And the LORD sent J erubbaal, Bedan, Jephthah, and Samuel, and deliv ered you out of the hand of your enemies on ev ery side; and you dwelt in safety.

nkjv@1Samuel:12:12 @ And when you saw that Nahash king of the Ammonites came against you, you said to me, "No, but a king shall reign ov er us,' when the LORD your God was your king.

nkjv@1Samuel:12:13 @ "Now th erefore, h ere is the king whom you have chosen and whom you have desired. And take note, the LORD has set a king ov er you.

nkjv@1Samuel:12:14 @ If you fear the LORD and s erve Him and obey His voice, and do not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then both you and the king who reigns ov er you will continue following the LORD your God.

nkjv@1Samuel:12:15 @ Howev er, if you do not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then the hand of the LORD will be against you, as it was against your fath ers.

nkjv@1Samuel:12:16 @ "Now th erefore, stand and see this great thing which the LORD will do before your eyes:

nkjv@1Samuel:12:17 @ Is today not the wheat harvest? I will call to the LORD, and He will send thund er and rain, that you may p erceive and see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking a king for yourselves."

nkjv@1Samuel:12:18 @ So Samuel called to the LORD, and the LORD sent thund er and rain that day; and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel.

nkjv@1Samuel:12:19 @ And all the people said to Samuel, "Pray for your s ervants to the LORD your God, that we may not die; for we have added to all our sins the evil of asking a king for ourselves."

nkjv@1Samuel:12:20 @ Then Samuel said to the people, "Do not fear. You have done all this wickedness; yet do not turn aside from following the LORD, but s erve the LORD with all your heart.

nkjv@1Samuel:12:21 @ And do not turn aside; for then you would go aft er empty things which cannot profit or deliv er, for they are nothing.

nkjv@1Samuel:12:23 @ Moreov er, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you; but I will teach you the good and the right way.

nkjv@1Samuel:12:24 @ Only fear the LORD, and s erve Him in truth with all your heart; for consid er what great things He has done for you.

nkjv@1Samuel:13:1 @ Saul reigned one year; and when he had reigned two years ov er Israel,

nkjv@1Samuel:13:2 @ Saul chose for himself three thousand men of Israel. Two thousand w ere with Saul in Michmash and in the mountains of Bethel, and a thousand w ere with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. The rest of the people he sent away, ev ery man to his tent.

nkjv@1Samuel:13:4 @ Now all Israel heard it said that Saul had attacked a garrison of the Philistines, and that Israel had also become an abomination to the Philistines. And the people w ere called togeth er to Saul at Gilgal.

nkjv@1Samuel:13:5 @ Then the Philistines gath ered togeth er to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the seashore in multitude. And they came up and encamped in Michmash, to the east of Beth Aven.

nkjv@1Samuel:13:6 @ When the men of Israel saw that they w ere in dang er (for the people w ere distressed), then the people hid in caves, in thickets, in rocks, in holes, and in pits.

nkjv@1Samuel:13:7 @ And some of the Hebrews crossed ov er the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. As for Saul, he was still in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.

nkjv@1Samuel:13:8 @ Then he waited seven days, according to the time set by Samuel. But Samuel did not come to Gilgal; and the people w ere scatt ered from him.

nkjv@1Samuel:13:9 @ So Saul said, "Bring a burnt off ering and peace off erings h ere to me." And he off ered the burnt off ering.

nkjv@1Samuel:13:10 @ Now it happened, as soon as he had finished presenting the burnt off ering, that Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might greet him.

nkjv@1Samuel:13:11 @ And Samuel said, "What have you done?" Saul said, "When I saw that the people w ere scatt ered from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gath ered togeth er at Michmash,

nkjv@1Samuel:13:12 @ then I said, "The Philistines will now come down on me at Gilgal, and I have not made supplication to the LORD.' Th erefore I felt compelled, and off ered a burnt off ering."

nkjv@1Samuel:13:13 @ And Samuel said to Saul, "You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of the LORD your God, which He commanded you. For now the LORD would have established your kingdom ov er Israel forev er.

nkjv@1Samuel:13:14 @ But now your kingdom shall not continue. The LORD has sought for Himself a man aft er His own heart, and the LORD has commanded him to be command er ov er His people, because you have not kept what the LORD commanded you."

nkjv@1Samuel:13:15 @ Then Samuel arose and went up from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numb ered the people present with him, about six hundred men.

nkjv@1Samuel:13:17 @ Then raid ers came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies. One company turned onto the road to Ophrah, to the land of Shual,

nkjv@1Samuel:13:18 @ anoth er company turned to the road to Beth Horon, and anoth er company turned to the road of the bord er that ov erlooks the Valley of Zeboim toward the wild erness.

nkjv@1Samuel:13:19 @ Now th ere was no blacksmith to be found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, "Lest the Hebrews make swords or spears."

nkjv@1Samuel:13:22 @ So it came about, on the day of battle, that th ere was neith er sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people who w ere with Saul and Jonathan. But they w ere found with Saul and Jonathan his son.

nkjv@1Samuel:14:1 @ Now it happened one day that Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man who bore his armor, "Come, let us go ov er to the Philistines' garrison that is on the oth er side." But he did not tell his fath er.

nkjv@1Samuel:14:2 @ And Saul was sitting in the outskirts of Gibeah und er a pomegranate tree which is in Migron. The people who w ere with him w ere about six hundred men.

nkjv@1Samuel:14:3 @ Ahijah the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's broth er, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the LORD's priest in Shiloh, was wearing an ephod. But the people did not know that Jonathan had gone.

nkjv@1Samuel:14:4 @ Between the passes, by which Jonathan sought to go ov er to the Philistines' garrison, th ere was a sharp rock on one side and a sharp rock on the oth er side. And the name of one was Bozez, and the name of the oth er Seneh.

nkjv@1Samuel:14:5 @ The front of one faced northward opposite Michmash, and the oth er southward opposite Gibeah.

nkjv@1Samuel:14:6 @ Then Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armor, "Come, let us go ov er to the garrison of these uncircumcised; it may be that the LORD will work for us. For nothing restrains the LORD from saving by many or by few."

nkjv@1Samuel:14:7 @ So his armorbear er said to him, "Do all that is in your heart. Go then; h ere I am with you, according to your heart."

nkjv@1Samuel:14:8 @ Then Jonathan said, "V ery well, let us cross ov er to these men, and we will show ourselves to them.

nkjv@1Samuel:14:10 @ But if they say thus, "Come up to us,' then we will go up. For the LORD has deliv ered them into our hand, and this will be a sign to us."

nkjv@1Samuel:14:11 @ So both of them showed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines. And the Philistines said, "Look, the Hebrews are coming out of the holes wh ere they have hidden."

nkjv@1Samuel:14:12 @ Then the men of the garrison called to Jonathan and his armorbear er, and said, "Come up to us, and we will show you something." Jonathan said to his armorbear er, "Come up aft er me, for the LORD has deliv ered them into the hand of Israel."

nkjv@1Samuel:14:13 @ And Jonathan climbed up on his hands and knees with his armorbear er aft er him; and they fell before Jonathan. And as he came aft er him, his armorbear er killed them.

nkjv@1Samuel:14:14 @ That first slaught er which Jonathan and his armorbear er made was about twenty men within about half an acre of land.

nkjv@1Samuel:14:15 @ And th ere was trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all the people. The garrison and the raid ers also trembled; and the earth quaked, so that it was a v ery great trembling.

nkjv@1Samuel:14:16 @ Now the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked, and th ere was the multitude, melting away; and they went h ere and th ere.

nkjv@1Samuel:14:17 @ Then Saul said to the people who w ere with him, "Now call the roll and see who has gone from us." And when they had called the roll, surprisingly, Jonathan and his armorbear er w ere not th ere.

nkjv@1Samuel:14:18 @ And Saul said to Ahijah, "Bring the ark of God h ere" (for at that time the ark of God was with the children of Israel).

nkjv@1Samuel:14:20 @ Then Saul and all the people who w ere with him assembled, and they went to the battle; and indeed ev ery man's sword was against his neighbor, and th ere was v ery great confusion.

nkjv@1Samuel:14:21 @ Moreov er the Hebrews who w ere with the Philistines before that time, who went up with them into the camp from the surrounding country, they also joined the Israelites who w ere with Saul and Jonathan.

nkjv@1Samuel:14:22 @ Likewise all the men of Israel who had hidden in the mountains of Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, they also followed hard aft er them in the battle.

nkjv@1Samuel:14:24 @ And the men of Israel w ere distressed that day, for Saul had placed the people und er oath, saying, "Cursed is the man who eats any food until evening, before I have taken vengeance on my enemies." So none of the people tasted food.

nkjv@1Samuel:14:25 @ Now all the people of the land came to a forest; and th ere was honey on the ground.

nkjv@1Samuel:14:26 @ And when the people had come into the woods, th ere was the honey, dripping; but no one put his hand to his mouth, for the people feared the oath.

nkjv@1Samuel:14:27 @ But Jonathan had not heard his fath er charge the people with the oath; th erefore he stretched out the end of the rod that was in his hand and dipped it in a honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his countenance brightened.

nkjv@1Samuel:14:28 @ Then one of the people said, "Your fath er strictly charged the people with an oath, saying, "Cursed is the man who eats food this day."' And the people w ere faint.

nkjv@1Samuel:14:29 @ But Jonathan said, "My fath er has troubled the land. Look now, how my countenance has brightened because I tasted a little of this honey.

nkjv@1Samuel:14:30 @ How much bett er if the people had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies which they found! For now would th ere not have been a much great er slaught er among the Philistines?"

nkjv@1Samuel:14:31 @ Now they had driven back the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. So the people w ere v ery faint.

nkjv@1Samuel:14:32 @ And the people rushed on the spoil, and took sheep, oxen, and calves, and slaught ered them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood.

nkjv@1Samuel:14:33 @ Then they told Saul, saying, "Look, the people are sinning against the LORD by eating with the blood!" So he said, "You have dealt treach erously; roll a large stone to me this day."

nkjv@1Samuel:14:34 @ Then Saul said, "Disp erse yourselves among the people, and say to them, "Bring me h ere ev ery man's ox and ev ery man's sheep, slaught er them h ere, and eat; and do not sin against the LORD by eating with the blood."' So ev ery one of the people brought his ox with him that night, and slaught ered it th ere.

nkjv@1Samuel:14:36 @ Now Saul said, "Let us go down aft er the Philistines by night, and plund er them until the morning light; and let us not leave a man of them." And they said, "Do whatev er seems good to you." Then the priest said, "Let us draw near to God h ere."

nkjv@1Samuel:14:37 @ So Saul asked counsel of God, "Shall I go down aft er the Philistines? Will You deliv er them into the hand of Israel?" But He did not answ er him that day.

nkjv@1Samuel:14:38 @ And Saul said, "Come ov er h ere, all you chiefs of the people, and know and see what this sin was today.

nkjv@1Samuel:14:39 @ For as the LORD lives, who saves Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die." But not a man among all the people answ ered him.

nkjv@1Samuel:14:40 @ Then he said to all Israel, "You be on one side, and my son Jonathan and I will be on the oth er side." And the people said to Saul, "Do what seems good to you."

nkjv@1Samuel:14:41 @ Th erefore Saul said to the LORD God of Israel, "Give a p erfect lot." So Saul and Jonathan w ere taken, but the people escaped.

nkjv@1Samuel:14:44 @ Saul answ ered, "God do so and more also; for you shall surely die, Jonathan."

nkjv@1Samuel:14:45 @ But the people said to Saul, "Shall Jonathan die, who has accomplished this great deliv erance in Israel? C ertainly not! As the LORD lives, not one hair of his head shall fall to the ground, for he has worked with God this day." So the people rescued Jonathan, and he did not die.

nkjv@1Samuel:14:47 @ So Saul established his sov ereignty ov er Israel, and fought against all his enemies on ev ery side, against Moab, against the people of Ammon, against Edom, against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines. Wh erev er he turned, he harassed them.

nkjv@1Samuel:14:48 @ And he gath ered an army and attacked the Amalekites, and deliv ered Israel from the hands of those who plund ered them.

nkjv@1Samuel:14:49 @ The sons of Saul w ere Jonathan, Jishui, and Malchishua. And the names of his two daught ers w ere these: the name of the firstborn M erab, and the name of the young er Michal.

nkjv@1Samuel:14:50 @ The name of Saul's wife was Ahinoam the daught er of Ahimaaz. And the name of the command er of his army was Abn er the son of N er, Saul's uncle.

nkjv@1Samuel:14:51 @ Kish was the fath er of Saul, and N er the fath er of Abn er was the son of Abiel.

nkjv@1Samuel:14:52 @ Now th ere was fi erce war with the Philistines all the days of Saul. And when Saul saw any strong man or any valiant man, he took him for himself.

nkjv@1Samuel:15:1 @ Samuel also said to Saul, "The LORD sent me to anoint you king ov er His people, ov er Israel. Now th erefore, heed the voice of the words of the LORD.

nkjv@1Samuel:15:3 @ Now go and attack Amalek, and utt erly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey."'

nkjv@1Samuel:15:4 @ So Saul gath ered the people togeth er and numb ered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand foot soldi ers and ten thousand men of Judah.

nkjv@1Samuel:15:8 @ He also took Agag king of the Amalekites alive, and utt erly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

nkjv@1Samuel:15:9 @ But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, the oxen, the fatlings, the lambs, and all that was good, and w ere unwilling to utt erly destroy them. But ev erything despised and worthless, that they utt erly destroyed.

nkjv@1Samuel:15:11 @ "I greatly regret that I have set up Saul as king, for he has turned back from following Me, and has not p erformed My commandments." And it grieved Samuel, and he cried out to the LORD all night.

nkjv@1Samuel:15:13 @ Then Samuel went to Saul, and Saul said to him, "Blessed are you of the LORD! I have p erformed the commandment of the LORD."

nkjv@1Samuel:15:15 @ And Saul said, "They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and the oxen, to sacrifice to the LORD your God; and the rest we have utt erly destroyed."

nkjv@1Samuel:15:17 @ So Samuel said, "When you w ere little in your own eyes, w ere you not head of the tribes of Israel? And did not the LORD anoint you king ov er Israel?

nkjv@1Samuel:15:18 @ Now the LORD sent you on a mission, and said, "Go, and utt erly destroy the sinn ers, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.'

nkjv@1Samuel:15:20 @ And Saul said to Samuel, "But I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and gone on the mission on which the LORD sent me, and brought back Agag king of Amalek; I have utt erly destroyed the Amalekites.

nkjv@1Samuel:15:21 @ But the people took of the plund er, sheep and oxen, the best of the things which should have been utt erly destroyed, to sacrifice to the LORD your God in Gilgal."

nkjv@1Samuel:15:22 @ So Samuel said: "Has the LORD as great delight in burnt off erings and sacrifices, As in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is bett er than sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of rams.

nkjv@1Samuel:15:25 @ Now th erefore, please pardon my sin, and return with me, that I may worship the LORD."

nkjv@1Samuel:15:26 @ But Samuel said to Saul, "I will not return with you, for you have rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD has rejected you from being king ov er Israel."

nkjv@1Samuel:15:28 @ So Samuel said to him, "The LORD has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today, and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is bett er than you.

nkjv@1Samuel:15:30 @ Then he said, "I have sinned; yet honor me now, please, before the eld ers of my people and before Israel, and return with me, that I may worship the LORD your God."

nkjv@1Samuel:15:31 @ So Samuel turned back aft er Saul, and Saul worshiped the LORD.

nkjv@1Samuel:15:32 @ Then Samuel said, "Bring Agag king of the Amalekites h ere to me." So Agag came to him cautiously. And Agag said, "Surely the bitt erness of death is past."

nkjv@1Samuel:15:33 @ But Samuel said, "As your sword has made women childless, so shall your moth er be childless among women." And Samuel hacked Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.

nkjv@1Samuel:15:35 @ And Samuel went no more to see Saul until the day of his death. Nev ertheless Samuel mourned for Saul, and the LORD regretted that He had made Saul king ov er Israel.

nkjv@1Samuel:16:1 @ Now the LORD said to Samuel, "How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning ov er Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go; I am sending you to Jesse the Bethlehemite. For I have provided Myself a king among his sons."

nkjv@1Samuel:16:2 @ And Samuel said, "How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me." But the LORD said, "Take a heif er with you, and say, "I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.'

nkjv@1Samuel:16:4 @ So Samuel did what the LORD said, and went to Bethlehem. And the eld ers of the town trembled at his coming, and said, "Do you come peaceably?"

nkjv@1Samuel:16:8 @ So Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, "Neith er has the LORD chosen this one."

nkjv@1Samuel:16:9 @ Then Jesse made Shammah pass by. And he said, "Neith er has the LORD chosen this one."

nkjv@1Samuel:16:11 @ And Samuel said to Jesse, "Are all the young men h ere?" Then he said, "Th ere remains yet the youngest, and th ere he is, keeping the sheep." And Samuel said to Jesse, "Send and bring him. For we will not sit down till he comes h ere."

nkjv@1Samuel:16:13 @ Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his broth ers; and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel arose and went to Ramah.

nkjv@1Samuel:16:15 @ And Saul's s ervants said to him, "Surely, a distressing spirit from God is troubling you.

nkjv@1Samuel:16:16 @ Let our mast er now command your s ervants, who are before you, to seek out a man who is a skillful play er on the harp. And it shall be that he will play it with his hand when the distressing spirit from God is upon you, and you shall be well."

nkjv@1Samuel:16:17 @ So Saul said to his s ervants, "Provide me now a man who can play well, and bring him to me."

nkjv@1Samuel:16:18 @ Then one of the s ervants answ ered and said, "Look, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing, a mighty man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a handsome p erson; and the LORD is with him."

nkjv@1Samuel:16:19 @ Th erefore Saul sent messeng ers to Jesse, and said, "Send me your son David, who is with the sheep."

nkjv@1Samuel:16:21 @ So David came to Saul and stood before him. And he loved him greatly, and he became his armorbear er.

nkjv@1Samuel:16:23 @ And so it was, whenev er the spirit from God was upon Saul, that David would take a harp and play it with his hand. Then Saul would become refreshed and well, and the distressing spirit would depart from him.

nkjv@1Samuel:17:1 @ Now the Philistines gath ered their armies togeth er to battle, and w ere gath ered at Sochoh, which belongs to Judah; they encamped between Sochoh and Azekah, in Ephes Dammim.

nkjv@1Samuel:17:2 @ And Saul and the men of Israel w ere gath ered togeth er, and they encamped in the Valley of Elah, and drew up in battle array against the Philistines.

nkjv@1Samuel:17:3 @ The Philistines stood on a mountain on one side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the oth er side, with a valley between them.

nkjv@1Samuel:17:6 @ And he had bronze armor on his legs and a bronze javelin between his should ers.

nkjv@1Samuel:17:7 @ Now the staff of his spear was like a weav er's beam, and his iron spearhead weighed six hundred shekels; and a shield-bear er went before him.

nkjv@1Samuel:17:8 @ Then he stood and cried out to the armies of Israel, and said to them, "Why have you come out to line up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and you the s ervants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me.

nkjv@1Samuel:17:9 @ If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will be your s ervants. But if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our s ervants and s erve us."

nkjv@1Samuel:17:10 @ And the Philistine said, "I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight togeth er."

nkjv@1Samuel:17:11 @ When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they w ere dismayed and greatly afraid.

nkjv@1Samuel:17:13 @ The three oldest sons of Jesse had gone to follow Saul to the battle. The names of his three sons who went to the battle w ere Eliab the firstborn, next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.

nkjv@1Samuel:17:15 @ But David occasionally went and returned from Saul to feed his fath er's sheep at Bethlehem.

nkjv@1Samuel:17:17 @ Then Jesse said to his son David, "Take now for your broth ers an ephah of this dried grain and these ten loaves, and run to your broth ers at the camp.

nkjv@1Samuel:17:18 @ And carry these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand, and see how your broth ers fare, and bring back news of them."

nkjv@1Samuel:17:19 @ Now Saul and they and all the men of Israel w ere in the Valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.

nkjv@1Samuel:17:20 @ So David rose early in the morning, left the sheep with a keep er, and took the things and went as Jesse had commanded him. And he came to the camp as the army was going out to the fight and shouting for the battle.

nkjv@1Samuel:17:22 @ And David left his supplies in the hand of the supply keep er, ran to the army, and came and greeted his broth ers.

nkjv@1Samuel:17:23 @ Then as he talked with them, th ere was the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, coming up from the armies of the Philistines; and he spoke according to the same words. So David heard them.

nkjv@1Samuel:17:24 @ And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him and w ere dreadfully afraid.

nkjv@1Samuel:17:25 @ So the men of Israel said, "Have you seen this man who has come up? Surely he has come up to defy Israel; and it shall be that the man who kills him the king will enrich with great riches, will give him his daught er, and give his fath er's house exemption from taxes in Israel."

nkjv@1Samuel:17:27 @ And the people answ ered him in this mann er, saying, "So shall it be done for the man who kills him."

nkjv@1Samuel:17:28 @ Now Eliab his oldest broth er heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab's ang er was aroused against David, and he said, "Why did you come down h ere? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wild erness? I know your pride and the insolence of your heart, for you have come down to see the battle."

nkjv@1Samuel:17:29 @ And David said, "What have I done now? Is th ere not a cause?"

nkjv@1Samuel:17:30 @ Then he turned from him toward anoth er and said the same thing; and these people answ ered him as the first ones did.

nkjv@1Samuel:17:31 @ Now when the words which David spoke w ere heard, they reported them to Saul; and he sent for him.

nkjv@1Samuel:17:32 @ Then David said to Saul, "Let no man's heart fail because of him; your s ervant will go and fight with this Philistine."

nkjv@1Samuel:17:34 @ But David said to Saul, "Your s ervant used to keep his fath er's sheep, and when a lion or a bear came and took a lamb out of the flock,

nkjv@1Samuel:17:35 @ I went out aft er it and struck it, and deliv ered the lamb from its mouth; and when it arose against me, I caught it by its beard, and struck and killed it.

nkjv@1Samuel:17:36 @ Your s ervant has killed both lion and bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, seeing he has defied the armies of the living God."

nkjv@1Samuel:17:37 @ Moreov er David said, "The LORD, who deliv ered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, He will deliv er me from the hand of this Philistine." And Saul said to David, "Go, and the LORD be with you!"

nkjv@1Samuel:17:40 @ Then he took his staff in his hand; and he chose for himself five smooth stones from the brook, and put them in a sheph erd's bag, in a pouch which he had, and his sling was in his hand. And he drew near to the Philistine.

nkjv@1Samuel:17:46 @ This day the LORD will deliv er you into my hand, and I will strike you and take your head from you. And this day I will give the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that th ere is a God in Israel.

nkjv@1Samuel:17:50 @ So David prevailed ov er the Philistine with a sling and a stone, and struck the Philistine and killed him. But th ere was no sword in the hand of David.

nkjv@1Samuel:17:51 @ Th erefore David ran and stood ov er the Philistine, took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and killed him, and cut off his head with it. And when the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.

nkjv@1Samuel:17:53 @ Then the children of Israel returned from chasing the Philistines, and they plund ered their tents.

nkjv@1Samuel:17:54 @ And David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to J erusalem, but he put his armor in his tent.

nkjv@1Samuel:17:55 @ When Saul saw David going out against the Philistine, he said to Abn er, the command er of the army, "Abn er, whose son is this youth?" And Abn er said, "As your soul lives, O king, I do not know."

nkjv@1Samuel:17:57 @ Then, as David returned from the slaught er of the Philistine, Abn er took him and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.

nkjv@1Samuel:17:58 @ And Saul said to him, "Whose son are you, young man?" So David answ ered, "I am the son of your s ervant Jesse the Bethlehemite."

nkjv@1Samuel:18:2 @ Saul took him that day, and would not let him go home to his fath er's house anymore.

nkjv@1Samuel:18:5 @ So David went out wh erev er Saul sent him, and behaved wisely. And Saul set him ov er the men of war, and he was accepted in the sight of all the people and also in the sight of Saul's s ervants.

nkjv@1Samuel:18:6 @ Now it had happened as they w ere coming home, when David was returning from the slaught er of the Philistine, that the women had come out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with joy, and with musical instruments.

nkjv@1Samuel:18:8 @ Then Saul was v ery angry, and the saying displeased him; and he said, "They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed only thousands. Now what more can he have but the kingdom?"

nkjv@1Samuel:18:10 @ And it happened on the next day that the distressing spirit from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied inside the house. So David played music with his hand, as at oth er times; but th ere was a spear in Saul's hand.

nkjv@1Samuel:18:13 @ Th erefore Saul removed him from his presence, and made him his captain ov er a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.

nkjv@1Samuel:18:15 @ Th erefore, when Saul saw that he behaved v ery wisely, he was afraid of him.

nkjv@1Samuel:18:17 @ Then Saul said to David, "H ere is my old er daught er M erab; I will give h er to you as a wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight the LORD's battles." For Saul thought, "Let my hand not be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him."

nkjv@1Samuel:18:18 @ So David said to Saul, "Who am I, and what is my life or my fath er's family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?"

nkjv@1Samuel:18:19 @ But it happened at the time when M erab, Saul's daught er, should have been given to David, that she was given to Adriel the Meholathite as a wife.

nkjv@1Samuel:18:20 @ Now Michal, Saul's daught er, loved David. And they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.

nkjv@1Samuel:18:21 @ So Saul said, "I will give h er to him, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him." Th erefore Saul said to David a second time, "You shall be my son-in-law today."

nkjv@1Samuel:18:22 @ And Saul commanded his s ervants, "Communicate with David secretly, and say, "Look, the king has delight in you, and all his s ervants love you. Now th erefore, become the king's son-in-law."'

nkjv@1Samuel:18:23 @ So Saul's s ervants spoke those words in the hearing of David. And David said, "Does it seem to you a light thing to be a king's son-in-law, seeing I am a poor and lightly esteemed man?"

nkjv@1Samuel:18:24 @ And the s ervants of Saul told him, saying, "In this mann er David spoke."

nkjv@1Samuel:18:26 @ So when his s ervants told David these words, it pleased David well to become the king's son-in-law. Now the days had not expired;

nkjv@1Samuel:18:27 @ th erefore David arose and went, he and his men, and killed two hundred men of the Philistines. And David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full count to the king, that he might become the king's son-in-law. Then Saul gave him Michal his daught er as a wife.

nkjv@1Samuel:18:28 @ Thus Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David, and that Michal, Saul's daught er, loved him;

nkjv@1Samuel:18:30 @ Then the princes of the Philistines went out to war. And so it was, whenev er they went out, that David behaved more wisely than all the s ervants of Saul, so that his name became highly esteemed.

nkjv@1Samuel:19:1 @ Now Saul spoke to Jonathan his son and to all his s ervants, that they should kill David; but Jonathan, Saul's son, delighted greatly in David.

nkjv@1Samuel:19:2 @ So Jonathan told David, saying, "My fath er Saul seeks to kill you. Th erefore please be on your guard until morning, and stay in a secret place and hide.

nkjv@1Samuel:19:3 @ And I will go out and stand beside my fath er in the field wh ere you are, and I will speak with my fath er about you. Then what I obs erve, I will tell you."

nkjv@1Samuel:19:4 @ Thus Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his fath er, and said to him, "Let not the king sin against his s ervant, against David, because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have been v ery good toward you.

nkjv@1Samuel:19:5 @ For he took his life in his hands and killed the Philistine, and the LORD brought about a great deliv erance for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?"

nkjv@1Samuel:19:8 @ And th ere was war again; and David went out and fought with the Philistines, and struck them with a mighty blow, and they fled from him.

nkjv@1Samuel:19:11 @ Saul also sent messeng ers to David's house to watch him and to kill him in the morning. And Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, "If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed."

nkjv@1Samuel:19:13 @ And Michal took an image and laid it in the bed, put a cov er of goats' hair for his head, and cov ered it with clothes.

nkjv@1Samuel:19:14 @ So when Saul sent messeng ers to take David, she said, "He is sick."

nkjv@1Samuel:19:15 @ Then Saul sent the messeng ers back to see David, saying, "Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him."

nkjv@1Samuel:19:16 @ And when the messeng ers had come in, th ere was the image in the bed, with a cov er of goats' hair for his head.

nkjv@1Samuel:19:17 @ Then Saul said to Michal, "Why have you deceived me like this, and sent my enemy away, so that he has escaped?" And Michal answ ered Saul, "He said to me, "Let me go! Why should I kill you?"'

nkjv@1Samuel:19:20 @ Then Saul sent messeng ers to take David. And when they saw the group of prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as lead er ov er them, the Spirit of God came upon the messeng ers of Saul, and they also prophesied.

nkjv@1Samuel:19:21 @ And when Saul was told, he sent oth er messeng ers, and they prophesied likewise. Then Saul sent messeng ers again the third time, and they prophesied also.

nkjv@1Samuel:19:22 @ Then he also went to Ramah, and came to the great well that is at Sechu. So he asked, and said, "Wh ere are Samuel and David?" And someone said, "Indeed they are at Naioth in Ramah."

nkjv@1Samuel:19:23 @ So he went th ere to Naioth in Ramah. Then the Spirit of God was upon him also, and he went on and prophesied until he came to Naioth in Ramah.

nkjv@1Samuel:19:24 @ And he also stripped off his clothes and prophesied before Samuel in like mann er, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Th erefore they say, "Is Saul also among the prophets?"

nkjv@1Samuel:20:1 @ Then David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and went and said to Jonathan, "What have I done? What is my iniquity, and what is my sin before your fath er, that he seeks my life?"

nkjv@1Samuel:20:2 @ So Jonathan said to him, "By no means! You shall not die! Indeed, my fath er will do nothing eith er great or small without first telling me. And why should my fath er hide this thing from me? It is not so!"

nkjv@1Samuel:20:3 @ Then David took an oath again, and said, "Your fath er c ertainly knows that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said, "Do not let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved.' But truly, as the LORD lives and as your soul lives, th ere is but a step between me and death."

nkjv@1Samuel:20:4 @ So Jonathan said to David, "Whatev er you yourself desire, I will do it for you."

nkjv@1Samuel:20:6 @ If your fath er misses me at all, then say, "David earnestly asked p ermission of me that he might run ov er to Bethlehem, his city, for th ere is a yearly sacrifice th ere for all the family.'

nkjv@1Samuel:20:7 @ If he says thus: "It is well,' your s ervant will be safe. But if he is v ery angry, be sure that evil is det ermined by him.

nkjv@1Samuel:20:8 @ Th erefore you shall deal kindly with your s ervant, for you have brought your s ervant into a covenant of the LORD with you. Nev ertheless, if th ere is iniquity in me, kill me yourself, for why should you bring me to your fath er?"

nkjv@1Samuel:20:9 @ But Jonathan said, "Far be it from you! For if I knew c ertainly that evil was det ermined by my fath er to come upon you, then would I not tell you?"

nkjv@1Samuel:20:10 @ Then David said to Jonathan, "Who will tell me, or what if your fath er answ ers you roughly?"

nkjv@1Samuel:20:12 @ Then Jonathan said to David: "The LORD God of Israel is witness! When I have sounded out my fath er sometime tomorrow, or the third day, and indeed th ere is good toward David, and I do not send to you and tell you,

nkjv@1Samuel:20:13 @ may the LORD do so and much more to Jonathan. But if it pleases my fath er to do you evil, then I will report it to you and send you away, that you may go in safety. And the LORD be with you as He has been with my fath er.

nkjv@1Samuel:20:15 @ but you shall not cut off your kindness from my house forev er, no, not when the LORD has cut off ev ery one of the enemies of David from the face of the earth."

nkjv@1Samuel:20:19 @ And when you have stayed three days, go down quickly and come to the place wh ere you hid on the day of the deed; and remain by the stone Ezel.

nkjv@1Samuel:20:21 @ and th ere I will send a lad, saying, "Go, find the arrows.' If I expressly say to the lad, "Look, the arrows are on this side of you; get them and come'--then, as the LORD lives, th ere is safety for you and no harm.

nkjv@1Samuel:20:23 @ And as for the matt er which you and I have spoken of, indeed the LORD be between you and me forev er."

nkjv@1Samuel:20:25 @ Now the king sat on his seat, as at oth er times, on a seat by the wall. And Jonathan arose, and Abn er sat by Saul's side, but David's place was empty.

nkjv@1Samuel:20:26 @ Nev ertheless Saul did not say anything that day, for he thought, "Something has happened to him; he is unclean, surely he is unclean."

nkjv@1Samuel:20:27 @ And it happened the next day, the second day of the month, that David's place was empty. And Saul said to Jonathan his son, "Why has the son of Jesse not come to eat, eith er yest erday or today?"

nkjv@1Samuel:20:28 @ So Jonathan answ ered Saul, "David earnestly asked p ermission of me to go to Bethlehem.

nkjv@1Samuel:20:29 @ And he said, "Please let me go, for our family has a sacrifice in the city, and my broth er has commanded me to be th ere. And now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me get away and see my broth ers.' Th erefore he has not come to the king's table."

nkjv@1Samuel:20:30 @ Then Saul's ang er was aroused against Jonathan, and he said to him, "You son of a p erv erse, rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of your moth er's nakedness?

nkjv@1Samuel:20:31 @ For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, you shall not be established, nor your kingdom. Now th erefore, send and bring him to me, for he shall surely die."

nkjv@1Samuel:20:32 @ And Jonathan answ ered Saul his fath er, and said to him, "Why should he be killed? What has he done?"

nkjv@1Samuel:20:33 @ Then Saul cast a spear at him to kill him, by which Jonathan knew that it was det ermined by his fath er to kill David.

nkjv@1Samuel:20:34 @ So Jonathan arose from the table in fi erce ang er, and ate no food the second day of the month, for he was grieved for David, because his fath er had treated him shamefully.

nkjv@1Samuel:20:37 @ When the lad had come to the place wh ere the arrow was which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried out aft er the lad and said, "Is not the arrow beyond you?"

nkjv@1Samuel:20:38 @ And Jonathan cried out aft er the lad, "Make haste, hurry, do not delay!" So Jonathan's lad gath ered up the arrows and came back to his mast er.

nkjv@1Samuel:20:39 @ But the lad did not know anything. Only Jonathan and David knew of the matt er.

nkjv@1Samuel:20:41 @ As soon as the lad had gone, David arose from a place toward the south, fell on his face to the ground, and bowed down three times. And they kissed one anoth er; and they wept togeth er, but David more so.

nkjv@1Samuel:20:42 @ Then Jonathan said to David, "Go in peace, since we have both sworn in the name of the LORD, saying, "May the LORD be between you and me, and between your descendants and my descendants, forev er."' So he arose and departed, and Jonathan went into the city.

nkjv@1Samuel:21:2 @ So David said to Ahimelech the priest, "The king has ord ered me on some business, and said to me, "Do not let anyone know anything about the business on which I send you, or what I have commanded you.' And I have directed my young men to such and such a place.

nkjv@1Samuel:21:3 @ Now th erefore, what have you on hand? Give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatev er can be found."

nkjv@1Samuel:21:4 @ And the priest answ ered David and said, "Th ere is no common bread on hand; but th ere is holy bread, if the young men have at least kept themselves from women."

nkjv@1Samuel:21:5 @ Then David answ ered the priest, and said to him, "Truly, women have been kept from us about three days since I came out. And the vessels of the young men are holy, and the bread is in effect common, even though it was consecrated in the vessel this day."

nkjv@1Samuel:21:6 @ So the priest gave him holy bread; for th ere was no bread th ere but the showbread which had been taken from before the LORD, in ord er to put hot bread in its place on the day when it was taken away.

nkjv@1Samuel:21:7 @ Now a c ertain man of the s ervants of Saul was th ere that day, detained before the LORD. And his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the chief of the h erdsmen who belonged to Saul.

nkjv@1Samuel:21:8 @ And David said to Ahimelech, "Is th ere not h ere on hand a spear or a sword? For I have brought neith er my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste."

nkjv@1Samuel:21:9 @ So the priest said, "The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, th ere it is, wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you will take that, take it. For th ere is no oth er except that one h ere." And David said, "Th ere is none like it; give it to me."

nkjv@1Samuel:21:11 @ And the s ervants of Achish said to him, "Is this not David the king of the land? Did they not sing of him to one anoth er in dances, saying: "Saul has slain his thousands, And David his ten thousands'?"

nkjv@1Samuel:21:12 @ Now David took these words to heart, and was v ery much afraid of Achish the king of Gath.

nkjv@1Samuel:21:14 @ Then Achish said to his s ervants, "Look, you see the man is insane. Why have you brought him to me?

nkjv@1Samuel:22:1 @ David th erefore departed from th ere and escaped to the cave of Adullam. So when his broth ers and all his fath er's house heard it, they went down th ere to him.

nkjv@1Samuel:22:2 @ And ev eryone who was in distress, ev eryone who was in debt, and ev eryone who was discontented gath ered to him. So he became captain ov er them. And th ere w ere about four hundred men with him.

nkjv@1Samuel:22:3 @ Then David went from th ere to Mizpah of Moab; and he said to the king of Moab, "Please let my fath er and moth er come h ere with you, till I know what God will do for me."

nkjv@1Samuel:22:5 @ Now the prophet Gad said to David, "Do not stay in the stronghold; depart, and go to the land of Judah." So David departed and went into the forest of H ereth.

nkjv@1Samuel:22:6 @ When Saul heard that David and the men who w ere with him had been discov ered--now Saul was staying in Gibeah und er a tamarisk tree in Ramah, with his spear in his hand, and all his s ervants standing about him--

nkjv@1Samuel:22:7 @ then Saul said to his s ervants who stood about him, "Hear now, you Benjamites! Will the son of Jesse give ev ery one of you fields and vineyards, and make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds?

nkjv@1Samuel:22:8 @ All of you have conspired against me, and th ere is no one who reveals to me that my son has made a covenant with the son of Jesse; and th ere is not one of you who is sorry for me or reveals to me that my son has stirred up my s ervant against me, to lie in wait, as it is this day."

nkjv@1Samuel:22:9 @ Then answ ered Doeg the Edomite, who was set ov er the s ervants of Saul, and said, "I saw the son of Jesse going to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.

nkjv@1Samuel:22:11 @ So the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his fath er's house, the priests who w ere in Nob. And they all came to the king.

nkjv@1Samuel:22:12 @ And Saul said, "Hear now, son of Ahitub!" He answ ered, "H ere I am, my lord."

nkjv@1Samuel:22:14 @ So Ahimelech answ ered the king and said, "And who among all your s ervants is as faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, who goes at your bidding, and is honorable in your house?

nkjv@1Samuel:22:15 @ Did I then begin to inquire of God for him? Far be it from me! Let not the king impute anything to his s ervant, or to any in the house of my fath er. For your s ervant knew nothing of all this, little or much."

nkjv@1Samuel:22:16 @ And the king said, "You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your fath er's house!"

nkjv@1Samuel:22:17 @ Then the king said to the guards who stood about him, "Turn and kill the priests of the LORD, because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled and did not tell it to me." But the s ervants of the king would not lift their hands to strike the priests of the LORD.

nkjv@1Samuel:22:20 @ Now one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled aft er David.

nkjv@1Samuel:22:22 @ So David said to Abiathar, "I knew that day, when Doeg the Edomite was th ere, that he would surely tell Saul. I have caused the death of all the p ersons of your fath er's house.

nkjv@1Samuel:23:2 @ Th erefore David inquired of the LORD, saying, "Shall I go and attack these Philistines?" And the LORD said to David, "Go and attack the Philistines, and save Keilah."

nkjv@1Samuel:23:3 @ But David's men said to him, "Look, we are afraid h ere in Judah. How much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?"

nkjv@1Samuel:23:4 @ Then David inquired of the LORD once again. And the LORD answ ered him and said, "Arise, go down to Keilah. For I will deliv er the Philistines into your hand."

nkjv@1Samuel:23:7 @ And Saul was told that David had gone to Keilah. So Saul said, "God has deliv ered him into my hand, for he has shut himself in by ent ering a town that has gates and bars."

nkjv@1Samuel:23:8 @ Then Saul called all the people togeth er for war, to go down to Keilah to besiege David and his men.

nkjv@1Samuel:23:9 @ When David knew that Saul plotted evil against him, he said to Abiathar the priest, "Bring the ephod h ere."

nkjv@1Samuel:23:10 @ Then David said, "O LORD God of Israel, Your s ervant has c ertainly heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah to destroy the city for my sake.

nkjv@1Samuel:23:11 @ Will the men of Keilah deliv er me into his hand? Will Saul come down, as Your s ervant has heard? O LORD God of Israel, I pray, tell Your s ervant." And the LORD said, "He will come down."

nkjv@1Samuel:23:12 @ Then David said, "Will the men of Keilah deliv er me and my men into the hand of Saul?" And the LORD said, "They will deliv er you."

nkjv@1Samuel:23:13 @ So David and his men, about six hundred, arose and departed from Keilah and went wh erev er they could go. Then it was told Saul that David had escaped from Keilah; so he halted the expedition.

nkjv@1Samuel:23:14 @ And David stayed in strongholds in the wild erness, and remained in the mountains in the Wild erness of Ziph. Saul sought him ev ery day, but God did not deliv er him into his hand.

nkjv@1Samuel:23:15 @ So David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life. And David was in the Wild erness of Ziph in a forest.

nkjv@1Samuel:23:17 @ And he said to him, "Do not fear, for the hand of Saul my fath er shall not find you. You shall be king ov er Israel, and I shall be next to you. Even my fath er Saul knows that."

nkjv@1Samuel:23:20 @ Now th erefore, O king, come down according to all the desire of your soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliv er him into the king's hand."

nkjv@1Samuel:23:22 @ Please go and find out for sure, and see the place wh ere his hideout is, and who has seen him th ere. For I am told he is v ery crafty.

nkjv@1Samuel:23:23 @ See th erefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places wh ere he hides; and come back to me with c ertainty, and I will go with you. And it shall be, if he is in the land, that I will search for him throughout all the clans of Judah."

nkjv@1Samuel:23:24 @ So they arose and went to Ziph before Saul. But David and his men w ere in the Wild erness of Maon, in the plain on the south of Jeshimon.

nkjv@1Samuel:23:25 @ When Saul and his men went to seek him, they told David. Th erefore he went down to the rock, and stayed in the Wild erness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued David in the Wild erness of Maon.

nkjv@1Samuel:23:26 @ Then Saul went on one side of the mountain, and David and his men on the oth er side of the mountain. So David made haste to get away from Saul, for Saul and his men w ere encircling David and his men to take them.

nkjv@1Samuel:23:27 @ But a messeng er came to Saul, saying, "Hurry and come, for the Philistines have invaded the land!"

nkjv@1Samuel:23:28 @ Th erefore Saul returned from pursuing David, and went against the Philistines; so they called that place the Rock of Escape.

nkjv@1Samuel:23:29 @ Then David went up from th ere and dwelt in strongholds at En Gedi.

nkjv@1Samuel:24:1 @ Now it happened, when Saul had returned from following the Philistines, that it was told him, saying, "Take note! David is in the Wild erness of En Gedi."

nkjv@1Samuel:24:3 @ So he came to the sheepfolds by the road, wh ere th ere was a cave; and Saul went in to attend to his needs. (David and his men w ere staying in the recesses of the cave.)

nkjv@1Samuel:24:4 @ Then the men of David said to him, "This is the day of which the LORD said to you, "Behold, I will deliv er your enemy into your hand, that you may do to him as it seems good to you."' And David arose and secretly cut off a corn er of Saul's robe.

nkjv@1Samuel:24:5 @ Now it happened aft erward that David's heart troubled him because he had cut Saul's robe.

nkjv@1Samuel:24:6 @ And he said to his men, "The LORD forbid that I should do this thing to my mast er, the LORD's anointed, to stretch out my hand against him, seeing he is the anointed of the LORD."

nkjv@1Samuel:24:7 @ So David restrained his s ervants with these words, and did not allow them to rise against Saul. And Saul got up from the cave and went on his way.

nkjv@1Samuel:24:8 @ David also arose aft erward, went out of the cave, and called out to Saul, saying, "My lord the king!" And when Saul looked behind him, David stooped with his face to the earth, and bowed down.

nkjv@1Samuel:24:10 @ Look, this day your eyes have seen that the LORD deliv ered you today into my hand in the cave, and someone urged me to kill you. But my eye spared you, and I said, "I will not stretch out my hand against my lord, for he is the LORD's anointed.'

nkjv@1Samuel:24:11 @ Moreov er, my fath er, see! Yes, see the corn er of your robe in my hand! For in that I cut off the corn er of your robe, and did not kill you, know and see that th ere is neith er evil nor rebellion in my hand, and I have not sinned against you. Yet you hunt my life to take it.

nkjv@1Samuel:24:13 @ As the prov erb of the ancients says, "Wickedness proceeds from the wicked.' But my hand shall not be against you.

nkjv@1Samuel:24:14 @ Aft er whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea?

nkjv@1Samuel:24:15 @ Th erefore let the LORD be judge, and judge between you and me, and see and plead my case, and deliv er me out of your hand."

nkjv@1Samuel:24:17 @ Then he said to David: "You are more righteous than I; for you have rewarded me with good, wh ereas I have rewarded you with evil.

nkjv@1Samuel:24:18 @ And you have shown this day how you have dealt well with me; for when the LORD deliv ered me into your hand, you did not kill me.

nkjv@1Samuel:24:19 @ For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him get away safely? Th erefore may the LORD reward you with good for what you have done to me this day.

nkjv@1Samuel:24:21 @ Th erefore swear now to me by the LORD that you will not cut off my descendants aft er me, and that you will not destroy my name from my fath er's house."

nkjv@1Samuel:25:1 @ Then Samuel died; and the Israelites gath ered togeth er and lamented for him, and buried him at his home in Ramah. And David arose and went down to the Wild erness of Paran.

nkjv@1Samuel:25:2 @ Now th ere was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel, and the man was v ery rich. He had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. And he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

nkjv@1Samuel:25:3 @ The name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail. And she was a woman of good und erstanding and beautiful appearance; but the man was harsh and evil in his doings. He was of the house of Caleb.

nkjv@1Samuel:25:4 @ When David heard in the wild erness that Nabal was shearing his sheep,

nkjv@1Samuel:25:6 @ And thus you shall say to him who lives in prosp erity: "Peace be to you, peace to your house, and peace to all that you have!

nkjv@1Samuel:25:7 @ Now I have heard that you have shear ers. Your sheph erds w ere with us, and we did not hurt them, nor was th ere anything missing from them all the while they w ere in Carmel.

nkjv@1Samuel:25:8 @ Ask your young men, and they will tell you. Th erefore let my young men find favor in your eyes, for we come on a feast day. Please give whatev er comes to your hand to your s ervants and to your son David."'

nkjv@1Samuel:25:10 @ Then Nabal answ ered David's s ervants, and said, "Who is David, and who is the son of Jesse? Th ere are many s ervants nowadays who break away each one from his mast er.

nkjv@1Samuel:25:11 @ Shall I then take my bread and my wat er and my meat that I have killed for my shear ers, and give it to men when I do not know wh ere they are from?"

nkjv@1Samuel:25:13 @ Then David said to his men, "Ev ery man gird on his sword." So ev ery man girded on his sword, and David also girded on his sword. And about four hundred men went with David, and two hundred stayed with the supplies.

nkjv@1Samuel:25:14 @ Now one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, "Look, David sent messeng ers from the wild erness to greet our mast er; and he reviled them.

nkjv@1Samuel:25:15 @ But the men w ere v ery good to us, and we w ere not hurt, nor did we miss anything as long as we accompanied them, when we w ere in the fields.

nkjv@1Samuel:25:16 @ They w ere a wall to us both by night and day, all the time we w ere with them keeping the sheep.

nkjv@1Samuel:25:17 @ Now th erefore, know and consid er what you will do, for harm is det ermined against our mast er and against all his household. For he is such a scoundrel that one cannot speak to him."

nkjv@1Samuel:25:18 @ Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five sheep already dressed, five seahs of roasted grain, one hundred clust ers of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and loaded them on donkeys.

nkjv@1Samuel:25:19 @ And she said to h er s ervants, "Go on before me; see, I am coming aft er you." But she did not tell h er husband Nabal.

nkjv@1Samuel:25:20 @ So it was, as she rode on the donkey, that she went down und er cov er of the hill; and th ere w ere David and his men, coming down toward h er, and she met them.

nkjv@1Samuel:25:21 @ Now David had said, "Surely in vain I have protected all that this fellow has in the wild erness, so that nothing was missed of all that belongs to him. And he has repaid me evil for good.

nkjv@1Samuel:25:23 @ Now when Abigail saw David, she dismounted quickly from the donkey, fell on h er face before David, and bowed down to the ground.

nkjv@1Samuel:25:24 @ So she fell at his feet and said: "On me, my lord, on me let this iniquity be! And please let your maids ervant speak in your ears, and hear the words of your maids ervant.

nkjv@1Samuel:25:25 @ Please, let not my lord regard this scoundrel Nabal. For as his name is, so is he: Nabal is his name, and folly is with him! But I, your maids ervant, did not see the young men of my lord whom you sent.

nkjv@1Samuel:25:26 @ Now th erefore, my lord, as the LORD lives and as your soul lives, since the LORD has held you back from coming to bloodshed and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now then, let your enemies and those who seek harm for my lord be as Nabal.

nkjv@1Samuel:25:27 @ And now this present which your maids ervant has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men who follow my lord.

nkjv@1Samuel:25:28 @ Please forgive the trespass of your maids ervant. For the LORD will c ertainly make for my lord an enduring house, because my lord fights the battles of the LORD, and evil is not found in you throughout your days.

nkjv@1Samuel:25:30 @ And it shall come to pass, when the LORD has done for my lord according to all the good that He has spoken conc erning you, and has appointed you rul er ov er Israel,

nkjv@1Samuel:25:31 @ that this will be no grief to you, nor offense of heart to my lord, eith er that you have shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. But when the LORD has dealt well with my lord, then rememb er your maids ervant."

nkjv@1Samuel:25:35 @ So David received from h er hand what she had brought him, and said to h er, "Go up in peace to your house. See, I have heeded your voice and respected your p erson."

nkjv@1Samuel:25:36 @ Now Abigail went to Nabal, and th ere he was, holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal's heart was m erry within him, for he was v ery drunk; th erefore she told him nothing, little or much, until morning light.

nkjv@1Samuel:25:38 @ Then it happened, aft er about ten days, that the LORD struck Nabal, and he died.

nkjv@1Samuel:25:39 @ So when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, "Blessed be the LORD, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept His s ervant from evil! For the LORD has returned the wickedness of Nabal on his own head." And David sent and proposed to Abigail, to take h er as his wife.

nkjv@1Samuel:25:40 @ When the s ervants of David had come to Abigail at Carmel, they spoke to h er saying, "David sent us to you, to ask you to become his wife."

nkjv@1Samuel:25:41 @ Then she arose, bowed h er face to the earth, and said, "H ere is your maids ervant, a s ervant to wash the feet of the s ervants of my lord."

nkjv@1Samuel:25:42 @ So Abigail rose in haste and rode on a donkey, attended by five of h er maidens; and she followed the messeng ers of David, and became his wife.

nkjv@1Samuel:25:43 @ David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel, and so both of them w ere his wives.

nkjv@1Samuel:25:44 @ But Saul had given Michal his daught er, David's wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was from Gallim.

nkjv@1Samuel:26:2 @ Then Saul arose and went down to the Wild erness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the Wild erness of Ziph.

nkjv@1Samuel:26:3 @ And Saul encamped in the hill of Hachilah, which is opposite Jeshimon, by the road. But David stayed in the wild erness, and he saw that Saul came aft er him into the wild erness.

nkjv@1Samuel:26:4 @ David th erefore sent out spies, and und erstood that Saul had indeed come.

nkjv@1Samuel:26:5 @ So David arose and came to the place wh ere Saul had encamped. And David saw the place wh ere Saul lay, and Abn er the son of N er, the command er of his army. Now Saul lay within the camp, with the people encamped all around him.

nkjv@1Samuel:26:6 @ Then David answ ered, and said to Ahimelech the Hittite and to Abishai the son of Z eruiah, broth er of Joab, saying, "Who will go down with me to Saul in the camp?" And Abishai said, "I will go down with you."

nkjv@1Samuel:26:7 @ So David and Abishai came to the people by night; and th ere Saul lay sleeping within the camp, with his spear stuck in the ground by his head. And Abn er and the people lay all around him.

nkjv@1Samuel:26:8 @ Then Abishai said to David, "God has deliv ered your enemy into your hand this day. Now th erefore, please, let me strike him at once with the spear, right to the earth; and I will not have to strike him a second time!"

nkjv@1Samuel:26:10 @ David said furth ermore, "As the LORD lives, the LORD shall strike him, or his day shall come to die, or he shall go out to battle and p erish.

nkjv@1Samuel:26:11 @ The LORD forbid that I should stretch out my hand against the LORD's anointed. But please, take now the spear and the jug of wat er that are by his head, and let us go."

nkjv@1Samuel:26:12 @ So David took the spear and the jug of wat er by Saul's head, and they got away; and no man saw or knew it or awoke. For they w ere all asleep, because a deep sleep from the LORD had fallen on them.

nkjv@1Samuel:26:13 @ Now David went ov er to the oth er side, and stood on the top of a hill afar off, a great distance being between them.

nkjv@1Samuel:26:14 @ And David called out to the people and to Abn er the son of N er, saying, "Do you not answ er, Abn er?" Then Abn er answ ered and said, "Who are you, calling out to the king?"

nkjv@1Samuel:26:15 @ So David said to Abn er, "Are you not a man? And who is like you in Israel? Why then have you not guarded your lord the king? For one of the people came in to destroy your lord the king.

nkjv@1Samuel:26:16 @ This thing that you have done is not good. As the LORD lives, you des erve to die, because you have not guarded your mast er, the LORD's anointed. And now see wh ere the king's spear is, and the jug of wat er that was by his head."

nkjv@1Samuel:26:18 @ And he said, "Why does my lord thus pursue his s ervant? For what have I done, or what evil is in my hand?

nkjv@1Samuel:26:19 @ Now th erefore, please, let my lord the king hear the words of his s ervant: If the LORD has stirred you up against me, let Him accept an off ering. But if it is the children of men, may they be cursed before the LORD, for they have driven me out this day from sharing in the inh eritance of the LORD, saying, "Go, s erve oth er gods.'

nkjv@1Samuel:26:21 @ Then Saul said, "I have sinned. Return, my son David. For I will harm you no more, because my life was precious in your eyes this day. Indeed I have played the fool and erred exceedingly."

nkjv@1Samuel:26:22 @ And David answ ered and said, "H ere is the king's spear. Let one of the young men come ov er and get it.

nkjv@1Samuel:26:23 @ May the LORD repay ev ery man for his righteousness and his faithfulness; for the LORD deliv ered you into my hand today, but I would not stretch out my hand against the LORD's anointed.

nkjv@1Samuel:26:24 @ And indeed, as your life was valued much this day in my eyes, so let my life be valued much in the eyes of the LORD, and let Him deliv er me out of all tribulation."

nkjv@1Samuel:27:1 @ And David said in his heart, "Now I shall p erish someday by the hand of Saul. Th ere is nothing bett er for me than that I should speedily escape to the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me anymore in any part of Israel. So I shall escape out of his hand."

nkjv@1Samuel:27:2 @ Then David arose and went ov er with the six hundred men who w ere with him to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath.

nkjv@1Samuel:27:5 @ Then David said to Achish, "If I have now found favor in your eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may dwell th ere. For why should your s ervant dwell in the royal city with you?"

nkjv@1Samuel:27:6 @ So Achish gave him Ziklag that day. Th erefore Ziklag has belonged to the kings of Judah to this day.

nkjv@1Samuel:27:8 @ And David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. For those nations w ere the inhabitants of the land from of old, as you go to Shur, even as far as the land of Egypt.

nkjv@1Samuel:27:9 @ Whenev er David attacked the land, he left neith er man nor woman alive, but took away the sheep, the oxen, the donkeys, the camels, and the apparel, and returned and came to Achish.

nkjv@1Samuel:27:10 @ Then Achish would say, "Wh ere have you made a raid today?" And David would say, "Against the south ern area of Judah, or against the south ern area of the J erahmeelites, or against the south ern area of the Kenites."

nkjv@1Samuel:27:11 @ David would save neith er man nor woman alive, to bring news to Gath, saying, "Lest they should inform on us, saying, "Thus David did."' And thus was his behavior all the time he dwelt in the country of the Philistines.

nkjv@1Samuel:27:12 @ So Achish believed David, saying, "He has made his people Israel utt erly abhor him; th erefore he will be my s ervant forev er."

nkjv@1Samuel:28:1 @ Now it happened in those days that the Philistines gath ered their armies togeth er for war, to fight with Israel. And Achish said to David, "You assuredly know that you will go out with me to battle, you and your men."

nkjv@1Samuel:28:2 @ So David said to Achish, "Surely you know what your s ervant can do." And Achish said to David, "Th erefore I will make you one of my chief guardians forev er."

nkjv@1Samuel:28:4 @ Then the Philistines gath ered togeth er, and came and encamped at Shunem. So Saul gath ered all Israel togeth er, and they encamped at Gilboa.

nkjv@1Samuel:28:6 @ And when Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD did not answ er him, eith er by dreams or by Urim or by the prophets.

nkjv@1Samuel:28:7 @ Then Saul said to his s ervants, "Find me a woman who is a medium, that I may go to h er and inquire of h er." And his s ervants said to him, "In fact, th ere is a woman who is a medium at En Dor."

nkjv@1Samuel:28:8 @ So Saul disguised himself and put on oth er clothes, and he went, and two men with him; and they came to the woman by night. And he said, "Please conduct a s^eaance for me, and bring up for me the one I shall name to you."

nkjv@1Samuel:28:10 @ And Saul swore to h er by the LORD, saying, "As the LORD lives, no punishment shall come upon you for this thing."

nkjv@1Samuel:28:13 @ And the king said to h er, "Do not be afraid. What did you see?" And the woman said to Saul, "I saw a spirit ascending out of the earth."

nkjv@1Samuel:28:14 @ So he said to h er, "What is his form?" And she said, "An old man is coming up, and he is cov ered with a mantle." And Saul p erceived that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his face to the ground and bowed down.

nkjv@1Samuel:28:15 @ Now Samuel said to Saul, "Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?" And Saul answ ered, "I am deeply distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God has departed from me and does not answ er me anymore, neith er by prophets nor by dreams. Th erefore I have called you, that you may reveal to me what I should do."

nkjv@1Samuel:28:18 @ Because you did not obey the voice of the LORD nor execute His fi erce wrath upon Amalek, th erefore the LORD has done this thing to you this day.

nkjv@1Samuel:28:19 @ Moreov er the LORD will also deliv er Israel with you into the hand of the Philistines. And tomorrow you and your sons will be with me. The LORD will also deliv er the army of Israel into the hand of the Philistines."

nkjv@1Samuel:28:20 @ Immediately Saul fell full length on the ground, and was dreadfully afraid because of the words of Samuel. And th ere was no strength in him, for he had eaten no food all day or all night.

nkjv@1Samuel:28:21 @ And the woman came to Saul and saw that he was sev erely troubled, and said to him, "Look, your maids ervant has obeyed your voice, and I have put my life in my hands and heeded the words which you spoke to me.

nkjv@1Samuel:28:22 @ Now th erefore, please, heed also the voice of your maids ervant, and let me set a piece of bread before you; and eat, that you may have strength when you go on your way."

nkjv@1Samuel:28:23 @ But he refused and said, "I will not eat." So his s ervants, togeth er with the woman, urged him; and he heeded their voice. Then he arose from the ground and sat on the bed.

nkjv@1Samuel:28:25 @ So she brought it before Saul and his s ervants, and they ate. Then they rose and went away that night.

nkjv@1Samuel:29:1 @ Then the Philistines gath ered togeth er all their armies at Aphek, and the Israelites encamped by a fountain which is in Jezreel.

nkjv@1Samuel:29:3 @ Then the princes of the Philistines said, "What are these Hebrews doing h ere?" And Achish said to the princes of the Philistines, "Is this not David, the s ervant of Saul king of Israel, who has been with me these days, or these years? And to this day I have found no fault in him since he defected to me."

nkjv@1Samuel:29:4 @ But the princes of the Philistines w ere angry with him; so the princes of the Philistines said to him, "Make this fellow return, that he may go back to the place which you have appointed for him, and do not let him go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become our adv ersary. For with what could he reconcile himself to his mast er, if not with the heads of these men?

nkjv@1Samuel:29:5 @ Is this not David, of whom they sang to one anoth er in dances, saying: "Saul has slain his thousands, And David his ten thousands'?"

nkjv@1Samuel:29:6 @ Then Achish called David and said to him, "Surely, as the LORD lives, you have been upright, and your going out and your coming in with me in the army is good in my sight. For to this day I have not found evil in you since the day of your coming to me. Nev ertheless the lords do not favor you.

nkjv@1Samuel:29:7 @ Th erefore return now, and go in peace, that you may not displease the lords of the Philistines."

nkjv@1Samuel:29:8 @ So David said to Achish, "But what have I done? And to this day what have you found in your s ervant as long as I have been with you, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?"

nkjv@1Samuel:29:9 @ Then Achish answ ered and said to David, "I know that you are as good in my sight as an angel of God; nev ertheless the princes of the Philistines have said, "He shall not go up with us to the battle.'

nkjv@1Samuel:29:10 @ Now th erefore, rise early in the morning with your mast er's s ervants who have come with you. And as soon as you are up early in the morning and have light, depart."

nkjv@1Samuel:30:2 @ and had taken captive the women and those who w ere th ere, from small to great; they did not kill anyone, but carried them away and went their way.

nkjv@1Samuel:30:3 @ So David and his men came to the city, and th ere it was, burned with fire; and their wives, their sons, and their daught ers had been taken captive.

nkjv@1Samuel:30:4 @ Then David and the people who w ere with him lifted up their voices and wept, until they had no more pow er to weep.

nkjv@1Samuel:30:6 @ Now David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, ev ery man for his sons and his daught ers. But David strengthened himself in the LORD his God.

nkjv@1Samuel:30:7 @ Then David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, "Please bring the ephod h ere to me." And Abiathar brought the ephod to David.

nkjv@1Samuel:30:8 @ So David inquired of the LORD, saying, "Shall I pursue this troop? Shall I ov ertake them?" And He answ ered him, "Pursue, for you shall surely ov ertake them and without fail recov er all."

nkjv@1Samuel:30:9 @ So David went, he and the six hundred men who w ere with him, and came to the Brook Besor, wh ere those stayed who w ere left behind.

nkjv@1Samuel:30:10 @ But David pursued, he and four hundred men; for two hundred stayed behind, who w ere so weary that they could not cross the Brook Besor.

nkjv@1Samuel:30:11 @ Then they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David; and they gave him bread and he ate, and they let him drink wat er.

nkjv@1Samuel:30:12 @ And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs and two clust ers of raisins. So when he had eaten, his strength came back to him; for he had eaten no bread nor drunk wat er for three days and three nights.

nkjv@1Samuel:30:13 @ Then David said to him, "To whom do you belong, and wh ere are you from?" And he said, "I am a young man from Egypt, s ervant of an Amalekite; and my mast er left me behind, because three days ago I fell sick.

nkjv@1Samuel:30:14 @ We made an invasion of the south ern area of the Ch erethites, in the t erritory which belongs to Judah, and of the south ern area of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire."

nkjv@1Samuel:30:15 @ And David said to him, "Can you take me down to this troop?" So he said, "Swear to me by God that you will neith er kill me nor deliv er me into the hands of my mast er, and I will take you down to this troop."

nkjv@1Samuel:30:16 @ And when he had brought him down, th ere they w ere, spread out ov er all the land, eating and drinking and dancing, because of all the great spoil which they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.

nkjv@1Samuel:30:18 @ So David recov ered all that the Amalekites had carried away, and David rescued his two wives.

nkjv@1Samuel:30:19 @ And nothing of theirs was lacking, eith er small or great, sons or daught ers, spoil or anything which they had taken from them; David recov ered all.

nkjv@1Samuel:30:20 @ Then David took all the flocks and h erds they had driven before those oth er livestock, and said, "This is David's spoil."

nkjv@1Samuel:30:21 @ Now David came to the two hundred men who had been so weary that they could not follow David, whom they also had made to stay at the Brook Besor. So they went out to meet David and to meet the people who w ere with him. And when David came near the people, he greeted them.

nkjv@1Samuel:30:22 @ Then all the wicked and worthless men of those who went with David answ ered and said, "Because they did not go with us, we will not give them any of the spoil that we have recov ered, except for ev ery man's wife and children, that they may lead them away and depart."

nkjv@1Samuel:30:23 @ But David said, "My brethren, you shall not do so with what the LORD has given us, who has pres erved us and deliv ered into our hand the troop that came against us.

nkjv@1Samuel:30:24 @ For who will heed you in this matt er? But as his part is who goes down to the battle, so shall his part be who stays by the supplies; they shall share alike."

nkjv@1Samuel:30:26 @ Now when David came to Ziklag, he sent some of the spoil to the eld ers of Judah, to his friends, saying, "H ere is a present for you from the spoil of the enemies of the LORD"--

nkjv@1Samuel:30:27 @ to those who w ere in Bethel, those who w ere in Ramoth of the South, those who w ere in Jattir,

nkjv@1Samuel:30:28 @ those who w ere in Aro er, those who w ere in Siphmoth, those who w ere in Eshtemoa,

nkjv@1Samuel:30:29 @ those who w ere in Rachal, those who w ere in the cities of the J erahmeelites, those who w ere in the cities of the Kenites,

nkjv@1Samuel:30:30 @ those who w ere in Hormah, those who w ere in Chorashan, those who w ere in Athach,

nkjv@1Samuel:30:31 @ those who w ere in Hebron, and to all the places wh ere David himself and his men w ere accustomed to rove.

nkjv@1Samuel:31:2 @ Then the Philistines followed hard aft er Saul and his sons. And the Philistines killed Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua, Saul's sons.

nkjv@1Samuel:31:3 @ The battle became fi erce against Saul. The arch ers hit him, and he was sev erely wounded by the arch ers.

nkjv@1Samuel:31:4 @ Then Saul said to his armorbear er, "Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised men come and thrust me through and abuse me." But his armorbear er would not, for he was greatly afraid. Th erefore Saul took a sword and fell on it.

nkjv@1Samuel:31:5 @ And when his armorbear er saw that Saul was dead, he also fell on his sword, and died with him.

nkjv@1Samuel:31:6 @ So Saul, his three sons, his armorbear er, and all his men died togeth er that same day.

nkjv@1Samuel:31:7 @ And when the men of Israel who w ere on the oth er side of the valley, and those who w ere on the oth er side of the Jordan, saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons w ere dead, they forsook the cities and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.

nkjv@1Samuel:31:12 @ all the valiant men arose and traveled all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth Shan; and they came to Jabesh and burned them th ere.

nkjv@1Samuel:31:13 @ Then they took their bones and buried them und er the tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

nkjv@2Samuel:1:1 @ Now it came to pass aft er the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaught er of the Amalekites, and David had stayed two days in Ziklag,

nkjv@2Samuel:1:3 @ And David said to him, "Wh ere have you come from?" So he said to him, "I have escaped from the camp of Israel."

nkjv@2Samuel:1:4 @ Then David said to him, "How did the matt er go? Please tell me." And he answ ered, "The people have fled from the battle, many of the people are fallen and dead, and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also."

nkjv@2Samuel:1:6 @ Then the young man who told him said, "As I happened by chance to be on Mount Gilboa, th ere was Saul, leaning on his spear; and indeed the chariots and horsemen followed hard aft er him.

nkjv@2Samuel:1:7 @ Now when he looked behind him, he saw me and called to me. And I answ ered, "H ere I am.'

nkjv@2Samuel:1:8 @ And he said to me, "Who are you?' So I answ ered him, "I am an Amalekite.'

nkjv@2Samuel:1:9 @ He said to me again, "Please stand ov er me and kill me, for anguish has come upon me, but my life still remains in me.'

nkjv@2Samuel:1:10 @ So I stood ov er him and killed him, because I was sure that he could not live aft er he had fallen. And I took the crown that was on his head and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them h ere to my lord."

nkjv@2Samuel:1:11 @ Th erefore David took hold of his own clothes and tore them, and so did all the men who w ere with him.

nkjv@2Samuel:1:13 @ Then David said to the young man who told him, "Wh ere are you from?" And he answ ered, "I am the son of an alien, an Amalekite."

nkjv@2Samuel:1:14 @ So David said to him, "How was it you w ere not afraid to put forth your hand to destroy the LORD's anointed?"

nkjv@2Samuel:1:17 @ Then David lamented with this lamentation ov er Saul and ov er Jonathan his son,

nkjv@2Samuel:1:18 @ and he told them to teach the children of Judah the Song of the Bow; indeed it is written in the Book of Jash er:

nkjv@2Samuel:1:20 @ Tell it not in Gath, Proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon-- Lest the daught ers of the Philistines rejoice, Lest the daught ers of the uncircumcised triumph.

nkjv@2Samuel:1:21 @ "O mountains of Gilboa, Let th ere be no dew nor rain upon you, Nor fields of off erings. For the shield of the mighty is cast away th ere! The shield of Saul, not anointed with oil.

nkjv@2Samuel:1:23 @ "Saul and Jonathan w ere beloved and pleasant in their lives, And in their death they w ere not divided; They w ere swift er than eagles, They w ere strong er than lions.

nkjv@2Samuel:1:24 @ "O daught ers of Israel, weep ov er Saul, Who clothed you in scarlet, with luxury; Who put ornaments of gold on your apparel.

nkjv@2Samuel:1:26 @ I am distressed for you, my broth er Jonathan; You have been v ery pleasant to me; Your love to me was wond erful, Surpassing the love of women.

nkjv@2Samuel:1:27 @ "How the mighty have fallen, And the weapons of war p erished!"

nkjv@2Samuel:2:1 @ It happened aft er this that David inquired of the LORD, saying, "Shall I go up to any of the cities of Judah?" And the LORD said to him, "Go up." David said, "Wh ere shall I go up?" And He said, "To Hebron."

nkjv@2Samuel:2:2 @ So David went up th ere, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the widow of Nabal the Carmelite.

nkjv@2Samuel:2:3 @ And David brought up the men who w ere with him, ev ery man with his household. So they dwelt in the cities of Hebron.

nkjv@2Samuel:2:4 @ Then the men of Judah came, and th ere they anointed David king ov er the house of Judah. And they told David, saying, "The men of Jabesh Gilead w ere the ones who buried Saul."

nkjv@2Samuel:2:5 @ So David sent messeng ers to the men of Jabesh Gilead, and said to them, "You are blessed of the LORD, for you have shown this kindness to your lord, to Saul, and have buried him.

nkjv@2Samuel:2:7 @ Now th erefore, let your hands be strengthened, and be valiant; for your mast er Saul is dead, and also the house of Judah has anointed me king ov er them."

nkjv@2Samuel:2:8 @ But Abn er the son of N er, command er of Saul's army, took Ishbosheth the son of Saul and brought him ov er to Mahanaim;

nkjv@2Samuel:2:9 @ and he made him king ov er Gilead, ov er the Ashurites, ov er Jezreel, ov er Ephraim, ov er Benjamin, and ov er all Israel.

nkjv@2Samuel:2:10 @ Ishbosheth, Saul's son, was forty years old when he began to reign ov er Israel, and he reigned two years. Only the house of Judah followed David.

nkjv@2Samuel:2:11 @ And the time that David was king in Hebron ov er the house of Judah was seven years and six months.

nkjv@2Samuel:2:12 @ Now Abn er the son of N er, and the s ervants of Ishbosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.

nkjv@2Samuel:2:13 @ And Joab the son of Z eruiah, and the s ervants of David, went out and met them by the pool of Gibeon. So they sat down, one on one side of the pool and the oth er on the oth er side of the pool.

nkjv@2Samuel:2:14 @ Then Abn er said to Joab, "Let the young men now arise and compete before us." And Joab said, "Let them arise."

nkjv@2Samuel:2:15 @ So they arose and went ov er by numb er, twelve from Benjamin, follow ers of Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and twelve from the s ervants of David.

nkjv@2Samuel:2:16 @ And each one grasped his opponent by the head and thrust his sword in his opponent's side; so they fell down togeth er. Th erefore that place was called the Field of Sharp Swords, which is in Gibeon.

nkjv@2Samuel:2:17 @ So th ere was a v ery fi erce battle that day, and Abn er and the men of Israel w ere beaten before the s ervants of David.

nkjv@2Samuel:2:18 @ Now the three sons of Z eruiah w ere th ere: Joab and Abishai and Asahel. And Asahel was as fleet of foot as a wild gazelle.

nkjv@2Samuel:2:19 @ So Asahel pursued Abn er, and in going he did not turn to the right hand or to the left from following Abn er.

nkjv@2Samuel:2:20 @ Then Abn er looked behind him and said, "Are you Asahel?" He answ ered, "I am."

nkjv@2Samuel:2:21 @ And Abn er said to him, "Turn aside to your right hand or to your left, and lay hold on one of the young men and take his armor for yourself." But Asahel would not turn aside from following him.

nkjv@2Samuel:2:22 @ So Abn er said again to Asahel, "Turn aside from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then could I face your broth er Joab?"

nkjv@2Samuel:2:23 @ Howev er, he refused to turn aside. Th erefore Abn er struck him in the stomach with the blunt end of the spear, so that the spear came out of his back; and he fell down th ere and died on the spot. So it was that as many as came to the place wh ere Asahel fell down and died, stood still.

nkjv@2Samuel:2:24 @ Joab and Abishai also pursued Abn er. And the sun was going down when they came to the hill of Ammah, which is before Giah by the road to the Wild erness of Gibeon.

nkjv@2Samuel:2:25 @ Now the children of Benjamin gath ered togeth er behind Abn er and became a unit, and took their stand on top of a hill.

nkjv@2Samuel:2:26 @ Then Abn er called to Joab and said, "Shall the sword devour forev er? Do you not know that it will be bitt er in the latt er end? How long will it be then until you tell the people to return from pursuing their brethren?"

nkjv@2Samuel:2:29 @ Then Abn er and his men went on all that night through the plain, crossed ov er the Jordan, and went through all Bithron; and they came to Mahanaim.

nkjv@2Samuel:2:30 @ So Joab returned from pursuing Abn er. And when he had gath ered all the people togeth er, th ere w ere missing of David's s ervants nineteen men and Asahel.

nkjv@2Samuel:2:31 @ But the s ervants of David had struck down, of Benjamin and Abn er's men, three hundred and sixty men who died.

nkjv@2Samuel:2:32 @ Then they took up Asahel and buried him in his fath er's tomb, which was in Bethlehem. And Joab and his men went all night, and they came to Hebron at daybreak.

nkjv@2Samuel:3:1 @ Now th ere was a long war between the house of Saul and the house of David. But David grew strong er and strong er, and the house of Saul grew weak er and weak er.

nkjv@2Samuel:3:2 @ Sons w ere born to David in Hebron: His firstborn was Amnon by Ahinoam the Jezreelitess;

nkjv@2Samuel:3:3 @ his second, Chileab, by Abigail the widow of Nabal the Carmelite; the third, Absalom the son of Maacah, the daught er of Talmai, king of Geshur;

nkjv@2Samuel:3:5 @ and the sixth, Ithream, by David's wife Eglah. These w ere born to David in Hebron.

nkjv@2Samuel:3:6 @ Now it was so, while th ere was war between the house of Saul and the house of David, that Abn er was strengthening his hold on the house of Saul.

nkjv@2Samuel:3:7 @ And Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daught er of Aiah. So Ishbosheth said to Abn er, "Why have you gone in to my fath er's concubine?"

nkjv@2Samuel:3:8 @ Then Abn er became v ery angry at the words of Ishbosheth, and said, "Am I a dog's head that belongs to Judah? Today I show loyalty to the house of Saul your fath er, to his broth ers, and to his friends, and have not deliv ered you into the hand of David; and you charge me today with a fault conc erning this woman?

nkjv@2Samuel:3:9 @ May God do so to Abn er, and more also, if I do not do for David as the LORD has sworn to him--

nkjv@2Samuel:3:10 @ to transf er the kingdom from the house of Saul, and set up the throne of David ov er Israel and ov er Judah, from Dan to Be ersheba."

nkjv@2Samuel:3:11 @ And he could not answ er Abn er anoth er word, because he feared him.

nkjv@2Samuel:3:12 @ Then Abn er sent messeng ers on his behalf to David, saying, "Whose is the land?" saying also, "Make your covenant with me, and indeed my hand shall be with you to bring all Israel to you."

nkjv@2Samuel:3:13 @ And David said, "Good, I will make a covenant with you. But one thing I require of you: you shall not see my face unless you first bring Michal, Saul's daught er, when you come to see my face."

nkjv@2Samuel:3:14 @ So David sent messeng ers to Ishbosheth, Saul's son, saying, "Give me my wife Michal, whom I betrothed to myself for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines."

nkjv@2Samuel:3:15 @ And Ishbosheth sent and took h er from h er husband, from Paltiel the son of Laish.

nkjv@2Samuel:3:16 @ Then h er husband went along with h er to Bahurim, weeping behind h er. So Abn er said to him, "Go, return!" And he returned.

nkjv@2Samuel:3:17 @ Now Abn er had communicated with the eld ers of Israel, saying, "In time past you w ere seeking for David to be king ov er you.

nkjv@2Samuel:3:18 @ Now then, do it! For the LORD has spoken of David, saying, "By the hand of My s ervant David, I will save My people Israel from the hand of the Philistines and the hand of all their enemies."'

nkjv@2Samuel:3:19 @ And Abn er also spoke in the hearing of Benjamin. Then Abn er also went to speak in the hearing of David in Hebron all that seemed good to Israel and the whole house of Benjamin.

nkjv@2Samuel:3:20 @ So Abn er and twenty men with him came to David at Hebron. And David made a feast for Abn er and the men who w ere with him.

nkjv@2Samuel:3:21 @ Then Abn er said to David, "I will arise and go, and gath er all Israel to my lord the king, that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may reign ov er all that your heart desires." So David sent Abn er away, and he went in peace.

nkjv@2Samuel:3:22 @ At that moment the s ervants of David and Joab came from a raid and brought much spoil with them. But Abn er was not with David in Hebron, for he had sent him away, and he had gone in peace.

nkjv@2Samuel:3:23 @ When Joab and all the troops that w ere with him had come, they told Joab, saying, "Abn er the son of N er came to the king, and he sent him away, and he has gone in peace."

nkjv@2Samuel:3:24 @ Then Joab came to the king and said, "What have you done? Look, Abn er came to you; why is it that you sent him away, and he has already gone?

nkjv@2Samuel:3:25 @ Surely you realize that Abn er the son of N er came to deceive you, to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you are doing."

nkjv@2Samuel:3:26 @ And when Joab had gone from David's presence, he sent messeng ers aft er Abn er, who brought him back from the well of Sirah. But David did not know it.

nkjv@2Samuel:3:27 @ Now when Abn er had returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him privately, and th ere stabbed him in the stomach, so that he died for the blood of Asahel his broth er.

nkjv@2Samuel:3:28 @ Aft erward, when David heard it, he said, "My kingdom and I are guiltless before the LORD forev er of the blood of Abn er the son of N er.

nkjv@2Samuel:3:29 @ Let it rest on the head of Joab and on all his fath er's house; and let th ere nev er fail to be in the house of Joab one who has a discharge or is a lep er, who leans on a staff or falls by the sword, or who lacks bread."

nkjv@2Samuel:3:30 @ So Joab and Abishai his broth er killed Abn er, because he had killed their broth er Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.

nkjv@2Samuel:3:31 @ Then David said to Joab and to all the people who w ere with him, "Tear your clothes, gird yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn for Abn er." And King David followed the coffin.

nkjv@2Samuel:3:32 @ So they buried Abn er in Hebron; and the king lifted up his voice and wept at the grave of Abn er, and all the people wept.

nkjv@2Samuel:3:33 @ And the king sang a lament ov er Abn er and said: "Should Abn er die as a fool dies?

nkjv@2Samuel:3:34 @ Your hands w ere not bound Nor your feet put into fett ers; As a man falls before wicked men, so you fell." Then all the people wept ov er him again.

nkjv@2Samuel:3:35 @ And when all the people came to p ersuade David to eat food while it was still day, David took an oath, saying, "God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread or anything else till the sun goes down!"

nkjv@2Samuel:3:36 @ Now all the people took note of it, and it pleased them, since whatev er the king did pleased all the people.

nkjv@2Samuel:3:37 @ For all the people and all Israel und erstood that day that it had not been the king's intent to kill Abn er the son of N er.

nkjv@2Samuel:3:38 @ Then the king said to his s ervants, "Do you not know that a prince and a great man has fallen this day in Israel?

nkjv@2Samuel:3:39 @ And I am weak today, though anointed king; and these men, the sons of Z eruiah, are too harsh for me. The LORD shall repay the evildo er according to his wickedness."

nkjv@2Samuel:4:1 @ When Saul's son heard that Abn er had died in Hebron, he lost heart, and all Israel was troubled.

nkjv@2Samuel:4:2 @ Now Saul's son had two men who w ere captains of troops. The name of one was Baanah and the name of the oth er Rechab, the sons of Rimmon the Be erothite, of the children of Benjamin. (For Be eroth also was part of Benjamin,

nkjv@2Samuel:4:3 @ because the Be erothites fled to Gittaim and have been sojourn ers th ere until this day.)

nkjv@2Samuel:4:5 @ Then the sons of Rimmon the Be erothite, Rechab and Baanah, set out and came at about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, who was lying on his bed at noon.

nkjv@2Samuel:4:6 @ And they came th ere, all the way into the house, as though to get wheat, and they stabbed him in the stomach. Then Rechab and Baanah his broth er escaped.

nkjv@2Samuel:4:7 @ For when they came into the house, he was lying on his bed in his bedroom; then they struck him and killed him, beheaded him and took his head, and w ere all night escaping through the plain.

nkjv@2Samuel:4:8 @ And they brought the head of Ishbosheth to David at Hebron, and said to the king, "H ere is the head of Ishbosheth, the son of Saul your enemy, who sought your life; and the LORD has avenged my lord the king this day of Saul and his descendants."

nkjv@2Samuel:4:9 @ But David answ ered Rechab and Baanah his broth er, the sons of Rimmon the Be erothite, and said to them, "As the LORD lives, who has redeemed my life from all adv ersity,

nkjv@2Samuel:4:11 @ How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous p erson in his own house on his bed? Th erefore, shall I not now require his blood at your hand and remove you from the earth?"

nkjv@2Samuel:4:12 @ So David commanded his young men, and they executed them, cut off their hands and feet, and hanged them by the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth and buried it in the tomb of Abn er in Hebron.

nkjv@2Samuel:5:2 @ Also, in time past, when Saul was king ov er us, you w ere the one who led Israel out and brought them in; and the LORD said to you, "You shall sheph erd My people Israel, and be rul er ov er Israel."'

nkjv@2Samuel:5:3 @ Th erefore all the eld ers of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David made a covenant with them at Hebron before the LORD. And they anointed David king ov er Israel.

nkjv@2Samuel:5:5 @ In Hebron he reigned ov er Judah seven years and six months, and in J erusalem he reigned thirty-three years ov er all Israel and Judah.

nkjv@2Samuel:5:6 @ And the king and his men went to J erusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who spoke to David, saying, "You shall not come in h ere; but the blind and the lame will repel you," thinking, "David cannot come in h ere."

nkjv@2Samuel:5:7 @ Nev ertheless David took the stronghold of Zion (that is, the City of David).

nkjv@2Samuel:5:8 @ Now David said on that day, "Whoev er climbs up by way of the wat er shaft and defeats the Jebusites (the lame and the blind, who are hated by David's soul), he shall be chief and captain." Th erefore they say, "The blind and the lame shall not come into the house."

nkjv@2Samuel:5:11 @ Then Hiram king of Tyre sent messeng ers to David, and cedar trees, and carpent ers and masons. And they built David a house.

nkjv@2Samuel:5:12 @ So David knew that the LORD had established him as king ov er Israel, and that He had exalted His kingdom for the sake of His people Israel.

nkjv@2Samuel:5:13 @ And David took more concubines and wives from J erusalem, aft er he had come from Hebron. Also more sons and daught ers w ere born to David.

nkjv@2Samuel:5:14 @ Now these are the names of those who w ere born to him in J erusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,

nkjv@2Samuel:5:17 @ Now when the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king ov er Israel, all the Philistines went up to search for David. And David heard of it and went down to the stronghold.

nkjv@2Samuel:5:19 @ So David inquired of the LORD, saying, "Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will You deliv er them into my hand?" And the LORD said to David, "Go up, for I will doubtless deliv er the Philistines into your hand."

nkjv@2Samuel:5:20 @ So David went to Baal P erazim, and David defeated them th ere; and he said, "The LORD has broken through my enemies before me, like a breakthrough of wat er." Th erefore he called the name of that place Baal P erazim.

nkjv@2Samuel:5:21 @ And they left their images th ere, and David and his men carried them away.

nkjv@2Samuel:5:23 @ Th erefore David inquired of the LORD, and He said, "You shall not go up; circle around behind them, and come upon them in front of the mulb erry trees.

nkjv@2Samuel:5:24 @ And it shall be, when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulb erry trees, then you shall advance quickly. For then the LORD will go out before you to strike the camp of the Philistines."

nkjv@2Samuel:5:25 @ And David did so, as the LORD commanded him; and he drove back the Philistines from Geba as far as Gez er.

nkjv@2Samuel:6:1 @ Again David gath ered all the choice men of Israel, thirty thousand.

nkjv@2Samuel:6:2 @ And David arose and went with all the people who w ere with him from Baale Judah to bring up from th ere the ark of God, whose name is called by the Name, the LORD of Hosts, who dwells between the ch erubim.

nkjv@2Samuel:6:7 @ Then the ang er of the LORD was aroused against Uzzah, and God struck him th ere for his error; and he died th ere by the ark of God.

nkjv@2Samuel:6:8 @ And David became angry because of the LORD's outbreak against Uzzah; and he called the name of the place P erez Uzzah to this day.

nkjv@2Samuel:6:16 @ Now as the ark of the LORD came into the City of David, Michal, Saul's daught er, looked through a window and saw King David leaping and whirling before the LORD; and she despised him in h er heart.

nkjv@2Samuel:6:17 @ So they brought the ark of the LORD, and set it in its place in the midst of the tab ernacle that David had erected for it. Then David off ered burnt off erings and peace off erings before the LORD.

nkjv@2Samuel:6:18 @ And when David had finished off ering burnt off erings and peace off erings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD of hosts.

nkjv@2Samuel:6:19 @ Then he distributed among all the people, among the whole multitude of Israel, both the women and the men, to ev eryone a loaf of bread, a piece of meat, and a cake of raisins. So all the people departed, ev eryone to his house.

nkjv@2Samuel:6:20 @ Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daught er of Saul came out to meet David, and said, "How glorious was the king of Israel today, uncov ering himself today in the eyes of the maids of his s ervants, as one of the base fellows shamelessly uncov ers himself!"

nkjv@2Samuel:6:21 @ So David said to Michal, "It was before the LORD, who chose me instead of your fath er and all his house, to appoint me rul er ov er the people of the LORD, ov er Israel. Th erefore I will play music before the LORD.

nkjv@2Samuel:6:22 @ And I will be even more undignified than this, and will be humble in my own sight. But as for the maids ervants of whom you have spoken, by them I will be held in honor."

nkjv@2Samuel:6:23 @ Th erefore Michal the daught er of Saul had no children to the day of h er death.

nkjv@2Samuel:7:5 @ "Go and tell My s ervant David, "Thus says the LORD: "Would you build a house for Me to dwell in?

nkjv@2Samuel:7:6 @ For I have not dwelt in a house since the time that I brought the children of Israel up from Egypt, even to this day, but have moved about in a tent and in a tab ernacle.

nkjv@2Samuel:7:7 @ Wh erev er I have moved about with all the children of Israel, have I ev er spoken a word to anyone from the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to sheph erd My people Israel, saying, "Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?""

nkjv@2Samuel:7:8 @ Now th erefore, thus shall you say to My s ervant David, "Thus says the LORD of hosts: "I took you from the sheepfold, from following the sheep, to be rul er ov er My people, ov er Israel.

nkjv@2Samuel:7:9 @ And I have been with you wh erev er you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you, and have made you a great name, like the name of the great men who are on the earth.

nkjv@2Samuel:7:10 @ Moreov er I will appoint a place for My people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own and move no more; nor shall the sons of wickedness oppress them anymore, as previously,

nkjv@2Samuel:7:11 @ since the time that I commanded judges to be ov er My people Israel, and have caused you to rest from all your enemies. Also the LORD tells you that He will make you a house.

nkjv@2Samuel:7:12 @ "When your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fath ers, I will set up your seed aft er you, who will come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.

nkjv@2Samuel:7:13 @ He shall build a house for My name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forev er.

nkjv@2Samuel:7:14 @ I will be his Fath er, and he shall be My son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men.

nkjv@2Samuel:7:15 @ But My m ercy shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I removed from before you.

nkjv@2Samuel:7:16 @ And your house and your kingdom shall be established forev er before you. Your throne shall be established forev er.""'

nkjv@2Samuel:7:19 @ And yet this was a small thing in Your sight, O Lord GOD; and You have also spoken of Your s ervant's house for a great while to come. Is this the mann er of man, O Lord GOD?

nkjv@2Samuel:7:20 @ Now what more can David say to You? For You, Lord GOD, know Your s ervant.

nkjv@2Samuel:7:21 @ For Your word's sake, and according to Your own heart, You have done all these great things, to make Your s ervant know them.

nkjv@2Samuel:7:22 @ Th erefore You are great, O Lord GOD. For th ere is none like You, nor is th ere any God besides You, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

nkjv@2Samuel:7:24 @ For You have made Your people Israel Your v ery own people forev er; and You, LORD, have become their God.

nkjv@2Samuel:7:25 @ "Now, O LORD God, the word which You have spoken conc erning Your s ervant and conc erning his house, establish it forev er and do as You have said.

nkjv@2Samuel:7:26 @ So let Your name be magnified forev er, saying, "The LORD of hosts is the God ov er Israel.' And let the house of Your s ervant David be established before You.

nkjv@2Samuel:7:27 @ For You, O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, have revealed this to Your s ervant, saying, "I will build you a house.' Th erefore Your s ervant has found it in his heart to pray this pray er to You.

nkjv@2Samuel:7:28 @ "And now, O Lord GOD, You are God, and Your words are true, and You have promised this goodness to Your s ervant.

nkjv@2Samuel:7:29 @ Now th erefore, let it please You to bless the house of Your s ervant, that it may continue before You forev er; for You, O Lord GOD, have spoken it, and with Your blessing let the house of Your s ervant be blessed forev er."

nkjv@2Samuel:8:1 @ Aft er this it came to pass that David attacked the Philistines and subdued them. And David took Metheg Ammah from the hand of the Philistines.

nkjv@2Samuel:8:2 @ Then he defeated Moab. Forcing them down to the ground, he measured them off with a line. With two lines he measured off those to be put to death, and with one full line those to be kept alive. So the Moabites became David's s ervants, and brought tribute.

nkjv@2Samuel:8:3 @ David also defeated Hadadez er the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recov er his t erritory at the Riv er Euphrates.

nkjv@2Samuel:8:4 @ David took from him one thousand chariots, seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand foot soldi ers. Also David hamstrung all the chariot horses, except that he spared enough of them for one hundred chariots.

nkjv@2Samuel:8:5 @ When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadez er king of Zobah, David killed twenty-two thousand of the Syrians.

nkjv@2Samuel:8:6 @ Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became David's s ervants, and brought tribute. So the LORD pres erved David wh erev er he went.

nkjv@2Samuel:8:7 @ And David took the shields of gold that had belonged to the s ervants of Hadadez er, and brought them to J erusalem.

nkjv@2Samuel:8:8 @ Also from Betah and from B erothai, cities of Hadadez er, King David took a large amount of bronze.

nkjv@2Samuel:8:9 @ When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had defeated all the army of Hadadez er,

nkjv@2Samuel:8:10 @ then Toi sent Joram his son to King David, to greet him and bless him, because he had fought against Hadadez er and defeated him (for Hadadez er had been at war with Toi); and Joram brought with him articles of silv er, articles of gold, and articles of bronze.

nkjv@2Samuel:8:11 @ King David also dedicated these to the LORD, along with the silv er and gold that he had dedicated from all the nations which he had subdued--

nkjv@2Samuel:8:12 @ from Syria, from Moab, from the people of Ammon, from the Philistines, from Amalek, and from the spoil of Hadadez er the son of Rehob, king of Zobah.

nkjv@2Samuel:8:14 @ He also put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom he put garrisons, and all the Edomites became David's s ervants. And the LORD pres erved David wh erev er he went.

nkjv@2Samuel:8:15 @ So David reigned ov er all Israel; and David administ ered judgment and justice to all his people.

nkjv@2Samuel:8:16 @ Joab the son of Z eruiah was ov er the army; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was record er;

nkjv@2Samuel:8:17 @ Zadok the son of Ahitub and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar w ere the priests; S eraiah was the scribe;

nkjv@2Samuel:8:18 @ Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was ov er both the Ch erethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons w ere chief minist ers.

nkjv@2Samuel:9:1 @ Now David said, "Is th ere still anyone who is left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake?"

nkjv@2Samuel:9:2 @ And th ere was a s ervant of the house of Saul whose name was Ziba. So when they had called him to David, the king said to him, "Are you Ziba?" He said, "At your s ervice!"

nkjv@2Samuel:9:3 @ Then the king said, "Is th ere not still someone of the house of Saul, to whom I may show the kindness of God?" And Ziba said to the king, "Th ere is still a son of Jonathan who is lame in his feet."

nkjv@2Samuel:9:4 @ So the king said to him, "Wh ere is he?" And Ziba said to the king, "Indeed he is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, in Lo Debar."

nkjv@2Samuel:9:6 @ Now when Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, had come to David, he fell on his face and prostrated himself. Then David said, "Mephibosheth?" And he answ ered, "H ere is your s ervant!"

nkjv@2Samuel:9:7 @ So David said to him, "Do not fear, for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your fath er's sake, and will restore to you all the land of Saul your grandfath er; and you shall eat bread at my table continually."

nkjv@2Samuel:9:8 @ Then he bowed himself, and said, "What is your s ervant, that you should look upon such a dead dog as I?"

nkjv@2Samuel:9:9 @ And the king called to Ziba, Saul's s ervant, and said to him, "I have given to your mast er's son all that belonged to Saul and to all his house.

nkjv@2Samuel:9:10 @ You th erefore, and your sons and your s ervants, shall work the land for him, and you shall bring in the harvest, that your mast er's son may have food to eat. But Mephibosheth your mast er's son shall eat bread at my table always." Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty s ervants.

nkjv@2Samuel:9:11 @ Then Ziba said to the king, "According to all that my lord the king has commanded his s ervant, so will your s ervant do." "As for Mephibosheth," said the king, "he shall eat at my table like one of the king's sons."

nkjv@2Samuel:9:12 @ Mephibosheth had a young son whose name was Micha. And all who dwelt in the house of Ziba w ere s ervants of Mephibosheth.

nkjv@2Samuel:9:13 @ So Mephibosheth dwelt in J erusalem, for he ate continually at the king's table. And he was lame in both his feet.

nkjv@2Samuel:10:1 @ It happened aft er this that the king of the people of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his place.

nkjv@2Samuel:10:2 @ Then David said, "I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, as his fath er showed kindness to me." So David sent by the hand of his s ervants to comfort him conc erning his fath er. And David's s ervants came into the land of the people of Ammon.

nkjv@2Samuel:10:3 @ And the princes of the people of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, "Do you think that David really honors your fath er because he has sent comfort ers to you? Has David not rath er sent his s ervants to you to search the city, to spy it out, and to ov erthrow it?"

nkjv@2Samuel:10:4 @ Th erefore Hanun took David's s ervants, shaved off half of their beards, cut off their garments in the middle, at their buttocks, and sent them away.

nkjv@2Samuel:10:5 @ When they told David, he sent to meet them, because the men w ere greatly ashamed. And the king said, "Wait at J ericho until your beards have grown, and then return."

nkjv@2Samuel:10:6 @ When the people of Ammon saw that they had made themselves repulsive to David, the people of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth Rehob and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand foot soldi ers; and from the king of Maacah one thousand men, and from Ish-Tob twelve thousand men.

nkjv@2Samuel:10:8 @ Then the people of Ammon came out and put themselves in battle array at the entrance of the gate. And the Syrians of Zoba, Beth Rehob, Ish-Tob, and Maacah w ere by themselves in the field.

nkjv@2Samuel:10:10 @ And the rest of the people he put und er the command of Abishai his broth er, that he might set them in battle array against the people of Ammon.

nkjv@2Samuel:10:13 @ So Joab and the people who w ere with him drew near for the battle against the Syrians, and they fled before him.

nkjv@2Samuel:10:14 @ When the people of Ammon saw that the Syrians w ere fleeing, they also fled before Abishai, and ent ered the city. So Joab returned from the people of Ammon and went to J erusalem.

nkjv@2Samuel:10:15 @ When the Syrians saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they gath ered togeth er.

nkjv@2Samuel:10:16 @ Then Hadadez er sent and brought out the Syrians who w ere beyond the Riv er, and they came to Helam. And Shobach the command er of Hadadez er's army went before them.

nkjv@2Samuel:10:17 @ When it was told David, he gath ered all Israel, crossed ov er the Jordan, and came to Helam. And the Syrians set themselves in battle array against David and fought with him.

nkjv@2Samuel:10:18 @ Then the Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed seven hundred chariote ers and forty thousand horsemen of the Syrians, and struck Shobach the command er of their army, who died th ere.

nkjv@2Samuel:10:19 @ And when all the kings who w ere s ervants to Hadadez er saw that they w ere defeated by Israel, they made peace with Israel and s erved them. So the Syrians w ere afraid to help the people of Ammon anymore.

nkjv@2Samuel:11:1 @ It happened in the spring of the year, at the time when kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab and his s ervants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the people of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at J erusalem.

nkjv@2Samuel:11:2 @ Then it happened one evening that David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king's house. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was v ery beautiful to behold.

nkjv@2Samuel:11:3 @ So David sent and inquired about the woman. And someone said, "Is this not Bathsheba, the daught er of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?"

nkjv@2Samuel:11:4 @ Then David sent messeng ers, and took h er; and she came to him, and he lay with h er, for she was cleansed from h er impurity; and she returned to h er house.

nkjv@2Samuel:11:7 @ When Uriah had come to him, David asked how Joab was doing, and how the people w ere doing, and how the war prosp ered.

nkjv@2Samuel:11:9 @ But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the s ervants of his lord, and did not go down to his house.

nkjv@2Samuel:11:11 @ And Uriah said to David, "The ark and Israel and Judah are dwelling in tents, and my lord Joab and the s ervants of my lord are encamped in the open fields. Shall I then go to my house to eat and drink, and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing."

nkjv@2Samuel:11:12 @ Then David said to Uriah, "Wait h ere today also, and tomorrow I will let you depart." So Uriah remained in J erusalem that day and the next.

nkjv@2Samuel:11:13 @ Now when David called him, he ate and drank before him; and he made him drunk. And at evening he went out to lie on his bed with the s ervants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.

nkjv@2Samuel:11:14 @ In the morning it happened that David wrote a lett er to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah.

nkjv@2Samuel:11:15 @ And he wrote in the lett er, saying, "Set Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck down and die."

nkjv@2Samuel:11:16 @ So it was, while Joab besieged the city, that he assigned Uriah to a place wh ere he knew th ere w ere valiant men.

nkjv@2Samuel:11:17 @ Then the men of the city came out and fought with Joab. And some of the people of the s ervants of David fell; and Uriah the Hittite died also.

nkjv@2Samuel:11:18 @ Then Joab sent and told David all the things conc erning the war,

nkjv@2Samuel:11:19 @ and charged the messeng er, saying, "When you have finished telling the matt ers of the war to the king,

nkjv@2Samuel:11:21 @ Who struck Abimelech the son of J erubbesheth? Was it not a woman who cast a piece of a millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you go near the wall?'--then you shall say, "Your s ervant Uriah the Hittite is dead also."'

nkjv@2Samuel:11:22 @ So the messeng er went, and came and told David all that Joab had sent by him.

nkjv@2Samuel:11:23 @ And the messeng er said to David, "Surely the men prevailed against us and came out to us in the field; then we drove them back as far as the entrance of the gate.

nkjv@2Samuel:11:24 @ The arch ers shot from the wall at your s ervants; and some of the king's s ervants are dead, and your s ervant Uriah the Hittite is dead also."

nkjv@2Samuel:11:25 @ Then David said to the messeng er, "Thus you shall say to Joab: "Do not let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as anoth er. Strengthen your attack against the city, and ov erthrow it.' So encourage him."

nkjv@2Samuel:11:26 @ When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah h er husband was dead, she mourned for h er husband.

nkjv@2Samuel:11:27 @ And when h er mourning was ov er, David sent and brought h er to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.

nkjv@2Samuel:12:1 @ Then the LORD sent Nathan to David. And he came to him, and said to him: "Th ere w ere two men in one city, one rich and the oth er poor.

nkjv@2Samuel:12:2 @ The rich man had exceedingly many flocks and h erds.

nkjv@2Samuel:12:3 @ But the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb which he had bought and nourished; and it grew up togeth er with him and with his children. It ate of his own food and drank from his own cup and lay in his bosom; and it was like a daught er to him.

nkjv@2Samuel:12:4 @ And a travel er came to the rich man, who refused to take from his own flock and from his own h erd to prepare one for the wayfaring man who had come to him; but he took the poor man's lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him."

nkjv@2Samuel:12:5 @ So David's ang er was greatly aroused against the man, and he said to Nathan, "As the LORD lives, the man who has done this shall surely die!

nkjv@2Samuel:12:7 @ Then Nathan said to David, "You are the man! Thus says the LORD God of Israel: "I anointed you king ov er Israel, and I deliv ered you from the hand of Saul.

nkjv@2Samuel:12:8 @ I gave you your mast er's house and your mast er's wives into your keeping, and gave you the house of Israel and Judah. And if that had been too little, I also would have given you much more!

nkjv@2Samuel:12:10 @ Now th erefore, the sword shall nev er depart from your house, because you have despised Me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.'

nkjv@2Samuel:12:11 @ Thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will raise up adv ersity against you from your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.

nkjv@2Samuel:12:14 @ Howev er, because by this deed you have given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you shall surely die."

nkjv@2Samuel:12:16 @ David th erefore pleaded with God for the child, and David fasted and went in and lay all night on the ground.

nkjv@2Samuel:12:17 @ So the eld ers of his house arose and went to him, to raise him up from the ground. But he would not, nor did he eat food with them.

nkjv@2Samuel:12:18 @ Then on the seventh day it came to pass that the child died. And the s ervants of David w ere afraid to tell him that the child was dead. For they said, "Indeed, while the child was alive, we spoke to him, and he would not heed our voice. How can we tell him that the child is dead? He may do some harm!"

nkjv@2Samuel:12:19 @ When David saw that his s ervants w ere whisp ering, David p erceived that the child was dead. Th erefore David said to his s ervants, "Is the child dead?" And they said, "He is dead."

nkjv@2Samuel:12:21 @ Then his s ervants said to him, "What is this that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive, but when the child died, you arose and ate food."

nkjv@2Samuel:12:22 @ And he said, "While the child was alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, "Who can tell wheth er the LORD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?'

nkjv@2Samuel:12:24 @ Then David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to h er and lay with h er. So she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. Now the LORD loved him,

nkjv@2Samuel:12:27 @ And Joab sent messeng ers to David, and said, "I have fought against Rabbah, and I have taken the city's wat er supply.

nkjv@2Samuel:12:28 @ Now th erefore, gath er the rest of the people togeth er and encamp against the city and take it, lest I take the city and it be called aft er my name."

nkjv@2Samuel:12:29 @ So David gath ered all the people togeth er and went to Rabbah, fought against it, and took it.

nkjv@2Samuel:12:31 @ And he brought out the people who w ere in it, and put them to work with saws and iron picks and iron axes, and made them cross ov er to the brick works. So he did to all the cities of the people of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to J erusalem.

nkjv@2Samuel:13:1 @ Aft er this Absalom the son of David had a lovely sist er, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved h er.

nkjv@2Samuel:13:2 @ Amnon was so distressed ov er his sist er Tamar that he became sick; for she was a virgin. And it was improp er for Amnon to do anything to h er.

nkjv@2Samuel:13:3 @ But Amnon had a friend whose name was Jonadab the son of Shimeah, David's broth er. Now Jonadab was a v ery crafty man.

nkjv@2Samuel:13:4 @ And he said to him, "Why are you, the king's son, becoming thinn er day aft er day? Will you not tell me?" Amnon said to him, "I love Tamar, my broth er Absalom's sist er."

nkjv@2Samuel:13:5 @ So Jonadab said to him, "Lie down on your bed and pretend to be ill. And when your fath er comes to see you, say to him, "Please let my sist er Tamar come and give me food, and prepare the food in my sight, that I may see it and eat it from h er hand."'

nkjv@2Samuel:13:6 @ Then Amnon lay down and pretended to be ill; and when the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king, "Please let Tamar my sist er come and make a couple of cakes for me in my sight, that I may eat from h er hand."

nkjv@2Samuel:13:7 @ And David sent home to Tamar, saying, "Now go to your broth er Amnon's house, and prepare food for him."

nkjv@2Samuel:13:8 @ So Tamar went to h er broth er Amnon's house; and he was lying down. Then she took flour and kneaded it, made cakes in his sight, and baked the cakes.

nkjv@2Samuel:13:9 @ And she took the pan and placed them out before him, but he refused to eat. Then Amnon said, "Have ev eryone go out from me." And they all went out from him.

nkjv@2Samuel:13:10 @ Then Amnon said to Tamar, "Bring the food into the bedroom, that I may eat from your hand." And Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and brought them to Amnon h er broth er in the bedroom.

nkjv@2Samuel:13:11 @ Now when she had brought them to him to eat, he took hold of h er and said to h er, "Come, lie with me, my sist er."

nkjv@2Samuel:13:12 @ But she answ ered him, "No, my broth er, do not force me, for no such thing should be done in Israel. Do not do this disgraceful thing!

nkjv@2Samuel:13:13 @ And I, wh ere could I take my shame? And as for you, you would be like one of the fools in Israel. Now th erefore, please speak to the king; for he will not withhold me from you."

nkjv@2Samuel:13:14 @ Howev er, he would not heed h er voice; and being strong er than she, he forced h er and lay with h er.

nkjv@2Samuel:13:15 @ Then Amnon hated h er exceedingly, so that the hatred with which he hated h er was great er than the love with which he had loved h er. And Amnon said to h er, "Arise, be gone!"

nkjv@2Samuel:13:16 @ So she said to him, "No, indeed! This evil of sending me away is worse than the oth er that you did to me." But he would not listen to h er.

nkjv@2Samuel:13:17 @ Then he called his s ervant who attended him, and said, "H ere! Put this woman out, away from me, and bolt the door behind h er."

nkjv@2Samuel:13:18 @ Now she had on a robe of many colors, for the king's virgin daught ers wore such apparel. And his s ervant put h er out and bolted the door behind h er.

nkjv@2Samuel:13:19 @ Then Tamar put ashes on h er head, and tore h er robe of many colors that was on h er, and laid h er hand on h er head and went away crying bitt erly.

nkjv@2Samuel:13:20 @ And Absalom h er broth er said to h er, "Has Amnon your broth er been with you? But now hold your peace, my sist er. He is your broth er; do not take this thing to heart." So Tamar remained desolate in h er broth er Absalom's house.

nkjv@2Samuel:13:21 @ But when King David heard of all these things, he was v ery angry.

nkjv@2Samuel:13:22 @ And Absalom spoke to his broth er Amnon neith er good nor bad. For Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sist er Tamar.

nkjv@2Samuel:13:23 @ And it came to pass, aft er two full years, that Absalom had sheepshear ers in Baal Hazor, which is near Ephraim; so Absalom invited all the king's sons.

nkjv@2Samuel:13:24 @ Then Absalom came to the king and said, "Kindly note, your s ervant has sheepshear ers; please, let the king and his s ervants go with your s ervant."

nkjv@2Samuel:13:26 @ Then Absalom said, "If not, please let my broth er Amnon go with us." And the king said to him, "Why should he go with you?"

nkjv@2Samuel:13:28 @ Now Absalom had commanded his s ervants, saying, "Watch now, when Amnon's heart is m erry with wine, and when I say to you, "Strike Amnon!' then kill him. Do not be afraid. Have I not commanded you? Be courageous and valiant."

nkjv@2Samuel:13:29 @ So the s ervants of Absalom did to Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king's sons arose, and each one got on his mule and fled.

nkjv@2Samuel:13:30 @ And it came to pass, while they w ere on the way, that news came to David, saying, "Absalom has killed all the king's sons, and not one of them is left!"

nkjv@2Samuel:13:31 @ So the king arose and tore his garments and lay on the ground, and all his s ervants stood by with their clothes torn.

nkjv@2Samuel:13:32 @ Then Jonadab the son of Shimeah, David's broth er, answ ered and said, "Let not my lord suppose they have killed all the young men, the king's sons, for only Amnon is dead. For by the command of Absalom this has been det ermined from the day that he forced his sist er Tamar.

nkjv@2Samuel:13:33 @ Now th erefore, let not my lord the king take the thing to his heart, to think that all the king's sons are dead. For only Amnon is dead."

nkjv@2Samuel:13:34 @ Then Absalom fled. And the young man who was keeping watch lifted his eyes and looked, and th ere, many people w ere coming from the road on the hillside behind him.

nkjv@2Samuel:13:35 @ And Jonadab said to the king, "Look, the king's sons are coming; as your s ervant said, so it is."

nkjv@2Samuel:13:36 @ So it was, as soon as he had finished speaking, that the king's sons indeed came, and they lifted up their voice and wept. Also the king and all his s ervants wept v ery bitt erly.

nkjv@2Samuel:13:37 @ But Absalom fled and went to Talmai the son of Ammihud, king of Geshur. And David mourned for his son ev ery day.

nkjv@2Samuel:13:38 @ So Absalom fled and went to Geshur, and was th ere three years.

nkjv@2Samuel:13:39 @ And King David longed to go to Absalom. For he had been comforted conc erning Amnon, because he was dead.

nkjv@2Samuel:14:1 @ So Joab the son of Z eruiah p erceived that the king's heart was conc erned about Absalom.

nkjv@2Samuel:14:2 @ And Joab sent to Tekoa and brought from th ere a wise woman, and said to h er, "Please pretend to be a mourn er, and put on mourning apparel; do not anoint yourself with oil, but act like a woman who has been mourning a long time for the dead.

nkjv@2Samuel:14:3 @ Go to the king and speak to him in this mann er." So Joab put the words in h er mouth.

nkjv@2Samuel:14:4 @ And when the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on h er face to the ground and prostrated h erself, and said, "Help, O king!"

nkjv@2Samuel:14:5 @ Then the king said to h er, "What troubles you?" And she answ ered, "Indeed I am a widow, my husband is dead.

nkjv@2Samuel:14:6 @ Now your maids ervant had two sons; and the two fought with each oth er in the field, and th ere was no one to part them, but the one struck the oth er and killed him.

nkjv@2Samuel:14:7 @ And now the whole family has risen up against your maids ervant, and they said, "Deliv er him who struck his broth er, that we may execute him for the life of his broth er whom he killed; and we will destroy the heir also.' So they would extinguish my emb er that is left, and leave to my husband neith er name nor remnant on the earth."

nkjv@2Samuel:14:8 @ Then the king said to the woman, "Go to your house, and I will give ord ers conc erning you."

nkjv@2Samuel:14:9 @ And the woman of Tekoa said to the king, "My lord, O king, let the iniquity be on me and on my fath er's house, and the king and his throne be guiltless."

nkjv@2Samuel:14:10 @ So the king said, "Whoev er says anything to you, bring him to me, and he shall not touch you anymore."

nkjv@2Samuel:14:11 @ Then she said, "Please let the king rememb er the LORD your God, and do not p ermit the aveng er of blood to destroy anymore, lest they destroy my son." And he said, "As the LORD lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the ground."

nkjv@2Samuel:14:12 @ Th erefore the woman said, "Please, let your maids ervant speak anoth er word to my lord the king." And he said, "Say on."

nkjv@2Samuel:14:14 @ For we will surely die and become like wat er spilled on the ground, which cannot be gath ered up again. Yet God does not take away a life; but He devises means, so that His banished ones are not expelled from Him.

nkjv@2Samuel:14:15 @ Now th erefore, I have come to speak of this thing to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid. And your maids ervant said, "I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will p erform the request of his maids ervant.

nkjv@2Samuel:14:16 @ For the king will hear and deliv er his maids ervant from the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son togeth er from the inh eritance of God.'

nkjv@2Samuel:14:17 @ Your maids ervant said, "The word of my lord the king will now be comforting; for as the angel of God, so is my lord the king in disc erning good and evil. And may the LORD your God be with you."'

nkjv@2Samuel:14:18 @ Then the king answ ered and said to the woman, "Please do not hide from me anything that I ask you." And the woman said, "Please, let my lord the king speak."

nkjv@2Samuel:14:19 @ So the king said, "Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?" And the woman answ ered and said, "As you live, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken. For your s ervant Joab commanded me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your maids ervant.

nkjv@2Samuel:14:20 @ To bring about this change of affairs your s ervant Joab has done this thing; but my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of the angel of God, to know ev erything that is in the earth."

nkjv@2Samuel:14:21 @ And the king said to Joab, "All right, I have granted this thing. Go th erefore, bring back the young man Absalom."

nkjv@2Samuel:14:22 @ Then Joab fell to the ground on his face and bowed himself, and thanked the king. And Joab said, "Today your s ervant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord, O king, in that the king has fulfilled the request of his s ervant."

nkjv@2Samuel:14:23 @ So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to J erusalem.

nkjv@2Samuel:14:25 @ Now in all Israel th ere was no one who was praised as much as Absalom for his good looks. From the sole of his foot to the crown of his head th ere was no blemish in him.

nkjv@2Samuel:14:26 @ And when he cut the hair of his head--at the end of ev ery year he cut it because it was heavy on him--when he cut it, he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels according to the king's standard.

nkjv@2Samuel:14:27 @ To Absalom w ere born three sons, and one daught er whose name was Tamar. She was a woman of beautiful appearance.

nkjv@2Samuel:14:28 @ And Absalom dwelt two full years in J erusalem, but did not see the king's face.

nkjv@2Samuel:14:29 @ Th erefore Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king, but he would not come to him. And when he sent again the second time, he would not come.

nkjv@2Samuel:14:30 @ So he said to his s ervants, "See, Joab's field is near mine, and he has barley th ere; go and set it on fire." And Absalom's s ervants set the field on fire.

nkjv@2Samuel:14:31 @ Then Joab arose and came to Absalom's house, and said to him, "Why have your s ervants set my field on fire?"

nkjv@2Samuel:14:32 @ And Absalom answ ered Joab, "Look, I sent to you, saying, "Come h ere, so that I may send you to the king, to say, "Why have I come from Geshur? It would be bett er for me to be th ere still."' Now th erefore, let me see the king's face; but if th ere is iniquity in me, let him execute me."

nkjv@2Samuel:15:1 @ Aft er this it happened that Absalom provided himself with chariots and horses, and fifty men to run before him.

nkjv@2Samuel:15:2 @ Now Absalom would rise early and stand beside the way to the gate. So it was, whenev er anyone who had a lawsuit came to the king for a decision, that Absalom would call to him and say, "What city are you from?" And he would say, "Your s ervant is from such and such a tribe of Israel."

nkjv@2Samuel:15:3 @ Then Absalom would say to him, "Look, your case is good and right; but th ere is no deputy of the king to hear you."

nkjv@2Samuel:15:4 @ Moreov er Absalom would say, "Oh, that I w ere made judge in the land, and ev eryone who has any suit or cause would come to me; then I would give him justice."

nkjv@2Samuel:15:5 @ And so it was, whenev er anyone came near to bow down to him, that he would put out his hand and take him and kiss him.

nkjv@2Samuel:15:6 @ In this mann er Absalom acted toward all Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.

nkjv@2Samuel:15:7 @ Now it came to pass aft er forty years that Absalom said to the king, "Please, let me go to Hebron and pay the vow which I made to the LORD.

nkjv@2Samuel:15:8 @ For your s ervant took a vow while I dwelt at Geshur in Syria, saying, "If the LORD indeed brings me back to J erusalem, then I will s erve the LORD."'

nkjv@2Samuel:15:11 @ And with Absalom went two hundred men invited from J erusalem, and they went along innocently and did not know anything.

nkjv@2Samuel:15:12 @ Then Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counselor, from his city--from Giloh--while he off ered sacrifices. And the conspiracy grew strong, for the people with Absalom continually increased in numb er.

nkjv@2Samuel:15:13 @ Now a messeng er came to David, saying, "The hearts of the men of Israel are with Absalom."

nkjv@2Samuel:15:14 @ So David said to all his s ervants who w ere with him at J erusalem, "Arise, and let us flee, or we shall not escape from Absalom. Make haste to depart, lest he ov ertake us suddenly and bring disast er upon us, and strike the city with the edge of the sword."

nkjv@2Samuel:15:15 @ And the king's s ervants said to the king, "We are your s ervants, ready to do whatev er my lord the king commands."

nkjv@2Samuel:15:16 @ Then the king went out with all his household aft er him. But the king left ten women, concubines, to keep the house.

nkjv@2Samuel:15:17 @ And the king went out with all the people aft er him, and stopped at the outskirts.

nkjv@2Samuel:15:18 @ Then all his s ervants passed before him; and all the Ch erethites, all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men who had followed him from Gath, passed before the king.

nkjv@2Samuel:15:19 @ Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, "Why are you also going with us? Return and remain with the king. For you are a foreign er and also an exile from your own place.

nkjv@2Samuel:15:20 @ In fact, you came only yest erday. Should I make you wand er up and down with us today, since I go I know not wh ere? Return, and take your brethren back. M ercy and truth be with you."

nkjv@2Samuel:15:21 @ But Ittai answ ered the king and said, "As the LORD lives, and as my lord the king lives, surely in whatev er place my lord the king shall be, wheth er in death or life, even th ere also your s ervant will be."

nkjv@2Samuel:15:22 @ So David said to Ittai, "Go, and cross ov er." Then Ittai the Gittite and all his men and all the little ones who w ere with him crossed ov er.

nkjv@2Samuel:15:23 @ And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people crossed ov er. The king himself also crossed ov er the Brook Kidron, and all the people crossed ov er toward the way of the wild erness.

nkjv@2Samuel:15:24 @ Th ere was Zadok also, and all the Levites with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God. And they set down the ark of God, and Abiathar went up until all the people had finished crossing ov er from the city.

nkjv@2Samuel:15:26 @ But if He says thus: "I have no delight in you,' h ere I am, let Him do to me as seems good to Him."

nkjv@2Samuel:15:27 @ The king also said to Zadok the priest, "Are you not a se er? Return to the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz your son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.

nkjv@2Samuel:15:28 @ See, I will wait in the plains of the wild erness until word comes from you to inform me."

nkjv@2Samuel:15:29 @ Th erefore Zadok and Abiathar carried the ark of God back to J erusalem. And they remained th ere.

nkjv@2Samuel:15:30 @ So David went up by the Ascent of the Mount of Olives, and wept as he went up; and he had his head cov ered and went barefoot. And all the people who w ere with him cov ered their heads and went up, weeping as they went up.

nkjv@2Samuel:15:32 @ Now it happened when David had come to the top of the mountain, wh ere he worshiped God--th ere was Hushai the Archite coming to meet him with his robe torn and dust on his head.

nkjv@2Samuel:15:34 @ But if you return to the city, and say to Absalom, "I will be your s ervant, O king; as I was your fath er's s ervant previously, so I will now also be your s ervant,' then you may defeat the counsel of Ahithophel for me.

nkjv@2Samuel:15:35 @ And do you not have Zadok and Abiathar the priests with you th ere? Th erefore it will be that whatev er you hear from the king's house, you shall tell to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.

nkjv@2Samuel:15:36 @ Indeed they have th ere with them their two sons, Ahimaaz, Zadok's son, and Jonathan, Abiathar's son; and by them you shall send me ev erything you hear."

nkjv@2Samuel:15:37 @ So Hushai, David's friend, went into the city. And Absalom came into J erusalem.

nkjv@2Samuel:16:1 @ When David was a little past the top of the mountain, th ere was Ziba the s ervant of Mephibosheth, who met him with a couple of saddled donkeys, and on them two hundred loaves of bread, one hundred clust ers of raisins, one hundred summ er fruits, and a skin of wine.

nkjv@2Samuel:16:2 @ And the king said to Ziba, "What do you mean to do with these?" So Ziba said, "The donkeys are for the king's household to ride on, the bread and summ er fruit for the young men to eat, and the wine for those who are faint in the wild erness to drink."

nkjv@2Samuel:16:3 @ Then the king said, "And wh ere is your mast er's son?" And Ziba said to the king, "Indeed he is staying in J erusalem, for he said, "Today the house of Israel will restore the kingdom of my fath er to me."'

nkjv@2Samuel:16:4 @ So the king said to Ziba, "H ere, all that belongs to Mephibosheth is yours." And Ziba said, "I humbly bow before you, that I may find favor in your sight, my lord, O king!"

nkjv@2Samuel:16:5 @ Now when King David came to Bahurim, th ere was a man from the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei the son of G era, coming from th ere. He came out, cursing continuously as he came.

nkjv@2Samuel:16:6 @ And he threw stones at David and at all the s ervants of King David. And all the people and all the mighty men w ere on his right hand and on his left.

nkjv@2Samuel:16:8 @ The LORD has brought upon you all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned; and the LORD has deliv ered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son. So now you are caught in your own evil, because you are a bloodthirsty man!"

nkjv@2Samuel:16:9 @ Then Abishai the son of Z eruiah said to the king, "Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Please, let me go ov er and take off his head!"

nkjv@2Samuel:16:10 @ But the king said, "What have I to do with you, you sons of Z eruiah? So let him curse, because the LORD has said to him, "Curse David.' Who then shall say, "Why have you done so?"'

nkjv@2Samuel:16:11 @ And David said to Abishai and all his s ervants, "See how my son who came from my own body seeks my life. How much more now may this Benjamite? Let him alone, and let him curse; for so the LORD has ord ered him.

nkjv@2Samuel:16:14 @ Now the king and all the people who w ere with him became weary; so they refreshed themselves th ere.

nkjv@2Samuel:16:15 @ Meanwhile Absalom and all the people, the men of Israel, came to J erusalem; and Ahithophel was with him.

nkjv@2Samuel:16:19 @ "Furth ermore, whom should I s erve? Should I not s erve in the presence of his son? As I have s erved in your fath er's presence, so will I be in your presence."

nkjv@2Samuel:16:21 @ And Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Go in to your fath er's concubines, whom he has left to keep the house; and all Israel will hear that you are abhorred by your fath er. Then the hands of all who are with you will be strong."

nkjv@2Samuel:16:22 @ So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the top of the house, and Absalom went in to his fath er's concubines in the sight of all Israel.

nkjv@2Samuel:17:1 @ Moreov er Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Now let me choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue David tonight.

nkjv@2Samuel:17:4 @ And the saying pleased Absalom and all the eld ers of Israel.

nkjv@2Samuel:17:6 @ And when Hushai came to Absalom, Absalom spoke to him, saying, "Ahithophel has spoken in this mann er. Shall we do as he says? If not, speak up."

nkjv@2Samuel:17:8 @ For," said Hushai, "you know your fath er and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are enraged in their minds, like a bear robbed of h er cubs in the field; and your fath er is a man of war, and will not camp with the people.

nkjv@2Samuel:17:9 @ Surely by now he is hidden in some pit, or in some oth er place. And it will be, when some of them are ov erthrown at the first, that whoev er hears it will say, "Th ere is a slaught er among the people who follow Absalom.'

nkjv@2Samuel:17:10 @ And even he who is valiant, whose heart is like the heart of a lion, will melt completely. For all Israel knows that your fath er is a mighty man, and those who are with him are valiant men.

nkjv@2Samuel:17:11 @ Th erefore I advise that all Israel be fully gath ered to you, from Dan to Be ersheba, like the sand that is by the sea for multitude, and that you go to battle in p erson.

nkjv@2Samuel:17:12 @ So we will come upon him in some place wh ere he may be found, and we will fall on him as the dew falls on the ground. And of him and all the men who are with him th ere shall not be left so much as one.

nkjv@2Samuel:17:13 @ Moreov er, if he has withdrawn into a city, then all Israel shall bring ropes to that city; and we will pull it into the riv er, until th ere is not one small stone found th ere."

nkjv@2Samuel:17:14 @ So Absalom and all the men of Israel said, "The advice of Hushai the Archite is bett er than the advice of Ahithophel." For the LORD had purposed to defeat the good advice of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring disast er on Absalom.

nkjv@2Samuel:17:15 @ Then Hushai said to Zadok and Abiathar the priests, "Thus and so Ahithophel advised Absalom and the eld ers of Israel, and thus and so I have advised.

nkjv@2Samuel:17:16 @ Now th erefore, send quickly and tell David, saying, "Do not spend this night in the plains of the wild erness, but speedily cross ov er, lest the king and all the people who are with him be swallowed up."'

nkjv@2Samuel:17:17 @ Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed at En Rogel, for they dared not be seen coming into the city; so a female s ervant would come and tell them, and they would go and tell King David.

nkjv@2Samuel:17:18 @ Nev ertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom. But both of them went away quickly and came to a man's house in Bahurim, who had a well in his court; and they went down into it.

nkjv@2Samuel:17:19 @ Then the woman took and spread a cov ering ov er the well's mouth, and spread ground grain on it; and the thing was not known.

nkjv@2Samuel:17:20 @ And when Absalom's s ervants came to the woman at the house, they said, "Wh ere are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?" So the woman said to them, "They have gone ov er the wat er brook." And when they had searched and could not find them, they returned to J erusalem.

nkjv@2Samuel:17:21 @ Now it came to pass, aft er they had departed, that they came up out of the well and went and told King David, and said to David, "Arise and cross ov er the wat er quickly. For thus has Ahithophel advised against you."

nkjv@2Samuel:17:22 @ So David and all the people who w ere with him arose and crossed ov er the Jordan. By morning light not one of them was left who had not gone ov er the Jordan.

nkjv@2Samuel:17:23 @ Now when Ahithophel saw that his advice was not followed, he saddled a donkey, and arose and went home to his house, to his city. Then he put his household in ord er, and hanged himself, and died; and he was buried in his fath er's tomb.

nkjv@2Samuel:17:24 @ Then David went to Mahanaim. And Absalom crossed ov er the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.

nkjv@2Samuel:17:25 @ And Absalom made Amasa captain of the army instead of Joab. This Amasa was the son of a man whose name was Jithra, an Israelite, who had gone in to Abigail the daught er of Nahash, sist er of Z eruiah, Joab's moth er.

nkjv@2Samuel:17:29 @ honey and curds, sheep and cheese of the h erd, for David and the people who w ere with him to eat. For they said, "The people are hungry and weary and thirsty in the wild erness."

nkjv@2Samuel:18:1 @ And David numb ered the people who w ere with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds ov er them.

nkjv@2Samuel:18:2 @ Then David sent out one third of the people und er the hand of Joab, one third und er the hand of Abishai the son of Z eruiah, Joab's broth er, and one third und er the hand of Ittai the Gittite. And the king said to the people, "I also will surely go out with you myself."

nkjv@2Samuel:18:3 @ But the people answ ered, "You shall not go out! For if we flee away, they will not care about us; nor if half of us die, will they care about us. But you are worth ten thousand of us now. For you are now more help to us in the city."

nkjv@2Samuel:18:4 @ Then the king said to them, "Whatev er seems best to you I will do." So the king stood beside the gate, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands.

nkjv@2Samuel:18:5 @ Now the king had commanded Joab, Abishai, and Ittai, saying, "Deal gently for my sake with the young man Absalom." And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains ord ers conc erning Absalom.

nkjv@2Samuel:18:7 @ The people of Israel w ere ov erthrown th ere before the s ervants of David, and a great slaught er of twenty thousand took place th ere that day.

nkjv@2Samuel:18:8 @ For the battle th ere was scatt ered ov er the face of the whole countryside, and the woods devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

nkjv@2Samuel:18:9 @ Then Absalom met the s ervants of David. Absalom rode on a mule. The mule went und er the thick boughs of a great t erebinth tree, and his head caught in the t erebinth; so he was left hanging between heaven and earth. And the mule which was und er him went on.

nkjv@2Samuel:18:10 @ Now a c ertain man saw it and told Joab, and said, "I just saw Absalom hanging in a t erebinth tree!"

nkjv@2Samuel:18:11 @ So Joab said to the man who told him, "You just saw him! And why did you not strike him th ere to the ground? I would have given you ten shekels of silv er and a belt."

nkjv@2Samuel:18:12 @ But the man said to Joab, "Though I w ere to receive a thousand shekels of silv er in my hand, I would not raise my hand against the king's son. For in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, "Beware lest anyone touch the young man Absalom!'

nkjv@2Samuel:18:13 @ Oth erwise I would have dealt falsely against my own life. For th ere is nothing hidden from the king, and you yourself would have set yourself against me."

nkjv@2Samuel:18:14 @ Then Joab said, "I cannot ling er with you." And he took three spears in his hand and thrust them through Absalom's heart, while he was still alive in the midst of the t erebinth tree.

nkjv@2Samuel:18:17 @ And they took Absalom and cast him into a large pit in the woods, and laid a v ery large heap of stones ov er him. Then all Israel fled, ev eryone to his tent.

nkjv@2Samuel:18:18 @ Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up a pillar for himself, which is in the King's Valley. For he said, "I have no son to keep my name in remembrance." He called the pillar aft er his own name. And to this day it is called Absalom's Monument.

nkjv@2Samuel:18:20 @ And Joab said to him, "You shall not take the news this day, for you shall take the news anoth er day. But today you shall take no news, because the king's son is dead."

nkjv@2Samuel:18:22 @ And Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said again to Joab, "But whatev er happens, please let me also run aft er the Cushite." So Joab said, "Why will you run, my son, since you have no news ready?"

nkjv@2Samuel:18:23 @ "But whatev er happens," he said, "let me run." So he said to him, "Run." Then Ahimaaz ran by way of the plain, and outran the Cushite.

nkjv@2Samuel:18:24 @ Now David was sitting between the two gates. And the watchman went up to the roof ov er the gate, to the wall, lifted his eyes and looked, and th ere was a man, running alone.

nkjv@2Samuel:18:25 @ Then the watchman cried out and told the king. And the king said, "If he is alone, th ere is news in his mouth." And he came rapidly and drew near.

nkjv@2Samuel:18:26 @ Then the watchman saw anoth er man running, and the watchman called to the gatekeep er and said, "Th ere is anoth er man, running alone!" And the king said, "He also brings news."

nkjv@2Samuel:18:28 @ So Ahimaaz called out and said to the king, "All is well!" Then he bowed down with his face to the earth before the king, and said, "Blessed be the LORD your God, who has deliv ered up the men who raised their hand against my lord the king!"

nkjv@2Samuel:18:29 @ The king said, "Is the young man Absalom safe?" Ahimaaz answ ered, "When Joab sent the king's s ervant and me your s ervant, I saw a great tumult, but I did not know what it was about."

nkjv@2Samuel:18:30 @ And the king said, "Turn aside and stand h ere." So he turned aside and stood still.

nkjv@2Samuel:18:31 @ Just then the Cushite came, and the Cushite said, "Th ere is good news, my lord the king! For the LORD has avenged you this day of all those who rose against you."

nkjv@2Samuel:18:32 @ And the king said to the Cushite, "Is the young man Absalom safe?" So the Cushite answ ered, "May the enemies of my lord the king, and all who rise against you to do harm, be like that young man!"

nkjv@2Samuel:18:33 @ Then the king was deeply moved, and went up to the chamb er ov er the gate, and wept. And as he went, he said thus: "O my son Absalom--my son, my son Absalom--if only I had died in your place! O Absalom my son, my son!"

nkjv@2Samuel:19:4 @ But the king cov ered his face, and the king cried out with a loud voice, "O my son Absalom! O Absalom, my son, my son!"

nkjv@2Samuel:19:5 @ Then Joab came into the house to the king, and said, "Today you have disgraced all your s ervants who today have saved your life, the lives of your sons and daught ers, the lives of your wives and the lives of your concubines,

nkjv@2Samuel:19:6 @ in that you love your enemies and hate your friends. For you have declared today that you regard neith er princes nor s ervants; for today I p erceive that if Absalom had lived and all of us had died today, then it would have pleased you well.

nkjv@2Samuel:19:7 @ Now th erefore, arise, go out and speak comfort to your s ervants. For I swear by the LORD, if you do not go out, not one will stay with you this night. And that will be worse for you than all the evil that has befallen you from your youth until now."

nkjv@2Samuel:19:8 @ Then the king arose and sat in the gate. And they told all the people, saying, "Th ere is the king, sitting in the gate." So all the people came before the king. For ev eryone of Israel had fled to his tent.

nkjv@2Samuel:19:9 @ Now all the people w ere in a dispute throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, "The king saved us from the hand of our enemies, he deliv ered us from the hand of the Philistines, and now he has fled from the land because of Absalom.

nkjv@2Samuel:19:10 @ But Absalom, whom we anointed ov er us, has died in battle. Now th erefore, why do you say nothing about bringing back the king?"

nkjv@2Samuel:19:11 @ So King David sent to Zadok and Abiathar the priests, saying, "Speak to the eld ers of Judah, saying, "Why are you the last to bring the king back to his house, since the words of all Israel have come to the king, to his v ery house?

nkjv@2Samuel:19:13 @ And say to Amasa, "Are you not my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you are not command er of the army before me continually in place of Joab."'

nkjv@2Samuel:19:14 @ So he swayed the hearts of all the men of Judah, just as the heart of one man, so that they sent this word to the king: "Return, you and all your s ervants!"

nkjv@2Samuel:19:16 @ And Shimei the son of G era, a Benjamite, who was from Bahurim, hurried and came down with the men of Judah to meet King David.

nkjv@2Samuel:19:17 @ Th ere w ere a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the s ervant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty s ervants with him; and they went ov er the Jordan before the king.

nkjv@2Samuel:19:18 @ Then a f erryboat went across to carry ov er the king's household, and to do what he thought good. Now Shimei the son of G era fell down before the king when he had crossed the Jordan.

nkjv@2Samuel:19:19 @ Then he said to the king, "Do not let my lord impute iniquity to me, or rememb er what wrong your s ervant did on the day that my lord the king left J erusalem, that the king should take it to heart.

nkjv@2Samuel:19:20 @ For I, your s ervant, know that I have sinned. Th erefore h ere I am, the first to come today of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king."

nkjv@2Samuel:19:21 @ But Abishai the son of Z eruiah answ ered and said, "Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD's anointed?"

nkjv@2Samuel:19:22 @ And David said, "What have I to do with you, you sons of Z eruiah, that you should be adv ersaries to me today? Shall any man be put to death today in Israel? For do I not know that today I am king ov er Israel?"

nkjv@2Samuel:19:23 @ Th erefore the king said to Shimei, "You shall not die." And the king swore to him.

nkjv@2Samuel:19:25 @ So it was, when he had come to J erusalem to meet the king, that the king said to him, "Why did you not go with me, Mephibosheth?"

nkjv@2Samuel:19:26 @ And he answ ered, "My lord, O king, my s ervant deceived me. For your s ervant said, "I will saddle a donkey for myself, that I may ride on it and go to the king,' because your s ervant is lame.

nkjv@2Samuel:19:27 @ And he has sland ered your s ervant to my lord the king, but my lord the king is like the angel of God. Th erefore do what is good in your eyes.

nkjv@2Samuel:19:28 @ For all my fath er's house w ere but dead men before my lord the king. Yet you set your s ervant among those who eat at your own table. Th erefore what right have I still to cry out anymore to the king?"

nkjv@2Samuel:19:29 @ So the king said to him, "Why do you speak anymore of your matt ers? I have said, "You and Ziba divide the land."'

nkjv@2Samuel:19:30 @ Then Mephibosheth said to the king, "Rath er, let him take it all, inasmuch as my lord the king has come back in peace to his own house."

nkjv@2Samuel:19:32 @ Now Barzillai was a v ery aged man, eighty years old. And he had provided the king with supplies while he stayed at Mahanaim, for he was a v ery rich man.

nkjv@2Samuel:19:33 @ And the king said to Barzillai, "Come across with me, and I will provide for you while you are with me in J erusalem."

nkjv@2Samuel:19:34 @ But Barzillai said to the king, "How long have I to live, that I should go up with the king to J erusalem?

nkjv@2Samuel:19:35 @ I am today eighty years old. Can I disc ern between the good and bad? Can your s ervant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear any long er the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your s ervant be a furth er burden to my lord the king?

nkjv@2Samuel:19:36 @ Your s ervant will go a little way across the Jordan with the king. And why should the king repay me with such a reward?

nkjv@2Samuel:19:37 @ Please let your s ervant turn back again, that I may die in my own city, near the grave of my fath er and moth er. But h ere is your s ervant Chimham; let him cross ov er with my lord the king, and do for him what seems good to you."

nkjv@2Samuel:19:38 @ And the king answ ered, "Chimham shall cross ov er with me, and I will do for him what seems good to you. Now whatev er you request of me, I will do for you."

nkjv@2Samuel:19:39 @ Then all the people went ov er the Jordan. And when the king had crossed ov er, the king kissed Barzillai and blessed him, and he returned to his own place.

nkjv@2Samuel:19:42 @ So all the men of Judah answ ered the men of Israel, "Because the king is a close relative of ours. Why then are you angry ov er this matt er? Have we ev er eaten at the king's expense? Or has he given us any gift?"

nkjv@2Samuel:19:43 @ And the men of Israel answ ered the men of Judah, and said, "We have ten shares in the king; th erefore we also have more right to David than you. Why then do you despise us--w ere we not the first to advise bringing back our king?" Yet the words of the men of Judah w ere fi erc er than the words of the men of Israel.

nkjv@2Samuel:20:1 @ And th ere happened to be th ere a rebel, whose name was Sheba the son of Bichri, a Benjamite. And he blew a trumpet, and said: "We have no share in David, Nor do we have inh eritance in the son of Jesse; Ev ery man to his tents, O Israel!"

nkjv@2Samuel:20:2 @ So ev ery man of Israel des erted David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri. But the men of Judah, from the Jordan as far as J erusalem, remained loyal to their king.

nkjv@2Samuel:20:3 @ Now David came to his house at J erusalem. And the king took the ten women, his concubines whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in seclusion and supported them, but did not go in to them. So they w ere shut up to the day of their death, living in widowhood.

nkjv@2Samuel:20:4 @ And the king said to Amasa, "Assemble the men of Judah for me within three days, and be present h ere yourself."

nkjv@2Samuel:20:5 @ So Amasa went to assemble the men of Judah. But he delayed long er than the set time which David had appointed him.

nkjv@2Samuel:20:6 @ And David said to Abishai, "Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom. Take your lord's s ervants and pursue him, lest he find for himself fortified cities, and escape us."

nkjv@2Samuel:20:7 @ So Joab's men, with the Ch erethites, the Pelethites, and all the mighty men, went out aft er him. And they went out of J erusalem to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.

nkjv@2Samuel:20:8 @ When they w ere at the large stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came before them. Now Joab was dressed in battle armor; on it was a belt with a sword fastened in its sheath at his hips; and as he was going forward, it fell out.

nkjv@2Samuel:20:9 @ Then Joab said to Amasa, "Are you in health, my broth er?" And Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.

nkjv@2Samuel:20:10 @ But Amasa did not notice the sword that was in Joab's hand. And he struck him with it in the stomach, and his entrails poured out on the ground; and he did not strike him again. Thus he died. Then Joab and Abishai his broth er pursued Sheba the son of Bichri.

nkjv@2Samuel:20:11 @ Meanwhile one of Joab's men stood near Amasa, and said, "Whoev er favors Joab and whoev er is for David--follow Joab!"

nkjv@2Samuel:20:12 @ But Amasa wallowed in his blood in the middle of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people stood still, he moved Amasa from the highway to the field and threw a garment ov er him, when he saw that ev eryone who came upon him halted.

nkjv@2Samuel:20:13 @ When he was removed from the highway, all the people went on aft er Joab to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.

nkjv@2Samuel:20:14 @ And he went through all the tribes of Israel to Abel and Beth Maachah and all the B erites. So they w ere gath ered togeth er and also went aft er Sheba.

nkjv@2Samuel:20:15 @ Then they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth Maachah; and they cast up a siege mound against the city, and it stood by the rampart. And all the people who w ere with Joab batt ered the wall to throw it down.

nkjv@2Samuel:20:17 @ When he had come near to h er, the woman said, "Are you Joab?" He answ ered, "I am." Then she said to him, "Hear the words of your maids ervant." And he answ ered, "I am listening."

nkjv@2Samuel:20:18 @ So she spoke, saying, "They used to talk in form er times, saying, "They shall surely seek guidance at Abel,' and so they would end disputes.

nkjv@2Samuel:20:19 @ I am among the peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city and a moth er in Israel. Why would you swallow up the inh eritance of the LORD?"

nkjv@2Samuel:20:20 @ And Joab answ ered and said, "Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy!

nkjv@2Samuel:20:21 @ That is not so. But a man from the mountains of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has raised his hand against the king, against David. Deliv er him only, and I will depart from the city." So the woman said to Joab, "Watch, his head will be thrown to you ov er the wall."

nkjv@2Samuel:20:22 @ Then the woman in h er wisdom went to all the people. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. Then he blew a trumpet, and they withdrew from the city, ev ery man to his tent. So Joab returned to the king at J erusalem.

nkjv@2Samuel:20:23 @ And Joab was ov er all the army of Israel; Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was ov er the Ch erethites and the Pelethites;

nkjv@2Samuel:20:24 @ Adoram was in charge of revenue; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was record er;

nkjv@2Samuel:20:25 @ Sheva was scribe; Zadok and Abiathar w ere the priests;

nkjv@2Samuel:20:26 @ and Ira the Jairite was a chief minist er und er David.

nkjv@2Samuel:21:1 @ Now th ere was a famine in the days of David for three years, year aft er year; and David inquired of the LORD. And the LORD answ ered, "It is because of Saul and his bloodthirsty house, because he killed the Gibeonites."

nkjv@2Samuel:21:2 @ So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them. Now the Gibeonites w ere not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; the children of Israel had sworn protection to them, but Saul had sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah.

nkjv@2Samuel:21:3 @ Th erefore David said to the Gibeonites, "What shall I do for you? And with what shall I make atonement, that you may bless the inh eritance of the LORD?"

nkjv@2Samuel:21:4 @ And the Gibeonites said to him, "We will have no silv er or gold from Saul or from his house, nor shall you kill any man in Israel for us." So he said, "Whatev er you say, I will do for you."

nkjv@2Samuel:21:5 @ Then they answ ered the king, "As for the man who consumed us and plotted against us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the t erritories of Israel,

nkjv@2Samuel:21:6 @ let seven men of his descendants be deliv ered to us, and we will hang them before the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, whom the LORD chose." And the king said, "I will give them."

nkjv@2Samuel:21:8 @ So the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons of Rizpah the daught er of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, and the five sons of Michal the daught er of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite;

nkjv@2Samuel:21:9 @ and he deliv ered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the hill before the LORD. So they fell, all seven togeth er, and w ere put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest.

nkjv@2Samuel:21:10 @ Now Rizpah the daught er of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it for h erself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until the late rains poured on them from heaven. And she did not allow the birds of the air to rest on them by day nor the beasts of the field by night.

nkjv@2Samuel:21:11 @ And David was told what Rizpah the daught er of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.

nkjv@2Samuel:21:12 @ Then David went and took the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son, from the men of Jabesh Gilead who had stolen them from the street of Beth Shan, wh ere the Philistines had hung them up, aft er the Philistines had struck down Saul in Gilboa.

nkjv@2Samuel:21:13 @ So he brought up the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from th ere; and they gath ered the bones of those who had been hanged.

nkjv@2Samuel:21:14 @ They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the tomb of Kish his fath er. So they p erformed all that the king commanded. And aft er that God heeded the pray er for the land.

nkjv@2Samuel:21:15 @ When the Philistines w ere at war again with Israel, David and his s ervants with him went down and fought against the Philistines; and David grew faint.

nkjv@2Samuel:21:17 @ But Abishai the son of Z eruiah came to his aid, and struck the Philistine and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, "You shall go out no more with us to battle, lest you quench the lamp of Israel."

nkjv@2Samuel:21:18 @ Now it happened aft erward that th ere was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob. Then Sibbechai the Hushathite killed Saph, who was one of the sons of the giant.

nkjv@2Samuel:21:19 @ Again th ere was war at Gob with the Philistines, wh ere Elhanan the son of Jaare-Oregim the Bethlehemite killed the broth er of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weav er's beam.

nkjv@2Samuel:21:20 @ Yet again th ere was war at Gath, wh ere th ere was a man of great stature, who had six fing ers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in numb er; and he also was born to the giant.

nkjv@2Samuel:21:21 @ So when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea, David's broth er, killed him.

nkjv@2Samuel:21:22 @ These four w ere born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his s ervants.

nkjv@2Samuel:22:1 @ Then David spoke to the LORD the words of this song, on the day when the LORD had deliv ered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul.

nkjv@2Samuel:22:2 @ And he said: "The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliv er er;

nkjv@2Samuel:22:7 @ In my distress I called upon the LORD, And cried out to my God; He heard my voice from His temple, And my cry ent ered His ears.

nkjv@2Samuel:22:8 @ "Then the earth shook and trembled; The foundations of heaven quaked and w ere shaken, Because He was angry.

nkjv@2Samuel:22:9 @ Smoke went up from His nostrils, And devouring fire from His mouth; Coals w ere kindled by it.

nkjv@2Samuel:22:10 @ He bowed the heavens also, and came down With darkness und er His feet.

nkjv@2Samuel:22:11 @ He rode upon a ch erub, and flew; And He was seen upon the wings of the wind.

nkjv@2Samuel:22:12 @ He made darkness canopies around Him, Dark wat ers and thick clouds of the skies.

nkjv@2Samuel:22:13 @ From the brightness before Him Coals of fire w ere kindled.

nkjv@2Samuel:22:14 @ "The LORD thund ered from heaven, And the Most High utt ered His voice.

nkjv@2Samuel:22:15 @ He sent out arrows and scatt ered them; Lightning bolts, and He vanquished them.

nkjv@2Samuel:22:16 @ Then the channels of the sea w ere seen, The foundations of the world w ere uncov ered, At the rebuke of the LORD, At the blast of the breath of His nostrils.

nkjv@2Samuel:22:17 @ "He sent from above, He took me, He drew me out of many wat ers.

nkjv@2Samuel:22:18 @ He deliv ered me from my strong enemy, From those who hated me; For they w ere too strong for me.

nkjv@2Samuel:22:20 @ He also brought me out into a broad place; He deliv ered me because He delighted in me.

nkjv@2Samuel:22:23 @ For all His judgments w ere before me; And as for His statutes, I did not depart from them.

nkjv@2Samuel:22:25 @ Th erefore the LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness, According to my cleanness in His eyes.

nkjv@2Samuel:22:26 @ "With the m erciful You will show Yourself m erciful; With a blameless man You will show Yourself blameless;

nkjv@2Samuel:22:30 @ For by You I can run against a troop; By my God I can leap ov er a wall.

nkjv@2Samuel:22:31 @ As for God, His way is p erfect; The word of the LORD is proven; He is a shield to all who trust in Him.

nkjv@2Samuel:22:33 @ God is my strength and pow er, And He makes my way p erfect.

nkjv@2Samuel:22:34 @ He makes my feet like the feet of de er, And sets me on my high places.

nkjv@2Samuel:22:37 @ You enlarged my path und er me; So my feet did not slip.

nkjv@2Samuel:22:38 @ "I have pursued my enemies and destroyed them; Neith er did I turn back again till they w ere destroyed.

nkjv@2Samuel:22:39 @ And I have destroyed them and wounded them, So that they could not rise; They have fallen und er my feet.

nkjv@2Samuel:22:40 @ For You have armed me with strength for the battle; You have subdued und er me those who rose against me.

nkjv@2Samuel:22:42 @ They looked, but th ere was none to save; Even to the LORD, but He did not answ er them.

nkjv@2Samuel:22:44 @ "You have also deliv ered me from the strivings of my people; You have kept me as the head of the nations. A people I have not known shall s erve me.

nkjv@2Samuel:22:45 @ The foreign ers submit to me; As soon as they hear, they obey me.

nkjv@2Samuel:22:46 @ The foreign ers fade away, And come frightened from their hideouts.

nkjv@2Samuel:22:48 @ It is God who avenges me, And subdues the peoples und er me;

nkjv@2Samuel:22:49 @ He deliv ers me from my enemies. You also lift me up above those who rise against me; You have deliv ered me from the violent man.

nkjv@2Samuel:22:50 @ Th erefore I will give thanks to You, O LORD, among the Gentiles, And sing praises to Your name.

nkjv@2Samuel:22:51 @ He is the tow er of salvation to His king, And shows m ercy to His anointed, To David and his descendants forev ermore."

nkjv@2Samuel:23:3 @ The God of Israel said, The Rock of Israel spoke to me: "He who rules ov er men must be just, Ruling in the fear of God.

nkjv@2Samuel:23:4 @ And he shall be like the light of the morning when the sun rises, A morning without clouds, Like the tend er grass springing out of the earth, By clear shining aft er rain.'

nkjv@2Samuel:23:5 @ "Although my house is not so with God, Yet He has made with me an ev erlasting covenant, Ord ered in all things and secure. For this is all my salvation and all my desire; Will He not make it increase?

nkjv@2Samuel:23:7 @ But the man who touches them Must be armed with iron and the shaft of a spear, And they shall be utt erly burned with fire in their place."

nkjv@2Samuel:23:9 @ And aft er him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David when they defied the Philistines who w ere gath ered th ere for battle, and the men of Israel had retreated.

nkjv@2Samuel:23:10 @ He arose and attacked the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand stuck to the sword. The LORD brought about a great victory that day; and the people returned aft er him only to plund er.

nkjv@2Samuel:23:11 @ And aft er him was Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite. The Philistines had gath ered togeth er into a troop wh ere th ere was a piece of ground full of lentils. So the people fled from the Philistines.

nkjv@2Samuel:23:15 @ And David said with longing, "Oh, that someone would give me a drink of the wat er from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!"

nkjv@2Samuel:23:16 @ So the three mighty men broke through the camp of the Philistines, drew wat er from the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate, and took it and brought it to David. Nev ertheless he would not drink it, but poured it out to the LORD.

nkjv@2Samuel:23:17 @ And he said, "Far be it from me, O LORD, that I should do this! Is this not the blood of the men who went in jeopardy of their lives?" Th erefore he would not drink it. These things w ere done by the three mighty men.

nkjv@2Samuel:23:18 @ Now Abishai the broth er of Joab, the son of Z eruiah, was chief of anoth er three. He lifted his spear against three hundred men, killed them, and won a name among these three.

nkjv@2Samuel:23:19 @ Was he not the most honored of three? Th erefore he became their captain. Howev er, he did not attain to the first three.

nkjv@2Samuel:23:20 @ Benaiah was the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man from Kabzeel, who had done many deeds. He had killed two lion-like h eroes of Moab. He also had gone down and killed a lion in the midst of a pit on a snowy day.

nkjv@2Samuel:23:23 @ He was more honored than the thirty, but he did not attain to the first three. And David appointed him ov er his guard.

nkjv@2Samuel:23:24 @ Asahel the broth er of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,

nkjv@2Samuel:23:27 @ Abiez er the Anathothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite,

nkjv@2Samuel:23:37 @ Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Be erothite (armorbear er of Joab the son of Z eruiah),

nkjv@2Samuel:24:1 @ Again the ang er of the LORD was aroused against Israel, and He moved David against them to say, "Go, numb er Israel and Judah."

nkjv@2Samuel:24:2 @ So the king said to Joab the command er of the army who was with him, "Now go throughout all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to Be ersheba, and count the people, that I may know the numb er of the people."

nkjv@2Samuel:24:3 @ And Joab said to the king, "Now may the LORD your God add to the people a hundred times more than th ere are, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king desire this thing?"

nkjv@2Samuel:24:4 @ Nev ertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab and against the captains of the army. Th erefore Joab and the captains of the army went out from the presence of the king to count the people of Israel.

nkjv@2Samuel:24:5 @ And they crossed ov er the Jordan and camped in Aro er, on the right side of the town which is in the midst of the ravine of Gad, and toward Jaz er.

nkjv@2Samuel:24:7 @ and they came to the stronghold of Tyre and to all the cities of the Hivites and the Canaanites. Then they went out to South Judah as far as Be ersheba.

nkjv@2Samuel:24:8 @ So when they had gone through all the land, they came to J erusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

nkjv@2Samuel:24:9 @ Then Joab gave the sum of the numb er of the people to the king. And th ere w ere in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword, and the men of Judah w ere five hundred thousand men.

nkjv@2Samuel:24:10 @ And David's heart condemned him aft er he had numb ered the people. So David said to the LORD, "I have sinned greatly in what I have done; but now, I pray, O LORD, take away the iniquity of Your s ervant, for I have done v ery foolishly."

nkjv@2Samuel:24:11 @ Now when David arose in the morning, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Gad, David's se er, saying,

nkjv@2Samuel:24:12 @ "Go and tell David, "Thus says the LORD: "I off er you three things; choose one of them for yourself, that I may do it to you.""'

nkjv@2Samuel:24:13 @ So Gad came to David and told him; and he said to him, "Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or shall you flee three months before your enemies, while they pursue you? Or shall th ere be three days' plague in your land? Now consid er and see what answ er I should take back to Him who sent me."

nkjv@2Samuel:24:14 @ And David said to Gad, "I am in great distress. Please let us fall into the hand of the LORD, for His m ercies are great; but do not let me fall into the hand of man."

nkjv@2Samuel:24:15 @ So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel from the morning till the appointed time. From Dan to Be ersheba seventy thousand men of the people died.

nkjv@2Samuel:24:16 @ And when the angel stretched out His hand ov er J erusalem to destroy it, the LORD relented from the destruction, and said to the angel who was destroying the people, "It is enough; now restrain your hand." And the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

nkjv@2Samuel:24:17 @ Then David spoke to the LORD when he saw the angel who was striking the people, and said, "Surely I have sinned, and I have done wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Let Your hand, I pray, be against me and against my fath er's house."

nkjv@2Samuel:24:18 @ And Gad came that day to David and said to him, "Go up, erect an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite."

nkjv@2Samuel:24:20 @ Now Araunah looked, and saw the king and his s ervants coming toward him. So Araunah went out and bowed before the king with his face to the ground.

nkjv@2Samuel:24:21 @ Then Araunah said, "Why has my lord the king come to his s ervant?" And David said, "To buy the threshing floor from you, to build an altar to the LORD, that the plague may be withdrawn from the people."

nkjv@2Samuel:24:22 @ Now Araunah said to David, "Let my lord the king take and off er up whatev er seems good to him. Look, h ere are oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing implements and the yokes of the oxen for wood.

nkjv@2Samuel:24:24 @ Then the king said to Araunah, "No, but I will surely buy it from you for a price; nor will I off er burnt off erings to the LORD my God with that which costs me nothing." So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silv er.

nkjv@2Samuel:24:25 @ And David built th ere an altar to the LORD, and off ered burnt off erings and peace off erings. So the LORD heeded the pray ers for the land, and the plague was withdrawn from Israel.

nkjv@1Kings:1:1 @ Now King David was old, advanced in years; and they put cov ers on him, but he could not get warm.

nkjv@1Kings:1:2 @ Th erefore his s ervants said to him, "Let a young woman, a virgin, be sought for our lord the king, and let h er stand before the king, and let h er care for him; and let h er lie in your bosom, that our lord the king may be warm."

nkjv@1Kings:1:3 @ So they sought for a lovely young woman throughout all the t erritory of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought h er to the king.

nkjv@1Kings:1:4 @ The young woman was v ery lovely; and she cared for the king, and s erved him; but the king did not know h er.

nkjv@1Kings:1:6 @ (And his fath er had not rebuked him at any time by saying, "Why have you done so?" He was also v ery good-looking. His moth er had borne him aft er Absalom.)

nkjv@1Kings:1:7 @ Then he conf erred with Joab the son of Z eruiah and with Abiathar the priest, and they followed and helped Adonijah.

nkjv@1Kings:1:8 @ But Zadok the priest, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei, and the mighty men who belonged to David w ere not with Adonijah.

nkjv@1Kings:1:9 @ And Adonijah sacrificed sheep and oxen and fattened cattle by the stone of Zoheleth, which is by En Rogel; he also invited all his broth ers, the king's sons, and all the men of Judah, the king's s ervants.

nkjv@1Kings:1:10 @ But he did not invite Nathan the prophet, Benaiah, the mighty men, or Solomon his broth er.

nkjv@1Kings:1:11 @ So Nathan spoke to Bathsheba the moth er of Solomon, saying, "Have you not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith has become king, and David our lord does not know it?

nkjv@1Kings:1:13 @ Go immediately to King David and say to him, "Did you not, my lord, O king, swear to your maids ervant, saying, "Assuredly your son Solomon shall reign aft er me, and he shall sit on my throne"? Why then has Adonijah become king?'

nkjv@1Kings:1:14 @ Then, while you are still talking th ere with the king, I also will come in aft er you and confirm your words."

nkjv@1Kings:1:15 @ So Bathsheba went into the chamb er to the king. (Now the king was v ery old, and Abishag the Shunammite was s erving the king.)

nkjv@1Kings:1:17 @ Then she said to him, "My lord, you swore by the LORD your God to your maids ervant, saying, "Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign aft er me, and he shall sit on my throne.'

nkjv@1Kings:1:19 @ He has sacrificed oxen and fattened cattle and sheep in abundance, and has invited all the sons of the king, Abiathar the priest, and Joab the command er of the army; but Solomon your s ervant he has not invited.

nkjv@1Kings:1:20 @ And as for you, my lord, O king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, that you should tell them who will sit on the throne of my lord the king aft er him.

nkjv@1Kings:1:21 @ Oth erwise it will happen, when my lord the king rests with his fath ers, that I and my son Solomon will be counted as offend ers."

nkjv@1Kings:1:23 @ So they told the king, saying, "H ere is Nathan the prophet." And when he came in before the king, he bowed down before the king with his face to the ground.

nkjv@1Kings:1:24 @ And Nathan said, "My lord, O king, have you said, "Adonijah shall reign aft er me, and he shall sit on my throne'?

nkjv@1Kings:1:25 @ For he has gone down today, and has sacrificed oxen and fattened cattle and sheep in abundance, and has invited all the king's sons, and the command ers of the army, and Abiathar the priest; and look! They are eating and drinking before him; and they say, "Long live King Adonijah!'

nkjv@1Kings:1:26 @ But he has not invited me--me your s ervant--nor Zadok the priest, nor Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, nor your s ervant Solomon.

nkjv@1Kings:1:27 @ Has this thing been done by my lord the king, and you have not told your s ervant who should sit on the throne of my lord the king aft er him?"

nkjv@1Kings:1:28 @ Then King David answ ered and said, "Call Bathsheba to me." So she came into the king's presence and stood before the king.

nkjv@1Kings:1:29 @ And the king took an oath and said, "As the LORD lives, who has redeemed my life from ev ery distress,

nkjv@1Kings:1:30 @ just as I swore to you by the LORD God of Israel, saying, "Assuredly Solomon your son shall be king aft er me, and he shall sit on my throne in my place,' so I c ertainly will do this day."

nkjv@1Kings:1:31 @ Then Bathsheba bowed with h er face to the earth, and paid homage to the king, and said, "Let my lord King David live forev er!"

nkjv@1Kings:1:33 @ The king also said to them, "Take with you the s ervants of your lord, and have Solomon my son ride on my own mule, and take him down to Gihon.

nkjv@1Kings:1:34 @ Th ere let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him king ov er Israel; and blow the horn, and say, "Long live King Solomon!'

nkjv@1Kings:1:35 @ Then you shall come up aft er him, and he shall come and sit on my throne, and he shall be king in my place. For I have appointed him to be rul er ov er Israel and Judah."

nkjv@1Kings:1:36 @ Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answ ered the king and said, "Amen! May the LORD God of my lord the king say so too.

nkjv@1Kings:1:37 @ As the LORD has been with my lord the king, even so may He be with Solomon, and make his throne great er than the throne of my lord King David."

nkjv@1Kings:1:38 @ So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the Ch erethites, and the Pelethites went down and had Solomon ride on King David's mule, and took him to Gihon.

nkjv@1Kings:1:39 @ Then Zadok the priest took a horn of oil from the tab ernacle and anointed Solomon. And they blew the horn, and all the people said, "Long live King Solomon!"

nkjv@1Kings:1:40 @ And all the people went up aft er him; and the people played the flutes and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth seemed to split with their sound.

nkjv@1Kings:1:41 @ Now Adonijah and all the guests who w ere with him heard it as they finished eating. And when Joab heard the sound of the horn, he said, "Why is the city in such a noisy uproar?"

nkjv@1Kings:1:42 @ While he was still speaking, th ere came Jonathan, the son of Abiathar the priest. And Adonijah said to him, "Come in, for you are a prominent man, and bring good news."

nkjv@1Kings:1:43 @ Then Jonathan answ ered and said to Adonijah, "No! Our lord King David has made Solomon king.

nkjv@1Kings:1:44 @ The king has sent with him Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the Ch erethites, and the Pelethites; and they have made him ride on the king's mule.

nkjv@1Kings:1:45 @ So Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king at Gihon; and they have gone up from th ere rejoicing, so that the city is in an uproar. This is the noise that you have heard.

nkjv@1Kings:1:47 @ And moreov er the king's s ervants have gone to bless our lord King David, saying, "May God make the name of Solomon bett er than your name, and may He make his throne great er than your throne.' Then the king bowed himself on the bed.

nkjv@1Kings:1:49 @ So all the guests who w ere with Adonijah w ere afraid, and arose, and each one went his way.

nkjv@1Kings:1:51 @ And it was told Solomon, saying, "Indeed Adonijah is afraid of King Solomon; for look, he has taken hold of the horns of the altar, saying, "Let King Solomon swear to me today that he will not put his s ervant to death with the sword."'

nkjv@1Kings:2:2 @ "I go the way of all the earth; be strong, th erefore, and prove yourself a man.

nkjv@1Kings:2:3 @ And keep the charge of the LORD your God: to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, His commandments, His judgments, and His testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that you may prosp er in all that you do and wh erev er you turn;

nkjv@1Kings:2:4 @ that the LORD may fulfill His word which He spoke conc erning me, saying, "If your sons take heed to their way, to walk before Me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul,' He said, "you shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.'

nkjv@1Kings:2:5 @ "Moreov er you know also what Joab the son of Z eruiah did to me, and what he did to the two command ers of the armies of Israel, to Abn er the son of N er and Amasa the son of Jeth er, whom he killed. And he shed the blood of war in peacetime, and put the blood of war on his belt that was around his waist, and on his sandals that w ere on his feet.

nkjv@1Kings:2:6 @ Th erefore do according to your wisdom, and do not let his gray hair go down to the grave in peace.

nkjv@1Kings:2:7 @ "But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table, for so they came to me when I fled from Absalom your broth er.

nkjv@1Kings:2:8 @ "And see, you have with you Shimei the son of G era, a Benjamite from Bahurim, who cursed me with a malicious curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim. But he came down to meet me at the Jordan, and I swore to him by the LORD, saying, "I will not put you to death with the sword.'

nkjv@1Kings:2:9 @ Now th erefore, do not hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man and know what you ought to do to him; but bring his gray hair down to the grave with blood."

nkjv@1Kings:2:10 @ So David rested with his fath ers, and was buried in the City of David.

nkjv@1Kings:2:11 @ The p eriod that David reigned ov er Israel was forty years; seven years he reigned in Hebron, and in J erusalem he reigned thirty-three years.

nkjv@1Kings:2:12 @ Then Solomon sat on the throne of his fath er David; and his kingdom was firmly established.

nkjv@1Kings:2:13 @ Now Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the moth er of Solomon. So she said, "Do you come peaceably?" And he said, "Peaceably."

nkjv@1Kings:2:14 @ Moreov er he said, "I have something to say to you." And she said, "Say it."

nkjv@1Kings:2:15 @ Then he said, "You know that the kingdom was mine, and all Israel had set their expectations on me, that I should reign. Howev er, the kingdom has been turned ov er, and has become my broth er's; for it was his from the LORD.

nkjv@1Kings:2:18 @ So Bathsheba said, "V ery well, I will speak for you to the king."

nkjv@1Kings:2:19 @ Bathsheba th erefore went to King Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet h er and bowed down to h er, and sat down on his throne and had a throne set for the king's moth er; so she sat at his right hand.

nkjv@1Kings:2:20 @ Then she said, "I desire one small petition of you; do not refuse me." And the king said to h er, "Ask it, my moth er, for I will not refuse you."

nkjv@1Kings:2:21 @ So she said, "Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your broth er as wife."

nkjv@1Kings:2:22 @ And King Solomon answ ered and said to his moth er, "Now why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him the kingdom also--for he is my old er broth er--for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Z eruiah."

nkjv@1Kings:2:24 @ Now th erefore, as the LORD lives, who has confirmed me and set me on the throne of David my fath er, and who has established a house for me, as He promised, Adonijah shall be put to death today!"

nkjv@1Kings:2:26 @ And to Abiathar the priest the king said, "Go to Anathoth, to your own fields, for you are des erving of death; but I will not put you to death at this time, because you carried the ark of the Lord GOD before my fath er David, and because you w ere afflicted ev ery time my fath er was afflicted."

nkjv@1Kings:2:27 @ So Solomon removed Abiathar from being priest to the LORD, that he might fulfill the word of the LORD which He spoke conc erning the house of Eli at Shiloh.

nkjv@1Kings:2:28 @ Then news came to Joab, for Joab had defected to Adonijah, though he had not defected to Absalom. So Joab fled to the tab ernacle of the LORD, and took hold of the horns of the altar.

nkjv@1Kings:2:29 @ And King Solomon was told, "Joab has fled to the tab ernacle of the LORD; th ere he is, by the altar." Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, "Go, strike him down."

nkjv@1Kings:2:30 @ So Benaiah went to the tab ernacle of the LORD, and said to him, "Thus says the king, "Come out!"' And he said, "No, but I will die h ere." And Benaiah brought back word to the king, saying, "Thus said Joab, and thus he answ ered me."

nkjv@1Kings:2:31 @ Then the king said to him, "Do as he has said, and strike him down and bury him, that you may take away from me and from the house of my fath er the innocent blood which Joab shed.

nkjv@1Kings:2:32 @ So the LORD will return his blood on his head, because he struck down two men more righteous and bett er than he, and killed them with the sword--Abn er the son of N er, the command er of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jeth er, the command er of the army of Judah--though my fath er David did not know it.

nkjv@1Kings:2:33 @ Their blood shall th erefore return upon the head of Joab and upon the head of his descendants forev er. But upon David and his descendants, upon his house and his throne, th ere shall be peace forev er from the LORD."

nkjv@1Kings:2:34 @ So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and struck and killed him; and he was buried in his own house in the wild erness.

nkjv@1Kings:2:35 @ The king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his place ov er the army, and the king put Zadok the priest in the place of Abiathar.

nkjv@1Kings:2:36 @ Then the king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, "Build yourself a house in J erusalem and dwell th ere, and do not go out from th ere anywh ere.

nkjv@1Kings:2:37 @ For it shall be, on the day you go out and cross the Brook Kidron, know for c ertain you shall surely die; your blood shall be on your own head."

nkjv@1Kings:2:38 @ And Shimei said to the king, "The saying is good. As my lord the king has said, so your s ervant will do." So Shimei dwelt in J erusalem many days.

nkjv@1Kings:2:41 @ And Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from J erusalem to Gath and had come back.

nkjv@1Kings:2:42 @ Then the king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, "Did I not make you swear by the LORD, and warn you, saying, "Know for c ertain that on the day you go out and travel anywh ere, you shall surely die'? And you said to me, "The word I have heard is good.'

nkjv@1Kings:2:44 @ The king said moreov er to Shimei, "You know, as your heart acknowledges, all the wickedness that you did to my fath er David; th erefore the LORD will return your wickedness on your own head.

nkjv@1Kings:2:45 @ But King Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the LORD forev er."

nkjv@1Kings:3:1 @ Now Solomon made a treaty with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and married Pharaoh's daught er; then he brought h er to the City of David until he had finished building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall all around J erusalem.

nkjv@1Kings:3:2 @ Meanwhile the people sacrificed at the high places, because th ere was no house built for the name of the LORD until those days.

nkjv@1Kings:3:3 @ And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of his fath er David, except that he sacrificed and burned incense at the high places.

nkjv@1Kings:3:4 @ Now the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice th ere, for that was the great high place: Solomon off ered a thousand burnt off erings on that altar.

nkjv@1Kings:3:6 @ And Solomon said: "You have shown great m ercy to Your s ervant David my fath er, because he walked before You in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with You; You have continued this great kindness for him, and You have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.

nkjv@1Kings:3:7 @ Now, O LORD my God, You have made Your s ervant king instead of my fath er David, but I am a little child; I do not know how to go out or come in.

nkjv@1Kings:3:8 @ And Your s ervant is in the midst of Your people whom You have chosen, a great people, too num erous to be numb ered or counted.

nkjv@1Kings:3:9 @ Th erefore give to Your s ervant an und erstanding heart to judge Your people, that I may disc ern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of Yours?"

nkjv@1Kings:3:11 @ Then God said to him: "Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked long life for yourself, nor have asked riches for yourself, nor have asked the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself und erstanding to disc ern justice,

nkjv@1Kings:3:12 @ behold, I have done according to your words; see, I have given you a wise and und erstanding heart, so that th ere has not been anyone like you before you, nor shall any like you arise aft er you.

nkjv@1Kings:3:13 @ And I have also given you what you have not asked: both riches and honor, so that th ere shall not be anyone like you among the kings all your days.

nkjv@1Kings:3:14 @ So if you walk in My ways, to keep My statutes and My commandments, as your fath er David walked, then I will lengthen your days."

nkjv@1Kings:3:15 @ Then Solomon awoke; and indeed it had been a dream. And he came to J erusalem and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, off ered up burnt off erings, off ered peace off erings, and made a feast for all his s ervants.

nkjv@1Kings:3:16 @ Now two women who w ere harlots came to the king, and stood before him.

nkjv@1Kings:3:18 @ Then it happened, the third day aft er I had given birth, that this woman also gave birth. And we w ere togeth er; no one was with us in the house, except the two of us in the house.

nkjv@1Kings:3:20 @ So she arose in the middle of the night and took my son from my side, while your maids ervant slept, and laid him in h er bosom, and laid h er dead child in my bosom.

nkjv@1Kings:3:21 @ And when I rose in the morning to nurse my son, th ere he was, dead. But when I had examined him in the morning, indeed, he was not my son whom I had borne."

nkjv@1Kings:3:22 @ Then the oth er woman said, "No! But the living one is my son, and the dead one is your son." And the first woman said, "No! But the dead one is your son, and the living one is my son." Thus they spoke before the king.

nkjv@1Kings:3:23 @ And the king said, "The one says, "This is my son, who lives, and your son is the dead one'; and the oth er says, "No! But your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one.'

nkjv@1Kings:3:25 @ And the king said, "Divide the living child in two, and give half to one, and half to the oth er."

nkjv@1Kings:3:26 @ Then the woman whose son was living spoke to the king, for she yearned with compassion for h er son; and she said, "O my lord, give h er the living child, and by no means kill him!" But the oth er said, "Let him be neith er mine nor yours, but divide him."

nkjv@1Kings:3:27 @ So the king answ ered and said, "Give the first woman the living child, and by no means kill him; she is his moth er."

nkjv@1Kings:3:28 @ And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had rend ered; and they feared the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to administ er justice.

nkjv@1Kings:4:1 @ So King Solomon was king ov er all Israel.

nkjv@1Kings:4:2 @ And these w ere his officials: Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest;

nkjv@1Kings:4:3 @ Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the record er;

nkjv@1Kings:4:4 @ Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, ov er the army; Zadok and Abiathar, the priests;

nkjv@1Kings:4:5 @ Azariah the son of Nathan, ov er the offic ers; Zabud the son of Nathan, a priest and the king's friend;

nkjv@1Kings:4:6 @ Ahishar, ov er the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda, ov er the labor force.

nkjv@1Kings:4:7 @ And Solomon had twelve gov ernors ov er all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household; each one made provision for one month of the year.

nkjv@1Kings:4:9 @ Ben-Dek er, in Makaz, Shaalbim, Beth Shemesh, and Elon Beth Hanan;

nkjv@1Kings:4:10 @ Ben-Hesed, in Arubboth; to him belonged Sochoh and all the land of Heph er;

nkjv@1Kings:4:11 @ Ben-Abinadab, in all the regions of Dor; he had Taphath the daught er of Solomon as wife;

nkjv@1Kings:4:12 @ Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach, Megiddo, and all Beth Shean, which is beside Zaretan below Jezreel, from Beth Shean to Abel Meholah, as far as the oth er side of Jokneam;

nkjv@1Kings:4:13 @ Ben-Geb er, in Ramoth Gilead; to him belonged the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, in Gilead; to him also belonged the region of Argob in Bashan--sixty large cities with walls and bronze gate-bars;

nkjv@1Kings:4:15 @ Ahimaaz, in Naphtali; he also took Basemath the daught er of Solomon as wife;

nkjv@1Kings:4:16 @ Baanah the son of Hushai, in Ash er and Aloth;

nkjv@1Kings:4:19 @ Geb er the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, in the country of Sihon king of the Amorites, and of Og king of Bashan. He was the only gov ernor who was in the land.

nkjv@1Kings:4:20 @ Judah and Israel w ere as num erous as the sand by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and rejoicing.

nkjv@1Kings:4:21 @ So Solomon reigned ov er all kingdoms from the Riv er to the land of the Philistines, as far as the bord er of Egypt. They brought tribute and s erved Solomon all the days of his life.

nkjv@1Kings:4:23 @ ten fatted oxen, twenty oxen from the pastures, and one hundred sheep, besides de er, gazelles, roebucks, and fatted fowl.

nkjv@1Kings:4:24 @ For he had dominion ov er all the region on this side of the Riv er from Tiphsah even to Gaza, namely ov er all the kings on this side of the Riv er; and he had peace on ev ery side all around him.

nkjv@1Kings:4:25 @ And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, each man und er his vine and his fig tree, from Dan as far as Be ersheba, all the days of Solomon.

nkjv@1Kings:4:27 @ And these gov ernors, each man in his month, provided food for King Solomon and for all who came to King Solomon's table. Th ere was no lack in their supply.

nkjv@1Kings:4:28 @ They also brought barley and straw to the prop er place, for the horses and steeds, each man according to his charge.

nkjv@1Kings:4:29 @ And God gave Solomon wisdom and exceedingly great und erstanding, and largeness of heart like the sand on the seashore.

nkjv@1Kings:4:31 @ For he was wis er than all men--than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his fame was in all the surrounding nations.

nkjv@1Kings:4:32 @ He spoke three thousand prov erbs, and his songs w ere one thousand and five.

nkjv@1Kings:5:1 @ Now Hiram king of Tyre sent his s ervants to Solomon, because he heard that they had anointed him king in place of his fath er, for Hiram had always loved David.

nkjv@1Kings:5:3 @ You know how my fath er David could not build a house for the name of the LORD his God because of the wars which w ere fought against him on ev ery side, until the LORD put his foes und er the soles of his feet.

nkjv@1Kings:5:4 @ But now the LORD my God has given me rest on ev ery side; th ere is neith er adv ersary nor evil occurrence.

nkjv@1Kings:5:5 @ And behold, I propose to build a house for the name of the LORD my God, as the LORD spoke to my fath er David, saying, "Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place, he shall build the house for My name."

nkjv@1Kings:5:6 @ Now th erefore, command that they cut down cedars for me from Lebanon; and my s ervants will be with your s ervants, and I will pay you wages for your s ervants according to whatev er you say. For you know th ere is none among us who has skill to cut timb er like the Sidonians.

nkjv@1Kings:5:7 @ So it was, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly and said, 4 Blessed be the LORD this day, for He has given David a wise son ov er this great people!

nkjv@1Kings:5:8 @ Then Hiram sent to Solomon, saying: 4 I have consid ered the message which you sent me, and I will do all you desire conc erning the cedar and cypress logs.

nkjv@1Kings:5:9 @ My s ervants shall bring them down from Lebanon to the sea; I will float them in rafts by sea to the place you indicate to me, and will have them broken apart th ere; then you can take them away. And you shall fulfill my desire by giving food for my household.

nkjv@1Kings:5:12 @ So the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as He had promised him; and th ere was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty togeth er.

nkjv@1Kings:5:14 @ And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month in shifts: they w ere one month in Lebanon and two months at home; Adoniram was in charge of the labor force.

nkjv@1Kings:5:16 @ besides three thousand three hundred from the chiefs of Solomon's deputies, who sup ervised the people who labored in the work.

nkjv@1Kings:5:18 @ So Solomon's build ers, Hiram's build ers, and the Gebalites quarried them; and they prepared timb er and stones to build the temple.

nkjv@1Kings:6:1 @ And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year aft er the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign ov er Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.

nkjv@1Kings:6:5 @ Against the wall of the temple he built chamb ers all around, against the walls of the temple, all around the sanctuary and the inn er sanctuary. Thus he made side chamb ers all around it.

nkjv@1Kings:6:6 @ The lowest chamb er was five cubits wide, the middle was six cubits wide, and the third was seven cubits wide; for he made narrow ledges around the outside of the temple, so that the support beams would not be fastened into the walls of the temple.

nkjv@1Kings:6:7 @ And the temple, when it was being built, was built with stone finished at the quarry, so that no hamm er or chisel or any iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built.

nkjv@1Kings:6:10 @ And he built side chamb ers against the entire temple, each five cubits high; they w ere attached to the temple with cedar beams.

nkjv@1Kings:6:12 @ "Conc erning this temple which you are building, if you walk in My statutes, execute My judgments, keep all My commandments, and walk in them, then I will p erform My word with you, which I spoke to your fath er David.

nkjv@1Kings:6:15 @ And he built the inside walls of the temple with cedar boards; from the floor of the temple to the ceiling he paneled the inside with wood; and he cov ered the floor of the temple with planks of cypress.

nkjv@1Kings:6:16 @ Then he built the twenty-cubit room at the rear of the temple, from floor to ceiling, with cedar boards; he built it inside as the inn er sanctuary, as the Most Holy Place.

nkjv@1Kings:6:18 @ The inside of the temple was cedar, carved with ornamental buds and open flow ers. All was cedar; th ere was no stone to be seen.

nkjv@1Kings:6:19 @ And he prepared the inn er sanctuary inside the temple, to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD th ere.

nkjv@1Kings:6:20 @ The inn er sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high. He ov erlaid it with pure gold, and ov erlaid the altar of cedar.

nkjv@1Kings:6:21 @ So Solomon ov erlaid the inside of the temple with pure gold. He stretched gold chains across the front of the inn er sanctuary, and ov erlaid it with gold.

nkjv@1Kings:6:22 @ The whole temple he ov erlaid with gold, until he had finished all the temple; also he ov erlaid with gold the entire altar that was by the inn er sanctuary.

nkjv@1Kings:6:23 @ Inside the inn er sanctuary he made two ch erubim of olive wood, each ten cubits high.

nkjv@1Kings:6:24 @ One wing of the ch erub was five cubits, and the oth er wing of the ch erub five cubits: ten cubits from the tip of one wing to the tip of the oth er.

nkjv@1Kings:6:25 @ And the oth er ch erub was ten cubits; both ch erubim w ere of the same size and shape.

nkjv@1Kings:6:26 @ The height of one ch erub was ten cubits, and so was the oth er ch erub.

nkjv@1Kings:6:27 @ Then he set the ch erubim inside the inn er room; and they stretched out the wings of the ch erubim so that the wing of the one touched one wall, and the wing of the oth er ch erub touched the oth er wall. And their wings touched each oth er in the middle of the room.

nkjv@1Kings:6:28 @ Also he ov erlaid the ch erubim with gold.

nkjv@1Kings:6:29 @ Then he carved all the walls of the temple all around, both the inn er and out er sanctuaries, with carved figures of ch erubim, palm trees, and open flow ers.

nkjv@1Kings:6:30 @ And the floor of the temple he ov erlaid with gold, both the inn er and out er sanctuaries.

nkjv@1Kings:6:31 @ For the entrance of the inn er sanctuary he made doors of olive wood; the lintel and doorposts w ere one-fifth of the wall.

nkjv@1Kings:6:32 @ The two doors w ere of olive wood; and he carved on them figures of ch erubim, palm trees, and open flow ers, and ov erlaid them with gold; and he spread gold on the ch erubim and on the palm trees.

nkjv@1Kings:6:34 @ And the two doors w ere of cypress wood; two panels comprised one folding door, and two panels comprised the oth er folding door.

nkjv@1Kings:6:35 @ Then he carved ch erubim, palm trees, and open flow ers on them, and ov erlaid them with gold applied evenly on the carved work.

nkjv@1Kings:6:36 @ And he built the inn er court with three rows of hewn stone and a row of cedar beams.

nkjv@1Kings:7:3 @ And it was paneled with cedar above the beams that w ere on forty-five pillars, fifteen to a row.

nkjv@1Kings:7:4 @ Th ere w ere windows with beveled frames in three rows, and window was opposite window in three ti ers.

nkjv@1Kings:7:5 @ And all the doorways and doorposts had rectangular frames; and window was opposite window in three ti ers.

nkjv@1Kings:7:7 @ Then he made a hall for the throne, the Hall of Judgment, wh ere he might judge; and it was paneled with cedar from floor to ceiling.

nkjv@1Kings:7:8 @ And the house wh ere he dwelt had anoth er court inside the hall, of like workmanship. Solomon also made a house like this hall for Pharaoh's daught er, whom he had taken as wife.

nkjv@1Kings:7:9 @ All these w ere of costly stones cut to size, trimmed with saws, inside and out, from the foundation to the eaves, and also on the outside to the great court.

nkjv@1Kings:7:11 @ And above w ere costly stones, hewn to size, and cedar wood.

nkjv@1Kings:7:12 @ The great court was enclosed with three rows of hewn stones and a row of cedar beams. So w ere the inn er court of the house of the LORD and the vestibule of the temple.

nkjv@1Kings:7:14 @ He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and his fath er was a man of Tyre, a bronze work er; he was filled with wisdom and und erstanding and skill in working with all kinds of bronze work. So he came to King Solomon and did all his work.

nkjv@1Kings:7:15 @ And he cast two pillars of bronze, each one eighteen cubits high, and a line of twelve cubits measured the circumf erence of each.

nkjv@1Kings:7:16 @ Then he made two capitals of cast bronze, to set on the tops of the pillars. The height of one capital was five cubits, and the height of the oth er capital was five cubits.

nkjv@1Kings:7:17 @ He made a lattice network, with wreaths of chainwork, for the capitals which w ere on top of the pillars: seven chains for one capital and seven for the oth er capital.

nkjv@1Kings:7:18 @ So he made the pillars, and two rows of pomegranates above the network all around to cov er the capitals that w ere on top; and thus he did for the oth er capital.

nkjv@1Kings:7:19 @ The capitals which w ere on top of the pillars in the hall w ere in the shape of lilies, four cubits.

nkjv@1Kings:7:20 @ The capitals on the two pillars also had pomegranates above, by the convex surface which was next to the network; and th ere w ere two hundred such pomegranates in rows on each of the capitals all around.

nkjv@1Kings:7:22 @ The tops of the pillars w ere in the shape of lilies. So the work of the pillars was finished.

nkjv@1Kings:7:23 @ And he made the Sea of cast bronze, ten cubits from one brim to the oth er; it was completely round. Its height was five cubits, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumf erence.

nkjv@1Kings:7:24 @ Below its brim w ere ornamental buds encircling it all around, ten to a cubit, all the way around the Sea. The ornamental buds w ere cast in two rows when it was cast.

nkjv@1Kings:7:28 @ And this was the design of the carts: They had panels, and the panels w ere between frames;

nkjv@1Kings:7:29 @ on the panels that w ere between the frames w ere lions, oxen, and ch erubim. And on the frames was a pedestal on top. Below the lions and oxen w ere wreaths of plaited work.

nkjv@1Kings:7:30 @ Ev ery cart had four bronze wheels and axles of bronze, and its four feet had supports. Und er the lav er w ere supports of cast bronze beside each wreath.

nkjv@1Kings:7:31 @ Its opening inside the crown at the top was one cubit in diamet er; and the opening was round, shaped like a pedestal, one and a half cubits in outside diamet er; and also on the opening w ere engravings, but the panels w ere square, not round.

nkjv@1Kings:7:32 @ Und er the panels w ere the four wheels, and the axles of the wheels w ere joined to the cart. The height of a wheel was one and a half cubits.

nkjv@1Kings:7:33 @ The workmanship of the wheels was like the workmanship of a chariot wheel; their axle pins, their rims, their spokes, and their hubs w ere all of cast bronze.

nkjv@1Kings:7:34 @ And th ere w ere four supports at the four corn ers of each cart; its supports w ere part of the cart itself.

nkjv@1Kings:7:35 @ On the top of the cart, at the height of half a cubit, it was p erfectly round. And on the top of the cart, its flanges and its panels w ere of the same casting.

nkjv@1Kings:7:36 @ On the plates of its flanges and on its panels he engraved ch erubim, lions, and palm trees, wh erev er th ere was a clear space on each, with wreaths all around.

nkjv@1Kings:7:37 @ Thus he made the ten carts. All of them w ere of the same mold, one measure, and one shape.

nkjv@1Kings:7:38 @ Then he made ten lav ers of bronze; each lav er contained forty baths, and each lav er was four cubits. On each of the ten carts was a lav er.

nkjv@1Kings:7:40 @ Huram made the lav ers and the shovels and the bowls. So Huram finished doing all the work that he was to do for King Solomon for the house of the LORD:

nkjv@1Kings:7:41 @ the two pillars, the two bowl-shaped capitals that w ere on top of the two pillars; the two networks cov ering the two bowl-shaped capitals which w ere on top of the pillars;

nkjv@1Kings:7:42 @ four hundred pomegranates for the two networks (two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cov er the two bowl-shaped capitals that w ere on top of the pillars);

nkjv@1Kings:7:43 @ the ten carts, and ten lav ers on the carts;

nkjv@1Kings:7:44 @ one Sea, and twelve oxen und er the Sea;

nkjv@1Kings:7:45 @ the pots, the shovels, and the bowls. All these articles which Huram made for King Solomon for the house of the LORD w ere of burnished bronze.

nkjv@1Kings:7:47 @ And Solomon did not weigh all the articles, because th ere w ere so many; the weight of the bronze was not det ermined.

nkjv@1Kings:7:49 @ the lampstands of pure gold, five on the right side and five on the left in front of the inn er sanctuary, with the flow ers and the lamps and the wick-trimm ers of gold;

nkjv@1Kings:7:50 @ the basins, the trimm ers, the bowls, the ladles, and the cens ers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inn er room (the Most Holy Place) and for the doors of the main hall of the temple.

nkjv@1Kings:7:51 @ So all the work that King Solomon had done for the house of the LORD was finished; and Solomon brought in the things which his fath er David had dedicated: the silv er and the gold and the furnishings. He put them in the treasuries of the house of the LORD.

nkjv@1Kings:8:1 @ Now Solomon assembled the eld ers of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the chief fath ers of the children of Israel, to King Solomon in J erusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from the City of David, which is Zion.

nkjv@1Kings:8:2 @ Th erefore all the men of Israel assembled with King Solomon at the feast in the month of Ethanim, which is the seventh month.

nkjv@1Kings:8:3 @ So all the eld ers of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.

nkjv@1Kings:8:4 @ Then they brought up the ark of the LORD, the tab ernacle of meeting, and all the holy furnishings that w ere in the tab ernacle. The priests and the Levites brought them up.

nkjv@1Kings:8:5 @ Also King Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel who w ere assembled with him, w ere with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen that could not be counted or numb ered for multitude.

nkjv@1Kings:8:6 @ Then the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place, into the inn er sanctuary of the temple, to the Most Holy Place, und er the wings of the ch erubim.

nkjv@1Kings:8:7 @ For the ch erubim spread their two wings ov er the place of the ark, and the ch erubim ov ershadowed the ark and its poles.

nkjv@1Kings:8:8 @ The poles extended so that the ends of the poles could be seen from the holy place, in front of the inn er sanctuary; but they could not be seen from outside. And they are th ere to this day.

nkjv@1Kings:8:9 @ Nothing was in the ark except the two tablets of stone which Moses put th ere at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

nkjv@1Kings:8:11 @ so that the priests could not continue minist ering because of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD.

nkjv@1Kings:8:13 @ I have surely built You an exalted house, And a place for You to dwell in forev er."

nkjv@1Kings:8:15 @ And he said: "Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who spoke with His mouth to my fath er David, and with His hand has fulfilled it, saying,

nkjv@1Kings:8:16 @ "Since the day that I brought My people Israel out of Egypt, I have chosen no city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house, that My name might be th ere; but I chose David to be ov er My people Israel.'

nkjv@1Kings:8:17 @ Now it was in the heart of my fath er David to build a temple for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

nkjv@1Kings:8:18 @ But the LORD said to my fath er David, "Wh ereas it was in your heart to build a temple for My name, you did well that it was in your heart.

nkjv@1Kings:8:19 @ Nev ertheless you shall not build the temple, but your son who will come from your body, he shall build the temple for My name.'

nkjv@1Kings:8:20 @ So the LORD has fulfilled His word which He spoke; and I have filled the position of my fath er David, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised; and I have built a temple for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

nkjv@1Kings:8:21 @ And th ere I have made a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of the LORD which He made with our fath ers, when He brought them out of the land of Egypt."

nkjv@1Kings:8:23 @ and he said: "LORD God of Israel, th ere is no God in heaven above or on earth below like You, who keep Your covenant and m ercy with Your s ervants who walk before You with all their hearts.

nkjv@1Kings:8:24 @ You have kept what You promised Your s ervant David my fath er; You have both spoken with Your mouth and fulfilled it with Your hand, as it is this day.

nkjv@1Kings:8:25 @ Th erefore, LORD God of Israel, now keep what You promised Your s ervant David my fath er, saying, "You shall not fail to have a man sit before Me on the throne of Israel, only if your sons take heed to their way, that they walk before Me as you have walked before Me.'

nkjv@1Kings:8:26 @ And now I pray, O God of Israel, let Your word come true, which You have spoken to Your s ervant David my fath er.

nkjv@1Kings:8:28 @ Yet regard the pray er of Your s ervant and his supplication, O LORD my God, and listen to the cry and the pray er which Your s ervant is praying before You today:

nkjv@1Kings:8:29 @ that Your eyes may be open toward this temple night and day, toward the place of which You said, "My name shall be th ere,' that You may hear the pray er which Your s ervant makes toward this place.

nkjv@1Kings:8:30 @ And may You hear the supplication of Your s ervant and of Your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. Hear in heaven Your dwelling place; and when You hear, forgive.

nkjv@1Kings:8:32 @ then hear in heaven, and act, and judge Your s ervants, condemning the wicked, bringing his way on his head, and justifying the righteous by giving him according to his righteousness.

nkjv@1Kings:8:34 @ then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of Your people Israel, and bring them back to the land which You gave to their fath ers.

nkjv@1Kings:8:35 @ "When the heavens are shut up and th ere is no rain because they have sinned against You, when they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and turn from their sin because You afflict them,

nkjv@1Kings:8:36 @ then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of Your s ervants, Your people Israel, that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on Your land which You have given to Your people as an inh eritance.

nkjv@1Kings:8:37 @ "When th ere is famine in the land, pestilence or blight or mildew, locusts or grasshopp ers; when their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities; whatev er plague or whatev er sickness th ere is;

nkjv@1Kings:8:38 @ whatev er pray er, whatev er supplication is made by anyone, or by all Your people Israel, when each one knows the plague of his own heart, and spreads out his hands toward this temple:

nkjv@1Kings:8:39 @ then hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and give to ev eryone according to all his ways, whose heart You know (for You alone know the hearts of all the sons of men),

nkjv@1Kings:8:40 @ that they may fear You all the days that they live in the land which You gave to our fath ers.

nkjv@1Kings:8:41 @ "Moreov er, conc erning a foreign er, who is not of Your people Israel, but has come from a far country for Your name's sake

nkjv@1Kings:8:43 @ hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreign er calls to You, that all peoples of the earth may know Your name and fear You, as do Your people Israel, and that they may know that this temple which I have built is called by Your name.

nkjv@1Kings:8:44 @ "When Your people go out to battle against their enemy, wh erev er You send them, and when they pray to the LORD toward the city which You have chosen and the temple which I have built for Your name,

nkjv@1Kings:8:45 @ then hear in heaven their pray er and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

nkjv@1Kings:8:46 @ "When they sin against You (for th ere is no one who does not sin), and You become angry with them and deliv er them to the enemy, and they take them captive to the land of the enemy, far or near;

nkjv@1Kings:8:47 @ yet when they come to themselves in the land wh ere they w ere carried captive, and repent, and make supplication to You in the land of those who took them captive, saying, "We have sinned and done wrong, we have committed wickedness';

nkjv@1Kings:8:48 @ and when they return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who led them away captive, and pray to You toward their land which You gave to their fath ers, the city which You have chosen and the temple which I have built for Your name:

nkjv@1Kings:8:49 @ then hear in heaven Your dwelling place their pray er and their supplication, and maintain their cause,

nkjv@1Kings:8:51 @ (for they are Your people and Your inh eritance, whom You brought out of Egypt, out of the iron furnace),

nkjv@1Kings:8:52 @ that Your eyes may be open to the supplication of Your s ervant and the supplication of Your people Israel, to listen to them whenev er they call to You.

nkjv@1Kings:8:53 @ For You separated them from among all the peoples of the earth to be Your inh eritance, as You spoke by Your s ervant Moses, when You brought our fath ers out of Egypt, O Lord GOD."

nkjv@1Kings:8:54 @ And so it was, when Solomon had finished praying all this pray er and supplication to the LORD, that he arose from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven.

nkjv@1Kings:8:56 @ "Blessed be the LORD, who has given rest to His people Israel, according to all that He promised. Th ere has not failed one word of all His good promise, which He promised through His s ervant Moses.

nkjv@1Kings:8:57 @ May the LORD our God be with us, as He was with our fath ers. May He not leave us nor forsake us,

nkjv@1Kings:8:58 @ that He may incline our hearts to Himself, to walk in all His ways, and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments, which He commanded our fath ers.

nkjv@1Kings:8:59 @ And may these words of mine, with which I have made supplication before the LORD, be near the LORD our God day and night, that He may maintain the cause of His s ervant and the cause of His people Israel, as each day may require,

nkjv@1Kings:8:60 @ that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God; th ere is no oth er.

nkjv@1Kings:8:61 @ Let your heart th erefore be loyal to the LORD our God, to walk in His statutes and keep His commandments, as at this day."

nkjv@1Kings:8:62 @ Then the king and all Israel with him off ered sacrifices before the LORD.

nkjv@1Kings:8:63 @ And Solomon off ered a sacrifice of peace off erings, which he off ered to the LORD, twenty-two thousand bulls and one hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD.

nkjv@1Kings:8:64 @ On the same day the king consecrated the middle of the court that was in front of the house of the LORD; for th ere he off ered burnt off erings, grain off erings, and the fat of the peace off erings, because the bronze altar that was before the LORD was too small to receive the burnt off erings, the grain off erings, and the fat of the peace off erings.

nkjv@1Kings:8:66 @ On the eighth day he sent the people away; and they blessed the king, and went to their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the good that the LORD had done for His s ervant David, and for Israel His people.

nkjv@1Kings:9:3 @ And the LORD said to him: "I have heard your pray er and your supplication that you have made before Me; I have consecrated this house which you have built to put My name th ere forev er, and My eyes and My heart will be th ere p erpetually.

nkjv@1Kings:9:4 @ Now if you walk before Me as your fath er David walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and My judgments,

nkjv@1Kings:9:5 @ then I will establish the throne of your kingdom ov er Israel forev er, as I promised David your fath er, saying, "You shall not fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.'

nkjv@1Kings:9:6 @ But if you or your sons at all turn from following Me, and do not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, but go and s erve oth er gods and worship them,

nkjv@1Kings:9:7 @ then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them; and this house which I have consecrated for My name I will cast out of My sight. Israel will be a prov erb and a byword among all peoples.

nkjv@1Kings:9:8 @ And as for this house, which is exalted, ev eryone who passes by it will be astonished and will hiss, and say, "Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?'

nkjv@1Kings:9:9 @ Then they will answ er, "Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought their fath ers out of the land of Egypt, and have embraced oth er gods, and worshiped them and s erved them; th erefore the LORD has brought all this calamity on them."'

nkjv@1Kings:9:13 @ So he said, "What kind of cities are these which you have given me, my broth er?" And he called them the land of Cabul, as they are to this day.

nkjv@1Kings:9:15 @ And this is the reason for the labor force which King Solomon raised: to build the house of the LORD, his own house, the Millo, the wall of J erusalem, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gez er.

nkjv@1Kings:9:16 @ (Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and taken Gez er and burned it with fire, had killed the Canaanites who dwelt in the city, and had given it as a dowry to his daught er, Solomon's wife.)

nkjv@1Kings:9:17 @ And Solomon built Gez er, Low er Beth Horon,

nkjv@1Kings:9:18 @ Baalath, and Tadmor in the wild erness, in the land of Judah,

nkjv@1Kings:9:19 @ all the storage cities that Solomon had, cities for his chariots and cities for his cavalry, and whatev er Solomon desired to build in J erusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

nkjv@1Kings:9:20 @ All the people who w ere left of the Amorites, Hittites, P erizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who w ere not of the children of Israel--

nkjv@1Kings:9:21 @ that is, their descendants who w ere left in the land aft er them, whom the children of Israel had not been able to destroy completely--from these Solomon raised forced labor, as it is to this day.

nkjv@1Kings:9:22 @ But of the children of Israel Solomon made no forced labor ers, because they w ere men of war and his s ervants: his offic ers, his captains, command ers of his chariots, and his cavalry.

nkjv@1Kings:9:23 @ Oth ers w ere chiefs of the officials who w ere ov er Solomon's work: five hundred and fifty, who ruled ov er the people who did the work.

nkjv@1Kings:9:24 @ But Pharaoh's daught er came up from the City of David to h er house which Solomon had built for h er. Then he built the Millo.

nkjv@1Kings:9:25 @ Now three times a year Solomon off ered burnt off erings and peace off erings on the altar which he had built for the LORD, and he burned incense with them on the altar that was before the LORD. So he finished the temple.

nkjv@1Kings:9:26 @ King Solomon also built a fleet of ships at Ezion Geb er, which is near Elath on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.

nkjv@1Kings:9:27 @ Then Hiram sent his s ervants with the fleet, seamen who knew the sea, to work with the s ervants of Solomon.

nkjv@1Kings:9:28 @ And they went to Ophir, and acquired four hundred and twenty talents of gold from th ere, and brought it to King Solomon.

nkjv@1Kings:10:1 @ Now when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon conc erning the name of the LORD, she came to test him with hard questions.

nkjv@1Kings:10:2 @ She came to J erusalem with a v ery great retinue, with camels that bore spices, v ery much gold, and precious stones; and when she came to Solomon, she spoke with him about all that was in h er heart.

nkjv@1Kings:10:3 @ So Solomon answ ered all h er questions; th ere was nothing so difficult for the king that he could not explain it to h er.

nkjv@1Kings:10:5 @ the food on his table, the seating of his s ervants, the s ervice of his wait ers and their apparel, his cupbear ers, and his entryway by which he went up to the house of the LORD, th ere was no more spirit in h er.

nkjv@1Kings:10:7 @ Howev er I did not believe the words until I came and saw with my own eyes; and indeed the half was not told me. Your wisdom and prosp erity exceed the fame of which I heard.

nkjv@1Kings:10:8 @ Happy are your men and happy are these your s ervants, who stand continually before you and hear your wisdom!

nkjv@1Kings:10:9 @ Blessed be the LORD your God, who delighted in you, setting you on the throne of Israel! Because the LORD has loved Israel forev er, th erefore He made you king, to do justice and righteousness."

nkjv@1Kings:10:10 @ Then she gave the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold, spices in great quantity, and precious stones. Th ere nev er again came such abundance of spices as the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.

nkjv@1Kings:10:12 @ And the king made steps of the almug wood for the house of the LORD and for the king's house, also harps and stringed instruments for sing ers. Th ere nev er again came such almug wood, nor has the like been seen to this day.

nkjv@1Kings:10:13 @ Now King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all she desired, whatev er she asked, besides what Solomon had given h er according to the royal gen erosity. So she turned and went to h er own country, she and h er s ervants.

nkjv@1Kings:10:15 @ besides that from the traveling m erchants, from the income of trad ers, from all the kings of Arabia, and from the gov ernors of the country.

nkjv@1Kings:10:16 @ And King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hamm ered gold; six hundred shekels of gold went into each shield.

nkjv@1Kings:10:17 @ He also made three hundred shields of hamm ered gold; three minas of gold went into each shield. The king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.

nkjv@1Kings:10:18 @ Moreov er the king made a great throne of ivory, and ov erlaid it with pure gold.

nkjv@1Kings:10:19 @ The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was round at the back; th ere w ere armrests on eith er side of the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the armrests.

nkjv@1Kings:10:20 @ Twelve lions stood th ere, one on each side of the six steps; nothing like this had been made for any oth er kingdom.

nkjv@1Kings:10:21 @ All King Solomon's drinking vessels w ere gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon w ere pure gold. Not one was silv er, for this was accounted as nothing in the days of Solomon.

nkjv@1Kings:10:22 @ For the king had m erchant ships at sea with the fleet of Hiram. Once ev ery three years the m erchant ships came bringing gold, silv er, ivory, apes, and monkeys.

nkjv@1Kings:10:25 @ Each man brought his present: articles of silv er and gold, garments, armor, spices, horses, and mules, at a set rate year by year.

nkjv@1Kings:10:26 @ And Solomon gath ered chariots and horsemen; he had one thousand four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king at J erusalem.

nkjv@1Kings:10:27 @ The king made silv er as common in J erusalem as stones, and he made cedar trees as abundant as the sycamores which are in the lowland.

nkjv@1Kings:10:28 @ Also Solomon had horses imported from Egypt and Keveh; the king's m erchants bought them in Keveh at the current price.

nkjv@1Kings:10:29 @ Now a chariot that was imported from Egypt cost six hundred shekels of silv er, and a horse one hundred and fifty; and thus, through their agents, they exported them to all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Syria.

nkjv@1Kings:11:1 @ But King Solomon loved many foreign women, as well as the daught er of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites--

nkjv@1Kings:11:2 @ from the nations of whom the LORD had said to the children of Israel, "You shall not int ermarry with them, nor they with you. Surely they will turn away your hearts aft er their gods." Solomon clung to these in love.

nkjv@1Kings:11:4 @ For it was so, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned his heart aft er oth er gods; and his heart was not loyal to the LORD his God, as was the heart of his fath er David.

nkjv@1Kings:11:5 @ For Solomon went aft er Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and aft er Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

nkjv@1Kings:11:6 @ Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and did not fully follow the LORD, as did his fath er David.

nkjv@1Kings:11:7 @ Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the hill that is east of J erusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the people of Ammon.

nkjv@1Kings:11:10 @ and had commanded him conc erning this thing, that he should not go aft er oth er gods; but he did not keep what the LORD had commanded.

nkjv@1Kings:11:11 @ Th erefore the LORD said to Solomon, "Because you have done this, and have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your s ervant.

nkjv@1Kings:11:12 @ Nev ertheless I will not do it in your days, for the sake of your fath er David; I will tear it out of the hand of your son.

nkjv@1Kings:11:13 @ Howev er I will not tear away the whole kingdom; I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of My s ervant David, and for the sake of J erusalem which I have chosen."

nkjv@1Kings:11:14 @ Now the LORD raised up an adv ersary against Solomon, Hadad the Edomite; he was a descendant of the king in Edom.

nkjv@1Kings:11:15 @ For it happened, when David was in Edom, and Joab the command er of the army had gone up to bury the slain, aft er he had killed ev ery male in Edom

nkjv@1Kings:11:16 @ (because for six months Joab remained th ere with all Israel, until he had cut down ev ery male in Edom),

nkjv@1Kings:11:17 @ that Hadad fled to go to Egypt, he and c ertain Edomites of his fath er's s ervants with him. Hadad was still a little child.

nkjv@1Kings:11:19 @ And Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him as wife the sist er of his own wife, that is, the sist er of Queen Tahpenes.

nkjv@1Kings:11:20 @ Then the sist er of Tahpenes bore him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh's house. And Genubath was in Pharaoh's household among the sons of Pharaoh.

nkjv@1Kings:11:21 @ So when Hadad heard in Egypt that David rested with his fath ers, and that Joab the command er of the army was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, "Let me depart, that I may go to my own country."

nkjv@1Kings:11:22 @ Then Pharaoh said to him, "But what have you lacked with me, that suddenly you seek to go to your own country?" So he answ ered, "Nothing, but do let me go anyway."

nkjv@1Kings:11:23 @ And God raised up anoth er adv ersary against him, Rezon the son of Eliadah, who had fled from his lord, Hadadez er king of Zobah.

nkjv@1Kings:11:24 @ So he gath ered men to him and became captain ov er a band of raid ers, when David killed those of Zobah. And they went to Damascus and dwelt th ere, and reigned in Damascus.

nkjv@1Kings:11:25 @ He was an adv ersary of Israel all the days of Solomon (besides the trouble that Hadad caused); and he abhorred Israel, and reigned ov er Syria.

nkjv@1Kings:11:26 @ Then Solomon's s ervant, J eroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite from Z ereda, whose moth er's name was Z eruah, a widow, also rebelled against the king.

nkjv@1Kings:11:27 @ And this is what caused him to rebel against the king: Solomon had built the Millo and repaired the damages to the City of David his fath er.

nkjv@1Kings:11:28 @ The man J eroboam was a mighty man of valor; and Solomon, seeing that the young man was industrious, made him the offic er ov er all the labor force of the house of Joseph.

nkjv@1Kings:11:29 @ Now it happened at that time, when J eroboam went out of J erusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite met him on the way; and he had clothed himself with a new garment, and the two w ere alone in the field.

nkjv@1Kings:11:31 @ And he said to J eroboam, "Take for yourself ten pieces, for thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: "Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon and will give ten tribes to you

nkjv@1Kings:11:32 @ (but he shall have one tribe for the sake of My s ervant David, and for the sake of J erusalem, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel),

nkjv@1Kings:11:33 @ because they have forsaken Me, and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the people of Ammon, and have not walked in My ways to do what is right in My eyes and keep My statutes and My judgments, as did his fath er David.

nkjv@1Kings:11:34 @ Howev er I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand, because I have made him rul er all the days of his life for the sake of My s ervant David, whom I chose because he kept My commandments and My statutes.

nkjv@1Kings:11:36 @ And to his son I will give one tribe, that My s ervant David may always have a lamp before Me in J erusalem, the city which I have chosen for Myself, to put My name th ere.

nkjv@1Kings:11:37 @ So I will take you, and you shall reign ov er all your heart desires, and you shall be king ov er Israel.

nkjv@1Kings:11:38 @ Then it shall be, if you heed all that I command you, walk in My ways, and do what is right in My sight, to keep My statutes and My commandments, as My s ervant David did, then I will be with you and build for you an enduring house, as I built for David, and will give Israel to you.

nkjv@1Kings:11:39 @ And I will afflict the descendants of David because of this, but not forev er."'

nkjv@1Kings:11:40 @ Solomon th erefore sought to kill J eroboam. But J eroboam arose and fled to Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.

nkjv@1Kings:11:42 @ And the p eriod that Solomon reigned in J erusalem ov er all Israel was forty years.

nkjv@1Kings:11:43 @ Then Solomon rested with his fath ers, and was buried in the City of David his fath er. And Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.

nkjv@1Kings:12:2 @ So it happened, when J eroboam the son of Nebat heard it (he was still in Egypt, for he had fled from the presence of King Solomon and had been dwelling in Egypt),

nkjv@1Kings:12:3 @ that they sent and called him. Then J eroboam and the whole assembly of Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,

nkjv@1Kings:12:4 @ "Your fath er made our yoke heavy; now th erefore, lighten the burdensome s ervice of your fath er, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, and we will s erve you."

nkjv@1Kings:12:6 @ Then King Rehoboam consulted the eld ers who stood before his fath er Solomon while he still lived, and he said, "How do you advise me to answ er these people?"

nkjv@1Kings:12:7 @ And they spoke to him, saying, "If you will be a s ervant to these people today, and s erve them, and answ er them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your s ervants forev er."

nkjv@1Kings:12:8 @ But he rejected the advice which the eld ers had given him, and consulted the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.

nkjv@1Kings:12:9 @ And he said to them, "What advice do you give? How should we answ er this people who have spoken to me, saying, "Lighten the yoke which your fath er put on us'?"

nkjv@1Kings:12:10 @ Then the young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, "Thus you should speak to this people who have spoken to you, saying, "Your fath er made our yoke heavy, but you make it light er on us'--thus you shall say to them: "My little fing er shall be thick er than my fath er's waist!

nkjv@1Kings:12:11 @ And now, wh ereas my fath er put a heavy yoke on you, I will add to your yoke; my fath er chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scourges!"'

nkjv@1Kings:12:12 @ So J eroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king had directed, saying, "Come back to me the third day."

nkjv@1Kings:12:13 @ Then the king answ ered the people roughly, and rejected the advice which the eld ers had given him;

nkjv@1Kings:12:14 @ and he spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, saying, "My fath er made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my fath er chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scourges!"

nkjv@1Kings:12:15 @ So the king did not listen to the people; for the turn of events was from the LORD, that He might fulfill His word, which the LORD had spoken by Ahijah the Shilonite to J eroboam the son of Nebat.

nkjv@1Kings:12:16 @ Now when all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answ ered the king, saying: "What share have we in David? We have no inh eritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, O Israel! Now, see to your own house, O David!" So Israel departed to their tents.

nkjv@1Kings:12:17 @ But Rehoboam reigned ov er the children of Israel who dwelt in the cities of Judah.

nkjv@1Kings:12:18 @ Then King Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was in charge of the revenue; but all Israel stoned him with stones, and he died. Th erefore King Rehoboam mounted his chariot in haste to flee to J erusalem.

nkjv@1Kings:12:20 @ Now it came to pass when all Israel heard that J eroboam had come back, they sent for him and called him to the congregation, and made him king ov er all Israel. Th ere was none who followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.

nkjv@1Kings:12:21 @ And when Rehoboam came to J erusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah with the tribe of Benjamin, one hundred and eighty thousand chosen men who w ere warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, that he might restore the kingdom to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.

nkjv@1Kings:12:24 @ "Thus says the LORD: "You shall not go up nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel. Let ev ery man return to his house, for this thing is from Me.""' Th erefore they obeyed the word of the LORD, and turned back, according to the word of the LORD.

nkjv@1Kings:12:25 @ Then J eroboam built Shechem in the mountains of Ephraim, and dwelt th ere. Also he went out from th ere and built Penuel.

nkjv@1Kings:12:26 @ And J eroboam said in his heart, "Now the kingdom may return to the house of David:

nkjv@1Kings:12:27 @ If these people go up to off er sacrifices in the house of the LORD at J erusalem, then the heart of this people will turn back to their lord, Rehoboam king of Judah, and they will kill me and go back to Rehoboam king of Judah."

nkjv@1Kings:12:28 @ Th erefore the king asked advice, made two calves of gold, and said to the people, "It is too much for you to go up to J erusalem. H ere are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt!"

nkjv@1Kings:12:29 @ And he set up one in Bethel, and the oth er he put in Dan.

nkjv@1Kings:12:31 @ He made shrines on the high places, and made priests from ev ery class of people, who w ere not of the sons of Levi.

nkjv@1Kings:12:32 @ J eroboam ordained a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the feast that was in Judah, and off ered sacrifices on the altar. So he did at Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made. And at Bethel he installed the priests of the high places which he had made.

nkjv@1Kings:12:33 @ So he made off erings on the altar which he had made at Bethel on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, in the month which he had devised in his own heart. And he ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and off ered sacrifices on the altar and burned incense.

nkjv@1Kings:13:1 @ And behold, a man of God went from Judah to Bethel by the word of the LORD, and J eroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.

nkjv@1Kings:13:4 @ So it came to pass when King J eroboam heard the saying of the man of God, who cried out against the altar in Bethel, that he stretched out his hand from the altar, saying, "Arrest him!" Then his hand, which he stretched out toward him, with ered, so that he could not pull it back to himself.

nkjv@1Kings:13:6 @ Then the king answ ered and said to the man of God, "Please entreat the favor of the LORD your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored to me." So the man of God entreated the LORD, and the king's hand was restored to him, and became as before.

nkjv@1Kings:13:8 @ But the man of God said to the king, "If you w ere to give me half your house, I would not go in with you; nor would I eat bread nor drink wat er in this place.

nkjv@1Kings:13:9 @ For so it was commanded me by the word of the LORD, saying, "You shall not eat bread, nor drink wat er, nor return by the same way you came."'

nkjv@1Kings:13:10 @ So he went anoth er way and did not return by the way he came to Bethel.

nkjv@1Kings:13:11 @ Now an old prophet dwelt in Bethel, and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel; they also told their fath er the words which he had spoken to the king.

nkjv@1Kings:13:12 @ And their fath er said to them, "Which way did he go?" For his sons had seen which way the man of God went who came from Judah.

nkjv@1Kings:13:14 @ and went aft er the man of God, and found him sitting und er an oak. Then he said to him, "Are you the man of God who came from Judah?" And he said, "I am."

nkjv@1Kings:13:16 @ And he said, "I cannot return with you nor go in with you; neith er can I eat bread nor drink wat er with you in this place.

nkjv@1Kings:13:17 @ For I have been told by the word of the LORD, "You shall not eat bread nor drink wat er th ere, nor return by going the way you came."'

nkjv@1Kings:13:18 @ He said to him, "I too am a prophet as you are, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, "Bring him back with you to your house, that he may eat bread and drink wat er."' (He was lying to him.)

nkjv@1Kings:13:19 @ So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house, and drank wat er.

nkjv@1Kings:13:22 @ but you came back, ate bread, and drank wat er in the place of which the LORD said to you, "Eat no bread and drink no wat er," your corpse shall not come to the tomb of your fath ers."'

nkjv@1Kings:13:23 @ So it was, aft er he had eaten bread and aft er he had drunk, that he saddled the donkey for him, the prophet whom he had brought back.

nkjv@1Kings:13:25 @ And th ere, men passed by and saw the corpse thrown on the road, and the lion standing by the corpse. Then they went and told it in the city wh ere the old prophet dwelt.

nkjv@1Kings:13:26 @ Now when the prophet who had brought him back from the way heard it, he said, "It is the man of God who was disobedient to the word of the LORD. Th erefore the LORD has deliv ered him to the lion, which has torn him and killed him, according to the word of the LORD which He spoke to him."

nkjv@1Kings:13:30 @ Then he laid the corpse in his own tomb; and they mourned ov er him, saying, "Alas, my broth er!"

nkjv@1Kings:13:31 @ So it was, aft er he had buried him, that he spoke to his sons, saying, "When I am dead, then bury me in the tomb wh ere the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.

nkjv@1Kings:13:33 @ Aft er this event J eroboam did not turn from his evil way, but again he made priests from ev ery class of people for the high places; whoev er wished, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places.

nkjv@1Kings:13:34 @ And this thing was the sin of the house of J eroboam, so as to ext erminate and destroy it from the face of the earth.

nkjv@1Kings:14:1 @ At that time Abijah the son of J eroboam became sick.

nkjv@1Kings:14:2 @ And J eroboam said to his wife, "Please arise, and disguise yourself, that they may not recognize you as the wife of J eroboam, and go to Shiloh. Indeed, Ahijah the prophet is th ere, who told me that I would be king ov er this people.

nkjv@1Kings:14:4 @ And J eroboam's wife did so; she arose and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see, for his eyes w ere glazed by reason of his age.

nkjv@1Kings:14:5 @ Now the LORD had said to Ahijah, "H ere is the wife of J eroboam, coming to ask you something about h er son, for he is sick. Thus and thus you shall say to h er; for it will be, when she comes in, that she will pretend to be anoth er woman."

nkjv@1Kings:14:6 @ And so it was, when Ahijah heard the sound of h er footsteps as she came through the door, he said, "Come in, wife of J eroboam. Why do you pretend to be anoth er p erson? For I have been sent to you with bad news.

nkjv@1Kings:14:7 @ Go, tell J eroboam, "Thus says the LORD God of Israel: "Because I exalted you from among the people, and made you rul er ov er My people Israel,

nkjv@1Kings:14:8 @ and tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it to you; and yet you have not been as My s ervant David, who kept My commandments and who followed Me with all his heart, to do only what was right in My eyes;

nkjv@1Kings:14:9 @ but you have done more evil than all who w ere before you, for you have gone and made for yourself oth er gods and molded images to provoke Me to ang er, and have cast Me behind your back--

nkjv@1Kings:14:10 @ th erefore behold! I will bring disast er on the house of J eroboam, and will cut off from J eroboam ev ery male in Israel, bond and free; I will take away the remnant of the house of J eroboam, as one takes away refuse until it is all gone.

nkjv@1Kings:14:11 @ The dogs shall eat whoev er belongs to J eroboam and dies in the city, and the birds of the air shall eat whoev er dies in the field; for the LORD has spoken!"'

nkjv@1Kings:14:12 @ Arise th erefore, go to your own house. When your feet ent er the city, the child shall die.

nkjv@1Kings:14:13 @ And all Israel shall mourn for him and bury him, for he is the only one of J eroboam who shall come to the grave, because in him th ere is found something good toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of J eroboam.

nkjv@1Kings:14:14 @ "Moreov er the LORD will raise up for Himself a king ov er Israel who shall cut off the house of J eroboam; this is the day. What? Even now!

nkjv@1Kings:14:15 @ For the LORD will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the wat er. He will uproot Israel from this good land which He gave to their fath ers, and will scatt er them beyond the Riv er, because they have made their wooden images, provoking the LORD to ang er.

nkjv@1Kings:14:16 @ And He will give Israel up because of the sins of J eroboam, who sinned and who made Israel sin."

nkjv@1Kings:14:17 @ Then J eroboam's wife arose and departed, and came to Tirzah. When she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.

nkjv@1Kings:14:18 @ And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the LORD which He spoke through His s ervant Ahijah the prophet.

nkjv@1Kings:14:19 @ Now the rest of the acts of J eroboam, how he made war and how he reigned, indeed they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

nkjv@1Kings:14:20 @ The p eriod that J eroboam reigned was twenty-two years. So he rested with his fath ers. Then Nadab his son reigned in his place.

nkjv@1Kings:14:21 @ And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king. He reigned seventeen years in J erusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put His name th ere. His moth er's name was Naamah, an Ammonitess.

nkjv@1Kings:14:22 @ Now Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked Him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, more than all that their fath ers had done.

nkjv@1Kings:14:23 @ For they also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and wooden images on ev ery high hill and und er ev ery green tree.

nkjv@1Kings:14:24 @ And th ere w ere also p erv erted p ersons in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.

nkjv@1Kings:14:25 @ It happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam that Shishak king of Egypt came up against J erusalem.

nkjv@1Kings:14:26 @ And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king's house; he took away ev erything. He also took away all the gold shields which Solomon had made.

nkjv@1Kings:14:28 @ And whenev er the king ent ered the house of the LORD, the guards carried them, then brought them back into the guardroom.

nkjv@1Kings:14:30 @ And th ere was war between Rehoboam and J eroboam all their days.

nkjv@1Kings:14:31 @ So Rehoboam rested with his fath ers, and was buried with his fath ers in the City of David. His moth er's name was Naamah, an Ammonitess. Then Abijam his son reigned in his place.

nkjv@1Kings:15:1 @ In the eighteenth year of King J eroboam the son of Nebat, Abijam became king ov er Judah.

nkjv@1Kings:15:2 @ He reigned three years in J erusalem. His moth er's name was Maachah the granddaught er of Abishalom.

nkjv@1Kings:15:3 @ And he walked in all the sins of his fath er, which he had done before him; his heart was not loyal to the LORD his God, as was the heart of his fath er David.

nkjv@1Kings:15:4 @ Nev ertheless for David's sake the LORD his God gave him a lamp in J erusalem, by setting up his son aft er him and by establishing J erusalem;

nkjv@1Kings:15:5 @ because David did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, and had not turned aside from anything that He commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matt er of Uriah the Hittite.

nkjv@1Kings:15:6 @ And th ere was war between Rehoboam and J eroboam all the days of his life.

nkjv@1Kings:15:7 @ Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And th ere was war between Abijam and J eroboam.

nkjv@1Kings:15:8 @ So Abijam rested with his fath ers, and they buried him in the City of David. Then Asa his son reigned in his place.

nkjv@1Kings:15:9 @ In the twentieth year of J eroboam king of Israel, Asa became king ov er Judah.

nkjv@1Kings:15:10 @ And he reigned forty-one years in J erusalem. His grandmoth er's name was Maachah the granddaught er of Abishalom.

nkjv@1Kings:15:11 @ Asa did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did his fath er David.

nkjv@1Kings:15:12 @ And he banished the p erv erted p ersons from the land, and removed all the idols that his fath ers had made.

nkjv@1Kings:15:13 @ Also he removed Maachah his grandmoth er from being queen moth er, because she had made an obscene image of Ash erah. And Asa cut down h er obscene image and burned it by the Brook Kidron.

nkjv@1Kings:15:14 @ But the high places w ere not removed. Nev ertheless Asa's heart was loyal to the LORD all his days.

nkjv@1Kings:15:15 @ He also brought into the house of the LORD the things which his fath er had dedicated, and the things which he himself had dedicated: silv er and gold and utensils.

nkjv@1Kings:15:16 @ Now th ere was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

nkjv@1Kings:15:18 @ Then Asa took all the silv er and gold that was left in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the treasuries of the king's house, and deliv ered them into the hand of his s ervants. And King Asa sent them to Ben-Hadad the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who dwelt in Damascus, saying,

nkjv@1Kings:15:19 @ "Let th ere be a treaty between you and me, as th ere was between my fath er and your fath er. See, I have sent you a present of silv er and gold. Come and break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, so that he will withdraw from me."

nkjv@1Kings:15:20 @ So Ben-Hadad heeded King Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel. He attacked Ijon, Dan, Abel Beth Maachah, and all Chinn eroth, with all the land of Naphtali.

nkjv@1Kings:15:22 @ Then King Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none was exempted. And they took away the stones and timb er of Ramah, which Baasha had used for building; and with them King Asa built Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.

nkjv@1Kings:15:24 @ So Asa rested with his fath ers, and was buried with his fath ers in the City of David his fath er. Then Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place.

nkjv@1Kings:15:25 @ Now Nadab the son of J eroboam became king ov er Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and he reigned ov er Israel two years.

nkjv@1Kings:15:26 @ And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his fath er, and in his sin by which he had made Israel sin.

nkjv@1Kings:15:29 @ And it was so, when he became king, that he killed all the house of J eroboam. He did not leave to J eroboam anyone that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according to the word of the LORD which He had spoken by His s ervant Ahijah the Shilonite,

nkjv@1Kings:15:30 @ because of the sins of J eroboam, which he had sinned and by which he had made Israel sin, because of his provocation with which he had provoked the LORD God of Israel to ang er.

nkjv@1Kings:15:32 @ And th ere was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

nkjv@1Kings:15:33 @ In the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha the son of Ahijah became king ov er all Israel in Tirzah, and reigned twenty-four years.

nkjv@1Kings:15:34 @ He did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of J eroboam, and in his sin by which he had made Israel sin.

nkjv@1Kings:16:2 @ "Inasmuch as I lifted you out of the dust and made you rul er ov er My people Israel, and you have walked in the way of J eroboam, and have made My people Israel sin, to provoke Me to ang er with their sins,

nkjv@1Kings:16:3 @ surely I will take away the post erity of Baasha and the post erity of his house, and I will make your house like the house of J eroboam the son of Nebat.

nkjv@1Kings:16:4 @ The dogs shall eat whoev er belongs to Baasha and dies in the city, and the birds of the air shall eat whoev er dies in the fields."

nkjv@1Kings:16:6 @ So Baasha rested with his fath ers and was buried in Tirzah. Then Elah his son reigned in his place.

nkjv@1Kings:16:7 @ And also the word of the LORD came by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha and his house, because of all the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD in provoking Him to ang er with the work of his hands, in being like the house of J eroboam, and because he killed them.

nkjv@1Kings:16:8 @ In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah the son of Baasha became king ov er Israel, and reigned two years in Tirzah.

nkjv@1Kings:16:9 @ Now his s ervant Zimri, command er of half his chariots, conspired against him as he was in Tirzah drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, steward of his house in Tirzah.

nkjv@1Kings:16:11 @ Then it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he was seated on his throne, that he killed all the household of Baasha; he did not leave him one male, neith er of his relatives nor of his friends.

nkjv@1Kings:16:13 @ for all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son, by which they had sinned and by which they had made Israel sin, in provoking the LORD God of Israel to ang er with their idols.

nkjv@1Kings:16:15 @ In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri had reigned in Tirzah seven days. And the people w ere encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.

nkjv@1Kings:16:16 @ Now the people who w ere encamped heard it said, "Zimri has conspired and also has killed the king." So all Israel made Omri, the command er of the army, king ov er Israel that day in the camp.

nkjv@1Kings:16:19 @ because of the sins which he had committed in doing evil in the sight of the LORD, in walking in the way of J eroboam, and in his sin which he had committed to make Israel sin.

nkjv@1Kings:16:21 @ Then the people of Israel w ere divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king, and half followed Omri.

nkjv@1Kings:16:22 @ But the people who followed Omri prevailed ov er the people who followed Tibni the son of Ginath. So Tibni died and Omri reigned.

nkjv@1Kings:16:23 @ In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri became king ov er Israel, and reigned twelve years. Six years he reigned in Tirzah.

nkjv@1Kings:16:24 @ And he bought the hill of Samaria from Shem er for two talents of silv er; then he built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, Samaria, aft er the name of Shem er, own er of the hill.

nkjv@1Kings:16:25 @ Omri did evil in the eyes of the LORD, and did worse than all who w ere before him.

nkjv@1Kings:16:26 @ For he walked in all the ways of J eroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin by which he had made Israel sin, provoking the LORD God of Israel to ang er with their idols.

nkjv@1Kings:16:28 @ So Omri rested with his fath ers and was buried in Samaria. Then Ahab his son reigned in his place.

nkjv@1Kings:16:29 @ In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, Ahab the son of Omri became king ov er Israel; and Ahab the son of Omri reigned ov er Israel in Samaria twenty-two years.

nkjv@1Kings:16:30 @ Now Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD, more than all who w ere before him.

nkjv@1Kings:16:31 @ And it came to pass, as though it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of J eroboam the son of Nebat, that he took as wife Jezebel the daught er of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians; and he went and s erved Baal and worshiped him.

nkjv@1Kings:16:33 @ And Ahab made a wooden image. Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to ang er than all the kings of Israel who w ere before him.

nkjv@1Kings:16:34 @ In his days Hiel of Bethel built J ericho. He laid its foundation with Abiram his firstborn, and with his youngest son Segub he set up its gates, according to the word of the LORD, which He had spoken through Joshua the son of Nun.

nkjv@1Kings:17:1 @ And Elijah the Tishbite, of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the LORD God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, th ere shall not be dew nor rain these years, except at my word."

nkjv@1Kings:17:3 @ "Get away from h ere and turn eastward, and hide by the Brook Ch erith, which flows into the Jordan.

nkjv@1Kings:17:4 @ And it will be that you shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you th ere."

nkjv@1Kings:17:5 @ So he went and did according to the word of the LORD, for he went and stayed by the Brook Ch erith, which flows into the Jordan.

nkjv@1Kings:17:7 @ And it happened aft er a while that the brook dried up, because th ere had been no rain in the land.

nkjv@1Kings:17:9 @ "Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell th ere. See, I have commanded a widow th ere to provide for you."

nkjv@1Kings:17:10 @ So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, indeed a widow was th ere gath ering sticks. And he called to h er and said, "Please bring me a little wat er in a cup, that I may drink."

nkjv@1Kings:17:11 @ And as she was going to get it, he called to h er and said, "Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand."

nkjv@1Kings:17:12 @ So she said, "As the LORD your God lives, I do not have bread, only a handful of flour in a bin, and a little oil in a jar; and see, I am gath ering a couple of sticks that I may go in and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it, and die."

nkjv@1Kings:17:13 @ And Elijah said to h er, "Do not fear; go and do as you have said, but make me a small cake from it first, and bring it to me; and aft erward make some for yourself and your son.

nkjv@1Kings:17:15 @ So she went away and did according to the word of Elijah; and she and he and h er household ate for many days.

nkjv@1Kings:17:17 @ Now it happened aft er these things that the son of the woman who owned the house became sick. And his sickness was so s erious that th ere was no breath left in him.

nkjv@1Kings:17:19 @ And he said to h er, "Give me your son." So he took him out of h er arms and carried him to the upp er room wh ere he was staying, and laid him on his own bed.

nkjv@1Kings:17:20 @ Then he cried out to the LORD and said, "O LORD my God, have You also brought tragedy on the widow with whom I lodge, by killing h er son?"

nkjv@1Kings:17:23 @ And Elijah took the child and brought him down from the upp er room into the house, and gave him to his moth er. And Elijah said, "See, your son lives!"

nkjv@1Kings:18:1 @ And it came to pass aft er many days that the word of the LORD came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, "Go, present yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain on the earth."

nkjv@1Kings:18:2 @ So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab; and th ere was a sev ere famine in Samaria.

nkjv@1Kings:18:4 @ For so it was, while Jezebel massacred the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah had taken one hundred prophets and hidden them, fifty to a cave, and had fed them with bread and wat er.)

nkjv@1Kings:18:5 @ And Ahab had said to Obadiah, "Go into the land to all the springs of wat er and to all the brooks; p erhaps we may find grass to keep the horses and mules alive, so that we will not have to kill any livestock."

nkjv@1Kings:18:6 @ So they divided the land between them to explore it; Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went anoth er way by himself.

nkjv@1Kings:18:8 @ And he answ ered him, "It is I. Go, tell your mast er, "Elijah is h ere."'

nkjv@1Kings:18:9 @ So he said, "How have I sinned, that you are deliv ering your s ervant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me?

nkjv@1Kings:18:10 @ As the LORD your God lives, th ere is no nation or kingdom wh ere my mast er has not sent someone to hunt for you; and when they said, "He is not h ere,' he took an oath from the kingdom or nation that they could not find you.

nkjv@1Kings:18:11 @ And now you say, "Go, tell your mast er, "Elijah is h ere"'!

nkjv@1Kings:18:12 @ And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from you, that the Spirit of the LORD will carry you to a place I do not know; so when I go and tell Ahab, and he cannot find you, he will kill me. But I your s ervant have feared the LORD from my youth.

nkjv@1Kings:18:13 @ Was it not reported to my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of the LORD, how I hid one hundred men of the LORD's prophets, fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and wat er?

nkjv@1Kings:18:14 @ And now you say, "Go, tell your mast er, "Elijah is h ere."' He will kill me!"

nkjv@1Kings:18:17 @ Then it happened, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to him, "Is that you, O troubl er of Israel?"

nkjv@1Kings:18:18 @ And he answ ered, "I have not troubled Israel, but you and your fath er's house have, in that you have forsaken the commandments of the LORD and have followed the Baals.

nkjv@1Kings:18:19 @ Now th erefore, send and gath er all Israel to me on Mount Carmel, the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal, and the four hundred prophets of Ash erah, who eat at Jezebel's table."

nkjv@1Kings:18:20 @ So Ahab sent for all the children of Israel, and gath ered the prophets togeth er on Mount Carmel.

nkjv@1Kings:18:21 @ And Elijah came to all the people, and said, "How long will you falt er between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him." But the people answ ered him not a word.

nkjv@1Kings:18:23 @ Th erefore let them give us two bulls; and let them choose one bull for themselves, cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, but put no fire und er it; and I will prepare the oth er bull, and lay it on the wood, but put no fire und er it.

nkjv@1Kings:18:24 @ Then you call on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the LORD; and the God who answ ers by fire, He is God." So all the people answ ered and said, "It is well spoken."

nkjv@1Kings:18:25 @ Now Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, "Choose one bull for yourselves and prepare it first, for you are many; and call on the name of your god, but put no fire und er it."

nkjv@1Kings:18:26 @ So they took the bull which was given them, and they prepared it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even till noon, saying, "O Baal, hear us!" But th ere was no voice; no one answ ered. Then they leaped about the altar which they had made.

nkjv@1Kings:18:27 @ And so it was, at noon, that Elijah mocked them and said, "Cry aloud, for he is a god; eith er he is meditating, or he is busy, or he is on a journey, or p erhaps he is sleeping and must be awakened."

nkjv@1Kings:18:29 @ And when midday was past, they prophesied until the time of the off ering of the evening sacrifice. But th ere was no voice; no one answ ered, no one paid attention.

nkjv@1Kings:18:31 @ And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the numb er of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the LORD had come, saying, "Israel shall be your name."

nkjv@1Kings:18:33 @ And he put the wood in ord er, cut the bull in pieces, and laid it on the wood, and said, "Fill four wat erpots with wat er, and pour it on the burnt sacrifice and on the wood."

nkjv@1Kings:18:35 @ So the wat er ran all around the altar; and he also filled the trench with wat er.

nkjv@1Kings:18:36 @ And it came to pass, at the time of the off ering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near and said, "LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that You are God in Israel and I am Your s ervant, and that I have done all these things at Your word.

nkjv@1Kings:18:38 @ Then the fire of the LORD fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood and the stones and the dust, and it licked up the wat er that was in the trench.

nkjv@1Kings:18:40 @ And Elijah said to them, "Seize the prophets of Baal! Do not let one of them escape!" So they seized them; and Elijah brought them down to the Brook Kishon and executed them th ere.

nkjv@1Kings:18:41 @ Then Elijah said to Ahab, "Go up, eat and drink; for th ere is the sound of abundance of rain."

nkjv@1Kings:18:43 @ and said to his s ervant, "Go up now, look toward the sea." So he went up and looked, and said, "Th ere is nothing." And seven times he said, "Go again."

nkjv@1Kings:18:44 @ Then it came to pass the seventh time, that he said, "Th ere is a cloud, as small as a man's hand, rising out of the sea!" So he said, "Go up, say to Ahab, "Prepare your chariot, and go down before the rain stops you."'

nkjv@1Kings:18:45 @ Now it happened in the meantime that the sky became black with clouds and wind, and th ere was a heavy rain. So Ahab rode away and went to Jezreel.

nkjv@1Kings:19:2 @ Then Jezebel sent a messeng er to Elijah, saying, "So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time."

nkjv@1Kings:19:3 @ And when he saw that, he arose and ran for his life, and went to Be ersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his s ervant th ere.

nkjv@1Kings:19:4 @ But he himself went a day's journey into the wild erness, and came and sat down und er a broom tree. And he prayed that he might die, and said, "It is enough! Now, LORD, take my life, for I am no bett er than my fath ers!"

nkjv@1Kings:19:5 @ Then as he lay and slept und er a broom tree, suddenly an angel touched him, and said to him, "Arise and eat."

nkjv@1Kings:19:6 @ Then he looked, and th ere by his head was a cake baked on coals, and a jar of wat er. So he ate and drank, and lay down again.

nkjv@1Kings:19:9 @ And th ere he went into a cave, and spent the night in that place; and behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and He said to him, "What are you doing h ere, Elijah?"

nkjv@1Kings:19:10 @ So he said, "I have been v ery zealous for the LORD God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I alone am left; and they seek to take my life."

nkjv@1Kings:19:11 @ Then He said, "Go out, and stand on the mountain before the LORD." And behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind tore into the mountains and broke the rocks in pieces before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind; and aft er the wind an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake;

nkjv@1Kings:19:12 @ and aft er the earthquake a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire; and aft er the fire a still small voice.

nkjv@1Kings:19:13 @ So it was, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood in the entrance of the cave. Suddenly a voice came to him, and said, "What are you doing h ere, Elijah?"

nkjv@1Kings:19:14 @ And he said, "I have been v ery zealous for the LORD God of hosts; because the children of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I alone am left; and they seek to take my life."

nkjv@1Kings:19:15 @ Then the LORD said to him: "Go, return on your way to the Wild erness of Damascus; and when you arrive, anoint Hazael as king ov er Syria.

nkjv@1Kings:19:16 @ Also you shall anoint Jehu the son of Nimshi as king ov er Israel. And Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel Meholah you shall anoint as prophet in your place.

nkjv@1Kings:19:17 @ It shall be that whoev er escapes the sword of Hazael, Jehu will kill; and whoev er escapes the sword of Jehu, Elisha will kill.

nkjv@1Kings:19:18 @ Yet I have res erved seven thousand in Israel, all whose knees have not bowed to Baal, and ev ery mouth that has not kissed him."

nkjv@1Kings:19:19 @ So he departed from th ere, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he was with the twelfth. Then Elijah passed by him and threw his mantle on him.

nkjv@1Kings:19:20 @ And he left the oxen and ran aft er Elijah, and said, "Please let me kiss my fath er and my moth er, and then I will follow you." And he said to him, "Go back again, for what have I done to you?"

nkjv@1Kings:19:21 @ So Elisha turned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen and slaught ered them and boiled their flesh, using the oxen's equipment, and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he arose and followed Elijah, and became his s ervant.

nkjv@1Kings:20:1 @ Now Ben-Hadad the king of Syria gath ered all his forces togeth er; thirty-two kings w ere with him, with horses and chariots. And he went up and besieged Samaria, and made war against it.

nkjv@1Kings:20:2 @ Then he sent messeng ers into the city to Ahab king of Israel, and said to him, "Thus says Ben-Hadad:

nkjv@1Kings:20:3 @ "Your silv er and your gold are mine; your loveliest wives and children are mine."'

nkjv@1Kings:20:4 @ And the king of Israel answ ered and said, "My lord, O king, just as you say, I and all that I have are yours."

nkjv@1Kings:20:5 @ Then the messeng ers came back and said, "Thus speaks Ben-Hadad, saying, "Indeed I have sent to you, saying, "You shall deliv er to me your silv er and your gold, your wives and your children";

nkjv@1Kings:20:6 @ but I will send my s ervants to you tomorrow about this time, and they shall search your house and the houses of your s ervants. And it shall be, that whatev er is pleasant in your eyes, they will put it in their hands and take it."'

nkjv@1Kings:20:7 @ So the king of Israel called all the eld ers of the land, and said, "Notice, please, and see how this man seeks trouble, for he sent to me for my wives, my children, my silv er, and my gold; and I did not deny him."

nkjv@1Kings:20:8 @ And all the eld ers and all the people said to him, "Do not listen or consent."

nkjv@1Kings:20:9 @ Th erefore he said to the messeng ers of Ben-Hadad, "Tell my lord the king, "All that you sent for to your s ervant the first time I will do, but this thing I cannot do."' And the messeng ers departed and brought back word to him.

nkjv@1Kings:20:11 @ So the king of Israel answ ered and said, "Tell him, "Let not the one who puts on his armor boast like the one who takes it off."'

nkjv@1Kings:20:12 @ And it happened when Ben-Hadad heard this message, as he and the kings w ere drinking at the command post, that he said to his s ervants, "Get ready." And they got ready to attack the city.

nkjv@1Kings:20:13 @ Suddenly a prophet approached Ahab king of Israel, saying, "Thus says the LORD: "Have you seen all this great multitude? Behold, I will deliv er it into your hand today, and you shall know that I am the LORD."'

nkjv@1Kings:20:14 @ So Ahab said, "By whom?" And he said, "Thus says the LORD: "By the young lead ers of the provinces."' Then he said, "Who will set the battle in ord er?" And he answ ered, "You."

nkjv@1Kings:20:15 @ Then he must ered the young lead ers of the provinces, and th ere w ere two hundred and thirty-two; and aft er them he must ered all the people, all the children of Israel--seven thousand.

nkjv@1Kings:20:16 @ So they went out at noon. Meanwhile Ben-Hadad and the thirty-two kings helping him w ere getting drunk at the command post.

nkjv@1Kings:20:17 @ The young lead ers of the provinces went out first. And Ben-Hadad sent out a patrol, and they told him, saying, "Men are coming out of Samaria!"

nkjv@1Kings:20:19 @ Then these young lead ers of the provinces went out of the city with the army which followed them.

nkjv@1Kings:20:21 @ Then the king of Israel went out and attacked the horses and chariots, and killed the Syrians with a great slaught er.

nkjv@1Kings:20:23 @ Then the s ervants of the king of Syria said to him, "Their gods are gods of the hills. Th erefore they w ere strong er than we; but if we fight against them in the plain, surely we will be strong er than they.

nkjv@1Kings:20:25 @ and you shall must er an army like the army that you have lost, horse for horse and chariot for chariot. Then we will fight against them in the plain; surely we will be strong er than they." And he listened to their voice and did so.

nkjv@1Kings:20:26 @ So it was, in the spring of the year, that Ben-Hadad must ered the Syrians and went up to Aphek to fight against Israel.

nkjv@1Kings:20:27 @ And the children of Israel w ere must ered and given provisions, and they went against them. Now the children of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of goats, while the Syrians filled the countryside.

nkjv@1Kings:20:28 @ Then a man of God came and spoke to the king of Israel, and said, "Thus says the LORD: "Because the Syrians have said, "The LORD is God of the hills, but He is not God of the valleys," th erefore I will deliv er all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am the LORD."'

nkjv@1Kings:20:29 @ And they encamped opposite each oth er for seven days. So it was that on the seventh day the battle was joined; and the children of Israel killed one hundred thousand foot soldi ers of the Syrians in one day.

nkjv@1Kings:20:30 @ But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; then a wall fell on twenty-seven thousand of the men who w ere left. And Ben-Hadad fled and went into the city, into an inn er chamb er.

nkjv@1Kings:20:31 @ Then his s ervants said to him, "Look now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are m erciful kings. Please, let us put sackcloth around our waists and ropes around our heads, and go out to the king of Israel; p erhaps he will spare your life."

nkjv@1Kings:20:32 @ So they wore sackcloth around their waists and put ropes around their heads, and came to the king of Israel and said, "Your s ervant Ben-Hadad says, "Please let me live."' And he said, "Is he still alive? He is my broth er."

nkjv@1Kings:20:33 @ Now the men w ere watching closely to see wheth er any sign of m ercy would come from him; and they quickly grasped at this word and said, "Your broth er Ben-Hadad." So he said, "Go, bring him." Then Ben-Hadad came out to him; and he had him come up into the chariot.

nkjv@1Kings:20:34 @ So Ben-Hadad said to him, "The cities which my fath er took from your fath er I will restore; and you may set up marketplaces for yourself in Damascus, as my fath er did in Samaria." Then Ahab said, "I will send you away with this treaty." So he made a treaty with him and sent him away.

nkjv@1Kings:20:35 @ Now a c ertain man of the sons of the prophets said to his neighbor by the word of the LORD, "Strike me, please." And the man refused to strike him.

nkjv@1Kings:20:37 @ And he found anoth er man, and said, "Strike me, please." So the man struck him, inflicting a wound.

nkjv@1Kings:20:38 @ Then the prophet departed and waited for the king by the road, and disguised himself with a bandage ov er his eyes.

nkjv@1Kings:20:39 @ Now as the king passed by, he cried out to the king and said, "Your s ervant went out into the midst of the battle; and th ere, a man came ov er and brought a man to me, and said, "Guard this man; if by any means he is missing, your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silv er.'

nkjv@1Kings:20:40 @ While your s ervant was busy h ere and th ere, he was gone." Then the king of Israel said to him, "So shall your judgment be; you yourself have decided it."

nkjv@1Kings:20:42 @ Then he said to him, "Thus says the LORD: "Because you have let slip out of your hand a man whom I appointed to utt er destruction, th erefore your life shall go for his life, and your people for his people."'

nkjv@1Kings:21:1 @ And it came to pass aft er these things that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard which was in Jezreel, next to the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.

nkjv@1Kings:21:2 @ So Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, "Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a vegetable garden, because it is near, next to my house; and for it I will give you a vineyard bett er than it. Or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its worth in money."

nkjv@1Kings:21:3 @ But Naboth said to Ahab, "The LORD forbid that I should give the inh eritance of my fath ers to you!"

nkjv@1Kings:21:4 @ So Ahab went 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 you the inh eritance of my fath ers." And he lay down on his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no food.

nkjv@1Kings:21:6 @ He said to h er, "Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite, and said to him, "Give me your vineyard for money; or else, if it pleases you, I will give you anoth er vineyard for it.' And he answ ered, "I will not give you my vineyard."'

nkjv@1Kings:21:7 @ Then Jezebel his wife said to him, "You now ex ercise authority ov er Israel! Arise, eat food, and let your heart be che erful; I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite."

nkjv@1Kings:21:8 @ And she wrote lett ers in Ahab's name, sealed them with his seal, and sent the lett ers to the eld ers and the nobles who w ere dwelling in the city with Naboth.

nkjv@1Kings:21:9 @ She wrote in the lett ers, saying, 4 Proclaim a fast, and seat Naboth with high honor among the people;

nkjv@1Kings:21:11 @ So the men of his city, the eld ers and nobles who w ere inhabitants of his city, did as Jezebel had sent to them, as it was written in the lett ers which she had sent to them.

nkjv@1Kings:21:18 @ "Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who lives in Samaria. Th ere he is, in the vineyard of Naboth, wh ere he has gone down to take possession of it.

nkjv@1Kings:21:19 @ You shall speak to him, saying, "Thus says the LORD: "Have you murd ered and also taken possession?"' And you shall speak to him, saying, "Thus says the LORD: "In the place wh ere dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs shall lick your blood, even yours.""'

nkjv@1Kings:21:20 @ So Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you found me, O my enemy?" And he answ ered, "I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do evil in the sight of the LORD:

nkjv@1Kings:21:21 @ "Behold, I will bring calamity on you. I will take away your post erity, and will cut off from Ahab ev ery male in Israel, both bond and free.

nkjv@1Kings:21:22 @ I will make your house like the house of J eroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, because of the provocation with which you have provoked Me to ang er, and made Israel sin.'

nkjv@1Kings:21:23 @ And conc erning Jezebel the LORD also spoke, saying, "The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.'

nkjv@1Kings:21:24 @ The dogs shall eat whoev er belongs to Ahab and dies in the city, and the birds of the air shall eat whoev er dies in the field."

nkjv@1Kings:21:25 @ But th ere was no one like Ahab who sold himself to do wickedness in the sight of the LORD, because Jezebel his wife stirred him up.

nkjv@1Kings:21:26 @ And he behaved v ery abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites had done, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.

nkjv@1Kings:22:3 @ And the king of Israel said to his s ervants, "Do you know that Ramoth in Gilead is ours, but we hesitate to take it out of the hand of the king of Syria?"

nkjv@1Kings:22:6 @ Then the king of Israel gath ered the prophets togeth er, about four hundred men, and said to them, "Shall I go against Ramoth Gilead to fight, or shall I refrain?" So they said, "Go up, for the Lord will deliv er it into the hand of the king."

nkjv@1Kings:22:7 @ And Jehoshaphat said, "Is th ere not still a prophet of the LORD h ere, that we may inquire of Him?"

nkjv@1Kings:22:8 @ So the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "Th ere is still one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may inquire of the LORD; but I hate him, because he does not prophesy good conc erning me, but evil." And Jehoshaphat said, "Let not the king say such things!"

nkjv@1Kings:22:9 @ Then the king of Israel called an offic er and said, "Bring Micaiah the son of Imlah quickly!"

nkjv@1Kings:22:12 @ And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, "Go up to Ramoth Gilead and prosp er, for the LORD will deliv er it into the king's hand."

nkjv@1Kings:22:13 @ Then the messeng er who had gone to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, "Now listen, the words of the prophets with one accord encourage the king. Please, let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak encouragement."

nkjv@1Kings:22:14 @ And Micaiah said, "As the LORD lives, whatev er the LORD says to me, that I will speak."

nkjv@1Kings:22:15 @ Then he came to the king; and the king said to him, "Micaiah, shall we go to war against Ramoth Gilead, or shall we refrain?" And he answ ered him, "Go and prosp er, for the LORD will deliv er it into the hand of the king!"

nkjv@1Kings:22:17 @ Then he said, "I saw all Israel scatt ered on the mountains, as sheep that have no sheph erd. And the LORD said, "These have no mast er. Let each return to his house in peace."'

nkjv@1Kings:22:18 @ And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "Did I not tell you he would not prophesy good conc erning me, but evil?"

nkjv@1Kings:22:19 @ Then Micaiah said, "Th erefore hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing by, on His right hand and on His left.

nkjv@1Kings:22:20 @ And the LORD said, "Who will p ersuade Ahab to go up, that he may fall at Ramoth Gilead?' So one spoke in this mann er, and anoth er spoke in that mann er.

nkjv@1Kings:22:21 @ Then a spirit came forward and stood before the LORD, and said, "I will p ersuade him.'

nkjv@1Kings:22:22 @ The LORD said to him, "In what way?' So he said, "I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' And the LORD said, "You shall p ersuade him, and also prevail. Go out and do so.'

nkjv@1Kings:22:23 @ Th erefore look! The LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these prophets of yours, and the LORD has declared disast er against you."

nkjv@1Kings:22:25 @ And Micaiah said, "Indeed, you shall see on that day when you go into an inn er chamb er to hide!"

nkjv@1Kings:22:26 @ So the king of Israel said, "Take Micaiah, and return him to Amon the gov ernor of the city and to Joash the king's son;

nkjv@1Kings:22:27 @ and say, "Thus says the king: "Put this fellow in prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and wat er of affliction, until I come in peace.""'

nkjv@1Kings:22:28 @ But Micaiah said, "If you ev er return in peace, the LORD has not spoken by me." And he said, "Take heed, all you people!"

nkjv@1Kings:22:32 @ So it was, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, "Surely it is the king of Israel!" Th erefore they turned aside to fight against him, and Jehoshaphat cried out.

nkjv@1Kings:22:34 @ Now a c ertain man drew a bow at random, and struck the king of Israel between the joints of his armor. So he said to the driv er of his chariot, "Turn around and take me out of the battle, for I am wounded."

nkjv@1Kings:22:36 @ Then, as the sun was going down, a shout went throughout the army, saying, "Ev ery man to his city, and ev ery man to his own country!"

nkjv@1Kings:22:40 @ So Ahab rested with his fath ers. Then Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.

nkjv@1Kings:22:41 @ Jehoshaphat the son of Asa had become king ov er Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.

nkjv@1Kings:22:42 @ Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-five years in J erusalem. His moth er's name was Azubah the daught er of Shilhi.

nkjv@1Kings:22:43 @ And he walked in all the ways of his fath er Asa. He did not turn aside from them, doing what was right in the eyes of the LORD. Nev ertheless the high places w ere not taken away, for the people off ered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places.

nkjv@1Kings:22:46 @ And the rest of the p erv erted p ersons, who remained in the days of his fath er Asa, he banished from the land.

nkjv@1Kings:22:47 @ Th ere was then no king in Edom, only a deputy of the king.

nkjv@1Kings:22:48 @ Jehoshaphat made m erchant ships to go to Ophir for gold; but they nev er sailed, for the ships w ere wrecked at Ezion Geb er.

nkjv@1Kings:22:49 @ Then Ahaziah the son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, "Let my s ervants go with your s ervants in the ships." But Jehoshaphat would not.

nkjv@1Kings:22:50 @ And Jehoshaphat rested with his fath ers, and was buried with his fath ers in the City of David his fath er. Then Jehoram his son reigned in his place.

nkjv@1Kings:22:51 @ Ahaziah the son of Ahab became king ov er Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned two years ov er Israel.

nkjv@1Kings:22:52 @ He did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his fath er and in the way of his moth er and in the way of J eroboam the son of Nebat, who had made Israel sin;

nkjv@1Kings:22:53 @ for he s erved Baal and worshiped him, and provoked the LORD God of Israel to ang er, according to all that his fath er had done.

nkjv@2Kings:1:1 @ Moab rebelled against Israel aft er the death of Ahab.

nkjv@2Kings:1:2 @ Now Ahaziah fell through the lattice of his upp er room in Samaria, and was injured; so he sent messeng ers and said to them, "Go, inquire of Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron, wheth er I shall recov er from this injury."

nkjv@2Kings:1:3 @ But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, "Arise, go up to meet the messeng ers of the king of Samaria, and say to them, "Is it because th ere is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron?'

nkjv@2Kings:1:4 @ Now th erefore, thus says the LORD: "You shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up, but you shall surely die."' So Elijah departed.

nkjv@2Kings:1:5 @ And when the messeng ers returned to him, he said to them, "Why have you come back?"

nkjv@2Kings:1:6 @ So they said to him, "A man came up to meet us, and said to us, "Go, return to the king who sent you, and say to him, "Thus says the LORD: "Is it because th ere is no God in Israel that you are sending to inquire of Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron? Th erefore you shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up, but you shall surely die."""

nkjv@2Kings:1:8 @ So they answ ered him, "A hairy man wearing a leath er belt around his waist." And he said, "It is Elijah the Tishbite."

nkjv@2Kings:1:9 @ Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty men. So he went up to him; and th ere he was, sitting on the top of a hill. And he spoke to him: "Man of God, the king has said, "Come down!"'

nkjv@2Kings:1:10 @ So Elijah answ ered and said to the captain of fifty, "If I am a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men." And fire came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.

nkjv@2Kings:1:11 @ Then he sent to him anoth er captain of fifty with his fifty men. And he answ ered and said to him: "Man of God, thus has the king said, "Come down quickly!"'

nkjv@2Kings:1:12 @ So Elijah answ ered and said to them, "If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men." And the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.

nkjv@2Kings:1:13 @ Again, he sent a third captain of fifty with his fifty men. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and pleaded with him, and said to him: "Man of God, please let my life and the life of these fifty s ervants of yours be precious in your sight.

nkjv@2Kings:1:16 @ Then he said to him, "Thus says the LORD: "Because you have sent messeng ers to inquire of Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron, is it because th ere is no God in Israel to inquire of His word? Th erefore you shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up, but you shall surely die."'

nkjv@2Kings:2:2 @ Then Elijah said to Elisha, "Stay h ere, please, for the LORD has sent me on to Bethel." But Elisha said, "As the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you!" So they went down to Bethel.

nkjv@2Kings:2:3 @ Now the sons of the prophets who w ere at Bethel came out to Elisha, and said to him, "Do you know that the LORD will take away your mast er from ov er you today?" And he said, "Yes, I know; keep silent!"

nkjv@2Kings:2:4 @ Then Elijah said to him, "Elisha, stay h ere, please, for the LORD has sent me on to J ericho." But he said, "As the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you!" So they came to J ericho.

nkjv@2Kings:2:5 @ Now the sons of the prophets who w ere at J ericho came to Elisha and said to him, "Do you know that the LORD will take away your mast er from ov er you today?" So he answ ered, "Yes, I know; keep silent!"

nkjv@2Kings:2:6 @ Then Elijah said to him, "Stay h ere, please, for the LORD has sent me on to the Jordan." But he said, "As the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you!" So the two of them went on.

nkjv@2Kings:2:8 @ Now Elijah took his mantle, rolled it up, and struck the wat er; and it was divided this way and that, so that the two of them crossed ov er on dry ground.

nkjv@2Kings:2:9 @ And so it was, when they had crossed ov er, that Elijah said to Elisha, "Ask! What may I do for you, before I am taken away from you?" Elisha said, "Please let a double portion of your spirit be upon me."

nkjv@2Kings:2:10 @ So he said, "You have asked a hard thing. Nev ertheless, if you see me when I am taken from you, it shall be so for you; but if not, it shall not be so."

nkjv@2Kings:2:12 @ And Elisha saw it, and he cried out, "My fath er, my fath er, the chariot of Israel and its horsemen!" So he saw him no more. And he took hold of his own clothes and tore them into two pieces.

nkjv@2Kings:2:14 @ Then he took the mantle of Elijah that had fallen from him, and struck the wat er, and said, "Wh ere is the LORD God of Elijah?" And when he also had struck the wat er, it was divided this way and that; and Elisha crossed ov er.

nkjv@2Kings:2:15 @ Now when the sons of the prophets who w ere from J ericho saw him, they said, "The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha." And they came to meet him, and bowed to the ground before him.

nkjv@2Kings:2:16 @ Then they said to him, "Look now, th ere are fifty strong men with your s ervants. Please let them go and search for your mast er, lest p erhaps the Spirit of the LORD has taken him up and cast him upon some mountain or into some valley." And he said, "You shall not send anyone."

nkjv@2Kings:2:17 @ But when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, "Send them!" Th erefore they sent fifty men, and they searched for three days but did not find him.

nkjv@2Kings:2:18 @ And when they came back to him, for he had stayed in J ericho, he said to them, "Did I not say to you, "Do not go'?"

nkjv@2Kings:2:19 @ Then the men of the city said to Elisha, "Please notice, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees; but the wat er is bad, and the ground barren."

nkjv@2Kings:2:21 @ Then he went out to the source of the wat er, and cast in the salt th ere, and said, "Thus says the LORD: "I have healed this wat er; from it th ere shall be no more death or barrenness."'

nkjv@2Kings:2:22 @ So the wat er remains healed to this day, according to the word of Elisha which he spoke.

nkjv@2Kings:2:23 @ Then he went up from th ere to Bethel; and as he was going up the road, some youths came from the city and mocked him, and said to him, "Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!"

nkjv@2Kings:2:25 @ Then he went from th ere to Mount Carmel, and from th ere he returned to Samaria.

nkjv@2Kings:3:1 @ Now Jehoram the son of Ahab became king ov er Israel at Samaria in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years.

nkjv@2Kings:3:2 @ And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, but not like his fath er and moth er; for he put away the sacred pillar of Baal that his fath er had made.

nkjv@2Kings:3:3 @ Nev ertheless he p ersisted in the sins of J eroboam the son of Nebat, who had made Israel sin; he did not depart from them.

nkjv@2Kings:3:4 @ Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheepbreed er, and he regularly paid the king of Israel one hundred thousand lambs and the wool of one hundred thousand rams.

nkjv@2Kings:3:6 @ So King Jehoram went out of Samaria at that time and must ered all Israel.

nkjv@2Kings:3:8 @ Then he said, "Which way shall we go up?" And he answ ered, "By way of the Wild erness of Edom."

nkjv@2Kings:3:9 @ So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom, and they marched on that roundabout route seven days; and th ere was no wat er for the army, nor for the animals that followed them.

nkjv@2Kings:3:10 @ And the king of Israel said, "Alas! For the LORD has called these three kings togeth er to deliv er them into the hand of Moab."

nkjv@2Kings:3:11 @ But Jehoshaphat said, "Is th ere no prophet of the LORD h ere, that we may inquire of the LORD by him?" So one of the s ervants of the king of Israel answ ered and said, "Elisha the son of Shaphat is h ere, who poured wat er on the hands of Elijah."

nkjv@2Kings:3:13 @ Then Elisha said to the king of Israel, "What have I to do with you? Go to the prophets of your fath er and the prophets of your moth er." But the king of Israel said to him, "No, for the LORD has called these three kings togeth er to deliv er them into the hand of Moab."

nkjv@2Kings:3:14 @ And Elisha said, "As the LORD of hosts lives, before whom I stand, surely w ere it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, I would not look at you, nor see you.

nkjv@2Kings:3:17 @ For thus says the LORD: "You shall not see wind, nor shall you see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with wat er, so that you, your cattle, and your animals may drink.'

nkjv@2Kings:3:18 @ And this is a simple matt er in the sight of the LORD; He will also deliv er the Moabites into your hand.

nkjv@2Kings:3:19 @ Also you shall attack ev ery fortified city and ev ery choice city, and shall cut down ev ery good tree, and stop up ev ery spring of wat er, and ruin ev ery good piece of land with stones."

nkjv@2Kings:3:20 @ Now it happened in the morning, when the grain off ering was off ered, that suddenly wat er came by way of Edom, and the land was filled with wat er.

nkjv@2Kings:3:21 @ And when all the Moabites heard that the kings had come up to fight against them, all who w ere able to bear arms and old er w ere gath ered; and they stood at the bord er.

nkjv@2Kings:3:22 @ Then they rose up early in the morning, and the sun was shining on the wat er; and the Moabites saw the wat er on the oth er side as red as blood.

nkjv@2Kings:3:23 @ And they said, "This is blood; the kings have surely struck swords and have killed one anoth er; now th erefore, Moab, to the spoil!"

nkjv@2Kings:3:24 @ So when they came to the camp of Israel, Israel rose up and attacked the Moabites, so that they fled before them; and they ent ered their land, killing the Moabites.

nkjv@2Kings:3:25 @ Then they destroyed the cities, and each man threw a stone on ev ery good piece of land and filled it; and they stopped up all the springs of wat er and cut down all the good trees. But they left the stones of Kir Haraseth intact. Howev er the sling ers surrounded and attacked it.

nkjv@2Kings:3:26 @ And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too fi erce for him, he took with him seven hundred men who drew swords, to break through to the king of Edom, but they could not.

nkjv@2Kings:3:27 @ Then he took his eldest son who would have reigned in his place, and off ered him as a burnt off ering upon the wall; and th ere was great indignation against Israel. So they departed from him and returned to their own land.

nkjv@2Kings:4:1 @ A c ertain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, "Your s ervant my husband is dead, and you know that your s ervant feared the LORD. And the creditor is coming to take my two sons to be his slaves."

nkjv@2Kings:4:2 @ So Elisha said to h er, "What shall I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?" And she said, "Your maids ervant has nothing in the house but a jar of oil."

nkjv@2Kings:4:3 @ Then he said, "Go, borrow vessels from ev erywh ere, from all your neighbors--empty vessels; do not gath er just a few.

nkjv@2Kings:4:5 @ So she went from him and shut the door behind h er and h er sons, who brought the vessels to h er; and she poured it out.

nkjv@2Kings:4:6 @ Now it came to pass, when the vessels w ere full, that she said to h er son, "Bring me anoth er vessel." And he said to h er, "Th ere is not anoth er vessel." So the oil ceased.

nkjv@2Kings:4:8 @ Now it happened one day that Elisha went to Shunem, wh ere th ere was a notable woman, and she p ersuaded him to eat some food. So it was, as often as he passed by, he would turn in th ere to eat some food.

nkjv@2Kings:4:9 @ And she said to h er husband, "Look now, I know that this is a holy man of God, who passes by us regularly.

nkjv@2Kings:4:10 @ Please, let us make a small upp er room on the wall; and let us put a bed for him th ere, and a table and a chair and a lampstand; so it will be, whenev er he comes to us, he can turn in th ere."

nkjv@2Kings:4:11 @ And it happened one day that he came th ere, and he turned in to the upp er room and lay down th ere.

nkjv@2Kings:4:12 @ Then he said to Gehazi his s ervant, "Call this Shunammite woman." When he had called h er, she stood before him.

nkjv@2Kings:4:13 @ And he said to him, "Say now to h er, "Look, you have been conc erned for us with all this care. What can I do for you? Do you want me to speak on your behalf to the king or to the command er of the army?"' She answ ered, "I dwell among my own people."

nkjv@2Kings:4:14 @ So he said, "What then is to be done for h er?" And Gehazi answ ered, "Actually, she has no son, and h er husband is old."

nkjv@2Kings:4:15 @ So he said, "Call h er." When he had called h er, she stood in the doorway.

nkjv@2Kings:4:16 @ Then he said, "About this time next year you shall embrace a son." And she said, "No, my lord. Man of God, do not lie to your maids ervant!"

nkjv@2Kings:4:17 @ But the woman conceived, and bore a son when the appointed time had come, of which Elisha had told h er.

nkjv@2Kings:4:18 @ And the child grew. Now it happened one day that he went out to his fath er, to the reap ers.

nkjv@2Kings:4:19 @ And he said to his fath er, "My head, my head!" So he said to a s ervant, "Carry him to his moth er."

nkjv@2Kings:4:20 @ When he had taken him and brought him to his moth er, he sat on h er knees till noon, and then died.

nkjv@2Kings:4:22 @ Then she called to h er husband, and said, "Please send me one of the young men and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God and come back."

nkjv@2Kings:4:23 @ So he said, "Why are you going to him today? It is neith er the New Moon nor the Sabbath." And she said, "It is well."

nkjv@2Kings:4:24 @ Then she saddled a donkey, and said to h er s ervant, "Drive, and go forward; do not slacken the pace for me unless I tell you."

nkjv@2Kings:4:25 @ And so she departed, and went to the man of God at Mount Carmel. So it was, when the man of God saw h er afar off, that he said to his s ervant Gehazi, "Look, the Shunammite woman!

nkjv@2Kings:4:26 @ Please run now to meet h er, and say to h er, "Is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with the child?"' And she answ ered, "It is well."

nkjv@2Kings:4:27 @ Now when she came to the man of God at the hill, she caught him by the feet, but Gehazi came near to push h er away. But the man of God said, "Let h er alone; for h er soul is in deep distress, and the LORD has hidden it from me, and has not told me."

nkjv@2Kings:4:29 @ Then he said to Gehazi, "Get yourself ready, and take my staff in your hand, and be on your way. If you meet anyone, do not greet him; and if anyone greets you, do not answ er him; but lay my staff on the face of the child."

nkjv@2Kings:4:30 @ And the moth er of the child said, "As the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you." So he arose and followed h er.

nkjv@2Kings:4:31 @ Now Gehazi went on ahead of them, and laid the staff on the face of the child; but th ere was neith er voice nor hearing. Th erefore he went back to meet him, and told him, saying, "The child has not awakened."

nkjv@2Kings:4:32 @ When Elisha came into the house, th ere was the child, lying dead on his bed.

nkjv@2Kings:4:33 @ He went in th erefore, shut the door behind the two of them, and prayed to the LORD.

nkjv@2Kings:4:36 @ And he called Gehazi and said, "Call this Shunammite woman." So he called h er. And when she came in to him, he said, "Pick up your son."

nkjv@2Kings:4:37 @ So she went in, fell at his feet, and bowed to the ground; then she picked up h er son and went out.

nkjv@2Kings:4:38 @ And Elisha returned to Gilgal, and th ere was a famine in the land. Now the sons of the prophets w ere sitting before him; and he said to his s ervant, "Put on the large pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets."

nkjv@2Kings:4:39 @ So one went out into the field to gath er h erbs, and found a wild vine, and gath ered from it a lapful of wild gourds, and came and sliced them into the pot of stew, though they did not know what they w ere.

nkjv@2Kings:4:40 @ Then they s erved it to the men to eat. Now it happened, as they w ere eating the stew, that they cried out and said, "Man of God, th ere is death in the pot!" And they could not eat it.

nkjv@2Kings:4:41 @ So he said, "Then bring some flour." And he put it into the pot, and said, "S erve it to the people, that they may eat." And th ere was nothing harmful in the pot.

nkjv@2Kings:4:43 @ But his s ervant said, "What? Shall I set this before one hundred men?" He said again, "Give it to the people, that they may eat; for thus says the LORD: "They shall eat and have some left ov er."'

nkjv@2Kings:4:44 @ So he set it before them; and they ate and had some left ov er, according to the word of the LORD.

nkjv@2Kings:5:1 @ Now Naaman, command er of the army of the king of Syria, was a great and honorable man in the eyes of his mast er, because by him the LORD had given victory to Syria. He was also a mighty man of valor, but a lep er.

nkjv@2Kings:5:3 @ Then she said to h er mistress, "If only my mast er w ere with the prophet who is in Samaria! For he would heal him of his leprosy."

nkjv@2Kings:5:4 @ And Naaman went in and told his mast er, saying, "Thus and thus said the girl who is from the land of Israel."

nkjv@2Kings:5:5 @ Then the king of Syria said, "Go now, and I will send a lett er to the king of Israel." So he departed and took with him ten talents of silv er, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten changes of clothing.

nkjv@2Kings:5:6 @ Then he brought the lett er to the king of Israel, which said, 4 Now be advised, when this lett er comes to you, that I have sent Naaman my s ervant to you, that you may heal him of his leprosy.

nkjv@2Kings:5:7 @ And it happened, when the king of Israel read the lett er, that he tore his clothes and said, "Am I God, to kill and make alive, that this man sends a man to me to heal him of his leprosy? Th erefore please consid er, and see how he seeks a quarrel with me."

nkjv@2Kings:5:8 @ So it was, when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, "Why have you torn your clothes? Please let him come to me, and he shall know that th ere is a prophet in Israel."

nkjv@2Kings:5:10 @ And Elisha sent a messeng er to him, saying, "Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored to you, and you shall be clean."

nkjv@2Kings:5:11 @ But Naaman became furious, and went away and said, "Indeed, I said to myself, "He will surely come out to me, and stand and call on the name of the LORD his God, and wave his hand ov er the place, and heal the leprosy.'

nkjv@2Kings:5:12 @ Are not the Abanah and the Pharpar, the riv ers of Damascus, bett er than all the wat ers of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be clean?" So he turned and went away in a rage.

nkjv@2Kings:5:13 @ And his s ervants came near and spoke to him, and said, "My fath er, if the prophet had told you to do something great, would you not have done it? How much more then, when he says to you, "Wash, and be clean'?"

nkjv@2Kings:5:15 @ And he returned to the man of God, he and all his aides, and came and stood before him; and he said, "Indeed, now I know that th ere is no God in all the earth, except in Israel; now th erefore, please take a gift from your s ervant."

nkjv@2Kings:5:17 @ So Naaman said, "Then, if not, please let your s ervant be given two mule-loads of earth; for your s ervant will no long er off er eith er burnt off ering or sacrifice to oth er gods, but to the LORD.

nkjv@2Kings:5:18 @ Yet in this thing may the LORD pardon your s ervant: when my mast er goes into the temple of Rimmon to worship th ere, and he leans on my hand, and I bow down in the temple of Rimmon--when I bow down in the temple of Rimmon, may the LORD please pardon your s ervant in this thing."

nkjv@2Kings:5:20 @ But Gehazi, the s ervant of Elisha the man of God, said, "Look, my mast er has spared Naaman this Syrian, while not receiving from his hands what he brought; but as the LORD lives, I will run aft er him and take something from him."

nkjv@2Kings:5:21 @ So Gehazi pursued Naaman. When Naaman saw him running aft er him, he got down from the chariot to meet him, and said, "Is all well?"

nkjv@2Kings:5:22 @ And he said, "All is well. My mast er has sent me, saying, "Indeed, just now two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the mountains of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silv er and two changes of garments."'

nkjv@2Kings:5:23 @ So Naaman said, "Please, take two talents." And he urged him, and bound two talents of silv er in two bags, with two changes of garments, and handed them to two of his s ervants; and they carried them on ahead of him.

nkjv@2Kings:5:25 @ Now he went in and stood before his mast er. Elisha said to him, "Wh ere did you go, Gehazi?" And he said, "Your s ervant did not go anywh ere."

nkjv@2Kings:5:26 @ Then he said to him, "Did not my heart go with you when the man turned back from his chariot to meet you? Is it time to receive money and to receive clothing, olive groves and vineyards, sheep and oxen, male and female s ervants?

nkjv@2Kings:5:27 @ Th erefore the leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you and your descendants forev er." And he went out from his presence leprous, as white as snow.

nkjv@2Kings:6:1 @ And the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, "See now, the place wh ere we dwell with you is too small for us.

nkjv@2Kings:6:2 @ Please, let us go to the Jordan, and let ev ery man take a beam from th ere, and let us make th ere a place wh ere we may dwell." So he answ ered, "Go."

nkjv@2Kings:6:3 @ Then one said, "Please consent to go with your s ervants." And he answ ered, "I will go."

nkjv@2Kings:6:5 @ But as one was cutting down a tree, the iron ax head fell into the wat er; and he cried out and said, "Alas, mast er! For it was borrowed."

nkjv@2Kings:6:6 @ So the man of God said, "Wh ere did it fall?" And he showed him the place. So he cut off a stick, and threw it in th ere; and he made the iron float.

nkjv@2Kings:6:7 @ Th erefore he said, "Pick it up for yourself." So he reached out his hand and took it.

nkjv@2Kings:6:8 @ Now the king of Syria was making war against Israel; and he consulted with his s ervants, saying, "My camp will be in such and such a place."

nkjv@2Kings:6:9 @ And the man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying, "Beware that you do not pass this place, for the Syrians are coming down th ere."

nkjv@2Kings:6:10 @ Then the king of Israel sent someone to the place of which the man of God had told him. Thus he warned him, and he was watchful th ere, not just once or twice.

nkjv@2Kings:6:11 @ Th erefore the heart of the king of Syria was greatly troubled by this thing; and he called his s ervants and said to them, "Will you not show me which of us is for the king of Israel?"

nkjv@2Kings:6:12 @ And one of his s ervants said, "None, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom."

nkjv@2Kings:6:13 @ So he said, "Go and see wh ere he is, that I may send and get him." And it was told him, saying, "Surely he is in Dothan."

nkjv@2Kings:6:14 @ Th erefore he sent horses and chariots and a great army th ere, and they came by night and surrounded the city.

nkjv@2Kings:6:15 @ And when the s ervant of the man of God arose early and went out, th ere was an army, surrounding the city with horses and chariots. And his s ervant said to him, "Alas, my mast er! What shall we do?"

nkjv@2Kings:6:16 @ So he answ ered, "Do not fear, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them."

nkjv@2Kings:6:20 @ So it was, when they had come to 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 th ere they w ere, inside Samaria!

nkjv@2Kings:6:21 @ Now when the king of Israel saw them, he said to Elisha, "My fath er, shall I kill them? Shall I kill them?"

nkjv@2Kings:6:22 @ But he answ ered, "You shall not kill them. Would you kill those whom you have taken captive with your sword and your bow? Set food and wat er before them, that they may eat and drink and go to their mast er."

nkjv@2Kings:6:23 @ Then he prepared a great feast for them; and aft er they ate and drank, he sent them away and they went to their mast er. So the bands of Syrian raid ers came no more into the land of Israel.

nkjv@2Kings:6:24 @ And it happened aft er this that Ben-Hadad king of Syria gath ered all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria.

nkjv@2Kings:6:25 @ And th ere was a great famine in Samaria; and indeed they besieged it until a donkey's head was sold for eighty shekels of silv er, and one-fourth of a kab of dove droppings for five shekels of silv er.

nkjv@2Kings:6:27 @ And he said, "If the LORD does not help you, wh ere can I find help for you? From the threshing floor or from the winepress?"

nkjv@2Kings:6:28 @ Then the king said to h er, "What is troubling you?" And she answ ered, "This woman said to me, "Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.'

nkjv@2Kings:6:29 @ So we boiled my son, and ate him. And I said to h er on the next day, "Give your son, that we may eat him'; but she has hidden h er son."

nkjv@2Kings:6:30 @ Now it happened, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he tore his clothes; and as he passed by on the wall, the people looked, and th ere und erneath he had sackcloth on his body.

nkjv@2Kings:6:32 @ But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the eld ers w ere sitting with him. And the king sent a man ahead of him, but before the messeng er came to him, he said to the eld ers, "Do you see how this son of a murd er er has sent someone to take away my head? Look, when the messeng er comes, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door. Is not the sound of his mast er's feet behind him?"

nkjv@2Kings:6:33 @ And while he was still talking with them, th ere was the messeng er, coming down to him; and then the king said, "Surely this calamity is from the LORD; why should I wait for the LORD any long er?"

nkjv@2Kings:7:2 @ So an offic er on whose hand the king leaned answ ered the man of God and said, "Look, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, could this thing be?" And he said, "In fact, you shall see it with your eyes, but you shall not eat of it."

nkjv@2Kings:7:3 @ Now th ere w ere four leprous men at the entrance of the gate; and they said to one anoth er, "Why are we sitting h ere until we die?

nkjv@2Kings:7:4 @ If we say, "We will ent er the city,' the famine is in the city, and we shall die th ere. And if we sit h ere, we die also. Now th erefore, come, let us surrend er to the army of the Syrians. If they keep us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall only die."

nkjv@2Kings:7:5 @ And they rose at twilight to go to the camp of the Syrians; and when they had come to the outskirts of the Syrian camp, to their surprise no one was th ere.

nkjv@2Kings:7:6 @ For the LORD had caused the army of the Syrians to hear the noise of chariots and the noise of horses--the noise of a great army; so they said to one anoth er, "Look, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians to attack us!"

nkjv@2Kings:7:7 @ Th erefore they arose and fled at twilight, and left the camp intact--their tents, their horses, and their donkeys--and they fled for their lives.

nkjv@2Kings:7:8 @ And when these lep ers came to the outskirts of the camp, they went into one tent and ate and drank, and carried from it silv er and gold and clothing, and went and hid them; then they came back and ent ered anoth er tent, and carried some from th ere also, and went and hid it.

nkjv@2Kings:7:9 @ Then they said to one anoth er, "We are not doing right. This day is a day of good news, and we remain silent. If we wait until morning light, some punishment will come upon us. Now th erefore, come, let us go and tell the king's household."

nkjv@2Kings:7:10 @ So they went and called to the gatekeep ers of the city, and told them, saying, "We went to the Syrian camp, and surprisingly no one was th ere, not a human sound--only horses and donkeys tied, and the tents intact."

nkjv@2Kings:7:11 @ And the gatekeep ers called out, and they told it to the king's household inside.

nkjv@2Kings:7:12 @ So the king arose in the night and said to his s ervants, "Let me now tell you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry; th erefore they have gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, "When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city."'

nkjv@2Kings:7:13 @ And one of his s ervants answ ered and said, "Please, let sev eral men take five of the remaining horses which are left in the city. Look, they may eith er become like all the multitude of Israel that are left in it; or indeed, I say, they may become like all the multitude of Israel left from those who are consumed; so let us send them and see."

nkjv@2Kings:7:14 @ Th erefore they took two chariots with horses; and the king sent them in the direction of the Syrian army, saying, "Go and see."

nkjv@2Kings:7:15 @ And they went aft er them to the Jordan; and indeed all the road was full of garments and weapons which the Syrians had thrown away in their haste. So the messeng ers returned and told the king.

nkjv@2Kings:7:16 @ Then the people went out and plund ered the tents of the Syrians. So a seah of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.

nkjv@2Kings:7:17 @ Now the king had appointed the offic er on whose hand he leaned to have charge of the gate. But the people trampled him in the gate, and he died, just as the man of God had said, who spoke when the king came down to him.

nkjv@2Kings:7:19 @ Then that offic er had answ ered the man of God, and said, "Now look, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, could such a thing be?" And he had said, "In fact, you shall see it with your eyes, but you shall not eat of it."

nkjv@2Kings:8:1 @ Then Elisha spoke to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, "Arise and go, you and your household, and stay wh erev er you can; for the LORD has called for a famine, and furth ermore, it will come upon the land for seven years."

nkjv@2Kings:8:2 @ So the woman arose and did according to the saying of the man of God, and she went with h er household and dwelt in the land of the Philistines seven years.

nkjv@2Kings:8:3 @ It came to pass, at the end of seven years, that the woman returned from the land of the Philistines; and she went to make an appeal to the king for h er house and for h er land.

nkjv@2Kings:8:4 @ Then the king talked with Gehazi, the s ervant of the man of God, saying, "Tell me, please, all the great things Elisha has done."

nkjv@2Kings:8:5 @ Now it happened, as he was telling the king how he had restored the dead to life, that th ere was the woman whose son he had restored to life, appealing to the king for h er house and for h er land. And Gehazi said, "My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is h er son whom Elisha restored to life."

nkjv@2Kings:8:6 @ And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed a c ertain offic er for h er, saying, "Restore all that was h ers, and all the proceeds of the field from the day that she left the land until now."

nkjv@2Kings:8:7 @ Then Elisha went to Damascus, and Ben-Hadad king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, "The man of God has come h ere."

nkjv@2Kings:8:8 @ And the king said to Hazael, "Take a present in your hand, and go to meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD by him, saying, "Shall I recov er from this disease?"'

nkjv@2Kings:8:9 @ So Hazael went to meet him and took a present with him, of ev ery good thing of Damascus, forty camel-loads; and he came and stood before him, and said, "Your son Ben-Hadad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, "Shall I recov er from this disease?"'

nkjv@2Kings:8:10 @ And Elisha said to him, "Go, say to him, "You shall c ertainly recov er.' Howev er the LORD has shown me that he will really die."

nkjv@2Kings:8:12 @ And Hazael said, "Why is my lord weeping?" He answ ered, "Because I know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel: Their strongholds you will set on fire, and their young men you will kill with the sword; and you will dash their children, and rip open their women with child."

nkjv@2Kings:8:13 @ So Hazael said, "But what is your s ervant--a dog, that he should do this gross thing?" And Elisha answ ered, "The LORD has shown me that you will become king ov er Syria."

nkjv@2Kings:8:14 @ Then he departed from Elisha, and came to his mast er, who said to him, "What did Elisha say to you?" And he answ ered, "He told me you would surely recov er."

nkjv@2Kings:8:15 @ But it happened on the next day that he took a thick cloth and dipped it in wat er, and spread it ov er his face so that he died; and Hazael reigned in his place.

nkjv@2Kings:8:17 @ He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in J erusalem.

nkjv@2Kings:8:18 @ And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done, for the daught er of Ahab was his wife; and he did evil in the sight of the LORD.

nkjv@2Kings:8:19 @ Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah, for the sake of His s ervant David, as He promised him to give a lamp to him and his sons forev er.

nkjv@2Kings:8:20 @ In his days Edom revolted against Judah's authority, and made a king ov er themselves.

nkjv@2Kings:8:24 @ So Joram rested with his fath ers, and was buried with his fath ers in the City of David. Then Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.

nkjv@2Kings:8:26 @ Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in J erusalem. His moth er's name was Athaliah the granddaught er of Omri, king of Israel.

nkjv@2Kings:8:29 @ Then King Joram went back to Jezreel to recov er from the wounds which the Syrians had inflicted on him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.

nkjv@2Kings:9:2 @ Now when you arrive at that place, look th ere for Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi, and go in and make him rise up from among his associates, and take him to an inn er room.

nkjv@2Kings:9:3 @ Then take the flask of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, "Thus says the LORD: "I have anointed you king ov er Israel."' Then open the door and flee, and do not delay."

nkjv@2Kings:9:4 @ So the young man, the s ervant of the prophet, went to Ramoth Gilead.

nkjv@2Kings:9:5 @ And when he arrived, th ere w ere the captains of the army sitting; and he said, "I have a message for you, Command er." Jehu said, "For which one of us?" And he said, "For you, Command er."

nkjv@2Kings:9:6 @ Then he arose and went into the house. And he poured the oil on his head, and said to him, "Thus says the LORD God of Israel: "I have anointed you king ov er the people of the LORD, ov er Israel.

nkjv@2Kings:9:7 @ You shall strike down the house of Ahab your mast er, that I may avenge the blood of My s ervants the prophets, and the blood of all the s ervants of the LORD, at the hand of Jezebel.

nkjv@2Kings:9:8 @ For the whole house of Ahab shall p erish; and I will cut off from Ahab all the males in Israel, both bond and free.

nkjv@2Kings:9:9 @ So I will make the house of Ahab like the house of J eroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah.

nkjv@2Kings:9:10 @ The dogs shall eat Jezebel on the plot of ground at Jezreel, and th ere shall be none to bury h er."' And he opened the door and fled.

nkjv@2Kings:9:11 @ Then Jehu came out to the s ervants of his mast er, and one said to him, "Is all well? Why did this madman come to you?" And he said to them, "You know the man and his babble."

nkjv@2Kings:9:12 @ And they said, "A lie! Tell us now." So he said, "Thus and thus he spoke to me, saying, "Thus says the LORD: "I have anointed you king ov er Israel.""'

nkjv@2Kings:9:13 @ Then each man hastened to take his garment and put it und er him on the top of the steps; and they blew trumpets, saying, "Jehu is king!"

nkjv@2Kings:9:15 @ But King Joram had returned to Jezreel to recov er from the wounds which the Syrians had inflicted on him when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu said, "If you are so minded, let no one leave or escape from the city to go and tell it in Jezreel."

nkjv@2Kings:9:16 @ So Jehu rode in a chariot and went to Jezreel, for Joram was laid up th ere; and Ahaziah king of Judah had come down to see Joram.

nkjv@2Kings:9:17 @ Now a watchman stood on the tow er in Jezreel, and he saw the company of Jehu as he came, and said, "I see a company of men." And Joram said, "Get a horseman and send him to meet them, and let him say, "Is it peace?"'

nkjv@2Kings:9:18 @ So the horseman went to meet him, and said, "Thus says the king: "Is it peace?"' And Jehu said, "What have you to do with peace? Turn around and follow me." So the watchman reported, saying, "The messeng er went to them, but is not coming back."

nkjv@2Kings:9:19 @ Then he sent out a second horseman who came to them, and said, "Thus says the king: "Is it peace?"' And Jehu answ ered, "What have you to do with peace? Turn around and follow me."

nkjv@2Kings:9:21 @ Then Joram said, "Make ready." And his chariot was made ready. Then Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot; and they went out to meet Jehu, and met him on the prop erty of Naboth the Jezreelite.

nkjv@2Kings:9:22 @ Now it happened, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, "Is it peace, Jehu?" So he answ ered, "What peace, as long as the harlotries of your moth er Jezebel and h er witchcraft are so many?"

nkjv@2Kings:9:23 @ Then Joram turned around and fled, and said to Ahaziah, "Treach ery, Ahaziah!"

nkjv@2Kings:9:25 @ Then Jehu said to Bidkar his captain, "Pick him up, and throw him into the tract of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for rememb er, when you and I w ere riding togeth er behind Ahab his fath er, that the LORD laid this burden upon him:

nkjv@2Kings:9:26 @ "Surely I saw yest erday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons,' says the LORD, "and I will repay you in this plot,' says the LORD. Now th erefore, take and throw him on the plot of ground, according to the word of the LORD."

nkjv@2Kings:9:27 @ But when Ahaziah king of Judah saw this, he fled by the road to Beth Haggan. So Jehu pursued him, and said, "Shoot him also in the chariot." And they shot him at the Ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. Then he fled to Megiddo, and died th ere.

nkjv@2Kings:9:28 @ And his s ervants carried him in the chariot to J erusalem, and buried him in his tomb with his fath ers in the City of David.

nkjv@2Kings:9:29 @ In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab, Ahaziah had become king ov er Judah.

nkjv@2Kings:9:30 @ Now when Jehu had come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she put paint on h er eyes and adorned h er head, and looked through a window.

nkjv@2Kings:9:31 @ Then, as Jehu ent ered at the gate, she said, "Is it peace, Zimri, murd er er of your mast er?"

nkjv@2Kings:9:33 @ Then he said, "Throw h er down." So they threw h er down, and some of h er blood spatt ered on the wall and on the horses; and he trampled h er und erfoot.

nkjv@2Kings:9:34 @ And when he had gone in, he ate and drank. Then he said, "Go now, see to this accursed woman, and bury h er, for she was a king's daught er."

nkjv@2Kings:9:35 @ So they went to bury h er, but they found no more of h er than the skull and the feet and the palms of h er hands.

nkjv@2Kings:9:36 @ Th erefore they came back and told him. And he said, "This is the word of the LORD, which He spoke by His s ervant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, "On the plot of ground at Jezreel dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel;

nkjv@2Kings:9:37 @ and the corpse of Jezebel shall be as refuse on the surface of the field, in the plot at Jezreel, so that they shall not say, "H ere lies Jezebel.""'

nkjv@2Kings:10:1 @ Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote and sent lett ers to Samaria, to the rul ers of Jezreel, to the eld ers, and to those who reared Ahab's sons, saying:

nkjv@2Kings:10:2 @ Now as soon as this lett er comes to you, since your mast er's sons are with you, and you have chariots and horses, a fortified city also, and weapons,

nkjv@2Kings:10:3 @ choose the best qualified of your mast er's sons, set him on his fath er's throne, and fight for your mast er's house.

nkjv@2Kings:10:4 @ But they w ere exceedingly afraid, and said, "Look, two kings could not stand up to him; how then can we stand?"

nkjv@2Kings:10:5 @ And he who was in charge of the house, and he who was in charge of the city, the eld ers also, and those who reared the sons, sent to Jehu, saying, "We are your s ervants, we will do all you tell us; but we will not make anyone king. Do what is good in your sight."

nkjv@2Kings:10:6 @ Then he wrote a second lett er to them, saying: 4 If you are for me and will obey my voice, take the heads of the men, your mast er's sons, and come to me at Jezreel by this time tomorrow. Now the king's sons, seventy p ersons, w ere with the great men of the city, who w ere rearing them.

nkjv@2Kings:10:7 @ So it was, when the lett er came to them, that they took the king's sons and slaught ered seventy p ersons, put their heads in baskets and sent them to him at Jezreel.

nkjv@2Kings:10:8 @ Then a messeng er came and told him, saying, "They have brought the heads of the king's sons." And he said, "Lay them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until morning."

nkjv@2Kings:10:9 @ So it was, in the morning, that he went out and stood, and said to all the people, "You are righteous. Indeed I conspired against my mast er and killed him; but who killed all these?

nkjv@2Kings:10:10 @ Know now that nothing shall fall to the earth of the word of the LORD which the LORD spoke conc erning the house of Ahab; for the LORD has done what He spoke by His s ervant Elijah."

nkjv@2Kings:10:12 @ And he arose and departed and went to Samaria. On the way, at Beth Eked of the Sheph erds,

nkjv@2Kings:10:13 @ Jehu met with the broth ers of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, "Who are you?" So they answ ered, "We are the broth ers of Ahaziah; we have come down to greet the sons of the king and the sons of the queen moth er."

nkjv@2Kings:10:15 @ Now when he departed from th ere, he met Jehonadab the son of Rechab, coming to meet him; and he greeted him and said to him, "Is your heart right, as my heart is toward your heart?" And Jehonadab answ ered, "It is." Jehu said, "If it is, give me your hand." So he gave him his hand, and he took him up to him into the chariot.

nkjv@2Kings:10:18 @ Then Jehu gath ered all the people togeth er, and said to them, "Ahab s erved Baal a little, Jehu will s erve him much.

nkjv@2Kings:10:19 @ Now th erefore, call to me all the prophets of Baal, all his s ervants, and all his priests. Let no one be missing, for I have a great sacrifice for Baal. Whoev er is missing shall not live." But Jehu acted deceptively, with the intent of destroying the worship ers of Baal.

nkjv@2Kings:10:21 @ Then Jehu sent throughout all Israel; and all the worship ers of Baal came, so that th ere was not a man left who did not come. So they came into the temple of Baal, and the temple of Baal was full from one end to the oth er.

nkjv@2Kings:10:22 @ And he said to the one in charge of the wardrobe, "Bring out vestments for all the worship ers of Baal." So he brought out vestments for them.

nkjv@2Kings:10:23 @ Then Jehu and Jehonadab the son of Rechab went into the temple of Baal, and said to the worship ers of Baal, "Search and see that no s ervants of the LORD are h ere with you, but only the worship ers of Baal."

nkjv@2Kings:10:24 @ So they went in to off er sacrifices and burnt off erings. Now Jehu had appointed for himself eighty men on the outside, and had said, "If any of the men whom I have brought into your hands escapes, whoev er lets him escape, it shall be his life for the life of the oth er."

nkjv@2Kings:10:25 @ Now it happened, as soon as he had made an end of off ering the burnt off ering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, "Go in and kill them; let no one come out!" And they killed them with the edge of the sword; then the guards and the offic ers threw them out, and went into the inn er room of the temple of Baal.

nkjv@2Kings:10:29 @ Howev er Jehu did not turn away from the sins of J eroboam the son of Nebat, who had made Israel sin, that is, from the golden calves that w ere at Bethel and Dan.

nkjv@2Kings:10:30 @ And the LORD said to Jehu, "Because you have done well in doing what is right in My sight, and have done to the house of Ahab all that was in My heart, your sons shall sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth gen eration."

nkjv@2Kings:10:31 @ But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of Israel with all his heart; for he did not depart from the sins of J eroboam, who had made Israel sin.

nkjv@2Kings:10:32 @ In those days the LORD began to cut off parts of Israel; and Hazael conqu ered them in all the t erritory of Israel

nkjv@2Kings:10:33 @ from the Jordan eastward: all the land of Gilead--Gad, Reuben, and Manasseh--from Aro er, which is by the Riv er Arnon, including Gilead and Bashan.

nkjv@2Kings:10:35 @ So Jehu rested with his fath ers, and they buried him in Samaria. Then Jehoahaz his son reigned in his place.

nkjv@2Kings:10:36 @ And the p eriod that Jehu reigned ov er Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.

nkjv@2Kings:11:1 @ When Athaliah the moth er of Ahaziah saw that h er son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal heirs.

nkjv@2Kings:11:2 @ But Jehosheba, the daught er of King Joram, sist er of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king's sons who w ere being murd ered; and they hid him and his nurse in the bedroom, from Athaliah, so that he was not killed.

nkjv@2Kings:11:3 @ So he was hidden with h er in the house of the LORD for six years, while Athaliah reigned ov er the land.

nkjv@2Kings:11:5 @ Then he commanded them, saying, "This is what you shall do: One-third of you who come on duty on the Sabbath shall be keeping watch ov er the king's house,

nkjv@2Kings:11:8 @ But you shall surround the king on all sides, ev ery man with his weapons in his hand; and whoev er comes within range, let him be put to death. You are to be with the king as he goes out and as he comes in."

nkjv@2Kings:11:9 @ So the captains of the hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded. Each of them took his men who w ere to be on duty on the Sabbath, with those who w ere going off duty on the Sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.

nkjv@2Kings:11:10 @ And the priest gave the captains of hundreds the spears and shields which had belonged to King David, that w ere in the temple of the LORD.

nkjv@2Kings:11:11 @ Then the escorts stood, ev ery man with his weapons in his hand, all around the king, from the right side of the temple to the left side of the temple, by the altar and the house.

nkjv@2Kings:11:14 @ When she looked, th ere was the king standing by a pillar according to custom; and the lead ers and the trumpet ers w ere by the king. All the people of the land w ere rejoicing and blowing trumpets. So Athaliah tore h er clothes and cried out, "Treason! Treason!"

nkjv@2Kings:11:15 @ And Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the offic ers of the army, and said to them, "Take h er outside und er guard, and slay with the sword whoev er follows h er." For the priest had said, "Do not let h er be killed in the house of the LORD."

nkjv@2Kings:11:16 @ So they seized h er; and she went by way of the horses' entrance into the king's house, and th ere she was killed.

nkjv@2Kings:11:18 @ And all the people of the land went to the temple of Baal, and tore it down. They thoroughly broke in pieces its altars and images, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed offic ers ov er the house of the LORD.

nkjv@2Kings:12:1 @ In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash became king, and he reigned forty years in J erusalem. His moth er's name was Zibiah of Be ersheba.

nkjv@2Kings:12:3 @ But the high places w ere not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

nkjv@2Kings:12:5 @ let the priests take it themselves, each from his constituency; and let them repair the damages of the temple, wh erev er any dilapidation is found."

nkjv@2Kings:12:7 @ So King Jehoash called Jehoiada the priest and the oth er priests, and said to them, "Why have you not repaired the damages of the temple? Now th erefore, do not take more money from your constituency, but deliv er it for repairing the damages of the temple."

nkjv@2Kings:12:8 @ And the priests agreed that they would neith er receive more money from the people, nor repair the damages of the temple.

nkjv@2Kings:12:9 @ Then Jehoiada the priest took a chest, bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into the house of the LORD; and the priests who kept the door put th ere all the money brought into the house of the LORD.

nkjv@2Kings:12:10 @ So it was, whenev er they saw that th ere was much money in the chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest came up and put it in bags, and counted the money that was found in the house of the LORD.

nkjv@2Kings:12:11 @ Then they gave the money, which had been apportioned, into the hands of those who did the work, who had the ov ersight of the house of the LORD; and they paid it out to the carpent ers and build ers who worked on the house of the LORD,

nkjv@2Kings:12:12 @ and to masons and stonecutt ers, and for buying timb er and hewn stone, to repair the damage of the house of the LORD, and for all that was paid out to repair the temple.

nkjv@2Kings:12:13 @ Howev er th ere w ere not made for the house of the LORD basins of silv er, trimm ers, sprinkling-bowls, trumpets, any articles of gold or articles of silv er, from the money brought into the house of the LORD.

nkjv@2Kings:12:15 @ Moreov er they did not require an account from the men into whose hand they deliv ered the money to be paid to workmen, for they dealt faithfully.

nkjv@2Kings:12:16 @ The money from the trespass off erings and the money from the sin off erings was not brought into the house of the LORD. It belonged to the priests.

nkjv@2Kings:12:17 @ Hazael king of Syria went up and fought against Gath, and took it; then Hazael set his face to go up to J erusalem.

nkjv@2Kings:12:18 @ And Jehoash king of Judah took all the sacred things that his fath ers, Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own sacred things, and all the gold found in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and in the king's house, and sent them to Hazael king of Syria. Then he went away from J erusalem.

nkjv@2Kings:12:20 @ And his s ervants arose and formed a conspiracy, and killed Joash in the house of the Millo, which goes down to Silla.

nkjv@2Kings:12:21 @ For Jozachar the son of Shimeath and Jehozabad the son of Shom er, his s ervants, struck him. So he died, and they buried him with his fath ers in the City of David. Then Amaziah his son reigned in his place.

nkjv@2Kings:13:1 @ In the twenty-third year of Joash the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu became king ov er Israel in Samaria, and reigned seventeen years.

nkjv@2Kings:13:2 @ And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and followed the sins of J eroboam the son of Nebat, who had made Israel sin. He did not depart from them.

nkjv@2Kings:13:3 @ Then the ang er of the LORD was aroused against Israel, and He deliv ered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Ben-Hadad the son of Hazael, all their days.

nkjv@2Kings:13:5 @ Then the LORD gave Israel a deliv er er, so that they escaped from und er the hand of the Syrians; and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents as before.

nkjv@2Kings:13:6 @ Nev ertheless they did not depart from the sins of the house of J eroboam, who had made Israel sin, but walked in them; and the wooden image also remained in Samaria.

nkjv@2Kings:13:7 @ For He left of the army of Jehoahaz only fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldi ers; for the king of Syria had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.

nkjv@2Kings:13:9 @ So Jehoahaz rested with his fath ers, and they buried him in Samaria. Then Joash his son reigned in his place.

nkjv@2Kings:13:10 @ In the thirty-seventh year of Joash king of Judah, Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz became king ov er Israel in Samaria, and reigned sixteen years.

nkjv@2Kings:13:11 @ And he did evil in the sight of the LORD. He did not depart from all the sins of J eroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin, but walked in them.

nkjv@2Kings:13:13 @ So Joash rested with his fath ers. Then J eroboam sat on his throne. And Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.

nkjv@2Kings:13:14 @ Elisha had become sick with the illness of which he would die. Then Joash the king of Israel came down to him, and wept ov er his face, and said, "O my fath er, my fath er, the chariots of Israel and their horsemen!"

nkjv@2Kings:13:17 @ And he said, "Open the east window"; and he opened it. Then Elisha said, "Shoot"; and he shot. And he said, "The arrow of the LORD's deliv erance and the arrow of deliv erance from Syria; for you must strike the Syrians at Aphek till you have destroyed them."

nkjv@2Kings:13:21 @ So it was, as they w ere burying a man, that suddenly they spied a band of raid ers; and they put the man in the tomb of Elisha; and when the man was let down and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived and stood on his feet.

nkjv@2Kings:13:25 @ And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz recaptured from the hand of Ben-Hadad, the son of Hazael, the cities which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his fath er by war. Three times Joash defeated him and recaptured the cities of Israel.

nkjv@2Kings:14:2 @ He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in J erusalem. His moth er's name was Jehoaddan of J erusalem.

nkjv@2Kings:14:3 @ And he did what was right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like his fath er David; he did ev erything as his fath er Joash had done.

nkjv@2Kings:14:4 @ Howev er the high places w ere not taken away, and the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

nkjv@2Kings:14:5 @ Now it happened, as soon as the kingdom was established in his hand, that he executed his s ervants who had murd ered his fath er the king.

nkjv@2Kings:14:6 @ But the children of the murd er ers he did not execute, according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, in which the LORD commanded, saying, "Fath ers shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall children be put to death for their fath ers; but a p erson shall be put to death for his own sin."

nkjv@2Kings:14:8 @ Then Amaziah sent messeng ers to Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, "Come, let us face one anoth er in battle."

nkjv@2Kings:14:9 @ And Jehoash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, "The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, "Give your daught er to my son as wife'; and a wild beast that was in Lebanon passed by and trampled the thistle.

nkjv@2Kings:14:11 @ But Amaziah would not heed. Th erefore Jehoash king of Israel went out; so he and Amaziah king of Judah faced one anoth er at Beth Shemesh, which belongs to Judah.

nkjv@2Kings:14:12 @ And Judah was defeated by Israel, and ev ery man fled to his tent.

nkjv@2Kings:14:13 @ Then Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash, the son of Ahaziah, at Beth Shemesh; and he went to J erusalem, and broke down the wall of J erusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corn er Gate--four hundred cubits.

nkjv@2Kings:14:14 @ And he took all the gold and silv er, all the articles that w ere found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the king's house, and hostages, and returned to Samaria.

nkjv@2Kings:14:16 @ So Jehoash rested with his fath ers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. Then J eroboam his son reigned in his place.

nkjv@2Kings:14:17 @ Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, lived fifteen years aft er the death of Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel.

nkjv@2Kings:14:19 @ And they formed a conspiracy against him in J erusalem, and he fled to Lachish; but they sent aft er him to Lachish and killed him th ere.

nkjv@2Kings:14:20 @ Then they brought him on horses, and he was buried at J erusalem with his fath ers in the City of David.

nkjv@2Kings:14:21 @ And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his fath er Amaziah.

nkjv@2Kings:14:22 @ He built Elath and restored it to Judah, aft er the king rested with his fath ers.

nkjv@2Kings:14:23 @ In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, J eroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, became king in Samaria, and reigned forty-one years.

nkjv@2Kings:14:24 @ And he did evil in the sight of the LORD; he did not depart from all the sins of J eroboam the son of Nebat, who had made Israel sin.

nkjv@2Kings:14:25 @ He restored the t erritory of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word of the LORD God of Israel, which He had spoken through His s ervant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet who was from Gath Heph er.

nkjv@2Kings:14:26 @ For the LORD saw that the affliction of Israel was v ery bitt er; and wheth er bond or free, th ere was no help er for Israel.

nkjv@2Kings:14:27 @ And the LORD did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from und er heaven; but He saved them by the hand of J eroboam the son of Joash.

nkjv@2Kings:14:28 @ Now the rest of the acts of J eroboam, and all that he did--his might, how he made war, and how he recaptured for Israel, from Damascus and Hamath, what had belonged to Judah--are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

nkjv@2Kings:14:29 @ So J eroboam rested with his fath ers, the kings of Israel. Then Zechariah his son reigned in his place.

nkjv@2Kings:15:1 @ In the twenty-seventh year of J eroboam king of Israel, Azariah the son of Amaziah, king of Judah, became king.

nkjv@2Kings:15:2 @ He was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-two years in J erusalem. His moth er's name was Jecholiah of J erusalem.

nkjv@2Kings:15:3 @ And he did what was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fath er Amaziah had done,

nkjv@2Kings:15:4 @ except that the high places w ere not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

nkjv@2Kings:15:5 @ Then the LORD struck the king, so that he was a lep er until the day of his death; so he dwelt in an isolated house. And Jotham the king's son was ov er the royal house, judging the people of the land.

nkjv@2Kings:15:7 @ So Azariah rested with his fath ers, and they buried him with his fath ers in the City of David. Then Jotham his son reigned in his place.

nkjv@2Kings:15:8 @ In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah, Zechariah the son of J eroboam reigned ov er Israel in Samaria six months.

nkjv@2Kings:15:9 @ And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fath ers had done; he did not depart from the sins of J eroboam the son of Nebat, who had made Israel sin.

nkjv@2Kings:15:12 @ This was the word of the LORD which He spoke to Jehu, saying, "Your sons shall sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth gen eration." And so it was.

nkjv@2Kings:15:16 @ Then from Tirzah, Menahem attacked Tiphsah, all who w ere th ere, and its t erritory. Because they did not surrend er, th erefore he attacked it. All the women th ere who w ere with child he ripped open.

nkjv@2Kings:15:17 @ In the thirty-ninth year of Azariah king of Judah, Menahem the son of Gadi became king ov er Israel, and reigned ten years in Samaria.

nkjv@2Kings:15:18 @ And he did evil in the sight of the LORD; he did not depart all his days from the sins of J eroboam the son of Nebat, who had made Israel sin.

nkjv@2Kings:15:19 @ Pul king of Assyria came against the land; and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silv er, that his hand might be with him to strengthen the kingdom und er his control.

nkjv@2Kings:15:20 @ And Menahem exacted the money from Israel, from all the v ery wealthy, from each man fifty shekels of silv er, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and did not stay th ere in the land.

nkjv@2Kings:15:22 @ So Menahem rested with his fath ers. Then Pekahiah his son reigned in his place.

nkjv@2Kings:15:23 @ In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekahiah the son of Menahem became king ov er Israel in Samaria, and reigned two years.

nkjv@2Kings:15:24 @ And he did evil in the sight of the LORD; he did not depart from the sins of J eroboam the son of Nebat, who had made Israel sin.

nkjv@2Kings:15:25 @ Then Pekah the son of Remaliah, an offic er of his, conspired against him and killed him in Samaria, in the citadel of the king's house, along with Argob and Arieh; and with him w ere fifty men of Gilead. He killed him and reigned in his place.

nkjv@2Kings:15:27 @ In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah the son of Remaliah became king ov er Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty years.

nkjv@2Kings:15:28 @ And he did evil in the sight of the LORD; he did not depart from the sins of J eroboam the son of Nebat, who had made Israel sin.

nkjv@2Kings:15:29 @ In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-Piles er king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel Beth Maachah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.

nkjv@2Kings:15:33 @ He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in J erusalem. His moth er's name was J erusha the daught er of Zadok.

nkjv@2Kings:15:34 @ And he did what was right in the sight of the LORD; he did according to all that his fath er Uzziah had done.

nkjv@2Kings:15:35 @ Howev er the high places w ere not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. He built the Upp er Gate of the house of the LORD.

nkjv@2Kings:15:38 @ So Jotham rested with his fath ers, and was buried with his fath ers in the City of David his fath er. Then Ahaz his son reigned in his place.

nkjv@2Kings:16:2 @ Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in J erusalem; and he did not do what was right in the sight of the LORD his God, as his fath er David had done.

nkjv@2Kings:16:4 @ And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and und er ev ery green tree.

nkjv@2Kings:16:5 @ Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came up to J erusalem to make war; and they besieged Ahaz but could not ov ercome him.

nkjv@2Kings:16:6 @ At that time Rezin king of Syria captured Elath for Syria, and drove the men of Judah from Elath. Then the Edomites went to Elath, and dwell th ere to this day.

nkjv@2Kings:16:7 @ So Ahaz sent messeng ers to Tiglath-Piles er king of Assyria, saying, "I am your s ervant and your son. Come up and save me from the hand of the king of Syria and from the hand of the king of Israel, who rise up against me."

nkjv@2Kings:16:8 @ And Ahaz took the silv er and gold that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasuries of the king's house, and sent it as a present to the king of Assyria.

nkjv@2Kings:16:10 @ Now King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-Piles er king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus; and King Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the design of the altar and its patt ern, according to all its workmanship.

nkjv@2Kings:16:12 @ And when the king came back from Damascus, the king saw the altar; and the king approached the altar and made off erings on it.

nkjv@2Kings:16:13 @ So he burned his burnt off ering and his grain off ering; and he poured his drink off ering and sprinkled the blood of his peace off erings on the altar.

nkjv@2Kings:16:15 @ Then King Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, "On the great new altar burn the morning burnt off ering, the evening grain off ering, the king's burnt sacrifice, and his grain off ering, with the burnt off ering of all the people of the land, their grain off ering, and their drink off erings; and sprinkle on it all the blood of the burnt off ering and all the blood of the sacrifice. And the bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by."

nkjv@2Kings:16:17 @ And King Ahaz cut off the panels of the carts, and removed the lav ers from them; and he took down the Sea from the bronze oxen that w ere und er it, and put it on a pavement of stones.

nkjv@2Kings:16:18 @ Also he removed the Sabbath pavilion which they had built in the temple, and he removed the king's out er entrance from the house of the LORD, on account of the king of Assyria.

nkjv@2Kings:16:20 @ So Ahaz rested with his fath ers, and was buried with his fath ers in the City of David. Then Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.

nkjv@2Kings:17:2 @ And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as the kings of Israel who w ere before him.

nkjv@2Kings:17:3 @ Shalmanes er king of Assyria came up against him; and Hoshea became his vassal, and paid him tribute money.

nkjv@2Kings:17:4 @ And the king of Assyria uncov ered a conspiracy by Hoshea; for he had sent messeng ers to So, king of Egypt, and brought no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year. Th erefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.

nkjv@2Kings:17:6 @ In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria and carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah and by the Habor, the Riv er of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

nkjv@2Kings:17:7 @ For so it was that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from und er the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and they had feared oth er gods,

nkjv@2Kings:17:9 @ Also the children of Israel secretly did against the LORD their God things that w ere not right, and they built for themselves high places in all their cities, from watchtow er to fortified city.

nkjv@2Kings:17:10 @ They set up for themselves sacred pillars and wooden images on ev ery high hill and und er ev ery green tree.

nkjv@2Kings:17:11 @ Th ere they burned incense on all the high places, like the nations whom the LORD had carried away before them; and they did wicked things to provoke the LORD to ang er,

nkjv@2Kings:17:12 @ for they s erved idols, of which the LORD had said to them, "You shall not do this thing."

nkjv@2Kings:17:13 @ Yet the LORD testified against Israel and against Judah, by all of His prophets, ev ery se er, saying, "Turn from your evil ways, and keep My commandments and My statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fath ers, and which I sent to you by My s ervants the prophets."

nkjv@2Kings:17:14 @ Nev ertheless they would not hear, but stiffened their necks, like the necks of their fath ers, who did not believe in the LORD their God.

nkjv@2Kings:17:15 @ And they rejected His statutes and His covenant that He had made with their fath ers, and His testimonies which He had testified against them; they followed idols, became idolat ers, and went aft er the nations who w ere all around them, conc erning whom the LORD had charged them that they should not do like them.

nkjv@2Kings:17:16 @ So they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, made for themselves a molded image and two calves, made a wooden image and worshiped all the host of heaven, and s erved Baal.

nkjv@2Kings:17:17 @ And they caused their sons and daught ers to pass through the fire, practiced witchcraft and soothsaying, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to ang er.

nkjv@2Kings:17:18 @ Th erefore the LORD was v ery angry with Israel, and removed them from His sight; th ere was none left but the tribe of Judah alone.

nkjv@2Kings:17:20 @ And the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel, afflicted them, and deliv ered them into the hand of plund er ers, until He had cast them from His sight.

nkjv@2Kings:17:21 @ For He tore Israel from the house of David, and they made J eroboam the son of Nebat king. Then J eroboam drove Israel from following the LORD, and made them commit a great sin.

nkjv@2Kings:17:22 @ For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of J eroboam which he did; they did not depart from them,

nkjv@2Kings:17:23 @ until the LORD removed Israel out of His sight, as He had said by all His s ervants the prophets. So Israel was carried away from their own land to Assyria, as it is to this day.

nkjv@2Kings:17:25 @ And it was so, at the beginning of their dwelling th ere, that they did not fear the LORD; th erefore the LORD sent lions among them, which killed some of them.

nkjv@2Kings:17:26 @ So they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, "The nations whom you have removed and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the rituals of the God of the land; th erefore He has sent lions among them, and indeed, they are killing them because they do not know the rituals of the God of the land."

nkjv@2Kings:17:27 @ Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, "Send th ere one of the priests whom you brought from th ere; let him go and dwell th ere, and let him teach them the rituals of the God of the land."

nkjv@2Kings:17:29 @ Howev er ev ery nation continued to make gods of its own, and put them in the shrines on the high places which the Samaritans had made, ev ery nation in the cities wh ere they dwelt.

nkjv@2Kings:17:30 @ The men of Babylon made Succoth Benoth, the men of Cuth made N ergal, the men of Hamath made Ashima,

nkjv@2Kings:17:32 @ So they feared the LORD, and from ev ery class they appointed for themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the shrines of the high places.

nkjv@2Kings:17:33 @ They feared the LORD, yet s erved their own gods--according to the rituals of the nations from among whom they w ere carried away.

nkjv@2Kings:17:34 @ To this day they continue practicing the form er rituals; they do not fear the LORD, nor do they follow their statutes or their ordinances, or the law and commandment which the LORD had commanded the children of Jacob, whom He named Israel,

nkjv@2Kings:17:35 @ with whom the LORD had made a covenant and charged them, saying: "You shall not fear oth er gods, nor bow down to them nor s erve them nor sacrifice to them;

nkjv@2Kings:17:36 @ but the LORD, who brought you up from the land of Egypt with great pow er and an outstretched arm, Him you shall fear, Him you shall worship, and to Him you shall off er sacrifice.

nkjv@2Kings:17:37 @ And the statutes, the ordinances, the law, and the commandment which He wrote for you, you shall be careful to obs erve forev er; you shall not fear oth er gods.

nkjv@2Kings:17:38 @ And the covenant that I have made with you, you shall not forget, nor shall you fear oth er gods.

nkjv@2Kings:17:39 @ But the LORD your God you shall fear; and He will deliv er you from the hand of all your enemies."

nkjv@2Kings:17:40 @ Howev er they did not obey, but they followed their form er rituals.

nkjv@2Kings:17:41 @ So these nations feared the LORD, yet s erved their carved images; also their children and their children's children have continued doing as their fath ers did, even to this day.

nkjv@2Kings:18:2 @ He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in J erusalem. His moth er's name was Abi the daught er of Zechariah.

nkjv@2Kings:18:3 @ And he did what was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fath er David had done.

nkjv@2Kings:18:4 @ He removed the high places and broke the sacred pillars, cut down the wooden image and broke in pieces the bronze s erpent that Moses had made; for until those days the children of Israel burned incense to it, and called it Nehushtan.

nkjv@2Kings:18:5 @ He trusted in the LORD God of Israel, so that aft er him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor who w ere before him.

nkjv@2Kings:18:7 @ The LORD was with him; he prosp ered wh erev er he went. And he rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not s erve him.

nkjv@2Kings:18:8 @ He subdued the Philistines, as far as Gaza and its t erritory, from watchtow er to fortified city.

nkjv@2Kings:18:9 @ Now it came to pass in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea the son of Elah, king of Israel, that Shalmanes er king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it.

nkjv@2Kings:18:11 @ Then the king of Assyria carried Israel away captive to Assyria, and put them in Halah and by the Habor, the Riv er of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,

nkjv@2Kings:18:12 @ because they did not obey the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed His covenant and all that Moses the s ervant of the LORD had commanded; and they would neith er hear nor do them.

nkjv@2Kings:18:13 @ And in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennach erib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.

nkjv@2Kings:18:14 @ Then Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, "I have done wrong; turn away from me; whatev er you impose on me I will pay." And the king of Assyria assessed Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silv er and thirty talents of gold.

nkjv@2Kings:18:15 @ So Hezekiah gave him all the silv er that was found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the king's house.

nkjv@2Kings:18:16 @ At that time Hezekiah stripped the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had ov erlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.

nkjv@2Kings:18:17 @ Then the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rabsaris, and the Rabshakeh from Lachish, with a great army against J erusalem, to King Hezekiah. And they went up and came to J erusalem. When they had come up, they went and stood by the aqueduct from the upp er pool, which was on the highway to the Full er's Field.

nkjv@2Kings:18:18 @ And when they had called to the king, Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was ov er the household, Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the record er, came out to them.

nkjv@2Kings:18:20 @ You speak of having plans and pow er for war; but they are m ere words. And in whom do you trust, that you rebel against me?

nkjv@2Kings:18:21 @ Now look! You are trusting in the staff of this broken reed, Egypt, on which if a man leans, it will go into his hand and pi erce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

nkjv@2Kings:18:22 @ But if you say to me, "We trust in the LORD our God,' is it not He whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and said to Judah and J erusalem, "You shall worship before this altar in J erusalem'?"'

nkjv@2Kings:18:23 @ Now th erefore, I urge you, give a pledge to my mast er the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses--if you are able on your part to put rid ers on them!

nkjv@2Kings:18:24 @ How then will you repel one captain of the least of my mast er's s ervants, and put your trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen?

nkjv@2Kings:18:26 @ Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, "Please speak to your s ervants in Aramaic, for we und erstand it; and do not speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people who are on the wall."

nkjv@2Kings:18:27 @ But the Rabshakeh said to them, "Has my mast er sent me to your mast er and to you to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who will eat and drink their own waste with you?"

nkjv@2Kings:18:29 @ Thus says the king: "Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he shall not be able to deliv er you from his hand;

nkjv@2Kings:18:30 @ nor let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, "The LORD will surely deliv er us; this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."'

nkjv@2Kings:18:31 @ Do not listen to Hezekiah; for thus says the king of Assyria: "Make peace with me by a present and come out to me; and ev ery one of you eat from his own vine and ev ery one from his own fig tree, and ev ery one of you drink the wat ers of his own cist ern;

nkjv@2Kings:18:32 @ until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive groves and honey, that you may live and not die. But do not listen to Hezekiah, lest he p ersuade you, saying, "The LORD will deliv er us."

nkjv@2Kings:18:33 @ Has any of the gods of the nations at all deliv ered its land from the hand of the king of Assyria?

nkjv@2Kings:18:34 @ Wh ere are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Wh ere are the gods of Sepharvaim and Hena and Ivah? Indeed, have they deliv ered Samaria from my hand?

nkjv@2Kings:18:35 @ Who among all the gods of the lands have deliv ered their countries from my hand, that the LORD should deliv er J erusalem from my hand?"'

nkjv@2Kings:18:36 @ But the people held their peace and answ ered him not a word; for the king's commandment was, "Do not answ er him."

nkjv@2Kings:18:37 @ Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was ov er the household, Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the record er, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of the Rabshakeh.

nkjv@2Kings:19:1 @ And so it was, when King Hezekiah heard it, that he tore his clothes, cov ered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.

nkjv@2Kings:19:2 @ Then he sent Eliakim, who was ov er the household, Shebna the scribe, and the eld ers of the priests, cov ered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.

nkjv@2Kings:19:3 @ And they said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah: "This day is a day of trouble, and rebuke, and blasphemy; for the children have come to birth, but th ere is no strength to bring them forth.

nkjv@2Kings:19:4 @ It may be that the LORD your God will hear all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his mast er the king of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God, and will rebuke the words which the LORD your God has heard. Th erefore lift up your pray er for the remnant that is left."'

nkjv@2Kings:19:5 @ So the s ervants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

nkjv@2Kings:19:6 @ And Isaiah said to them, "Thus you shall say to your mast er, "Thus says the LORD: "Do not be afraid of the words which you have heard, with which the s ervants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.

nkjv@2Kings:19:9 @ And the king heard conc erning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, "Look, he has come out to make war with you." So he again sent messeng ers to Hezekiah, saying,

nkjv@2Kings:19:10 @ "Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying: "Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, "J erusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."

nkjv@2Kings:19:11 @ Look! You have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by utt erly destroying them; and shall you be deliv ered?

nkjv@2Kings:19:12 @ Have the gods of the nations deliv ered those whom my fath ers have destroyed, Gozan and Haran and Rezeph, and the people of Eden who w ere in Telassar?

nkjv@2Kings:19:13 @ Wh ere is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?"'

nkjv@2Kings:19:14 @ And Hezekiah received the lett er from the hand of the messeng ers, and read it; and Hezekiah went up to the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.

nkjv@2Kings:19:15 @ Then Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said: "O LORD God of Israel, the One who dwells between the ch erubim, You are God, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.

nkjv@2Kings:19:16 @ Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see; and hear the words of Sennach erib, which he has sent to reproach the living God.

nkjv@2Kings:19:18 @ and have cast their gods into the fire; for they w ere not gods, but the work of men's hands--wood and stone. Th erefore they destroyed them.

nkjv@2Kings:19:19 @ Now th erefore, O LORD our God, I pray, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You are the LORD God, You alone."

nkjv@2Kings:19:20 @ Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus says the LORD God of Israel: "Because you have prayed to Me against Sennach erib king of Assyria, I have heard.'

nkjv@2Kings:19:21 @ This is the word which the LORD has spoken conc erning him: "The virgin, the daught er of Zion, Has despised you, laughed you to scorn; The daught er of J erusalem Has shaken h er head behind your back!

nkjv@2Kings:19:23 @ By your messeng ers you have reproached the Lord, And said: "By the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, To the limits of Lebanon; I will cut down its tall cedars And its choice cypress trees; I will ent er the extremity of its bord ers, To its fruitful forest.

nkjv@2Kings:19:24 @ I have dug and drunk strange wat er, And with the soles of my feet I have dried up All the brooks of defense."

nkjv@2Kings:19:26 @ Th erefore their inhabitants had little pow er; They w ere dismayed and confounded; They w ere as the grass of the field And the green h erb, As the grass on the housetops And grain blighted before it is grown.

nkjv@2Kings:19:28 @ Because your rage against Me and your tumult Have come up to My ears, Th erefore I will put My hook in your nose And My bridle in your lips, And I will turn you back By the way which you came.

nkjv@2Kings:19:31 @ For out of J erusalem shall go a remnant, And those who escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.'

nkjv@2Kings:19:32 @ "Th erefore thus says the LORD conc erning the king of Assyria: "He shall not come into this city, Nor shoot an arrow th ere, Nor come before it with shield, Nor build a siege mound against it.

nkjv@2Kings:19:34 @ "For I will defend this city, to save it For My own sake and for My s ervant David's sake."'

nkjv@2Kings:19:35 @ And it came to pass on a c ertain night that the angel of the LORD went out, and killed in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty-five thousand; and when people arose early in the morning, th ere w ere the corpses--all dead.

nkjv@2Kings:19:36 @ So Sennach erib king of Assyria departed and went away, returned home, and remained at Nineveh.

nkjv@2Kings:19:37 @ Now it came to pass, as he was worshiping in the temple of Nisroch his god, that his sons Adrammelech and Sharez er struck him down with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Then Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.

nkjv@2Kings:20:1 @ In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, went to him and said to him, "Thus says the LORD: "Set your house in ord er, for you shall die, and not live."'

nkjv@2Kings:20:3 @ "Rememb er now, O LORD, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a loyal heart, and have done what was good in Your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitt erly.

nkjv@2Kings:20:5 @ "Return and tell Hezekiah the lead er of My people, "Thus says the LORD, the God of David your fath er: "I have heard your pray er, I have seen your tears; surely I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the LORD.

nkjv@2Kings:20:6 @ And I will add to your days fifteen years. I will deliv er you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for My own sake, and for the sake of My s ervant David.""'

nkjv@2Kings:20:7 @ Then Isaiah said, "Take a lump of figs." So they took and laid it on the boil, and he recov ered.

nkjv@2Kings:20:10 @ And Hezekiah answ ered, "It is an easy thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees; no, but let the shadow go backward ten degrees."

nkjv@2Kings:20:12 @ At that time B erodach-Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent lett ers and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that Hezekiah had been sick.

nkjv@2Kings:20:13 @ And Hezekiah was attentive to them, and showed them all the house of his treasures--the silv er and gold, the spices and precious ointment, and all his armory--all that was found among his treasures. Th ere was nothing in his house or in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them.

nkjv@2Kings:20:14 @ Then Isaiah the prophet went to King Hezekiah, and said to him, "What did these men say, and from wh ere did they come to you?" So Hezekiah said, "They came from a far country, from Babylon."

nkjv@2Kings:20:15 @ And he said, "What have they seen in your house?" So Hezekiah answ ered, "They have seen all that is in my house; th ere is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them."

nkjv@2Kings:20:17 @ "Behold, the days are coming when all that is in your house, and what your fath ers have accumulated until this day, shall be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left,' says the LORD.

nkjv@2Kings:20:19 @ So Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "The word of the LORD which you have spoken is good!" For he said, "Will th ere not be peace and truth at least in my days?"

nkjv@2Kings:20:20 @ Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah--all his might, and how he made a pool and a tunnel and brought wat er into the city--are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

nkjv@2Kings:20:21 @ So Hezekiah rested with his fath ers. Then Manasseh his son reigned in his place.

nkjv@2Kings:21:1 @ Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in J erusalem. His moth er's name was Hephzibah.

nkjv@2Kings:21:3 @ For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his fath er had destroyed; he raised up altars for Baal, and made a wooden image, as Ahab king of Israel had done; and he worshiped all the host of heaven and s erved them.

nkjv@2Kings:21:4 @ He also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, "In J erusalem I will put My name."

nkjv@2Kings:21:6 @ Also he made his son pass through the fire, practiced soothsaying, used witchcraft, and consulted spiritists and mediums. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to ang er.

nkjv@2Kings:21:7 @ He even set a carved image of Ash erah that he had made, in the house of which the LORD had said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house and in J erusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forev er;

nkjv@2Kings:21:8 @ and I will not make the feet of Israel wand er anymore from the land which I gave their fath ers--only if they are careful to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that My s ervant Moses commanded them."

nkjv@2Kings:21:10 @ And the LORD spoke by His s ervants the prophets, saying,

nkjv@2Kings:21:11 @ "Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations (he has acted more wickedly than all the Amorites who w ere before him, and has also made Judah sin with his idols),

nkjv@2Kings:21:12 @ th erefore thus says the LORD God of Israel: "Behold, I am bringing such calamity upon J erusalem and Judah, that whoev er hears of it, both his ears will tingle.

nkjv@2Kings:21:13 @ And I will stretch ov er J erusalem the measuring line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab; I will wipe J erusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.

nkjv@2Kings:21:14 @ So I will forsake the remnant of My inh eritance and deliv er them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become victims of plund er to all their enemies,

nkjv@2Kings:21:15 @ because they have done evil in My sight, and have provoked Me to ang er since the day their fath ers came out of Egypt, even to this day."'

nkjv@2Kings:21:16 @ Moreov er Manasseh shed v ery much innocent blood, till he had filled J erusalem from one end to anoth er, besides his sin by which he made Judah sin, in doing evil in the sight of the LORD.

nkjv@2Kings:21:18 @ So Manasseh rested with his fath ers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza. Then his son Amon reigned in his place.

nkjv@2Kings:21:19 @ Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned two years in J erusalem. His moth er's name was Meshullemeth the daught er of Haruz of Jotbah.

nkjv@2Kings:21:20 @ And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fath er Manasseh had done.

nkjv@2Kings:21:21 @ So he walked in all the ways that his fath er had walked; and he s erved the idols that his fath er had s erved, and worshiped them.

nkjv@2Kings:21:22 @ He forsook the LORD God of his fath ers, and did not walk in the way of the LORD.

nkjv@2Kings:21:23 @ Then the s ervants of Amon conspired against him, and killed the king in his own house.

nkjv@2Kings:22:1 @ Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned thirty-one years in J erusalem. His moth er's name was Jedidah the daught er of Adaiah of Bozkath.

nkjv@2Kings:22:2 @ And he did what was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the ways of his fath er David; he did not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

nkjv@2Kings:22:4 @ "Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may count the money which has been brought into the house of the LORD, which the doorkeep ers have gath ered from the people.

nkjv@2Kings:22:5 @ And let them deliv er it into the hand of those doing the work, who are the ov erse ers in the house of the LORD; let them give it to those who are in the house of the LORD doing the work, to repair the damages of the house--

nkjv@2Kings:22:6 @ to carpent ers and build ers and masons--and to buy timb er and hewn stone to repair the house.

nkjv@2Kings:22:7 @ Howev er th ere need be no accounting made with them of the money deliv ered into their hand, because they deal faithfully."

nkjv@2Kings:22:9 @ So Shaphan the scribe went to the king, bringing the king word, saying, "Your s ervants have gath ered the money that was found in the house, and have deliv ered it into the hand of those who do the work, who ov ersee the house of the LORD."

nkjv@2Kings:22:12 @ Then the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam the son of Shaphan, Achbor the son of Michaiah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a s ervant of the king, saying,

nkjv@2Kings:22:13 @ "Go, inquire of the LORD for me, for the people and for all Judah, conc erning the words of this book that has been found; for great is the wrath of the LORD that is aroused against us, because our fath ers have not obeyed the words of this book, to do according to all that is written conc erning us."

nkjv@2Kings:22:14 @ So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keep er of the wardrobe. (She dwelt in J erusalem in the Second Quart er.) And they spoke with h er.

nkjv@2Kings:22:17 @ because they have forsaken Me and burned incense to oth er gods, that they might provoke Me to ang er with all the works of their hands. Th erefore My wrath shall be aroused against this place and shall not be quenched.""

nkjv@2Kings:22:18 @ But as for the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, in this mann er you shall speak to him, "Thus says the LORD God of Israel: "Conc erning the words which you have heard--

nkjv@2Kings:22:19 @ because your heart was tend er, and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and you tore your clothes and wept before Me, I also have heard you," says the LORD.

nkjv@2Kings:22:20 @ Surely, th erefore, I will gath er you to your fath ers, and you shall be gath ered to your grave in peace; and your eyes shall not see all the calamity which I will bring on this place.""' So they brought back word to the king.

nkjv@2Kings:23:1 @ Now the king sent them to gath er all the eld ers of Judah and J erusalem to him.

nkjv@2Kings:23:2 @ The king went up to the house of the LORD with all the men of Judah, and with him all the inhabitants of J erusalem--the priests and the prophets and all the people, both small and great. And he read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant which had been found in the house of the LORD.

nkjv@2Kings:23:3 @ Then the king stood by a pillar and made a covenant before the LORD, to follow the LORD and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes, with all his heart and all his soul, to p erform the words of this covenant that w ere written in this book. And all the people took a stand for the covenant.

nkjv@2Kings:23:4 @ And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests of the second ord er, and the doorkeep ers, to bring out of the temple of the LORD all the articles that w ere made for Baal, for Ash erah, and for all the host of heaven; and he burned them outside J erusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.

nkjv@2Kings:23:5 @ Then he removed the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense on the high places in the cities of Judah and in the places all around J erusalem, and those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, to the moon, to the constellations, and to all the host of heaven.

nkjv@2Kings:23:6 @ And he brought out the wooden image from the house of the LORD, to the Brook Kidron outside J erusalem, burned it at the Brook Kidron and ground it to ashes, and threw its ashes on the graves of the common people.

nkjv@2Kings:23:7 @ Then he tore down the ritual booths of the p erv erted p ersons that w ere in the house of the LORD, wh ere the women wove hangings for the wooden image.

nkjv@2Kings:23:8 @ And he brought all the priests from the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places wh ere the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Be ersheba; also he broke down the high places at the gates which w ere at the entrance of the Gate of Joshua the gov ernor of the city, which w ere to the left of the city gate.

nkjv@2Kings:23:9 @ Nev ertheless the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of the LORD in J erusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brethren.

nkjv@2Kings:23:10 @ And he defiled Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daught er pass through the fire to Molech.

nkjv@2Kings:23:11 @ Then he removed the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun, at the entrance to the house of the LORD, by the chamb er of Nathan-Melech, the offic er who was in the court; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

nkjv@2Kings:23:12 @ The altars that w ere on the roof, the upp er chamb er of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, the king broke down and pulv erized th ere, and threw their dust into the Brook Kidron.

nkjv@2Kings:23:13 @ Then the king defiled the high places that w ere east of J erusalem, which w ere on the south of the Mount of Corruption, which Solomon king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the people of Ammon.

nkjv@2Kings:23:15 @ Moreov er the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which J eroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he broke down; and he burned the high place and crushed it to powd er, and burned the wooden image.

nkjv@2Kings:23:16 @ As Josiah turned, he saw the tombs that w ere th ere on the mountain. And he sent and took the bones out of the tombs and burned them on the altar, and defiled it according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.

nkjv@2Kings:23:19 @ Now Josiah also took away all the shrines of the high places that w ere in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the LORD to ang er; and he did to them according to all the deeds he had done in Bethel.

nkjv@2Kings:23:20 @ He executed all the priests of the high places who w ere th ere, on the altars, and burned men's bones on them; and he returned to J erusalem.

nkjv@2Kings:23:21 @ Then the king commanded all the people, saying, "Keep the Passov er to the LORD your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant."

nkjv@2Kings:23:22 @ Such a Passov er surely had nev er been held since the days of the judges who judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah.

nkjv@2Kings:23:23 @ But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah this Passov er was held before the LORD in J erusalem.

nkjv@2Kings:23:24 @ Moreov er Josiah put away those who consulted mediums and spiritists, the household gods and idols, all the abominations that w ere seen in the land of Judah and in J erusalem, that he might p erform the words of the law which w ere written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.

nkjv@2Kings:23:25 @ Now before him th ere was no king like him, who turned to the LORD with all his heart, with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the Law of Moses; nor aft er him did any arise like him.

nkjv@2Kings:23:26 @ Nev ertheless the LORD did not turn from the fi erceness of His great wrath, with which His ang er was aroused against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked Him.

nkjv@2Kings:23:27 @ And the LORD said, "I will also remove Judah from My sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city J erusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, "My name shall be th ere."'

nkjv@2Kings:23:29 @ In his days Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt went to the aid of the king of Assyria, to the Riv er Euphrates; and King Josiah went against him. And Pharaoh Necho killed him at Megiddo when he confronted him.

nkjv@2Kings:23:30 @ Then his s ervants moved his body in a chariot from Megiddo, brought him to J erusalem, and buried him in his own tomb. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, anointed him, and made him king in his fath er's place.

nkjv@2Kings:23:31 @ Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in J erusalem. His moth er's name was Hamutal the daught er of J eremiah of Libnah.

nkjv@2Kings:23:32 @ And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fath ers had done.

nkjv@2Kings:23:33 @ Now Pharaoh Necho put him in prison at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in J erusalem; and he imposed on the land a tribute of one hundred talents of silv er and a talent of gold.

nkjv@2Kings:23:34 @ Then Pharaoh Necho made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in place of his fath er Josiah, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. And Pharaoh took Jehoahaz and went to Egypt, and he died th ere.

nkjv@2Kings:23:35 @ So Jehoiakim gave the silv er and gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give money according to the command of Pharaoh; he exacted the silv er and gold from the people of the land, from ev ery one according to his assessment, to give it to Pharaoh Necho.

nkjv@2Kings:23:36 @ Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in J erusalem. His moth er's name was Zebudah the daught er of Pedaiah of Rumah.

nkjv@2Kings:23:37 @ And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fath ers had done.

nkjv@2Kings:24:2 @ And the LORD sent against him raiding bands of Chaldeans, bands of Syrians, bands of Moabites, and bands of the people of Ammon; He sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD which He had spoken by His s ervants the prophets.

nkjv@2Kings:24:4 @ and also because of the innocent blood that he had shed; for he had filled J erusalem with innocent blood, which the LORD would not pardon.

nkjv@2Kings:24:6 @ So Jehoiakim rested with his fath ers. Then Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.

nkjv@2Kings:24:7 @ And the king of Egypt did not come out of his land anymore, for the king of Babylon had taken all that belonged to the king of Egypt from the Brook of Egypt to the Riv er Euphrates.

nkjv@2Kings:24:8 @ Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in J erusalem three months. His moth er's name was Nehushta the daught er of Elnathan of J erusalem.

nkjv@2Kings:24:9 @ And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fath er had done.

nkjv@2Kings:24:10 @ At that time the s ervants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against J erusalem, and the city was besieged.

nkjv@2Kings:24:11 @ And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, as his s ervants w ere besieging it.

nkjv@2Kings:24:12 @ Then Jehoiachin king of Judah, his moth er, his s ervants, his princes, and his offic ers went out to the king of Babylon; and the king of Babylon, in the eighth year of his reign, took him prison er.

nkjv@2Kings:24:13 @ And he carried out from th ere all the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king's house, and he cut in pieces all the articles of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said.

nkjv@2Kings:24:14 @ Also he carried into captivity all J erusalem: all the captains and all the mighty men of valor, ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths. None remained except the poorest people of the land.

nkjv@2Kings:24:15 @ And he carried Jehoiachin captive to Babylon. The king's moth er, the king's wives, his offic ers, and the mighty of the land he carried into captivity from J erusalem to Babylon.

nkjv@2Kings:24:16 @ All the valiant men, seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths, one thousand, all who w ere strong and fit for war, these the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.

nkjv@2Kings:24:18 @ Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in J erusalem. His moth er's name was Hamutal the daught er of J eremiah of Libnah.

nkjv@2Kings:24:20 @ For because of the ang er of the LORD this happened in J erusalem and Judah, that He finally cast them out from His presence. Then Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

nkjv@2Kings:25:1 @ Now it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against J erusalem and encamped against it; and they built a siege wall against it all around.

nkjv@2Kings:25:3 @ By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine had become so sev ere in the city that th ere was no food for the people of the land.

nkjv@2Kings:25:4 @ Then the city wall was broken through, and all the men of war fled at night by way of the gate between two walls, which was by the king's garden, even though the Chaldeans w ere still encamped all around against the city. And the king went by way of the plain.

nkjv@2Kings:25:5 @ But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and they ov ertook him in the plains of J ericho. All his army was scatt ered from him.

nkjv@2Kings:25:7 @ Then they killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, put out the eyes of Zedekiah, bound him with bronze fett ers, and took him to Babylon.

nkjv@2Kings:25:8 @ And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month (which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a s ervant of the king of Babylon, came to J erusalem.

nkjv@2Kings:25:9 @ He burned the house of the LORD and the king's house; all the houses of J erusalem, that is, all the houses of the great, he burned with fire.

nkjv@2Kings:25:10 @ And all the army of the Chaldeans who w ere with the captain of the guard broke down the walls of J erusalem all around.

nkjv@2Kings:25:11 @ Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive the rest of the people who remained in the city and the defectors who had des erted to the king of Babylon, with the rest of the multitude.

nkjv@2Kings:25:12 @ But the captain of the guard left some of the poor of the land as vinedress ers and farm ers.

nkjv@2Kings:25:13 @ The bronze pillars that w ere in the house of the LORD, and the carts and the bronze Sea that w ere in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and carried their bronze to Babylon.

nkjv@2Kings:25:14 @ They also took away the pots, the shovels, the trimm ers, the spoons, and all the bronze utensils with which the priests minist ered.

nkjv@2Kings:25:15 @ The firepans and the basins, the things of solid gold and solid silv er, the captain of the guard took away.

nkjv@2Kings:25:17 @ The height of one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the capital on it was of bronze. The height of the capital was three cubits, and the network and pomegranates all around the capital w ere all of bronze. The second pillar was the same, with a network.

nkjv@2Kings:25:18 @ And the captain of the guard took S eraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the second priest, and the three doorkeep ers.

nkjv@2Kings:25:19 @ He also took out of the city an offic er who had charge of the men of war, five men of the king's close associates who w ere found in the city, the chief recruiting offic er of the army, who must ered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who w ere found in the city.

nkjv@2Kings:25:22 @ Then he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, gov ernor ov er the people who remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left.

nkjv@2Kings:25:23 @ Now when all the captains of the armies, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah gov ernor, they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah--Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, Johanan the son of Careah, S eraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.

nkjv@2Kings:25:24 @ And Gedaliah took an oath before them and their men, and said to them, "Do not be afraid of the s ervants of the Chaldeans. Dwell in the land and s erve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you."

nkjv@2Kings:25:25 @ But it happened in the seventh month that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal family, came with ten men and struck and killed Gedaliah, the Jews, as well as the Chaldeans who w ere with him at Mizpah.

nkjv@2Kings:25:26 @ And all the people, small and great, and the captains of the armies, arose and went to Egypt; for they w ere afraid of the Chaldeans.

nkjv@2Kings:25:27 @ Now it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, that Evil-M erodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, released Jehoiachin king of Judah from prison.

nkjv@2Kings:25:28 @ He spoke kindly to him, and gave him a more prominent seat than those of the kings who w ere with him in Babylon.

nkjv@2Kings:25:30 @ And as for his provisions, th ere was a regular ration given him by the king, a portion for each day, all the days of his life.

nkjv@1Chronicles:1:5 @ The sons of Japheth w ere Gom er, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

nkjv@1Chronicles:1:6 @ The sons of Gom er w ere Ashkenaz, Diphath, and Togarmah.

nkjv@1Chronicles:1:7 @ The sons of Javan w ere Elishah, Tarshishah, Kittim, and Rodanim.

nkjv@1Chronicles:1:8 @ The sons of Ham w ere Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

nkjv@1Chronicles:1:9 @ The sons of Cush w ere Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raama, and Sabtecha. The sons of Raama w ere Sheba and Dedan.

nkjv@1Chronicles:1:17 @ The sons of Shem w ere Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Geth er, and Meshech.

nkjv@1Chronicles:1:18 @ Arphaxad begot Shelah, and Shelah begot Eb er.

nkjv@1Chronicles:1:19 @ To Eb er w ere born two sons: the name of one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his broth er's name was Joktan.

nkjv@1Chronicles:1:20 @ Joktan begot Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, J erah,

nkjv@1Chronicles:1:23 @ Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these w ere the sons of Joktan.

nkjv@1Chronicles:1:25 @ Eb er, Peleg, Reu,

nkjv@1Chronicles:1:26 @ S erug, Nahor, T erah,

nkjv@1Chronicles:1:28 @ The sons of Abraham w ere Isaac and Ishmael.

nkjv@1Chronicles:1:31 @ Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These w ere the sons of Ishmael.

nkjv@1Chronicles:1:32 @ Now the sons born to Keturah, Abraham's concubine, w ere Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan w ere Sheba and Dedan.

nkjv@1Chronicles:1:33 @ The sons of Midian w ere Ephah, Eph er, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these w ere the children of Keturah.

nkjv@1Chronicles:1:34 @ And Abraham begot Isaac. The sons of Isaac w ere Esau and Israel.

nkjv@1Chronicles:1:35 @ The sons of Esau w ere Eliphaz, Reuel, Jeush, Jaalam, and Korah.

nkjv@1Chronicles:1:36 @ And the sons of Eliphaz w ere Teman, Omar, Zephi, Gatam, and Kenaz; and by Timna, Amalek.

nkjv@1Chronicles:1:37 @ The sons of Reuel w ere Nahath, Z erah, Shammah, and Mizzah.

nkjv@1Chronicles:1:38 @ The sons of Seir w ere Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ez er, and Dishan.

nkjv@1Chronicles:1:39 @ And the sons of Lotan w ere Hori and Homam; Lotan's sist er was Timna.

nkjv@1Chronicles:1:40 @ The sons of Shobal w ere Alian, Manahath, Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. The sons of Zibeon w ere Ajah and Anah.

nkjv@1Chronicles:1:41 @ The son of Anah was Dishon. The sons of Dishon w ere Hamran, Eshban, Ithran, and Ch eran.

nkjv@1Chronicles:1:42 @ The sons of Ez er w ere Bilhan, Zaavan, and Jaakan. The sons of Dishan w ere Uz and Aran.

nkjv@1Chronicles:1:43 @ Now these w ere the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before a king reigned ov er the children of Israel: Bela the son of Beor, and the name of his city was Dinhabah.

nkjv@1Chronicles:1:44 @ And when Bela died, Jobab the son of Z erah of Bozrah reigned in his place.

nkjv@1Chronicles:1:48 @ And when Samlah died, Saul of Rehoboth-by-the-Riv er reigned in his place.

nkjv@1Chronicles:1:50 @ And when Baal-Hanan died, Hadad reigned in his place; and the name of his city was Pai. His wife's name was Mehetabel the daught er of Matred, the daught er of Mezahab.

nkjv@1Chronicles:1:51 @ Hadad died also. And the chiefs of Edom w ere Chief Timnah, Chief Aliah, Chief Jetheth,

nkjv@1Chronicles:1:54 @ Chief Magdiel, and Chief Iram. These w ere the chiefs of Edom.

nkjv@1Chronicles:2:1 @ These w ere the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,

nkjv@1Chronicles:2:2 @ Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Ash er.

nkjv@1Chronicles:2:3 @ The sons of Judah w ere Er, Onan, and Shelah. These three w ere born to him by the daught er of Shua, the Canaanitess. Er, the firstborn of Judah, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; so He killed him.

nkjv@1Chronicles:2:4 @ And Tamar, his daught er-in-law, bore him P erez and Z erah. All the sons of Judah w ere five.

nkjv@1Chronicles:2:5 @ The sons of P erez w ere Hezron and Hamul.

nkjv@1Chronicles:2:6 @ The sons of Z erah w ere Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara--five of them in all.

nkjv@1Chronicles:2:7 @ The son of Carmi was Achar, the troubl er of Israel, who transgressed in the accursed thing.

nkjv@1Chronicles:2:9 @ Also the sons of Hezron who w ere born to him w ere J erahmeel, Ram, and Chelubai.

nkjv@1Chronicles:2:10 @ Ram begot Amminadab, and Amminadab begot Nahshon, lead er of the children of Judah;

nkjv@1Chronicles:2:16 @ Now their sist ers w ere Z eruiah and Abigail. And the sons of Z eruiah w ere Abishai, Joab, and Asahel--three.

nkjv@1Chronicles:2:17 @ Abigail bore Amasa; and the fath er of Amasa was Jeth er the Ishmaelite.

nkjv@1Chronicles:2:18 @ Caleb the son of Hezron had children by Azubah, his wife, and by J erioth. Now these w ere h er sons: Jesh er, Shobab, and Ardon.

nkjv@1Chronicles:2:21 @ Now aft erward Hezron went in to the daught er of Machir the fath er of Gilead, whom he married when he was sixty years old; and she bore him Segub.

nkjv@1Chronicles:2:23 @ (Geshur and Syria took from them the towns of Jair, with Kenath and its towns--sixty towns.) All these belonged to the sons of Machir the fath er of Gilead.

nkjv@1Chronicles:2:24 @ Aft er Hezron died in Caleb Ephrathah, Hezron's wife Abijah bore him Ashhur the fath er of Tekoa.

nkjv@1Chronicles:2:25 @ The sons of J erahmeel, the firstborn of Hezron, w ere Ram, the firstborn, and Bunah, Oren, Ozem, and Ahijah.

nkjv@1Chronicles:2:26 @ J erahmeel had anoth er wife, whose name was Atarah; she was the moth er of Onam.

nkjv@1Chronicles:2:27 @ The sons of Ram, the firstborn of J erahmeel, w ere Maaz, Jamin, and Ek er.

nkjv@1Chronicles:2:28 @ The sons of Onam w ere Shammai and Jada. The sons of Shammai w ere Nadab and Abishur.

nkjv@1Chronicles:2:30 @ The sons of Nadab w ere Seled and Appaim; Seled died without children.

nkjv@1Chronicles:2:32 @ The sons of Jada, the broth er of Shammai, w ere Jeth er and Jonathan; Jeth er died without children.

nkjv@1Chronicles:2:33 @ The sons of Jonathan w ere Peleth and Zaza. These w ere the sons of J erahmeel.

nkjv@1Chronicles:2:34 @ Now Sheshan had no sons, only daught ers. And Sheshan had an Egyptian s ervant whose name was Jarha.

nkjv@1Chronicles:2:35 @ Sheshan gave his daught er to Jarha his s ervant as wife, and she bore him Attai.

nkjv@1Chronicles:2:42 @ The descendants of Caleb the broth er of J erahmeel w ere Mesha, his firstborn, who was the fath er of Ziph, and the sons of Mareshah the fath er of Hebron.

nkjv@1Chronicles:2:43 @ The sons of Hebron w ere Korah, Tappuah, Rekem, and Shema.

nkjv@1Chronicles:2:44 @ Shema begot Raham the fath er of Jorkoam, and Rekem begot Shammai.

nkjv@1Chronicles:2:45 @ And the son of Shammai was Maon, and Maon was the fath er of Beth Zur.

nkjv@1Chronicles:2:47 @ And the sons of Jahdai w ere Regem, Jotham, Geshan, Pelet, Ephah, and Shaaph.

nkjv@1Chronicles:2:48 @ Maachah, Caleb's concubine, bore Sheb er and Tirhanah.

nkjv@1Chronicles:2:49 @ She also bore Shaaph the fath er of Madmannah, Sheva the fath er of Machbenah and the fath er of Gibea. And the daught er of Caleb was Achsah.

nkjv@1Chronicles:2:50 @ These w ere the descendants of Caleb: The sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, w ere Shobal the fath er of Kirjath Jearim,

nkjv@1Chronicles:2:51 @ Salma the fath er of Bethlehem, and Hareph the fath er of Beth Gad er.

nkjv@1Chronicles:2:52 @ And Shobal the fath er of Kirjath Jearim had descendants: Haroeh, and half of the families of Manuhoth.

nkjv@1Chronicles:2:53 @ The families of Kirjath Jearim w ere the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites. From these came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites.

nkjv@1Chronicles:2:54 @ The sons of Salma w ere Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Atroth Beth Joab, half of the Manahethites, and the Zorites.

nkjv@1Chronicles:2:55 @ And the families of the scribes who dwelt at Jabez w ere the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and the Suchathites. These w ere the Kenites who came from Hammath, the fath er of the house of Rechab.

nkjv@1Chronicles:3:1 @ Now these w ere the sons of David who w ere born to him in Hebron: The firstborn was Amnon, by Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; the second, Daniel, Called by Abigail the Carmelitess;

nkjv@1Chronicles:3:2 @ the third, Absalom the son of Maacah, the daught er of Talmai, king of Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith;

nkjv@1Chronicles:3:4 @ These six w ere born to him in Hebron. Th ere he reigned seven years and six months, and in J erusalem he reigned thirty-three years.

nkjv@1Chronicles:3:5 @ And these w ere born to him in J erusalem: Shimea, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon--four by Bathshua the daught er of Ammiel.

nkjv@1Chronicles:3:6 @ Also th ere w ere Ibhar, Elishama, Eliphelet,

nkjv@1Chronicles:3:9 @ These w ere all the sons of David, besides the sons of the concubines, and Tamar their sist er.

nkjv@1Chronicles:3:15 @ The sons of Josiah w ere Johanan the firstborn, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, and the fourth Shallum.

nkjv@1Chronicles:3:16 @ The sons of Jehoiakim w ere Jeconiah his son and Zedekiah his son.

nkjv@1Chronicles:3:17 @ And the sons of Jeconiah w ere Assir, Shealtiel his son,

nkjv@1Chronicles:3:19 @ The sons of Pedaiah w ere Z erubbabel and Shimei. The sons of Z erubbabel w ere Meshullam, Hananiah, Shelomith their sist er,

nkjv@1Chronicles:3:20 @ and Hashubah, Ohel, B erechiah, Hasadiah, and Jushab-Hesed--five in all.

nkjv@1Chronicles:3:21 @ The sons of Hananiah w ere Pelatiah and Jeshaiah, the sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, and the sons of Shechaniah.

nkjv@1Chronicles:3:22 @ The son of Shechaniah was Shemaiah. The sons of Shemaiah w ere Hattush, Igal, Bariah, Neariah, and Shaphat--six in all.

nkjv@1Chronicles:3:23 @ The sons of Neariah w ere Elioenai, Hezekiah, and Azrikam--three in all.

nkjv@1Chronicles:3:24 @ The sons of Elioenai w ere Hodaviah, Eliashib, Pelaiah, Akkub, Johanan, Delaiah, and Anani--seven in all.

nkjv@1Chronicles:4:1 @ The sons of Judah w ere P erez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur, and Shobal.

nkjv@1Chronicles:4:2 @ And Reaiah the son of Shobal begot Jahath, and Jahath begot Ahumai and Lahad. These w ere the families of the Zorathites.

nkjv@1Chronicles:4:3 @ These w ere the sons of the fath er of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash; and the name of their sist er was Hazelelponi;

nkjv@1Chronicles:4:4 @ and Penuel was the fath er of Gedor, and Ez er was the fath er of Hushah. These w ere the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah the fath er of Bethlehem.

nkjv@1Chronicles:4:5 @ And Ashhur the fath er of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.

nkjv@1Chronicles:4:6 @ Naarah bore him Ahuzzam, Heph er, Temeni, and Haahashtari. These w ere the sons of Naarah.

nkjv@1Chronicles:4:7 @ The sons of Helah w ere Z ereth, Zohar, and Ethnan;

nkjv@1Chronicles:4:9 @ Now Jabez was more honorable than his broth ers, and his moth er called his name Jabez, saying, "Because I bore him in pain."

nkjv@1Chronicles:4:10 @ And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, "Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my t erritory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!" So God granted him what he requested.

nkjv@1Chronicles:4:11 @ Chelub the broth er of Shuhah begot Mehir, who was the fath er of Eshton.

nkjv@1Chronicles:4:12 @ And Eshton begot Beth-Rapha, Paseah, and Tehinnah the fath er of Ir-Nahash. These w ere the men of Rechah.

nkjv@1Chronicles:4:13 @ The sons of Kenaz w ere Othniel and S eraiah. The sons of Othniel w ere Hathath,

nkjv@1Chronicles:4:14 @ and Meonothai who begot Ophrah. S eraiah begot Joab the fath er of Ge Harashim, for they w ere craftsmen.

nkjv@1Chronicles:4:15 @ The sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh w ere Iru, Elah, and Naam. The son of Elah was Kenaz.

nkjv@1Chronicles:4:16 @ The sons of Jehallelel w ere Ziph, Ziphah, Tiria, and Asarel.

nkjv@1Chronicles:4:17 @ The sons of Ezrah w ere Jeth er, M ered, Eph er, and Jalon. And M ered's wife bore Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah the fath er of Eshtemoa.

nkjv@1Chronicles:4:18 @ (His wife Jehudijah bore J ered the fath er of Gedor, Heb er the fath er of Sochoh, and Jekuthiel the fath er of Zanoah.) And these w ere the sons of Bithiah the daught er of Pharaoh, whom M ered took.

nkjv@1Chronicles:4:19 @ The sons of Hodiah's wife, the sist er of Naham, w ere the fath ers of Keilah the Garmite and of Eshtemoa the Maachathite.

nkjv@1Chronicles:4:20 @ And the sons of Shimon w ere Amnon, Rinnah, Ben-Hanan, and Tilon. And the sons of Ishi w ere Zoheth and Ben-Zoheth.

nkjv@1Chronicles:4:21 @ The sons of Shelah the son of Judah w ere Er the fath er of Lecah, Laadah the fath er of Mareshah, and the families of the house of the linen work ers of the house of Ashbea;

nkjv@1Chronicles:4:23 @ These w ere the pott ers and those who dwell at Netaim and Ged erah; th ere they dwelt with the king for his work.

nkjv@1Chronicles:4:24 @ The sons of Simeon w ere Nemuel, Jamin, Jarib, Z erah, and Shaul,

nkjv@1Chronicles:4:26 @ And the sons of Mishma w ere Hamuel his son, Zacchur his son, and Shimei his son.

nkjv@1Chronicles:4:27 @ Shimei had sixteen sons and six daught ers; but his broth ers did not have many children, nor did any of their families multiply as much as the children of Judah.

nkjv@1Chronicles:4:28 @ They dwelt at Be ersheba, Moladah, Hazar Shual,

nkjv@1Chronicles:4:31 @ Beth Marcaboth, Hazar Susim, Beth Biri, and at Shaaraim. These w ere their cities until the reign of David.

nkjv@1Chronicles:4:32 @ And their villages w ere Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan--five cities--

nkjv@1Chronicles:4:33 @ and all the villages that w ere around these cities as far as Baal. These w ere their dwelling places, and they maintained their genealogy:

nkjv@1Chronicles:4:35 @ Joel, and Jehu the son of Joshibiah, the son of S eraiah, the son of Asiel;

nkjv@1Chronicles:4:38 @ these mentioned by name w ere lead ers in their families, and their fath er's house increased greatly.

nkjv@1Chronicles:4:40 @ And they found rich, good pasture, and the land was broad, quiet, and peaceful; for some Hamites form erly lived th ere.

nkjv@1Chronicles:4:41 @ These recorded by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and they attacked their tents and the Meunites who w ere found th ere, and utt erly destroyed them, as it is to this day. So they dwelt in their place, because th ere was pasture for their flocks th ere.

nkjv@1Chronicles:4:43 @ And they defeated the rest of the Amalekites who had escaped. They have dwelt th ere to this day.

nkjv@1Chronicles:5:1 @ Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel--he was indeed the firstborn, but because he defiled his fath er's bed, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph, the son of Israel, so that the genealogy is not listed according to the birthright;

nkjv@1Chronicles:5:2 @ yet Judah prevailed ov er his broth ers, and from him came a rul er, although the birthright was Joseph's--

nkjv@1Chronicles:5:3 @ the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel w ere Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.

nkjv@1Chronicles:5:4 @ The sons of Joel w ere Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son,

nkjv@1Chronicles:5:6 @ and Be erah his son, whom Tiglath-Piles er king of Assyria carried into captivity. He was lead er of the Reubenites.

nkjv@1Chronicles:5:7 @ And his brethren by their families, when the genealogy of their gen erations was regist ered: the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,

nkjv@1Chronicles:5:8 @ and Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who dwelt in Aro er, as far as Nebo and Baal Meon.

nkjv@1Chronicles:5:9 @ Eastward they settled as far as the entrance of the wild erness this side of the Riv er Euphrates, because their cattle had multiplied in the land of Gilead.

nkjv@1Chronicles:5:13 @ and their brethren of their fath er's house: Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jachan, Zia, and Eb er--seven in all.

nkjv@1Chronicles:5:14 @ These w ere the children of Abihail the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz;

nkjv@1Chronicles:5:15 @ Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, was chief of their fath er's house.

nkjv@1Chronicles:5:16 @ And the Gadites dwelt in Gilead, in Bashan and in its villages, and in all the common-lands of Sharon within their bord ers.

nkjv@1Chronicles:5:17 @ All these w ere regist ered by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of J eroboam king of Israel.

nkjv@1Chronicles:5:20 @ And they w ere helped against them, and the Hagrites w ere deliv ered into their hand, and all who w ere with them, for they cried out to God in the battle. He heeded their pray er, because they put their trust in Him.

nkjv@1Chronicles:5:23 @ So the children of the half-tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land. Their numb ers increased from Bashan to Baal H ermon, that is, to Senir, or Mount H ermon.

nkjv@1Chronicles:5:24 @ These w ere the heads of their fath ers' houses: Eph er, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, J eremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel. They w ere mighty men of valor, famous men, and heads of their fath ers' houses.

nkjv@1Chronicles:5:25 @ And they w ere unfaithful to the God of their fath ers, and played the harlot aft er the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them.

nkjv@1Chronicles:5:26 @ So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, that is, Tiglath-Piles er king of Assyria. He carried the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh into captivity. He took them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and the riv er of Gozan to this day.

nkjv@1Chronicles:6:1 @ The sons of Levi w ere G ershon, Kohath, and M erari.

nkjv@1Chronicles:6:2 @ The sons of Kohath w ere Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

nkjv@1Chronicles:6:3 @ The children of Amram w ere Aaron, Moses, and Miriam. And the sons of Aaron w ere Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

nkjv@1Chronicles:6:6 @ Uzzi begot Z erahiah, and Z erahiah begot M eraioth;

nkjv@1Chronicles:6:7 @ M eraioth begot Amariah, and Amariah begot Ahitub;

nkjv@1Chronicles:6:10 @ Johanan begot Azariah (it was he who minist ered as priest in the temple that Solomon built in J erusalem);

nkjv@1Chronicles:6:14 @ Azariah begot S eraiah, and S eraiah begot Jehozadak.

nkjv@1Chronicles:6:15 @ Jehozadak went into captivity when the LORD carried Judah and J erusalem into captivity by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.

nkjv@1Chronicles:6:16 @ The sons of Levi w ere G ershon, Kohath, and M erari.

nkjv@1Chronicles:6:17 @ These are the names of the sons of G ershon: Libni and Shimei.

nkjv@1Chronicles:6:18 @ The sons of Kohath w ere Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

nkjv@1Chronicles:6:19 @ The sons of M erari w ere Mahli and Mushi. Now these are the families of the Levites according to their fath ers:

nkjv@1Chronicles:6:20 @ Of G ershon w ere Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son,

nkjv@1Chronicles:6:21 @ Joah his son, Iddo his son, Z erah his son, and Jeath erai his son.

nkjv@1Chronicles:6:22 @ The sons of Kohath w ere Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son,

nkjv@1Chronicles:6:25 @ The sons of Elkanah w ere Amasai and Ahimoth.

nkjv@1Chronicles:6:26 @ As for Elkanah, the sons of Elkanah w ere Zophai his son, Nahath his son,

nkjv@1Chronicles:6:27 @ Eliab his son, J eroham his son, and Elkanah his son.

nkjv@1Chronicles:6:28 @ The sons of Samuel w ere Joel the firstborn, and Abijah the second.

nkjv@1Chronicles:6:29 @ The sons of M erari w ere Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzzah his son,

nkjv@1Chronicles:6:31 @ Now these are the men whom David appointed ov er the s ervice of song in the house of the LORD, aft er the ark came to rest.

nkjv@1Chronicles:6:32 @ They w ere minist ering with music before the dwelling place of the tab ernacle of meeting, until Solomon had built the house of the LORD in J erusalem, and they s erved in their office according to their ord er.

nkjv@1Chronicles:6:33 @ And these are the ones who minist ered with their sons: Of the sons of the Kohathites w ere Heman the sing er, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel,

nkjv@1Chronicles:6:34 @ the son of Elkanah, the son of J eroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,

nkjv@1Chronicles:6:39 @ And his broth er Asaph, who stood at his right hand, was Asaph the son of B erachiah, the son of Shimea,

nkjv@1Chronicles:6:41 @ the son of Ethni, the son of Z erah, the son of Adaiah,

nkjv@1Chronicles:6:43 @ the son of Jahath, the son of G ershon, the son of Levi.

nkjv@1Chronicles:6:44 @ Their brethren, the sons of M erari, on the left hand, w ere Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch,

nkjv@1Chronicles:6:46 @ the son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Sham er,

nkjv@1Chronicles:6:47 @ the son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of M erari, the son of Levi.

nkjv@1Chronicles:6:48 @ And their brethren, the Levites, w ere appointed to ev ery kind of s ervice of the tab ernacle of the house of God.

nkjv@1Chronicles:6:49 @ But Aaron and his sons off ered sacrifices on the altar of burnt off ering and on the altar of incense, for all the work of the Most Holy Place, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the s ervant of God had commanded.

nkjv@1Chronicles:6:51 @ Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Z erahiah his son,

nkjv@1Chronicles:6:52 @ M eraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,

nkjv@1Chronicles:6:54 @ Now these are their dwelling places throughout their settlements in their t erritory, for they w ere given by lot to the sons of Aaron, of the family of the Kohathites:

nkjv@1Chronicles:6:60 @ And from the tribe of Benjamin: Geba with its common-lands, Alemeth with its common-lands, and Anathoth with its common-lands. All their cities among their families w ere thirteen.

nkjv@1Chronicles:6:62 @ And to the sons of G ershon, throughout their families, they gave thirteen cities from the tribe of Issachar, from the tribe of Ash er, from the tribe of Naphtali, and from the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.

nkjv@1Chronicles:6:63 @ To the sons of M erari, throughout their families, they gave twelve cities from the tribe of Reuben, from the tribe of Gad, and from the tribe of Zebulun.

nkjv@1Chronicles:6:66 @ Now some of the families of the sons of Kohath w ere given cities as their t erritory from the tribe of Ephraim.

nkjv@1Chronicles:6:67 @ And they gave them one of the cities of refuge, Shechem with its common-lands, in the mountains of Ephraim, also Gez er with its common-lands,

nkjv@1Chronicles:6:70 @ And from the half-tribe of Manasseh: An er with its common-lands and Bileam with its common-lands, for the rest of the family of the sons of Kohath.

nkjv@1Chronicles:6:71 @ From the family of the half-tribe of Manasseh the sons of G ershon w ere given Golan in Bashan with its common-lands and Ashtaroth with its common-lands.

nkjv@1Chronicles:6:72 @ And from the tribe of Issachar: Kedesh with its common-lands, Dab erath with its common-lands,

nkjv@1Chronicles:6:74 @ And from the tribe of Ash er: Mashal with its common-lands, Abdon with its common-lands,

nkjv@1Chronicles:6:77 @ From the tribe of Zebulun the rest of the children of M erari w ere given Rimmon with its common-lands and Tabor with its common-lands.

nkjv@1Chronicles:6:78 @ And on the oth er side of the Jordan, across from J ericho, on the east side of the Jordan, they w ere given from the tribe of Reuben: Bez er in the wild erness with its common-lands, Jahzah with its common-lands,

nkjv@1Chronicles:6:81 @ Heshbon with its common-lands, and Jaz er with its common-lands.

nkjv@1Chronicles:7:1 @ The sons of Issachar w ere Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron--four in all.

nkjv@1Chronicles:7:2 @ The sons of Tola w ere Uzzi, Rephaiah, J eriel, Jahmai, Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fath er's house. The sons of Tola w ere mighty men of valor in their gen erations; their numb er in the days of David was twenty-two thousand six hundred.

nkjv@1Chronicles:7:3 @ The son of Uzzi was Izrahiah, and the sons of Izrahiah w ere Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Ishiah. All five of them w ere chief men.

nkjv@1Chronicles:7:4 @ And with them, by their gen erations, according to their fath ers' houses, w ere thirty-six thousand troops ready for war; for they had many wives and sons.

nkjv@1Chronicles:7:5 @ Now their brethren among all the families of Issachar w ere mighty men of valor, listed by their genealogies, eighty-seven thousand in all.

nkjv@1Chronicles:7:6 @ The sons of Benjamin w ere Bela, Bech er, and Jediael--three in all.

nkjv@1Chronicles:7:7 @ The sons of Bela w ere Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, J erimoth, and Iri--five in all. They w ere heads of their fath ers' houses, and they w ere listed by their genealogies, twenty-two thousand and thirty-four mighty men of valor.

nkjv@1Chronicles:7:8 @ The sons of Bech er w ere Zemirah, Joash, Eliez er, Elioenai, Omri, J erimoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these are the sons of Bech er.

nkjv@1Chronicles:7:9 @ And they w ere recorded by genealogy according to their gen erations, heads of their fath ers' houses, twenty thousand two hundred mighty men of valor.

nkjv@1Chronicles:7:10 @ The son of Jediael was Bilhan, and the sons of Bilhan w ere Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tharshish, and Ahishahar.

nkjv@1Chronicles:7:11 @ All these sons of Jediael w ere heads of their fath ers' houses; th ere w ere seventeen thousand two hundred mighty men of valor fit to go out for war and battle.

nkjv@1Chronicles:7:12 @ Shuppim and Huppim w ere the sons of Ir, and Hushim was the son of Ah er.

nkjv@1Chronicles:7:13 @ The sons of Naphtali w ere Jahziel, Guni, Jez er, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.

nkjv@1Chronicles:7:14 @ The descendants of Manasseh: his Syrian concubine bore him Machir the fath er of Gilead, the fath er of Asriel.

nkjv@1Chronicles:7:15 @ Machir took as his wife the sist er of Huppim and Shuppim, whose name was Maachah. The name of Gilead's grandson was Zelophehad, but Zelophehad begot only daught ers.

nkjv@1Chronicles:7:16 @ (Maachah the wife of Machir bore a son, and she called his name P eresh. The name of his broth er was Sh eresh, and his sons w ere Ulam and Rakem.

nkjv@1Chronicles:7:17 @ The son of Ulam was Bedan.) These w ere the descendants of Gilead the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.

nkjv@1Chronicles:7:18 @ His sist er Hammoleketh bore Ishhod, Abiez er, and Mahlah.

nkjv@1Chronicles:7:19 @ And the sons of Shemida w ere Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam.

nkjv@1Chronicles:7:20 @ The sons of Ephraim w ere Shuthelah, B ered his son, Tahath his son, Eladah his son, Tahath his son,

nkjv@1Chronicles:7:21 @ Zabad his son, Shuthelah his son, and Ez er and Elead. The men of Gath who w ere born in that land killed them because they came down to take away their cattle.

nkjv@1Chronicles:7:22 @ Then Ephraim their fath er mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.

nkjv@1Chronicles:7:23 @ And when he went in to his wife, she conceived and bore a son; and he called his name B eriah, because tragedy had come upon his house.

nkjv@1Chronicles:7:24 @ Now his daught er was She erah, who built Low er and Upp er Beth Horon and Uzzen She erah;

nkjv@1Chronicles:7:28 @ Now their possessions and dwelling places w ere Bethel and its towns: to the east Naaran, to the west Gez er and its towns, and Shechem and its towns, as far as Ayyah and its towns;

nkjv@1Chronicles:7:29 @ and by the bord ers of the children of Manasseh w ere Beth Shean and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, Dor and its towns. In these dwelt the children of Joseph, the son of Israel.

nkjv@1Chronicles:7:30 @ The sons of Ash er w ere Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, B eriah, and their sist er S erah.

nkjv@1Chronicles:7:31 @ The sons of B eriah w ere Heb er and Malchiel, who was the fath er of Birzaith.

nkjv@1Chronicles:7:32 @ And Heb er begot Japhlet, Shom er, Hotham, and their sist er Shua.

nkjv@1Chronicles:7:33 @ The sons of Japhlet w ere Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath. These w ere the children of Japhlet.

nkjv@1Chronicles:7:34 @ The sons of Shem er w ere Ahi, Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.

nkjv@1Chronicles:7:35 @ And the sons of his broth er Helem w ere Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal.

nkjv@1Chronicles:7:36 @ The sons of Zophah w ere Suah, Harneph er, Shual, B eri, Imrah,

nkjv@1Chronicles:7:37 @ Bez er, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Jithran, and Be era.

nkjv@1Chronicles:7:38 @ The sons of Jeth er w ere Jephunneh, Pispah, and Ara.

nkjv@1Chronicles:7:39 @ The sons of Ulla w ere Arah, Haniel, and Rizia.

nkjv@1Chronicles:7:40 @ All these w ere the children of Ash er, heads of their fath ers' houses, choice men, mighty men of valor, chief lead ers. And they w ere recorded by genealogies among the army fit for battle; their numb er was twenty-six thousand.

nkjv@1Chronicles:8:3 @ The sons of Bela w ere Addar, G era, Abihud,

nkjv@1Chronicles:8:5 @ G era, Shephuphan, and Huram.

nkjv@1Chronicles:8:6 @ These are the sons of Ehud, who w ere the heads of the fath ers' houses of the inhabitants of Geba, and who forced them to move to Manahath:

nkjv@1Chronicles:8:7 @ Naaman, Ahijah, and G era who forced them to move. He begot Uzza and Ahihud.

nkjv@1Chronicles:8:8 @ Also Shaharaim had children in the country of Moab, aft er he had sent away Hushim and Baara his wives.

nkjv@1Chronicles:8:10 @ Jeuz, Sachiah, and Mirmah. These w ere his sons, heads of their fath ers' houses.

nkjv@1Chronicles:8:12 @ The sons of Elpaal w ere Eb er, Misham, and Shemed, who built Ono and Lod with its towns;

nkjv@1Chronicles:8:13 @ and B eriah and Shema, who w ere heads of their fath ers' houses of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who drove out the inhabitants of Gath.

nkjv@1Chronicles:8:14 @ Ahio, Shashak, J eremoth,

nkjv@1Chronicles:8:15 @ Zebadiah, Arad, Ed er,

nkjv@1Chronicles:8:16 @ Michael, Ispah, and Joha w ere the sons of B eriah.

nkjv@1Chronicles:8:17 @ Zebadiah, Meshullam, Hizki, Heb er,

nkjv@1Chronicles:8:18 @ Ishm erai, Jizliah, and Jobab w ere the sons of Elpaal.

nkjv@1Chronicles:8:21 @ Adaiah, B eraiah, and Shimrath w ere the sons of Shimei.

nkjv@1Chronicles:8:22 @ Ishpan, Eb er, Eliel,

nkjv@1Chronicles:8:25 @ Iphdeiah, and Penuel w ere the sons of Shashak.

nkjv@1Chronicles:8:26 @ Shamsh erai, Shehariah, Athaliah,

nkjv@1Chronicles:8:27 @ Jaareshiah, Elijah, and Zichri w ere the sons of J eroham.

nkjv@1Chronicles:8:28 @ These w ere heads of the fath ers' houses by their gen erations, chief men. These dwelt in J erusalem.

nkjv@1Chronicles:8:29 @ Now the fath er of Gibeon, whose wife's name was Maacah, dwelt at Gibeon.

nkjv@1Chronicles:8:31 @ Gedor, Ahio, Zech er,

nkjv@1Chronicles:8:32 @ and Mikloth, who begot Shimeah. They also dwelt alongside their relatives in J erusalem, with their brethren.

nkjv@1Chronicles:8:33 @ N er begot Kish, Kish begot Saul, and Saul begot Jonathan, Malchishua, Abinadab, and Esh-Baal.

nkjv@1Chronicles:8:34 @ The son of Jonathan was M erib-Baal, and M erib-Baal begot Micah.

nkjv@1Chronicles:8:35 @ The sons of Micah w ere Pithon, Melech, Tarea, and Ahaz.

nkjv@1Chronicles:8:38 @ Azel had six sons whose names w ere these: Azrikam, Boch eru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan. All these w ere the sons of Azel.

nkjv@1Chronicles:8:39 @ And the sons of Eshek his broth er w ere Ulam his firstborn, Jeush the second, and Eliphelet the third.

nkjv@1Chronicles:8:40 @ The sons of Ulam w ere mighty men of valor--arch ers. They had many sons and grandsons, one hundred and fifty in all. These w ere all sons of Benjamin.

nkjv@1Chronicles:9:1 @ So all Israel was recorded by genealogies, and indeed, they w ere inscribed in the book of the kings of Israel. But Judah was carried away captive to Babylon because of their unfaithfulness.

nkjv@1Chronicles:9:2 @ And the first inhabitants who dwelt in their possessions in their cities w ere Israelites, priests, Levites, and the Nethinim.

nkjv@1Chronicles:9:3 @ Now in J erusalem the children of Judah dwelt, and some of the children of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim and Manasseh:

nkjv@1Chronicles:9:4 @ Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the descendants of P erez, the son of Judah.

nkjv@1Chronicles:9:6 @ Of the sons of Z erah: Jeuel, and their brethren--six hundred and ninety.

nkjv@1Chronicles:9:8 @ Ibneiah the son of J eroham; Elah the son of Uzzi, the son of Michri; Meshullam the son of Shephatiah, the son of Reuel, the son of Ibnijah;

nkjv@1Chronicles:9:9 @ and their brethren, according to their gen erations--nine hundred and fifty-six. All these men w ere heads of a fath er's house in their fath ers' houses.

nkjv@1Chronicles:9:11 @ Azariah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of M eraioth, the son of Ahitub, the offic er ov er the house of God;

nkjv@1Chronicles:9:12 @ Adaiah the son of J eroham, the son of Pashur, the son of Malchijah; Maasai the son of Adiel, the son of Jahz erah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Imm er;

nkjv@1Chronicles:9:13 @ and their brethren, heads of their fath ers' houses--one thousand seven hundred and sixty. They w ere v ery able men for the work of the s ervice of the house of God.

nkjv@1Chronicles:9:14 @ Of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of M erari;

nkjv@1Chronicles:9:15 @ Bakbakkar, H eresh, Galal, and Mattaniah the son of Micah, the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph;

nkjv@1Chronicles:9:16 @ Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun; and B erechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of the Netophathites.

nkjv@1Chronicles:9:17 @ And the gatekeep ers w ere Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their brethren. Shallum was the chief.

nkjv@1Chronicles:9:18 @ Until then they had been gatekeep ers for the camps of the children of Levi at the King's Gate on the east.

nkjv@1Chronicles:9:19 @ Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brethren, from his fath er's house, the Korahites, w ere in charge of the work of the s ervice, gatekeep ers of the tab ernacle. Their fath ers had been keep ers of the entrance to the camp of the LORD.

nkjv@1Chronicles:9:20 @ And Phinehas the son of Eleazar had been the offic er ov er them in time past; the LORD was with him.

nkjv@1Chronicles:9:21 @ Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was keep er of the door of the tab ernacle of meeting.

nkjv@1Chronicles:9:22 @ All those chosen as gatekeep ers w ere two hundred and twelve. They w ere recorded by their genealogy, in their villages. David and Samuel the se er had appointed them to their trusted office.

nkjv@1Chronicles:9:23 @ So they and their children w ere in charge of the gates of the house of the LORD, the house of the tab ernacle, by assignment.

nkjv@1Chronicles:9:24 @ The gatekeep ers w ere assigned to the four directions: the east, west, north, and south.

nkjv@1Chronicles:9:26 @ For in this trusted office w ere four chief gatekeep ers; they w ere Levites. And they had charge ov er the chamb ers and treasuries of the house of God.

nkjv@1Chronicles:9:27 @ And they lodged all around the house of God because they had the responsibility, and they w ere in charge of opening it ev ery morning.

nkjv@1Chronicles:9:28 @ Now some of them w ere in charge of the s erving vessels, for they brought them in and took them out by count.

nkjv@1Chronicles:9:29 @ Some of them w ere appointed ov er the furnishings and ov er all the implements of the sanctuary, and ov er the fine flour and the wine and the oil and the incense and the spices.

nkjv@1Chronicles:9:31 @ Mattithiah of the Levites, the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, had the trusted office ov er the things that w ere baked in the pans.

nkjv@1Chronicles:9:32 @ And some of their brethren of the sons of the Kohathites w ere in charge of preparing the showbread for ev ery Sabbath.

nkjv@1Chronicles:9:33 @ These are the sing ers, heads of the fath ers' houses of the Levites, who lodged in the chamb ers, and w ere free from oth er duties; for they w ere employed in that work day and night.

nkjv@1Chronicles:9:34 @ These heads of the fath ers' houses of the Levites w ere heads throughout their gen erations. They dwelt at J erusalem.

nkjv@1Chronicles:9:35 @ Jeiel the fath er of Gibeon, whose wife's name was Maacah, dwelt at Gibeon.

nkjv@1Chronicles:9:36 @ His firstborn son was Abdon, then Zur, Kish, Baal, N er, Nadab,

nkjv@1Chronicles:9:38 @ And Mikloth begot Shimeam. They also dwelt alongside their relatives in J erusalem, with their brethren.

nkjv@1Chronicles:9:39 @ N er begot Kish, Kish begot Saul, and Saul begot Jonathan, Malchishua, Abinadab, and Esh-Baal.

nkjv@1Chronicles:9:40 @ The son of Jonathan was M erib-Baal, and M erib-Baal begot Micah.

nkjv@1Chronicles:9:41 @ The sons of Micah w ere Pithon, Melech, Tahrea, and Ahaz.

nkjv@1Chronicles:9:44 @ And Azel had six sons whose names w ere these: Azrikam, Boch eru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan; these w ere the sons of Azel.

nkjv@1Chronicles:10:2 @ Then the Philistines followed hard aft er Saul and his sons. And the Philistines killed Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua, Saul's sons.

nkjv@1Chronicles:10:3 @ The battle became fi erce against Saul. The arch ers hit him, and he was wounded by the arch ers.

nkjv@1Chronicles:10:4 @ Then Saul said to his armorbear er, "Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised men come and abuse me." But his armorbear er would not, for he was greatly afraid. Th erefore Saul took a sword and fell on it.

nkjv@1Chronicles:10:5 @ And when his armorbear er saw that Saul was dead, he also fell on his sword and died.

nkjv@1Chronicles:10:6 @ So Saul and his three sons died, and all his house died togeth er.

nkjv@1Chronicles:10:7 @ And when all the men of Israel who w ere in the valley saw that they had fled and that Saul and his sons w ere dead, they forsook their cities and fled; then the Philistines came and dwelt in them.

nkjv@1Chronicles:10:12 @ all the valiant men arose and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons; and they brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones und er the tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

nkjv@1Chronicles:10:14 @ But he did not inquire of the LORD; th erefore He killed him, and turned the kingdom ov er to David the son of Jesse.

nkjv@1Chronicles:11:1 @ Then all Israel came togeth er to David at Hebron, saying, "Indeed we are your bone and your flesh.

nkjv@1Chronicles:11:2 @ Also, in time past, even when Saul was king, you w ere the one who led Israel out and brought them in; and the LORD your God said to you, "You shall sheph erd My people Israel, and be rul er ov er My people Israel."'

nkjv@1Chronicles:11:3 @ Th erefore all the eld ers of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and David made a covenant with them at Hebron before the LORD. And they anointed David king ov er Israel, according to the word of the LORD by Samuel.

nkjv@1Chronicles:11:4 @ And David and all Israel went to J erusalem, which is Jebus, wh ere the Jebusites w ere, the inhabitants of the land.

nkjv@1Chronicles:11:5 @ But the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, "You shall not come in h ere!" Nev ertheless David took the stronghold of Zion (that is, the City of David).

nkjv@1Chronicles:11:6 @ Now David said, "Whoev er attacks the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain." And Joab the son of Z eruiah went up first, and became chief.

nkjv@1Chronicles:11:7 @ Then David dwelt in the stronghold; th erefore they called it the City of David.

nkjv@1Chronicles:11:10 @ Now these w ere the heads of the mighty men whom David had, who strengthened themselves with him in his kingdom, with all Israel, to make him king, according to the word of the LORD conc erning Israel.

nkjv@1Chronicles:11:11 @ And this is the numb er of the mighty men whom David had: Jashobeam the son of a Hachmonite, chief of the captains; he had lifted up his spear against three hundred, killed by him at one time.

nkjv@1Chronicles:11:12 @ Aft er him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighty men.

nkjv@1Chronicles:11:13 @ He was with David at Pasdammim. Now th ere the Philistines w ere gath ered for battle, and th ere was a piece of ground full of barley. So the people fled from the Philistines.

nkjv@1Chronicles:11:17 @ And David said with longing, "Oh, that someone would give me a drink of wat er from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!"

nkjv@1Chronicles:11:18 @ So the three broke through the camp of the Philistines, drew wat er from the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate, and took it and brought it to David. Nev ertheless David would not drink it, but poured it out to the LORD.

nkjv@1Chronicles:11:19 @ And he said, "Far be it from me, O my God, that I should do this! Shall I drink the blood of these men who have put their lives in jeopardy? For at the risk of their lives they brought it." Th erefore he would not drink it. These things w ere done by the three mighty men.

nkjv@1Chronicles:11:20 @ Abishai the broth er of Joab was chief of anoth er three. He had lifted up his spear against three hundred men, killed them, and won a name among these three.

nkjv@1Chronicles:11:21 @ Of the three he was more honored than the oth er two men. Th erefore he became their captain. Howev er he did not attain to the first three.

nkjv@1Chronicles:11:22 @ Benaiah was the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man from Kabzeel, who had done many deeds. He had killed two lion-like h eroes of Moab. He also had gone down and killed a lion in the midst of a pit on a snowy day.

nkjv@1Chronicles:11:23 @ And he killed an Egyptian, a man of great height, five cubits tall. In the Egyptian's hand th ere was a spear like a weav er's beam; and he went down to him with a staff, wrested the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and killed him with his own spear.

nkjv@1Chronicles:11:25 @ Indeed he was more honored than the thirty, but he did not attain to the first three. And David appointed him ov er his guard.

nkjv@1Chronicles:11:26 @ Also the mighty warriors w ere Asahel the broth er of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,

nkjv@1Chronicles:11:28 @ Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiez er the Anathothite,

nkjv@1Chronicles:11:36 @ Heph er the Mech erathite, Ahijah the Pelonite,

nkjv@1Chronicles:11:38 @ Joel the broth er of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Hagri,

nkjv@1Chronicles:11:39 @ Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the B erothite (the armorbear er of Joab the son of Z eruiah),

nkjv@1Chronicles:11:44 @ Uzzia the Asht erathite, Shama and Jeiel the sons of Hotham the Aro erite,

nkjv@1Chronicles:11:45 @ Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his broth er, the Tizite,

nkjv@1Chronicles:11:46 @ Eliel the Mahavite, J eribai and Joshaviah the sons of Elnaam, Ithmah the Moabite,

nkjv@1Chronicles:12:1 @ Now these w ere the men who came to David at Ziklag while he was still a fugitive from Saul the son of Kish; and they w ere among the mighty men, help ers in the war,

nkjv@1Chronicles:12:2 @ armed with bows, using both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows with the bow. They w ere of Benjamin, Saul's brethren.

nkjv@1Chronicles:12:3 @ The chief was Ahiez er, then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; Jeziel and Pelet the sons of Azmaveth; B erachah, and Jehu the Anathothite;

nkjv@1Chronicles:12:4 @ Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and ov er the thirty; J eremiah, Jahaziel, Johanan, and Jozabad the Ged erathite;

nkjv@1Chronicles:12:5 @ Eluzai, J erimoth, Bealiah, Shemariah, and Shephatiah the Haruphite;

nkjv@1Chronicles:12:6 @ Elkanah, Jisshiah, Azarel, Joez er, and Jashobeam, the Korahites;

nkjv@1Chronicles:12:7 @ and Joelah and Zebadiah the sons of J eroham of Gedor.

nkjv@1Chronicles:12:8 @ Some Gadites joined David at the stronghold in the wild erness, mighty men of valor, men trained for battle, who could handle shield and spear, whose faces w ere like the faces of lions, and w ere as swift as gazelles on the mountains:

nkjv@1Chronicles:12:9 @ Ez er the first, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,

nkjv@1Chronicles:12:10 @ Mishmannah the fourth, J eremiah the fifth,

nkjv@1Chronicles:12:13 @ J eremiah the tenth, and Machbanai the eleventh.

nkjv@1Chronicles:12:14 @ These w ere from the sons of Gad, captains of the army; the least was ov er a hundred, and the greatest was ov er a thousand.

nkjv@1Chronicles:12:15 @ These are the ones who crossed the Jordan in the first month, when it had ov erflowed all its banks; and they put to flight all those in the valleys, to the east and to the west.

nkjv@1Chronicles:12:17 @ And David went out to meet them, and answ ered and said to them, "If you have come peaceably to me to help me, my heart will be united with you; but if to betray me to my enemies, since th ere is no wrong in my hands, may the God of our fath ers look and bring judgment."

nkjv@1Chronicles:12:18 @ Then the Spirit came upon Amasai, chief of the captains, and he said: "We are yours, O David; We are on your side, O son of Jesse! Peace, peace to you, And peace to your help ers! For your God helps you." So David received them, and made them captains of the troop.

nkjv@1Chronicles:12:19 @ And some from Manasseh defected to David when he was going with the Philistines to battle against Saul; but they did not help them, for the lords of the Philistines sent him away by agreement, saying, "He may defect to his mast er Saul and endang er our heads."

nkjv@1Chronicles:12:20 @ When he went to Ziklag, those of Manasseh who defected to him w ere Adnah, Jozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu, and Zillethai, captains of the thousands who w ere from Manasseh.

nkjv@1Chronicles:12:21 @ And they helped David against the bands of raid ers, for they w ere all mighty men of valor, and they w ere captains in the army.

nkjv@1Chronicles:12:23 @ Now these w ere the numb ers of the divisions that w ere equipped for war, and came to David at Hebron to turn ov er the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of the LORD:

nkjv@1Chronicles:12:27 @ Jehoiada, the lead er of the Aaronites, and with him three thousand seven hundred;

nkjv@1Chronicles:12:28 @ Zadok, a young man, a valiant warrior, and from his fath er's house twenty-two captains;

nkjv@1Chronicles:12:30 @ of the sons of Ephraim twenty thousand eight hundred, mighty men of valor, famous men throughout their fath er's house;

nkjv@1Chronicles:12:31 @ of the half-tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, who w ere designated by name to come and make David king;

nkjv@1Chronicles:12:32 @ of the sons of Issachar who had und erstanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, their chiefs w ere two hundred; and all their brethren w ere at their command;

nkjv@1Chronicles:12:33 @ of Zebulun th ere w ere fifty thousand who went out to battle, exp ert in war with all weapons of war, stouthearted men who could keep ranks;

nkjv@1Chronicles:12:36 @ of Ash er, those who could go out to war, able to keep battle formation, forty thousand;

nkjv@1Chronicles:12:37 @ of the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, from the oth er side of the Jordan, one hundred and twenty thousand armed for battle with ev ery kind of weapon of war.

nkjv@1Chronicles:12:38 @ All these men of war, who could keep ranks, came to Hebron with a loyal heart, to make David king ov er all Israel; and all the rest of Israel w ere of one mind to make David king.

nkjv@1Chronicles:12:39 @ And they w ere th ere with David three days, eating and drinking, for their brethren had prepared for them.

nkjv@1Chronicles:12:40 @ Moreov er those who w ere near to them, from as far away as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, w ere bringing food on donkeys and camels, on mules and oxen--provisions of flour and cakes of figs and cakes of raisins, wine and oil and oxen and sheep abundantly, for th ere was joy in Israel.

nkjv@1Chronicles:13:1 @ Then David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds, and with ev ery lead er.

nkjv@1Chronicles:13:2 @ And David said to all the assembly of Israel, "If it seems good to you, and if it is of the LORD our God, let us send out to our brethren ev erywh ere who are left in all the land of Israel, and with them to the priests and Levites who are in their cities and their common-lands, that they may gath er togeth er to us;

nkjv@1Chronicles:13:5 @ So David gath ered all Israel togeth er, from Shihor in Egypt to as far as the entrance of Hamath, to bring the ark of God from Kirjath Jearim.

nkjv@1Chronicles:13:6 @ And David and all Israel went up to Baalah, to Kirjath Jearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up from th ere the ark of God the LORD, who dwells between the ch erubim, wh ere His name is proclaimed.

nkjv@1Chronicles:13:10 @ Then the ang er of the LORD was aroused against Uzza, and He struck him because he put his hand to the ark; and he died th ere before God.

nkjv@1Chronicles:13:11 @ And David became angry because of the LORD's outbreak against Uzza; th erefore that place is called P erez Uzza to this day.

nkjv@1Chronicles:14:1 @ Now Hiram king of Tyre sent messeng ers to David, and cedar trees, with masons and carpent ers, to build him a house.

nkjv@1Chronicles:14:2 @ So David knew that the LORD had established him as king ov er Israel, for his kingdom was highly exalted for the sake of His people Israel.

nkjv@1Chronicles:14:3 @ Then David took more wives in J erusalem, and David begot more sons and daught ers.

nkjv@1Chronicles:14:4 @ And these are the names of his children whom he had in J erusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,

nkjv@1Chronicles:14:8 @ Now when the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king ov er all Israel, all the Philistines went up to search for David. And David heard of it and went out against them.

nkjv@1Chronicles:14:10 @ And David inquired of God, saying, "Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will You deliv er them into my hand?" The LORD said to him, "Go up, for I will deliv er them into your hand."

nkjv@1Chronicles:14:11 @ So they went up to Baal P erazim, and David defeated them th ere. Then David said, "God has broken through my enemies by my hand like a breakthrough of wat er." Th erefore they called the name of that place Baal P erazim.

nkjv@1Chronicles:14:12 @ And when they left their gods th ere, David gave a commandment, and they w ere burned with fire.

nkjv@1Chronicles:14:14 @ Th erefore David inquired again of God, and God said to him, "You shall not go up aft er them; circle around them, and come upon them in front of the mulb erry trees.

nkjv@1Chronicles:14:15 @ And it shall be, when you hear a sound of marching in the tops of the mulb erry trees, then you shall go out to battle, for God has gone out before you to strike the camp of the Philistines."

nkjv@1Chronicles:14:16 @ So David did as God commanded him, and they drove back the army of the Philistines from Gibeon as far as Gez er.

nkjv@1Chronicles:15:2 @ Then David said, "No one may carry the ark of God but the Levites, for the LORD has chosen them to carry the ark of God and to minist er before Him forev er."

nkjv@1Chronicles:15:3 @ And David gath ered all Israel togeth er at J erusalem, to bring up the ark of the LORD to its place, which he had prepared for it.

nkjv@1Chronicles:15:6 @ of the sons of M erari, Asaiah the chief, and two hundred and twenty of his brethren;

nkjv@1Chronicles:15:7 @ of the sons of G ershom, Joel the chief, and one hundred and thirty of his brethren;

nkjv@1Chronicles:15:12 @ He said to them, "You are the heads of the fath ers' houses of the Levites; sanctify yourselves, you and your brethren, that you may bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel to the place I have prepared for it.

nkjv@1Chronicles:15:13 @ For because you did not do it the first time, the LORD our God broke out against us, because we did not consult Him about the prop er ord er."

nkjv@1Chronicles:15:15 @ And the children of the Levites bore the ark of God on their should ers, by its poles, as Moses had commanded according to the word of the LORD.

nkjv@1Chronicles:15:16 @ Then David spoke to the lead ers of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the sing ers accompanied by instruments of music, stringed instruments, harps, and cymbals, by raising the voice with resounding joy.

nkjv@1Chronicles:15:17 @ So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brethren, Asaph the son of B erechiah; and of their brethren, the sons of M erari, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;

nkjv@1Chronicles:15:18 @ and with them their brethren of the second rank: Zechariah, Ben, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Elipheleh, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, the gatekeep ers;

nkjv@1Chronicles:15:19 @ the sing ers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, w ere to sound the cymbals of bronze;

nkjv@1Chronicles:15:22 @ Chenaniah, lead er of the Levites, was instructor in charge of the music, because he was skillful;

nkjv@1Chronicles:15:23 @ B erechiah and Elkanah w ere doorkeep ers for the ark;

nkjv@1Chronicles:15:24 @ Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliez er, the priests, w ere to blow the trumpets before the ark of God; and Obed-Edom and Jehiah, doorkeep ers for the ark.

nkjv@1Chronicles:15:25 @ So David, the eld ers of Israel, and the captains ov er thousands went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from the house of Obed-Edom with joy.

nkjv@1Chronicles:15:26 @ And so it was, when God helped the Levites who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, that they off ered seven bulls and seven rams.

nkjv@1Chronicles:15:27 @ David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, as w ere all the Levites who bore the ark, the sing ers, and Chenaniah the music mast er with the sing ers. David also wore a linen ephod.

nkjv@1Chronicles:15:29 @ And it happened, as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the City of David, that Michal, Saul's daught er, looked through a window and saw King David whirling and playing music; and she despised him in h er heart.

nkjv@1Chronicles:16:1 @ So they brought the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the tab ernacle that David had erected for it. Then they off ered burnt off erings and peace off erings before God.

nkjv@1Chronicles:16:2 @ And when David had finished off ering the burnt off erings and the peace off erings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD.

nkjv@1Chronicles:16:3 @ Then he distributed to ev eryone of Israel, both man and woman, to ev eryone a loaf of bread, a piece of meat, and a cake of raisins.

nkjv@1Chronicles:16:4 @ And he appointed some of the Levites to minist er before the ark of the LORD, to commemorate, to thank, and to praise the LORD God of Israel:

nkjv@1Chronicles:16:7 @ On that day David first deliv ered this psalm into the hand of Asaph and his brethren, to thank the LORD:

nkjv@1Chronicles:16:11 @ Seek the LORD and His strength; Seek His face ev ermore!

nkjv@1Chronicles:16:12 @ Rememb er His marvelous works which He has done, His wond ers, and the judgments of His mouth,

nkjv@1Chronicles:16:13 @ O seed of Israel His s ervant, You children of Jacob, His chosen ones!

nkjv@1Chronicles:16:15 @ Rememb er His covenant forev er, The word which He commanded, for a thousand gen erations,

nkjv@1Chronicles:16:17 @ And confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel for an ev erlasting covenant,

nkjv@1Chronicles:16:18 @ Saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan As the allotment of your inh eritance,"

nkjv@1Chronicles:16:19 @ When you w ere few in numb er, Indeed v ery few, and strang ers in it.

nkjv@1Chronicles:16:20 @ When they went from one nation to anoth er, And from one kingdom to anoth er people,

nkjv@1Chronicles:16:21 @ He p ermitted no man to do them wrong; Yes, He rebuked kings for their sakes,

nkjv@1Chronicles:16:24 @ Declare His glory among the nations, His wond ers among all peoples.

nkjv@1Chronicles:16:29 @ Give to the LORD the glory due His name; Bring an off ering, and come before Him. Oh, worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness!

nkjv@1Chronicles:16:34 @ Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good! For His m ercy endures forev er.

nkjv@1Chronicles:16:35 @ And say, "Save us, O God of our salvation; Gath er us togeth er, and deliv er us from the Gentiles, To give thanks to Your holy name, To triumph in Your praise."

nkjv@1Chronicles:16:36 @ Blessed be the LORD God of Israel From ev erlasting to ev erlasting! And all the people said, "Amen!" and praised the LORD.

nkjv@1Chronicles:16:37 @ So he left Asaph and his broth ers th ere before the ark of the covenant of the LORD to minist er before the ark regularly, as ev ery day's work required;

nkjv@1Chronicles:16:38 @ and Obed-Edom with his sixty-eight brethren, including Obed-Edom the son of Jeduthun, and Hosah, to be gatekeep ers;

nkjv@1Chronicles:16:39 @ and Zadok the priest and his brethren the priests, before the tab ernacle of the LORD at the high place that was at Gibeon,

nkjv@1Chronicles:16:40 @ to off er burnt off erings to the LORD on the altar of burnt off ering regularly morning and evening, and to do according to all that is written in the Law of the LORD which He commanded Israel;

nkjv@1Chronicles:16:41 @ and with them Heman and Jeduthun and the rest who w ere chosen, who w ere designated by name, to give thanks to the LORD, because His m ercy endures forev er;

nkjv@1Chronicles:16:42 @ and with them Heman and Jeduthun, to sound aloud with trumpets and cymbals and the musical instruments of God. Now the sons of Jeduthun w ere gatekeep ers.

nkjv@1Chronicles:16:43 @ Then all the people departed, ev ery man to his house; and David returned to bless his house.

nkjv@1Chronicles:17:1 @ Now it came to pass, when David was dwelling in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, "See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD is und er tent curtains."

nkjv@1Chronicles:17:4 @ "Go and tell My s ervant David, "Thus says the LORD: "You shall not build Me a house to dwell in.

nkjv@1Chronicles:17:5 @ For I have not dwelt in a house since the time that I brought up Israel, even to this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tab ernacle to anoth er.

nkjv@1Chronicles:17:6 @ Wh erev er I have moved about with all Israel, have I ev er spoken a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to sheph erd My people, saying, "Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?""

nkjv@1Chronicles:17:7 @ Now th erefore, thus shall you say to My s ervant David, "Thus says the LORD of hosts: "I took you from the sheepfold, from following the sheep, to be rul er ov er My people Israel.

nkjv@1Chronicles:17:8 @ And I have been with you wh erev er you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you, and have made you a name like the name of the great men who are on the earth.

nkjv@1Chronicles:17:9 @ Moreov er I will appoint a place for My people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own and move no more; nor shall the sons of wickedness oppress them anymore, as previously,

nkjv@1Chronicles:17:10 @ since the time that I commanded judges to be ov er My people Israel. Also I will subdue all your enemies. Furth ermore I tell you that the LORD will build you a house.

nkjv@1Chronicles:17:11 @ And it shall be, when your days are fulfilled, when you must go to be with your fath ers, that I will set up your seed aft er you, who will be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom.

nkjv@1Chronicles:17:12 @ He shall build Me a house, and I will establish his throne forev er.

nkjv@1Chronicles:17:13 @ I will be his Fath er, and he shall be My son; and I will not take My m ercy away from him, as I took it from him who was before you.

nkjv@1Chronicles:17:14 @ And I will establish him in My house and in My kingdom forev er; and his throne shall be established forev er.""'

nkjv@1Chronicles:17:17 @ And yet this was a small thing in Your sight, O God; and You have also spoken of Your s ervant's house for a great while to come, and have regarded me according to the rank of a man of high degree, O LORD God.

nkjv@1Chronicles:17:18 @ What more can David say to You for the honor of Your s ervant? For You know Your s ervant.

nkjv@1Chronicles:17:19 @ O LORD, for Your s ervant's sake, and according to Your own heart, You have done all this greatness, in making known all these great things.

nkjv@1Chronicles:17:20 @ O LORD, th ere is none like You, nor is th ere any God besides You, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

nkjv@1Chronicles:17:22 @ For You have made Your people Israel Your v ery own people forev er; and You, LORD, have become their God.

nkjv@1Chronicles:17:23 @ "And now, O LORD, the word which You have spoken conc erning Your s ervant and conc erning his house, let it be established forev er, and do as You have said.

nkjv@1Chronicles:17:24 @ So let it be established, that Your name may be magnified forev er, saying, "The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, is Israel's God.' And let the house of Your s ervant David be established before You.

nkjv@1Chronicles:17:25 @ For You, O my God, have revealed to Your s ervant that You will build him a house. Th erefore Your s ervant has found it in his heart to pray before You.

nkjv@1Chronicles:17:26 @ And now, LORD, You are God, and have promised this goodness to Your s ervant.

nkjv@1Chronicles:17:27 @ Now You have been pleased to bless the house of Your s ervant, that it may continue before You forev er; for You have blessed it, O LORD, and it shall be blessed forev er."

nkjv@1Chronicles:18:1 @ Aft er this it came to pass that David attacked the Philistines, subdued them, and took Gath and its towns from the hand of the Philistines.

nkjv@1Chronicles:18:2 @ Then he defeated Moab, and the Moabites became David's s ervants, and brought tribute.

nkjv@1Chronicles:18:3 @ And David defeated Hadadez er king of Zobah as far as Hamath, as he went to establish his pow er by the Riv er Euphrates.

nkjv@1Chronicles:18:4 @ David took from him one thousand chariots, seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand foot soldi ers. Also David hamstrung all the chariot horses, except that he spared enough of them for one hundred chariots.

nkjv@1Chronicles:18:5 @ When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadez er king of Zobah, David killed twenty-two thousand of the Syrians.

nkjv@1Chronicles:18:6 @ Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became David's s ervants, and brought tribute. So the LORD pres erved David wh erev er he went.

nkjv@1Chronicles:18:7 @ And David took the shields of gold that w ere on the s ervants of Hadadez er, and brought them to J erusalem.

nkjv@1Chronicles:18:8 @ Also from Tibhath and from Chun, cities of Hadadez er, David brought a large amount of bronze, with which Solomon made the bronze Sea, the pillars, and the articles of bronze.

nkjv@1Chronicles:18:9 @ Now when Tou king of Hamath heard that David had defeated all the army of Hadadez er king of Zobah,

nkjv@1Chronicles:18:10 @ he sent Hadoram his son to King David, to greet him and bless him, because he had fought against Hadadez er and defeated him (for Hadadez er had been at war with Tou); and Hadoram brought with him all kinds of articles of gold, silv er, and bronze.

nkjv@1Chronicles:18:11 @ King David also dedicated these to the LORD, along with the silv er and gold that he had brought from all these nations--from Edom, from Moab, from the people of Ammon, from the Philistines, and from Amalek.

nkjv@1Chronicles:18:12 @ Moreov er Abishai the son of Z eruiah killed eighteen thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

nkjv@1Chronicles:18:13 @ He also put garrisons in Edom, and all the Edomites became David's s ervants. And the LORD pres erved David wh erev er he went.

nkjv@1Chronicles:18:14 @ So David reigned ov er all Israel, and administ ered judgment and justice to all his people.

nkjv@1Chronicles:18:15 @ Joab the son of Z eruiah was ov er the army; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was record er;

nkjv@1Chronicles:18:16 @ Zadok the son of Ahitub and Abimelech the son of Abiathar w ere the priests; Shavsha was the scribe;

nkjv@1Chronicles:18:17 @ Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was ov er the Ch erethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons w ere chief minist ers at the king's side.

nkjv@1Chronicles:19:1 @ It happened aft er this that Nahash the king of the people of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his place.

nkjv@1Chronicles:19:2 @ Then David said, "I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, because his fath er showed kindness to me." So David sent messeng ers to comfort him conc erning his fath er. And David's s ervants came to Hanun in the land of the people of Ammon to comfort him.

nkjv@1Chronicles:19:3 @ And the princes of the people of Ammon said to Hanun, "Do you think that David really honors your fath er because he has sent comfort ers to you? Did his s ervants not come to you to search and to ov erthrow and to spy out the land?"

nkjv@1Chronicles:19:4 @ Th erefore Hanun took David's s ervants, shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle, at their buttocks, and sent them away.

nkjv@1Chronicles:19:5 @ Then some went and told David about the men; and he sent to meet them, because the men w ere greatly ashamed. And the king said, "Wait at J ericho until your beards have grown, and then return."

nkjv@1Chronicles:19:6 @ When the people of Ammon saw that they had made themselves repulsive to David, Hanun and the people of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silv er to hire for themselves chariots and horsemen from Mesopotamia, from Syrian Maacah, and from Zobah.

nkjv@1Chronicles:19:7 @ So they hired for themselves thirty-two thousand chariots, with the king of Maacah and his people, who came and encamped before Medeba. Also the people of Ammon gath ered togeth er from their cities, and came to battle.

nkjv@1Chronicles:19:9 @ Then the people of Ammon came out and put themselves in battle array before the gate of the city, and the kings who had come w ere by themselves in the field.

nkjv@1Chronicles:19:11 @ And the rest of the people he put und er the command of Abishai his broth er, and they set themselves in battle array against the people of Ammon.

nkjv@1Chronicles:19:14 @ So Joab and the people who w ere with him drew near for the battle against the Syrians, and they fled before him.

nkjv@1Chronicles:19:15 @ When the people of Ammon saw that the Syrians w ere fleeing, they also fled before Abishai his broth er, and ent ered the city. So Joab went to J erusalem.

nkjv@1Chronicles:19:16 @ Now when the Syrians saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they sent messeng ers and brought the Syrians who w ere beyond the Riv er, and Shophach the command er of Hadadez er's army went before them.

nkjv@1Chronicles:19:17 @ When it was told David, he gath ered all Israel, crossed ov er the Jordan and came upon them, and set up in battle array against them. So when David had set up in battle array against the Syrians, they fought with him.

nkjv@1Chronicles:19:18 @ Then the Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed seven thousand chariote ers and forty thousand foot soldi ers of the Syrians, and killed Shophach the command er of the army.

nkjv@1Chronicles:19:19 @ And when the s ervants of Hadadez er saw that they w ere defeated by Israel, they made peace with David and became his s ervants. So the Syrians w ere not willing to help the people of Ammon anymore.

nkjv@1Chronicles:20:1 @ It happened in the spring of the year, at the time kings go out to battle, that Joab led out the armed forces and ravaged the country of the people of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at J erusalem. And Joab defeated Rabbah and ov erthrew it.

nkjv@1Chronicles:20:2 @ Then David took their king's crown from his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and th ere w ere precious stones in it. And it was set on David's head. Also he brought out the spoil of the city in great abundance.

nkjv@1Chronicles:20:3 @ And he brought out the people who w ere in it, and put them to work with saws, with iron picks, and with axes. So David did to all the cities of the people of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to J erusalem.

nkjv@1Chronicles:20:4 @ Now it happened aft erward that war broke out at Gez er with the Philistines, at which time Sibbechai the Hushathite killed Sippai, who was one of the sons of the giant. And they w ere subdued.

nkjv@1Chronicles:20:5 @ Again th ere was war with the Philistines, and Elhanan the son of Jair killed Lahmi the broth er of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weav er's beam.

nkjv@1Chronicles:20:6 @ Yet again th ere was war at Gath, wh ere th ere was a man of great stature, with twenty-four fing ers and toes, six on each hand and six on each foot; and he also was born to the giant.

nkjv@1Chronicles:20:7 @ So when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea, David's broth er, killed him.

nkjv@1Chronicles:20:8 @ These w ere born to the giant in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his s ervants.

nkjv@1Chronicles:21:1 @ Now Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to numb er Israel.

nkjv@1Chronicles:21:2 @ So David said to Joab and to the lead ers of the people, "Go, numb er Israel from Be ersheba to Dan, and bring the numb er of them to me that I may know it."

nkjv@1Chronicles:21:3 @ And Joab answ ered, "May the LORD make His people a hundred times more than they are. But, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's s ervants? Why then does my lord require this thing? Why should he be a cause of guilt in Israel?"

nkjv@1Chronicles:21:4 @ Nev ertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Th erefore Joab departed and went throughout all Israel and came to J erusalem.

nkjv@1Chronicles:21:5 @ Then Joab gave the sum of the numb er of the people to David. All Israel had one million one hundred thousand men who drew the sword, and Judah had four hundred and seventy thousand men who drew the sword.

nkjv@1Chronicles:21:7 @ And God was displeased with this thing; th erefore He struck Israel.

nkjv@1Chronicles:21:8 @ So David said to God, "I have sinned greatly, because I have done this thing; but now, I pray, take away the iniquity of Your s ervant, for I have done v ery foolishly."

nkjv@1Chronicles:21:9 @ Then the LORD spoke to Gad, David's se er, saying,

nkjv@1Chronicles:21:10 @ "Go and tell David, saying, "Thus says the LORD: "I off er you three things; choose one of them for yourself, that I may do it to you.""'

nkjv@1Chronicles:21:12 @ eith er three years of famine, or three months to be defeated by your foes with the sword of your enemies ov ertaking you, or else for three days the sword of the LORD--the plague in the land, with the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the t erritory of Israel.' Now consid er what answ er I should take back to Him who sent me."

nkjv@1Chronicles:21:13 @ And David said to Gad, "I am in great distress. Please let me fall into the hand of the LORD, for His m ercies are v ery great; but do not let me fall into the hand of man."

nkjv@1Chronicles:21:15 @ And God sent an angel to J erusalem to destroy it. As he was destroying, the LORD looked and relented of the disast er, and said to the angel who was destroying, "It is enough; now restrain your hand." And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

nkjv@1Chronicles:21:16 @ Then David lifted his eyes and saw the angel of the LORD standing between earth and heaven, having in his hand a drawn sword stretched out ov er J erusalem. So David and the eld ers, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.

nkjv@1Chronicles:21:17 @ And David said to God, "Was it not I who commanded the people to be numb ered? I am the one who has sinned and done evil indeed; but these sheep, what have they done? Let Your hand, I pray, O LORD my God, be against me and my fath er's house, but not against Your people that they should be plagued."

nkjv@1Chronicles:21:18 @ Th erefore, the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to David that David should go and erect an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

nkjv@1Chronicles:21:20 @ Now Ornan turned and saw the angel; and his four sons who w ere with him hid themselves, but Ornan continued threshing wheat.

nkjv@1Chronicles:21:23 @ But Ornan said to David, "Take it to yourself, and let my lord the king do what is good in his eyes. Look, I also give you the oxen for burnt off erings, the threshing implements for wood, and the wheat for the grain off ering; I give it all."

nkjv@1Chronicles:21:24 @ Then King David said to Ornan, "No, but I will surely buy it for the full price, for I will not take what is yours for the LORD, nor off er burnt off erings with that which costs me nothing."

nkjv@1Chronicles:21:26 @ And David built th ere an altar to the LORD, and off ered burnt off erings and peace off erings, and called on the LORD; and He answ ered him from heaven by fire on the altar of burnt off ering.

nkjv@1Chronicles:21:28 @ At that time, when David saw that the LORD had answ ered him on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he sacrificed th ere.

nkjv@1Chronicles:21:29 @ For the tab ernacle of the LORD and the altar of the burnt off ering, which Moses had made in the wild erness, w ere at that time at the high place in Gibeon.

nkjv@1Chronicles:22:1 @ Then David said, "This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of burnt off ering for Israel."

nkjv@1Chronicles:22:2 @ So David commanded to gath er the aliens who w ere in the land of Israel; and he appointed masons to cut hewn stones to build the house of God.

nkjv@1Chronicles:22:5 @ Now David said, "Solomon my son is young and inexp erienced, and the house to be built for the LORD must be exceedingly magnificent, famous and glorious throughout all countries. I will now make preparation for it." So David made abundant preparations before his death.

nkjv@1Chronicles:22:10 @ He shall build a house for My name, and he shall be My son, and I will be his Fath er; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom ov er Israel forev er.'

nkjv@1Chronicles:22:11 @ Now, my son, may the LORD be with you; and may you prosp er, and build the house of the LORD your God, as He has said to you.

nkjv@1Chronicles:22:12 @ Only may the LORD give you wisdom and und erstanding, and give you charge conc erning Israel, that you may keep the law of the LORD your God.

nkjv@1Chronicles:22:13 @ Then you will prosp er, if you take care to fulfill the statutes and judgments with which the LORD charged Moses conc erning Israel. Be strong and of good courage; do not fear nor be dismayed.

nkjv@1Chronicles:22:14 @ Indeed I have taken much trouble to prepare for the house of the LORD one hundred thousand talents of gold and one million talents of silv er, and bronze and iron beyond measure, for it is so abundant. I have prepared timb er and stone also, and you may add to them.

nkjv@1Chronicles:22:15 @ Moreov er th ere are workmen with you in abundance: woodsmen and stonecutt ers, and all types of skillful men for ev ery kind of work.

nkjv@1Chronicles:22:16 @ Of gold and silv er and bronze and iron th ere is no limit. Arise and begin working, and the LORD be with you."

nkjv@1Chronicles:22:17 @ David also commanded all the lead ers of Israel to help Solomon his son, saying,

nkjv@1Chronicles:22:18 @ "Is not the LORD your God with you? And has He not given you rest on ev ery side? For He has given the inhabitants of the land into my hand, and the land is subdued before the LORD and before His people.

nkjv@1Chronicles:22:19 @ Now set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God. Th erefore arise and build the sanctuary of the LORD God, to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD and the holy articles of God into the house that is to be built for the name of the LORD."

nkjv@1Chronicles:23:1 @ So when David was old and full of days, he made his son Solomon king ov er Israel.

nkjv@1Chronicles:23:2 @ And he gath ered togeth er all the lead ers of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.

nkjv@1Chronicles:23:3 @ Now the Levites w ere numb ered from the age of thirty years and above; and the numb er of individual males was thirty-eight thousand.

nkjv@1Chronicles:23:4 @ Of these, twenty-four thousand w ere to look aft er the work of the house of the LORD, six thousand w ere offic ers and judges,

nkjv@1Chronicles:23:5 @ four thousand w ere gatekeep ers, and four thousand praised the LORD with musical instruments, "which I made," said David, "for giving praise."

nkjv@1Chronicles:23:6 @ Also David separated them into divisions among the sons of Levi: G ershon, Kohath, and M erari.

nkjv@1Chronicles:23:7 @ Of the G ershonites: Laadan and Shimei.

nkjv@1Chronicles:23:9 @ The sons of Shimei: Shelomith, Haziel, and Haran--three in all. These w ere the heads of the fath ers' houses of Laadan.

nkjv@1Chronicles:23:10 @ And the sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, Jeush, and B eriah. These w ere the four sons of Shimei.

nkjv@1Chronicles:23:11 @ Jahath was the first and Zizah the second. But Jeush and B eriah did not have many sons; th erefore they w ere assigned as one fath er's house.

nkjv@1Chronicles:23:13 @ The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses; and Aaron was set apart, he and his sons forev er, that he should sanctify the most holy things, to burn incense before the LORD, to minist er to Him, and to give the blessing in His name forev er.

nkjv@1Chronicles:23:14 @ Now the sons of Moses the man of God w ere reckoned to the tribe of Levi.

nkjv@1Chronicles:23:15 @ The sons of Moses w ere G ershon and Eliez er.

nkjv@1Chronicles:23:16 @ Of the sons of G ershon, Shebuel was the first.

nkjv@1Chronicles:23:17 @ Of the descendants of Eliez er, Rehabiah was the first. And Eliez er had no oth er sons, but the sons of Rehabiah w ere v ery many.

nkjv@1Chronicles:23:19 @ Of the sons of Hebron, J eriah was the first, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.

nkjv@1Chronicles:23:21 @ The sons of M erari w ere Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli w ere Eleazar and Kish.

nkjv@1Chronicles:23:22 @ And Eleazar died, and had no sons, but only daught ers; and their brethren, the sons of Kish, took them as wives.

nkjv@1Chronicles:23:23 @ The sons of Mushi w ere Mahli, Ed er, and J eremoth--three in all.

nkjv@1Chronicles:23:24 @ These w ere the sons of Levi by their fath ers' houses--the heads of the fath ers' houses as they w ere counted individually by the numb er of their names, who did the work for the s ervice of the house of the LORD, from the age of twenty years and above.

nkjv@1Chronicles:23:25 @ For David said, "The LORD God of Israel has given rest to His people, that they may dwell in J erusalem forev er";

nkjv@1Chronicles:23:26 @ and also to the Levites, "They shall no long er carry the tab ernacle, or any of the articles for its s ervice."

nkjv@1Chronicles:23:27 @ For by the last words of David the Levites w ere numb ered from twenty years old and above;

nkjv@1Chronicles:23:28 @ because their duty was to help the sons of Aaron in the s ervice of the house of the LORD, in the courts and in the chamb ers, in the purifying of all holy things and the work of the s ervice of the house of God,

nkjv@1Chronicles:23:29 @ both with the showbread and the fine flour for the grain off ering, with the unleavened cakes and what is baked in the pan, with what is mixed and with all kinds of measures and sizes;

nkjv@1Chronicles:23:30 @ to stand ev ery morning to thank and praise the LORD, and likewise at evening;

nkjv@1Chronicles:23:31 @ and at ev ery presentation of a burnt off ering to the LORD on the Sabbaths and on the New Moons and on the set feasts, by numb er according to the ordinance gov erning them, regularly before the LORD;

nkjv@1Chronicles:23:32 @ and that they should attend to the needs of the tab ernacle of meeting, the needs of the holy place, and the needs of the sons of Aaron their brethren in the work of the house of the LORD.

nkjv@1Chronicles:24:1 @ Now these are the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron w ere Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

nkjv@1Chronicles:24:2 @ And Nadab and Abihu died before their fath er, and had no children; th erefore Eleazar and Ithamar minist ered as priests.

nkjv@1Chronicles:24:3 @ Then David with Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, divided them according to the schedule of their s ervice.

nkjv@1Chronicles:24:4 @ Th ere w ere more lead ers found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar, and thus they w ere divided. Among the sons of Eleazar w ere sixteen heads of their fath ers' houses, and eight heads of their fath ers' houses among the sons of Ithamar.

nkjv@1Chronicles:24:5 @ Thus they w ere divided by lot, one group as anoth er, for th ere w ere officials of the sanctuary and officials of the house of God, from the sons of Eleazar and from the sons of Ithamar.

nkjv@1Chronicles:24:6 @ And the scribe, Shemaiah the son of Nethanel, one of the Levites, wrote them down before the king, the lead ers, Zadok the priest, Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and the heads of the fath ers' houses of the priests and Levites, one fath er's house taken for Eleazar and one for Ithamar.

nkjv@1Chronicles:24:14 @ the fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Imm er,

nkjv@1Chronicles:24:19 @ This was the schedule of their s ervice for coming into the house of the LORD according to their ordinance by the hand of Aaron their fath er, as the LORD God of Israel had commanded him.

nkjv@1Chronicles:24:21 @ Conc erning Rehabiah, of the sons of Rehabiah, the first was Isshiah.

nkjv@1Chronicles:24:23 @ Of the sons of Hebron, J eriah was the first, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.

nkjv@1Chronicles:24:25 @ The broth er of Michah, Isshiah; of the sons of Isshiah, Zechariah.

nkjv@1Chronicles:24:26 @ The sons of M erari w ere Mahli and Mushi; the son of Jaaziah, Beno.

nkjv@1Chronicles:24:27 @ The sons of M erari by Jaaziah w ere Beno, Shoham, Zaccur, and Ibri.

nkjv@1Chronicles:24:29 @ Of Kish: the son of Kish, J erahmeel.

nkjv@1Chronicles:24:30 @ Also the sons of Mushi w ere Mahli, Ed er, and J erimoth. These w ere the sons of the Levites according to their fath ers' houses.

nkjv@1Chronicles:24:31 @ These also cast lots just as their broth ers the sons of Aaron did, in the presence of King David, Zadok, Ahimelech, and the heads of the fath ers' houses of the priests and Levites. The chief fath ers did just as their young er brethren.

nkjv@1Chronicles:25:1 @ Moreov er David and the captains of the army separated for the s ervice some of the sons of Asaph, of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, stringed instruments, and cymbals. And the numb er of the skilled men p erforming their s ervice was:

nkjv@1Chronicles:25:2 @ Of the sons of Asaph: Zaccur, Joseph, Nethaniah, and Asharelah; the sons of Asaph w ere und er the direction of Asaph, who prophesied according to the ord er of the king.

nkjv@1Chronicles:25:3 @ Of Jeduthun, the sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, Z eri, Jeshaiah, Shimei, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, und er the direction of their fath er Jeduthun, who prophesied with a harp to give thanks and to praise the LORD.

nkjv@1Chronicles:25:4 @ Of Heman, the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, J erimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, Romamti-Ez er, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, and Mahazioth.

nkjv@1Chronicles:25:5 @ All these w ere the sons of Heman the king's se er in the words of God, to exalt his horn. For God gave Heman fourteen sons and three daught ers.

nkjv@1Chronicles:25:6 @ All these w ere und er the direction of their fath er for the music in the house of the LORD, with cymbals, stringed instruments, and harps, for the s ervice of the house of God. Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman w ere und er the authority of the king.

nkjv@1Chronicles:25:7 @ So the numb er of them, with their brethren who w ere instructed in the songs of the LORD, all who w ere skillful, was two hundred and eighty-eight.

nkjv@1Chronicles:25:8 @ And they cast lots for their duty, the small as well as the great, the teach er with the student.

nkjv@1Chronicles:25:22 @ the fifteenth for J eremoth, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

nkjv@1Chronicles:25:31 @ the twenty-fourth for Romamti-Ez er, his sons and his brethren, twelve.

nkjv@1Chronicles:26:1 @ Conc erning the divisions of the gatekeep ers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.

nkjv@1Chronicles:26:2 @ And the sons of Meshelemiah w ere Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth,

nkjv@1Chronicles:26:4 @ Moreov er the sons of Obed-Edom w ere Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, Sacar the fourth, Nethanel the fifth,

nkjv@1Chronicles:26:6 @ Also to Shemaiah his son w ere sons born who gov erned their fath ers' houses, because they w ere men of great ability.

nkjv@1Chronicles:26:7 @ The sons of Shemaiah w ere Othni, Rephael, Obed, and Elzabad, whose broth ers Elihu and Semachiah w ere able men.

nkjv@1Chronicles:26:8 @ All these w ere of the sons of Obed-Edom, they and their sons and their brethren, able men with strength for the work: sixty-two of Obed-Edom.

nkjv@1Chronicles:26:10 @ Also Hosah, of the children of M erari, had sons: Shimri the first (for though he was not the firstborn, his fath er made him the first),

nkjv@1Chronicles:26:11 @ Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth; all the sons and brethren of Hosah w ere thirteen.

nkjv@1Chronicles:26:12 @ Among these w ere the divisions of the gatekeep ers, among the chief men, having duties just like their brethren, to s erve in the house of the LORD.

nkjv@1Chronicles:26:13 @ And they cast lots for each gate, the small as well as the great, according to their fath er's house.

nkjv@1Chronicles:26:17 @ On the east w ere six Levites, on the north four each day, on the south four each day, and for the storehouse two by two.

nkjv@1Chronicles:26:18 @ As for the Parbar on the west, th ere w ere four on the highway and two at the Parbar.

nkjv@1Chronicles:26:19 @ These w ere the divisions of the gatekeep ers among the sons of Korah and among the sons of M erari.

nkjv@1Chronicles:26:20 @ Of the Levites, Ahijah was ov er the treasuries of the house of God and ov er the treasuries of the dedicated things.

nkjv@1Chronicles:26:21 @ The sons of Laadan, the descendants of the G ershonites of Laadan, heads of their fath ers' houses, of Laadan the G ershonite: Jehieli.

nkjv@1Chronicles:26:22 @ The sons of Jehieli, Zetham and Joel his broth er, w ere ov er the treasuries of the house of the LORD.

nkjv@1Chronicles:26:24 @ Shebuel the son of G ershom, the son of Moses, was ov erse er of the treasuries.

nkjv@1Chronicles:26:25 @ And his brethren by Eliez er w ere Rehabiah his son, Jeshaiah his son, Joram his son, Zichri his son, and Shelomith his son.

nkjv@1Chronicles:26:26 @ This Shelomith and his brethren w ere ov er all the treasuries of the dedicated things which King David and the heads of fath ers' houses, the captains ov er thousands and hundreds, and the captains of the army, had dedicated.

nkjv@1Chronicles:26:28 @ And all that Samuel the se er, Saul the son of Kish, Abn er the son of N er, and Joab the son of Z eruiah had dedicated, ev ery dedicated thing, was und er the hand of Shelomith and his brethren.

nkjv@1Chronicles:26:29 @ Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons p erformed duties as officials and judges ov er Israel outside J erusalem.

nkjv@1Chronicles:26:30 @ Of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brethren, one thousand seven hundred able men, had the ov ersight of Israel on the west side of the Jordan for all the business of the LORD, and in the s ervice of the king.

nkjv@1Chronicles:26:31 @ Among the Hebronites, J erijah was head of the Hebronites according to his genealogy of the fath ers. In the fortieth year of the reign of David they w ere sought, and th ere w ere found among them capable men at Jaz er of Gilead.

nkjv@1Chronicles:26:32 @ And his brethren w ere two thousand seven hundred able men, heads of fath ers' houses, whom King David made officials ov er the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, for ev ery matt er p ertaining to God and the affairs of the king.

nkjv@1Chronicles:27:1 @ And the children of Israel, according to their numb er, the heads of fath ers' houses, the captains of thousands and hundreds and their offic ers, s erved the king in ev ery matt er of the military divisions. These divisions came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, each division having twenty-four thousand.

nkjv@1Chronicles:27:2 @ Ov er the first division for the first month was Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel, and in his division w ere twenty-four thousand;

nkjv@1Chronicles:27:3 @ he was of the children of P erez, and the chief of all the captains of the army for the first month.

nkjv@1Chronicles:27:4 @ Ov er the division of the second month was Dodai an Ahohite, and of his division Mikloth also was the lead er; in his division w ere twenty-four thousand.

nkjv@1Chronicles:27:5 @ The third captain of the army for the third month was Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada the priest, who was chief; in his division w ere twenty-four thousand.

nkjv@1Chronicles:27:6 @ This was the Benaiah who was mighty among the thirty, and was ov er the thirty; in his division was Ammizabad his son.

nkjv@1Chronicles:27:7 @ The fourth captain for the fourth month was Asahel the broth er of Joab, and Zebadiah his son aft er him; in his division w ere twenty-four thousand.

nkjv@1Chronicles:27:8 @ The fifth captain for the fifth month was Shamhuth the Izrahite; in his division w ere twenty-four thousand.

nkjv@1Chronicles:27:9 @ The sixth captain for the sixth month was Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite; in his division w ere twenty-four thousand.

nkjv@1Chronicles:27:10 @ The seventh captain for the seventh month was Helez the Pelonite, of the children of Ephraim; in his division w ere twenty-four thousand.

nkjv@1Chronicles:27:11 @ The eighth captain for the eighth month was Sibbechai the Hushathite, of the Zarhites; in his division w ere twenty-four thousand.

nkjv@1Chronicles:27:12 @ The ninth captain for the ninth month was Abiez er the Anathothite, of the Benjamites; in his division w ere twenty-four thousand.

nkjv@1Chronicles:27:13 @ The tenth captain for the tenth month was Maharai the Netophathite, of the Zarhites; in his division w ere twenty-four thousand.

nkjv@1Chronicles:27:14 @ The eleventh captain for the eleventh month was Benaiah the Pirathonite, of the children of Ephraim; in his division w ere twenty-four thousand.

nkjv@1Chronicles:27:15 @ The twelfth captain for the twelfth month was Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel; in his division w ere twenty-four thousand.

nkjv@1Chronicles:27:16 @ Furth ermore, ov er the tribes of Israel: the offic er ov er the Reubenites was Eliez er the son of Zichri; ov er the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maachah;

nkjv@1Chronicles:27:17 @ ov er the Levites, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel; ov er the Aaronites, Zadok;

nkjv@1Chronicles:27:18 @ ov er Judah, Elihu, one of David's broth ers; ov er Issachar, Omri the son of Michael;

nkjv@1Chronicles:27:19 @ ov er Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah; ov er Naphtali, J erimoth the son of Azriel;

nkjv@1Chronicles:27:20 @ ov er the children of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Azaziah; ov er the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah;

nkjv@1Chronicles:27:21 @ ov er the half-tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah; ov er Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abn er;

nkjv@1Chronicles:27:22 @ ov er Dan, Azarel the son of J eroham. These w ere the lead ers of the tribes of Israel.

nkjv@1Chronicles:27:23 @ But David did not take the numb er of those twenty years old and und er, because the LORD had said He would multiply Israel like the stars of the heavens.

nkjv@1Chronicles:27:24 @ Joab the son of Z eruiah began a census, but he did not finish, for wrath came upon Israel because of this census; nor was the numb er recorded in the account of the chronicles of King David.

nkjv@1Chronicles:27:25 @ And Azmaveth the son of Adiel was ov er the king's treasuries; and Jehonathan the son of Uzziah was ov er the storehouses in the field, in the cities, in the villages, and in the fortresses.

nkjv@1Chronicles:27:26 @ Ezri the son of Chelub was ov er those who did the work of the field for tilling the ground.

nkjv@1Chronicles:27:27 @ And Shimei the Ramathite was ov er the vineyards, and Zabdi the Shiphmite was ov er the produce of the vineyards for the supply of wine.

nkjv@1Chronicles:27:28 @ Baal-Hanan the Ged erite was ov er the olive trees and the sycamore trees that w ere in the lowlands, and Joash was ov er the store of oil.

nkjv@1Chronicles:27:29 @ And Shitrai the Sharonite was ov er the h erds that fed in Sharon, and Shaphat the son of Adlai was ov er the h erds that w ere in the valleys.

nkjv@1Chronicles:27:30 @ Obil the Ishmaelite was ov er the camels, Jehdeiah the M eronothite was ov er the donkeys,

nkjv@1Chronicles:27:31 @ and Jaziz the Hagrite was ov er the flocks. All these w ere the officials ov er King David's prop erty.

nkjv@1Chronicles:27:34 @ Aft er Ahithophel was Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, then Abiathar. And the gen eral of the king's army was Joab.

nkjv@1Chronicles:28:1 @ Now David assembled at J erusalem all the lead ers of Israel: the offic ers of the tribes and the captains of the divisions who s erved the king, the captains ov er thousands and captains ov er hundreds, and the stewards ov er all the substance and possessions of the king and of his sons, with the officials, the valiant men, and all the mighty men of valor.

nkjv@1Chronicles:28:4 @ Howev er the LORD God of Israel chose me above all the house of my fath er to be king ov er Israel forev er, for He has chosen Judah to be the rul er. And of the house of Judah, the house of my fath er, and among the sons of my fath er, He was pleased with me to make me king ov er all Israel.

nkjv@1Chronicles:28:5 @ And of all my sons (for the LORD has given me many sons) He has chosen my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the LORD ov er Israel.

nkjv@1Chronicles:28:6 @ Now He said to me, "It is your son Solomon who shall build My house and My courts; for I have chosen him to be My son, and I will be his Fath er.

nkjv@1Chronicles:28:7 @ Moreov er I will establish his kingdom forev er, if he is steadfast to obs erve My commandments and My judgments, as it is this day.'

nkjv@1Chronicles:28:8 @ Now th erefore, in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the LORD, and in the hearing of our God, be careful to seek out all the commandments of the LORD your God, that you may possess this good land, and leave it as an inh eritance for your children aft er you forev er.

nkjv@1Chronicles:28:9 @ "As for you, my son Solomon, know the God of your fath er, and s erve Him with a loyal heart and with a willing mind; for the LORD searches all hearts and und erstands all the intent of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will cast you off forev er.

nkjv@1Chronicles:28:10 @ Consid er now, for the LORD has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary; be strong, and do it."

nkjv@1Chronicles:28:11 @ Then David gave his son Solomon the plans for the vestibule, its houses, its treasuries, its upp er chamb ers, its inn er chamb ers, and the place of the m ercy seat;

nkjv@1Chronicles:28:12 @ and the plans for all that he had by the Spirit, of the courts of the house of the LORD, of all the chamb ers all around, of the treasuries of the house of God, and of the treasuries for the dedicated things;

nkjv@1Chronicles:28:13 @ also for the division of the priests and the Levites, for all the work of the s ervice of the house of the LORD, and for all the articles of s ervice in the house of the LORD.

nkjv@1Chronicles:28:14 @ He gave gold by weight for things of gold, for all articles used in ev ery kind of s ervice; also silv er for all articles of silv er by weight, for all articles used in ev ery kind of s ervice;

nkjv@1Chronicles:28:15 @ the weight for the lampstands of gold, and their lamps of gold, by weight for each lampstand and its lamps; for the lampstands of silv er by weight, for the lampstand and its lamps, according to the use of each lampstand.

nkjv@1Chronicles:28:16 @ And by weight he gave gold for the tables of the showbread, for each table, and silv er for the tables of silv er;

nkjv@1Chronicles:28:17 @ also pure gold for the forks, the basins, the pitch ers of pure gold, and the golden bowls--he gave gold by weight for ev ery bowl; and for the silv er bowls, silv er by weight for ev ery bowl;

nkjv@1Chronicles:28:18 @ and refined gold by weight for the altar of incense, and for the construction of the chariot, that is, the gold ch erubim that spread their wings and ov ershadowed the ark of the covenant of the LORD.

nkjv@1Chronicles:28:19 @ "All this," said David, "the LORD made me und erstand in writing, by His hand upon me, all the works of these plans."

nkjv@1Chronicles:28:20 @ And David said to his son Solomon, "Be strong and of good courage, and do it; do not fear nor be dismayed, for the LORD God--my God--will be with you. He will not leave you nor forsake you, until you have finished all the work for the s ervice of the house of the LORD.

nkjv@1Chronicles:28:21 @ H ere are the divisions of the priests and the Levites for all the s ervice of the house of God; and ev ery willing craftsman will be with you for all mann er of workmanship, for ev ery kind of s ervice; also the lead ers and all the people will be completely at your command."

nkjv@1Chronicles:29:1 @ Furth ermore King David said to all the assembly: "My son Solomon, whom alone God has chosen, is young and inexp erienced; and the work is great, because the temple is not for man but for the LORD God.

nkjv@1Chronicles:29:2 @ Now for the house of my God I have prepared with all my might: gold for things to be made of gold, silv er for things of silv er, bronze for things of bronze, iron for things of iron, wood for things of wood, onyx stones, stones to be set, glistening stones of various colors, all kinds of precious stones, and marble slabs in abundance.

nkjv@1Chronicles:29:3 @ Moreov er, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, I have given to the house of my God, ov er and above all that I have prepared for the holy house, my own special treasure of gold and silv er:

nkjv@1Chronicles:29:4 @ three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silv er, to ov erlay the walls of the houses;

nkjv@1Chronicles:29:5 @ the gold for things of gold and the silv er for things of silv er, and for all kinds of work to be done by the hands of craftsmen. Who then is willing to consecrate himself this day to the LORD?"

nkjv@1Chronicles:29:6 @ Then the lead ers of the fath ers' houses, lead ers of the tribes of Israel, the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the offic ers ov er the king's work, off ered willingly.

nkjv@1Chronicles:29:7 @ They gave for the work of the house of God five thousand talents and ten thousand darics of gold, ten thousand talents of silv er, eighteen thousand talents of bronze, and one hundred thousand talents of iron.

nkjv@1Chronicles:29:8 @ And whoev er had precious stones gave them to the treasury of the house of the LORD, into the hand of Jehiel the G ershonite.

nkjv@1Chronicles:29:9 @ Then the people rejoiced, for they had off ered willingly, because with a loyal heart they had off ered willingly to the LORD; and King David also rejoiced greatly.

nkjv@1Chronicles:29:10 @ Th erefore David blessed the LORD before all the assembly; and David said: "Blessed are You, LORD God of Israel, our Fath er, forev er and ev er.

nkjv@1Chronicles:29:11 @ Yours, O LORD, is the greatness, The pow er and the glory, The victory and the majesty; For all that is in heaven and in earth is Yours; Yours is the kingdom, O LORD, And You are exalted as head ov er all.

nkjv@1Chronicles:29:12 @ Both riches and honor come from You, And You reign ov er all. In Your hand is pow er and might; In Your hand it is to make great And to give strength to all.

nkjv@1Chronicles:29:13 @ "Now th erefore, our God, We thank You And praise Your glorious name.

nkjv@1Chronicles:29:14 @ But who am I, and who are my people, That we should be able to off er so willingly as this? For all things come from You, And of Your own we have given You.

nkjv@1Chronicles:29:15 @ For we are aliens and pilgrims before You, As w ere all our fath ers; Our days on earth are as a shadow, And without hope.

nkjv@1Chronicles:29:17 @ I know also, my God, that You test the heart and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly off ered all these things; and now with joy I have seen Your people, who are present h ere to off er willingly to You.

nkjv@1Chronicles:29:18 @ O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our fath ers, keep this forev er in the intent of the thoughts of the heart of Your people, and fix their heart toward You.

nkjv@1Chronicles:29:20 @ Then David said to all the assembly, "Now bless the LORD your God." So all the assembly blessed the LORD God of their fath ers, and bowed their heads and prostrated themselves before the LORD and the king.

nkjv@1Chronicles:29:21 @ And they made sacrifices to the LORD and off ered burnt off erings to the LORD on the next day: a thousand bulls, a thousand rams, a thousand lambs, with their drink off erings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel.

nkjv@1Chronicles:29:22 @ So they ate and drank before the LORD with great gladness on that day. And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and anointed him before the LORD to be the lead er, and Zadok to be priest.

nkjv@1Chronicles:29:23 @ Then Solomon sat on the throne of the LORD as king instead of David his fath er, and prosp ered; and all Israel obeyed him.

nkjv@1Chronicles:29:24 @ All the lead ers and the mighty men, and also all the sons of King David, submitted themselves to King Solomon.

nkjv@1Chronicles:29:26 @ Thus David the son of Jesse reigned ov er all Israel.

nkjv@1Chronicles:29:27 @ And the p eriod that he reigned ov er Israel was forty years; seven years he reigned in Hebron, and thirty-three years he reigned in J erusalem.

nkjv@1Chronicles:29:29 @ Now the acts of King David, first and last, indeed they are written in the book of Samuel the se er, in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the se er,

nkjv@2Chronicles:1:2 @ And Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, to the judges, and to ev ery lead er in all Israel, the heads of the fath ers' houses.

nkjv@2Chronicles:1:3 @ Then Solomon, and all the assembly with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for the tab ernacle of meeting with God was th ere, which Moses the s ervant of the LORD had made in the wild erness.

nkjv@2Chronicles:1:4 @ But David had brought up the ark of God from Kirjath Jearim to the place David had prepared for it, for he had pitched a tent for it at J erusalem.

nkjv@2Chronicles:1:5 @ Now the bronze altar that Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, he put before the tab ernacle of the LORD; Solomon and the assembly sought Him th ere.

nkjv@2Chronicles:1:6 @ And Solomon went up th ere to the bronze altar before the LORD, which was at the tab ernacle of meeting, and off ered a thousand burnt off erings on it.

nkjv@2Chronicles:1:8 @ And Solomon said to God: "You have shown great m ercy to David my fath er, and have made me king in his place.

nkjv@2Chronicles:1:9 @ Now, O LORD God, let Your promise to David my fath er be established, for You have made me king ov er a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.

nkjv@2Chronicles:1:11 @ Then God said to Solomon: "Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked riches or wealth or honor or the life of your enemies, nor have you asked long life--but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you may judge My people ov er whom I have made you king--

nkjv@2Chronicles:1:12 @ wisdom and knowledge are granted to you; and I will give you riches and wealth and honor, such as none of the kings have had who w ere before you, nor shall any aft er you have the like."

nkjv@2Chronicles:1:13 @ So Solomon came to J erusalem from the high place that was at Gibeon, from before the tab ernacle of meeting, and reigned ov er Israel.

nkjv@2Chronicles:1:14 @ And Solomon gath ered chariots and horsemen; he had one thousand four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in J erusalem.

nkjv@2Chronicles:1:15 @ Also the king made silv er and gold as common in J erusalem as stones, and he made cedars as abundant as the sycamores which are in the lowland.

nkjv@2Chronicles:1:16 @ And Solomon had horses imported from Egypt and Keveh; the king's m erchants bought them in Keveh at the current price.

nkjv@2Chronicles:1:17 @ They also acquired and imported from Egypt a chariot for six hundred shekels of silv er, and a horse for one hundred and fifty; thus, through their agents, they exported them to all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Syria.

nkjv@2Chronicles:2:1 @ Then Solomon det ermined to build a temple for the name of the LORD, and a royal house for himself.

nkjv@2Chronicles:2:2 @ Solomon selected seventy thousand men to bear burdens, eighty thousand to quarry stone in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred to ov ersee them.

nkjv@2Chronicles:2:3 @ Then Solomon sent to Hiram king of Tyre, saying: 4 As you have dealt with David my fath er, and sent him cedars to build himself a house to dwell in, so deal with me.

nkjv@2Chronicles:2:4 @ Behold, I am building a temple for the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate it to Him, to burn before Him sweet incense, for the continual showbread, for the burnt off erings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths, on the New Moons, and on the set feasts of the LORD our God. This is an ordinance forev er to Israel.

nkjv@2Chronicles:2:5 @ And the temple which I build will be great, for our God is great er than all gods.

nkjv@2Chronicles:2:7 @ Th erefore send me at once a man skillful to work in gold and silv er, in bronze and iron, in purple and crimson and blue, who has skill to engrave with the skillful men who are with me in Judah and J erusalem, whom David my fath er provided.

nkjv@2Chronicles:2:8 @ Also send me cedar and cypress and algum logs from Lebanon, for I know that your s ervants have skill to cut timb er in Lebanon; and indeed my s ervants will be with your s ervants,

nkjv@2Chronicles:2:9 @ to prepare timb er for me in abundance, for the temple which I am about to build shall be great and wond erful.

nkjv@2Chronicles:2:10 @ And indeed I will give to your s ervants, the woodsmen who cut timb er, twenty thousand kors of ground wheat, twenty thousand kors of barley, twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.

nkjv@2Chronicles:2:11 @ Then Hiram king of Tyre answ ered in writing, which he sent to Solomon: 4 Because the LORD loves His people, He has made you king ov er them.

nkjv@2Chronicles:2:12 @ Hiram also said: 4 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, for He has given King David a wise son, endowed with prudence and und erstanding, who will build a temple for the LORD and a royal house for himself!

nkjv@2Chronicles:2:13 @ And now I have sent a skillful man, endowed with und erstanding, Huram my mast er craftsman

nkjv@2Chronicles:2:14 @ (the son of a woman of the daught ers of Dan, and his fath er was a man of Tyre), skilled to work in gold and silv er, bronze and iron, stone and wood, purple and blue, fine linen and crimson, and to make any engraving and to accomplish any plan which may be given to him, with your skillful men and with the skillful men of my lord David your fath er.

nkjv@2Chronicles:2:15 @ Now th erefore, the wheat, the barley, the oil, and the wine which my lord has spoken of, let him send to his s ervants.

nkjv@2Chronicles:2:16 @ And we will cut wood from Lebanon, as much as you need; we will bring it to you in rafts by sea to Joppa, and you will carry it up to J erusalem.

nkjv@2Chronicles:2:17 @ Then Solomon numb ered all the aliens who w ere in the land of Israel, aft er the census in which David his fath er had numb ered them; and th ere w ere found to be one hundred and fifty-three thousand six hundred.

nkjv@2Chronicles:2:18 @ And he made seventy thousand of them bear ers of burdens, eighty thousand stonecutt ers in the mountain, and three thousand six hundred ov erse ers to make the people work.

nkjv@2Chronicles:3:1 @ Now Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at J erusalem on Mount Moriah, wh ere the LORD had appeared to his fath er David, at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

nkjv@2Chronicles:3:3 @ This is the foundation which Solomon laid for building the house of God: The length was sixty cubits (by cubits according to the form er measure) and the width twenty cubits.

nkjv@2Chronicles:3:4 @ And the vestibule that was in front of the sanctuary was twenty cubits long across the width of the house, and the height was one hundred and twenty. He ov erlaid the inside with pure gold.

nkjv@2Chronicles:3:5 @ The larg er room he paneled with cypress which he ov erlaid with fine gold, and he carved palm trees and chainwork on it.

nkjv@2Chronicles:3:7 @ He also ov erlaid the house--the beams and doorposts, its walls and doors--with gold; and he carved ch erubim on the walls.

nkjv@2Chronicles:3:8 @ And he made the Most Holy Place. Its length was according to the width of the house, twenty cubits, and its width twenty cubits. He ov erlaid it with six hundred talents of fine gold.

nkjv@2Chronicles:3:9 @ The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold; and he ov erlaid the upp er area with gold.

nkjv@2Chronicles:3:10 @ In the Most Holy Place he made two ch erubim, fashioned by carving, and ov erlaid them with gold.

nkjv@2Chronicles:3:11 @ The wings of the ch erubim w ere twenty cubits in ov erall length: one wing of the one ch erub was five cubits, touching the wall of the room, and the oth er wing was five cubits, touching the wing of the oth er ch erub;

nkjv@2Chronicles:3:12 @ one wing of the oth er ch erub was five cubits, touching the wall of the room, and the oth er wing also was five cubits, touching the wing of the oth er ch erub.

nkjv@2Chronicles:3:13 @ The wings of these ch erubim spanned twenty cubits ov erall. They stood on their feet, and they faced inward.

nkjv@2Chronicles:3:14 @ And he made the veil of blue, purple, crimson, and fine linen, and wove ch erubim into it.

nkjv@2Chronicles:3:16 @ He made wreaths of chainwork, as in the inn er sanctuary, and put them on top of the pillars; and he made one hundred pomegranates, and put them on the wreaths of chainwork.

nkjv@2Chronicles:3:17 @ Then he set up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand and the oth er on the left; he called the name of the one on the right hand Jachin, and the name of the one on the left Boaz.

nkjv@2Chronicles:4:1 @ Moreov er he made a bronze altar: twenty cubits was its length, twenty cubits its width, and ten cubits its height.

nkjv@2Chronicles:4:2 @ Then he made the Sea of cast bronze, ten cubits from one brim to the oth er; it was completely round. Its height was five cubits, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumf erence.

nkjv@2Chronicles:4:3 @ And und er it was the likeness of oxen encircling it all around, ten to a cubit, all the way around the Sea. The oxen w ere cast in two rows, when it was cast.

nkjv@2Chronicles:4:6 @ He also made ten lav ers, and put five on the right side and five on the left, to wash in them; such things as they off ered for the burnt off ering they would wash in them, but the Sea was for the priests to wash in.

nkjv@2Chronicles:4:9 @ Furth ermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court and doors for the court; and he ov erlaid these doors with bronze.

nkjv@2Chronicles:4:12 @ the two pillars and the bowl-shaped capitals that w ere on top of the two pillars; the two networks cov ering the two bowl-shaped capitals which w ere on top of the pillars;

nkjv@2Chronicles:4:13 @ four hundred pomegranates for the two networks (two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cov er the two bowl-shaped capitals that w ere on the pillars);

nkjv@2Chronicles:4:14 @ he also made carts and the lav ers on the carts;

nkjv@2Chronicles:4:15 @ one Sea and twelve oxen und er it;

nkjv@2Chronicles:4:16 @ also the pots, the shovels, the forks--and all their articles Huram his mast er craftsman made of burnished bronze for King Solomon for the house of the LORD.

nkjv@2Chronicles:4:17 @ In the plain of Jordan the king had them cast in clay molds, between Succoth and Z eredah.

nkjv@2Chronicles:4:18 @ And Solomon had all these articles made in such great abundance that the weight of the bronze was not det ermined.

nkjv@2Chronicles:4:20 @ the lampstands with their lamps of pure gold, to burn in the prescribed mann er in front of the inn er sanctuary,

nkjv@2Chronicles:4:21 @ with the flow ers and the lamps and the wick-trimm ers of gold, of purest gold;

nkjv@2Chronicles:4:22 @ the trimm ers, the bowls, the ladles, and the cens ers of pure gold. As for the entry of the sanctuary, its inn er doors to the Most Holy Place, and the doors of the main hall of the temple, w ere gold.

nkjv@2Chronicles:5:1 @ So all the work that Solomon had done for the house of the LORD was finished; and Solomon brought in the things which his fath er David had dedicated: the silv er and the gold and all the furnishings. And he put them in the treasuries of the house of God.

nkjv@2Chronicles:5:2 @ Now Solomon assembled the eld ers of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the chief fath ers of the children of Israel, in J erusalem, that they might bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD up from the City of David, which is Zion.

nkjv@2Chronicles:5:3 @ Th erefore all the men of Israel assembled with the king at the feast, which was in the seventh month.

nkjv@2Chronicles:5:4 @ So all the eld ers of Israel came, and the Levites took up the ark.

nkjv@2Chronicles:5:5 @ Then they brought up the ark, the tab ernacle of meeting, and all the holy furnishings that w ere in the tab ernacle. The priests and the Levites brought them up.

nkjv@2Chronicles:5:6 @ Also King Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel who w ere assembled with him before the ark, w ere sacrificing sheep and oxen that could not be counted or numb ered for multitude.

nkjv@2Chronicles:5:7 @ Then the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place, into the inn er sanctuary of the temple, to the Most Holy Place, und er the wings of the ch erubim.

nkjv@2Chronicles:5:8 @ For the ch erubim spread their wings ov er the place of the ark, and the ch erubim ov ershadowed the ark and its poles.

nkjv@2Chronicles:5:9 @ The poles extended so that the ends of the poles of the ark could be seen from the holy place, in front of the inn er sanctuary; but they could not be seen from outside. And they are th ere to this day.

nkjv@2Chronicles:5:10 @ Nothing was in the ark except the two tablets which Moses put th ere at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they had come out of Egypt.

nkjv@2Chronicles:5:11 @ And it came to pass when the priests came out of the Most Holy Place (for all the priests who w ere present had sanctified themselves, without keeping to their divisions),

nkjv@2Chronicles:5:12 @ and the Levites who w ere the sing ers, all those of Asaph and Heman and Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, stood at the east end of the altar, clothed in white linen, having cymbals, stringed instruments and harps, and with them one hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets--

nkjv@2Chronicles:5:13 @ indeed it came to pass, when the trumpet ers and sing ers w ere as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD, and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the LORD, saying: "For He is good, For His m ercy endures forev er," that the house, the house of the LORD, was filled with a cloud,

nkjv@2Chronicles:5:14 @ so that the priests could not continue minist ering because of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of God.

nkjv@2Chronicles:6:2 @ I have surely built You an exalted house, And a place for You to dwell in forev er."

nkjv@2Chronicles:6:4 @ And he said: "Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who has fulfilled with His hands what He spoke with His mouth to my fath er David, saying,

nkjv@2Chronicles:6:5 @ "Since the day that I brought My people out of the land of Egypt, I have chosen no city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house, that My name might be th ere, nor did I choose any man to be a rul er ov er My people Israel.

nkjv@2Chronicles:6:6 @ Yet I have chosen J erusalem, that My name may be th ere, and I have chosen David to be ov er My people Israel.'

nkjv@2Chronicles:6:7 @ Now it was in the heart of my fath er David to build a temple for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

nkjv@2Chronicles:6:8 @ But the LORD said to my fath er David, "Wh ereas it was in your heart to build a temple for My name, you did well in that it was in your heart.

nkjv@2Chronicles:6:9 @ Nev ertheless you shall not build the temple, but your son who will come from your body, he shall build the temple for My name.'

nkjv@2Chronicles:6:10 @ So the LORD has fulfilled His word which He spoke, and I have filled the position of my fath er David, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised; and I have built the temple for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

nkjv@2Chronicles:6:11 @ And th ere I have put the ark, in which is the covenant of the LORD which He made with the children of Israel."

nkjv@2Chronicles:6:14 @ and he said: "LORD God of Israel, th ere is no God in heaven or on earth like You, who keep Your covenant and m ercy with Your s ervants who walk before You with all their hearts.

nkjv@2Chronicles:6:15 @ You have kept what You promised Your s ervant David my fath er; You have both spoken with Your mouth and fulfilled it with Your hand, as it is this day.

nkjv@2Chronicles:6:16 @ Th erefore, LORD God of Israel, now keep what You promised Your s ervant David my fath er, saying, "You shall not fail to have a man sit before Me on the throne of Israel, only if your sons take heed to their way, that they walk in My law as you have walked before Me.'

nkjv@2Chronicles:6:17 @ And now, O LORD God of Israel, let Your word come true, which You have spoken to Your s ervant David.

nkjv@2Chronicles:6:19 @ Yet regard the pray er of Your s ervant and his supplication, O LORD my God, and listen to the cry and the pray er which Your s ervant is praying before You:

nkjv@2Chronicles:6:20 @ that Your eyes may be open toward this temple day and night, toward the place wh ere You said You would put Your name, that You may hear the pray er which Your s ervant makes toward this place.

nkjv@2Chronicles:6:21 @ And may You hear the supplications of Your s ervant and of Your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. Hear from heaven Your dwelling place, and when You hear, forgive.

nkjv@2Chronicles:6:23 @ then hear from heaven, and act, and judge Your s ervants, bringing retribution on the wicked by bringing his way on his own head, and justifying the righteous by giving him according to his righteousness.

nkjv@2Chronicles:6:25 @ then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your people Israel, and bring them back to the land which You gave to them and their fath ers.

nkjv@2Chronicles:6:26 @ "When the heavens are shut up and th ere is no rain because they have sinned against You, when they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and turn from their sin because You afflict them,

nkjv@2Chronicles:6:27 @ then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of Your s ervants, Your people Israel, that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on Your land which You have given to Your people as an inh eritance.

nkjv@2Chronicles:6:28 @ "When th ere is famine in the land, pestilence or blight or mildew, locusts or grasshopp ers; when their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities; whatev er plague or whatev er sickness th ere is;

nkjv@2Chronicles:6:29 @ whatev er pray er, whatev er supplication is made by anyone, or by all Your people Israel, when each one knows his own burden and his own grief, and spreads out his hands to this temple:

nkjv@2Chronicles:6:30 @ then hear from heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive, and give to ev eryone according to all his ways, whose heart You know (for You alone know the hearts of the sons of men),

nkjv@2Chronicles:6:31 @ that they may fear You, to walk in Your ways as long as they live in the land which You gave to our fath ers.

nkjv@2Chronicles:6:32 @ "Moreov er, conc erning a foreign er, who is not of Your people Israel, but has come from a far country for the sake of Your great name and Your mighty hand and Your outstretched arm, when they come and pray in this temple;

nkjv@2Chronicles:6:33 @ then hear from heaven Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreign er calls to You, that all peoples of the earth may know Your name and fear You, as do Your people Israel, and that they may know that this temple which I have built is called by Your name.

nkjv@2Chronicles:6:34 @ "When Your people go out to battle against their enemies, wh erev er You send them, and when they pray to You toward this city which You have chosen and the temple which I have built for Your name,

nkjv@2Chronicles:6:35 @ then hear from heaven their pray er and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

nkjv@2Chronicles:6:36 @ "When they sin against You (for th ere is no one who does not sin), and You become angry with them and deliv er them to the enemy, and they take them captive to a land far or near;

nkjv@2Chronicles:6:37 @ yet when they come to themselves in the land wh ere they w ere carried captive, and repent, and make supplication to You in the land of their captivity, saying, "We have sinned, we have done wrong, and have committed wickedness';

nkjv@2Chronicles:6:38 @ and when they return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, wh ere they have been carried captive, and pray toward their land which You gave to their fath ers, the city which You have chosen, and toward the temple which I have built for Your name:

nkjv@2Chronicles:6:39 @ then hear from heaven Your dwelling place their pray er and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive Your people who have sinned against You.

nkjv@2Chronicles:6:40 @ Now, my God, I pray, let Your eyes be open and let Your ears be attentive to the pray er made in this place.

nkjv@2Chronicles:6:41 @ "Now th erefore, Arise, O LORD God, to Your resting place, You and the ark of Your strength. Let Your priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, And let Your saints rejoice in goodness.

nkjv@2Chronicles:6:42 @ "O LORD God, do not turn away the face of Your Anointed; Rememb er the m ercies of Your s ervant David."

nkjv@2Chronicles:7:1 @ When Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt off ering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the temple.

nkjv@2Chronicles:7:2 @ And the priests could not ent er the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD's house.

nkjv@2Chronicles:7:3 @ When all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of the LORD on the temple, they bowed their faces to the ground on the pavement, and worshiped and praised the LORD, saying: "For He is good, For His m ercy endures forev er."

nkjv@2Chronicles:7:4 @ Then the king and all the people off ered sacrifices before the LORD.

nkjv@2Chronicles:7:5 @ King Solomon off ered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand bulls and one hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.

nkjv@2Chronicles:7:6 @ And the priests attended to their s ervices; the Levites also with instruments of the music of the LORD, which King David had made to praise the LORD, saying, "For His m ercy endures forev er," whenev er David off ered praise by their ministry. The priests sounded trumpets opposite them, while all Israel stood.

nkjv@2Chronicles:7:7 @ Furth ermore Solomon consecrated the middle of the court that was in front of the house of the LORD; for th ere he off ered burnt off erings and the fat of the peace off erings, because the bronze altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt off erings, the grain off erings, and the fat.

nkjv@2Chronicles:7:8 @ At that time Solomon kept the feast seven days, and all Israel with him, a v ery great assembly from the entrance of Hamath to the Brook of Egypt.

nkjv@2Chronicles:7:9 @ And on the eighth day they held a sacred assembly, for they obs erved the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.

nkjv@2Chronicles:7:12 @ Then the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him: "I have heard your pray er, and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.

nkjv@2Chronicles:7:13 @ When I shut up heaven and th ere is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people,

nkjv@2Chronicles:7:15 @ Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to pray er made in this place.

nkjv@2Chronicles:7:16 @ For now I have chosen and sanctified this house, that My name may be th ere forev er; and My eyes and My heart will be th ere p erpetually.

nkjv@2Chronicles:7:17 @ As for you, if you walk before Me as your fath er David walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and My judgments,

nkjv@2Chronicles:7:18 @ then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, as I covenanted with David your fath er, saying, "You shall not fail to have a man as rul er in Israel.'

nkjv@2Chronicles:7:19 @ "But if you turn away and forsake My statutes and My commandments which I have set before you, and go and s erve oth er gods, and worship them,

nkjv@2Chronicles:7:20 @ then I will uproot them from My land which I have given them; and this house which I have sanctified for My name I will cast out of My sight, and will make it a prov erb and a byword among all peoples.

nkjv@2Chronicles:7:21 @ "And as for this house, which is exalted, ev eryone who passes by it will be astonished and say, "Why has the LORD done thus to this land and this house?'

nkjv@2Chronicles:7:22 @ Then they will answ er, "Because they forsook the LORD God of their fath ers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and embraced oth er gods, and worshiped them and s erved them; th erefore He has brought all this calamity on them."'

nkjv@2Chronicles:8:2 @ that the cities which Hiram had given to Solomon, Solomon built them; and he settled the children of Israel th ere.

nkjv@2Chronicles:8:4 @ He also built Tadmor in the wild erness, and all the storage cities which he built in Hamath.

nkjv@2Chronicles:8:5 @ He built Upp er Beth Horon and Low er Beth Horon, fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars,

nkjv@2Chronicles:8:6 @ also Baalath and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and all the chariot cities and the cities of the cavalry, and all that Solomon desired to build in J erusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

nkjv@2Chronicles:8:7 @ All the people who w ere left of the Hittites, Amorites, P erizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who w ere not of Israel--

nkjv@2Chronicles:8:8 @ that is, their descendants who w ere left in the land aft er them, whom the children of Israel did not destroy--from these Solomon raised forced labor, as it is to this day.

nkjv@2Chronicles:8:9 @ But Solomon did not make the children of Israel s ervants for his work. Some w ere men of war, captains of his offic ers, captains of his chariots, and his cavalry.

nkjv@2Chronicles:8:10 @ And oth ers w ere chiefs of the officials of King Solomon: two hundred and fifty, who ruled ov er the people.

nkjv@2Chronicles:8:11 @ Now Solomon brought the daught er of Pharaoh up from the City of David to the house he had built for h er, for he said, "My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places to which the ark of the LORD has come are holy."

nkjv@2Chronicles:8:12 @ Then Solomon off ered burnt off erings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD which he had built before the vestibule,

nkjv@2Chronicles:8:13 @ according to the daily rate, off ering according to the commandment of Moses, for the Sabbaths, the New Moons, and the three appointed yearly feasts--the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tab ernacles.

nkjv@2Chronicles:8:14 @ And, according to the ord er of David his fath er, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their s ervice, the Levites for their duties (to praise and s erve before the priests) as the duty of each day required, and the gatekeep ers by their divisions at each gate; for so David the man of God had commanded.

nkjv@2Chronicles:8:15 @ They did not depart from the command of the king to the priests and Levites conc erning any matt er or conc erning the treasuries.

nkjv@2Chronicles:8:16 @ Now all the work of Solomon was well-ord ered from the day of the foundation of the house of the LORD until it was finished. So the house of the LORD was completed.

nkjv@2Chronicles:8:17 @ Then Solomon went to Ezion Geb er and Elath on the seacoast, in the land of Edom.

nkjv@2Chronicles:8:18 @ And Hiram sent him ships by the hand of his s ervants, and s ervants who knew the sea. They went with the s ervants of Solomon to Ophir, and acquired four hundred and fifty talents of gold from th ere, and brought it to King Solomon.

nkjv@2Chronicles:9:1 @ Now when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to J erusalem to test Solomon with hard questions, having a v ery great retinue, camels that bore spices, gold in abundance, and precious stones; and when she came to Solomon, she spoke with him about all that was in h er heart.

nkjv@2Chronicles:9:2 @ So Solomon answ ered all h er questions; th ere was nothing so difficult for Solomon that he could not explain it to h er.

nkjv@2Chronicles:9:4 @ the food on his table, the seating of his s ervants, the s ervice of his wait ers and their apparel, his cupbear ers and their apparel, and his entryway by which he went up to the house of the LORD, th ere was no more spirit in h er.

nkjv@2Chronicles:9:6 @ Howev er I did not believe their words until I came and saw with my own eyes; and indeed the half of the greatness of your wisdom was not told me. You exceed the fame of which I heard.

nkjv@2Chronicles:9:7 @ Happy are your men and happy are these your s ervants, who stand continually before you and hear your wisdom!

nkjv@2Chronicles:9:8 @ Blessed be the LORD your God, who delighted in you, setting you on His throne to be king for the LORD your God! Because your God has loved Israel, to establish them forev er, th erefore He made you king ov er them, to do justice and righteousness."

nkjv@2Chronicles:9:9 @ And she gave the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold, spices in great abundance, and precious stones; th ere nev er w ere any spices such as those the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.

nkjv@2Chronicles:9:10 @ Also, the s ervants of Hiram and the s ervants of Solomon, who brought gold from Ophir, brought algum wood and precious stones.

nkjv@2Chronicles:9:11 @ And the king made walkways of the algum wood for the house of the LORD and for the king's house, also harps and stringed instruments for sing ers; and th ere w ere none such as these seen before in the land of Judah.

nkjv@2Chronicles:9:12 @ Now King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all she desired, whatev er she asked, much more than she had brought to the king. So she turned and went to h er own country, she and h er s ervants.

nkjv@2Chronicles:9:14 @ besides what the traveling m erchants and trad ers brought. And all the kings of Arabia and gov ernors of the country brought gold and silv er to Solomon.

nkjv@2Chronicles:9:15 @ And King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hamm ered gold; six hundred shekels of hamm ered gold went into each shield.

nkjv@2Chronicles:9:16 @ He also made three hundred shields of hamm ered gold; three hundred shekels of gold went into each shield. The king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.

nkjv@2Chronicles:9:17 @ Moreov er the king made a great throne of ivory, and ov erlaid it with pure gold.

nkjv@2Chronicles:9:18 @ The throne had six steps, with a footstool of gold, which w ere fastened to the throne; th ere w ere armrests on eith er side of the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the armrests.

nkjv@2Chronicles:9:19 @ Twelve lions stood th ere, one on each side of the six steps; nothing like this had been made for any oth er kingdom.

nkjv@2Chronicles:9:20 @ All King Solomon's drinking vessels w ere gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon w ere pure gold. Not one was silv er, for this was accounted as nothing in the days of Solomon.

nkjv@2Chronicles:9:21 @ For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the s ervants of Hiram. Once ev ery three years the m erchant ships came, bringing gold, silv er, ivory, apes, and monkeys.

nkjv@2Chronicles:9:24 @ Each man brought his present: articles of silv er and gold, garments, armor, spices, horses, and mules, at a set rate year by year.

nkjv@2Chronicles:9:25 @ Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king at J erusalem.

nkjv@2Chronicles:9:26 @ So he reigned ov er all the kings from the Riv er to the land of the Philistines, as far as the bord er of Egypt.

nkjv@2Chronicles:9:27 @ The king made silv er as common in J erusalem as stones, and he made cedar trees as abundant as the sycamores which are in the lowland.

nkjv@2Chronicles:9:29 @ Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the se er conc erning J eroboam the son of Nebat?

nkjv@2Chronicles:9:30 @ Solomon reigned in J erusalem ov er all Israel forty years.

nkjv@2Chronicles:9:31 @ Then Solomon rested with his fath ers, and was buried in the City of David his fath er. And Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.

nkjv@2Chronicles:10:2 @ So it happened, when J eroboam the son of Nebat heard it (he was in Egypt, wh ere he had fled from the presence of King Solomon), that J eroboam returned from Egypt.

nkjv@2Chronicles:10:3 @ Then they sent for him and called him. And J eroboam and all Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,

nkjv@2Chronicles:10:4 @ "Your fath er made our yoke heavy; now th erefore, lighten the burdensome s ervice of your fath er and his heavy yoke which he put on us, and we will s erve you."

nkjv@2Chronicles:10:5 @ So he said to them, "Come back to me aft er three days." And the people departed.

nkjv@2Chronicles:10:6 @ Then King Rehoboam consulted the eld ers who stood before his fath er Solomon while he still lived, saying, "How do you advise me to answ er these people?"

nkjv@2Chronicles:10:7 @ And they spoke to him, saying, "If you are kind to these people, and please them, and speak good words to them, they will be your s ervants forev er."

nkjv@2Chronicles:10:8 @ But he rejected the advice which the eld ers had given him, and consulted the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.

nkjv@2Chronicles:10:9 @ And he said to them, "What advice do you give? How should we answ er this people who have spoken to me, saying, "Lighten the yoke which your fath er put on us'?"

nkjv@2Chronicles:10:10 @ Then the young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, "Thus you should speak to the people who have spoken to you, saying, "Your fath er made our yoke heavy, but you make it light er on us'--thus you shall say to them: "My little fing er shall be thick er than my fath er's waist!

nkjv@2Chronicles:10:11 @ And now, wh ereas my fath er put a heavy yoke on you, I will add to your yoke; my fath er chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scourges!"'

nkjv@2Chronicles:10:12 @ So J eroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had directed, saying, "Come back to me the third day."

nkjv@2Chronicles:10:13 @ Then the king answ ered them roughly. King Rehoboam rejected the advice of the eld ers,

nkjv@2Chronicles:10:14 @ and he spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, saying, "My fath er made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it; my fath er chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scourges!"

nkjv@2Chronicles:10:15 @ So the king did not listen to the people; for the turn of events was from God, that the LORD might fulfill His word, which He had spoken by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to J eroboam the son of Nebat.

nkjv@2Chronicles:10:16 @ Now when all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answ ered the king, saying: "What share have we in David? We have no inh eritance in the son of Jesse. Ev ery man to your tents, O Israel! Now see to your own house, O David!" So all Israel departed to their tents.

nkjv@2Chronicles:10:17 @ But Rehoboam reigned ov er the children of Israel who dwelt in the cities of Judah.

nkjv@2Chronicles:10:18 @ Then King Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was in charge of revenue; but the children of Israel stoned him with stones, and he died. Th erefore King Rehoboam mounted his chariot in haste to flee to J erusalem.

nkjv@2Chronicles:11:1 @ Now when Rehoboam came to J erusalem, he assembled from the house of Judah and Benjamin one hundred and eighty thousand chosen men who w ere warriors, to fight against Israel, that he might restore the kingdom to Rehoboam.

nkjv@2Chronicles:11:4 @ "Thus says the LORD: "You shall not go up or fight against your brethren! Let ev ery man return to his house, for this thing is from Me."

nkjv@2Chronicles:11:5 @ So Rehoboam dwelt in J erusalem, and built cities for defense in Judah.

nkjv@2Chronicles:11:12 @ Also in ev ery city he put shields and spears, and made them v ery strong, having Judah and Benjamin on his side.

nkjv@2Chronicles:11:13 @ And from all their t erritories the priests and the Levites who w ere in all Israel took their stand with him.

nkjv@2Chronicles:11:14 @ For the Levites left their common-lands and their possessions and came to Judah and J erusalem, for J eroboam and his sons had rejected them from s erving as priests to the LORD.

nkjv@2Chronicles:11:16 @ And aft er the Levites left, those from all the tribes of Israel, such as set their heart to seek the LORD God of Israel, came to J erusalem to sacrifice to the LORD God of their fath ers.

nkjv@2Chronicles:11:18 @ Then Rehoboam took for himself as wife Mahalath the daught er of J erimoth the son of David, and of Abihail the daught er of Eliah the son of Jesse.

nkjv@2Chronicles:11:20 @ Aft er h er he took Maachah the granddaught er of Absalom; and she bore him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.

nkjv@2Chronicles:11:21 @ Now Rehoboam loved Maachah the granddaught er of Absalom more than all his wives and his concubines; for he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and begot twenty-eight sons and sixty daught ers.

nkjv@2Chronicles:11:22 @ And Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maachah as chief, to be lead er among his broth ers; for he intended to make him king.

nkjv@2Chronicles:11:23 @ He dealt wisely, and disp ersed some of his sons throughout all the t erritories of Judah and Benjamin, to ev ery fortified city; and he gave them provisions in abundance. He also sought many wives for them.

nkjv@2Chronicles:12:2 @ And it happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam that Shishak king of Egypt came up against J erusalem, because they had transgressed against the LORD,

nkjv@2Chronicles:12:3 @ with twelve hundred chariots, sixty thousand horsemen, and people without numb er who came with him out of Egypt--the Lubim and the Sukkiim and the Ethiopians.

nkjv@2Chronicles:12:4 @ And he took the fortified cities of Judah and came to J erusalem.

nkjv@2Chronicles:12:5 @ Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the lead ers of Judah, who w ere gath ered togeth er in J erusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, "Thus says the LORD: "You have forsaken Me, and th erefore I also have left you in the hand of Shishak."'

nkjv@2Chronicles:12:6 @ So the lead ers of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, "The LORD is righteous."

nkjv@2Chronicles:12:7 @ Now when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, "They have humbled themselves; th erefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliv erance. My wrath shall not be poured out on J erusalem by the hand of Shishak.

nkjv@2Chronicles:12:8 @ Nev ertheless they will be his s ervants, that they may distinguish My s ervice from the s ervice of the kingdoms of the nations."

nkjv@2Chronicles:12:9 @ So Shishak king of Egypt came up against J erusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king's house; he took ev erything. He also carried away the gold shields which Solomon had made.

nkjv@2Chronicles:12:11 @ And whenev er the king ent ered the house of the LORD, the guard would go and bring them out; then they would take them back into the guardroom.

nkjv@2Chronicles:12:13 @ Thus King Rehoboam strengthened himself in J erusalem and reigned. Now Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king; and he reigned seventeen years in J erusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put His name th ere. His moth er's name was Naamah, an Ammonitess.

nkjv@2Chronicles:12:15 @ The acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the se er conc erning genealogies? And th ere w ere wars between Rehoboam and J eroboam all their days.

nkjv@2Chronicles:12:16 @ So Rehoboam rested with his fath ers, and was buried in the City of David. Then Abijah his son reigned in his place.

nkjv@2Chronicles:13:1 @ In the eighteenth year of King J eroboam, Abijah became king ov er Judah.

nkjv@2Chronicles:13:2 @ He reigned three years in J erusalem. His moth er's name was Michaiah the daught er of Uriel of Gibeah. And th ere was war between Abijah and J eroboam.

nkjv@2Chronicles:13:3 @ Abijah set the battle in ord er with an army of valiant warriors, four hundred thousand choice men. J eroboam also drew up in battle formation against him with eight hundred thousand choice men, mighty men of valor.

nkjv@2Chronicles:13:4 @ Then Abijah stood on Mount Zemaraim, which is in the mountains of Ephraim, and said, "Hear me, J eroboam and all Israel:

nkjv@2Chronicles:13:5 @ Should you not know that the LORD God of Israel gave the dominion ov er Israel to David forev er, to him and his sons, by a covenant of salt?

nkjv@2Chronicles:13:6 @ Yet J eroboam the son of Nebat, the s ervant of Solomon the son of David, rose up and rebelled against his lord.

nkjv@2Chronicles:13:7 @ Then worthless rogues gath ered to him, and strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and inexp erienced and could not withstand them.

nkjv@2Chronicles:13:8 @ And now you think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD, which is in the hand of the sons of David; and you are a great multitude, and with you are the gold calves which J eroboam made for you as gods.

nkjv@2Chronicles:13:9 @ Have you not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made for yourselves priests, like the peoples of oth er lands, so that whoev er comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams may be a priest of things that are not gods?

nkjv@2Chronicles:13:10 @ But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken Him; and the priests who minist er to the LORD are the sons of Aaron, and the Levites attend to their duties.

nkjv@2Chronicles:13:11 @ And they burn to the LORD ev ery morning and ev ery evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense; they also set the showbread in ord er on the pure gold table, and the lampstand of gold with its lamps to burn ev ery evening; for we keep the command of the LORD our God, but you have forsaken Him.

nkjv@2Chronicles:13:12 @ Now look, God Himself is with us as our head, and His priests with sounding trumpets to sound the alarm against you. O children of Israel, do not fight against the LORD God of your fath ers, for you shall not prosp er!"

nkjv@2Chronicles:13:13 @ But J eroboam caused an ambush to go around behind them; so they w ere in front of Judah, and the ambush was behind them.

nkjv@2Chronicles:13:15 @ Then the men of Judah gave a shout; and as the men of Judah shouted, it happened that God struck J eroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.

nkjv@2Chronicles:13:16 @ And the children of Israel fled before Judah, and God deliv ered them into their hand.

nkjv@2Chronicles:13:17 @ Then Abijah and his people struck them with a great slaught er; so five hundred thousand choice men of Israel fell slain.

nkjv@2Chronicles:13:18 @ Thus the children of Israel w ere subdued at that time; and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied on the LORD God of their fath ers.

nkjv@2Chronicles:13:19 @ And Abijah pursued J eroboam and took cities from him: Bethel with its villages, Jeshanah with its villages, and Ephrain with its villages.

nkjv@2Chronicles:13:20 @ So J eroboam did not recov er strength again in the days of Abijah; and the LORD struck him, and he died.

nkjv@2Chronicles:13:21 @ But Abijah grew mighty, married fourteen wives, and begot twenty-two sons and sixteen daught ers.

nkjv@2Chronicles:14:1 @ So Abijah rested with his fath ers, and they buried him in the City of David. Then Asa his son reigned in his place. In his days the land was quiet for ten years.

nkjv@2Chronicles:14:4 @ He commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fath ers, and to obs erve the law and the commandment.

nkjv@2Chronicles:14:5 @ He also removed the high places and the incense altars from all the cities of Judah, and the kingdom was quiet und er him.

nkjv@2Chronicles:14:7 @ Th erefore he said to Judah, "Let us build these cities and make walls around them, and tow ers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet before us, because we have sought the LORD our God; we have sought Him, and He has given us rest on ev ery side." So they built and prosp ered.

nkjv@2Chronicles:14:8 @ And Asa had an army of three hundred thousand from Judah who carried shields and spears, and from Benjamin two hundred and eighty thousand men who carried shields and drew bows; all these w ere mighty men of valor.

nkjv@2Chronicles:14:9 @ Then Z erah the Ethiopian came out against them with an army of a million men and three hundred chariots, and he came to Mareshah.

nkjv@2Chronicles:14:11 @ And Asa cried out to the LORD his God, and said, "LORD, it is nothing for You to help, wheth er with many or with those who have no pow er; help us, O LORD our God, for we rest on You, and in Your name we go against this multitude. O LORD, You are our God; do not let man prevail against You!"

nkjv@2Chronicles:14:13 @ And Asa and the people who w ere with him pursued them to G erar. So the Ethiopians w ere ov erthrown, and they could not recov er, for they w ere broken before the LORD and His army. And they carried away v ery much spoil.

nkjv@2Chronicles:14:14 @ Then they defeated all the cities around G erar, for the fear of the LORD came upon them; and they plund ered all the cities, for th ere was exceedingly much spoil in them.

nkjv@2Chronicles:14:15 @ They also attacked the livestock enclosures, and carried off sheep and camels in abundance, and returned to J erusalem.

nkjv@2Chronicles:15:5 @ And in those times th ere was no peace to the one who went out, nor to the one who came in, but great turmoil was on all the inhabitants of the lands.

nkjv@2Chronicles:15:6 @ So nation was destroyed by nation, and city by city, for God troubled them with ev ery adv ersity.

nkjv@2Chronicles:15:9 @ Then he gath ered all Judah and Benjamin, and those who dwelt with them from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon, for they came ov er to him in great numb ers from Israel when they saw that the LORD his God was with him.

nkjv@2Chronicles:15:10 @ So they gath ered togeth er at J erusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.

nkjv@2Chronicles:15:11 @ And they off ered to the LORD at that time seven hundred bulls and seven thousand sheep from the spoil they had brought.

nkjv@2Chronicles:15:12 @ Then they ent ered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fath ers with all their heart and with all their soul;

nkjv@2Chronicles:15:13 @ and whoev er would not seek the LORD God of Israel was to be put to death, wheth er small or great, wheth er man or woman.

nkjv@2Chronicles:15:16 @ Also he removed Maachah, the moth er of Asa the king, from being queen moth er, because she had made an obscene image of Ash erah; and Asa cut down h er obscene image, then crushed and burned it by the Brook Kidron.

nkjv@2Chronicles:15:17 @ But the high places w ere not removed from Israel. Nev ertheless the heart of Asa was loyal all his days.

nkjv@2Chronicles:15:18 @ He also brought into the house of God the things that his fath er had dedicated and that he himself had dedicated: silv er and gold and utensils.

nkjv@2Chronicles:15:19 @ And th ere was no war until the thirty-fifth year of the reign of Asa.

nkjv@2Chronicles:16:2 @ Then Asa brought silv er and gold from the treasuries of the house of the LORD and of the king's house, and sent to Ben-Hadad king of Syria, who dwelt in Damascus, saying,

nkjv@2Chronicles:16:3 @ "Let th ere be a treaty between you and me, as th ere was between my fath er and your fath er. See, I have sent you silv er and gold; come, break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, so that he will withdraw from me."

nkjv@2Chronicles:16:6 @ Then King Asa took all Judah, and they carried away the stones and timb er of Ramah, which Baasha had used for building; and with them he built Geba and Mizpah.

nkjv@2Chronicles:16:7 @ And at that time Hanani the se er came to Asa king of Judah, and said to him: "Because you have relied on the king of Syria, and have not relied on the LORD your God, th erefore the army of the king of Syria has escaped from your hand.

nkjv@2Chronicles:16:8 @ W ere the Ethiopians and the Lubim not a huge army with v ery many chariots and horsemen? Yet, because you relied on the LORD, He deliv ered them into your hand.

nkjv@2Chronicles:16:9 @ For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him. In this you have done foolishly; th erefore from now on you shall have wars."

nkjv@2Chronicles:16:10 @ Then Asa was angry with the se er, and put him in prison, for he was enraged at him because of this. And Asa oppressed some of the people at that time.

nkjv@2Chronicles:16:12 @ And in the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa became diseased in his feet, and his malady was sev ere; yet in his disease he did not seek the LORD, but the physicians.

nkjv@2Chronicles:16:13 @ So Asa rested with his fath ers; he died in the forty-first year of his reign.

nkjv@2Chronicles:16:14 @ They buried him in his own tomb, which he had made for himself in the City of David; and they laid him in the bed which was filled with spices and various ingredients prepared in a mixture of ointments. They made a v ery great burning for him.

nkjv@2Chronicles:17:2 @ And he placed troops in all the fortified cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim which Asa his fath er had taken.

nkjv@2Chronicles:17:3 @ Now the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the form er ways of his fath er David; he did not seek the Baals,

nkjv@2Chronicles:17:4 @ but sought the God of his fath er, and walked in His commandments and not according to the acts of Israel.

nkjv@2Chronicles:17:5 @ Th erefore the LORD established the kingdom in his hand; and all Judah gave presents to Jehoshaphat, and he had riches and honor in abundance.

nkjv@2Chronicles:17:6 @ And his heart took delight in the ways of the LORD; moreov er he removed the high places and wooden images from Judah.

nkjv@2Chronicles:17:7 @ Also in the third year of his reign he sent his lead ers, Ben-Hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Michaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah.

nkjv@2Chronicles:17:10 @ And the fear of the LORD fell on all the kingdoms of the lands that w ere around Judah, so that they did not make war against Jehoshaphat.

nkjv@2Chronicles:17:11 @ Also some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents and silv er as tribute; and the Arabians brought him flocks, seven thousand seven hundred rams and seven thousand seven hundred male goats.

nkjv@2Chronicles:17:12 @ So Jehoshaphat became increasingly pow erful, and he built fortresses and storage cities in Judah.

nkjv@2Chronicles:17:13 @ He had much prop erty in the cities of Judah; and the men of war, mighty men of valor, w ere in J erusalem.

nkjv@2Chronicles:17:14 @ These are their numb ers, according to their fath ers' houses. Of Judah, the captains of thousands: Adnah the captain, and with him three hundred thousand mighty men of valor;

nkjv@2Chronicles:17:16 @ and next to him was Amasiah the son of Zichri, who willingly off ered himself to the LORD, and with him two hundred thousand mighty men of valor.

nkjv@2Chronicles:17:19 @ These s erved the king, besides those the king put in the fortified cities throughout all Judah.

nkjv@2Chronicles:18:2 @ Aft er some years he went down to visit Ahab in Samaria; and Ahab killed sheep and oxen in abundance for him and the people who w ere with him, and p ersuaded him to go up with him to Ramoth Gilead.

nkjv@2Chronicles:18:3 @ So Ahab king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, "Will you go with me against Ramoth Gilead?" And he answ ered him, "I am as you are, and my people as your people; we will be with you in the war."

nkjv@2Chronicles:18:5 @ Then the king of Israel gath ered the prophets togeth er, four hundred men, and said to them, "Shall we go to war against Ramoth Gilead, or shall I refrain?" So they said, "Go up, for God will deliv er it into the king's hand."

nkjv@2Chronicles:18:6 @ But Jehoshaphat said, "Is th ere not still a prophet of the LORD h ere, that we may inquire of Him?"

nkjv@2Chronicles:18:7 @ So the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "Th ere is still one man by whom we may inquire of the LORD; but I hate him, because he nev er prophesies good conc erning me, but always evil. He is Micaiah the son of Imla." And Jehoshaphat said, "Let not the king say such things!"

nkjv@2Chronicles:18:8 @ Then the king of Israel called one of his offic ers and said, "Bring Micaiah the son of Imla quickly!"

nkjv@2Chronicles:18:11 @ And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, "Go up to Ramoth Gilead and prosp er, for the LORD will deliv er it into the king's hand."

nkjv@2Chronicles:18:12 @ Then the messeng er who had gone to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, "Now listen, the words of the prophets with one accord encourage the king. Th erefore please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak encouragement."

nkjv@2Chronicles:18:13 @ And Micaiah said, "As the LORD lives, whatev er my God says, that I will speak."

nkjv@2Chronicles:18:14 @ Then he came to the king; and the king said to him, "Micaiah, shall we go to war against Ramoth Gilead, or shall I refrain?" And he said, "Go and prosp er, and they shall be deliv ered into your hand!"

nkjv@2Chronicles:18:16 @ Then he said, "I saw all Israel scatt ered on the mountains, as sheep that have no sheph erd. And the LORD said, "These have no mast er. Let each return to his house in peace."'

nkjv@2Chronicles:18:17 @ And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "Did I not tell you he would not prophesy good conc erning me, but evil?"

nkjv@2Chronicles:18:18 @ Then Micaiah said, "Th erefore hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing on His right hand and His left.

nkjv@2Chronicles:18:19 @ And the LORD said, "Who will p ersuade Ahab king of Israel to go up, that he may fall at Ramoth Gilead?' So one spoke in this mann er, and anoth er spoke in that mann er.

nkjv@2Chronicles:18:20 @ Then a spirit came forward and stood before the LORD, and said, "I will p ersuade him.' The LORD said to him, "In what way?'

nkjv@2Chronicles:18:21 @ So he said, "I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' And the LORD said, "You shall p ersuade him and also prevail; go out and do so.'

nkjv@2Chronicles:18:22 @ Th erefore look! The LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouth of these prophets of yours, and the LORD has declared disast er against you."

nkjv@2Chronicles:18:24 @ And Micaiah said, "Indeed you shall see on that day when you go into an inn er chamb er to hide!"

nkjv@2Chronicles:18:25 @ Then the king of Israel said, "Take Micaiah, and return him to Amon the gov ernor of the city and to Joash the king's son;

nkjv@2Chronicles:18:26 @ and say, "Thus says the king: "Put this fellow in prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and wat er of affliction, until I return in peace.""'

nkjv@2Chronicles:18:27 @ But Micaiah said, "If you ev er return in peace, the LORD has not spoken by me." And he said, "Take heed, all you people!"

nkjv@2Chronicles:18:30 @ Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of the chariots who w ere with him, saying, "Fight with no one small or great, but only with the king of Israel."

nkjv@2Chronicles:18:31 @ So it was, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, "It is the king of Israel!" Th erefore they surrounded him to attack; but Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD helped him, and God div erted them from him.

nkjv@2Chronicles:18:33 @ Now a c ertain man drew a bow at random, and struck the king of Israel between the joints of his armor. So he said to the driv er of his chariot, "Turn around and take me out of the battle, for I am wounded."

nkjv@2Chronicles:19:1 @ Then Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned safely to his house in J erusalem.

nkjv@2Chronicles:19:2 @ And Jehu the son of Hanani the se er went out to meet him, and said to King Jehoshaphat, "Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD? Th erefore the wrath of the LORD is upon you.

nkjv@2Chronicles:19:3 @ Nev ertheless good things are found in you, in that you have removed the wooden images from the land, and have prepared your heart to seek God."

nkjv@2Chronicles:19:4 @ So Jehoshaphat dwelt at J erusalem; and he went out again among the people from Be ersheba to the mountains of Ephraim, and brought them back to the LORD God of their fath ers.

nkjv@2Chronicles:19:7 @ Now th erefore, let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take care and do it, for th ere is no iniquity with the LORD our God, no partiality, nor taking of bribes."

nkjv@2Chronicles:19:8 @ Moreov er in J erusalem, for the judgment of the LORD and for controv ersies, Jehoshaphat appointed some of the Levites and priests, and some of the chief fath ers of Israel, when they returned to J erusalem.

nkjv@2Chronicles:19:10 @ Whatev er case comes to you from your brethren who dwell in their cities, wheth er of bloodshed or offenses against law or commandment, against statutes or ordinances, you shall warn them, lest they trespass against the LORD and wrath come upon you and your brethren. Do this, and you will not be guilty.

nkjv@2Chronicles:19:11 @ And take notice: Amariah the chief priest is ov er you in all matt ers of the LORD; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the rul er of the house of Judah, for all the king's matt ers; also the Levites will be officials before you. Behave courageously, and the LORD will be with the good."

nkjv@2Chronicles:20:1 @ It happened aft er this that the people of Moab with the people of Ammon, and oth ers with them besides the Ammonites, came to battle against Jehoshaphat.

nkjv@2Chronicles:20:4 @ So Judah gath ered togeth er to ask help from the LORD; and from all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD.

nkjv@2Chronicles:20:5 @ Then Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and J erusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court,

nkjv@2Chronicles:20:6 @ and said: "O LORD God of our fath ers, are You not God in heaven, and do You not rule ov er all the kingdoms of the nations, and in Your hand is th ere not pow er and might, so that no one is able to withstand You?

nkjv@2Chronicles:20:7 @ Are You not our God, who drove out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel, and gave it to the descendants of Abraham Your friend forev er?

nkjv@2Chronicles:20:9 @ "If disast er comes upon us--sword, judgment, pestilence, or famine--we will stand before this temple and in Your presence (for Your name is in this temple), and cry out to You in our affliction, and You will hear and save.'

nkjv@2Chronicles:20:10 @ And now, h ere are the people of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir--whom You would not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them and did not destroy them--

nkjv@2Chronicles:20:11 @ h ere they are, rewarding us by coming to throw us out of Your possession which You have given us to inh erit.

nkjv@2Chronicles:20:12 @ O our God, will You not judge them? For we have no pow er against this great multitude that is coming against us; nor do we know what to do, but our eyes are upon You."

nkjv@2Chronicles:20:15 @ And he said, "Listen, all you of Judah and you inhabitants of J erusalem, and you, King Jehoshaphat! Thus says the LORD to you: "Do not be afraid nor dismayed because of this great multitude, for the battle is not yours, but God's.

nkjv@2Chronicles:20:16 @ Tomorrow go down against them. They will surely come up by the Ascent of Ziz, and you will find them at the end of the brook before the Wild erness of J eruel.

nkjv@2Chronicles:20:17 @ You will not need to fight in this battle. Position yourselves, stand still and see the salvation of the LORD, who is with you, O Judah and J erusalem!' Do not fear or be dismayed; tomorrow go out against them, for the LORD is with you."

nkjv@2Chronicles:20:18 @ And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground, and all Judah and the inhabitants of J erusalem bowed before the LORD, worshiping the LORD.

nkjv@2Chronicles:20:20 @ So they rose early in the morning and went out into the Wild erness of Tekoa; and as they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, "Hear me, O Judah and you inhabitants of J erusalem: Believe in the LORD your God, and you shall be established; believe His prophets, and you shall prosp er."

nkjv@2Chronicles:20:21 @ And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed those who should sing to the LORD, and who should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army and w ere saying: "Praise the LORD, For His m ercy endures forev er."

nkjv@2Chronicles:20:22 @ Now when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushes against the people of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they w ere defeated.

nkjv@2Chronicles:20:23 @ For the people of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir to utt erly kill and destroy them. And when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, they helped to destroy one anoth er.

nkjv@2Chronicles:20:24 @ So when Judah came to a place ov erlooking the wild erness, they looked toward the multitude; and th ere w ere their dead bodies, fallen on the earth. No one had escaped.

nkjv@2Chronicles:20:25 @ When Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away their spoil, they found among them an abundance of valuables on the dead bodies, and precious jewelry, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away; and they w ere three days gath ering the spoil because th ere was so much.

nkjv@2Chronicles:20:26 @ And on the fourth day they assembled in the Valley of B erachah, for th ere they blessed the LORD; th erefore the name of that place was called The Valley of B erachah until this day.

nkjv@2Chronicles:20:27 @ Then they returned, ev ery man of Judah and J erusalem, with Jehoshaphat in front of them, to go back to J erusalem with joy, for the LORD had made them rejoice ov er their enemies.

nkjv@2Chronicles:20:28 @ So they came to J erusalem, with stringed instruments and harps and trumpets, to the house of the LORD.

nkjv@2Chronicles:20:31 @ So Jehoshaphat was king ov er Judah. He was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-five years in J erusalem. His moth er's name was Azubah the daught er of Shilhi.

nkjv@2Chronicles:20:32 @ And he walked in the way of his fath er Asa, and did not turn aside from it, doing what was right in the sight of the LORD.

nkjv@2Chronicles:20:33 @ Nev ertheless the high places w ere not taken away, for as yet the people had not directed their hearts to the God of their fath ers.

nkjv@2Chronicles:20:35 @ Aft er this Jehoshaphat king of Judah allied himself with Ahaziah king of Israel, who acted v ery wickedly.

nkjv@2Chronicles:20:36 @ And he allied himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish, and they made the ships in Ezion Geb er.

nkjv@2Chronicles:20:37 @ But Eliez er the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, "Because you have allied yourself with Ahaziah, the LORD has destroyed your works." Then the ships w ere wrecked, so that they w ere not able to go to Tarshish.

nkjv@2Chronicles:21:1 @ And Jehoshaphat rested with his fath ers, and was buried with his fath ers in the City of David. Then Jehoram his son reigned in his place.

nkjv@2Chronicles:21:2 @ He had broth ers, the sons of Jehoshaphat: Azariah, Jehiel, Zechariah, Azaryahu, Michael, and Shephatiah; all these w ere the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.

nkjv@2Chronicles:21:3 @ Their fath er gave them great gifts of silv er and gold and precious things, with fortified cities in Judah; but he gave the kingdom to Jehoram, because he was the firstborn.

nkjv@2Chronicles:21:4 @ Now when Jehoram was established ov er the kingdom of his fath er, he strengthened himself and killed all his broth ers with the sword, and also oth ers of the princes of Israel.

nkjv@2Chronicles:21:5 @ Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in J erusalem.

nkjv@2Chronicles:21:6 @ And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done, for he had the daught er of Ahab as a wife; and he did evil in the sight of the LORD.

nkjv@2Chronicles:21:7 @ Yet the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that He had made with David, and since He had promised to give a lamp to him and to his sons forev er.

nkjv@2Chronicles:21:8 @ In his days Edom revolted against Judah's authority, and made a king ov er themselves.

nkjv@2Chronicles:21:9 @ So Jehoram went out with his offic ers, and all his chariots with him. And he rose by night and attacked the Edomites who had surrounded him and the captains of the chariots.

nkjv@2Chronicles:21:10 @ Thus Edom has been in revolt against Judah's authority to this day. At that time Libnah revolted against his rule, because he had forsaken the LORD God of his fath ers.

nkjv@2Chronicles:21:11 @ Moreov er he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of J erusalem to commit harlotry, and led Judah astray.

nkjv@2Chronicles:21:12 @ And a lett er came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, 4 Thus says the LORD God of your fath er David: 4 Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your fath er, or in the ways of Asa king of Judah,

nkjv@2Chronicles:21:13 @ but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the inhabitants of J erusalem to play the harlot like the harlotry of the house of Ahab, and also have killed your broth ers, those of your fath er's household, who w ere bett er than yourself,

nkjv@2Chronicles:21:14 @ behold, the LORD will strike your people with a s erious affliction--your children, your wives, and all your possessions;

nkjv@2Chronicles:21:15 @ and you will become v ery sick with a disease of your intestines, until your intestines come out by reason of the sickness, day by day.

nkjv@2Chronicles:21:16 @ Moreov er the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines and the Arabians who w ere near the Ethiopians.

nkjv@2Chronicles:21:17 @ And they came up into Judah and invaded it, and carried away all the possessions that w ere found in the king's house, and also his sons and his wives, so that th ere was not a son left to him except Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.

nkjv@2Chronicles:21:18 @ Aft er all this the LORD struck him in his intestines with an incurable disease.

nkjv@2Chronicles:21:19 @ Then it happened in the course of time, aft er the end of two years, that his intestines came out because of his sickness; so he died in sev ere pain. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning for his fath ers.

nkjv@2Chronicles:21:20 @ He was thirty-two years old when he became king. He reigned in J erusalem eight years and, to no one's sorrow, departed. Howev er they buried him in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.

nkjv@2Chronicles:22:1 @ Then the inhabitants of J erusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his place, for the raid ers who came with the Arabians into the camp had killed all the old er sons. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, reigned.

nkjv@2Chronicles:22:2 @ Ahaziah was forty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in J erusalem. His moth er's name was Athaliah the granddaught er of Omri.

nkjv@2Chronicles:22:3 @ He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his moth er advised him to do wickedly.

nkjv@2Chronicles:22:4 @ Th erefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD, like the house of Ahab; for they w ere his counselors aft er the death of his fath er, to his destruction.

nkjv@2Chronicles:22:6 @ Then he returned to Jezreel to recov er from the wounds which he had received at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Azariah the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.

nkjv@2Chronicles:22:8 @ And it happened, when Jehu was executing judgment on the house of Ahab, and found the princes of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah's broth ers who s erved Ahaziah, that he killed them.

nkjv@2Chronicles:22:9 @ Then he searched for Ahaziah; and they caught him (he was hiding in Samaria), and brought him to Jehu. When they had killed him, they buried him, "because," they said, "he is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart." So the house of Ahaziah had no one to assume pow er ov er the kingdom.

nkjv@2Chronicles:22:10 @ Now when Athaliah the moth er of Ahaziah saw that h er son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal heirs of the house of Judah.

nkjv@2Chronicles:22:11 @ But Jehoshabeath, the daught er of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king's sons who w ere being murd ered, and put him and his nurse in a bedroom. So Jehoshabeath, the daught er of King Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest (for she was the sist er of Ahaziah), hid him from Athaliah so that she did not kill him.

nkjv@2Chronicles:22:12 @ And he was hidden with them in the house of God for six years, while Athaliah reigned ov er the land.

nkjv@2Chronicles:23:1 @ In the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and made a covenant with the captains of hundreds: Azariah the son of J eroham, Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, Azariah the son of Obed, Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri.

nkjv@2Chronicles:23:2 @ And they went throughout Judah and gath ered the Levites from all the cities of Judah, and the chief fath ers of Israel, and they came to J erusalem.

nkjv@2Chronicles:23:4 @ This is what you shall do: One-third of you ent ering on the Sabbath, of the priests and the Levites, shall be keeping watch ov er the doors;

nkjv@2Chronicles:23:6 @ But let no one come into the house of the LORD except the priests and those of the Levites who s erve. They may go in, for they are holy; but all the people shall keep the watch of the LORD.

nkjv@2Chronicles:23:7 @ And the Levites shall surround the king on all sides, ev ery man with his weapons in his hand; and whoev er comes into the house, let him be put to death. You are to be with the king when he comes in and when he goes out."

nkjv@2Chronicles:23:8 @ So the Levites and all Judah did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded. And each man took his men who w ere to be on duty on the Sabbath, with those who w ere going off duty on the Sabbath; for Jehoiada the priest had not dismissed the divisions.

nkjv@2Chronicles:23:9 @ And Jehoiada the priest gave to the captains of hundreds the spears and the large and small shields which had belonged to King David, that w ere in the temple of God.

nkjv@2Chronicles:23:10 @ Then he set all the people, ev ery man with his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the temple to the left side of the temple, along by the altar and by the temple, all around the king.

nkjv@2Chronicles:23:13 @ When she looked, th ere was the king standing by his pillar at the entrance; and the lead ers and the trumpet ers w ere by the king. All the people of the land w ere rejoicing and blowing trumpets, also the sing ers with musical instruments, and those who led in praise. So Athaliah tore h er clothes and said, "Treason! Treason!"

nkjv@2Chronicles:23:14 @ And Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds who w ere set ov er the army, and said to them, "Take h er outside und er guard, and slay with the sword whoev er follows h er." For the priest had said, "Do not kill h er in the house of the LORD."

nkjv@2Chronicles:23:15 @ So they seized h er; and she went by way of the entrance of the Horse Gate into the king's house, and they killed h er th ere.

nkjv@2Chronicles:23:18 @ Also Jehoiada appointed the ov ersight of the house of the LORD to the hand of the priests, the Levites, whom David had assigned in the house of the LORD, to off er the burnt off erings of the LORD, as it is written in the Law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as it was established by David.

nkjv@2Chronicles:23:19 @ And he set the gatekeep ers at the gates of the house of the LORD, so that no one who was in any way unclean should ent er.

nkjv@2Chronicles:23:20 @ Then he took the captains of hundreds, the nobles, the gov ernors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought the king down from the house of the LORD; and they went through the Upp er Gate to the king's house, and set the king on the throne of the kingdom.

nkjv@2Chronicles:24:1 @ Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned forty years in J erusalem. His moth er's name was Zibiah of Be ersheba.

nkjv@2Chronicles:24:3 @ And Jehoiada took two wives for him, and he had sons and daught ers.

nkjv@2Chronicles:24:4 @ Now it happened aft er this that Joash set his heart on repairing the house of the LORD.

nkjv@2Chronicles:24:5 @ Then he gath ered the priests and the Levites, and said to them, "Go out to the cities of Judah, and gath er from all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that you do it quickly." Howev er the Levites did not do it quickly.

nkjv@2Chronicles:24:6 @ So the king called Jehoiada the chief priest, and said to him, "Why have you not required the Levites to bring in from Judah and from J erusalem the collection, according to the commandment of Moses the s ervant of the LORD and of the assembly of Israel, for the tab ernacle of witness?"

nkjv@2Chronicles:24:9 @ And they made a proclamation throughout Judah and J erusalem to bring to the LORD the collection that Moses the s ervant of God had imposed on Israel in the wild erness.

nkjv@2Chronicles:24:10 @ Then all the lead ers and all the people rejoiced, brought their contributions, and put them into the chest until all had given.

nkjv@2Chronicles:24:11 @ So it was, at that time, when the chest was brought to the king's official by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that th ere was much money, that the king's scribe and the high priest's offic er came and emptied the chest, and took it and returned it to its place. Thus they did day by day, and gath ered money in abundance.

nkjv@2Chronicles:24:12 @ The king and Jehoiada gave it to those who did the work of the s ervice of the house of the LORD; and they hired masons and carpent ers to repair the house of the LORD, and also those who worked in iron and bronze to restore the house of the LORD.

nkjv@2Chronicles:24:14 @ When they had finished, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada; they made from it articles for the house of the LORD, articles for s erving and off ering, spoons and vessels of gold and silv er. And they off ered burnt off erings in the house of the LORD continually all the days of Jehoiada.

nkjv@2Chronicles:24:17 @ Now aft er the death of Jehoiada the lead ers of Judah came and bowed down to the king. And the king listened to them.

nkjv@2Chronicles:24:18 @ Th erefore they left the house of the LORD God of their fath ers, and s erved wooden images and idols; and wrath came upon Judah and J erusalem because of their trespass.

nkjv@2Chronicles:24:20 @ Then the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, who stood above the people, and said to them, "Thus says God: "Why do you transgress the commandments of the LORD, so that you cannot prosp er? Because you have forsaken the LORD, He also has forsaken you."'

nkjv@2Chronicles:24:22 @ Thus Joash the king did not rememb er the kindness which Jehoiada his fath er had done to him, but killed his son; and as he died, he said, "The LORD look on it, and repay!"

nkjv@2Chronicles:24:23 @ So it happened in the spring of the year that the army of Syria came up against him; and they came to Judah and J erusalem, and destroyed all the lead ers of the people from among the people, and sent all their spoil to the king of Damascus.

nkjv@2Chronicles:24:24 @ For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men; but the LORD deliv ered a v ery great army into their hand, because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fath ers. So they executed judgment against Joash.

nkjv@2Chronicles:24:25 @ And when they had withdrawn from him (for they left him sev erely wounded), his own s ervants conspired against him because of the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed. So he died. And they buried him in the City of David, but they did not bury him in the tombs of the kings.

nkjv@2Chronicles:24:27 @ Now conc erning his sons, and the many oracles about him, and the repairing of the house of God, indeed they are written in the annals of the book of the kings. Then Amaziah his son reigned in his place.

nkjv@2Chronicles:25:1 @ Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in J erusalem. His moth er's name was Jehoaddan of J erusalem.

nkjv@2Chronicles:25:3 @ Now it happened, as soon as the kingdom was established for him, that he executed his s ervants who had murd ered his fath er the king.

nkjv@2Chronicles:25:4 @ Howev er he did not execute their children, but did as it is written in the Law in the Book of Moses, wh ere the LORD commanded, saying, "The fath ers shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall the children be put to death for their fath ers; but a p erson shall die for his own sin."

nkjv@2Chronicles:25:5 @ Moreov er Amaziah gath ered Judah togeth er and set ov er them captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, according to their fath ers' houses, throughout all Judah and Benjamin; and he numb ered them from twenty years old and above, and found them to be three hundred thousand choice men, able to go to war, who could handle spear and shield.

nkjv@2Chronicles:25:6 @ He also hired one hundred thousand mighty men of valor from Israel for one hundred talents of silv er.

nkjv@2Chronicles:25:8 @ But if you go, be gone! Be strong in battle! Even so, God shall make you fall before the enemy; for God has pow er to help and to ov erthrow."

nkjv@2Chronicles:25:9 @ Then Amaziah said to the man of God, "But what shall we do about the hundred talents which I have given to the troops of Israel?" And the man of God answ ered, "The LORD is able to give you much more than this."

nkjv@2Chronicles:25:10 @ So Amaziah discharged the troops that had come to him from Ephraim, to go back home. Th erefore their ang er was greatly aroused against Judah, and they returned home in great ang er.

nkjv@2Chronicles:25:12 @ Also the children of Judah took captive ten thousand alive, brought them to the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, so that they all w ere dashed in pieces.

nkjv@2Chronicles:25:13 @ But as for the soldi ers of the army which Amaziah had discharged, so that they would not go with him to battle, they raided the cities of Judah from Samaria to Beth Horon, killed three thousand in them, and took much spoil.

nkjv@2Chronicles:25:14 @ Now it was so, aft er Amaziah came from the slaught er of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the people of Seir, set them up to be his gods, and bowed down before them and burned incense to them.

nkjv@2Chronicles:25:15 @ Th erefore the ang er of the LORD was aroused against Amaziah, and He sent him a prophet who said to him, "Why have you sought the gods of the people, which could not rescue their own people from your hand?"

nkjv@2Chronicles:25:16 @ So it was, as he talked with him, that the king said to him, "Have we made you the king's counselor? Cease! Why should you be killed?" Then the prophet ceased, and said, "I know that God has det ermined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not heeded my advice."

nkjv@2Chronicles:25:17 @ Now Amaziah king of Judah asked advice and sent to Joash the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, "Come, let us face one anoth er in battle."

nkjv@2Chronicles:25:18 @ And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, "The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, "Give your daught er to my son as wife'; and a wild beast that was in Lebanon passed by and trampled the thistle.

nkjv@2Chronicles:25:21 @ So Joash king of Israel went out; and he and Amaziah king of Judah faced one anoth er at Beth Shemesh, which belongs to Judah.

nkjv@2Chronicles:25:22 @ And Judah was defeated by Israel, and ev ery man fled to his tent.

nkjv@2Chronicles:25:23 @ Then Joash the king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth Shemesh; and he brought him to J erusalem, and broke down the wall of J erusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corn er Gate--four hundred cubits.

nkjv@2Chronicles:25:24 @ And he took all the gold and silv er, all the articles that w ere found in the house of God with Obed-Edom, the treasures of the king's house, and hostages, and returned to Samaria.

nkjv@2Chronicles:25:25 @ Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, lived fifteen years aft er the death of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel.

nkjv@2Chronicles:25:27 @ Aft er the time that Amaziah turned away from following the LORD, they made a conspiracy against him in J erusalem, and he fled to Lachish; but they sent aft er him to Lachish and killed him th ere.

nkjv@2Chronicles:25:28 @ Then they brought him on horses and buried him with his fath ers in the City of Judah.

nkjv@2Chronicles:26:1 @ Now all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his fath er Amaziah.

nkjv@2Chronicles:26:2 @ He built Elath and restored it to Judah, aft er the king rested with his fath ers.

nkjv@2Chronicles:26:3 @ Uzziah was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-two years in J erusalem. His moth er's name was Jecholiah of J erusalem.

nkjv@2Chronicles:26:4 @ And he did what was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fath er Amaziah had done.

nkjv@2Chronicles:26:5 @ He sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had und erstanding in the visions of God; and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him prosp er.

nkjv@2Chronicles:26:9 @ And Uzziah built tow ers in J erusalem at the Corn er Gate, at the Valley Gate, and at the corn er buttress of the wall; then he fortified them.

nkjv@2Chronicles:26:10 @ Also he built tow ers in the des ert. He dug many wells, for he had much livestock, both in the lowlands and in the plains; he also had farm ers and vinedress ers in the mountains and in Carmel, for he loved the soil.

nkjv@2Chronicles:26:11 @ Moreov er Uzziah had an army of fighting men who went out to war by companies, according to the numb er on their roll as prepared by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the offic er, und er the hand of Hananiah, one of the king's captains.

nkjv@2Chronicles:26:12 @ The total numb er of chief offic ers of the mighty men of valor was two thousand six hundred.

nkjv@2Chronicles:26:13 @ And und er their authority was an army of three hundred and seven thousand five hundred, that made war with mighty pow er, to help the king against the enemy.

nkjv@2Chronicles:26:15 @ And he made devices in J erusalem, invented by skillful men, to be on the tow ers and the corn ers, to shoot arrows and large stones. So his fame spread far and wide, for he was marvelously helped till he became strong.

nkjv@2Chronicles:26:16 @ But when he was strong his heart was lifted up, to his destruction, for he transgressed against the LORD his God by ent ering the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense.

nkjv@2Chronicles:26:17 @ So Azariah the priest went in aft er him, and with him w ere eighty priests of the LORD--valiant men.

nkjv@2Chronicles:26:19 @ Then Uzziah became furious; and he had a cens er in his hand to burn incense. And while he was angry with the priests, leprosy broke out on his forehead, before the priests in the house of the LORD, beside the incense altar.

nkjv@2Chronicles:26:20 @ And Azariah the chief priest and all the priests looked at him, and th ere, on his forehead, he was leprous; so they thrust him out of that place. Indeed he also hurried to get out, because the LORD had struck him.

nkjv@2Chronicles:26:21 @ King Uzziah was a lep er until the day of his death. He dwelt in an isolated house, because he was a lep er; for he was cut off from the house of the LORD. Then Jotham his son was ov er the king's house, judging the people of the land.

nkjv@2Chronicles:26:23 @ So Uzziah rested with his fath ers, and they buried him with his fath ers in the field of burial which belonged to the kings, for they said, "He is a lep er." Then Jotham his son reigned in his place.

nkjv@2Chronicles:27:1 @ Jotham was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in J erusalem. His moth er's name was J erushah the daught er of Zadok.

nkjv@2Chronicles:27:2 @ And he did what was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fath er Uzziah had done (although he did not ent er the temple of the LORD). But still the people acted corruptly.

nkjv@2Chronicles:27:3 @ He built the Upp er Gate of the house of the LORD, and he built extensively on the wall of Ophel.

nkjv@2Chronicles:27:4 @ Moreov er he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built fortresses and tow ers.

nkjv@2Chronicles:27:5 @ He also fought with the king of the Ammonites and defeated them. And the people of Ammon gave him in that year one hundred talents of silv er, ten thousand kors of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. The people of Ammon paid this to him in the second and third years also.

nkjv@2Chronicles:27:8 @ He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in J erusalem.

nkjv@2Chronicles:27:9 @ So Jotham rested with his fath ers, and they buried him in the City of David. Then Ahaz his son reigned in his place.

nkjv@2Chronicles:28:1 @ Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in J erusalem; and he did not do what was right in the sight of the LORD, as his fath er David had done.

nkjv@2Chronicles:28:4 @ And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and und er ev ery green tree.

nkjv@2Chronicles:28:5 @ Th erefore the LORD his God deliv ered him into the hand of the king of Syria. They defeated him, and carried away a great multitude of them as captives, and brought them to Damascus. Then he was also deliv ered into the hand of the king of Israel, who defeated him with a great slaught er.

nkjv@2Chronicles:28:6 @ For Pekah the son of Remaliah killed one hundred and twenty thousand in Judah in one day, all valiant men, because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fath ers.

nkjv@2Chronicles:28:7 @ Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, killed Maaseiah the king's son, Azrikam the offic er ov er the house, and Elkanah who was second to the king.

nkjv@2Chronicles:28:8 @ And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand women, sons, and daught ers; and they also took away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.

nkjv@2Chronicles:28:9 @ But a prophet of the LORD was th ere, whose name was Oded; and he went out before the army that came to Samaria, and said to them: "Look, because the LORD God of your fath ers was angry with Judah, He has deliv ered them into your hand; but you have killed them in a rage that reaches up to heaven.

nkjv@2Chronicles:28:10 @ And now you propose to force the children of Judah and J erusalem to be your male and female slaves; but are you not also guilty before the LORD your God?

nkjv@2Chronicles:28:11 @ Now hear me, th erefore, and return the captives, whom you have taken captive from your brethren, for the fi erce wrath of the LORD is upon you."

nkjv@2Chronicles:28:12 @ Then some of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, B erechiah the son of Meshillemoth, Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against those who came from the war,

nkjv@2Chronicles:28:13 @ and said to them, "You shall not bring the captives h ere, for we already have offended the LORD. You intend to add to our sins and to our guilt; for our guilt is great, and th ere is fi erce wrath against Israel."

nkjv@2Chronicles:28:14 @ So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the lead ers and all the assembly.

nkjv@2Chronicles:28:15 @ Then the men who w ere designated by name rose up and took the captives, and from the spoil they clothed all who w ere naked among them, dressed them and gave them sandals, gave them food and drink, and anointed them; and they let all the feeble ones ride on donkeys. So they brought them to their brethren at J ericho, the city of palm trees. Then they returned to Samaria.

nkjv@2Chronicles:28:18 @ The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the lowland and of the South of Judah, and had taken Beth Shemesh, Aijalon, Ged eroth, Sochoh with its villages, Timnah with its villages, and Gimzo with its villages; and they dwelt th ere.

nkjv@2Chronicles:28:20 @ Also Tiglath-Piles er king of Assyria came to him and distressed him, and did not assist him.

nkjv@2Chronicles:28:21 @ For Ahaz took part of the treasures from the house of the LORD, from the house of the king, and from the lead ers, and he gave it to the king of Assyria; but he did not help him.

nkjv@2Chronicles:28:23 @ For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus which had defeated him, saying, "Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me." But they w ere the ruin of him and of all Israel.

nkjv@2Chronicles:28:24 @ So Ahaz gath ered the articles of the house of God, cut in pieces the articles of the house of God, shut up the doors of the house of the LORD, and made for himself altars in ev ery corn er of J erusalem.

nkjv@2Chronicles:28:25 @ And in ev ery single city of Judah he made high places to burn incense to oth er gods, and provoked to ang er the LORD God of his fath ers.

nkjv@2Chronicles:28:27 @ So Ahaz rested with his fath ers, and they buried him in the city, in J erusalem; but they did not bring him into the tombs of the kings of Israel. Then Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.

nkjv@2Chronicles:29:1 @ Hezekiah became king when he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years in J erusalem. His moth er's name was Abijah the daught er of Zechariah.

nkjv@2Chronicles:29:2 @ And he did what was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fath er David had done.

nkjv@2Chronicles:29:4 @ Then he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gath ered them in the East Square,

nkjv@2Chronicles:29:5 @ and said to them: "Hear me, Levites! Now sanctify yourselves, sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fath ers, and carry out the rubbish from the holy place.

nkjv@2Chronicles:29:6 @ For our fath ers have trespassed and done evil in the eyes of the LORD our God; they have forsaken Him, have turned their faces away from the dwelling place of the LORD, and turned their backs on Him.

nkjv@2Chronicles:29:7 @ They have also shut up the doors of the vestibule, put out the lamps, and have not burned incense or off ered burnt off erings in the holy place to the God of Israel.

nkjv@2Chronicles:29:8 @ Th erefore the wrath of the LORD fell upon Judah and J erusalem, and He has given them up to trouble, to desolation, and to je ering, as you see with your eyes.

nkjv@2Chronicles:29:9 @ For indeed, because of this our fath ers have fallen by the sword; and our sons, our daught ers, and our wives are in captivity.

nkjv@2Chronicles:29:10 @ "Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that His fi erce wrath may turn away from us.

nkjv@2Chronicles:29:11 @ My sons, do not be negligent now, for the LORD has chosen you to stand before Him, to s erve Him, and that you should minist er to Him and burn incense."

nkjv@2Chronicles:29:12 @ Then these Levites arose: Mahath the son of Amasai and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites; of the sons of M erari, Kish the son of Abdi and Azariah the son of Jehallelel; of the G ershonites, Joah the son of Zimmah and Eden the son of Joah;

nkjv@2Chronicles:29:15 @ And they gath ered their brethren, sanctified themselves, and went according to the commandment of the king, at the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD.

nkjv@2Chronicles:29:16 @ Then the priests went into the inn er part of the house of the LORD to cleanse it, and brought out all the debris that they found in the temple of the LORD to the court of the house of the LORD. And the Levites took it out and carried it to the Brook Kidron.

nkjv@2Chronicles:29:18 @ Then they went in to King Hezekiah and said, "We have cleansed all the house of the LORD, the altar of burnt off erings with all its articles, and the table of the showbread with all its articles.

nkjv@2Chronicles:29:19 @ Moreov er all the articles which King Ahaz in his reign had cast aside in his transgression we have prepared and sanctified; and th ere they are, before the altar of the LORD."

nkjv@2Chronicles:29:20 @ Then King Hezekiah rose early, gath ered the rul ers of the city, and went up to the house of the LORD.

nkjv@2Chronicles:29:21 @ And they brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats for a sin off ering for the kingdom, for the sanctuary, and for Judah. Then he commanded the priests, the sons of Aaron, to off er them on the altar of the LORD.

nkjv@2Chronicles:29:23 @ Then they brought out the male goats for the sin off ering before the king and the assembly, and they laid their hands on them.

nkjv@2Chronicles:29:24 @ And the priests killed them; and they presented their blood on the altar as a sin off ering to make an atonement for all Israel, for the king commanded that the burnt off ering and the sin off ering be made for all Israel.

nkjv@2Chronicles:29:25 @ And he stationed the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with stringed instruments, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, of Gad the king's se er, and of Nathan the prophet; for thus was the commandment of the LORD by His prophets.

nkjv@2Chronicles:29:27 @ Then Hezekiah commanded them to off er the burnt off ering on the altar. And when the burnt off ering began, the song of the LORD also began, with the trumpets and with the instruments of David king of Israel.

nkjv@2Chronicles:29:28 @ So all the assembly worshiped, the sing ers sang, and the trumpet ers sounded; all this continued until the burnt off ering was finished.

nkjv@2Chronicles:29:29 @ And when they had finished off ering, the king and all who w ere present with him bowed and worshiped.

nkjv@2Chronicles:29:30 @ Moreov er King Hezekiah and the lead ers commanded the Levites to sing praise to the LORD with the words of David and of Asaph the se er. So they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshiped.

nkjv@2Chronicles:29:31 @ Then Hezekiah answ ered and said, "Now that you have consecrated yourselves to the LORD, come near, and bring sacrifices and thank off erings into the house of the LORD." So the assembly brought in sacrifices and thank off erings, and as many as w ere of a willing heart brought burnt off erings.

nkjv@2Chronicles:29:32 @ And the numb er of the burnt off erings which the assembly brought was seventy bulls, one hundred rams, and two hundred lambs; all these w ere for a burnt off ering to the LORD.

nkjv@2Chronicles:29:33 @ The consecrated things w ere six hundred bulls and three thousand sheep.

nkjv@2Chronicles:29:34 @ But the priests w ere too few, so that they could not skin all the burnt off erings; th erefore their brethren the Levites helped them until the work was ended and until the oth er priests had sanctified themselves, for the Levites w ere more diligent in sanctifying themselves than the priests.

nkjv@2Chronicles:29:35 @ Also the burnt off erings w ere in abundance, with the fat of the peace off erings and with the drink off erings for ev ery burnt off ering. So the s ervice of the house of the LORD was set in ord er.

nkjv@2Chronicles:30:1 @ And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and also wrote lett ers to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at J erusalem, to keep the Passov er to the LORD God of Israel.

nkjv@2Chronicles:30:2 @ For the king and his lead ers and all the assembly in J erusalem had agreed to keep the Passov er in the second month.

nkjv@2Chronicles:30:3 @ For they could not keep it at the regular time, because a sufficient numb er of priests had not consecrated themselves, nor had the people gath ered togeth er at J erusalem.

nkjv@2Chronicles:30:4 @ And the matt er pleased the king and all the assembly.

nkjv@2Chronicles:30:5 @ So they resolved to make a proclamation throughout all Israel, from Be ersheba to Dan, that they should come to keep the Passov er to the LORD God of Israel at J erusalem, since they had not done it for a long time in the prescribed mann er.

nkjv@2Chronicles:30:6 @ Then the runn ers went throughout all Israel and Judah with the lett ers from the king and his lead ers, and spoke according to the command of the king: "Children of Israel, return to the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel; then He will return to the remnant of you who have escaped from the hand of the kings of Assyria.

nkjv@2Chronicles:30:7 @ And do not be like your fath ers and your brethren, who trespassed against the LORD God of their fath ers, so that He gave them up to desolation, as you see.

nkjv@2Chronicles:30:8 @ Now do not be stiff-necked, as your fath ers w ere, but yield yourselves to the LORD; and ent er His sanctuary, which He has sanctified forev er, and s erve the LORD your God, that the fi erceness of His wrath may turn away from you.

nkjv@2Chronicles:30:9 @ For if you return to the LORD, your brethren and your children will be treated with compassion by those who lead them captive, so that they may come back to this land; for the LORD your God is gracious and m erciful, and will not turn His face from you if you return to Him."

nkjv@2Chronicles:30:10 @ So the runn ers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, as far as Zebulun; but they laughed at them and mocked them.

nkjv@2Chronicles:30:11 @ Nev ertheless some from Ash er, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to J erusalem.

nkjv@2Chronicles:30:12 @ Also the hand of God was on Judah to give them singleness of heart to obey the command of the king and the lead ers, at the word of the LORD.

nkjv@2Chronicles:30:13 @ Now many people, a v ery great assembly, gath ered at J erusalem to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the second month.

nkjv@2Chronicles:30:14 @ They arose and took away the altars that w ere in J erusalem, and they took away all the incense altars and cast them into the Brook Kidron.

nkjv@2Chronicles:30:15 @ Then they slaught ered the Passov er lambs on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and the Levites w ere ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought the burnt off erings to the house of the LORD.

nkjv@2Chronicles:30:17 @ For th ere w ere many in the assembly who had not sanctified themselves; th erefore the Levites had charge of the slaught er of the Passov er lambs for ev eryone who was not clean, to sanctify them to the LORD.

nkjv@2Chronicles:30:18 @ For a multitude of the people, many from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passov er contrary to what was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, "May the good LORD provide atonement for ev eryone

nkjv@2Chronicles:30:19 @ who prepares his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fath ers, though he is not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary."

nkjv@2Chronicles:30:21 @ So the children of Israel who w ere present at J erusalem kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with great gladness; and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by day, singing to the LORD, accompanied by loud instruments.

nkjv@2Chronicles:30:22 @ And Hezekiah gave encouragement to all the Levites who taught the good knowledge of the LORD; and they ate throughout the feast seven days, off ering peace off erings and making confession to the LORD God of their fath ers.

nkjv@2Chronicles:30:23 @ Then the whole assembly agreed to keep the feast anoth er seven days, and they kept it anoth er seven days with gladness.

nkjv@2Chronicles:30:24 @ For Hezekiah king of Judah gave to the assembly a thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep, and the lead ers gave to the assembly a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep; and a great numb er of priests sanctified themselves.

nkjv@2Chronicles:30:25 @ The whole assembly of Judah rejoiced, also the priests and Levites, all the assembly that came from Israel, the sojourn ers who came from the land of Israel, and those who dwelt in Judah.

nkjv@2Chronicles:30:26 @ So th ere was great joy in J erusalem, for since the time of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel, th ere had been nothing like this in J erusalem.

nkjv@2Chronicles:30:27 @ Then the priests, the Levites, arose and blessed the people, and their voice was heard; and their pray er came up to His holy dwelling place, to heaven.

nkjv@2Chronicles:31:1 @ Now when all this was finished, all Israel who w ere present went out to the cities of Judah and broke the sacred pillars in pieces, cut down the wooden images, and threw down the high places and the altars--from all Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh--until they had utt erly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned to their own cities, ev ery man to his possession.

nkjv@2Chronicles:31:2 @ And Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and the Levites according to their divisions, each man according to his s ervice, the priests and Levites for burnt off erings and peace off erings, to s erve, to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the camp of the LORD.

nkjv@2Chronicles:31:3 @ The king also appointed a portion of his possessions for the burnt off erings: for the morning and evening burnt off erings, the burnt off erings for the Sabbaths and the New Moons and the set feasts, as it is written in the Law of the LORD.

nkjv@2Chronicles:31:4 @ Moreov er he commanded the people who dwelt in J erusalem to contribute support for the priests and the Levites, that they might devote themselves to the Law of the LORD.

nkjv@2Chronicles:31:5 @ As soon as the commandment was circulated, the children of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of grain and wine, oil and honey, and of all the produce of the field; and they brought in abundantly the tithe of ev erything.

nkjv@2Chronicles:31:6 @ And the children of Israel and Judah, who dwelt in the cities of Judah, brought the tithe of oxen and sheep; also the tithe of holy things which w ere consecrated to the LORD their God they laid in heaps.

nkjv@2Chronicles:31:8 @ And when Hezekiah and the lead ers came and saw the heaps, they blessed the LORD and His people Israel.

nkjv@2Chronicles:31:9 @ Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites conc erning the heaps.

nkjv@2Chronicles:31:10 @ And Azariah the chief priest, from the house of Zadok, answ ered him and said, "Since the people began to bring the off erings into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat and have plenty left, for the LORD has blessed His people; and what is left is this great abundance."

nkjv@2Chronicles:31:12 @ Then they faithfully brought in the off erings, the tithes, and the dedicated things; Cononiah the Levite had charge of them, and Shimei his broth er was the next.

nkjv@2Chronicles:31:13 @ Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, J erimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismachiah, Mahath, and Benaiah w ere ov erse ers und er the hand of Cononiah and Shimei his broth er, at the commandment of Hezekiah the king and Azariah the rul er of the house of God.

nkjv@2Chronicles:31:14 @ Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the keep er of the East Gate, was ov er the freewill off erings to God, to distribute the off erings of the LORD and the most holy things.

nkjv@2Chronicles:31:15 @ And und er him w ere Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, his faithful assistants in the cities of the priests, to distribute allotments to their brethren by divisions, to the great as well as the small.

nkjv@2Chronicles:31:16 @ Besides those males from three years old and up who w ere written in the genealogy, they distributed to ev eryone who ent ered the house of the LORD his daily portion for the work of his s ervice, by his division,

nkjv@2Chronicles:31:17 @ and to the priests who w ere written in the genealogy according to their fath er's house, and to the Levites from twenty years old and up according to their work, by their divisions,

nkjv@2Chronicles:31:18 @ and to all who w ere written in the genealogy--their little ones and their wives, their sons and daught ers, the whole company of them--for in their faithfulness they sanctified themselves in holiness.

nkjv@2Chronicles:31:19 @ Also for the sons of Aaron the priests, who w ere in the fields of the common-lands of their cities, in ev ery single city, th ere w ere men who w ere designated by name to distribute portions to all the males among the priests and to all who w ere listed by genealogies among the Levites.

nkjv@2Chronicles:31:21 @ And in ev ery work that he began in the s ervice of the house of God, in the law and in the commandment, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart. So he prosp ered.

nkjv@2Chronicles:32:1 @ Aft er these deeds of faithfulness, Sennach erib king of Assyria came and ent ered Judah; he encamped against the fortified cities, thinking to win them ov er to himself.

nkjv@2Chronicles:32:2 @ And when Hezekiah saw that Sennach erib had come, and that his purpose was to make war against J erusalem,

nkjv@2Chronicles:32:3 @ he consulted with his lead ers and command ers to stop the wat er from the springs which w ere outside the city; and they helped him.

nkjv@2Chronicles:32:4 @ Thus many people gath ered togeth er who stopped all the springs and the brook that ran through the land, saying, "Why should the kings of Assyria come and find much wat er?"

nkjv@2Chronicles:32:5 @ And he strengthened himself, built up all the wall that was broken, raised it up to the tow ers, and built anoth er wall outside; also he repaired the Millo in the City of David, and made weapons and shields in abundance.

nkjv@2Chronicles:32:6 @ Then he set military captains ov er the people, gath ered them togeth er to him in the open square of the city gate, and gave them encouragement, saying,

nkjv@2Chronicles:32:7 @ "Be strong and courageous; do not be afraid nor dismayed before the king of Assyria, nor before all the multitude that is with him; for th ere are more with us than with him.

nkjv@2Chronicles:32:8 @ With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God, to help us and to fight our battles." And the people w ere strengthened by the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

nkjv@2Chronicles:32:9 @ Aft er this Sennach erib king of Assyria sent his s ervants to J erusalem (but he and all the forces with him laid siege against Lachish), to Hezekiah king of Judah, and to all Judah who w ere in J erusalem, saying,

nkjv@2Chronicles:32:10 @ "Thus says Sennach erib king of Assyria: "In what do you trust, that you remain und er siege in J erusalem?

nkjv@2Chronicles:32:11 @ Does not Hezekiah p ersuade you to give yourselves ov er to die by famine and by thirst, saying, "The LORD our God will deliv er us from the hand of the king of Assyria"?

nkjv@2Chronicles:32:12 @ Has not the same Hezekiah taken away His high places and His altars, and commanded Judah and J erusalem, saying, "You shall worship before one altar and burn incense on it"?

nkjv@2Chronicles:32:13 @ Do you not know what I and my fath ers have done to all the peoples of oth er lands? W ere the gods of the nations of those lands in any way able to deliv er their lands out of my hand?

nkjv@2Chronicles:32:14 @ Who was th ere among all the gods of those nations that my fath ers utt erly destroyed that could deliv er his people from my hand, that your God should be able to deliv er you from my hand?

nkjv@2Chronicles:32:15 @ Now th erefore, do not let Hezekiah deceive you or p ersuade you like this, and do not believe him; for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliv er his people from my hand or the hand of my fath ers. How much less will your God deliv er you from my hand?"'

nkjv@2Chronicles:32:16 @ Furth ermore, his s ervants spoke against the LORD God and against His s ervant Hezekiah.

nkjv@2Chronicles:32:17 @ He also wrote lett ers to revile the LORD God of Israel, and to speak against Him, saying, "As the gods of the nations of oth er lands have not deliv ered their people from my hand, so the God of Hezekiah will not deliv er His people from my hand."

nkjv@2Chronicles:32:18 @ Then they called out with a loud voice in Hebrew to the people of J erusalem who w ere on the wall, to frighten them and trouble them, that they might take the city.

nkjv@2Chronicles:32:19 @ And they spoke against the God of J erusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth--the work of men's hands.

nkjv@2Chronicles:32:21 @ Then the LORD sent an angel who cut down ev ery mighty man of valor, lead er, and captain in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned shamefaced to his own land. And when he had gone into the temple of his god, some of his own offspring struck him down with the sword th ere.

nkjv@2Chronicles:32:22 @ Thus the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of J erusalem from the hand of Sennach erib the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all oth ers, and guided them on ev ery side.

nkjv@2Chronicles:32:23 @ And many brought gifts to the LORD at J erusalem, and presents to Hezekiah king of Judah, so that he was exalted in the sight of all nations th ereaft er.

nkjv@2Chronicles:32:25 @ But Hezekiah did not repay according to the favor shown him, for his heart was lifted up; th erefore wrath was looming ov er him and ov er Judah and J erusalem.

nkjv@2Chronicles:32:26 @ Then Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, he and the inhabitants of J erusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah.

nkjv@2Chronicles:32:27 @ Hezekiah had v ery great riches and honor. And he made himself treasuries for silv er, for gold, for precious stones, for spices, for shields, and for all kinds of desirable items;

nkjv@2Chronicles:32:29 @ Moreov er he provided cities for himself, and possessions of flocks and h erds in abundance; for God had given him v ery much prop erty.

nkjv@2Chronicles:32:30 @ This same Hezekiah also stopped the wat er outlet of Upp er Gihon, and brought the wat er by tunnel to the west side of the City of David. Hezekiah prosp ered in all his works.

nkjv@2Chronicles:32:31 @ Howev er, regarding the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, whom they sent to him to inquire about the wond er that was done in the land, God withdrew from him, in ord er to test him, that He might know all that was in his heart.

nkjv@2Chronicles:32:33 @ So Hezekiah rested with his fath ers, and they buried him in the upp er tombs of the sons of David; and all Judah and the inhabitants of J erusalem honored him at his death. Then Manasseh his son reigned in his place.

nkjv@2Chronicles:33:1 @ Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in J erusalem.

nkjv@2Chronicles:33:3 @ For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his fath er had broken down; he raised up altars for the Baals, and made wooden images; and he worshiped all the host of heaven and s erved them.

nkjv@2Chronicles:33:4 @ He also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, "In J erusalem shall My name be forev er."

nkjv@2Chronicles:33:6 @ Also he caused his sons to pass through the fire in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom; he practiced soothsaying, used witchcraft and sorc ery, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to ang er.

nkjv@2Chronicles:33:7 @ He even set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house and in J erusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forev er;

nkjv@2Chronicles:33:8 @ and I will not again remove the foot of Israel from the land which I have appointed for your fath ers--only if they are careful to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses."

nkjv@2Chronicles:33:9 @ So Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of J erusalem to do more evil than the nations whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.

nkjv@2Chronicles:33:11 @ Th erefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh with hooks, bound him with bronze fett ers, and carried him off to Babylon.

nkjv@2Chronicles:33:12 @ Now when he was in affliction, he implored the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fath ers,

nkjv@2Chronicles:33:13 @ and prayed to Him; and He received his entreaty, heard his supplication, and brought him back to J erusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD was God.

nkjv@2Chronicles:33:14 @ Aft er this he built a wall outside the City of David on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, as far as the entrance of the Fish Gate; and it enclosed Ophel, and he raised it to a v ery great height. Then he put military captains in all the fortified cities of Judah.

nkjv@2Chronicles:33:15 @ He took away the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD and in J erusalem; and he cast them out of the city.

nkjv@2Chronicles:33:16 @ He also repaired the altar of the LORD, sacrificed peace off erings and thank off erings on it, and commanded Judah to s erve the LORD God of Israel.

nkjv@2Chronicles:33:17 @ Nev ertheless the people still sacrificed on the high places, but only to the LORD their God.

nkjv@2Chronicles:33:18 @ Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, his pray er to his God, and the words of the se ers who spoke to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, indeed they are written in the book of the kings of Israel.

nkjv@2Chronicles:33:19 @ Also his pray er and how God received his entreaty, and all his sin and trespass, and the sites wh ere he built high places and set up wooden images and carved images, before he was humbled, indeed they are written among the sayings of Hozai.

nkjv@2Chronicles:33:20 @ So Manasseh rested with his fath ers, and they buried him in his own house. Then his son Amon reigned in his place.

nkjv@2Chronicles:33:21 @ Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned two years in J erusalem.

nkjv@2Chronicles:33:22 @ But he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fath er Manasseh had done; for Amon sacrificed to all the carved images which his fath er Manasseh had made, and s erved them.

nkjv@2Chronicles:33:23 @ And he did not humble himself before the LORD, as his fath er Manasseh had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.

nkjv@2Chronicles:33:24 @ Then his s ervants conspired against him, and killed him in his own house.

nkjv@2Chronicles:34:1 @ Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned thirty-one years in J erusalem.

nkjv@2Chronicles:34:2 @ And he did what was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of his fath er David; he did not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

nkjv@2Chronicles:34:3 @ For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his fath er David; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and J erusalem of the high places, the wooden images, the carved images, and the molded images.

nkjv@2Chronicles:34:4 @ They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence, and the incense altars which w ere above them he cut down; and the wooden images, the carved images, and the molded images he broke in pieces, and made dust of them and scatt ered it on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

nkjv@2Chronicles:34:5 @ He also burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and cleansed Judah and J erusalem.

nkjv@2Chronicles:34:7 @ When he had broken down the altars and the wooden images, had beaten the carved images into powd er, and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to J erusalem.

nkjv@2Chronicles:34:8 @ In the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land and the temple, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, Maaseiah the gov ernor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the record er, to repair the house of the LORD his God.

nkjv@2Chronicles:34:9 @ When they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they deliv ered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites who kept the doors had gath ered from the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, from all the remnant of Israel, from all Judah and Benjamin, and which they had brought back to J erusalem.

nkjv@2Chronicles:34:10 @ Then they put it in the hand of the foremen who had the ov ersight of the house of the LORD; and they gave it to the workmen who worked in the house of the LORD, to repair and restore the house.

nkjv@2Chronicles:34:11 @ They gave it to the craftsmen and build ers to buy hewn stone and timb er for beams, and to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.

nkjv@2Chronicles:34:12 @ And the men did the work faithfully. Their ov erse ers w ere Jahath and Obadiah the Levites, of the sons of M erari, and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to sup ervise. Oth ers of the Levites, all of whom w ere skillful with instruments of music,

nkjv@2Chronicles:34:13 @ w ere ov er the burden bear ers and w ere ov erse ers of all who did work in any kind of s ervice. And some of the Levites w ere scribes, offic ers, and gatekeep ers.

nkjv@2Chronicles:34:15 @ Then Hilkiah answ ered and said to Shaphan the scribe, "I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the LORD." And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan.

nkjv@2Chronicles:34:16 @ So Shaphan carried the book to the king, bringing the king word, saying, "All that was committed to your s ervants they are doing.

nkjv@2Chronicles:34:17 @ And they have gath ered the money that was found in the house of the LORD, and have deliv ered it into the hand of the ov erse ers and the workmen."

nkjv@2Chronicles:34:20 @ Then the king commanded Hilkiah, Ahikam the son of Shaphan, Abdon the son of Micah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a s ervant of the king, saying,

nkjv@2Chronicles:34:21 @ "Go, inquire of the LORD for me, and for those who are left in Israel and Judah, conc erning the words of the book that is found; for great is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out on us, because our fath ers have not kept the word of the LORD, to do according to all that is written in this book."

nkjv@2Chronicles:34:22 @ So Hilkiah and those the king had appointed went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, keep er of the wardrobe. (She dwelt in J erusalem in the Second Quart er.) And they spoke to h er to that effect.

nkjv@2Chronicles:34:23 @ Then she answ ered them, "Thus says the LORD God of Israel, "Tell the man who sent you to Me,

nkjv@2Chronicles:34:25 @ because they have forsaken Me and burned incense to oth er gods, that they might provoke Me to ang er with all the works of their hands. Th erefore My wrath will be poured out on this place, and not be quenched.""

nkjv@2Chronicles:34:26 @ But as for the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, in this mann er you shall speak to him, "Thus says the LORD God of Israel: "Conc erning the words which you have heard--

nkjv@2Chronicles:34:27 @ because your heart was tend er, and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against its inhabitants, and you humbled yourself before Me, and you tore your clothes and wept before Me, I also have heard you," says the LORD.

nkjv@2Chronicles:34:28 @ "Surely I will gath er you to your fath ers, and you shall be gath ered to your grave in peace; and your eyes shall not see all the calamity which I will bring on this place and its inhabitants.""' So they brought back word to the king.

nkjv@2Chronicles:34:29 @ Then the king sent and gath ered all the eld ers of Judah and J erusalem.

nkjv@2Chronicles:34:30 @ The king went up to the house of the LORD, with all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of J erusalem--the priests and the Levites, and all the people, great and small. And he read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant which had been found in the house of the LORD.

nkjv@2Chronicles:34:31 @ Then the king stood in his place and made a covenant before the LORD, to follow the LORD, and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to p erform the words of the covenant that w ere written in this book.

nkjv@2Chronicles:34:32 @ And he made all who w ere present in J erusalem and Benjamin take a stand. So the inhabitants of J erusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fath ers.

nkjv@2Chronicles:34:33 @ Thus Josiah removed all the abominations from all the country that belonged to the children of Israel, and made all who w ere present in Israel diligently s erve the LORD their God. All his days they did not depart from following the LORD God of their fath ers.

nkjv@2Chronicles:35:1 @ Now Josiah kept a Passov er to the LORD in J erusalem, and they slaught ered the Passov er lambs on the fourteenth day of the first month.

nkjv@2Chronicles:35:2 @ And he set the priests in their duties and encouraged them for the s ervice of the house of the LORD.

nkjv@2Chronicles:35:3 @ Then he said to the Levites who taught all Israel, who w ere holy to the LORD: "Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David, king of Israel, built. It shall no long er be a burden on your should ers. Now s erve the LORD your God and His people Israel.

nkjv@2Chronicles:35:4 @ Prepare yourselves according to your fath ers' houses, according to your divisions, following the written instruction of David king of Israel and the written instruction of Solomon his son.

nkjv@2Chronicles:35:5 @ And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the fath ers' houses of your brethren the lay people, and according to the division of the fath er's house of the Levites.

nkjv@2Chronicles:35:6 @ So slaught er the Passov er off erings, consecrate yourselves, and prepare them for your brethren, that they may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses."

nkjv@2Chronicles:35:7 @ Then Josiah gave the lay people lambs and young goats from the flock, all for Passov er off erings for all who w ere present, to the numb er of thirty thousand, as well as three thousand cattle; these w ere from the king's possessions.

nkjv@2Chronicles:35:8 @ And his lead ers gave willingly to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, rul ers of the house of God, gave to the priests for the Passov er off erings two thousand six hundred from the flock, and three hundred cattle.

nkjv@2Chronicles:35:9 @ Also Conaniah, his broth ers Shemaiah and Nethanel, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave to the Levites for Passov er off erings five thousand from the flock and five hundred cattle.

nkjv@2Chronicles:35:10 @ So the s ervice was prepared, and the priests stood in their places, and the Levites in their divisions, according to the king's command.

nkjv@2Chronicles:35:11 @ And they slaught ered the Passov er off erings; and the priests sprinkled the blood with their hands, while the Levites skinned the animals.

nkjv@2Chronicles:35:12 @ Then they removed the burnt off erings that they might give them to the divisions of the fath ers' houses of the lay people, to off er to the LORD, as it is written in the Book of Moses. And so they did with the cattle.

nkjv@2Chronicles:35:13 @ Also they roasted the Passov er off erings with fire according to the ordinance; but the oth er holy off erings they boiled in pots, in caldrons, and in pans, and divided them quickly among all the lay people.

nkjv@2Chronicles:35:14 @ Then aft erward they prepared portions for themselves and for the priests, because the priests, the sons of Aaron, w ere busy in off ering burnt off erings and fat until night; th erefore the Levites prepared portions for themselves and for the priests, the sons of Aaron.

nkjv@2Chronicles:35:15 @ And the sing ers, the sons of Asaph, w ere in their places, according to the command of David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the king's se er. Also the gatekeep ers w ere at each gate; they did not have to leave their position, because their brethren the Levites prepared portions for them.

nkjv@2Chronicles:35:16 @ So all the s ervice of the LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the Passov er and to off er burnt off erings on the altar of the LORD, according to the command of King Josiah.

nkjv@2Chronicles:35:17 @ And the children of Israel who w ere present kept the Passov er at that time, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days.

nkjv@2Chronicles:35:18 @ Th ere had been no Passov er kept in Israel like that since the days of Samuel the prophet; and none of the kings of Israel had kept such a Passov er as Josiah kept, with the priests and the Levites, all Judah and Israel who w ere present, and the inhabitants of J erusalem.

nkjv@2Chronicles:35:19 @ In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah this Passov er was kept.

nkjv@2Chronicles:35:20 @ Aft er all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Carchemish by the Euphrates; and Josiah went out against him.

nkjv@2Chronicles:35:21 @ But he sent messeng ers to him, saying, "What have I to do with you, king of Judah? I have not come against you this day, but against the house with which I have war; for God commanded me to make haste. Refrain from meddling with God, who is with me, lest He destroy you."

nkjv@2Chronicles:35:22 @ Nev ertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself so that he might fight with him, and did not heed the words of Necho from the mouth of God. So he came to fight in the Valley of Megiddo.

nkjv@2Chronicles:35:23 @ And the arch ers shot King Josiah; and the king said to his s ervants, "Take me away, for I am sev erely wounded."

nkjv@2Chronicles:35:24 @ His s ervants th erefore took him out of that chariot and put him in the second chariot that he had, and they brought him to J erusalem. So he died, and was buried in one of the tombs of his fath ers. And all Judah and J erusalem mourned for Josiah.

nkjv@2Chronicles:35:25 @ J eremiah also lamented for Josiah. And to this day all the singing men and the singing women speak of Josiah in their lamentations. They made it a custom in Israel; and indeed they are written in the Laments.

nkjv@2Chronicles:36:1 @ Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his fath er's place in J erusalem.

nkjv@2Chronicles:36:2 @ Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in J erusalem.

nkjv@2Chronicles:36:3 @ Now the king of Egypt deposed him at J erusalem; and he imposed on the land a tribute of one hundred talents of silv er and a talent of gold.

nkjv@2Chronicles:36:4 @ Then the king of Egypt made Jehoahaz's broth er Eliakim king ov er Judah and J erusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz his broth er and carried him off to Egypt.

nkjv@2Chronicles:36:5 @ Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in J erusalem. And he did evil in the sight of the LORD his God.

nkjv@2Chronicles:36:6 @ Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him, and bound him in bronze fett ers to carry him off to Babylon.

nkjv@2Chronicles:36:9 @ Jehoiachin was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in J erusalem three months and ten days. And he did evil in the sight of the LORD.

nkjv@2Chronicles:36:10 @ At the turn of the year King Nebuchadnezzar summoned him and took him to Babylon, with the costly articles from the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah, Jehoiakim's broth er, king ov er Judah and J erusalem.

nkjv@2Chronicles:36:11 @ Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in J erusalem.

nkjv@2Chronicles:36:12 @ He did evil in the sight of the LORD his God, and did not humble himself before J eremiah the prophet, who spoke from the mouth of the LORD.

nkjv@2Chronicles:36:14 @ Moreov er all the lead ers of the priests and the people transgressed more and more, according to all the abominations of the nations, and defiled the house of the LORD which He had consecrated in J erusalem.

nkjv@2Chronicles:36:15 @ And the LORD God of their fath ers sent warnings to them by His messeng ers, rising up early and sending them, because He had compassion on His people and on His dwelling place.

nkjv@2Chronicles:36:16 @ But they mocked the messeng ers of God, despised His words, and scoffed at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against His people, till th ere was no remedy.

nkjv@2Chronicles:36:17 @ Th erefore He brought against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, on the aged or the weak; He gave them all into his hand.

nkjv@2Chronicles:36:18 @ And all the articles from the house of God, great and small, the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king and of his lead ers, all these he took to Babylon.

nkjv@2Chronicles:36:19 @ Then they burned the house of God, broke down the wall of J erusalem, burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all its precious possessions.

nkjv@2Chronicles:36:20 @ And those who escaped from the sword he carried away to Babylon, wh ere they became s ervants to him and his sons until the rule of the kingdom of P ersia,

nkjv@2Chronicles:36:21 @ to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of J eremiah, until the land had enjoyed h er Sabbaths. As long as she lay desolate she kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.

nkjv@2Chronicles:36:22 @ Now in the first year of Cyrus king of P ersia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of J eremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of P ersia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and also put it in writing, saying,

nkjv@2Chronicles:36:23 @ Thus says Cyrus king of P ersia: All the kingdoms of the earth the LORD God of heaven has given me. And He has commanded me to build Him a house at J erusalem which is in Judah. Who is among you of all His people? May the LORD his God be with him, and let him go up!

nkjv@Ezra:1:1 @ Now in the first year of Cyrus king of P ersia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of J eremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of P ersia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and also put it in writing, saying,

nkjv@Ezra:1:2 @ Thus says Cyrus king of P ersia: All the kingdoms of the earth the LORD God of heaven has given me. And He has commanded me to build Him a house at J erusalem which is in Judah.

nkjv@Ezra:1:3 @ Who is among you of all His people? May his God be with him, and let him go up to J erusalem which is in Judah, and build the house of the LORD God of Israel (He is God), which is in J erusalem.

nkjv@Ezra:1:4 @ And whoev er is left in any place wh ere he dwells, let the men of his place help him with silv er and gold, with goods and livestock, besides the freewill off erings for the house of God which is in J erusalem.

nkjv@Ezra:1:5 @ Then the heads of the fath ers' houses of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and the Levites, with all whose spirits God had moved, arose to go up and build the house of the LORD which is in J erusalem.

nkjv@Ezra:1:6 @ And all those who w ere around them encouraged them with articles of silv er and gold, with goods and livestock, and with precious things, besides all that was willingly off ered.

nkjv@Ezra:1:7 @ King Cyrus also brought out the articles of the house of the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had taken from J erusalem and put in the temple of his gods;

nkjv@Ezra:1:8 @ and Cyrus king of P ersia brought them out by the hand of Mithredath the treasur er, and counted them out to Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah.

nkjv@Ezra:1:9 @ This is the numb er of them: thirty gold platt ers, one thousand silv er platt ers, twenty-nine knives,

nkjv@Ezra:1:10 @ thirty gold basins, four hundred and ten silv er basins of a similar kind, and one thousand oth er articles.

nkjv@Ezra:1:11 @ All the articles of gold and silv er w ere five thousand four hundred. All these Sheshbazzar took with the captives who w ere brought from Babylon to J erusalem.

nkjv@Ezra:2:1 @ Now these are the people of the province who came back from the captivity, of those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away to Babylon, and who returned to J erusalem and Judah, ev eryone to his own city.

nkjv@Ezra:2:2 @ Those who came with Z erubbabel w ere Jeshua, Nehemiah, S eraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. The numb er of the men of the people of Israel:

nkjv@Ezra:2:16 @ the people of At er of Hezekiah, ninety-eight;

nkjv@Ezra:2:25 @ the people of Kirjath Arim, Chephirah, and Be eroth, seven hundred and forty-three;

nkjv@Ezra:2:31 @ the people of the oth er Elam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four;

nkjv@Ezra:2:34 @ the people of J ericho, three hundred and forty-five;

nkjv@Ezra:2:37 @ the sons of Imm er, one thousand and fifty-two;

nkjv@Ezra:2:41 @ The sing ers: the sons of Asaph, one hundred and twenty-eight.

nkjv@Ezra:2:42 @ The sons of the gatekeep ers: the sons of Shallum, the sons of At er, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hatita, and the sons of Shobai, one hundred and thirty-nine in all.

nkjv@Ezra:2:44 @ the sons of K eros, the sons of Siaha, the sons of Padon,

nkjv@Ezra:2:53 @ the sons of Barkos, the sons of Sis era, the sons of Tamah,

nkjv@Ezra:2:55 @ The sons of Solomon's s ervants: the sons of Sotai, the sons of Soph ereth, the sons of P eruda,

nkjv@Ezra:2:57 @ the sons of Shephatiah, the sons of Hattil, the sons of Poch ereth of Zebaim, and the sons of Ami.

nkjv@Ezra:2:58 @ All the Nethinim and the children of Solomon's s ervants w ere three hundred and ninety-two.

nkjv@Ezra:2:59 @ And these w ere the ones who came up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Ch erub, Addan, and Imm er; but they could not identify their fath er's house or their genealogy, wheth er they w ere of Israel:

nkjv@Ezra:2:61 @ and of the sons of the priests: the sons of Habaiah, the sons of Koz, and the sons of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daught ers of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called by their name.

nkjv@Ezra:2:62 @ These sought their listing among those who w ere regist ered by genealogy, but they w ere not found; th erefore they w ere excluded from the priesthood as defiled.

nkjv@Ezra:2:63 @ And the gov ernor said to them that they should not eat of the most holy things till a priest could consult with the Urim and Thummim.

nkjv@Ezra:2:64 @ The whole assembly togeth er was forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty,

nkjv@Ezra:2:65 @ besides their male and female s ervants, of whom th ere w ere seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven; and they had two hundred men and women sing ers.

nkjv@Ezra:2:66 @ Their horses w ere seven hundred and thirty-six, their mules two hundred and forty-five,

nkjv@Ezra:2:68 @ Some of the heads of the fath ers' houses, when they came to the house of the LORD which is in J erusalem, off ered freely for the house of God, to erect it in its place:

nkjv@Ezra:2:69 @ According to their ability, they gave to the treasury for the work sixty-one thousand gold drachmas, five thousand minas of silv er, and one hundred priestly garments.

nkjv@Ezra:2:70 @ So the priests and the Levites, some of the people, the sing ers, the gatekeep ers, and the Nethinim, dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.

nkjv@Ezra:3:1 @ And when the seventh month had come, and the children of Israel w ere in the cities, the people gath ered togeth er as one man to J erusalem.

nkjv@Ezra:3:2 @ Then Jeshua the son of Jozadak and his brethren the priests, and Z erubbabel the son of Shealtiel and his brethren, arose and built the altar of the God of Israel, to off er burnt off erings on it, as it is written in the Law of Moses the man of God.

nkjv@Ezra:3:3 @ Though fear had come upon them because of the people of those countries, they set the altar on its bases; and they off ered burnt off erings on it to the LORD, both the morning and evening burnt off erings.

nkjv@Ezra:3:4 @ They also kept the Feast of Tab ernacles, as it is written, and off ered the daily burnt off erings in the numb er required by ordinance for each day.

nkjv@Ezra:3:5 @ Aft erwards they off ered the regular burnt off ering, and those for New Moons and for all the appointed feasts of the LORD that w ere consecrated, and those of ev eryone who willingly off ered a freewill off ering to the LORD.

nkjv@Ezra:3:6 @ From the first day of the seventh month they began to off er burnt off erings to the LORD, although the foundation of the temple of the LORD had not been laid.

nkjv@Ezra:3:7 @ They also gave money to the masons and the carpent ers, and food, drink, and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre to bring cedar logs from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the p ermission which they had from Cyrus king of P ersia.

nkjv@Ezra:3:8 @ Now in the second month of the second year of their coming to the house of God at J erusalem, Z erubbabel the son of Shealtiel, Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all those who had come out of the captivity to J erusalem, began work and appointed the Levites from twenty years old and above to ov ersee the work of the house of the LORD.

nkjv@Ezra:3:9 @ Then Jeshua with his sons and broth ers, Kadmiel with his sons, and the sons of Judah, arose as one to ov ersee those working on the house of God: the sons of Henadad with their sons and their brethren the Levites.

nkjv@Ezra:3:10 @ When the build ers laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, the priests stood in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise the LORD, according to the ordinance of David king of Israel.

nkjv@Ezra:3:11 @ And they sang responsively, praising and giving thanks to the LORD: "For He is good, For His m ercy endures forev er toward Israel." Then all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid.

nkjv@Ezra:3:12 @ But many of the priests and Levites and heads of the fath ers' houses, old men who had seen the first temple, wept with a loud voice when the foundation of this temple was laid before their eyes. Yet many shouted aloud for joy,

nkjv@Ezra:3:13 @ so that the people could not disc ern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people, for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the sound was heard afar off.

nkjv@Ezra:4:1 @ Now when the adv ersaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the descendants of the captivity w ere building the temple of the LORD God of Israel,

nkjv@Ezra:4:2 @ they came to Z erubbabel and the heads of the fath ers' houses, and said to them, "Let us build with you, for we seek your God as you do; and we have sacrificed to Him since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assyria, who brought us h ere."

nkjv@Ezra:4:3 @ But Z erubbabel and Jeshua and the rest of the heads of the fath ers' houses of Israel said to them, "You may do nothing with us to build a house for our God; but we alone will build to the LORD God of Israel, as King Cyrus the king of P ersia has commanded us."

nkjv@Ezra:4:5 @ and hired counselors against them to frustrate their purpose all the days of Cyrus king of P ersia, even until the reign of Darius king of P ersia.

nkjv@Ezra:4:6 @ In the reign of Ahasu erus, in the beginning of his reign, they wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and J erusalem.

nkjv@Ezra:4:7 @ In the days of Artax erxes also, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabel, and the rest of their companions wrote to Artax erxes king of P ersia; and the lett er was written in Aramaic script, and translated into the Aramaic language.

nkjv@Ezra:4:8 @ Rehum the command er and Shimshai the scribe wrote a lett er against J erusalem to King Artax erxes in this fashion:

nkjv@Ezra:4:9 @ From Rehum the command er, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions--representatives of the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the people of P ersia and Erech and Babylon and Shushan, the Dehavites, the Elamites,

nkjv@Ezra:4:10 @ and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Osnapp er took captive and settled in the cities of Samaria and the remaind er beyond the Riv er --and so forth.

nkjv@Ezra:4:11 @ (This is a copy of the lett er that they sent him) To King Artax erxes from your s ervants, the men of the region beyond the Riv er, and so forth:

nkjv@Ezra:4:12 @ Let it be known to the king that the Jews who came up from you have come to us at J erusalem, and are building the rebellious and evil city, and are finishing its walls and repairing the foundations.

nkjv@Ezra:4:14 @ Now because we receive support from the palace, it was not prop er for us to see the king's dishonor; th erefore we have sent and informed the king,

nkjv@Ezra:4:15 @ that search may be made in the book of the records of your fath ers. And you will find in the book of the records and know that this city is a rebellious city, harmful to kings and provinces, and that they have incited sedition within the city in form er times, for which cause this city was destroyed.

nkjv@Ezra:4:16 @ We inform the king that if this city is rebuilt and its walls are completed, the result will be that you will have no dominion beyond the Riv er.

nkjv@Ezra:4:17 @ The king sent an answ er: To Rehum the command er, to Shimshai the scribe, to the rest of their companions who dwell in Samaria, and to the remaind er beyond the Riv er: Peace, and so forth.

nkjv@Ezra:4:18 @ The lett er which you sent to us has been clearly read before me.

nkjv@Ezra:4:19 @ And I gave the command, and a search has been made, and it was found that this city in form er times has revolted against kings, and rebellion and sedition have been fost ered in it.

nkjv@Ezra:4:20 @ Th ere have also been mighty kings ov er J erusalem, who have ruled ov er all the region beyond the Riv er; and tax, tribute, and custom w ere paid to them.

nkjv@Ezra:4:23 @ Now when the copy of King Artax erxes' lett er was read before Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to J erusalem against the Jews, and by force of arms made them cease.

nkjv@Ezra:4:24 @ Thus the work of the house of God which is at J erusalem ceased, and it was discontinued until the second year of the reign of Darius king of P ersia.

nkjv@Ezra:5:1 @ Then the prophet Haggai and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophets, prophesied to the Jews who w ere in Judah and J erusalem, in the name of the God of Israel, who was ov er them.

nkjv@Ezra:5:2 @ So Z erubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak rose up and began to build the house of God which is in J erusalem; and the prophets of God w ere with them, helping them.

nkjv@Ezra:5:3 @ At the same time Tattenai the gov ernor of the region beyond the Riv er and Shethar-Boznai and their companions came to them and spoke thus to them: "Who has commanded you to build this temple and finish this wall?"

nkjv@Ezra:5:4 @ Then, accordingly, we told them the names of the men who w ere constructing this building.

nkjv@Ezra:5:5 @ But the eye of their God was upon the eld ers of the Jews, so that they could not make them cease till a report could go to Darius. Then a written answ er was returned conc erning this matt er.

nkjv@Ezra:5:6 @ This is a copy of the lett er that Tattenai sent: The gov ernor of the region beyond the Riv er, and Shethar-Boznai, and his companions, the P ersians who w ere in the region beyond the Riv er, to Darius the king.

nkjv@Ezra:5:7 @ (They sent a lett er to him, in which was written thus) To Darius the king: All peace.

nkjv@Ezra:5:8 @ Let it be known to the king that we went into the province of Judea, to the temple of the great God, which is being built with heavy stones, and timb er is being laid in the walls; and this work goes on diligently and prosp ers in their hands.

nkjv@Ezra:5:9 @ Then we asked those eld ers, and spoke thus to them: "Who commanded you to build this temple and to finish these walls?"

nkjv@Ezra:5:10 @ We also asked them their names to inform you, that we might write the names of the men who w ere chief among them.

nkjv@Ezra:5:11 @ And thus they returned us an answ er, saying: "We are the s ervants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the temple that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and completed.

nkjv@Ezra:5:12 @ But because our fath ers provoked the God of heaven to wrath, He gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this temple and carried the people away to Babylon.

nkjv@Ezra:5:13 @ Howev er, in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, King Cyrus issued a decree to build this house of God.

nkjv@Ezra:5:14 @ Also, the gold and silv er articles of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple that was in J erusalem and carried into the temple of Babylon--those King Cyrus took from the temple of Babylon, and they w ere given to one named Sheshbazzar, whom he had made gov ernor.

nkjv@Ezra:5:15 @ And he said to him, "Take these articles; go, carry them to the temple site that is in J erusalem, and let the house of God be rebuilt on its form er site.'

nkjv@Ezra:5:16 @ Then the same Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundation of the house of God which is in J erusalem; but from that time even until now it has been und er construction, and it is not finished."

nkjv@Ezra:5:17 @ Now th erefore, if it seems good to the king, let a search be made in the king's treasure house, which is th ere in Babylon, wheth er it is so that a decree was issued by King Cyrus to build this house of God at J erusalem, and let the king send us his pleasure conc erning this matt er.

nkjv@Ezra:6:1 @ Then King Darius issued a decree, and a search was made in the archives, wh ere the treasures w ere stored in Babylon.

nkjv@Ezra:6:3 @ In the first year of King Cyrus, King Cyrus issued a decree conc erning the house of God at J erusalem: "Let the house be rebuilt, the place wh ere they off ered sacrifices; and let the foundations of it be firmly laid, its height sixty cubits and its width sixty cubits,

nkjv@Ezra:6:4 @ with three rows of heavy stones and one row of new timb er. Let the expenses be paid from the king's treasury.

nkjv@Ezra:6:5 @ Also let the gold and silv er articles of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the temple which is in J erusalem and brought to Babylon, be restored and taken back to the temple which is in J erusalem, each to its place; and deposit them in the house of God"--

nkjv@Ezra:6:6 @ Now th erefore, Tattenai, gov ernor of the region beyond the Riv er, and Shethar-Boznai, and your companions the P ersians who are beyond the Riv er, keep yourselves far from th ere.

nkjv@Ezra:6:7 @ Let the work of this house of God alone; let the gov ernor of the Jews and the eld ers of the Jews build this house of God on its site.

nkjv@Ezra:6:8 @ Moreov er I issue a decree as to what you shall do for the eld ers of these Jews, for the building of this house of God: Let the cost be paid at the king's expense from taxes on the region beyond the Riv er; this is to be given immediately to these men, so that they are not hind ered.

nkjv@Ezra:6:9 @ And whatev er they need--young bulls, rams, and lambs for the burnt off erings of the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the request of the priests who are in J erusalem--let it be given them day by day without fail,

nkjv@Ezra:6:10 @ that they may off er sacrifices of sweet aroma to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king and his sons.

nkjv@Ezra:6:11 @ Also I issue a decree that whoev er alt ers this edict, let a timb er be pulled from his house and erected, and let him be hanged on it; and let his house be made a refuse heap because of this.

nkjv@Ezra:6:12 @ And may the God who causes His name to dwell th ere destroy any king or people who put their hand to alt er it, or to destroy this house of God which is in J erusalem. I Darius issue a decree; let it be done diligently.

nkjv@Ezra:6:13 @ Then Tattenai, gov ernor of the region beyond the Riv er, Shethar-Boznai, and their companions diligently did according to what King Darius had sent.

nkjv@Ezra:6:14 @ So the eld ers of the Jews built, and they prosp ered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they built and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the command of Cyrus, Darius, and Artax erxes king of P ersia.

nkjv@Ezra:6:17 @ And they off ered sacrifices at the dedication of this house of God, one hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, and as a sin off ering for all Israel twelve male goats, according to the numb er of the tribes of Israel.

nkjv@Ezra:6:18 @ They assigned the priests to their divisions and the Levites to their divisions, ov er the s ervice of God in J erusalem, as it is written in the Book of Moses.

nkjv@Ezra:6:19 @ And the descendants of the captivity kept the Passov er on the fourteenth day of the first month.

nkjv@Ezra:6:20 @ For the priests and the Levites had purified themselves; all of them w ere ritually clean. And they slaught ered the Passov er lambs for all the descendants of the captivity, for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.

nkjv@Ezra:6:21 @ Then the children of Israel who had returned from the captivity ate togeth er with all who had separated themselves from the filth of the nations of the land in ord er to seek the LORD God of Israel.

nkjv@Ezra:7:1 @ Now aft er these things, in the reign of Artax erxes king of P ersia, Ezra the son of S eraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,

nkjv@Ezra:7:3 @ the son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of M eraioth,

nkjv@Ezra:7:4 @ the son of Z erahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,

nkjv@Ezra:7:7 @ Some of the children of Israel, the priests, the Levites, the sing ers, the gatekeep ers, and the Nethinim came up to J erusalem in the seventh year of King Artax erxes.

nkjv@Ezra:7:8 @ And Ezra came to J erusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.

nkjv@Ezra:7:9 @ On the first day of the first month he began his journey from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month he came to J erusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him.

nkjv@Ezra:7:11 @ This is a copy of the lett er that King Artax erxes gave Ezra the priest, the scribe, exp ert in the words of the commandments of the LORD, and of His statutes to Israel:

nkjv@Ezra:7:12 @ Artax erxes, king of kings, To Ezra the priest, a scribe of the Law of the God of heaven: P erfect peace, and so forth.

nkjv@Ezra:7:13 @ I issue a decree that all those of the people of Israel and the priests and Levites in my realm, who volunte er to go up to J erusalem, may go with you.

nkjv@Ezra:7:14 @ And wh ereas you are being sent by the king and his seven counselors to inquire conc erning Judah and J erusalem, with regard to the Law of your God which is in your hand;

nkjv@Ezra:7:15 @ and wh ereas you are to carry the silv er and gold which the king and his counselors have freely off ered to the God of Israel, whose dwelling is in J erusalem;

nkjv@Ezra:7:16 @ and wh ereas all the silv er and gold that you may find in all the province of Babylon, along with the freewill off ering of the people and the priests, are to be freely off ered for the house of their God in J erusalem--

nkjv@Ezra:7:17 @ now th erefore, be careful to buy with this money bulls, rams, and lambs, with their grain off erings and their drink off erings, and off er them on the altar of the house of your God in J erusalem.

nkjv@Ezra:7:18 @ And whatev er seems good to you and your brethren to do with the rest of the silv er and the gold, do it according to the will of your God.

nkjv@Ezra:7:19 @ Also the articles that are given to you for the s ervice of the house of your God, deliv er in full before the God of J erusalem.

nkjv@Ezra:7:20 @ And whatev er more may be needed for the house of your God, which you may have occasion to provide, pay for it from the king's treasury.

nkjv@Ezra:7:21 @ And I, even I, Artax erxes the king, issue a decree to all the treasur ers who are in the region beyond the Riv er, that whatev er Ezra the priest, the scribe of the Law of the God of heaven, may require of you, let it be done diligently,

nkjv@Ezra:7:22 @ up to one hundred talents of silv er, one hundred kors of wheat, one hundred baths of wine, one hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribed limit.

nkjv@Ezra:7:23 @ Whatev er is commanded by the God of heaven, let it diligently be done for the house of the God of heaven. For why should th ere be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?

nkjv@Ezra:7:24 @ Also we inform you that it shall not be lawful to impose tax, tribute, or custom on any of the priests, Levites, sing ers, gatekeep ers, Nethinim, or s ervants of this house of God.

nkjv@Ezra:7:25 @ And you, Ezra, according to your God-given wisdom, set magistrates and judges who may judge all the people who are in the region beyond the Riv er, all such as know the laws of your God; and teach those who do not know them.

nkjv@Ezra:7:26 @ Whoev er will not obs erve the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily on him, wheth er it be death, or banishment, or confiscation of goods, or imprisonment.

nkjv@Ezra:7:27 @ Blessed be the LORD God of our fath ers, who has put such a thing as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of the LORD which is in J erusalem,

nkjv@Ezra:7:28 @ and has extended m ercy to me before the king and his counselors, and before all the king's mighty princes. So I was encouraged, as the hand of the LORD my God was upon me; and I gath ered leading men of Israel to go up with me.

nkjv@Ezra:8:1 @ These are the heads of their fath ers' houses, and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of King Artax erxes:

nkjv@Ezra:8:2 @ of the sons of Phinehas, G ershom; of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel; of the sons of David, Hattush;

nkjv@Ezra:8:3 @ of the sons of Shecaniah, of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah; and regist ered with him w ere one hundred and fifty males;

nkjv@Ezra:8:4 @ of the sons of Pahath-Moab, Eliehoenai the son of Z erahiah, and with him two hundred males;

nkjv@Ezra:8:15 @ Now I gath ered them by the riv er that flows to Ahava, and we camped th ere three days. And I looked among the people and the priests, and found none of the sons of Levi th ere.

nkjv@Ezra:8:16 @ Then I sent for Eliez er, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, lead ers; also for Joiarib and Elnathan, men of und erstanding.

nkjv@Ezra:8:17 @ And I gave them a command for Iddo the chief man at the place Casiphia, and I told them what they should say to Iddo and his brethren the Nethinim at the place Casiphia--that they should bring us s ervants for the house of our God.

nkjv@Ezra:8:18 @ Then, by the good hand of our God upon us, they brought us a man of und erstanding, of the sons of Mahli the son of Levi, the son of Israel, namely Sh erebiah, with his sons and broth ers, eighteen men;

nkjv@Ezra:8:19 @ and Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of M erari, his broth ers and their sons, twenty men;

nkjv@Ezra:8:20 @ also of the Nethinim, whom David and the lead ers had appointed for the s ervice of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinim. All of them w ere designated by name.

nkjv@Ezra:8:21 @ Then I proclaimed a fast th ere at the riv er of Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from Him the right way for us and our little ones and all our possessions.

nkjv@Ezra:8:22 @ For I was ashamed to request of the king an escort of soldi ers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the road, because we had spoken to the king, saying, "The hand of our God is upon all those for good who seek Him, but His pow er and His wrath are against all those who forsake Him."

nkjv@Ezra:8:23 @ So we fasted and entreated our God for this, and He answ ered our pray er.

nkjv@Ezra:8:24 @ And I separated twelve of the lead ers of the priests--Sh erebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them--

nkjv@Ezra:8:25 @ and weighed out to them the silv er, the gold, and the articles, the off ering for the house of our God which the king and his counselors and his princes, and all Israel who w ere present, had off ered.

nkjv@Ezra:8:26 @ I weighed into their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silv er, silv er articles weighing one hundred talents, one hundred talents of gold,

nkjv@Ezra:8:28 @ And I said to them, "You are holy to the LORD; the articles are holy also; and the silv er and the gold are a freewill off ering to the LORD God of your fath ers.

nkjv@Ezra:8:29 @ Watch and keep them until you weigh them before the lead ers of the priests and the Levites and heads of the fath ers' houses of Israel in J erusalem, in the chamb ers of the house of the LORD."

nkjv@Ezra:8:30 @ So the priests and the Levites received the silv er and the gold and the articles by weight, to bring them to J erusalem to the house of our God.

nkjv@Ezra:8:31 @ Then we departed from the riv er of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to J erusalem. And the hand of our God was upon us, and He deliv ered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambush along the road.

nkjv@Ezra:8:32 @ So we came to J erusalem, and stayed th ere three days.

nkjv@Ezra:8:33 @ Now on the fourth day the silv er and the gold and the articles w ere weighed in the house of our God by the hand of M eremoth the son of Uriah the priest, and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; with them w ere the Levites, Jozabad the son of Jeshua and Noadiah the son of Binnui,

nkjv@Ezra:8:34 @ with the numb er and weight of ev erything. All the weight was written down at that time.

nkjv@Ezra:8:35 @ The children of those who had been carried away captive, who had come from the captivity, off ered burnt off erings to the God of Israel: twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and twelve male goats as a sin off ering. All this was a burnt off ering to the LORD.

nkjv@Ezra:8:36 @ And they deliv ered the king's ord ers to the king's satraps and the gov ernors in the region beyond the Riv er. So they gave support to the people and the house of God.

nkjv@Ezra:9:1 @ When these things w ere done, the lead ers came to me, saying, "The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, with respect to the abominations of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the P erizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

nkjv@Ezra:9:2 @ For they have taken some of their daught ers as wives for themselves and their sons, so that the holy seed is mixed with the peoples of those lands. Indeed, the hand of the lead ers and rul ers has been foremost in this trespass."

nkjv@Ezra:9:4 @ Then ev eryone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel assembled to me, because of the transgression of those who had been carried away captive, and I sat astonished until the evening sacrifice.

nkjv@Ezra:9:6 @ And I said: "O my God, I am too ashamed and humiliated to lift up my face to You, my God; for our iniquities have risen high er than our heads, and our guilt has grown up to the heavens.

nkjv@Ezra:9:7 @ Since the days of our fath ers to this day we have been v ery guilty, and for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests have been deliv ered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plund er, and to humiliation, as it is this day.

nkjv@Ezra:9:9 @ For we w ere slaves. Yet our God did not forsake us in our bondage; but He extended m ercy to us in the sight of the kings of P ersia, to revive us, to repair the house of our God, to rebuild its ruins, and to give us a wall in Judah and J erusalem.

nkjv@Ezra:9:10 @ And now, O our God, what shall we say aft er this? For we have forsaken Your commandments,

nkjv@Ezra:9:11 @ which You commanded by Your s ervants the prophets, saying, "The land which you are ent ering to possess is an unclean land, with the uncleanness of the peoples of the lands, with their abominations which have filled it from one end to anoth er with their impurity.

nkjv@Ezra:9:12 @ Now th erefore, do not give your daught ers as wives for their sons, nor take their daught ers to your sons; and nev er seek their peace or prosp erity, that you may be strong and eat the good of the land, and leave it as an inh eritance to your children forev er.'

nkjv@Ezra:9:13 @ And aft er all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, since You our God have punished us less than our iniquities des erve, and have given us such deliv erance as this,

nkjv@Ezra:9:14 @ should we again break Your commandments, and join in marriage with the people committing these abominations? Would You not be angry with us until You had consumed us, so that th ere would be no remnant or survivor?

nkjv@Ezra:9:15 @ O LORD God of Israel, You are righteous, for we are left as a remnant, as it is this day. H ere we are before You, in our guilt, though no one can stand before You because of this!"

nkjv@Ezra:10:1 @ Now while Ezra was praying, and while he was confessing, weeping, and bowing down before the house of God, a v ery large assembly of men, women, and children gath ered to him from Israel; for the people wept v ery bitt erly.

nkjv@Ezra:10:2 @ And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, spoke up and said to Ezra, "We have trespassed against our God, and have taken pagan wives from the peoples of the land; yet now th ere is hope in Israel in spite of this.

nkjv@Ezra:10:3 @ Now th erefore, let us make a covenant with our God to put away all these wives and those who have been born to them, according to the advice of my mast er and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.

nkjv@Ezra:10:4 @ Arise, for this matt er is your responsibility. We also are with you. Be of good courage, and do it."

nkjv@Ezra:10:5 @ Then Ezra arose, and made the lead ers of the priests, the Levites, and all Israel swear an oath that they would do according to this word. So they swore an oath.

nkjv@Ezra:10:6 @ Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamb er of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib; and when he came th ere, he ate no bread and drank no wat er, for he mourned because of the guilt of those from the captivity.

nkjv@Ezra:10:7 @ And they issued a proclamation throughout Judah and J erusalem to all the descendants of the captivity, that they must gath er at J erusalem,

nkjv@Ezra:10:8 @ and that whoev er would not come within three days, according to the instructions of the lead ers and eld ers, all his prop erty would be confiscated, and he himself would be separated from the assembly of those from the captivity.

nkjv@Ezra:10:9 @ So all the men of Judah and Benjamin gath ered at J erusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth of the month; and all the people sat in the open square of the house of God, trembling because of this matt er and because of heavy rain.

nkjv@Ezra:10:11 @ Now th erefore, make confession to the LORD God of your fath ers, and do His will; separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the pagan wives."

nkjv@Ezra:10:12 @ Then all the assembly answ ered and said with a loud voice, "Yes! As you have said, so we must do.

nkjv@Ezra:10:13 @ But th ere are many people; it is the season for heavy rain, and we are not able to stand outside. Nor is this the work of one or two days, for th ere are many of us who have transgressed in this matt er.

nkjv@Ezra:10:14 @ Please, let the lead ers of our entire assembly stand; and let all those in our cities who have taken pagan wives come at appointed times, togeth er with the eld ers and judges of their cities, until the fi erce wrath of our God is turned away from us in this matt er."

nkjv@Ezra:10:16 @ Then the descendants of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with c ertain heads of the fath ers' households, w ere set apart by the fath ers' households, each of them by name; and they sat down on the first day of the tenth month to examine the matt er.

nkjv@Ezra:10:18 @ And among the sons of the priests who had taken pagan wives the following w ere found of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his broth ers: Maaseiah, Eliez er, Jarib, and Gedaliah.

nkjv@Ezra:10:19 @ And they gave their promise that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they presented a ram of the flock as their trespass off ering.

nkjv@Ezra:10:20 @ Also of the sons of Imm er: Hanani and Zebadiah;

nkjv@Ezra:10:23 @ Also of the Levites: Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (the same is Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliez er.

nkjv@Ezra:10:24 @ Also of the sing ers: Eliashib; and of the gatekeep ers: Shallum, Telem, and Uri.

nkjv@Ezra:10:25 @ And oth ers of Israel: of the sons of Parosh: Ramiah, Jeziah, Malchiah, Mijamin, Eleazar, Malchijah, and Benaiah;

nkjv@Ezra:10:26 @ of the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, Jehiel, Abdi, J eremoth, and Eliah;

nkjv@Ezra:10:27 @ of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, J eremoth, Zabad, and Aziza;

nkjv@Ezra:10:31 @ of the sons of Harim: Eliez er, Ishijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,

nkjv@Ezra:10:33 @ of the sons of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, J eremai, Manasseh, and Shimei;

nkjv@Ezra:10:36 @ Vaniah, M eremoth, Eliashib,

nkjv@Nehemiah:1:2 @ that Hanani one of my brethren came with men from Judah; and I asked them conc erning the Jews who had escaped, who had survived the captivity, and conc erning J erusalem.

nkjv@Nehemiah:1:3 @ And they said to me, "The survivors who are left from the captivity in the province are th ere in great distress and reproach. The wall of J erusalem is also broken down, and its gates are burned with fire."

nkjv@Nehemiah:1:5 @ And I said: "I pray, LORD God of heaven, O great and awesome God, You who keep Your covenant and m ercy with those who love You and obs erve Your commandments,

nkjv@Nehemiah:1:6 @ please let Your ear be attentive and Your eyes open, that You may hear the pray er of Your s ervant which I pray before You now, day and night, for the children of Israel Your s ervants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel which we have sinned against You. Both my fath er's house and I have sinned.

nkjv@Nehemiah:1:7 @ We have acted v ery corruptly against You, and have not kept the commandments, the statutes, nor the ordinances which You commanded Your s ervant Moses.

nkjv@Nehemiah:1:8 @ Rememb er, I pray, the word that You commanded Your s ervant Moses, saying, "If you are unfaithful, I will scatt er you among the nations;

nkjv@Nehemiah:1:9 @ but if you return to Me, and keep My commandments and do them, though some of you w ere cast out to the farthest part of the heavens, yet I will gath er them from th ere, and bring them to the place which I have chosen as a dwelling for My name.'

nkjv@Nehemiah:1:10 @ Now these are Your s ervants and Your people, whom You have redeemed by Your great pow er, and by Your strong hand.

nkjv@Nehemiah:1:11 @ O Lord, I pray, please let Your ear be attentive to the pray er of Your s ervant, and to the pray er of Your s ervants who desire to fear Your name; and let Your s ervant prosp er this day, I pray, and grant him m ercy in the sight of this man." For I was the king's cupbear er.

nkjv@Nehemiah:2:1 @ And it came to pass in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artax erxes, when wine was before him, that I took the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had nev er been sad in his presence before.

nkjv@Nehemiah:2:2 @ Th erefore the king said to me, "Why is your face sad, since you are not sick? This is nothing but sorrow of heart." So I became dreadfully afraid,

nkjv@Nehemiah:2:3 @ and said to the king, "May the king live forev er! Why should my face not be sad, when the city, the place of my fath ers' tombs, lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire?"

nkjv@Nehemiah:2:5 @ And I said to the king, "If it pleases the king, and if your s ervant has found favor in your sight, I ask that you send me to Judah, to the city of my fath ers' tombs, that I may rebuild it."

nkjv@Nehemiah:2:7 @ Furth ermore I said to the king, "If it pleases the king, let lett ers be given to me for the gov ernors of the region beyond the Riv er, that they must p ermit me to pass through till I come to Judah,

nkjv@Nehemiah:2:8 @ and a lett er to Asaph the keep er of the king's forest, that he must give me timb er to make beams for the gates of the citadel which p ertains to the temple, for the city wall, and for the house that I will occupy." And the king granted them to me according to the good hand of my God upon me.

nkjv@Nehemiah:2:9 @ Then I went to the gov ernors in the region beyond the Riv er, and gave them the king's lett ers. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me.

nkjv@Nehemiah:2:10 @ When Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official heard of it, they w ere deeply disturbed that a man had come to seek the well-being of the children of Israel.

nkjv@Nehemiah:2:11 @ So I came to J erusalem and was th ere three days.

nkjv@Nehemiah:2:12 @ Then I arose in the night, I and a few men with me; I told no one what my God had put in my heart to do at J erusalem; nor was th ere any animal with me, except the one on which I rode.

nkjv@Nehemiah:2:13 @ And I went out by night through the Valley Gate to the S erpent Well and the Refuse Gate, and viewed the walls of J erusalem which w ere broken down and its gates which w ere burned with fire.

nkjv@Nehemiah:2:14 @ Then I went on to the Fountain Gate and to the King's Pool, but th ere was no room for the animal und er me to pass.

nkjv@Nehemiah:2:15 @ So I went up in the night by the valley, and viewed the wall; then I turned back and ent ered by the Valley Gate, and so returned.

nkjv@Nehemiah:2:16 @ And the officials did not know wh ere I had gone or what I had done; I had not yet told the Jews, the priests, the nobles, the officials, or the oth ers who did the work.

nkjv@Nehemiah:2:17 @ Then I said to them, "You see the distress that we are in, how J erusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come and let us build the wall of J erusalem, that we may no long er be a reproach."

nkjv@Nehemiah:2:20 @ So I answ ered them, and said to them, "The God of heaven Himself will prosp er us; th erefore we His s ervants will arise and build, but you have no h eritage or right or memorial in J erusalem."

nkjv@Nehemiah:3:1 @ Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests and built the Sheep Gate; they consecrated it and hung its doors. They built as far as the Tow er of the Hundred, and consecrated it, then as far as the Tow er of Hananel.

nkjv@Nehemiah:3:2 @ Next to Eliashib the men of J ericho built. And next to them Zaccur the son of Imri built.

nkjv@Nehemiah:3:4 @ And next to them M eremoth the son of Urijah, the son of Koz, made repairs. Next to them Meshullam the son of B erechiah, the son of Meshezabel, made repairs. Next to them Zadok the son of Baana made repairs.

nkjv@Nehemiah:3:5 @ Next to them the Tekoites made repairs; but their nobles did not put their should ers to the work of their Lord.

nkjv@Nehemiah:3:6 @ Moreov er Jehoiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah repaired the Old Gate; they laid its beams and hung its doors, with its bolts and bars.

nkjv@Nehemiah:3:7 @ And next to them Melatiah the Gibeonite, Jadon the M eronothite, the men of Gibeon and Mizpah, repaired the residence of the gov ernor of the region beyond the Riv er.

nkjv@Nehemiah:3:8 @ Next to him Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, one of the goldsmiths, made repairs. Also next to him Hananiah, one of the p erfum ers, made repairs; and they fortified J erusalem as far as the Broad Wall.

nkjv@Nehemiah:3:9 @ And next to them Rephaiah the son of Hur, lead er of half the district of J erusalem, made repairs.

nkjv@Nehemiah:3:11 @ Malchijah the son of Harim and Hashub the son of Pahath-Moab repaired anoth er section, as well as the Tow er of the Ovens.

nkjv@Nehemiah:3:12 @ And next to him was Shallum the son of Hallohesh, lead er of half the district of J erusalem; he and his daught ers made repairs.

nkjv@Nehemiah:3:14 @ Malchijah the son of Rechab, lead er of the district of Beth Hacc erem, repaired the Refuse Gate; he built it and hung its doors with its bolts and bars.

nkjv@Nehemiah:3:15 @ Shallun the son of Col-Hozeh, lead er of the district of Mizpah, repaired the Fountain Gate; he built it, cov ered it, hung its doors with its bolts and bars, and repaired the wall of the Pool of Shelah by the King's Garden, as far as the stairs that go down from the City of David.

nkjv@Nehemiah:3:16 @ Aft er him Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, lead er of half the district of Beth Zur, made repairs as far as the place in front of the tombs of David, to the man-made pool, and as far as the House of the Mighty.

nkjv@Nehemiah:3:17 @ Aft er him the Levites, und er Rehum the son of Bani, made repairs. Next to him Hashabiah, lead er of half the district of Keilah, made repairs for his district.

nkjv@Nehemiah:3:18 @ Aft er him their brethren, und er Bavai the son of Henadad, lead er of the oth er half of the district of Keilah, made repairs.

nkjv@Nehemiah:3:19 @ And next to him Ez er the son of Jeshua, the lead er of Mizpah, repaired anoth er section in front of the Ascent to the Armory at the buttress.

nkjv@Nehemiah:3:20 @ Aft er him Baruch the son of Zabbai carefully repaired the oth er section, from the buttress to the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.

nkjv@Nehemiah:3:21 @ Aft er him M eremoth the son of Urijah, the son of Koz, repaired anoth er section, from the door of the house of Eliashib to the end of the house of Eliashib.

nkjv@Nehemiah:3:22 @ And aft er him the priests, the men of the plain, made repairs.

nkjv@Nehemiah:3:23 @ Aft er him Benjamin and Hasshub made repairs opposite their house. Aft er them Azariah the son of Maaseiah, the son of Ananiah, made repairs by his house.

nkjv@Nehemiah:3:24 @ Aft er him Binnui the son of Henadad repaired anoth er section, from the house of Azariah to the buttress, even as far as the corn er.

nkjv@Nehemiah:3:25 @ Palal the son of Uzai made repairs opposite the buttress, and on the tow er which projects from the king's upp er house that was by the court of the prison. Aft er him Pedaiah the son of Parosh made repairs.

nkjv@Nehemiah:3:26 @ Moreov er the Nethinim who dwelt in Ophel made repairs as far as the place in front of the Wat er Gate toward the east, and on the projecting tow er.

nkjv@Nehemiah:3:27 @ Aft er them the Tekoites repaired anoth er section, next to the great projecting tow er, and as far as the wall of Ophel.

nkjv@Nehemiah:3:29 @ Aft er them Zadok the son of Imm er made repairs in front of his own house. Aft er him Shemaiah the son of Shechaniah, the keep er of the East Gate, made repairs.

nkjv@Nehemiah:3:30 @ Aft er him Hananiah the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun, the sixth son of Zalaph, repaired anoth er section. Aft er him Meshullam the son of B erechiah made repairs in front of his dwelling.

nkjv@Nehemiah:3:31 @ Aft er him Malchijah, one of the goldsmiths, made repairs as far as the house of the Nethinim and of the m erchants, in front of the Miphkad Gate, and as far as the upp er room at the corn er.

nkjv@Nehemiah:3:32 @ And between the upp er room at the corn er, as far as the Sheep Gate, the goldsmiths and the m erchants made repairs.

nkjv@Nehemiah:4:1 @ But it so happened, when Sanballat heard that we w ere rebuilding the wall, that he was furious and v ery indignant, and mocked the Jews.

nkjv@Nehemiah:4:2 @ And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, "What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they off er sacrifices? Will they complete it in a day? Will they revive the stones from the heaps of rubbish--stones that are burned?"

nkjv@Nehemiah:4:3 @ Now Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, "Whatev er they build, if even a fox goes up on it, he will break down their stone wall."

nkjv@Nehemiah:4:4 @ Hear, O our God, for we are despised; turn their reproach on their own heads, and give them as plund er to a land of captivity!

nkjv@Nehemiah:4:5 @ Do not cov er their iniquity, and do not let their sin be blotted out from before You; for they have provoked You to ang er before the build ers.

nkjv@Nehemiah:4:6 @ So we built the wall, and the entire wall was joined togeth er up to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.

nkjv@Nehemiah:4:7 @ Now it happened, when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the walls of J erusalem w ere being restored and the gaps w ere beginning to be closed, that they became v ery angry,

nkjv@Nehemiah:4:8 @ and all of them conspired togeth er to come and attack J erusalem and create confusion.

nkjv@Nehemiah:4:9 @ Nev ertheless we made our pray er to our God, and because of them we set a watch against them day and night.

nkjv@Nehemiah:4:10 @ Then Judah said, "The strength of the labor ers is failing, and th ere is so much rubbish that we are not able to build the wall."

nkjv@Nehemiah:4:11 @ And our adv ersaries said, "They will neith er know nor see anything, till we come into their midst and kill them and cause the work to cease."

nkjv@Nehemiah:4:12 @ So it was, when the Jews who dwelt near them came, that they told us ten times, "From whatev er place you turn, they will be upon us."

nkjv@Nehemiah:4:13 @ Th erefore I positioned men behind the low er parts of the wall, at the openings; and I set the people according to their families, with their swords, their spears, and their bows.

nkjv@Nehemiah:4:14 @ And I looked, and arose and said to the nobles, to the lead ers, and to the rest of the people, "Do not be afraid of them. Rememb er the Lord, great and awesome, and fight for your brethren, your sons, your daught ers, your wives, and your houses."

nkjv@Nehemiah:4:15 @ And it happened, when our enemies heard that it was known to us, and that God had brought their plot to nothing, that all of us returned to the wall, ev eryone to his work.

nkjv@Nehemiah:4:16 @ So it was, from that time on, that half of my s ervants worked at construction, while the oth er half held the spears, the shields, the bows, and wore armor; and the lead ers w ere behind all the house of Judah.

nkjv@Nehemiah:4:17 @ Those who built on the wall, and those who carried burdens, loaded themselves so that with one hand they worked at construction, and with the oth er held a weapon.

nkjv@Nehemiah:4:18 @ Ev ery one of the build ers had his sword girded at his side as he built. And the one who sounded the trumpet was beside me.

nkjv@Nehemiah:4:19 @ Then I said to the nobles, the rul ers, and the rest of the people, "The work is great and extensive, and we are separated far from one anoth er on the wall.

nkjv@Nehemiah:4:20 @ Wh erev er you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally to us th ere. Our God will fight for us."

nkjv@Nehemiah:4:22 @ At the same time I also said to the people, "Let each man and his s ervant stay at night in J erusalem, that they may be our guard by night and a working party by day."

nkjv@Nehemiah:4:23 @ So neith er I, my brethren, my s ervants, nor the men of the guard who followed me took off our clothes, except that ev eryone took them off for washing.

nkjv@Nehemiah:5:1 @ And th ere was a great outcry of the people and their wives against their Jewish brethren.

nkjv@Nehemiah:5:2 @ For th ere w ere those who said, "We, our sons, and our daught ers are many; th erefore let us get grain, that we may eat and live."

nkjv@Nehemiah:5:3 @ Th ere w ere also some who said, "We have mortgaged our lands and vineyards and houses, that we might buy grain because of the famine."

nkjv@Nehemiah:5:4 @ Th ere w ere also those who said, "We have borrowed money for the king's tax on our lands and vineyards.

nkjv@Nehemiah:5:5 @ Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children; and indeed we are forcing our sons and our daught ers to be slaves, and some of our daught ers have been brought into slav ery. It is not in our pow er to redeem them, for oth er men have our lands and vineyards."

nkjv@Nehemiah:5:6 @ And I became v ery angry when I heard their outcry and these words.

nkjv@Nehemiah:5:7 @ Aft er s erious thought, I rebuked the nobles and rul ers, and said to them, "Each of you is exacting usury from his broth er." So I called a great assembly against them.

nkjv@Nehemiah:5:8 @ And I said to them, "According to our ability we have redeemed our Jewish brethren who w ere sold to the nations. Now indeed, will you even sell your brethren? Or should they be sold to us?" Then they w ere silenced and found nothing to say.

nkjv@Nehemiah:5:10 @ I also, with my brethren and my s ervants, am lending them money and grain. Please, let us stop this usury!

nkjv@Nehemiah:5:13 @ Then I shook out the fold of my garment and said, "So may God shake out each man from his house, and from his prop erty, who does not p erform this promise. Even thus may he be shaken out and emptied." And all the assembly said, "Amen!" and praised the LORD. Then the people did according to this promise.

nkjv@Nehemiah:5:14 @ Moreov er, from the time that I was appointed to be their gov ernor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year until the thirty-second year of King Artax erxes, twelve years, neith er I nor my broth ers ate the gov ernor's provisions.

nkjv@Nehemiah:5:15 @ But the form er gov ernors who w ere before me laid burdens on the people, and took from them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silv er. Yes, even their s ervants bore rule ov er the people, but I did not do so, because of the fear of God.

nkjv@Nehemiah:5:16 @ Indeed, I also continued the work on this wall, and we did not buy any land. All my s ervants w ere gath ered th ere for the work.

nkjv@Nehemiah:5:17 @ And at my table w ere one hundred and fifty Jews and rul ers, besides those who came to us from the nations around us.

nkjv@Nehemiah:5:18 @ Now that which was prepared daily was one ox and six choice sheep. Also fowl w ere prepared for me, and once ev ery ten days an abundance of all kinds of wine. Yet in spite of this I did not demand the gov ernor's provisions, because the bondage was heavy on this people.

nkjv@Nehemiah:5:19 @ Rememb er me, my God, for good, according to all that I have done for this people.

nkjv@Nehemiah:6:1 @ Now it happened when Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall, and that th ere w ere no breaks left in it (though at that time I had not hung the doors in the gates),

nkjv@Nehemiah:6:2 @ that Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, "Come, let us meet togeth er among the villages in the plain of Ono." But they thought to do me harm.

nkjv@Nehemiah:6:3 @ So I sent messeng ers to them, saying, "I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it and go down to you?"

nkjv@Nehemiah:6:4 @ But they sent me this message four times, and I answ ered them in the same mann er.

nkjv@Nehemiah:6:5 @ Then Sanballat sent his s ervant to me as before, the fifth time, with an open lett er in his hand.

nkjv@Nehemiah:6:6 @ In it was written: It is reported among the nations, and Geshem says, that you and the Jews plan to rebel; th erefore, according to these rumors, you are rebuilding the wall, that you may be their king.

nkjv@Nehemiah:6:7 @ And you have also appointed prophets to proclaim conc erning you at J erusalem, saying, "Th ere is a king in Judah!" Now these matt ers will be reported to the king. So come, th erefore, and let us consult togeth er.

nkjv@Nehemiah:6:9 @ For they all w ere trying to make us afraid, saying, "Their hands will be weakened in the work, and it will not be done." Now th erefore, O God, strengthen my hands.

nkjv@Nehemiah:6:10 @ Aft erward I came to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was a secret inform er; and he said, "Let us meet togeth er in the house of God, within the temple, and let us close the doors of the temple, for they are coming to kill you; indeed, at night they will come to kill you."

nkjv@Nehemiah:6:11 @ And I said, "Should such a man as I flee? And who is th ere such as I who would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in!"

nkjv@Nehemiah:6:12 @ Then I p erceived that God had not sent him at all, but that he pronounced this prophecy against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.

nkjv@Nehemiah:6:14 @ My God, rememb er Tobiah and Sanballat, according to these their works, and the prophetess Noadiah and the rest of the prophets who would have made me afraid.

nkjv@Nehemiah:6:16 @ And it happened, when all our enemies heard of it, and all the nations around us saw these things, that they w ere v ery disheartened in their own eyes; for they p erceived that this work was done by our God.

nkjv@Nehemiah:6:17 @ Also in those days the nobles of Judah sent many lett ers to Tobiah, and the lett ers of Tobiah came to them.

nkjv@Nehemiah:6:18 @ For many in Judah w ere pledged to him, because he was the son-in-law of Shechaniah the son of Arah, and his son Jehohanan had married the daught er of Meshullam the son of B erechiah.

nkjv@Nehemiah:6:19 @ Also they reported his good deeds before me, and reported my words to him. Tobiah sent lett ers to frighten me.

nkjv@Nehemiah:7:1 @ Then it was, when the wall was built and I had hung the doors, when the gatekeep ers, the sing ers, and the Levites had been appointed,

nkjv@Nehemiah:7:2 @ that I gave the charge of J erusalem to my broth er Hanani, and Hananiah the lead er of the citadel, for he was a faithful man and feared God more than many.

nkjv@Nehemiah:7:3 @ And I said to them, "Do not let the gates of J erusalem be opened until the sun is hot; and while they stand guard, let them shut and bar the doors; and appoint guards from among the inhabitants of J erusalem, one at his watch station and anoth er in front of his own house."

nkjv@Nehemiah:7:4 @ Now the city was large and spacious, but the people in it w ere few, and the houses w ere not rebuilt.

nkjv@Nehemiah:7:5 @ Then my God put it into my heart to gath er the nobles, the rul ers, and the people, that they might be regist ered by genealogy. And I found a regist er of the genealogy of those who had come up in the first return, and found written in it:

nkjv@Nehemiah:7:6 @ These are the people of the province who came back from the captivity, of those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and who returned to J erusalem and Judah, ev eryone to his city.

nkjv@Nehemiah:7:7 @ Those who came with Z erubbabel w ere Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Misp ereth, Bigvai, Nehum, and Baanah. The numb er of the men of the people of Israel:

nkjv@Nehemiah:7:21 @ the sons of At er of Hezekiah, ninety-eight;

nkjv@Nehemiah:7:29 @ the men of Kirjath Jearim, Chephirah, and Be eroth, seven hundred and forty-three;

nkjv@Nehemiah:7:33 @ the men of the oth er Nebo, fifty-two;

nkjv@Nehemiah:7:34 @ the sons of the oth er Elam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four;

nkjv@Nehemiah:7:36 @ the sons of J ericho, three hundred and forty-five;

nkjv@Nehemiah:7:40 @ the sons of Imm er, one thousand and fifty-two;

nkjv@Nehemiah:7:44 @ The sing ers: the sons of Asaph, one hundred and forty-eight.

nkjv@Nehemiah:7:45 @ The gatekeep ers: the sons of Shallum, the sons of At er, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hatita, the sons of Shobai, one hundred and thirty-eight.

nkjv@Nehemiah:7:47 @ the sons of K eros, the sons of Sia, the sons of Padon,

nkjv@Nehemiah:7:55 @ the sons of Barkos, the sons of Sis era, the sons of Tamah,

nkjv@Nehemiah:7:57 @ The sons of Solomon's s ervants: the sons of Sotai, the sons of Soph ereth, the sons of P erida,

nkjv@Nehemiah:7:59 @ the sons of Shephatiah, the sons of Hattil, the sons of Poch ereth of Zebaim, and the sons of Amon.

nkjv@Nehemiah:7:60 @ All the Nethinim, and the sons of Solomon's s ervants, w ere three hundred and ninety-two.

nkjv@Nehemiah:7:61 @ And these w ere the ones who came up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Ch erub, Addon, and Imm er, but they could not identify their fath er's house nor their lineage, wheth er they w ere of Israel:

nkjv@Nehemiah:7:63 @ and of the priests: the sons of Habaiah, the sons of Koz, the sons of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daught ers of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called by their name.

nkjv@Nehemiah:7:64 @ These sought their listing among those who w ere regist ered by genealogy, but it was not found; th erefore they w ere excluded from the priesthood as defiled.

nkjv@Nehemiah:7:65 @ And the gov ernor said to them that they should not eat of the most holy things till a priest could consult with the Urim and Thummim.

nkjv@Nehemiah:7:66 @ Altogeth er the whole assembly was forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty,

nkjv@Nehemiah:7:67 @ besides their male and female s ervants, of whom th ere w ere seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven; and they had two hundred and forty-five men and women sing ers.

nkjv@Nehemiah:7:68 @ Their horses w ere seven hundred and thirty-six, their mules two hundred and forty-five,

nkjv@Nehemiah:7:70 @ And some of the heads of the fath ers' houses gave to the work. The gov ernor gave to the treasury one thousand gold drachmas, fifty basins, and five hundred and thirty priestly garments.

nkjv@Nehemiah:7:71 @ Some of the heads of the fath ers' houses gave to the treasury of the work twenty thousand gold drachmas, and two thousand two hundred silv er minas.

nkjv@Nehemiah:7:72 @ And that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand gold drachmas, two thousand silv er minas, and sixty-seven priestly garments.

nkjv@Nehemiah:7:73 @ So the priests, the Levites, the gatekeep ers, the sing ers, some of the people, the Nethinim, and all Israel dwelt in their cities. When the seventh month came, the children of Israel w ere in their cities.

nkjv@Nehemiah:8:1 @ Now all the people gath ered togeth er as one man in the open square that was in front of the Wat er Gate; and they told Ezra the scribe to bring the Book of the Law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded Israel.

nkjv@Nehemiah:8:2 @ So Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly of men and women and all who could hear with und erstanding on the first day of the seventh month.

nkjv@Nehemiah:8:3 @ Then he read from it in the open square that was in front of the Wat er Gate from morning until midday, before the men and women and those who could und erstand; and the ears of all the people w ere attentive to the Book of the Law.

nkjv@Nehemiah:8:6 @ And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. Then all the people answ ered, "Amen, Amen!" while lifting up their hands. And they bowed their heads and worshiped the LORD with their faces to the ground.

nkjv@Nehemiah:8:7 @ Also Jeshua, Bani, Sh erebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, helped the people to und erstand the Law; and the people stood in their place.

nkjv@Nehemiah:8:8 @ So they read distinctly from the book, in the Law of God; and they gave the sense, and helped them to und erstand the reading.

nkjv@Nehemiah:8:9 @ And Nehemiah, who was the gov ernor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, "This day is holy to the LORD your God; do not mourn nor weep." For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the Law.

nkjv@Nehemiah:8:12 @ And all the people went their way to eat and drink, to send portions and rejoice greatly, because they und erstood the words that w ere declared to them.

nkjv@Nehemiah:8:13 @ Now on the second day the heads of the fath ers' houses of all the people, with the priests and Levites, w ere gath ered to Ezra the scribe, in ord er to und erstand the words of the Law.

nkjv@Nehemiah:8:15 @ and that they should announce and proclaim in all their cities and in J erusalem, saying, "Go out to the mountain, and bring olive branches, branches of oil trees, myrtle branches, palm branches, and branches of leafy trees, to make booths, as it is written."

nkjv@Nehemiah:8:16 @ Then the people went out and brought them and made themselves booths, each one on the roof of his house, or in their courtyards or the courts of the house of God, and in the open square of the Wat er Gate and in the open square of the Gate of Ephraim.

nkjv@Nehemiah:8:17 @ So the whole assembly of those who had returned from the captivity made booths and sat und er the booths; for since the days of Joshua the son of Nun until that day the children of Israel had not done so. And th ere was v ery great gladness.

nkjv@Nehemiah:8:18 @ Also day by day, from the first day until the last day, he read from the Book of the Law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day th ere was a sacred assembly, according to the prescribed mann er.

nkjv@Nehemiah:9:1 @ Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel w ere assembled with fasting, in sackcloth, and with dust on their heads.

nkjv@Nehemiah:9:2 @ Then those of Israelite lineage separated themselves from all foreign ers; and they stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fath ers.

nkjv@Nehemiah:9:3 @ And they stood up in their place and read from the Book of the Law of the LORD their God for one-fourth of the day; and for anoth er fourth they confessed and worshiped the LORD their God.

nkjv@Nehemiah:9:4 @ Then Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sh erebiah, Bani, and Chenani stood on the stairs of the Levites and cried out with a loud voice to the LORD their God.

nkjv@Nehemiah:9:5 @ And the Levites, Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sh erebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said: "Stand up and bless the LORD your God Forev er and ev er! "Blessed be Your glorious name, Which is exalted above all blessing and praise!

nkjv@Nehemiah:9:6 @ You alone are the LORD; You have made heaven, The heaven of heavens, with all their host, The earth and ev erything on it, The seas and all that is in them, And You pres erve them all. The host of heaven worships You.

nkjv@Nehemiah:9:8 @ You found his heart faithful before You, And made a covenant with him To give the land of the Canaanites, The Hittites, the Amorites, The P erizzites, the Jebusites, And the Girgashites-- To give it to his descendants. You have p erformed Your words, For You are righteous.

nkjv@Nehemiah:9:9 @ "You saw the affliction of our fath ers in Egypt, And heard their cry by the Red Sea.

nkjv@Nehemiah:9:10 @ You showed signs and wond ers against Pharaoh, Against all his s ervants, And against all the people of his land. For You knew that they acted proudly against them. So You made a name for Yourself, as it is this day.

nkjv@Nehemiah:9:11 @ And You divided the sea before them, So that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; And their p ersecutors You threw into the deep, As a stone into the mighty wat ers.

nkjv@Nehemiah:9:12 @ Moreov er You led them by day with a cloudy pillar, And by night with a pillar of fire, To give them light on the road Which they should travel.

nkjv@Nehemiah:9:14 @ You made known to them Your holy Sabbath, And commanded them precepts, statutes and laws, By the hand of Moses Your s ervant.

nkjv@Nehemiah:9:15 @ You gave them bread from heaven for their hung er, And brought them wat er out of the rock for their thirst, And told them to go in to possess the land Which You had sworn to give them.

nkjv@Nehemiah:9:16 @ "But they and our fath ers acted proudly, Hardened their necks, And did not heed Your commandments.

nkjv@Nehemiah:9:17 @ They refused to obey, And they w ere not mindful of Your wond ers That You did among them. But they hardened their necks, And in their rebellion They appointed a lead er To return to their bondage. But You are God, Ready to pardon, Gracious and m erciful, Slow to ang er, Abundant in kindness, And did not forsake them.

nkjv@Nehemiah:9:19 @ Yet in Your manifold m ercies You did not forsake them in the wild erness. The pillar of the cloud did not depart from them by day, To lead them on the road; Nor the pillar of fire by night, To show them light, And the way they should go.

nkjv@Nehemiah:9:20 @ You also gave Your good Spirit to instruct them, And did not withhold Your manna from their mouth, And gave them wat er for their thirst.

nkjv@Nehemiah:9:21 @ Forty years You sustained them in the wild erness; They lacked nothing; Their clothes did not wear out And their feet did not swell.

nkjv@Nehemiah:9:22 @ "Moreov er You gave them kingdoms and nations, And divided them into districts. So they took possession of the land of Sihon, The land of the king of Heshbon, And the land of Og king of Bashan.

nkjv@Nehemiah:9:23 @ You also multiplied their children as the stars of heaven, And brought them into the land Which You had told their fath ers To go in and possess.

nkjv@Nehemiah:9:25 @ And they took strong cities and a rich land, And possessed houses full of all goods, Cist erns already dug, vineyards, olive groves, And fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and w ere filled and grew fat, And delighted themselves in Your great goodness.

nkjv@Nehemiah:9:26 @ "Nev ertheless they w ere disobedient And rebelled against You, Cast Your law behind their backs And killed Your prophets, who testified against them To turn them to Yourself; And they worked great provocations.

nkjv@Nehemiah:9:27 @ Th erefore You deliv ered them into the hand of their enemies, Who oppressed them; And in the time of their trouble, When they cried to You, You heard from heaven; And according to Your abundant m ercies You gave them deliv er ers who saved them From the hand of their enemies.

nkjv@Nehemiah:9:28 @ "But aft er they had rest, They again did evil before You. Th erefore You left them in the hand of their enemies, So that they had dominion ov er them; Yet when they returned and cried out to You, You heard from heaven; And many times You deliv ered them according to Your m ercies,

nkjv@Nehemiah:9:29 @ And testified against them, That You might bring them back to Your law. Yet they acted proudly, And did not heed Your commandments, But sinned against Your judgments, "Which if a man does, he shall live by them.' And they shrugged their should ers, Stiffened their necks, And would not hear.

nkjv@Nehemiah:9:30 @ Yet for many years You had patience with them, And testified against them by Your Spirit in Your prophets. Yet they would not listen; Th erefore You gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

nkjv@Nehemiah:9:31 @ Nev ertheless in Your great m ercy You did not utt erly consume them nor forsake them; For You are God, gracious and m erciful.

nkjv@Nehemiah:9:32 @ "Now th erefore, our God, The great, the mighty, and awesome God, Who keeps covenant and m ercy: Do not let all the trouble seem small before You That has come upon us, Our kings and our princes, Our priests and our prophets, Our fath ers and on all Your people, From the days of the kings of Assyria until this day.

nkjv@Nehemiah:9:33 @ Howev er You are just in all that has befallen us; For You have dealt faithfully, But we have done wickedly.

nkjv@Nehemiah:9:34 @ Neith er our kings nor our princes, Our priests nor our fath ers, Have kept Your law, Nor heeded Your commandments and Your testimonies, With which You testified against them.

nkjv@Nehemiah:9:35 @ For they have not s erved You in their kingdom, Or in the many good things that You gave them, Or in the large and rich land which You set before them; Nor did they turn from their wicked works.

nkjv@Nehemiah:9:36 @ "H ere we are, s ervants today! And the land that You gave to our fath ers, To eat its fruit and its bounty, H ere we are, s ervants in it!

nkjv@Nehemiah:9:37 @ And it yields much increase to the kings You have set ov er us, Because of our sins; Also they have dominion ov er our bodies and our cattle At their pleasure; And we are in great distress.

nkjv@Nehemiah:9:38 @ "And because of all this, We make a sure covenant and write it; Our lead ers, our Levites, and our priests seal it."

nkjv@Nehemiah:10:1 @ Now those who placed their seal on the document w ere: Nehemiah the gov ernor, the son of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah,

nkjv@Nehemiah:10:2 @ S eraiah, Azariah, J eremiah,

nkjv@Nehemiah:10:5 @ Harim, M eremoth, Obadiah,

nkjv@Nehemiah:10:8 @ Maaziah, Bilgai, and Shemaiah. These w ere the priests.

nkjv@Nehemiah:10:12 @ Zaccur, Sh erebiah, Shebaniah,

nkjv@Nehemiah:10:14 @ The lead ers of the people: Parosh, Pahath-Moab, Elam, Zattu, Bani,

nkjv@Nehemiah:10:17 @ At er, Hezekiah, Azzur,

nkjv@Nehemiah:10:28 @ Now the rest of the people--the priests, the Levites, the gatekeep ers, the sing ers, the Nethinim, and all those who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the Law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daught ers, ev eryone who had knowledge and und erstanding--

nkjv@Nehemiah:10:29 @ these joined with their brethren, their nobles, and ent ered into a curse and an oath to walk in God's Law, which was given by Moses the s ervant of God, and to obs erve and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and His ordinances and His statutes:

nkjv@Nehemiah:10:30 @ We would not give our daught ers as wives to the peoples of the land, nor take their daught ers for our sons;

nkjv@Nehemiah:10:31 @ if the peoples of the land brought wares or any grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we would not buy it from them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and we would forego the seventh year's produce and the exacting of ev ery debt.

nkjv@Nehemiah:10:32 @ Also we made ordinances for ourselves, to exact from ourselves yearly one-third of a shekel for the s ervice of the house of our God:

nkjv@Nehemiah:10:33 @ for the showbread, for the regular grain off ering, for the regular burnt off ering of the Sabbaths, the New Moons, and the set feasts; for the holy things, for the sin off erings to make atonement for Israel, and all the work of the house of our God.

nkjv@Nehemiah:10:34 @ We cast lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for bringing the wood off ering into the house of our God, according to our fath ers' houses, at the appointed times year by year, to burn on the altar of the LORD our God as it is written in the Law.

nkjv@Nehemiah:10:36 @ to bring the firstborn of our sons and our cattle, as it is written in the Law, and the firstborn of our h erds and our flocks, to the house of our God, to the priests who minist er in the house of our God;

nkjv@Nehemiah:10:37 @ to bring the firstfruits of our dough, our off erings, the fruit from all kinds of trees, the new wine and oil, to the priests, to the stor erooms of the house of our God; and to bring the tithes of our land to the Levites, for the Levites should receive the tithes in all our farming communities.

nkjv@Nehemiah:10:39 @ For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the off ering of the grain, of the new wine and the oil, to the stor erooms wh ere the articles of the sanctuary are, wh ere the priests who minist er and the gatekeep ers and the sing ers are; and we will not neglect the house of our God.

nkjv@Nehemiah:11:1 @ Now the lead ers of the people dwelt at J erusalem; the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to dwell in J erusalem, the holy city, and nine-tenths w ere to dwell in oth er cities.

nkjv@Nehemiah:11:2 @ And the people blessed all the men who willingly off ered themselves to dwell at J erusalem.

nkjv@Nehemiah:11:3 @ These are the heads of the province who dwelt in J erusalem. (But in the cities of Judah ev eryone dwelt in his own possession in their cities--Israelites, priests, Levites, Nethinim, and descendants of Solomon's s ervants.)

nkjv@Nehemiah:11:4 @ Also in J erusalem dwelt some of the children of Judah and of the children of Benjamin. The children of Judah: Athaiah the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalalel, of the children of P erez;

nkjv@Nehemiah:11:6 @ All the sons of P erez who dwelt at J erusalem w ere four hundred and sixty-eight valiant men.

nkjv@Nehemiah:11:8 @ and aft er him Gabbai and Sallai, nine hundred and twenty-eight.

nkjv@Nehemiah:11:9 @ Joel the son of Zichri was their ov erse er, and Judah the son of Senuah was second ov er the city.

nkjv@Nehemiah:11:11 @ S eraiah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of M eraioth, the son of Ahitub, was the lead er of the house of God.

nkjv@Nehemiah:11:12 @ Their brethren who did the work of the house w ere eight hundred and twenty-two; and Adaiah the son of J eroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah,

nkjv@Nehemiah:11:13 @ and his brethren, heads of the fath ers' houses, w ere two hundred and forty-two; and Amashai the son of Azarel, the son of Ahzai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Imm er,

nkjv@Nehemiah:11:14 @ and their brethren, mighty men of valor, w ere one hundred and twenty-eight. Their ov erse er was Zabdiel the son of one of the great men.

nkjv@Nehemiah:11:16 @ Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the heads of the Levites, had the ov ersight of the business outside of the house of God;

nkjv@Nehemiah:11:17 @ Mattaniah the son of Micha, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, the lead er who began the thanksgiving with pray er; Bakbukiah, the second among his brethren; and Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.

nkjv@Nehemiah:11:18 @ All the Levites in the holy city w ere two hundred and eighty-four.

nkjv@Nehemiah:11:19 @ Moreov er the gatekeep ers, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren who kept the gates, w ere one hundred and seventy-two.

nkjv@Nehemiah:11:20 @ And the rest of Israel, of the priests and Levites, w ere in all the cities of Judah, ev eryone in his inh eritance.

nkjv@Nehemiah:11:21 @ But the Nethinim dwelt in Ophel. And Ziha and Gishpa w ere ov er the Nethinim.

nkjv@Nehemiah:11:22 @ Also the ov erse er of the Levites at J erusalem was Uzzi the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micha, of the sons of Asaph, the sing ers in charge of the s ervice of the house of God.

nkjv@Nehemiah:11:23 @ For it was the king's command conc erning them that a c ertain portion should be for the sing ers, a quota day by day.

nkjv@Nehemiah:11:24 @ Pethahiah the son of Meshezabel, of the children of Z erah the son of Judah, was the king's deputy in all matt ers conc erning the people.

nkjv@Nehemiah:11:27 @ Hazar Shual, and Be ersheba and its villages;

nkjv@Nehemiah:11:30 @ Zanoah, Adullam, and their villages; in Lachish and its fields; in Azekah and its villages. They dwelt from Be ersheba to the Valley of Hinnom.

nkjv@Nehemiah:11:36 @ Some of the Judean divisions of Levites w ere in Benjamin.

nkjv@Nehemiah:12:1 @ Now these are the priests and the Levites who came up with Z erubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: S eraiah, J eremiah, Ezra,

nkjv@Nehemiah:12:3 @ Shechaniah, Rehum, M eremoth,

nkjv@Nehemiah:12:7 @ Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, and Jedaiah. These w ere the heads of the priests and their brethren in the days of Jeshua.

nkjv@Nehemiah:12:8 @ Moreov er the Levites w ere Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sh erebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah who led the thanksgiving psalms, he and his brethren.

nkjv@Nehemiah:12:12 @ Now in the days of Joiakim, the priests, the heads of the fath ers' houses w ere: of S eraiah, M eraiah; of J eremiah, Hananiah;

nkjv@Nehemiah:12:15 @ of Harim, Adna; of M eraioth, Helkai;

nkjv@Nehemiah:12:20 @ of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eb er;

nkjv@Nehemiah:12:22 @ During the reign of Darius the P ersian, a record was also kept of the Levites and priests who had been heads of their fath ers' houses in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, Johanan, and Jaddua.

nkjv@Nehemiah:12:23 @ The sons of Levi, the heads of the fath ers' houses until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib, w ere written in the book of the chronicles.

nkjv@Nehemiah:12:24 @ And the heads of the Levites w ere Hashabiah, Sh erebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their broth ers across from them, to praise and give thanks, group alt ernating with group, according to the command of David the man of God.

nkjv@Nehemiah:12:25 @ Mattaniah, Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, and Akkub w ere gatekeep ers keeping the watch at the stor erooms of the gates.

nkjv@Nehemiah:12:26 @ These lived in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the gov ernor, and of Ezra the priest, the scribe.

nkjv@Nehemiah:12:27 @ Now at the dedication of the wall of J erusalem they sought out the Levites in all their places, to bring them to J erusalem to celebrate the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings and singing, with cymbals and stringed instruments and harps.

nkjv@Nehemiah:12:28 @ And the sons of the sing ers gath ered togeth er from the countryside around J erusalem, from the villages of the Netophathites,

nkjv@Nehemiah:12:29 @ from the house of Gilgal, and from the fields of Geba and Azmaveth; for the sing ers had built themselves villages all around J erusalem.

nkjv@Nehemiah:12:31 @ So I brought the lead ers of Judah up on the wall, and appointed two large thanksgiving choirs. One went to the right hand on the wall toward the Refuse Gate.

nkjv@Nehemiah:12:32 @ Aft er them went Hoshaiah and half of the lead ers of Judah,

nkjv@Nehemiah:12:34 @ Judah, Benjamin, Shemaiah, J eremiah,

nkjv@Nehemiah:12:37 @ By the Fountain Gate, in front of them, they went up the stairs of the City of David, on the stairway of the wall, beyond the house of David, as far as the Wat er Gate eastward.

nkjv@Nehemiah:12:38 @ The oth er thanksgiving choir went the opposite way, and I was behind them with half of the people on the wall, going past the Tow er of the Ovens as far as the Broad Wall,

nkjv@Nehemiah:12:39 @ and above the Gate of Ephraim, above the Old Gate, above the Fish Gate, the Tow er of Hananel, the Tow er of the Hundred, as far as the Sheep Gate; and they stopped by the Gate of the Prison.

nkjv@Nehemiah:12:40 @ So the two thanksgiving choirs stood in the house of God, likewise I and the half of the rul ers with me;

nkjv@Nehemiah:12:42 @ also Maaseiah, Shemaiah, Eleazar, Uzzi, Jehohanan, Malchijah, Elam, and Ez er. The sing ers sang loudly with Jezrahiah the director.

nkjv@Nehemiah:12:43 @ Also that day they off ered great sacrifices, and rejoiced, for God had made them rejoice with great joy; the women and the children also rejoiced, so that the joy of J erusalem was heard afar off.

nkjv@Nehemiah:12:44 @ And at the same time some w ere appointed ov er the rooms of the storehouse for the off erings, the firstfruits, and the tithes, to gath er into them from the fields of the cities the portions specified by the Law for the priests and Levites; for Judah rejoiced ov er the priests and Levites who minist ered.

nkjv@Nehemiah:12:45 @ Both the sing ers and the gatekeep ers kept the charge of their God and the charge of the purification, according to the command of David and Solomon his son.

nkjv@Nehemiah:12:46 @ For in the days of David and Asaph of old th ere w ere chiefs of the sing ers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving to God.

nkjv@Nehemiah:12:47 @ In the days of Z erubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah all Israel gave the portions for the sing ers and the gatekeep ers, a portion for each day. They also consecrated holy things for the Levites, and the Levites consecrated them for the children of Aaron.

nkjv@Nehemiah:13:1 @ On that day they read from the Book of Moses in the hearing of the people, and in it was found written that no Ammonite or Moabite should ev er come into the assembly of God,

nkjv@Nehemiah:13:2 @ because they had not met the children of Israel with bread and wat er, but hired Balaam against them to curse them. Howev er, our God turned the curse into a blessing.

nkjv@Nehemiah:13:4 @ Now before this, Eliashib the priest, having authority ov er the stor erooms of the house of our God, was allied with Tobiah.

nkjv@Nehemiah:13:5 @ And he had prepared for him a large room, wh ere previously they had stored the grain off erings, the frankincense, the articles, the tithes of grain, the new wine and oil, which w ere commanded to be given to the Levites and sing ers and gatekeep ers, and the off erings for the priests.

nkjv@Nehemiah:13:6 @ But during all this I was not in J erusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Artax erxes king of Babylon I had returned to the king. Then aft er c ertain days I obtained leave from the king,

nkjv@Nehemiah:13:7 @ and I came to J erusalem and discov ered the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, in preparing a room for him in the courts of the house of God.

nkjv@Nehemiah:13:8 @ And it grieved me bitt erly; th erefore I threw all the household goods of Tobiah out of the room.

nkjv@Nehemiah:13:9 @ Then I commanded them to cleanse the rooms; and I brought back into them the articles of the house of God, with the grain off ering and the frankincense.

nkjv@Nehemiah:13:10 @ I also realized that the portions for the Levites had not been given them; for each of the Levites and the sing ers who did the work had gone back to his field.

nkjv@Nehemiah:13:11 @ So I contended with the rul ers, and said, "Why is the house of God forsaken?" And I gath ered them togeth er and set them in their place.

nkjv@Nehemiah:13:13 @ And I appointed as treasur ers ov er the storehouse Shelemiah the priest and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah; and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah; for they w ere consid ered faithful, and their task was to distribute to their brethren.

nkjv@Nehemiah:13:14 @ Rememb er me, O my God, conc erning this, and do not wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for its s ervices!

nkjv@Nehemiah:13:15 @ In those days I saw people in Judah treading wine presses on the Sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and loading donkeys with wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of burdens, which they brought into J erusalem on the Sabbath day. And I warned them about the day on which they w ere selling provisions.

nkjv@Nehemiah:13:16 @ Men of Tyre dwelt th ere also, who brought in fish and all kinds of goods, and sold them on the Sabbath to the children of Judah, and in J erusalem.

nkjv@Nehemiah:13:18 @ Did not your fath ers do thus, and did not our God bring all this disast er on us and on this city? Yet you bring added wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath."

nkjv@Nehemiah:13:19 @ So it was, at the gates of J erusalem, as it began to be dark before the Sabbath, that I commanded the gates to be shut, and charged that they must not be opened till aft er the Sabbath. Then I posted some of my s ervants at the gates, so that no burdens would be brought in on the Sabbath day.

nkjv@Nehemiah:13:20 @ Now the m erchants and sell ers of all kinds of wares lodged outside J erusalem once or twice.

nkjv@Nehemiah:13:22 @ And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should go and guard the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Rememb er me, O my God, conc erning this also, and spare me according to the greatness of Your m ercy!

nkjv@Nehemiah:13:24 @ And half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod, and could not speak the language of Judah, but spoke according to the language of one or the oth er people.

nkjv@Nehemiah:13:25 @ So I contended with them and cursed them, struck some of them and pulled out their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, "You shall not give your daught ers as wives to their sons, nor take their daught ers for your sons or yourselves.

nkjv@Nehemiah:13:26 @ Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations th ere was no king like him, who was beloved of his God; and God made him king ov er all Israel. Nev ertheless pagan women caused even him to sin.

nkjv@Nehemiah:13:28 @ And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was a son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite; th erefore I drove him from me.

nkjv@Nehemiah:13:29 @ Rememb er them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.

nkjv@Nehemiah:13:30 @ Thus I cleansed them of ev erything pagan. I also assigned duties to the priests and the Levites, each to his s ervice,

nkjv@Nehemiah:13:31 @ and to bringing the wood off ering and the firstfruits at appointed times. Rememb er me, O my God, for good!

nkjv@Esth er:1:1 @ Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasu erus (this was the Ahasu erus who reigned ov er one hundred and twenty-seven provinces, from India to Ethiopia),

nkjv@Esth er:1:2 @ in those days when King Ahasu erus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the citadel,

nkjv@Esth er:1:3 @ that in the third year of his reign he made a feast for all his officials and s ervants--the pow ers of P ersia and Media, the nobles, and the princes of the provinces being before him--

nkjv@Esth er:1:4 @ when he showed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the splendor of his excellent majesty for many days, one hundred and eighty days in all.

nkjv@Esth er:1:5 @ And when these days w ere completed, the king made a feast lasting seven days for all the people who w ere present in Shushan the citadel, from great to small, in the court of the garden of the king's palace.

nkjv@Esth er:1:6 @ Th ere w ere white and blue linen curtains fastened with cords of fine linen and purple on silv er rods and marble pillars; and the couches w ere of gold and silv er on a mosaic pavement of alabast er, turquoise, and white and black marble.

nkjv@Esth er:1:7 @ And they s erved drinks in golden vessels, each vessel being diff erent from the oth er, with royal wine in abundance, according to the gen erosity of the king.

nkjv@Esth er:1:8 @ In accordance with the law, the drinking was not compulsory; for so the king had ord ered all the offic ers of his household, that they should do according to each man's pleasure.

nkjv@Esth er:1:9 @ Queen Vashti also made a feast for the women in the royal palace which belonged to King Ahasu erus.

nkjv@Esth er:1:10 @ On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was m erry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, seven eunuchs who s erved in the presence of King Ahasu erus,

nkjv@Esth er:1:11 @ to bring Queen Vashti before the king, wearing h er royal crown, in ord er to show h er beauty to the people and the officials, for she was beautiful to behold.

nkjv@Esth er:1:12 @ But Queen Vashti refused to come at the king's command brought by his eunuchs; th erefore the king was furious, and his ang er burned within him.

nkjv@Esth er:1:13 @ Then the king said to the wise men who und erstood the times (for this was the king's mann er toward all who knew law and justice,

nkjv@Esth er:1:14 @ those closest to him being Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, M eres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of P ersia and Media, who had access to the king's presence, and who ranked highest in the kingdom):

nkjv@Esth er:1:15 @ "What shall we do to Queen Vashti, according to law, because she did not obey the command of King Ahasu erus brought to h er by the eunuchs?"

nkjv@Esth er:1:16 @ And Memucan answ ered before the king and the princes: "Queen Vashti has not only wronged the king, but also all the princes, and all the people who are in all the provinces of King Ahasu erus.

nkjv@Esth er:1:17 @ For the queen's behavior will become known to all women, so that they will despise their husbands in their eyes, when they report, "King Ahasu erus commanded Queen Vashti to be brought in before him, but she did not come.'

nkjv@Esth er:1:18 @ This v ery day the noble ladies of P ersia and Media will say to all the king's officials that they have heard of the behavior of the queen. Thus th ere will be excessive contempt and wrath.

nkjv@Esth er:1:19 @ If it pleases the king, let a royal decree go out from him, and let it be recorded in the laws of the P ersians and the Medes, so that it will not be alt ered, that Vashti shall come no more before King Ahasu erus; and let the king give h er royal position to anoth er who is bett er than she.

nkjv@Esth er:1:20 @ When the king's decree which he will make is proclaimed throughout all his empire (for it is great), all wives will honor their husbands, both great and small."

nkjv@Esth er:1:21 @ And the reply pleased the king and the princes, and the king did according to the word of Memucan.

nkjv@Esth er:1:22 @ Then he sent lett ers to all the king's provinces, to each province in its own script, and to ev ery people in their own language, that each man should be mast er in his own house, and speak in the language of his own people.

nkjv@Esth er:2:1 @ Aft er these things, when the wrath of King Ahasu erus subsided, he rememb ered Vashti, what she had done, and what had been decreed against h er.

nkjv@Esth er:2:2 @ Then the king's s ervants who attended him said: "Let beautiful young virgins be sought for the king;

nkjv@Esth er:2:3 @ and let the king appoint offic ers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gath er all the beautiful young virgins to Shushan the citadel, into the women's quart ers, und er the custody of Hegai the king's eunuch, custodian of the women. And let beauty preparations be given them.

nkjv@Esth er:2:4 @ Then let the young woman who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti." This thing pleased the king, and he did so.

nkjv@Esth er:2:5 @ In Shushan the citadel th ere was a c ertain Jew whose name was Mordecai the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite.

nkjv@Esth er:2:6 @ Kish had been carried away from J erusalem with the captives who had been captured with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.

nkjv@Esth er:2:7 @ And Mordecai had brought up Hadassah, that is, Esth er, his uncle's daught er, for she had neith er fath er nor moth er. The young woman was lovely and beautiful. When h er fath er and moth er died, Mordecai took h er as his own daught er.

nkjv@Esth er:2:8 @ So it was, when the king's command and decree w ere heard, and when many young women w ere gath ered at Shushan the citadel, und er the custody of Hegai, that Esth er also was taken to the king's palace, into the care of Hegai the custodian of the women.

nkjv@Esth er:2:9 @ Now the young woman pleased him, and she obtained his favor; so he readily gave beauty preparations to h er, besides h er allowance. Then seven choice maids ervants w ere provided for h er from the king's palace, and he moved h er and h er maids ervants to the best place in the house of the women.

nkjv@Esth er:2:10 @ Esth er had not revealed h er people or family, for Mordecai had charged h er not to reveal it.

nkjv@Esth er:2:11 @ And ev ery day Mordecai paced in front of the court of the women's quart ers, to learn of Esth er's welfare and what was happening to h er.

nkjv@Esth er:2:12 @ Each young woman's turn came to go in to King Ahasu erus aft er she had completed twelve months' preparation, according to the regulations for the women, for thus w ere the days of their preparation apportioned: six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with p erfumes and preparations for beautifying women.

nkjv@Esth er:2:13 @ Thus prepared, each young woman went to the king, and she was given whatev er she desired to take with h er from the women's quart ers to the king's palace.

nkjv@Esth er:2:14 @ In the evening she went, and in the morning she returned to the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's eunuch who kept the concubines. She would not go in to the king again unless the king delighted in h er and called for h er by name.

nkjv@Esth er:2:15 @ Now when the turn came for Esth er the daught er of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken h er as his daught er, to go in to the king, she requested nothing but what Hegai the king's eunuch, the custodian of the women, advised. And Esth er obtained favor in the sight of all who saw h er.

nkjv@Esth er:2:16 @ So Esth er was taken to King Ahasu erus, into his royal palace, in the tenth month, which is the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.

nkjv@Esth er:2:17 @ The king loved Esth er more than all the oth er women, and she obtained grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins; so he set the royal crown upon h er head and made h er queen instead of Vashti.

nkjv@Esth er:2:18 @ Then the king made a great feast, the Feast of Esth er, for all his officials and s ervants; and he proclaimed a holiday in the provinces and gave gifts according to the gen erosity of a king.

nkjv@Esth er:2:19 @ When virgins w ere gath ered togeth er a second time, Mordecai sat within the king's gate.

nkjv@Esth er:2:20 @ Now Esth er had not revealed h er family and h er people, just as Mordecai had charged h er, for Esth er obeyed the command of Mordecai as when she was brought up by him.

nkjv@Esth er:2:21 @ In those days, while Mordecai sat within the king's gate, two of the king's eunuchs, Bigthan and T eresh, doorkeep ers, became furious and sought to lay hands on King Ahasu erus.

nkjv@Esth er:2:22 @ So the matt er became known to Mordecai, who told Queen Esth er, and Esth er informed the king in Mordecai's name.

nkjv@Esth er:2:23 @ And when an inquiry was made into the matt er, it was confirmed, and both w ere hanged on a gallows; and it was written in the book of the chronicles in the presence of the king.

nkjv@Esth er:3:1 @ Aft er these things King Ahasu erus promoted Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him and set his seat above all the princes who w ere with him.

nkjv@Esth er:3:2 @ And all the king's s ervants who w ere within the king's gate bowed and paid homage to Haman, for so the king had commanded conc erning him. But Mordecai would not bow or pay homage.

nkjv@Esth er:3:3 @ Then the king's s ervants who w ere within the king's gate said to Mordecai, "Why do you transgress the king's command?"

nkjv@Esth er:3:4 @ Now it happened, when they spoke to him daily and he would not listen to them, that they told it to Haman, to see wheth er Mordecai's words would stand; for Mordecai had told them that he was a Jew.

nkjv@Esth er:3:5 @ When Haman saw that Mordecai did not bow or pay him homage, Haman was filled with wrath.

nkjv@Esth er:3:6 @ But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone, for they had told him of the people of Mordecai. Instead, Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who w ere throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasu erus--the people of Mordecai.

nkjv@Esth er:3:7 @ In the first month, which is the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasu erus, they cast Pur (that is, the lot), before Haman to det ermine the day and the month, until it fell on the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar.

nkjv@Esth er:3:8 @ Then Haman said to King Ahasu erus, "Th ere is a c ertain people scatt ered and disp ersed among the people in all the provinces of your kingdom; their laws are diff erent from all oth er people's, and they do not keep the king's laws. Th erefore it is not fitting for the king to let them remain.

nkjv@Esth er:3:9 @ If it pleases the king, let a decree be written that they be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silv er into the hands of those who do the work, to bring it into the king's treasuries."

nkjv@Esth er:3:10 @ So the king took his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews.

nkjv@Esth er:3:11 @ And the king said to Haman, "The money and the people are given to you, to do with them as seems good to you."

nkjv@Esth er:3:12 @ Then the king's scribes w ere called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and a decree was written according to all that Haman commanded--to the king's satraps, to the gov ernors who w ere ov er each province, to the officials of all people, to ev ery province according to its script, and to ev ery people in their language. In the name of King Ahasu erus it was written, and sealed with the king's signet ring.

nkjv@Esth er:3:13 @ And the lett ers w ere sent by couri ers into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all the Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, and to plund er their possessions.

nkjv@Esth er:3:14 @ A copy of the document was to be issued as law in ev ery province, being published for all people, that they should be ready for that day.

nkjv@Esth er:3:15 @ The couri ers went out, hastened by the king's command; and the decree was proclaimed in Shushan the citadel. So the king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Shushan was p erplexed.

nkjv@Esth er:4:1 @ When Mordecai learned all that had happened, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city. He cried out with a loud and bitt er cry.

nkjv@Esth er:4:2 @ He went as far as the front of the king's gate, for no one might ent er the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.

nkjv@Esth er:4:3 @ And in ev ery province wh ere the king's command and decree arrived, th ere was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

nkjv@Esth er:4:4 @ So Esth er's maids and eunuchs came and told h er, and the queen was deeply distressed. Then she sent garments to clothe Mordecai and take his sackcloth away from him, but he would not accept them.

nkjv@Esth er:4:5 @ Then Esth er called Hathach, one of the king's eunuchs whom he had appointed to attend h er, and she gave him a command conc erning Mordecai, to learn what and why this was.

nkjv@Esth er:4:6 @ So Hathach went out to Mordecai in the city square that was in front of the king's gate.

nkjv@Esth er:4:7 @ And Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, and the sum of money that Haman had promised to pay into the king's treasuries to destroy the Jews.

nkjv@Esth er:4:8 @ He also gave him a copy of the written decree for their destruction, which was given at Shushan, that he might show it to Esth er and explain it to h er, and that he might command h er to go in to the king to make supplication to him and plead before him for h er people.

nkjv@Esth er:4:9 @ So Hathach returned and told Esth er the words of Mordecai.

nkjv@Esth er:4:10 @ Then Esth er spoke to Hathach, and gave him a command for Mordecai:

nkjv@Esth er:4:11 @ "All the king's s ervants and the people of the king's provinces know that any man or woman who goes into the inn er court to the king, who has not been called, he has but one law: put all to death, except the one to whom the king holds out the golden scept er, that he may live. Yet I myself have not been called to go in to the king these thirty days."

nkjv@Esth er:4:12 @ So they told Mordecai Esth er's words.

nkjv@Esth er:4:13 @ And Mordecai told them to answ er Esth er: "Do not think in your heart that you will escape in the king's palace any more than all the oth er Jews.

nkjv@Esth er:4:14 @ For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliv erance will arise for the Jews from anoth er place, but you and your fath er's house will p erish. Yet who knows wheth er you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?"

nkjv@Esth er:4:15 @ Then Esth er told them to reply to Mordecai:

nkjv@Esth er:4:16 @ "Go, gath er all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me; neith er eat nor drink for three days, night or day. My maids and I will fast likewise. And so I will go to the king, which is against the law; and if I p erish, I p erish!"

nkjv@Esth er:4:17 @ So Mordecai went his way and did according to all that Esth er commanded him.

nkjv@Esth er:5:1 @ Now it happened on the third day that Esth er put on h er royal robes and stood in the inn er court of the king's palace, across from the king's house, while the king sat on his royal throne in the royal house, facing the entrance of the house.

nkjv@Esth er:5:2 @ So it was, when the king saw Queen Esth er standing in the court, that she found favor in his sight, and the king held out to Esth er the golden scept er that was in his hand. Then Esth er went near and touched the top of the scept er.

nkjv@Esth er:5:3 @ And the king said to h er, "What do you wish, Queen Esth er? What is your request? It shall be given to you--up to half the kingdom!"

nkjv@Esth er:5:4 @ So Esth er answ ered, "If it pleases the king, let the king and Haman come today to the banquet that I have prepared for him."

nkjv@Esth er:5:5 @ Then the king said, "Bring Haman quickly, that he may do as Esth er has said." So the king and Haman went to the banquet that Esth er had prepared.

nkjv@Esth er:5:6 @ At the banquet of wine the king said to Esth er, "What is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your request, up to half the kingdom? It shall be done!"

nkjv@Esth er:5:7 @ Then Esth er answ ered and said, "My petition and request is this:

nkjv@Esth er:5:8 @ If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and fulfill my request, then let the king and Haman come to the banquet which I will prepare for them, and tomorrow I will do as the king has said."

nkjv@Esth er:5:9 @ So Haman went out that day joyful and with a glad heart; but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, and that he did not stand or tremble before him, he was filled with indignation against Mordecai.

nkjv@Esth er:5:10 @ Nev ertheless Haman restrained himself and went home, and he sent and called for his friends and his wife Z eresh.

nkjv@Esth er:5:11 @ Then Haman told them of his great riches, the multitude of his children, ev erything in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the officials and s ervants of the king.

nkjv@Esth er:5:12 @ Moreov er Haman said, "Besides, Queen Esth er invited no one but me to come in with the king to the banquet that she prepared; and tomorrow I am again invited by h er, along with the king.

nkjv@Esth er:5:13 @ Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate."

nkjv@Esth er:5:14 @ Then his wife Z eresh and all his friends said to him, "Let a gallows be made, fifty cubits high, and in the morning suggest to the king that Mordecai be hanged on it; then go m errily with the king to the banquet." And the thing pleased Haman; so he had the gallows made.

nkjv@Esth er:6:1 @ That night the king could not sleep. So one was commanded to bring the book of the records of the chronicles; and they w ere read before the king.

nkjv@Esth er:6:2 @ And it was found written that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and T eresh, two of the king's eunuchs, the doorkeep ers who had sought to lay hands on King Ahasu erus.

nkjv@Esth er:6:3 @ Then the king said, "What honor or dignity has been bestowed on Mordecai for this?" And the king's s ervants who attended him said, "Nothing has been done for him."

nkjv@Esth er:6:4 @ So the king said, "Who is in the court?" Now Haman had just ent ered the out er court of the king's palace to suggest that the king hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.

nkjv@Esth er:6:5 @ The king's s ervants said to him, "Haman is th ere, standing in the court." And the king said, "Let him come in."

nkjv@Esth er:6:6 @ So Haman came in, and the king asked him, "What shall be done for the man whom the king delights to honor?" Now Haman thought in his heart, "Whom would the king delight to honor more than me?"

nkjv@Esth er:6:7 @ And Haman answ ered the king, "For the man whom the king delights to honor,

nkjv@Esth er:6:8 @ let a royal robe be brought which the king has worn, and a horse on which the king has ridden, which has a royal crest placed on its head.

nkjv@Esth er:6:9 @ Then let this robe and horse be deliv ered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that he may array the man whom the king delights to honor. Then parade him on horseback through the city square, and proclaim before him: "Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!'

nkjv@Esth er:6:10 @ Then the king said to Haman, "Hurry, take the robe and the horse, as you have suggested, and do so for Mordecai the Jew who sits within the king's gate! Leave nothing undone of all that you have spoken."

nkjv@Esth er:6:11 @ So Haman took the robe and the horse, arrayed Mordecai and led him on horseback through the city square, and proclaimed before him, "Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!"

nkjv@Esth er:6:12 @ Aft erward Mordecai went back to the king's gate. But Haman hurried to his house, mourning and with his head cov ered.

nkjv@Esth er:6:13 @ When Haman told his wife Z eresh and all his friends ev erything that had happened to him, his wise men and his wife Z eresh said to him, "If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him but will surely fall before him."

nkjv@Esth er:6:14 @ While they w ere still talking with him, the king's eunuchs came, and hastened to bring Haman to the banquet which Esth er had prepared.

nkjv@Esth er:7:1 @ So the king and Haman went to dine with Queen Esth er.

nkjv@Esth er:7:2 @ And on the second day, at the banquet of wine, the king again said to Esth er, "What is your petition, Queen Esth er? It shall be granted you. And what is your request, up to half the kingdom? It shall be done!"

nkjv@Esth er:7:3 @ Then Queen Esth er answ ered and said, "If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request.

nkjv@Esth er:7:4 @ For we have been sold, my people and I, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. Had we been sold as male and female slaves, I would have held my tongue, although the enemy could nev er compensate for the king's loss."

nkjv@Esth er:7:5 @ So King Ahasu erus answ ered and said to Queen Esth er, "Who is he, and wh ere is he, who would dare presume in his heart to do such a thing?"

nkjv@Esth er:7:6 @ And Esth er said, "The adv ersary and enemy is this wicked Haman!" So Haman was t errified before the king and queen.

nkjv@Esth er:7:7 @ Then the king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden; but Haman stood before Queen Esth er, pleading for his life, for he saw that evil was det ermined against him by the king.

nkjv@Esth er:7:8 @ When the king returned from the palace garden to the place of the banquet of wine, Haman had fallen across the couch wh ere Esth er was. Then the king said, "Will he also assault the queen while I am in the house?" As the word left the king's mouth, they cov ered Haman's face.

nkjv@Esth er:7:9 @ Now Harbonah, one of the eunuchs, said to the king, "Look! The gallows, fifty cubits high, which Haman made for Mordecai, who spoke good on the king's behalf, is standing at the house of Haman." Then the king said, "Hang him on it!"

nkjv@Esth er:7:10 @ So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king's wrath subsided.

nkjv@Esth er:8:1 @ On that day King Ahasu erus gave Queen Esth er the house of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai came before the king, for Esth er had told how he was related to h er.

nkjv@Esth er:8:2 @ So the king took off his signet ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai; and Esth er appointed Mordecai ov er the house of Haman.

nkjv@Esth er:8:3 @ Now Esth er spoke again to the king, fell down at his feet, and implored him with tears to count eract the evil of Haman the Agagite, and the scheme which he had devised against the Jews.

nkjv@Esth er:8:4 @ And the king held out the golden scept er toward Esth er. So Esth er arose and stood before the king,

nkjv@Esth er:8:5 @ and said, "If it pleases the king, and if I have found favor in his sight and the thing seems right to the king and I am pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to revoke the lett ers devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to annihilate the Jews who are in all the king's provinces.

nkjv@Esth er:8:6 @ For how can I endure to see the evil that will come to my people? Or how can I endure to see the destruction of my countrymen?"

nkjv@Esth er:8:7 @ Then King Ahasu erus said to Queen Esth er and Mordecai the Jew, "Indeed, I have given Esth er the house of Haman, and they have hanged him on the gallows because he tried to lay his hand on the Jews.

nkjv@Esth er:8:8 @ You yourselves write a decree conc erning the Jews, as you please, in the king's name, and seal it with the king's signet ring; for whatev er is written in the king's name and sealed with the king's signet ring no one can revoke."

nkjv@Esth er:8:9 @ So the king's scribes w ere called at that time, in the third month, which is the month of Sivan, on the twenty-third day; and it was written, according to all that Mordecai commanded, to the Jews, the satraps, the gov ernors, and the princes of the provinces from India to Ethiopia, one hundred and twenty-seven provinces in all, to ev ery province in its own script, to ev ery people in their own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language.

nkjv@Esth er:8:10 @ And he wrote in the name of King Ahasu erus, sealed it with the king's signet ring, and sent lett ers by couri ers on horseback, riding on royal horses bred from swift steeds.

nkjv@Esth er:8:11 @ By these lett ers the king p ermitted the Jews who w ere in ev ery city to gath er togeth er and protect their lives--to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the forces of any people or province that would assault them, both little children and women, and to plund er their possessions,

nkjv@Esth er:8:12 @ on one day in all the provinces of King Ahasu erus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar.

nkjv@Esth er:8:13 @ A copy of the document was to be issued as a decree in ev ery province and published for all people, so that the Jews would be ready on that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.

nkjv@Esth er:8:14 @ The couri ers who rode on royal horses went out, hastened and pressed on by the king's command. And the decree was issued in Shushan the citadel.

nkjv@Esth er:8:15 @ So Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white, with a great crown of gold and a garment of fine linen and purple; and the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad.

nkjv@Esth er:8:16 @ The Jews had light and gladness, joy and honor.

nkjv@Esth er:8:17 @ And in ev ery province and city, wh erev er the king's command and decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a holiday. Then many of the people of the land became Jews, because fear of the Jews fell upon them.

nkjv@Esth er:9:1 @ Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month of Adar, on the thirteenth day, the time came for the king's command and his decree to be executed. On the day that the enemies of the Jews had hoped to ov erpow er them, the opposite occurred, in that the Jews themselves ov erpow ered those who hated them.

nkjv@Esth er:9:2 @ The Jews gath ered togeth er in their cities throughout all the provinces of King Ahasu erus to lay hands on those who sought their harm. And no one could withstand them, because fear of them fell upon all people.

nkjv@Esth er:9:3 @ And all the officials of the provinces, the satraps, the gov ernors, and all those doing the king's work, helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai fell upon them.

nkjv@Esth er:9:4 @ For Mordecai was great in the king's palace, and his fame spread throughout all the provinces; for this man Mordecai became increasingly prominent.

nkjv@Esth er:9:5 @ Thus the Jews defeated all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, with slaught er and destruction, and did what they pleased with those who hated them.

nkjv@Esth er:9:6 @ And in Shushan the citadel the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men.

nkjv@Esth er:9:7 @ Also Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,

nkjv@Esth er:9:8 @ Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,

nkjv@Esth er:9:9 @ Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vajezatha--

nkjv@Esth er:9:10 @ the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews--they killed; but they did not lay a hand on the plund er.

nkjv@Esth er:9:11 @ On that day the numb er of those who w ere killed in Shushan the citadel was brought to the king.

nkjv@Esth er:9:12 @ And the king said to Queen Esth er, "The Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the citadel, and the ten sons of Haman. What have they done in the rest of the king's provinces? Now what is your petition? It shall be granted to you. Or what is your furth er request? It shall be done."

nkjv@Esth er:9:13 @ Then Esth er said, "If it pleases the king, let it be granted to the Jews who are in Shushan to do again tomorrow according to today's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged on the gallows."

nkjv@Esth er:9:14 @ So the king commanded this to be done; the decree was issued in Shushan, and they hanged Haman's ten sons.

nkjv@Esth er:9:15 @ And the Jews who w ere in Shushan gath ered togeth er again on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and killed three hundred men at Shushan; but they did not lay a hand on the plund er.

nkjv@Esth er:9:16 @ The remaind er of the Jews in the king's provinces gath ered togeth er and protected their lives, had rest from their enemies, and killed seventy-five thousand of their enemies; but they did not lay a hand on the plund er.

nkjv@Esth er:9:17 @ This was on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar. And on the fourteenth of the month they rested and made it a day of feasting and gladness.

nkjv@Esth er:9:18 @ But the Jews who w ere at Shushan assembled togeth er on the thirteenth day, as well as on the fourteenth; and on the fifteenth of the month they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.

nkjv@Esth er:9:19 @ Th erefore the Jews of the villages who dwelt in the unwalled towns celebrated the fourteenth day of the month of Adar with gladness and feasting, as a holiday, and for sending presents to one anoth er.

nkjv@Esth er:9:20 @ And Mordecai wrote these things and sent lett ers to all the Jews, near and far, who w ere in all the provinces of King Ahasu erus,

nkjv@Esth er:9:21 @ to establish among them that they should celebrate yearly the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar,

nkjv@Esth er:9:22 @ as the days on which the Jews had rest from their enemies, as the month which was turned from sorrow to joy for them, and from mourning to a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and joy, of sending presents to one anoth er and gifts to the poor.

nkjv@Esth er:9:23 @ So the Jews accepted the custom which they had begun, as Mordecai had written to them,

nkjv@Esth er:9:24 @ because Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to annihilate them, and had cast Pur (that is, the lot), to consume them and destroy them;

nkjv@Esth er:9:25 @ but when Esth er came before the king, he commanded by lett er that this wicked plot which Haman had devised against the Jews should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

nkjv@Esth er:9:26 @ So they called these days Purim, aft er the name Pur. Th erefore, because of all the words of this lett er, what they had seen conc erning this matt er, and what had happened to them,

nkjv@Esth er:9:27 @ the Jews established and imposed it upon themselves and their descendants and all who would join them, that without fail they should celebrate these two days ev ery year, according to the written instructions and according to the prescribed time,

nkjv@Esth er:9:28 @ that these days should be rememb ered and kept throughout ev ery gen eration, ev ery family, ev ery province, and ev ery city, that these days of Purim should not fail to be obs erved among the Jews, and that the memory of them should not p erish among their descendants.

nkjv@Esth er:9:29 @ Then Queen Esth er, the daught er of Abihail, with Mordecai the Jew, wrote with full authority to confirm this second lett er about Purim.

nkjv@Esth er:9:30 @ And Mordecai sent lett ers to all the Jews, to the one hundred and twenty-seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasu erus, with words of peace and truth,

nkjv@Esth er:9:31 @ to confirm these days of Purim at their appointed time, as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esth er had prescribed for them, and as they had decreed for themselves and their descendants conc erning matt ers of their fasting and lamenting.

nkjv@Esth er:9:32 @ So the decree of Esth er confirmed these matt ers of Purim, and it was written in the book.

nkjv@Esth er:10:1 @ And King Ahasu erus imposed tribute on the land and on the islands of the sea.

nkjv@Esth er:10:2 @ Now all the acts of his pow er and his might, and the account of the greatness of Mordecai, to which the king advanced him, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and P ersia?

nkjv@Esth er:10:3 @ For Mordecai the Jew was second to King Ahasu erus, and was great among the Jews and well received by the multitude of his brethren, seeking the good of his people and speaking peace to all his countrymen.

nkjv@Job:1:1 @ Th ere was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God and shunned evil.

nkjv@Job:1:2 @ And seven sons and three daught ers w ere born to him.

nkjv@Job:1:3 @ Also, his possessions w ere seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a v ery large household, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the East.

nkjv@Job:1:4 @ And his sons would go and feast in their houses, each on his appointed day, and would send and invite their three sist ers to eat and drink with them.

nkjv@Job:1:5 @ So it was, when the days of feasting had run their course, that Job would send and sanctify them, and he would rise early in the morning and off er burnt off erings according to the numb er of them all. For Job said, "It may be that my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts." Thus Job did regularly.

nkjv@Job:1:6 @ Now th ere was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them.

nkjv@Job:1:7 @ And the LORD said to Satan, "From wh ere do you come?" So Satan answ ered the LORD and said, "From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking back and forth on it."

nkjv@Job:1:8 @ Then the LORD said to Satan, "Have you consid ered My s ervant Job, that th ere is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil?"

nkjv@Job:1:9 @ So Satan answ ered the LORD and said, "Does Job fear God for nothing?

nkjv@Job:1:10 @ Have You not made a hedge around him, around his household, and around all that he has on ev ery side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.

nkjv@Job:1:12 @ And the LORD said to Satan, "Behold, all that he has is in your pow er; only do not lay a hand on his p erson." So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.

nkjv@Job:1:13 @ Now th ere was a day when his sons and daught ers w ere eating and drinking wine in their oldest broth er's house;

nkjv@Job:1:14 @ and a messeng er came to Job and said, "The oxen w ere plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them,

nkjv@Job:1:15 @ when the Sabeans raided them and took them away--indeed they have killed the s ervants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you!"

nkjv@Job:1:16 @ While he was still speaking, anoth er also came and said, "The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the s ervants, and consumed them; and I alone have escaped to tell you!"

nkjv@Job:1:17 @ While he was still speaking, anoth er also came and said, "The Chaldeans formed three bands, raided the camels and took them away, yes, and killed the s ervants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you!"

nkjv@Job:1:18 @ While he was still speaking, anoth er also came and said, "Your sons and daught ers w ere eating and drinking wine in their oldest broth er's house,

nkjv@Job:1:19 @ and suddenly a great wind came from across the wild erness and struck the four corn ers of the house, and it fell on the young people, and they are dead; and I alone have escaped to tell you!"

nkjv@Job:1:21 @ And he said: "Naked I came from my moth er's womb, And naked shall I return th ere. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; Blessed be the name of the LORD."

nkjv@Job:2:1 @ Again th ere was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.

nkjv@Job:2:2 @ And the LORD said to Satan, "From wh ere do you come?" Satan answ ered the LORD and said, "From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking back and forth on it."

nkjv@Job:2:3 @ Then the LORD said to Satan, "Have you consid ered My s ervant Job, that th ere is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil? And still he holds fast to his integrity, although you incited Me against him, to destroy him without cause."

nkjv@Job:2:4 @ So Satan answ ered the LORD and said, "Skin for skin! Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

nkjv@Job:2:8 @ And he took for himself a potsh erd with which to scrape himself while he sat in the midst of the ashes.

nkjv@Job:2:10 @ But he said to h er, "You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adv ersity?" In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

nkjv@Job:2:11 @ Now when Job's three friends heard of all this adv ersity that had come upon him, each one came from his own place--Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. For they had made an appointment togeth er to come and mourn with him, and to comfort him.

nkjv@Job:2:13 @ So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was v ery great.

nkjv@Job:3:1 @ Aft er this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.

nkjv@Job:3:3 @ "May the day p erish on which I was born, And the night in which it was said, "A male child is conceived.'

nkjv@Job:3:5 @ May darkness and the shadow of death claim it; May a cloud settle on it; May the blackness of the day t errify it.

nkjv@Job:3:6 @ As for that night, may darkness seize it; May it not rejoice among the days of the year, May it not come into the numb er of the months.

nkjv@Job:3:10 @ Because it did not shut up the doors of my moth er's womb, Nor hide sorrow from my eyes.

nkjv@Job:3:11 @ "Why did I not die at birth? Why did I not p erish when I came from the womb?

nkjv@Job:3:15 @ Or with princes who had gold, Who filled their houses with silv er;

nkjv@Job:3:16 @ Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, Like infants who nev er saw light?

nkjv@Job:3:17 @ Th ere the wicked cease from troubling, And th ere the weary are at rest.

nkjv@Job:3:18 @ Th ere the prison ers rest togeth er; They do not hear the voice of the oppressor.

nkjv@Job:3:19 @ The small and great are th ere, And the s ervant is free from his mast er.

nkjv@Job:3:20 @ "Why is light given to him who is in mis ery, And life to the bitt er of soul,

nkjv@Job:3:24 @ For my sighing comes before I eat, And my groanings pour out like wat er.

nkjv@Job:4:1 @ Then Eliphaz the Temanite answ ered and said:

nkjv@Job:4:6 @ Is not your rev erence your confidence? And the integrity of your ways your hope?

nkjv@Job:4:7 @ "Rememb er now, who ev er p erished being innocent? Or wh ere w ere the upright ev er cut off?

nkjv@Job:4:9 @ By the blast of God they p erish, And by the breath of His ang er they are consumed.

nkjv@Job:4:10 @ The roaring of the lion, The voice of the fi erce lion, And the teeth of the young lions are broken.

nkjv@Job:4:11 @ The old lion p erishes for lack of prey, And the cubs of the lioness are scatt ered.

nkjv@Job:4:12 @ "Now a word was secretly brought to me, And my ear received a whisp er of it.

nkjv@Job:4:16 @ It stood still, But I could not disc ern its appearance. A form was before my eyes; Th ere was silence; Then I heard a voice saying:

nkjv@Job:4:17 @ "Can a mortal be more righteous than God? Can a man be more pure than his Mak er?

nkjv@Job:4:18 @ If He puts no trust in His s ervants, If He charges His angels with error,

nkjv@Job:4:20 @ They are broken in pieces from morning till evening; They p erish forev er, with no one regarding.

nkjv@Job:5:1 @ "Call out now; Is th ere anyone who will answ er you? And to which of the holy ones will you turn?

nkjv@Job:5:4 @ His sons are far from safety, They are crushed in the gate, And th ere is no deliv er er.

nkjv@Job:5:9 @ Who does great things, and unsearchable, Marvelous things without numb er.

nkjv@Job:5:10 @ He gives rain on the earth, And sends wat ers on the fields.

nkjv@Job:5:16 @ So the poor have hope, And injustice shuts h er mouth.

nkjv@Job:5:17 @ "Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects; Th erefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

nkjv@Job:5:19 @ He shall deliv er you in six troubles, Yes, in seven no evil shall touch you.

nkjv@Job:5:20 @ In famine He shall redeem you from death, And in war from the pow er of the sword.

nkjv@Job:6:1 @ Then Job answ ered and said:

nkjv@Job:6:2 @ "Oh, that my grief w ere fully weighed, And my calamity laid with it on the scales!

nkjv@Job:6:3 @ For then it would be heavi er than the sand of the sea-- Th erefore my words have been rash.

nkjv@Job:6:4 @ For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; My spirit drinks in their poison; The t errors of God are arrayed against me.

nkjv@Job:6:5 @ Does the wild donkey bray when it has grass, Or does the ox low ov er its fodd er?

nkjv@Job:6:6 @ Can flavorless food be eaten without salt? Or is th ere any taste in the white of an egg?

nkjv@Job:6:15 @ My broth ers have dealt deceitfully like a brook, Like the streams of the brooks that pass away,

nkjv@Job:6:18 @ The paths of their way turn aside, They go nowh ere and p erish.

nkjv@Job:6:19 @ The caravans of Tema look, The travel ers of Sheba hope for them.

nkjv@Job:6:20 @ They are disappointed because they w ere confident; They come th ere and are confused.

nkjv@Job:6:21 @ For now you are nothing, You see t error and are afraid.

nkjv@Job:6:22 @ Did I ev er say, "Bring something to me'? Or, "Off er a bribe for me from your wealth'?

nkjv@Job:6:23 @ Or, "Deliv er me from the enemy's hand'? Or, "Redeem me from the hand of oppressors'?

nkjv@Job:6:24 @ "Teach me, and I will hold my tongue; Cause me to und erstand wh erein I have erred.

nkjv@Job:6:26 @ Do you intend to rebuke my words, And the speeches of a desp erate one, which are as wind?

nkjv@Job:6:27 @ Yes, you ov erwhelm the fath erless, And you und ermine your friend.

nkjv@Job:6:28 @ Now th erefore, be pleased to look at me; For I would nev er lie to your face.

nkjv@Job:6:29 @ Yield now, let th ere be no injustice! Yes, concede, my righteousness still stands!

nkjv@Job:6:30 @ Is th ere injustice on my tongue? Cannot my taste disc ern the unsavory?

nkjv@Job:7:1 @ "Is th ere not a time of hard s ervice for man on earth? Are not his days also like the days of a hired man?

nkjv@Job:7:2 @ Like a s ervant who earnestly desires the shade, And like a hired man who eag erly looks for his wages,

nkjv@Job:7:6 @ "My days are swift er than a weav er's shuttle, And are spent without hope.

nkjv@Job:7:7 @ Oh, rememb er that my life is a breath! My eye will nev er again see good.

nkjv@Job:7:8 @ The eye of him who sees me will see me no more; While your eyes are upon me, I shall no long er be.

nkjv@Job:7:10 @ He shall nev er return to his house, Nor shall his place know him anymore.

nkjv@Job:7:11 @ "Th erefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitt erness of my soul.

nkjv@Job:7:12 @ Am I a sea, or a sea s erpent, That You set a guard ov er me?

nkjv@Job:7:14 @ Then You scare me with dreams And t errify me with visions,

nkjv@Job:7:15 @ So that my soul chooses strangling And death rath er than my body.

nkjv@Job:7:16 @ I loathe my life; I would not live forev er. Let me alone, For my days are but a breath.

nkjv@Job:7:18 @ That You should visit him ev ery morning, And test him ev ery moment?

nkjv@Job:7:20 @ Have I sinned? What have I done to You, O watch er of men? Why have You set me as Your target, So that I am a burden to myself?

nkjv@Job:7:21 @ Why then do You not pardon my transgression, And take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, And You will seek me diligently, But I will no long er be."

nkjv@Job:8:1 @ Then Bildad the Shuhite answ ered and said:

nkjv@Job:8:3 @ Does God subv ert judgment? Or does the Almighty p erv ert justice?

nkjv@Job:8:6 @ If you w ere pure and upright, Surely now He would awake for you, And prosp er your rightful dwelling place.

nkjv@Job:8:7 @ Though your beginning was small, Yet your latt er end would increase abundantly.

nkjv@Job:8:8 @ "For inquire, please, of the form er age, And consid er the things discov ered by their fath ers;

nkjv@Job:8:9 @ For we w ere born yest erday, and know nothing, Because our days on earth are a shadow.

nkjv@Job:8:10 @ Will they not teach you and tell you, And utt er words from their heart?

nkjv@Job:8:11 @ "Can the papyrus grow up without a marsh? Can the reeds flourish without wat er?

nkjv@Job:8:12 @ While it is yet green and not cut down, It with ers before any oth er plant.

nkjv@Job:8:13 @ So are the paths of all who forget God; And the hope of the hypocrite shall p erish,

nkjv@Job:8:14 @ Whose confidence shall be cut off, And whose trust is a spid er's web.

nkjv@Job:8:19 @ "Behold, this is the joy of His way, And out of the earth oth ers will grow.

nkjv@Job:8:20 @ Behold, God will not cast away the blameless, Nor will He uphold the evildo ers.

nkjv@Job:9:1 @ Then Job answ ered and said:

nkjv@Job:9:3 @ If one wished to contend with Him, He could not answ er Him one time out of a thousand.

nkjv@Job:9:4 @ God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against Him and prosp ered?

nkjv@Job:9:5 @ He removes the mountains, and they do not know When He ov erturns them in His ang er;

nkjv@Job:9:9 @ He made the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, And the chamb ers of the south;

nkjv@Job:9:10 @ He does great things past finding out, Yes, wond ers without numb er.

nkjv@Job:9:11 @ If He goes by me, I do not see Him; If He moves past, I do not p erceive Him;

nkjv@Job:9:12 @ If He takes away, who can hind er Him? Who can say to Him, "What are You doing?'

nkjv@Job:9:13 @ God will not withdraw His ang er, The allies of the proud lie prostrate beneath Him.

nkjv@Job:9:14 @ "How then can I answ er Him, And choose my words to reason with Him?

nkjv@Job:9:15 @ For though I w ere righteous, I could not answ er Him; I would beg m ercy of my Judge.

nkjv@Job:9:16 @ If I called and He answ ered me, I would not believe that He was listening to my voice.

nkjv@Job:9:18 @ He will not allow me to catch my breath, But fills me with bitt erness.

nkjv@Job:9:19 @ If it is a matt er of strength, indeed He is strong; And if of justice, who will appoint my day in court?

nkjv@Job:9:20 @ Though I w ere righteous, my own mouth would condemn me; Though I w ere blameless, it would prove me p erv erse.

nkjv@Job:9:22 @ It is all one thing; Th erefore I say, "He destroys the blameless and the wicked.'

nkjv@Job:9:24 @ The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He cov ers the faces of its judges. If it is not He, who else could it be?

nkjv@Job:9:25 @ "Now my days are swift er than a runn er; They flee away, they see no good.

nkjv@Job:9:28 @ I am afraid of all my suff erings; I know that You will not hold me innocent.

nkjv@Job:9:30 @ If I wash myself with snow wat er, And cleanse my hands with soap,

nkjv@Job:9:32 @ "For He is not a man, as I am, That I may answ er Him, And that we should go to court togeth er.

nkjv@Job:9:33 @ Nor is th ere any mediator between us, Who may lay his hand on us both.

nkjv@Job:9:34 @ Let Him take His rod away from me, And do not let dread of Him t errify me.

nkjv@Job:10:1 @ "My soul loathes my life; I will give free course to my complaint, I will speak in the bitt erness of my soul.

nkjv@Job:10:7 @ Although You know that I am not wicked, And th ere is no one who can deliv er from Your hand?

nkjv@Job:10:9 @ Rememb er, I pray, that You have made me like clay. And will You turn me into dust again?

nkjv@Job:10:11 @ Clothe me with skin and flesh, And knit me togeth er with bones and sinews?

nkjv@Job:10:12 @ You have granted me life and favor, And Your care has pres erved my spirit.

nkjv@Job:10:15 @ If I am wicked, woe to me; Even if I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head. I am full of disgrace; See my mis ery!

nkjv@Job:10:16 @ If my head is exalted, You hunt me like a fi erce lion, And again You show Yourself awesome against me.

nkjv@Job:10:17 @ You renew Your witnesses against me, And increase Your indignation toward me; Changes and war are ev er with me.

nkjv@Job:10:18 @ "Why then have You brought me out of the womb? Oh, that I had p erished and no eye had seen me!

nkjv@Job:10:22 @ A land as dark as darkness itself, As the shadow of death, without any ord er, Wh ere even the light is like darkness."'

nkjv@Job:11:1 @ Then Zophar the Naamathite answ ered and said:

nkjv@Job:11:2 @ "Should not the multitude of words be answ ered? And should a man full of talk be vindicated?

nkjv@Job:11:6 @ That He would show you the secrets of wisdom! For they would double your prudence. Know th erefore that God exacts from you Less than your iniquity des erves.

nkjv@Job:11:8 @ They are high er than heaven-- what can you do? Deep er than Sheol-- what can you know?

nkjv@Job:11:9 @ Their measure is long er than the earth And broad er than the sea.

nkjv@Job:11:10 @ "If He passes by, imprisons, and gath ers to judgment, Then who can hind er Him?

nkjv@Job:11:11 @ For He knows deceitful men; He sees wickedness also. Will He not then consid er it?

nkjv@Job:11:14 @ If iniquity w ere in your hand, and you put it far away, And would not let wickedness dwell in your tents;

nkjv@Job:11:16 @ Because you would forget your mis ery, And rememb er it as wat ers that have passed away,

nkjv@Job:11:17 @ And your life would be bright er than noonday. Though you w ere dark, you would be like the morning.

nkjv@Job:11:18 @ And you would be secure, because th ere is hope; Yes, you would dig around you, and take your rest in safety.

nkjv@Job:12:1 @ Then Job answ ered and said:

nkjv@Job:12:3 @ But I have und erstanding as well as you; I am not inf erior to you. Indeed, who does not know such things as these?

nkjv@Job:12:4 @ "I am one mocked by his friends, Who called on God, and He answ ered him, The just and blameless who is ridiculed.

nkjv@Job:12:6 @ The tents of robb ers prosp er, And those who provoke God are secure-- In what God provides by His hand.

nkjv@Job:12:10 @ In whose hand is the life of ev ery living thing, And the breath of all mankind?

nkjv@Job:12:12 @ Wisdom is with aged men, And with length of days, und erstanding.

nkjv@Job:12:13 @ "With Him are wisdom and strength, He has counsel and und erstanding.

nkjv@Job:12:14 @ If He breaks a thing down, it cannot be rebuilt; If He imprisons a man, th ere can be no release.

nkjv@Job:12:15 @ If He withholds the wat ers, they dry up; If He sends them out, they ov erwhelm the earth.

nkjv@Job:12:16 @ With Him are strength and prudence. The deceived and the deceiv er are His.

nkjv@Job:12:17 @ He leads counselors away plund ered, And makes fools of the judges.

nkjv@Job:12:19 @ He leads princes away plund ered, And ov erthrows the mighty.

nkjv@Job:12:20 @ He deprives the trusted ones of speech, And takes away the disc ernment of the eld ers.

nkjv@Job:12:22 @ He uncov ers deep things out of darkness, And brings the shadow of death to light.

nkjv@Job:12:24 @ He takes away the und erstanding of the chiefs of the people of the earth, And makes them wand er in a pathless wild erness.

nkjv@Job:12:25 @ They grope in the dark without light, And He makes them stagg er like a drunken man.

nkjv@Job:13:1 @ "Behold, my eye has seen all this, My ear has heard and und erstood it.

nkjv@Job:13:2 @ What you know, I also know; I am not inf erior to you.

nkjv@Job:13:4 @ But you forg ers of lies, You are all worthless physicians.

nkjv@Job:13:12 @ Your platitudes are prov erbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.

nkjv@Job:13:19 @ Who is he who will contend with me? If now I hold my tongue, I p erish.

nkjv@Job:13:22 @ Then call, and I will answ er; Or let me speak, then You respond to me.

nkjv@Job:13:26 @ For You write bitt er things against me, And make me inh erit the iniquities of my youth.

nkjv@Job:14:2 @ He comes forth like a flow er and fades away; He flees like a shadow and does not continue.

nkjv@Job:14:5 @ Since his days are det ermined, The numb er of his months is with You; You have appointed his limits, so that he cannot pass.

nkjv@Job:14:7 @ "For th ere is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, And that its tend er shoots will not cease.

nkjv@Job:14:9 @ Yet at the scent of wat er it will bud And bring forth branches like a plant.

nkjv@Job:14:10 @ But man dies and is laid away; Indeed he breathes his last And wh ere is he?

nkjv@Job:14:11 @ As wat er disappears from the sea, And a riv er becomes parched and dries up,

nkjv@Job:14:13 @ "Oh, that You would hide me in the grave, That You would conceal me until Your wrath is past, That You would appoint me a set time, and rememb er me!

nkjv@Job:14:14 @ If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my hard s ervice I will wait, Till my change comes.

nkjv@Job:14:15 @ You shall call, and I will answ er You; You shall desire the work of Your hands.

nkjv@Job:14:16 @ For now You numb er my steps, But do not watch ov er my sin.

nkjv@Job:14:17 @ My transgression is sealed up in a bag, And You cov er my iniquity.

nkjv@Job:14:19 @ As wat er wears away stones, And as torrents wash away the soil of the earth; So You destroy the hope of man.

nkjv@Job:14:20 @ You prevail forev er against him, and he passes on; You change his countenance and send him away.

nkjv@Job:14:21 @ His sons come to honor, and he does not know it; They are brought low, and he does not p erceive it.

nkjv@Job:14:22 @ But his flesh will be in pain ov er it, And his soul will mourn ov er it."

nkjv@Job:15:1 @ Then Eliphaz the Temanite answ ered and said:

nkjv@Job:15:2 @ "Should a wise man answ er with empty knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind?

nkjv@Job:15:4 @ Yes, you cast off fear, And restrain pray er before God.

nkjv@Job:15:7 @ "Are you the first man who was born? Or w ere you made before the hills?

nkjv@Job:15:9 @ What do you know that we do not know? What do you und erstand that is not in us?

nkjv@Job:15:10 @ Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, Much old er than your fath er.

nkjv@Job:15:16 @ How much less man, who is abominable and filthy, Who drinks iniquity like wat er!

nkjv@Job:15:18 @ What wise men have told, Not hiding anything received from their fath ers,

nkjv@Job:15:20 @ The wicked man writhes with pain all his days, And the numb er of years is hidden from the oppressor.

nkjv@Job:15:21 @ Dreadful sounds are in his ears; In prosp erity the destroy er comes upon him.

nkjv@Job:15:23 @ He wand ers about for bread, saying, "Wh ere is it?' He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand.

nkjv@Job:15:24 @ Trouble and anguish make him afraid; They ov erpow er him, like a king ready for battle.

nkjv@Job:15:27 @ "Though he has cov ered his face with his fatness, And made his waist heavy with fat,

nkjv@Job:15:29 @ He will not be rich, Nor will his wealth continue, Nor will his possessions ov erspread the earth.

nkjv@Job:15:34 @ For the company of hypocrites will be barren, And fire will consume the tents of brib ery.

nkjv@Job:16:1 @ Then Job answ ered and said:

nkjv@Job:16:2 @ "I have heard many such things; Mis erable comfort ers are you all!

nkjv@Job:16:3 @ Shall words of wind have an end? Or what provokes you that you answ er?

nkjv@Job:16:4 @ I also could speak as you do, If your soul w ere in my soul's place. I could heap up words against you, And shake my head at you;

nkjv@Job:16:9 @ He tears me in His wrath, and hates me; He gnashes at me with His teeth; My adv ersary sharpens His gaze on me.

nkjv@Job:16:10 @ They gape at me with their mouth, They strike me reproachfully on the cheek, They gath er togeth er against me.

nkjv@Job:16:11 @ God has deliv ered me to the ungodly, And turned me ov er to the hands of the wicked.

nkjv@Job:16:12 @ I was at ease, but He has shatt ered me; He also has taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces; He has set me up for His target,

nkjv@Job:16:13 @ His arch ers surround me. He pi erces my heart and does not pity; He pours out my gall on the ground.

nkjv@Job:16:15 @ "I have sewn sackcloth ov er my skin, And laid my head in the dust.

nkjv@Job:16:17 @ Although no violence is in my hands, And my pray er is pure.

nkjv@Job:16:18 @ "O earth, do not cov er my blood, And let my cry have no resting place!

nkjv@Job:17:2 @ Are not mock ers with me? And does not my eye dwell on their provocation?

nkjv@Job:17:4 @ For You have hidden their heart from und erstanding; Th erefore You will not exalt them.

nkjv@Job:17:5 @ He who speaks flatt ery to his friends, Even the eyes of his children will fail.

nkjv@Job:17:7 @ My eye has also grown dim because of sorrow, And all my memb ers are like shadows.

nkjv@Job:17:9 @ Yet the righteous will hold to his way, And he who has clean hands will be strong er and strong er.

nkjv@Job:17:14 @ If I say to corruption, "You are my fath er,' And to the worm, "You are my moth er and my sist er,'

nkjv@Job:17:15 @ Wh ere then is my hope? As for my hope, who can see it?

nkjv@Job:17:16 @ Will they go down to the gates of Sheol? Shall we have rest togeth er in the dust?"

nkjv@Job:18:1 @ Then Bildad the Shuhite answ ered and said:

nkjv@Job:18:2 @ "How long till you put an end to words? Gain und erstanding, and aft erward we will speak.

nkjv@Job:18:4 @ You who tear yourself in ang er, Shall the earth be forsaken for you? Or shall the rock be removed from its place?

nkjv@Job:18:11 @ T errors frighten him on ev ery side, And drive him to his feet.

nkjv@Job:18:14 @ He is uprooted from the shelt er of his tent, And they parade him before the king of t errors.

nkjv@Job:18:15 @ They dwell in his tent who are none of his; Brimstone is scatt ered on his dwelling.

nkjv@Job:18:16 @ His roots are dried out below, And his branch with ers above.

nkjv@Job:18:17 @ The memory of him p erishes from the earth, And he has no name among the renowned.

nkjv@Job:18:19 @ He has neith er son nor post erity among his people, Nor any remaining in his dwellings.

nkjv@Job:19:1 @ Then Job answ ered and said:

nkjv@Job:19:4 @ And if indeed I have erred, My error remains with me.

nkjv@Job:19:7 @ "If I cry out conc erning wrong, I am not heard. If I cry aloud, th ere is no justice.

nkjv@Job:19:10 @ He breaks me down on ev ery side, And I am gone; My hope He has uprooted like a tree.

nkjv@Job:19:12 @ His troops come togeth er And build up their road against me; They encamp all around my tent.

nkjv@Job:19:13 @ "He has removed my broth ers far from me, And my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.

nkjv@Job:19:15 @ Those who dwell in my house, and my maids ervants, Count me as a strang er; I am an alien in their sight.

nkjv@Job:19:16 @ I call my s ervant, but he gives no answ er; I beg him with my mouth.

nkjv@Job:19:22 @ Why do you p ersecute me as God does, And are not satisfied with my flesh?

nkjv@Job:19:23 @ "Oh, that my words w ere written! Oh, that they w ere inscribed in a book!

nkjv@Job:19:24 @ That they w ere engraved on a rock With an iron pen and lead, forev er!

nkjv@Job:19:25 @ For I know that my Redeem er lives, And He shall stand at last on the earth;

nkjv@Job:19:26 @ And aft er my skin is destroyed, this I know, That in my flesh I shall see God,

nkjv@Job:19:27 @ Whom I shall see for myself, And my eyes shall behold, and not anoth er. How my heart yearns within me!

nkjv@Job:19:28 @ If you should say, "How shall we p ersecute him?'-- Since the root of the matt er is found in me,

nkjv@Job:19:29 @ Be afraid of the sword for yourselves; For wrath brings the punishment of the sword, That you may know th ere is a judgment."

nkjv@Job:20:1 @ Then Zophar the Naamathite answ ered and said:

nkjv@Job:20:2 @ "Th erefore my anxious thoughts make me answ er, Because of the turmoil within me.

nkjv@Job:20:3 @ I have heard the rebuke that reproaches me, And the spirit of my und erstanding causes me to answ er.

nkjv@Job:20:7 @ Yet he will p erish forev er like his own refuse; Those who have seen him will say, "Wh ere is he?'

nkjv@Job:20:12 @ "Though evil is sweet in his mouth, And he hides it und er his tongue,

nkjv@Job:20:16 @ He will suck the poison of cobras; The vip er's tongue will slay him.

nkjv@Job:20:17 @ He will not see the streams, The riv ers flowing with honey and cream.

nkjv@Job:20:21 @ Nothing is left for him to eat; Th erefore his well-being will not last.

nkjv@Job:20:22 @ In his self-sufficiency he will be in distress; Ev ery hand of mis ery will come against him.

nkjv@Job:20:24 @ He will flee from the iron weapon; A bronze bow will pi erce him through.

nkjv@Job:20:25 @ It is drawn, and comes out of the body; Yes, the glitt ering point comes out of his gall. T errors come upon him;

nkjv@Job:20:26 @ Total darkness is res erved for his treasures. An unfanned fire will consume him; It shall go ill with him who is left in his tent.

nkjv@Job:20:29 @ This is the portion from God for a wicked man, The h eritage appointed to him by God."

nkjv@Job:21:1 @ Then Job answ ered and said:

nkjv@Job:21:3 @ Bear with me that I may speak, And aft er I have spoken, keep mocking.

nkjv@Job:21:4 @ "As for me, is my complaint against man? And if it w ere, why should I not be impatient?

nkjv@Job:21:5 @ Look at me and be astonished; Put your hand ov er your mouth.

nkjv@Job:21:6 @ Even when I rememb er I am t errified, And trembling takes hold of my flesh.

nkjv@Job:21:7 @ Why do the wicked live and become old, Yes, become mighty in pow er?

nkjv@Job:21:9 @ Their houses are safe from fear, Neith er is the rod of God upon them.

nkjv@Job:21:15 @ Who is the Almighty, that we should s erve Him? And what profit do we have if we pray to Him?'

nkjv@Job:21:16 @ Indeed their prosp erity is not in their hand; The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

nkjv@Job:21:17 @ "How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? How often does their destruction come upon them, The sorrows God distributes in His ang er?

nkjv@Job:21:21 @ For what does he care about his household aft er him, When the numb er of his months is cut in half?

nkjv@Job:21:25 @ Anoth er man dies in the bitt erness of his soul, Nev er having eaten with pleasure.

nkjv@Job:21:26 @ They lie down alike in the dust, And worms cov er them.

nkjv@Job:21:28 @ For you say, "Wh ere is the house of the prince? And wh ere is the tent, The dwelling place of the wicked?'

nkjv@Job:21:30 @ For the wicked are res erved for the day of doom; They shall be brought out on the day of wrath.

nkjv@Job:21:32 @ Yet he shall be brought to the grave, And a vigil kept ov er the tomb.

nkjv@Job:21:33 @ The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him; Ev eryone shall follow him, As countless have gone before him.

nkjv@Job:21:34 @ How then can you comfort me with empty words, Since falsehood remains in your answ ers?"

nkjv@Job:22:1 @ Then Eliphaz the Temanite answ ered and said:

nkjv@Job:22:4 @ "Is it because of your fear of Him that He corrects you, And ent ers into judgment with you?

nkjv@Job:22:6 @ For you have taken pledges from your broth er for no reason, And stripped the naked of their clothing.

nkjv@Job:22:7 @ You have not given the weary wat er to drink, And you have withheld bread from the hungry.

nkjv@Job:22:9 @ You have sent widows away empty, And the strength of the fath erless was crushed.

nkjv@Job:22:10 @ Th erefore snares are all around you, And sudden fear troubles you,

nkjv@Job:22:11 @ Or darkness so that you cannot see; And an abundance of wat er cov ers you.

nkjv@Job:22:14 @ Thick clouds cov er Him, so that He cannot see, And He walks above the circle of heaven.'

nkjv@Job:22:16 @ Who w ere cut down before their time, Whose foundations w ere swept away by a flood?

nkjv@Job:22:20 @ "Surely our adv ersaries are cut down, And the fire consumes their remnant.'

nkjv@Job:22:21 @ "Now acquaint yourself with Him, and be at peace; Th ereby good will come to you.

nkjv@Job:22:25 @ Yes, the Almighty will be your gold And your precious silv er;

nkjv@Job:22:27 @ You will make your pray er to Him, He will hear you, And you will pay your vows.

nkjv@Job:22:29 @ When they cast you down, and you say, "Exaltation will come!' Then He will save the humble p erson.

nkjv@Job:22:30 @ He will even deliv er one who is not innocent; Yes, he will be deliv ered by the purity of your hands."

nkjv@Job:23:1 @ Then Job answ ered and said:

nkjv@Job:23:2 @ "Even today my complaint is bitt er; My hand is listless because of my groaning.

nkjv@Job:23:3 @ Oh, that I knew wh ere I might find Him, That I might come to His seat!

nkjv@Job:23:5 @ I would know the words which He would answ er me, And und erstand what He would say to me.

nkjv@Job:23:6 @ Would He contend with me in His great pow er? No! But He would take note of me.

nkjv@Job:23:7 @ Th ere the upright could reason with Him, And I would be deliv ered forev er from my Judge.

nkjv@Job:23:8 @ "Look, I go forward, but He is not th ere, And backward, but I cannot p erceive Him;

nkjv@Job:23:13 @ "But He is unique, and who can make Him change? And whatev er His soul desires, that He does.

nkjv@Job:23:14 @ For He p erforms what is appointed for me, And many such things are with Him.

nkjv@Job:23:15 @ Th erefore I am t errified at His presence; When I consid er this, I am afraid of Him.

nkjv@Job:23:16 @ For God made my heart weak, And the Almighty t errifies me;

nkjv@Job:24:3 @ They drive away the donkey of the fath erless; They take the widow's ox as a pledge.

nkjv@Job:24:5 @ Indeed, like wild donkeys in the des ert, They go out to their work, searching for food. The wild erness yields food for them and for their children.

nkjv@Job:24:6 @ They gath er their fodd er in the field And glean in the vineyard of the wicked.

nkjv@Job:24:7 @ They spend the night naked, without clothing, And have no cov ering in the cold.

nkjv@Job:24:8 @ They are wet with the show ers of the mountains, And huddle around the rock for want of shelt er.

nkjv@Job:24:9 @ "Some snatch the fath erless from the breast, And take a pledge from the poor.

nkjv@Job:24:11 @ They press out oil within their walls, And tread winepresses, yet suff er thirst.

nkjv@Job:24:13 @ "Th ere are those who rebel against the light; They do not know its ways Nor abide in its paths.

nkjv@Job:24:14 @ The murd er er rises with the light; He kills the poor and needy; And in the night he is like a thief.

nkjv@Job:24:15 @ The eye of the adult er er waits for the twilight, Saying, "No eye will see me'; And he disguises his face.

nkjv@Job:24:17 @ For the morning is the same to them as the shadow of death; If someone recognizes them, They are in the t errors of the shadow of death.

nkjv@Job:24:18 @ "They should be swift on the face of the wat ers, Their portion should be cursed in the earth, So that no one would turn into the way of their vineyards.

nkjv@Job:24:19 @ As drought and heat consume the snow wat ers, So the grave consumes those who have sinned.

nkjv@Job:24:20 @ The womb should forget him, The worm should feed sweetly on him; He should be rememb ered no more, And wickedness should be broken like a tree.

nkjv@Job:24:22 @ "But God draws the mighty away with His pow er; He rises up, but no man is sure of life.

nkjv@Job:24:24 @ They are exalted for a little while, Then they are gone. They are brought low; They are taken out of the way like all oth ers; They dry out like the heads of grain.

nkjv@Job:25:1 @ Then Bildad the Shuhite answ ered and said:

nkjv@Job:25:3 @ Is th ere any numb er to His armies? Upon whom does His light not rise?

nkjv@Job:26:1 @ But Job answ ered and said:

nkjv@Job:26:2 @ "How have you helped him who is without pow er? How have you saved the arm that has no strength?

nkjv@Job:26:4 @ To whom have you utt ered words? And whose spirit came from you?

nkjv@Job:26:5 @ "The dead tremble, Those und er the wat ers and those inhabiting them.

nkjv@Job:26:6 @ Sheol is naked before Him, And Destruction has no cov ering.

nkjv@Job:26:7 @ He stretches out the north ov er empty space; He hangs the earth on nothing.

nkjv@Job:26:8 @ He binds up the wat er in His thick clouds, Yet the clouds are not broken und er it.

nkjv@Job:26:9 @ He cov ers the face of His throne, And spreads His cloud ov er it.

nkjv@Job:26:10 @ He drew a circular horizon on the face of the wat ers, At the boundary of light and darkness.

nkjv@Job:26:12 @ He stirs up the sea with His pow er, And by His und erstanding He breaks up the storm.

nkjv@Job:26:13 @ By His Spirit He adorned the heavens; His hand pi erced the fleeing s erpent.

nkjv@Job:26:14 @ Indeed these are the m ere edges of His ways, And how small a whisp er we hear of Him! But the thund er of His pow er who can und erstand?"

nkjv@Job:27:1 @ Moreov er Job continued his discourse, and said:

nkjv@Job:27:2 @ "As God lives, who has taken away my justice, And the Almighty, who has made my soul bitt er,

nkjv@Job:27:4 @ My lips will not speak wickedness, Nor my tongue utt er deceit.

nkjv@Job:27:13 @ "This is the portion of a wicked man with God, And the h eritage of oppressors, received from the Almighty:

nkjv@Job:27:16 @ Though he heaps up silv er like dust, And piles up clothing like clay--

nkjv@Job:27:17 @ He may pile it up, but the just will wear it, And the innocent will divide the silv er.

nkjv@Job:27:19 @ The rich man will lie down, But not be gath ered up; He opens his eyes, And he is no more.

nkjv@Job:27:20 @ T errors ov ertake him like a flood; A tempest steals him away in the night.

nkjv@Job:27:22 @ It hurls against him and does not spare; He flees desp erately from its pow er.

nkjv@Job:28:1 @ "Surely th ere is a mine for silv er, And a place wh ere gold is refined.

nkjv@Job:28:2 @ Iron is taken from the earth, And copp er is smelted from ore.

nkjv@Job:28:3 @ Man puts an end to darkness, And searches ev ery recess For ore in the darkness and the shadow of death.

nkjv@Job:28:5 @ As for the earth, from it comes bread, But und erneath it is turned up as by fire;

nkjv@Job:28:8 @ The proud lions have not trodden it, Nor has the fi erce lion passed ov er it.

nkjv@Job:28:9 @ He puts his hand on the flint; He ov erturns the mountains at the roots.

nkjv@Job:28:10 @ He cuts out channels in the rocks, And his eye sees ev ery precious thing.

nkjv@Job:28:12 @ "But wh ere can wisdom be found? And wh ere is the place of und erstanding?

nkjv@Job:28:15 @ It cannot be purchased for gold, Nor can silv er be weighed for its price.

nkjv@Job:28:17 @ Neith er gold nor crystal can equal it, Nor can it be exchanged for jewelry of fine gold.

nkjv@Job:28:20 @ "From wh ere then does wisdom come? And wh ere is the place of und erstanding?

nkjv@Job:28:23 @ God und erstands its way, And He knows its place.

nkjv@Job:28:24 @ For He looks to the ends of the earth, And sees und er the whole heavens,

nkjv@Job:28:25 @ To establish a weight for the wind, And apportion the wat ers by measure.

nkjv@Job:28:26 @ When He made a law for the rain, And a path for the thund erbolt,

nkjv@Job:28:28 @ And to man He said, "Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, And to depart from evil is und erstanding."'

nkjv@Job:29:1 @ Job furth er continued his discourse, and said:

nkjv@Job:29:2 @ "Oh, that I w ere as in months past, As in the days when God watched ov er me;

nkjv@Job:29:4 @ Just as I was in the days of my prime, When the friendly counsel of God was ov er my tent;

nkjv@Job:29:5 @ When the Almighty was yet with me, When my children w ere around me;

nkjv@Job:29:6 @ When my steps w ere bathed with cream, And the rock poured out riv ers of oil for me!

nkjv@Job:29:12 @ Because I deliv ered the poor who cried out, The fath erless and the one who had no help er.

nkjv@Job:29:13 @ The blessing of a p erishing man came upon me, And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

nkjv@Job:29:16 @ I was a fath er to the poor, And I searched out the case that I did not know.

nkjv@Job:29:19 @ My root is spread out to the wat ers, And the dew lies all night on my branch.

nkjv@Job:29:22 @ Aft er my words they did not speak again, And my speech settled on them as dew.

nkjv@Job:29:25 @ I chose the way for them, and sat as chief; So I dwelt as a king in the army, As one who comforts mourn ers.

nkjv@Job:30:1 @ "But now they mock at me, men young er than I, Whose fath ers I disdained to put with the dogs of my flock.

nkjv@Job:30:2 @ Indeed, what profit is the strength of their hands to me? Their vigor has p erished.

nkjv@Job:30:3 @ They are gaunt from want and famine, Fleeing late to the wild erness, desolate and waste,

nkjv@Job:30:5 @ They w ere driven out from among men, They shouted at them as at a thief.

nkjv@Job:30:7 @ Among the bushes they brayed, Und er the nettles they nestled.

nkjv@Job:30:8 @ They w ere sons of fools, Yes, sons of vile men; They w ere scourged from the land.

nkjv@Job:30:13 @ They break up my path, They promote my calamity; They have no help er.

nkjv@Job:30:14 @ They come as broad break ers; Und er the ruinous storm they roll along.

nkjv@Job:30:15 @ T errors are turned upon me; They pursue my honor as the wind, And my prosp erity has passed like a cloud.

nkjv@Job:30:17 @ My bones are pi erced in me at night, And my gnawing pains take no rest.

nkjv@Job:30:20 @ "I cry out to You, but You do not answ er me; I stand up, and You regard me.

nkjv@Job:30:29 @ I am a broth er of jackals, And a companion of ostriches.

nkjv@Job:30:30 @ My skin grows black and falls from me; My bones burn with fev er.

nkjv@Job:31:2 @ For what is the allotment of God from above, And the inh eritance of the Almighty from on high?

nkjv@Job:31:3 @ Is it not destruction for the wicked, And disast er for the work ers of iniquity?

nkjv@Job:31:7 @ If my step has turned from the way, Or my heart walked aft er my eyes, Or if any spot adh eres to my hands,

nkjv@Job:31:8 @ Then let me sow, and anoth er eat; Yes, let my harvest be rooted out.

nkjv@Job:31:10 @ Then let my wife grind for anoth er, And let oth ers bow down ov er h er.

nkjv@Job:31:11 @ For that would be wickedness; Yes, it would be iniquity des erving of judgment.

nkjv@Job:31:13 @ "If I have despised the cause of my male or female s ervant When they complained against me,

nkjv@Job:31:14 @ What then shall I do when God rises up? When He punishes, how shall I answ er Him?

nkjv@Job:31:17 @ Or eaten my morsel by myself, So that the fath erless could not eat of it

nkjv@Job:31:18 @ (But from my youth I reared him as a fath er, And from my moth er's womb I guided the widow );

nkjv@Job:31:19 @ If I have seen anyone p erish for lack of clothing, Or any poor man without cov ering;

nkjv@Job:31:21 @ If I have raised my hand against the fath erless, When I saw I had help in the gate;

nkjv@Job:31:22 @ Then let my arm fall from my should er, Let my arm be torn from the socket.

nkjv@Job:31:23 @ For destruction from God is a t error to me, And because of His magnificence I cannot endure.

nkjv@Job:31:26 @ If I have obs erved the sun when it shines, Or the moon moving in brightness,

nkjv@Job:31:28 @ This also would be an iniquity des erving of judgment, For I would have denied God who is above.

nkjv@Job:31:31 @ If the men of my tent have not said, "Who is th ere that has not been satisfied with his meat?'

nkjv@Job:31:32 @ (But no sojourn er had to lodge in the street, For I have opened my doors to the travel er );

nkjv@Job:31:33 @ If I have cov ered my transgressions as Adam, By hiding my iniquity in my bosom,

nkjv@Job:31:35 @ Oh, that I had one to hear me! H ere is my mark. Oh, that the Almighty would answ er me, That my Prosecutor had written a book!

nkjv@Job:31:36 @ Surely I would carry it on my should er, And bind it on me like a crown;

nkjv@Job:31:37 @ I would declare to Him the numb er of my steps; Like a prince I would approach Him.

nkjv@Job:31:38 @ "If my land cries out against me, And its furrows weep togeth er;

nkjv@Job:31:39 @ If I have eaten its fruit without money, Or caused its own ers to lose their lives;

nkjv@Job:32:1 @ So these three men ceased answ ering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

nkjv@Job:32:2 @ Then the wrath of Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was aroused against Job; his wrath was aroused because he justified himself rath er than God.

nkjv@Job:32:3 @ Also against his three friends his wrath was aroused, because they had found no answ er, and yet had condemned Job.

nkjv@Job:32:4 @ Now because they w ere years old er than he, Elihu had waited to speak to Job.

nkjv@Job:32:5 @ When Elihu saw that th ere was no answ er in the mouth of these three men, his wrath was aroused.

nkjv@Job:32:6 @ So Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, answ ered and said: "I am young in years, and you are v ery old; Th erefore I was afraid, And dared not declare my opinion to you.

nkjv@Job:32:8 @ But th ere is a spirit in man, And the breath of the Almighty gives him und erstanding.

nkjv@Job:32:9 @ Great men are not always wise, Nor do the aged always und erstand justice.

nkjv@Job:32:10 @ "Th erefore I say, "Listen to me, I also will declare my opinion.'

nkjv@Job:32:12 @ I paid close attention to you; And surely not one of you convinced Job, Or answ ered his words--

nkjv@Job:32:14 @ Now he has not directed his words against me; So I will not answ er him with your words.

nkjv@Job:32:15 @ "They are dismayed and answ er no more; Words escape them.

nkjv@Job:32:16 @ And I have waited, because they did not speak, Because they stood still and answ ered no more.

nkjv@Job:32:17 @ I also will answ er my part, I too will declare my opinion.

nkjv@Job:32:20 @ I will speak, that I may find relief; I must open my lips and answ er.

nkjv@Job:32:21 @ Let me not, I pray, show partiality to anyone; Nor let me flatt er any man.

nkjv@Job:32:22 @ For I do not know how to flatt er, Else my Mak er would soon take me away.

nkjv@Job:33:3 @ My words come from my upright heart; My lips utt er pure knowledge.

nkjv@Job:33:5 @ If you can answ er me, Set your words in ord er before me; Take your stand.

nkjv@Job:33:7 @ Surely no fear of me will t errify you, Nor will my hand be heavy on you.

nkjv@Job:33:9 @ "I am pure, without transgression; I am innocent, and th ere is no iniquity in me.

nkjv@Job:33:12 @ "Look, in this you are not righteous. I will answ er you, For God is great er than man.

nkjv@Job:33:14 @ For God may speak in one way, or in anoth er, Yet man does not p erceive it.

nkjv@Job:33:15 @ In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falls upon men, While slumb ering on their beds,

nkjv@Job:33:17 @ In ord er to turn man from his deed, And conceal pride from man,

nkjv@Job:33:18 @ He keeps back his soul from the Pit, And his life from p erishing by the sword.

nkjv@Job:33:21 @ His flesh wastes away from sight, And his bones stick out which once w ere not seen.

nkjv@Job:33:22 @ Yes, his soul draws near the Pit, And his life to the execution ers.

nkjv@Job:33:23 @ "If th ere is a messeng er for him, A mediator, one among a thousand, To show man His uprightness,

nkjv@Job:33:24 @ Then He is gracious to him, and says, "Deliv er him from going down to the Pit; I have found a ransom';

nkjv@Job:33:27 @ Then he looks at men and says, "I have sinned, and p erv erted what was right, And it did not profit me.'

nkjv@Job:33:32 @ If you have anything to say, answ er me; Speak, for I desire to justify you.

nkjv@Job:34:1 @ Elihu furth er answ ered and said:

nkjv@Job:34:6 @ Should I lie conc erning my right? My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.'

nkjv@Job:34:7 @ What man is like Job, Who drinks scorn like wat er,

nkjv@Job:34:8 @ Who goes in company with the work ers of iniquity, And walks with wicked men?

nkjv@Job:34:10 @ "Th erefore listen to me, you men of und erstanding: Far be it from God to do wickedness, And from the Almighty to commit iniquity.

nkjv@Job:34:12 @ Surely God will nev er do wickedly, Nor will the Almighty p erv ert justice.

nkjv@Job:34:13 @ Who gave Him charge ov er the earth? Or who appointed Him ov er the whole world?

nkjv@Job:34:14 @ If He should set His heart on it, If He should gath er to Himself His Spirit and His breath,

nkjv@Job:34:15 @ All flesh would p erish togeth er, And man would return to dust.

nkjv@Job:34:16 @ "If you have und erstanding, hear this; Listen to the sound of my words:

nkjv@Job:34:17 @ Should one who hates justice gov ern? Will you condemn Him who is most just?

nkjv@Job:34:22 @ Th ere is no darkness nor shadow of death Wh ere the work ers of iniquity may hide themselves.

nkjv@Job:34:23 @ For He need not furth er consid er a man, That he should go before God in judgment.

nkjv@Job:34:24 @ He breaks in pieces mighty men without inquiry, And sets oth ers in their place.

nkjv@Job:34:25 @ Th erefore He knows their works; He ov erthrows them in the night, And they are crushed.

nkjv@Job:34:26 @ He strikes them as wicked men In the open sight of oth ers,

nkjv@Job:34:27 @ Because they turned back from Him, And would not consid er any of His ways,

nkjv@Job:34:29 @ When He gives quietness, who then can make trouble? And when He hides His face, who then can see Him, Wheth er it is against a nation or a man alone?--

nkjv@Job:34:33 @ Should He repay it according to your t erms, Just because you disavow it? You must choose, and not I; Th erefore speak what you know.

nkjv@Job:34:34 @ "Men of und erstanding say to me, Wise men who listen to me:

nkjv@Job:34:36 @ Oh, that Job w ere tried to the utmost, Because his answ ers are like those of wicked men!

nkjv@Job:35:1 @ Moreov er Elihu answ ered and said:

nkjv@Job:35:4 @ "I will answ er you, And your companions with you.

nkjv@Job:35:5 @ Look to the heavens and see; And behold the clouds-- They are high er than you.

nkjv@Job:35:10 @ But no one says, "Wh ere is God my Mak er, Who gives songs in the night,

nkjv@Job:35:11 @ Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, And makes us wis er than the birds of heaven?'

nkjv@Job:35:12 @ Th ere they cry out, but He does not answ er, Because of the pride of evil men.

nkjv@Job:35:15 @ And now, because He has not punished in His ang er, Nor taken much notice of folly,

nkjv@Job:35:16 @ Th erefore Job opens his mouth in vain; He multiplies words without knowledge."

nkjv@Job:36:2 @ "Bear with me a little, and I will show you That th ere are yet words to speak on God's behalf.

nkjv@Job:36:3 @ I will fetch my knowledge from afar; I will ascribe righteousness to my Mak er.

nkjv@Job:36:4 @ For truly my words are not false; One who is p erfect in knowledge is with you.

nkjv@Job:36:5 @ "Behold, God is mighty, but despises no one; He is mighty in strength of und erstanding.

nkjv@Job:36:6 @ He does not pres erve the life of the wicked, But gives justice to the oppressed.

nkjv@Job:36:7 @ He does not withdraw His eyes from the righteous; But they are on the throne with kings, For He has seated them forev er, And they are exalted.

nkjv@Job:36:8 @ And if they are bound in fett ers, Held in the cords of affliction,

nkjv@Job:36:11 @ If they obey and s erve Him, They shall spend their days in prosp erity, And their years in pleasures.

nkjv@Job:36:12 @ But if they do not obey, They shall p erish by the sword, And they shall die without knowledge.

nkjv@Job:36:14 @ They die in youth, And their life ends among the p erv erted p ersons.

nkjv@Job:36:15 @ He deliv ers the poor in their affliction, And opens their ears in oppression.

nkjv@Job:36:16 @ "Indeed He would have brought you out of dire distress, Into a broad place wh ere th ere is no restraint; And what is set on your table would be full of richness.

nkjv@Job:36:18 @ Because th ere is wrath, beware lest He take you away with one blow; For a large ransom would not help you avoid it.

nkjv@Job:36:21 @ Take heed, do not turn to iniquity, For you have chosen this rath er than affliction.

nkjv@Job:36:22 @ "Behold, God is exalted by His pow er; Who teaches like Him?

nkjv@Job:36:24 @ "Rememb er to magnify His work, Of which men have sung.

nkjv@Job:36:25 @ Ev eryone has seen it; Man looks on it from afar.

nkjv@Job:36:26 @ "Behold, God is great, and we do not know Him; Nor can the numb er of His years be discov ered.

nkjv@Job:36:27 @ For He draws up drops of wat er, Which distill as rain from the mist,

nkjv@Job:36:29 @ Indeed, can anyone und erstand the spreading of clouds, The thund er from His canopy?

nkjv@Job:36:30 @ Look, He scatt ers His light upon it, And cov ers the depths of the sea.

nkjv@Job:36:32 @ He cov ers His hands with lightning, And commands it to strike.

nkjv@Job:36:33 @ His thund er declares it, The cattle also, conc erning the rising storm.

nkjv@Job:37:2 @ Hear attentively the thund er of His voice, And the rumbling that comes from His mouth.

nkjv@Job:37:3 @ He sends it forth und er the whole heaven, His lightning to the ends of the earth.

nkjv@Job:37:4 @ Aft er it a voice roars; He thund ers with His majestic voice, And He does not restrain them when His voice is heard.

nkjv@Job:37:5 @ God thund ers marvelously with His voice; He does great things which we cannot comprehend.

nkjv@Job:37:7 @ He seals the hand of ev ery man, That all men may know His work.

nkjv@Job:37:9 @ From the chamb er of the south comes the whirlwind, And cold from the scatt ering winds of the north.

nkjv@Job:37:10 @ By the breath of God ice is given, And the broad wat ers are frozen.

nkjv@Job:37:11 @ Also with moisture He saturates the thick clouds; He scatt ers His bright clouds.

nkjv@Job:37:12 @ And they swirl about, being turned by His guidance, That they may do whatev er He commands them On the face of the whole earth.

nkjv@Job:37:13 @ He causes it to come, Wheth er for correction, Or for His land, Or for m ercy.

nkjv@Job:37:14 @ "Listen to this, O Job; Stand still and consid er the wondrous works of God.

nkjv@Job:37:16 @ Do you know how the clouds are balanced, Those wondrous works of Him who is p erfect in knowledge?

nkjv@Job:37:20 @ Should He be told that I wish to speak? If a man w ere to speak, surely he would be swallowed up.

nkjv@Job:37:23 @ As for the Almighty, we cannot find Him; He is excellent in pow er, In judgment and abundant justice; He does not oppress.

nkjv@Job:37:24 @ Th erefore men fear Him; He shows no partiality to any who are wise of heart."

nkjv@Job:38:1 @ Then the LORD answ ered Job out of the whirlwind, and said:

nkjv@Job:38:3 @ Now prepare yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answ er Me.

nkjv@Job:38:4 @ "Wh ere w ere you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have und erstanding.

nkjv@Job:38:5 @ Who det ermined its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it?

nkjv@Job:38:6 @ To what w ere its foundations fastened? Or who laid its corn erstone,

nkjv@Job:38:7 @ When the morning stars sang togeth er, And all the sons of God shouted for joy?

nkjv@Job:38:11 @ When I said, "This far you may come, but no farth er, And h ere your proud waves must stop!'

nkjv@Job:38:14 @ It takes on form like clay und er a seal, And stands out like a garment.

nkjv@Job:38:16 @ "Have you ent ered the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in search of the depths?

nkjv@Job:38:19 @ "Wh ere is the way to the dwelling of light? And darkness, wh ere is its place,

nkjv@Job:38:20 @ That you may take it to its t erritory, That you may know the paths to its home?

nkjv@Job:38:21 @ Do you know it, because you w ere born then, Or because the numb er of your days is great?

nkjv@Job:38:22 @ "Have you ent ered the treasury of snow, Or have you seen the treasury of hail,

nkjv@Job:38:23 @ Which I have res erved for the time of trouble, For the day of battle and war?

nkjv@Job:38:24 @ By what way is light diffused, Or the east wind scatt ered ov er the earth?

nkjv@Job:38:25 @ "Who has divided a channel for the ov erflowing wat er, Or a path for the thund erbolt,

nkjv@Job:38:26 @ To cause it to rain on a land wh ere th ere is no one, A wild erness in which th ere is no man;

nkjv@Job:38:27 @ To satisfy the desolate waste, And cause to spring forth the growth of tend er grass?

nkjv@Job:38:28 @ Has the rain a fath er? Or who has begotten the drops of dew?

nkjv@Job:38:30 @ The wat ers harden like stone, And the surface of the deep is frozen.

nkjv@Job:38:31 @ "Can you bind the clust er of the Pleiades, Or loose the belt of Orion?

nkjv@Job:38:33 @ Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you set their dominion ov er the earth?

nkjv@Job:38:34 @ "Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That an abundance of wat er may cov er you?

nkjv@Job:38:35 @ Can you send out lightnings, that they may go, And say to you, "H ere we are!'?

nkjv@Job:38:36 @ Who has put wisdom in the mind? Or who has given und erstanding to the heart?

nkjv@Job:38:37 @ Who can numb er the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of heaven,

nkjv@Job:38:38 @ When the dust hardens in clumps, And the clods cling togeth er?

nkjv@Job:38:41 @ Who provides food for the raven, When its young ones cry to God, And wand er about for lack of food?

nkjv@Job:39:1 @ "Do you know the time when the wild mountain goats bear young? Or can you mark when the de er gives birth?

nkjv@Job:39:2 @ Can you numb er the months that they fulfill? Or do you know the time when they bear young?

nkjv@Job:39:3 @ They bow down, They bring forth their young, They deliv er their offspring.

nkjv@Job:39:5 @ "Who set the wild donkey free? Who loosed the bonds of the onag er,

nkjv@Job:39:6 @ Whose home I have made the wild erness, And the barren land his dwelling?

nkjv@Job:39:7 @ He scorns the tumult of the city; He does not heed the shouts of the driv er.

nkjv@Job:39:8 @ The range of the mountains is his pasture, And he searches aft er ev ery green thing.

nkjv@Job:39:9 @ "Will the wild ox be willing to s erve you? Will he bed by your mang er?

nkjv@Job:39:12 @ Will you trust him to bring home your grain, And gath er it to your threshing floor?

nkjv@Job:39:13 @ "The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, But are h er wings and pinions like the kindly stork's?

nkjv@Job:39:14 @ For she leaves h er eggs on the ground, And warms them in the dust;

nkjv@Job:39:16 @ She treats h er young harshly, as though they w ere not h ers; H er labor is in vain, without conc ern,

nkjv@Job:39:17 @ Because God deprived h er of wisdom, And did not endow h er with und erstanding.

nkjv@Job:39:18 @ When she lifts h erself on high, She scorns the horse and its rid er.

nkjv@Job:39:19 @ "Have you given the horse strength? Have you clothed his neck with thund er?

nkjv@Job:39:20 @ Can you frighten him like a locust? His majestic snorting strikes t error.

nkjv@Job:39:23 @ The quiv er rattles against him, The glitt ering spear and javelin.

nkjv@Job:39:24 @ He devours the distance with fi erceness and rage; Nor does he come to a halt because the trumpet has sounded.

nkjv@Job:39:25 @ At the blast of the trumpet he says, "Aha!' He smells the battle from afar, The thund er of captains and shouting.

nkjv@Job:39:29 @ From th ere it spies out the prey; Its eyes obs erve from afar.

nkjv@Job:39:30 @ Its young ones suck up blood; And wh ere the slain are, th ere it is."

nkjv@Job:40:1 @ Moreov er the LORD answ ered Job, and said:

nkjv@Job:40:2 @ "Shall the one who contends with the Almighty correct Him? He who rebukes God, let him answ er it."

nkjv@Job:40:3 @ Then Job answ ered the LORD and said:

nkjv@Job:40:4 @ "Behold, I am vile; What shall I answ er You? I lay my hand ov er my mouth.

nkjv@Job:40:5 @ Once I have spoken, but I will not answ er; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no furth er."

nkjv@Job:40:6 @ Then the LORD answ ered Job out of the whirlwind, and said:

nkjv@Job:40:7 @ "Now prepare yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answ er Me:

nkjv@Job:40:9 @ Have you an arm like God? Or can you thund er with a voice like His?

nkjv@Job:40:11 @ Disp erse the rage of your wrath; Look on ev eryone who is proud, and humble him.

nkjv@Job:40:12 @ Look on ev eryone who is proud, and bring him low; Tread down the wicked in their place.

nkjv@Job:40:13 @ Hide them in the dust togeth er, Bind their faces in hidden darkness.

nkjv@Job:40:16 @ See now, his strength is in his hips, And his pow er is in his stomach muscles.

nkjv@Job:40:20 @ Surely the mountains yield food for him, And all the beasts of the field play th ere.

nkjv@Job:40:21 @ He lies und er the lotus trees, In a cov ert of reeds and marsh.

nkjv@Job:40:22 @ The lotus trees cov er him with their shade; The willows by the brook surround him.

nkjv@Job:40:23 @ Indeed the riv er may rage, Yet he is not disturbed; He is confident, though the Jordan gushes into his mouth,

nkjv@Job:40:24 @ Though he takes it in his eyes, Or one pi erces his nose with a snare.

nkjv@Job:41:1 @ "Can you draw out Leviathan with a hook, Or snare his tongue with a line which you low er?

nkjv@Job:41:2 @ Can you put a reed through his nose, Or pi erce his jaw with a hook?

nkjv@Job:41:4 @ Will he make a covenant with you? Will you take him as a s ervant forev er?

nkjv@Job:41:6 @ Will your companions make a banquet of him? Will they apportion him among the m erchants?

nkjv@Job:41:8 @ Lay your hand on him; Rememb er the battle-- Nev er do it again!

nkjv@Job:41:9 @ Indeed, any hope of ov ercoming him is false; Shall one not be ov erwhelmed at the sight of him?

nkjv@Job:41:10 @ No one is so fi erce that he would dare stir him up. Who then is able to stand against Me?

nkjv@Job:41:11 @ Who has preceded Me, that I should pay him? Ev erything und er heaven is Mine.

nkjv@Job:41:12 @ "I will not conceal his limbs, His mighty pow er, or his graceful proportions.

nkjv@Job:41:13 @ Who can remove his out er coat? Who can approach him with a double bridle?

nkjv@Job:41:14 @ Who can open the doors of his face, With his t errible teeth all around?

nkjv@Job:41:16 @ One is so near anoth er That no air can come between them;

nkjv@Job:41:17 @ They are joined one to anoth er, They stick togeth er and cannot be parted.

nkjv@Job:41:23 @ The folds of his flesh are joined togeth er; They are firm on him and cannot be moved.

nkjv@Job:41:24 @ His heart is as hard as stone, Even as hard as the low er millstone.

nkjv@Job:41:30 @ His und ersides are like sharp potsh erds; He spreads pointed marks in the mire.

nkjv@Job:41:33 @ On earth th ere is nothing like him, Which is made without fear.

nkjv@Job:41:34 @ He beholds ev ery high thing; He is king ov er all the children of pride."

nkjv@Job:42:1 @ Then Job answ ered the LORD and said:

nkjv@Job:42:2 @ "I know that You can do ev erything, And that no purpose of Yours can be withheld from You.

nkjv@Job:42:3 @ You asked, "Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?' Th erefore I have utt ered what I did not und erstand, Things too wond erful for me, which I did not know.

nkjv@Job:42:4 @ Listen, please, and let me speak; You said, "I will question you, and you shall answ er Me.'

nkjv@Job:42:6 @ Th erefore I abhor myself, And repent in dust and ashes."

nkjv@Job:42:7 @ And so it was, aft er the LORD had spoken these words to Job, that the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath is aroused against you and your two friends, for you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My s ervant Job has.

nkjv@Job:42:8 @ Now th erefore, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, go to My s ervant Job, and off er up for yourselves a burnt off ering; and My s ervant Job shall pray for you. For I will accept him, lest I deal with you according to your folly; because you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My s ervant Job has."

nkjv@Job:42:11 @ Then all his broth ers, all his sist ers, and all those who had been his acquaintances before, came to him and ate food with him in his house; and they consoled him and comforted him for all the adv ersity that the LORD had brought upon him. Each one gave him a piece of silv er and each a ring of gold.

nkjv@Job:42:12 @ Now the LORD blessed the latt er days of Job more than his beginning; for he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys.

nkjv@Job:42:13 @ He also had seven sons and three daught ers.

nkjv@Job:42:14 @ And he called the name of the first Jemimah, the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third K eren-Happuch.

nkjv@Job:42:15 @ In all the land w ere found no women so beautiful as the daught ers of Job; and their fath er gave them an inh eritance among their broth ers.

nkjv@Job:42:16 @ Aft er this Job lived one hundred and forty years, and saw his children and grandchildren for four gen erations.

nkjv@Psalms:1:1 @ Blessed is the man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of sinn ers, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;

nkjv@Psalms:1:3 @ He shall be like a tree Planted by the riv ers of wat er, That brings forth its fruit in its season, Whose leaf also shall not with er; And whatev er he does shall prosp er.

nkjv@Psalms:1:5 @ Th erefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, Nor sinn ers in the congregation of the righteous.

nkjv@Psalms:1:6 @ For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, But the way of the ungodly shall p erish.

nkjv@Psalms:2:2 @ The kings of the earth set themselves, And the rul ers take counsel togeth er, Against the LORD and against His Anointed, saying,

nkjv@Psalms:2:4 @ He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; The LORD shall hold them in d erision.

nkjv@Psalms:2:8 @ Ask of Me, and I will give You The nations for Your inh eritance, And the ends of the earth for Your possession.

nkjv@Psalms:2:9 @ You shall break them with a rod of iron; You shall dash them to pieces like a pott er's vessel."'

nkjv@Psalms:2:10 @ Now th erefore, be wise, O kings; Be instructed, you judges of the earth.

nkjv@Psalms:2:11 @ S erve the LORD with fear, And rejoice with trembling.

nkjv@Psalms:2:12 @ Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, And you p erish in the way, When His wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him.

nkjv@Psalms:3:2 @ Many are they who say of me, "Th ere is no help for him in God."Selah

nkjv@Psalms:4:1 @ Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have relieved me in my distress; Have m ercy on me, and hear my pray er.

nkjv@Psalms:4:5 @ Off er the sacrifices of righteousness, And put your trust in the LORD.

nkjv@Psalms:4:6 @ Th ere are many who say, "Who will show us any good?" LORD, lift up the light of Your countenance upon us.

nkjv@Psalms:5:1 @ Give ear to my words, O LORD, Consid er my meditation.

nkjv@Psalms:5:5 @ The boastful shall not stand in Your sight; You hate all work ers of iniquity.

nkjv@Psalms:5:7 @ But as for me, I will come into Your house in the multitude of Your m ercy; In fear of You I will worship toward Your holy temple.

nkjv@Psalms:5:9 @ For th ere is no faithfulness in their mouth; Their inward part is destruction; Their throat is an open tomb; They flatt er with their tongue.

nkjv@Psalms:5:11 @ But let all those rejoice who put their trust in You; Let them ev er shout for joy, because You defend them; Let those also who love Your name Be joyful in You.

nkjv@Psalms:6:1 @ O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your ang er, Nor chasten me in Your hot displeasure.

nkjv@Psalms:6:2 @ Have m ercy on me, O LORD, for I am weak; O LORD, heal me, for my bones are troubled.

nkjv@Psalms:6:4 @ Return, O LORD, deliv er me! Oh, save me for Your m ercies' sake!

nkjv@Psalms:6:5 @ For in death th ere is no remembrance of You; In the grave who will give You thanks?

nkjv@Psalms:6:8 @ Depart from me, all you work ers of iniquity; For the LORD has heard the voice of my weeping.

nkjv@Psalms:6:9 @ The LORD has heard my supplication; The LORD will receive my pray er.

nkjv@Psalms:7:1 @ O LORD my God, in You I put my trust; Save me from all those who p ersecute me; And deliv er me,

nkjv@Psalms:7:2 @ Lest they tear me like a lion, Rending me in pieces, while th ere is none to deliv er.

nkjv@Psalms:7:3 @ O LORD my God, if I have done this: If th ere is iniquity in my hands,

nkjv@Psalms:7:4 @ If I have repaid evil to him who was at peace with me, Or have plund ered my enemy without cause,

nkjv@Psalms:7:5 @ Let the enemy pursue me and ov ertake me; Yes, let him trample my life to the earth, And lay my honor in the dust.Selah

nkjv@Psalms:7:6 @ Arise, O LORD, in Your ang er; Lift Yourself up because of the rage of my enemies; Rise up for me to the judgment You have commanded!

nkjv@Psalms:7:7 @ So the congregation of the peoples shall surround You; For their sakes, th erefore, return on high.

nkjv@Psalms:7:11 @ God is a just judge, And God is angry with the wicked ev ery day.

nkjv@Psalms:7:13 @ He also prepares for Himself instruments of death; He makes His arrows into fi ery shafts.

nkjv@Psalms:8:2 @ Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have ordained strength, Because of Your enemies, That You may silence the enemy and the aveng er.

nkjv@Psalms:8:3 @ When I consid er Your heavens, the work of Your fing ers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained,

nkjv@Psalms:8:5 @ For You have made him a little low er than the angels, And You have crowned him with glory and honor.

nkjv@Psalms:8:6 @ You have made him to have dominion ov er the works of Your hands; You have put all things und er his feet,

nkjv@Psalms:9:3 @ When my enemies turn back, They shall fall and p erish at Your presence.

nkjv@Psalms:9:5 @ You have rebuked the nations, You have destroyed the wicked; You have blotted out their name forev er and ev er.

nkjv@Psalms:9:6 @ O enemy, destructions are finished forev er! And you have destroyed cities; Even their memory has p erished.

nkjv@Psalms:9:7 @ But the LORD shall endure forev er; He has prepared His throne for judgment.

nkjv@Psalms:9:8 @ He shall judge the world in righteousness, And He shall administ er judgment for the peoples in uprightness.

nkjv@Psalms:9:12 @ When He avenges blood, He rememb ers them; He does not forget the cry of the humble.

nkjv@Psalms:9:13 @ Have m ercy on me, O LORD! Consid er my trouble from those who hate me, You who lift me up from the gates of death,

nkjv@Psalms:9:14 @ That I may tell of all Your praise In the gates of the daught er of Zion. I will rejoice in Your salvation.

nkjv@Psalms:9:18 @ For the needy shall not always be forgotten; The expectation of the poor shall not p erish forev er.

nkjv@Psalms:10:2 @ The wicked in his pride p ersecutes the poor; Let them be caught in the plots which they have devised.

nkjv@Psalms:10:5 @ His ways are always prosp ering; Your judgments are far above, out of his sight; As for all his enemies, he sne ers at them.

nkjv@Psalms:10:6 @ He has said in his heart, "I shall not be moved; I shall nev er be in adv ersity."

nkjv@Psalms:10:7 @ His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression; Und er his tongue is trouble and iniquity.

nkjv@Psalms:10:8 @ He sits in the lurking places of the villages; In the secret places he murd ers the innocent; His eyes are secretly fixed on the helpless.

nkjv@Psalms:10:11 @ He has said in his heart, "God has forgotten; He hides His face; He will nev er see."

nkjv@Psalms:10:14 @ But You have seen, for You obs erve trouble and grief, To repay it by Your hand. The helpless commits himself to You; You are the help er of the fath erless.

nkjv@Psalms:10:16 @ The LORD is King forev er and ev er; The nations have p erished out of His land.

nkjv@Psalms:10:18 @ To do justice to the fath erless and the oppressed, That the man of the earth may oppress no more.

nkjv@Psalms:12:2 @ They speak idly ev eryone with his neighbor; With flatt ering lips and a double heart they speak.

nkjv@Psalms:12:3 @ May the LORD cut off all flatt ering lips, And the tongue that speaks proud things,

nkjv@Psalms:12:4 @ Who have said, "With our tongue we will prevail; Our lips are our own; Who is lord ov er us?"

nkjv@Psalms:12:6 @ The words of the LORD are pure words, Like silv er tried in a furnace of earth, Purified seven times.

nkjv@Psalms:12:7 @ You shall keep them, O LORD, You shall pres erve them from this gen eration forev er.

nkjv@Psalms:12:8 @ The wicked prowl on ev ery side, When vileness is exalted among the sons of men.

nkjv@Psalms:13:1 @ How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forev er? How long will You hide Your face from me?

nkjv@Psalms:13:2 @ How long shall I take counsel in my soul, Having sorrow in my heart daily? How long will my enemy be exalted ov er me?

nkjv@Psalms:13:3 @ Consid er and hear me, O LORD my God; Enlighten my eyes, Lest I sleep the sleep of death;

nkjv@Psalms:13:5 @ But I have trusted in Your m ercy; My heart shall rejoice in Your salvation.

nkjv@Psalms:14:1 @ The fool has said in his heart, "Th ere is no God." They are corrupt, They have done abominable works, Th ere is none who does good.

nkjv@Psalms:14:2 @ The LORD looks down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if th ere are any who und erstand, who seek God.

nkjv@Psalms:14:3 @ They have all turned aside, They have togeth er become corrupt; Th ere is none who does good, No, not one.

nkjv@Psalms:14:4 @ Have all the work ers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And do not call on the LORD?

nkjv@Psalms:14:5 @ Th ere they are in great fear, For God is with the gen eration of the righteous.

nkjv@Psalms:15:1 @ LORD, who may abide in Your tab ernacle? Who may dwell in Your holy hill?

nkjv@Psalms:15:4 @ In whose eyes a vile p erson is despised, But he honors those who fear the LORD; He who swears to his own hurt and does not change;

nkjv@Psalms:15:5 @ He who does not put out his money at usury, Nor does he take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall nev er be moved.

nkjv@Psalms:16:1 @ Pres erve me, O God, for in You I put my trust.

nkjv@Psalms:16:4 @ Their sorrows shall be multiplied who hasten aft er anoth er god; Their drink off erings of blood I will not off er, Nor take up their names on my lips.

nkjv@Psalms:16:5 @ O LORD, You are the portion of my inh eritance and my cup; You maintain my lot.

nkjv@Psalms:16:6 @ The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places; Yes, I have a good inh eritance.

nkjv@Psalms:16:9 @ Th erefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices; My flesh also will rest in hope.

nkjv@Psalms:16:11 @ You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forev ermore.

nkjv@Psalms:17:1 @ Hear a just cause, O LORD, Attend to my cry; Give ear to my pray er which is not from deceitful lips.

nkjv@Psalms:17:4 @ Conc erning the works of men, By the word of Your lips, I have kept away from the paths of the destroy er.

nkjv@Psalms:17:8 @ Keep me as the apple of Your eye; Hide me und er the shadow of Your wings,

nkjv@Psalms:17:12 @ As a lion is eag er to tear his prey, And like a young lion lurking in secret places.

nkjv@Psalms:17:13 @ Arise, O LORD, Confront him, cast him down; Deliv er my life from the wicked with Your sword,

nkjv@Psalms:18:2 @ The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliv er er; My God, my strength, in whom I will trust; My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

nkjv@Psalms:18:7 @ Then the earth shook and trembled; The foundations of the hills also quaked and w ere shaken, Because He was angry.

nkjv@Psalms:18:8 @ Smoke went up from His nostrils, And devouring fire from His mouth; Coals w ere kindled by it.

nkjv@Psalms:18:9 @ He bowed the heavens also, and came down With darkness und er His feet.

nkjv@Psalms:18:10 @ And He rode upon a ch erub, and flew; He flew upon the wings of the wind.

nkjv@Psalms:18:11 @ He made darkness His secret place; His canopy around Him was dark wat ers And thick clouds of the skies.

nkjv@Psalms:18:13 @ The LORD thund ered from heaven, And the Most High utt ered His voice, Hailstones and coals of fire.

nkjv@Psalms:18:14 @ He sent out His arrows and scatt ered the foe, Lightnings in abundance, and He vanquished them.

nkjv@Psalms:18:15 @ Then the channels of the sea w ere seen, The foundations of the world w ere uncov ered At Your rebuke, O LORD, At the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.

nkjv@Psalms:18:16 @ He sent from above, He took me; He drew me out of many wat ers.

nkjv@Psalms:18:17 @ He deliv ered me from my strong enemy, From those who hated me, For they w ere too strong for me.

nkjv@Psalms:18:19 @ He also brought me out into a broad place; He deliv ered me because He delighted in me.

nkjv@Psalms:18:22 @ For all His judgments w ere before me, And I did not put away His statutes from me.

nkjv@Psalms:18:24 @ Th erefore the LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands in His sight.

nkjv@Psalms:18:25 @ With the m erciful You will show Yourself m erciful; With a blameless man You will show Yourself blameless;

nkjv@Psalms:18:29 @ For by You I can run against a troop, By my God I can leap ov er a wall.

nkjv@Psalms:18:30 @ As for God, His way is p erfect; The word of the LORD is proven; He is a shield to all who trust in Him.

nkjv@Psalms:18:32 @ It is God who arms me with strength, And makes my way p erfect.

nkjv@Psalms:18:33 @ He makes my feet like the feet of de er, And sets me on my high places.

nkjv@Psalms:18:36 @ You enlarged my path und er me, So my feet did not slip.

nkjv@Psalms:18:37 @ I have pursued my enemies and ov ertaken them; Neith er did I turn back again till they w ere destroyed.

nkjv@Psalms:18:38 @ I have wounded them, So that they could not rise; They have fallen und er my feet.

nkjv@Psalms:18:39 @ For You have armed me with strength for the battle; You have subdued und er me those who rose up against me.

nkjv@Psalms:18:41 @ They cried out, but th ere was none to save; Even to the LORD, but He did not answ er them.

nkjv@Psalms:18:43 @ You have deliv ered me from the strivings of the people; You have made me the head of the nations; A people I have not known shall s erve me.

nkjv@Psalms:18:44 @ As soon as they hear of me they obey me; The foreign ers submit to me.

nkjv@Psalms:18:45 @ The foreign ers fade away, And come frightened from their hideouts.

nkjv@Psalms:18:47 @ It is God who avenges me, And subdues the peoples und er me;

nkjv@Psalms:18:48 @ He deliv ers me from my enemies. You also lift me up above those who rise against me; You have deliv ered me from the violent man.

nkjv@Psalms:18:49 @ Th erefore I will give thanks to You, O LORD, among the Gentiles, And sing praises to Your name.

nkjv@Psalms:18:50 @ Great deliv erance He gives to His king, And shows m ercy to His anointed, To David and his descendants forev ermore.

nkjv@Psalms:19:2 @ Day unto day utt ers speech, And night unto night reveals knowledge.

nkjv@Psalms:19:3 @ Th ere is no speech nor language Wh ere their voice is not heard.

nkjv@Psalms:19:4 @ Their line has gone out through all the earth, And their words to the end of the world. In them He has set a tab ernacle for the sun,

nkjv@Psalms:19:5 @ Which is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamb er, And rejoices like a strong man to run its race.

nkjv@Psalms:19:6 @ Its rising is from one end of heaven, And its circuit to the oth er end; And th ere is nothing hidden from its heat.

nkjv@Psalms:19:7 @ The law of the LORD is p erfect, conv erting the soul; The testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple;

nkjv@Psalms:19:9 @ The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forev er; The judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogeth er.

nkjv@Psalms:19:10 @ More to be desired are they than gold, Yea, than much fine gold; Sweet er also than honey and the honeycomb.

nkjv@Psalms:19:11 @ Moreov er by them Your s ervant is warned, And in keeping them th ere is great reward.

nkjv@Psalms:19:12 @ Who can und erstand his errors? Cleanse me from secret faults.

nkjv@Psalms:19:13 @ Keep back Your s ervant also from presumptuous sins; Let them not have dominion ov er me. Then I shall be blameless, And I shall be innocent of great transgression.

nkjv@Psalms:19:14 @ Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be acceptable in Your sight, O LORD, my strength and my Redeem er.

nkjv@Psalms:20:1 @ May the LORD answ er you in the day of trouble; May the name of the God of Jacob defend you;

nkjv@Psalms:20:3 @ May He rememb er all your off erings, And accept your burnt sacrifice.Selah

nkjv@Psalms:20:5 @ We will rejoice in your salvation, And in the name of our God we will set up our bann ers! May the LORD fulfill all your petitions.

nkjv@Psalms:20:6 @ Now I know that the LORD saves His anointed; He will answ er him from His holy heaven With the saving strength of His right hand.

nkjv@Psalms:20:7 @ Some trust in chariots, and some in horses; But we will rememb er the name of the LORD our God.

nkjv@Psalms:20:9 @ Save, LORD! May the King answ er us when we call.

nkjv@Psalms:21:4 @ He asked life from You, and You gave it to him-- Length of days forev er and ev er.

nkjv@Psalms:21:6 @ For You have made him most blessed forev er; You have made him exceedingly glad with Your presence.

nkjv@Psalms:21:7 @ For the king trusts in the LORD, And through the m ercy of the Most High he shall not be moved.

nkjv@Psalms:21:9 @ You shall make them as a fi ery oven in the time of Your ang er; The LORD shall swallow them up in His wrath, And the fire shall devour them.

nkjv@Psalms:21:11 @ For they intended evil against You; They devised a plot which they are not able to p erform.

nkjv@Psalms:21:12 @ Th erefore You will make them turn their back; You will make ready Your arrows on Your string toward their faces.

nkjv@Psalms:21:13 @ Be exalted, O LORD, in Your own strength! We will sing and praise Your pow er.

nkjv@Psalms:22:4 @ Our fath ers trusted in You; They trusted, and You deliv ered them.

nkjv@Psalms:22:5 @ They cried to You, and w ere deliv ered; They trusted in You, and w ere not ashamed.

nkjv@Psalms:22:8 @ "He trusted in the LORD, let Him rescue Him; Let Him deliv er Him, since He delights in Him!"

nkjv@Psalms:22:9 @ But You are He who took Me out of the womb; You made Me trust while on My moth er's breasts.

nkjv@Psalms:22:10 @ I was cast upon You from birth. From My moth er's womb You have been My God.

nkjv@Psalms:22:11 @ Be not far from Me, For trouble is near; For th ere is none to help.

nkjv@Psalms:22:14 @ I am poured out like wat er, And all My bones are out of joint; My heart is like wax; It has melted within Me.

nkjv@Psalms:22:15 @ My strength is dried up like a potsh erd, And My tongue clings to My jaws; You have brought Me to the dust of death.

nkjv@Psalms:22:16 @ For dogs have surrounded Me; The congregation of the wicked has enclosed Me. They pi erced My hands and My feet;

nkjv@Psalms:22:20 @ Deliv er Me from the sword, My precious life from the pow er of the dog.

nkjv@Psalms:22:21 @ Save Me from the lion's mouth And from the horns of the wild oxen! You have answ ered Me.

nkjv@Psalms:22:26 @ The poor shall eat and be satisfied; Those who seek Him will praise the LORD. Let your heart live forev er!

nkjv@Psalms:22:27 @ All the ends of the world Shall rememb er and turn to the LORD, And all the families of the nations Shall worship before You.

nkjv@Psalms:22:28 @ For the kingdom is the LORD's, And He rules ov er the nations.

nkjv@Psalms:22:29 @ All the prosp erous of the earth Shall eat and worship; All those who go down to the dust Shall bow before Him, Even he who cannot keep himself alive.

nkjv@Psalms:22:30 @ A post erity shall s erve Him. It will be recounted of the Lord to the next gen eration,

nkjv@Psalms:23:1 @ The LORD is my sheph erd; I shall not want.

nkjv@Psalms:23:2 @ He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still wat ers.

nkjv@Psalms:23:5 @ You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; My cup runs ov er.

nkjv@Psalms:23:6 @ Surely goodness and m ercy shall follow me All the days of my life; And I will dwell in the house of the LORD Forev er.

nkjv@Psalms:24:1 @ The earth is the LORD's, and all its fullness, The world and those who dwell th erein.

nkjv@Psalms:24:2 @ For He has founded it upon the seas, And established it upon the wat ers.

nkjv@Psalms:24:6 @ This is Jacob, the gen eration of those who seek Him, Who seek Your face.Selah

nkjv@Psalms:24:7 @ Lift up your heads, O you gates! And be lifted up, you ev erlasting doors! And the King of glory shall come in.

nkjv@Psalms:24:9 @ Lift up your heads, O you gates! Lift up, you ev erlasting doors! And the King of glory shall come in.

nkjv@Psalms:25:2 @ O my God, I trust in You; Let me not be ashamed; Let not my enemies triumph ov er me.

nkjv@Psalms:25:3 @ Indeed, let no one who waits on You be ashamed; Let those be ashamed who deal treach erously without cause.

nkjv@Psalms:25:6 @ Rememb er, O LORD, Your tend er m ercies and Your lovingkindnesses, For they are from of old.

nkjv@Psalms:25:7 @ Do not rememb er the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions; According to Your m ercy rememb er me, For Your goodness' sake, O LORD.

nkjv@Psalms:25:8 @ Good and upright is the LORD; Th erefore He teaches sinn ers in the way.

nkjv@Psalms:25:10 @ All the paths of the LORD are m ercy and truth, To such as keep His covenant and His testimonies.

nkjv@Psalms:25:13 @ He himself shall dwell in prosp erity, And his descendants shall inh erit the earth.

nkjv@Psalms:25:15 @ My eyes are ev er toward the LORD, For He shall pluck my feet out of the net.

nkjv@Psalms:25:16 @ Turn Yourself to me, and have m ercy on me, For I am desolate and afflicted.

nkjv@Psalms:25:19 @ Consid er my enemies, for they are many; And they hate me with cruel hatred.

nkjv@Psalms:25:20 @ Keep my soul, and deliv er me; Let me not be ashamed, for I put my trust in You.

nkjv@Psalms:25:21 @ Let integrity and uprightness pres erve me, For I wait for You.

nkjv@Psalms:26:5 @ I have hated the assembly of evildo ers, And will not sit with the wicked.

nkjv@Psalms:26:8 @ LORD, I have loved the habitation of Your house, And the place wh ere Your glory dwells.

nkjv@Psalms:26:9 @ Do not gath er my soul with sinn ers, Nor my life with bloodthirsty men,

nkjv@Psalms:26:10 @ In whose hands is a sinist er scheme, And whose right hand is full of bribes.

nkjv@Psalms:26:11 @ But as for me, I will walk in my integrity; Redeem me and be m erciful to me.

nkjv@Psalms:27:5 @ For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion; In the secret place of His tab ernacle He shall hide me; He shall set me high upon a rock.

nkjv@Psalms:27:6 @ And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies all around me; Th erefore I will off er sacrifices of joy in His tab ernacle; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the LORD.

nkjv@Psalms:27:7 @ Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice! Have m ercy also upon me, and answ er me.

nkjv@Psalms:27:9 @ Do not hide Your face from me; Do not turn Your s ervant away in ang er; You have been my help; Do not leave me nor forsake me, O God of my salvation.

nkjv@Psalms:27:10 @ When my fath er and my moth er forsake me, Then the LORD will take care of me.

nkjv@Psalms:27:12 @ Do not deliv er me to the will of my adv ersaries; For false witnesses have risen against me, And such as breathe out violence.

nkjv@Psalms:28:3 @ Do not take me away with the wicked And with the work ers of iniquity, Who speak peace to their neighbors, But evil is in their hearts.

nkjv@Psalms:28:4 @ Give them according to their deeds, And according to the wickedness of their endeavors; Give them according to the work of their hands; Rend er to them what they des erve.

nkjv@Psalms:28:5 @ Because they do not regard the works of the LORD, Nor the op eration of His hands, He shall destroy them And not build them up.

nkjv@Psalms:28:7 @ The LORD is my strength and my shield; My heart trusted in Him, and I am helped; Th erefore my heart greatly rejoices, And with my song I will praise Him.

nkjv@Psalms:28:9 @ Save Your people, And bless Your inh eritance; Sheph erd them also, And bear them up forev er.

nkjv@Psalms:29:3 @ The voice of the LORD is ov er the wat ers; The God of glory thund ers; The LORD is ov er many wat ers.

nkjv@Psalms:29:4 @ The voice of the LORD is pow erful; The voice of the LORD is full of majesty.

nkjv@Psalms:29:5 @ The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars, Yes, the LORD splint ers the cedars of Lebanon.

nkjv@Psalms:29:8 @ The voice of the LORD shakes the wild erness; The LORD shakes the Wild erness of Kadesh.

nkjv@Psalms:29:9 @ The voice of the LORD makes the de er give birth, And strips the forests bare; And in His temple ev eryone says, "Glory!"

nkjv@Psalms:29:10 @ The LORD sat enthroned at the Flood, And the LORD sits as King forev er.

nkjv@Psalms:30:1 @ I will extol You, O LORD, for You have lifted me up, And have not let my foes rejoice ov er me.

nkjv@Psalms:30:5 @ For His ang er is but for a moment, His favor is for life; Weeping may endure for a night, But joy comes in the morning.

nkjv@Psalms:30:6 @ Now in my prosp erity I said, "I shall nev er be moved."

nkjv@Psalms:30:9 @ "What profit is th ere in my blood, When I go down to the pit? Will the dust praise You? Will it declare Your truth?

nkjv@Psalms:30:10 @ Hear, O LORD, and have m ercy on me; LORD, be my help er!"

nkjv@Psalms:30:12 @ To the end that my glory may sing praise to You and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks to You forev er.

nkjv@Psalms:31:1 @ In You, O LORD, I put my trust; Let me nev er be ashamed; Deliv er me in Your righteousness.

nkjv@Psalms:31:2 @ Bow down Your ear to me, Deliv er me speedily; Be my rock of refuge, A fortress of defense to save me.

nkjv@Psalms:31:3 @ For You are my rock and my fortress; Th erefore, for Your name's sake, Lead me and guide me.

nkjv@Psalms:31:7 @ I will be glad and rejoice in Your m ercy, For You have consid ered my trouble; You have known my soul in adv ersities,

nkjv@Psalms:31:9 @ Have m ercy on me, O LORD, for I am in trouble; My eye wastes away with grief, Yes, my soul and my body!

nkjv@Psalms:31:13 @ For I hear the sland er of many; Fear is on ev ery side; While they take counsel togeth er against me, They scheme to take away my life.

nkjv@Psalms:31:15 @ My times are in Your hand; Deliv er me from the hand of my enemies, And from those who p ersecute me.

nkjv@Psalms:31:16 @ Make Your face shine upon Your s ervant; Save me for Your m ercies' sake.

nkjv@Psalms:31:22 @ For I said in my haste, "I am cut off from before Your eyes"; Nev ertheless You heard the voice of my supplications When I cried out to You.

nkjv@Psalms:31:23 @ Oh, love the LORD, all you His saints! For the LORD pres erves the faithful, And fully repays the proud p erson.

nkjv@Psalms:32:1 @ Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, Whose sin is cov ered.

nkjv@Psalms:32:2 @ Blessed is the man to whom the LORD does not impute iniquity, And in whose spirit th ere is no deceit.

nkjv@Psalms:32:4 @ For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; My vitality was turned into the drought of summ er.Selah

nkjv@Psalms:32:6 @ For this cause ev eryone who is godly shall pray to You In a time when You may be found; Surely in a flood of great wat ers They shall not come near him.

nkjv@Psalms:32:7 @ You are my hiding place; You shall pres erve me from trouble; You shall surround me with songs of deliv erance.Selah

nkjv@Psalms:32:9 @ Do not be like the horse or like the mule, Which have no und erstanding, Which must be harnessed with bit and bridle, Else they will not come near you.

nkjv@Psalms:32:10 @ Many sorrows shall be to the wicked; But he who trusts in the LORD, m ercy shall surround him.

nkjv@Psalms:33:6 @ By the word of the LORD the heavens w ere made, And all the host of them by the breath of His mouth.

nkjv@Psalms:33:7 @ He gath ers the wat ers of the sea togeth er as a heap; He lays up the deep in storehouses.

nkjv@Psalms:33:11 @ The counsel of the LORD stands forev er, The plans of His heart to all gen erations.

nkjv@Psalms:33:12 @ Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, The people He has chosen as His own inh eritance.

nkjv@Psalms:33:15 @ He fashions their hearts individually; He consid ers all their works.

nkjv@Psalms:33:16 @ No king is saved by the multitude of an army; A mighty man is not deliv ered by great strength.

nkjv@Psalms:33:17 @ A horse is a vain hope for safety; Neith er shall it deliv er any by its great strength.

nkjv@Psalms:33:18 @ Behold, the eye of the LORD is on those who fear Him, On those who hope in His m ercy,

nkjv@Psalms:33:19 @ To deliv er their soul from death, And to keep them alive in famine.

nkjv@Psalms:33:22 @ Let Your m ercy, O LORD, be upon us, Just as we hope in You.

nkjv@Psalms:34:3 @ Oh, magnify the LORD with me, And let us exalt His name togeth er.

nkjv@Psalms:34:4 @ I sought the LORD, and He heard me, And deliv ered me from all my fears.

nkjv@Psalms:34:5 @ They looked to Him and w ere radiant, And their faces w ere not ashamed.

nkjv@Psalms:34:7 @ The angel of the LORD encamps all around those who fear Him, And deliv ers them.

nkjv@Psalms:34:9 @ Oh, fear the LORD, you His saints! Th ere is no want to those who fear Him.

nkjv@Psalms:34:10 @ The young lions lack and suff er hung er; But those who seek the LORD shall not lack any good thing.

nkjv@Psalms:34:17 @ The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears, And deliv ers them out of all their troubles.

nkjv@Psalms:34:19 @ Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the LORD deliv ers him out of them all.

nkjv@Psalms:34:22 @ The LORD redeems the soul of His s ervants, And none of those who trust in Him shall be condemned.

nkjv@Psalms:35:2 @ Take hold of shield and buckl er, And stand up for my help.

nkjv@Psalms:35:4 @ Let those be put to shame and brought to dishonor Who seek aft er my life; Let those be turned back and brought to confusion Who plot my hurt.

nkjv@Psalms:35:6 @ Let their way be dark and slipp ery, And let the angel of the LORD pursue them.

nkjv@Psalms:35:8 @ Let destruction come upon him unexpectedly, And let his net that he has hidden catch himself; Into that v ery destruction let him fall.

nkjv@Psalms:35:10 @ All my bones shall say, "LORD, who is like You, Deliv ering the poor from him who is too strong for him, Yes, the poor and the needy from him who plund ers him?"

nkjv@Psalms:35:11 @ Fi erce witnesses rise up; They ask me things that I do not know.

nkjv@Psalms:35:13 @ But as for me, when they w ere sick, My clothing was sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting; And my pray er would return to my own heart.

nkjv@Psalms:35:14 @ I paced about as though he w ere my friend or broth er; I bowed down heavily, as one who mourns for his moth er.

nkjv@Psalms:35:15 @ But in my adv ersity they rejoiced And gath ered togeth er; Attack ers gath ered against me, And I did not know it; They tore at me and did not cease;

nkjv@Psalms:35:16 @ With ungodly mock ers at feasts They gnashed at me with their teeth.

nkjv@Psalms:35:19 @ Let them not rejoice ov er me who are wrongfully my enemies; Nor let them wink with the eye who hate me without a cause.

nkjv@Psalms:35:20 @ For they do not speak peace, But they devise deceitful matt ers Against the quiet ones in the land.

nkjv@Psalms:35:24 @ Vindicate me, O LORD my God, according to Your righteousness; And let them not rejoice ov er me.

nkjv@Psalms:35:27 @ Let them shout for joy and be glad, Who favor my righteous cause; And let them say continually, "Let the LORD be magnified, Who has pleasure in the prosp erity of His s ervant."

nkjv@Psalms:36:1 @ An oracle within my heart conc erning the transgression of the wicked: Th ere is no fear of God before his eyes.

nkjv@Psalms:36:2 @ For he flatt ers himself in his own eyes, When he finds out his iniquity and when he hates.

nkjv@Psalms:36:5 @ Your m ercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

nkjv@Psalms:36:6 @ Your righteousness is like the great mountains; Your judgments are a great deep; O LORD, You pres erve man and beast.

nkjv@Psalms:36:7 @ How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God! Th erefore the children of men put their trust und er the shadow of Your wings.

nkjv@Psalms:36:8 @ They are abundantly satisfied with the fullness of Your house, And You give them drink from the riv er of Your pleasures.

nkjv@Psalms:36:12 @ Th ere the work ers of iniquity have fallen; They have been cast down and are not able to rise.

nkjv@Psalms:37:1 @ Do not fret because of evildo ers, Nor be envious of the work ers of iniquity.

nkjv@Psalms:37:2 @ For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, And with er as the green h erb.

nkjv@Psalms:37:7 @ Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for Him; Do not fret because of him who prosp ers in his way, Because of the man who brings wicked schemes to pass.

nkjv@Psalms:37:8 @ Cease from ang er, and forsake wrath; Do not fret--it only causes harm.

nkjv@Psalms:37:9 @ For evildo ers shall be cut off; But those who wait on the LORD, They shall inh erit the earth.

nkjv@Psalms:37:11 @ But the meek shall inh erit the earth, And shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

nkjv@Psalms:37:15 @ Their sword shall ent er their own heart, And their bows shall be broken.

nkjv@Psalms:37:16 @ A little that a righteous man has Is bett er than the riches of many wicked.

nkjv@Psalms:37:18 @ The LORD knows the days of the upright, And their inh eritance shall be forev er.

nkjv@Psalms:37:20 @ But the wicked shall p erish; And the enemies of the LORD, Like the splendor of the meadows, shall vanish. Into smoke they shall vanish away.

nkjv@Psalms:37:21 @ The wicked borrows and does not repay, But the righteous shows m ercy and gives.

nkjv@Psalms:37:22 @ For those blessed by Him shall inh erit the earth, But those cursed by Him shall be cut off.

nkjv@Psalms:37:23 @ The steps of a good man are ord ered by the LORD, And He delights in his way.

nkjv@Psalms:37:24 @ Though he fall, he shall not be utt erly cast down; For the LORD upholds him with His hand.

nkjv@Psalms:37:26 @ He is ev er m erciful, and lends; And his descendants are blessed.

nkjv@Psalms:37:27 @ Depart from evil, and do good; And dwell forev ermore.

nkjv@Psalms:37:28 @ For the LORD loves justice, And does not forsake His saints; They are pres erved forev er, But the descendants of the wicked shall be cut off.

nkjv@Psalms:37:29 @ The righteous shall inh erit the land, And dwell in it forev er.

nkjv@Psalms:37:34 @ Wait on the LORD, And keep His way, And He shall exalt you to inh erit the land; When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.

nkjv@Psalms:37:35 @ I have seen the wicked in great pow er, And spreading himself like a native green tree.

nkjv@Psalms:37:37 @ Mark the blameless man, and obs erve the upright; For the future of that man is peace.

nkjv@Psalms:37:38 @ But the transgressors shall be destroyed togeth er; The future of the wicked shall be cut off.

nkjv@Psalms:37:40 @ And the LORD shall help them and deliv er them; He shall deliv er them from the wicked, And save them, Because they trust in Him.

nkjv@Psalms:38:2 @ For Your arrows pi erce me deeply, And Your hand presses me down.

nkjv@Psalms:38:3 @ Th ere is no soundness in my flesh Because of Your ang er, Nor any health in my bones Because of my sin.

nkjv@Psalms:38:4 @ For my iniquities have gone ov er my head; Like a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

nkjv@Psalms:38:5 @ My wounds are foul and fest ering Because of my foolishness.

nkjv@Psalms:38:7 @ For my loins are full of inflammation, And th ere is no soundness in my flesh.

nkjv@Psalms:38:8 @ I am feeble and sev erely broken; I groan because of the turmoil of my heart.

nkjv@Psalms:38:16 @ For I said, "Hear me, lest they rejoice ov er me, Lest, when my foot slips, they exalt themselves against me."

nkjv@Psalms:38:18 @ For I will declare my iniquity; I will be in anguish ov er my sin.

nkjv@Psalms:38:20 @ Those also who rend er evil for good, They are my adv ersaries, because I follow what is good.

nkjv@Psalms:39:5 @ Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths, And my age is as nothing before You; C ertainly ev ery man at his best state is but vapor.Selah

nkjv@Psalms:39:6 @ Surely ev ery man walks about like a shadow; Surely they busy themselves in vain; He heaps up riches, And does not know who will gath er them.

nkjv@Psalms:39:8 @ Deliv er me from all my transgressions; Do not make me the reproach of the foolish.

nkjv@Psalms:39:11 @ When with rebukes You correct man for iniquity, You make his beauty melt away like a moth; Surely ev ery man is vapor.Selah

nkjv@Psalms:39:12 @ "Hear my pray er, O LORD, And give ear to my cry; Do not be silent at my tears; For I am a strang er with You, A sojourn er, as all my fath ers w ere.

nkjv@Psalms:40:5 @ Many, O LORD my God, are Your wond erful works Which You have done; And Your thoughts toward us Cannot be recounted to You in ord er; If I would declare and speak of them, They are more than can be numb ered.

nkjv@Psalms:40:6 @ Sacrifice and off ering You did not desire; My ears You have opened. Burnt off ering and sin off ering You did not require.

nkjv@Psalms:40:11 @ Do not withhold Your tend er m ercies from me, O LORD; Let Your lovingkindness and Your truth continually pres erve me.

nkjv@Psalms:40:12 @ For innum erable evils have surrounded me; My iniquities have ov ertaken me, so that I am not able to look up; They are more than the hairs of my head; Th erefore my heart fails me.

nkjv@Psalms:40:13 @ Be pleased, O LORD, to deliv er me; O LORD, make haste to help me!

nkjv@Psalms:40:17 @ But I am poor and needy; Yet the LORD thinks upon me. You are my help and my deliv er er; Do not delay, O my God.

nkjv@Psalms:41:1 @ Blessed is he who consid ers the poor; The LORD will deliv er him in time of trouble.

nkjv@Psalms:41:2 @ The LORD will pres erve him and keep him alive, And he will be blessed on the earth; You will not deliv er him to the will of his enemies.

nkjv@Psalms:41:4 @ I said, "LORD, be m erciful to me; Heal my soul, for I have sinned against You."

nkjv@Psalms:41:5 @ My enemies speak evil of me: "When will he die, and his name p erish?"

nkjv@Psalms:41:6 @ And if he comes to see me, he speaks lies; His heart gath ers iniquity to itself; When he goes out, he tells it.

nkjv@Psalms:41:7 @ All who hate me whisp er togeth er against me; Against me they devise my hurt.

nkjv@Psalms:41:10 @ But You, O LORD, be m erciful to me, and raise me up, That I may repay them.

nkjv@Psalms:41:11 @ By this I know that You are well pleased with me, Because my enemy does not triumph ov er me.

nkjv@Psalms:41:12 @ As for me, You uphold me in my integrity, And set me before Your face forev er.

nkjv@Psalms:41:13 @ Blessed be the LORD God of Israel From ev erlasting to ev erlasting! Amen and Amen.

nkjv@Psalms:42:1 @ As the de er pants for the wat er brooks, So pants my soul for You, O God.

nkjv@Psalms:42:3 @ My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say to me, "Wh ere is your God?"

nkjv@Psalms:42:4 @ When I rememb er these things, I pour out my soul within me. For I used to go with the multitude; I went with them to the house of God, With the voice of joy and praise, With a multitude that kept a pilgrim feast.

nkjv@Psalms:42:6 @ O my God, my soul is cast down within me; Th erefore I will rememb er You from the land of the Jordan, And from the heights of H ermon, From the Hill Mizar.

nkjv@Psalms:42:7 @ Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your wat erfalls; All Your waves and billows have gone ov er me.

nkjv@Psalms:42:8 @ The LORD will command His lovingkindness in the daytime, And in the night His song shall be with me-- A pray er to the God of my life.

nkjv@Psalms:42:10 @ As with a breaking of my bones, My enemies reproach me, While they say to me all day long, "Wh ere is your God?"

nkjv@Psalms:43:1 @ Vindicate me, O God, And plead my cause against an ungodly nation; Oh, deliv er me from the deceitful and unjust man!

nkjv@Psalms:43:3 @ Oh, send out Your light and Your truth! Let them lead me; Let them bring me to Your holy hill And to Your tab ernacle.

nkjv@Psalms:44:1 @ We have heard with our ears, O God, Our fath ers have told us, The deeds You did in their days, In days of old:

nkjv@Psalms:44:8 @ In God we boast all day long, And praise Your name forev er.Selah

nkjv@Psalms:44:11 @ You have given us up like sheep intended for food, And have scatt ered us among the nations.

nkjv@Psalms:44:13 @ You make us a reproach to our neighbors, A scorn and a d erision to those all around us.

nkjv@Psalms:44:15 @ My dishonor is continually before me, And the shame of my face has cov ered me,

nkjv@Psalms:44:16 @ Because of the voice of him who reproaches and reviles, Because of the enemy and the aveng er.

nkjv@Psalms:44:19 @ But You have sev erely broken us in the place of jackals, And cov ered us with the shadow of death.

nkjv@Psalms:44:22 @ Yet for Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaught er.

nkjv@Psalms:44:23 @ Awake! Why do You sleep, O Lord? Arise! Do not cast us off forev er.

nkjv@Psalms:44:26 @ Arise for our help, And redeem us for Your m ercies' sake.

nkjv@Psalms:45:1 @ My heart is ov erflowing with a good theme; I recite my composition conc erning the King; My tongue is the pen of a ready writ er.

nkjv@Psalms:45:2 @ You are fair er than the sons of men; Grace is poured upon Your lips; Th erefore God has blessed You forev er.

nkjv@Psalms:45:4 @ And in Your majesty ride prosp erously because of truth, humility, and righteousness; And Your right hand shall teach You awesome things.

nkjv@Psalms:45:5 @ Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the King's enemies; The peoples fall und er You.

nkjv@Psalms:45:6 @ Your throne, O God, is forev er and ev er; A scept er of righteousness is the scept er of Your kingdom.

nkjv@Psalms:45:7 @ You love righteousness and hate wickedness; Th erefore God, Your God, has anointed You With the oil of gladness more than Your companions.

nkjv@Psalms:45:9 @ Kings' daught ers are among Your honorable women; At Your right hand stands the queen in gold from Ophir.

nkjv@Psalms:45:10 @ Listen, O daught er, Consid er and incline your ear; Forget your own people also, and your fath er's house;

nkjv@Psalms:45:12 @ And the daught er of Tyre will come with a gift; The rich among the people will seek your favor.

nkjv@Psalms:45:13 @ The royal daught er is all glorious within the palace; H er clothing is woven with gold.

nkjv@Psalms:45:14 @ She shall be brought to the King in robes of many colors; The virgins, h er companions who follow h er, shall be brought to You.

nkjv@Psalms:45:15 @ With gladness and rejoicing they shall be brought; They shall ent er the King's palace.

nkjv@Psalms:45:16 @ Instead of Your fath ers shall be Your sons, Whom You shall make princes in all the earth.

nkjv@Psalms:45:17 @ I will make Your name to be rememb ered in all gen erations; Th erefore the people shall praise You forev er and ev er.

nkjv@Psalms:46:1 @ God is our refuge and strength, A v ery present help in trouble.

nkjv@Psalms:46:2 @ Th erefore we will not fear, Even though the earth be removed, And though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;

nkjv@Psalms:46:3 @ Though its wat ers roar and be troubled, Though the mountains shake with its swelling.Selah

nkjv@Psalms:46:4 @ Th ere is a riv er whose streams shall make glad the city of God, The holy place of the tab ernacle of the Most High.

nkjv@Psalms:46:5 @ God is in the midst of h er, she shall not be moved; God shall help h er, just at the break of dawn.

nkjv@Psalms:46:6 @ The nations raged, the kingdoms w ere moved; He utt ered His voice, the earth melted.

nkjv@Psalms:47:2 @ For the LORD Most High is awesome; He is a great King ov er all the earth.

nkjv@Psalms:47:3 @ He will subdue the peoples und er us, And the nations und er our feet.

nkjv@Psalms:47:4 @ He will choose our inh eritance for us, The excellence of Jacob whom He loves.Selah

nkjv@Psalms:47:7 @ For God is the King of all the earth; Sing praises with und erstanding.

nkjv@Psalms:47:8 @ God reigns ov er the nations; God sits on His holy throne.

nkjv@Psalms:47:9 @ The princes of the people have gath ered togeth er, The people of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God; He is greatly exalted.

nkjv@Psalms:48:3 @ God is in h er palaces; He is known as h er refuge.

nkjv@Psalms:48:4 @ For behold, the kings assembled, They passed by togeth er.

nkjv@Psalms:48:5 @ They saw it, and so they marveled; They w ere troubled, they hastened away.

nkjv@Psalms:48:6 @ Fear took hold of them th ere, And pain, as of a woman in birth pangs,

nkjv@Psalms:48:8 @ As we have heard, So we have seen In the city of the LORD of hosts, In the city of our God: God will establish it forev er.Selah

nkjv@Psalms:48:11 @ Let Mount Zion rejoice, Let the daught ers of Judah be glad, Because of Your judgments.

nkjv@Psalms:48:12 @ Walk about Zion, And go all around h er. Count h er tow ers;

nkjv@Psalms:48:13 @ Mark well h er bulwarks; Consid er h er palaces; That you may tell it to the gen eration following.

nkjv@Psalms:48:14 @ For this is God, Our God forev er and ev er; He will be our guide Even to death.

nkjv@Psalms:49:2 @ Both low and high, Rich and poor togeth er.

nkjv@Psalms:49:3 @ My mouth shall speak wisdom, And the meditation of my heart shall give und erstanding.

nkjv@Psalms:49:4 @ I will incline my ear to a prov erb; I will disclose my dark saying on the harp.

nkjv@Psalms:49:7 @ None of them can by any means redeem his broth er, Nor give to God a ransom for him--

nkjv@Psalms:49:8 @ For the redemption of their souls is costly, And it shall cease forev er--

nkjv@Psalms:49:9 @ That he should continue to live et ernally, And not see the Pit.

nkjv@Psalms:49:10 @ For he sees wise men die; Likewise the fool and the senseless p erson p erish, And leave their wealth to oth ers.

nkjv@Psalms:49:11 @ Their inn er thought is that their houses will last forev er, Their dwelling places to all gen erations; They call their lands aft er their own names.

nkjv@Psalms:49:12 @ Nev ertheless man, though in honor, does not remain; He is like the beasts that p erish.

nkjv@Psalms:49:13 @ This is the way of those who are foolish, And of their post erity who approve their sayings.Selah

nkjv@Psalms:49:14 @ Like sheep they are laid in the grave; Death shall feed on them; The upright shall have dominion ov er them in the morning; And their beauty shall be consumed in the grave, far from their dwelling.

nkjv@Psalms:49:15 @ But God will redeem my soul from the pow er of the grave, For He shall receive me.Selah

nkjv@Psalms:49:17 @ For when he dies he shall carry nothing away; His glory shall not descend aft er him.

nkjv@Psalms:49:19 @ He shall go to the gen eration of his fath ers; They shall nev er see light.

nkjv@Psalms:49:20 @ A man who is in honor, yet does not und erstand, Is like the beasts that p erish.

nkjv@Psalms:50:2 @ Out of Zion, the p erfection of beauty, God will shine forth.

nkjv@Psalms:50:3 @ Our God shall come, and shall not keep silent; A fire shall devour before Him, And it shall be v ery tempestuous all around Him.

nkjv@Psalms:50:5 @ "Gath er My saints togeth er to Me, Those who have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice."

nkjv@Psalms:50:8 @ I will not rebuke you for your sacrifices Or your burnt off erings, Which are continually before Me.

nkjv@Psalms:50:10 @ For ev ery beast of the forest is Mine, And the cattle on a thousand hills.

nkjv@Psalms:50:12 @ "If I w ere hungry, I would not tell you; For the world is Mine, and all its fullness.

nkjv@Psalms:50:14 @ Off er to God thanksgiving, And pay your vows to the Most High.

nkjv@Psalms:50:15 @ Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliv er you, and you shall glorify Me."

nkjv@Psalms:50:18 @ When you saw a thief, you consented with him, And have been a partak er with adult er ers.

nkjv@Psalms:50:20 @ You sit and speak against your broth er; You sland er your own moth er's son.

nkjv@Psalms:50:21 @ These things you have done, and I kept silent; You thought that I was altogeth er like you; But I will rebuke you, And set them in ord er before your eyes.

nkjv@Psalms:50:22 @ "Now consid er this, you who forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, And th ere be none to deliv er:

nkjv@Psalms:50:23 @ Whoev er off ers praise glorifies Me; And to him who ord ers his conduct aright I will show the salvation of God."

nkjv@Psalms:51:1 @ Have m ercy upon me, O God, According to Your lovingkindness; According to the multitude of Your tend er m ercies, Blot out my transgressions.

nkjv@Psalms:51:5 @ Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my moth er conceived me.

nkjv@Psalms:51:7 @ Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; Wash me, and I shall be whit er than snow.

nkjv@Psalms:51:12 @ Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, And uphold me by Your gen erous Spirit.

nkjv@Psalms:51:13 @ Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, And sinn ers shall be conv erted to You.

nkjv@Psalms:51:14 @ Deliv er me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, The God of my salvation, And my tongue shall sing aloud of Your righteousness.

nkjv@Psalms:51:16 @ For You do not desire sacrifice, or else I would give it; You do not delight in burnt off ering.

nkjv@Psalms:51:18 @ Do good in Your good pleasure to Zion; Build the walls of J erusalem.

nkjv@Psalms:51:19 @ Then You shall be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, With burnt off ering and whole burnt off ering; Then they shall off er bulls on Your altar.

nkjv@Psalms:52:3 @ You love evil more than good, Lying rath er than speaking righteousness.Selah

nkjv@Psalms:52:5 @ God shall likewise destroy you forev er; He shall take you away, and pluck you out of your dwelling place, And uproot you from the land of the living.Selah

nkjv@Psalms:52:7 @ "H ere is the man who did not make God his strength, But trusted in the abundance of his riches, And strengthened himself in his wickedness."

nkjv@Psalms:52:8 @ But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God; I trust in the m ercy of God forev er and ev er.

nkjv@Psalms:52:9 @ I will praise You forev er, Because You have done it; And in the presence of Your saints I will wait on Your name, for it is good.

nkjv@Psalms:53:1 @ The fool has said in his heart, "Th ere is no God." They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity; Th ere is none who does good.

nkjv@Psalms:53:2 @ God looks down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if th ere are any who und erstand, who seek God.

nkjv@Psalms:53:3 @ Ev ery one of them has turned aside; They have togeth er become corrupt; Th ere is none who does good, No, not one.

nkjv@Psalms:53:4 @ Have the work ers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And do not call upon God?

nkjv@Psalms:53:5 @ Th ere they are in great fear Wh ere no fear was, For God has scatt ered the bones of him who encamps against you; You have put them to shame, Because God has despised them.

nkjv@Psalms:54:2 @ Hear my pray er, O God; Give ear to the words of my mouth.

nkjv@Psalms:54:3 @ For strang ers have risen up against me, And oppressors have sought aft er my life; They have not set God before them.Selah

nkjv@Psalms:54:4 @ Behold, God is my help er; The Lord is with those who uphold my life.

nkjv@Psalms:54:7 @ For He has deliv ered me out of all trouble; And my eye has seen its desire upon my enemies.

nkjv@Psalms:55:1 @ Give ear to my pray er, O God, And do not hide Yourself from my supplication.

nkjv@Psalms:55:4 @ My heart is sev erely pained within me, And the t errors of death have fallen upon me.

nkjv@Psalms:55:5 @ Fearfulness and trembling have come upon me, And horror has ov erwhelmed me.

nkjv@Psalms:55:7 @ Indeed, I would wand er far off, And remain in the wild erness.Selah

nkjv@Psalms:55:14 @ We took sweet counsel togeth er, And walked to the house of God in the throng.

nkjv@Psalms:55:18 @ He has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was against me, For th ere w ere many against me.

nkjv@Psalms:55:19 @ God will hear, and afflict them, Even He who abides from of old.Selah Because they do not change, Th erefore they do not fear God.

nkjv@Psalms:55:20 @ He has put forth his hands against those who w ere at peace with him; He has broken his covenant.

nkjv@Psalms:55:21 @ The words of his mouth w ere smooth er than butt er, But war was in his heart; His words w ere soft er than oil, Yet they w ere drawn swords.

nkjv@Psalms:55:22 @ Cast your burden on the LORD, And He shall sustain you; He shall nev er p ermit the righteous to be moved.

nkjv@Psalms:56:1 @ Be m erciful to me, O God, for man would swallow me up; Fighting all day he oppresses me.

nkjv@Psalms:56:2 @ My enemies would hound me all day, For th ere are many who fight against me, O Most High.

nkjv@Psalms:56:3 @ Whenev er I am afraid, I will trust in You.

nkjv@Psalms:56:6 @ They gath er togeth er, They hide, they mark my steps, When they lie in wait for my life.

nkjv@Psalms:56:7 @ Shall they escape by iniquity? In ang er cast down the peoples, O God!

nkjv@Psalms:56:8 @ You numb er my wand erings; Put my tears into Your bottle; Are they not in Your book?

nkjv@Psalms:56:12 @ Vows made to You are binding upon me, O God; I will rend er praises to You,

nkjv@Psalms:56:13 @ For You have deliv ered my soul from death. Have You not kept my feet from falling, That I may walk before God In the light of the living?

nkjv@Psalms:57:1 @ Be m erciful to me, O God, be m erciful to me! For my soul trusts in You; And in the shadow of Your wings I will make my refuge, Until these calamities have passed by.

nkjv@Psalms:57:2 @ I will cry out to God Most High, To God who p erforms all things for me.

nkjv@Psalms:57:3 @ He shall send from heaven and save me; He reproaches the one who would swallow me up.Selah God shall send forth His m ercy and His truth.

nkjv@Psalms:57:10 @ For Your m ercy reaches unto the heavens, And Your truth unto the clouds.

nkjv@Psalms:58:4 @ Their poison is like the poison of a s erpent; They are like the deaf cobra that stops its ear,

nkjv@Psalms:58:5 @ Which will not heed the voice of charm ers, Charming ev er so skillfully.

nkjv@Psalms:58:7 @ Let them flow away as wat ers which run continually; When he bends his bow, Let his arrows be as if cut in pieces.

nkjv@Psalms:58:11 @ So that men will say, "Surely th ere is a reward for the righteous; Surely He is God who judges in the earth."

nkjv@Psalms:59:1 @ Deliv er me from my enemies, O my God; Defend me from those who rise up against me.

nkjv@Psalms:59:2 @ Deliv er me from the work ers of iniquity, And save me from bloodthirsty men.

nkjv@Psalms:59:3 @ For look, they lie in wait for my life; The mighty gath er against me, Not for my transgression nor for my sin, O LORD.

nkjv@Psalms:59:5 @ You th erefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, Awake to punish all the nations; Do not be m erciful to any wicked transgressors.Selah

nkjv@Psalms:59:8 @ But You, O LORD, shall laugh at them; You shall have all the nations in d erision.

nkjv@Psalms:59:10 @ My God of m ercy shall come to meet me; God shall let me see my desire on my enemies.

nkjv@Psalms:59:11 @ Do not slay them, lest my people forget; Scatt er them by Your pow er, And bring them down, O Lord our shield.

nkjv@Psalms:59:15 @ They wand er up and down for food, And howl if they are not satisfied.

nkjv@Psalms:59:16 @ But I will sing of Your pow er; Yes, I will sing aloud of Your m ercy in the morning; For You have been my defense And refuge in the day of my trouble.

nkjv@Psalms:59:17 @ To You, O my Strength, I will sing praises; For God is my defense, My God of m ercy.

nkjv@Psalms:60:4 @ You have given a bann er to those who fear You, That it may be displayed because of the truth.Selah

nkjv@Psalms:60:5 @ That Your beloved may be deliv ered, Save with Your right hand, and hear me.

nkjv@Psalms:60:7 @ Gilead is Mine, and Manasseh is Mine; Ephraim also is the helmet for My head; Judah is My lawgiv er.

nkjv@Psalms:60:8 @ Moab is My washpot; Ov er Edom I will cast My shoe; Philistia, shout in triumph because of Me."

nkjv@Psalms:61:1 @ Hear my cry, O God; Attend to my pray er.

nkjv@Psalms:61:2 @ From the end of the earth I will cry to You, When my heart is ov erwhelmed; Lead me to the rock that is high er than I.

nkjv@Psalms:61:3 @ For You have been a shelt er for me, A strong tow er from the enemy.

nkjv@Psalms:61:4 @ I will abide in Your tab ernacle forev er; I will trust in the shelt er of Your wings.Selah

nkjv@Psalms:61:5 @ For You, O God, have heard my vows; You have given me the h eritage of those who fear Your name.

nkjv@Psalms:61:6 @ You will prolong the king's life, His years as many gen erations.

nkjv@Psalms:61:7 @ He shall abide before God forev er. Oh, prepare m ercy and truth, which may pres erve him!

nkjv@Psalms:61:8 @ So I will sing praise to Your name forev er, That I may daily p erform my vows.

nkjv@Psalms:62:3 @ How long will you attack a man? You shall be slain, all of you, Like a leaning wall and a tott ering fence.

nkjv@Psalms:62:9 @ Surely men of low degree are a vapor, Men of high degree are a lie; If they are weighed on the scales, They are altogeth er light er than vapor.

nkjv@Psalms:62:10 @ Do not trust in oppression, Nor vainly hope in robb ery; If riches increase, Do not set your heart on them.

nkjv@Psalms:62:11 @ God has spoken once, Twice I have heard this: That pow er belongs to God.

nkjv@Psalms:62:12 @ Also to You, O Lord, belongs m ercy; For You rend er to each one according to his work.

nkjv@Psalms:63:1 @ O God, You are my God; Early will I seek You; My soul thirsts for You; My flesh longs for You In a dry and thirsty land Wh ere th ere is no wat er.

nkjv@Psalms:63:2 @ So I have looked for You in the sanctuary, To see Your pow er and Your glory.

nkjv@Psalms:63:3 @ Because Your lovingkindness is bett er than life, My lips shall praise You.

nkjv@Psalms:63:6 @ When I rememb er You on my bed, I meditate on You in the night watches.

nkjv@Psalms:63:7 @ Because You have been my help, Th erefore in the shadow of Your wings I will rejoice.

nkjv@Psalms:63:9 @ But those who seek my life, to destroy it, Shall go into the low er parts of the earth.

nkjv@Psalms:63:11 @ But the king shall rejoice in God; Ev eryone who swears by Him shall glory; But the mouth of those who speak lies shall be stopped.

nkjv@Psalms:64:1 @ Hear my voice, O God, in my meditation; Pres erve my life from fear of the enemy.

nkjv@Psalms:64:2 @ Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked, From the rebellion of the work ers of iniquity,

nkjv@Psalms:64:3 @ Who sharpen their tongue like a sword, And bend their bows to shoot their arrows--bitt er words,

nkjv@Psalms:64:5 @ They encourage themselves in an evil matt er; They talk of laying snares secretly; They say, "Who will see them?"

nkjv@Psalms:64:6 @ They devise iniquities: "We have p erfected a shrewd scheme." Both the inward thought and the heart of man are deep.

nkjv@Psalms:64:8 @ So He will make them stumble ov er their own tongue; All who see them shall flee away.

nkjv@Psalms:64:9 @ All men shall fear, And shall declare the work of God; For they shall wisely consid er His doing.

nkjv@Psalms:65:1 @ Praise is awaiting You, O God, in Zion; And to You the vow shall be p erformed.

nkjv@Psalms:65:2 @ O You who hear pray er, To You all flesh will come.

nkjv@Psalms:65:5 @ By awesome deeds in righteousness You will answ er us, O God of our salvation, You who are the confidence of all the ends of the earth, And of the far-off seas;

nkjv@Psalms:65:6 @ Who established the mountains by His strength, Being clothed with pow er;

nkjv@Psalms:65:9 @ You visit the earth and wat er it, You greatly enrich it; The riv er of God is full of wat er; You provide their grain, For so You have prepared it.

nkjv@Psalms:65:10 @ You wat er its ridges abundantly, You settle its furrows; You make it soft with show ers, You bless its growth.

nkjv@Psalms:65:12 @ They drop on the pastures of the wild erness, And the little hills rejoice on ev ery side.

nkjv@Psalms:65:13 @ The pastures are clothed with flocks; The valleys also are cov ered with grain; They shout for joy, they also sing.

nkjv@Psalms:66:3 @ Say to God, "How awesome are Your works! Through the greatness of Your pow er Your enemies shall submit themselves to You.

nkjv@Psalms:66:6 @ He turned the sea into dry land; They went through the riv er on foot. Th ere we will rejoice in Him.

nkjv@Psalms:66:7 @ He rules by His pow er forev er; His eyes obs erve the nations; Do not let the rebellious exalt themselves.Selah

nkjv@Psalms:66:10 @ For You, O God, have tested us; You have refined us as silv er is refined.

nkjv@Psalms:66:12 @ You have caused men to ride ov er our heads; We went through fire and through wat er; But You brought us out to rich fulfillment.

nkjv@Psalms:66:13 @ I will go into Your house with burnt off erings; I will pay You my vows,

nkjv@Psalms:66:14 @ Which my lips have utt ered And my mouth has spoken when I was in trouble.

nkjv@Psalms:66:15 @ I will off er You burnt sacrifices of fat animals, With the sweet aroma of rams; I will off er bulls with goats.Selah

nkjv@Psalms:66:19 @ But c ertainly God has heard me; He has attended to the voice of my pray er.

nkjv@Psalms:66:20 @ Blessed be God, Who has not turned away my pray er, Nor His m ercy from me!

nkjv@Psalms:67:1 @ God be m erciful to us and bless us, And cause His face to shine upon us,Selah

nkjv@Psalms:67:4 @ Oh, let the nations be glad and sing for joy! For You shall judge the people righteously, And gov ern the nations on earth.Selah

nkjv@Psalms:67:6 @ Then the earth shall yield h er increase; God, our own God, shall bless us.

nkjv@Psalms:68:1 @ Let God arise, Let His enemies be scatt ered; Let those also who hate Him flee before Him.

nkjv@Psalms:68:2 @ As smoke is driven away, So drive them away; As wax melts before the fire, So let the wicked p erish at the presence of God.

nkjv@Psalms:68:5 @ A fath er of the fath erless, a defend er of widows, Is God in His holy habitation.

nkjv@Psalms:68:6 @ God sets the solitary in families; He brings out those who are bound into prosp erity; But the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

nkjv@Psalms:68:7 @ O God, when You went out before Your people, When You marched through the wild erness,Selah

nkjv@Psalms:68:9 @ You, O God, sent a plentiful rain, Wh ereby You confirmed Your inh eritance, When it was weary.

nkjv@Psalms:68:13 @ Though you lie down among the sheepfolds, You will be like the wings of a dove cov ered with silv er, And h er feath ers with yellow gold."

nkjv@Psalms:68:14 @ When the Almighty scatt ered kings in it, It was white as snow in Zalmon.

nkjv@Psalms:68:16 @ Why do you fume with envy, you mountains of many peaks? This is the mountain which God desires to dwell in; Yes, the LORD will dwell in it forev er.

nkjv@Psalms:68:18 @ You have ascended on high, You have led captivity captive; You have received gifts among men, Even from the rebellious, That the LORD God might dwell th ere.

nkjv@Psalms:68:25 @ The sing ers went before, the play ers on instruments followed aft er; Among them w ere the maidens playing timbrels.

nkjv@Psalms:68:27 @ Th ere is little Benjamin, their lead er, The princes of Judah and their company, The princes of Zebulun and the princes of Naphtali.

nkjv@Psalms:68:29 @ Because of Your temple at J erusalem, Kings will bring presents to You.

nkjv@Psalms:68:30 @ Rebuke the beasts of the reeds, The h erd of bulls with the calves of the peoples, Till ev eryone submits himself with pieces of silv er. Scatt er the peoples who delight in war.

nkjv@Psalms:68:31 @ Envoys will come out of Egypt; Ethiopia will quickly stretch out h er hands to God.

nkjv@Psalms:68:33 @ To Him who rides on the heaven of heavens, which w ere of old! Indeed, He sends out His voice, a mighty voice.

nkjv@Psalms:68:34 @ Ascribe strength to God; His excellence is ov er Israel, And His strength is in the clouds.

nkjv@Psalms:68:35 @ O God, You are more awesome than Your holy places. The God of Israel is He who gives strength and pow er to His people. Blessed be God!

nkjv@Psalms:69:1 @ Save me, O God! For the wat ers have come up to my neck.

nkjv@Psalms:69:2 @ I sink in deep mire, Wh ere th ere is no standing; I have come into deep wat ers, Wh ere the floods ov erflow me.

nkjv@Psalms:69:7 @ Because for Your sake I have borne reproach; Shame has cov ered my face.

nkjv@Psalms:69:8 @ I have become a strang er to my broth ers, And an alien to my moth er's children;

nkjv@Psalms:69:13 @ But as for me, my pray er is to You, O LORD, in the acceptable time; O God, in the multitude of Your m ercy, Hear me in the truth of Your salvation.

nkjv@Psalms:69:14 @ Deliv er me out of the mire, And let me not sink; Let me be deliv ered from those who hate me, And out of the deep wat ers.

nkjv@Psalms:69:15 @ Let not the floodwat er ov erflow me, Nor let the deep swallow me up; And let not the pit shut its mouth on me.

nkjv@Psalms:69:16 @ Hear me, O LORD, for Your lovingkindness is good; Turn to me according to the multitude of Your tend er m ercies.

nkjv@Psalms:69:17 @ And do not hide Your face from Your s ervant, For I am in trouble; Hear me speedily.

nkjv@Psalms:69:18 @ Draw near to my soul, and redeem it; Deliv er me because of my enemies.

nkjv@Psalms:69:19 @ You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor; My adv ersaries are all before You.

nkjv@Psalms:69:20 @ Reproach has broken my heart, And I am full of heaviness; I looked for someone to take pity, but th ere was none; And for comfort ers, but I found none.

nkjv@Psalms:69:24 @ Pour out Your indignation upon them, And let Your wrathful ang er take hold of them.

nkjv@Psalms:69:26 @ For they p ersecute the ones You have struck, And talk of the grief of those You have wounded.

nkjv@Psalms:69:31 @ This also shall please the LORD bett er than an ox or bull, Which has horns and hooves.

nkjv@Psalms:69:33 @ For the LORD hears the poor, And does not despise His prison ers.

nkjv@Psalms:69:34 @ Let heaven and earth praise Him, The seas and ev erything that moves in them.

nkjv@Psalms:69:35 @ For God will save Zion And build the cities of Judah, That they may dwell th ere and possess it.

nkjv@Psalms:69:36 @ Also, the descendants of His s ervants shall inh erit it, And those who love His name shall dwell in it.

nkjv@Psalms:70:1 @ Make haste, O God, to deliv er me! Make haste to help me, O LORD!

nkjv@Psalms:70:5 @ But I am poor and needy; Make haste to me, O God! You are my help and my deliv er er; O LORD, do not delay.

nkjv@Psalms:71:1 @ In You, O LORD, I put my trust; Let me nev er be put to shame.

nkjv@Psalms:71:2 @ Deliv er me in Your righteousness, and cause me to escape; Incline Your ear to me, and save me.

nkjv@Psalms:71:4 @ Deliv er me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, Out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.

nkjv@Psalms:71:6 @ By You I have been upheld from birth; You are He who took me out of my moth er's womb. My praise shall be continually of You.

nkjv@Psalms:71:7 @ I have become as a wond er to many, But You are my strong refuge.

nkjv@Psalms:71:10 @ For my enemies speak against me; And those who lie in wait for my life take counsel togeth er,

nkjv@Psalms:71:11 @ Saying, "God has forsaken him; Pursue and take him, for th ere is none to deliv er him."

nkjv@Psalms:71:13 @ Let them be confounded and consumed Who are adv ersaries of my life; Let them be cov ered with reproach and dishonor Who seek my hurt.

nkjv@Psalms:71:18 @ Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, do not forsake me, Until I declare Your strength to this gen eration, Your pow er to ev eryone who is to come.

nkjv@Psalms:71:19 @ Also Your righteousness, O God, is v ery high, You who have done great things; O God, who is like You?

nkjv@Psalms:71:20 @ You, who have shown me great and sev ere troubles, Shall revive me again, And bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

nkjv@Psalms:71:21 @ You shall increase my greatness, And comfort me on ev ery side.

nkjv@Psalms:72:5 @ They shall fear You As long as the sun and moon endure, Throughout all gen erations.

nkjv@Psalms:72:6 @ He shall come down like rain upon the grass before mowing, Like show ers that wat er the earth.

nkjv@Psalms:72:8 @ He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, And from the Riv er to the ends of the earth.

nkjv@Psalms:72:9 @ Those who dwell in the wild erness will bow before Him, And His enemies will lick the dust.

nkjv@Psalms:72:10 @ The kings of Tarshish and of the isles Will bring presents; The kings of Sheba and Seba Will off er gifts.

nkjv@Psalms:72:11 @ Yes, all kings shall fall down before Him; All nations shall s erve Him.

nkjv@Psalms:72:12 @ For He will deliv er the needy when he cries, The poor also, and him who has no help er.

nkjv@Psalms:72:15 @ And He shall live; And the gold of Sheba will be given to Him; Pray er also will be made for Him continually, And daily He shall be praised.

nkjv@Psalms:72:16 @ Th ere will be an abundance of grain in the earth, On the top of the mountains; Its fruit shall wave like Lebanon; And those of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.

nkjv@Psalms:72:17 @ His name shall endure forev er; His name shall continue as long as the sun. And men shall be blessed in Him; All nations shall call Him blessed.

nkjv@Psalms:72:19 @ And blessed be His glorious name forev er! And let the whole earth be filled with His glory. Amen and Amen.

nkjv@Psalms:72:20 @ The pray ers of David the son of Jesse are ended.

nkjv@Psalms:73:3 @ For I was envious of the boastful, When I saw the prosp erity of the wicked.

nkjv@Psalms:73:4 @ For th ere are no pangs in their death, But their strength is firm.

nkjv@Psalms:73:5 @ They are not in trouble as oth er men, Nor are they plagued like oth er men.

nkjv@Psalms:73:6 @ Th erefore pride s erves as their necklace; Violence cov ers them like a garment.

nkjv@Psalms:73:8 @ They scoff and speak wickedly conc erning oppression; They speak loftily.

nkjv@Psalms:73:10 @ Th erefore his people return h ere, And wat ers of a full cup are drained by them.

nkjv@Psalms:73:11 @ And they say, "How does God know? And is th ere knowledge in the Most High?"

nkjv@Psalms:73:14 @ For all day long I have been plagued, And chastened ev ery morning.

nkjv@Psalms:73:15 @ If I had said, "I will speak thus," Behold, I would have been untrue to the gen eration of Your children.

nkjv@Psalms:73:16 @ When I thought how to und erstand this, It was too painful for me--

nkjv@Psalms:73:17 @ Until I went into the sanctuary of God; Then I und erstood their end.

nkjv@Psalms:73:18 @ Surely You set them in slipp ery places; You cast them down to destruction.

nkjv@Psalms:73:19 @ Oh, how they are brought to desolation, as in a moment! They are utt erly consumed with t errors.

nkjv@Psalms:73:23 @ Nev ertheless I am continually with You; You hold me by my right hand.

nkjv@Psalms:73:24 @ You will guide me with Your counsel, And aft erward receive me to glory.

nkjv@Psalms:73:25 @ Whom have I in heaven but You? And th ere is none upon earth that I desire besides You.

nkjv@Psalms:73:26 @ My flesh and my heart fail; But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forev er.

nkjv@Psalms:73:27 @ For indeed, those who are far from You shall p erish; You have destroyed all those who des ert You for harlotry.

nkjv@Psalms:74:1 @ O God, why have You cast us off forev er? Why does Your ang er smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?

nkjv@Psalms:74:2 @ Rememb er Your congregation, which You have purchased of old, The tribe of Your inh eritance, which You have redeemed-- This Mount Zion wh ere You have dwelt.

nkjv@Psalms:74:3 @ Lift up Your feet to the p erpetual desolations. The enemy has damaged ev erything in the sanctuary.

nkjv@Psalms:74:4 @ Your enemies roar in the midst of Your meeting place; They set up their bann ers for signs.

nkjv@Psalms:74:6 @ And now they break down its carved work, all at once, With axes and hamm ers.

nkjv@Psalms:74:8 @ They said in their hearts, "Let us destroy them altogeth er." They have burned up all the meeting places of God in the land.

nkjv@Psalms:74:9 @ We do not see our signs; Th ere is no long er any prophet; Nor is th ere any among us who knows how long.

nkjv@Psalms:74:10 @ O God, how long will the adv ersary reproach? Will the enemy blaspheme Your name forev er?

nkjv@Psalms:74:13 @ You divided the sea by Your strength; You broke the heads of the sea s erpents in the wat ers.

nkjv@Psalms:74:14 @ You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces, And gave him as food to the people inhabiting the wild erness.

nkjv@Psalms:74:15 @ You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up mighty riv ers.

nkjv@Psalms:74:17 @ You have set all the bord ers of the earth; You have made summ er and wint er.

nkjv@Psalms:74:18 @ Rememb er this, that the enemy has reproached, O LORD, And that a foolish people has blasphemed Your name.

nkjv@Psalms:74:19 @ Oh, do not deliv er the life of Your turtledove to the wild beast! Do not forget the life of Your poor forev er.

nkjv@Psalms:74:22 @ Arise, O God, plead Your own cause; Rememb er how the foolish man reproaches You daily.

nkjv@Psalms:75:2 @ "When I choose the prop er time, I will judge uprightly.

nkjv@Psalms:75:6 @ For exaltation comes neith er from the east Nor from the west nor from the south.

nkjv@Psalms:75:7 @ But God is the Judge: He puts down one, And exalts anoth er.

nkjv@Psalms:75:8 @ For in the hand of the LORD th ere is a cup, And the wine is red; It is fully mixed, and He pours it out; Surely its dregs shall all the wicked of the earth Drain and drink down.

nkjv@Psalms:75:9 @ But I will declare forev er, I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.

nkjv@Psalms:76:2 @ In Salem also is His tab ernacle, And His dwelling place in Zion.

nkjv@Psalms:76:3 @ Th ere He broke the arrows of the bow, The shield and sword of battle.Selah

nkjv@Psalms:76:5 @ The stouthearted w ere plund ered; They have sunk into their sleep; And none of the mighty men have found the use of their hands.

nkjv@Psalms:76:6 @ At Your rebuke, O God of Jacob, Both the chariot and horse w ere cast into a dead sleep.

nkjv@Psalms:76:9 @ When God arose to judgment, To deliv er all the oppressed of the earth.Selah

nkjv@Psalms:76:10 @ Surely the wrath of man shall praise You; With the remaind er of wrath You shall gird Yourself.

nkjv@Psalms:77:3 @ I rememb ered God, and was troubled; I complained, and my spirit was ov erwhelmed.Selah

nkjv@Psalms:77:5 @ I have consid ered the days of old, The years of ancient times.

nkjv@Psalms:77:7 @ Will the Lord cast off forev er? And will He be favorable no more?

nkjv@Psalms:77:8 @ Has His m ercy ceased forev er? Has His promise failed forev ermore?

nkjv@Psalms:77:9 @ Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has He in ang er shut up His tend er m ercies?Selah

nkjv@Psalms:77:10 @ And I said, "This is my anguish; But I will rememb er the years of the right hand of the Most High."

nkjv@Psalms:77:11 @ I will rememb er the works of the LORD; Surely I will rememb er Your wond ers of old.

nkjv@Psalms:77:14 @ You are the God who does wond ers; You have declared Your strength among the peoples.

nkjv@Psalms:77:16 @ The wat ers saw You, O God; The wat ers saw You, they w ere afraid; The depths also trembled.

nkjv@Psalms:77:17 @ The clouds poured out wat er; The skies sent out a sound; Your arrows also flashed about.

nkjv@Psalms:77:18 @ The voice of Your thund er was in the whirlwind; The lightnings lit up the world; The earth trembled and shook.

nkjv@Psalms:77:19 @ Your way was in the sea, Your path in the great wat ers, And Your footsteps w ere not known.

nkjv@Psalms:78:2 @ I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utt er dark sayings of old,

nkjv@Psalms:78:3 @ Which we have heard and known, And our fath ers have told us.

nkjv@Psalms:78:4 @ We will not hide them from their children, Telling to the gen eration to come the praises of the LORD, And His strength and His wond erful works that He has done.

nkjv@Psalms:78:5 @ For He established a testimony in Jacob, And appointed a law in Israel, Which He commanded our fath ers, That they should make them known to their children;

nkjv@Psalms:78:6 @ That the gen eration to come might know them, The children who would be born, That they may arise and declare them to their children,

nkjv@Psalms:78:8 @ And may not be like their fath ers, A stubborn and rebellious gen eration, A gen eration that did not set its heart aright, And whose spirit was not faithful to God.

nkjv@Psalms:78:11 @ And forgot His works And His wond ers that He had shown them.

nkjv@Psalms:78:12 @ Marvelous things He did in the sight of their fath ers, In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

nkjv@Psalms:78:13 @ He divided the sea and caused them to pass through; And He made the wat ers stand up like a heap.

nkjv@Psalms:78:15 @ He split the rocks in the wild erness, And gave them drink in abundance like the depths.

nkjv@Psalms:78:16 @ He also brought streams out of the rock, And caused wat ers to run down like riv ers.

nkjv@Psalms:78:17 @ But they sinned even more against Him By rebelling against the Most High in the wild erness.

nkjv@Psalms:78:19 @ Yes, they spoke against God: They said, "Can God prepare a table in the wild erness?

nkjv@Psalms:78:20 @ Behold, He struck the rock, So that the wat ers gushed out, And the streams ov erflowed. Can He give bread also? Can He provide meat for His people?

nkjv@Psalms:78:21 @ Th erefore the LORD heard this and was furious; So a fire was kindled against Jacob, And ang er also came up against Israel,

nkjv@Psalms:78:26 @ He caused an east wind to blow in the heavens; And by His pow er He brought in the south wind.

nkjv@Psalms:78:27 @ He also rained meat on them like the dust, Feath ered fowl like the sand of the seas;

nkjv@Psalms:78:29 @ So they ate and w ere well filled, For He gave them their own desire.

nkjv@Psalms:78:30 @ They w ere not deprived of their craving; But while their food was still in their mouths,

nkjv@Psalms:78:33 @ Th erefore their days He consumed in futility, And their years in fear.

nkjv@Psalms:78:35 @ Then they rememb ered that God was their rock, And the Most High God their Redeem er.

nkjv@Psalms:78:36 @ Nev ertheless they flatt ered Him with their mouth, And they lied to Him with their tongue;

nkjv@Psalms:78:37 @ For their heart was not steadfast with Him, Nor w ere they faithful in His covenant.

nkjv@Psalms:78:38 @ But He, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, And did not destroy them. Yes, many a time He turned His ang er away, And did not stir up all His wrath;

nkjv@Psalms:78:39 @ For He rememb ered that they w ere but flesh, A breath that passes away and does not come again.

nkjv@Psalms:78:40 @ How often they provoked Him in the wild erness, And grieved Him in the des ert!

nkjv@Psalms:78:42 @ They did not rememb er His pow er: The day when He redeemed them from the enemy,

nkjv@Psalms:78:43 @ When He worked His signs in Egypt, And His wond ers in the field of Zoan;

nkjv@Psalms:78:44 @ Turned their riv ers into blood, And their streams, that they could not drink.

nkjv@Psalms:78:46 @ He also gave their crops to the cat erpillar, And their labor to the locust.

nkjv@Psalms:78:48 @ He also gave up their cattle to the hail, And their flocks to fi ery lightning.

nkjv@Psalms:78:49 @ He cast on them the fi erceness of His ang er, Wrath, indignation, and trouble, By sending angels of destruction among them.

nkjv@Psalms:78:50 @ He made a path for His ang er; He did not spare their soul from death, But gave their life ov er to the plague,

nkjv@Psalms:78:52 @ But He made His own people go forth like sheep, And guided them in the wild erness like a flock;

nkjv@Psalms:78:53 @ And He led them on safely, so that they did not fear; But the sea ov erwhelmed their enemies.

nkjv@Psalms:78:54 @ And He brought them to His holy bord er, This mountain which His right hand had acquired.

nkjv@Psalms:78:55 @ He also drove out the nations before them, Allotted them an inh eritance by survey, And made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.

nkjv@Psalms:78:57 @ But turned back and acted unfaithfully like their fath ers; They w ere turned aside like a deceitful bow.

nkjv@Psalms:78:58 @ For they provoked Him to ang er with their high places, And moved Him to jealousy with their carved images.

nkjv@Psalms:78:60 @ So that He forsook the tab ernacle of Shiloh, The tent He had placed among men,

nkjv@Psalms:78:61 @ And deliv ered His strength into captivity, And His glory into the enemy's hand.

nkjv@Psalms:78:62 @ He also gave His people ov er to the sword, And was furious with His inh eritance.

nkjv@Psalms:78:63 @ The fire consumed their young men, And their maidens w ere not given in marriage.

nkjv@Psalms:78:66 @ And He beat back His enemies; He put them to a p erpetual reproach.

nkjv@Psalms:78:67 @ Moreov er He rejected the tent of Joseph, And did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,

nkjv@Psalms:78:69 @ And He built His sanctuary like the heights, Like the earth which He has established forev er.

nkjv@Psalms:78:70 @ He also chose David His s ervant, And took him from the sheepfolds;

nkjv@Psalms:78:71 @ From following the ewes that had young He brought him, To sheph erd Jacob His people, And Israel His inh eritance.

nkjv@Psalms:78:72 @ So he sheph erded them according to the integrity of his heart, And guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.

nkjv@Psalms:79:1 @ O God, the nations have come into Your inh eritance; Your holy temple they have defiled; They have laid J erusalem in heaps.

nkjv@Psalms:79:2 @ The dead bodies of Your s ervants They have given as food for the birds of the heavens, The flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth.

nkjv@Psalms:79:3 @ Their blood they have shed like wat er all around J erusalem, And th ere was no one to bury them.

nkjv@Psalms:79:4 @ We have become a reproach to our neighbors, A scorn and d erision to those who are around us.

nkjv@Psalms:79:5 @ How long, LORD? Will You be angry forev er? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?

nkjv@Psalms:79:8 @ Oh, do not rememb er form er iniquities against us! Let Your tend er m ercies come speedily to meet us, For we have been brought v ery low.

nkjv@Psalms:79:9 @ Help us, O God of our salvation, For the glory of Your name; And deliv er us, and provide atonement for our sins, For Your name's sake!

nkjv@Psalms:79:10 @ Why should the nations say, "Wh ere is their God?" Let th ere be known among the nations in our sight The avenging of the blood of Your s ervants which has been shed.

nkjv@Psalms:79:11 @ Let the groaning of the prison er come before You; According to the greatness of Your pow er Pres erve those who are appointed to die;

nkjv@Psalms:79:13 @ So we, Your people and sheep of Your pasture, Will give You thanks forev er; We will show forth Your praise to all gen erations.

nkjv@Psalms:80:1 @ Give ear, O Sheph erd of Israel, You who lead Joseph like a flock; You who dwell between the ch erubim, shine forth!

nkjv@Psalms:80:4 @ O LORD God of hosts, How long will You be angry Against the pray er of Your people?

nkjv@Psalms:80:10 @ The hills w ere cov ered with its shadow, And the mighty cedars with its boughs.

nkjv@Psalms:80:11 @ She sent out h er boughs to the Sea, And h er branches to the Riv er.

nkjv@Psalms:80:12 @ Why have You broken down h er hedges, So that all who pass by the way pluck h er fruit?

nkjv@Psalms:80:16 @ It is burned with fire, it is cut down; They p erish at the rebuke of Your countenance.

nkjv@Psalms:81:5 @ This He established in Joseph as a testimony, When He went throughout the land of Egypt, Wh ere I heard a language I did not und erstand.

nkjv@Psalms:81:6 @ "I removed his should er from the burden; His hands w ere freed from the baskets.

nkjv@Psalms:81:7 @ You called in trouble, and I deliv ered you; I answ ered you in the secret place of thund er; I tested you at the wat ers of M eribah.Selah

nkjv@Psalms:81:9 @ Th ere shall be no foreign god among you; Nor shall you worship any foreign god.

nkjv@Psalms:81:12 @ So I gave them ov er to their own stubborn heart, To walk in their own counsels.

nkjv@Psalms:81:14 @ I would soon subdue their enemies, And turn My hand against their adv ersaries.

nkjv@Psalms:81:15 @ The hat ers of the LORD would pretend submission to Him, But their fate would endure forev er.

nkjv@Psalms:82:3 @ Defend the poor and fath erless; Do justice to the afflicted and needy.

nkjv@Psalms:82:4 @ Deliv er the poor and needy; Free them from the hand of the wicked.

nkjv@Psalms:82:5 @ They do not know, nor do they und erstand; They walk about in darkness; All the foundations of the earth are unstable.

nkjv@Psalms:82:8 @ Arise, O God, judge the earth; For You shall inh erit all nations.

nkjv@Psalms:83:3 @ They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, And consulted togeth er against Your shelt ered ones.

nkjv@Psalms:83:4 @ They have said, "Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be rememb ered no more."

nkjv@Psalms:83:5 @ For they have consulted togeth er with one consent; They form a confed eracy against You:

nkjv@Psalms:83:9 @ Deal with them as with Midian, As with Sis era, As with Jabin at the Brook Kishon,

nkjv@Psalms:83:10 @ Who p erished at En Dor, Who became as refuse on the earth.

nkjv@Psalms:83:17 @ Let them be confounded and dismayed forev er; Yes, let them be put to shame and p erish,

nkjv@Psalms:83:18 @ That they may know that You, whose name alone is the LORD, Are the Most High ov er all the earth.

nkjv@Psalms:84:1 @ How lovely is Your tab ernacle, O LORD of hosts!

nkjv@Psalms:84:3 @ Even the sparrow has found a home, And the swallow a nest for h erself, Wh ere she may lay h er young-- Even Your altars, O LORD of hosts, My King and my God.

nkjv@Psalms:84:6 @ As they pass through the Valley of Baca, They make it a spring; The rain also cov ers it with pools.

nkjv@Psalms:84:8 @ O LORD God of hosts, hear my pray er; Give ear, O God of Jacob!Selah

nkjv@Psalms:84:10 @ For a day in Your courts is bett er than a thousand. I would rath er be a doorkeep er in the house of my God Than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

nkjv@Psalms:85:2 @ You have forgiven the iniquity of Your people; You have cov ered all their sin.Selah

nkjv@Psalms:85:3 @ You have taken away all Your wrath; You have turned from the fi erceness of Your ang er.

nkjv@Psalms:85:4 @ Restore us, O God of our salvation, And cause Your ang er toward us to cease.

nkjv@Psalms:85:5 @ Will You be angry with us forev er? Will You prolong Your ang er to all gen erations?

nkjv@Psalms:85:7 @ Show us Your m ercy, LORD, And grant us Your salvation.

nkjv@Psalms:85:10 @ M ercy and truth have met togeth er; Righteousness and peace have kissed.

nkjv@Psalms:86:2 @ Pres erve my life, for I am holy; You are my God; Save Your s ervant who trusts in You!

nkjv@Psalms:86:3 @ Be m erciful to me, O Lord, For I cry to You all day long.

nkjv@Psalms:86:4 @ Rejoice the soul of Your s ervant, For to You, O Lord, I lift up my soul.

nkjv@Psalms:86:5 @ For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, And abundant in m ercy to all those who call upon You.

nkjv@Psalms:86:6 @ Give ear, O LORD, to my pray er; And attend to the voice of my supplications.

nkjv@Psalms:86:7 @ In the day of my trouble I will call upon You, For You will answ er me.

nkjv@Psalms:86:8 @ Among the gods th ere is none like You, O Lord; Nor are th ere any works like Your works.

nkjv@Psalms:86:12 @ I will praise You, O Lord my God, with all my heart, And I will glorify Your name forev ermore.

nkjv@Psalms:86:13 @ For great is Your m ercy toward me, And You have deliv ered my soul from the depths of Sheol.

nkjv@Psalms:86:15 @ But You, O Lord, are a God full of compassion, and gracious, Longsuff ering and abundant in m ercy and truth.

nkjv@Psalms:86:16 @ Oh, turn to me, and have m ercy on me! Give Your strength to Your s ervant, And save the son of Your maids ervant.

nkjv@Psalms:87:4 @ "I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to those who know Me; Behold, O Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia: "This one was born th ere.'

nkjv@Psalms:87:5 @ And of Zion it will be said, "This one and that one w ere born in h er; And the Most High Himself shall establish h er."

nkjv@Psalms:87:6 @ The LORD will record, When He regist ers the peoples: "This one was born th ere."Selah

nkjv@Psalms:87:7 @ Both the sing ers and the play ers on instruments say, "All my springs are in you."

nkjv@Psalms:88:2 @ Let my pray er come before You; Incline Your ear to my cry.

nkjv@Psalms:88:5 @ Adrift among the dead, Like the slain who lie in the grave, Whom You rememb er no more, And who are cut off from Your hand.

nkjv@Psalms:88:10 @ Will You work wond ers for the dead? Shall the dead arise and praise You?Selah

nkjv@Psalms:88:12 @ Shall Your wond ers be known in the dark? And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

nkjv@Psalms:88:13 @ But to You I have cried out, O LORD, And in the morning my pray er comes before You.

nkjv@Psalms:88:15 @ I have been afflicted and ready to die from my youth; I suff er Your t errors; I am distraught.

nkjv@Psalms:88:16 @ Your fi erce wrath has gone ov er me; Your t errors have cut me off.

nkjv@Psalms:88:17 @ They came around me all day long like wat er; They engulfed me altogeth er.

nkjv@Psalms:89:1 @ I will sing of the m ercies of the LORD forev er; With my mouth will I make known Your faithfulness to all gen erations.

nkjv@Psalms:89:2 @ For I have said, "M ercy shall be built up forev er; Your faithfulness You shall establish in the v ery heavens."

nkjv@Psalms:89:3 @ "I have made a covenant with My chosen, I have sworn to My s ervant David:

nkjv@Psalms:89:4 @ "Your seed I will establish forev er, And build up your throne to all gen erations."'Selah

nkjv@Psalms:89:5 @ And the heavens will praise Your wond ers, O LORD; Your faithfulness also in the assembly of the saints.

nkjv@Psalms:89:7 @ God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, And to be held in rev erence by all those around Him.

nkjv@Psalms:89:10 @ You have broken Rahab in pieces, as one who is slain; You have scatt ered Your enemies with Your mighty arm.

nkjv@Psalms:89:12 @ The north and the south, You have created them; Tabor and H ermon rejoice in Your name.

nkjv@Psalms:89:14 @ Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; M ercy and truth go before Your face.

nkjv@Psalms:89:20 @ I have found My s ervant David; With My holy oil I have anointed him,

nkjv@Psalms:89:24 @ "But My faithfulness and My m ercy shall be with him, And in My name his horn shall be exalted.

nkjv@Psalms:89:25 @ Also I will set his hand ov er the sea, And his right hand ov er the riv ers.

nkjv@Psalms:89:26 @ He shall cry to Me, "You are my Fath er, My God, and the rock of my salvation.'

nkjv@Psalms:89:28 @ My m ercy I will keep for him forev er, And My covenant shall stand firm with him.

nkjv@Psalms:89:29 @ His seed also I will make to endure forev er, And his throne as the days of heaven.

nkjv@Psalms:89:33 @ Nev ertheless My lovingkindness I will not utt erly take from him, Nor allow My faithfulness to fail.

nkjv@Psalms:89:34 @ My covenant I will not break, Nor alt er the word that has gone out of My lips.

nkjv@Psalms:89:36 @ His seed shall endure forev er, And his throne as the sun before Me;

nkjv@Psalms:89:37 @ It shall be established forev er like the moon, Even like the faithful witness in the sky."Selah

nkjv@Psalms:89:39 @ You have renounced the covenant of Your s ervant; You have profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.

nkjv@Psalms:89:41 @ All who pass by the way plund er him; He is a reproach to his neighbors.

nkjv@Psalms:89:42 @ You have exalted the right hand of his adv ersaries; You have made all his enemies rejoice.

nkjv@Psalms:89:45 @ The days of his youth You have shortened; You have cov ered him with shame.Selah

nkjv@Psalms:89:46 @ How long, LORD? Will You hide Yourself forev er? Will Your wrath burn like fire?

nkjv@Psalms:89:47 @ Rememb er how short my time is; For what futility have You created all the children of men?

nkjv@Psalms:89:48 @ What man can live and not see death? Can he deliv er his life from the pow er of the grave?Selah

nkjv@Psalms:89:49 @ Lord, wh ere are Your form er lovingkindnesses, Which You swore to David in Your truth?

nkjv@Psalms:89:50 @ Rememb er, Lord, the reproach of Your s ervants-- How I bear in my bosom the reproach of all the many peoples,

nkjv@Psalms:89:52 @ Blessed be the LORD forev ermore! Amen and Amen.

nkjv@Psalms:90:1 @ Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all gen erations.

nkjv@Psalms:90:2 @ Before the mountains w ere brought forth, Or ev er You had formed the earth and the world, Even from ev erlasting to ev erlasting, You are God.

nkjv@Psalms:90:4 @ For a thousand years in Your sight Are like yest erday when it is past, And like a watch in the night.

nkjv@Psalms:90:6 @ In the morning it flourishes and grows up; In the evening it is cut down and with ers.

nkjv@Psalms:90:7 @ For we have been consumed by Your ang er, And by Your wrath we are t errified.

nkjv@Psalms:90:11 @ Who knows the pow er of Your ang er? For as the fear of You, so is Your wrath.

nkjv@Psalms:90:12 @ So teach us to numb er our days, That we may gain a heart of wisdom.

nkjv@Psalms:90:13 @ Return, O LORD! How long? And have compassion on Your s ervants.

nkjv@Psalms:90:14 @ Oh, satisfy us early with Your m ercy, That we may rejoice and be glad all our days!

nkjv@Psalms:90:16 @ Let Your work appear to Your s ervants, And Your glory to their children.

nkjv@Psalms:91:1 @ He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide und er the shadow of the Almighty.

nkjv@Psalms:91:3 @ Surely He shall deliv er you from the snare of the fowl er And from the p erilous pestilence.

nkjv@Psalms:91:4 @ He shall cov er you with His feath ers, And und er His wings you shall take refuge; His truth shall be your shield and buckl er.

nkjv@Psalms:91:5 @ You shall not be afraid of the t error by night, Nor of the arrow that flies by day,

nkjv@Psalms:91:11 @ For He shall give His angels charge ov er you, To keep you in all your ways.

nkjv@Psalms:91:13 @ You shall tread upon the lion and the cobra, The young lion and the s erpent you shall trample und erfoot.

nkjv@Psalms:91:14 @ "Because he has set his love upon Me, th erefore I will deliv er him; I will set him on high, because he has known My name.

nkjv@Psalms:91:15 @ He shall call upon Me, and I will answ er him; I will be with him in trouble; I will deliv er him and honor him.

nkjv@Psalms:92:2 @ To declare Your lovingkindness in the morning, And Your faithfulness ev ery night,

nkjv@Psalms:92:5 @ O LORD, how great are Your works! Your thoughts are v ery deep.

nkjv@Psalms:92:6 @ A senseless man does not know, Nor does a fool und erstand this.

nkjv@Psalms:92:7 @ When the wicked spring up like grass, And when all the work ers of iniquity flourish, It is that they may be destroyed forev er.

nkjv@Psalms:92:8 @ But You, LORD, are on high forev ermore.

nkjv@Psalms:92:9 @ For behold, Your enemies, O LORD, For behold, Your enemies shall p erish; All the work ers of iniquity shall be scatt ered.

nkjv@Psalms:92:15 @ To declare that the LORD is upright; He is my rock, and th ere is no unrighteousness in Him.

nkjv@Psalms:93:2 @ Your throne is established from of old; You are from ev erlasting.

nkjv@Psalms:93:4 @ The LORD on high is mighti er Than the noise of many wat ers, Than the mighty waves of the sea.

nkjv@Psalms:93:5 @ Your testimonies are v ery sure; Holiness adorns Your house, O LORD, forev er.

nkjv@Psalms:94:2 @ Rise up, O Judge of the earth; Rend er punishment to the proud.

nkjv@Psalms:94:4 @ They utt er speech, and speak insolent things; All the work ers of iniquity boast in themselves.

nkjv@Psalms:94:5 @ They break in pieces Your people, O LORD, And afflict Your h eritage.

nkjv@Psalms:94:6 @ They slay the widow and the strang er, And murd er the fath erless.

nkjv@Psalms:94:7 @ Yet they say, "The LORD does not see, Nor does the God of Jacob und erstand."

nkjv@Psalms:94:8 @ Und erstand, you senseless among the people; And you fools, when will you be wise?

nkjv@Psalms:94:13 @ That You may give him rest from the days of adv ersity, Until the pit is dug for the wicked.

nkjv@Psalms:94:14 @ For the LORD will not cast off His people, Nor will He forsake His inh eritance.

nkjv@Psalms:94:16 @ Who will rise up for me against the evildo ers? Who will stand up for me against the work ers of iniquity?

nkjv@Psalms:94:18 @ If I say, "My foot slips," Your m ercy, O LORD, will hold me up.

nkjv@Psalms:94:21 @ They gath er togeth er against the life of the righteous, And condemn innocent blood.

nkjv@Psalms:95:6 @ Oh come, let us worship and bow down; Let us kneel before the LORD our Mak er.

nkjv@Psalms:95:8 @ "Do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, As in the day of trial in the wild erness,

nkjv@Psalms:95:9 @ When your fath ers tested Me; They tried Me, though they saw My work.

nkjv@Psalms:95:10 @ For forty years I was grieved with that gen eration, And said, "It is a people who go astray in their hearts, And they do not know My ways.'

nkjv@Psalms:95:11 @ So I swore in My wrath, "They shall not ent er My rest.'

nkjv@Psalms:96:3 @ Declare His glory among the nations, His wond ers among all peoples.

nkjv@Psalms:96:8 @ Give to the LORD the glory due His name; Bring an off ering, and come into His courts.

nkjv@Psalms:97:7 @ Let all be put to shame who s erve carved images, Who boast of idols. Worship Him, all you gods.

nkjv@Psalms:97:8 @ Zion hears and is glad, And the daught ers of Judah rejoice Because of Your judgments, O LORD.

nkjv@Psalms:97:10 @ You who love the LORD, hate evil! He pres erves the souls of His saints; He deliv ers them out of the hand of the wicked.

nkjv@Psalms:98:3 @ He has rememb ered His m ercy and His faithfulness to the house of Israel; All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

nkjv@Psalms:98:8 @ Let the riv ers clap their hands; Let the hills be joyful togeth er before the LORD,

nkjv@Psalms:99:1 @ The LORD reigns; Let the peoples tremble! He dwells between the ch erubim; Let the earth be moved!

nkjv@Psalms:99:6 @ Moses and Aaron w ere among His priests, And Samuel was among those who called upon His name; They called upon the LORD, and He answ ered them.

nkjv@Psalms:99:8 @ You answ ered them, O LORD our God; You w ere to them God-Who-Forgives, Though You took vengeance on their deeds.

nkjv@Psalms:100:2 @ S erve the LORD with gladness; Come before His presence with singing.

nkjv@Psalms:100:4 @ Ent er into His gates with thanksgiving, And into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.

nkjv@Psalms:100:5 @ For the LORD is good; His m ercy is ev erlasting, And His truth endures to all gen erations.

nkjv@Psalms:101:1 @ I will sing of m ercy and justice; To You, O LORD, I will sing praises.

nkjv@Psalms:101:2 @ I will behave wisely in a p erfect way. Oh, when will You come to me? I will walk within my house with a p erfect heart.

nkjv@Psalms:101:4 @ A p erv erse heart shall depart from me; I will not know wickedness.

nkjv@Psalms:101:5 @ Whoev er secretly sland ers his neighbor, Him I will destroy; The one who has a haughty look and a proud heart, Him I will not endure.

nkjv@Psalms:101:6 @ My eyes shall be on the faithful of the land, That they may dwell with me; He who walks in a p erfect way, He shall s erve me.

nkjv@Psalms:101:8 @ Early I will destroy all the wicked of the land, That I may cut off all the evildo ers from the city of the LORD.

nkjv@Psalms:102:1 @ Hear my pray er, O LORD, And let my cry come to You.

nkjv@Psalms:102:2 @ Do not hide Your face from me in the day of my trouble; Incline Your ear to me; In the day that I call, answ er me speedily.

nkjv@Psalms:102:4 @ My heart is stricken and with ered like grass, So that I forget to eat my bread.

nkjv@Psalms:102:6 @ I am like a pelican of the wild erness; I am like an owl of the des ert.

nkjv@Psalms:102:8 @ My enemies reproach me all day long; Those who d eride me swear an oath against me.

nkjv@Psalms:102:11 @ My days are like a shadow that lengthens, And I with er away like grass.

nkjv@Psalms:102:12 @ But You, O LORD, shall endure forev er, And the remembrance of Your name to all gen erations.

nkjv@Psalms:102:13 @ You will arise and have m ercy on Zion; For the time to favor h er, Yes, the set time, has come.

nkjv@Psalms:102:14 @ For Your s ervants take pleasure in h er stones, And show favor to h er dust.

nkjv@Psalms:102:17 @ He shall regard the pray er of the destitute, And shall not despise their pray er.

nkjv@Psalms:102:18 @ This will be written for the gen eration to come, That a people yet to be created may praise the LORD.

nkjv@Psalms:102:20 @ To hear the groaning of the prison er, To release those appointed to death,

nkjv@Psalms:102:21 @ To declare the name of the LORD in Zion, And His praise in J erusalem,

nkjv@Psalms:102:22 @ When the peoples are gath ered togeth er, And the kingdoms, to s erve the LORD.

nkjv@Psalms:102:24 @ I said, "O my God, Do not take me away in the midst of my days; Your years are throughout all gen erations.

nkjv@Psalms:102:26 @ They will p erish, but You will endure; Yes, they will all grow old like a garment; Like a cloak You will change them, And they will be changed.

nkjv@Psalms:102:28 @ The children of Your s ervants will continue, And their descendants will be established before You."

nkjv@Psalms:103:4 @ Who redeems your life from destruction, Who crowns you with lovingkindness and tend er m ercies,

nkjv@Psalms:103:8 @ The LORD is m erciful and gracious, Slow to ang er, and abounding in m ercy.

nkjv@Psalms:103:9 @ He will not always strive with us, Nor will He keep His ang er forev er.

nkjv@Psalms:103:11 @ For as the heavens are high above the earth, So great is His m ercy toward those who fear Him;

nkjv@Psalms:103:13 @ As a fath er pities his children, So the LORD pities those who fear Him.

nkjv@Psalms:103:14 @ For He knows our frame; He rememb ers that we are dust.

nkjv@Psalms:103:15 @ As for man, his days are like grass; As a flow er of the field, so he flourishes.

nkjv@Psalms:103:16 @ For the wind passes ov er it, and it is gone, And its place rememb ers it no more.

nkjv@Psalms:103:17 @ But the m ercy of the LORD is from ev erlasting to ev erlasting On those who fear Him, And His righteousness to children's children,

nkjv@Psalms:103:18 @ To such as keep His covenant, And to those who rememb er His commandments to do them.

nkjv@Psalms:103:19 @ The LORD has established His throne in heaven, And His kingdom rules ov er all.

nkjv@Psalms:103:21 @ Bless the LORD, all you His hosts, You minist ers of His, who do His pleasure.

nkjv@Psalms:104:1 @ Bless the LORD, O my soul! O LORD my God, You are v ery great: You are clothed with honor and majesty,

nkjv@Psalms:104:2 @ Who cov er Yourself with light as with a garment, Who stretch out the heavens like a curtain.

nkjv@Psalms:104:3 @ He lays the beams of His upp er chamb ers in the wat ers, Who makes the clouds His chariot, Who walks on the wings of the wind,

nkjv@Psalms:104:4 @ Who makes His angels spirits, His minist ers a flame of fire.

nkjv@Psalms:104:5 @ You who laid the foundations of the earth, So that it should not be moved forev er,

nkjv@Psalms:104:6 @ You cov ered it with the deep as with a garment; The wat ers stood above the mountains.

nkjv@Psalms:104:7 @ At Your rebuke they fled; At the voice of Your thund er they hastened away.

nkjv@Psalms:104:8 @ They went up ov er the mountains; They went down into the valleys, To the place which You founded for them.

nkjv@Psalms:104:9 @ You have set a boundary that they may not pass ov er, That they may not return to cov er the earth.

nkjv@Psalms:104:11 @ They give drink to ev ery beast of the field; The wild donkeys quench their thirst.

nkjv@Psalms:104:13 @ He wat ers the hills from His upp er chamb ers; The earth is satisfied with the fruit of Your works.

nkjv@Psalms:104:14 @ He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, And vegetation for the s ervice of man, That he may bring forth food from the earth,

nkjv@Psalms:104:17 @ Wh ere the birds make their nests; The stork has h er home in the fir trees.

nkjv@Psalms:104:18 @ The high hills are for the wild goats; The cliffs are a refuge for the rock badg ers.

nkjv@Psalms:104:21 @ The young lions roar aft er their prey, And seek their food from God.

nkjv@Psalms:104:22 @ When the sun rises, they gath er togeth er And lie down in their dens.

nkjv@Psalms:104:25 @ This great and wide sea, In which are innum erable teeming things, Living things both small and great.

nkjv@Psalms:104:26 @ Th ere the ships sail about; Th ere is that Leviathan Which You have made to play th ere.

nkjv@Psalms:104:28 @ What You give them they gath er in; You open Your hand, they are filled with good.

nkjv@Psalms:104:31 @ May the glory of the LORD endure forev er; May the LORD rejoice in His works.

nkjv@Psalms:104:35 @ May sinn ers be consumed from the earth, And the wicked be no more. Bless the LORD, O my soul! Praise the LORD!

nkjv@Psalms:105:4 @ Seek the LORD and His strength; Seek His face ev ermore!

nkjv@Psalms:105:5 @ Rememb er His marvelous works which He has done, His wond ers, and the judgments of His mouth,

nkjv@Psalms:105:6 @ O seed of Abraham His s ervant, You children of Jacob, His chosen ones!

nkjv@Psalms:105:8 @ He rememb ers His covenant forev er, The word which He commanded, for a thousand gen erations,

nkjv@Psalms:105:10 @ And confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel as an ev erlasting covenant,

nkjv@Psalms:105:11 @ Saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan As the allotment of your inh eritance,"

nkjv@Psalms:105:12 @ When they w ere few in numb er, Indeed v ery few, and strang ers in it.

nkjv@Psalms:105:13 @ When they went from one nation to anoth er, From one kingdom to anoth er people,

nkjv@Psalms:105:14 @ He p ermitted no one to do them wrong; Yes, He rebuked kings for their sakes,

nkjv@Psalms:105:16 @ Moreov er He called for a famine in the land; He destroyed all the provision of bread.

nkjv@Psalms:105:18 @ They hurt his feet with fett ers, He was laid in irons.

nkjv@Psalms:105:20 @ The king sent and released him, The rul er of the people let him go free.

nkjv@Psalms:105:21 @ He made him lord of his house, And rul er of all his possessions,

nkjv@Psalms:105:22 @ To bind his princes at his pleasure, And teach his eld ers wisdom.

nkjv@Psalms:105:24 @ He increased His people greatly, And made them strong er than their enemies.

nkjv@Psalms:105:25 @ He turned their heart to hate His people, To deal craftily with His s ervants.

nkjv@Psalms:105:26 @ He sent Moses His s ervant, And Aaron whom He had chosen.

nkjv@Psalms:105:27 @ They p erformed His signs among them, And wond ers in the land of Ham.

nkjv@Psalms:105:29 @ He turned their wat ers into blood, And killed their fish.

nkjv@Psalms:105:30 @ Their land abounded with frogs, Even in the chamb ers of their kings.

nkjv@Psalms:105:31 @ He spoke, and th ere came swarms of flies, And lice in all their t erritory.

nkjv@Psalms:105:33 @ He struck their vines also, and their fig trees, And splint ered the trees of their t erritory.

nkjv@Psalms:105:34 @ He spoke, and locusts came, Young locusts without numb er,

nkjv@Psalms:105:37 @ He also brought them out with silv er and gold, And th ere was none feeble among His tribes.

nkjv@Psalms:105:39 @ He spread a cloud for a cov ering, And fire to give light in the night.

nkjv@Psalms:105:41 @ He opened the rock, and wat er gushed out; It ran in the dry places like a riv er.

nkjv@Psalms:105:42 @ For He rememb ered His holy promise, And Abraham His s ervant.

nkjv@Psalms:105:44 @ He gave them the lands of the Gentiles, And they inh erited the labor of the nations,

nkjv@Psalms:105:45 @ That they might obs erve His statutes And keep His laws. Praise the LORD!

nkjv@Psalms:106:1 @ Praise the LORD! Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good! For His m ercy endures forev er.

nkjv@Psalms:106:2 @ Who can utt er the mighty acts of the LORD? Who can declare all His praise?

nkjv@Psalms:106:4 @ Rememb er me, O LORD, with the favor You have toward Your people. Oh, visit me with Your salvation,

nkjv@Psalms:106:5 @ That I may see the benefit of Your chosen ones, That I may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, That I may glory with Your inh eritance.

nkjv@Psalms:106:6 @ We have sinned with our fath ers, We have committed iniquity, We have done wickedly.

nkjv@Psalms:106:7 @ Our fath ers in Egypt did not und erstand Your wond ers; They did not rememb er the multitude of Your m ercies, But rebelled by the sea--the Red Sea.

nkjv@Psalms:106:8 @ Nev ertheless He saved them for His name's sake, That He might make His mighty pow er known.

nkjv@Psalms:106:9 @ He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it dried up; So He led them through the depths, As through the wild erness.

nkjv@Psalms:106:11 @ The wat ers cov ered their enemies; Th ere was not one of them left.

nkjv@Psalms:106:14 @ But lusted exceedingly in the wild erness, And tested God in the des ert.

nkjv@Psalms:106:17 @ The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan, And cov ered the faction of Abiram.

nkjv@Psalms:106:23 @ Th erefore He said that He would destroy them, Had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach, To turn away His wrath, lest He destroy them.

nkjv@Psalms:106:26 @ Th erefore He raised His hand in an oath against them, To ov erthrow them in the wild erness,

nkjv@Psalms:106:27 @ To ov erthrow their descendants among the nations, And to scatt er them in the lands.

nkjv@Psalms:106:29 @ Thus they provoked Him to ang er with their deeds, And the plague broke out among them.

nkjv@Psalms:106:30 @ Then Phinehas stood up and int ervened, And the plague was stopped.

nkjv@Psalms:106:31 @ And that was accounted to him for righteousness To all gen erations forev ermore.

nkjv@Psalms:106:32 @ They ang ered Him also at the wat ers of strife, So that it went ill with Moses on account of them;

nkjv@Psalms:106:34 @ They did not destroy the peoples, Conc erning whom the LORD had commanded them,

nkjv@Psalms:106:36 @ They s erved their idols, Which became a snare to them.

nkjv@Psalms:106:37 @ They even sacrificed their sons And their daught ers to demons,

nkjv@Psalms:106:38 @ And shed innocent blood, The blood of their sons and daught ers, Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; And the land was polluted with blood.

nkjv@Psalms:106:39 @ Thus they w ere defiled by their own works, And played the harlot by their own deeds.

nkjv@Psalms:106:40 @ Th erefore the wrath of the LORD was kindled against His people, So that He abhorred His own inh eritance.

nkjv@Psalms:106:41 @ And He gave them into the hand of the Gentiles, And those who hated them ruled ov er them.

nkjv@Psalms:106:42 @ Their enemies also oppressed them, And they w ere brought into subjection und er their hand.

nkjv@Psalms:106:43 @ Many times He deliv ered them; But they rebelled in their counsel, And w ere brought low for their iniquity.

nkjv@Psalms:106:44 @ Nev ertheless He regarded their affliction, When He heard their cry;

nkjv@Psalms:106:45 @ And for their sake He rememb ered His covenant, And relented according to the multitude of His m ercies.

nkjv@Psalms:106:47 @ Save us, O LORD our God, And gath er us from among the Gentiles, To give thanks to Your holy name, To triumph in Your praise.

nkjv@Psalms:106:48 @ Blessed be the LORD God of Israel From ev erlasting to ev erlasting! And let all the people say, "Amen!" Praise the LORD!

nkjv@Psalms:107:1 @ Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good! For His m ercy endures forev er.

nkjv@Psalms:107:3 @ And gath ered out of the lands, From the east and from the west, From the north and from the south.

nkjv@Psalms:107:4 @ They wand ered in the wild erness in a desolate way; They found no city to dwell in.

nkjv@Psalms:107:6 @ Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, And He deliv ered them out of their distresses.

nkjv@Psalms:107:8 @ Oh, that men would give thanks to the LORD for His goodness, And for His wond erful works to the children of men!

nkjv@Psalms:107:12 @ Th erefore He brought down their heart with labor; They fell down, and th ere was none to help.

nkjv@Psalms:107:15 @ Oh, that men would give thanks to the LORD for His goodness, And for His wond erful works to the children of men!

nkjv@Psalms:107:17 @ Fools, because of their transgression, And because of their iniquities, w ere afflicted.

nkjv@Psalms:107:18 @ Their soul abhorred all mann er of food, And they drew near to the gates of death.

nkjv@Psalms:107:20 @ He sent His word and healed them, And deliv ered them from their destructions.

nkjv@Psalms:107:21 @ Oh, that men would give thanks to the LORD for His goodness, And for His wond erful works to the children of men!

nkjv@Psalms:107:23 @ Those who go down to the sea in ships, Who do business on great wat ers,

nkjv@Psalms:107:24 @ They see the works of the LORD, And His wond ers in the deep.

nkjv@Psalms:107:27 @ They reel to and fro, and stagg er like a drunken man, And are at their wits' end.

nkjv@Psalms:107:31 @ Oh, that men would give thanks to the LORD for His goodness, And for His wond erful works to the children of men!

nkjv@Psalms:107:32 @ Let them exalt Him also in the assembly of the people, And praise Him in the company of the eld ers.

nkjv@Psalms:107:33 @ He turns riv ers into a wild erness, And the wat ersprings into dry ground;

nkjv@Psalms:107:35 @ He turns a wild erness into pools of wat er, And dry land into wat ersprings.

nkjv@Psalms:107:36 @ Th ere He makes the hungry dwell, That they may establish a city for a dwelling place,

nkjv@Psalms:107:40 @ He pours contempt on princes, And causes them to wand er in the wild erness wh ere th ere is no way;

nkjv@Psalms:107:43 @ Whoev er is wise will obs erve these things, And they will und erstand the lovingkindness of the LORD.

nkjv@Psalms:108:4 @ For Your m ercy is great above the heavens, And Your truth reaches to the clouds.

nkjv@Psalms:108:6 @ That Your beloved may be deliv ered, Save with Your right hand, and hear me.

nkjv@Psalms:108:8 @ Gilead is Mine; Manasseh is Mine; Ephraim also is the helmet for My head; Judah is My lawgiv er.

nkjv@Psalms:108:9 @ Moab is My washpot; Ov er Edom I will cast My shoe; Ov er Philistia I will triumph."

nkjv@Psalms:109:4 @ In return for my love they are my accus ers, But I give myself to pray er.

nkjv@Psalms:109:6 @ Set a wicked man ov er him, And let an accus er stand at his right hand.

nkjv@Psalms:109:7 @ When he is judged, let him be found guilty, And let his pray er become sin.

nkjv@Psalms:109:8 @ Let his days be few, And let anoth er take his office.

nkjv@Psalms:109:9 @ Let his children be fath erless, And his wife a widow.

nkjv@Psalms:109:11 @ Let the creditor seize all that he has, And let strang ers plund er his labor.

nkjv@Psalms:109:12 @ Let th ere be none to extend m ercy to him, Nor let th ere be any to favor his fath erless children.

nkjv@Psalms:109:13 @ Let his post erity be cut off, And in the gen eration following let their name be blotted out.

nkjv@Psalms:109:14 @ Let the iniquity of his fath ers be rememb ered before the LORD, And let not the sin of his moth er be blotted out.

nkjv@Psalms:109:16 @ Because he did not rememb er to show m ercy, But p ersecuted the poor and needy man, That he might even slay the broken in heart.

nkjv@Psalms:109:18 @ As he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment, So let it ent er his body like wat er, And like oil into his bones.

nkjv@Psalms:109:19 @ Let it be to him like the garment which cov ers him, And for a belt with which he girds himself continually.

nkjv@Psalms:109:20 @ Let this be the LORD's reward to my accus ers, And to those who speak evil against my p erson.

nkjv@Psalms:109:21 @ But You, O GOD the Lord, Deal with me for Your name's sake; Because Your m ercy is good, deliv er me.

nkjv@Psalms:109:26 @ Help me, O LORD my God! Oh, save me according to Your m ercy,

nkjv@Psalms:109:28 @ Let them curse, but You bless; When they arise, let them be ashamed, But let Your s ervant rejoice.

nkjv@Psalms:109:29 @ Let my accus ers be clothed with shame, And let them cov er themselves with their own disgrace as with a mantle.

nkjv@Psalms:110:3 @ Your people shall be volunte ers In the day of Your pow er; In the beauties of holiness, from the womb of the morning, You have the dew of Your youth.

nkjv@Psalms:110:4 @ The LORD has sworn And will not relent, "You are a priest forev er According to the ord er of Melchizedek."

nkjv@Psalms:110:7 @ He shall drink of the brook by the wayside; Th erefore He shall lift up the head.

nkjv@Psalms:111:3 @ His work is honorable and glorious, And His righteousness endures forev er.

nkjv@Psalms:111:4 @ He has made His wond erful works to be rememb ered; The LORD is gracious and full of compassion.

nkjv@Psalms:111:5 @ He has given food to those who fear Him; He will ev er be mindful of His covenant.

nkjv@Psalms:111:6 @ He has declared to His people the pow er of His works, In giving them the h eritage of the nations.

nkjv@Psalms:111:7 @ The works of His hands are v erity and justice; All His precepts are sure.

nkjv@Psalms:111:8 @ They stand fast forev er and ev er, And are done in truth and uprightness.

nkjv@Psalms:111:9 @ He has sent redemption to His people; He has commanded His covenant forev er: Holy and awesome is His name.

nkjv@Psalms:111:10 @ The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; A good und erstanding have all those who do His commandments. His praise endures forev er.

nkjv@Psalms:112:2 @ His descendants will be mighty on earth; The gen eration of the upright will be blessed.

nkjv@Psalms:112:3 @ Wealth and riches will be in his house, And his righteousness endures forev er.

nkjv@Psalms:112:4 @ Unto the upright th ere arises light in the darkness; He is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.

nkjv@Psalms:112:6 @ Surely he will nev er be shaken; The righteous will be in ev erlasting remembrance.

nkjv@Psalms:112:9 @ He has disp ersed abroad, He has given to the poor; His righteousness endures forev er; His horn will be exalted with honor.

nkjv@Psalms:112:10 @ The wicked will see it and be grieved; He will gnash his teeth and melt away; The desire of the wicked shall p erish.

nkjv@Psalms:113:1 @ Praise the LORD! Praise, O s ervants of the LORD, Praise the name of the LORD!

nkjv@Psalms:113:2 @ Blessed be the name of the LORD From this time forth and forev ermore!

nkjv@Psalms:113:9 @ He grants the barren woman a home, Like a joyful moth er of children. Praise the LORD!

nkjv@Psalms:114:8 @ Who turned the rock into a pool of wat er, The flint into a fountain of wat ers.

nkjv@Psalms:115:1 @ Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, But to Your name give glory, Because of Your m ercy, Because of Your truth.

nkjv@Psalms:115:2 @ Why should the Gentiles say, "So wh ere is their God?"

nkjv@Psalms:115:3 @ But our God is in heaven; He does whatev er He pleases.

nkjv@Psalms:115:4 @ Their idols are silv er and gold, The work of men's hands.

nkjv@Psalms:115:7 @ They have hands, but they do not handle; Feet they have, but they do not walk; Nor do they mutt er through their throat.

nkjv@Psalms:115:8 @ Those who make them are like them; So is ev eryone who trusts in them.

nkjv@Psalms:115:18 @ But we will bless the LORD From this time forth and forev ermore. Praise the LORD!

nkjv@Psalms:116:2 @ Because He has inclined His ear to me, Th erefore I will call upon Him as long as I live.

nkjv@Psalms:116:4 @ Then I called upon the name of the LORD: "O LORD, I implore You, deliv er my soul!"

nkjv@Psalms:116:5 @ Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; Yes, our God is m erciful.

nkjv@Psalms:116:6 @ The LORD pres erves the simple; I was brought low, and He saved me.

nkjv@Psalms:116:8 @ For You have deliv ered my soul from death, My eyes from tears, And my feet from falling.

nkjv@Psalms:116:10 @ I believed, th erefore I spoke, "I am greatly afflicted."

nkjv@Psalms:116:12 @ What shall I rend er to the LORD For all His benefits toward me?

nkjv@Psalms:116:16 @ O LORD, truly I am Your s ervant; I am Your s ervant, the son of Your maids ervant; You have loosed my bonds.

nkjv@Psalms:116:17 @ I will off er to You the sacrifice of thanksgiving, And will call upon the name of the LORD.

nkjv@Psalms:116:19 @ In the courts of the LORD's house, In the midst of you, O J erusalem. Praise the LORD!

nkjv@Psalms:117:2 @ For His m erciful kindness is great toward us, And the truth of the LORD endures forev er. Praise the LORD!

nkjv@Psalms:118:1 @ Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good! For His m ercy endures forev er.

nkjv@Psalms:118:2 @ Let Israel now say, "His m ercy endures forev er."

nkjv@Psalms:118:3 @ Let the house of Aaron now say, "His m ercy endures forev er."

nkjv@Psalms:118:4 @ Let those who fear the LORD now say, "His m ercy endures forev er."

nkjv@Psalms:118:5 @ I called on the LORD in distress; The LORD answ ered me and set me in a broad place.

nkjv@Psalms:118:7 @ The LORD is for me among those who help me; Th erefore I shall see my desire on those who hate me.

nkjv@Psalms:118:8 @ It is bett er to trust in the LORD Than to put confidence in man.

nkjv@Psalms:118:9 @ It is bett er to trust in the LORD Than to put confidence in princes.

nkjv@Psalms:118:12 @ They surrounded me like bees; They w ere quenched like a fire of thorns; For in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.

nkjv@Psalms:118:18 @ The LORD has chastened me sev erely, But He has not given me ov er to death.

nkjv@Psalms:118:20 @ This is the gate of the LORD, Through which the righteous shall ent er.

nkjv@Psalms:118:21 @ I will praise You, For You have answ ered me, And have become my salvation.

nkjv@Psalms:118:22 @ The stone which the build ers rejected Has become the chief corn erstone.

nkjv@Psalms:118:25 @ Save now, I pray, O LORD; O LORD, I pray, send now prosp erity.

nkjv@Psalms:118:29 @ Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good! For His m ercy endures forev er.

nkjv@Psalms:119:5 @ Oh, that my ways w ere directed To keep Your statutes!

nkjv@Psalms:119:8 @ I will keep Your statutes; Oh, do not forsake me utt erly!

nkjv@Psalms:119:10 @ With my whole heart I have sought You; Oh, let me not wand er from Your commandments!

nkjv@Psalms:119:17 @ Deal bountifully with Your s ervant, That I may live and keep Your word.

nkjv@Psalms:119:19 @ I am a strang er in the earth; Do not hide Your commandments from me.

nkjv@Psalms:119:23 @ Princes also sit and speak against me, But Your s ervant meditates on Your statutes.

nkjv@Psalms:119:26 @ I have declared my ways, and You answ ered me; Teach me Your statutes.

nkjv@Psalms:119:27 @ Make me und erstand the way of Your precepts; So shall I meditate on Your wond erful works.

nkjv@Psalms:119:34 @ Give me und erstanding, and I shall keep Your law; Indeed, I shall obs erve it with my whole heart.

nkjv@Psalms:119:38 @ Establish Your word to Your s ervant, Who is devoted to fearing You.

nkjv@Psalms:119:41 @ Let Your m ercies come also to me, O LORD-- Your salvation according to Your word.

nkjv@Psalms:119:42 @ So shall I have an answ er for him who reproaches me, For I trust in Your word.

nkjv@Psalms:119:43 @ And take not the word of truth utt erly out of my mouth, For I have hoped in Your ordinances.

nkjv@Psalms:119:44 @ So shall I keep Your law continually, Forev er and ev er.

nkjv@Psalms:119:45 @ And I will walk at lib erty, For I seek Your precepts.

nkjv@Psalms:119:49 @ Rememb er the word to Your s ervant, Upon which You have caused me to hope.

nkjv@Psalms:119:51 @ The proud have me in great d erision, Yet I do not turn aside from Your law.

nkjv@Psalms:119:52 @ I rememb ered Your judgments of old, O LORD, And have comforted myself.

nkjv@Psalms:119:55 @ I rememb er Your name in the night, O LORD, And I keep Your law.

nkjv@Psalms:119:58 @ I entreated Your favor with my whole heart; Be m erciful to me according to Your word.

nkjv@Psalms:119:64 @ The earth, O LORD, is full of Your m ercy; Teach me Your statutes.

nkjv@Psalms:119:65 @ You have dealt well with Your s ervant, O LORD, according to Your word.

nkjv@Psalms:119:72 @ The law of Your mouth is bett er to me Than thousands of coins of gold and silv er.

nkjv@Psalms:119:73 @ Your hands have made me and fashioned me; Give me und erstanding, that I may learn Your commandments.

nkjv@Psalms:119:76 @ Let, I pray, Your m erciful kindness be for my comfort, According to Your word to Your s ervant.

nkjv@Psalms:119:77 @ Let Your tend er m ercies come to me, that I may live; For Your law is my delight.

nkjv@Psalms:119:84 @ How many are the days of Your s ervant? When will You execute judgment on those who p ersecute me?

nkjv@Psalms:119:86 @ All Your commandments are faithful; They p ersecute me wrongfully; Help me!

nkjv@Psalms:119:89 @ Forev er, O LORD, Your word is settled in heaven.

nkjv@Psalms:119:90 @ Your faithfulness endures to all gen erations; You established the earth, and it abides.

nkjv@Psalms:119:91 @ They continue this day according to Your ordinances, For all are Your s ervants.

nkjv@Psalms:119:92 @ Unless Your law had been my delight, I would then have p erished in my affliction.

nkjv@Psalms:119:93 @ I will nev er forget Your precepts, For by them You have given me life.

nkjv@Psalms:119:95 @ The wicked wait for me to destroy me, But I will consid er Your testimonies.

nkjv@Psalms:119:96 @ I have seen the consummation of all p erfection, But Your commandment is exceedingly broad.

nkjv@Psalms:119:98 @ You, through Your commandments, make me wis er than my enemies; For they are ev er with me.

nkjv@Psalms:119:99 @ I have more und erstanding than all my teach ers, For Your testimonies are my meditation.

nkjv@Psalms:119:100 @ I und erstand more than the ancients, Because I keep Your precepts.

nkjv@Psalms:119:101 @ I have restrained my feet from ev ery evil way, That I may keep Your word.

nkjv@Psalms:119:103 @ How sweet are Your words to my taste, Sweet er than honey to my mouth!

nkjv@Psalms:119:104 @ Through Your precepts I get und erstanding; Th erefore I hate ev ery false way.

nkjv@Psalms:119:107 @ I am afflicted v ery much; Revive me, O LORD, according to Your word.

nkjv@Psalms:119:108 @ Accept, I pray, the freewill off erings of my mouth, O LORD, And teach me Your judgments.

nkjv@Psalms:119:111 @ Your testimonies I have taken as a h eritage forev er, For they are the rejoicing of my heart.

nkjv@Psalms:119:112 @ I have inclined my heart to p erform Your statutes Forev er, to the v ery end.

nkjv@Psalms:119:115 @ Depart from me, you evildo ers, For I will keep the commandments of my God!

nkjv@Psalms:119:117 @ Hold me up, and I shall be safe, And I shall obs erve Your statutes continually.

nkjv@Psalms:119:119 @ You put away all the wicked of the earth like dross; Th erefore I love Your testimonies.

nkjv@Psalms:119:122 @ Be surety for Your s ervant for good; Do not let the proud oppress me.

nkjv@Psalms:119:124 @ Deal with Your s ervant according to Your m ercy, And teach me Your statutes.

nkjv@Psalms:119:125 @ I am Your s ervant; Give me und erstanding, That I may know Your testimonies.

nkjv@Psalms:119:127 @ Th erefore I love Your commandments More than gold, yes, than fine gold!

nkjv@Psalms:119:128 @ Th erefore all Your precepts conc erning all things I consid er to be right; I hate ev ery false way.

nkjv@Psalms:119:129 @ Your testimonies are wond erful; Th erefore my soul keeps them.

nkjv@Psalms:119:130 @ The entrance of Your words gives light; It gives und erstanding to the simple.

nkjv@Psalms:119:132 @ Look upon me and be m erciful to me, As Your custom is toward those who love Your name.

nkjv@Psalms:119:133 @ Direct my steps by Your word, And let no iniquity have dominion ov er me.

nkjv@Psalms:119:135 @ Make Your face shine upon Your s ervant, And teach me Your statutes.

nkjv@Psalms:119:136 @ Riv ers of wat er run down from my eyes, Because men do not keep Your law.

nkjv@Psalms:119:138 @ Your testimonies, which You have commanded, Are righteous and v ery faithful.

nkjv@Psalms:119:140 @ Your word is v ery pure; Th erefore Your s ervant loves it.

nkjv@Psalms:119:142 @ Your righteousness is an ev erlasting righteousness, And Your law is truth.

nkjv@Psalms:119:143 @ Trouble and anguish have ov ertaken me, Yet Your commandments are my delights.

nkjv@Psalms:119:144 @ The righteousness of Your testimonies is ev erlasting; Give me und erstanding, and I shall live.

nkjv@Psalms:119:150 @ They draw near who follow aft er wickedness; They are far from Your law.

nkjv@Psalms:119:152 @ Conc erning Your testimonies, I have known of old that You have founded them forev er.

nkjv@Psalms:119:153 @ Consid er my affliction and deliv er me, For I do not forget Your law.

nkjv@Psalms:119:156 @ Great are Your tend er m ercies, O LORD; Revive me according to Your judgments.

nkjv@Psalms:119:157 @ Many are my p ersecutors and my enemies, Yet I do not turn from Your testimonies.

nkjv@Psalms:119:158 @ I see the treach erous, and am disgusted, Because they do not keep Your word.

nkjv@Psalms:119:159 @ Consid er how I love Your precepts; Revive me, O LORD, according to Your lovingkindness.

nkjv@Psalms:119:160 @ The entirety of Your word is truth, And ev ery one of Your righteous judgments endures forev er.

nkjv@Psalms:119:161 @ Princes p ersecute me without a cause, But my heart stands in awe of Your word.

nkjv@Psalms:119:169 @ Let my cry come before You, O LORD; Give me und erstanding according to Your word.

nkjv@Psalms:119:170 @ Let my supplication come before You; Deliv er me according to Your word.

nkjv@Psalms:119:171 @ My lips shall utt er praise, For You teach me Your statutes.

nkjv@Psalms:119:176 @ I have gone astray like a lost sheep; Seek Your s ervant, For I do not forget Your commandments.

nkjv@Psalms:120:2 @ Deliv er my soul, O LORD, from lying lips And from a deceitful tongue.

nkjv@Psalms:121:3 @ He will not allow your foot to be moved; He who keeps you will not slumb er.

nkjv@Psalms:121:4 @ Behold, He who keeps Israel Shall neith er slumb er nor sleep.

nkjv@Psalms:121:5 @ The LORD is your keep er; The LORD is your shade at your right hand.

nkjv@Psalms:121:7 @ The LORD shall pres erve you from all evil; He shall pres erve your soul.

nkjv@Psalms:121:8 @ The LORD shall pres erve your going out and your coming in From this time forth, and even forev ermore.

nkjv@Psalms:122:2 @ Our feet have been standing Within your gates, O J erusalem!

nkjv@Psalms:122:3 @ J erusalem is built As a city that is compact togeth er,

nkjv@Psalms:122:4 @ Wh ere the tribes go up, The tribes of the LORD, To the Testimony of Israel, To give thanks to the name of the LORD.

nkjv@Psalms:122:5 @ For thrones are set th ere for judgment, The thrones of the house of David.

nkjv@Psalms:122:6 @ Pray for the peace of J erusalem: "May they prosp er who love you.

nkjv@Psalms:122:7 @ Peace be within your walls, Prosp erity within your palaces."

nkjv@Psalms:123:2 @ Behold, as the eyes of s ervants look to the hand of their mast ers, As the eyes of a maid to the hand of h er mistress, So our eyes look to the LORD our God, Until He has m ercy on us.

nkjv@Psalms:123:3 @ Have m ercy on us, O LORD, have m ercy on us! For we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

nkjv@Psalms:124:4 @ Then the wat ers would have ov erwhelmed us, The stream would have gone ov er our soul;

nkjv@Psalms:124:5 @ Then the swollen wat ers Would have gone ov er our soul."

nkjv@Psalms:124:7 @ Our soul has escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowl ers; The snare is broken, and we have escaped.

nkjv@Psalms:125:1 @ Those who trust in the LORD Are like Mount Zion, Which cannot be moved, but abides forev er.

nkjv@Psalms:125:2 @ As the mountains surround J erusalem, So the LORD surrounds His people From this time forth and forev er.

nkjv@Psalms:125:3 @ For the scept er of wickedness shall not rest On the land allotted to the righteous, Lest the righteous reach out their hands to iniquity.

nkjv@Psalms:125:5 @ As for such as turn aside to their crooked ways, The LORD shall lead them away With the work ers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel!

nkjv@Psalms:126:1 @ When the LORD brought back the captivity of Zion, We w ere like those who dream.

nkjv@Psalms:126:2 @ Then our mouth was filled with laught er, And our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, "The LORD has done great things for them."

nkjv@Psalms:127:3 @ Behold, children are a h eritage from the LORD, The fruit of the womb is a reward.

nkjv@Psalms:127:5 @ Happy is the man who has his quiv er full of them; They shall not be ashamed, But shall speak with their enemies in the gate.

nkjv@Psalms:128:1 @ Blessed is ev ery one who fears the LORD, Who walks in His ways.

nkjv@Psalms:128:3 @ Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine In the v ery heart of your house, Your children like olive plants All around your table.

nkjv@Psalms:128:5 @ The LORD bless you out of Zion, And may you see the good of J erusalem All the days of your life.

nkjv@Psalms:129:3 @ The plow ers plowed on my back; They made their furrows long."

nkjv@Psalms:129:6 @ Let them be as the grass on the housetops, Which with ers before it grows up,

nkjv@Psalms:129:7 @ With which the reap er does not fill his hand, Nor he who binds sheaves, his arms.

nkjv@Psalms:129:8 @ Neith er let those who pass by them say, "The blessing of the LORD be upon you; We bless you in the name of the LORD!"

nkjv@Psalms:130:4 @ But th ere is forgiveness with You, That You may be feared.

nkjv@Psalms:130:7 @ O Israel, hope in the LORD; For with the LORD th ere is m ercy, And with Him is abundant redemption.

nkjv@Psalms:131:1 @ LORD, my heart is not haughty, Nor my eyes lofty. Neith er do I conc ern myself with great matt ers, Nor with things too profound for me.

nkjv@Psalms:131:2 @ Surely I have calmed and quieted my soul, Like a weaned child with his moth er; Like a weaned child is my soul within me.

nkjv@Psalms:131:3 @ O Israel, hope in the LORD From this time forth and forev er.

nkjv@Psalms:132:1 @ LORD, rememb er David And all his afflictions;

nkjv@Psalms:132:3 @ "Surely I will not go into the chamb er of my house, Or go up to the comfort of my bed;

nkjv@Psalms:132:4 @ I will not give sleep to my eyes Or slumb er to my eyelids,

nkjv@Psalms:132:7 @ Let us go into His tab ernacle; Let us worship at His footstool.

nkjv@Psalms:132:10 @ For Your s ervant David's sake, Do not turn away the face of Your Anointed.

nkjv@Psalms:132:12 @ If your sons will keep My covenant And My testimony which I shall teach them, Their sons also shall sit upon your throne forev ermore."

nkjv@Psalms:132:14 @ "This is My resting place forev er; H ere I will dwell, for I have desired it.

nkjv@Psalms:132:15 @ I will abundantly bless h er provision; I will satisfy h er poor with bread.

nkjv@Psalms:132:16 @ I will also clothe h er priests with salvation, And h er saints shall shout aloud for joy.

nkjv@Psalms:132:17 @ Th ere I will make the horn of David grow; I will prepare a lamp for My Anointed.

nkjv@Psalms:133:1 @ Behold, how good and how pleasant it is For brethren to dwell togeth er in unity!

nkjv@Psalms:133:3 @ It is like the dew of H ermon, Descending upon the mountains of Zion; For th ere the LORD commanded the blessing-- Life forev ermore.

nkjv@Psalms:134:1 @ Behold, bless the LORD, All you s ervants of the LORD, Who by night stand in the house of the LORD!

nkjv@Psalms:135:1 @ Praise the LORD! Praise the name of the LORD; Praise Him, O you s ervants of the LORD!

nkjv@Psalms:135:6 @ Whatev er the LORD pleases He does, In heaven and in earth, In the seas and in all deep places.

nkjv@Psalms:135:9 @ He sent signs and wond ers into the midst of you, O Egypt, Upon Pharaoh and all his s ervants.

nkjv@Psalms:135:12 @ And gave their land as a h eritage, A h eritage to Israel His people.

nkjv@Psalms:135:13 @ Your name, O LORD, endures forev er, Your fame, O LORD, throughout all gen erations.

nkjv@Psalms:135:14 @ For the LORD will judge His people, And He will have compassion on His s ervants.

nkjv@Psalms:135:15 @ The idols of the nations are silv er and gold, The work of men's hands.

nkjv@Psalms:135:17 @ They have ears, but they do not hear; Nor is th ere any breath in their mouths.

nkjv@Psalms:135:18 @ Those who make them are like them; So is ev eryone who trusts in them.

nkjv@Psalms:135:21 @ Blessed be the LORD out of Zion, Who dwells in J erusalem! Praise the LORD!

nkjv@Psalms:136:1 @ Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good! For His m ercy endures forev er.

nkjv@Psalms:136:2 @ Oh, give thanks to the God of gods! For His m ercy endures forev er.

nkjv@Psalms:136:3 @ Oh, give thanks to the Lord of lords! For His m ercy endures forev er:

nkjv@Psalms:136:4 @ To Him who alone does great wond ers, For His m ercy endures forev er;

nkjv@Psalms:136:5 @ To Him who by wisdom made the heavens, For His m ercy endures forev er;

nkjv@Psalms:136:6 @ To Him who laid out the earth above the wat ers, For His m ercy endures forev er;

nkjv@Psalms:136:7 @ To Him who made great lights, For His m ercy endures forev er--

nkjv@Psalms:136:8 @ The sun to rule by day, For His m ercy endures forev er;

nkjv@Psalms:136:9 @ The moon and stars to rule by night, For His m ercy endures forev er.

nkjv@Psalms:136:10 @ To Him who struck Egypt in their firstborn, For His m ercy endures forev er;

nkjv@Psalms:136:11 @ And brought out Israel from among them, For His m ercy endures forev er;

nkjv@Psalms:136:12 @ With a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm, For His m ercy endures forev er;

nkjv@Psalms:136:13 @ To Him who divided the Red Sea in two, For His m ercy endures forev er;

nkjv@Psalms:136:14 @ And made Israel pass through the midst of it, For His m ercy endures forev er;

nkjv@Psalms:136:15 @ But ov erthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea, For His m ercy endures forev er;

nkjv@Psalms:136:16 @ To Him who led His people through the wild erness, For His m ercy endures forev er;

nkjv@Psalms:136:17 @ To Him who struck down great kings, For His m ercy endures forev er;

nkjv@Psalms:136:18 @ And slew famous kings, For His m ercy endures forev er--

nkjv@Psalms:136:19 @ Sihon king of the Amorites, For His m ercy endures forev er;

nkjv@Psalms:136:20 @ And Og king of Bashan, For His m ercy endures forev er--

nkjv@Psalms:136:21 @ And gave their land as a h eritage, For His m ercy endures forev er;

nkjv@Psalms:136:22 @ A h eritage to Israel His s ervant, For His m ercy endures forev er.

nkjv@Psalms:136:23 @ Who rememb ered us in our lowly state, For His m ercy endures forev er;

nkjv@Psalms:136:24 @ And rescued us from our enemies, For His m ercy endures forev er;

nkjv@Psalms:136:25 @ Who gives food to all flesh, For His m ercy endures forev er.

nkjv@Psalms:136:26 @ Oh, give thanks to the God of heaven! For His m ercy endures forev er.

nkjv@Psalms:137:1 @ By the riv ers of Babylon, Th ere we sat down, yea, we wept When we rememb ered Zion.

nkjv@Psalms:137:3 @ For th ere those who carried us away captive asked of us a song, And those who plund ered us requested mirth, Saying, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"

nkjv@Psalms:137:5 @ If I forget you, O J erusalem, Let my right hand forget its skill!

nkjv@Psalms:137:6 @ If I do not rememb er you, Let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth-- If I do not exalt J erusalem Above my chief joy.

nkjv@Psalms:137:7 @ Rememb er, O LORD, against the sons of Edom The day of J erusalem, Who said, "Raze it, raze it, To its v ery foundation!"

nkjv@Psalms:137:8 @ O daught er of Babylon, who are to be destroyed, Happy the one who repays you as you have s erved us!

nkjv@Psalms:138:3 @ In the day when I cried out, You answ ered me, And made me bold with strength in my soul.

nkjv@Psalms:138:8 @ The LORD will p erfect that which conc erns me; Your m ercy, O LORD, endures forev er; Do not forsake the works of Your hands.

nkjv@Psalms:139:2 @ You know my sitting down and my rising up; You und erstand my thought afar off.

nkjv@Psalms:139:4 @ For th ere is not a word on my tongue, But behold, O LORD, You know it altogeth er.

nkjv@Psalms:139:6 @ Such knowledge is too wond erful for me; It is high, I cannot attain it.

nkjv@Psalms:139:7 @ Wh ere can I go from Your Spirit? Or wh ere can I flee from Your presence?

nkjv@Psalms:139:8 @ If I ascend into heaven, You are th ere; If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are th ere.

nkjv@Psalms:139:9 @ If I take the wings of the morning, And dwell in the utt ermost parts of the sea,

nkjv@Psalms:139:10 @ Even th ere Your hand shall lead me, And Your right hand shall hold me.

nkjv@Psalms:139:13 @ For You formed my inward parts; You cov ered me in my moth er's womb.

nkjv@Psalms:139:14 @ I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wond erfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows v ery well.

nkjv@Psalms:139:16 @ Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all w ere written, The days fashioned for me, When as yet th ere w ere none of them.

nkjv@Psalms:139:18 @ If I should count them, they would be more in numb er than the sand; When I awake, I am still with You.

nkjv@Psalms:139:19 @ Oh, that You would slay the wicked, O God! Depart from me, th erefore, you bloodthirsty men.

nkjv@Psalms:139:22 @ I hate them with p erfect hatred; I count them my enemies.

nkjv@Psalms:139:24 @ And see if th ere is any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way ev erlasting.

nkjv@Psalms:140:1 @ Deliv er me, O LORD, from evil men; Pres erve me from violent men,

nkjv@Psalms:140:2 @ Who plan evil things in their hearts; They continually gath er togeth er for war.

nkjv@Psalms:140:3 @ They sharpen their tongues like a s erpent; The poison of asps is und er their lips.Selah

nkjv@Psalms:140:4 @ Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; Pres erve me from violent men, Who have purposed to make my steps stumble.

nkjv@Psalms:140:7 @ O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, You have cov ered my head in the day of battle.

nkjv@Psalms:140:8 @ Do not grant, O LORD, the desires of the wicked; Do not furth er his wicked scheme, Lest they be exalted.Selah

nkjv@Psalms:140:9 @ "As for the head of those who surround me, Let the evil of their lips cov er them;

nkjv@Psalms:140:11 @ Let not a sland er er be established in the earth; Let evil hunt the violent man to ov erthrow him."

nkjv@Psalms:141:2 @ Let my pray er be set before You as incense, The lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.

nkjv@Psalms:141:3 @ Set a guard, O LORD, ov er my mouth; Keep watch ov er the door of my lips.

nkjv@Psalms:141:5 @ Let the righteous strike me; It shall be a kindness. And let him rebuke me; It shall be as excellent oil; Let my head not refuse it. For still my pray er is against the deeds of the wicked.

nkjv@Psalms:141:6 @ Their judges are ov erthrown by the sides of the cliff, And they hear my words, for they are sweet.

nkjv@Psalms:141:7 @ Our bones are scatt ered at the mouth of the grave, As when one plows and breaks up the earth.

nkjv@Psalms:141:9 @ Keep me from the snares they have laid for me, And from the traps of the work ers of iniquity.

nkjv@Psalms:142:3 @ When my spirit was ov erwhelmed within me, Then You knew my path. In the way in which I walk They have secretly set a snare for me.

nkjv@Psalms:142:4 @ Look on my right hand and see, For th ere is no one who acknowledges me; Refuge has failed me; No one cares for my soul.

nkjv@Psalms:142:6 @ Attend to my cry, For I am brought v ery low; Deliv er me from my p ersecutors, For they are strong er than I.

nkjv@Psalms:143:1 @ Hear my pray er, O LORD, Give ear to my supplications! In Your faithfulness answ er me, And in Your righteousness.

nkjv@Psalms:143:2 @ Do not ent er into judgment with Your s ervant, For in Your sight no one living is righteous.

nkjv@Psalms:143:3 @ For the enemy has p ersecuted my soul; He has crushed my life to the ground; He has made me dwell in darkness, Like those who have long been dead.

nkjv@Psalms:143:4 @ Th erefore my spirit is ov erwhelmed within me; My heart within me is distressed.

nkjv@Psalms:143:5 @ I rememb er the days of old; I meditate on all Your works; I muse on the work of Your hands.

nkjv@Psalms:143:7 @ Answ er me speedily, O LORD; My spirit fails! Do not hide Your face from me, Lest I be like those who go down into the pit.

nkjv@Psalms:143:9 @ Deliv er me, O LORD, from my enemies; In You I take shelt er.

nkjv@Psalms:143:12 @ In Your m ercy cut off my enemies, And destroy all those who afflict my soul; For I am Your s ervant.

nkjv@Psalms:144:1 @ Blessed be the LORD my Rock, Who trains my hands for war, And my fing ers for battle--

nkjv@Psalms:144:2 @ My lovingkindness and my fortress, My high tow er and my deliv er er, My shield and the One in whom I take refuge, Who subdues my people und er me.

nkjv@Psalms:144:6 @ Flash forth lightning and scatt er them; Shoot out Your arrows and destroy them.

nkjv@Psalms:144:7 @ Stretch out Your hand from above; Rescue me and deliv er me out of great wat ers, From the hand of foreign ers,

nkjv@Psalms:144:10 @ The One who gives salvation to kings, Who deliv ers David His s ervant From the deadly sword.

nkjv@Psalms:144:11 @ Rescue me and deliv er me from the hand of foreign ers, Whose mouth speaks lying words, And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood--

nkjv@Psalms:144:12 @ That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; That our daught ers may be as pillars, Sculptured in palace style;

nkjv@Psalms:144:14 @ That our oxen may be well laden; That th ere be no breaking in or going out; That th ere be no outcry in our streets.

nkjv@Psalms:145:1 @ I will extol You, my God, O King; And I will bless Your name forev er and ev er.

nkjv@Psalms:145:2 @ Ev ery day I will bless You, And I will praise Your name forev er and ev er.

nkjv@Psalms:145:4 @ One gen eration shall praise Your works to anoth er, And shall declare Your mighty acts.

nkjv@Psalms:145:7 @ They shall utt er the memory of Your great goodness, And shall sing of Your righteousness.

nkjv@Psalms:145:8 @ The LORD is gracious and full of compassion, Slow to ang er and great in m ercy.

nkjv@Psalms:145:9 @ The LORD is good to all, And His tend er m ercies are ov er all His works.

nkjv@Psalms:145:11 @ They shall speak of the glory of Your kingdom, And talk of Your pow er,

nkjv@Psalms:145:13 @ Your kingdom is an ev erlasting kingdom, And Your dominion endures throughout all gen erations.

nkjv@Psalms:145:16 @ You open Your hand And satisfy the desire of ev ery living thing.

nkjv@Psalms:145:20 @ The LORD pres erves all who love Him, But all the wicked He will destroy.

nkjv@Psalms:145:21 @ My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD, And all flesh shall bless His holy name Forev er and ev er.

nkjv@Psalms:146:3 @ Do not put your trust in princes, Nor in a son of man, in whom th ere is no help.

nkjv@Psalms:146:4 @ His spirit departs, he returns to his earth; In that v ery day his plans p erish.

nkjv@Psalms:146:6 @ Who made heaven and earth, The sea, and all that is in them; Who keeps truth forev er,

nkjv@Psalms:146:7 @ Who executes justice for the oppressed, Who gives food to the hungry. The LORD gives freedom to the prison ers.

nkjv@Psalms:146:9 @ The LORD watches ov er the strang ers; He relieves the fath erless and widow; But the way of the wicked He turns upside down.

nkjv@Psalms:146:10 @ The LORD shall reign forev er-- Your God, O Zion, to all gen erations. Praise the LORD!

nkjv@Psalms:147:2 @ The LORD builds up J erusalem; He gath ers togeth er the outcasts of Israel.

nkjv@Psalms:147:4 @ He counts the numb er of the stars; He calls them all by name.

nkjv@Psalms:147:5 @ Great is our Lord, and mighty in pow er; His und erstanding is infinite.

nkjv@Psalms:147:8 @ Who cov ers the heavens with clouds, Who prepares rain for the earth, Who makes grass to grow on the mountains.

nkjv@Psalms:147:11 @ The LORD takes pleasure in those who fear Him, In those who hope in His m ercy.

nkjv@Psalms:147:12 @ Praise the LORD, O J erusalem! Praise your God, O Zion!

nkjv@Psalms:147:14 @ He makes peace in your bord ers, And fills you with the finest wheat.

nkjv@Psalms:147:15 @ He sends out His command to the earth; His word runs v ery swiftly.

nkjv@Psalms:147:16 @ He gives snow like wool; He scatt ers the frost like ashes;

nkjv@Psalms:147:18 @ He sends out His word and melts them; He causes His wind to blow, and the wat ers flow.

nkjv@Psalms:148:4 @ Praise Him, you heavens of heavens, And you wat ers above the heavens!

nkjv@Psalms:148:5 @ Let them praise the name of the LORD, For He commanded and they w ere created.

nkjv@Psalms:148:6 @ He also established them forev er and ev er; He made a decree which shall not pass away.

nkjv@Psalms:149:2 @ Let Israel rejoice in their Mak er; Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

nkjv@Psalms:149:8 @ To bind their kings with chains, And their nobles with fett ers of iron;

nkjv@Psalms:150:6 @ Let ev erything that has breath praise the LORD. Praise the LORD!

nkjv@Prov erbs:1:1 @ The prov erbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel:

nkjv@Prov erbs:1:2 @ To know wisdom and instruction, To p erceive the words of und erstanding,

nkjv@Prov erbs:1:3 @ To receive the instruction of wisdom, Justice, judgment, and equity;

nkjv@Prov erbs:1:4 @ To give prudence to the simple, To the young man knowledge and discretion--

nkjv@Prov erbs:1:5 @ A wise man will hear and increase learning, And a man of und erstanding will attain wise counsel,

nkjv@Prov erbs:1:6 @ To und erstand a prov erb and an enigma, The words of the wise and their riddles.

nkjv@Prov erbs:1:7 @ The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, But fools despise wisdom and instruction.

nkjv@Prov erbs:1:8 @ My son, hear the instruction of your fath er, And do not forsake the law of your moth er;

nkjv@Prov erbs:1:9 @ For they will be a graceful ornament on your head, And chains about your neck.

nkjv@Prov erbs:1:10 @ My son, if sinn ers entice you, Do not consent.

nkjv@Prov erbs:1:11 @ If they say, "Come with us, Let us lie in wait to shed blood; Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;

nkjv@Prov erbs:1:12 @ Let us swallow them alive like Sheol, And whole, like those who go down to the Pit;

nkjv@Prov erbs:1:13 @ We shall find all kinds of precious possessions, We shall fill our houses with spoil;

nkjv@Prov erbs:1:14 @ Cast in your lot among us, Let us all have one purse"--

nkjv@Prov erbs:1:15 @ My son, do not walk in the way with them, Keep your foot from their path;

nkjv@Prov erbs:1:16 @ For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood.

nkjv@Prov erbs:1:17 @ Surely, in vain the net is spread In the sight of any bird;

nkjv@Prov erbs:1:18 @ But they lie in wait for their own blood, They lurk secretly for their own lives.

nkjv@Prov erbs:1:19 @ So are the ways of ev eryone who is greedy for gain; It takes away the life of its own ers.

nkjv@Prov erbs:1:20 @ Wisdom calls aloud outside; She raises h er voice in the open squares.

nkjv@Prov erbs:1:21 @ She cries out in the chief concourses, At the openings of the gates in the city She speaks h er words:

nkjv@Prov erbs:1:22 @ "How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? For scorn ers delight in their scorning, And fools hate knowledge.

nkjv@Prov erbs:1:23 @ Turn at my rebuke; Surely I will pour out my spirit on you; I will make my words known to you.

nkjv@Prov erbs:1:24 @ Because I have called and you refused, I have stretched out my hand and no one regarded,

nkjv@Prov erbs:1:25 @ Because you disdained all my counsel, And would have none of my rebuke,

nkjv@Prov erbs:1:26 @ I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your t error comes,

nkjv@Prov erbs:1:27 @ When your t error comes like a storm, And your destruction comes like a whirlwind, When distress and anguish come upon you.

nkjv@Prov erbs:1:28 @ "Then they will call on me, but I will not answ er; They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me.

nkjv@Prov erbs:1:29 @ Because they hated knowledge And did not choose the fear of the LORD,

nkjv@Prov erbs:1:30 @ They would have none of my counsel And despised my ev ery rebuke.

nkjv@Prov erbs:1:31 @ Th erefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, And be filled to the full with their own fancies.

nkjv@Prov erbs:1:32 @ For the turning away of the simple will slay them, And the complacency of fools will destroy them;

nkjv@Prov erbs:1:33 @ But whoev er listens to me will dwell safely, And will be secure, without fear of evil."

nkjv@Prov erbs:2:1 @ My son, if you receive my words, And treasure my commands within you,

nkjv@Prov erbs:2:2 @ So that you incline your ear to wisdom, And apply your heart to und erstanding;

nkjv@Prov erbs:2:3 @ Yes, if you cry out for disc ernment, And lift up your voice for und erstanding,

nkjv@Prov erbs:2:4 @ If you seek h er as silv er, And search for h er as for hidden treasures;

nkjv@Prov erbs:2:5 @ Then you will und erstand the fear of the LORD, And find the knowledge of God.

nkjv@Prov erbs:2:6 @ For the LORD gives wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge and und erstanding;

nkjv@Prov erbs:2:7 @ He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk uprightly;

nkjv@Prov erbs:2:8 @ He guards the paths of justice, And pres erves the way of His saints.

nkjv@Prov erbs:2:9 @ Then you will und erstand righteousness and justice, Equity and ev ery good path.

nkjv@Prov erbs:2:10 @ When wisdom ent ers your heart, And knowledge is pleasant to your soul,

nkjv@Prov erbs:2:11 @ Discretion will pres erve you; Und erstanding will keep you,

nkjv@Prov erbs:2:12 @ To deliv er you from the way of evil, From the man who speaks p erv erse things,

nkjv@Prov erbs:2:13 @ From those who leave the paths of uprightness To walk in the ways of darkness;

nkjv@Prov erbs:2:14 @ Who rejoice in doing evil, And delight in the p erv ersity of the wicked;

nkjv@Prov erbs:2:15 @ Whose ways are crooked, And who are devious in their paths;

nkjv@Prov erbs:2:16 @ To deliv er you from the immoral woman, From the seductress who flatt ers with h er words,

nkjv@Prov erbs:2:17 @ Who forsakes the companion of h er youth, And forgets the covenant of h er God.

nkjv@Prov erbs:2:18 @ For h er house leads down to death, And h er paths to the dead;

nkjv@Prov erbs:2:19 @ None who go to h er return, Nor do they regain the paths of life--

nkjv@Prov erbs:2:20 @ So you may walk in the way of goodness, And keep to the paths of righteousness.

nkjv@Prov erbs:2:21 @ For the upright will dwell in the land, And the blameless will remain in it;

nkjv@Prov erbs:2:22 @ But the wicked will be cut off from the earth, And the unfaithful will be uprooted from it.

nkjv@Prov erbs:3:1 @ My son, do not forget my law, But let your heart keep my commands;

nkjv@Prov erbs:3:2 @ For length of days and long life And peace they will add to you.

nkjv@Prov erbs:3:3 @ Let not m ercy and truth forsake you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart,

nkjv@Prov erbs:3:4 @ And so find favor and high esteem In the sight of God and man.

nkjv@Prov erbs:3:5 @ Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And lean not on your own und erstanding;

nkjv@Prov erbs:3:6 @ In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.

nkjv@Prov erbs:3:7 @ Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear the LORD and depart from evil.

nkjv@Prov erbs:3:8 @ It will be health to your flesh, And strength to your bones.

nkjv@Prov erbs:3:9 @ Honor the LORD with your possessions, And with the firstfruits of all your increase;

nkjv@Prov erbs:3:10 @ So your barns will be filled with plenty, And your vats will ov erflow with new wine.

nkjv@Prov erbs:3:11 @ My son, do not despise the chastening of the LORD, Nor detest His correction;

nkjv@Prov erbs:3:12 @ For whom the LORD loves He corrects, Just as a fath er the son in whom he delights.

nkjv@Prov erbs:3:13 @ Happy is the man who finds wisdom, And the man who gains und erstanding;

nkjv@Prov erbs:3:14 @ For h er proceeds are bett er than the profits of silv er, And h er gain than fine gold.

nkjv@Prov erbs:3:15 @ She is more precious than rubies, And all the things you may desire cannot compare with h er.

nkjv@Prov erbs:3:16 @ Length of days is in h er right hand, In h er left hand riches and honor.

nkjv@Prov erbs:3:17 @ H er ways are ways of pleasantness, And all h er paths are peace.

nkjv@Prov erbs:3:18 @ She is a tree of life to those who take hold of h er, And happy are all who retain h er.

nkjv@Prov erbs:3:19 @ The LORD by wisdom founded the earth; By und erstanding He established the heavens;

nkjv@Prov erbs:3:20 @ By His knowledge the depths w ere broken up, And clouds drop down the dew.

nkjv@Prov erbs:3:21 @ My son, let them not depart from your eyes-- Keep sound wisdom and discretion;

nkjv@Prov erbs:3:22 @ So they will be life to your soul And grace to your neck.

nkjv@Prov erbs:3:23 @ Then you will walk safely in your way, And your foot will not stumble.

nkjv@Prov erbs:3:24 @ When you lie down, you will not be afraid; Yes, you will lie down and your sleep will be sweet.

nkjv@Prov erbs:3:25 @ Do not be afraid of sudden t error, Nor of trouble from the wicked when it comes;

nkjv@Prov erbs:3:26 @ For the LORD will be your confidence, And will keep your foot from being caught.

nkjv@Prov erbs:3:27 @ Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, When it is in the pow er of your hand to do so.

nkjv@Prov erbs:3:28 @ Do not say to your neighbor, "Go, and come back, And tomorrow I will give it," When you have it with you.

nkjv@Prov erbs:3:29 @ Do not devise evil against your neighbor, For he dwells by you for safety's sake.

nkjv@Prov erbs:3:30 @ Do not strive with a man without cause, If he has done you no harm.

nkjv@Prov erbs:3:31 @ Do not envy the oppressor, And choose none of his ways;

nkjv@Prov erbs:3:32 @ For the p erv erse p erson is an abomination to the LORD, But His secret counsel is with the upright.

nkjv@Prov erbs:3:33 @ The curse of the LORD is on the house of the wicked, But He blesses the home of the just.

nkjv@Prov erbs:3:34 @ Surely He scorns the scornful, But gives grace to the humble.

nkjv@Prov erbs:3:35 @ The wise shall inh erit glory, But shame shall be the legacy of fools.

nkjv@Prov erbs:4:1 @ Hear, my children, the instruction of a fath er, And give attention to know und erstanding;

nkjv@Prov erbs:4:2 @ For I give you good doctrine: Do not forsake my law.

nkjv@Prov erbs:4:3 @ When I was my fath er's son, Tend er and the only one in the sight of my moth er,

nkjv@Prov erbs:4:4 @ He also taught me, and said to me: "Let your heart retain my words; Keep my commands, and live.

nkjv@Prov erbs:4:5 @ Get wisdom! Get und erstanding! Do not forget, nor turn away from the words of my mouth.

nkjv@Prov erbs:4:6 @ Do not forsake h er, and she will pres erve you; Love h er, and she will keep you.

nkjv@Prov erbs:4:7 @ Wisdom is the principal thing; Th erefore get wisdom. And in all your getting, get und erstanding.

nkjv@Prov erbs:4:8 @ Exalt h er, and she will promote you; She will bring you honor, when you embrace h er.

nkjv@Prov erbs:4:9 @ She will place on your head an ornament of grace; A crown of glory she will deliv er to you."

nkjv@Prov erbs:4:10 @ Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, And the years of your life will be many.

nkjv@Prov erbs:4:11 @ I have taught you in the way of wisdom; I have led you in right paths.

nkjv@Prov erbs:4:12 @ When you walk, your steps will not be hind ered, And when you run, you will not stumble.

nkjv@Prov erbs:4:13 @ Take firm hold of instruction, do not let go; Keep h er, for she is your life.

nkjv@Prov erbs:4:14 @ Do not ent er the path of the wicked, And do not walk in the way of evil.

nkjv@Prov erbs:4:15 @ Avoid it, do not travel on it; Turn away from it and pass on.

nkjv@Prov erbs:4:16 @ For they do not sleep unless they have done evil; And their sleep is taken away unless they make someone fall.

nkjv@Prov erbs:4:17 @ For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence.

nkjv@Prov erbs:4:18 @ But the path of the just is like the shining sun, That shines ev er bright er unto the p erfect day.

nkjv@Prov erbs:4:19 @ The way of the wicked is like darkness; They do not know what makes them stumble.

nkjv@Prov erbs:4:20 @ My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings.

nkjv@Prov erbs:4:21 @ Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart;

nkjv@Prov erbs:4:22 @ For they are life to those who find them, And health to all their flesh.

nkjv@Prov erbs:4:23 @ Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life.

nkjv@Prov erbs:4:24 @ Put away from you a deceitful mouth, And put p erv erse lips far from you.

nkjv@Prov erbs:4:25 @ Let your eyes look straight ahead, And your eyelids look right before you.

nkjv@Prov erbs:4:26 @ Pond er the path of your feet, And let all your ways be established.

nkjv@Prov erbs:4:27 @ Do not turn to the right or the left; Remove your foot from evil.

nkjv@Prov erbs:5:1 @ My son, pay attention to my wisdom; Lend your ear to my und erstanding,

nkjv@Prov erbs:5:2 @ That you may pres erve discretion, And your lips may keep knowledge.

nkjv@Prov erbs:5:3 @ For the lips of an immoral woman drip honey, And h er mouth is smooth er than oil;

nkjv@Prov erbs:5:4 @ But in the end she is bitt er as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword.

nkjv@Prov erbs:5:5 @ H er feet go down to death, H er steps lay hold of hell.

nkjv@Prov erbs:5:6 @ Lest you pond er h er path of life-- H er ways are unstable; You do not know them.

nkjv@Prov erbs:5:7 @ Th erefore hear me now, my children, And do not depart from the words of my mouth.

nkjv@Prov erbs:5:8 @ Remove your way far from h er, And do not go near the door of h er house,

nkjv@Prov erbs:5:9 @ Lest you give your honor to oth ers, And your years to the cruel one;

nkjv@Prov erbs:5:10 @ Lest aliens be filled with your wealth, And your labors go to the house of a foreign er;

nkjv@Prov erbs:5:11 @ And you mourn at last, When your flesh and your body are consumed,

nkjv@Prov erbs:5:12 @ And say: "How I have hated instruction, And my heart despised correction!

nkjv@Prov erbs:5:13 @ I have not obeyed the voice of my teach ers, Nor inclined my ear to those who instructed me!

nkjv@Prov erbs:5:14 @ I was on the v erge of total ruin, In the midst of the assembly and congregation."

nkjv@Prov erbs:5:15 @ Drink wat er from your own cist ern, And running wat er from your own well.

nkjv@Prov erbs:5:16 @ Should your fountains be disp ersed abroad, Streams of wat er in the streets?

nkjv@Prov erbs:5:17 @ Let them be only your own, And not for strang ers with you.

nkjv@Prov erbs:5:18 @ Let your fountain be blessed, And rejoice with the wife of your youth.

nkjv@Prov erbs:5:19 @ As a loving de er and a graceful doe, Let h er breasts satisfy you at all times; And always be enraptured with h er love.

nkjv@Prov erbs:5:20 @ For why should you, my son, be enraptured by an immoral woman, And be embraced in the arms of a seductress?

nkjv@Prov erbs:5:21 @ For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, And He pond ers all his paths.

nkjv@Prov erbs:5:22 @ His own iniquities entrap the wicked man, And he is caught in the cords of his sin.

nkjv@Prov erbs:5:23 @ He shall die for lack of instruction, And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

nkjv@Prov erbs:6:1 @ My son, if you become surety for your friend, If you have shaken hands in pledge for a strang er,

nkjv@Prov erbs:6:2 @ You are snared by the words of your mouth; You are taken by the words of your mouth.

nkjv@Prov erbs:6:3 @ So do this, my son, and deliv er yourself; For you have come into the hand of your friend: Go and humble yourself; Plead with your friend.

nkjv@Prov erbs:6:4 @ Give no sleep to your eyes, Nor slumb er to your eyelids.

nkjv@Prov erbs:6:5 @ Deliv er yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunt er, And like a bird from the hand of the fowl er.

nkjv@Prov erbs:6:6 @ Go to the ant, you sluggard! Consid er h er ways and be wise,

nkjv@Prov erbs:6:7 @ Which, having no captain, Ov erse er or rul er,

nkjv@Prov erbs:6:8 @ Provides h er supplies in the summ er, And gath ers h er food in the harvest.

nkjv@Prov erbs:6:9 @ How long will you slumb er, O sluggard? When will you rise from your sleep?

nkjv@Prov erbs:6:10 @ A little sleep, a little slumb er, A little folding of the hands to sleep--

nkjv@Prov erbs:6:11 @ So shall your pov erty come on you like a prowl er, And your need like an armed man.

nkjv@Prov erbs:6:12 @ A worthless p erson, a wicked man, Walks with a p erv erse mouth;

nkjv@Prov erbs:6:13 @ He winks with his eyes, He shuffles his feet, He points with his fing ers;

nkjv@Prov erbs:6:14 @ P erv ersity is in his heart, He devises evil continually, He sows discord.

nkjv@Prov erbs:6:15 @ Th erefore his calamity shall come suddenly; Suddenly he shall be broken without remedy.

nkjv@Prov erbs:6:16 @ These six things the LORD hates, Yes, seven are an abomination to Him:

nkjv@Prov erbs:6:17 @ A proud look, A lying tongue, Hands that shed innocent blood,

nkjv@Prov erbs:6:18 @ A heart that devises wicked plans, Feet that are swift in running to evil,

nkjv@Prov erbs:6:19 @ A false witness who speaks lies, And one who sows discord among brethren.

nkjv@Prov erbs:6:20 @ My son, keep your fath er's command, And do not forsake the law of your moth er.

nkjv@Prov erbs:6:21 @ Bind them continually upon your heart; Tie them around your neck.

nkjv@Prov erbs:6:22 @ When you roam, they will lead you; When you sleep, they will keep you; And when you awake, they will speak with you.

nkjv@Prov erbs:6:23 @ For the commandment is a lamp, And the law a light; Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

nkjv@Prov erbs:6:24 @ To keep you from the evil woman, From the flatt ering tongue of a seductress.

nkjv@Prov erbs:6:25 @ Do not lust aft er h er beauty in your heart, Nor let h er allure you with h er eyelids.

nkjv@Prov erbs:6:26 @ For by means of a harlot A man is reduced to a crust of bread; And an adult eress will prey upon his precious life.

nkjv@Prov erbs:6:27 @ Can a man take fire to his bosom, And his clothes not be burned?

nkjv@Prov erbs:6:28 @ Can one walk on hot coals, And his feet not be seared?

nkjv@Prov erbs:6:29 @ So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife; Whoev er touches h er shall not be innocent.

nkjv@Prov erbs:6:30 @ People do not despise a thief If he steals to satisfy himself when he is starving.

nkjv@Prov erbs:6:31 @ Yet when he is found, he must restore sevenfold; He may have to give up all the substance of his house.

nkjv@Prov erbs:6:32 @ Whoev er commits adult ery with a woman lacks und erstanding; He who does so destroys his own soul.

nkjv@Prov erbs:6:33 @ Wounds and dishonor he will get, And his reproach will not be wiped away.

nkjv@Prov erbs:6:34 @ For jealousy is a husband's fury; Th erefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

nkjv@Prov erbs:6:35 @ He will accept no recompense, Nor will he be appeased though you give many gifts.

nkjv@Prov erbs:7:1 @ My son, keep my words, And treasure my commands within you.

nkjv@Prov erbs:7:2 @ Keep my commands and live, And my law as the apple of your eye.

nkjv@Prov erbs:7:3 @ Bind them on your fing ers; Write them on the tablet of your heart.

nkjv@Prov erbs:7:4 @ Say to wisdom, "You are my sist er," And call und erstanding your nearest kin,

nkjv@Prov erbs:7:5 @ That they may keep you from the immoral woman, From the seductress who flatt ers with h er words.

nkjv@Prov erbs:7:6 @ For at the window of my house I looked through my lattice,

nkjv@Prov erbs:7:7 @ And saw among the simple, I p erceived among the youths, A young man devoid of und erstanding,

nkjv@Prov erbs:7:8 @ Passing along the street near h er corn er; And he took the path to h er house

nkjv@Prov erbs:7:9 @ In the twilight, in the evening, In the black and dark night.

nkjv@Prov erbs:7:10 @ And th ere a woman met him, With the attire of a harlot, and a crafty heart.

nkjv@Prov erbs:7:11 @ She was loud and rebellious, H er feet would not stay at home.

nkjv@Prov erbs:7:12 @ At times she was outside, at times in the open square, Lurking at ev ery corn er.

nkjv@Prov erbs:7:13 @ So she caught him and kissed him; With an impudent face she said to him:

nkjv@Prov erbs:7:14 @ "I have peace off erings with me; Today I have paid my vows.

nkjv@Prov erbs:7:15 @ So I came out to meet you, Diligently to seek your face, And I have found you.

nkjv@Prov erbs:7:16 @ I have spread my bed with tapestry, Colored cov erings of Egyptian linen.

nkjv@Prov erbs:7:17 @ I have p erfumed my bed With myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

nkjv@Prov erbs:7:18 @ Come, let us take our fill of love until morning; Let us delight ourselves with love.

nkjv@Prov erbs:7:19 @ For my husband is not at home; He has gone on a long journey;

nkjv@Prov erbs:7:20 @ He has taken a bag of money with him, And will come home on the appointed day."

nkjv@Prov erbs:7:21 @ With h er enticing speech she caused him to yield, With h er flatt ering lips she seduced him.

nkjv@Prov erbs:7:22 @ Immediately he went aft er h er, as an ox goes to the slaught er, Or as a fool to the correction of the stocks,

nkjv@Prov erbs:7:23 @ Till an arrow struck his liv er. As a bird hastens to the snare, He did not know it would cost his life.

nkjv@Prov erbs:7:24 @ Now th erefore, listen to me, my children; Pay attention to the words of my mouth:

nkjv@Prov erbs:7:25 @ Do not let your heart turn aside to h er ways, Do not stray into h er paths;

nkjv@Prov erbs:7:26 @ For she has cast down many wounded, And all who w ere slain by h er w ere strong men.

nkjv@Prov erbs:7:27 @ H er house is the way to hell, Descending to the chamb ers of death.

nkjv@Prov erbs:8:1 @ Does not wisdom cry out, And und erstanding lift up h er voice?

nkjv@Prov erbs:8:2 @ She takes h er stand on the top of the high hill, Beside the way, wh ere the paths meet.

nkjv@Prov erbs:8:3 @ She cries out by the gates, at the entry of the city, At the entrance of the doors:

nkjv@Prov erbs:8:4 @ "To you, O men, I call, And my voice is to the sons of men.

nkjv@Prov erbs:8:5 @ O you simple ones, und erstand prudence, And you fools, be of an und erstanding heart.

nkjv@Prov erbs:8:6 @ Listen, for I will speak of excellent things, And from the opening of my lips will come right things;

nkjv@Prov erbs:8:7 @ For my mouth will speak truth; Wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

nkjv@Prov erbs:8:8 @ All the words of my mouth are with righteousness; Nothing crooked or p erv erse is in them.

nkjv@Prov erbs:8:9 @ They are all plain to him who und erstands, And right to those who find knowledge.

nkjv@Prov erbs:8:10 @ Receive my instruction, and not silv er, And knowledge rath er than choice gold;

nkjv@Prov erbs:8:11 @ For wisdom is bett er than rubies, And all the things one may desire cannot be compared with h er.

nkjv@Prov erbs:8:12 @ "I, wisdom, dwell with prudence, And find out knowledge and discretion.

nkjv@Prov erbs:8:13 @ The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; Pride and arrogance and the evil way And the p erv erse mouth I hate.

nkjv@Prov erbs:8:14 @ Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom; I am und erstanding, I have strength.

nkjv@Prov erbs:8:15 @ By me kings reign, And rul ers decree justice.

nkjv@Prov erbs:8:16 @ By me princes rule, and nobles, All the judges of the earth.

nkjv@Prov erbs:8:17 @ I love those who love me, And those who seek me diligently will find me.

nkjv@Prov erbs:8:18 @ Riches and honor are with me, Enduring riches and righteousness.

nkjv@Prov erbs:8:19 @ My fruit is bett er than gold, yes, than fine gold, And my revenue than choice silv er.

nkjv@Prov erbs:8:20 @ I trav erse the way of righteousness, In the midst of the paths of justice,

nkjv@Prov erbs:8:21 @ That I may cause those who love me to inh erit wealth, That I may fill their treasuries.

nkjv@Prov erbs:8:22 @ "The LORD possessed me at the beginning of His way, Before His works of old.

nkjv@Prov erbs:8:23 @ I have been established from ev erlasting, From the beginning, before th ere was ev er an earth.

nkjv@Prov erbs:8:24 @ When th ere w ere no depths I was brought forth, When th ere w ere no fountains abounding with wat er.

nkjv@Prov erbs:8:25 @ Before the mountains w ere settled, Before the hills, I was brought forth;

nkjv@Prov erbs:8:26 @ While as yet He had not made the earth or the fields, Or the primal dust of the world.

nkjv@Prov erbs:8:27 @ When He prepared the heavens, I was th ere, When He drew a circle on the face of the deep,

nkjv@Prov erbs:8:28 @ When He established the clouds above, When He strengthened the fountains of the deep,

nkjv@Prov erbs:8:29 @ When He assigned to the sea its limit, So that the wat ers would not transgress His command, When He marked out the foundations of the earth,

nkjv@Prov erbs:8:30 @ Then I was beside Him as a mast er craftsman; And I was daily His delight, Rejoicing always before Him,

nkjv@Prov erbs:8:31 @ Rejoicing in His inhabited world, And my delight was with the sons of men.

nkjv@Prov erbs:8:32 @ "Now th erefore, listen to me, my children, For blessed are those who keep my ways.

nkjv@Prov erbs:8:33 @ Hear instruction and be wise, And do not disdain it.

nkjv@Prov erbs:8:34 @ Blessed is the man who listens to me, Watching daily at my gates, Waiting at the posts of my doors.

nkjv@Prov erbs:8:35 @ For whoev er finds me finds life, And obtains favor from the LORD;

nkjv@Prov erbs:8:36 @ But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul; All those who hate me love death."

nkjv@Prov erbs:9:1 @ Wisdom has built h er house, She has hewn out h er seven pillars;

nkjv@Prov erbs:9:2 @ She has slaught ered h er meat, She has mixed h er wine, She has also furnished h er table.

nkjv@Prov erbs:9:3 @ She has sent out h er maidens, She cries out from the highest places of the city,

nkjv@Prov erbs:9:4 @ "Whoev er is simple, let him turn in h ere!" As for him who lacks und erstanding, she says to him,

nkjv@Prov erbs:9:5 @ "Come, eat of my bread And drink of the wine I have mixed.

nkjv@Prov erbs:9:6 @ Forsake foolishness and live, And go in the way of und erstanding.

nkjv@Prov erbs:9:7 @ "He who corrects a scoff er gets shame for himself, And he who rebukes a wicked man only harms himself.

nkjv@Prov erbs:9:8 @ Do not correct a scoff er, lest he hate you; Rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.

nkjv@Prov erbs:9:9 @ Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wis er; Teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

nkjv@Prov erbs:9:10 @ "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is und erstanding.

nkjv@Prov erbs:9:11 @ For by me your days will be multiplied, And years of life will be added to you.

nkjv@Prov erbs:9:12 @ If you are wise, you are wise for yourself, And if you scoff, you will bear it alone."

nkjv@Prov erbs:9:13 @ A foolish woman is clamorous; She is simple, and knows nothing.

nkjv@Prov erbs:9:14 @ For she sits at the door of h er house, On a seat by the highest places of the city,

nkjv@Prov erbs:9:15 @ To call to those who pass by, Who go straight on their way:

nkjv@Prov erbs:9:16 @ "Whoev er is simple, let him turn in h ere"; And as for him who lacks und erstanding, she says to him,

nkjv@Prov erbs:9:17 @ "Stolen wat er is sweet, And bread eaten in secret is pleasant."

nkjv@Prov erbs:9:18 @ But he does not know that the dead are th ere, That h er guests are in the depths of hell.

nkjv@Prov erbs:10:1 @ The prov erbs of Solomon: A wise son makes a glad fath er, But a foolish son is the grief of his moth er.

nkjv@Prov erbs:10:2 @ Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, But righteousness deliv ers from death.

nkjv@Prov erbs:10:3 @ The LORD will not allow the righteous soul to famish, But He casts away the desire of the wicked.

nkjv@Prov erbs:10:4 @ He who has a slack hand becomes poor, But the hand of the diligent makes rich.

nkjv@Prov erbs:10:5 @ He who gath ers in summ er is a wise son; He who sleeps in harvest is a son who causes shame.

nkjv@Prov erbs:10:6 @ Blessings are on the head of the righteous, But violence cov ers the mouth of the wicked.

nkjv@Prov erbs:10:7 @ The memory of the righteous is blessed, But the name of the wicked will rot.

nkjv@Prov erbs:10:8 @ The wise in heart will receive commands, But a prating fool will fall.

nkjv@Prov erbs:10:9 @ He who walks with integrity walks securely, But he who p erv erts his ways will become known.

nkjv@Prov erbs:10:10 @ He who winks with the eye causes trouble, But a prating fool will fall.

nkjv@Prov erbs:10:11 @ The mouth of the righteous is a well of life, But violence cov ers the mouth of the wicked.

nkjv@Prov erbs:10:12 @ Hatred stirs up strife, But love cov ers all sins.

nkjv@Prov erbs:10:13 @ Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has und erstanding, But a rod is for the back of him who is devoid of und erstanding.

nkjv@Prov erbs:10:14 @ Wise people store up knowledge, But the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.

nkjv@Prov erbs:10:15 @ The rich man's wealth is his strong city; The destruction of the poor is their pov erty.

nkjv@Prov erbs:10:16 @ The labor of the righteous leads to life, The wages of the wicked to sin.

nkjv@Prov erbs:10:17 @ He who keeps instruction is in the way of life, But he who refuses correction goes astray.

nkjv@Prov erbs:10:18 @ Whoev er hides hatred has lying lips, And whoev er spreads sland er is a fool.

nkjv@Prov erbs:10:19 @ In the multitude of words sin is not lacking, But he who restrains his lips is wise.

nkjv@Prov erbs:10:20 @ The tongue of the righteous is choice silv er; The heart of the wicked is worth little.

nkjv@Prov erbs:10:21 @ The lips of the righteous feed many, But fools die for lack of wisdom.

nkjv@Prov erbs:10:22 @ The blessing of the LORD makes one rich, And He adds no sorrow with it.

nkjv@Prov erbs:10:23 @ To do evil is like sport to a fool, But a man of und erstanding has wisdom.

nkjv@Prov erbs:10:24 @ The fear of the wicked will come upon him, And the desire of the righteous will be granted.

nkjv@Prov erbs:10:25 @ When the whirlwind passes by, the wicked is no more, But the righteous has an ev erlasting foundation.

nkjv@Prov erbs:10:26 @ As vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, So is the lazy man to those who send him.

nkjv@Prov erbs:10:27 @ The fear of the LORD prolongs days, But the years of the wicked will be shortened.

nkjv@Prov erbs:10:28 @ The hope of the righteous will be gladness, But the expectation of the wicked will p erish.

nkjv@Prov erbs:10:29 @ The way of the LORD is strength for the upright, But destruction will come to the work ers of iniquity.

nkjv@Prov erbs:10:30 @ The righteous will nev er be removed, But the wicked will not inhabit the earth.

nkjv@Prov erbs:10:31 @ The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, But the p erv erse tongue will be cut out.

nkjv@Prov erbs:10:32 @ The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, But the mouth of the wicked what is p erv erse.

nkjv@Prov erbs:11:1 @ Dishonest scales are an abomination to the LORD, But a just weight is His delight.

nkjv@Prov erbs:11:2 @ When pride comes, then comes shame; But with the humble is wisdom.

nkjv@Prov erbs:11:3 @ The integrity of the upright will guide them, But the p erv ersity of the unfaithful will destroy them.

nkjv@Prov erbs:11:4 @ Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, But righteousness deliv ers from death.

nkjv@Prov erbs:11:5 @ The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way aright, But the wicked will fall by his own wickedness.

nkjv@Prov erbs:11:6 @ The righteousness of the upright will deliv er them, But the unfaithful will be caught by their lust.

nkjv@Prov erbs:11:7 @ When a wicked man dies, his expectation will p erish, And the hope of the unjust p erishes.

nkjv@Prov erbs:11:8 @ The righteous is deliv ered from trouble, And it comes to the wicked instead.

nkjv@Prov erbs:11:9 @ The hypocrite with his mouth destroys his neighbor, But through knowledge the righteous will be deliv ered.

nkjv@Prov erbs:11:10 @ When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices; And when the wicked p erish, th ere is jubilation.

nkjv@Prov erbs:11:11 @ By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted, But it is ov erthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

nkjv@Prov erbs:11:12 @ He who is devoid of wisdom despises his neighbor, But a man of und erstanding holds his peace.

nkjv@Prov erbs:11:13 @ A talebear er reveals secrets, But he who is of a faithful spirit conceals a matt er.

nkjv@Prov erbs:11:14 @ Wh ere th ere is no counsel, the people fall; But in the multitude of counselors th ere is safety.

nkjv@Prov erbs:11:15 @ He who is surety for a strang er will suff er, But one who hates being surety is secure.

nkjv@Prov erbs:11:16 @ A gracious woman retains honor, But ruthless men retain riches.

nkjv@Prov erbs:11:17 @ The m erciful man does good for his own soul, But he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.

nkjv@Prov erbs:11:18 @ The wicked man does deceptive work, But he who sows righteousness will have a sure reward.

nkjv@Prov erbs:11:19 @ As righteousness leads to life, So he who pursues evil pursues it to his own death.

nkjv@Prov erbs:11:20 @ Those who are of a p erv erse heart are an abomination to the LORD, But the blameless in their ways are His delight.

nkjv@Prov erbs:11:21 @ Though they join forces, the wicked will not go unpunished; But the post erity of the righteous will be deliv ered.

nkjv@Prov erbs:11:22 @ As a ring of gold in a swine's snout, So is a lovely woman who lacks discretion.

nkjv@Prov erbs:11:23 @ The desire of the righteous is only good, But the expectation of the wicked is wrath.

nkjv@Prov erbs:11:24 @ Th ere is one who scatt ers, yet increases more; And th ere is one who withholds more than is right, But it leads to pov erty.

nkjv@Prov erbs:11:25 @ The gen erous soul will be made rich, And he who wat ers will also be wat ered himself.

nkjv@Prov erbs:11:26 @ The people will curse him who withholds grain, But blessing will be on the head of him who sells it.

nkjv@Prov erbs:11:27 @ He who earnestly seeks good finds favor, But trouble will come to him who seeks evil.

nkjv@Prov erbs:11:28 @ He who trusts in his riches will fall, But the righteous will flourish like foliage.

nkjv@Prov erbs:11:29 @ He who troubles his own house will inh erit the wind, And the fool will be s ervant to the wise of heart.

nkjv@Prov erbs:11:30 @ The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, And he who wins souls is wise.

nkjv@Prov erbs:11:31 @ If the righteous will be recompensed on the earth, How much more the ungodly and the sinn er.

nkjv@Prov erbs:12:1 @ Whoev er loves instruction loves knowledge, But he who hates correction is stupid.

nkjv@Prov erbs:12:2 @ A good man obtains favor from the LORD, But a man of wicked intentions He will condemn.

nkjv@Prov erbs:12:3 @ A man is not established by wickedness, But the root of the righteous cannot be moved.

nkjv@Prov erbs:12:4 @ An excellent wife is the crown of h er husband, But she who causes shame is like rottenness in his bones.

nkjv@Prov erbs:12:5 @ The thoughts of the righteous are right, But the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.

nkjv@Prov erbs:12:6 @ The words of the wicked are, "Lie in wait for blood," But the mouth of the upright will deliv er them.

nkjv@Prov erbs:12:7 @ The wicked are ov erthrown and are no more, But the house of the righteous will stand.

nkjv@Prov erbs:12:8 @ A man will be commended according to his wisdom, But he who is of a p erv erse heart will be despised.

nkjv@Prov erbs:12:9 @ Bett er is the one who is slighted but has a s ervant, Than he who honors himself but lacks bread.

nkjv@Prov erbs:12:10 @ A righteous man regards the life of his animal, But the tend er m ercies of the wicked are cruel.

nkjv@Prov erbs:12:11 @ He who tills his land will be satisfied with bread, But he who follows frivolity is devoid of und erstanding.

nkjv@Prov erbs:12:12 @ The wicked covet the catch of evil men, But the root of the righteous yields fruit.

nkjv@Prov erbs:12:13 @ The wicked is ensnared by the transgression of his lips, But the righteous will come through trouble.

nkjv@Prov erbs:12:14 @ A man will be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth, And the recompense of a man's hands will be rend ered to him.

nkjv@Prov erbs:12:15 @ The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, But he who heeds counsel is wise.

nkjv@Prov erbs:12:16 @ A fool's wrath is known at once, But a prudent man cov ers shame.

nkjv@Prov erbs:12:17 @ He who speaks truth declares righteousness, But a false witness, deceit.

nkjv@Prov erbs:12:18 @ Th ere is one who speaks like the pi ercings of a sword, But the tongue of the wise promotes health.

nkjv@Prov erbs:12:19 @ The truthful lip shall be established forev er, But a lying tongue is but for a moment.

nkjv@Prov erbs:12:20 @ Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil, But counselors of peace have joy.

nkjv@Prov erbs:12:21 @ No grave trouble will ov ertake the righteous, But the wicked shall be filled with evil.

nkjv@Prov erbs:12:22 @ Lying lips are an abomination to the LORD, But those who deal truthfully are His delight.

nkjv@Prov erbs:12:23 @ A prudent man conceals knowledge, But the heart of fools proclaims foolishness.

nkjv@Prov erbs:12:24 @ The hand of the diligent will rule, But the lazy man will be put to forced labor.

nkjv@Prov erbs:12:25 @ Anxiety in the heart of man causes depression, But a good word makes it glad.

nkjv@Prov erbs:12:26 @ The righteous should choose his friends carefully, For the way of the wicked leads them astray.

nkjv@Prov erbs:12:27 @ The lazy man does not roast what he took in hunting, But diligence is man's precious possession.

nkjv@Prov erbs:12:28 @ In the way of righteousness is life, And in its pathway th ere is no death.

nkjv@Prov erbs:13:1 @ A wise son heeds his fath er's instruction, But a scoff er does not listen to rebuke.

nkjv@Prov erbs:13:2 @ A man shall eat well by the fruit of his mouth, But the soul of the unfaithful feeds on violence.

nkjv@Prov erbs:13:3 @ He who guards his mouth pres erves his life, But he who opens wide his lips shall have destruction.

nkjv@Prov erbs:13:4 @ The soul of a lazy man desires, and has nothing; But the soul of the diligent shall be made rich.

nkjv@Prov erbs:13:5 @ A righteous man hates lying, But a wicked man is loathsome and comes to shame.

nkjv@Prov erbs:13:6 @ Righteousness guards him whose way is blameless, But wickedness ov erthrows the sinn er.

nkjv@Prov erbs:13:7 @ Th ere is one who makes himself rich, yet has nothing; And one who makes himself poor, yet has great riches.

nkjv@Prov erbs:13:8 @ The ransom of a man's life is his riches, But the poor does not hear rebuke.

nkjv@Prov erbs:13:9 @ The light of the righteous rejoices, But the lamp of the wicked will be put out.

nkjv@Prov erbs:13:10 @ By pride comes nothing but strife, But with the well-advised is wisdom.

nkjv@Prov erbs:13:11 @ Wealth gained by dishonesty will be diminished, But he who gath ers by labor will increase.

nkjv@Prov erbs:13:12 @ Hope def erred makes the heart sick, But when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.

nkjv@Prov erbs:13:13 @ He who despises the word will be destroyed, But he who fears the commandment will be rewarded.

nkjv@Prov erbs:13:14 @ The law of the wise is a fountain of life, To turn one away from the snares of death.

nkjv@Prov erbs:13:15 @ Good und erstanding gains favor, But the way of the unfaithful is hard.

nkjv@Prov erbs:13:16 @ Ev ery prudent man acts with knowledge, But a fool lays open his folly.

nkjv@Prov erbs:13:17 @ A wicked messeng er falls into trouble, But a faithful ambassador brings health.

nkjv@Prov erbs:13:18 @ Pov erty and shame will come to him who disdains correction, But he who regards a rebuke will be honored.

nkjv@Prov erbs:13:19 @ A desire accomplished is sweet to the soul, But it is an abomination to fools to depart from evil.

nkjv@Prov erbs:13:20 @ He who walks with wise men will be wise, But the companion of fools will be destroyed.

nkjv@Prov erbs:13:21 @ Evil pursues sinn ers, But to the righteous, good shall be repaid.

nkjv@Prov erbs:13:22 @ A good man leaves an inh eritance to his children's children, But the wealth of the sinn er is stored up for the righteous.

nkjv@Prov erbs:13:23 @ Much food is in the fallow ground of the poor, And for lack of justice th ere is waste.

nkjv@Prov erbs:13:24 @ He who spares his rod hates his son, But he who loves him disciplines him promptly.

nkjv@Prov erbs:13:25 @ The righteous eats to the satisfying of his soul, But the stomach of the wicked shall be in want.

nkjv@Prov erbs:14:1 @ The wise woman builds h er house, But the foolish pulls it down with h er hands.

nkjv@Prov erbs:14:2 @ He who walks in his uprightness fears the LORD, But he who is p erv erse in his ways despises Him.

nkjv@Prov erbs:14:3 @ In the mouth of a fool is a rod of pride, But the lips of the wise will pres erve them.

nkjv@Prov erbs:14:4 @ Wh ere no oxen are, the trough is clean; But much increase comes by the strength of an ox.

nkjv@Prov erbs:14:5 @ A faithful witness does not lie, But a false witness will utt er lies.

nkjv@Prov erbs:14:6 @ A scoff er seeks wisdom and does not find it, But knowledge is easy to him who und erstands.

nkjv@Prov erbs:14:7 @ Go from the presence of a foolish man, When you do not p erceive in him the lips of knowledge.

nkjv@Prov erbs:14:8 @ The wisdom of the prudent is to und erstand his way, But the folly of fools is deceit.

nkjv@Prov erbs:14:9 @ Fools mock at sin, But among the upright th ere is favor.

nkjv@Prov erbs:14:10 @ The heart knows its own bitt erness, And a strang er does not share its joy.

nkjv@Prov erbs:14:11 @ The house of the wicked will be ov erthrown, But the tent of the upright will flourish.

nkjv@Prov erbs:14:12 @ Th ere is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.

nkjv@Prov erbs:14:13 @ Even in laught er the heart may sorrow, And the end of mirth may be grief.

nkjv@Prov erbs:14:14 @ The backslid er in heart will be filled with his own ways, But a good man will be satisfied from above.

nkjv@Prov erbs:14:15 @ The simple believes ev ery word, But the prudent consid ers well his steps.

nkjv@Prov erbs:14:16 @ A wise man fears and departs from evil, But a fool rages and is self-confident.

nkjv@Prov erbs:14:17 @ A quick-temp ered man acts foolishly, And a man of wicked intentions is hated.

nkjv@Prov erbs:14:18 @ The simple inh erit folly, But the prudent are crowned with knowledge.

nkjv@Prov erbs:14:19 @ The evil will bow before the good, And the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

nkjv@Prov erbs:14:20 @ The poor man is hated even by his own neighbor, But the rich has many friends.

nkjv@Prov erbs:14:21 @ He who despises his neighbor sins; But he who has m ercy on the poor, happy is he.

nkjv@Prov erbs:14:22 @ Do they not go astray who devise evil? But m ercy and truth belong to those who devise good.

nkjv@Prov erbs:14:23 @ In all labor th ere is profit, But idle chatt er leads only to pov erty.

nkjv@Prov erbs:14:24 @ The crown of the wise is their riches, But the foolishness of fools is folly.

nkjv@Prov erbs:14:25 @ A true witness deliv ers souls, But a deceitful witness speaks lies.

nkjv@Prov erbs:14:26 @ In the fear of the LORD th ere is strong confidence, And His children will have a place of refuge.

nkjv@Prov erbs:14:27 @ The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, To turn one away from the snares of death.

nkjv@Prov erbs:14:28 @ In a multitude of people is a king's honor, But in the lack of people is the downfall of a prince.

nkjv@Prov erbs:14:29 @ He who is slow to wrath has great und erstanding, But he who is impulsive exalts folly.

nkjv@Prov erbs:14:30 @ A sound heart is life to the body, But envy is rottenness to the bones.

nkjv@Prov erbs:14:31 @ He who oppresses the poor reproaches his Mak er, But he who honors Him has m ercy on the needy.

nkjv@Prov erbs:14:32 @ The wicked is banished in his wickedness, But the righteous has a refuge in his death.

nkjv@Prov erbs:14:33 @ Wisdom rests in the heart of him who has und erstanding, But what is in the heart of fools is made known.

nkjv@Prov erbs:14:34 @ Righteousness exalts a nation, But sin is a reproach to any people.

nkjv@Prov erbs:14:35 @ The king's favor is toward a wise s ervant, But his wrath is against him who causes shame.

nkjv@Prov erbs:15:1 @ A soft answ er turns away wrath, But a harsh word stirs up ang er.

nkjv@Prov erbs:15:2 @ The tongue of the wise uses knowledge rightly, But the mouth of fools pours forth foolishness.

nkjv@Prov erbs:15:3 @ The eyes of the LORD are in ev ery place, Keeping watch on the evil and the good.

nkjv@Prov erbs:15:4 @ A wholesome tongue is a tree of life, But p erv erseness in it breaks the spirit.

nkjv@Prov erbs:15:5 @ A fool despises his fath er's instruction, But he who receives correction is prudent.

nkjv@Prov erbs:15:6 @ In the house of the righteous th ere is much treasure, But in the revenue of the wicked is trouble.

nkjv@Prov erbs:15:7 @ The lips of the wise disp erse knowledge, But the heart of the fool does not do so.

nkjv@Prov erbs:15:8 @ The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, But the pray er of the upright is His delight.

nkjv@Prov erbs:15:9 @ The way of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, But He loves him who follows righteousness.

nkjv@Prov erbs:15:10 @ Harsh discipline is for him who forsakes the way, And he who hates correction will die.

nkjv@Prov erbs:15:11 @ Hell and Destruction are before the LORD; So how much more the hearts of the sons of men.

nkjv@Prov erbs:15:12 @ A scoff er does not love one who corrects him, Nor will he go to the wise.

nkjv@Prov erbs:15:13 @ A m erry heart makes a che erful countenance, But by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

nkjv@Prov erbs:15:14 @ The heart of him who has und erstanding seeks knowledge, But the mouth of fools feeds on foolishness.

nkjv@Prov erbs:15:15 @ All the days of the afflicted are evil, But he who is of a m erry heart has a continual feast.

nkjv@Prov erbs:15:16 @ Bett er is a little with the fear of the LORD, Than great treasure with trouble.

nkjv@Prov erbs:15:17 @ Bett er is a dinn er of h erbs wh ere love is, Than a fatted calf with hatred.

nkjv@Prov erbs:15:18 @ A wrathful man stirs up strife, But he who is slow to ang er allays contention.

nkjv@Prov erbs:15:19 @ The way of the lazy man is like a hedge of thorns, But the way of the upright is a highway.

nkjv@Prov erbs:15:20 @ A wise son makes a fath er glad, But a foolish man despises his moth er.

nkjv@Prov erbs:15:21 @ Folly is joy to him who is destitute of disc ernment, But a man of und erstanding walks uprightly.

nkjv@Prov erbs:15:22 @ Without counsel, plans go awry, But in the multitude of counselors they are established.

nkjv@Prov erbs:15:23 @ A man has joy by the answ er of his mouth, And a word spoken in due season, how good it is!

nkjv@Prov erbs:15:24 @ The way of life winds upward for the wise, That he may turn away from hell below.

nkjv@Prov erbs:15:25 @ The LORD will destroy the house of the proud, But He will establish the boundary of the widow.

nkjv@Prov erbs:15:26 @ The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD, But the words of the pure are pleasant.

nkjv@Prov erbs:15:27 @ He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, But he who hates bribes will live.

nkjv@Prov erbs:15:28 @ The heart of the righteous studies how to answ er, But the mouth of the wicked pours forth evil.

nkjv@Prov erbs:15:29 @ The LORD is far from the wicked, But He hears the pray er of the righteous.

nkjv@Prov erbs:15:30 @ The light of the eyes rejoices the heart, And a good report makes the bones healthy.

nkjv@Prov erbs:15:31 @ The ear that hears the rebukes of life Will abide among the wise.

nkjv@Prov erbs:15:32 @ He who disdains instruction despises his own soul, But he who heeds rebuke gets und erstanding.

nkjv@Prov erbs:15:33 @ The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom, And before honor is humility.

nkjv@Prov erbs:16:1 @ The preparations of the heart belong to man, But the answ er of the tongue is from the LORD.

nkjv@Prov erbs:16:2 @ All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, But the LORD weighs the spirits.

nkjv@Prov erbs:16:3 @ Commit your works to the LORD, And your thoughts will be established.

nkjv@Prov erbs:16:4 @ The LORD has made all for Himself, Yes, even the wicked for the day of doom.

nkjv@Prov erbs:16:5 @ Ev eryone proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD; Though they join forces, none will go unpunished.

nkjv@Prov erbs:16:6 @ In m ercy and truth Atonement is provided for iniquity; And by the fear of the LORD one departs from evil.

nkjv@Prov erbs:16:7 @ When a man's ways please the LORD, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

nkjv@Prov erbs:16:8 @ Bett er is a little with righteousness, Than vast revenues without justice.

nkjv@Prov erbs:16:9 @ A man's heart plans his way, But the LORD directs his steps.

nkjv@Prov erbs:16:10 @ Divination is on the lips of the king; His mouth must not transgress in judgment.

nkjv@Prov erbs:16:11 @ Honest weights and scales are the LORD's; All the weights in the bag are His work.

nkjv@Prov erbs:16:12 @ It is an abomination for kings to commit wickedness, For a throne is established by righteousness.

nkjv@Prov erbs:16:13 @ Righteous lips are the delight of kings, And they love him who speaks what is right.

nkjv@Prov erbs:16:14 @ As messeng ers of death is the king's wrath, But a wise man will appease it.

nkjv@Prov erbs:16:15 @ In the light of the king's face is life, And his favor is like a cloud of the latt er rain.

nkjv@Prov erbs:16:16 @ How much bett er to get wisdom than gold! And to get und erstanding is to be chosen rath er than silv er.

nkjv@Prov erbs:16:17 @ The highway of the upright is to depart from evil; He who keeps his way pres erves his soul.

nkjv@Prov erbs:16:18 @ Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.

nkjv@Prov erbs:16:19 @ Bett er to be of a humble spirit with the lowly, Than to divide the spoil with the proud.

nkjv@Prov erbs:16:20 @ He who heeds the word wisely will find good, And whoev er trusts in the LORD, happy is he.

nkjv@Prov erbs:16:21 @ The wise in heart will be called prudent, And sweetness of the lips increases learning.

nkjv@Prov erbs:16:22 @ Und erstanding is a wellspring of life to him who has it. But the correction of fools is folly.

nkjv@Prov erbs:16:23 @ The heart of the wise teaches his mouth, And adds learning to his lips.

nkjv@Prov erbs:16:24 @ Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, Sweetness to the soul and health to the bones.

nkjv@Prov erbs:16:25 @ Th ere is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.

nkjv@Prov erbs:16:26 @ The p erson who labors, labors for himself, For his hungry mouth drives him on.

nkjv@Prov erbs:16:27 @ An ungodly man digs up evil, And it is on his lips like a burning fire.

nkjv@Prov erbs:16:28 @ A p erv erse man sows strife, And a whisp er er separates the best of friends.

nkjv@Prov erbs:16:29 @ A violent man entices his neighbor, And leads him in a way that is not good.

nkjv@Prov erbs:16:30 @ He winks his eye to devise p erv erse things; He purses his lips and brings about evil.

nkjv@Prov erbs:16:31 @ The silv er-haired head is a crown of glory, If it is found in the way of righteousness.

nkjv@Prov erbs:16:32 @ He who is slow to ang er is bett er than the mighty, And he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.

nkjv@Prov erbs:16:33 @ The lot is cast into the lap, But its ev ery decision is from the LORD.

nkjv@Prov erbs:17:1 @ Bett er is a dry morsel with quietness, Than a house full of feasting with strife.

nkjv@Prov erbs:17:2 @ A wise s ervant will rule ov er a son who causes shame, And will share an inh eritance among the broth ers.

nkjv@Prov erbs:17:3 @ The refining pot is for silv er and the furnace for gold, But the LORD tests the hearts.

nkjv@Prov erbs:17:4 @ An evildo er gives heed to false lips; A liar listens eag erly to a spiteful tongue.

nkjv@Prov erbs:17:5 @ He who mocks the poor reproaches his Mak er; He who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished.

nkjv@Prov erbs:17:6 @ Children's children are the crown of old men, And the glory of children is their fath er.

nkjv@Prov erbs:17:7 @ Excellent speech is not becoming to a fool, Much less lying lips to a prince.

nkjv@Prov erbs:17:8 @ A present is a precious stone in the eyes of its possessor; Wh erev er he turns, he prosp ers.

nkjv@Prov erbs:17:9 @ He who cov ers a transgression seeks love, But he who repeats a matt er separates friends.

nkjv@Prov erbs:17:10 @ Rebuke is more effective for a wise man Than a hundred blows on a fool.

nkjv@Prov erbs:17:11 @ An evil man seeks only rebellion; Th erefore a cruel messeng er will be sent against him.

nkjv@Prov erbs:17:12 @ Let a man meet a bear robbed of h er cubs, Rath er than a fool in his folly.

nkjv@Prov erbs:17:13 @ Whoev er rewards evil for good, Evil will not depart from his house.

nkjv@Prov erbs:17:14 @ The beginning of strife is like releasing wat er; Th erefore stop contention before a quarrel starts.

nkjv@Prov erbs:17:15 @ He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the just, Both of them alike are an abomination to the LORD.

nkjv@Prov erbs:17:16 @ Why is th ere in the hand of a fool the purchase price of wisdom, Since he has no heart for it?

nkjv@Prov erbs:17:17 @ A friend loves at all times, And a broth er is born for adv ersity.

nkjv@Prov erbs:17:18 @ A man devoid of und erstanding shakes hands in a pledge, And becomes surety for his friend.

nkjv@Prov erbs:17:19 @ He who loves transgression loves strife, And he who exalts his gate seeks destruction.

nkjv@Prov erbs:17:20 @ He who has a deceitful heart finds no good, And he who has a p erv erse tongue falls into evil.

nkjv@Prov erbs:17:21 @ He who begets a scoff er does so to his sorrow, And the fath er of a fool has no joy.

nkjv@Prov erbs:17:22 @ A m erry heart does good, like medicine, But a broken spirit dries the bones.

nkjv@Prov erbs:17:23 @ A wicked man accepts a bribe behind the back To p erv ert the ways of justice.

nkjv@Prov erbs:17:24 @ Wisdom is in the sight of him who has und erstanding, But the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.

nkjv@Prov erbs:17:25 @ A foolish son is a grief to his fath er, And bitt erness to h er who bore him.

nkjv@Prov erbs:17:26 @ Also, to punish the righteous is not good, Nor to strike princes for their uprightness.

nkjv@Prov erbs:17:27 @ He who has knowledge spares his words, And a man of und erstanding is of a calm spirit.

nkjv@Prov erbs:17:28 @ Even a fool is counted wise when he holds his peace; When he shuts his lips, he is consid ered p erceptive.

nkjv@Prov erbs:18:1 @ A man who isolates himself seeks his own desire; He rages against all wise judgment.

nkjv@Prov erbs:18:2 @ A fool has no delight in und erstanding, But in expressing his own heart.

nkjv@Prov erbs:18:3 @ When the wicked comes, contempt comes also; And with dishonor comes reproach.

nkjv@Prov erbs:18:4 @ The words of a man's mouth are deep wat ers; The wellspring of wisdom is a flowing brook.

nkjv@Prov erbs:18:5 @ It is not good to show partiality to the wicked, Or to ov erthrow the righteous in judgment.

nkjv@Prov erbs:18:6 @ A fool's lips ent er into contention, And his mouth calls for blows.

nkjv@Prov erbs:18:7 @ A fool's mouth is his destruction, And his lips are the snare of his soul.

nkjv@Prov erbs:18:8 @ The words of a talebear er are like tasty trifles, And they go down into the inmost body.

nkjv@Prov erbs:18:9 @ He who is slothful in his work Is a broth er to him who is a great destroy er.

nkjv@Prov erbs:18:10 @ The name of the LORD is a strong tow er; The righteous run to it and are safe.

nkjv@Prov erbs:18:11 @ The rich man's wealth is his strong city, And like a high wall in his own esteem.

nkjv@Prov erbs:18:12 @ Before destruction the heart of a man is haughty, And before honor is humility.

nkjv@Prov erbs:18:13 @ He who answ ers a matt er before he hears it, It is folly and shame to him.

nkjv@Prov erbs:18:14 @ The spirit of a man will sustain him in sickness, But who can bear a broken spirit?

nkjv@Prov erbs:18:15 @ The heart of the prudent acquires knowledge, And the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

nkjv@Prov erbs:18:16 @ A man's gift makes room for him, And brings him before great men.

nkjv@Prov erbs:18:17 @ The first one to plead his cause seems right, Until his neighbor comes and examines him.

nkjv@Prov erbs:18:18 @ Casting lots causes contentions to cease, And keeps the mighty apart.

nkjv@Prov erbs:18:19 @ A broth er offended is hard er to win than a strong city, And contentions are like the bars of a castle.

nkjv@Prov erbs:18:20 @ A man's stomach shall be satisfied from the fruit of his mouth; From the produce of his lips he shall be filled.

nkjv@Prov erbs:18:21 @ Death and life are in the pow er of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit.

nkjv@Prov erbs:18:22 @ He who finds a wife finds a good thing, And obtains favor from the LORD.

nkjv@Prov erbs:18:23 @ The poor man uses entreaties, But the rich answ ers roughly.

nkjv@Prov erbs:18:24 @ A man who has friends must himself be friendly, But th ere is a friend who sticks clos er than a broth er.

nkjv@Prov erbs:19:1 @ Bett er is the poor who walks in his integrity Than one who is p erv erse in his lips, and is a fool.

nkjv@Prov erbs:19:2 @ Also it is not good for a soul to be without knowledge, And he sins who hastens with his feet.

nkjv@Prov erbs:19:3 @ The foolishness of a man twists his way, And his heart frets against the LORD.

nkjv@Prov erbs:19:4 @ Wealth makes many friends, But the poor is separated from his friend.

nkjv@Prov erbs:19:5 @ A false witness will not go unpunished, And he who speaks lies will not escape.

nkjv@Prov erbs:19:6 @ Many entreat the favor of the nobility, And ev ery man is a friend to one who gives gifts.

nkjv@Prov erbs:19:7 @ All the broth ers of the poor hate him; How much more do his friends go far from him! He may pursue them with words, yet they abandon him.

nkjv@Prov erbs:19:8 @ He who gets wisdom loves his own soul; He who keeps und erstanding will find good.

nkjv@Prov erbs:19:9 @ A false witness will not go unpunished, And he who speaks lies shall p erish.

nkjv@Prov erbs:19:10 @ Luxury is not fitting for a fool, Much less for a s ervant to rule ov er princes.

nkjv@Prov erbs:19:11 @ The discretion of a man makes him slow to ang er, And his glory is to ov erlook a transgression.

nkjv@Prov erbs:19:12 @ The king's wrath is like the roaring of a lion, But his favor is like dew on the grass.

nkjv@Prov erbs:19:13 @ A foolish son is the ruin of his fath er, And the contentions of a wife are a continual dripping.

nkjv@Prov erbs:19:14 @ Houses and riches are an inh eritance from fath ers, But a prudent wife is from the LORD.

nkjv@Prov erbs:19:15 @ Laziness casts one into a deep sleep, And an idle p erson will suff er hung er.

nkjv@Prov erbs:19:16 @ He who keeps the commandment keeps his soul, But he who is careless of his ways will die.

nkjv@Prov erbs:19:17 @ He who has pity on the poor lends to the LORD, And He will pay back what he has given.

nkjv@Prov erbs:19:18 @ Chasten your son while th ere is hope, And do not set your heart on his destruction.

nkjv@Prov erbs:19:19 @ A man of great wrath will suff er punishment; For if you rescue him, you will have to do it again.

nkjv@Prov erbs:19:20 @ Listen to counsel and receive instruction, That you may be wise in your latt er days.

nkjv@Prov erbs:19:21 @ Th ere are many plans in a man's heart, Nev ertheless the LORD's counsel--that will stand.

nkjv@Prov erbs:19:22 @ What is desired in a man is kindness, And a poor man is bett er than a liar.

nkjv@Prov erbs:19:23 @ The fear of the LORD leads to life, And he who has it will abide in satisfaction; He will not be visited with evil.

nkjv@Prov erbs:19:24 @ A lazy man buries his hand in the bowl, And will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

nkjv@Prov erbs:19:25 @ Strike a scoff er, and the simple will become wary; Rebuke one who has und erstanding, and he will disc ern knowledge.

nkjv@Prov erbs:19:26 @ He who mistreats his fath er and chases away his moth er Is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.

nkjv@Prov erbs:19:27 @ Cease listening to instruction, my son, And you will stray from the words of knowledge.

nkjv@Prov erbs:19:28 @ A disreputable witness scorns justice, And the mouth of the wicked devours iniquity.

nkjv@Prov erbs:19:29 @ Judgments are prepared for scoff ers, And beatings for the backs of fools.

nkjv@Prov erbs:20:1 @ Wine is a mock er, Strong drink is a brawl er, And whoev er is led astray by it is not wise.

nkjv@Prov erbs:20:2 @ The wrath of a king is like the roaring of a lion; Whoev er provokes him to ang er sins against his own life.

nkjv@Prov erbs:20:3 @ It is honorable for a man to stop striving, Since any fool can start a quarrel.

nkjv@Prov erbs:20:4 @ The lazy man will not plow because of wint er; He will beg during harvest and have nothing.

nkjv@Prov erbs:20:5 @ Counsel in the heart of man is like deep wat er, But a man of und erstanding will draw it out.

nkjv@Prov erbs:20:6 @ Most men will proclaim each his own goodness, But who can find a faithful man?

nkjv@Prov erbs:20:7 @ The righteous man walks in his integrity; His children are blessed aft er him.

nkjv@Prov erbs:20:8 @ A king who sits on the throne of judgment Scatt ers all evil with his eyes.

nkjv@Prov erbs:20:9 @ Who can say, "I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin"?

nkjv@Prov erbs:20:10 @ Div erse weights and div erse measures, They are both alike, an abomination to the LORD.

nkjv@Prov erbs:20:11 @ Even a child is known by his deeds, Wheth er what he does is pure and right.

nkjv@Prov erbs:20:12 @ The hearing ear and the seeing eye, The LORD has made them both.

nkjv@Prov erbs:20:13 @ Do not love sleep, lest you come to pov erty; Open your eyes, and you will be satisfied with bread.

nkjv@Prov erbs:20:14 @ "It is good for nothing," cries the buy er; But when he has gone his way, then he boasts.

nkjv@Prov erbs:20:15 @ Th ere is gold and a multitude of rubies, But the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

nkjv@Prov erbs:20:16 @ Take the garment of one who is surety for a strang er, And hold it as a pledge when it is for a seductress.

nkjv@Prov erbs:20:17 @ Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, But aft erward his mouth will be filled with gravel.

nkjv@Prov erbs:20:18 @ Plans are established by counsel; By wise counsel wage war.

nkjv@Prov erbs:20:19 @ He who goes about as a talebear er reveals secrets; Th erefore do not associate with one who flatt ers with his lips.

nkjv@Prov erbs:20:20 @ Whoev er curses his fath er or his moth er, His lamp will be put out in deep darkness.

nkjv@Prov erbs:20:21 @ An inh eritance gained hastily at the beginning Will not be blessed at the end.

nkjv@Prov erbs:20:22 @ Do not say, "I will recompense evil"; Wait for the LORD, and He will save you.

nkjv@Prov erbs:20:23 @ Div erse weights are an abomination to the LORD, And dishonest scales are not good.

nkjv@Prov erbs:20:24 @ A man's steps are of the LORD; How then can a man und erstand his own way?

nkjv@Prov erbs:20:25 @ It is a snare for a man to devote rashly something as holy, And aft erward to reconsid er his vows.

nkjv@Prov erbs:20:26 @ A wise king sifts out the wicked, And brings the threshing wheel ov er them.

nkjv@Prov erbs:20:27 @ The spirit of a man is the lamp of the LORD, Searching all the inn er depths of his heart.

nkjv@Prov erbs:20:28 @ M ercy and truth pres erve the king, And by lovingkindness he upholds his throne.

nkjv@Prov erbs:20:29 @ The glory of young men is their strength, And the splendor of old men is their gray head.

nkjv@Prov erbs:20:30 @ Blows that hurt cleanse away evil, As do stripes the inn er depths of the heart.

nkjv@Prov erbs:21:1 @ The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, Like the riv ers of wat er; He turns it wh erev er He wishes.

nkjv@Prov erbs:21:2 @ Ev ery way of a man is right in his own eyes, But the LORD weighs the hearts.

nkjv@Prov erbs:21:3 @ To do righteousness and justice Is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

nkjv@Prov erbs:21:4 @ A haughty look, a proud heart, And the plowing of the wicked are sin.

nkjv@Prov erbs:21:5 @ The plans of the diligent lead surely to plenty, But those of ev eryone who is hasty, surely to pov erty.

nkjv@Prov erbs:21:6 @ Getting treasures by a lying tongue Is the fleeting fantasy of those who seek death.

nkjv@Prov erbs:21:7 @ The violence of the wicked will destroy them, Because they refuse to do justice.

nkjv@Prov erbs:21:8 @ The way of a guilty man is p erv erse; But as for the pure, his work is right.

nkjv@Prov erbs:21:9 @ Bett er to dwell in a corn er of a housetop, Than in a house shared with a contentious woman.

nkjv@Prov erbs:21:10 @ The soul of the wicked desires evil; His neighbor finds no favor in his eyes.

nkjv@Prov erbs:21:11 @ When the scoff er is punished, the simple is made wise; But when the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.

nkjv@Prov erbs:21:12 @ The righteous God wisely consid ers the house of the wicked, Ov erthrowing the wicked for their wickedness.

nkjv@Prov erbs:21:13 @ Whoev er shuts his ears to the cry of the poor Will also cry himself and not be heard.

nkjv@Prov erbs:21:14 @ A gift in secret pacifies ang er, And a bribe behind the back, strong wrath.

nkjv@Prov erbs:21:15 @ It is a joy for the just to do justice, But destruction will come to the work ers of iniquity.

nkjv@Prov erbs:21:16 @ A man who wand ers from the way of und erstanding Will rest in the assembly of the dead.

nkjv@Prov erbs:21:17 @ He who loves pleasure will be a poor man; He who loves wine and oil will not be rich.

nkjv@Prov erbs:21:18 @ The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, And the unfaithful for the upright.

nkjv@Prov erbs:21:19 @ Bett er to dwell in the wild erness, Than with a contentious and angry woman.

nkjv@Prov erbs:21:20 @ Th ere is desirable treasure, And oil in the dwelling of the wise, But a foolish man squand ers it.

nkjv@Prov erbs:21:21 @ He who follows righteousness and m ercy Finds life, righteousness and honor.

nkjv@Prov erbs:21:22 @ A wise man scales the city of the mighty, And brings down the trusted stronghold.

nkjv@Prov erbs:21:23 @ Whoev er guards his mouth and tongue Keeps his soul from troubles.

nkjv@Prov erbs:21:24 @ A proud and haughty man--"Scoff er" is his name; He acts with arrogant pride.

nkjv@Prov erbs:21:25 @ The desire of the lazy man kills him, For his hands refuse to labor.

nkjv@Prov erbs:21:26 @ He covets greedily all day long, But the righteous gives and does not spare.

nkjv@Prov erbs:21:27 @ The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; How much more when he brings it with wicked intent!

nkjv@Prov erbs:21:28 @ A false witness shall p erish, But the man who hears him will speak endlessly.

nkjv@Prov erbs:21:29 @ A wicked man hardens his face, But as for the upright, he establishes his way.

nkjv@Prov erbs:21:30 @ Th ere is no wisdom or und erstanding Or counsel against the LORD.

nkjv@Prov erbs:21:31 @ The horse is prepared for the day of battle, But deliv erance is of the LORD.

nkjv@Prov erbs:22:1 @ A good name is to be chosen rath er than great riches, Loving favor rath er than silv er and gold.

nkjv@Prov erbs:22:2 @ The rich and the poor have this in common, The LORD is the mak er of them all.

nkjv@Prov erbs:22:3 @ A prudent man foresees evil and hides himself, But the simple pass on and are punished.

nkjv@Prov erbs:22:4 @ By humility and the fear of the LORD Are riches and honor and life.

nkjv@Prov erbs:22:5 @ Thorns and snares are in the way of the p erv erse; He who guards his soul will be far from them.

nkjv@Prov erbs:22:6 @ Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.

nkjv@Prov erbs:22:7 @ The rich rules ov er the poor, And the borrow er is s ervant to the lend er.

nkjv@Prov erbs:22:8 @ He who sows iniquity will reap sorrow, And the rod of his ang er will fail.

nkjv@Prov erbs:22:9 @ He who has a gen erous eye will be blessed, For he gives of his bread to the poor.

nkjv@Prov erbs:22:10 @ Cast out the scoff er, and contention will leave; Yes, strife and reproach will cease.

nkjv@Prov erbs:22:11 @ He who loves purity of heart And has grace on his lips, The king will be his friend.

nkjv@Prov erbs:22:12 @ The eyes of the LORD pres erve knowledge, But He ov erthrows the words of the faithless.

nkjv@Prov erbs:22:13 @ The lazy man says, "Th ere is a lion outside! I shall be slain in the streets!"

nkjv@Prov erbs:22:14 @ The mouth of an immoral woman is a deep pit; He who is abhorred by the LORD will fall th ere.

nkjv@Prov erbs:22:15 @ Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; The rod of correction will drive it far from him.

nkjv@Prov erbs:22:16 @ He who oppresses the poor to increase his riches, And he who gives to the rich, will surely come to pov erty.

nkjv@Prov erbs:22:17 @ Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise, And apply your heart to my knowledge;

nkjv@Prov erbs:22:18 @ For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you; Let them all be fixed upon your lips,

nkjv@Prov erbs:22:19 @ So that your trust may be in the LORD; I have instructed you today, even you.

nkjv@Prov erbs:22:20 @ Have I not written to you excellent things Of counsels and knowledge,

nkjv@Prov erbs:22:21 @ That I may make you know the c ertainty of the words of truth, That you may answ er words of truth To those who send to you?

nkjv@Prov erbs:22:22 @ Do not rob the poor because he is poor, Nor oppress the afflicted at the gate;

nkjv@Prov erbs:22:23 @ For the LORD will plead their cause, And plund er the soul of those who plund er them.

nkjv@Prov erbs:22:24 @ Make no friendship with an angry man, And with a furious man do not go,

nkjv@Prov erbs:22:25 @ Lest you learn his ways And set a snare for your soul.

nkjv@Prov erbs:22:26 @ Do not be one of those who shakes hands in a pledge, One of those who is surety for debts;

nkjv@Prov erbs:22:27 @ If you have nothing with which to pay, Why should he take away your bed from und er you?

nkjv@Prov erbs:22:28 @ Do not remove the ancient landmark Which your fath ers have set.

nkjv@Prov erbs:22:29 @ Do you see a man who excels in his work? He will stand before kings; He will not stand before unknown men.

nkjv@Prov erbs:23:1 @ When you sit down to eat with a rul er, Consid er carefully what is before you;

nkjv@Prov erbs:23:2 @ And put a knife to your throat If you are a man given to appetite.

nkjv@Prov erbs:23:3 @ Do not desire his delicacies, For they are deceptive food.

nkjv@Prov erbs:23:4 @ Do not ov erwork to be rich; Because of your own und erstanding, cease!

nkjv@Prov erbs:23:5 @ Will you set your eyes on that which is not? For riches c ertainly make themselves wings; They fly away like an eagle toward heaven.

nkjv@Prov erbs:23:6 @ Do not eat the bread of a mis er, Nor desire his delicacies;

nkjv@Prov erbs:23:7 @ For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. "Eat and drink!" he says to you, But his heart is not with you.

nkjv@Prov erbs:23:8 @ The morsel you have eaten, you will vomit up, And waste your pleasant words.

nkjv@Prov erbs:23:9 @ Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, For he will despise the wisdom of your words.

nkjv@Prov erbs:23:10 @ Do not remove the ancient landmark, Nor ent er the fields of the fath erless;

nkjv@Prov erbs:23:11 @ For their Redeem er is mighty; He will plead their cause against you.

nkjv@Prov erbs:23:12 @ Apply your heart to instruction, And your ears to words of knowledge.

nkjv@Prov erbs:23:13 @ Do not withhold correction from a child, For if you beat him with a rod, he will not die.

nkjv@Prov erbs:23:14 @ You shall beat him with a rod, And deliv er his soul from hell.

nkjv@Prov erbs:23:15 @ My son, if your heart is wise, My heart will rejoice--indeed, I myself;

nkjv@Prov erbs:23:16 @ Yes, my inmost being will rejoice When your lips speak right things.

nkjv@Prov erbs:23:17 @ Do not let your heart envy sinn ers, But be zealous for the fear of the LORD all the day;

nkjv@Prov erbs:23:18 @ For surely th ere is a h ereaft er, And your hope will not be cut off.

nkjv@Prov erbs:23:19 @ Hear, my son, and be wise; And guide your heart in the way.

nkjv@Prov erbs:23:20 @ Do not mix with winebibb ers, Or with gluttonous eat ers of meat;

nkjv@Prov erbs:23:21 @ For the drunkard and the glutton will come to pov erty, And drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.

nkjv@Prov erbs:23:22 @ Listen to your fath er who begot you, And do not despise your moth er when she is old.

nkjv@Prov erbs:23:23 @ Buy the truth, and do not sell it, Also wisdom and instruction and und erstanding.

nkjv@Prov erbs:23:24 @ The fath er of the righteous will greatly rejoice, And he who begets a wise child will delight in him.

nkjv@Prov erbs:23:25 @ Let your fath er and your moth er be glad, And let h er who bore you rejoice.

nkjv@Prov erbs:23:26 @ My son, give me your heart, And let your eyes obs erve my ways.

nkjv@Prov erbs:23:27 @ For a harlot is a deep pit, And a seductress is a narrow well.

nkjv@Prov erbs:23:28 @ She also lies in wait as for a victim, And increases the unfaithful among men.

nkjv@Prov erbs:23:29 @ Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?

nkjv@Prov erbs:23:30 @ Those who ling er long at the wine, Those who go in search of mixed wine.

nkjv@Prov erbs:23:31 @ Do not look on the wine when it is red, When it sparkles in the cup, When it swirls around smoothly;

nkjv@Prov erbs:23:32 @ At the last it bites like a s erpent, And stings like a vip er.

nkjv@Prov erbs:23:33 @ Your eyes will see strange things, And your heart will utt er p erv erse things.

nkjv@Prov erbs:23:34 @ Yes, you will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, Or like one who lies at the top of the mast, saying:

nkjv@Prov erbs:23:35 @ "They have struck me, but I was not hurt; They have beaten me, but I did not feel it. When shall I awake, that I may seek anoth er drink?

nkjv@Prov erbs:24:1 @ Do not be envious of evil men, Nor desire to be with them;

nkjv@Prov erbs:24:2 @ For their heart devises violence, And their lips talk of troublemaking.

nkjv@Prov erbs:24:3 @ Through wisdom a house is built, And by und erstanding it is established;

nkjv@Prov erbs:24:4 @ By knowledge the rooms are filled With all precious and pleasant riches.

nkjv@Prov erbs:24:5 @ A wise man is strong, Yes, a man of knowledge increases strength;

nkjv@Prov erbs:24:6 @ For by wise counsel you will wage your own war, And in a multitude of counselors th ere is safety.

nkjv@Prov erbs:24:7 @ Wisdom is too lofty for a fool; He does not open his mouth in the gate.

nkjv@Prov erbs:24:8 @ He who plots to do evil Will be called a schem er.

nkjv@Prov erbs:24:9 @ The devising of foolishness is sin, And the scoff er is an abomination to men.

nkjv@Prov erbs:24:10 @ If you faint in the day of adv ersity, Your strength is small.

nkjv@Prov erbs:24:11 @ Deliv er those who are drawn toward death, And hold back those stumbling to the slaught er.

nkjv@Prov erbs:24:12 @ If you say, "Surely we did not know this," Does not He who weighs the hearts consid er it? He who keeps your soul, does He not know it? And will He not rend er to each man according to his deeds?

nkjv@Prov erbs:24:13 @ My son, eat honey because it is good, And the honeycomb which is sweet to your taste;

nkjv@Prov erbs:24:14 @ So shall the knowledge of wisdom be to your soul; If you have found it, th ere is a prospect, And your hope will not be cut off.

nkjv@Prov erbs:24:15 @ Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; Do not plund er his resting place;

nkjv@Prov erbs:24:16 @ For a righteous man may fall seven times And rise again, But the wicked shall fall by calamity.

nkjv@Prov erbs:24:17 @ Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, And do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles;

nkjv@Prov erbs:24:18 @ Lest the LORD see it, and it displease Him, And He turn away His wrath from him.

nkjv@Prov erbs:24:19 @ Do not fret because of evildo ers, Nor be envious of the wicked;

nkjv@Prov erbs:24:20 @ For th ere will be no prospect for the evil man; The lamp of the wicked will be put out.

nkjv@Prov erbs:24:21 @ My son, fear the LORD and the king; Do not associate with those given to change;

nkjv@Prov erbs:24:22 @ For their calamity will rise suddenly, And who knows the ruin those two can bring?

nkjv@Prov erbs:24:23 @ These things also belong to the wise: It is not good to show partiality in judgment.

nkjv@Prov erbs:24:24 @ He who says to the wicked, "You are righteous," Him the people will curse; Nations will abhor him.

nkjv@Prov erbs:24:25 @ But those who rebuke the wicked will have delight, And a good blessing will come upon them.

nkjv@Prov erbs:24:26 @ He who gives a right answ er kisses the lips.

nkjv@Prov erbs:24:27 @ Prepare your outside work, Make it fit for yourself in the field; And aft erward build your house.

nkjv@Prov erbs:24:28 @ Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, For would you deceive with your lips?

nkjv@Prov erbs:24:29 @ Do not say, "I will do to him just as he has done to me; I will rend er to the man according to his work."

nkjv@Prov erbs:24:30 @ I went by the field of the lazy man, And by the vineyard of the man devoid of und erstanding;

nkjv@Prov erbs:24:31 @ And th ere it was, all ov ergrown with thorns; Its surface was cov ered with nettles; Its stone wall was broken down.

nkjv@Prov erbs:24:32 @ When I saw it, I consid ered it well; I looked on it and received instruction:

nkjv@Prov erbs:24:33 @ A little sleep, a little slumb er, A little folding of the hands to rest;

nkjv@Prov erbs:24:34 @ So shall your pov erty come like a prowl er, And your need like an armed man.

nkjv@Prov erbs:25:1 @ These also are prov erbs of Solomon which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied:

nkjv@Prov erbs:25:2 @ It is the glory of God to conceal a matt er, But the glory of kings is to search out a matt er.

nkjv@Prov erbs:25:3 @ As the heavens for height and the earth for depth, So the heart of kings is unsearchable.

nkjv@Prov erbs:25:4 @ Take away the dross from silv er, And it will go to the silv ersmith for jewelry.

nkjv@Prov erbs:25:5 @ Take away the wicked from before the king, And his throne will be established in righteousness.

nkjv@Prov erbs:25:6 @ Do not exalt yourself in the presence of the king, And do not stand in the place of the great;

nkjv@Prov erbs:25:7 @ For it is bett er that he say to you, "Come up h ere," Than that you should be put low er in the presence of the prince, Whom your eyes have seen.

nkjv@Prov erbs:25:8 @ Do not go hastily to court; For what will you do in the end, When your neighbor has put you to shame?

nkjv@Prov erbs:25:9 @ Debate your case with your neighbor, And do not disclose the secret to anoth er;

nkjv@Prov erbs:25:10 @ Lest he who hears it expose your shame, And your reputation be ruined.

nkjv@Prov erbs:25:11 @ A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold In settings of silv er.

nkjv@Prov erbs:25:12 @ Like an earring of gold and an ornament of fine gold Is a wise rebuk er to an obedient ear.

nkjv@Prov erbs:25:13 @ Like the cold of snow in time of harvest Is a faithful messeng er to those who send him, For he refreshes the soul of his mast ers.

nkjv@Prov erbs:25:14 @ Whoev er falsely boasts of giving Is like clouds and wind without rain.

nkjv@Prov erbs:25:15 @ By long forbearance a rul er is p ersuaded, And a gentle tongue breaks a bone.

nkjv@Prov erbs:25:16 @ Have you found honey? Eat only as much as you need, Lest you be filled with it and vomit.

nkjv@Prov erbs:25:17 @ Seldom set foot in your neighbor's house, Lest he become weary of you and hate you.

nkjv@Prov erbs:25:18 @ A man who bears false witness against his neighbor Is like a club, a sword, and a sharp arrow.

nkjv@Prov erbs:25:19 @ Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble Is like a bad tooth and a foot out of joint.

nkjv@Prov erbs:25:20 @ Like one who takes away a garment in cold weath er, And like vinegar on soda, Is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.

nkjv@Prov erbs:25:21 @ If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat; And if he is thirsty, give him wat er to drink;

nkjv@Prov erbs:25:22 @ For so you will heap coals of fire on his head, And the LORD will reward you.

nkjv@Prov erbs:25:23 @ The north wind brings forth rain, And a backbiting tongue an angry countenance.

nkjv@Prov erbs:25:24 @ It is bett er to dwell in a corn er of a housetop, Than in a house shared with a contentious woman.

nkjv@Prov erbs:25:25 @ As cold wat er to a weary soul, So is good news from a far country.

nkjv@Prov erbs:25:26 @ A righteous man who falt ers before the wicked Is like a murky spring and a polluted well.

nkjv@Prov erbs:25:27 @ It is not good to eat much honey; So to seek one's own glory is not glory.

nkjv@Prov erbs:25:28 @ Whoev er has no rule ov er his own spirit Is like a city broken down, without walls.

nkjv@Prov erbs:26:1 @ As snow in summ er and rain in harvest, So honor is not fitting for a fool.

nkjv@Prov erbs:26:2 @ Like a flitting sparrow, like a flying swallow, So a curse without cause shall not alight.

nkjv@Prov erbs:26:3 @ A whip for the horse, A bridle for the donkey, And a rod for the fool's back.

nkjv@Prov erbs:26:4 @ Do not answ er a fool according to his folly, Lest you also be like him.

nkjv@Prov erbs:26:5 @ Answ er a fool according to his folly, Lest he be wise in his own eyes.

nkjv@Prov erbs:26:6 @ He who sends a message by the hand of a fool Cuts off his own feet and drinks violence.

nkjv@Prov erbs:26:7 @ Like the legs of the lame that hang limp Is a prov erb in the mouth of fools.

nkjv@Prov erbs:26:8 @ Like one who binds a stone in a sling Is he who gives honor to a fool.

nkjv@Prov erbs:26:9 @ Like a thorn that goes into the hand of a drunkard Is a prov erb in the mouth of fools.

nkjv@Prov erbs:26:10 @ The great God who formed ev erything Gives the fool his hire and the transgressor his wages.

nkjv@Prov erbs:26:11 @ As a dog returns to his own vomit, So a fool repeats his folly.

nkjv@Prov erbs:26:12 @ Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? Th ere is more hope for a fool than for him.

nkjv@Prov erbs:26:13 @ The lazy man says, "Th ere is a lion in the road! A fi erce lion is in the streets!"

nkjv@Prov erbs:26:14 @ As a door turns on its hinges, So does the lazy man on his bed.

nkjv@Prov erbs:26:15 @ The lazy man buries his hand in the bowl; It wearies him to bring it back to his mouth.

nkjv@Prov erbs:26:16 @ The lazy man is wis er in his own eyes Than seven men who can answ er sensibly.

nkjv@Prov erbs:26:17 @ He who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own Is like one who takes a dog by the ears.

nkjv@Prov erbs:26:18 @ Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death,

nkjv@Prov erbs:26:19 @ Is the man who deceives his neighbor, And says, "I was only joking!"

nkjv@Prov erbs:26:20 @ Wh ere th ere is no wood, the fire goes out; And wh ere th ere is no talebear er, strife ceases.

nkjv@Prov erbs:26:21 @ As charcoal is to burning coals, and wood to fire, So is a contentious man to kindle strife.

nkjv@Prov erbs:26:22 @ The words of a talebear er are like tasty trifles, And they go down into the inmost body.

nkjv@Prov erbs:26:23 @ F ervent lips with a wicked heart Are like earthenware cov ered with silv er dross.

nkjv@Prov erbs:26:24 @ He who hates, disguises it with his lips, And lays up deceit within himself;

nkjv@Prov erbs:26:25 @ When he speaks kindly, do not believe him, For th ere are seven abominations in his heart;

nkjv@Prov erbs:26:26 @ Though his hatred is cov ered by deceit, His wickedness will be revealed before the assembly.

nkjv@Prov erbs:26:27 @ Whoev er digs a pit will fall into it, And he who rolls a stone will have it roll back on him.

nkjv@Prov erbs:26:28 @ A lying tongue hates those who are crushed by it, And a flatt ering mouth works ruin.

nkjv@Prov erbs:27:1 @ Do not boast about tomorrow, For you do not know what a day may bring forth.

nkjv@Prov erbs:27:2 @ Let anoth er man praise you, and not your own mouth; A strang er, and not your own lips.

nkjv@Prov erbs:27:3 @ A stone is heavy and sand is weighty, But a fool's wrath is heavi er than both of them.

nkjv@Prov erbs:27:4 @ Wrath is cruel and ang er a torrent, But who is able to stand before jealousy?

nkjv@Prov erbs:27:5 @ Open rebuke is bett er Than love carefully concealed.

nkjv@Prov erbs:27:6 @ Faithful are the wounds of a friend, But the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

nkjv@Prov erbs:27:7 @ A satisfied soul loathes the honeycomb, But to a hungry soul ev ery bitt er thing is sweet.

nkjv@Prov erbs:27:8 @ Like a bird that wand ers from its nest Is a man who wand ers from his place.

nkjv@Prov erbs:27:9 @ Ointment and p erfume delight the heart, And the sweetness of a man's friend gives delight by hearty counsel.

nkjv@Prov erbs:27:10 @ Do not forsake your own friend or your fath er's friend, Nor go to your broth er's house in the day of your calamity; Bett er is a neighbor nearby than a broth er far away.

nkjv@Prov erbs:27:11 @ My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, That I may answ er him who reproaches me.

nkjv@Prov erbs:27:12 @ A prudent man foresees evil and hides himself; The simple pass on and are punished.

nkjv@Prov erbs:27:13 @ Take the garment of him who is surety for a strang er, And hold it in pledge when he is surety for a seductress.

nkjv@Prov erbs:27:14 @ He who blesses his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, It will be counted a curse to him.

nkjv@Prov erbs:27:15 @ A continual dripping on a v ery rainy day And a contentious woman are alike;

nkjv@Prov erbs:27:16 @ Whoev er restrains h er restrains the wind, And grasps oil with his right hand.

nkjv@Prov erbs:27:17 @ As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.

nkjv@Prov erbs:27:18 @ Whoev er keeps the fig tree will eat its fruit; So he who waits on his mast er will be honored.

nkjv@Prov erbs:27:19 @ As in wat er face reflects face, So a man's heart reveals the man.

nkjv@Prov erbs:27:20 @ Hell and Destruction are nev er full; So the eyes of man are nev er satisfied.

nkjv@Prov erbs:27:21 @ The refining pot is for silv er and the furnace for gold, And a man is valued by what oth ers say of him.

nkjv@Prov erbs:27:22 @ Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, Yet his foolishness will not depart from him.

nkjv@Prov erbs:27:23 @ Be diligent to know the state of your flocks, And attend to your h erds;

nkjv@Prov erbs:27:24 @ For riches are not forev er, Nor does a crown endure to all gen erations.

nkjv@Prov erbs:27:25 @ When the hay is removed, and the tend er grass shows itself, And the h erbs of the mountains are gath ered in,

nkjv@Prov erbs:27:26 @ The lambs will provide your clothing, And the goats the price of a field;

nkjv@Prov erbs:27:27 @ You shall have enough goats' milk for your food, For the food of your household, And the nourishment of your maids ervants.

nkjv@Prov erbs:28:1 @ The wicked flee when no one pursues, But the righteous are bold as a lion.

nkjv@Prov erbs:28:2 @ Because of the transgression of a land, many are its princes; But by a man of und erstanding and knowledge Right will be prolonged.

nkjv@Prov erbs:28:3 @ A poor man who oppresses the poor Is like a driving rain which leaves no food.

nkjv@Prov erbs:28:4 @ Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, But such as keep the law contend with them.

nkjv@Prov erbs:28:5 @ Evil men do not und erstand justice, But those who seek the LORD und erstand all.

nkjv@Prov erbs:28:6 @ Bett er is the poor who walks in his integrity Than one p erv erse in his ways, though he be rich.

nkjv@Prov erbs:28:7 @ Whoev er keeps the law is a disc erning son, But a companion of gluttons shames his fath er.

nkjv@Prov erbs:28:8 @ One who increases his possessions by usury and extortion Gath ers it for him who will pity the poor.

nkjv@Prov erbs:28:9 @ One who turns away his ear from hearing the law, Even his pray er is an abomination.

nkjv@Prov erbs:28:10 @ Whoev er causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, He himself will fall into his own pit; But the blameless will inh erit good.

nkjv@Prov erbs:28:11 @ The rich man is wise in his own eyes, But the poor who has und erstanding searches him out.

nkjv@Prov erbs:28:12 @ When the righteous rejoice, th ere is great glory; But when the wicked arise, men hide themselves.

nkjv@Prov erbs:28:13 @ He who cov ers his sins will not prosp er, But whoev er confesses and forsakes them will have m ercy.

nkjv@Prov erbs:28:14 @ Happy is the man who is always rev erent, But he who hardens his heart will fall into calamity.

nkjv@Prov erbs:28:15 @ Like a roaring lion and a charging bear Is a wicked rul er ov er poor people.

nkjv@Prov erbs:28:16 @ A rul er who lacks und erstanding is a great oppressor, But he who hates covetousness will prolong his days.

nkjv@Prov erbs:28:17 @ A man burdened with bloodshed will flee into a pit; Let no one help him.

nkjv@Prov erbs:28:18 @ Whoev er walks blamelessly will be saved, But he who is p erv erse in his ways will suddenly fall.

nkjv@Prov erbs:28:19 @ He who tills his land will have plenty of bread, But he who follows frivolity will have pov erty enough!

nkjv@Prov erbs:28:20 @ A faithful man will abound with blessings, But he who hastens to be rich will not go unpunished.

nkjv@Prov erbs:28:21 @ To show partiality is not good, Because for a piece of bread a man will transgress.

nkjv@Prov erbs:28:22 @ A man with an evil eye hastens aft er riches, And does not consid er that pov erty will come upon him.

nkjv@Prov erbs:28:23 @ He who rebukes a man will find more favor aft erward Than he who flatt ers with the tongue.

nkjv@Prov erbs:28:24 @ Whoev er robs his fath er or his moth er, And says, "It is no transgression," The same is companion to a destroy er.

nkjv@Prov erbs:28:25 @ He who is of a proud heart stirs up strife, But he who trusts in the LORD will be prosp ered.

nkjv@Prov erbs:28:26 @ He who trusts in his own heart is a fool, But whoev er walks wisely will be deliv ered.

nkjv@Prov erbs:28:27 @ He who gives to the poor will not lack, But he who hides his eyes will have many curses.

nkjv@Prov erbs:28:28 @ When the wicked arise, men hide themselves; But when they p erish, the righteous increase.

nkjv@Prov erbs:29:1 @ He who is often rebuked, and hardens his neck, Will suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

nkjv@Prov erbs:29:2 @ When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan.

nkjv@Prov erbs:29:3 @ Whoev er loves wisdom makes his fath er rejoice, But a companion of harlots wastes his wealth.

nkjv@Prov erbs:29:4 @ The king establishes the land by justice, But he who receives bribes ov erthrows it.

nkjv@Prov erbs:29:5 @ A man who flatt ers his neighbor Spreads a net for his feet.

nkjv@Prov erbs:29:6 @ By transgression an evil man is snared, But the righteous sings and rejoices.

nkjv@Prov erbs:29:7 @ The righteous consid ers the cause of the poor, But the wicked does not und erstand such knowledge.

nkjv@Prov erbs:29:8 @ Scoff ers set a city aflame, But wise men turn away wrath.

nkjv@Prov erbs:29:9 @ If a wise man contends with a foolish man, Wheth er the fool rages or laughs, th ere is no peace.

nkjv@Prov erbs:29:10 @ The bloodthirsty hate the blameless, But the upright seek his well-being.

nkjv@Prov erbs:29:11 @ A fool vents all his feelings, But a wise man holds them back.

nkjv@Prov erbs:29:12 @ If a rul er pays attention to lies, All his s ervants become wicked.

nkjv@Prov erbs:29:13 @ The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: The LORD gives light to the eyes of both.

nkjv@Prov erbs:29:14 @ The king who judges the poor with truth, His throne will be established forev er.

nkjv@Prov erbs:29:15 @ The rod and rebuke give wisdom, But a child left to himself brings shame to his moth er.

nkjv@Prov erbs:29:16 @ When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increases; But the righteous will see their fall.

nkjv@Prov erbs:29:17 @ Correct your son, and he will give you rest; Yes, he will give delight to your soul.

nkjv@Prov erbs:29:18 @ Wh ere th ere is no revelation, the people cast off restraint; But happy is he who keeps the law.

nkjv@Prov erbs:29:19 @ A s ervant will not be corrected by m ere words; For though he und erstands, he will not respond.

nkjv@Prov erbs:29:20 @ Do you see a man hasty in his words? Th ere is more hope for a fool than for him.

nkjv@Prov erbs:29:21 @ He who pamp ers his s ervant from childhood Will have him as a son in the end.

nkjv@Prov erbs:29:22 @ An angry man stirs up strife, And a furious man abounds in transgression.

nkjv@Prov erbs:29:23 @ A man's pride will bring him low, But the humble in spirit will retain honor.

nkjv@Prov erbs:29:24 @ Whoev er is a partn er with a thief hates his own life; He swears to tell the truth, but reveals nothing.

nkjv@Prov erbs:29:25 @ The fear of man brings a snare, But whoev er trusts in the LORD shall be safe.

nkjv@Prov erbs:29:26 @ Many seek the rul er's favor, But justice for man comes from the LORD.

nkjv@Prov erbs:29:27 @ An unjust man is an abomination to the righteous, And he who is upright in the way is an abomination to the wicked.

nkjv@Prov erbs:30:1 @ The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, his utt erance. This man declared to Ithiel--to Ithiel and Ucal:

nkjv@Prov erbs:30:2 @ Surely I am more stupid than any man, And do not have the und erstanding of a man.

nkjv@Prov erbs:30:3 @ I neith er learned wisdom Nor have knowledge of the Holy One.

nkjv@Prov erbs:30:4 @ Who has ascended into heaven, or descended? Who has gath ered the wind in His fists? Who has bound the wat ers in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His name, and what is His Son's name, If you know?

nkjv@Prov erbs:30:5 @ Ev ery word of God is pure; He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him.

nkjv@Prov erbs:30:6 @ Do not add to His words, Lest He rebuke you, and you be found a liar.

nkjv@Prov erbs:30:7 @ Two things I request of You (Deprive me not before I die):

nkjv@Prov erbs:30:8 @ Remove falsehood and lies far from me; Give me neith er pov erty nor riches-- Feed me with the food allotted to me;

nkjv@Prov erbs:30:9 @ Lest I be full and deny You, And say, "Who is the LORD?" Or lest I be poor and steal, And profane the name of my God.

nkjv@Prov erbs:30:10 @ Do not malign a s ervant to his mast er, Lest he curse you, and you be found guilty.

nkjv@Prov erbs:30:11 @ Th ere is a gen eration that curses its fath er, And does not bless its moth er.

nkjv@Prov erbs:30:12 @ Th ere is a gen eration that is pure in its own eyes, Yet is not washed from its filthiness.

nkjv@Prov erbs:30:13 @ Th ere is a gen eration-- oh, how lofty are their eyes! And their eyelids are lifted up.

nkjv@Prov erbs:30:14 @ Th ere is a gen eration whose teeth are like swords, And whose fangs are like knives, To devour the poor from off the earth, And the needy from among men.

nkjv@Prov erbs:30:15 @ The leech has two daught ers-- Give and Give! Th ere are three things that are nev er satisfied, Four nev er say, "Enough!":

nkjv@Prov erbs:30:16 @ The grave, The barren womb, The earth that is not satisfied with wat er-- And the fire nev er says, "Enough!"

nkjv@Prov erbs:30:17 @ The eye that mocks his fath er, And scorns obedience to his moth er, The ravens of the valley will pick it out, And the young eagles will eat it.

nkjv@Prov erbs:30:18 @ Th ere are three things which are too wond erful for me, Yes, four which I do not und erstand:

nkjv@Prov erbs:30:19 @ The way of an eagle in the air, The way of a s erpent on a rock, The way of a ship in the midst of the sea, And the way of a man with a virgin.

nkjv@Prov erbs:30:20 @ This is the way of an adult erous woman: She eats and wipes h er mouth, And says, "I have done no wickedness."

nkjv@Prov erbs:30:21 @ For three things the earth is p erturbed, Yes, for four it cannot bear up:

nkjv@Prov erbs:30:22 @ For a s ervant when he reigns, A fool when he is filled with food,

nkjv@Prov erbs:30:23 @ A hateful woman when she is married, And a maids ervant who succeeds h er mistress.

nkjv@Prov erbs:30:24 @ Th ere are four things which are little on the earth, But they are exceedingly wise:

nkjv@Prov erbs:30:25 @ The ants are a people not strong, Yet they prepare their food in the summ er;

nkjv@Prov erbs:30:26 @ The rock badg ers are a feeble folk, Yet they make their homes in the crags;

nkjv@Prov erbs:30:27 @ The locusts have no king, Yet they all advance in ranks;

nkjv@Prov erbs:30:28 @ The spid er skillfully grasps with its hands, And it is in kings' palaces.

nkjv@Prov erbs:30:29 @ Th ere are three things which are majestic in pace, Yes, four which are stately in walk:

nkjv@Prov erbs:30:30 @ A lion, which is mighty among beasts And does not turn away from any;

nkjv@Prov erbs:30:31 @ A greyhound, A male goat also, And a king whose troops are with him.

nkjv@Prov erbs:30:32 @ If you have been foolish in exalting yourself, Or if you have devised evil, put your hand on your mouth.

nkjv@Prov erbs:30:33 @ For as the churning of milk produces butt er, And wringing the nose produces blood, So the forcing of wrath produces strife.

nkjv@Prov erbs:31:1 @ The words of King Lemuel, the utt erance which his moth er taught him:

nkjv@Prov erbs:31:2 @ What, my son? And what, son of my womb? And what, son of my vows?

nkjv@Prov erbs:31:3 @ Do not give your strength to women, Nor your ways to that which destroys kings.

nkjv@Prov erbs:31:4 @ It is not for kings, O Lemuel, It is not for kings to drink wine, Nor for princes intoxicating drink;

nkjv@Prov erbs:31:5 @ Lest they drink and forget the law, And p erv ert the justice of all the afflicted.

nkjv@Prov erbs:31:6 @ Give strong drink to him who is p erishing, And wine to those who are bitt er of heart.

nkjv@Prov erbs:31:7 @ Let him drink and forget his pov erty, And rememb er his mis ery no more.

nkjv@Prov erbs:31:8 @ Open your mouth for the speechless, In the cause of all who are appointed to die.

nkjv@Prov erbs:31:9 @ Open your mouth, judge righteously, And plead the cause of the poor and needy.

nkjv@Prov erbs:31:10 @ Who can find a virtuous wife? For h er worth is far above rubies.

nkjv@Prov erbs:31:11 @ The heart of h er husband safely trusts h er; So he will have no lack of gain.

nkjv@Prov erbs:31:12 @ She does him good and not evil All the days of h er life.

nkjv@Prov erbs:31:13 @ She seeks wool and flax, And willingly works with h er hands.

nkjv@Prov erbs:31:14 @ She is like the m erchant ships, She brings h er food from afar.

nkjv@Prov erbs:31:15 @ She also rises while it is yet night, And provides food for h er household, And a portion for h er maids ervants.

nkjv@Prov erbs:31:16 @ She consid ers a field and buys it; From h er profits she plants a vineyard.

nkjv@Prov erbs:31:17 @ She girds h erself with strength, And strengthens h er arms.

nkjv@Prov erbs:31:18 @ She p erceives that h er m erchandise is good, And h er lamp does not go out by night.

nkjv@Prov erbs:31:19 @ She stretches out h er hands to the distaff, And h er hand holds the spindle.

nkjv@Prov erbs:31:20 @ She extends h er hand to the poor, Yes, she reaches out h er hands to the needy.

nkjv@Prov erbs:31:21 @ She is not afraid of snow for h er household, For all h er household is clothed with scarlet.

nkjv@Prov erbs:31:22 @ She makes tapestry for h erself; H er clothing is fine linen and purple.

nkjv@Prov erbs:31:23 @ H er husband is known in the gates, When he sits among the eld ers of the land.

nkjv@Prov erbs:31:24 @ She makes linen garments and sells them, And supplies sashes for the m erchants.

nkjv@Prov erbs:31:25 @ Strength and honor are h er clothing; She shall rejoice in time to come.

nkjv@Prov erbs:31:26 @ She opens h er mouth with wisdom, And on h er tongue is the law of kindness.

nkjv@Prov erbs:31:27 @ She watches ov er the ways of h er household, And does not eat the bread of idleness.

nkjv@Prov erbs:31:28 @ H er children rise up and call h er blessed; H er husband also, and he praises h er:

nkjv@Prov erbs:31:29 @ "Many daught ers have done well, But you excel them all."

nkjv@Prov erbs:31:30 @ Charm is deceitful and beauty is passing, But a woman who fears the LORD, she shall be praised.

nkjv@Prov erbs:31:31 @ Give h er of the fruit of h er hands, And let h er own works praise h er in the gates.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:1:1 @ The words of the Preach er, the son of David, king in J erusalem.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:1:2 @ "Vanity of vanities," says the Preach er; "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity."

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:1:3 @ What profit has a man from all his labor In which he toils und er the sun?

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:1:4 @ One gen eration passes away, and anoth er gen eration comes; But the earth abides forev er.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:1:5 @ The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, And hastens to the place wh ere it arose.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:1:7 @ All the riv ers run into the sea, Yet the sea is not full; To the place from which the riv ers come, Th ere they return again.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:1:9 @ That which has been is what will be, That which is done is what will be done, And th ere is nothing new und er the sun.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:1:10 @ Is th ere anything of which it may be said, "See, this is new"? It has already been in ancient times before us.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:1:11 @ Th ere is no remembrance of form er things, Nor will th ere be any remembrance of things that are to come By those who will come aft er.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:1:12 @ I, the Preach er, was king ov er Israel in J erusalem.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:1:13 @ And I set my heart to seek and search out by wisdom conc erning all that is done und er heaven; this burdensome task God has given to the sons of man, by which they may be ex ercised.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:1:14 @ I have seen all the works that are done und er the sun; and indeed, all is vanity and grasping for the wind.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:1:15 @ What is crooked cannot be made straight, And what is lacking cannot be numb ered.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:1:16 @ I communed with my heart, saying, "Look, I have attained greatness, and have gained more wisdom than all who w ere before me in J erusalem. My heart has und erstood great wisdom and knowledge."

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:1:17 @ And I set my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I p erceived that this also is grasping for the wind.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:1 @ I said in my heart, "Come now, I will test you with mirth; th erefore enjoy pleasure"; but surely, this also was vanity.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:2 @ I said of laught er--"Madness!"; and of mirth, "What does it accomplish?"

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:3 @ I searched in my heart how to gratify my flesh with wine, while guiding my heart with wisdom, and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the sons of men to do und er heaven all the days of their lives.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:6 @ I made myself wat er pools from which to wat er the growing trees of the grove.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:7 @ I acquired male and female s ervants, and had s ervants born in my house. Yes, I had great er possessions of h erds and flocks than all who w ere in J erusalem before me.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:8 @ I also gath ered for myself silv er and gold and the special treasures of kings and of the provinces. I acquired male and female sing ers, the delights of the sons of men, and musical instruments of all kinds.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:9 @ So I became great and excelled more than all who w ere before me in J erusalem. Also my wisdom remained with me.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:10 @ Whatev er my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure, For my heart rejoiced in all my labor; And this was my reward from all my labor.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:11 @ Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done And on the labor in which I had toiled; And indeed all was vanity and grasping for the wind. Th ere was no profit und er the sun.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:12 @ Then I turned myself to consid er wisdom and madness and folly; For what can the man do who succeeds the king?-- Only what he has already done.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:14 @ The wise man's eyes are in his head, But the fool walks in darkness. Yet I myself p erceived That the same event happens to them all.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:16 @ For th ere is no more remembrance of the wise than of the fool forev er, Since all that now is will be forgotten in the days to come. And how does a wise man die? As the fool!

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:17 @ Th erefore I hated life because the work that was done und er the sun was distressing to me, for all is vanity and grasping for the wind.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:18 @ Then I hated all my labor in which I had toiled und er the sun, because I must leave it to the man who will come aft er me.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:19 @ And who knows wheth er he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will rule ov er all my labor in which I toiled and in which I have shown myself wise und er the sun. This also is vanity.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:20 @ Th erefore I turned my heart and despaired of all the labor in which I had toiled und er the sun.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:21 @ For th ere is a man whose labor is with wisdom, knowledge, and skill; yet he must leave his h eritage to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:22 @ For what has man for all his labor, and for the striving of his heart with which he has toiled und er the sun?

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:24 @ Nothing is bett er for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that his soul should enjoy good in his labor. This also, I saw, was from the hand of God.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:26 @ For God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy to a man who is good in His sight; but to the sinn er He gives the work of gath ering and collecting, that he may give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:3:1 @ To ev erything th ere is a season, A time for ev ery purpose und er heaven:

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:3:5 @ A time to cast away stones, And a time to gath er stones; A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:3:9 @ What profit has the work er from that in which he labors?

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:3:11 @ He has made ev erything beautiful in its time. Also He has put et ernity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:3:12 @ I know that nothing is bett er for them than to rejoice, and to do good in their lives,

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:3:13 @ and also that ev ery man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor--it is the gift of God.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:3:14 @ I know that whatev er God does, It shall be forev er. Nothing can be added to it, And nothing taken from it. God does it, that men should fear before Him.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:3:16 @ Moreov er I saw und er the sun: In the place of judgment, Wickedness was th ere; And in the place of righteousness, Iniquity was th ere.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:3:17 @ I said in my heart, "God shall judge the righteous and the wicked, For th ere is a time th ere for ev ery purpose and for ev ery work."

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:3:18 @ I said in my heart, "Conc erning the condition of the sons of men, God tests them, that they may see that they themselves are like animals."

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:3:19 @ For what happens to the sons of men also happens to animals; one thing befalls them: as one dies, so dies the oth er. Surely, they all have one breath; man has no advantage ov er animals, for all is vanity.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:3:22 @ So I p erceived that nothing is bett er than that a man should rejoice in his own works, for that is his h eritage. For who can bring him to see what will happen aft er him?

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:4:1 @ Then I returned and consid ered all the oppression that is done und er the sun: And look! The tears of the oppressed, But they have no comfort er-- On the side of their oppressors th ere is pow er, But they have no comfort er.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:4:2 @ Th erefore I praised the dead who w ere already dead, More than the living who are still alive.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:4:3 @ Yet, bett er than both is he who has nev er existed, Who has not seen the evil work that is done und er the sun.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:4:4 @ Again, I saw that for all toil and ev ery skillful work a man is envied by his neighbor. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:4:6 @ Bett er a handful with quietness Than both hands full, togeth er with toil and grasping for the wind.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:4:7 @ Then I returned, and I saw vanity und er the sun:

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:4:8 @ Th ere is one alone, without companion: He has neith er son nor broth er. Yet th ere is no end to all his labors, Nor is his eye satisfied with riches. But he nev er asks, "For whom do I toil and deprive myself of good?" This also is vanity and a grave misfortune.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:4:9 @ Two are bett er than one, Because they have a good reward for their labor.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:4:11 @ Again, if two lie down togeth er, they will keep warm; But how can one be warm alone?

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:4:12 @ Though one may be ov erpow ered by anoth er, two can withstand him. And a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:4:13 @ Bett er a poor and wise youth Than an old and foolish king who will be admonished no more.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:4:15 @ I saw all the living who walk und er the sun; They w ere with the second youth who stands in his place.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:4:16 @ Th ere was no end of all the people ov er whom he was made king; Yet those who come aft erward will not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and grasping for the wind.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:5:1 @ Walk prudently when you go to the house of God; and draw near to hear rath er than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they do evil.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:5:2 @ Do not be rash with your mouth, And let not your heart utt er anything hastily before God. For God is in heaven, and you on earth; Th erefore let your words be few.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:5:5 @ Bett er not to vow than to vow and not pay.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:5:6 @ Do not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin, nor say before the messeng er of God that it was an error. Why should God be angry at your excuse and destroy the work of your hands?

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:5:7 @ For in the multitude of dreams and many words th ere is also vanity. But fear God.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:5:8 @ If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent p erv ersion of justice and righteousness in a province, do not marvel at the matt er; for high official watches ov er high official, and high er officials are ov er them.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:5:9 @ Moreov er the profit of the land is for all; even the king is s erved from the field.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:5:10 @ He who loves silv er will not be satisfied with silv er; Nor he who loves abundance, with increase. This also is vanity.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:5:11 @ When goods increase, They increase who eat them; So what profit have the own ers Except to see them with their eyes?

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:5:12 @ The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, Wheth er he eats little or much; But the abundance of the rich will not p ermit him to sleep.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:5:13 @ Th ere is a sev ere evil which I have seen und er the sun: Riches kept for their own er to his hurt.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:5:14 @ But those riches p erish through misfortune; When he begets a son, th ere is nothing in his hand.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:5:15 @ As he came from his moth er's womb, naked shall he return, To go as he came; And he shall take nothing from his labor Which he may carry away in his hand.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:5:16 @ And this also is a sev ere evil-- Just exactly as he came, so shall he go. And what profit has he who has labored for the wind?

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:5:17 @ All his days he also eats in darkness, And he has much sorrow and sickness and ang er.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:5:18 @ H ere is what I have seen: It is good and fitting for one to eat and drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labor in which he toils und er the sun all the days of his life which God gives him; for it is his h eritage.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:5:19 @ As for ev ery man to whom God has given riches and wealth, and given him pow er to eat of it, to receive his h eritage and rejoice in his labor--this is the gift of God.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:6:1 @ Th ere is an evil which I have seen und er the sun, and it is common among men:

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:6:2 @ A man to whom God has given riches and wealth and honor, so that he lacks nothing for himself of all he desires; yet God does not give him pow er to eat of it, but a foreign er consumes it. This is vanity, and it is an evil affliction.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:6:3 @ If a man begets a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with goodness, or indeed he has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is bett er than he--

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:6:4 @ for it comes in vanity and departs in darkness, and its name is cov ered with darkness.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:6:9 @ Bett er is the sight of the eyes than the wand ering of desire. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:6:10 @ Whatev er one is, he has been named already, For it is known that he is man; And he cannot contend with Him who is mighti er than he.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:6:11 @ Since th ere are many things that increase vanity, How is man the bett er?

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:6:12 @ For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he passes like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will happen aft er him und er the sun?

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:7:1 @ A good name is bett er than precious ointment, And the day of death than the day of one's birth;

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:7:2 @ Bett er to go to the house of mourning Than to go to the house of feasting, For that is the end of all men; And the living will take it to heart.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:7:3 @ Sorrow is bett er than laught er, For by a sad countenance the heart is made bett er.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:7:5 @ It is bett er to hear the rebuke of the wise Than for a man to hear the song of fools.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:7:6 @ For like the crackling of thorns und er a pot, So is the laught er of the fool. This also is vanity.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:7:8 @ The end of a thing is bett er than its beginning; The patient in spirit is bett er than the proud in spirit.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:7:9 @ Do not hasten in your spirit to be angry, For ang er rests in the bosom of fools.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:7:10 @ Do not say, "Why w ere the form er days bett er than these?" For you do not inquire wisely conc erning this.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:7:11 @ Wisdom is good with an inh eritance, And profitable to those who see the sun.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:7:13 @ Consid er the work of God; For who can make straight what He has made crooked?

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:7:14 @ In the day of prosp erity be joyful, But in the day of adv ersity consid er: Surely God has appointed the one as well as the oth er, So that man can find out nothing that will come aft er him.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:7:15 @ I have seen ev erything in my days of vanity: Th ere is a just man who p erishes in his righteousness, And th ere is a wicked man who prolongs life in his wickedness.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:7:16 @ Do not be ov erly righteous, Nor be ov erly wise: Why should you destroy yourself?

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:7:17 @ Do not be ov erly wicked, Nor be foolish: Why should you die before your time?

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:7:18 @ It is good that you grasp this, And also not remove your hand from the oth er; For he who fears God will escape them all.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:7:19 @ Wisdom strengthens the wise More than ten rul ers of the city.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:7:20 @ For th ere is not a just man on earth who does good And does not sin.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:7:21 @ Also do not take to heart ev erything people say, Lest you hear your s ervant cursing you.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:7:22 @ For many times, also, your own heart has known That even you have cursed oth ers.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:7:26 @ And I find more bitt er than death The woman whose heart is snares and nets, Whose hands are fett ers. He who pleases God shall escape from h er, But the sinn er shall be trapped by h er.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:7:27 @ "H ere is what I have found," says the Preach er, "Adding one thing to the oth er to find out the reason,

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:8:1 @ Who is like a wise man? And who knows the int erpretation of a thing? A man's wisdom makes his face shine, And the st ernness of his face is changed.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:8:3 @ Do not be hasty to go from his presence. Do not take your stand for an evil thing, for he does whatev er pleases him."

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:8:4 @ Wh ere the word of a king is, th ere is pow er; And who may say to him, "What are you doing?"

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:8:5 @ He who keeps his command will exp erience nothing harmful; And a wise man's heart disc erns both time and judgment,

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:8:6 @ Because for ev ery matt er th ere is a time and judgment, Though the mis ery of man increases greatly.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:8:8 @ No one has pow er ov er the spirit to retain the spirit, And no one has pow er in the day of death. Th ere is no release from that war, And wickedness will not deliv er those who are given to it.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:8:9 @ All this I have seen, and applied my heart to ev ery work that is done und er the sun: Th ere is a time in which one man rules ov er anoth er to his own hurt.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:8:10 @ Then I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of holiness, and they w ere forgotten in the city wh ere they had so done. This also is vanity.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:8:11 @ Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, th erefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:8:12 @ Though a sinn er does evil a hundred times, and his days are prolonged, yet I surely know that it will be well with those who fear God, who fear before Him.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:8:14 @ Th ere is a vanity which occurs on earth, that th ere are just men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked; again, th ere are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:8:15 @ So I commended enjoyment, because a man has nothing bett er und er the sun than to eat, drink, and be m erry; for this will remain with him in his labor all the days of his life which God gives him und er the sun.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:8:17 @ then I saw all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done und er the sun. For though a man labors to discov er it, yet he will not find it; moreov er, though a wise man attempts to know it, he will not be able to find it.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:9:1 @ For I consid ered all this in my heart, so that I could declare it all: that the righteous and the wise and their works are in the hand of God. People know neith er love nor hatred by anything they see before them.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:9:2 @ All things come alike to all: One event happens to the righteous and the wicked; To the good, the clean, and the unclean; To him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinn er; He who takes an oath as he who fears an oath.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:9:3 @ This is an evil in all that is done und er the sun: that one thing happens to all. Truly the hearts of the sons of men are full of evil; madness is in their hearts while they live, and aft er that they go to the dead.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:9:4 @ But for him who is joined to all the living th ere is hope, for a living dog is bett er than a dead lion.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:9:6 @ Also their love, their hatred, and their envy have now p erished; Nev ermore will they have a share In anything done und er the sun.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:9:7 @ Go, eat your bread with joy, And drink your wine with a m erry heart; For God has already accepted your works.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:9:9 @ Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your vain life which He has given you und er the sun, all your days of vanity; for that is your portion in life, and in the labor which you p erform und er the sun.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:9:10 @ Whatev er your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for th ere is no work or device or knowledge or wisdom in the grave wh ere you are going.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:9:11 @ I returned and saw und er the sun that-- The race is not to the swift, Nor the battle to the strong, Nor bread to the wise, Nor riches to men of und erstanding, Nor favor to men of skill; But time and chance happen to them all.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:9:13 @ This wisdom I have also seen und er the sun, and it seemed great to me:

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:9:14 @ Th ere was a little city with few men in it; and a great king came against it, besieged it, and built great snares around it.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:9:15 @ Now th ere was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom deliv ered the city. Yet no one rememb ered that same poor man.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:9:16 @ Then I said: "Wisdom is bett er than strength. Nev ertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, And his words are not heard.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:9:17 @ Words of the wise, spoken quietly, should be heard Rath er than the shout of a rul er of fools.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:9:18 @ Wisdom is bett er than weapons of war; But one sinn er destroys much good."

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:10:1 @ Dead flies putrefy the p erfum er's ointment, And cause it to give off a foul odor; So does a little folly to one respected for wisdom and honor.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:10:3 @ Even when a fool walks along the way, He lacks wisdom, And he shows ev eryone that he is a fool.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:10:4 @ If the spirit of the rul er rises against you, Do not leave your post; For conciliation pacifies great offenses.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:10:5 @ Th ere is an evil I have seen und er the sun, As an error proceeding from the rul er:

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:10:7 @ I have seen s ervants on horses, While princes walk on the ground like s ervants.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:10:8 @ He who digs a pit will fall into it, And whoev er breaks through a wall will be bitten by a s erpent.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:10:9 @ He who quarries stones may be hurt by them, And he who splits wood may be endang ered by it.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:10:11 @ A s erpent may bite when it is not charmed; The babbl er is no diff erent.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:10:14 @ A fool also multiplies words. No man knows what is to be; Who can tell him what will be aft er him?

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:10:17 @ Blessed are you, O land, when your king is the son of nobles, And your princes feast at the prop er time-- For strength and not for drunkenness!

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:10:19 @ A feast is made for laught er, And wine makes m erry; But money answ ers ev erything.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:10:20 @ Do not curse the king, even in your thought; Do not curse the rich, even in your bedroom; For a bird of the air may carry your voice, And a bird in flight may tell the matt er.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:11:1 @ Cast your bread upon the wat ers, For you will find it aft er many days.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:11:2 @ Give a s erving to seven, and also to eight, For you do not know what evil will be on the earth.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:11:3 @ If the clouds are full of rain, They empty themselves upon the earth; And if a tree falls to the south or the north, In the place wh ere the tree falls, th ere it shall lie.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:11:4 @ He who obs erves the wind will not sow, And he who regards the clouds will not reap.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:11:5 @ As you do not know what is the way of the wind, Or how the bones grow in the womb of h er who is with child, So you do not know the works of God who makes ev erything.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:11:6 @ In the morning sow your seed, And in the evening do not withhold your hand; For you do not know which will prosp er, Eith er this or that, Or wheth er both alike will be good.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:11:8 @ But if a man lives many years And rejoices in them all, Yet let him rememb er the days of darkness, For they will be many. All that is coming is vanity.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:11:9 @ Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, And let your heart che er you in the days of your youth; Walk in the ways of your heart, And in the sight of your eyes; But know that for all these God will bring you into judgment.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:11:10 @ Th erefore remove sorrow from your heart, And put away evil from your flesh, For childhood and youth are vanity.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:12:1 @ Rememb er now your Creator in the days of your youth, Before the difficult days come, And the years draw near when you say, "I have no pleasure in them":

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:12:2 @ While the sun and the light, The moon and the stars, Are not darkened, And the clouds do not return aft er the rain;

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:12:3 @ In the day when the keep ers of the house tremble, And the strong men bow down; When the grind ers cease because they are few, And those that look through the windows grow dim;

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:12:4 @ When the doors are shut in the streets, And the sound of grinding is low; When one rises up at the sound of a bird, And all the daught ers of music are brought low.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:12:5 @ Also they are afraid of height, And of t errors in the way; When the almond tree blossoms, The grasshopp er is a burden, And desire fails. For man goes to his et ernal home, And the mourn ers go about the streets.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:12:6 @ Rememb er your Creator before the silv er cord is loosed, Or the golden bowl is broken, Or the pitch er shatt ered at the fountain, Or the wheel broken at the well.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:12:8 @ "Vanity of vanities," says the Preach er, "All is vanity."

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:12:9 @ And moreov er, because the Preach er was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yes, he pond ered and sought out and set in ord er many prov erbs.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:12:10 @ The Preach er sought to find acceptable words; and what was written was upright--words of truth.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:12:11 @ The words of the wise are like goads, and the words of scholars are like well-driven nails, given by one Sheph erd.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:12:12 @ And furth er, my son, be admonished by these. Of making many books th ere is no end, and much study is wearisome to the flesh.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:12:13 @ Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matt er: Fear God and keep His commandments, For this is man's all.

nkjv@Ecclesiastes:12:14 @ For God will bring ev ery work into judgment, Including ev ery secret thing, Wheth er good or evil.

nkjv@Songs:1:2 @ Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth-- For your love is bett er than wine.

nkjv@Songs:1:3 @ Because of the fragrance of your good ointments, Your name is ointment poured forth; Th erefore the virgins love you.

nkjv@Songs:1:4 @ Draw me away! We will run aft er you. The king has brought me into his chamb ers. We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will rememb er 1your love more than wine. Rightly do they love 1you.

nkjv@Songs:1:5 @ I am dark, but lovely, O daught ers of J erusalem, Like the tents of Kedar, Like the curtains of Solomon.

nkjv@Songs:1:6 @ Do not look upon me, because I am dark, Because the sun has tanned me. My moth er's sons w ere angry with me; They made me the keep er of the vineyards, But my own vineyard I have not kept.

nkjv@Songs:1:7 @ Tell me, O you whom I love, Wh ere you feed your flock, Wh ere you make it rest at noon. For why should I be as one who veils h erself By the flocks of your companions?

nkjv@Songs:1:8 @ If you do not know, O fairest among women, Follow in the footsteps of the flock, And feed your little goats Beside the sheph erds' tents.

nkjv@Songs:1:11 @ We will make you ornaments of gold With studs of silv er.

nkjv@Songs:1:14 @ My beloved is to me a clust er of henna blooms In the vineyards of En Gedi.

nkjv@Songs:1:17 @ The beams of our houses are cedar, And our raft ers of fir.

nkjv@Songs:2:2 @ Like a lily among thorns, So is my love among the daught ers.

nkjv@Songs:2:4 @ He brought me to the banqueting house, And his bann er ov er me was love.

nkjv@Songs:2:6 @ His left hand is und er my head, And his right hand embraces me.

nkjv@Songs:2:7 @ I charge you, O daught ers of J erusalem, By the gazelles or by the does of the field, Do not stir up nor awaken love Until it pleases.

nkjv@Songs:2:11 @ For lo, the wint er is past, The rain is ov er and gone.

nkjv@Songs:2:12 @ The flow ers appear on the earth; The time of singing has come, And the voice of the turtledove Is heard in our land.

nkjv@Songs:2:13 @ The fig tree puts forth h er green figs, And the vines with the tend er grapes Give a good smell. Rise up, my love, my fair one, And come away!

nkjv@Songs:2:15 @ Catch us the foxes, The little foxes that spoil the vines, For our vines have tend er grapes.

nkjv@Songs:2:17 @ Until the day breaks And the shadows flee away, Turn, my beloved, And be like a gazelle Or a young stag Upon the mountains of Beth er.

nkjv@Songs:3:4 @ Scarcely had I passed by them, When I found the one I love. I held him and would not let him go, Until I had brought him to the house of my moth er, And into the chamb er of h er who conceived me.

nkjv@Songs:3:5 @ I charge you, O daught ers of J erusalem, By the gazelles or by the does of the field, Do not stir up nor awaken love Until it pleases.

nkjv@Songs:3:6 @ Who is this coming out of the wild erness Like pillars of smoke, P erfumed with myrrh and frankincense, With all the m erchant's fragrant powd ers?

nkjv@Songs:3:8 @ They all hold swords, Being exp ert in war. Ev ery man has his sword on his thigh Because of fear in the night.

nkjv@Songs:3:10 @ He made its pillars of silv er, Its support of gold, Its seat of purple, Its int erior paved with love By the daught ers of J erusalem.

nkjv@Songs:3:11 @ Go forth, O daught ers of Zion, And see King Solomon with the crown With which his moth er crowned him On the day of his wedding, The day of the gladness of his heart.

nkjv@Songs:4:2 @ Your teeth are like a flock of shorn sheep Which have come up from the washing, Ev ery one of which bears twins, And none is barren among them.

nkjv@Songs:4:4 @ Your neck is like the tow er of David, Built for an armory, On which hang a thousand buckl ers, All shields of mighty men.

nkjv@Songs:4:7 @ You are all fair, my love, And th ere is no spot in you.

nkjv@Songs:4:8 @ Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, With me from Lebanon. Look from the top of Amana, From the top of Senir and H ermon, From the lions' dens, From the mountains of the leopards.

nkjv@Songs:4:9 @ You have ravished my heart, My sist er, my spouse; You have ravished my heart With one look of your eyes, With one link of your necklace.

nkjv@Songs:4:10 @ How fair is your love, My sist er, my spouse! How much bett er than wine is your love, And the scent of your p erfumes Than all spices!

nkjv@Songs:4:11 @ Your lips, O my spouse, Drip as the honeycomb; Honey and milk are und er your tongue; And the fragrance of your garments Is like the fragrance of Lebanon.

nkjv@Songs:4:12 @ A garden enclosed Is my sist er, my spouse, A spring shut up, A fountain sealed.

nkjv@Songs:4:15 @ A fountain of gardens, A well of living wat ers, And streams from Lebanon.

nkjv@Songs:5:1 @ I have come to my garden, my sist er, my spouse; I have gath ered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends! Drink, yes, drink deeply, O beloved ones!

nkjv@Songs:5:2 @ I sleep, but my heart is awake; It is the voice of my beloved! He knocks, saying, "Open for me, my sist er, my love, My dove, my p erfect one; For my head is cov ered with dew, My locks with the drops of the night."

nkjv@Songs:5:5 @ I arose to open for my beloved, And my hands dripped with myrrh, My fing ers with liquid myrrh, On the handles of the lock.

nkjv@Songs:5:6 @ I opened for my beloved, But my beloved had turned away and was gone. My heart leaped up when he spoke. I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answ er.

nkjv@Songs:5:7 @ The watchmen who went about the city found me. They struck me, they wounded me; The keep ers of the walls Took my veil away from me.

nkjv@Songs:5:8 @ I charge you, O daught ers of J erusalem, If you find my beloved, That you tell him I am lovesick!

nkjv@Songs:5:9 @ What is your beloved More than anoth er beloved, O fairest among women? What is your beloved More than anoth er beloved, That you so charge us?

nkjv@Songs:5:12 @ His eyes are like doves By the riv ers of wat ers, Washed with milk, And fitly set.

nkjv@Songs:5:13 @ His cheeks are like a bed of spices, Banks of scented h erbs. His lips are lilies, Dripping liquid myrrh.

nkjv@Songs:5:14 @ His hands are rods of gold Set with b eryl. His body is carved ivory Inlaid with sapphires.

nkjv@Songs:5:16 @ His mouth is most sweet, Yes, he is altogeth er lovely. This is my beloved, And this is my friend, O daught ers of J erusalem!

nkjv@Songs:6:1 @ Wh ere has your beloved gone, O fairest among women? Wh ere has your beloved turned aside, That we may seek him with you?

nkjv@Songs:6:2 @ My beloved has gone to his garden, To the beds of spices, To feed his flock in the gardens, And to gath er lilies.

nkjv@Songs:6:4 @ O my love, you are as beautiful as Tirzah, Lovely as J erusalem, Awesome as an army with bann ers!

nkjv@Songs:6:5 @ Turn your eyes away from me, For they have ov ercome me. Your hair is like a flock of goats Going down from Gilead.

nkjv@Songs:6:6 @ Your teeth are like a flock of sheep Which have come up from the washing; Ev ery one bears twins, And none is barren among them.

nkjv@Songs:6:8 @ Th ere are sixty queens And eighty concubines, And virgins without numb er.

nkjv@Songs:6:9 @ My dove, my p erfect one, Is the only one, The only one of h er moth er, The favorite of the one who bore h er. The daught ers saw h er And called h er blessed, The queens and the concubines, And they praised h er.

nkjv@Songs:6:10 @ Who is she who looks forth as the morning, Fair as the moon, Clear as the sun, Awesome as an army with bann ers?

nkjv@Songs:6:11 @ I went down to the garden of nuts To see the v erdure of the valley, To see wheth er the vine had budded And the pomegranates had bloomed.

nkjv@Songs:6:13 @ Return, return, O Shulamite; Return, return, that we may look upon you! What would you see in the Shulamite-- As it w ere, the dance of the two camps?

nkjv@Songs:7:1 @ How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O prince's daught er! The curves of your thighs are like jewels, The work of the hands of a skillful workman.

nkjv@Songs:7:2 @ Your navel is a rounded goblet; It lacks no blended bev erage. Your waist is a heap of wheat Set about with lilies.

nkjv@Songs:7:4 @ Your neck is like an ivory tow er, Your eyes like the pools in Heshbon By the gate of Bath Rabbim. Your nose is like the tow er of Lebanon Which looks toward Damascus.

nkjv@Songs:7:7 @ This stature of yours is like a palm tree, And your breasts like its clust ers.

nkjv@Songs:7:8 @ I said, "I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of its branches." Let now your breasts be like clust ers of the vine, The fragrance of your breath like apples,

nkjv@Songs:7:9 @ And the roof of your mouth like the best wine. The wine goes down smoothly for my beloved, Moving gently the lips of sleep ers.

nkjv@Songs:7:12 @ Let us get up early to the vineyards; Let us see if the vine has budded, Wheth er the grape blossoms are open, And the pomegranates are in bloom. Th ere I will give you my love.

nkjv@Songs:7:13 @ The mandrakes give off a fragrance, And at our gates are pleasant fruits, All mann er, new and old, Which I have laid up for you, my beloved.

nkjv@Songs:8:1 @ Oh, that you w ere like my broth er, Who nursed at my moth er's breasts! If I should find you outside, I would kiss you; I would not be despised.

nkjv@Songs:8:2 @ I would lead you and bring you Into the house of my moth er, She who used to instruct me. I would cause you to drink of spiced wine, Of the juice of my pomegranate.

nkjv@Songs:8:3 @ His left hand is und er my head, And his right hand embraces me.

nkjv@Songs:8:4 @ I charge you, O daught ers of J erusalem, Do not stir up nor awaken love Until it pleases.

nkjv@Songs:8:5 @ Who is this coming up from the wild erness, Leaning upon h er beloved? I awakened you und er the apple tree. Th ere your moth er brought you forth; Th ere she who bore you brought you forth.

nkjv@Songs:8:7 @ Many wat ers cannot quench love, Nor can the floods drown it. If a man would give for love All the wealth of his house, It would be utt erly despised.

nkjv@Songs:8:8 @ We have a little sist er, And she has no breasts. What shall we do for our sist er In the day when she is spoken for?

nkjv@Songs:8:9 @ If she is a wall, We will build upon h er A battlement of silv er; And if she is a door, We will enclose h er With boards of cedar.

nkjv@Songs:8:10 @ I am a wall, And my breasts like tow ers; Then I became in his eyes As one who found peace.

nkjv@Songs:8:11 @ Solomon had a vineyard at Baal Hamon; He leased the vineyard to keep ers; Ev eryone was to bring for its fruit A thousand silv er coins.

nkjv@Isaiah:1:1 @ The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw conc erning Judah and J erusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

nkjv@Isaiah:1:3 @ The ox knows its own er And the donkey its mast er's crib; But Israel does not know, My people do not consid er."

nkjv@Isaiah:1:4 @ Alas, sinful nation, A people laden with iniquity, A brood of evildo ers, Children who are corrupt ers! They have forsaken the LORD, They have provoked to ang er The Holy One of Israel, They have turned away backward.

nkjv@Isaiah:1:6 @ From the sole of the foot even to the head, Th ere is no soundness in it, But wounds and bruises and putrefying sores; They have not been closed or bound up, Or soothed with ointment.

nkjv@Isaiah:1:7 @ Your country is desolate, Your cities are burned with fire; Strang ers devour your land in your presence; And it is desolate, as ov erthrown by strang ers.

nkjv@Isaiah:1:8 @ So the daught er of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, As a hut in a garden of cucumb ers, As a besieged city.

nkjv@Isaiah:1:9 @ Unless the LORD of hosts Had left to us a v ery small remnant, We would have become like Sodom, We would have been made like Gomorrah.

nkjv@Isaiah:1:10 @ Hear the word of the LORD, You rul ers of Sodom; Give ear to the law of our God, You people of Gomorrah:

nkjv@Isaiah:1:11 @ "To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me?" Says the LORD. "I have had enough of burnt off erings of rams And the fat of fed cattle. I do not delight in the blood of bulls, Or of lambs or goats.

nkjv@Isaiah:1:15 @ When you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you; Even though you make many pray ers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

nkjv@Isaiah:1:17 @ Learn to do good; Seek justice, Rebuke the oppressor; Defend the fath erless, Plead for the widow.

nkjv@Isaiah:1:18 @ "Come now, and let us reason togeth er," Says the LORD, "Though your sins are like scarlet, They shall be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They shall be as wool.

nkjv@Isaiah:1:21 @ How the faithful city has become a harlot! It was full of justice; Righteousness lodged in it, But now murd er ers.

nkjv@Isaiah:1:22 @ Your silv er has become dross, Your wine mixed with wat er.

nkjv@Isaiah:1:23 @ Your princes are rebellious, And companions of thieves; Ev eryone loves bribes, And follows aft er rewards. They do not defend the fath erless, Nor does the cause of the widow come before them.

nkjv@Isaiah:1:24 @ Th erefore the Lord says, The LORD of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, "Ah, I will rid Myself of My adv ersaries, And take vengeance on My enemies.

nkjv@Isaiah:1:26 @ I will restore your judges as at the first, And your counselors as at the beginning. Aft erward you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city."

nkjv@Isaiah:1:27 @ Zion shall be redeemed with justice, And h er penitents with righteousness.

nkjv@Isaiah:1:28 @ The destruction of transgressors and of sinn ers shall be togeth er, And those who forsake the LORD shall be consumed.

nkjv@Isaiah:1:29 @ For they shall be ashamed of the t erebinth trees Which you have desired; And you shall be embarrassed because of the gardens Which you have chosen.

nkjv@Isaiah:1:30 @ For you shall be as a t erebinth whose leaf fades, And as a garden that has no wat er.

nkjv@Isaiah:1:31 @ The strong shall be as tind er, And the work of it as a spark; Both will burn togeth er, And no one shall quench them.

nkjv@Isaiah:2:1 @ The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw conc erning Judah and J erusalem.

nkjv@Isaiah:2:2 @ Now it shall come to pass in the latt er days That the mountain of the LORD's house Shall be established on the top of the mountains, And shall be exalted above the hills; And all nations shall flow to it.

nkjv@Isaiah:2:3 @ Many people shall come and say, "Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, To the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, And we shall walk in His paths." For out of Zion shall go forth the law, And the word of the LORD from J erusalem.

nkjv@Isaiah:2:4 @ He shall judge between the nations, And rebuke many people; They shall beat their swords into plowshares, And their spears into pruning hooks; Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, Neith er shall they learn war anymore.

nkjv@Isaiah:2:6 @ For You have forsaken Your people, the house of Jacob, Because they are filled with east ern ways; They are soothsay ers like the Philistines, And they are pleased with the children of foreign ers.

nkjv@Isaiah:2:7 @ Their land is also full of silv er and gold, And th ere is no end to their treasures; Their land is also full of horses, And th ere is no end to their chariots.

nkjv@Isaiah:2:8 @ Their land is also full of idols; They worship the work of their own hands, That which their own fing ers have made.

nkjv@Isaiah:2:9 @ People bow down, And each man humbles himself; Th erefore do not forgive them.

nkjv@Isaiah:2:10 @ Ent er into the rock, and hide in the dust, From the t error of the LORD And the glory of His majesty.

nkjv@Isaiah:2:12 @ For the day of the LORD of hosts Shall come upon ev erything proud and lofty, Upon ev erything lifted up-- And it shall be brought low--

nkjv@Isaiah:2:15 @ Upon ev ery high tow er, And upon ev ery fortified wall;

nkjv@Isaiah:2:18 @ But the idols He shall utt erly abolish.

nkjv@Isaiah:2:19 @ They shall go into the holes of the rocks, And into the caves of the earth, From the t error of the LORD And the glory of His majesty, When He arises to shake the earth mightily.

nkjv@Isaiah:2:20 @ In that day a man will cast away his idols of silv er And his idols of gold, Which they made, each for himself to worship, To the moles and bats,

nkjv@Isaiah:2:21 @ To go into the clefts of the rocks, And into the crags of the rugged rocks, From the t error of the LORD And the glory of His majesty, When He arises to shake the earth mightily.

nkjv@Isaiah:2:22 @ Sev er yourselves from such a man, Whose breath is in his nostrils; For of what account is he?

nkjv@Isaiah:3:1 @ For behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, Takes away from J erusalem and from Judah The stock and the store, The whole supply of bread and the whole supply of wat er;

nkjv@Isaiah:3:2 @ The mighty man and the man of war, The judge and the prophet, And the divin er and the eld er;

nkjv@Isaiah:3:3 @ The captain of fifty and the honorable man, The counselor and the skillful artisan, And the exp ert enchant er.

nkjv@Isaiah:3:4 @ "I will give children to be their princes, And babes shall rule ov er them.

nkjv@Isaiah:3:5 @ The people will be oppressed, Ev ery one by anoth er and ev ery one by his neighbor; The child will be insolent toward the eld er, And the base toward the honorable."

nkjv@Isaiah:3:6 @ When a man takes hold of his broth er In the house of his fath er, saying, "You have clothing; You be our rul er, And let these ruins be und er your pow er,"

nkjv@Isaiah:3:7 @ In that day he will protest, saying, "I cannot cure your ills, For in my house is neith er food nor clothing; Do not make me a rul er of the people."

nkjv@Isaiah:3:8 @ For J erusalem stumbled, And Judah is fallen, Because their tongue and their doings Are against the LORD, To provoke the eyes of His glory.

nkjv@Isaiah:3:12 @ As for My people, children are their oppressors, And women rule ov er them. O My people! Those who lead you cause you to err, And destroy the way of your paths."

nkjv@Isaiah:3:14 @ The LORD will ent er into judgment With the eld ers of His people And His princes: "For you have eaten up the vineyard; The plund er of the poor is in your houses.

nkjv@Isaiah:3:16 @ Moreov er the LORD says: "Because the daught ers of Zion are haughty, And walk with outstretched necks And wanton eyes, Walking and mincing as they go, Making a jingling with their feet,

nkjv@Isaiah:3:17 @ Th erefore the Lord will strike with a scab The crown of the head of the daught ers of Zion, And the LORD will uncov er their secret parts."

nkjv@Isaiah:3:18 @ In that day the Lord will take away the fin ery: The jingling anklets, the scarves, and the crescents;

nkjv@Isaiah:3:20 @ The headdresses, the leg ornaments, and the headbands; The p erfume boxes, the charms, The nose jewels, The out er garments, the purses, The fine linen, the turbans, and the robes.

nkjv@Isaiah:3:22 @ the festal apparel, and the mantles; The out er garments, the purses,

nkjv@Isaiah:3:24 @ And so it shall be: Instead of a sweet smell th ere will be a stench; Instead of a sash, a rope; Instead of well-set hair, baldness; Instead of a rich robe, a girding of sackcloth; And branding instead of beauty. and the rings; The nose jewels,

nkjv@Isaiah:3:26 @ H er gates shall lament and mourn, And she being desolate shall sit on the ground.

nkjv@Isaiah:4:3 @ And it shall come to pass that he who is left in Zion and remains in J erusalem will be called holy--ev eryone who is recorded among the living in J erusalem.

nkjv@Isaiah:4:4 @ When the Lord has washed away the filth of the daught ers of Zion, and purged the blood of J erusalem from h er midst, by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning,

nkjv@Isaiah:4:5 @ then the LORD will create above ev ery dwelling place of Mount Zion, and above h er assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day and the shining of a flaming fire by night. For ov er all the glory th ere will be a cov ering.

nkjv@Isaiah:4:6 @ And th ere will be a tab ernacle for shade in the daytime from the heat, for a place of refuge, and for a shelt er from storm and rain.

nkjv@Isaiah:5:1 @ Now let me sing to my Well-beloved A song of my Beloved regarding His vineyard: My Well-beloved has a vineyard On a v ery fruitful hill.

nkjv@Isaiah:5:2 @ He dug it up and cleared out its stones, And planted it with the choicest vine. He built a tow er in its midst, And also made a winepress in it; So He expected it to bring forth good grapes, But it brought forth wild grapes.

nkjv@Isaiah:5:3 @ "And now, O inhabitants of J erusalem and men of Judah, Judge, please, between Me and My vineyard.

nkjv@Isaiah:5:6 @ I will lay it waste; It shall not be pruned or dug, But th ere shall come up bri ers and thorns. I will also command the clouds That they rain no rain on it."

nkjv@Isaiah:5:8 @ Woe to those who join house to house; They add field to field, Till th ere is no place Wh ere they may dwell alone in the midst of the land!

nkjv@Isaiah:5:10 @ For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, And a hom er of seed shall yield one ephah."

nkjv@Isaiah:5:12 @ The harp and the strings, The tambourine and flute, And wine are in their feasts; But they do not regard the work of the LORD, Nor consid er the op eration of His hands.

nkjv@Isaiah:5:13 @ Th erefore my people have gone into captivity, Because they have no knowledge; Their honorable men are famished, And their multitude dried up with thirst.

nkjv@Isaiah:5:14 @ Th erefore Sheol has enlarged itself And opened its mouth beyond measure; Their glory and their multitude and their pomp, And he who is jubilant, shall descend into it.

nkjv@Isaiah:5:17 @ Then the lambs shall feed in their pasture, And in the waste places of the fat ones strang ers shall eat.

nkjv@Isaiah:5:20 @ Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitt er for sweet, and sweet for bitt er!

nkjv@Isaiah:5:24 @ Th erefore, as the fire devours the stubble, And the flame consumes the chaff, So their root will be as rottenness, And their blossom will ascend like dust; Because they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts, And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

nkjv@Isaiah:5:25 @ Th erefore the ang er of the LORD is aroused against His people; He has stretched out His hand against them And stricken them, And the hills trembled. Their carcasses w ere as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this His ang er is not turned away, But His hand is stretched out still.

nkjv@Isaiah:5:26 @ He will lift up a bann er to the nations from afar, And will whistle to them from the end of the earth; Surely they shall come with speed, swiftly.

nkjv@Isaiah:5:27 @ No one will be weary or stumble among them, No one will slumb er or sleep; Nor will the belt on their loins be loosed, Nor the strap of their sandals be broken;

nkjv@Isaiah:5:29 @ Their roaring will be like a lion, They will roar like young lions; Yes, they will roar And lay hold of the prey; They will carry it away safely, And no one will deliv er.

nkjv@Isaiah:6:2 @ Above it stood s eraphim; each one had six wings: with two he cov ered his face, with two he cov ered his feet, and with two he flew.

nkjv@Isaiah:6:3 @ And one cried to anoth er and said: "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; The whole earth is full of His glory!"

nkjv@Isaiah:6:4 @ And the posts of the door w ere shaken by the voice of him who cried out, and the house was filled with smoke.

nkjv@Isaiah:6:6 @ Then one of the s eraphim flew to me, having in his hand a live coal which he had taken with the tongs from the altar.

nkjv@Isaiah:6:8 @ Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: "Whom shall I send, And who will go for Us?" Then I said, "H ere am I! Send me."

nkjv@Isaiah:6:9 @ And He said, "Go, and tell this people: "Keep on hearing, but do not und erstand; Keep on seeing, but do not p erceive.'

nkjv@Isaiah:6:10 @ "Make the heart of this people dull, And their ears heavy, And shut their eyes; Lest they see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And und erstand with their heart, And return and be healed."

nkjv@Isaiah:6:11 @ Then I said, "Lord, how long?" And He answ ered: "Until the cities are laid waste and without inhabitant, The houses are without a man, The land is utt erly desolate,

nkjv@Isaiah:6:13 @ But yet a tenth will be in it, And will return and be for consuming, As a t erebinth tree or as an oak, Whose stump remains when it is cut down. So the holy seed shall be its stump."

nkjv@Isaiah:7:1 @ Now it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to J erusalem to make war against it, but could not prevail against it.

nkjv@Isaiah:7:2 @ And it was told to the house of David, saying, "Syria's forces are deployed in Ephraim." So his heart and the heart of his people w ere moved as the trees of the woods are moved with the wind.

nkjv@Isaiah:7:3 @ Then the LORD said to Isaiah, "Go out now to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-Jashub your son, at the end of the aqueduct from the upp er pool, on the highway to the Full er's Field,

nkjv@Isaiah:7:4 @ and say to him: "Take heed, and be quiet; do not fear or be fainthearted for these two stubs of smoking firebrands, for the fi erce ang er of Rezin and Syria, and the son of Remaliah.

nkjv@Isaiah:7:6 @ "Let us go up against Judah and trouble it, and let us make a gap in its wall for ourselves, and set a king ov er them, the son of Tabel"--

nkjv@Isaiah:7:10 @ Moreov er the LORD spoke again to Ahaz, saying,

nkjv@Isaiah:7:11 @ "Ask a sign for yourself from the LORD your God; ask it eith er in the depth or in the height above."

nkjv@Isaiah:7:14 @ Th erefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel.

nkjv@Isaiah:7:16 @ For before the Child shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land that you dread will be forsaken by both h er kings.

nkjv@Isaiah:7:17 @ The LORD will bring the king of Assyria upon you and your people and your fath er's house--days that have not come since the day that Ephraim departed from Judah."

nkjv@Isaiah:7:18 @ And it shall come to pass in that day That the LORD will whistle for the fly That is in the farthest part of the riv ers of Egypt, And for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

nkjv@Isaiah:7:20 @ In the same day the Lord will shave with a hired razor, With those from beyond the Riv er, with the king of Assyria, The head and the hair of the legs, And will also remove the beard.

nkjv@Isaiah:7:22 @ So it shall be, from the abundance of milk they give, That he will eat curds; For curds and honey ev eryone will eat who is left in the land.

nkjv@Isaiah:7:23 @ It shall happen in that day, That wh erev er th ere could be a thousand vines Worth a thousand shekels of silv er, It will be for bri ers and thorns.

nkjv@Isaiah:7:24 @ With arrows and bows men will come th ere, Because all the land will become bri ers and thorns.

nkjv@Isaiah:7:25 @ And to any hill which could be dug with the hoe, You will not go th ere for fear of bri ers and thorns; But it will become a range for oxen And a place for sheep to roam.

nkjv@Isaiah:8:1 @ Moreov er the LORD said to me, "Take a large scroll, and write on it with a man's pen conc erning Mah er-Shalal-Hash-Baz.

nkjv@Isaiah:8:2 @ And I will take for Myself faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeb erechiah."

nkjv@Isaiah:8:3 @ Then I went to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son. Then the LORD said to me, "Call his name Mah er-Shalal-Hash-Baz;

nkjv@Isaiah:8:4 @ for before the child shall have knowledge to cry "My fath er' and "My moth er,' the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be taken away before the king of Assyria."

nkjv@Isaiah:8:6 @ "Inasmuch as these people refused The wat ers of Shiloah that flow softly, And rejoice in Rezin and in Remaliah's son;

nkjv@Isaiah:8:7 @ Now th erefore, behold, the Lord brings up ov er them The wat ers of the Riv er, strong and mighty-- The king of Assyria and all his glory; He will go up ov er all his channels And go ov er all his banks.

nkjv@Isaiah:8:8 @ He will pass through Judah, He will ov erflow and pass ov er, He will reach up to the neck; And the stretching out of his wings Will fill the breadth of Your land, O Immanuel.

nkjv@Isaiah:8:9 @ "Be shatt ered, O you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Give ear, all you from far countries. Gird yourselves, but be broken in pieces; Gird yourselves, but be broken in pieces.

nkjv@Isaiah:8:10 @ Take counsel togeth er, but it will come to nothing; Speak the word, but it will not stand, For God is with us."

nkjv@Isaiah:8:12 @ "Do not say, "A conspiracy,' Conc erning all that this people call a conspiracy, Nor be afraid of their threats, nor be troubled.

nkjv@Isaiah:8:14 @ He will be as a sanctuary, But a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense To both the houses of Israel, As a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of J erusalem.

nkjv@Isaiah:8:18 @ H ere am I and the children whom the LORD has given me! We are for signs and wond ers in Israel From the LORD of hosts, Who dwells in Mount Zion.

nkjv@Isaiah:8:19 @ And when they say to you, "Seek those who are mediums and wizards, who whisp er and mutt er," should not a people seek their God? Should they seek the dead on behalf of the living?

nkjv@Isaiah:8:20 @ To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because th ere is no light in them.

nkjv@Isaiah:9:1 @ Nev ertheless the gloom will not be upon h er who is distressed, As when at first He lightly esteemed The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, And aft erward more heavily oppressed h er, By the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, In Galilee of the Gentiles.

nkjv@Isaiah:9:4 @ For You have broken the yoke of his burden And the staff of his should er, The rod of his oppressor, As in the day of Midian.

nkjv@Isaiah:9:5 @ For ev ery warrior's sandal from the noisy battle, And garments rolled in blood, Will be used for burning and fuel of fire.

nkjv@Isaiah:9:6 @ For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the gov ernment will be upon His should er. And His name will be called Wond erful, Counselor, Mighty God, Ev erlasting Fath er, Prince of Peace.

nkjv@Isaiah:9:7 @ Of the increase of His gov ernment and peace Th ere will be no end, Upon the throne of David and ov er His kingdom, To ord er it and establish it with judgment and justice From that time forward, even forev er. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will p erform this.

nkjv@Isaiah:9:11 @ Th erefore the LORD shall set up The adv ersaries of Rezin against him, And spur his enemies on,

nkjv@Isaiah:9:12 @ The Syrians before and the Philistines behind; And they shall devour Israel with an open mouth. For all this His ang er is not turned away, But His hand is stretched out still.

nkjv@Isaiah:9:14 @ Th erefore the LORD will cut off head and tail from Israel, Palm branch and bulrush in one day.

nkjv@Isaiah:9:15 @ The eld er and honorable, he is the head; The prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail.

nkjv@Isaiah:9:16 @ For the lead ers of this people cause them to err, And those who are led by them are destroyed.

nkjv@Isaiah:9:17 @ Th erefore the Lord will have no joy in their young men, Nor have m ercy on their fath erless and widows; For ev eryone is a hypocrite and an evildo er, And ev ery mouth speaks folly. For all this His ang er is not turned away, But His hand is stretched out still.

nkjv@Isaiah:9:18 @ For wickedness burns as the fire; It shall devour the bri ers and thorns, And kindle in the thickets of the forest; They shall mount up like rising smoke.

nkjv@Isaiah:9:19 @ Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts The land is burned up, And the people shall be as fuel for the fire; No man shall spare his broth er.

nkjv@Isaiah:9:20 @ And he shall snatch on the right hand And be hungry; He shall devour on the left hand And not be satisfied; Ev ery man shall eat the flesh of his own arm.

nkjv@Isaiah:9:21 @ Manasseh shall devour Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasseh; Togeth er they shall be against Judah. For all this His ang er is not turned away, But His hand is stretched out still.

nkjv@Isaiah:10:2 @ To rob the needy of justice, And to take what is right from the poor of My people, That widows may be their prey, And that they may rob the fath erless.

nkjv@Isaiah:10:3 @ What will you do in the day of punishment, And in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? And wh ere will you leave your glory?

nkjv@Isaiah:10:4 @ Without Me they shall bow down among the prison ers, And they shall fall among the slain." For all this His ang er is not turned away, But His hand is stretched out still.

nkjv@Isaiah:10:5 @ "Woe to Assyria, the rod of My ang er And the staff in whose hand is My indignation.

nkjv@Isaiah:10:8 @ For he says, "Are not my princes altogeth er kings?

nkjv@Isaiah:10:10 @ As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, Whose carved images excelled those of J erusalem and Samaria,

nkjv@Isaiah:10:11 @ As I have done to Samaria and h er idols, Shall I not do also to J erusalem and h er idols?"'

nkjv@Isaiah:10:12 @ Th erefore it shall come to pass, when the Lord has p erformed all His work on Mount Zion and on J erusalem, that He will say, "I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his haughty looks."

nkjv@Isaiah:10:14 @ My hand has found like a nest the riches of the people, And as one gath ers eggs that are left, I have gath ered all the earth; And th ere was no one who moved his wing, Nor opened his mouth with even a peep."

nkjv@Isaiah:10:15 @ Shall the ax boast itself against him who chops with it? Or shall the saw exalt itself against him who saws with it? As if a rod could wield itself against those who lift it up, Or as if a staff could lift up, as if it w ere not wood!

nkjv@Isaiah:10:16 @ Th erefore the Lord, the Lord of hosts, Will send leanness among his fat ones; And und er his glory He will kindle a burning Like the burning of a fire.

nkjv@Isaiah:10:17 @ So the Light of Israel will be for a fire, And his Holy One for a flame; It will burn and devour His thorns and his bri ers in one day.

nkjv@Isaiah:10:19 @ Then the rest of the trees of his forest Will be so few in numb er That a child may write them.

nkjv@Isaiah:10:20 @ And it shall come to pass in that day That the remnant of Israel, And such as have escaped of the house of Jacob, Will nev er again depend on him who defeated them, But will depend on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

nkjv@Isaiah:10:22 @ For though your people, O Israel, be as the sand of the sea, A remnant of them will return; The destruction decreed shall ov erflow with righteousness.

nkjv@Isaiah:10:23 @ For the Lord GOD of hosts Will make a det ermined end In the midst of all the land.

nkjv@Isaiah:10:24 @ Th erefore thus says the Lord GOD of hosts: "O My people, who dwell in Zion, do not be afraid of the Assyrian. He shall strike you with a rod and lift up his staff against you, in the mann er of Egypt.

nkjv@Isaiah:10:25 @ For yet a v ery little while and the indignation will cease, as will My ang er in their destruction."

nkjv@Isaiah:10:26 @ And the LORD of hosts will stir up a scourge for him like the slaught er of Midian at the rock of Oreb; as His rod was on the sea, so will He lift it up in the mann er of Egypt.

nkjv@Isaiah:10:27 @ It shall come to pass in that day That his burden will be taken away from your should er, And his yoke from your neck, And the yoke will be destroyed because of the anointing oil.

nkjv@Isaiah:10:30 @ Lift up your voice, O daught er of Gallim! Cause it to be heard as far as Laish-- O poor Anathoth!

nkjv@Isaiah:10:32 @ As yet he will remain at Nob that day; He will shake his fist at the mount of the daught er of Zion, The hill of J erusalem.

nkjv@Isaiah:10:33 @ Behold, the Lord, The LORD of hosts, Will lop off the bough with t error; Those of high stature will be hewn down, And the haughty will be humbled.

nkjv@Isaiah:11:1 @ Th ere shall come forth a Rod from the stem of Jesse, And a Branch shall grow out of his roots.

nkjv@Isaiah:11:2 @ The Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon Him, The Spirit of wisdom and und erstanding, The Spirit of counsel and might, The Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD.

nkjv@Isaiah:11:6 @ "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, The leopard shall lie down with the young goat, The calf and the young lion and the fatling togeth er; And a little child shall lead them.

nkjv@Isaiah:11:7 @ The cow and the bear shall graze; Their young ones shall lie down togeth er; And the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

nkjv@Isaiah:11:8 @ The nursing child shall play by the cobra's hole, And the weaned child shall put his hand in the vip er's den.

nkjv@Isaiah:11:9 @ They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain, For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD As the wat ers cov er the sea.

nkjv@Isaiah:11:10 @ "And in that day th ere shall be a Root of Jesse, Who shall stand as a bann er to the people; For the Gentiles shall seek Him, And His resting place shall be glorious."

nkjv@Isaiah:11:11 @ It shall come to pass in that day That the Lord shall set His hand again the second time To recov er the remnant of His people who are left, From Assyria and Egypt, From Pathros and Cush, From Elam and Shinar, From Hamath and the islands of the sea.

nkjv@Isaiah:11:12 @ He will set up a bann er for the nations, And will assemble the outcasts of Israel, And gath er togeth er the disp ersed of Judah From the four corn ers of the earth.

nkjv@Isaiah:11:13 @ Also the envy of Ephraim shall depart, And the adv ersaries of Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim shall not envy Judah, And Judah shall not harass Ephraim.

nkjv@Isaiah:11:14 @ But they shall fly down upon the should er of the Philistines toward the west; Togeth er they shall plund er the people of the East; They shall lay their hand on Edom and Moab; And the people of Ammon shall obey them.

nkjv@Isaiah:11:15 @ The LORD will utt erly destroy the tongue of the Sea of Egypt; With His mighty wind He will shake His fist ov er the Riv er, And strike it in the seven streams, And make men cross ov er dryshod.

nkjv@Isaiah:11:16 @ Th ere will be a highway for the remnant of His people Who will be left from Assyria, As it was for Israel In the day that he came up from the land of Egypt.

nkjv@Isaiah:12:1 @ And in that day you will say: "O LORD, I will praise You; Though You w ere angry with me, Your ang er is turned away, and You comfort me.

nkjv@Isaiah:12:3 @ Th erefore with joy you will draw wat er From the wells of salvation.

nkjv@Isaiah:13:2 @ "Lift up a bann er on the high mountain, Raise your voice to them; Wave your hand, that they may ent er the gates of the nobles.

nkjv@Isaiah:13:3 @ I have commanded My sanctified ones; I have also called My mighty ones for My ang er-- Those who rejoice in My exaltation."

nkjv@Isaiah:13:4 @ The noise of a multitude in the mountains, Like that of many people! A tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gath ered togeth er! The LORD of hosts must ers The army for battle.

nkjv@Isaiah:13:7 @ Th erefore all hands will be limp, Ev ery man's heart will melt,

nkjv@Isaiah:13:8 @ And they will be afraid. Pangs and sorrows will take hold of them; They will be in pain as a woman in childbirth; They will be amazed at one anoth er; Their faces will be like flames.

nkjv@Isaiah:13:9 @ Behold, the day of the LORD comes, Cruel, with both wrath and fi erce ang er, To lay the land desolate; And He will destroy its sinn ers from it.

nkjv@Isaiah:13:11 @ "I will punish the world for its evil, And the wicked for their iniquity; I will halt the arrogance of the proud, And will lay low the haughtiness of the t errible.

nkjv@Isaiah:13:13 @ Th erefore I will shake the heavens, And the earth will move out of h er place, In the wrath of the LORD of hosts And in the day of His fi erce ang er.

nkjv@Isaiah:13:14 @ It shall be as the hunted gazelle, And as a sheep that no man takes up; Ev ery man will turn to his own people, And ev eryone will flee to his own land.

nkjv@Isaiah:13:15 @ Ev eryone who is found will be thrust through, And ev eryone who is captured will fall by the sword.

nkjv@Isaiah:13:16 @ Their children also will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; Their houses will be plund ered And their wives ravished.

nkjv@Isaiah:13:17 @ "Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, Who will not regard silv er; And as for gold, they will not delight in it.

nkjv@Isaiah:13:19 @ And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, The beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, Will be as when God ov erthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

nkjv@Isaiah:13:20 @ It will nev er be inhabited, Nor will it be settled from gen eration to gen eration; Nor will the Arabian pitch tents th ere, Nor will the sheph erds make their sheepfolds th ere.

nkjv@Isaiah:13:21 @ But wild beasts of the des ert will lie th ere, And their houses will be full of owls; Ostriches will dwell th ere, And wild goats will cap er th ere.

nkjv@Isaiah:13:22 @ The hyenas will howl in their citadels, And jackals in their pleasant palaces. H er time is near to come, And h er days will not be prolonged."

nkjv@Isaiah:14:1 @ For the LORD will have m ercy on Jacob, and will still choose Israel, and settle them in their own land. The strang ers will be joined with them, and they will cling to the house of Jacob.

nkjv@Isaiah:14:2 @ Then people will take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them for s ervants and maids in the land of the LORD; they will take them captive whose captives they w ere, and rule ov er their oppressors.

nkjv@Isaiah:14:3 @ It shall come to pass in the day the LORD gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your fear and the hard bondage in which you w ere made to s erve,

nkjv@Isaiah:14:4 @ that you will take up this prov erb against the king of Babylon, and say: "How the oppressor has ceased, The golden city ceased!

nkjv@Isaiah:14:5 @ The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, The scept er of the rul ers;

nkjv@Isaiah:14:6 @ He who struck the people in wrath with a continual stroke, He who ruled the nations in ang er, Is p ersecuted and no one hind ers.

nkjv@Isaiah:14:8 @ Indeed the cypress trees rejoice ov er you, And the cedars of Lebanon, Saying, "Since you w ere cut down, No woodsman has come up against us.'

nkjv@Isaiah:14:11 @ Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, And the sound of your stringed instruments; The maggot is spread und er you, And worms cov er you.'

nkjv@Isaiah:14:12 @ "How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucif er, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations!

nkjv@Isaiah:14:16 @ "Those who see you will gaze at you, And consid er you, saying: "Is this the man who made the earth tremble, Who shook kingdoms,

nkjv@Isaiah:14:17 @ Who made the world as a wild erness And destroyed its cities, Who did not open the house of his prison ers?'

nkjv@Isaiah:14:18 @ "All the kings of the nations, All of them, sleep in glory, Ev eryone in his own house;

nkjv@Isaiah:14:19 @ But you are cast out of your grave Like an abominable branch, Like the garment of those who are slain, Thrust through with a sword, Who go down to the stones of the pit, Like a corpse trodden und erfoot.

nkjv@Isaiah:14:20 @ You will not be joined with them in burial, Because you have destroyed your land And slain your people. The brood of evildo ers shall nev er be named.

nkjv@Isaiah:14:21 @ Prepare slaught er for his children Because of the iniquity of their fath ers, Lest they rise up and possess the land, And fill the face of the world with cities."

nkjv@Isaiah:14:22 @ "For I will rise up against them," says the LORD of hosts, "And cut off from Babylon the name and remnant, And offspring and post erity," says the LORD.

nkjv@Isaiah:14:23 @ "I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, And marshes of muddy wat er; I will sweep it with the broom of destruction," says the LORD of hosts.

nkjv@Isaiah:14:25 @ That I will break the Assyrian in My land, And on My mountains tread him und erfoot. Then his yoke shall be removed from them, And his burden removed from their should ers.

nkjv@Isaiah:14:26 @ This is the purpose that is purposed against the whole earth, And this is the hand that is stretched out ov er all the nations.

nkjv@Isaiah:14:29 @ "Do not rejoice, all you of Philistia, Because the rod that struck you is broken; For out of the s erpent's roots will come forth a vip er, And its offspring will be a fi ery flying s erpent.

nkjv@Isaiah:14:32 @ What will they answ er the messeng ers of the nation? That the LORD has founded Zion, And the poor of His people shall take refuge in it.

nkjv@Isaiah:15:2 @ He has gone up to the temple and Dibon, To the high places to weep. Moab will wail ov er Nebo and ov er Medeba; On all their heads will be baldness, And ev ery beard cut off.

nkjv@Isaiah:15:3 @ In their streets they will clothe themselves with sackcloth; On the tops of their houses And in their streets Ev eryone will wail, weeping bitt erly.

nkjv@Isaiah:15:4 @ Heshbon and Elealeh will cry out, Their voice shall be heard as far as Jahaz; Th erefore the armed soldi ers of Moab will cry out; His life will be burdensome to him.

nkjv@Isaiah:15:5 @ "My heart will cry out for Moab; His fugitives shall flee to Zoar, Like a three-year-old heif er. For by the Ascent of Luhith They will go up with weeping; For in the way of Horonaim They will raise up a cry of destruction,

nkjv@Isaiah:15:6 @ For the wat ers of Nimrim will be desolate, For the green grass has with ered away; The grass fails, th ere is nothing green.

nkjv@Isaiah:15:7 @ Th erefore the abundance they have gained, And what they have laid up, They will carry away to the Brook of the Willows.

nkjv@Isaiah:15:8 @ For the cry has gone all around the bord ers of Moab, Its wailing to Eglaim And its wailing to Be er Elim.

nkjv@Isaiah:15:9 @ For the wat ers of Dimon will be full of blood; Because I will bring more upon Dimon, Lions upon him who escapes from Moab, And on the remnant of the land."

nkjv@Isaiah:16:1 @ Send the lamb to the rul er of the land, From Sela to the wild erness, To the mount of the daught er of Zion.

nkjv@Isaiah:16:2 @ For it shall be as a wand ering bird thrown out of the nest; So shall be the daught ers of Moab at the fords of the Arnon.

nkjv@Isaiah:16:4 @ Let My outcasts dwell with you, O Moab; Be a shelt er to them from the face of the spoil er. For the extortion er is at an end, Devastation ceases, The oppressors are consumed out of the land.

nkjv@Isaiah:16:5 @ In m ercy the throne will be established; And One will sit on it in truth, in the tab ernacle of David, Judging and seeking justice and hastening righteousness."

nkjv@Isaiah:16:6 @ We have heard of the pride of Moab-- He is v ery proud-- Of his haughtiness and his pride and his wrath; But his lies shall not be so.

nkjv@Isaiah:16:7 @ Th erefore Moab shall wail for Moab; Ev eryone shall wail. For the foundations of Kir Hareseth you shall mourn; Surely they are stricken.

nkjv@Isaiah:16:8 @ For the fields of Heshbon languish, And the vine of Sibmah; The lords of the nations have broken down its choice plants, Which have reached to Jaz er And wand ered through the wild erness. H er branches are stretched out, They are gone ov er the sea.

nkjv@Isaiah:16:9 @ Th erefore I will bewail the vine of Sibmah, With the weeping of Jaz er; I will drench you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh; For battle cries have fallen Ov er your summ er fruits and your harvest.

nkjv@Isaiah:16:10 @ Gladness is taken away, And joy from the plentiful field; In the vineyards th ere will be no singing, Nor will th ere be shouting; No tread ers will tread out wine in the presses; I have made their shouting cease.

nkjv@Isaiah:16:11 @ Th erefore my heart shall resound like a harp for Moab, And my inn er being for Kir H eres.

nkjv@Isaiah:16:13 @ This is the word which the LORD has spoken conc erning Moab since that time.

nkjv@Isaiah:16:14 @ But now the LORD has spoken, saying, "Within three years, as the years of a hired man, the glory of Moab will be despised with all that great multitude, and the remnant will be v ery small and feeble."

nkjv@Isaiah:17:2 @ The cities of Aro er are forsaken; They will be for flocks Which lie down, and no one will make them afraid.

nkjv@Isaiah:17:5 @ It shall be as when the harvest er gath ers the grain, And reaps the heads with his arm; It shall be as he who gath ers heads of grain In the Valley of Rephaim.

nkjv@Isaiah:17:6 @ Yet gleaning grapes will be left in it, Like the shaking of an olive tree, Two or three olives at the top of the upp ermost bough, Four or five in its most fruitful branches," Says the LORD God of Israel.

nkjv@Isaiah:17:7 @ In that day a man will look to his Mak er, And his eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.

nkjv@Isaiah:17:8 @ He will not look to the altars, The work of his hands; He will not respect what his fing ers have made, Nor the wooden images nor the incense altars.

nkjv@Isaiah:17:9 @ In that day his strong cities will be as a forsaken bough And an upp ermost branch, Which they left because of the children of Israel; And th ere will be desolation.

nkjv@Isaiah:17:10 @ Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation, And have not been mindful of the Rock of your stronghold, Th erefore you will plant pleasant plants And set out foreign seedlings;

nkjv@Isaiah:17:11 @ In the day you will make your plant to grow, And in the morning you will make your seed to flourish; But the harvest will be a heap of ruins In the day of grief and desp erate sorrow.

nkjv@Isaiah:17:12 @ Woe to the multitude of many people Who make a noise like the roar of the seas, And to the rushing of nations That make a rushing like the rushing of mighty wat ers!

nkjv@Isaiah:17:13 @ The nations will rush like the rushing of many wat ers; But God will rebuke them and they will flee far away, And be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, Like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

nkjv@Isaiah:17:14 @ Then behold, at eventide, trouble! And before the morning, he is no more. This is the portion of those who plund er us, And the lot of those who rob us.

nkjv@Isaiah:18:1 @ Woe to the land shadowed with buzzing wings, Which is beyond the riv ers of Ethiopia,

nkjv@Isaiah:18:2 @ Which sends ambassadors by sea, Even in vessels of reed on the wat ers, saying, "Go, swift messeng ers, to a nation tall and smooth of skin, To a people t errible from their beginning onward, A nation pow erful and treading down, Whose land the riv ers divide."

nkjv@Isaiah:18:3 @ All inhabitants of the world and dwell ers on the earth: When he lifts up a bann er on the mountains, you see it; And when he blows a trumpet, you hear it.

nkjv@Isaiah:18:5 @ For before the harvest, when the bud is p erfect And the sour grape is ripening in the flow er, He will both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks And take away and cut down the branches.

nkjv@Isaiah:18:6 @ They will be left togeth er for the mountain birds of prey And for the beasts of the earth; The birds of prey will summ er on them, And all the beasts of the earth will wint er on them.

nkjv@Isaiah:18:7 @ In that time a present will be brought to the LORD of hosts From a people tall and smooth of skin, And from a people t errible from their beginning onward, A nation pow erful and treading down, Whose land the riv ers divide-- To the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, To Mount Zion.

nkjv@Isaiah:19:1 @ The burden against Egypt. Behold, the LORD rides on a swift cloud, And will come into Egypt; The idols of Egypt will tott er at His presence, And the heart of Egypt will melt in its midst.

nkjv@Isaiah:19:2 @ "I will set Egyptians against Egyptians; Ev eryone will fight against his broth er, And ev eryone against his neighbor, City against city, kingdom against kingdom.

nkjv@Isaiah:19:3 @ The spirit of Egypt will fail in its midst; I will destroy their counsel, And they will consult the idols and the charm ers, The mediums and the sorc er ers.

nkjv@Isaiah:19:4 @ And the Egyptians I will give Into the hand of a cruel mast er, And a fi erce king will rule ov er them," Says the Lord, the LORD of hosts.

nkjv@Isaiah:19:5 @ The wat ers will fail from the sea, And the riv er will be wasted and dried up.

nkjv@Isaiah:19:6 @ The riv ers will turn foul; The brooks of defense will be emptied and dried up; The reeds and rushes will with er.

nkjv@Isaiah:19:7 @ The papyrus reeds by the Riv er, by the mouth of the Riv er, And ev erything sown by the Riv er, Will with er, be driven away, and be no more.

nkjv@Isaiah:19:8 @ The fish ermen also will mourn; All those will lament who cast hooks into the Riv er, And they will languish who spread nets on the wat ers.

nkjv@Isaiah:19:9 @ Moreov er those who work in fine flax And those who weave fine fabric will be ashamed;

nkjv@Isaiah:19:12 @ Wh ere are they? Wh ere are your wise men? Let them tell you now, And let them know what the LORD of hosts has purposed against Egypt.

nkjv@Isaiah:19:14 @ The LORD has mingled a p erv erse spirit in h er midst; And they have caused Egypt to err in all h er work, As a drunken man stagg ers in his vomit.

nkjv@Isaiah:19:15 @ Neith er will th ere be any work for Egypt, Which the head or tail, Palm branch or bulrush, may do.

nkjv@Isaiah:19:16 @ In that day Egypt will be like women, and will be afraid and fear because of the waving of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which He waves ov er it.

nkjv@Isaiah:19:17 @ And the land of Judah will be a t error to Egypt; ev eryone who makes mention of it will be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts which He has det ermined against it.

nkjv@Isaiah:19:19 @ In that day th ere will be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the LORD at its bord er.

nkjv@Isaiah:19:20 @ And it will be for a sign and for a witness to the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to the LORD because of the oppressors, and He will send them a Savior and a Mighty One, and He will deliv er them.

nkjv@Isaiah:19:21 @ Then the LORD will be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know the LORD in that day, and will make sacrifice and off ering; yes, they will make a vow to the LORD and p erform it.

nkjv@Isaiah:19:23 @ In that day th ere will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian will come into Egypt and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians will s erve with the Assyrians.

nkjv@Isaiah:19:25 @ whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, "Blessed is Egypt My people, and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel My inh eritance."

nkjv@Isaiah:20:3 @ Then the LORD said, "Just as My s ervant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wond er against Egypt and Ethiopia,

nkjv@Isaiah:20:4 @ so shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians as prison ers and the Ethiopians as captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, with their buttocks uncov ered, to the shame of Egypt.

nkjv@Isaiah:20:6 @ And the inhabitant of this t erritory will say in that day, "Surely such is our expectation, wh erev er we flee for help to be deliv ered from the king of Assyria; and how shall we escape?"'

nkjv@Isaiah:21:1 @ The burden against the Wild erness of the Sea. As whirlwinds in the South pass through, So it comes from the des ert, from a t errible land.

nkjv@Isaiah:21:2 @ A distressing vision is declared to me; The treach erous deal er deals treach erously, And the plund er er plund ers. Go up, O Elam! Besiege, O Media! All its sighing I have made to cease.

nkjv@Isaiah:21:3 @ Th erefore my loins are filled with pain; Pangs have taken hold of me, like the pangs of a woman in labor. I was distressed when I heard it; I was dismayed when I saw it.

nkjv@Isaiah:21:4 @ My heart wav ered, fearfulness frightened me; The night for which I longed He turned into fear for me.

nkjv@Isaiah:21:5 @ Prepare the table, Set a watchman in the tow er, Eat and drink. Arise, you princes, Anoint the shield!

nkjv@Isaiah:21:8 @ Then he cried, "A lion, my Lord! I stand continually on the watchtow er in the daytime; I have sat at my post ev ery night.

nkjv@Isaiah:21:9 @ And look, h ere comes a chariot of men with a pair of horsemen!" Then he answ ered and said, "Babylon is fallen, is fallen! And all the carved images of h er gods He has broken to the ground."

nkjv@Isaiah:21:14 @ O inhabitants of the land of Tema, Bring wat er to him who is thirsty; With their bread they met him who fled.

nkjv@Isaiah:21:17 @ and the remaind er of the numb er of arch ers, the mighty men of the people of Kedar, will be diminished; for the LORD God of Israel has spoken it."

nkjv@Isaiah:22:3 @ All your rul ers have fled togeth er; They are captured by the arch ers. All who are found in you are bound togeth er; They have fled from afar.

nkjv@Isaiah:22:4 @ Th erefore I said, "Look away from me, I will weep bitt erly; Do not labor to comfort me Because of the plund ering of the daught er of my people."

nkjv@Isaiah:22:5 @ For it is a day of trouble and treading down and p erplexity By the Lord GOD of hosts In the Valley of Vision-- Breaking down the walls And of crying to the mountain.

nkjv@Isaiah:22:6 @ Elam bore the quiv er With chariots of men and horsemen, And Kir uncov ered the shield.

nkjv@Isaiah:22:9 @ You also saw the damage to the city of David, That it was great; And you gath ered togeth er the wat ers of the low er pool.

nkjv@Isaiah:22:10 @ You numb ered the houses of J erusalem, And the houses you broke down To fortify the wall.

nkjv@Isaiah:22:11 @ You also made a res ervoir between the two walls For the wat er of the old pool. But you did not look to its Mak er, Nor did you have respect for Him who fashioned it long ago.

nkjv@Isaiah:22:14 @ Then it was revealed in my hearing by the LORD of hosts, "Surely for this iniquity th ere will be no atonement for you, Even to your death," says the Lord GOD of hosts.

nkjv@Isaiah:22:15 @ Thus says the Lord GOD of hosts: "Go, proceed to this steward, To Shebna, who is ov er the house, and say:

nkjv@Isaiah:22:16 @ "What have you h ere, and whom have you h ere, That you have hewn a sepulch er h ere, As he who hews himself a sepulch er on high, Who carves a tomb for himself in a rock?

nkjv@Isaiah:22:18 @ He will surely turn violently and toss you like a ball Into a large country; Th ere you shall die, and th ere your glorious chariots Shall be the shame of your mast er's house.

nkjv@Isaiah:22:20 @ "Then it shall be in that day, That I will call My s ervant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah;

nkjv@Isaiah:22:21 @ I will clothe him with your robe And strengthen him with your belt; I will commit your responsibility into his hand. He shall be a fath er to the inhabitants of J erusalem And to the house of Judah.

nkjv@Isaiah:22:22 @ The key of the house of David I will lay on his should er; So he shall open, and no one shall shut; And he shall shut, and no one shall open.

nkjv@Isaiah:22:23 @ I will fasten him as a peg in a secure place, And he will become a glorious throne to his fath er's house.

nkjv@Isaiah:22:24 @ "They will hang on him all the glory of his fath er's house, the offspring and the post erity, all vessels of small quantity, from the cups to all the pitch ers.

nkjv@Isaiah:23:1 @ The burden against Tyre. Wail, you ships of Tarshish! For it is laid waste, So that th ere is no house, no harbor; From the land of Cyprus it is revealed to them.

nkjv@Isaiah:23:2 @ Be still, you inhabitants of the coastland, You m erchants of Sidon, Whom those who cross the sea have filled.

nkjv@Isaiah:23:3 @ And on great wat ers the grain of Shihor, The harvest of the Riv er, is h er revenue; And she is a marketplace for the nations.

nkjv@Isaiah:23:4 @ Be ashamed, O Sidon; For the sea has spoken, The strength of the sea, saying, "I do not labor, nor bring forth children; Neith er do I rear young men, Nor bring up virgins."

nkjv@Isaiah:23:6 @ Cross ov er to Tarshish; Wail, you inhabitants of the coastland!

nkjv@Isaiah:23:7 @ Is this your joyous city, Whose antiquity is from ancient days, Whose feet carried h er far off to dwell?

nkjv@Isaiah:23:8 @ Who has taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, Whose m erchants are princes, Whose trad ers are the honorable of the earth?

nkjv@Isaiah:23:10 @ Ov erflow through your land like the Riv er, O daught er of Tarshish; Th ere is no more strength.

nkjv@Isaiah:23:11 @ He stretched out His hand ov er the sea, He shook the kingdoms; The LORD has given a commandment against Canaan To destroy its strongholds.

nkjv@Isaiah:23:12 @ And He said, "You will rejoice no more, O you oppressed virgin daught er of Sidon. Arise, cross ov er to Cyprus; Th ere also you will have no rest."

nkjv@Isaiah:23:13 @ Behold, the land of the Chaldeans, This people which was not; Assyria founded it for wild beasts of the des ert. They set up its tow ers, They raised up its palaces, And brought it to ruin.

nkjv@Isaiah:23:16 @ "Take a harp, go about the city, You forgotten harlot; Make sweet melody, sing many songs, That you may be rememb ered."

nkjv@Isaiah:23:17 @ And it shall be, at the end of seventy years, that the LORD will deal with Tyre. She will return to h er hire, and commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.

nkjv@Isaiah:23:18 @ H er gain and h er pay will be set apart for the LORD; it will not be treasured nor laid up, for h er gain will be for those who dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for fine clothing.

nkjv@Isaiah:24:1 @ Behold, the LORD makes the earth empty and makes it waste, Distorts its surface And scatt ers abroad its inhabitants.

nkjv@Isaiah:24:2 @ And it shall be: As with the people, so with the priest; As with the s ervant, so with his mast er; As with the maid, so with h er mistress; As with the buy er, so with the sell er; As with the lend er, so with the borrow er; As with the creditor, so with the debtor.

nkjv@Isaiah:24:3 @ The land shall be entirely emptied and utt erly plund ered, For the LORD has spoken this word.

nkjv@Isaiah:24:5 @ The earth is also defiled und er its inhabitants, Because they have transgressed the laws, Changed the ordinance, Broken the ev erlasting covenant.

nkjv@Isaiah:24:6 @ Th erefore the curse has devoured the earth, And those who dwell in it are desolate. Th erefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, And few men are left.

nkjv@Isaiah:24:7 @ The new wine fails, the vine languishes, All the m erry-hearted sigh.

nkjv@Isaiah:24:9 @ They shall not drink wine with a song; Strong drink is bitt er to those who drink it.

nkjv@Isaiah:24:10 @ The city of confusion is broken down; Ev ery house is shut up, so that none may go in.

nkjv@Isaiah:24:11 @ Th ere is a cry for wine in the streets, All joy is darkened, The mirth of the land is gone.

nkjv@Isaiah:24:15 @ Th erefore glorify the LORD in the dawning light, The name of the LORD God of Israel in the coastlands of the sea.

nkjv@Isaiah:24:16 @ From the ends of the earth we have heard songs: "Glory to the righteous!" But I said, "I am ruined, ruined! Woe to me! The treach erous deal ers have dealt treach erously, Indeed, the treach erous deal ers have dealt v ery treach erously."

nkjv@Isaiah:24:20 @ The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, And shall tott er like a hut; Its transgression shall be heavy upon it, And it will fall, and not rise again.

nkjv@Isaiah:24:22 @ They will be gath ered togeth er, As prison ers are gath ered in the pit, And will be shut up in the prison; Aft er many days they will be punished.

nkjv@Isaiah:24:23 @ Then the moon will be disgraced And the sun ashamed; For the LORD of hosts will reign On Mount Zion and in J erusalem And before His eld ers, gloriously.

nkjv@Isaiah:25:1 @ O LORD, You are my God. I will exalt You, I will praise Your name, For You have done wond erful things; Your counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.

nkjv@Isaiah:25:2 @ For You have made a city a ruin, A fortified city a ruin, A palace of foreign ers to be a city no more; It will nev er be rebuilt.

nkjv@Isaiah:25:3 @ Th erefore the strong people will glorify You; The city of the t errible nations will fear You.

nkjv@Isaiah:25:4 @ For You have been a strength to the poor, A strength to the needy in his distress, A refuge from the storm, A shade from the heat; For the blast of the t errible ones is as a storm against the wall.

nkjv@Isaiah:25:5 @ You will reduce the noise of aliens, As heat in a dry place; As heat in the shadow of a cloud, The song of the t errible ones will be diminished.

nkjv@Isaiah:25:7 @ And He will destroy on this mountain The surface of the cov ering cast ov er all people, And the veil that is spread ov er all nations.

nkjv@Isaiah:25:8 @ He will swallow up death forev er, And the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces; The rebuke of His people He will take away from all the earth; For the LORD has spoken.

nkjv@Isaiah:25:10 @ For on this mountain the hand of the LORD will rest, And Moab shall be trampled down und er Him, As straw is trampled down for the refuse heap.

nkjv@Isaiah:25:11 @ And He will spread out His hands in their midst As a swimm er reaches out to swim, And He will bring down their pride Togeth er with the trick ery of their hands.

nkjv@Isaiah:26:2 @ Open the gates, That the righteous nation which keeps the truth may ent er in.

nkjv@Isaiah:26:3 @ You will keep him in p erfect peace, Whose mind is stayed on You, Because he trusts in You.

nkjv@Isaiah:26:4 @ Trust in the LORD forev er, For in Yah, the LORD, is ev erlasting strength.

nkjv@Isaiah:26:13 @ O LORD our God, mast ers besides You Have had dominion ov er us; But by You only we make mention of Your name.

nkjv@Isaiah:26:14 @ They are dead, they will not live; They are deceased, they will not rise. Th erefore You have punished and destroyed them, And made all their memory to p erish.

nkjv@Isaiah:26:15 @ You have increased the nation, O LORD, You have increased the nation; You are glorified; You have expanded all the bord ers of the land.

nkjv@Isaiah:26:16 @ LORD, in trouble they have visited You, They poured out a pray er when Your chastening was upon them.

nkjv@Isaiah:26:17 @ As a woman with child Is in pain and cries out in h er pangs, When she draws near the time of h er deliv ery, So have we been in Your sight, O LORD.

nkjv@Isaiah:26:18 @ We have been with child, we have been in pain; We have, as it w ere, brought forth wind; We have not accomplished any deliv erance in the earth, Nor have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

nkjv@Isaiah:26:19 @ Your dead shall live; Togeth er with my dead body they shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in dust; For your dew is like the dew of h erbs, And the earth shall cast out the dead.

nkjv@Isaiah:26:20 @ Come, my people, ent er your chamb ers, And shut your doors behind you; Hide yourself, as it w ere, for a little moment, Until the indignation is past.

nkjv@Isaiah:26:21 @ For behold, the LORD comes out of His place To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity; The earth will also disclose h er blood, And will no more cov er h er slain.

nkjv@Isaiah:27:1 @ In that day the LORD with His sev ere sword, great and strong, Will punish Leviathan the fleeing s erpent, Leviathan that twisted s erpent; And He will slay the reptile that is in the sea.

nkjv@Isaiah:27:2 @ In that day sing to h er, "A vineyard of red wine!

nkjv@Isaiah:27:3 @ I, the LORD, keep it, I wat er it ev ery moment; Lest any hurt it, I keep it night and day.

nkjv@Isaiah:27:4 @ Fury is not in Me. Who would set bri ers and thorns Against Me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them togeth er.

nkjv@Isaiah:27:7 @ Has He struck Israel as He struck those who struck him? Or has He been slain according to the slaught er of those who w ere slain by Him?

nkjv@Isaiah:27:9 @ Th erefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be cov ered; And this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: When he makes all the stones of the altar Like chalkstones that are beaten to dust, Wooden images and incense altars shall not stand.

nkjv@Isaiah:27:10 @ Yet the fortified city will be desolate, The habitation forsaken and left like a wild erness; Th ere the calf will feed, and th ere it will lie down And consume its branches.

nkjv@Isaiah:27:11 @ When its boughs are with ered, they will be broken off; The women come and set them on fire. For it is a people of no und erstanding; Th erefore He who made them will not have m ercy on them, And He who formed them will show them no favor.

nkjv@Isaiah:27:12 @ And it shall come to pass in that day That the LORD will thresh, From the channel of the Riv er to the Brook of Egypt; And you will be gath ered one by one, O you children of Israel.

nkjv@Isaiah:27:13 @ So it shall be in that day: The great trumpet will be blown; They will come, who are about to p erish in the land of Assyria, And they who are outcasts in the land of Egypt, And shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at J erusalem.

nkjv@Isaiah:28:1 @ Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, Whose glorious beauty is a fading flow er Which is at the head of the v erdant valleys, To those who are ov ercome with wine!

nkjv@Isaiah:28:2 @ Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one, Like a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, Like a flood of mighty wat ers ov erflowing, Who will bring them down to the earth with His hand.

nkjv@Isaiah:28:3 @ The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, Will be trampled und erfoot;

nkjv@Isaiah:28:4 @ And the glorious beauty is a fading flow er Which is at the head of the v erdant valley, Like the first fruit before the summ er, Which an obs erv er sees; He eats it up while it is still in his hand.

nkjv@Isaiah:28:7 @ But they also have erred through wine, And through intoxicating drink are out of the way; The priest and the prophet have erred through intoxicating drink, They are swallowed up by wine, They are out of the way through intoxicating drink; They err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

nkjv@Isaiah:28:9 @ "Whom will he teach knowledge? And whom will he make to und erstand the message? Those just weaned from milk? Those just drawn from the breasts?

nkjv@Isaiah:28:10 @ For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept, Line upon line, line upon line, H ere a little, th ere a little."

nkjv@Isaiah:28:11 @ For with stamm ering lips and anoth er tongue He will speak to this people,

nkjv@Isaiah:28:13 @ But the word of the LORD was to them, "Precept upon precept, precept upon precept, Line upon line, line upon line, H ere a little, th ere a little," That they might go and fall backward, and be broken And snared and caught.

nkjv@Isaiah:28:14 @ Th erefore hear the word of the LORD, you scornful men, Who rule this people who are in J erusalem,

nkjv@Isaiah:28:15 @ Because you have said, "We have made a covenant with death, And with Sheol we are in agreement. When the ov erflowing scourge passes through, It will not come to us, For we have made lies our refuge, And und er falsehood we have hidden ourselves."

nkjv@Isaiah:28:16 @ Th erefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I lay in Zion a stone for a foundation, A tried stone, a precious corn erstone, a sure foundation; Whoev er believes will not act hastily.

nkjv@Isaiah:28:17 @ Also I will make justice the measuring line, And righteousness the plummet; The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, And the wat ers will ov erflow the hiding place.

nkjv@Isaiah:28:18 @ Your covenant with death will be annulled, And your agreement with Sheol will not stand; When the ov erflowing scourge passes through, Then you will be trampled down by it.

nkjv@Isaiah:28:19 @ As often as it goes out it will take you; For morning by morning it will pass ov er, And by day and by night; It will be a t error just to und erstand the report."

nkjv@Isaiah:28:20 @ For the bed is too short to stretch out on, And the cov ering so narrow that one cannot wrap himself in it.

nkjv@Isaiah:28:21 @ For the LORD will rise up as at Mount P erazim, He will be angry as in the Valley of Gibeon-- That He may do His work, His awesome work, And bring to pass His act, His unusual act.

nkjv@Isaiah:28:22 @ Now th erefore, do not be mock ers, Lest your bonds be made strong; For I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts, A destruction det ermined even upon the whole earth.

nkjv@Isaiah:28:25 @ When he has leveled its surface, Does he not sow the black cummin And scatt er the cummin, Plant the wheat in rows, The barley in the appointed place, And the spelt in its place?

nkjv@Isaiah:28:27 @ For the black cummin is not threshed with a threshing sledge, Nor is a cartwheel rolled ov er the cummin; But the black cummin is beaten out with a stick, And the cummin with a rod.

nkjv@Isaiah:28:28 @ Bread flour must be ground; Th erefore he does not thresh it forev er, Break it with his cartwheel, Or crush it with his horsemen.

nkjv@Isaiah:28:29 @ This also comes from the LORD of hosts, Who is wond erful in counsel and excellent in guidance.

nkjv@Isaiah:29:1 @ "Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city wh ere David dwelt! Add year to year; Let feasts come around.

nkjv@Isaiah:29:2 @ Yet I will distress Ariel; Th ere shall be heaviness and sorrow, And it shall be to Me as Ariel.

nkjv@Isaiah:29:4 @ You shall be brought down, You shall speak out of the ground; Your speech shall be low, out of the dust; Your voice shall be like a medium's, out of the ground; And your speech shall whisp er out of the dust.

nkjv@Isaiah:29:5 @ "Moreov er the multitude of your foes Shall be like fine dust, And the multitude of the t errible ones Like chaff that passes away; Yes, it shall be in an instant, suddenly.

nkjv@Isaiah:29:6 @ You will be punished by the LORD of hosts With thund er and earthquake and great noise, With storm and tempest And the flame of devouring fire.

nkjv@Isaiah:29:7 @ The multitude of all the nations who fight against Ariel, Even all who fight against h er and h er fortress, And distress h er, Shall be as a dream of a night vision.

nkjv@Isaiah:29:9 @ Pause and wond er! Blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunk, but not with wine; They stagg er, but not with intoxicating drink.

nkjv@Isaiah:29:10 @ For the LORD has poured out on you The spirit of deep sleep, And has closed your eyes, namely, the prophets; And He has cov ered your heads, namely, the se ers.

nkjv@Isaiah:29:11 @ The whole vision has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliv er to one who is lit erate, saying, "Read this, please." And he says, "I cannot, for it is sealed."

nkjv@Isaiah:29:12 @ Then the book is deliv ered to one who is illit erate, saying, "Read this, please." And he says, "I am not lit erate."

nkjv@Isaiah:29:13 @ Th erefore the Lord said: "Inasmuch as these people draw near with their mouths And honor Me with their lips, But have removed their hearts far from Me, And their fear toward Me is taught by the commandment of men,

nkjv@Isaiah:29:14 @ Th erefore, behold, I will again do a marvelous work Among this people, A marvelous work and a wond er; For the wisdom of their wise men shall p erish, And the und erstanding of their prudent men shall be hidden."

nkjv@Isaiah:29:16 @ Surely you have things turned around! Shall the pott er be esteemed as the clay; For shall the thing made say of him who made it, "He did not make me"? Or shall the thing formed say of him who formed it, "He has no und erstanding"?

nkjv@Isaiah:29:17 @ Is it not yet a v ery little while Till Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, And the fruitful field be esteemed as a forest?

nkjv@Isaiah:29:20 @ For the t errible one is brought to nothing, The scornful one is consumed, And all who watch for iniquity are cut off--

nkjv@Isaiah:29:21 @ Who make a man an offend er by a word, And lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, And turn aside the just by empty words.

nkjv@Isaiah:29:22 @ Th erefore thus says the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, conc erning the house of Jacob: "Jacob shall not now be ashamed, Nor shall his face now grow pale;

nkjv@Isaiah:29:24 @ These also who erred in spirit will come to und erstanding, And those who complained will learn doctrine."

nkjv@Isaiah:30:3 @ Th erefore the strength of Pharaoh Shall be your shame, And trust in the shadow of Egypt Shall be your humiliation.

nkjv@Isaiah:30:4 @ For his princes w ere at Zoan, And his ambassadors came to Hanes.

nkjv@Isaiah:30:5 @ They w ere all ashamed of a people who could not benefit them, Or be help or benefit, But a shame and also a reproach."

nkjv@Isaiah:30:6 @ The burden against the beasts of the South. Through a land of trouble and anguish, From which came the lioness and lion, The vip er and fi ery flying s erpent, They will carry their riches on the backs of young donkeys, And their treasures on the humps of camels, To a people who shall not profit;

nkjv@Isaiah:30:7 @ For the Egyptians shall help in vain and to no purpose. Th erefore I have called h er Rahab-Hem-Shebeth.

nkjv@Isaiah:30:8 @ Now go, write it before them on a tablet, And note it on a scroll, That it may be for time to come, Forev er and ev er:

nkjv@Isaiah:30:10 @ Who say to the se ers, "Do not see," And to the prophets, "Do not prophesy to us right things; Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits.

nkjv@Isaiah:30:12 @ Th erefore thus says the Holy One of Israel: "Because you despise this word, And trust in oppression and p erv ersity, And rely on them,

nkjv@Isaiah:30:13 @ Th erefore this iniquity shall be to you Like a breach ready to fall, A bulge in a high wall, Whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant.

nkjv@Isaiah:30:14 @ And He shall break it like the breaking of the pott er's vessel, Which is broken in pieces; He shall not spare. So th ere shall not be found among its fragments A shard to take fire from the hearth, Or to take wat er from the cist ern."

nkjv@Isaiah:30:16 @ And you said, "No, for we will flee on horses"-- Th erefore you shall flee! And, "We will ride on swift horses"-- Th erefore those who pursue you shall be swift!

nkjv@Isaiah:30:17 @ One thousand shall flee at the threat of one, At the threat of five you shall flee, Till you are left as a pole on top of a mountain And as a bann er on a hill.

nkjv@Isaiah:30:18 @ Th erefore the LORD will wait, that He may be gracious to you; And th erefore He will be exalted, that He may have m ercy on you. For the LORD is a God of justice; Blessed are all those who wait for Him.

nkjv@Isaiah:30:19 @ For the people shall dwell in Zion at J erusalem; You shall weep no more. He will be v ery gracious to you at the sound of your cry; When He hears it, He will answ er you.

nkjv@Isaiah:30:20 @ And though the Lord gives you The bread of adv ersity and the wat er of affliction, Yet your teach ers will not be moved into a corn er anymore, But your eyes shall see your teach ers.

nkjv@Isaiah:30:21 @ Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, "This is the way, walk in it," Whenev er you turn to the right hand Or whenev er you turn to the left.

nkjv@Isaiah:30:22 @ You will also defile the cov ering of your images of silv er, And the ornament of your molded images of gold. You will throw them away as an unclean thing; You will say to them, "Get away!"

nkjv@Isaiah:30:24 @ Likewise the oxen and the young donkeys that work the ground Will eat cured fodd er, Which has been winnowed with the shovel and fan.

nkjv@Isaiah:30:25 @ Th ere will be on ev ery high mountain And on ev ery high hill Riv ers and streams of wat ers, In the day of the great slaught er, When the tow ers fall.

nkjv@Isaiah:30:26 @ Moreov er the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, And the light of the sun will be sevenfold, As the light of seven days, In the day that the LORD binds up the bruise of His people And heals the stroke of their wound.

nkjv@Isaiah:30:27 @ Behold, the name of the LORD comes from afar, Burning with His ang er, And His burden is heavy; His lips are full of indignation, And His tongue like a devouring fire.

nkjv@Isaiah:30:28 @ His breath is like an ov erflowing stream, Which reaches up to the neck, To sift the nations with the sieve of futility; And th ere shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, Causing them to err.

nkjv@Isaiah:30:30 @ The LORD will cause His glorious voice to be heard, And show the descent of His arm, With the indignation of His ang er And the flame of a devouring fire, With scatt ering, tempest, and hailstones.

nkjv@Isaiah:30:32 @ And in ev ery place wh ere the staff of punishment passes, Which the LORD lays on him, It will be with tambourines and harps; And in battles of brandishing He will fight with it.

nkjv@Isaiah:31:1 @ Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, And rely on horses, Who trust in chariots because they are many, And in horsemen because they are v ery strong, But who do not look to the Holy One of Israel, Nor seek the LORD!

nkjv@Isaiah:31:2 @ Yet He also is wise and will bring disast er, And will not call back His words, But will arise against the house of evildo ers, And against the help of those who work iniquity.

nkjv@Isaiah:31:3 @ Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; And their horses are flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD stretches out His hand, Both he who helps will fall, And he who is helped will fall down; They all will p erish togeth er.

nkjv@Isaiah:31:4 @ For thus the LORD has spoken to me: "As a lion roars, And a young lion ov er his prey (When a multitude of sheph erds is summoned against him, He will not be afraid of their voice Nor be disturbed by their noise), So the LORD of hosts will come down To fight for Mount Zion and for its hill.

nkjv@Isaiah:31:5 @ Like birds flying about, So will the LORD of hosts defend J erusalem. Defending, He will also deliv er it; Passing ov er, He will pres erve it."

nkjv@Isaiah:31:7 @ For in that day ev ery man shall throw away his idols of silv er and his idols of gold--sin, which your own hands have made for yourselves.

nkjv@Isaiah:31:9 @ He shall cross ov er to his stronghold for fear, And his princes shall be afraid of the bann er," Says the LORD, Whose fire is in Zion And whose furnace is in J erusalem.

nkjv@Isaiah:32:2 @ A man will be as a hiding place from the wind, And a cov er from the tempest, As riv ers of wat er in a dry place, As the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

nkjv@Isaiah:32:4 @ Also the heart of the rash will und erstand knowledge, And the tongue of the stamm er ers will be ready to speak plainly.

nkjv@Isaiah:32:5 @ The foolish p erson will no long er be called gen erous, Nor the mis er said to be bountiful;

nkjv@Isaiah:32:6 @ For the foolish p erson will speak foolishness, And his heart will work iniquity: To practice ungodliness, To utt er error against the LORD, To keep the hungry unsatisfied, And he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

nkjv@Isaiah:32:7 @ Also the schemes of the schem er are evil; He devises wicked plans To destroy the poor with lying words, Even when the needy speaks justice.

nkjv@Isaiah:32:8 @ But a gen erous man devises gen erous things, And by gen erosity he shall stand.

nkjv@Isaiah:32:9 @ Rise up, you women who are at ease, Hear my voice; You complacent daught ers, Give ear to my speech.

nkjv@Isaiah:32:10 @ In a year and some days You will be troubled, you complacent women; For the vintage will fail, The gath ering will not come.

nkjv@Isaiah:32:13 @ On the land of my people will come up thorns and bri ers, Yes, on all the happy homes in the joyous city;

nkjv@Isaiah:32:14 @ Because the palaces will be forsaken, The bustling city will be des erted. The forts and tow ers will become lairs forev er, A joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks--

nkjv@Isaiah:32:15 @ Until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high, And the wild erness becomes a fruitful field, And the fruitful field is counted as a forest.

nkjv@Isaiah:32:16 @ Then justice will dwell in the wild erness, And righteousness remain in the fruitful field.

nkjv@Isaiah:32:17 @ The work of righteousness will be peace, And the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance forev er.

nkjv@Isaiah:32:20 @ Blessed are you who sow beside all wat ers, Who send out freely the feet of the ox and the donkey.

nkjv@Isaiah:33:1 @ Woe to you who plund er, though you have not been plund ered; And you who deal treach erously, though they have not dealt treach erously with you! When you cease plund ering, You will be plund ered; When you make an end of dealing treach erously, They will deal treach erously with you.

nkjv@Isaiah:33:2 @ O LORD, be gracious to us; We have waited for You. Be their arm ev ery morning, Our salvation also in the time of trouble.

nkjv@Isaiah:33:3 @ At the noise of the tumult the people shall flee; When You lift Yourself up, the nations shall be scatt ered;

nkjv@Isaiah:33:4 @ And Your plund er shall be gath ered Like the gath ering of the cat erpillar; As the running to and fro of locusts, He shall run upon them.

nkjv@Isaiah:33:7 @ Surely their valiant ones shall cry outside, The ambassadors of peace shall weep bitt erly.

nkjv@Isaiah:33:9 @ The earth mourns and languishes, Lebanon is shamed and shriveled; Sharon is like a wild erness, And Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.

nkjv@Isaiah:33:14 @ The sinn ers in Zion are afraid; Fearfulness has seized the hypocrites: "Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us shall dwell with ev erlasting burnings?"

nkjv@Isaiah:33:16 @ He will dwell on high; His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks; Bread will be given him, His wat er will be sure.

nkjv@Isaiah:33:17 @ Your eyes will see the King in His beauty; They will see the land that is v ery far off.

nkjv@Isaiah:33:18 @ Your heart will meditate on t error: "Wh ere is the scribe? Wh ere is he who weighs? Wh ere is he who counts the tow ers?"

nkjv@Isaiah:33:19 @ You will not see a fi erce people, A people of obscure speech, beyond p erception, Of a stamm ering tongue that you cannot und erstand.

nkjv@Isaiah:33:20 @ Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed feasts; Your eyes will see J erusalem, a quiet home, A tab ernacle that will not be taken down; Not one of its stakes will ev er be removed, Nor will any of its cords be broken.

nkjv@Isaiah:33:21 @ But th ere the majestic LORD will be for us A place of broad riv ers and streams, In which no galley with oars will sail, Nor majestic ships pass by

nkjv@Isaiah:33:22 @ (For the LORD is our Judge, The LORD is our Lawgiv er, The LORD is our King; He will save us);

nkjv@Isaiah:33:23 @ Your tackle is loosed, They could not strengthen their mast, They could not spread the sail. Then the prey of great plund er is divided; The lame take the prey.

nkjv@Isaiah:34:2 @ For the indignation of the LORD is against all nations, And His fury against all their armies; He has utt erly destroyed them, He has given them ov er to the slaught er.

nkjv@Isaiah:34:6 @ The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, It is made ov erflowing with fatness, With the blood of lambs and goats, With the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, And a great slaught er in the land of Edom.

nkjv@Isaiah:34:10 @ It shall not be quenched night or day; Its smoke shall ascend forev er. From gen eration to gen eration it shall lie waste; No one shall pass through it forev er and ev er.

nkjv@Isaiah:34:11 @ But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it, Also the owl and the raven shall dwell in it. And He shall stretch out ov er it The line of confusion and the stones of emptiness.

nkjv@Isaiah:34:12 @ They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, But none shall be th ere, and all its princes shall be nothing.

nkjv@Isaiah:34:14 @ The wild beasts of the des ert shall also meet with the jackals, And the wild goat shall bleat to its companion; Also the night creature shall rest th ere, And find for h erself a place of rest.

nkjv@Isaiah:34:15 @ Th ere the arrow snake shall make h er nest and lay eggs And hatch, and gath er them und er h er shadow; Th ere also shall the hawks be gath ered, Ev ery one with h er mate.

nkjv@Isaiah:34:16 @ "Search from the book of the LORD, and read: Not one of these shall fail; Not one shall lack h er mate. For My mouth has commanded it, and His Spirit has gath ered them.

nkjv@Isaiah:34:17 @ He has cast the lot for them, And His hand has divided it among them with a measuring line. They shall possess it forev er; From gen eration to gen eration they shall dwell in it."

nkjv@Isaiah:35:1 @ The wild erness and the wasteland shall be glad for them, And the des ert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose;

nkjv@Isaiah:35:6 @ Then the lame shall leap like a de er, And the tongue of the dumb sing. For wat ers shall burst forth in the wild erness, And streams in the des ert.

nkjv@Isaiah:35:7 @ The parched ground shall become a pool, And the thirsty land springs of wat er; In the habitation of jackals, wh ere each lay, Th ere shall be grass with reeds and rushes.

nkjv@Isaiah:35:8 @ A highway shall be th ere, and a road, And it shall be called the Highway of Holiness. The unclean shall not pass ov er it, But it shall be for oth ers. Whoev er walks the road, although a fool, Shall not go astray.

nkjv@Isaiah:35:9 @ No lion shall be th ere, Nor shall any ravenous beast go up on it; It shall not be found th ere. But the redeemed shall walk th ere,

nkjv@Isaiah:35:10 @ And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, And come to Zion with singing, With ev erlasting joy on their heads. They shall obtain joy and gladness, And sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

nkjv@Isaiah:36:1 @ Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah that Sennach erib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.

nkjv@Isaiah:36:2 @ Then the king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh with a great army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at J erusalem. And he stood by the aqueduct from the upp er pool, on the highway to the Full er's Field.

nkjv@Isaiah:36:3 @ And Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was ov er the household, Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the record er, came out to him.

nkjv@Isaiah:36:5 @ I say you speak of having plans and pow er for war; but they are m ere words. Now in whom do you trust, that you rebel against me?

nkjv@Isaiah:36:6 @ Look! You are trusting in the staff of this broken reed, Egypt, on which if a man leans, it will go into his hand and pi erce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

nkjv@Isaiah:36:7 @ "But if you say to me, "We trust in the LORD our God,' is it not He whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and said to Judah and J erusalem, "You shall worship before this altar'?"'

nkjv@Isaiah:36:8 @ Now th erefore, I urge you, give a pledge to my mast er the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses--if you are able on your part to put rid ers on them!

nkjv@Isaiah:36:9 @ How then will you repel one captain of the least of my mast er's s ervants, and put your trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen?

nkjv@Isaiah:36:11 @ Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, "Please speak to your s ervants in Aramaic, for we und erstand it; and do not speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people who are on the wall."

nkjv@Isaiah:36:12 @ But the Rabshakeh said, "Has my mast er sent me to your mast er and to you to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who will eat and drink their own waste with you?"

nkjv@Isaiah:36:14 @ Thus says the king: "Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliv er you;

nkjv@Isaiah:36:15 @ nor let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, "The LORD will surely deliv er us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."'

nkjv@Isaiah:36:16 @ Do not listen to Hezekiah; for thus says the king of Assyria: "Make peace with me by a present and come out to me; and ev ery one of you eat from his own vine and ev ery one from his own fig tree, and ev ery one of you drink the wat ers of his own cist ern;

nkjv@Isaiah:36:18 @ Beware lest Hezekiah p ersuade you, saying, "The LORD will deliv er us." Has any one of the gods of the nations deliv ered its land from the hand of the king of Assyria?

nkjv@Isaiah:36:19 @ Wh ere are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Wh ere are the gods of Sepharvaim? Indeed, have they deliv ered Samaria from my hand?

nkjv@Isaiah:36:20 @ Who among all the gods of these lands have deliv ered their countries from my hand, that the LORD should deliv er J erusalem from my hand?"'

nkjv@Isaiah:36:21 @ But they held their peace and answ ered him not a word; for the king's commandment was, "Do not answ er him."

nkjv@Isaiah:36:22 @ Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was ov er the household, Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the record er, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of the Rabshakeh.

nkjv@Isaiah:37:1 @ And so it was, when King Hezekiah heard it, that he tore his clothes, cov ered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.

nkjv@Isaiah:37:2 @ Then he sent Eliakim, who was ov er the household, Shebna the scribe, and the eld ers of the priests, cov ered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.

nkjv@Isaiah:37:3 @ And they said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah: "This day is a day of trouble and rebuke and blasphemy; for the children have come to birth, but th ere is no strength to bring them forth.

nkjv@Isaiah:37:4 @ It may be that the LORD your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his mast er the king of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God, and will rebuke the words which the LORD your God has heard. Th erefore lift up your pray er for the remnant that is left."'

nkjv@Isaiah:37:5 @ So the s ervants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

nkjv@Isaiah:37:6 @ And Isaiah said to them, "Thus you shall say to your mast er, "Thus says the LORD: "Do not be afraid of the words which you have heard, with which the s ervants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.

nkjv@Isaiah:37:9 @ And the king heard conc erning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, "He has come out to make war with you." So when he heard it, he sent messeng ers to Hezekiah, saying,

nkjv@Isaiah:37:10 @ "Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying: "Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, "J erusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."

nkjv@Isaiah:37:11 @ Look! You have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by utt erly destroying them; and shall you be deliv ered?

nkjv@Isaiah:37:12 @ Have the gods of the nations deliv ered those whom my fath ers have destroyed, Gozan and Haran and Rezeph, and the people of Eden who w ere in Telassar?

nkjv@Isaiah:37:13 @ Wh ere is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?"'

nkjv@Isaiah:37:14 @ And Hezekiah received the lett er from the hand of the messeng ers, and read it; and Hezekiah went up to the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.

nkjv@Isaiah:37:16 @ "O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, the One who dwells between the ch erubim, You are God, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.

nkjv@Isaiah:37:17 @ Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see; and hear all the words of Sennach erib, which he has sent to reproach the living God.

nkjv@Isaiah:37:19 @ and have cast their gods into the fire; for they w ere not gods, but the work of men's hands--wood and stone. Th erefore they destroyed them.

nkjv@Isaiah:37:20 @ Now th erefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You are the LORD, You alone."

nkjv@Isaiah:37:21 @ Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus says the LORD God of Israel, "Because you have prayed to Me against Sennach erib king of Assyria,

nkjv@Isaiah:37:22 @ this is the word which the LORD has spoken conc erning him: "The virgin, the daught er of Zion, Has despised you, laughed you to scorn; The daught er of J erusalem Has shaken h er head behind your back!

nkjv@Isaiah:37:24 @ By your s ervants you have reproached the Lord, And said, "By the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, To the limits of Lebanon; I will cut down its tall cedars And its choice cypress trees; I will ent er its farthest height, To its fruitful forest.

nkjv@Isaiah:37:25 @ I have dug and drunk wat er, And with the soles of my feet I have dried up All the brooks of defense.'

nkjv@Isaiah:37:27 @ Th erefore their inhabitants had little pow er; They w ere dismayed and confounded; They w ere as the grass of the field And the green h erb, As the grass on the housetops And grain blighted before it is grown.

nkjv@Isaiah:37:29 @ Because your rage against Me and your tumult Have come up to My ears, Th erefore I will put My hook in your nose And My bridle in your lips, And I will turn you back By the way which you came."'

nkjv@Isaiah:37:32 @ For out of J erusalem shall go a remnant, And those who escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.

nkjv@Isaiah:37:33 @ "Th erefore thus says the LORD conc erning the king of Assyria: "He shall not come into this city, Nor shoot an arrow th ere, Nor come before it with shield, Nor build a siege mound against it.

nkjv@Isaiah:37:35 @ "For I will defend this city, to save it For My own sake and for My s ervant David's sake."'

nkjv@Isaiah:37:36 @ Then the angel of the LORD went out, and killed in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty-five thousand; and when people arose early in the morning, th ere w ere the corpses--all dead.

nkjv@Isaiah:37:37 @ So Sennach erib king of Assyria departed and went away, returned home, and remained at Nineveh.

nkjv@Isaiah:37:38 @ Now it came to pass, as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that his sons Adrammelech and Sharez er struck him down with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Then Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.

nkjv@Isaiah:38:1 @ In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, went to him and said to him, "Thus says the LORD: "Set your house in ord er, for you shall die and not live."'

nkjv@Isaiah:38:3 @ and said, "Rememb er now, O LORD, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a loyal heart, and have done what is good in Your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitt erly.

nkjv@Isaiah:38:5 @ "Go and tell Hezekiah, "Thus says the LORD, the God of David your fath er: "I have heard your pray er, I have seen your tears; surely I will add to your days fifteen years.

nkjv@Isaiah:38:6 @ I will deliv er you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city."'

nkjv@Isaiah:38:9 @ This is the writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick and had recov ered from his sickness:

nkjv@Isaiah:38:10 @ I said, "In the prime of my life I shall go to the gates of Sheol; I am deprived of the remaind er of my years."

nkjv@Isaiah:38:11 @ I said, "I shall not see Yah, The LORD in the land of the living; I shall obs erve man no more among the inhabitants of the world.

nkjv@Isaiah:38:12 @ My life span is gone, Taken from me like a sheph erd's tent; I have cut off my life like a weav er. He cuts me off from the loom; From day until night You make an end of me.

nkjv@Isaiah:38:13 @ I have consid ered until morning-- Like a lion, So He breaks all my bones; From day until night You make an end of me.

nkjv@Isaiah:38:14 @ Like a crane or a swallow, so I chatt ered; I mourned like a dove; My eyes fail from looking upward. O LORD, I am oppressed; Und ertake for me!

nkjv@Isaiah:38:15 @ "What shall I say? He has both spoken to me, And He Himself has done it. I shall walk carefully all my years In the bitt erness of my soul.

nkjv@Isaiah:38:17 @ Indeed it was for my own peace That I had great bitt erness; But You have lovingly deliv ered my soul from the pit of corruption, For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

nkjv@Isaiah:38:19 @ The living, the living man, he shall praise You, As I do this day; The fath er shall make known Your truth to the children.

nkjv@Isaiah:38:20 @ "The LORD was ready to save me; Th erefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments All the days of our life, in the house of the LORD."

nkjv@Isaiah:38:21 @ Now Isaiah had said, "Let them take a lump of figs, and apply it as a poultice on the boil, and he shall recov er."

nkjv@Isaiah:39:1 @ At that time M erodach-Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent lett ers and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that he had been sick and had recov ered.

nkjv@Isaiah:39:2 @ And Hezekiah was pleased with them, and showed them the house of his treasures--the silv er and gold, the spices and precious ointment, and all his armory--all that was found among his treasures. Th ere was nothing in his house or in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them.

nkjv@Isaiah:39:3 @ Then Isaiah the prophet went to King Hezekiah, and said to him, "What did these men say, and from wh ere did they come to you?" So Hezekiah said, "They came to me from a far country, from Babylon."

nkjv@Isaiah:39:4 @ And he said, "What have they seen in your house?" So Hezekiah answ ered, "They have seen all that is in my house; th ere is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them."

nkjv@Isaiah:39:6 @ "Behold, the days are coming when all that is in your house, and what your fath ers have accumulated until this day, shall be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left,' says the LORD.

nkjv@Isaiah:39:8 @ So Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "The word of the LORD which you have spoken is good!" For he said, "At least th ere will be peace and truth in my days."

nkjv@Isaiah:40:2 @ "Speak comfort to J erusalem, and cry out to h er, That h er warfare is ended, That h er iniquity is pardoned; For she has received from the LORD's hand Double for all h er sins."

nkjv@Isaiah:40:3 @ The voice of one crying in the wild erness: "Prepare the way of the LORD; Make straight in the des ert A highway for our God.

nkjv@Isaiah:40:4 @ Ev ery valley shall be exalted And ev ery mountain and hill brought low; The crooked places shall be made straight And the rough places smooth;

nkjv@Isaiah:40:5 @ The glory of the LORD shall be revealed, And all flesh shall see it togeth er; For the mouth of the LORD has spoken."

nkjv@Isaiah:40:6 @ The voice said, "Cry out!" And he said, "What shall I cry?" "All flesh is grass, And all its loveliness is like the flow er of the field.

nkjv@Isaiah:40:7 @ The grass with ers, the flow er fades, Because the breath of the LORD blows upon it; Surely the people are grass.

nkjv@Isaiah:40:8 @ The grass with ers, the flow er fades, But the word of our God stands forev er."

nkjv@Isaiah:40:9 @ O Zion, You who bring good tidings, Get up into the high mountain; O J erusalem, You who bring good tidings, Lift up your voice with strength, Lift it up, be not afraid; Say to the cities of Judah, "Behold your God!"

nkjv@Isaiah:40:11 @ He will feed His flock like a sheph erd; He will gath er the lambs with His arm, And carry them in His bosom, And gently lead those who are with young.

nkjv@Isaiah:40:12 @ Who has measured the wat ers in the hollow of His hand, Measured heaven with a span And calculated the dust of the earth in a measure? Weighed the mountains in scales And the hills in a balance?

nkjv@Isaiah:40:14 @ With whom did He take counsel, and who instructed Him, And taught Him in the path of justice? Who taught Him knowledge, And showed Him the way of und erstanding?

nkjv@Isaiah:40:15 @ Behold, the nations are as a drop in a bucket, And are counted as the small dust on the scales; Look, He lifts up the isles as a v ery little thing.

nkjv@Isaiah:40:16 @ And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, Nor its beasts sufficient for a burnt off ering.

nkjv@Isaiah:40:19 @ The workman molds an image, The goldsmith ov erspreads it with gold, And the silv ersmith casts silv er chains.

nkjv@Isaiah:40:20 @ Whoev er is too impov erished for such a contribution Chooses a tree that will not rot; He seeks for himself a skillful workman To prepare a carved image that will not tott er.

nkjv@Isaiah:40:21 @ Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not und erstood from the foundations of the earth?

nkjv@Isaiah:40:22 @ It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants are like grasshopp ers, Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

nkjv@Isaiah:40:24 @ Scarcely shall they be planted, Scarcely shall they be sown, Scarcely shall their stock take root in the earth, When He will also blow on them, And they will with er, And the whirlwind will take them away like stubble.

nkjv@Isaiah:40:26 @ Lift up your eyes on high, And see who has created these things, Who brings out their host by numb er; He calls them all by name, By the greatness of His might And the strength of His pow er; Not one is missing.

nkjv@Isaiah:40:27 @ Why do you say, O Jacob, And speak, O Israel: "My way is hidden from the LORD, And my just claim is passed ov er by my God"?

nkjv@Isaiah:40:28 @ Have you not known? Have you not heard? The ev erlasting God, the LORD, The Creator of the ends of the earth, Neith er faints nor is weary. His und erstanding is unsearchable.

nkjv@Isaiah:40:29 @ He gives pow er to the weak, And to those who have no might He increases strength.

nkjv@Isaiah:40:30 @ Even the youths shall faint and be weary, And the young men shall utt erly fall,

nkjv@Isaiah:41:1 @ "Keep silence before Me, O coastlands, And let the people renew their strength! Let them come near, then let them speak; Let us come near togeth er for judgment.

nkjv@Isaiah:41:2 @ "Who raised up one from the east? Who in righteousness called him to His feet? Who gave the nations before him, And made him rule ov er kings? Who gave them as the dust to his sword, As driven stubble to his bow?

nkjv@Isaiah:41:4 @ Who has p erformed and done it, Calling the gen erations from the beginning? "I, the LORD, am the first; And with the last I am He."'

nkjv@Isaiah:41:5 @ The coastlands saw it and feared, The ends of the earth w ere afraid; They drew near and came.

nkjv@Isaiah:41:6 @ Ev eryone helped his neighbor, And said to his broth er, "Be of good courage!"

nkjv@Isaiah:41:7 @ So the craftsman encouraged the goldsmith; He who smooths with the hamm er inspired him who strikes the anvil, Saying, "It is ready for the sold ering"; Then he fastened it with pegs, That it might not tott er.

nkjv@Isaiah:41:8 @ "But you, Israel, are My s ervant, Jacob whom I have chosen, The descendants of Abraham My friend.

nkjv@Isaiah:41:9 @ You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, And called from its farthest regions, And said to you, "You are My s ervant, I have chosen you and have not cast you away:

nkjv@Isaiah:41:11 @ "Behold, all those who w ere incensed against you Shall be ashamed and disgraced; They shall be as nothing, And those who strive with you shall p erish.

nkjv@Isaiah:41:14 @ "Fear not, you worm Jacob, You men of Israel! I will help you," says the LORD And your Redeem er, the Holy One of Israel.

nkjv@Isaiah:41:16 @ You shall winnow them, the wind shall carry them away, And the whirlwind shall scatt er them; You shall rejoice in the LORD, And glory in the Holy One of Israel.

nkjv@Isaiah:41:17 @ "The poor and needy seek wat er, but th ere is none, Their tongues fail for thirst. I, the LORD, will hear them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

nkjv@Isaiah:41:18 @ I will open riv ers in desolate heights, And fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wild erness a pool of wat er, And the dry land springs of wat er.

nkjv@Isaiah:41:19 @ I will plant in the wild erness the cedar and the acacia tree, The myrtle and the oil tree; I will set in the des ert the cypress tree and the pine And the box tree togeth er,

nkjv@Isaiah:41:20 @ That they may see and know, And consid er and und erstand togeth er, That the hand of the LORD has done this, And the Holy One of Israel has created it.

nkjv@Isaiah:41:22 @ "Let them bring forth and show us what will happen; Let them show the form er things, what they w ere, That we may consid er them, And know the latt er end of them; Or declare to us things to come.

nkjv@Isaiah:41:23 @ Show the things that are to come h ereaft er, That we may know that you are gods; Yes, do good or do evil, That we may be dismayed and see it togeth er.

nkjv@Isaiah:41:25 @ "I have raised up one from the north, And he shall come; From the rising of the sun he shall call on My name; And he shall come against princes as though mortar, As the pott er treads clay.

nkjv@Isaiah:41:26 @ Who has declared from the beginning, that we may know? And form er times, that we may say, "He is righteous'? Surely th ere is no one who shows, Surely th ere is no one who declares, Surely th ere is no one who hears your words.

nkjv@Isaiah:41:27 @ The first time I said to Zion, "Look, th ere they are!' And I will give to J erusalem one who brings good tidings.

nkjv@Isaiah:41:28 @ For I looked, and th ere was no man; I looked among them, but th ere was no counselor, Who, when I asked of them, could answ er a word.

nkjv@Isaiah:42:1 @ "Behold! My S ervant whom I uphold, My Elect One in whom My soul delights! I have put My Spirit upon Him; He will bring forth justice to the Gentiles.

nkjv@Isaiah:42:7 @ To open blind eyes, To bring out prison ers from the prison, Those who sit in darkness from the prison house.

nkjv@Isaiah:42:8 @ I am the LORD, that is My name; And My glory I will not give to anoth er, Nor My praise to carved images.

nkjv@Isaiah:42:9 @ Behold, the form er things have come to pass, And new things I declare; Before they spring forth I tell you of them."

nkjv@Isaiah:42:11 @ Let the wild erness and its cities lift up their voice, The villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing, Let them shout from the top of the mountains.

nkjv@Isaiah:42:15 @ I will lay waste the mountains and hills, And dry up all their vegetation; I will make the riv ers coastlands, And I will dry up the pools.

nkjv@Isaiah:42:19 @ Who is blind but My s ervant, Or deaf as My messeng er whom I send? Who is blind as he who is p erfect, And blind as the LORD's s ervant?

nkjv@Isaiah:42:20 @ Seeing many things, but you do not obs erve; Opening the ears, but he does not hear."

nkjv@Isaiah:42:22 @ But this is a people robbed and plund ered; All of them are snared in holes, And they are hidden in prison houses; They are for prey, and no one deliv ers; For plund er, and no one says, "Restore!"

nkjv@Isaiah:42:24 @ Who gave Jacob for plund er, and Israel to the robb ers? Was it not the LORD, He against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in His ways, Nor w ere they obedient to His law.

nkjv@Isaiah:42:25 @ Th erefore He has poured on him the fury of His ang er And the strength of battle; It has set him on fire all around, Yet he did not know; And it burned him, Yet he did not take it to heart.

nkjv@Isaiah:43:2 @ When you pass through the wat ers, I will be with you; And through the riv ers, they shall not ov erflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, Nor shall the flame scorch you.

nkjv@Isaiah:43:4 @ Since you w ere precious in My sight, You have been honored, And I have loved you; Th erefore I will give men for you, And people for your life.

nkjv@Isaiah:43:5 @ Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your descendants from the east, And gath er you from the west;

nkjv@Isaiah:43:6 @ I will say to the north, "Give them up!' And to the south, "Do not keep them back!' Bring My sons from afar, And My daught ers from the ends of the earth--

nkjv@Isaiah:43:7 @ Ev eryone who is called by My name, Whom I have created for My glory; I have formed him, yes, I have made him."

nkjv@Isaiah:43:9 @ Let all the nations be gath ered togeth er, And let the people be assembled. Who among them can declare this, And show us form er things? Let them bring out their witnesses, that they may be justified; Or let them hear and say, "It is truth."

nkjv@Isaiah:43:10 @ "You are My witnesses," says the LORD, "And My s ervant whom I have chosen, That you may know and believe Me, And und erstand that I am He. Before Me th ere was no God formed, Nor shall th ere be aft er Me.

nkjv@Isaiah:43:11 @ I, even I, am the LORD, And besides Me th ere is no savior.

nkjv@Isaiah:43:12 @ I have declared and saved, I have proclaimed, And th ere was no foreign god among you; Th erefore you are My witnesses," Says the LORD, "that I am God.

nkjv@Isaiah:43:13 @ Indeed before the day was, I am He; And th ere is no one who can deliv er out of My hand; I work, and who will rev erse it?"

nkjv@Isaiah:43:14 @ Thus says the LORD, your Redeem er, The Holy One of Israel: "For your sake I will send to Babylon, And bring them all down as fugitives-- The Chaldeans, who rejoice in their ships.

nkjv@Isaiah:43:16 @ Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea And a path through the mighty wat ers,

nkjv@Isaiah:43:17 @ Who brings forth the chariot and horse, The army and the pow er (They shall lie down togeth er, they shall not rise; They are extinguished, they are quenched like a wick):

nkjv@Isaiah:43:18 @ "Do not rememb er the form er things, Nor consid er the things of old.

nkjv@Isaiah:43:19 @ Behold, I will do a new thing, Now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wild erness And riv ers in the des ert.

nkjv@Isaiah:43:20 @ The beast of the field will honor Me, The jackals and the ostriches, Because I give wat ers in the wild erness And riv ers in the des ert, To give drink to My people, My chosen.

nkjv@Isaiah:43:23 @ You have not brought Me the sheep for your burnt off erings, Nor have you honored Me with your sacrifices. I have not caused you to s erve with grain off erings, Nor wearied you with incense.

nkjv@Isaiah:43:25 @ "I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake; And I will not rememb er your sins.

nkjv@Isaiah:43:26 @ Put Me in remembrance; Let us contend togeth er; State your case, that you may be acquitted.

nkjv@Isaiah:43:27 @ Your first fath er sinned, And your mediators have transgressed against Me.

nkjv@Isaiah:43:28 @ Th erefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; I will give Jacob to the curse, And Israel to reproaches.

nkjv@Isaiah:44:1 @ "Yet hear me now, O Jacob My s ervant, And Israel whom I have chosen.

nkjv@Isaiah:44:2 @ Thus says the LORD who made you And formed you from the womb, who will help you: "Fear not, O Jacob My s ervant; And you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

nkjv@Isaiah:44:3 @ For I will pour wat er on him who is thirsty, And floods on the dry ground; I will pour My Spirit on your descendants, And My blessing on your offspring;

nkjv@Isaiah:44:4 @ They will spring up among the grass Like willows by the wat ercourses.'

nkjv@Isaiah:44:5 @ One will say, "I am the LORD's'; Anoth er will call himself by the name of Jacob; Anoth er will write with his hand, "The LORD's,' And name himself by the name of Israel.

nkjv@Isaiah:44:6 @ "Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel, And his Redeem er, the LORD of hosts: "I am the First and I am the Last; Besides Me th ere is no God.

nkjv@Isaiah:44:7 @ And who can proclaim as I do? Then let him declare it and set it in ord er for Me, Since I appointed the ancient people. And the things that are coming and shall come, Let them show these to them.

nkjv@Isaiah:44:8 @ Do not fear, nor be afraid; Have I not told you from that time, and declared it? You are My witnesses. Is th ere a God besides Me? Indeed th ere is no oth er Rock; I know not one."'

nkjv@Isaiah:44:9 @ Those who make an image, all of them are useless, And their precious things shall not profit; They are their own witnesses; They neith er see nor know, that they may be ashamed.

nkjv@Isaiah:44:11 @ Surely all his companions would be ashamed; And the workmen, they are m ere men. Let them all be gath ered togeth er, Let them stand up; Yet they shall fear, They shall be ashamed togeth er.

nkjv@Isaiah:44:12 @ The blacksmith with the tongs works one in the coals, Fashions it with hamm ers, And works it with the strength of his arms. Even so, he is hungry, and his strength fails; He drinks no wat er and is faint.

nkjv@Isaiah:44:17 @ And the rest of it he makes into a god, His carved image. He falls down before it and worships it, Prays to it and says, "Deliv er me, for you are my god!"

nkjv@Isaiah:44:18 @ They do not know nor und erstand; For He has shut their eyes, so that they cannot see, And their hearts, so that they cannot und erstand.

nkjv@Isaiah:44:19 @ And no one consid ers in his heart, Nor is th ere knowledge nor und erstanding to say, "I have burned half of it in the fire, Yes, I have also baked bread on its coals; I have roasted meat and eaten it; And shall I make the rest of it an abomination? Shall I fall down before a block of wood?"

nkjv@Isaiah:44:20 @ He feeds on ashes; A deceived heart has turned him aside; And he cannot deliv er his soul, Nor say, "Is th ere not a lie in my right hand?"

nkjv@Isaiah:44:21 @ "Rememb er these, O Jacob, And Israel, for you are My s ervant; I have formed you, you are My s ervant; O Israel, you will not be forgotten by Me!

nkjv@Isaiah:44:23 @ Sing, O heavens, for the LORD has done it! Shout, you low er parts of the earth; Break forth into singing, you mountains, O forest, and ev ery tree in it! For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, And glorified Himself in Israel.

nkjv@Isaiah:44:24 @ Thus says the LORD, your Redeem er, And He who formed you from the womb: "I am the LORD, who makes all things, Who stretches out the heavens all alone, Who spreads abroad the earth by Myself;

nkjv@Isaiah:44:25 @ Who frustrates the signs of the babbl ers, And drives divin ers mad; Who turns wise men backward, And makes their knowledge foolishness;

nkjv@Isaiah:44:26 @ Who confirms the word of His s ervant, And p erforms the counsel of His messeng ers; Who says to J erusalem, "You shall be inhabited,' To the cities of Judah, "You shall be built,' And I will raise up h er waste places;

nkjv@Isaiah:44:27 @ Who says to the deep, "Be dry! And I will dry up your riv ers';

nkjv@Isaiah:44:28 @ Who says of Cyrus, "He is My sheph erd, And he shall p erform all My pleasure, Saying to J erusalem, "You shall be built," And to the temple, "Your foundation shall be laid."'

nkjv@Isaiah:45:4 @ For Jacob My s ervant's sake, And Israel My elect, I have even called you by your name; I have named you, though you have not known Me.

nkjv@Isaiah:45:5 @ I am the LORD, and th ere is no oth er; Th ere is no God besides Me. I will gird you, though you have not known Me,

nkjv@Isaiah:45:6 @ That they may know from the rising of the sun to its setting That th ere is none besides Me. I am the LORD, and th ere is no oth er;

nkjv@Isaiah:45:8 @ "Rain down, you heavens, from above, And let the skies pour down righteousness; Let the earth open, let them bring forth salvation, And let righteousness spring up togeth er. I, the LORD, have created it.

nkjv@Isaiah:45:9 @ "Woe to him who strives with his Mak er! Let the potsh erd strive with the potsh erds of the earth! Shall the clay say to him who forms it, "What are you making?' Or shall your handiwork say, "He has no hands'?

nkjv@Isaiah:45:10 @ Woe to him who says to his fath er, "What are you begetting?' Or to the woman, "What have you brought forth?"'

nkjv@Isaiah:45:11 @ Thus says the LORD, The Holy One of Israel, and his Mak er: "Ask Me of things to come conc erning My sons; And conc erning the work of My hands, you command Me.

nkjv@Isaiah:45:14 @ Thus says the LORD: "The labor of Egypt and m erchandise of Cush And of the Sabeans, men of stature, Shall come ov er to you, and they shall be yours; They shall walk behind you, They shall come ov er in chains; And they shall bow down to you. They will make supplication to you, saying, "Surely God is in you, And th ere is no oth er; Th ere is no oth er God."'

nkjv@Isaiah:45:16 @ They shall be ashamed And also disgraced, all of them; They shall go in confusion togeth er, Who are mak ers of idols.

nkjv@Isaiah:45:17 @ But Israel shall be saved by the LORD With an ev erlasting salvation; You shall not be ashamed or disgraced Forev er and ev er.

nkjv@Isaiah:45:18 @ For thus says the LORD, Who created the heavens, Who is God, Who formed the earth and made it, Who has established it, Who did not create it in vain, Who formed it to be inhabited: "I am the LORD, and th ere is no oth er.

nkjv@Isaiah:45:20 @ "Assemble yourselves and come; Draw near togeth er, You who have escaped from the nations. They have no knowledge, Who carry the wood of their carved image, And pray to a god that cannot save.

nkjv@Isaiah:45:21 @ Tell and bring forth your case; Yes, let them take counsel togeth er. Who has declared this from ancient time? Who has told it from that time? Have not I, the LORD? And th ere is no oth er God besides Me, A just God and a Savior; Th ere is none besides Me.

nkjv@Isaiah:45:22 @ "Look to Me, and be saved, All you ends of the earth! For I am God, and th ere is no oth er.

nkjv@Isaiah:45:23 @ I have sworn by Myself; The word has gone out of My mouth in righteousness, And shall not return, That to Me ev ery knee shall bow, Ev ery tongue shall take an oath.

nkjv@Isaiah:46:1 @ Bel bows down, Nebo stoops; Their idols w ere on the beasts and on the cattle. Your carriages w ere heavily loaded, A burden to the weary beast.

nkjv@Isaiah:46:2 @ They stoop, they bow down togeth er; They could not deliv er the burden, But have themselves gone into captivity.

nkjv@Isaiah:46:4 @ Even to your old age, I am He, And even to gray hairs I will carry you! I have made, and I will bear; Even I will carry, and will deliv er you.

nkjv@Isaiah:46:6 @ They lavish gold out of the bag, And weigh silv er on the scales; They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god; They prostrate themselves, yes, they worship.

nkjv@Isaiah:46:7 @ They bear it on the should er, they carry it And set it in its place, and it stands; From its place it shall not move. Though one cries out to it, yet it cannot answ er Nor save him out of his trouble.

nkjv@Isaiah:46:8 @ "Rememb er this, and show yourselves men; Recall to mind, O you transgressors.

nkjv@Isaiah:46:9 @ Rememb er the form er things of old, For I am God, and th ere is no oth er; I am God, and th ere is none like Me,

nkjv@Isaiah:46:13 @ I bring My righteousness near, it shall not be far off; My salvation shall not ling er. And I will place salvation in Zion, For Israel My glory.

nkjv@Isaiah:47:1 @ "Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daught er of Babylon; Sit on the ground without a throne, O daught er of the Chaldeans! For you shall no more be called Tend er and delicate.

nkjv@Isaiah:47:2 @ Take the millstones and grind meal. Remove your veil, Take off the skirt, Uncov er the thigh, Pass through the riv ers.

nkjv@Isaiah:47:3 @ Your nakedness shall be uncov ered, Yes, your shame will be seen; I will take vengeance, And I will not arbitrate with a man."

nkjv@Isaiah:47:4 @ As for our Redeem er, the LORD of hosts is His name, The Holy One of Israel.

nkjv@Isaiah:47:5 @ "Sit in silence, and go into darkness, O daught er of the Chaldeans; For you shall no long er be called The Lady of Kingdoms.

nkjv@Isaiah:47:6 @ I was angry with My people; I have profaned My inh eritance, And given them into your hand. You showed them no m ercy; On the eld erly you laid your yoke v ery heavily.

nkjv@Isaiah:47:7 @ And you said, "I shall be a lady forev er,' So that you did not take these things to heart, Nor rememb er the latt er end of them.

nkjv@Isaiah:47:8 @ "Th erefore hear this now, you who are given to pleasures, Who dwell securely, Who say in your heart, "I am, and th ere is no one else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, Nor shall I know the loss of children';

nkjv@Isaiah:47:9 @ But these two things shall come to you In a moment, in one day: The loss of children, and widowhood. They shall come upon you in their fullness Because of the multitude of your sorc eries, For the great abundance of your enchantments.

nkjv@Isaiah:47:10 @ "For you have trusted in your wickedness; You have said, "No one sees me'; Your wisdom and your knowledge have warped you; And you have said in your heart, "I am, and th ere is no one else besides me.'

nkjv@Isaiah:47:11 @ Th erefore evil shall come upon you; You shall not know from wh ere it arises. And trouble shall fall upon you; You will not be able to put it off. And desolation shall come upon you suddenly, Which you shall not know.

nkjv@Isaiah:47:12 @ "Stand now with your enchantments And the multitude of your sorc eries, In which you have labored from your youth-- P erhaps you will be able to profit, P erhaps you will prevail.

nkjv@Isaiah:47:13 @ You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels; Let now the astrolog ers, the stargaz ers, And the monthly prognosticators Stand up and save you From what shall come upon you.

nkjv@Isaiah:47:14 @ Behold, they shall be as stubble, The fire shall burn them; They shall not deliv er themselves From the pow er of the flame; It shall not be a coal to be warmed by, Nor a fire to sit before!

nkjv@Isaiah:47:15 @ Thus shall they be to you With whom you have labored, Your m erchants from your youth; They shall wand er each one to his quart er. No one shall save you.

nkjv@Isaiah:48:2 @ For they call themselves aft er the holy city, And lean on the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is His name:

nkjv@Isaiah:48:3 @ "I have declared the form er things from the beginning; They went forth from My mouth, and I caused them to hear it. Suddenly I did them, and they came to pass.

nkjv@Isaiah:48:4 @ Because I knew that you w ere obstinate, And your neck was an iron sinew, And your brow bronze,

nkjv@Isaiah:48:8 @ Surely you did not hear, Surely you did not know; Surely from long ago your ear was not opened. For I knew that you would deal v ery treach erously, And w ere called a transgressor from the womb.

nkjv@Isaiah:48:9 @ "For My name's sake I will def er My ang er, And for My praise I will restrain it from you, So that I do not cut you off.

nkjv@Isaiah:48:10 @ Behold, I have refined you, but not as silv er; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

nkjv@Isaiah:48:11 @ For My own sake, for My own sake, I will do it; For how should My name be profaned? And I will not give My glory to anoth er.

nkjv@Isaiah:48:13 @ Indeed My hand has laid the foundation of the earth, And My right hand has stretched out the heavens; When I call to them, They stand up togeth er.

nkjv@Isaiah:48:15 @ I, even I, have spoken; Yes, I have called him, I have brought him, and his way will prosp er.

nkjv@Isaiah:48:16 @ "Come near to Me, hear this: I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; From the time that it was, I was th ere. And now the Lord GOD and His Spirit Have sent Me."

nkjv@Isaiah:48:17 @ Thus says the LORD, your Redeem er, The Holy One of Israel: "I am the LORD your God, Who teaches you to profit, Who leads you by the way you should go.

nkjv@Isaiah:48:18 @ Oh, that you had heeded My commandments! Then your peace would have been like a riv er, And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

nkjv@Isaiah:48:20 @ Go forth from Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! With a voice of singing, Declare, proclaim this, Utt er it to the end of the earth; Say, "The LORD has redeemed His s ervant Jacob!"

nkjv@Isaiah:48:21 @ And they did not thirst When He led them through the des erts; He caused the wat ers to flow from the rock for them; He also split the rock, and the wat ers gushed out.

nkjv@Isaiah:48:22 @ "Th ere is no peace," says the LORD, "for the wicked."

nkjv@Isaiah:49:1 @ "Listen, O coastlands, to Me, And take heed, you peoples from afar! The LORD has called Me from the womb; From the matrix of My moth er He has made mention of My name.

nkjv@Isaiah:49:2 @ And He has made My mouth like a sharp sword; In the shadow of His hand He has hidden Me, And made Me a polished shaft; In His quiv er He has hidden Me."

nkjv@Isaiah:49:3 @ "And He said to me, "You are My s ervant, O Israel, In whom I will be glorified.'

nkjv@Isaiah:49:5 @ "And now the LORD says, Who formed Me from the womb to be His S ervant, To bring Jacob back to Him, So that Israel is gath ered to Him (For I shall be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, And My God shall be My strength),

nkjv@Isaiah:49:6 @ Indeed He says, "It is too small a thing that You should be My S ervant To raise up the tribes of Jacob, And to restore the pres erved ones of Israel; I will also give You as a light to the Gentiles, That You should be My salvation to the ends of the earth."'

nkjv@Isaiah:49:7 @ Thus says the LORD, The Redeem er of Israel, their Holy One, To Him whom man despises, To Him whom the nation abhors, To the S ervant of rul ers: "Kings shall see and arise, Princes also shall worship, Because of the LORD who is faithful, The Holy One of Israel; And He has chosen You."

nkjv@Isaiah:49:8 @ Thus says the LORD: "In an acceptable time I have heard You, And in the day of salvation I have helped You; I will pres erve You and give You As a covenant to the people, To restore the earth, To cause them to inh erit the desolate h eritages;

nkjv@Isaiah:49:9 @ That You may say to the prison ers, "Go forth,' To those who are in darkness, "Show yourselves.' "They shall feed along the roads, And their pastures shall be on all desolate heights.

nkjv@Isaiah:49:10 @ They shall neith er hung er nor thirst, Neith er heat nor sun shall strike them; For He who has m ercy on them will lead them, Even by the springs of wat er He will guide them.

nkjv@Isaiah:49:13 @ Sing, O heavens! Be joyful, O earth! And break out in singing, O mountains! For the LORD has comforted His people, And will have m ercy on His afflicted.

nkjv@Isaiah:49:15 @ "Can a woman forget h er nursing child, And not have compassion on the son of h er womb? Surely they may forget, Yet I will not forget you.

nkjv@Isaiah:49:17 @ Your sons shall make haste; Your destroy ers and those who laid you waste Shall go away from you.

nkjv@Isaiah:49:18 @ Lift up your eyes, look around and see; All these gath er togeth er and come to you. As I live," says the LORD, "You shall surely clothe yourselves with them all as an ornament, And bind them on you as a bride does.

nkjv@Isaiah:49:20 @ The children you will have, Aft er you have lost the oth ers, Will say again in your ears, "The place is too small for me; Give me a place wh ere I may dwell.'

nkjv@Isaiah:49:21 @ Then you will say in your heart, "Who has begotten these for me, Since I have lost my children and am desolate, A captive, and wand ering to and fro? And who has brought these up? Th ere I was, left alone; But these, wh ere w ere they?"'

nkjv@Isaiah:49:22 @ Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I will lift My hand in an oath to the nations, And set up My standard for the peoples; They shall bring your sons in their arms, And your daught ers shall be carried on their should ers;

nkjv@Isaiah:49:23 @ Kings shall be your fost er fath ers, And their queens your nursing moth ers; They shall bow down to you with their faces to the earth, And lick up the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD, For they shall not be ashamed who wait for Me."

nkjv@Isaiah:49:24 @ Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, Or the captives of the righteous be deliv ered?

nkjv@Isaiah:49:25 @ But thus says the LORD: "Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, And the prey of the t errible be deliv ered; For I will contend with him who contends with you, And I will save your children.

nkjv@Isaiah:49:26 @ I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh, And they shall be drunk with their own blood as with sweet wine. All flesh shall know That I, the LORD, am your Savior, And your Redeem er, the Mighty One of Jacob."

nkjv@Isaiah:50:1 @ Thus says the LORD: "Wh ere is the c ertificate of your moth er's divorce, Whom I have put away? Or which of My creditors is it to whom I have sold you? For your iniquities you have sold yourselves, And for your transgressions your moth er has been put away.

nkjv@Isaiah:50:2 @ Why, when I came, was th ere no man? Why, when I called, was th ere none to answ er? Is My hand shortened at all that it cannot redeem? Or have I no pow er to deliv er? Indeed with My rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the riv ers a wild erness; Their fish stink because th ere is no wat er, And die of thirst.

nkjv@Isaiah:50:3 @ I clothe the heavens with blackness, And I make sackcloth their cov ering."

nkjv@Isaiah:50:7 @ "For the Lord GOD will help Me; Th erefore I will not be disgraced; Th erefore I have set My face like a flint, And I know that I will not be ashamed.

nkjv@Isaiah:50:8 @ He is near who justifies Me; Who will contend with Me? Let us stand togeth er. Who is My adv ersary? Let him come near Me.

nkjv@Isaiah:50:10 @ "Who among you fears the LORD? Who obeys the voice of His S ervant? Who walks in darkness And has no light? Let him trust in the name of the LORD And rely upon his God.

nkjv@Isaiah:51:1 @ "Listen to Me, you who follow aft er righteousness, You who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you w ere hewn, And to the hole of the pit from which you w ere dug.

nkjv@Isaiah:51:2 @ Look to Abraham your fath er, And to Sarah who bore you; For I called him alone, And blessed him and increased him."

nkjv@Isaiah:51:3 @ For the LORD will comfort Zion, He will comfort all h er waste places; He will make h er wild erness like Eden, And h er des ert like the garden of the LORD; Joy and gladness will be found in it, Thanksgiving and the voice of melody.

nkjv@Isaiah:51:6 @ Lift up your eyes to the heavens, And look on the earth beneath. For the heavens will vanish away like smoke, The earth will grow old like a garment, And those who dwell in it will die in like mann er; But My salvation will be forev er, And My righteousness will not be abolished.

nkjv@Isaiah:51:8 @ For the moth will eat them up like a garment, And the worm will eat them like wool; But My righteousness will be forev er, And My salvation from gen eration to gen eration."

nkjv@Isaiah:51:9 @ Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD! Awake as in the ancient days, In the gen erations of old. Are You not the arm that cut Rahab apart, And wounded the s erpent?

nkjv@Isaiah:51:10 @ Are You not the One who dried up the sea, The wat ers of the great deep; That made the depths of the sea a road For the redeemed to cross ov er?

nkjv@Isaiah:51:11 @ So the ransomed of the LORD shall return, And come to Zion with singing, With ev erlasting joy on their heads. They shall obtain joy and gladness; Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

nkjv@Isaiah:51:13 @ And you forget the LORD your Mak er, Who stretched out the heavens And laid the foundations of the earth; You have feared continually ev ery day Because of the fury of the oppressor, When he has prepared to destroy. And wh ere is the fury of the oppressor?

nkjv@Isaiah:51:16 @ And I have put My words in your mouth; I have cov ered you with the shadow of My hand, That I may plant the heavens, Lay the foundations of the earth, And say to Zion, "You are My people."'

nkjv@Isaiah:51:17 @ Awake, awake! Stand up, O J erusalem, You who have drunk at the hand of the LORD The cup of His fury; You have drunk the dregs of the cup of trembling, And drained it out.

nkjv@Isaiah:51:18 @ Th ere is no one to guide h er Among all the sons she has brought forth; Nor is th ere any who takes h er by the hand Among all the sons she has brought up.

nkjv@Isaiah:51:21 @ Th erefore please hear this, you afflicted, And drunk but not with wine.

nkjv@Isaiah:51:22 @ Thus says your Lord, The LORD and your God, Who pleads the cause of His people: "See, I have taken out of your hand The cup of trembling, The dregs of the cup of My fury; You shall no long er drink it.

nkjv@Isaiah:51:23 @ But I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, Who have said to you, "Lie down, that we may walk ov er you.' And you have laid your body like the ground, And as the street, for those who walk ov er."

nkjv@Isaiah:52:1 @ Awake, awake! Put on your strength, O Zion; Put on your beautiful garments, O J erusalem, the holy city! For the uncircumcised and the unclean Shall no long er come to you.

nkjv@Isaiah:52:2 @ Shake yourself from the dust, arise; Sit down, O J erusalem! Loose yourself from the bonds of your neck, O captive daught er of Zion!

nkjv@Isaiah:52:4 @ For thus says the Lord GOD: "My people went down at first Into Egypt to dwell th ere; Then the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

nkjv@Isaiah:52:5 @ Now th erefore, what have I h ere," says the LORD, "That My people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule ov er them Make them wail," says the LORD, "And My name is blasphemed continually ev ery day.

nkjv@Isaiah:52:6 @ Th erefore My people shall know My name; Th erefore they shall know in that day That I am He who speaks: "Behold, it is I."'

nkjv@Isaiah:52:8 @ Your watchmen shall lift up their voices, With their voices they shall sing togeth er; For they shall see eye to eye When the LORD brings back Zion.

nkjv@Isaiah:52:9 @ Break forth into joy, sing togeth er, You waste places of J erusalem! For the LORD has comforted His people, He has redeemed J erusalem.

nkjv@Isaiah:52:11 @ Depart! Depart! Go out from th ere, Touch no unclean thing; Go out from the midst of h er, Be clean, You who bear the vessels of the LORD.

nkjv@Isaiah:52:13 @ Behold, My S ervant shall deal prudently; He shall be exalted and extolled and be v ery high.

nkjv@Isaiah:52:14 @ Just as many w ere astonished at you, So His visage was marred more than any man, And His form more than the sons of men;

nkjv@Isaiah:52:15 @ So shall He sprinkle many nations. Kings shall shut their mouths at Him; For what had not been told them they shall see, And what they had not heard they shall consid er.

nkjv@Isaiah:53:2 @ For He shall grow up before Him as a tend er plant, And as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, Th ere is no beauty that we should desire Him.

nkjv@Isaiah:53:3 @ He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it w ere, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.

nkjv@Isaiah:53:6 @ All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, ev ery one, to his own way; And the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

nkjv@Isaiah:53:7 @ He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaught er, And as a sheep before its shear ers is silent, So He opened not His mouth.

nkjv@Isaiah:53:8 @ He was taken from prison and from judgment, And who will declare His gen eration? For He was cut off from the land of the living; For the transgressions of My people He was stricken.

nkjv@Isaiah:53:10 @ Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an off ering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, And the pleasure of the LORD shall prosp er in His hand.

nkjv@Isaiah:53:11 @ He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous S ervant shall justify many, For He shall bear their iniquities.

nkjv@Isaiah:53:12 @ Th erefore I will divide Him a portion with the great, And He shall divide the spoil with the strong, Because He poured out His soul unto death, And He was numb ered with the transgressors, And He bore the sin of many, And made int ercession for the transgressors.

nkjv@Isaiah:54:3 @ For you shall expand to the right and to the left, And your descendants will inh erit the nations, And make the desolate cities inhabited.

nkjv@Isaiah:54:4 @ "Do not fear, for you will not be ashamed; Neith er be disgraced, for you will not be put to shame; For you will forget the shame of your youth, And will not rememb er the reproach of your widowhood anymore.

nkjv@Isaiah:54:5 @ For your Mak er is your husband, The LORD of hosts is His name; And your Redeem er is the Holy One of Israel; He is called the God of the whole earth.

nkjv@Isaiah:54:6 @ For the LORD has called you Like a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, Like a youthful wife when you w ere refused," Says your God.

nkjv@Isaiah:54:7 @ "For a m ere moment I have forsaken you, But with great m ercies I will gath er you.

nkjv@Isaiah:54:8 @ With a little wrath I hid My face from you for a moment; But with ev erlasting kindness I will have m ercy on you," Says the LORD, your Redeem er.

nkjv@Isaiah:54:9 @ "For this is like the wat ers of Noah to Me; For as I have sworn That the wat ers of Noah would no long er cov er the earth, So have I sworn That I would not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.

nkjv@Isaiah:54:10 @ For the mountains shall depart And the hills be removed, But My kindness shall not depart from you, Nor shall My covenant of peace be removed," Says the LORD, who has m ercy on you.

nkjv@Isaiah:54:14 @ In righteousness you shall be established; You shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear; And from t error, for it shall not come near you.

nkjv@Isaiah:54:15 @ Indeed they shall surely assemble, but not because of Me. Whoev er assembles against you shall fall for your sake.

nkjv@Isaiah:54:16 @ "Behold, I have created the blacksmith Who blows the coals in the fire, Who brings forth an instrument for his work; And I have created the spoil er to destroy.

nkjv@Isaiah:54:17 @ No weapon formed against you shall prosp er, And ev ery tongue which rises against you in judgment You shall condemn. This is the h eritage of the s ervants of the LORD, And their righteousness is from Me," Says the LORD.

nkjv@Isaiah:55:1 @ "Ho! Ev eryone who thirsts, Come to the wat ers; And you who have no money, Come, buy and eat. Yes, come, buy wine and milk Without money and without price.

nkjv@Isaiah:55:3 @ Incline your ear, and come to Me. Hear, and your soul shall live; And I will make an ev erlasting covenant with you-- The sure m ercies of David.

nkjv@Isaiah:55:4 @ Indeed I have given him as a witness to the people, A lead er and command er for the people.

nkjv@Isaiah:55:7 @ Let the wicked forsake his way, And the unrighteous man his thoughts; Let him return to the LORD, And He will have m ercy on him; And to our God, For He will abundantly pardon.

nkjv@Isaiah:55:9 @ "For as the heavens are high er than the earth, So are My ways high er than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.

nkjv@Isaiah:55:10 @ "For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, And do not return th ere, But wat er the earth, And make it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sow er And bread to the eat er,

nkjv@Isaiah:55:11 @ So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosp er in the thing for which I sent it.

nkjv@Isaiah:55:13 @ Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress tree, And instead of the bri er shall come up the myrtle tree; And it shall be to the LORD for a name, For an ev erlasting sign that shall not be cut off."

nkjv@Isaiah:56:3 @ Do not let the son of the foreign er Who has joined himself to the LORD Speak, saying, "The LORD has utt erly separated me from His people"; Nor let the eunuch say, "H ere I am, a dry tree."

nkjv@Isaiah:56:5 @ Even to them I will give in My house And within My walls a place and a name Bett er than that of sons and daught ers; I will give them an ev erlasting name That shall not be cut off.

nkjv@Isaiah:56:6 @ "Also the sons of the foreign er Who join themselves to the LORD, to s erve Him, And to love the name of the LORD, to be His s ervants-- Ev eryone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath, And holds fast My covenant--

nkjv@Isaiah:56:7 @ Even them I will bring to My holy mountain, And make them joyful in My house of pray er. Their burnt off erings and their sacrifices Will be accepted on My altar; For My house shall be called a house of pray er for all nations."

nkjv@Isaiah:56:8 @ The Lord GOD, who gath ers the outcasts of Israel, says, "Yet I will gath er to him Oth ers besides those who are gath ered to him."

nkjv@Isaiah:56:10 @ His watchmen are blind, They are all ignorant; They are all dumb dogs, They cannot bark; Sleeping, lying down, loving to slumb er.

nkjv@Isaiah:56:11 @ Yes, they are greedy dogs Which nev er have enough. And they are sheph erds Who cannot und erstand; They all look to their own way, Ev ery one for his own gain, From his own t erritory.

nkjv@Isaiah:57:1 @ The righteous p erishes, And no man takes it to heart; M erciful men are taken away, While no one consid ers That the righteous is taken away from evil.

nkjv@Isaiah:57:2 @ He shall ent er into peace; They shall rest in their beds, Each one walking in his uprightness.

nkjv@Isaiah:57:3 @ "But come h ere, You sons of the sorc eress, You offspring of the adult er er and the harlot!

nkjv@Isaiah:57:5 @ Inflaming yourselves with gods und er ev ery green tree, Slaying the children in the valleys, Und er the clefts of the rocks?

nkjv@Isaiah:57:6 @ Among the smooth stones of the stream Is your portion; They, they, are your lot! Even to them you have poured a drink off ering, You have off ered a grain off ering. Should I receive comfort in these?

nkjv@Isaiah:57:7 @ "On a lofty and high mountain You have set your bed; Even th ere you went up To off er sacrifice.

nkjv@Isaiah:57:8 @ Also behind the doors and their posts You have set up your remembrance; For you have uncov ered yourself to those oth er than Me, And have gone up to them; You have enlarged your bed And made a covenant with them; You have loved their bed, Wh ere you saw their nudity.

nkjv@Isaiah:57:9 @ You went to the king with ointment, And increased your p erfumes; You sent your messeng ers far off, And even descended to Sheol.

nkjv@Isaiah:57:10 @ You are wearied in the length of your way; Yet you did not say, "Th ere is no hope.' You have found the life of your hand; Th erefore you w ere not grieved.

nkjv@Isaiah:57:11 @ "And of whom have you been afraid, or feared, That you have lied And not rememb ered Me, Nor taken it to your heart? Is it not because I have held My peace from of old That you do not fear Me?

nkjv@Isaiah:57:13 @ When you cry out, Let your collection of idols deliv er you. But the wind will carry them all away, A breath will take them. But he who puts his trust in Me shall possess the land, And shall inh erit My holy mountain."

nkjv@Isaiah:57:15 @ For thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits et ernity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, With him who has a contrite and humble spirit, To revive the spirit of the humble, And to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

nkjv@Isaiah:57:16 @ For I will not contend forev er, Nor will I always be angry; For the spirit would fail before Me, And the souls which I have made.

nkjv@Isaiah:57:18 @ I have seen his ways, and will heal him; I will also lead him, And restore comforts to him And to his mourn ers.

nkjv@Isaiah:57:20 @ But the wicked are like the troubled sea, When it cannot rest, Whose wat ers cast up mire and dirt.

nkjv@Isaiah:57:21 @ "Th ere is no peace," Says my God, "for the wicked."

nkjv@Isaiah:58:3 @ "Why have we fasted,' they say, "and You have not seen? Why have we afflicted our souls, and You take no notice?' "In fact, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, And exploit all your labor ers.

nkjv@Isaiah:58:6 @ "Is this not the fast that I have chosen: To loose the bonds of wickedness, To undo the heavy burdens, To let the oppressed go free, And that you break ev ery yoke?

nkjv@Isaiah:58:7 @ Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, And that you bring to your house the poor who are cast out; When you see the naked, that you cov er him, And not hide yourself from your own flesh?

nkjv@Isaiah:58:9 @ Then you shall call, and the LORD will answ er; You shall cry, and He will say, "H ere I am.' "If you take away the yoke from your midst, The pointing of the fing er, and speaking wickedness,

nkjv@Isaiah:58:11 @ The LORD will guide you continually, And satisfy your soul in drought, And strengthen your bones; You shall be like a wat ered garden, And like a spring of wat er, whose wat ers do not fail.

nkjv@Isaiah:58:12 @ Those from among you Shall build the old waste places; You shall raise up the foundations of many gen erations; And you shall be called the Repair er of the Breach, The Restor er of Streets to Dwell In.

nkjv@Isaiah:58:14 @ Then you shall delight yourself in the LORD; And I will cause you to ride on the high hills of the earth, And feed you with the h eritage of Jacob your fath er. The mouth of the LORD has spoken."

nkjv@Isaiah:59:3 @ For your hands are defiled with blood, And your fing ers with iniquity; Your lips have spoken lies, Your tongue has mutt ered p erv ersity.

nkjv@Isaiah:59:5 @ They hatch vip ers' eggs and weave the spid er's web; He who eats of their eggs dies, And from that which is crushed a vip er breaks out.

nkjv@Isaiah:59:6 @ Their webs will not become garments, Nor will they cov er themselves with their works; Their works are works of iniquity, And the act of violence is in their hands.

nkjv@Isaiah:59:8 @ The way of peace they have not known, And th ere is no justice in their ways; They have made themselves crooked paths; Whoev er takes that way shall not know peace.

nkjv@Isaiah:59:9 @ Th erefore justice is far from us, Nor does righteousness ov ertake us; We look for light, but th ere is darkness! For brightness, but we walk in blackness!

nkjv@Isaiah:59:11 @ We all growl like bears, And moan sadly like doves; We look for justice, but th ere is none; For salvation, but it is far from us.

nkjv@Isaiah:59:13 @ In transgressing and lying against the LORD, And departing from our God, Speaking oppression and revolt, Conceiving and utt ering from the heart words of falsehood.

nkjv@Isaiah:59:14 @ Justice is turned back, And righteousness stands afar off; For truth is fallen in the street, And equity cannot ent er.

nkjv@Isaiah:59:15 @ So truth fails, And he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Then the LORD saw it, and it displeased Him That th ere was no justice.

nkjv@Isaiah:59:16 @ He saw that th ere was no man, And wond ered that th ere was no int ercessor; Th erefore His own arm brought salvation for Him; And His own righteousness, it sustained Him.

nkjv@Isaiah:59:18 @ According to their deeds, accordingly He will repay, Fury to His adv ersaries, Recompense to His enemies; The coastlands He will fully repay.

nkjv@Isaiah:59:20 @ "The Redeem er will come to Zion, And to those who turn from transgression in Jacob," Says the LORD.

nkjv@Isaiah:59:21 @ "As for Me," says the LORD, "this is My covenant with them: My Spirit who is upon you, and My words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your descendants, nor from the mouth of your descendants' descendants," says the LORD, "from this time and forev ermore."

nkjv@Isaiah:60:2 @ For behold, the darkness shall cov er the earth, And deep darkness the people; But the LORD will arise ov er you, And His glory will be seen upon you.

nkjv@Isaiah:60:4 @ "Lift up your eyes all around, and see: They all gath er togeth er, they come to you; Your sons shall come from afar, And your daught ers shall be nursed at your side.

nkjv@Isaiah:60:6 @ The multitude of camels shall cov er your land, The dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; All those from Sheba shall come; They shall bring gold and incense, And they shall proclaim the praises of the LORD.

nkjv@Isaiah:60:7 @ All the flocks of Kedar shall be gath ered togeth er to you, The rams of Nebaioth shall minist er to you; They shall ascend with acceptance on My altar, And I will glorify the house of My glory.

nkjv@Isaiah:60:9 @ Surely the coastlands shall wait for Me; And the ships of Tarshish will come first, To bring your sons from afar, Their silv er and their gold with them, To the name of the LORD your God, And to the Holy One of Israel, Because He has glorified you.

nkjv@Isaiah:60:10 @ "The sons of foreign ers shall build up your walls, And their kings shall minist er to you; For in My wrath I struck you, But in My favor I have had m ercy on you.

nkjv@Isaiah:60:11 @ Th erefore your gates shall be open continually; They shall not be shut day or night, That men may bring to you the wealth of the Gentiles, And their kings in procession.

nkjv@Isaiah:60:12 @ For the nation and kingdom which will not s erve you shall p erish, And those nations shall be utt erly ruined.

nkjv@Isaiah:60:13 @ "The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, The cypress, the pine, and the box tree togeth er, To beautify the place of My sanctuary; And I will make the place of My feet glorious.

nkjv@Isaiah:60:15 @ "Wh ereas you have been forsaken and hated, So that no one went through you, I will make you an et ernal excellence, A joy of many gen erations.

nkjv@Isaiah:60:16 @ You shall drink the milk of the Gentiles, And milk the breast of kings; You shall know that I, the LORD, am your Savior And your Redeem er, the Mighty One of Jacob.

nkjv@Isaiah:60:17 @ "Instead of bronze I will bring gold, Instead of iron I will bring silv er, Instead of wood, bronze, And instead of stones, iron. I will also make your offic ers peace, And your magistrates righteousness.

nkjv@Isaiah:60:18 @ Violence shall no long er be heard in your land, Neith er wasting nor destruction within your bord ers; But you shall call your walls Salvation, And your gates Praise.

nkjv@Isaiah:60:19 @ "The sun shall no long er be your light by day, Nor for brightness shall the moon give light to you; But the LORD will be to you an ev erlasting light, And your God your glory.

nkjv@Isaiah:60:20 @ Your sun shall no long er go down, Nor shall your moon withdraw itself; For the LORD will be your ev erlasting light, And the days of your mourning shall be ended.

nkjv@Isaiah:60:21 @ Also your people shall all be righteous; They shall inh erit the land forev er, The branch of My planting, The work of My hands, That I may be glorified.

nkjv@Isaiah:61:1 @ "The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon Me, Because the LORD has anointed Me To preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim lib erty to the captives, And the opening of the prison to those who are bound;

nkjv@Isaiah:61:4 @ And they shall rebuild the old ruins, They shall raise up the form er desolations, And they shall repair the ruined cities, The desolations of many gen erations.

nkjv@Isaiah:61:5 @ Strang ers shall stand and feed your flocks, And the sons of the foreign er Shall be your plowmen and your vinedress ers.

nkjv@Isaiah:61:6 @ But you shall be named the priests of the LORD, They shall call you the s ervants of our God. You shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, And in their glory you shall boast.

nkjv@Isaiah:61:7 @ Instead of your shame you shall have double honor, And instead of confusion they shall rejoice in their portion. Th erefore in their land they shall possess double; Ev erlasting joy shall be theirs.

nkjv@Isaiah:61:8 @ "For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robb ery for burnt off ering; I will direct their work in truth, And will make with them an ev erlasting covenant.

nkjv@Isaiah:61:9 @ Their descendants shall be known among the Gentiles, And their offspring among the people. All who see them shall acknowledge them, That they are the post erity whom the LORD has blessed."

nkjv@Isaiah:61:10 @ I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, My soul shall be joyful in my God; For He has clothed me with the garments of salvation, He has cov ered me with the robe of righteousness, As a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, And as a bride adorns h erself with h er jewels.

nkjv@Isaiah:62:1 @ For Zion's sake I will not hold My peace, And for J erusalem's sake I will not rest, Until h er righteousness goes forth as brightness, And h er salvation as a lamp that burns.

nkjv@Isaiah:62:4 @ You shall no long er be t ermed Forsaken, Nor shall your land any more be t ermed Desolate; But you shall be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; For the LORD delights in you, And your land shall be married.

nkjv@Isaiah:62:5 @ For as a young man marries a virgin, So shall your sons marry you; And as the bridegroom rejoices ov er the bride, So shall your God rejoice ov er you.

nkjv@Isaiah:62:6 @ I have set watchmen on your walls, O J erusalem; They shall nev er hold their peace day or night. You who make mention of the LORD, do not keep silent,

nkjv@Isaiah:62:7 @ And give Him no rest till He establishes And till He makes J erusalem a praise in the earth.

nkjv@Isaiah:62:8 @ The LORD has sworn by His right hand And by the arm of His strength: "Surely I will no long er give your grain As food for your enemies; And the sons of the foreign er shall not drink your new wine, For which you have labored.

nkjv@Isaiah:62:9 @ But those who have gath ered it shall eat it, And praise the LORD; Those who have brought it togeth er shall drink it in My holy courts."

nkjv@Isaiah:62:10 @ Go through, Go through the gates! Prepare the way for the people; Build up, Build up the highway! Take out the stones, Lift up a bann er for the peoples!

nkjv@Isaiah:62:11 @ Indeed the LORD has proclaimed To the end of the world: "Say to the daught er of Zion, "Surely your salvation is coming; Behold, His reward is with Him, And His work before Him."'

nkjv@Isaiah:63:3 @ "I have trodden the winepress alone, And from the peoples no one was with Me. For I have trodden them in My ang er, And trampled them in My fury; Their blood is sprinkled upon My garments, And I have stained all My robes.

nkjv@Isaiah:63:5 @ I looked, but th ere was no one to help, And I wond ered That th ere was no one to uphold; Th erefore My own arm brought salvation for Me; And My own fury, it sustained Me.

nkjv@Isaiah:63:6 @ I have trodden down the peoples in My ang er, Made them drunk in My fury, And brought down their strength to the earth."

nkjv@Isaiah:63:7 @ I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD And the praises of the LORD, According to all that the LORD has bestowed on us, And the great goodness toward the house of Israel, Which He has bestowed on them according to His m ercies, According to the multitude of His lovingkindnesses.

nkjv@Isaiah:63:11 @ Then he rememb ered the days of old, Moses and his people, saying: "Wh ere is He who brought them up out of the sea With the sheph erd of His flock? Wh ere is He who put His Holy Spirit within them,

nkjv@Isaiah:63:12 @ Who led them by the right hand of Moses, With His glorious arm, Dividing the wat er before them To make for Himself an ev erlasting name,

nkjv@Isaiah:63:13 @ Who led them through the deep, As a horse in the wild erness, That they might not stumble?"

nkjv@Isaiah:63:15 @ Look down from heaven, And see from Your habitation, holy and glorious. Wh ere are Your zeal and Your strength, The yearning of Your heart and Your m ercies toward me? Are they restrained?

nkjv@Isaiah:63:16 @ Doubtless You are our Fath er, Though Abraham was ignorant of us, And Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O LORD, are our Fath er; Our Redeem er from Ev erlasting is Your name.

nkjv@Isaiah:63:17 @ O LORD, why have You made us stray from Your ways, And hardened our heart from Your fear? Return for Your s ervants' sake, The tribes of Your inh eritance.

nkjv@Isaiah:63:18 @ Your holy people have possessed it but a little while; Our adv ersaries have trodden down Your sanctuary.

nkjv@Isaiah:63:19 @ We have become like those of old, ov er whom You nev er ruled, Those who w ere nev er called by Your name.

nkjv@Isaiah:64:2 @ As fire burns brushwood, As fire causes wat er to boil-- To make Your name known to Your adv ersaries, That the nations may tremble at Your presence!

nkjv@Isaiah:64:4 @ For since the beginning of the world Men have not heard nor p erceived by the ear, Nor has the eye seen any God besides You, Who acts for the one who waits for Him.

nkjv@Isaiah:64:5 @ You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, Who rememb ers You in Your ways. You are indeed angry, for we have sinned-- In these ways we continue; And we need to be saved.

nkjv@Isaiah:64:7 @ And th ere is no one who calls on Your name, Who stirs himself up to take hold of You; For You have hidden Your face from us, And have consumed us because of our iniquities.

nkjv@Isaiah:64:8 @ But now, O LORD, You are our Fath er; We are the clay, and You our pott er; And all we are the work of Your hand.

nkjv@Isaiah:64:9 @ Do not be furious, O LORD, Nor rememb er iniquity forev er; Indeed, please look--we all are Your people!

nkjv@Isaiah:64:10 @ Your holy cities are a wild erness, Zion is a wild erness, J erusalem a desolation.

nkjv@Isaiah:64:11 @ Our holy and beautiful temple, Wh ere our fath ers praised You, Is burned up with fire; And all our pleasant things are laid waste.

nkjv@Isaiah:64:12 @ Will You restrain Yourself because of these things, O LORD? Will You hold Your peace, and afflict us v ery sev erely?

nkjv@Isaiah:65:1 @ "I was sought by those who did not ask for Me; I was found by those who did not seek Me. I said, "H ere I am, h ere I am,' To a nation that was not called by My name.

nkjv@Isaiah:65:3 @ A people who provoke Me to ang er continually to My face; Who sacrifice in gardens, And burn incense on altars of brick;

nkjv@Isaiah:65:5 @ Who say, "Keep to yourself, Do not come near me, For I am holi er than you!' These are smoke in My nostrils, A fire that burns all the day.

nkjv@Isaiah:65:7 @ Your iniquities and the iniquities of your fath ers togeth er," Says the LORD, "Who have burned incense on the mountains And blasphemed Me on the hills; Th erefore I will measure their form er work into their bosom."

nkjv@Isaiah:65:8 @ Thus says the LORD: "As the new wine is found in the clust er, And one says, "Do not destroy it, For a blessing is in it,' So will I do for My s ervants' sake, That I may not destroy them all.

nkjv@Isaiah:65:9 @ I will bring forth descendants from Jacob, And from Judah an heir of My mountains; My elect shall inh erit it, And My s ervants shall dwell th ere.

nkjv@Isaiah:65:10 @ Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, And the Valley of Achor a place for h erds to lie down, For My people who have sought Me.

nkjv@Isaiah:65:11 @ "But you are those who forsake the LORD, Who forget My holy mountain, Who prepare a table for Gad, And who furnish a drink off ering for Meni.

nkjv@Isaiah:65:12 @ Th erefore I will numb er you for the sword, And you shall all bow down to the slaught er; Because, when I called, you did not answ er; When I spoke, you did not hear, But did evil before My eyes, And chose that in which I do not delight."

nkjv@Isaiah:65:13 @ Th erefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, My s ervants shall eat, But you shall be hungry; Behold, My s ervants shall drink, But you shall be thirsty; Behold, My s ervants shall rejoice, But you shall be ashamed;

nkjv@Isaiah:65:14 @ Behold, My s ervants shall sing for joy of heart, But you shall cry for sorrow of heart, And wail for grief of spirit.

nkjv@Isaiah:65:15 @ You shall leave your name as a curse to My chosen; For the Lord GOD will slay you, And call His s ervants by anoth er name;

nkjv@Isaiah:65:16 @ So that he who blesses himself in the earth Shall bless himself in the God of truth; And he who swears in the earth Shall swear by the God of truth; Because the form er troubles are forgotten, And because they are hidden from My eyes.

nkjv@Isaiah:65:17 @ "For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; And the form er shall not be rememb ered or come to mind.

nkjv@Isaiah:65:18 @ But be glad and rejoice forev er in what I create; For behold, I create J erusalem as a rejoicing, And h er people a joy.

nkjv@Isaiah:65:19 @ I will rejoice in J erusalem, And joy in My people; The voice of weeping shall no long er be heard in h er, Nor the voice of crying.

nkjv@Isaiah:65:20 @ "No more shall an infant from th ere live but a few days, Nor an old man who has not fulfilled his days; For the child shall die one hundred years old, But the sinn er being one hundred years old shall be accursed.

nkjv@Isaiah:65:22 @ They shall not build and anoth er inhabit; They shall not plant and anoth er eat; For as the days of a tree, so shall be the days of My people, And My elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

nkjv@Isaiah:65:24 @ "It shall come to pass That before they call, I will answ er; And while they are still speaking, I will hear.

nkjv@Isaiah:65:25 @ The wolf and the lamb shall feed togeth er, The lion shall eat straw like the ox, And dust shall be the s erpent's food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain," Says the LORD.

nkjv@Isaiah:66:1 @ Thus says the LORD: "Heaven is My throne, And earth is My footstool. Wh ere is the house that you will build Me? And wh ere is the place of My rest?

nkjv@Isaiah:66:3 @ "He who kills a bull is as if he slays a man; He who sacrifices a lamb, as if he breaks a dog's neck; He who off ers a grain off ering, as if he off ers swine's blood; He who burns incense, as if he blesses an idol. Just as they have chosen their own ways, And their soul delights in their abominations,

nkjv@Isaiah:66:4 @ So will I choose their delusions, And bring their fears on them; Because, when I called, no one answ ered, When I spoke they did not hear; But they did evil before My eyes, And chose that in which I do not delight."

nkjv@Isaiah:66:7 @ "Before she was in labor, she gave birth; Before h er pain came, She deliv ered a male child.

nkjv@Isaiah:66:8 @ Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall the earth be made to give birth in one day? Or shall a nation be born at once? For as soon as Zion was in labor, She gave birth to h er children.

nkjv@Isaiah:66:9 @ Shall I bring to the time of birth, and not cause deliv ery?" says the LORD. "Shall I who cause deliv ery shut up the womb?" says your God.

nkjv@Isaiah:66:10 @ "Rejoice with J erusalem, And be glad with h er, all you who love h er; Rejoice for joy with h er, all you who mourn for h er;

nkjv@Isaiah:66:11 @ That you may feed and be satisfied With the consolation of h er bosom, That you may drink deeply and be delighted With the abundance of h er glory."

nkjv@Isaiah:66:12 @ For thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will extend peace to h er like a riv er, And the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream. Then you shall feed; On h er sides shall you be carried, And be dandled on h er knees.

nkjv@Isaiah:66:13 @ As one whom his moth er comforts, So I will comfort you; And you shall be comforted in J erusalem."

nkjv@Isaiah:66:14 @ When you see this, your heart shall rejoice, And your bones shall flourish like grass; The hand of the LORD shall be known to His s ervants, And His indignation to His enemies.

nkjv@Isaiah:66:15 @ For behold, the LORD will come with fire And with His chariots, like a whirlwind, To rend er His ang er with fury, And His rebuke with flames of fire.

nkjv@Isaiah:66:17 @ "Those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves, To go to the gardens Aft er an idol in the midst, Eating swine's flesh and the abomination and the mouse, Shall be consumed togeth er," says the LORD.

nkjv@Isaiah:66:18 @ "For I know their works and their thoughts. It shall be that I will gath er all nations and tongues; and they shall come and see My glory.

nkjv@Isaiah:66:20 @ Then they shall bring all your brethren for an off ering to the LORD out of all nations, on horses and in chariots and in litt ers, on mules and on camels, to My holy mountain J erusalem," says the LORD, "as the children of Israel bring an off ering in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD.

nkjv@Isaiah:66:23 @ And it shall come to pass That from one New Moon to anoth er, And from one Sabbath to anoth er, All flesh shall come to worship before Me," says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:1:1 @ The words of J eremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who w ere in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin,

nkjv@J eremiah:1:2 @ to whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.

nkjv@J eremiah:1:3 @ It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the carrying away of J erusalem captive in the fifth month.

nkjv@J eremiah:1:4 @ Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying:

nkjv@J eremiah:1:5 @ "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you w ere born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations."

nkjv@J eremiah:1:6 @ Then said I: "Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I cannot speak, for I am a youth."

nkjv@J eremiah:1:7 @ But the LORD said to me: "Do not say, "I am a youth,' For you shall go to all to whom I send you, And whatev er I command you, you shall speak.

nkjv@J eremiah:1:8 @ Do not be afraid of their faces, For I am with you to deliv er you," says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:1:9 @ Then the LORD put forth His hand and touched my mouth, and the LORD said to me: "Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.

nkjv@J eremiah:1:10 @ See, I have this day set you ov er the nations and ov er the kingdoms, To root out and to pull down, To destroy and to throw down, To build and to plant."

nkjv@J eremiah:1:11 @ Moreov er the word of the LORD came to me, saying, "J eremiah, what do you see?" And I said, "I see a branch of an almond tree."

nkjv@J eremiah:1:12 @ Then the LORD said to me, "You have seen well, for I am ready to p erform My word."

nkjv@J eremiah:1:13 @ And the word of the LORD came to me the second time, saying, "What do you see?" And I said, "I see a boiling pot, and it is facing away from the north."

nkjv@J eremiah:1:14 @ Then the LORD said to me: "Out of the north calamity shall break forth On all the inhabitants of the land.

nkjv@J eremiah:1:15 @ For behold, I am calling All the families of the kingdoms of the north," says the LORD; "They shall come and each one set his throne At the entrance of the gates of J erusalem, Against all its walls all around, And against all the cities of Judah.

nkjv@J eremiah:1:16 @ I will utt er My judgments Against them conc erning all their wickedness, Because they have forsaken Me, Burned incense to oth er gods, And worshiped the works of their own hands.

nkjv@J eremiah:1:17 @ "Th erefore prepare yourself and arise, And speak to them all that I command you. Do not be dismayed before their faces, Lest I dismay you before them.

nkjv@J eremiah:1:18 @ For behold, I have made you this day A fortified city and an iron pillar, And bronze walls against the whole land-- Against the kings of Judah, Against its princes, Against its priests, And against the people of the land.

nkjv@J eremiah:1:19 @ They will fight against you, But they shall not prevail against you. For I am with you," says the LORD, "to deliv er you."

nkjv@J eremiah:2:1 @ Moreov er the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@J eremiah:2:2 @ "Go and cry in the hearing of J erusalem, saying, "Thus says the LORD: "I rememb er you, The kindness of your youth, The love of your betrothal, When you went aft er Me in the wild erness, In a land not sown.

nkjv@J eremiah:2:3 @ Israel was holiness to the LORD, The firstfruits of His increase. All that devour him will offend; Disast er will come upon them," says the LORD."'

nkjv@J eremiah:2:4 @ Hear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob and all the families of the house of Israel.

nkjv@J eremiah:2:5 @ Thus says the LORD: "What injustice have your fath ers found in Me, That they have gone far from Me, Have followed idols, And have become idolat ers?

nkjv@J eremiah:2:6 @ Neith er did they say, "Wh ere is the LORD, Who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, Who led us through the wild erness, Through a land of des erts and pits, Through a land of drought and the shadow of death, Through a land that no one crossed And wh ere no one dwelt?'

nkjv@J eremiah:2:7 @ I brought you into a bountiful country, To eat its fruit and its goodness. But when you ent ered, you defiled My land And made My h eritage an abomination.

nkjv@J eremiah:2:8 @ The priests did not say, "Wh ere is the LORD?' And those who handle the law did not know Me; The rul ers also transgressed against Me; The prophets prophesied by Baal, And walked aft er things that do not profit.

nkjv@J eremiah:2:9 @ "Th erefore I will yet bring charges against you," says the LORD, "And against your children's children I will bring charges.

nkjv@J eremiah:2:10 @ For pass beyond the coasts of Cyprus and see, Send to Kedar and consid er diligently, And see if th ere has been such a thing.

nkjv@J eremiah:2:11 @ Has a nation changed its gods, Which are not gods? But My people have changed their Glory For what does not profit.

nkjv@J eremiah:2:12 @ Be astonished, O heavens, at this, And be horribly afraid; Be v ery desolate," says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:2:13 @ "For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living wat ers, And hewn themselves cist erns--broken cist erns that can hold no wat er.

nkjv@J eremiah:2:14 @ "Is Israel a s ervant? Is he a homeborn slave? Why is he plund ered?

nkjv@J eremiah:2:15 @ The young lions roared at him, and growled; They made his land waste; His cities are burned, without inhabitant.

nkjv@J eremiah:2:16 @ Also the people of Noph and Tahpanhes Have broken the crown of your head.

nkjv@J eremiah:2:17 @ Have you not brought this on yourself, In that you have forsaken the LORD your God When He led you in the way?

nkjv@J eremiah:2:18 @ And now why take the road to Egypt, To drink the wat ers of Sihor? Or why take the road to Assyria, To drink the wat ers of the Riv er?

nkjv@J eremiah:2:19 @ Your own wickedness will correct you, And your backslidings will rebuke you. Know th erefore and see that it is an evil and bitt er thing That you have forsaken the LORD your God, And the fear of Me is not in you," Says the Lord GOD of hosts.

nkjv@J eremiah:2:20 @ "For of old I have broken your yoke and burst your bonds; And you said, "I will not transgress,' When on ev ery high hill and und er ev ery green tree You lay down, playing the harlot.

nkjv@J eremiah:2:21 @ Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a seed of highest quality. How then have you turned before Me Into the degen erate plant of an alien vine?

nkjv@J eremiah:2:22 @ For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, Yet your iniquity is marked before Me," says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@J eremiah:2:23 @ "How can you say, "I am not polluted, I have not gone aft er the Baals'? See your way in the valley; Know what you have done: You are a swift dromedary breaking loose in h er ways,

nkjv@J eremiah:2:24 @ A wild donkey used to the wild erness, That sniffs at the wind in h er desire; In h er time of mating, who can turn h er away? All those who seek h er will not weary themselves; In h er month they will find h er.

nkjv@J eremiah:2:25 @ Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst. But you said, "Th ere is no hope. No! For I have loved aliens, and aft er them I will go.'

nkjv@J eremiah:2:26 @ "As the thief is ashamed when he is found out, So is the house of Israel ashamed; They and their kings and their princes, and their priests and their prophets,

nkjv@J eremiah:2:27 @ Saying to a tree, "You are my fath er,' And to a stone, "You gave birth to me.' For they have turned their back to Me, and not their face. But in the time of their trouble They will say, "Arise and save us.'

nkjv@J eremiah:2:28 @ But wh ere are your gods that you have made for yourselves? Let them arise, If they can save you in the time of your trouble; For according to the numb er of your cities Are your gods, O Judah.

nkjv@J eremiah:2:29 @ "Why will you plead with Me? You all have transgressed against Me," says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:2:30 @ "In vain I have chastened your children; They received no correction. Your sword has devoured your prophets Like a destroying lion.

nkjv@J eremiah:2:31 @ "O gen eration, see the word of the LORD! Have I been a wild erness to Israel, Or a land of darkness? Why do My people say, "We are lords; We will come no more to You'?

nkjv@J eremiah:2:32 @ Can a virgin forget h er ornaments, Or a bride h er attire? Yet My people have forgotten Me days without numb er.

nkjv@J eremiah:2:33 @ "Why do you beautify your way to seek love? Th erefore you have also taught The wicked women your ways.

nkjv@J eremiah:2:34 @ Also on your skirts is found The blood of the lives of the poor innocents. I have not found it by secret search, But plainly on all these things.

nkjv@J eremiah:2:35 @ Yet you say, "Because I am innocent, Surely His ang er shall turn from me.' Behold, I will plead My case against you, Because you say, "I have not sinned.'

nkjv@J eremiah:2:36 @ Why do you gad about so much to change your way? Also you shall be ashamed of Egypt as you w ere ashamed of Assyria.

nkjv@J eremiah:2:37 @ Indeed you will go forth from him With your hands on your head; For the LORD has rejected your trusted allies, And you will not prosp er by them.

nkjv@J eremiah:3:1 @ "They say, "If a man divorces his wife, And she goes from him And becomes anoth er man's, May he return to h er again?' Would not that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the harlot with many lov ers; Yet return to Me," says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:3:2 @ "Lift up your eyes to the desolate heights and see: Wh ere have you not lain with men? By the road you have sat for them Like an Arabian in the wild erness; And you have polluted the land With your harlotries and your wickedness.

nkjv@J eremiah:3:3 @ Th erefore the show ers have been withheld, And th ere has been no latt er rain. You have had a harlot's forehead; You refuse to be ashamed.

nkjv@J eremiah:3:4 @ Will you not from this time cry to Me, "My Fath er, You are the guide of my youth?

nkjv@J eremiah:3:5 @ Will He remain angry forev er? Will He keep it to the end?' Behold, you have spoken and done evil things, As you w ere able."

nkjv@J eremiah:3:6 @ The LORD said also to me in the days of Josiah the king: "Have you seen what backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on ev ery high mountain and und er ev ery green tree, and th ere played the harlot.

nkjv@J eremiah:3:7 @ And I said, aft er she had done all these things, "Return to Me.' But she did not return. And h er treach erous sist er Judah saw it.

nkjv@J eremiah:3:8 @ Then I saw that for all the causes for which backsliding Israel had committed adult ery, I had put h er away and given h er a c ertificate of divorce; yet h er treach erous sist er Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also.

nkjv@J eremiah:3:9 @ So it came to pass, through h er casual harlotry, that she defiled the land and committed adult ery with stones and trees.

nkjv@J eremiah:3:10 @ And yet for all this h er treach erous sist er Judah has not turned to Me with h er whole heart, but in pretense," says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:3:11 @ Then the LORD said to me, "Backsliding Israel has shown h erself more righteous than treach erous Judah.

nkjv@J eremiah:3:12 @ Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say: "Return, backsliding Israel,' says the LORD; "I will not cause My ang er to fall on you. For I am m erciful,' says the LORD; "I will not remain angry forev er.

nkjv@J eremiah:3:13 @ Only acknowledge your iniquity, That you have transgressed against the LORD your God, And have scatt ered your charms To alien deities und er ev ery green tree, And you have not obeyed My voice,' says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:3:14 @ "Return, O backsliding children," says the LORD; "for I am married to you. I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

nkjv@J eremiah:3:15 @ And I will give you sheph erds according to My heart, who will feed you with knowledge and und erstanding.

nkjv@J eremiah:3:16 @ "Then it shall come to pass, when you are multiplied and increased in the land in those days," says the LORD, "that they will say no more, "The ark of the covenant of the LORD.' It shall not come to mind, nor shall they rememb er it, nor shall they visit it, nor shall it be made anymore.

nkjv@J eremiah:3:17 @ "At that time J erusalem shall be called The Throne of the LORD, and all the nations shall be gath ered to it, to the name of the LORD, to J erusalem. No more shall they follow the dictates of their evil hearts.

nkjv@J eremiah:3:18 @ "In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come togeth er out of the land of the north to the land that I have given as an inh eritance to your fath ers.

nkjv@J eremiah:3:19 @ "But I said: "How can I put you among the children And give you a pleasant land, A beautiful h eritage of the hosts of nations?' "And I said: "You shall call Me, "My Fath er," And not turn away from Me.'

nkjv@J eremiah:3:20 @ Surely, as a wife treach erously departs from h er husband, So have you dealt treach erously with Me, O house of Israel," says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:3:21 @ A voice was heard on the desolate heights, Weeping and supplications of the children of Israel. For they have p erv erted their way; They have forgotten the LORD their God.

nkjv@J eremiah:3:22 @ "Return, you backsliding children, And I will heal your backslidings." "Indeed we do come to You, For You are the LORD our God.

nkjv@J eremiah:3:23 @ Truly, in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, And from the multitude of mountains; Truly, in the LORD our God Is the salvation of Israel.

nkjv@J eremiah:3:24 @ For shame has devoured The labor of our fath ers from our youth-- Their flocks and their h erds, Their sons and their daught ers.

nkjv@J eremiah:3:25 @ We lie down in our shame, And our reproach cov ers us. For we have sinned against the LORD our God, We and our fath ers, From our youth even to this day, And have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God."

nkjv@J eremiah:4:1 @ "If you will return, O Israel," says the LORD, "Return to Me; And if you will put away your abominations out of My sight, Then you shall not be moved.

nkjv@J eremiah:4:2 @ And you shall swear, "The LORD lives,' In truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; The nations shall bless themselves in Him, And in Him they shall glory."

nkjv@J eremiah:4:3 @ For thus says the LORD to the men of Judah and J erusalem: "Break up your fallow ground, And do not sow among thorns.

nkjv@J eremiah:4:4 @ Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, And take away the foreskins of your hearts, You men of Judah and inhabitants of J erusalem, Lest My fury come forth like fire, And burn so that no one can quench it, Because of the evil of your doings."

nkjv@J eremiah:4:5 @ Declare in Judah and proclaim in J erusalem, and say: "Blow the trumpet in the land; Cry, "Gath er togeth er,' And say, "Assemble yourselves, And let us go into the fortified cities.'

nkjv@J eremiah:4:6 @ Set up the standard toward Zion. Take refuge! Do not delay! For I will bring disast er from the north, And great destruction."

nkjv@J eremiah:4:7 @ The lion has come up from his thicket, And the destroy er of nations is on his way. He has gone forth from his place To make your land desolate. Your cities will be laid waste, Without inhabitant.

nkjv@J eremiah:4:8 @ For this, clothe yourself with sackcloth, Lament and wail. For the fi erce ang er of the LORD Has not turned back from us.

nkjv@J eremiah:4:9 @ "And it shall come to pass in that day," says the LORD, "That the heart of the king shall p erish, And the heart of the princes; The priests shall be astonished, And the prophets shall wond er."

nkjv@J eremiah:4:10 @ Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Surely You have greatly deceived this people and J erusalem, Saying, "You shall have peace,' Wh ereas the sword reaches to the heart."

nkjv@J eremiah:4:11 @ At that time it will be said To this people and to J erusalem, "A dry wind of the desolate heights blows in the wild erness Toward the daught er of My people-- Not to fan or to cleanse--

nkjv@J eremiah:4:12 @ A wind too strong for these will come for Me; Now I will also speak judgment against them."

nkjv@J eremiah:4:13 @ "Behold, he shall come up like clouds, And his chariots like a whirlwind. His horses are swift er than eagles. Woe to us, for we are plund ered!"

nkjv@J eremiah:4:14 @ O J erusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, That you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?

nkjv@J eremiah:4:15 @ For a voice declares from Dan And proclaims affliction from Mount Ephraim:

nkjv@J eremiah:4:16 @ "Make mention to the nations, Yes, proclaim against J erusalem, That watch ers come from a far country And raise their voice against the cities of Judah.

nkjv@J eremiah:4:17 @ Like keep ers of a field they are against h er all around, Because she has been rebellious against Me," says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:4:18 @ "Your ways and your doings Have procured these things for you. This is your wickedness, Because it is bitt er, Because it reaches to your heart."

nkjv@J eremiah:4:19 @ O my soul, my soul! I am pained in my v ery heart! My heart makes a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, Because you have heard, O my soul, The sound of the trumpet, The alarm of war.

nkjv@J eremiah:4:20 @ Destruction upon destruction is cried, For the whole land is plund ered. Suddenly my tents are plund ered, And my curtains in a moment.

nkjv@J eremiah:4:21 @ How long will I see the standard, And hear the sound of the trumpet?

nkjv@J eremiah:4:22 @ "For My people are foolish, They have not known Me. They are silly children, And they have no und erstanding. They are wise to do evil, But to do good they have no knowledge."

nkjv@J eremiah:4:23 @ I beheld the earth, and indeed it was without form, and void; And the heavens, they had no light.

nkjv@J eremiah:4:24 @ I beheld the mountains, and indeed they trembled, And all the hills moved back and forth.

nkjv@J eremiah:4:25 @ I beheld, and indeed th ere was no man, And all the birds of the heavens had fled.

nkjv@J eremiah:4:26 @ I beheld, and indeed the fruitful land was a wild erness, And all its cities w ere broken down At the presence of the LORD, By His fi erce ang er.

nkjv@J eremiah:4:27 @ For thus says the LORD: "The whole land shall be desolate; Yet I will not make a full end.

nkjv@J eremiah:4:28 @ For this shall the earth mourn, And the heavens above be black, Because I have spoken. I have purposed and will not relent, Nor will I turn back from it.

nkjv@J eremiah:4:29 @ The whole city shall flee from the noise of the horsemen and bowmen. They shall go into thickets and climb up on the rocks. Ev ery city shall be forsaken, And not a man shall dwell in it.

nkjv@J eremiah:4:30 @ "And when you are plund ered, What will you do? Though you clothe yourself with crimson, Though you adorn yourself with ornaments of gold, Though you enlarge your eyes with paint, In vain you will make yourself fair; Your lov ers will despise you; They will seek your life.

nkjv@J eremiah:4:31 @ "For I have heard a voice as of a woman in labor, The anguish as of h er who brings forth h er first child, The voice of the daught er of Zion bewailing h erself; She spreads h er hands, saying, "Woe is me now, for my soul is weary Because of murd er ers!'

nkjv@J eremiah:5:1 @ "Run to and fro through the streets of J erusalem; See now and know; And seek in h er open places If you can find a man, If th ere is anyone who executes judgment, Who seeks the truth, And I will pardon h er.

nkjv@J eremiah:5:2 @ Though they say, "As the LORD lives,' Surely they swear falsely."

nkjv@J eremiah:5:3 @ O LORD, are not Your eyes on the truth? You have stricken them, But they have not grieved; You have consumed them, But they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces hard er than rock; They have refused to return.

nkjv@J eremiah:5:4 @ Th erefore I said, "Surely these are poor. They are foolish; For they do not know the way of the LORD, The judgment of their God.

nkjv@J eremiah:5:5 @ I will go to the great men and speak to them, For they have known the way of the LORD, The judgment of their God." But these have altogeth er broken the yoke And burst the bonds.

nkjv@J eremiah:5:6 @ Th erefore a lion from the forest shall slay them, A wolf of the des erts shall destroy them; A leopard will watch ov er their cities. Ev eryone who goes out from th ere shall be torn in pieces, Because their transgressions are many; Their backslidings have increased.

nkjv@J eremiah:5:7 @ "How shall I pardon you for this? Your children have forsaken Me And sworn by those that are not gods. When I had fed them to the full, Then they committed adult ery And assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.

nkjv@J eremiah:5:8 @ They w ere like well-fed lusty stallions; Ev ery one neighed aft er his neighbor's wife.

nkjv@J eremiah:5:9 @ Shall I not punish them for these things?" says the LORD. "And shall I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?

nkjv@J eremiah:5:10 @ "Go up on h er walls and destroy, But do not make a complete end. Take away h er branches, For they are not the LORD's.

nkjv@J eremiah:5:11 @ For the house of Israel and the house of Judah Have dealt v ery treach erously with Me," says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:5:12 @ They have lied about the LORD, And said, "It is not He. Neith er will evil come upon us, Nor shall we see sword or famine.

nkjv@J eremiah:5:13 @ And the prophets become wind, For the word is not in them. Thus shall it be done to them."

nkjv@J eremiah:5:14 @ Th erefore thus says the LORD God of hosts: "Because you speak this word, Behold, I will make My words in your mouth fire, And this people wood, And it shall devour them.

nkjv@J eremiah:5:15 @ Behold, I will bring a nation against you from afar, O house of Israel," says the LORD. "It is a mighty nation, It is an ancient nation, A nation whose language you do not know, Nor can you und erstand what they say.

nkjv@J eremiah:5:16 @ Their quiv er is like an open tomb; They are all mighty men.

nkjv@J eremiah:5:17 @ And they shall eat up your harvest and your bread, Which your sons and daught ers should eat. They shall eat up your flocks and your h erds; They shall eat up your vines and your fig trees; They shall destroy your fortified cities, In which you trust, with the sword.

nkjv@J eremiah:5:18 @ "Nev ertheless in those days," says the LORD, "I will not make a complete end of you.

nkjv@J eremiah:5:19 @ And it will be when you say, "Why does the LORD our God do all these things to us?' then you shall answ er them, "Just as you have forsaken Me and s erved foreign gods in your land, so you shall s erve aliens in a land that is not yours.'

nkjv@J eremiah:5:20 @ "Declare this in the house of Jacob And proclaim it in Judah, saying,

nkjv@J eremiah:5:21 @ "Hear this now, O foolish people, Without und erstanding, Who have eyes and see not, And who have ears and hear not:

nkjv@J eremiah:5:22 @ Do you not fear Me?' says the LORD. "Will you not tremble at My presence, Who have placed the sand as the bound of the sea, By a p erpetual decree, that it cannot pass beyond it? And though its waves toss to and fro, Yet they cannot prevail; Though they roar, yet they cannot pass ov er it.

nkjv@J eremiah:5:23 @ But this people has a defiant and rebellious heart; They have revolted and departed.

nkjv@J eremiah:5:24 @ They do not say in their heart, "Let us now fear the LORD our God, Who gives rain, both the form er and the latt er, in its season. He res erves for us the appointed weeks of the harvest."

nkjv@J eremiah:5:25 @ Your iniquities have turned these things away, And your sins have withheld good from you.

nkjv@J eremiah:5:26 @ "For among My people are found wicked men; They lie in wait as one who sets snares; They set a trap; They catch men.

nkjv@J eremiah:5:27 @ As a cage is full of birds, So their houses are full of deceit. Th erefore they have become great and grown rich.

nkjv@J eremiah:5:28 @ They have grown fat, they are sleek; Yes, they surpass the deeds of the wicked; They do not plead the cause, The cause of the fath erless; Yet they prosp er, And the right of the needy they do not defend.

nkjv@J eremiah:5:29 @ Shall I not punish them for these things?' says the LORD. "Shall I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?'

nkjv@J eremiah:5:30 @ "An astonishing and horrible thing Has been committed in the land:

nkjv@J eremiah:5:31 @ The prophets prophesy falsely, And the priests rule by their own pow er; And My people love to have it so. But what will you do in the end?

nkjv@J eremiah:6:1 @ "O you children of Benjamin, Gath er yourselves to flee from the midst of J erusalem! Blow the trumpet in Tekoa, And set up a signal-fire in Beth Hacc erem; For disast er appears out of the north, And great destruction.

nkjv@J eremiah:6:2 @ I have likened the daught er of Zion To a lovely and delicate woman.

nkjv@J eremiah:6:3 @ The sheph erds with their flocks shall come to h er. They shall pitch their tents against h er all around. Each one shall pasture in his own place."

nkjv@J eremiah:6:4 @ "Prepare war against h er; Arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe to us, for the day goes away, For the shadows of the evening are lengthening.

nkjv@J eremiah:6:5 @ Arise, and let us go by night, And let us destroy h er palaces."

nkjv@J eremiah:6:6 @ For thus has the LORD of hosts said: "Cut down trees, And build a mound against J erusalem. This is the city to be punished. She is full of oppression in h er midst.

nkjv@J eremiah:6:7 @ As a fountain wells up with wat er, So she wells up with h er wickedness. Violence and plund ering are heard in h er. Before Me continually are grief and wounds.

nkjv@J eremiah:6:8 @ Be instructed, O J erusalem, Lest My soul depart from you; Lest I make you desolate, A land not inhabited."

nkjv@J eremiah:6:9 @ Thus says the LORD of hosts: "They shall thoroughly glean as a vine the remnant of Israel; As a grape-gath er er, put your hand back into the branches."

nkjv@J eremiah:6:10 @ To whom shall I speak and give warning, That they may hear? Indeed their ear is uncircumcised, And they cannot give heed. Behold, the word of the LORD is a reproach to them; They have no delight in it.

nkjv@J eremiah:6:11 @ Th erefore I am full of the fury of the LORD. I am weary of holding it in. "I will pour it out on the children outside, And on the assembly of young men togeth er; For even the husband shall be taken with the wife, The aged with him who is full of days.

nkjv@J eremiah:6:12 @ And their houses shall be turned ov er to oth ers, Fields and wives togeth er; For I will stretch out My hand Against the inhabitants of the land," says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:6:13 @ "Because from the least of them even to the greatest of them, Ev eryone is given to covetousness; And from the prophet even to the priest, Ev eryone deals falsely.

nkjv@J eremiah:6:14 @ They have also healed the hurt of My people slightly, Saying, "Peace, peace!' When th ere is no peace.

nkjv@J eremiah:6:15 @ W ere they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No! They w ere not at all ashamed; Nor did they know how to blush. Th erefore they shall fall among those who fall; At the time I punish them, They shall be cast down," says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:6:16 @ Thus says the LORD: "Stand in the ways and see, And ask for the old paths, wh ere the good way is, And walk in it; Then you will find rest for your souls. But they said, "We will not walk in it.'

nkjv@J eremiah:6:17 @ Also, I set watchmen ov er you, saying, "Listen to the sound of the trumpet!' But they said, "We will not listen.'

nkjv@J eremiah:6:18 @ Th erefore hear, you nations, And know, O congregation, what is among them.

nkjv@J eremiah:6:19 @ Hear, O earth! Behold, I will c ertainly bring calamity on this people-- The fruit of their thoughts, Because they have not heeded My words Nor My law, but rejected it.

nkjv@J eremiah:6:20 @ For what purpose to Me Comes frankincense from Sheba, And sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt off erings are not acceptable, Nor your sacrifices sweet to Me."

nkjv@J eremiah:6:21 @ Th erefore thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people, And the fath ers and the sons togeth er shall fall on them. The neighbor and his friend shall p erish."

nkjv@J eremiah:6:22 @ Thus says the LORD: "Behold, a people comes from the north country, And a great nation will be raised from the farthest parts of the earth.

nkjv@J eremiah:6:23 @ They will lay hold on bow and spear; They are cruel and have no m ercy; Their voice roars like the sea; And they ride on horses, As men of war set in array against you, O daught er of Zion."

nkjv@J eremiah:6:24 @ We have heard the report of it; Our hands grow feeble. Anguish has taken hold of us, Pain as of a woman in labor.

nkjv@J eremiah:6:25 @ Do not go out into the field, Nor walk by the way. Because of the sword of the enemy, Fear is on ev ery side.

nkjv@J eremiah:6:26 @ O daught er of my people, Dress in sackcloth And roll about in ashes! Make mourning as for an only son, most bitt er lamentation; For the plund er er will suddenly come upon us.

nkjv@J eremiah:6:27 @ "I have set you as an assay er and a fortress among My people, That you may know and test their way.

nkjv@J eremiah:6:28 @ They are all stubborn rebels, walking as sland er ers. They are bronze and iron, They are all corrupt ers;

nkjv@J eremiah:6:29 @ The bellows blow fi ercely, The lead is consumed by the fire; The smelt er refines in vain, For the wicked are not drawn off.

nkjv@J eremiah:6:30 @ People will call them rejected silv er, Because the LORD has rejected them."

nkjv@J eremiah:7:1 @ The word that came to J eremiah from the LORD, saying,

nkjv@J eremiah:7:2 @ "Stand in the gate of the LORD's house, and proclaim th ere this word, and say, "Hear the word of the LORD, all you of Judah who ent er in at these gates to worship the LORD!"'

nkjv@J eremiah:7:3 @ Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.

nkjv@J eremiah:7:4 @ Do not trust in these lying words, saying, "The temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD are these.'

nkjv@J eremiah:7:5 @ "For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbor,

nkjv@J eremiah:7:6 @ if you do not oppress the strang er, the fath erless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, or walk aft er oth er gods to your hurt,

nkjv@J eremiah:7:7 @ then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fath ers forev er and ev er.

nkjv@J eremiah:7:8 @ "Behold, you trust in lying words that cannot profit.

nkjv@J eremiah:7:9 @ Will you steal, murd er, commit adult ery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and walk aft er oth er gods whom you do not know,

nkjv@J eremiah:7:10 @ and then come and stand before Me in this house which is called by My name, and say, "We are deliv ered to do all these abominations'?

nkjv@J eremiah:7:11 @ Has this house, which is called by My name, become a den of thieves in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it," says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:7:12 @ "But go now to My place which was in Shiloh, wh ere I set My name at the first, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.

nkjv@J eremiah:7:13 @ And now, because you have done all these works," says the LORD, "and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you did not hear, and I called you, but you did not answ er,

nkjv@J eremiah:7:14 @ th erefore I will do to the house which is called by My name, in which you trust, and to this place which I gave to you and your fath ers, as I have done to Shiloh.

nkjv@J eremiah:7:15 @ And I will cast you out of My sight, as I have cast out all your brethren--the whole post erity of Ephraim.

nkjv@J eremiah:7:16 @ "Th erefore do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry or pray er for them, nor make int ercession to Me; for I will not hear you.

nkjv@J eremiah:7:17 @ Do you not see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of J erusalem?

nkjv@J eremiah:7:18 @ The children gath er wood, the fath ers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven; and they pour out drink off erings to oth er gods, that they may provoke Me to ang er.

nkjv@J eremiah:7:19 @ Do they provoke Me to ang er?" says the LORD. "Do they not provoke themselves, to the shame of their own faces?"

nkjv@J eremiah:7:20 @ Th erefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, My ang er and My fury will be poured out on this place--on man and on beast, on the trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground. And it will burn and not be quenched."

nkjv@J eremiah:7:21 @ Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Add your burnt off erings to your sacrifices and eat meat.

nkjv@J eremiah:7:22 @ For I did not speak to your fath ers, or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, conc erning burnt off erings or sacrifices.

nkjv@J eremiah:7:23 @ But this is what I commanded them, saying, "Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.'

nkjv@J eremiah:7:24 @ Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but followed the counsels and the dictates of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward.

nkjv@J eremiah:7:25 @ Since the day that your fath ers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have even sent to you all My s ervants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them.

nkjv@J eremiah:7:26 @ Yet they did not obey Me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck. They did worse than their fath ers.

nkjv@J eremiah:7:27 @ "Th erefore you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not obey you. You shall also call to them, but they will not answ er you.

nkjv@J eremiah:7:28 @ "So you shall say to them, "This is a nation that does not obey the voice of the LORD their God nor receive correction. Truth has p erished and has been cut off from their mouth.

nkjv@J eremiah:7:29 @ Cut off your hair and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the desolate heights; for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the gen eration of His wrath.'

nkjv@J eremiah:7:30 @ For the children of Judah have done evil in My sight," says the LORD. "They have set their abominations in the house which is called by My name, to pollute it.

nkjv@J eremiah:7:31 @ And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daught ers in the fire, which I did not command, nor did it come into My heart.

nkjv@J eremiah:7:32 @ "Th erefore behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "when it will no more be called Tophet, or the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaught er; for they will bury in Tophet until th ere is no room.

nkjv@J eremiah:7:33 @ The corpses of this people will be food for the birds of the heaven and for the beasts of the earth. And no one will frighten them away.

nkjv@J eremiah:7:34 @ Then I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of J erusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride. For the land shall be desolate.

nkjv@J eremiah:8:1 @ "At that time," says the LORD, "they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of its princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of J erusalem, out of their graves.

nkjv@J eremiah:8:2 @ They shall spread them before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and which they have s erved and aft er which they have walked, which they have sought and which they have worshiped. They shall not be gath ered nor buried; they shall be like refuse on the face of the earth.

nkjv@J eremiah:8:3 @ Then death shall be chosen rath er than life by all the residue of those who remain of this evil family, who remain in all the places wh ere I have driven them," says the LORD of hosts.

nkjv@J eremiah:8:4 @ "Moreov er you shall say to them, "Thus says the LORD: "Will they fall and not rise? Will one turn away and not return?

nkjv@J eremiah:8:5 @ Why has this people slidden back, J erusalem, in a p erpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit, They refuse to return.

nkjv@J eremiah:8:6 @ I listened and heard, But they do not speak aright. No man repented of his wickedness, Saying, "What have I done?' Ev eryone turned to his own course, As the horse rushes into the battle.

nkjv@J eremiah:8:7 @ "Even the stork in the heavens Knows h er appointed times; And the turtledove, the swift, and the swallow Obs erve the time of their coming. But My people do not know the judgment of the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:8:8 @ "How can you say, "We are wise, And the law of the LORD is with us'? Look, the false pen of the scribe c ertainly works falsehood.

nkjv@J eremiah:8:9 @ The wise men are ashamed, They are dismayed and taken. Behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD; So what wisdom do they have?

nkjv@J eremiah:8:10 @ Th erefore I will give their wives to oth ers, And their fields to those who will inh erit them; Because from the least even to the greatest Ev eryone is given to covetousness; From the prophet even to the priest Ev eryone deals falsely.

nkjv@J eremiah:8:11 @ For they have healed the hurt of the daught er of My people slightly, Saying, "Peace, peace!' When th ere is no peace.

nkjv@J eremiah:8:12 @ W ere they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No! They w ere not at all ashamed, Nor did they know how to blush. Th erefore they shall fall among those who fall; In the time of their punishment They shall be cast down," says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:8:13 @ "I will surely consume them," says the LORD. "No grapes shall be on the vine, Nor figs on the fig tree, And the leaf shall fade; And the things I have given them shall pass away from them.""'

nkjv@J eremiah:8:14 @ "Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, And let us ent er the fortified cities, And let us be silent th ere. For the LORD our God has put us to silence And given us wat er of gall to drink, Because we have sinned against the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:8:15 @ "We looked for peace, but no good came; And for a time of health, and th ere was trouble!

nkjv@J eremiah:8:16 @ The snorting of His horses was heard from Dan. The whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of His strong ones; For they have come and devoured the land and all that is in it, The city and those who dwell in it."

nkjv@J eremiah:8:17 @ "For behold, I will send s erpents among you, Vip ers which cannot be charmed, And they shall bite you," says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:8:18 @ I would comfort myself in sorrow; My heart is faint in me.

nkjv@J eremiah:8:19 @ Listen! The voice, The cry of the daught er of my people From a far country: "Is not the LORD in Zion? Is not h er King in h er?" "Why have they provoked Me to ang er With their carved images-- With foreign idols?"

nkjv@J eremiah:8:20 @ "The harvest is past, The summ er is ended, And we are not saved!"

nkjv@J eremiah:8:21 @ For the hurt of the daught er of my people I am hurt. I am mourning; Astonishment has taken hold of me.

nkjv@J eremiah:8:22 @ Is th ere no balm in Gilead, Is th ere no physician th ere? Why then is th ere no recov ery For the health of the daught er of my people?

nkjv@J eremiah:9:1 @ Oh, that my head w ere wat ers, And my eyes a fountain of tears, That I might weep day and night For the slain of the daught er of my people!

nkjv@J eremiah:9:2 @ Oh, that I had in the wild erness A lodging place for travel ers; That I might leave my people, And go from them! For they are all adult er ers, An assembly of treach erous men.

nkjv@J eremiah:9:3 @ "And like their bow they have bent their tongues for lies. They are not valiant for the truth on the earth. For they proceed from evil to evil, And they do not know Me," says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:9:4 @ "Ev eryone take heed to his neighbor, And do not trust any broth er; For ev ery broth er will utt erly supplant, And ev ery neighbor will walk with sland er ers.

nkjv@J eremiah:9:5 @ Ev eryone will deceive his neighbor, And will not speak the truth; They have taught their tongue to speak lies; They weary themselves to commit iniquity.

nkjv@J eremiah:9:6 @ Your dwelling place is in the midst of deceit; Through deceit they refuse to know Me," says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:9:7 @ Th erefore thus says the LORD of hosts: "Behold, I will refine them and try them; For how shall I deal with the daught er of My people?

nkjv@J eremiah:9:8 @ Their tongue is an arrow shot out; It speaks deceit; One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, But in his heart he lies in wait.

nkjv@J eremiah:9:9 @ Shall I not punish them for these things?" says the LORD. "Shall I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?"

nkjv@J eremiah:9:10 @ I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, And for the dwelling places of the wild erness a lamentation, Because they are burned up, So that no one can pass through; Nor can men hear the voice of the cattle. Both the birds of the heavens and the beasts have fled; They are gone.

nkjv@J eremiah:9:11 @ "I will make J erusalem a heap of ruins, a den of jackals. I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant."

nkjv@J eremiah:9:12 @ Who is the wise man who may und erstand this? And who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD has spoken, that he may declare it? Why does the land p erish and burn up like a wild erness, so that no one can pass through?

nkjv@J eremiah:9:13 @ And the LORD said, "Because they have forsaken My law which I set before them, and have not obeyed My voice, nor walked according to it,

nkjv@J eremiah:9:14 @ but they have walked according to the dictates of their own hearts and aft er the Baals, which their fath ers taught them,"

nkjv@J eremiah:9:15 @ th erefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Behold, I will feed them, this people, with wormwood, and give them wat er of gall to drink.

nkjv@J eremiah:9:16 @ I will scatt er them also among the Gentiles, whom neith er they nor their fath ers have known. And I will send a sword aft er them until I have consumed them."

nkjv@J eremiah:9:17 @ Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Consid er and call for the mourning women, That they may come; And send for skillful wailing women, That they may come.

nkjv@J eremiah:9:18 @ Let them make haste And take up a wailing for us, That our eyes may run with tears, And our eyelids gush with wat er.

nkjv@J eremiah:9:19 @ For a voice of wailing is heard from Zion: "How we are plund ered! We are greatly ashamed, Because we have forsaken the land, Because we have been cast out of our dwellings."'

nkjv@J eremiah:9:20 @ Yet hear the word of the LORD, O women, And let your ear receive the word of His mouth; Teach your daught ers wailing, And ev eryone h er neighbor a lamentation.

nkjv@J eremiah:9:21 @ For death has come through our windows, Has ent ered our palaces, To kill off the children--no long er to be outside! And the young men--no long er on the streets!

nkjv@J eremiah:9:22 @ Speak, "Thus says the LORD: "Even the carcasses of men shall fall as refuse on the open field, Like cuttings aft er the harvest er, And no one shall gath er them."'

nkjv@J eremiah:9:23 @ Thus says the LORD: "Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, Let not the mighty man glory in his might, Nor let the rich man glory in his riches;

nkjv@J eremiah:9:24 @ But let him who glories glory in this, That he und erstands and knows Me, That I am the LORD, ex ercising lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight," says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:9:25 @ "Behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "that I will punish all who are circumcised with the uncircumcised--

nkjv@J eremiah:9:26 @ Egypt, Judah, Edom, the people of Ammon, Moab, and all who are in the farthest corn ers, who dwell in the wild erness. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart."

nkjv@J eremiah:10:1 @ Hear the word which the LORD speaks to you, O house of Israel.

nkjv@J eremiah:10:2 @ Thus says the LORD: "Do not learn the way of the Gentiles; Do not be dismayed at the signs of heaven, For the Gentiles are dismayed at them.

nkjv@J eremiah:10:3 @ For the customs of the peoples are futile; For one cuts a tree from the forest, The work of the hands of the workman, with the ax.

nkjv@J eremiah:10:4 @ They decorate it with silv er and gold; They fasten it with nails and hamm ers So that it will not topple.

nkjv@J eremiah:10:5 @ They are upright, like a palm tree, And they cannot speak; They must be carried, Because they cannot go by themselves. Do not be afraid of them, For they cannot do evil, Nor can they do any good."

nkjv@J eremiah:10:6 @ Inasmuch as th ere is none like You, O LORD (You are great, and Your name is great in might),

nkjv@J eremiah:10:7 @ Who would not fear You, O King of the nations? For this is Your rightful due. For among all the wise men of the nations, And in all their kingdoms, Th ere is none like You.

nkjv@J eremiah:10:8 @ But they are altogeth er dull-hearted and foolish; A wooden idol is a worthless doctrine.

nkjv@J eremiah:10:9 @ Silv er is beaten into plates; It is brought from Tarshish, And gold from Uphaz, The work of the craftsman And of the hands of the metalsmith; Blue and purple are their clothing; They are all the work of skillful men.

nkjv@J eremiah:10:10 @ But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and the ev erlasting King. At His wrath the earth will tremble, And the nations will not be able to endure His indignation.

nkjv@J eremiah:10:11 @ Thus you shall say to them: "The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth shall p erish from the earth and from und er these heavens."

nkjv@J eremiah:10:12 @ He has made the earth by His pow er, He has established the world by His wisdom, And has stretched out the heavens at His discretion.

nkjv@J eremiah:10:13 @ When He utt ers His voice, Th ere is a multitude of wat ers in the heavens: "And He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, He brings the wind out of His treasuries."

nkjv@J eremiah:10:14 @ Ev eryone is dull-hearted, without knowledge; Ev ery metalsmith is put to shame by an image; For his molded image is falsehood, And th ere is no breath in them.

nkjv@J eremiah:10:15 @ They are futile, a work of errors; In the time of their punishment they shall p erish.

nkjv@J eremiah:10:16 @ The Portion of Jacob is not like them, For He is the Mak er of all things, And Israel is the tribe of His inh eritance; The LORD of hosts is His name.

nkjv@J eremiah:10:17 @ Gath er up your wares from the land, O inhabitant of the fortress!

nkjv@J eremiah:10:18 @ For thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will throw out at this time The inhabitants of the land, And will distress them, That they may find it so."

nkjv@J eremiah:10:19 @ Woe is me for my hurt! My wound is sev ere. But I say, "Truly this is an infirmity, And I must bear it."

nkjv@J eremiah:10:20 @ My tent is plund ered, And all my cords are broken; My children have gone from me, And they are no more. Th ere is no one to pitch my tent anymore, Or set up my curtains.

nkjv@J eremiah:10:21 @ For the sheph erds have become dull-hearted, And have not sought the LORD; Th erefore they shall not prosp er, And all their flocks shall be scatt ered.

nkjv@J eremiah:10:22 @ Behold, the noise of the report has come, And a great commotion out of the north country, To make the cities of Judah desolate, a den of jackals.

nkjv@J eremiah:10:23 @ O LORD, I know the way of man is not in himself; It is not in man who walks to direct his own steps.

nkjv@J eremiah:10:24 @ O LORD, correct me, but with justice; Not in Your ang er, lest You bring me to nothing.

nkjv@J eremiah:10:25 @ Pour out Your fury on the Gentiles, who do not know You, And on the families who do not call on Your name; For they have eaten up Jacob, Devoured him and consumed him, And made his dwelling place desolate.

nkjv@J eremiah:11:1 @ The word that came to J eremiah from the LORD, saying,

nkjv@J eremiah:11:2 @ "Hear the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of J erusalem;

nkjv@J eremiah:11:3 @ and say to them, "Thus says the LORD God of Israel: "Cursed is the man who does not obey the words of this covenant

nkjv@J eremiah:11:4 @ which I commanded your fath ers in the day I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, "Obey My voice, and do according to all that I command you; so shall you be My people, and I will be your God,'

nkjv@J eremiah:11:5 @ that I may establish the oath which I have sworn to your fath ers, to give them "a land flowing with milk and honey,' as it is this day.""' And I answ ered and said, "So be it, LORD."

nkjv@J eremiah:11:6 @ Then the LORD said to me, "Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of J erusalem, saying: "Hear the words of this covenant and do them.

nkjv@J eremiah:11:7 @ For I earnestly exhorted your fath ers in the day I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, until this day, rising early and exhorting, saying, "Obey My voice."

nkjv@J eremiah:11:8 @ Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but ev eryone followed the dictates of his evil heart; th erefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but which they have not done."'

nkjv@J eremiah:11:9 @ And the LORD said to me, "A conspiracy has been found among the men of Judah and among the inhabitants of J erusalem.

nkjv@J eremiah:11:10 @ They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefath ers who refused to hear My words, and they have gone aft er oth er gods to s erve them; the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken My covenant which I made with their fath ers."

nkjv@J eremiah:11:11 @ Th erefore thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will surely bring calamity on them which they will not be able to escape; and though they cry out to Me, I will not listen to them.

nkjv@J eremiah:11:12 @ Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of J erusalem will go and cry out to the gods to whom they off er incense, but they will not save them at all in the time of their trouble.

nkjv@J eremiah:11:13 @ For according to the numb er of your cities w ere your gods, O Judah; and according to the numb er of the streets of J erusalem you have set up altars to that shameful thing, altars to burn incense to Baal.

nkjv@J eremiah:11:14 @ "So do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or pray er for them; for I will not hear them in the time that they cry out to Me because of their trouble.

nkjv@J eremiah:11:15 @ "What has My beloved to do in My house, Having done lewd deeds with many? And the holy flesh has passed from you. When you do evil, then you rejoice.

nkjv@J eremiah:11:16 @ The LORD called your name, Green Olive Tree, Lovely and of Good Fruit. With the noise of a great tumult He has kindled fire on it, And its branches are broken.

nkjv@J eremiah:11:17 @ "For the LORD of hosts, who planted you, has pronounced doom against you for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke Me to ang er in off ering incense to Baal."

nkjv@J eremiah:11:18 @ Now the LORD gave me knowledge of it, and I know it; for You showed me their doings.

nkjv@J eremiah:11:19 @ But I was like a docile lamb brought to the slaught er; and I did not know that they had devised schemes against me, saying, "Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be rememb ered no more."

nkjv@J eremiah:11:20 @ But, O LORD of hosts, You who judge righteously, Testing the mind and the heart, Let me see Your vengeance on them, For to You I have revealed my cause.

nkjv@J eremiah:11:21 @ "Th erefore thus says the LORD conc erning the men of Anathoth who seek your life, saying, "Do not prophesy in the name of the LORD, lest you die by our hand'--

nkjv@J eremiah:11:22 @ th erefore thus says the LORD of hosts: "Behold, I will punish them. The young men shall die by the sword, their sons and their daught ers shall die by famine;

nkjv@J eremiah:11:23 @ and th ere shall be no remnant of them, for I will bring catastrophe on the men of Anathoth, even the year of their punishment."'

nkjv@J eremiah:12:1 @ Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead with You; Yet let me talk with You about Your judgments. Why does the way of the wicked prosp er? Why are those happy who deal so treach erously?

nkjv@J eremiah:12:2 @ You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; They grow, yes, they bear fruit. You are near in their mouth But far from their mind.

nkjv@J eremiah:12:3 @ But You, O LORD, know me; You have seen me, And You have tested my heart toward You. Pull them out like sheep for the slaught er, And prepare them for the day of slaught er.

nkjv@J eremiah:12:4 @ How long will the land mourn, And the h erbs of ev ery field with er? The beasts and birds are consumed, For the wickedness of those who dwell th ere, Because they said, "He will not see our final end."

nkjv@J eremiah:12:5 @ "If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, Then how can you contend with horses? And if in the land of peace, In which you trusted, they wearied you, Then how will you do in the floodplain of the Jordan?

nkjv@J eremiah:12:6 @ For even your broth ers, the house of your fath er, Even they have dealt treach erously with you; Yes, they have called a multitude aft er you. Do not believe them, Even though they speak smooth words to you.

nkjv@J eremiah:12:7 @ "I have forsaken My house, I have left My h eritage; I have given the dearly beloved of My soul into the hand of h er enemies.

nkjv@J eremiah:12:8 @ My h eritage is to Me like a lion in the forest; It cries out against Me; Th erefore I have hated it.

nkjv@J eremiah:12:9 @ My h eritage is to Me like a speckled vulture; The vultures all around are against h er. Come, assemble all the beasts of the field, Bring them to devour!

nkjv@J eremiah:12:10 @ "Many rul ers have destroyed My vineyard, They have trodden My portion und erfoot; They have made My pleasant portion a desolate wild erness.

nkjv@J eremiah:12:11 @ They have made it desolate; Desolate, it mourns to Me; The whole land is made desolate, Because no one takes it to heart.

nkjv@J eremiah:12:12 @ The plund er ers have come On all the desolate heights in the wild erness, For the sword of the LORD shall devour From one end of the land to the oth er end of the land; No flesh shall have peace.

nkjv@J eremiah:12:13 @ They have sown wheat but reaped thorns; They have put themselves to pain but do not profit. But be ashamed of your harvest Because of the fi erce ang er of the LORD."

nkjv@J eremiah:12:14 @ Thus says the LORD: "Against all My evil neighbors who touch the inh eritance which I have caused My people Israel to inh erit--behold, I will pluck them out of their land and pluck out the house of Judah from among them.

nkjv@J eremiah:12:15 @ Then it shall be, aft er I have plucked them out, that I will return and have compassion on them and bring them back, ev eryone to his h eritage and ev eryone to his land.

nkjv@J eremiah:12:16 @ And it shall be, if they will learn carefully the ways of My people, to swear by My name, "As the LORD lives,' as they taught My people to swear by Baal, then they shall be established in the midst of My people.

nkjv@J eremiah:12:17 @ But if they do not obey, I will utt erly pluck up and destroy that nation," says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:13:1 @ Thus the LORD said to me: "Go and get yourself a linen sash, and put it around your waist, but do not put it in wat er."

nkjv@J eremiah:13:2 @ So I got a sash according to the word of the LORD, and put it around my waist.

nkjv@J eremiah:13:3 @ And the word of the LORD came to me the second time, saying,

nkjv@J eremiah:13:4 @ "Take the sash that you acquired, which is around your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it th ere in a hole in the rock."

nkjv@J eremiah:13:5 @ So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as the LORD commanded me.

nkjv@J eremiah:13:6 @ Now it came to pass aft er many days that the LORD said to me, "Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take from th ere the sash which I commanded you to hide th ere."

nkjv@J eremiah:13:7 @ Then I went to the Euphrates and dug, and I took the sash from the place wh ere I had hidden it; and th ere was the sash, ruined. It was profitable for nothing.

nkjv@J eremiah:13:8 @ Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@J eremiah:13:9 @ "Thus says the LORD: "In this mann er I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of J erusalem.

nkjv@J eremiah:13:10 @ This evil people, who refuse to hear My words, who follow the dictates of their hearts, and walk aft er oth er gods to s erve them and worship them, shall be just like this sash which is profitable for nothing.

nkjv@J eremiah:13:11 @ For as the sash clings to the waist of a man, so I have caused the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah to cling to Me,' says the LORD, "that they may become My people, for renown, for praise, and for glory; but they would not hear.'

nkjv@J eremiah:13:12 @ "Th erefore you shall speak to them this word: "Thus says the LORD God of Israel: "Ev ery bottle shall be filled with wine."' "And they will say to you, "Do we not c ertainly know that ev ery bottle will be filled with wine?'

nkjv@J eremiah:13:13 @ "Then you shall say to them, "Thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land--even the kings who sit on David's throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the inhabitants of J erusalem--with drunkenness!

nkjv@J eremiah:13:14 @ And I will dash them one against anoth er, even the fath ers and the sons togeth er," says the LORD. "I will not pity nor spare nor have m ercy, but will destroy them.""'

nkjv@J eremiah:13:15 @ Hear and give ear: Do not be proud, For the LORD has spoken.

nkjv@J eremiah:13:16 @ Give glory to the LORD your God Before He causes darkness, And before your feet stumble On the dark mountains, And while you are looking for light, He turns it into the shadow of death And makes it dense darkness.

nkjv@J eremiah:13:17 @ But if you will not hear it, My soul will weep in secret for your pride; My eyes will weep bitt erly And run down with tears, Because the LORD's flock has been taken captive.

nkjv@J eremiah:13:18 @ Say to the king and to the queen moth er, "Humble yourselves; Sit down, For your rule shall collapse, the crown of your glory."

nkjv@J eremiah:13:19 @ The cities of the South shall be shut up, And no one shall open them; Judah shall be carried away captive, all of it; It shall be wholly carried away captive.

nkjv@J eremiah:13:20 @ Lift up your eyes and see Those who come from the north. Wh ere is the flock that was given to you, Your beautiful sheep?

nkjv@J eremiah:13:21 @ What will you say when He punishes you? For you have taught them To be chieftains, to be head ov er you. Will not pangs seize you, Like a woman in labor?

nkjv@J eremiah:13:22 @ And if you say in your heart, "Why have these things come upon me?" For the greatness of your iniquity Your skirts have been uncov ered, Your heels made bare.

nkjv@J eremiah:13:23 @ Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard its spots? Then may you also do good who are accustomed to do evil.

nkjv@J eremiah:13:24 @ "Th erefore I will scatt er them like stubble That passes away by the wind of the wild erness.

nkjv@J eremiah:13:25 @ This is your lot, The portion of your measures from Me," says the LORD, "Because you have forgotten Me And trusted in falsehood.

nkjv@J eremiah:13:26 @ Th erefore I will uncov er your skirts ov er your face, That your shame may appear.

nkjv@J eremiah:13:27 @ I have seen your adult eries And your lustful neighings, The lewdness of your harlotry, Your abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe to you, O J erusalem! Will you still not be made clean?"

nkjv@J eremiah:14:1 @ The word of the LORD that came to J eremiah conc erning the droughts.

nkjv@J eremiah:14:2 @ "Judah mourns, And h er gates languish; They mourn for the land, And the cry of J erusalem has gone up.

nkjv@J eremiah:14:3 @ Their nobles have sent their lads for wat er; They went to the cist erns and found no wat er. They returned with their vessels empty; They w ere ashamed and confounded And cov ered their heads.

nkjv@J eremiah:14:4 @ Because the ground is parched, For th ere was no rain in the land, The plowmen w ere ashamed; They cov ered their heads.

nkjv@J eremiah:14:5 @ Yes, the de er also gave birth in the field, But left because th ere was no grass.

nkjv@J eremiah:14:6 @ And the wild donkeys stood in the desolate heights; They sniffed at the wind like jackals; Their eyes failed because th ere was no grass."

nkjv@J eremiah:14:7 @ O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, Do it for Your name's sake; For our backslidings are many, We have sinned against You.

nkjv@J eremiah:14:8 @ O the Hope of Israel, his Savior in time of trouble, Why should You be like a strang er in the land, And like a travel er who turns aside to tarry for a night?

nkjv@J eremiah:14:9 @ Why should You be like a man astonished, Like a mighty one who cannot save? Yet You, O LORD, are in our midst, And we are called by Your name; Do not leave us!

nkjv@J eremiah:14:10 @ Thus says the LORD to this people: "Thus they have loved to wand er; They have not restrained their feet. Th erefore the LORD does not accept them; He will rememb er their iniquity now, And punish their sins."

nkjv@J eremiah:14:11 @ Then the LORD said to me, "Do not pray for this people, for their good.

nkjv@J eremiah:14:12 @ When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they off er burnt off ering and grain off ering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence."

nkjv@J eremiah:14:13 @ Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, the prophets say to them, "You shall not see the sword, nor shall you have famine, but I will give you assured peace in this place."'

nkjv@J eremiah:14:14 @ And the LORD said to me, "The prophets prophesy lies in My name. I have not sent them, commanded them, nor spoken to them; they prophesy to you a false vision, divination, a worthless thing, and the deceit of their heart.

nkjv@J eremiah:14:15 @ Th erefore thus says the LORD conc erning the prophets who prophesy in My name, whom I did not send, and who say, "Sword and famine shall not be in this land'--"By sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed!

nkjv@J eremiah:14:16 @ And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of J erusalem because of the famine and the sword; they will have no one to bury them--them nor their wives, their sons nor their daught ers--for I will pour their wickedness on them.'

nkjv@J eremiah:14:17 @ "Th erefore you shall say this word to them: "Let my eyes flow with tears night and day, And let them not cease; For the virgin daught er of my people Has been broken with a mighty stroke, with a v ery sev ere blow.

nkjv@J eremiah:14:18 @ If I go out to the field, Then behold, those slain with the sword! And if I ent er the city, Then behold, those sick from famine! Yes, both prophet and priest go about in a land they do not know."'

nkjv@J eremiah:14:19 @ Have You utt erly rejected Judah? Has Your soul loathed Zion? Why have You stricken us so that th ere is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but th ere was no good; And for the time of healing, and th ere was trouble.

nkjv@J eremiah:14:20 @ We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness And the iniquity of our fath ers, For we have sinned against You.

nkjv@J eremiah:14:21 @ Do not abhor us, for Your name's sake; Do not disgrace the throne of Your glory. Rememb er, do not break Your covenant with us.

nkjv@J eremiah:14:22 @ Are th ere any among the idols of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the heavens give show ers? Are You not He, O LORD our God? Th erefore we will wait for You, Since You have made all these.

nkjv@J eremiah:15:1 @ Then the LORD said to me, "Even if Moses and Samuel stood before Me, My mind would not be favorable toward this people. Cast them out of My sight, and let them go forth.

nkjv@J eremiah:15:2 @ And it shall be, if they say to you, "Wh ere should we go?' then you shall tell them, "Thus says the LORD: "Such as are for death, to death; And such as are for the sword, to the sword; And such as are for the famine, to the famine; And such as are for the captivity, to the captivity."'

nkjv@J eremiah:15:3 @ "And I will appoint ov er them four forms of destruction," says the LORD: "the sword to slay, the dogs to drag, the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.

nkjv@J eremiah:15:4 @ I will hand them ov er to trouble, to all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for what he did in J erusalem.

nkjv@J eremiah:15:5 @ "For who will have pity on you, O J erusalem? Or who will bemoan you? Or who will turn aside to ask how you are doing?

nkjv@J eremiah:15:6 @ You have forsaken Me," says the LORD, "You have gone backward. Th erefore I will stretch out My hand against you and destroy you; I am weary of relenting!

nkjv@J eremiah:15:7 @ And I will winnow them with a winnowing fan in the gates of the land; I will b ereave them of children; I will destroy My people, Since they do not return from their ways.

nkjv@J eremiah:15:8 @ Their widows will be increased to Me more than the sand of the seas; I will bring against them, Against the moth er of the young men, A plund er er at noonday; I will cause anguish and t error to fall on them suddenly.

nkjv@J eremiah:15:9 @ "She languishes who has borne seven; She has breathed h er last; H er sun has gone down While it was yet day; She has been ashamed and confounded. And the remnant of them I will deliv er to the sword Before their enemies," says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:15:10 @ Woe is me, my moth er, That you have borne me, A man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neith er lent for int erest, Nor have men lent to me for int erest. Ev ery one of them curses me.

nkjv@J eremiah:15:11 @ The LORD said: "Surely it will be well with your remnant; Surely I will cause the enemy to int ercede with you In the time of adv ersity and in the time of affliction.

nkjv@J eremiah:15:12 @ Can anyone break iron, The north ern iron and the bronze?

nkjv@J eremiah:15:13 @ Your wealth and your treasures I will give as plund er without price, Because of all your sins, Throughout your t erritories.

nkjv@J eremiah:15:14 @ And I will make you cross ov er with your enemies Into a land which you do not know; For a fire is kindled in My ang er, Which shall burn upon you."

nkjv@J eremiah:15:15 @ O LORD, You know; Rememb er me and visit me, And take vengeance for me on my p ersecutors. In Your enduring patience, do not take me away. Know that for Your sake I have suff ered rebuke.

nkjv@J eremiah:15:16 @ Your words w ere found, and I ate them, And Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart; For I am called by Your name, O LORD God of hosts.

nkjv@J eremiah:15:17 @ I did not sit in the assembly of the mock ers, Nor did I rejoice; I sat alone because of Your hand, For You have filled me with indignation.

nkjv@J eremiah:15:18 @ Why is my pain p erpetual And my wound incurable, Which refuses to be healed? Will You surely be to me like an unreliable stream, As wat ers that fail?

nkjv@J eremiah:15:19 @ Th erefore thus says the LORD: "If you return, Then I will bring you back; You shall stand before Me; If you take out the precious from the vile, You shall be as My mouth. Let them return to you, But you must not return to them.

nkjv@J eremiah:15:20 @ And I will make you to this people a fortified bronze wall; And they will fight against you, But they shall not prevail against you; For I am with you to save you And deliv er you," says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:15:21 @ "I will deliv er you from the hand of the wicked, And I will redeem you from the grip of the t errible."

nkjv@J eremiah:16:1 @ The word of the LORD also came to me, saying,

nkjv@J eremiah:16:2 @ "You shall not take a wife, nor shall you have sons or daught ers in this place."

nkjv@J eremiah:16:3 @ For thus says the LORD conc erning the sons and daught ers who are born in this place, and conc erning their moth ers who bore them and their fath ers who begot them in this land:

nkjv@J eremiah:16:4 @ "They shall die gruesome deaths; they shall not be lamented nor shall they be buried, but they shall be like refuse on the face of the earth. They shall be consumed by the sword and by famine, and their corpses shall be meat for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth."

nkjv@J eremiah:16:5 @ For thus says the LORD: "Do not ent er the house of mourning, nor go to lament or bemoan them; for I have taken away My peace from this people," says the LORD, "lovingkindness and m ercies.

nkjv@J eremiah:16:6 @ Both the great and the small shall die in this land. They shall not be buried; neith er shall men lament for them, cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them.

nkjv@J eremiah:16:7 @ Nor shall men break bread in mourning for them, to comfort them for the dead; nor shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their fath er or their moth er.

nkjv@J eremiah:16:8 @ Also you shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and drink."

nkjv@J eremiah:16:9 @ For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Behold, I will cause to cease from this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.

nkjv@J eremiah:16:10 @ "And it shall be, when you show this people all these words, and they say to you, "Why has the LORD pronounced all this great disast er against us? Or what is our iniquity? Or what is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?'

nkjv@J eremiah:16:11 @ then you shall say to them, "Because your fath ers have forsaken Me,' says the LORD; "they have walked aft er oth er gods and have s erved them and worshiped them, and have forsaken Me and not kept My law.

nkjv@J eremiah:16:12 @ And you have done worse than your fath ers, for behold, each one follows the dictates of his own evil heart, so that no one listens to Me.

nkjv@J eremiah:16:13 @ Th erefore I will cast you out of this land into a land that you do not know, neith er you nor your fath ers; and th ere you shall s erve oth er gods day and night, wh ere I will not show you favor.'

nkjv@J eremiah:16:14 @ "Th erefore behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "that it shall no more be said, "The LORD lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt,'

nkjv@J eremiah:16:15 @ but, "The LORD lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north and from all the lands wh ere He had driven them.' For I will bring them back into their land which I gave to their fath ers.

nkjv@J eremiah:16:16 @ "Behold, I will send for many fish ermen," says the LORD, "and they shall fish them; and aft erward I will send for many hunt ers, and they shall hunt them from ev ery mountain and ev ery hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

nkjv@J eremiah:16:17 @ For My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from My face, nor is their iniquity hidden from My eyes.

nkjv@J eremiah:16:18 @ And first I will repay double for their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land; they have filled My inh eritance with the carcasses of their detestable and abominable idols."

nkjv@J eremiah:16:19 @ O LORD, my strength and my fortress, My refuge in the day of affliction, The Gentiles shall come to You From the ends of the earth and say, "Surely our fath ers have inh erited lies, Worthlessness and unprofitable things."

nkjv@J eremiah:16:20 @ Will a man make gods for himself, Which are not gods?

nkjv@J eremiah:16:21 @ "Th erefore behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know My hand and My might; And they shall know that My name is the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:17:1 @ "The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron; With the point of a diamond it is engraved On the tablet of their heart, And on the horns of your altars,

nkjv@J eremiah:17:2 @ While their children rememb er Their altars and their wooden images By the green trees on the high hills.

nkjv@J eremiah:17:3 @ O My mountain in the field, I will give as plund er your wealth, all your treasures, And your high places of sin within all your bord ers.

nkjv@J eremiah:17:4 @ And you, even yourself, Shall let go of your h eritage which I gave you; And I will cause you to s erve your enemies In the land which you do not know; For you have kindled a fire in My ang er which shall burn forev er."

nkjv@J eremiah:17:5 @ Thus says the LORD: "Cursed is the man who trusts in man And makes flesh his strength, Whose heart departs from the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:17:6 @ For he shall be like a shrub in the des ert, And shall not see when good comes, But shall inhabit the parched places in the wild erness, In a salt land which is not inhabited.

nkjv@J eremiah:17:7 @ "Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, And whose hope is the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:17:8 @ For he shall be like a tree planted by the wat ers, Which spreads out its roots by the riv er, And will not fear when heat comes; But its leaf will be green, And will not be anxious in the year of drought, Nor will cease from yielding fruit.

nkjv@J eremiah:17:9 @ "The heart is deceitful above all things, And desp erately wicked; Who can know it?

nkjv@J eremiah:17:10 @ I, the LORD, search the heart, I test the mind, Even to give ev ery man according to his ways, According to the fruit of his doings.

nkjv@J eremiah:17:11 @ "As a partridge that broods but does not hatch, So is he who gets riches, but not by right; It will leave him in the midst of his days, And at his end he will be a fool."

nkjv@J eremiah:17:12 @ A glorious high throne from the beginning Is the place of our sanctuary.

nkjv@J eremiah:17:13 @ O LORD, the hope of Israel, All who forsake You shall be ashamed. "Those who depart from Me Shall be written in the earth, Because they have forsaken the LORD, The fountain of living wat ers."

nkjv@J eremiah:17:14 @ Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; Save me, and I shall be saved, For You are my praise.

nkjv@J eremiah:17:15 @ Indeed they say to me, "Wh ere is the word of the LORD? Let it come now!"

nkjv@J eremiah:17:16 @ As for me, I have not hurried away from being a sheph erd who follows You, Nor have I desired the woeful day; You know what came out of my lips; It was right th ere before You.

nkjv@J eremiah:17:17 @ Do not be a t error to me; You are my hope in the day of doom.

nkjv@J eremiah:17:18 @ Let them be ashamed who p ersecute me, But do not let me be put to shame; Let them be dismayed, But do not let me be dismayed. Bring on them the day of doom, And destroy them with double destruction!

nkjv@J eremiah:17:19 @ Thus the LORD said to me: "Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, by which the kings of Judah come in and by which they go out, and in all the gates of J erusalem;

nkjv@J eremiah:17:20 @ and say to them, "Hear the word of the LORD, you kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of J erusalem, who ent er by these gates.

nkjv@J eremiah:17:21 @ Thus says the LORD: "Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of J erusalem;

nkjv@J eremiah:17:22 @ nor carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day, nor do any work, but hallow the Sabbath day, as I commanded your fath ers.

nkjv@J eremiah:17:23 @ But they did not obey nor incline their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear nor receive instruction.

nkjv@J eremiah:17:24 @ "And it shall be, if you heed Me carefully," says the LORD, "to bring no burden through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work in it,

nkjv@J eremiah:17:25 @ then shall ent er the gates of this city kings and princes sitting on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their princes, accompanied by the men of Judah and the inhabitants of J erusalem; and this city shall remain forev er.

nkjv@J eremiah:17:26 @ And they shall come from the cities of Judah and from the places around J erusalem, from the land of Benjamin and from the lowland, from the mountains and from the South, bringing burnt off erings and sacrifices, grain off erings and incense, bringing sacrifices of praise to the house of the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:17:27 @ "But if you will not heed Me to hallow the Sabbath day, such as not carrying a burden when ent ering the gates of J erusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it shall devour the palaces of J erusalem, and it shall not be quenched.""'

nkjv@J eremiah:18:1 @ The word which came to J eremiah from the LORD, saying:

nkjv@J eremiah:18:2 @ "Arise and go down to the pott er's house, and th ere I will cause you to hear My words."

nkjv@J eremiah:18:3 @ Then I went down to the pott er's house, and th ere he was, making something at the wheel.

nkjv@J eremiah:18:4 @ And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the pott er; so he made it again into anoth er vessel, as it seemed good to the pott er to make.

nkjv@J eremiah:18:5 @ Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying:

nkjv@J eremiah:18:6 @ "O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this pott er?" says the LORD. "Look, as the clay is in the pott er's hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel!

nkjv@J eremiah:18:7 @ The instant I speak conc erning a nation and conc erning a kingdom, to pluck up, to pull down, and to destroy it,

nkjv@J eremiah:18:8 @ if that nation against whom I have spoken turns from its evil, I will relent of the disast er that I thought to bring upon it.

nkjv@J eremiah:18:9 @ And the instant I speak conc erning a nation and conc erning a kingdom, to build and to plant it,

nkjv@J eremiah:18:10 @ if it does evil in My sight so that it does not obey My voice, then I will relent conc erning the good with which I said I would benefit it.

nkjv@J eremiah:18:11 @ "Now th erefore, speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of J erusalem, saying, "Thus says the LORD: "Behold, I am fashioning a disast er and devising a plan against you. Return now ev ery one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.""'

nkjv@J eremiah:18:12 @ And they said, "That is hopeless! So we will walk according to our own plans, and we will ev ery one obey the dictates of his evil heart."

nkjv@J eremiah:18:13 @ Th erefore thus says the LORD: "Ask now among the Gentiles, Who has heard such things? The virgin of Israel has done a v ery horrible thing.

nkjv@J eremiah:18:14 @ Will a man leave the snow wat er of Lebanon, Which comes from the rock of the field? Will the cold flowing wat ers be forsaken for strange wat ers?

nkjv@J eremiah:18:15 @ "Because My people have forgotten Me, They have burned incense to worthless idols. And they have caused themselves to stumble in their ways, From the ancient paths, To walk in pathways and not on a highway,

nkjv@J eremiah:18:16 @ To make their land desolate and a p erpetual hissing; Ev eryone who passes by it will be astonished And shake his head.

nkjv@J eremiah:18:17 @ I will scatt er them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back and not the face In the day of their calamity."

nkjv@J eremiah:18:18 @ Then they said, "Come and let us devise plans against J eremiah; for the law shall not p erish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come and let us attack him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words."

nkjv@J eremiah:18:19 @ Give heed to me, O LORD, And listen to the voice of those who contend with me!

nkjv@J eremiah:18:20 @ Shall evil be repaid for good? For they have dug a pit for my life. Rememb er that I stood before You To speak good for them, To turn away Your wrath from them.

nkjv@J eremiah:18:21 @ Th erefore deliv er up their children to the famine, And pour out their blood By the force of the sword; Let their wives become widows And b ereaved of their children. Let their men be put to death, Their young men be slain By the sword in battle.

nkjv@J eremiah:18:22 @ Let a cry be heard from their houses, When You bring a troop suddenly upon them; For they have dug a pit to take me, And hidden snares for my feet.

nkjv@J eremiah:18:23 @ Yet, LORD, You know all their counsel Which is against me, to slay me. Provide no atonement for their iniquity, Nor blot out their sin from Your sight; But let them be ov erthrown before You. Deal thus with them In the time of Your ang er.

nkjv@J eremiah:19:1 @ Thus says the LORD: "Go and get a pott er's earthen flask, and take some of the eld ers of the people and some of the eld ers of the priests.

nkjv@J eremiah:19:2 @ And go out to the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the Potsh erd Gate; and proclaim th ere the words that I will tell you,

nkjv@J eremiah:19:3 @ and say, "Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of J erusalem. Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Behold, I will bring such a catastrophe on this place, that whoev er hears of it, his ears will tingle.

nkjv@J eremiah:19:4 @ "Because they have forsaken Me and made this an alien place, because they have burned incense in it to oth er gods whom neith er they, their fath ers, nor the kings of Judah have known, and have filled this place with the blood of the innocents

nkjv@J eremiah:19:5 @ (they have also built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt off erings to Baal, which I did not command or speak, nor did it come into My mind),

nkjv@J eremiah:19:6 @ th erefore behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "that this place shall no more be called Tophet or the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaught er.

nkjv@J eremiah:19:7 @ And I will make void the counsel of Judah and J erusalem in this place, and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hands of those who seek their lives; their corpses I will give as meat for the birds of the heaven and for the beasts of the earth.

nkjv@J eremiah:19:8 @ I will make this city desolate and a hissing; ev eryone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.

nkjv@J eremiah:19:9 @ And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daught ers, and ev eryone shall eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and in the desp eration with which their enemies and those who seek their lives shall drive them to despair."'

nkjv@J eremiah:19:10 @ "Then you shall break the flask in the sight of the men who go with you,

nkjv@J eremiah:19:11 @ and say to them, "Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Even so I will break this people and this city, as one breaks a pott er's vessel, which cannot be made whole again; and they shall bury them in Tophet till th ere is no place to bury.

nkjv@J eremiah:19:12 @ Thus I will do to this place," says the LORD, "and to its inhabitants, and make this city like Tophet.

nkjv@J eremiah:19:13 @ And the houses of J erusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah shall be defiled like the place of Tophet, because of all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of heaven, and poured out drink off erings to oth er gods.""'

nkjv@J eremiah:19:14 @ Then J eremiah came from Tophet, wh ere the LORD had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the Lord's house and said to all the people,

nkjv@J eremiah:19:15 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Behold, I will bring on this city and on all h er towns all the doom that I have pronounced against it, because they have stiffened their necks that they might not hear My words."'

nkjv@J eremiah:20:1 @ Now Pashhur the son of Imm er, the priest who was also chief gov ernor in the house of the LORD, heard that J eremiah prophesied these things.

nkjv@J eremiah:20:2 @ Then Pashhur struck J eremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that w ere in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:20:3 @ And it happened on the next day that Pashhur brought J eremiah out of the stocks. Then J eremiah said to him, "The LORD has not called your name Pashhur, but Magor-Missabib.

nkjv@J eremiah:20:4 @ For thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will make you a t error to yourself and to all your friends; and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes shall see it. I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive to Babylon and slay them with the sword.

nkjv@J eremiah:20:5 @ Moreov er I will deliv er all the wealth of this city, all its produce, and all its precious things; all the treasures of the kings of Judah I will give into the hand of their enemies, who will plund er them, seize them, and carry them to Babylon.

nkjv@J eremiah:20:6 @ And you, Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house, shall go into captivity. You shall go to Babylon, and th ere you shall die, and be buried th ere, you and all your friends, to whom you have prophesied lies."'

nkjv@J eremiah:20:7 @ O LORD, You induced me, and I was p ersuaded; You are strong er than I, and have prevailed. I am in d erision daily; Ev eryone mocks me.

nkjv@J eremiah:20:8 @ For when I spoke, I cried out; I shouted, "Violence and plund er!" Because the word of the LORD was made to me A reproach and a d erision daily.

nkjv@J eremiah:20:9 @ Then I said, "I will not make mention of Him, Nor speak anymore in His name." But His word was in my heart like a burning fire Shut up in my bones; I was weary of holding it back, And I could not.

nkjv@J eremiah:20:10 @ For I heard many mocking: "Fear on ev ery side!" "Report," they say, "and we will report it!" All my acquaintances watched for my stumbling, saying, "P erhaps he can be induced; Then we will prevail against him, And we will take our revenge on him."

nkjv@J eremiah:20:11 @ But the LORD is with me as a mighty, awesome One. Th erefore my p ersecutors will stumble, and will not prevail. They will be greatly ashamed, for they will not prosp er. Their ev erlasting confusion will nev er be forgotten.

nkjv@J eremiah:20:12 @ But, O LORD of hosts, You who test the righteous, And see the mind and heart, Let me see Your vengeance on them; For I have pleaded my cause before You.

nkjv@J eremiah:20:13 @ Sing to the LORD! Praise the LORD! For He has deliv ered the life of the poor From the hand of evildo ers.

nkjv@J eremiah:20:14 @ Cursed be the day in which I was born! Let the day not be blessed in which my moth er bore me!

nkjv@J eremiah:20:15 @ Let the man be cursed Who brought news to my fath er, saying, "A male child has been born to you!" Making him v ery glad.

nkjv@J eremiah:20:16 @ And let that man be like the cities Which the LORD ov erthrew, and did not relent; Let him hear the cry in the morning And the shouting at noon,

nkjv@J eremiah:20:17 @ Because he did not kill me from the womb, That my moth er might have been my grave, And h er womb always enlarged with me.

nkjv@J eremiah:20:18 @ Why did I come forth from the womb to see labor and sorrow, That my days should be consumed with shame?

nkjv@J eremiah:21:1 @ The word which came to J eremiah from the LORD when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, saying,

nkjv@J eremiah:21:2 @ "Please inquire of the LORD for us, for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon makes war against us. P erhaps the LORD will deal with us according to all His wond erful works, that the king may go away from us."

nkjv@J eremiah:21:3 @ Then J eremiah said to them, "Thus you shall say to Zedekiah,

nkjv@J eremiah:21:4 @ "Thus says the LORD God of Israel: "Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, with which you fight against the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the walls; and I will assemble them in the midst of this city.

nkjv@J eremiah:21:5 @ I Myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in ang er and fury and great wrath.

nkjv@J eremiah:21:6 @ I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast; they shall die of a great pestilence.

nkjv@J eremiah:21:7 @ And aft erward," says the LORD, "I will deliv er Zedekiah king of Judah, his s ervants and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence and the sword and the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life; and he shall strike them with the edge of the sword. He shall not spare them, or have pity or m ercy."'

nkjv@J eremiah:21:8 @ "Now you shall say to this people, "Thus says the LORD: "Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.

nkjv@J eremiah:21:9 @ He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence; but he who goes out and defects to the Chaldeans who besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be as a prize to him.

nkjv@J eremiah:21:10 @ For I have set My face against this city for adv ersity and not for good," says the LORD. "It shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire."'

nkjv@J eremiah:21:11 @ "And conc erning the house of the king of Judah, say, "Hear the word of the LORD,

nkjv@J eremiah:21:12 @ O house of David! Thus says the LORD: "Execute judgment in the morning; And deliv er him who is plund ered Out of the hand of the oppressor, Lest My fury go forth like fire And burn so that no one can quench it, Because of the evil of your doings.

nkjv@J eremiah:21:13 @ "Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley, And rock of the plain," says the LORD, "Who say, "Who shall come down against us? Or who shall ent er our dwellings?'

nkjv@J eremiah:21:14 @ But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings," says the LORD; "I will kindle a fire in its forest, And it shall devour all things around it.""'

nkjv@J eremiah:22:1 @ Thus says the LORD: "Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and th ere speak this word,

nkjv@J eremiah:22:2 @ and say, "Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, you who sit on the throne of David, you and your s ervants and your people who ent er these gates!

nkjv@J eremiah:22:3 @ Thus says the LORD: "Execute judgment and righteousness, and deliv er the plund ered out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong and do no violence to the strang er, the fath erless, or the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.

nkjv@J eremiah:22:4 @ For if you indeed do this thing, then shall ent er the gates of this house, riding on horses and in chariots, accompanied by s ervants and people, kings who sit on the throne of David.

nkjv@J eremiah:22:5 @ But if you will not hear these words, I swear by Myself," says the LORD, "that this house shall become a desolation.""'

nkjv@J eremiah:22:6 @ For thus says the LORD to the house of the king of Judah: "You are Gilead to Me, The head of Lebanon; Yet I surely will make you a wild erness, Cities which are not inhabited.

nkjv@J eremiah:22:7 @ I will prepare destroy ers against you, Ev eryone with his weapons; They shall cut down your choice cedars And cast them into the fire.

nkjv@J eremiah:22:8 @ And many nations will pass by this city; and ev eryone will say to his neighbor, "Why has the LORD done so to this great city?'

nkjv@J eremiah:22:9 @ Then they will answ er, "Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshiped oth er gods and s erved them."'

nkjv@J eremiah:22:10 @ Weep not for the dead, nor bemoan him; Weep bitt erly for him who goes away, For he shall return no more, Nor see his native country.

nkjv@J eremiah:22:11 @ For thus says the LORD conc erning Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his fath er, who went from this place: "He shall not return h ere anymore,

nkjv@J eremiah:22:12 @ but he shall die in the place wh ere they have led him captive, and shall see this land no more.

nkjv@J eremiah:22:13 @ "Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness And his chamb ers by injustice, Who uses his neighbor's s ervice without wages And gives him nothing for his work,

nkjv@J eremiah:22:14 @ Who says, "I will build myself a wide house with spacious chamb ers, And cut out windows for it, Paneling it with cedar And painting it with v ermilion.'

nkjv@J eremiah:22:15 @ "Shall you reign because you enclose yourself in cedar? Did not your fath er eat and drink, And do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.

nkjv@J eremiah:22:16 @ He judged the cause of the poor and needy; Then it was well. Was not this knowing Me?" says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:22:17 @ "Yet your eyes and your heart are for nothing but your covetousness, For shedding innocent blood, And practicing oppression and violence."

nkjv@J eremiah:22:18 @ Th erefore thus says the LORD conc erning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: "They shall not lament for him, Saying, "Alas, my broth er!' or "Alas, my sist er!' They shall not lament for him, Saying, "Alas, mast er!' or "Alas, his glory!'

nkjv@J eremiah:22:19 @ He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey, Dragged and cast out beyond the gates of J erusalem.

nkjv@J eremiah:22:20 @ "Go up to Lebanon, and cry out, And lift up your voice in Bashan; Cry from Abarim, For all your lov ers are destroyed.

nkjv@J eremiah:22:21 @ I spoke to you in your prosp erity, But you said, "I will not hear.' This has been your mann er from your youth, That you did not obey My voice.

nkjv@J eremiah:22:22 @ The wind shall eat up all your rul ers, And your lov ers shall go into captivity; Surely then you will be ashamed and humiliated For all your wickedness.

nkjv@J eremiah:22:23 @ O inhabitant of Lebanon, Making your nest in the cedars, How gracious will you be when pangs come upon you, Like the pain of a woman in labor?

nkjv@J eremiah:22:24 @ "As I live," says the LORD, "though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, w ere the signet on My right hand, yet I would pluck you off;

nkjv@J eremiah:22:25 @ and I will give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of those whose face you fear--the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and the hand of the Chaldeans.

nkjv@J eremiah:22:26 @ So I will cast you out, and your moth er who bore you, into anoth er country wh ere you w ere not born; and th ere you shall die.

nkjv@J eremiah:22:27 @ But to the land to which they desire to return, th ere they shall not return.

nkjv@J eremiah:22:28 @ "Is this man Coniah a despised, broken idol-- A vessel in which is no pleasure? Why are they cast out, he and his descendants, And cast into a land which they do not know?

nkjv@J eremiah:22:29 @ O earth, earth, earth, Hear the word of the LORD!

nkjv@J eremiah:22:30 @ Thus says the LORD: "Write this man down as childless, A man who shall not prosp er in his days; For none of his descendants shall prosp er, Sitting on the throne of David, And ruling anymore in Judah."'

nkjv@J eremiah:23:1 @ "Woe to the sheph erds who destroy and scatt er the sheep of My pasture!" says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:23:2 @ Th erefore thus says the LORD God of Israel against the sheph erds who feed My people: "You have scatt ered My flock, driven them away, and not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for the evil of your doings," says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:23:3 @ "But I will gath er the remnant of My flock out of all countries wh ere I have driven them, and bring them back to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.

nkjv@J eremiah:23:4 @ I will set up sheph erds ov er them who will feed them; and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, nor shall they be lacking," says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:23:5 @ "Behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "That I will raise to David a Branch of righteousness; A King shall reign and prosp er, And execute judgment and righteousness in the earth.

nkjv@J eremiah:23:6 @ In His days Judah will be saved, And Israel will dwell safely; Now this is His name by which He will be called: THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.

nkjv@J eremiah:23:7 @ "Th erefore, behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "that they shall no long er say, "As the LORD lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt,'

nkjv@J eremiah:23:8 @ but, "As the LORD lives who brought up and led the descendants of the house of Israel from the north country and from all the countries wh ere I had driven them.' And they shall dwell in their own land."

nkjv@J eremiah:23:9 @ My heart within me is broken Because of the prophets; All my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, And like a man whom wine has ov ercome, Because of the LORD, And because of His holy words.

nkjv@J eremiah:23:10 @ For the land is full of adult er ers; For because of a curse the land mourns. The pleasant places of the wild erness are dried up. Their course of life is evil, And their might is not right.

nkjv@J eremiah:23:11 @ "For both prophet and priest are profane; Yes, in My house I have found their wickedness," says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:23:12 @ "Th erefore their way shall be to them Like slipp ery ways; In the darkness they shall be driven on And fall in them; For I will bring disast er on them, The year of their punishment," says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:23:13 @ "And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria: They prophesied by Baal And caused My people Israel to err.

nkjv@J eremiah:23:14 @ Also I have seen a horrible thing in the prophets of J erusalem: They commit adult ery and walk in lies; They also strengthen the hands of evildo ers, So that no one turns back from his wickedness. All of them are like Sodom to Me, And h er inhabitants like Gomorrah.

nkjv@J eremiah:23:15 @ "Th erefore thus says the LORD of hosts conc erning the prophets: "Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, And make them drink the wat er of gall; For from the prophets of J erusalem Profaneness has gone out into all the land."'

nkjv@J eremiah:23:16 @ Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They make you worthless; They speak a vision of their own heart, Not from the mouth of the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:23:17 @ They continually say to those who despise Me, "The LORD has said, "You shall have peace"'; And to ev eryone who walks according to the dictates of his own heart, they say, "No evil shall come upon you."'

nkjv@J eremiah:23:18 @ For who has stood in the counsel of the LORD, And has p erceived and heard His word? Who has marked His word and heard it?

nkjv@J eremiah:23:19 @ Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD has gone forth in fury-- A violent whirlwind! It will fall violently on the head of the wicked.

nkjv@J eremiah:23:20 @ The ang er of the LORD will not turn back Until He has executed and p erformed the thoughts of His heart. In the latt er days you will und erstand it p erfectly.

nkjv@J eremiah:23:21 @ "I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran. I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.

nkjv@J eremiah:23:22 @ But if they had stood in My counsel, And had caused My people to hear My words, Then they would have turned them from their evil way And from the evil of their doings.

nkjv@J eremiah:23:23 @ "Am I a God near at hand," says the LORD, "And not a God afar off?

nkjv@J eremiah:23:24 @ Can anyone hide himself in secret places, So I shall not see him?" says the LORD; "Do I not fill heaven and earth?" says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:23:25 @ "I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy lies in My name, saying, "I have dreamed, I have dreamed!'

nkjv@J eremiah:23:26 @ How long will this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies? Indeed they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart,

nkjv@J eremiah:23:27 @ who try to make My people forget My name by their dreams which ev eryone tells his neighbor, as their fath ers forgot My name for Baal.

nkjv@J eremiah:23:28 @ "The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; And he who has My word, let him speak My word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat?" says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:23:29 @ "Is not My word like a fire?" says the LORD, "And like a hamm er that breaks the rock in pieces?

nkjv@J eremiah:23:30 @ "Th erefore behold, I am against the prophets," says the LORD, "who steal My words ev ery one from his neighbor.

nkjv@J eremiah:23:31 @ Behold, I am against the prophets," says the LORD, "who use their tongues and say, "He says.'

nkjv@J eremiah:23:32 @ Behold, I am against those who prophesy false dreams," says the LORD, "and tell them, and cause My people to err by their lies and by their recklessness. Yet I did not send them or command them; th erefore they shall not profit this people at all," says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:23:33 @ "So when these people or the prophet or the priest ask you, saying, "What is the oracle of the LORD?' you shall then say to them, "What oracle?' I will even forsake you," says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:23:34 @ "And as for the prophet and the priest and the people who say, "The oracle of the LORD!' I will even punish that man and his house.

nkjv@J eremiah:23:35 @ Thus ev ery one of you shall say to his neighbor, and ev ery one to his broth er, "What has the LORD answ ered?' and, "What has the LORD spoken?'

nkjv@J eremiah:23:36 @ And the oracle of the LORD you shall mention no more. For ev ery man's word will be his oracle, for you have p erv erted the words of the living God, the LORD of hosts, our God.

nkjv@J eremiah:23:37 @ Thus you shall say to the prophet, "What has the LORD answ ered you?' and, "What has the LORD spoken?'

nkjv@J eremiah:23:38 @ But since you say, "The oracle of the LORD!' th erefore thus says the LORD: "Because you say this word, "The oracle of the LORD!" and I have sent to you, saying, "Do not say, "The oracle of the LORD!"'

nkjv@J eremiah:23:39 @ th erefore behold, I, even I, will utt erly forget you and forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fath ers, and will cast you out of My presence.

nkjv@J eremiah:23:40 @ And I will bring an ev erlasting reproach upon you, and a p erpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten."'

nkjv@J eremiah:24:1 @ The LORD showed me, and th ere w ere two baskets of figs set before the temple of the LORD, aft er Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah with the craftsmen and smiths, from J erusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.

nkjv@J eremiah:24:2 @ One basket had v ery good figs, like the figs that are first ripe; and the oth er basket had v ery bad figs which could not be eaten, they w ere so bad.

nkjv@J eremiah:24:3 @ Then the LORD said to me, "What do you see, J eremiah?" And I said, "Figs, the good figs, v ery good; and the bad, v ery bad, which cannot be eaten, they are so bad."

nkjv@J eremiah:24:4 @ Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@J eremiah:24:5 @ "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: "Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge those who are carried away captive from Judah, whom I have sent out of this place for their own good, into the land of the Chaldeans.

nkjv@J eremiah:24:6 @ For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land; I will build them and not pull them down, and I will plant them and not pluck them up.

nkjv@J eremiah:24:7 @ Then I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God, for they shall return to Me with their whole heart.

nkjv@J eremiah:24:8 @ "And as the bad figs which cannot be eaten, they are so bad'--surely thus says the LORD--"so will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, his princes, the residue of J erusalem who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt.

nkjv@J eremiah:24:9 @ I will deliv er them to trouble into all the kingdoms of the earth, for their harm, to be a reproach and a byword, a taunt and a curse, in all places wh ere I shall drive them.

nkjv@J eremiah:24:10 @ And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence among them, till they are consumed from the land that I gave to them and their fath ers."'

nkjv@J eremiah:25:1 @ The word that came to J eremiah conc erning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah (which was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon),

nkjv@J eremiah:25:2 @ which J eremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and to all the inhabitants of J erusalem, saying:

nkjv@J eremiah:25:3 @ "From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, this is the twenty-third year in which the word of the LORD has come to me; and I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking, but you have not listened.

nkjv@J eremiah:25:4 @ And the LORD has sent to you all His s ervants the prophets, rising early and sending them, but you have not listened nor inclined your ear to hear.

nkjv@J eremiah:25:5 @ They said, "Repent now ev eryone of his evil way and his evil doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD has given to you and your fath ers forev er and ev er.

nkjv@J eremiah:25:6 @ Do not go aft er oth er gods to s erve them and worship them, and do not provoke Me to ang er with the works of your hands; and I will not harm you.'

nkjv@J eremiah:25:7 @ Yet you have not listened to Me," says the LORD, "that you might provoke Me to ang er with the works of your hands to your own hurt.

nkjv@J eremiah:25:8 @ "Th erefore thus says the LORD of hosts: "Because you have not heard My words,

nkjv@J eremiah:25:9 @ behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,' says the LORD, "and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My s ervant, and will bring them against this land, against its inhabitants, and against these nations all around, and will utt erly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, a hissing, and p erpetual desolations.

nkjv@J eremiah:25:10 @ Moreov er I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.

nkjv@J eremiah:25:11 @ And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment, and these nations shall s erve the king of Babylon seventy years.

nkjv@J eremiah:25:12 @ "Then it will come to pass, when seventy years are completed, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity,' says the LORD; "and I will make it a p erpetual desolation.

nkjv@J eremiah:25:13 @ So I will bring on that land all My words which I have pronounced against it, all that is written in this book, which J eremiah has prophesied conc erning all the nations.

nkjv@J eremiah:25:14 @ (For many nations and great kings shall be s erved by them also; and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the works of their own hands.)"'

nkjv@J eremiah:25:15 @ For thus says the LORD God of Israel to me: "Take this wine cup of fury from My hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it.

nkjv@J eremiah:25:16 @ And they will drink and stagg er and go mad because of the sword that I will send among them."

nkjv@J eremiah:25:17 @ Then I took the cup from the LORD's hand, and made all the nations drink, to whom the LORD had sent me:

nkjv@J eremiah:25:18 @ J erusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and its princes, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;

nkjv@J eremiah:25:19 @ Pharaoh king of Egypt, his s ervants, his princes, and all his people;

nkjv@J eremiah:25:20 @ all the mixed multitude, all the kings of the land of Uz, all the kings of the land of the Philistines (namely, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod);

nkjv@J eremiah:25:21 @ Edom, Moab, and the people of Ammon;

nkjv@J eremiah:25:22 @ all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastlands which are across the sea;

nkjv@J eremiah:25:23 @ Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who are in the farthest corn ers;

nkjv@J eremiah:25:24 @ all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the mixed multitude who dwell in the des ert;

nkjv@J eremiah:25:25 @ all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes;

nkjv@J eremiah:25:26 @ all the kings of the north, far and near, one with anoth er; and all the kingdoms of the world which are on the face of the earth. Also the king of Sheshach shall drink aft er them.

nkjv@J eremiah:25:27 @ "Th erefore you shall say to them, "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Drink, be drunk, and vomit! Fall and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you."'

nkjv@J eremiah:25:28 @ And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup from your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, "Thus says the LORD of hosts: "You shall c ertainly drink!

nkjv@J eremiah:25:29 @ For behold, I begin to bring calamity on the city which is called by My name, and should you be utt erly unpunished? You shall not be unpunished, for I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth," says the LORD of hosts.'

nkjv@J eremiah:25:30 @ "Th erefore prophesy against them all these words, and say to them: "The LORD will roar from on high, And utt er His voice from His holy habitation; He will roar mightily against His fold. He will give a shout, as those who tread the grapes, Against all the inhabitants of the earth.

nkjv@J eremiah:25:31 @ A noise will come to the ends of the earth-- For the LORD has a controv ersy with the nations; He will plead His case with all flesh. He will give those who are wicked to the sword,' says the LORD."

nkjv@J eremiah:25:32 @ Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Behold, disast er shall go forth From nation to nation, And a great whirlwind shall be raised up From the farthest parts of the earth.

nkjv@J eremiah:25:33 @ "And at that day the slain of the LORD shall be from one end of the earth even to the oth er end of the earth. They shall not be lamented, or gath ered, or buried; they shall become refuse on the ground.

nkjv@J eremiah:25:34 @ "Wail, sheph erds, and cry! Roll about in the ashes, You lead ers of the flock! For the days of your slaught er and your disp ersions are fulfilled; You shall fall like a precious vessel.

nkjv@J eremiah:25:35 @ And the sheph erds will have no way to flee, Nor the lead ers of the flock to escape.

nkjv@J eremiah:25:36 @ A voice of the cry of the sheph erds, And a wailing of the lead ers to the flock will be heard. For the LORD has plund ered their pasture,

nkjv@J eremiah:25:37 @ And the peaceful dwellings are cut down Because of the fi erce ang er of the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:25:38 @ He has left His lair like the lion; For their land is desolate Because of the fi erceness of the Oppressor, And because of His fi erce ang er."

nkjv@J eremiah:26:1 @ In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came from the LORD, saying,

nkjv@J eremiah:26:2 @ "Thus says the LORD: "Stand in the court of the LORD's house, and speak to all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the LORD's house, all the words that I command you to speak to them. Do not diminish a word.

nkjv@J eremiah:26:3 @ P erhaps ev eryone will listen and turn from his evil way, that I may relent conc erning the calamity which I purpose to bring on them because of the evil of their doings.'

nkjv@J eremiah:26:4 @ And you shall say to them, "Thus says the LORD: "If you will not listen to Me, to walk in My law which I have set before you,

nkjv@J eremiah:26:5 @ to heed the words of My s ervants the prophets whom I sent to you, both rising up early and sending them (but you have not heeded),

nkjv@J eremiah:26:6 @ then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.""'

nkjv@J eremiah:26:7 @ So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard J eremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:26:8 @ Now it happened, when J eremiah had made an end of speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak to all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, "You will surely die!

nkjv@J eremiah:26:9 @ Why have you prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, "This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without an inhabitant'?" And all the people w ere gath ered against J eremiah in the house of the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:26:10 @ When the princes of Judah heard these things, they came up from the king's house to the house of the LORD and sat down in the entry of the New Gate of the LORD's house.

nkjv@J eremiah:26:11 @ And the priests and the prophets spoke to the princes and all the people, saying, "This man des erves to die! For he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears."

nkjv@J eremiah:26:12 @ Then J eremiah spoke to all the princes and all the people, saying: "The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city with all the words that you have heard.

nkjv@J eremiah:26:13 @ Now th erefore, amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; then the LORD will relent conc erning the doom that He has pronounced against you.

nkjv@J eremiah:26:14 @ As for me, h ere I am, in your hand; do with me as seems good and prop er to you.

nkjv@J eremiah:26:15 @ But know for c ertain that if you put me to death, you will surely bring innocent blood on yourselves, on this city, and on its inhabitants; for truly the LORD has sent me to you to speak all these words in your hearing."

nkjv@J eremiah:26:16 @ So the princes and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, "This man does not des erve to die. For he has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God."

nkjv@J eremiah:26:17 @ Then c ertain of the eld ers of the land rose up and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying:

nkjv@J eremiah:26:18 @ "Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, "Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Zion shall be plowed like a field, J erusalem shall become heaps of ruins, And the mountain of the temple Like the bare hills of the forest."'

nkjv@J eremiah:26:19 @ Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah ev er put him to death? Did he not fear the LORD and seek the LORD's favor? And the LORD relented conc erning the doom which He had pronounced against them. But we are doing great evil against ourselves."

nkjv@J eremiah:26:20 @ Now th ere was also a man who prophesied in the name of the LORD, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjath Jearim, who prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of J eremiah.

nkjv@J eremiah:26:21 @ And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death; but when Urijah heard it, he was afraid and fled, and went to Egypt.

nkjv@J eremiah:26:22 @ Then Jehoiakim the king sent men to Egypt: Elnathan the son of Achbor, and oth er men who went with him to Egypt.

nkjv@J eremiah:26:23 @ And they brought Urijah from Egypt and brought him to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the sword and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.

nkjv@J eremiah:26:24 @ Nev ertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with J eremiah, so that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.

nkjv@J eremiah:27:1 @ In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to J eremiah from the LORD, saying,

nkjv@J eremiah:27:2 @ "Thus says the LORD to me: "Make for yourselves bonds and yokes, and put them on your neck,

nkjv@J eremiah:27:3 @ and send them to the king of Edom, the king of Moab, the king of the Ammonites, the king of Tyre, and the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messeng ers who come to J erusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.

nkjv@J eremiah:27:4 @ And command them to say to their mast ers, "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel--thus you shall say to your mast ers:

nkjv@J eremiah:27:5 @ "I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are on the ground, by My great pow er and by My outstretched arm, and have given it to whom it seemed prop er to Me.

nkjv@J eremiah:27:6 @ And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My s ervant; and the beasts of the field I have also given him to s erve him.

nkjv@J eremiah:27:7 @ So all nations shall s erve him and his son and his son's son, until the time of his land comes; and then many nations and great kings shall make him s erve them.

nkjv@J eremiah:27:8 @ And it shall be, that the nation and kingdom which will not s erve Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and which will not put its neck und er the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation I will punish,' says the LORD, "with the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.

nkjv@J eremiah:27:9 @ Th erefore do not listen to your prophets, your divin ers, your dream ers, your soothsay ers, or your sorc er ers, who speak to you, saying, "You shall not s erve the king of Babylon."

nkjv@J eremiah:27:10 @ For they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land; and I will drive you out, and you will p erish.

nkjv@J eremiah:27:11 @ But the nations that bring their necks und er the yoke of the king of Babylon and s erve him, I will let them remain in their own land,' says the LORD, "and they shall till it and dwell in it."""

nkjv@J eremiah:27:12 @ I also spoke to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, "Bring your necks und er the yoke of the king of Babylon, and s erve him and his people, and live!

nkjv@J eremiah:27:13 @ Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD has spoken against the nation that will not s erve the king of Babylon?

nkjv@J eremiah:27:14 @ Th erefore do not listen to the words of the prophets who speak to you, saying, "You shall not s erve the king of Babylon,' for they prophesy a lie to you;

nkjv@J eremiah:27:15 @ for I have not sent them," says the LORD, "yet they prophesy a lie in My name, that I may drive you out, and that you may p erish, you and the prophets who prophesy to you."

nkjv@J eremiah:27:16 @ Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, "Thus says the LORD: "Do not listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, "Behold, the vessels of the LORD's house will now shortly be brought back from Babylon"; for they prophesy a lie to you.

nkjv@J eremiah:27:17 @ Do not listen to them; s erve the king of Babylon, and live! Why should this city be laid waste?

nkjv@J eremiah:27:18 @ But if they are prophets, and if the word of the LORD is with them, let them now make int ercession to the LORD of hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of the LORD, in the house of the king of Judah, and at J erusalem, do not go to Babylon.'

nkjv@J eremiah:27:19 @ "For thus says the LORD of hosts conc erning the pillars, conc erning the Sea, conc erning the carts, and conc erning the remaind er of the vessels that remain in this city,

nkjv@J eremiah:27:20 @ which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take, when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from J erusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and J erusalem--

nkjv@J eremiah:27:21 @ yes, thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, conc erning the vessels that remain in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the king of Judah and of J erusalem:

nkjv@J eremiah:27:22 @ "They shall be carried to Babylon, and th ere they shall be until the day that I visit them,' says the LORD. "Then I will bring them up and restore them to this place."'

nkjv@J eremiah:28:1 @ And it happened in the same year, at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year and in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, who was from Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of the LORD in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,

nkjv@J eremiah:28:2 @ "Thus speaks the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying: "I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

nkjv@J eremiah:28:3 @ Within two full years I will bring back to this place all the vessels of the LORD's house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place and carried to Babylon.

nkjv@J eremiah:28:4 @ And I will bring back to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah who went to Babylon,' says the LORD, "for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon."'

nkjv@J eremiah:28:5 @ Then the prophet J eremiah spoke to the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests and in the presence of all the people who stood in the house of the LORD,

nkjv@J eremiah:28:6 @ and the prophet J eremiah said, "Amen! The LORD do so; the LORD p erform your words which you have prophesied, to bring back the vessels of the LORD's house and all who w ere carried away captive, from Babylon to this place.

nkjv@J eremiah:28:7 @ Nev ertheless hear now this word that I speak in your hearing and in the hearing of all the people:

nkjv@J eremiah:28:8 @ The prophets who have been before me and before you of old prophesied against many countries and great kingdoms--of war and disast er and pestilence.

nkjv@J eremiah:28:9 @ As for the prophet who prophesies of peace, when the word of the prophet comes to pass, the prophet will be known as one whom the LORD has truly sent."

nkjv@J eremiah:28:10 @ Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke off the prophet J eremiah's neck and broke it.

nkjv@J eremiah:28:11 @ And Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, "Thus says the LORD: "Even so I will break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all nations within the space of two full years."' And the prophet J eremiah went his way.

nkjv@J eremiah:28:12 @ Now the word of the LORD came to J eremiah, aft er Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from the neck of the prophet J eremiah, saying,

nkjv@J eremiah:28:13 @ "Go and tell Hananiah, saying, "Thus says the LORD: "You have broken the yokes of wood, but you have made in their place yokes of iron."

nkjv@J eremiah:28:14 @ For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations, that they may s erve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall s erve him. I have given him the beasts of the field also.""'

nkjv@J eremiah:28:15 @ Then the prophet J eremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, "Hear now, Hananiah, the LORD has not sent you, but you make this people trust in a lie.

nkjv@J eremiah:28:16 @ Th erefore thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will cast you from the face of the earth. This year you shall die, because you have taught rebellion against the LORD."'

nkjv@J eremiah:28:17 @ So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.

nkjv@J eremiah:29:1 @ Now these are the words of the lett er that J eremiah the prophet sent from J erusalem to the remaind er of the eld ers who w ere carried away captive--to the priests, the prophets, and all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from J erusalem to Babylon.

nkjv@J eremiah:29:2 @ (This happened aft er Jeconiah the king, the queen moth er, the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and J erusalem, the craftsmen, and the smiths had departed from J erusalem.)

nkjv@J eremiah:29:3 @ The lett er was sent by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, saying,

nkjv@J eremiah:29:4 @ Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, to all who w ere carried away captive, whom I have caused to be carried away from J erusalem to Babylon:

nkjv@J eremiah:29:5 @ Build houses and dwell in them; plant gardens and eat their fruit.

nkjv@J eremiah:29:6 @ Take wives and beget sons and daught ers; and take wives for your sons and give your daught ers to husbands, so that they may bear sons and daught ers--that you may be increased th ere, and not diminished.

nkjv@J eremiah:29:7 @ And seek the peace of the city wh ere I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to the LORD for it; for in its peace you will have peace.

nkjv@J eremiah:29:8 @ For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your divin ers who are in your midst deceive you, nor listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.

nkjv@J eremiah:29:9 @ For they prophesy falsely to you in My name; I have not sent them, says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:29:10 @ For thus says the LORD: Aft er seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and p erform My good word toward you, and cause you to return to this place.

nkjv@J eremiah:29:11 @ For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.

nkjv@J eremiah:29:12 @ Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

nkjv@J eremiah:29:13 @ And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.

nkjv@J eremiah:29:14 @ I will be found by you, says the LORD, and I will bring you back from your captivity; I will gath er you from all the nations and from all the places wh ere I have driven you, says the LORD, and I will bring you to the place from which I cause you to be carried away captive.

nkjv@J eremiah:29:15 @ Because you have said, "The LORD has raised up prophets for us in Babylon"--

nkjv@J eremiah:29:16 @ th erefore thus says the LORD conc erning the king who sits on the throne of David, conc erning all the people who dwell in this city, and conc erning your brethren who have not gone out with you into captivity--

nkjv@J eremiah:29:17 @ thus says the LORD of hosts: Behold, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like rotten figs that cannot be eaten, they are so bad.

nkjv@J eremiah:29:18 @ And I will pursue them with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence; and I will deliv er them to trouble among all the kingdoms of the earth--to be a curse, an astonishment, a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations wh ere I have driven them,

nkjv@J eremiah:29:19 @ because they have not heeded My words, says the LORD, which I sent to them by My s ervants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; neith er would you heed, says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:29:20 @ Th erefore hear the word of the LORD, all you of the captivity, whom I have sent from J erusalem to Babylon.

nkjv@J eremiah:29:21 @ Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, conc erning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie to you in My name: Behold, I will deliv er them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall slay them before your eyes.

nkjv@J eremiah:29:22 @ And because of them a curse shall be taken up by all the captivity of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, "The LORD make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire";

nkjv@J eremiah:29:23 @ because they have done disgraceful things in Israel, have committed adult ery with their neighbors' wives, and have spoken lying words in My name, which I have not commanded them. Indeed I know, and am a witness, says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:29:24 @ You shall also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite, saying,

nkjv@J eremiah:29:25 @ Thus speaks the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying: You have sent lett ers in your name to all the people who are at J erusalem, to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying,

nkjv@J eremiah:29:26 @ "The LORD has made you priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, so that th ere should be offic ers in the house of the LORD ov er ev ery man who is demented and consid ers himself a prophet, that you should put him in prison and in the stocks.

nkjv@J eremiah:29:27 @ Now th erefore, why have you not rebuked J eremiah of Anathoth who makes himself a prophet to you?

nkjv@J eremiah:29:28 @ For he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, "This captivity is long; build houses and dwell in them, and plant gardens and eat their fruit."'

nkjv@J eremiah:29:29 @ Now Zephaniah the priest read this lett er in the hearing of J eremiah the prophet.

nkjv@J eremiah:29:30 @ Then the word of the LORD came to J eremiah, saying:

nkjv@J eremiah:29:31 @ Send to all those in captivity, saying, Thus says the LORD conc erning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, and I have not sent him, and he has caused you to trust in a lie--

nkjv@J eremiah:29:32 @ th erefore thus says the LORD: Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his family: he shall not have anyone to dwell among this people, nor shall he see the good that I will do for My people, says the LORD, because he has taught rebellion against the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:30:1 @ The word that came to J eremiah from the LORD, saying,

nkjv@J eremiah:30:2 @ "Thus speaks the LORD God of Israel, saying: "Write in a book for yourself all the words that I have spoken to you.

nkjv@J eremiah:30:3 @ For behold, the days are coming,' says the LORD, "that I will bring back from captivity My people Israel and Judah,' says the LORD. "And I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fath ers, and they shall possess it."'

nkjv@J eremiah:30:4 @ Now these are the words that the LORD spoke conc erning Israel and Judah.

nkjv@J eremiah:30:5 @ "For thus says the LORD: "We have heard a voice of trembling, Of fear, and not of peace.

nkjv@J eremiah:30:6 @ Ask now, and see, Wheth er a man is ev er in labor with child? So why do I see ev ery man with his hands on his loins Like a woman in labor, And all faces turned pale?

nkjv@J eremiah:30:7 @ Alas! For that day is great, So that none is like it; And it is the time of Jacob's trouble, But he shall be saved out of it.

nkjv@J eremiah:30:8 @ "For it shall come to pass in that day,' Says the LORD of hosts, "That I will break his yoke from your neck, And will burst your bonds; Foreign ers shall no more enslave them.

nkjv@J eremiah:30:9 @ But they shall s erve the LORD their God, And David their king, Whom I will raise up for them.

nkjv@J eremiah:30:10 @ "Th erefore do not fear, O My s ervant Jacob,' says the LORD, "Nor be dismayed, O Israel; For behold, I will save you from afar, And your seed from the land of their captivity. Jacob shall return, have rest and be quiet, And no one shall make him afraid.

nkjv@J eremiah:30:11 @ For I am with you,' says the LORD, "to save you; Though I make a full end of all nations wh ere I have scatt ered you, Yet I will not make a complete end of you. But I will correct you in justice, And will not let you go altogeth er unpunished.'

nkjv@J eremiah:30:12 @ "For thus says the LORD: "Your affliction is incurable, Your wound is sev ere.

nkjv@J eremiah:30:13 @ Th ere is no one to plead your cause, That you may be bound up; You have no healing medicines.

nkjv@J eremiah:30:14 @ All your lov ers have forgotten you; They do not seek you; For I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, With the chastisement of a cruel one, For the multitude of your iniquities, Because your sins have increased.

nkjv@J eremiah:30:15 @ Why do you cry about your affliction? Your sorrow is incurable. Because of the multitude of your iniquities, Because your sins have increased, I have done these things to you.

nkjv@J eremiah:30:16 @ "Th erefore all those who devour you shall be devoured; And all your adv ersaries, ev ery one of them, shall go into captivity; Those who plund er you shall become plund er, And all who prey upon you I will make a prey.

nkjv@J eremiah:30:17 @ For I will restore health to you And heal you of your wounds,' says the LORD, "Because they called you an outcast saying: "This is Zion; No one seeks h er."'

nkjv@J eremiah:30:18 @ "Thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will bring back the captivity of Jacob's tents, And have m ercy on his dwelling places; The city shall be built upon its own mound, And the palace shall remain according to its own plan.

nkjv@J eremiah:30:19 @ Then out of them shall proceed thanksgiving And the voice of those who make m erry; I will multiply them, and they shall not diminish; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.

nkjv@J eremiah:30:20 @ Their children also shall be as before, And their congregation shall be established before Me; And I will punish all who oppress them.

nkjv@J eremiah:30:21 @ Their nobles shall be from among them, And their gov ernor shall come from their midst; Then I will cause him to draw near, And he shall approach Me; For who is this who pledged his heart to approach Me?' says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:30:22 @ "You shall be My people, And I will be your God."'

nkjv@J eremiah:30:23 @ Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD Goes forth with fury, A continuing whirlwind; It will fall violently on the head of the wicked.

nkjv@J eremiah:30:24 @ The fi erce ang er of the LORD will not return until He has done it, And until He has p erformed the intents of His heart. In the latt er days you will consid er it.

nkjv@J eremiah:31:1 @ "At the same time," says the LORD, "I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be My people."

nkjv@J eremiah:31:2 @ Thus says the LORD: "The people who survived the sword Found grace in the wild erness-- Israel, when I went to give him rest."

nkjv@J eremiah:31:3 @ The LORD has appeared of old to me, saying: "Yes, I have loved you with an ev erlasting love; Th erefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you.

nkjv@J eremiah:31:4 @ Again I will build you, and you shall be rebuilt, O virgin of Israel! You shall again be adorned with your tambourines, And shall go forth in the dances of those who rejoice.

nkjv@J eremiah:31:5 @ You shall yet plant vines on the mountains of Samaria; The plant ers shall plant and eat them as ordinary food.

nkjv@J eremiah:31:6 @ For th ere shall be a day When the watchmen will cry on Mount Ephraim, "Arise, and let us go up to Zion, To the LORD our God."'

nkjv@J eremiah:31:7 @ For thus says the LORD: "Sing with gladness for Jacob, And shout among the chief of the nations; Proclaim, give praise, and say, "O LORD, save Your people, The remnant of Israel!'

nkjv@J eremiah:31:8 @ Behold, I will bring them from the north country, And gath er them from the ends of the earth, Among them the blind and the lame, The woman with child And the one who labors with child, togeth er; A great throng shall return th ere.

nkjv@J eremiah:31:9 @ They shall come with weeping, And with supplications I will lead them. I will cause them to walk by the riv ers of wat ers, In a straight way in which they shall not stumble; For I am a Fath er to Israel, And Ephraim is My firstborn.

nkjv@J eremiah:31:10 @ "Hear the word of the LORD, O nations, And declare it in the isles afar off, and say, "He who scatt ered Israel will gath er him, And keep him as a sheph erd does his flock.'

nkjv@J eremiah:31:11 @ For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, And ransomed him from the hand of one strong er than he.

nkjv@J eremiah:31:12 @ Th erefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, Streaming to the goodness of the LORD-- For wheat and new wine and oil, For the young of the flock and the h erd; Their souls shall be like a well-wat ered garden, And they shall sorrow no more at all.

nkjv@J eremiah:31:13 @ "Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, And the young men and the old, togeth er; For I will turn their mourning to joy, Will comfort them, And make them rejoice rath er than sorrow.

nkjv@J eremiah:31:14 @ I will satiate the soul of the priests with abundance, And My people shall be satisfied with My goodness, says the LORD."

nkjv@J eremiah:31:15 @ Thus says the LORD: "A voice was heard in Ramah, Lamentation and bitt er weeping, Rachel weeping for h er children, Refusing to be comforted for h er children, Because they are no more."

nkjv@J eremiah:31:16 @ Thus says the LORD: "Refrain your voice from weeping, And your eyes from tears; For your work shall be rewarded, says the LORD, And they shall come back from the land of the enemy.

nkjv@J eremiah:31:17 @ Th ere is hope in your future, says the LORD, That your children shall come back to their own bord er.

nkjv@J eremiah:31:18 @ "I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself: "You have chastised me, and I was chastised, Like an untrained bull; Restore me, and I will return, For You are the LORD my God.

nkjv@J eremiah:31:19 @ Surely, aft er my turning, I repented; And aft er I was instructed, I struck myself on the thigh; I was ashamed, yes, even humiliated, Because I bore the reproach of my youth.'

nkjv@J eremiah:31:20 @ Is Ephraim My dear son? Is he a pleasant child? For though I spoke against him, I earnestly rememb er him still; Th erefore My heart yearns for him; I will surely have m ercy on him, says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:31:21 @ "Set up signposts, Make landmarks; Set your heart toward the highway, The way in which you went. Turn back, O virgin of Israel, Turn back to these your cities.

nkjv@J eremiah:31:22 @ How long will you gad about, O you backsliding daught er? For the LORD has created a new thing in the earth-- A woman shall encompass a man."

nkjv@J eremiah:31:23 @ Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "They shall again use this speech in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I bring back their captivity: "The LORD bless you, O home of justice, and mountain of holiness!'

nkjv@J eremiah:31:24 @ And th ere shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all its cities togeth er, farm ers and those going out with flocks.

nkjv@J eremiah:31:25 @ For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished ev ery sorrowful soul."

nkjv@J eremiah:31:26 @ Aft er this I awoke and looked around, and my sleep was sweet to me.

nkjv@J eremiah:31:27 @ "Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of beast.

nkjv@J eremiah:31:28 @ And it shall come to pass, that as I have watched ov er them to pluck up, to break down, to throw down, to destroy, and to afflict, so I will watch ov er them to build and to plant, says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:31:29 @ In those days they shall say no more: "The fath ers have eaten sour grapes, And the children's teeth are set on edge.'

nkjv@J eremiah:31:30 @ But ev ery one shall die for his own iniquity; ev ery man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.

nkjv@J eremiah:31:31 @ "Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah--

nkjv@J eremiah:31:32 @ not according to the covenant that I made with their fath ers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:31:33 @ But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel aft er those days, says the LORD: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

nkjv@J eremiah:31:34 @ No more shall ev ery man teach his neighbor, and ev ery man his broth er, saying, "Know the LORD,' for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will rememb er no more."

nkjv@J eremiah:31:35 @ Thus says the LORD, Who gives the sun for a light by day, The ordinances of the moon and the stars for a light by night, Who disturbs the sea, And its waves roar (The LORD of hosts is His name):

nkjv@J eremiah:31:36 @ "If those ordinances depart From before Me, says the LORD, Then the seed of Israel shall also cease From being a nation before Me forev er."

nkjv@J eremiah:31:37 @ Thus says the LORD: "If heaven above can be measured, And the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel For all that they have done, says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:31:38 @ "Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that the city shall be built for the LORD from the Tow er of Hananel to the Corn er Gate.

nkjv@J eremiah:31:39 @ The surveyor's line shall again extend straight forward ov er the hill Gareb; then it shall turn toward Goath.

nkjv@J eremiah:31:40 @ And the whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields as far as the Brook Kidron, to the corn er of the Horse Gate toward the east, shall be holy to the LORD. It shall not be plucked up or thrown down anymore forev er."

nkjv@J eremiah:32:1 @ The word that came to J eremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.

nkjv@J eremiah:32:2 @ For then the king of Babylon's army besieged J erusalem, and J eremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah's house.

nkjv@J eremiah:32:3 @ For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, "Why do you prophesy and say, "Thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;

nkjv@J eremiah:32:4 @ and Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape from the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be deliv ered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him face to face, and see him eye to eye;

nkjv@J eremiah:32:5 @ then he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and th ere he shall be until I visit him," says the LORD; "though you fight with the Chaldeans, you shall not succeed"'?"

nkjv@J eremiah:32:6 @ And J eremiah said, "The word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@J eremiah:32:7 @ "Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle will come to you, saying, "Buy my field which is in Anathoth, for the right of redemption is yours to buy it."'

nkjv@J eremiah:32:8 @ Then Hanamel my uncle's son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the LORD, and said to me, "Please buy my field that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin; for the right of inh eritance is yours, and the redemption yours; buy it for yourself.' Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:32:9 @ So I bought the field from Hanamel, the son of my uncle who was in Anathoth, and weighed out to him the money--seventeen shekels of silv er.

nkjv@J eremiah:32:10 @ And I signed the deed and sealed it, took witnesses, and weighed the money on the scales.

nkjv@J eremiah:32:11 @ So I took the purchase deed, both that which was sealed according to the law and custom, and that which was open;

nkjv@J eremiah:32:12 @ and I gave the purchase deed to Baruch the son of N eriah, son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel my uncle's son, and in the presence of the witnesses who signed the purchase deed, before all the Jews who sat in the court of the prison.

nkjv@J eremiah:32:13 @ "Then I charged Baruch before them, saying,

nkjv@J eremiah:32:14 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Take these deeds, both this purchase deed which is sealed and this deed which is open, and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may last many days."

nkjv@J eremiah:32:15 @ For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land."'

nkjv@J eremiah:32:16 @ "Now when I had deliv ered the purchase deed to Baruch the son of N eriah, I prayed to the LORD, saying:

nkjv@J eremiah:32:17 @ "Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great pow er and outstretched arm. Th ere is nothing too hard for You.

nkjv@J eremiah:32:18 @ You show lovingkindness to thousands, and repay the iniquity of the fath ers into the bosom of their children aft er them--the Great, the Mighty God, whose name is the LORD of hosts.

nkjv@J eremiah:32:19 @ You are great in counsel and mighty in work, for your eyes are open to all the ways of the sons of men, to give ev eryone according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings.

nkjv@J eremiah:32:20 @ You have set signs and wond ers in the land of Egypt, to this day, and in Israel and among oth er men; and You have made Yourself a name, as it is this day.

nkjv@J eremiah:32:21 @ You have brought Your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and wond ers, with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and with great t error;

nkjv@J eremiah:32:22 @ You have given them this land, of which You swore to their fath ers to give them--"a land flowing with milk and honey."

nkjv@J eremiah:32:23 @ And they came in and took possession of it, but they have not obeyed Your voice or walked in Your law. They have done nothing of all that You commanded them to do; th erefore You have caused all this calamity to come upon them.

nkjv@J eremiah:32:24 @ "Look, the siege mounds! They have come to the city to take it; and the city has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans who fight against it, because of the sword and famine and pestilence. What You have spoken has happened; th ere You see it!

nkjv@J eremiah:32:25 @ And You have said to me, O Lord GOD, "Buy the field for money, and take witnesses"!--yet the city has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans."'

nkjv@J eremiah:32:26 @ Then the word of the LORD came to J eremiah, saying,

nkjv@J eremiah:32:27 @ "Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is th ere anything too hard for Me?

nkjv@J eremiah:32:28 @ Th erefore thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it.

nkjv@J eremiah:32:29 @ And the Chaldeans who fight against this city shall come and set fire to this city and burn it, with the houses on whose roofs they have off ered incense to Baal and poured out drink off erings to oth er gods, to provoke Me to ang er;

nkjv@J eremiah:32:30 @ because the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done only evil before Me from their youth. For the children of Israel have provoked Me only to ang er with the work of their hands,' says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:32:31 @ "For this city has been to Me a provocation of My ang er and My fury from the day that they built it, even to this day; so I will remove it from before My face

nkjv@J eremiah:32:32 @ because of all the evil of the children of Israel and the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke Me to ang er--they, their kings, their princes, their priests, their prophets, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of J erusalem.

nkjv@J eremiah:32:33 @ And they have turned to Me the back, and not the face; though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction.

nkjv@J eremiah:32:34 @ But they set their abominations in the house which is called by My name, to defile it.

nkjv@J eremiah:32:35 @ And they built the high places of Baal which are in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daught ers to pass through the fire to Molech, which I did not command them, nor did it come into My mind that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.'

nkjv@J eremiah:32:36 @ "Now th erefore, thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, conc erning this city of which you say, "It shall be deliv ered into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence:

nkjv@J eremiah:32:37 @ Behold, I will gath er them out of all countries wh ere I have driven them in My ang er, in My fury, and in great wrath; I will bring them back to this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely.

nkjv@J eremiah:32:38 @ They shall be My people, and I will be their God;

nkjv@J eremiah:32:39 @ then I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forev er, for the good of them and their children aft er them.

nkjv@J eremiah:32:40 @ And I will make an ev erlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from doing them good; but I will put My fear in their hearts so that they will not depart from Me.

nkjv@J eremiah:32:41 @ Yes, I will rejoice ov er them to do them good, and I will assuredly plant them in this land, with all My heart and with all My soul.'

nkjv@J eremiah:32:42 @ "For thus says the LORD: "Just as I have brought all this great calamity on this people, so I will bring on them all the good that I have promised them.

nkjv@J eremiah:32:43 @ And fields will be bought in this land of which you say, "It is desolate, without man or beast; it has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans."

nkjv@J eremiah:32:44 @ Men will buy fields for money, sign deeds and seal them, and take witnesses, in the land of Benjamin, in the places around J erusalem, in the cities of Judah, in the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the South; for I will cause their captives to return,' says the LORD."

nkjv@J eremiah:33:1 @ Moreov er the word of the LORD came to J eremiah a second time, while he was still shut up in the court of the prison, saying,

nkjv@J eremiah:33:2 @ "Thus says the LORD who made it, the LORD who formed it to establish it (the LORD is His name):

nkjv@J eremiah:33:3 @ "Call to Me, and I will answ er you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.'

nkjv@J eremiah:33:4 @ "For thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, conc erning the houses of this city and the houses of the kings of Judah, which have been pulled down to fortify against the siege mounds and the sword:

nkjv@J eremiah:33:5 @ "They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but only to fill their places with the dead bodies of men whom I will slay in My ang er and My fury, all for whose wickedness I have hidden My face from this city.

nkjv@J eremiah:33:6 @ Behold, I will bring it health and healing; I will heal them and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.

nkjv@J eremiah:33:7 @ And I will cause the captives of Judah and the captives of Israel to return, and will rebuild those places as at the first.

nkjv@J eremiah:33:8 @ I will cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they have sinned against Me, and I will pardon all their iniquities by which they have sinned and by which they have transgressed against Me.

nkjv@J eremiah:33:9 @ Then it shall be to Me a name of joy, a praise, and an honor before all nations of the earth, who shall hear all the good that I do to them; they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and all the prosp erity that I provide for it.'

nkjv@J eremiah:33:10 @ "Thus says the LORD: "Again th ere shall be heard in this place--of which you say, "It is desolate, without man and without beast"--in the cities of Judah, in the streets of J erusalem that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without beast,

nkjv@J eremiah:33:11 @ the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who will say: "Praise the LORD of hosts, For the LORD is good, For His m ercy endures forev er"-- and of those who will bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause the captives of the land to return as at the first,' says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:33:12 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts: "In this place which is desolate, without man and without beast, and in all its cities, th ere shall again be a dwelling place of sheph erds causing their flocks to lie down.

nkjv@J eremiah:33:13 @ In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the lowland, in the cities of the South, in the land of Benjamin, in the places around J erusalem, and in the cities of Judah, the flocks shall again pass und er the hands of him who counts them,' says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:33:14 @ "Behold, the days are coming,' says the LORD, "that I will p erform that good thing which I have promised to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah:

nkjv@J eremiah:33:15 @ "In those days and at that time I will cause to grow up to David A Branch of righteousness; He shall execute judgment and righteousness in the earth.

nkjv@J eremiah:33:16 @ In those days Judah will be saved, And J erusalem will dwell safely. And this is the name by which she will be called: THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.'

nkjv@J eremiah:33:17 @ "For thus says the LORD: "David shall nev er lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel;

nkjv@J eremiah:33:18 @ nor shall the priests, the Levites, lack a man to off er burnt off erings before Me, to kindle grain off erings, and to sacrifice continually."'

nkjv@J eremiah:33:19 @ And the word of the LORD came to J eremiah, saying,

nkjv@J eremiah:33:20 @ "Thus says the LORD: "If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that th ere will not be day and night in their season,

nkjv@J eremiah:33:21 @ then My covenant may also be broken with David My s ervant, so that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne, and with the Levites, the priests, My minist ers.

nkjv@J eremiah:33:22 @ As the host of heaven cannot be numb ered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so will I multiply the descendants of David My s ervant and the Levites who minist er to Me."'

nkjv@J eremiah:33:23 @ Moreov er the word of the LORD came to J eremiah, saying,

nkjv@J eremiah:33:24 @ "Have you not consid ered what these people have spoken, saying, "The two families which the LORD has chosen, He has also cast them off

nkjv@J eremiah:33:25 @ "Thus says the LORD: "If My covenant is not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth,

nkjv@J eremiah:33:26 @ then I will cast away the descendants of Jacob and David My s ervant, so that I will not take any of his descendants to be rul ers ov er the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will cause their captives to return, and will have m ercy on them."'

nkjv@J eremiah:34:1 @ The word which came to J eremiah from the LORD, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army, all the kingdoms of the earth und er his dominion, and all the people, fought against J erusalem and all its cities, saying,

nkjv@J eremiah:34:2 @ "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: "Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah and tell him, "Thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.

nkjv@J eremiah:34:3 @ And you shall not escape from his hand, but shall surely be taken and deliv ered into his hand; your eyes shall see the eyes of the king of Babylon, he shall speak with you face to face, and you shall go to Babylon.""

nkjv@J eremiah:34:4 @ Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah! Thus says the LORD conc erning you: "You shall not die by the sword.

nkjv@J eremiah:34:5 @ You shall die in peace; as in the c eremonies of your fath ers, the form er kings who w ere before you, so they shall burn incense for you and lament for you, saying, "Alas, lord!" For I have pronounced the word, says the LORD."'

nkjv@J eremiah:34:6 @ Then J eremiah the prophet spoke all these words to Zedekiah king of Judah in J erusalem,

nkjv@J eremiah:34:7 @ when the king of Babylon's army fought against J erusalem and all the cities of Judah that w ere left, against Lachish and Azekah; for only these fortified cities remained of the cities of Judah.

nkjv@J eremiah:34:8 @ This is the word that came to J eremiah from the LORD, aft er King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who w ere at J erusalem to proclaim lib erty to them:

nkjv@J eremiah:34:9 @ that ev ery man should set free his male and female slave--a Hebrew man or woman--that no one should keep a Jewish broth er in bondage.

nkjv@J eremiah:34:10 @ Now when all the princes and all the people, who had ent ered into the covenant, heard that ev eryone should set free his male and female slaves, that no one should keep them in bondage anymore, they obeyed and let them go.

nkjv@J eremiah:34:11 @ But aft erward they changed their minds and made the male and female slaves return, whom they had set free, and brought them into subjection as male and female slaves.

nkjv@J eremiah:34:12 @ Th erefore the word of the LORD came to J eremiah from the LORD, saying,

nkjv@J eremiah:34:13 @ "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: "I made a covenant with your fath ers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying,

nkjv@J eremiah:34:14 @ "At the end of seven years let ev ery man set free his Hebrew broth er, who has been sold to him; and when he has s erved you six years, you shall let him go free from you." But your fath ers did not obey Me nor incline their ear.

nkjv@J eremiah:34:15 @ Then you recently turned and did what was right in My sight--ev ery man proclaiming lib erty to his neighbor; and you made a covenant before Me in the house which is called by My name.

nkjv@J eremiah:34:16 @ Then you turned around and profaned My name, and ev ery one of you brought back his male and female slaves, whom he had set at lib erty, at their pleasure, and brought them back into subjection, to be your male and female slaves.'

nkjv@J eremiah:34:17 @ "Th erefore thus says the LORD: "You have not obeyed Me in proclaiming lib erty, ev ery one to his broth er and ev ery one to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim lib erty to you,' says the LORD--"to the sword, to pestilence, and to famine! And I will deliv er you to trouble among all the kingdoms of the earth.

nkjv@J eremiah:34:18 @ And I will give the men who have transgressed My covenant, who have not p erformed the words of the covenant which they made before Me, when they cut the calf in two and passed between the parts of it--

nkjv@J eremiah:34:19 @ the princes of Judah, the princes of J erusalem, the eunuchs, the priests, and all the people of the land who passed between the parts of the calf--

nkjv@J eremiah:34:20 @ I will give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their life. Their dead bodies shall be for meat for the birds of the heaven and the beasts of the earth.

nkjv@J eremiah:34:21 @ And I will give Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes into the hand of their enemies, into the hand of those who seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army which has gone back from you.

nkjv@J eremiah:34:22 @ Behold, I will command,' says the LORD, "and cause them to return to this city. They will fight against it and take it and burn it with fire; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without inhabitant."'

nkjv@J eremiah:35:1 @ The word which came to J eremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,

nkjv@J eremiah:35:2 @ "Go to the house of the Rechabites, speak to them, and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the chamb ers, and give them wine to drink."

nkjv@J eremiah:35:3 @ Then I took Jaazaniah the son of J eremiah, the son of Habazziniah, his broth ers and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites,

nkjv@J eremiah:35:4 @ and I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the chamb er of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which was by the chamb er of the princes, above the chamb er of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keep er of the door.

nkjv@J eremiah:35:5 @ Then I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites bowls full of wine, and cups; and I said to them, "Drink wine."

nkjv@J eremiah:35:6 @ But they said, "We will drink no wine, for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our fath er, commanded us, saying, "You shall drink no wine, you nor your sons, forev er.

nkjv@J eremiah:35:7 @ You shall not build a house, sow seed, plant a vineyard, nor have any of these; but all your days you shall dwell in tents, that you may live many days in the land wh ere you are sojourn ers.'

nkjv@J eremiah:35:8 @ Thus we have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our fath er, in all that he charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, or our daught ers,

nkjv@J eremiah:35:9 @ nor to build ourselves houses to dwell in; nor do we have vineyard, field, or seed.

nkjv@J eremiah:35:10 @ But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed and done according to all that Jonadab our fath er commanded us.

nkjv@J eremiah:35:11 @ But it came to pass, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said, "Come, let us go to J erusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans and for fear of the army of the Syrians.' So we dwell at J erusalem."

nkjv@J eremiah:35:12 @ Then came the word of the LORD to J eremiah, saying,

nkjv@J eremiah:35:13 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of J erusalem, "Will you not receive instruction to obey My words?" says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:35:14 @ "The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, which he commanded his sons, not to drink wine, are p erformed; for to this day they drink none, and obey their fath er's commandment. But although I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking, you did not obey Me.

nkjv@J eremiah:35:15 @ I have also sent to you all My s ervants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, "Turn now ev eryone from his evil way, amend your doings, and do not go aft er oth er gods to s erve them; then you will dwell in the land which I have given you and your fath ers.' But you have not inclined your ear, nor obeyed Me.

nkjv@J eremiah:35:16 @ Surely the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have p erformed the commandment of their fath er, which he commanded them, but this people has not obeyed Me."'

nkjv@J eremiah:35:17 @ "Th erefore thus says the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel: "Behold, I will bring on Judah and on all the inhabitants of J erusalem all the doom that I have pronounced against them; because I have spoken to them but they have not heard, and I have called to them but they have not answ ered."'

nkjv@J eremiah:35:18 @ And J eremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Because you have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your fath er, and kept all his precepts and done according to all that he commanded you,

nkjv@J eremiah:35:19 @ th erefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not lack a man to stand before Me forev er.""'

nkjv@J eremiah:36:1 @ Now it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, that this word came to J eremiah from the LORD, saying:

nkjv@J eremiah:36:2 @ "Take a scroll of a book and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah even to this day.

nkjv@J eremiah:36:3 @ It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the adv ersities which I purpose to bring upon them, that ev eryone may turn from his evil way, that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin."

nkjv@J eremiah:36:4 @ Then J eremiah called Baruch the son of N eriah; and Baruch wrote on a scroll of a book, at the instruction of J eremiah, all the words of the LORD which He had spoken to him.

nkjv@J eremiah:36:5 @ And J eremiah commanded Baruch, saying, "I am confined, I cannot go into the house of the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:36:6 @ You go, th erefore, and read from the scroll which you have written at my instruction, the words of the LORD, in the hearing of the people in the LORD's house on the day of fasting. And you shall also read them in the hearing of all Judah who come from their cities.

nkjv@J eremiah:36:7 @ It may be that they will present their supplication before the LORD, and ev eryone will turn from his evil way. For great is the ang er and the fury that the LORD has pronounced against this people."

nkjv@J eremiah:36:8 @ And Baruch the son of N eriah did according to all that J eremiah the prophet commanded him, reading from the book the words of the LORD in the LORD's house.

nkjv@J eremiah:36:9 @ Now it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people in J erusalem, and to all the people who came from the cities of Judah to J erusalem.

nkjv@J eremiah:36:10 @ Then Baruch read from the book the words of J eremiah in the house of the LORD, in the chamb er of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the upp er court at the entry of the New Gate of the LORD's house, in the hearing of all the people.

nkjv@J eremiah:36:11 @ When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, heard all the words of the LORD from the book,

nkjv@J eremiah:36:12 @ he then went down to the king's house, into the scribe's chamb er; and th ere all the princes w ere sitting--Elishama the scribe, Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, Elnathan the son of Achbor, Gemariah the son of Shaphan, Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes.

nkjv@J eremiah:36:13 @ Then Michaiah declared to them all the words that he had heard when Baruch read the book in the hearing of the people.

nkjv@J eremiah:36:14 @ Th erefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, "Take in your hand the scroll from which you have read in the hearing of the people, and come." So Baruch the son of N eriah took the scroll in his hand and came to them.

nkjv@J eremiah:36:15 @ And they said to him, "Sit down now, and read it in our hearing." So Baruch read it in their hearing.

nkjv@J eremiah:36:16 @ Now it happened, when they had heard all the words, that they looked in fear from one to anoth er, and said to Baruch, "We will surely tell the king of all these words."

nkjv@J eremiah:36:17 @ And they asked Baruch, saying, "Tell us now, how did you write all these words--at his instruction?"

nkjv@J eremiah:36:18 @ So Baruch answ ered them, "He proclaimed with his mouth all these words to me, and I wrote them with ink in the book."

nkjv@J eremiah:36:19 @ Then the princes said to Baruch, "Go and hide, you and J eremiah; and let no one know wh ere you are."

nkjv@J eremiah:36:20 @ And they went to the king, into the court; but they stored the scroll in the chamb er of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in the hearing of the king.

nkjv@J eremiah:36:21 @ So the king sent Jehudi to bring the scroll, and he took it from Elishama the scribe's chamb er. And Jehudi read it in the hearing of the king and in the hearing of all the princes who stood beside the king.

nkjv@J eremiah:36:22 @ Now the king was sitting in the wint er house in the ninth month, with a fire burning on the hearth before him.

nkjv@J eremiah:36:23 @ And it happened, when Jehudi had read three or four columns, that the king cut it with the scribe's knife and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.

nkjv@J eremiah:36:24 @ Yet they w ere not afraid, nor did they tear their garments, the king nor any of his s ervants who heard all these words.

nkjv@J eremiah:36:25 @ Nev ertheless Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah implored the king not to burn the scroll; but he would not listen to them.

nkjv@J eremiah:36:26 @ And the king commanded J erahmeel the king's son, S eraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to seize Baruch the scribe and J eremiah the prophet, but the LORD hid them.

nkjv@J eremiah:36:27 @ Now aft er the king had burned the scroll with the words which Baruch had written at the instruction of J eremiah, the word of the LORD came to J eremiah, saying:

nkjv@J eremiah:36:28 @ "Take yet anoth er scroll, and write on it all the form er words that w ere in the first scroll which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned.

nkjv@J eremiah:36:29 @ And you shall say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, "Thus says the LORD: "You have burned this scroll, saying, "Why have you written in it that the king of Babylon will c ertainly come and destroy this land, and cause man and beast to cease from h ere?"'

nkjv@J eremiah:36:30 @ Th erefore thus says the LORD conc erning Jehoiakim king of Judah: "He shall have no one to sit on the throne of David, and his dead body shall be cast out to the heat of the day and the frost of the night.

nkjv@J eremiah:36:31 @ I will punish him, his family, and his s ervants for their iniquity; and I will bring on them, on the inhabitants of J erusalem, and on the men of Judah all the doom that I have pronounced against them; but they did not heed.""'

nkjv@J eremiah:36:32 @ Then J eremiah took anoth er scroll and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of N eriah, who wrote on it at the instruction of J eremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. And besides, th ere w ere added to them many similar words.

nkjv@J eremiah:37:1 @ Now King Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.

nkjv@J eremiah:37:2 @ But neith er he nor his s ervants nor the people of the land gave heed to the words of the LORD which He spoke by the prophet J eremiah.

nkjv@J eremiah:37:3 @ And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to the prophet J eremiah, saying, "Pray now to the LORD our God for us."

nkjv@J eremiah:37:4 @ Now J eremiah was coming and going among the people, for they had not yet put him in prison.

nkjv@J eremiah:37:5 @ Then Pharaoh's army came up from Egypt; and when the Chaldeans who w ere besieging J erusalem heard news of them, they departed from J erusalem.

nkjv@J eremiah:37:6 @ Then the word of the LORD came to the prophet J eremiah, saying,

nkjv@J eremiah:37:7 @ "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, "Thus you shall say to the king of Judah, who sent you to Me to inquire of Me: "Behold, Pharaoh's army which has come up to help you will return to Egypt, to their own land.

nkjv@J eremiah:37:8 @ And the Chaldeans shall come back and fight against this city, and take it and burn it with fire."'

nkjv@J eremiah:37:9 @ Thus says the LORD: "Do not deceive yourselves, saying, "The Chaldeans will surely depart from us," for they will not depart.

nkjv@J eremiah:37:10 @ For though you had defeated the whole army of the Chaldeans who fight against you, and th ere remained only wounded men among them, they would rise up, ev ery man in his tent, and burn the city with fire."'

nkjv@J eremiah:37:11 @ And it happened, when the army of the Chaldeans left the siege of J erusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army,

nkjv@J eremiah:37:12 @ that J eremiah went out of J erusalem to go into the land of Benjamin to claim his prop erty th ere among the people.

nkjv@J eremiah:37:13 @ And when he was in the Gate of Benjamin, a captain of the guard was th ere whose name was Irijah the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he seized J eremiah the prophet, saying, "You are defecting to the Chaldeans!"

nkjv@J eremiah:37:14 @ Then J eremiah said, "False! I am not defecting to the Chaldeans." But he did not listen to him. So Irijah seized J eremiah and brought him to the princes.

nkjv@J eremiah:37:15 @ Th erefore the princes w ere angry with J eremiah, and they struck him and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe. For they had made that the prison.

nkjv@J eremiah:37:16 @ When J eremiah ent ered the dungeon and the cells, and J eremiah had remained th ere many days,

nkjv@J eremiah:37:17 @ then Zedekiah the king sent and took him out. The king asked him secretly in his house, and said, "Is th ere any word from the LORD?" And J eremiah said, "Th ere is." Then he said, "You shall be deliv ered into the hand of the king of Babylon!"

nkjv@J eremiah:37:18 @ Moreov er J eremiah said to King Zedekiah, "What offense have I committed against you, against your s ervants, or against this people, that you have put me in prison?

nkjv@J eremiah:37:19 @ Wh ere now are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, "The king of Babylon will not come against you or against this land'?

nkjv@J eremiah:37:20 @ Th erefore please hear now, O my lord the king. Please, let my petition be accepted before you, and do not make me return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die th ere."

nkjv@J eremiah:37:21 @ Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit J eremiah to the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread from the bak ers' street, until all the bread in the city was gone. Thus J eremiah remained in the court of the prison.

nkjv@J eremiah:38:1 @ Now Shephatiah the son of Mattan, Gedaliah the son of Pashhur, Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son of Malchiah heard the words that J eremiah had spoken to all the people, saying,

nkjv@J eremiah:38:2 @ "Thus says the LORD: "He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence; but he who goes ov er to the Chaldeans shall live; his life shall be as a prize to him, and he shall live.'

nkjv@J eremiah:38:3 @ Thus says the LORD: "This city shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which shall take it."'

nkjv@J eremiah:38:4 @ Th erefore the princes said to the king, "Please, let this man be put to death, for thus he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, by speaking such words to them. For this man does not seek the welfare of this people, but their harm."

nkjv@J eremiah:38:5 @ Then Zedekiah the king said, "Look, he is in your hand. For the king can do nothing against you."

nkjv@J eremiah:38:6 @ So they took J eremiah and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the king's son, which was in the court of the prison, and they let J eremiah down with ropes. And in the dungeon th ere was no wat er, but mire. So J eremiah sank in the mire.

nkjv@J eremiah:38:7 @ Now Ebed-Melech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs, who was in the king's house, heard that they had put J eremiah in the dungeon. When the king was sitting at the Gate of Benjamin,

nkjv@J eremiah:38:8 @ Ebed-Melech went out of the king's house and spoke to the king, saying:

nkjv@J eremiah:38:9 @ "My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to J eremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon, and he is likely to die from hung er in the place wh ere he is. For th ere is no more bread in the city."

nkjv@J eremiah:38:10 @ Then the king commanded Ebed-Melech the Ethiopian, saying, "Take from h ere thirty men with you, and lift J eremiah the prophet out of the dungeon before he dies."

nkjv@J eremiah:38:11 @ So Ebed-Melech took the men with him and went into the house of the king und er the treasury, and took from th ere old clothes and old rags, and let them down by ropes into the dungeon to J eremiah.

nkjv@J eremiah:38:12 @ Then Ebed-Melech the Ethiopian said to J eremiah, "Please put these old clothes and rags und er your armpits, und er the ropes." And J eremiah did so.

nkjv@J eremiah:38:13 @ So they pulled J eremiah up with ropes and lifted him out of the dungeon. And J eremiah remained in the court of the prison.

nkjv@J eremiah:38:14 @ Then Zedekiah the king sent and had J eremiah the prophet brought to him at the third entrance of the house of the LORD. And the king said to J eremiah, "I will ask you something. Hide nothing from me."

nkjv@J eremiah:38:15 @ J eremiah said to Zedekiah, "If I declare it to you, will you not surely put me to death? And if I give you advice, you will not listen to me."

nkjv@J eremiah:38:16 @ So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to J eremiah, saying, "As the LORD lives, who made our v ery souls, I will not put you to death, nor will I give you into the hand of these men who seek your life."

nkjv@J eremiah:38:17 @ Then J eremiah said to Zedekiah, "Thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: "If you surely surrend er to the king of Babylon's princes, then your soul shall live; this city shall not be burned with fire, and you and your house shall live.

nkjv@J eremiah:38:18 @ But if you do not surrend er to the king of Babylon's princes, then this city shall be given into the hand of the Chaldeans; they shall burn it with fire, and you shall not escape from their hand."'

nkjv@J eremiah:38:19 @ And Zedekiah the king said to J eremiah, "I am afraid of the Jews who have defected to the Chaldeans, lest they deliv er me into their hand, and they abuse me."

nkjv@J eremiah:38:20 @ But J eremiah said, "They shall not deliv er you. Please, obey the voice of the LORD which I speak to you. So it shall be well with you, and your soul shall live.

nkjv@J eremiah:38:21 @ But if you refuse to surrend er, this is the word that the LORD has shown me:

nkjv@J eremiah:38:22 @ "Now behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah's house shall be surrend ered to the king of Babylon's princes, and those women shall say: "Your close friends have set upon you And prevailed against you; Your feet have sunk in the mire, And they have turned away again."

nkjv@J eremiah:38:23 @ "So they shall surrend er all your wives and children to the Chaldeans. You shall not escape from their hand, but shall be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon. And you shall cause this city to be burned with fire."'

nkjv@J eremiah:38:24 @ Then Zedekiah said to J eremiah, "Let no one know of these words, and you shall not die.

nkjv@J eremiah:38:25 @ But if the princes hear that I have talked with you, and they come to you and say to you, "Declare to us now what you have said to the king, and also what the king said to you; do not hide it from us, and we will not put you to death,'

nkjv@J eremiah:38:26 @ then you shall say to them, "I presented my request before the king, that he would not make me return to Jonathan's house to die th ere."'

nkjv@J eremiah:38:27 @ Then all the princes came to J eremiah and asked him. And he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they stopped speaking with him, for the conv ersation had not been heard.

nkjv@J eremiah:38:28 @ Now J eremiah remained in the court of the prison until the day that J erusalem was taken. And he was th ere when J erusalem was taken.

nkjv@J eremiah:39:1 @ In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against J erusalem, and besieged it.

nkjv@J eremiah:39:2 @ In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the city was penetrated.

nkjv@J eremiah:39:3 @ Then all the princes of the king of Babylon came in and sat in the Middle Gate: N ergal-Sharez er, Samgar-Nebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, N ergal-Sarez er, Rabmag, with the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon.

nkjv@J eremiah:39:4 @ So it was, when Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, that they fled and went out of the city by night, by way of the king's garden, by the gate between the two walls. And he went out by way of the plain.

nkjv@J eremiah:39:5 @ But the Chaldean army pursued them and ov ertook Zedekiah in the plains of J ericho. And when they had captured him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, to Riblah in the land of Hamath, wh ere he pronounced judgment on him.

nkjv@J eremiah:39:6 @ Then the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes in Riblah; the king of Babylon also killed all the nobles of Judah.

nkjv@J eremiah:39:7 @ Moreov er he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him with bronze fett ers to carry him off to Babylon.

nkjv@J eremiah:39:8 @ And the Chaldeans burned the king's house and the houses of the people with fire, and broke down the walls of J erusalem.

nkjv@J eremiah:39:9 @ Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive to Babylon the remnant of the people who remained in the city and those who defected to him, with the rest of the people who remained.

nkjv@J eremiah:39:10 @ But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left in the land of Judah the poor people, who had nothing, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.

nkjv@J eremiah:39:11 @ Now Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon gave charge conc erning J eremiah to Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, saying,

nkjv@J eremiah:39:12 @ "Take him and look aft er him, and do him no harm; but do to him just as he says to you."

nkjv@J eremiah:39:13 @ So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent Nebushasban, Rabsaris, N ergal-Sharez er, Rabmag, and all the king of Babylon's chief offic ers;

nkjv@J eremiah:39:14 @ then they sent someone to take J eremiah from the court of the prison, and committed him to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, that he should take him home. So he dwelt among the people.

nkjv@J eremiah:39:15 @ Meanwhile the word of the LORD had come to J eremiah while he was shut up in the court of the prison, saying,

nkjv@J eremiah:39:16 @ "Go and speak to Ebed-Melech the Ethiopian, saying, "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Behold, I will bring My words upon this city for adv ersity and not for good, and they shall be p erformed in that day before you.

nkjv@J eremiah:39:17 @ But I will deliv er you in that day," says the LORD, "and you shall not be given into the hand of the men of whom you are afraid.

nkjv@J eremiah:39:18 @ For I will surely deliv er you, and you shall not fall by the sword; but your life shall be as a prize to you, because you have put your trust in Me," says the LORD."'

nkjv@J eremiah:40:1 @ The word that came to J eremiah from the LORD aft er Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him bound in chains among all who w ere carried away captive from J erusalem and Judah, who w ere carried away captive to Babylon.

nkjv@J eremiah:40:2 @ And the captain of the guard took J eremiah and said to him: "The LORD your God has pronounced this doom on this place.

nkjv@J eremiah:40:3 @ Now the LORD has brought it, and has done just as He said. Because you people have sinned against the LORD, and not obeyed His voice, th erefore this thing has come upon you.

nkjv@J eremiah:40:4 @ And now look, I free you this day from the chains that w ere on your hand. If it seems good to you to come with me to Babylon, come, and I will look aft er you. But if it seems wrong for you to come with me to Babylon, remain h ere. See, all the land is before you; wh erev er it seems good and convenient for you to go, go th ere."

nkjv@J eremiah:40:5 @ Now while J eremiah had not yet gone back, Nebuzaradan said, "Go back to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has made gov ernor ov er the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people. Or go wh erev er it seems convenient for you to go." So the captain of the guard gave him rations and a gift and let him go.

nkjv@J eremiah:40:6 @ Then J eremiah went to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, to Mizpah, and dwelt with him among the people who w ere left in the land.

nkjv@J eremiah:40:7 @ And when all the captains of the armies who w ere in the fields, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam gov ernor in the land, and had committed to him men, women, children, and the poorest of the land who had not been carried away captive to Babylon,

nkjv@J eremiah:40:8 @ then they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah--Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, S eraiah the son of Tanhumeth, the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.

nkjv@J eremiah:40:9 @ And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, took an oath before them and their men, saying, "Do not be afraid to s erve the Chaldeans. Dwell in the land and s erve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.

nkjv@J eremiah:40:10 @ As for me, I will indeed dwell at Mizpah and s erve the Chaldeans who come to us. But you, gath er wine and summ er fruit and oil, put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that you have taken."

nkjv@J eremiah:40:11 @ Likewise, when all the Jews who w ere in Moab, among the Ammonites, in Edom, and who w ere in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set ov er them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan,

nkjv@J eremiah:40:12 @ then all the Jews returned out of all places wh ere they had been driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah, and gath ered wine and summ er fruit in abundance.

nkjv@J eremiah:40:13 @ Moreov er Johanan the son of Kareah and all the captains of the forces that w ere in the fields came to Gedaliah at Mizpah,

nkjv@J eremiah:40:14 @ and said to him, "Do you c ertainly know that Baalis the king of the Ammonites has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to murd er you?" But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam did not believe them.

nkjv@J eremiah:40:15 @ Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke secretly to Gedaliah in Mizpah, saying, "Let me go, please, and I will kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no one will know it. Why should he murd er you, so that all the Jews who are gath ered to you would be scatt ered, and the remnant in Judah p erish?"

nkjv@J eremiah:40:16 @ But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son of Kareah, "You shall not do this thing, for you speak falsely conc erning Ishmael."

nkjv@J eremiah:41:1 @ Now it came to pass in the seventh month that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal family and of the offic ers of the king, came with ten men to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, at Mizpah. And th ere they ate bread togeth er in Mizpah.

nkjv@J eremiah:41:2 @ Then Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men who w ere with him, arose and struck Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, with the sword, and killed him whom the king of Babylon had made gov ernor ov er the land.

nkjv@J eremiah:41:3 @ Ishmael also struck down all the Jews who w ere with him, that is, with Gedaliah at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans who w ere found th ere, the men of war.

nkjv@J eremiah:41:4 @ And it happened, on the second day aft er he had killed Gedaliah, when as yet no one knew it,

nkjv@J eremiah:41:5 @ that c ertain men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, eighty men with their beards shaved and their clothes torn, having cut themselves, with off erings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:41:6 @ Now Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went out from Mizpah to meet them, weeping as he went along; and it happened as he met them that he said to them, "Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam!"

nkjv@J eremiah:41:7 @ So it was, when they came into the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah killed them and cast them into the midst of a pit, he and the men who w ere with him.

nkjv@J eremiah:41:8 @ But ten men w ere found among them who said to Ishmael, "Do not kill us, for we have treasures of wheat, barley, oil, and honey in the field." So he desisted and did not kill them among their brethren.

nkjv@J eremiah:41:9 @ Now the pit into which Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of the men whom he had slain, because of Gedaliah, was the same one Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel. Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with the slain.

nkjv@J eremiah:41:10 @ Then Ishmael carried away captive all the rest of the people who w ere in Mizpah, the king's daught ers and all the people who remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam. And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive and departed to go ov er to the Ammonites.

nkjv@J eremiah:41:11 @ But when Johanan the son of Kareah and all the captains of the forces that w ere with him heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done,

nkjv@J eremiah:41:12 @ they took all the men and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah; and they found him by the great pool that is in Gibeon.

nkjv@J eremiah:41:13 @ So it was, when all the people who w ere with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who w ere with him, that they w ere glad.

nkjv@J eremiah:41:14 @ Then all the people whom Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah turned around and came back, and went to Johanan the son of Kareah.

nkjv@J eremiah:41:15 @ But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men and went to the Ammonites.

nkjv@J eremiah:41:16 @ Then Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that w ere with him, took from Mizpah all the rest of the people whom he had recov ered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah aft er he had murd ered Gedaliah the son of Ahikam--the mighty men of war and the women and the children and the eunuchs, whom he had brought back from Gibeon.

nkjv@J eremiah:41:17 @ And they departed and dwelt in the habitation of Chimham, which is near Bethlehem, as they went on their way to Egypt,

nkjv@J eremiah:41:18 @ because of the Chaldeans; for they w ere afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had murd ered Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had made gov ernor in the land.

nkjv@J eremiah:42:1 @ Now all the captains of the forces, Johanan the son of Kareah, Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people, from the least to the greatest, came near

nkjv@J eremiah:42:2 @ and said to J eremiah the prophet, "Please, let our petition be acceptable to you, and pray for us to the LORD your God, for all this remnant (since we are left but a few of many, as you can see),

nkjv@J eremiah:42:3 @ that the LORD your God may show us the way in which we should walk and the thing we should do."

nkjv@J eremiah:42:4 @ Then J eremiah the prophet said to them, "I have heard. Indeed, I will pray to the LORD your God according to your words, and it shall be, that whatev er the LORD answ ers you, I will declare it to you. I will keep nothing back from you."

nkjv@J eremiah:42:5 @ So they said to J eremiah, "Let the LORD be a true and faithful witness between us, if we do not do according to ev erything which the LORD your God sends us by you.

nkjv@J eremiah:42:6 @ Wheth er it is pleasing or displeasing, we will obey the voice of the LORD our God to whom we send you, that it may be well with us when we obey the voice of the LORD our God."

nkjv@J eremiah:42:7 @ And it happened aft er ten days that the word of the LORD came to J eremiah.

nkjv@J eremiah:42:8 @ Then he called Johanan the son of Kareah, all the captains of the forces which w ere with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest,

nkjv@J eremiah:42:9 @ and said to them, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your petition before Him:

nkjv@J eremiah:42:10 @ "If you will still remain in this land, then I will build you and not pull you down, and I will plant you and not pluck you up. For I relent conc erning the disast er that I have brought upon you.

nkjv@J eremiah:42:11 @ Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid; do not be afraid of him,' says the LORD, "for I am with you, to save you and deliv er you from his hand.

nkjv@J eremiah:42:12 @ And I will show you m ercy, that he may have m ercy on you and cause you to return to your own land.'

nkjv@J eremiah:42:13 @ "But if you say, "We will not dwell in this land,' disobeying the voice of the LORD your God,

nkjv@J eremiah:42:14 @ saying, "No, but we will go to the land of Egypt wh ere we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor be hungry for bread, and th ere we will dwell'--

nkjv@J eremiah:42:15 @ Then hear now the word of the LORD, O remnant of Judah! Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "If you wholly set your faces to ent er Egypt, and go to dwell th ere,

nkjv@J eremiah:42:16 @ then it shall be that the sword which you feared shall ov ertake you th ere in the land of Egypt; the famine of which you w ere afraid shall follow close aft er you th ere in Egypt; and th ere you shall die.

nkjv@J eremiah:42:17 @ So shall it be with all the men who set their faces to go to Egypt to dwell th ere. They shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence. And none of them shall remain or escape from the disast er that I will bring upon them.'

nkjv@J eremiah:42:18 @ "For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "As My ang er and My fury have been poured out on the inhabitants of J erusalem, so will My fury be poured out on you when you ent er Egypt. And you shall be an oath, an astonishment, a curse, and a reproach; and you shall see this place no more.'

nkjv@J eremiah:42:19 @ "The LORD has said conc erning you, O remnant of Judah, "Do not go to Egypt!' Know c ertainly that I have admonished you this day.

nkjv@J eremiah:42:20 @ For you w ere hypocrites in your hearts when you sent me to the LORD your God, saying, "Pray for us to the LORD our God, and according to all that the LORD your God says, so declare to us and we will do it.'

nkjv@J eremiah:42:21 @ And I have this day declared it to you, but you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God, or anything which He has sent you by me.

nkjv@J eremiah:42:22 @ Now th erefore, know c ertainly that you shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence in the place wh ere you desire to go to dwell."

nkjv@J eremiah:43:1 @ Now it happened, when J eremiah had stopped speaking to all the people all the words of the LORD their God, for which the LORD their God had sent him to them, all these words,

nkjv@J eremiah:43:2 @ that Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men spoke, saying to J eremiah, "You speak falsely! The LORD our God has not sent you to say, "Do not go to Egypt to dwell th ere.'

nkjv@J eremiah:43:3 @ But Baruch the son of N eriah has set you against us, to deliv er us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may put us to death or carry us away captive to Babylon."

nkjv@J eremiah:43:4 @ So Johanan the son of Kareah, all the captains of the forces, and all the people would not obey the voice of the LORD, to remain in the land of Judah.

nkjv@J eremiah:43:5 @ But Johanan the son of Kareah and all the captains of the forces took all the remnant of Judah who had returned to dwell in the land of Judah, from all nations wh ere they had been driven--

nkjv@J eremiah:43:6 @ men, women, children, the king's daught ers, and ev ery p erson whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, and J eremiah the prophet and Baruch the son of N eriah.

nkjv@J eremiah:43:7 @ So they went to the land of Egypt, for they did not obey the voice of the LORD. And they went as far as Tahpanhes.

nkjv@J eremiah:43:8 @ Then the word of the LORD came to J eremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,

nkjv@J eremiah:43:9 @ "Take large stones in your hand, and hide them in the sight of the men of Judah, in the clay in the brick courtyard which is at the entrance to Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes;

nkjv@J eremiah:43:10 @ and say to them, "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Behold, I will send and bring Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My s ervant, and will set his throne above these stones that I have hidden. And he will spread his royal pavilion ov er them.

nkjv@J eremiah:43:11 @ When he comes, he shall strike the land of Egypt and deliv er to death those appointed for death, and to captivity those appointed for captivity, and to the sword those appointed for the sword.

nkjv@J eremiah:43:12 @ I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt, and he shall burn them and carry them away captive. And he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a sheph erd puts on his garment, and he shall go out from th ere in peace.

nkjv@J eremiah:43:13 @ He shall also break the sacred pillars of Beth Shemesh that are in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians he shall burn with fire.""'

nkjv@J eremiah:44:1 @ The word that came to J eremiah conc erning all the Jews who dwell in the land of Egypt, who dwell at Migdol, at Tahpanhes, at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying,

nkjv@J eremiah:44:2 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "You have seen all the calamity that I have brought on J erusalem and on all the cities of Judah; and behold, this day they are a desolation, and no one dwells in them,

nkjv@J eremiah:44:3 @ because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke Me to ang er, in that they went to burn incense and to s erve oth er gods whom they did not know, they nor you nor your fath ers.

nkjv@J eremiah:44:4 @ Howev er I have sent to you all My s ervants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, "Oh, do not do this abominable thing that I hate!"

nkjv@J eremiah:44:5 @ But they did not listen or incline their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense to oth er gods.

nkjv@J eremiah:44:6 @ So My fury and My ang er w ere poured out and kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of J erusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as it is this day.'

nkjv@J eremiah:44:7 @ "Now th erefore, thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: "Why do you commit this great evil against yourselves, to cut off from you man and woman, child and infant, out of Judah, leaving none to remain,

nkjv@J eremiah:44:8 @ in that you provoke Me to wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense to oth er gods in the land of Egypt wh ere you have gone to dwell, that you may cut yourselves off and be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

nkjv@J eremiah:44:9 @ Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fath ers, the wickedness of the kings of Judah, the wickedness of their wives, your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of J erusalem?

nkjv@J eremiah:44:10 @ They have not been humbled, to this day, nor have they feared; they have not walked in My law or in My statutes that I set before you and your fath ers.'

nkjv@J eremiah:44:11 @ "Th erefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Behold, I will set My face against you for catastrophe and for cutting off all Judah.

nkjv@J eremiah:44:12 @ And I will take the remnant of Judah who have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to dwell th ere, and they shall all be consumed and fall in the land of Egypt. They shall be consumed by the sword and by famine. They shall die, from the least to the greatest, by the sword and by famine; and they shall be an oath, an astonishment, a curse and a reproach!

nkjv@J eremiah:44:13 @ For I will punish those who dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished J erusalem, by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence,

nkjv@J eremiah:44:14 @ so that none of the remnant of Judah who have gone into the land of Egypt to dwell th ere shall escape or survive, lest they return to the land of Judah, to which they desire to return and dwell. For none shall return except those who escape."'

nkjv@J eremiah:44:15 @ Then all the men who knew that their wives had burned incense to oth er gods, with all the women who stood by, a great multitude, and all the people who dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answ ered J eremiah, saying:

nkjv@J eremiah:44:16 @ "As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you!

nkjv@J eremiah:44:17 @ But we will c ertainly do whatev er has gone out of our own mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven and pour out drink off erings to h er, as we have done, we and our fath ers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of J erusalem. For then we had plenty of food, w ere well-off, and saw no trouble.

nkjv@J eremiah:44:18 @ But since we stopped burning incense to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink off erings to h er, we have lacked ev erything and have been consumed by the sword and by famine."

nkjv@J eremiah:44:19 @ The women also said, "And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven and poured out drink off erings to h er, did we make cakes for h er, to worship h er, and pour out drink off erings to h er without our husbands' p ermission?"

nkjv@J eremiah:44:20 @ Then J eremiah spoke to all the people--the men, the women, and all the people who had given him that answ er--saying:

nkjv@J eremiah:44:21 @ "The incense that you burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of J erusalem, you and your fath ers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD rememb er them, and did it not come into His mind?

nkjv@J eremiah:44:22 @ So the LORD could no long er bear it, because of the evil of your doings and because of the abominations which you committed. Th erefore your land is a desolation, an astonishment, a curse, and without an inhabitant, as it is this day.

nkjv@J eremiah:44:23 @ Because you have burned incense and because you have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD or walked in His law, in His statutes or in His testimonies, th erefore this calamity has happened to you, as at this day."

nkjv@J eremiah:44:24 @ Moreov er J eremiah said to all the people and to all the women, "Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah who are in the land of Egypt!

nkjv@J eremiah:44:25 @ Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying: "You and your wives have spoken with your mouths and fulfilled with your hands, saying, "We will surely keep our vows that we have made, to burn incense to the queen of heaven and pour out drink off erings to h er." You will surely keep your vows and p erform your vows!'

nkjv@J eremiah:44:26 @ Th erefore hear the word of the LORD, all Judah who dwell in the land of Egypt: "Behold, I have sworn by My great name,' says the LORD, "that My name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, "The Lord GOD lives."

nkjv@J eremiah:44:27 @ Behold, I will watch ov er them for adv ersity and not for good. And all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by famine, until th ere is an end to them.

nkjv@J eremiah:44:28 @ Yet a small numb er who escape the sword shall return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah; and all the remnant of Judah, who have gone to the land of Egypt to dwell th ere, shall know whose words will stand, Mine or theirs.

nkjv@J eremiah:44:29 @ And this shall be a sign to you,' says the LORD, "that I will punish you in this place, that you may know that My words will surely stand against you for adv ersity.'

nkjv@J eremiah:44:30 @ "Thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies and into the hand of those who seek his life, as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, his enemy who sought his life."'

nkjv@J eremiah:45:1 @ The word that J eremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of N eriah, when he had written these words in a book at the instruction of J eremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,

nkjv@J eremiah:45:2 @ "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, to you, O Baruch:

nkjv@J eremiah:45:3 @ "You said, "Woe is me now! For the LORD has added grief to my sorrow. I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest."'

nkjv@J eremiah:45:4 @ "Thus you shall say to him, "Thus says the LORD: "Behold, what I have built I will break down, and what I have planted I will pluck up, that is, this whole land.

nkjv@J eremiah:45:5 @ And do you seek great things for yourself? Do not seek them; for behold, I will bring adv ersity on all flesh," says the LORD. "But I will give your life to you as a prize in all places, wh erev er you go.""'

nkjv@J eremiah:46:1 @ The word of the LORD which came to J eremiah the prophet against the nations.

nkjv@J eremiah:46:2 @ Against Egypt. Conc erning the army of Pharaoh Necho, king of Egypt, which was by the Riv er Euphrates in Carchemish, and which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:

nkjv@J eremiah:46:3 @ "Ord er the buckl er and shield, And draw near to battle!

nkjv@J eremiah:46:4 @ Harness the horses, And mount up, you horsemen! Stand forth with your helmets, Polish the spears, Put on the armor!

nkjv@J eremiah:46:5 @ Why have I seen them dismayed and turned back? Their mighty ones are beaten down; They have speedily fled, And did not look back, For fear was all around," says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:46:6 @ "Do not let the swift flee away, Nor the mighty man escape; They will stumble and fall Toward the north, by the Riv er Euphrates.

nkjv@J eremiah:46:7 @ "Who is this coming up like a flood, Whose wat ers move like the riv ers?

nkjv@J eremiah:46:8 @ Egypt rises up like a flood, And its wat ers move like the riv ers; And he says, "I will go up and cov er the earth, I will destroy the city and its inhabitants.'

nkjv@J eremiah:46:9 @ Come up, O horses, and rage, O chariots! And let the mighty men come forth: The Ethiopians and the Libyans who handle the shield, And the Lydians who handle and bend the bow.

nkjv@J eremiah:46:10 @ For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, A day of vengeance, That He may avenge Himself on His adv ersaries. The sword shall devour; It shall be satiated and made drunk with their blood; For the Lord GOD of hosts has a sacrifice In the north country by the Riv er Euphrates.

nkjv@J eremiah:46:11 @ "Go up to Gilead and take balm, O virgin, the daught er of Egypt; In vain you will use many medicines; You shall not be cured.

nkjv@J eremiah:46:12 @ The nations have heard of your shame, And your cry has filled the land; For the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty; They both have fallen togeth er."

nkjv@J eremiah:46:13 @ The word that the LORD spoke to J eremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon would come and strike the land of Egypt.

nkjv@J eremiah:46:14 @ "Declare in Egypt, and proclaim in Migdol; Proclaim in Noph and in Tahpanhes; Say, "Stand fast and prepare yourselves, For the sword devours all around you.'

nkjv@J eremiah:46:15 @ Why are your valiant men swept away? They did not stand Because the LORD drove them away.

nkjv@J eremiah:46:16 @ He made many fall; Yes, one fell upon anoth er. And they said, "Arise! Let us go back to our own people And to the land of our nativity From the oppressing sword.'

nkjv@J eremiah:46:17 @ They cried th ere, "Pharaoh, king of Egypt, is but a noise. He has passed by the appointed time!'

nkjv@J eremiah:46:18 @ "As I live," says the King, Whose name is the LORD of hosts, "Surely as Tabor is among the mountains And as Carmel by the sea, so he shall come.

nkjv@J eremiah:46:19 @ O you daught er dwelling in Egypt, Prepare yourself to go into captivity! For Noph shall be waste and desolate, without inhabitant.

nkjv@J eremiah:46:20 @ "Egypt is a v ery pretty heif er, But destruction comes, it comes from the north.

nkjv@J eremiah:46:21 @ Also h er m ercenaries are in h er midst like fat bulls, For they also are turned back, They have fled away togeth er. They did not stand, For the day of their calamity had come upon them, The time of their punishment.

nkjv@J eremiah:46:22 @ H er noise shall go like a s erpent, For they shall march with an army And come against h er with axes, Like those who chop wood.

nkjv@J eremiah:46:23 @ "They shall cut down h er forest," says the LORD, "Though it cannot be searched, Because they are innum erable, And more num erous than grasshopp ers.

nkjv@J eremiah:46:24 @ The daught er of Egypt shall be ashamed; She shall be deliv ered into the hand Of the people of the north."

nkjv@J eremiah:46:25 @ The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, says: "Behold, I will bring punishment on Amon of No, and Pharaoh and Egypt, with their gods and their kings--Pharaoh and those who trust in him.

nkjv@J eremiah:46:26 @ And I will deliv er them into the hand of those who seek their lives, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and the hand of his s ervants. Aft erward it shall be inhabited as in the days of old," says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:46:27 @ "But do not fear, O My s ervant Jacob, And do not be dismayed, O Israel! For behold, I will save you from afar, And your offspring from the land of their captivity; Jacob shall return, have rest and be at ease; No one shall make him afraid.

nkjv@J eremiah:46:28 @ Do not fear, O Jacob My s ervant," says the LORD, "For I am with you; For I will make a complete end of all the nations To which I have driven you, But I will not make a complete end of you. I will rightly correct you, For I will not leave you wholly unpunished."

nkjv@J eremiah:47:1 @ The word of the LORD that came to J eremiah the prophet against the Philistines, before Pharaoh attacked Gaza.

nkjv@J eremiah:47:2 @ Thus says the LORD: "Behold, wat ers rise out of the north, And shall be an ov erflowing flood; They shall ov erflow the land and all that is in it, The city and those who dwell within; Then the men shall cry, And all the inhabitants of the land shall wail.

nkjv@J eremiah:47:3 @ At the noise of the stamping hooves of his strong horses, At the rushing of his chariots, At the rumbling of his wheels, The fath ers will not look back for their children, Lacking courage,

nkjv@J eremiah:47:4 @ Because of the day that comes to plund er all the Philistines, To cut off from Tyre and Sidon ev ery help er who remains; For the LORD shall plund er the Philistines, The remnant of the country of Caphtor.

nkjv@J eremiah:47:5 @ Baldness has come upon Gaza, Ashkelon is cut off With the remnant of their valley. How long will you cut yourself?

nkjv@J eremiah:47:6 @ "O you sword of the LORD, How long until you are quiet? Put yourself up into your scabbard, Rest and be still!

nkjv@J eremiah:47:7 @ How can it be quiet, Seeing the LORD has given it a charge Against Ashkelon and against the seashore? Th ere He has appointed it."

nkjv@J eremiah:48:1 @ Against Moab. Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Woe to Nebo! For it is plund ered, Kirjathaim is shamed and taken; The high stronghold is shamed and dismayed--

nkjv@J eremiah:48:2 @ No more praise of Moab. In Heshbon they have devised evil against h er: "Come, and let us cut h er off as a nation.' You also shall be cut down, O Madmen! The sword shall pursue you;

nkjv@J eremiah:48:3 @ A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim: "Plund ering and great destruction!'

nkjv@J eremiah:48:4 @ "Moab is destroyed; H er little ones have caused a cry to be heard;

nkjv@J eremiah:48:5 @ For in the Ascent of Luhith they ascend with continual weeping; For in the descent of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction.

nkjv@J eremiah:48:6 @ "Flee, save your lives! And be like the junip er in the wild erness.

nkjv@J eremiah:48:7 @ For because you have trusted in your works and your treasures, You also shall be taken. And Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, His priests and his princes togeth er.

nkjv@J eremiah:48:8 @ And the plund er er shall come against ev ery city; No one shall escape. The valley also shall p erish, And the plain shall be destroyed, As the LORD has spoken.

nkjv@J eremiah:48:9 @ "Give wings to Moab, That she may flee and get away; For h er cities shall be desolate, Without any to dwell in them.

nkjv@J eremiah:48:10 @ Cursed is he who does the work of the LORD deceitfully, And cursed is he who keeps back his sword from blood.

nkjv@J eremiah:48:11 @ "Moab has been at ease from his youth; He has settled on his dregs, And has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, Nor has he gone into captivity. Th erefore his taste remained in him, And his scent has not changed.

nkjv@J eremiah:48:12 @ "Th erefore behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "That I shall send him wine-work ers Who will tip him ov er And empty his vessels And break the bottles.

nkjv@J eremiah:48:13 @ Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, As the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence.

nkjv@J eremiah:48:14 @ "How can you say, "We are mighty And strong men for the war'?

nkjv@J eremiah:48:15 @ Moab is plund ered and gone up from h er cities; H er chosen young men have gone down to the slaught er," says the King, Whose name is the LORD of hosts.

nkjv@J eremiah:48:16 @ "The calamity of Moab is near at hand, And his affliction comes quickly.

nkjv@J eremiah:48:17 @ Bemoan him, all you who are around him; And all you who know his name, Say, "How the strong staff is broken, The beautiful rod!'

nkjv@J eremiah:48:18 @ "O daught er inhabiting Dibon, Come down from your glory, And sit in thirst; For the plund er er of Moab has come against you, He has destroyed your strongholds.

nkjv@J eremiah:48:19 @ O inhabitant of Aro er, Stand by the way and watch; Ask him who flees And h er who escapes; Say, "What has happened?'

nkjv@J eremiah:48:20 @ Moab is shamed, for he is broken down. Wail and cry! Tell it in Arnon, that Moab is plund ered.

nkjv@J eremiah:48:21 @ "And judgment has come on the plain country: On Holon and Jahzah and Mephaath,

nkjv@J eremiah:48:22 @ On Dibon and Nebo and Beth Diblathaim,

nkjv@J eremiah:48:23 @ On Kirjathaim and Beth Gamul and Beth Meon,

nkjv@J eremiah:48:24 @ On K erioth and Bozrah, On all the cities of the land of Moab, Far or near.

nkjv@J eremiah:48:25 @ The horn of Moab is cut off, And his arm is broken," says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:48:26 @ "Make him drunk, Because he exalted himself against the LORD. Moab shall wallow in his vomit, And he shall also be in d erision.

nkjv@J eremiah:48:27 @ For was not Israel a d erision to you? Was he found among thieves? For whenev er you speak of him, You shake your head in scorn.

nkjv@J eremiah:48:28 @ You who dwell in Moab, Leave the cities and dwell in the rock, And be like the dove which makes h er nest In the sides of the cave's mouth.

nkjv@J eremiah:48:29 @ "We have heard the pride of Moab (He is exceedingly proud), Of his loftiness and arrogance and pride, And of the haughtiness of his heart."

nkjv@J eremiah:48:30 @ "I know his wrath," says the LORD, "But it is not right; His lies have made nothing right.

nkjv@J eremiah:48:31 @ Th erefore I will wail for Moab, And I will cry out for all Moab; I will mourn for the men of Kir H eres.

nkjv@J eremiah:48:32 @ O vine of Sibmah! I will weep for you with the weeping of Jaz er. Your plants have gone ov er the sea, They reach to the sea of Jaz er. The plund er er has fallen on your summ er fruit and your vintage.

nkjv@J eremiah:48:33 @ Joy and gladness are taken From the plentiful field And from the land of Moab; I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses; No one will tread with joyous shouting-- Not joyous shouting!

nkjv@J eremiah:48:34 @ "From the cry of Heshbon to Elealeh and to Jahaz They have utt ered their voice, From Zoar to Horonaim, Like a three-year-old heif er; For the wat ers of Nimrim also shall be desolate.

nkjv@J eremiah:48:35 @ "Moreov er," says the LORD, "I will cause to cease in Moab The one who off ers sacrifices in the high places And burns incense to his gods.

nkjv@J eremiah:48:36 @ Th erefore My heart shall wail like flutes for Moab, And like flutes My heart shall wail For the men of Kir H eres. Th erefore the riches they have acquired have p erished.

nkjv@J eremiah:48:37 @ "For ev ery head shall be bald, and ev ery beard clipped; On all the hands shall be cuts, and on the loins sackcloth--

nkjv@J eremiah:48:38 @ A gen eral lamentation On all the housetops of Moab, And in its streets; For I have broken Moab like a vessel in which is no pleasure," says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:48:39 @ "They shall wail: "How she is broken down! How Moab has turned h er back with shame!' So Moab shall be a d erision And a dismay to all those about h er."

nkjv@J eremiah:48:40 @ For thus says the LORD: "Behold, one shall fly like an eagle, And spread his wings ov er Moab.

nkjv@J eremiah:48:41 @ K erioth is taken, And the strongholds are surprised; The mighty men's hearts in Moab on that day shall be Like the heart of a woman in birth pangs.

nkjv@J eremiah:48:42 @ And Moab shall be destroyed as a people, Because he exalted himself against the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:48:43 @ Fear and the pit and the snare shall be upon you, O inhabitant of Moab," says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:48:44 @ "He who flees from the fear shall fall into the pit, And he who gets out of the pit shall be caught in the snare. For upon Moab, upon it I will bring The year of their punishment," says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:48:45 @ "Those who fled stood und er the shadow of Heshbon Because of exhaustion. But a fire shall come out of Heshbon, A flame from the midst of Sihon, And shall devour the brow of Moab, The crown of the head of the sons of tumult.

nkjv@J eremiah:48:46 @ Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh p erish; For your sons have been taken captive, And your daught ers captive.

nkjv@J eremiah:48:47 @ "Yet I will bring back the captives of Moab In the latt er days," says the LORD. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.

nkjv@J eremiah:49:1 @ Against the Ammonites. Thus says the LORD: "Has Israel no sons? Has he no heir? Why then does Milcom inh erit Gad, And his people dwell in its cities?

nkjv@J eremiah:49:2 @ Th erefore behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "That I will cause to be heard an alarm of war In Rabbah of the Ammonites; It shall be a desolate mound, And h er villages shall be burned with fire. Then Israel shall take possession of his inh eritance," says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:49:3 @ "Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai is plund ered! Cry, you daught ers of Rabbah, Gird yourselves with sackcloth! Lament and run to and fro by the walls; For Milcom shall go into captivity With his priests and his princes togeth er.

nkjv@J eremiah:49:4 @ Why do you boast in the valleys, Your flowing valley, O backsliding daught er? Who trusted in h er treasures, saying, "Who will come against me?'

nkjv@J eremiah:49:5 @ Behold, I will bring fear upon you," Says the Lord GOD of hosts, "From all those who are around you; You shall be driven out, ev eryone headlong, And no one will gath er those who wand er off.

nkjv@J eremiah:49:6 @ But aft erward I will bring back The captives of the people of Ammon," says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:49:7 @ Against Edom. Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel p erished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?

nkjv@J eremiah:49:8 @ Flee, turn back, dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Dedan! For I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, The time that I will punish him.

nkjv@J eremiah:49:9 @ If grape-gath er ers came to you, Would they not leave some gleaning grapes? If thieves by night, Would they not destroy until they have enough?

nkjv@J eremiah:49:10 @ But I have made Esau bare; I have uncov ered his secret places, And he shall not be able to hide himself. His descendants are plund ered, His brethren and his neighbors, And he is no more.

nkjv@J eremiah:49:11 @ Leave your fath erless children, I will pres erve them alive; And let your widows trust in Me."

nkjv@J eremiah:49:12 @ For thus says the LORD: "Behold, those whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunk. And are you the one who will altogeth er go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but you shall surely drink of it.

nkjv@J eremiah:49:13 @ For I have sworn by Myself," says the LORD, "that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse. And all its cities shall be p erpetual wastes."

nkjv@J eremiah:49:14 @ I have heard a message from the LORD, And an ambassador has been sent to the nations: "Gath er togeth er, come against h er, And rise up to battle!

nkjv@J eremiah:49:15 @ "For indeed, I will make you small among nations, Despised among men.

nkjv@J eremiah:49:16 @ Your fi erceness has deceived you, The pride of your heart, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, Who hold the height of the hill! Though you make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from th ere," says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:49:17 @ "Edom also shall be an astonishment; Ev eryone who goes by it will be astonished And will hiss at all its plagues.

nkjv@J eremiah:49:18 @ As in the ov erthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah And their neighbors," says the LORD, "No one shall remain th ere, Nor shall a son of man dwell in it.

nkjv@J eremiah:49:19 @ "Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the floodplain of the Jordan Against the dwelling place of the strong; But I will suddenly make him run away from h er. And who is a chosen man that I may appoint ov er h er? For who is like Me? Who will arraign Me? And who is that sheph erd Who will withstand Me?"

nkjv@J eremiah:49:20 @ Th erefore hear the counsel of the LORD that He has taken against Edom, And His purposes that He has proposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out; Surely He shall make their dwelling places desolate with them.

nkjv@J eremiah:49:21 @ The earth shakes at the noise of their fall; At the cry its noise is heard at the Red Sea.

nkjv@J eremiah:49:22 @ Behold, He shall come up and fly like the eagle, And spread His wings ov er Bozrah; The heart of the mighty men of Edom in that day shall be Like the heart of a woman in birth pangs.

nkjv@J eremiah:49:23 @ Against Damascus. "Hamath and Arpad are shamed, For they have heard bad news. They are fainthearted; Th ere is trouble on the sea; It cannot be quiet.

nkjv@J eremiah:49:24 @ Damascus has grown feeble; She turns to flee, And fear has seized h er. Anguish and sorrows have taken h er like a woman in labor.

nkjv@J eremiah:49:25 @ Why is the city of praise not des erted, the city of My joy?

nkjv@J eremiah:49:26 @ Th erefore h er young men shall fall in h er streets, And all the men of war shall be cut off in that day," says the LORD of hosts.

nkjv@J eremiah:49:27 @ "I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, And it shall consume the palaces of Ben-Hadad."

nkjv@J eremiah:49:28 @ Against Kedar and against the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon shall strike. Thus says the LORD: "Arise, go up to Kedar, And devastate the men of the East!

nkjv@J eremiah:49:29 @ Their tents and their flocks they shall take away. They shall take for themselves their curtains, All their vessels and their camels; And they shall cry out to them, "Fear is on ev ery side!'

nkjv@J eremiah:49:30 @ "Flee, get far away! Dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Hazor!" says the LORD. "For Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has taken counsel against you, And has conceived a plan against you.

nkjv@J eremiah:49:31 @ "Arise, go up to the wealthy nation that dwells securely," says the LORD, "Which has neith er gates nor bars, Dwelling alone.

nkjv@J eremiah:49:32 @ Their camels shall be for booty, And the multitude of their cattle for plund er. I will scatt er to all winds those in the farthest corn ers, And I will bring their calamity from all its sides," says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:49:33 @ "Hazor shall be a dwelling for jackals, a desolation forev er; No one shall reside th ere, Nor son of man dwell in it."

nkjv@J eremiah:49:34 @ The word of the LORD that came to J eremiah the prophet against Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,

nkjv@J eremiah:49:35 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, The foremost of their might.

nkjv@J eremiah:49:36 @ Against Elam I will bring the four winds From the four quart ers of heaven, And scatt er them toward all those winds; Th ere shall be no nations wh ere the outcasts of Elam will not go.

nkjv@J eremiah:49:37 @ For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies And before those who seek their life. I will bring disast er upon them, My fi erce ang er,' says the LORD; "And I will send the sword aft er them Until I have consumed them.

nkjv@J eremiah:49:38 @ I will set My throne in Elam, And will destroy from th ere the king and the princes,' says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:49:39 @ "But it shall come to pass in the latt er days: I will bring back the captives of Elam,' says the LORD."

nkjv@J eremiah:50:1 @ The word that the LORD spoke against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by J eremiah the prophet.

nkjv@J eremiah:50:2 @ "Declare among the nations, Proclaim, and set up a standard; Proclaim--do not conceal it-- Say, "Babylon is taken, Bel is shamed. M erodach is broken in pieces; H er idols are humiliated, H er images are broken in pieces.'

nkjv@J eremiah:50:3 @ For out of the north a nation comes up against h er, Which shall make h er land desolate, And no one shall dwell th erein. They shall move, they shall depart, Both man and beast.

nkjv@J eremiah:50:4 @ "In those days and in that time," says the LORD, "The children of Israel shall come, They and the children of Judah togeth er; With continual weeping they shall come, And seek the LORD their God.

nkjv@J eremiah:50:5 @ They shall ask the way to Zion, With their faces toward it, saying, "Come and let us join ourselves to the LORD In a p erpetual covenant That will not be forgotten.'

nkjv@J eremiah:50:6 @ "My people have been lost sheep. Their sheph erds have led them astray; They have turned them away on the mountains. They have gone from mountain to hill; They have forgotten their resting place.

nkjv@J eremiah:50:7 @ All who found them have devoured them; And their adv ersaries said, "We have not offended, Because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, The LORD, the hope of their fath ers.'

nkjv@J eremiah:50:8 @ "Move from the midst of Babylon, Go out of the land of the Chaldeans; And be like the rams before the flocks.

nkjv@J eremiah:50:9 @ For behold, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon An assembly of great nations from the north country, And they shall array themselves against h er; From th ere she shall be captured. Their arrows shall be like those of an exp ert warrior; None shall return in vain.

nkjv@J eremiah:50:10 @ And Chaldea shall become plund er; All who plund er h er shall be satisfied," says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:50:11 @ "Because you w ere glad, because you rejoiced, You destroy ers of My h eritage, Because you have grown fat like a heif er threshing grain, And you bellow like bulls,

nkjv@J eremiah:50:12 @ Your moth er shall be deeply ashamed; She who bore you shall be ashamed. Behold, the least of the nations shall be a wild erness, A dry land and a des ert.

nkjv@J eremiah:50:13 @ Because of the wrath of the LORD She shall not be inhabited, But she shall be wholly desolate. Ev eryone who goes by Babylon shall be horrified And hiss at all h er plagues.

nkjv@J eremiah:50:14 @ "Put yourselves in array against Babylon all around, All you who bend the bow; Shoot at h er, spare no arrows, For she has sinned against the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:50:15 @ Shout against h er all around; She has given h er hand, H er foundations have fallen, H er walls are thrown down; For it is the vengeance of the LORD. Take vengeance on h er. As she has done, so do to h er.

nkjv@J eremiah:50:16 @ Cut off the sow er from Babylon, And him who handles the sickle at harvest time. For fear of the oppressing sword Ev eryone shall turn to his own people, And ev eryone shall flee to his own land.

nkjv@J eremiah:50:17 @ "Israel is like scatt ered sheep; The lions have driven him away. First the king of Assyria devoured him; Now at last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones."

nkjv@J eremiah:50:18 @ Th erefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, As I have punished the king of Assyria.

nkjv@J eremiah:50:19 @ But I will bring back Israel to his home, And he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan; His soul shall be satisfied on Mount Ephraim and Gilead.

nkjv@J eremiah:50:20 @ In those days and in that time," says the LORD, "The iniquity of Israel shall be sought, but th ere shall be none; And the sins of Judah, but they shall not be found; For I will pardon those whom I pres erve.

nkjv@J eremiah:50:21 @ "Go up against the land of M erathaim, against it, And against the inhabitants of Pekod. Waste and utt erly destroy them," says the LORD, "And do according to all that I have commanded you.

nkjv@J eremiah:50:22 @ A sound of battle is in the land, And of great destruction.

nkjv@J eremiah:50:23 @ How the hamm er of the whole earth has been cut apart and broken! How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations! I have laid a snare for you;

nkjv@J eremiah:50:24 @ You have indeed been trapped, O Babylon, And you w ere not aware; You have been found and also caught, Because you have contended against the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:50:25 @ The LORD has opened His armory, And has brought out the weapons of His indignation; For this is the work of the Lord GOD of hosts In the land of the Chaldeans.

nkjv@J eremiah:50:26 @ Come against h er from the farthest bord er; Open h er storehouses; Cast h er up as heaps of ruins, And destroy h er utt erly; Let nothing of h er be left.

nkjv@J eremiah:50:27 @ Slay all h er bulls, Let them go down to the slaught er. Woe to them! For their day has come, the time of their punishment.

nkjv@J eremiah:50:28 @ The voice of those who flee and escape from the land of Babylon Declares in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, The vengeance of His temple.

nkjv@J eremiah:50:29 @ "Call togeth er the arch ers against Babylon. All you who bend the bow, encamp against it all around; Let none of them escape. Repay h er according to h er work; According to all she has done, do to h er; For she has been proud against the LORD, Against the Holy One of Israel.

nkjv@J eremiah:50:30 @ Th erefore h er young men shall fall in the streets, And all h er men of war shall be cut off in that day," says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:50:31 @ "Behold, I am against you, O most haughty one!" says the Lord GOD of hosts; "For your day has come, The time that I will punish you.

nkjv@J eremiah:50:32 @ The most proud shall stumble and fall, And no one will raise him up; I will kindle a fire in his cities, And it will devour all around him."

nkjv@J eremiah:50:33 @ Thus says the LORD of hosts: "The children of Israel w ere oppressed, Along with the children of Judah; All who took them captive have held them fast; They have refused to let them go.

nkjv@J eremiah:50:34 @ Their Redeem er is strong; The LORD of hosts is His name. He will thoroughly plead their case, That He may give rest to the land, And disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

nkjv@J eremiah:50:35 @ "A sword is against the Chaldeans," says the LORD, "Against the inhabitants of Babylon, And against h er princes and h er wise men.

nkjv@J eremiah:50:36 @ A sword is against the soothsay ers, and they will be fools. A sword is against h er mighty men, and they will be dismayed.

nkjv@J eremiah:50:37 @ A sword is against their horses, Against their chariots, And against all the mixed peoples who are in h er midst; And they will become like women. A sword is against h er treasures, and they will be robbed.

nkjv@J eremiah:50:38 @ A drought is against h er wat ers, and they will be dried up. For it is the land of carved images, And they are insane with their idols.

nkjv@J eremiah:50:39 @ "Th erefore the wild des ert beasts shall dwell th ere with the jackals, And the ostriches shall dwell in it. It shall be inhabited no more forev er, Nor shall it be dwelt in from gen eration to gen eration.

nkjv@J eremiah:50:40 @ As God ov erthrew Sodom and Gomorrah And their neighbors," says the LORD, "So no one shall reside th ere, Nor son of man dwell in it.

nkjv@J eremiah:50:41 @ "Behold, a people shall come from the north, And a great nation and many kings Shall be raised up from the ends of the earth.

nkjv@J eremiah:50:42 @ They shall hold the bow and the lance; They are cruel and shall not show m ercy. Their voice shall roar like the sea; They shall ride on horses, Set in array, like a man for the battle, Against you, O daught er of Babylon.

nkjv@J eremiah:50:43 @ "The king of Babylon has heard the report about them, And his hands grow feeble; Anguish has taken hold of him, Pangs as of a woman in childbirth.

nkjv@J eremiah:50:44 @ "Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the floodplain of the Jordan Against the dwelling place of the strong; But I will make them suddenly run away from h er. And who is a chosen man that I may appoint ov er h er? For who is like Me? Who will arraign Me? And who is that sheph erd Who will withstand Me?"

nkjv@J eremiah:50:45 @ Th erefore hear the counsel of the LORD that He has taken against Babylon, And His purposes that He has proposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out; Surely He will make their dwelling place desolate with them.

nkjv@J eremiah:50:46 @ At the noise of the taking of Babylon The earth trembles, And the cry is heard among the nations.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:1 @ Thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, Against those who dwell in Leb Kamai, A destroying wind.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:2 @ And I will send winnow ers to Babylon, Who shall winnow h er and empty h er land. For in the day of doom They shall be against h er all around.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:3 @ Against h er let the arch er bend his bow, And lift himself up against h er in his armor. Do not spare h er young men; Utt erly destroy all h er army.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:4 @ Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, And those thrust through in h er streets.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:5 @ For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, By his God, the LORD of hosts, Though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel."

nkjv@J eremiah:51:6 @ Flee from the midst of Babylon, And ev ery one save his life! Do not be cut off in h er iniquity, For this is the time of the LORD's vengeance; He shall recompense h er.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:7 @ Babylon was a golden cup in the LORD's hand, That made all the earth drunk. The nations drank h er wine; Th erefore the nations are d eranged.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:8 @ Babylon has suddenly fallen and been destroyed. Wail for h er! Take balm for h er pain; P erhaps she may be healed.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:9 @ We would have healed Babylon, But she is not healed. Forsake h er, and let us go ev eryone to his own country; For h er judgment reaches to heaven and is lifted up to the skies.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:10 @ The LORD has revealed our righteousness. Come and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:11 @ Make the arrows bright! Gath er the shields! The LORD has raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes. For His plan is against Babylon to destroy it, Because it is the vengeance of the LORD, The vengeance for His temple.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:12 @ Set up the standard on the walls of Babylon; Make the guard strong, Set up the watchmen, Prepare the ambushes. For the LORD has both devised and done What He spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:13 @ O you who dwell by many wat ers, Abundant in treasures, Your end has come, The measure of your covetousness.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:14 @ The LORD of hosts has sworn by Himself: "Surely I will fill you with men, as with locusts, And they shall lift up a shout against you."

nkjv@J eremiah:51:15 @ He has made the earth by His pow er; He has established the world by His wisdom, And stretched out the heaven by His und erstanding.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:16 @ When He utt ers His voice-- Th ere is a multitude of wat ers in the heavens: "He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; He makes lightnings for the rain; He brings the wind out of His treasuries."

nkjv@J eremiah:51:17 @ Ev eryone is dull-hearted, without knowledge; Ev ery metalsmith is put to shame by the carved image; For his molded image is falsehood, And th ere is no breath in them.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:18 @ They are futile, a work of errors; In the time of their punishment they shall p erish.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:19 @ The Portion of Jacob is not like them, For He is the Mak er of all things; And Israel is the tribe of His inh eritance. The LORD of hosts is His name.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:20 @ "You are My battle-ax and weapons of war: For with you I will break the nation in pieces; With you I will destroy kingdoms;

nkjv@J eremiah:51:21 @ With you I will break in pieces the horse and its rid er; With you I will break in pieces the chariot and its rid er;

nkjv@J eremiah:51:22 @ With you also I will break in pieces man and woman; With you I will break in pieces old and young; With you I will break in pieces the young man and the maiden;

nkjv@J eremiah:51:23 @ With you also I will break in pieces the sheph erd and his flock; With you I will break in pieces the farm er and his yoke of oxen; And with you I will break in pieces gov ernors and rul ers.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:24 @ "And I will repay Babylon And all the inhabitants of Chaldea For all the evil they have done In Zion in your sight," says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:25 @ "Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, Who destroys all the earth," says the LORD. "And I will stretch out My hand against you, Roll you down from the rocks, And make you a burnt mountain.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:26 @ They shall not take from you a stone for a corn er Nor a stone for a foundation, But you shall be desolate forev er," says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:27 @ Set up a bann er in the land, Blow the trumpet among the nations! Prepare the nations against h er, Call the kingdoms togeth er against h er: Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a gen eral against h er; Cause the horses to come up like the bristling locusts.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:28 @ Prepare against h er the nations, With the kings of the Medes, Its gov ernors and all its rul ers, All the land of his dominion.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:29 @ And the land will tremble and sorrow; For ev ery purpose of the LORD shall be p erformed against Babylon, To make the land of Babylon a desolation without inhabitant.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:30 @ The mighty men of Babylon have ceased fighting, They have remained in their strongholds; Their might has failed, They became like women; They have burned h er dwelling places, The bars of h er gate are broken.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:31 @ One runn er will run to meet anoth er, And one messeng er to meet anoth er, To show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on all sides;

nkjv@J eremiah:51:32 @ The passages are blocked, The reeds they have burned with fire, And the men of war are t errified.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:33 @ For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "The daught er of Babylon is like a threshing floor When it is time to thresh h er; Yet a little while And the time of h er harvest will come."

nkjv@J eremiah:51:34 @ "Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon Has devoured me, he has crushed me; He has made me an empty vessel, He has swallowed me up like a monst er; He has filled his stomach with my delicacies, He has spit me out.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:35 @ Let the violence done to me and my flesh be upon Babylon," The inhabitant of Zion will say; "And my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea!" J erusalem will say.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:36 @ Th erefore thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will plead your case and take vengeance for you. I will dry up h er sea and make h er springs dry.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:37 @ Babylon shall become a heap, A dwelling place for jackals, An astonishment and a hissing, Without an inhabitant.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:38 @ They shall roar togeth er like lions, They shall growl like lions' whelps.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:39 @ In their excitement I will prepare their feasts; I will make them drunk, That they may rejoice, And sleep a p erpetual sleep And not awake," says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:40 @ "I will bring them down Like lambs to the slaught er, Like rams with male goats.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:41 @ "Oh, how Sheshach is taken! Oh, how the praise of the whole earth is seized! How Babylon has become desolate among the nations!

nkjv@J eremiah:51:42 @ The sea has come up ov er Babylon; She is cov ered with the multitude of its waves.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:43 @ H er cities are a desolation, A dry land and a wild erness, A land wh ere no one dwells, Through which no son of man passes.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:44 @ I will punish Bel in Babylon, And I will bring out of his mouth what he has swallowed; And the nations shall not stream to him anymore. Yes, the wall of Babylon shall fall.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:45 @ "My people, go out of the midst of h er! And let ev eryone deliv er himself from the fi erce ang er of the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:46 @ And lest your heart faint, And you fear for the rumor that will be heard in the land (A rumor will come one year, And aft er that, in anoth er year A rumor will come, And violence in the land, Rul er against rul er),

nkjv@J eremiah:51:47 @ Th erefore behold, the days are coming That I will bring judgment on the carved images of Babylon; H er whole land shall be ashamed, And all h er slain shall fall in h er midst.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:48 @ Then the heavens and the earth and all that is in them Shall sing joyously ov er Babylon; For the plund er ers shall come to h er from the north," says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:49 @ As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, So at Babylon the slain of all the earth shall fall.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:50 @ You who have escaped the sword, Get away! Do not stand still! Rememb er the LORD afar off, And let J erusalem come to your mind.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:51 @ We are ashamed because we have heard reproach. Shame has cov ered our faces, For strang ers have come into the sanctuaries of the LORD's house.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:52 @ "Th erefore behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "That I will bring judgment on h er carved images, And throughout all h er land the wounded shall groan.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:53 @ Though Babylon w ere to mount up to heaven, And though she w ere to fortify the height of h er strength, Yet from Me plund er ers would come to h er," says the LORD.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:54 @ The sound of a cry comes from Babylon, And great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans,

nkjv@J eremiah:51:55 @ Because the LORD is plund ering Babylon And silencing h er loud voice, Though h er waves roar like great wat ers, And the noise of their voice is utt ered,

nkjv@J eremiah:51:56 @ Because the plund er er comes against h er, against Babylon, And h er mighty men are taken. Ev ery one of their bows is broken; For the LORD is the God of recompense, He will surely repay.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:57 @ "And I will make drunk H er princes and wise men, H er gov ernors, h er deputies, and h er mighty men. And they shall sleep a p erpetual sleep And not awake," says the King, Whose name is the LORD of hosts.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:58 @ Thus says the LORD of hosts: "The broad walls of Babylon shall be utt erly broken, And h er high gates shall be burned with fire; The people will labor in vain, And the nations, because of the fire; And they shall be weary."

nkjv@J eremiah:51:59 @ The word which J eremiah the prophet commanded S eraiah the son of N eriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And S eraiah was the quart ermast er.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:60 @ So J eremiah wrote in a book all the evil that would come upon Babylon, all these words that are written against Babylon.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:61 @ And J eremiah said to S eraiah, "When you arrive in Babylon and see it, and read all these words,

nkjv@J eremiah:51:62 @ then you shall say, "O LORD, You have spoken against this place to cut it off, so that none shall remain in it, neith er man nor beast, but it shall be desolate forev er.'

nkjv@J eremiah:51:63 @ Now it shall be, when you have finished reading this book, that you shall tie a stone to it and throw it out into the Euphrates.

nkjv@J eremiah:51:64 @ Then you shall say, "Thus Babylon shall sink and not rise from the catastrophe that I will bring upon h er. And they shall be weary."' Thus far are the words of J eremiah.

nkjv@J eremiah:52:1 @ Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in J erusalem. His moth er's name was Hamutal the daught er of J eremiah of Libnah.

nkjv@J eremiah:52:2 @ He also did evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

nkjv@J eremiah:52:3 @ For because of the ang er of the LORD this happened in J erusalem and Judah, till He finally cast them out from His presence. Then Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

nkjv@J eremiah:52:4 @ Now it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against J erusalem and encamped against it; and they built a siege wall against it all around.

nkjv@J eremiah:52:5 @ So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

nkjv@J eremiah:52:6 @ By the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the famine had become so sev ere in the city that th ere was no food for the people of the land.

nkjv@J eremiah:52:7 @ Then the city wall was broken through, and all the men of war fled and went out of the city at night by way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden, even though the Chaldeans w ere near the city all around. And they went by way of the plain.

nkjv@J eremiah:52:8 @ But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and they ov ertook Zedekiah in the plains of J ericho. All his army was scatt ered from him.

nkjv@J eremiah:52:9 @ So they took the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he pronounced judgment on him.

nkjv@J eremiah:52:10 @ Then the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. And he killed all the princes of Judah in Riblah.

nkjv@J eremiah:52:11 @ He also put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in bronze fett ers, took him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.

nkjv@J eremiah:52:12 @ Now in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month (which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, who s erved the king of Babylon, came to J erusalem.

nkjv@J eremiah:52:13 @ He burned the house of the LORD and the king's house; all the houses of J erusalem, that is, all the houses of the great, he burned with fire.

nkjv@J eremiah:52:14 @ And all the army of the Chaldeans who w ere with the captain of the guard broke down all the walls of J erusalem all around.

nkjv@J eremiah:52:15 @ Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive some of the poor people, the rest of the people who remained in the city, the defectors who had des erted to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the craftsmen.

nkjv@J eremiah:52:16 @ But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poor of the land as vinedress ers and farm ers.

nkjv@J eremiah:52:17 @ The bronze pillars that w ere in the house of the LORD, and the carts and the bronze Sea that w ere in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and carried all their bronze to Babylon.

nkjv@J eremiah:52:18 @ They also took away the pots, the shovels, the trimm ers, the bowls, the spoons, and all the bronze utensils with which the priests minist ered.

nkjv@J eremiah:52:19 @ The basins, the firepans, the bowls, the pots, the lampstands, the spoons, and the cups, whatev er was solid gold and whatev er was solid silv er, the captain of the guard took away.

nkjv@J eremiah:52:20 @ The two pillars, one Sea, the twelve bronze bulls which w ere und er it, and the carts, which King Solomon had made for the house of the LORD--the bronze of all these articles was beyond measure.

nkjv@J eremiah:52:21 @ Now conc erning the pillars: the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits, a measuring line of twelve cubits could measure its circumf erence, and its thickness was four fing ers; it was hollow.

nkjv@J eremiah:52:22 @ A capital of bronze was on it; and the height of one capital was five cubits, with a network and pomegranates all around the capital, all of bronze. The second pillar, with pomegranates was the same.

nkjv@J eremiah:52:23 @ Th ere w ere ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates, all around on the network, w ere one hundred.

nkjv@J eremiah:52:24 @ The captain of the guard took S eraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the second priest, and the three doorkeep ers.

nkjv@J eremiah:52:25 @ He also took out of the city an offic er who had charge of the men of war, seven men of the king's close associates who w ere found in the city, the principal scribe of the army who must ered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who w ere found in the midst of the city.

nkjv@J eremiah:52:26 @ And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took these and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

nkjv@J eremiah:52:27 @ Then the king of Babylon struck them and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive from its own land.

nkjv@J eremiah:52:28 @ These are the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Jews;

nkjv@J eremiah:52:29 @ in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar he carried away captive from J erusalem eight hundred and thirty-two p ersons;

nkjv@J eremiah:52:30 @ in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred and forty-five p ersons. All the p ersons w ere four thousand six hundred.

nkjv@J eremiah:52:31 @ Now it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, that Evil-M erodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison.

nkjv@J eremiah:52:32 @ And he spoke kindly to him and gave him a more prominent seat than those of the kings who w ere with him in Babylon.

nkjv@J eremiah:52:33 @ So Jehoiachin changed from his prison garments, and he ate bread regularly before the king all the days of his life.

nkjv@J eremiah:52:34 @ And as for his provisions, th ere was a regular ration given him by the king of Babylon, a portion for each day until the day of his death, all the days of his life.

nkjv@Lamentations:1:2 @ She weeps bitt erly in the night, H er tears are on h er cheeks; Among all h er lov ers She has none to comfort h er. All h er friends have dealt treach erously with h er; They have become h er enemies.

nkjv@Lamentations:1:3 @ Judah has gone into captivity, Und er affliction and hard s ervitude; She dwells among the nations, She finds no rest; All h er p ersecutors ov ertake h er in dire straits.

nkjv@Lamentations:1:4 @ The roads to Zion mourn Because no one comes to the set feasts. All h er gates are desolate; H er priests sigh, H er virgins are afflicted, And she is in bitt erness.

nkjv@Lamentations:1:5 @ H er adv ersaries have become the mast er, H er enemies prosp er; For the LORD has afflicted h er Because of the multitude of h er transgressions. H er children have gone into captivity before the enemy.

nkjv@Lamentations:1:6 @ And from the daught er of Zion All h er splendor has departed. H er princes have become like de er That find no pasture, That flee without strength Before the pursu er.

nkjv@Lamentations:1:7 @ In the days of h er affliction and roaming, J erusalem rememb ers all h er pleasant things That she had in the days of old. When h er people fell into the hand of the enemy, With no one to help h er, The adv ersaries saw h er And mocked at h er downfall.

nkjv@Lamentations:1:8 @ J erusalem has sinned gravely, Th erefore she has become vile. All who honored h er despise h er Because they have seen h er nakedness; Yes, she sighs and turns away.

nkjv@Lamentations:1:9 @ H er uncleanness is in h er skirts; She did not consid er h er destiny; Th erefore h er collapse was awesome; She had no comfort er. "O LORD, behold my affliction, For the enemy is exalted!"

nkjv@Lamentations:1:10 @ The adv ersary has spread his hand Ov er all h er pleasant things; For she has seen the nations ent er h er sanctuary, Those whom You commanded Not to ent er Your assembly.

nkjv@Lamentations:1:11 @ All h er people sigh, They seek bread; They have given their valuables for food to restore life. "See, O LORD, and consid er, For I am scorned."

nkjv@Lamentations:1:12 @ "Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Behold and see If th ere is any sorrow like my sorrow, Which has been brought on me, Which the LORD has inflicted In the day of His fi erce ang er.

nkjv@Lamentations:1:13 @ "From above He has sent fire into my bones, And it ov erpow ered them; He has spread a net for my feet And turned me back; He has made me desolate And faint all the day.

nkjv@Lamentations:1:14 @ "The yoke of my transgressions was bound; They w ere woven togeth er by His hands, And thrust upon my neck. He made my strength fail; The Lord deliv ered me into the hands of those whom I am not able to withstand.

nkjv@Lamentations:1:15 @ "The Lord has trampled und erfoot all my mighty men in my midst; He has called an assembly against me To crush my young men; The Lord trampled as in a winepress The virgin daught er of Judah.

nkjv@Lamentations:1:16 @ "For these things I weep; My eye, my eye ov erflows with wat er; Because the comfort er, who should restore my life, Is far from me. My children are desolate Because the enemy prevailed."

nkjv@Lamentations:1:17 @ Zion spreads out h er hands, But no one comforts h er; The LORD has commanded conc erning Jacob That those around him become his adv ersaries; J erusalem has become an unclean thing among them.

nkjv@Lamentations:1:19 @ "I called for my lov ers, But they deceived me; My priests and my eld ers Breathed their last in the city, While they sought food To restore their life.

nkjv@Lamentations:1:20 @ "See, O LORD, that I am in distress; My soul is troubled; My heart is ov erturned within me, For I have been v ery rebellious. Outside the sword b ereaves, At home it is like death.

nkjv@Lamentations:2:1 @ How the Lord has cov ered the daught er of Zion With a cloud in His ang er! He cast down from heaven to the earth The beauty of Israel, And did not rememb er His footstool In the day of His ang er.

nkjv@Lamentations:2:2 @ The Lord has swallowed up and has not pitied All the dwelling places of Jacob. He has thrown down in His wrath The strongholds of the daught er of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground; He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.

nkjv@Lamentations:2:3 @ He has cut off in fi erce ang er Ev ery horn of Israel; He has drawn back His right hand From before the enemy. He has blazed against Jacob like a flaming fire Devouring all around.

nkjv@Lamentations:2:4 @ Standing like an enemy, He has bent His bow; With His right hand, like an adv ersary, He has slain all who w ere pleasing to His eye; On the tent of the daught er of Zion, He has poured out His fury like fire.

nkjv@Lamentations:2:5 @ The Lord was like an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel, He has swallowed up all h er palaces; He has destroyed h er strongholds, And has increased mourning and lamentation In the daught er of Judah.

nkjv@Lamentations:2:6 @ He has done violence to His tab ernacle, As if it w ere a garden; He has destroyed His place of assembly; The LORD has caused The appointed feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion. In His burning indignation He has spurned the king and the priest.

nkjv@Lamentations:2:7 @ The Lord has spurned His altar, He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has given up the walls of h er palaces Into the hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in the house of the LORD As on the day of a set feast.

nkjv@Lamentations:2:8 @ The LORD has purposed to destroy The wall of the daught er of Zion. He has stretched out a line; He has not withdrawn His hand from destroying; Th erefore He has caused the rampart and wall to lament; They languished togeth er.

nkjv@Lamentations:2:9 @ H er gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and broken h er bars. H er king and h er princes are among the nations; The Law is no more, And h er prophets find no vision from the LORD.

nkjv@Lamentations:2:10 @ The eld ers of the daught er of Zion Sit on the ground and keep silence; They throw dust on their heads And gird themselves with sackcloth. The virgins of J erusalem Bow their heads to the ground.

nkjv@Lamentations:2:11 @ My eyes fail with tears, My heart is troubled; My bile is poured on the ground Because of the destruction of the daught er of my people, Because the children and the infants Faint in the streets of the city.

nkjv@Lamentations:2:12 @ They say to their moth ers, "Wh ere is grain and wine?" As they swoon like the wounded In the streets of the city, As their life is poured out In their moth ers' bosom.

nkjv@Lamentations:2:13 @ How shall I console you? To what shall I liken you, O daught er of J erusalem? What shall I compare with you, that I may comfort you, O virgin daught er of Zion? For your ruin is spread wide as the sea; Who can heal you?

nkjv@Lamentations:2:14 @ Your prophets have seen for you False and deceptive visions; They have not uncov ered your iniquity, To bring back your captives, But have envisioned for you false prophecies and delusions.

nkjv@Lamentations:2:15 @ All who pass by clap their hands at you; They hiss and shake their heads At the daught er of J erusalem: "Is this the city that is called "The p erfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth'?"

nkjv@Lamentations:2:16 @ All your enemies have opened their mouth against you; They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, "We have swallowed h er up! Surely this is the day we have waited for; We have found it, we have seen it!

nkjv@Lamentations:2:17 @ The LORD has done what He purposed; He has fulfilled His word Which He commanded in days of old. He has thrown down and has not pitied, And He has caused an enemy to rejoice ov er you; He has exalted the horn of your adv ersaries.

nkjv@Lamentations:2:18 @ Their heart cried out to the Lord, "O wall of the daught er of Zion, Let tears run down like a riv er day and night; Give yourself no relief; Give your eyes no rest.

nkjv@Lamentations:2:19 @ "Arise, cry out in the night, At the beginning of the watches; Pour out your heart like wat er before the face of the Lord. Lift your hands toward Him For the life of your young children, Who faint from hung er at the head of ev ery street."

nkjv@Lamentations:2:20 @ "See, O LORD, and consid er! To whom have You done this? Should the women eat their offspring, The children they have cuddled? Should the priest and prophet be slain In the sanctuary of the Lord?

nkjv@Lamentations:2:21 @ "Young and old lie On the ground in the streets; My virgins and my young men Have fallen by the sword; You have slain them in the day of Your ang er, You have slaught ered and not pitied.

nkjv@Lamentations:2:22 @ "You have invited as to a feast day The t errors that surround me. In the day of the LORD's ang er Th ere was no refugee or survivor. Those whom I have borne and brought up My enemies have destroyed."

nkjv@Lamentations:3:5 @ He has besieged me And surrounded me with bitt erness and woe.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:8 @ Even when I cry and shout, He shuts out my pray er.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:13 @ He has caused the arrows of His quiv er To pi erce my loins.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:15 @ He has filled me with bitt erness, He has made me drink wormwood.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:16 @ He has also broken my teeth with gravel, And cov ered me with ashes.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:17 @ You have moved my soul far from peace; I have forgotten prosp erity.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:18 @ And I said, "My strength and my hope Have p erished from the LORD."

nkjv@Lamentations:3:19 @ Rememb er my affliction and roaming, The wormwood and the gall.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:20 @ My soul still rememb ers And sinks within me.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:21 @ This I recall to my mind, Th erefore I have hope.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:22 @ Through the LORD's m ercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:23 @ They are new ev ery morning; Great is Your faithfulness.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:24 @ "The LORD is my portion," says my soul, "Th erefore I hope in Him!"

nkjv@Lamentations:3:29 @ Let him put his mouth in the dust-- Th ere may yet be hope.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:31 @ For the Lord will not cast off forev er.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:32 @ Though He causes grief, Yet He will show compassion According to the multitude of His m ercies.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:34 @ To crush und er one's feet All the prison ers of the earth,

nkjv@Lamentations:3:36 @ Or subv ert a man in his cause-- The Lord does not approve.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:43 @ You have cov ered Yourself with ang er And pursued us; You have slain and not pitied.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:44 @ You have cov ered Yourself with a cloud, That pray er should not pass through.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:48 @ My eyes ov erflow with riv ers of wat er For the destruction of the daught er of my people.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:49 @ My eyes flow and do not cease, Without int erruption,

nkjv@Lamentations:3:51 @ My eyes bring suff ering to my soul Because of all the daught ers of my city.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:54 @ The wat ers flowed ov er my head; I said, "I am cut off!"

nkjv@Lamentations:3:62 @ The lips of my enemies And their whisp ering against me all the day.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:66 @ In Your ang er, Pursue and destroy them From und er the heavens of the LORD.

nkjv@Lamentations:4:1 @ How the gold has become dim! How changed the fine gold! The stones of the sanctuary are scatt ered At the head of ev ery street.

nkjv@Lamentations:4:2 @ The precious sons of Zion, Valuable as fine gold, How they are regarded as clay pots, The work of the hands of the pott er!

nkjv@Lamentations:4:3 @ Even the jackals present their breasts To nurse their young; But the daught er of my people is cruel, Like ostriches in the wild erness.

nkjv@Lamentations:4:5 @ Those who ate delicacies Are desolate in the streets; Those who w ere brought up in scarlet Embrace ash heaps.

nkjv@Lamentations:4:6 @ The punishment of the iniquity of the daught er of my people Is great er than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, Which was ov erthrown in a moment, With no hand to help h er!

nkjv@Lamentations:4:7 @ H er Nazirites w ere bright er than snow And whit er than milk; They w ere more ruddy in body than rubies, Like sapphire in their appearance.

nkjv@Lamentations:4:8 @ Now their appearance is black er than soot; They go unrecognized in the streets; Their skin clings to their bones, It has become as dry as wood.

nkjv@Lamentations:4:9 @ Those slain by the sword are bett er off Than those who die of hung er; For these pine away, Stricken for lack of the fruits of the field.

nkjv@Lamentations:4:10 @ The hands of the compassionate women Have cooked their own children; They became food for them In the destruction of the daught er of my people.

nkjv@Lamentations:4:11 @ The LORD has fulfilled His fury, He has poured out His fi erce ang er. He kindled a fire in Zion, And it has devoured its foundations.

nkjv@Lamentations:4:12 @ The kings of the earth, And all inhabitants of the world, Would not have believed That the adv ersary and the enemy Could ent er the gates of J erusalem--

nkjv@Lamentations:4:13 @ Because of the sins of h er prophets And the iniquities of h er priests, Who shed in h er midst The blood of the just.

nkjv@Lamentations:4:14 @ They wand ered blind in the streets; They have defiled themselves with blood, So that no one would touch their garments.

nkjv@Lamentations:4:15 @ They cried out to them, "Go away, unclean! Go away, go away, Do not touch us!" When they fled and wand ered, Those among the nations said, "They shall no long er dwell h ere."

nkjv@Lamentations:4:16 @ The face of the LORD scatt ered them; He no long er regards them. The people do not respect the priests Nor show favor to the eld ers.

nkjv@Lamentations:4:18 @ They tracked our steps So that we could not walk in our streets. Our end was near; Our days w ere ov er, For our end had come.

nkjv@Lamentations:4:19 @ Our pursu ers w ere swift er Than the eagles of the heavens. They pursued us on the mountains And lay in wait for us in the wild erness.

nkjv@Lamentations:4:20 @ The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, Was caught in their pits, Of whom we said, "Und er his shadow We shall live among the nations."

nkjv@Lamentations:4:21 @ Rejoice and be glad, O daught er of Edom, You who dwell in the land of Uz! The cup shall also pass ov er to you And you shall become drunk and make yourself naked.

nkjv@Lamentations:4:22 @ The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, O daught er of Zion; He will no long er send you into captivity. He will punish your iniquity, O daught er of Edom; He will uncov er your sins!

nkjv@Lamentations:5:1 @ Rememb er, O LORD, what has come upon us; Look, and behold our reproach!

nkjv@Lamentations:5:2 @ Our inh eritance has been turned ov er to aliens, And our houses to foreign ers.

nkjv@Lamentations:5:3 @ We have become orphans and waifs, Our moth ers are like widows.

nkjv@Lamentations:5:4 @ We pay for the wat er we drink, And our wood comes at a price.

nkjv@Lamentations:5:7 @ Our fath ers sinned and are no more, But we bear their iniquities.

nkjv@Lamentations:5:8 @ S ervants rule ov er us; Th ere is none to deliv er us from their hand.

nkjv@Lamentations:5:9 @ We get our bread at the risk of our lives, Because of the sword in the wild erness.

nkjv@Lamentations:5:10 @ Our skin is hot as an oven, Because of the fev er of famine.

nkjv@Lamentations:5:12 @ Princes w ere hung up by their hands, And eld ers w ere not respected.

nkjv@Lamentations:5:13 @ Young men ground at the millstones; Boys stagg ered und er loads of wood.

nkjv@Lamentations:5:14 @ The eld ers have ceased gath ering at the gate, And the young men from their music.

nkjv@Lamentations:5:19 @ You, O LORD, remain forev er; Your throne from gen eration to gen eration.

nkjv@Lamentations:5:20 @ Why do You forget us forev er, And forsake us for so long a time?

nkjv@Lamentations:5:22 @ Unless You have utt erly rejected us, And are v ery angry with us!

nkjv@Ezekiel:1:1 @ Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the Riv er Chebar, that the heavens w ere opened and I saw visions of God.

nkjv@Ezekiel:1:3 @ the word of the LORD came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the Riv er Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was upon him th ere.

nkjv@Ezekiel:1:4 @ Then I looked, and behold, a whirlwind was coming out of the north, a great cloud with raging fire engulfing itself; and brightness was all around it and radiating out of its midst like the color of amb er, out of the midst of the fire.

nkjv@Ezekiel:1:7 @ Their legs w ere straight, and the soles of their feet w ere like the soles of calves' feet. They sparkled like the color of burnished bronze.

nkjv@Ezekiel:1:8 @ The hands of a man w ere und er their wings on their four sides; and each of the four had faces and wings.

nkjv@Ezekiel:1:9 @ Their wings touched one anoth er. The creatures did not turn when they went, but each one went straight forward.

nkjv@Ezekiel:1:11 @ Thus w ere their faces. Their wings stretched upward; two wings of each one touched one anoth er, and two cov ered their bodies.

nkjv@Ezekiel:1:12 @ And each one went straight forward; they went wh erev er the spirit wanted to go, and they did not turn when they went.

nkjv@Ezekiel:1:16 @ The appearance of the wheels and their workings was like the color of b eryl, and all four had the same likeness. The appearance of their workings was, as it w ere, a wheel in the middle of a wheel.

nkjv@Ezekiel:1:18 @ As for their rims, they w ere so high they w ere awesome; and their rims w ere full of eyes, all around the four of them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:1:19 @ When the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them; and when the living creatures w ere lifted up from the earth, the wheels w ere lifted up.

nkjv@Ezekiel:1:20 @ Wh erev er the spirit wanted to go, they went, because th ere the spirit went; and the wheels w ere lifted togeth er with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

nkjv@Ezekiel:1:21 @ When those went, these went; when those stood, these stood; and when those w ere lifted up from the earth, the wheels w ere lifted up togeth er with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

nkjv@Ezekiel:1:22 @ The likeness of the firmament above the heads of the living creatures was like the color of an awesome crystal, stretched out ov er their heads.

nkjv@Ezekiel:1:23 @ And und er the firmament their wings spread out straight, one toward anoth er. Each one had two which cov ered one side, and each one had two which cov ered the oth er side of the body.

nkjv@Ezekiel:1:24 @ When they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of many wat ers, like the voice of the Almighty, a tumult like the noise of an army; and when they stood still, they let down their wings.

nkjv@Ezekiel:1:25 @ A voice came from above the firmament that was ov er their heads; whenev er they stood, they let down their wings.

nkjv@Ezekiel:1:26 @ And above the firmament ov er their heads was the likeness of a throne, in appearance like a sapphire stone; on the likeness of the throne was a likeness with the appearance of a man high above it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:1:27 @ Also from the appearance of His waist and upward I saw, as it w ere, the color of amb er with the appearance of fire all around within it; and from the appearance of His waist and downward I saw, as it w ere, the appearance of fire with brightness all around.

nkjv@Ezekiel:2:2 @ Then the Spirit ent ered me when He spoke to me, and set me on my feet; and I heard Him who spoke to me.

nkjv@Ezekiel:2:3 @ And He said to me: "Son of man, I am sending you to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against Me; they and their fath ers have transgressed against Me to this v ery day.

nkjv@Ezekiel:2:5 @ As for them, wheth er they hear or wheth er they refuse--for they are a rebellious house--yet they will know that a prophet has been among them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:2:6 @ "And you, son of man, do not be afraid of them nor be afraid of their words, though bri ers and thorns are with you and you dwell among scorpions; do not be afraid of their words or dismayed by their looks, though they are a rebellious house.

nkjv@Ezekiel:2:7 @ You shall speak My words to them, wheth er they hear or wheth er they refuse, for they are rebellious.

nkjv@Ezekiel:2:9 @ Now when I looked, th ere was a hand stretched out to me; and behold, a scroll of a book was in it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:2:10 @ Then He spread it before me; and th ere was writing on the inside and on the outside, and written on it w ere lamentations and mourning and woe.

nkjv@Ezekiel:3:1 @ Moreov er He said to me, "Son of man, eat what you find; eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel."

nkjv@Ezekiel:3:6 @ not to many people of unfamiliar speech and of hard language, whose words you cannot und erstand. Surely, had I sent you to them, they would have listened to you.

nkjv@Ezekiel:3:9 @ Like adamant stone, hard er than flint, I have made your forehead; do not be afraid of them, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house."

nkjv@Ezekiel:3:10 @ Moreov er He said to me: "Son of man, receive into your heart all My words that I speak to you, and hear with your ears.

nkjv@Ezekiel:3:11 @ And go, get to the captives, to the children of your people, and speak to them and tell them, "Thus says the Lord GOD,' wheth er they hear, or wheth er they refuse."

nkjv@Ezekiel:3:12 @ Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me a great thund erous voice: "Blessed is the glory of the LORD from His place!"

nkjv@Ezekiel:3:13 @ I also heard the noise of the wings of the living creatures that touched one anoth er, and the noise of the wheels beside them, and a great thund erous noise.

nkjv@Ezekiel:3:14 @ So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitt erness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me.

nkjv@Ezekiel:3:15 @ Then I came to the captives at Tel Abib, who dwelt by the Riv er Chebar; and I sat wh ere they sat, and remained th ere astonished among them seven days.

nkjv@Ezekiel:3:17 @ "Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; th erefore hear a word from My mouth, and give them warning from Me:

nkjv@Ezekiel:3:19 @ Yet, if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have deliv ered your soul.

nkjv@Ezekiel:3:20 @ "Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die; because you did not give him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he has done shall not be rememb ered; but his blood I will require at your hand.

nkjv@Ezekiel:3:21 @ Nev ertheless if you warn the righteous man that the righteous should not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live because he took warning; also you will have deliv ered your soul."

nkjv@Ezekiel:3:22 @ Then the hand of the LORD was upon me th ere, and He said to me, "Arise, go out into the plain, and th ere I shall talk with you."

nkjv@Ezekiel:3:23 @ So I arose and went out into the plain, and behold, the glory of the LORD stood th ere, like the glory which I saw by the Riv er Chebar; and I fell on my face.

nkjv@Ezekiel:3:24 @ Then the Spirit ent ered me and set me on my feet, and spoke with me and said to me: "Go, shut yourself inside your house.

nkjv@Ezekiel:4:1 @ "You also, son of man, take a clay tablet and lay it before you, and portray on it a city, J erusalem.

nkjv@Ezekiel:4:2 @ Lay siege against it, build a siege wall against it, and heap up a mound against it; set camps against it also, and place batt ering rams against it all around.

nkjv@Ezekiel:4:3 @ Moreov er take for yourself an iron plate, and set it as an iron wall between you and the city. Set your face against it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel.

nkjv@Ezekiel:4:4 @ "Lie also on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it. According to the numb er of the days that you lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity.

nkjv@Ezekiel:4:5 @ For I have laid on you the years of their iniquity, according to the numb er of the days, three hundred and ninety days; so you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

nkjv@Ezekiel:4:7 @ "Th erefore you shall set your face toward the siege of J erusalem; your arm shall be uncov ered, and you shall prophesy against it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:4:8 @ And surely I will restrain you so that you cannot turn from one side to anoth er till you have ended the days of your siege.

nkjv@Ezekiel:4:9 @ "Also take for yourself wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them into one vessel, and make bread of them for yourself. During the numb er of days that you lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days, you shall eat it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:4:11 @ You shall also drink wat er by measure, one-sixth of a hin; from time to time you shall drink.

nkjv@Ezekiel:4:13 @ Then the LORD said, "So shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, wh ere I will drive them."

nkjv@Ezekiel:4:14 @ So I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Indeed I have nev er defiled myself from my youth till now; I have nev er eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has abominable flesh ev er come into my mouth."

nkjv@Ezekiel:4:15 @ Then He said to me, "See, I am giving you cow dung instead of human waste, and you shall prepare your bread ov er it."

nkjv@Ezekiel:4:16 @ Moreov er He said to me, "Son of man, surely I will cut off the supply of bread in J erusalem; they shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and shall drink wat er by measure and with dread,

nkjv@Ezekiel:4:17 @ that they may lack bread and wat er, and be dismayed with one anoth er, and waste away because of their iniquity.

nkjv@Ezekiel:5:1 @ "And you, son of man, take a sharp sword, take it as a barb er's razor, and pass it ov er your head and your beard; then take scales to weigh and divide the hair.

nkjv@Ezekiel:5:2 @ You shall burn with fire one-third in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are finished; then you shall take one-third and strike around it with the sword, and one-third you shall scatt er in the wind: I will draw out a sword aft er them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:5:3 @ You shall also take a small numb er of them and bind them in the edge of your garment.

nkjv@Ezekiel:5:4 @ Then take some of them again and throw them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire. From th ere a fire will go out into all the house of Israel.

nkjv@Ezekiel:5:5 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: "This is J erusalem; I have set h er in the midst of the nations and the countries all around h er.

nkjv@Ezekiel:5:6 @ She has rebelled against My judgments by doing wickedness more than the nations, and against My statutes more than the countries that are all around h er; for they have refused My judgments, and they have not walked in My statutes.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:5:7 @ Th erefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Because you have multiplied disobedience more than the nations that are all around you, have not walked in My statutes nor kept My judgments, nor even done according to the judgments of the nations that are all around you'--

nkjv@Ezekiel:5:8 @ th erefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Indeed I, even I, am against you and will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations.

nkjv@Ezekiel:5:9 @ And I will do among you what I have nev er done, and the like of which I will nev er do again, because of all your abominations.

nkjv@Ezekiel:5:10 @ Th erefore fath ers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fath ers; and I will execute judgments among you, and all of you who remain I will scatt er to all the winds.

nkjv@Ezekiel:5:11 @ "Th erefore, as I live,' says the Lord GOD, "surely, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, th erefore I will also diminish you; My eye will not spare, nor will I have any pity.

nkjv@Ezekiel:5:12 @ One-third of you shall die of the pestilence, and be consumed with famine in your midst; and one-third shall fall by the sword all around you; and I will scatt er anoth er third to all the winds, and I will draw out a sword aft er them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:5:13 @ "Thus shall My ang er be spent, and I will cause My fury to rest upon them, and I will be avenged; and they shall know that I, the LORD, have spoken it in My zeal, when I have spent My fury upon them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:5:14 @ Moreov er I will make you a waste and a reproach among the nations that are all around you, in the sight of all who pass by.

nkjv@Ezekiel:5:15 @ "So it shall be a reproach, a taunt, a lesson, and an astonishment to the nations that are all around you, when I execute judgments among you in ang er and in fury and in furious rebukes. I, the LORD, have spoken.

nkjv@Ezekiel:5:16 @ When I send against them the t errible arrows of famine which shall be for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, I will increase the famine upon you and cut off your supply of bread.

nkjv@Ezekiel:5:17 @ So I will send against you famine and wild beasts, and they will b ereave you. Pestilence and blood shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword against you. I, the LORD, have spoken."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:6:5 @ And I will lay the corpses of the children of Israel before their idols, and I will scatt er your bones all around your altars.

nkjv@Ezekiel:6:8 @ "Yet I will leave a remnant, so that you may have some who escape the sword among the nations, when you are scatt ered through the countries.

nkjv@Ezekiel:6:9 @ Then those of you who escape will rememb er Me among the nations wh ere they are carried captive, because I was crushed by their adult erous heart which has departed from Me, and by their eyes which play the harlot aft er their idols; they will loathe themselves for the evils which they committed in all their abominations.

nkjv@Ezekiel:6:13 @ Then you shall know that I am the LORD, when their slain are among their idols all around their altars, on ev ery high hill, on all the mountaintops, und er ev ery green tree, and und er ev ery thick oak, wh erev er they off ered sweet incense to all their idols.

nkjv@Ezekiel:6:14 @ So I will stretch out My hand against them and make the land desolate, yes, more desolate than the wild erness toward Diblah, in all their dwelling places. Then they shall know that I am the LORD."""

nkjv@Ezekiel:7:1 @ Moreov er the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@Ezekiel:7:2 @ "And you, son of man, thus says the Lord GOD to the land of Israel: "An end! The end has come upon the four corn ers of the land.

nkjv@Ezekiel:7:3 @ Now the end has come upon you, And I will send My ang er against you; I will judge you according to your ways, And I will repay you for all your abominations.

nkjv@Ezekiel:7:5 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: "A disast er, a singular disast er; Behold, it has come!

nkjv@Ezekiel:7:8 @ Now upon you I will soon pour out My fury, And spend My ang er upon you; I will judge you according to your ways, And I will repay you for all your abominations.

nkjv@Ezekiel:7:11 @ Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness; None of them shall remain, None of their multitude, None of them; Nor shall th ere be wailing for them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:7:12 @ The time has come, The day draws near. "Let not the buy er rejoice, Nor the sell er mourn, For wrath is on their whole multitude.

nkjv@Ezekiel:7:13 @ For the sell er shall not return to what has been sold, Though he may still be alive; For the vision conc erns the whole multitude, And it shall not turn back; No one will strengthen himself Who lives in iniquity.

nkjv@Ezekiel:7:14 @ "They have blown the trumpet and made ev eryone ready, But no one goes to battle; For My wrath is on all their multitude.

nkjv@Ezekiel:7:15 @ The sword is outside, And the pestilence and famine within. Whoev er is in the field Will die by the sword; And whoev er is in the city, Famine and pestilence will devour him.

nkjv@Ezekiel:7:17 @ Ev ery hand will be feeble, And ev ery knee will be as weak as wat er.

nkjv@Ezekiel:7:18 @ They will also be girded with sackcloth; Horror will cov er them; Shame will be on ev ery face, Baldness on all their heads.

nkjv@Ezekiel:7:19 @ "They will throw their silv er into the streets, And their gold will be like refuse; Their silv er and their gold will not be able to deliv er them In the day of the wrath of the LORD; They will not satisfy their souls, Nor fill their stomachs, Because it became their stumbling block of iniquity.

nkjv@Ezekiel:7:20 @ "As for the beauty of his ornaments, He set it in majesty; But they made from it The images of their abominations-- Their detestable things; Th erefore I have made it Like refuse to them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:7:21 @ I will give it as plund er Into the hands of strang ers, And to the wicked of the earth as spoil; And they shall defile it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:7:22 @ I will turn My face from them, And they will defile My secret place; For robb ers shall ent er it and defile it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:7:24 @ Th erefore I will bring the worst of the Gentiles, And they will possess their houses; I will cause the pomp of the strong to cease, And their holy places shall be defiled.

nkjv@Ezekiel:7:25 @ Destruction comes; They will seek peace, but th ere shall be none.

nkjv@Ezekiel:7:26 @ Disast er will come upon disast er, And rumor will be upon rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet; But the law will p erish from the priest, And counsel from the eld ers.

nkjv@Ezekiel:7:27 @ "The king will mourn, The prince will be clothed with desolation, And the hands of the common people will tremble. I will do to them according to their way, And according to what they des erve I will judge them; Then they shall know that I am the LORD!"'

nkjv@Ezekiel:8:1 @ And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house with the eld ers of Judah sitting before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell upon me th ere.

nkjv@Ezekiel:8:2 @ Then I looked, and th ere was a likeness, like the appearance of fire--from the appearance of His waist and downward, fire; and from His waist and upward, like the appearance of brightness, like the color of amb er.

nkjv@Ezekiel:8:3 @ He stretched out the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my hair; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven, and brought me in visions of God to J erusalem, to the door of the north gate of the inn er court, wh ere the seat of the image of jealousy was, which provokes to jealousy.

nkjv@Ezekiel:8:4 @ And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was th ere, like the vision that I saw in the plain.

nkjv@Ezekiel:8:5 @ Then He said to me, "Son of man, lift your eyes now toward the north." So I lifted my eyes toward the north, and th ere, north of the altar gate, was this image of jealousy in the entrance.

nkjv@Ezekiel:8:6 @ Furth ermore He said to me, "Son of man, do you see what they are doing, the great abominations that the house of Israel commits h ere, to make Me go far away from My sanctuary? Now turn again, you will see great er abominations."

nkjv@Ezekiel:8:7 @ So He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, th ere was a hole in the wall.

nkjv@Ezekiel:8:8 @ Then He said to me, "Son of man, dig into the wall"; and when I dug into the wall, th ere was a door.

nkjv@Ezekiel:8:9 @ And He said to me, "Go in, and see the wicked abominations which they are doing th ere."

nkjv@Ezekiel:8:10 @ So I went in and saw, and th ere--ev ery sort of creeping thing, abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed all around on the walls.

nkjv@Ezekiel:8:11 @ And th ere stood before them seventy men of the eld ers of the house of Israel, and in their midst stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan. Each man had a cens er in his hand, and a thick cloud of incense went up.

nkjv@Ezekiel:8:12 @ Then He said to me, "Son of man, have you seen what the eld ers of the house of Israel do in the dark, ev ery man in the room of his idols? For they say, "The LORD does not see us, the LORD has forsaken the land."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:8:13 @ And He said to me, "Turn again, and you will see great er abominations that they are doing."

nkjv@Ezekiel:8:14 @ So He brought me to the door of the north gate of the LORD's house; and to my dismay, women w ere sitting th ere weeping for Tammuz.

nkjv@Ezekiel:8:15 @ Then He said to me, "Have you seen this, O son of man? Turn again, you will see great er abominations than these."

nkjv@Ezekiel:8:16 @ So He brought me into the inn er court of the LORD's house; and th ere, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, w ere about twenty-five men with their backs toward the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the east, and they w ere worshiping the sun toward the east.

nkjv@Ezekiel:8:17 @ And He said to me, "Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it a trivial thing to the house of Judah to commit the abominations which they commit h ere? For they have filled the land with violence; then they have returned to provoke Me to ang er. Indeed they put the branch to their nose.

nkjv@Ezekiel:8:18 @ Th erefore I also will act in fury. My eye will not spare nor will I have pity; and though they cry in My ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them."

nkjv@Ezekiel:9:1 @ Then He called out in my hearing with a loud voice, saying, "Let those who have charge ov er the city draw near, each with a deadly weapon in his hand."

nkjv@Ezekiel:9:2 @ And suddenly six men came from the direction of the upp er gate, which faces north, each with his battle-ax in his hand. One man among them was clothed with linen and had a writ er's inkhorn at his side. They went in and stood beside the bronze altar.

nkjv@Ezekiel:9:3 @ Now the glory of the God of Israel had gone up from the ch erub, wh ere it had been, to the threshold of the temple. And He called to the man clothed with linen, who had the writ er's inkhorn at his side;

nkjv@Ezekiel:9:4 @ and the LORD said to him, "Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of J erusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and cry ov er all the abominations that are done within it."

nkjv@Ezekiel:9:5 @ To the oth ers He said in my hearing, "Go aft er him through the city and kill; do not let your eye spare, nor have any pity.

nkjv@Ezekiel:9:6 @ Utt erly slay old and young men, maidens and little children and women; but do not come near anyone on whom is the mark; and begin at My sanctuary." So they began with the eld ers who w ere before the temple.

nkjv@Ezekiel:9:8 @ So it was, that while they w ere killing them, I was left alone; and I fell on my face and cried out, and said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Will You destroy all the remnant of Israel in pouring out Your fury on J erusalem?"

nkjv@Ezekiel:9:9 @ Then He said to me, "The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of bloodshed, and the city full of p erv ersity; for they say, "The LORD has forsaken the land, and the LORD does not see!'

nkjv@Ezekiel:9:10 @ And as for Me also, My eye will neith er spare, nor will I have pity, but I will recompense their deeds on their own head."

nkjv@Ezekiel:10:1 @ And I looked, and th ere in the firmament that was above the head of the ch erubim, th ere appeared something like a sapphire stone, having the appearance of the likeness of a throne.

nkjv@Ezekiel:10:2 @ Then He spoke to the man clothed with linen, and said, "Go in among the wheels, und er the ch erub, fill your hands with coals of fire from among the ch erubim, and scatt er them ov er the city." And he went in as I watched.

nkjv@Ezekiel:10:3 @ Now the ch erubim w ere standing on the south side of the temple when the man went in, and the cloud filled the inn er court.

nkjv@Ezekiel:10:4 @ Then the glory of the LORD went up from the ch erub, and paused ov er the threshold of the temple; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD's glory.

nkjv@Ezekiel:10:5 @ And the sound of the wings of the ch erubim was heard even in the out er court, like the voice of Almighty God when He speaks.

nkjv@Ezekiel:10:6 @ Then it happened, when He commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, "Take fire from among the wheels, from among the ch erubim," that he went in and stood beside the wheels.

nkjv@Ezekiel:10:7 @ And the ch erub stretched out his hand from among the ch erubim to the fire that was among the ch erubim, and took some of it and put it into the hands of the man clothed with linen, who took it and went out.

nkjv@Ezekiel:10:8 @ The ch erubim appeared to have the form of a man's hand und er their wings.

nkjv@Ezekiel:10:9 @ And when I looked, th ere w ere four wheels by the ch erubim, one wheel by one ch erub and anoth er wheel by each oth er ch erub; the wheels appeared to have the color of a b eryl stone.

nkjv@Ezekiel:10:10 @ As for their appearance, all four looked alike--as it w ere, a wheel in the middle of a wheel.

nkjv@Ezekiel:10:12 @ And their whole body, with their back, their hands, their wings, and the wheels that the four had, w ere full of eyes all around.

nkjv@Ezekiel:10:13 @ As for the wheels, they w ere called in my hearing, "Wheel."

nkjv@Ezekiel:10:14 @ Each one had four faces: the first face was the face of a ch erub, the second face the face of a man, the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.

nkjv@Ezekiel:10:15 @ And the ch erubim w ere lifted up. This was the living creature I saw by the Riv er Chebar.

nkjv@Ezekiel:10:16 @ When the ch erubim went, the wheels went beside them; and when the ch erubim lifted their wings to mount up from the earth, the same wheels also did not turn from beside them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:10:17 @ When the ch erubim stood still, the wheels stood still, and when one was lifted up, the oth er lifted itself up, for the spirit of the living creature was in them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:10:18 @ Then the glory of the LORD departed from the threshold of the temple and stood ov er the ch erubim.

nkjv@Ezekiel:10:19 @ And the ch erubim lifted their wings and mounted up from the earth in my sight. When they went out, the wheels w ere beside them; and they stood at the door of the east gate of the LORD's house, and the glory of the God of Israel was above them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:10:20 @ This is the living creature I saw und er the God of Israel by the Riv er Chebar, and I knew they w ere ch erubim.

nkjv@Ezekiel:10:21 @ Each one had four faces and each one four wings, and the likeness of the hands of a man was und er their wings.

nkjv@Ezekiel:10:22 @ And the likeness of their faces was the same as the faces which I had seen by the Riv er Chebar, their appearance and their p ersons. They each went straight forward.

nkjv@Ezekiel:11:1 @ Then the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the East Gate of the LORD's house, which faces eastward; and th ere at the door of the gate w ere twenty-five men, among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.

nkjv@Ezekiel:11:4 @ Th erefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man!"

nkjv@Ezekiel:11:7 @ Th erefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Your slain whom you have laid in its midst, they are the meat, and this city is the caldron; but I shall bring you out of the midst of it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:11:9 @ "And I will bring you out of its midst, and deliv er you into the hands of strang ers, and execute judgments on you.

nkjv@Ezekiel:11:10 @ You shall fall by the sword. I will judge you at the bord er of Israel. Then you shall know that I am the LORD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:11:11 @ This city shall not be your caldron, nor shall you be the meat in its midst. I will judge you at the bord er of Israel.

nkjv@Ezekiel:11:15 @ "Son of man, your brethren, your relatives, your countrymen, and all the house of Israel in its entirety, are those about whom the inhabitants of J erusalem have said, "Get far away from the LORD; this land has been given to us as a possession.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:11:16 @ Th erefore say, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "Although I have cast them far off among the Gentiles, and although I have scatt ered them among the countries, yet I shall be a little sanctuary for them in the countries wh ere they have gone."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:11:17 @ Th erefore say, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "I will gath er you from the peoples, assemble you from the countries wh ere you have been scatt ered, and I will give you the land of Israel."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:11:18 @ And they will go th ere, and they will take away all its detestable things and all its abominations from th ere.

nkjv@Ezekiel:11:22 @ So the ch erubim lifted up their wings, with the wheels beside them, and the glory of the God of Israel was high above them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:12:3 @ "Th erefore, son of man, prepare your belongings for captivity, and go into captivity by day in their sight. You shall go from your place into captivity to anoth er place in their sight. It may be that they will consid er, though they are a rebellious house.

nkjv@Ezekiel:12:6 @ In their sight you shall bear them on your should ers and carry them out at twilight; you shall cov er your face, so that you cannot see the ground, for I have made you a sign to the house of Israel."

nkjv@Ezekiel:12:7 @ So I did as I was commanded. I brought out my belongings by day, as though going into captivity, and at evening I dug through the wall with my hand. I brought them out at twilight, and I bore them on my should er in their sight.

nkjv@Ezekiel:12:10 @ Say to them, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "This burden conc erns the prince in J erusalem and all the house of Israel who are among them."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:12:12 @ And the prince who is among them shall bear his belongings on his should er at twilight and go out. They shall dig through the wall to carry them out through it. He shall cov er his face, so that he cannot see the ground with his eyes.

nkjv@Ezekiel:12:13 @ I will also spread My net ov er him, and he shall be caught in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon, to the land of the Chaldeans; yet he shall not see it, though he shall die th ere.

nkjv@Ezekiel:12:14 @ I will scatt er to ev ery wind all who are around him to help him, and all his troops; and I will draw out the sword aft er them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:12:15 @ "Then they shall know that I am the LORD, when I scatt er them among the nations and disp erse them throughout the countries.

nkjv@Ezekiel:12:16 @ But I will spare a few of their men from the sword, from famine, and from pestilence, that they may declare all their abominations among the Gentiles wh erev er they go. Then they shall know that I am the LORD."

nkjv@Ezekiel:12:17 @ Moreov er the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@Ezekiel:12:18 @ "Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your wat er with trembling and anxiety.

nkjv@Ezekiel:12:19 @ And say to the people of the land, "Thus says the Lord GOD to the inhabitants of J erusalem and to the land of Israel: "They shall eat their bread with anxiety, and drink their wat er with dread, so that h er land may be emptied of all who are in it, because of the violence of all those who dwell in it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:12:22 @ "Son of man, what is this prov erb that you people have about the land of Israel, which says, "The days are prolonged, and ev ery vision fails'?

nkjv@Ezekiel:12:23 @ Tell them th erefore, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "I will lay this prov erb to rest, and they shall no more use it as a prov erb in Israel." But say to them, "The days are at hand, and the fulfillment of ev ery vision.

nkjv@Ezekiel:12:24 @ For no more shall th ere be any false vision or flatt ering divination within the house of Israel.

nkjv@Ezekiel:12:25 @ For I am the LORD. I speak, and the word which I speak will come to pass; it will no more be postponed; for in your days, O rebellious house, I will say the word and p erform it," says the Lord GOD."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:12:28 @ Th erefore say to them, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "None of My words will be postponed any more, but the word which I speak will be done," says the Lord GOD."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:13:4 @ O Israel, your prophets are like foxes in the des erts.

nkjv@Ezekiel:13:8 @ Th erefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Because you have spoken nonsense and envisioned lies, th erefore I am indeed against you," says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:13:9 @ "My hand will be against the prophets who envision futility and who divine lies; they shall not be in the assembly of My people, nor be written in the record of the house of Israel, nor shall they ent er into the land of Israel. Then you shall know that I am the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:13:10 @ "Because, indeed, because they have seduced My people, saying, "Peace!' when th ere is no peace--and one builds a wall, and they plast er it with untemp ered mortar--

nkjv@Ezekiel:13:11 @ say to those who plast er it with untemp ered mortar, that it will fall. Th ere will be flooding rain, and you, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall tear it down.

nkjv@Ezekiel:13:12 @ Surely, when the wall has fallen, will it not be said to you, "Wh ere is the mortar with which you plast ered it?"'

nkjv@Ezekiel:13:13 @ Th erefore thus says the Lord GOD: "I will cause a stormy wind to break forth in My fury; and th ere shall be a flooding rain in My ang er, and great hailstones in fury to consume it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:13:14 @ So I will break down the wall you have plast ered with untemp ered mortar, and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation will be uncov ered; it will fall, and you shall be consumed in the midst of it. Then you shall know that I am the LORD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:13:15 @ "Thus will I accomplish My wrath on the wall and on those who have plast ered it with untemp ered mortar; and I will say to you, "The wall is no more, nor those who plast ered it,

nkjv@Ezekiel:13:16 @ that is, the prophets of Israel who prophesy conc erning J erusalem, and who see visions of peace for h er when th ere is no peace,"' says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:13:17 @ "Likewise, son of man, set your face against the daught ers of your people, who prophesy out of their own heart; prophesy against them,

nkjv@Ezekiel:13:18 @ and say, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "Woe to the women who sew magic charms on their sleeves and make veils for the heads of people of ev ery height to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of My people, and keep yourselves alive?

nkjv@Ezekiel:13:20 @ "Th erefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I am against your magic charms by which you hunt souls th ere like birds. I will tear them from your arms, and let the souls go, the souls you hunt like birds.

nkjv@Ezekiel:13:21 @ I will also tear off your veils and deliv er My people out of your hand, and they shall no long er be as prey in your hand. Then you shall know that I am the LORD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:13:23 @ Th erefore you shall no long er envision futility nor practice divination; for I will deliv er My people out of your hand, and you shall know that I am the LORD.""'

nkjv@Ezekiel:14:1 @ Now some of the eld ers of Israel came to me and sat before me.

nkjv@Ezekiel:14:4 @ "Th erefore speak to them, and say to them, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "Ev eryone of the house of Israel who sets up his idols in his heart, and puts before him what causes him to stumble into iniquity, and then comes to the prophet, I the LORD will answ er him who comes, according to the multitude of his idols,

nkjv@Ezekiel:14:6 @ "Th erefore say to the house of Israel, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "Repent, turn away from your idols, and turn your faces away from all your abominations.

nkjv@Ezekiel:14:7 @ For anyone of the house of Israel, or of the strang ers who dwell in Israel, who separates himself from Me and sets up his idols in his heart and puts before him what causes him to stumble into iniquity, then comes to a prophet to inquire of him conc erning Me, I the LORD will answ er him by Myself.

nkjv@Ezekiel:14:8 @ I will set My face against that man and make him a sign and a prov erb, and I will cut him off from the midst of My people. Then you shall know that I am the LORD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:14:11 @ that the house of Israel may no long er stray from Me, nor be profaned anymore with all their transgressions, but that they may be My people and I may be their God," says the Lord GOD."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:14:13 @ "Son of man, when a land sins against Me by p ersistent unfaithfulness, I will stretch out My hand against it; I will cut off its supply of bread, send famine on it, and cut off man and beast from it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:14:14 @ Even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, w ere in it, they would deliv er only themselves by their righteousness," says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:14:16 @ even though these three men w ere in it, as I live," says the Lord GOD, "they would deliv er neith er sons nor daught ers; only they would be deliv ered, and the land would be desolate.

nkjv@Ezekiel:14:18 @ even though these three men w ere in it, as I live," says the Lord GOD, "they would deliv er neith er sons nor daught ers, but only they themselves would be deliv ered.

nkjv@Ezekiel:14:20 @ even though Noah, Daniel, and Job w ere in it, as I live," says the Lord GOD, "they would deliv er neith er son nor daught er; they would deliv er only themselves by their righteousness."

nkjv@Ezekiel:14:21 @ For thus says the Lord GOD: "How much more it shall be when I send My four sev ere judgments on J erusalem--the sword and famine and wild beasts and pestilence--to cut off man and beast from it?

nkjv@Ezekiel:14:22 @ Yet behold, th ere shall be left in it a remnant who will be brought out, both sons and daught ers; surely they will come out to you, and you will see their ways and their doings. Then you will be comforted conc erning the disast er that I have brought upon J erusalem, all that I have brought upon it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:15:2 @ "Son of man, how is the wood of the vine bett er than any oth er wood, the vine branch which is among the trees of the forest?

nkjv@Ezekiel:15:6 @ "Th erefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so I will give up the inhabitants of J erusalem;

nkjv@Ezekiel:15:7 @ and I will set My face against them. They will go out from one fire, but anoth er fire shall devour them. Then you shall know that I am the LORD, when I set My face against them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:15:8 @ Thus I will make the land desolate, because they have p ersisted in unfaithfulness,' says the Lord GOD."

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:2 @ "Son of man, cause J erusalem to know h er abominations,

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:3 @ and say, "Thus says the Lord GOD to J erusalem: "Your birth and your nativity are from the land of Canaan; your fath er was an Amorite and your moth er a Hittite.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:4 @ As for your nativity, on the day you w ere born your navel cord was not cut, nor w ere you washed in wat er to cleanse you; you w ere not rubbed with salt nor wrapped in swaddling cloths.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:5 @ No eye pitied you, to do any of these things for you, to have compassion on you; but you w ere thrown out into the open field, when you yourself w ere loathed on the day you w ere born.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:7 @ I made you thrive like a plant in the field; and you grew, matured, and became v ery beautiful. Your breasts w ere formed, your hair grew, but you w ere naked and bare.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:8 @ "When I passed by you again and looked upon you, indeed your time was the time of love; so I spread My wing ov er you and cov ered your nakedness. Yes, I swore an oath to you and ent ered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine," says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:9 @ "Then I washed you in wat er; yes, I thoroughly washed off your blood, and I anointed you with oil.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:10 @ I clothed you in embroid ered cloth and gave you sandals of badg er skin; I clothed you with fine linen and cov ered you with silk.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:13 @ Thus you w ere adorned with gold and silv er, and your clothing was of fine linen, silk, and embroid ered cloth. You ate pastry of fine flour, honey, and oil. You w ere exceedingly beautiful, and succeeded to royalty.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:14 @ Your fame went out among the nations because of your beauty, for it was p erfect through My splendor which I had bestowed on you," says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:15 @ "But you trusted in your own beauty, played the harlot because of your fame, and poured out your harlotry on ev eryone passing by who would have it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:17 @ You have also taken your beautiful jewelry from My gold and My silv er, which I had given you, and made for yourself male images and played the harlot with them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:18 @ You took your embroid ered garments and cov ered them, and you set My oil and My incense before them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:20 @ "Moreov er you took your sons and your daught ers, whom you bore to Me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. W ere your acts of harlotry a small matt er,

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:21 @ that you have slain My children and off ered them up to them by causing them to pass through the fire?

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:22 @ And in all your abominations and acts of harlotry you did not rememb er the days of your youth, when you w ere naked and bare, struggling in your blood.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:23 @ "Then it was so, aft er all your wickedness--"Woe, woe to you!' says the Lord GOD--

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:24 @ that you also built for yourself a shrine, and made a high place for yourself in ev ery street.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:25 @ You built your high places at the head of ev ery road, and made your beauty to be abhorred. You off ered yourself to ev eryone who passed by, and multiplied your acts of harlotry.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:26 @ You also committed harlotry with the Egyptians, your v ery fleshly neighbors, and increased your acts of harlotry to provoke Me to ang er.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:27 @ "Behold, th erefore, I stretched out My hand against you, diminished your allotment, and gave you up to the will of those who hate you, the daught ers of the Philistines, who w ere ashamed of your lewd behavior.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:28 @ You also played the harlot with the Assyrians, because you w ere insatiable; indeed you played the harlot with them and still w ere not satisfied.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:29 @ Moreov er you multiplied your acts of harlotry as far as the land of the trad er, Chaldea; and even then you w ere not satisfied.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:30 @ "How degen erate is your heart!" says the Lord GOD, "seeing you do all these things, the deeds of a brazen harlot.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:31 @ "You erected your shrine at the head of ev ery road, and built your high place in ev ery street. Yet you w ere not like a harlot, because you scorned payment.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:32 @ You are an adult erous wife, who takes strang ers instead of h er husband.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:33 @ Men make payment to all harlots, but you made your payments to all your lov ers, and hired them to come to you from all around for your harlotry.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:34 @ You are the opposite of oth er women in your harlotry, because no one solicited you to be a harlot. In that you gave payment but no payment was given you, th erefore you are the opposite."

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:36 @ Thus says the Lord GOD: "Because your filthiness was poured out and your nakedness uncov ered in your harlotry with your lov ers, and with all your abominable idols, and because of the blood of your children which you gave to them,

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:37 @ surely, th erefore, I will gath er all your lov ers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved, and all those you hated; I will gath er them from all around against you and will uncov er your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:41 @ They shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women; and I will make you cease playing the harlot, and you shall no long er hire lov ers.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:43 @ Because you did not rememb er the days of your youth, but agitated Me with all these things, surely I will also recompense your deeds on your own head," says the Lord GOD. "And you shall not commit lewdness in addition to all your abominations.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:44 @ "Indeed ev eryone who quotes prov erbs will use this prov erb against you: "Like moth er, like daught er!'

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:45 @ You are your moth er's daught er, loathing husband and children; and you are the sist er of your sist ers, who loathed their husbands and children; your moth er was a Hittite and your fath er an Amorite.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:46 @ "Your eld er sist er is Samaria, who dwells with h er daught ers to the north of you; and your young er sist er, who dwells to the south of you, is Sodom and h er daught ers.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:47 @ You did not walk in their ways nor act according to their abominations; but, as if that w ere too little, you became more corrupt than they in all your ways.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:48 @ "As I live," says the Lord GOD, "neith er your sist er Sodom nor h er daught ers have done as you and your daught ers have done.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:49 @ Look, this was the iniquity of your sist er Sodom: She and h er daught er had pride, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness; neith er did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:50 @ And they w ere haughty and committed abomination before Me; th erefore I took them away as I saw fit.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:51 @ "Samaria did not commit half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified your sist ers by all the abominations which you have done.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:52 @ You who judged your sist ers, bear your own shame also, because the sins which you committed w ere more abominable than theirs; they are more righteous than you. Yes, be disgraced also, and bear your own shame, because you justified your sist ers.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:53 @ "When I bring back their captives, the captives of Sodom and h er daught ers, and the captives of Samaria and h er daught ers, then I will also bring back the captives of your captivity among them,

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:55 @ When your sist ers, Sodom and h er daught ers, return to their form er state, and Samaria and h er daught ers return to their form er state, then you and your daught ers will return to your form er state.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:56 @ For your sist er Sodom was not a byword in your mouth in the days of your pride,

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:57 @ before your wickedness was uncov ered. It was like the time of the reproach of the daught ers of Syria and all those around h er, and of the daught ers of the Philistines, who despise you ev erywh ere.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:60 @ "Nev ertheless I will rememb er My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an ev erlasting covenant with you.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:61 @ Then you will rememb er your ways and be ashamed, when you receive your old er and your young er sist ers; for I will give them to you for daught ers, but not because of My covenant with you.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:63 @ that you may rememb er and be ashamed, and nev er open your mouth anymore because of your shame, when I provide you an atonement for all you have done," says the Lord GOD."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:17:3 @ and say, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "A great eagle with large wings and long pinions, Full of feath ers of various colors, Came to Lebanon And took from the cedar the highest branch.

nkjv@Ezekiel:17:4 @ He cropped off its topmost young twig And carried it to a land of trade; He set it in a city of m erchants.

nkjv@Ezekiel:17:5 @ Then he took some of the seed of the land And planted it in a f ertile field; He placed it by abundant wat ers And set it like a willow tree.

nkjv@Ezekiel:17:6 @ And it grew and became a spreading vine of low stature; Its branches turned toward him, But its roots w ere und er it. So it became a vine, Brought forth branches, And put forth shoots.

nkjv@Ezekiel:17:7 @ "But th ere was anoth er great eagle with large wings and many feath ers; And behold, this vine bent its roots toward him, And stretched its branches toward him, From the garden t errace wh ere it had been planted, That he might wat er it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:17:8 @ It was planted in good soil by many wat ers, To bring forth branches, bear fruit, And become a majestic vine."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:17:9 @ "Say, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "Will it thrive? Will he not pull up its roots, Cut off its fruit, And leave it to with er? All of its spring leaves will with er, And no great pow er or many people Will be needed to pluck it up by its roots.

nkjv@Ezekiel:17:10 @ Behold, it is planted, Will it thrive? Will it not utt erly with er when the east wind touches it? It will with er in the garden t errace wh ere it grew.""'

nkjv@Ezekiel:17:11 @ Moreov er the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@Ezekiel:17:12 @ "Say now to the rebellious house: "Do you not know what these things mean?' Tell them, "Indeed the king of Babylon went to J erusalem and took its king and princes, and led them with him to Babylon.

nkjv@Ezekiel:17:13 @ And he took the king's offspring, made a covenant with him, and put him und er oath. He also took away the mighty of the land,

nkjv@Ezekiel:17:15 @ But he rebelled against him by sending his ambassadors to Egypt, that they might give him horses and many people. Will he prosp er? Will he who does such things escape? Can he break a covenant and still be deliv ered?

nkjv@Ezekiel:17:16 @ "As I live,' says the Lord GOD, "surely in the place wh ere the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke--with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.

nkjv@Ezekiel:17:17 @ Nor will Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company do anything in the war, when they heap up a siege mound and build a wall to cut off many p ersons.

nkjv@Ezekiel:17:19 @ Th erefore thus says the Lord GOD: "As I live, surely My oath which he despised, and My covenant which he broke, I will recompense on his own head.

nkjv@Ezekiel:17:20 @ I will spread My net ov er him, and he shall be taken in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon and try him th ere for the treason which he committed against Me.

nkjv@Ezekiel:17:21 @ All his fugitives with all his troops shall fall by the sword, and those who remain shall be scatt ered to ev ery wind; and you shall know that I, the LORD, have spoken."

nkjv@Ezekiel:17:22 @ Thus says the Lord GOD: "I will take also one of the highest branches of the high cedar and set it out. I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tend er one, and will plant it on a high and prominent mountain.

nkjv@Ezekiel:17:23 @ On the mountain height of Israel I will plant it; and it will bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a majestic cedar. Und er it will dwell birds of ev ery sort; in the shadow of its branches they will dwell.

nkjv@Ezekiel:18:2 @ "What do you mean when you use this prov erb conc erning the land of Israel, saying: "The fath ers have eaten sour grapes, And the children's teeth are set on edge'?

nkjv@Ezekiel:18:3 @ "As I live," says the Lord GOD, "you shall no long er use this prov erb in Israel.

nkjv@Ezekiel:18:4 @ "Behold, all souls are Mine; The soul of the fath er As well as the soul of the son is Mine; The soul who sins shall die.

nkjv@Ezekiel:18:6 @ If he has not eaten on the mountains, Nor lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, Nor defiled his neighbor's wife, Nor approached a woman during h er impurity;

nkjv@Ezekiel:18:7 @ If he has not oppressed anyone, But has restored to the debtor his pledge; Has robbed no one by violence, But has given his bread to the hungry And cov ered the naked with clothing;

nkjv@Ezekiel:18:10 @ "If he begets a son who is a robb er Or a shedd er of blood, Who does any of these things

nkjv@Ezekiel:18:14 @ "If, howev er, he begets a son Who sees all the sins which his fath er has done, And consid ers but does not do likewise;

nkjv@Ezekiel:18:16 @ Has not oppressed anyone, Nor withheld a pledge, Nor robbed by violence, But has given his bread to the hungry And cov ered the naked with clothing;

nkjv@Ezekiel:18:17 @ Who has withdrawn his hand from the poor And not received usury or increase, But has executed My judgments And walked in My statutes-- He shall not die for the iniquity of his fath er; He shall surely live!

nkjv@Ezekiel:18:18 @ "As for his fath er, Because he cruelly oppressed, Robbed his broth er by violence, And did what is not good among his people, Behold, he shall die for his iniquity.

nkjv@Ezekiel:18:19 @ "Yet you say, "Why should the son not bear the guilt of the fath er?' Because the son has done what is lawful and right, and has kept all My statutes and obs erved them, he shall surely live.

nkjv@Ezekiel:18:20 @ The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not bear the guilt of the fath er, nor the fath er bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.

nkjv@Ezekiel:18:22 @ None of the transgressions which he has committed shall be rememb ered against him; because of the righteousness which he has done, he shall live.

nkjv@Ezekiel:18:24 @ "But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? All the righteousness which he has done shall not be rememb ered; because of the unfaithfulness of which he is guilty and the sin which he has committed, because of them he shall die.

nkjv@Ezekiel:18:27 @ Again, when a wicked man turns away from the wickedness which he committed, and does what is lawful and right, he pres erves himself alive.

nkjv@Ezekiel:18:28 @ Because he consid ers and turns away from all the transgressions which he committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die.

nkjv@Ezekiel:18:30 @ "Th erefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, ev ery one according to his ways," says the Lord GOD. "Repent, and turn from all your transgressions, so that iniquity will not be your ruin.

nkjv@Ezekiel:18:32 @ For I have no pleasure in the death of one who dies," says the Lord GOD. "Th erefore turn and live!"

nkjv@Ezekiel:19:1 @ "Moreov er take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

nkjv@Ezekiel:19:2 @ and say: "What is your moth er? A lioness: She lay down among the lions; Among the young lions she nourished h er cubs.

nkjv@Ezekiel:19:3 @ She brought up one of h er cubs, And he became a young lion; He learned to catch prey, And he devoured men.

nkjv@Ezekiel:19:5 @ "When she saw that she waited, that h er hope was lost, She took anoth er of h er cubs and made him a young lion.

nkjv@Ezekiel:19:8 @ Then the nations set against him from the provinces on ev ery side, And spread their net ov er him; He was trapped in their pit.

nkjv@Ezekiel:19:9 @ They put him in a cage with chains, And brought him to the king of Babylon; They brought him in nets, That his voice should no long er be heard on the mountains of Israel.

nkjv@Ezekiel:19:10 @ "Your moth er was like a vine in your bloodline, Planted by the wat ers, Fruitful and full of branches Because of many wat ers.

nkjv@Ezekiel:19:11 @ She had strong branches for scept ers of rul ers. She tow ered in stature above the thick branches, And was seen in h er height amid the dense foliage.

nkjv@Ezekiel:19:12 @ But she was plucked up in fury, She was cast down to the ground, And the east wind dried h er fruit. H er strong branches w ere broken and with ered; The fire consumed them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:19:13 @ And now she is planted in the wild erness, In a dry and thirsty land.

nkjv@Ezekiel:19:14 @ Fire has come out from a rod of h er branches And devoured h er fruit, So that she has no strong branch-- a scept er for ruling."' This is a lamentation, and has become a lamentation.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:1 @ It came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, that c ertain of the eld ers of Israel came to inquire of the LORD, and sat before me.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:3 @ "Son of man, speak to the eld ers of Israel, and say to them, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "Have you come to inquire of Me? As I live," says the Lord GOD, "I will not be inquired of by you."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:4 @ Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? Then make known to them the abominations of their fath ers.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:8 @ But they rebelled against Me and would not obey Me. They did not all cast away the abominations which w ere before their eyes, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said, "I will pour out My fury on them and fulfill My ang er against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:9 @ But I acted for My name's sake, that it should not be profaned before the Gentiles among whom they w ere, in whose sight I had made Myself known to them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:10 @ "Th erefore I made them go out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the wild erness.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:12 @ Moreov er I also gave them My Sabbaths, to be a sign between them and Me, that they might know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:13 @ Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wild erness; they did not walk in My statutes; they despised My judgments, "which, if a man does, he shall live by them'; and they greatly defiled My Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out My fury on them in the wild erness, to consume them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:15 @ So I also raised My hand in an oath to them in the wild erness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, "flowing with milk and honey,' the glory of all lands,

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:16 @ because they despised My judgments and did not walk in My statutes, but profaned My Sabbaths; for their heart went aft er their idols.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:17 @ Nev ertheless My eye spared them from destruction. I did not make an end of them in the wild erness.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:18 @ "But I said to their children in the wild erness, "Do not walk in the statutes of your fath ers, nor obs erve their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:21 @ "Notwithstanding, the children rebelled against Me; they did not walk in My statutes, and w ere not careful to obs erve My judgments, "which, if a man does, he shall live by them'; but they profaned My Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out My fury on them and fulfill My ang er against them in the wild erness.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:22 @ Nev ertheless I withdrew My hand and acted for My name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the Gentiles, in whose sight I had brought them out.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:23 @ Also I raised My hand in an oath to those in the wild erness, that I would scatt er them among the Gentiles and disp erse them throughout the countries,

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:24 @ because they had not executed My judgments, but had despised My statutes, profaned My Sabbaths, and their eyes w ere fixed on their fath ers' idols.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:25 @ "Th erefore I also gave them up to statutes that w ere not good, and judgments by which they could not live;

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:27 @ "Th erefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and say to them, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "In this too your fath ers have blasphemed Me, by being unfaithful to Me.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:28 @ When I brought them into the land conc erning which I had raised My hand in an oath to give them, and they saw all the high hills and all the thick trees, th ere they off ered their sacrifices and provoked Me with their off erings. Th ere they also sent up their sweet aroma and poured out their drink off erings.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:30 @ Th erefore say to the house of Israel, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "Are you defiling yourselves in the mann er of your fath ers, and committing harlotry according to their abominations?

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:31 @ For when you off er your gifts and make your sons pass through the fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols, even to this day. So shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live," says the Lord GOD, "I will not be inquired of by you.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:32 @ What you have in your mind shall nev er be, when you say, "We will be like the Gentiles, like the families in oth er countries, s erving wood and stone.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:33 @ "As I live," says the Lord GOD, "surely with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with fury poured out, I will rule ov er you.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:34 @ I will bring you out from the peoples and gath er you out of the countries wh ere you are scatt ered, with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with fury poured out.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:35 @ And I will bring you into the wild erness of the peoples, and th ere I will plead My case with you face to face.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:36 @ Just as I pleaded My case with your fath ers in the wild erness of the land of Egypt, so I will plead My case with you," says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:37 @ "I will make you pass und er the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant;

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:38 @ I will purge the rebels from among you, and those who transgress against Me; I will bring them out of the country wh ere they dwell, but they shall not ent er the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:39 @ "As for you, O house of Israel," thus says the Lord GOD: "Go, s erve ev ery one of you his idols--and h ereaft er--if you will not obey Me; but profane My holy name no more with your gifts and your idols.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:40 @ For on My holy mountain, on the mountain height of Israel," says the Lord GOD, "th ere all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, shall s erve Me; th ere I will accept them, and th ere I will require your off erings and the firstfruits of your sacrifices, togeth er with all your holy things.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:41 @ I will accept you as a sweet aroma when I bring you out from the peoples and gath er you out of the countries wh ere you have been scatt ered; and I will be hallowed in you before the Gentiles.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:42 @ Then you shall know that I am the LORD, when I bring you into the land of Israel, into the country for which I raised My hand in an oath to give to your fath ers.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:43 @ And th ere you shall rememb er your ways and all your doings with which you w ere defiled; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight because of all the evils that you have committed.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:45 @ Furth ermore the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:47 @ and say to the forest of the South, "Hear the word of the LORD! Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour ev ery green tree and ev ery dry tree in you; the blazing flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be scorched by it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:2 @ "Son of man, set your face toward J erusalem, preach against the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel;

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:4 @ Because I will cut off both righteous and wicked from you, th erefore My sword shall go out of its sheath against all flesh from south to north,

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:6 @ Sigh th erefore, son of man, with a breaking heart, and sigh with bitt erness before their eyes.

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:7 @ And it shall be when they say to you, "Why are you sighing?' that you shall answ er, "Because of the news; when it comes, ev ery heart will melt, all hands will be feeble, ev ery spirit will faint, and all knees will be weak as wat er. Behold, it is coming and shall be brought to pass,' says the Lord GOD."

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:10 @ Sharpened to make a dreadful slaught er, Polished to flash like lightning! Should we then make mirth? It despises the scept er of My son, As it does all wood.

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:11 @ And He has given it to be polished, That it may be handled; This sword is sharpened, and it is polished To be given into the hand of the slay er.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:12 @ "Cry and wail, son of man; For it will be against My people, Against all the princes of Israel. T errors including the sword will be against My people; Th erefore strike your thigh.

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:13 @ "Because it is a testing, And what if the sword despises even the scept er? The scept er shall be no more," says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:14 @ "You th erefore, son of man, prophesy, And strike your hands togeth er. The third time let the sword do double damage. It is the sword that slays, The sword that slays the great men, That ent ers their private chamb ers.

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:15 @ I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, That the heart may melt and many may stumble. Ah! It is made bright; It is grasped for slaught er:

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:16 @ "Swords at the ready! Thrust right! Set your blade! Thrust left-- Wh erev er your edge is ord ered!

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:17 @ "I also will beat My fists togeth er, And I will cause My fury to rest; I, the LORD, have spoken."

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:20 @ Appoint a road for the sword to go to Rabbah of the Ammonites, and to Judah, into fortified J erusalem.

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:21 @ For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the road, at the fork of the two roads, to use divination: he shakes the arrows, he consults the images, he looks at the liv er.

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:22 @ In his right hand is the divination for J erusalem: to set up batt ering rams, to call for a slaught er, to lift the voice with shouting, to set batt ering rams against the gates, to heap up a siege mound, and to build a wall.

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:24 @ "Th erefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Because you have made your iniquity to be rememb ered, in that your transgressions are uncov ered, so that in all your doings your sins appear--because you have come to remembrance, you shall be taken in hand.

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:27 @ Ov erthrown, ov erthrown, I will make it ov erthrown! It shall be no long er, Until He comes whose right it is, And I will give it to Him."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:28 @ "And you, son of man, prophesy and say, "Thus says the Lord GOD conc erning the Ammonites and conc erning their reproach,' and say: "A sword, a sword is drawn, Polished for slaught er, For consuming, for flashing--

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:30 @ "Return it to its sheath. I will judge you In the place wh ere you w ere created, In the land of your nativity.

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:31 @ I will pour out My indignation on you; I will blow against you with the fire of My wrath, And deliv er you into the hands of brutal men who are skillful to destroy.

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:32 @ You shall be fuel for the fire; Your blood shall be in the midst of the land. You shall not be rememb ered, For I the LORD have spoken."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:1 @ Moreov er the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:2 @ "Now, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Yes, show h er all h er abominations!

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:3 @ Then say, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "The city sheds blood in h er own midst, that h er time may come; and she makes idols within h erself to defile h erself.

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:4 @ You have become guilty by the blood which you have shed, and have defiled yourself with the idols which you have made. You have caused your days to draw near, and have come to the end of your years; th erefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mock ery to all countries.

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:6 @ "Look, the princes of Israel: each one has used his pow er to shed blood in you.

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:7 @ In you they have made light of fath er and moth er; in your midst they have oppressed the strang er; in you they have mistreated the fath erless and the widow.

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:9 @ In you are men who sland er to cause bloodshed; in you are those who eat on the mountains; in your midst they commit lewdness.

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:10 @ In you men uncov er their fath ers' nakedness; in you they violate women who are set apart during their impurity.

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:11 @ One commits abomination with his neighbor's wife; anoth er lewdly defiles his daught er-in-law; and anoth er in you violates his sist er, his fath er's daught er.

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:13 @ "Behold, th erefore, I beat My fists at the dishonest profit which you have made, and at the bloodshed which has been in your midst.

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:15 @ I will scatt er you among the nations, disp erse you throughout the countries, and remove your filthiness completely from you.

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:18 @ "Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me; they are all bronze, tin, iron, and lead, in the midst of a furnace; they have become dross from silv er.

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:19 @ Th erefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Because you have all become dross, th erefore behold, I will gath er you into the midst of J erusalem.

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:20 @ As men gath er silv er, bronze, iron, lead, and tin into the midst of a furnace, to blow fire on it, to melt it; so I will gath er you in My ang er and in My fury, and I will leave you th ere and melt you.

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:21 @ Yes, I will gath er you and blow on you with the fire of My wrath, and you shall be melted in its midst.

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:22 @ As silv er is melted in the midst of a furnace, so shall you be melted in its midst; then you shall know that I, the LORD, have poured out My fury on you."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:24 @ "Son of man, say to h er: "You are a land that is not cleansed or rained on in the day of indignation.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:25 @ The conspiracy of h er prophets in h er midst is like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they have devoured people; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in h er midst.

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:26 @ H er priests have violated My law and profaned My holy things; they have not distinguished between the holy and unholy, nor have they made known the diff erence between the unclean and the clean; and they have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:27 @ H er princes in h er midst are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood, to destroy people, and to get dishonest gain.

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:28 @ H er prophets plast ered them with untemp ered mortar, seeing false visions, and divining lies for them, saying, "Thus says the Lord GOD,' when the LORD had not spoken.

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:29 @ The people of the land have used oppressions, committed robb ery, and mistreated the poor and needy; and they wrongfully oppress the strang er.

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:31 @ Th erefore I have poured out My indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath; and I have recompensed their deeds on their own heads," says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:2 @ "Son of man, th ere w ere two women, The daught ers of one moth er.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:3 @ They committed harlotry in Egypt, They committed harlotry in their youth; Their breasts w ere th ere embraced, Their virgin bosom was th ere pressed.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:4 @ Their names: Oholah the eld er and Oholibah h er sist er; They w ere Mine, And they bore sons and daught ers. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and J erusalem is Oholibah.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:5 @ "Oholah played the harlot even though she was Mine; And she lusted for h er lov ers, the neighboring Assyrians,

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:6 @ Who w ere clothed in purple, Captains and rul ers, All of them desirable young men, Horsemen riding on horses.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:7 @ Thus she committed h er harlotry with them, All of them choice men of Assyria; And with all for whom she lusted, With all their idols, she defiled h erself.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:8 @ She has nev er given up h er harlotry brought from Egypt, For in h er youth they had lain with h er, Pressed h er virgin bosom, And poured out their immorality upon h er.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:9 @ "Th erefore I have deliv ered h er Into the hand of h er lov ers, Into the hand of the Assyrians, For whom she lusted.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:10 @ They uncov ered h er nakedness, Took away h er sons and daught ers, And slew h er with the sword; She became a byword among women, For they had executed judgment on h er.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:11 @ "Now although h er sist er Oholibah saw this, she became more corrupt in h er lust than she, and in h er harlotry more corrupt than h er sist er's harlotry.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:12 @ "She lusted for the neighboring Assyrians, Captains and rul ers, Clothed most gorgeously, Horsemen riding on horses, All of them desirable young men.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:14 @ But she increased h er harlotry; She looked at men portrayed on the wall, Images of Chaldeans portrayed in v ermilion,

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:15 @ Girded with belts around their waists, Flowing turbans on their heads, All of them looking like captains, In the mann er of the Babylonians of Chaldea, The land of their nativity.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:16 @ As soon as h er eyes saw them, She lusted for them And sent messeng ers to them in Chaldea.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:17 @ "Then the Babylonians came to h er, into the bed of love, And they defiled h er with their immorality; So she was defiled by them, and alienated h erself from them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:18 @ She revealed h er harlotry and uncov ered h er nakedness. Then I alienated Myself from h er, As I had alienated Myself from h er sist er.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:19 @ "Yet she multiplied h er harlotry In calling to remembrance the days of h er youth, When she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:20 @ For she lusted for h er paramours, Whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys, And whose issue is like the issue of horses.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:22 @ "Th erefore, Oholibah, thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I will stir up your lov ers against you, From whom you have alienated yourself, And I will bring them against you from ev ery side:

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:23 @ The Babylonians, All the Chaldeans, Pekod, Shoa, Koa, All the Assyrians with them, All of them desirable young men, Gov ernors and rul ers, Captains and men of renown, All of them riding on horses.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:24 @ And they shall come against you With chariots, wagons, and war-horses, With a horde of people. They shall array against you Buckl er, shield, and helmet all around. "I will delegate judgment to them, And they shall judge you according to their judgments.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:25 @ I will set My jealousy against you, And they shall deal furiously with you; They shall remove your nose and your ears, And your remnant shall fall by the sword; They shall take your sons and your daught ers, And your remnant shall be devoured by fire.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:27 @ "Thus I will make you cease your lewdness and your harlotry Brought from the land of Egypt, So that you will not lift your eyes to them, Nor rememb er Egypt anymore.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:28 @ "For thus says the Lord GOD: "Surely I will deliv er you into the hand of those you hate, into the hand of those from whom you alienated yourself.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:29 @ They will deal hatefully with you, take away all you have worked for, and leave you naked and bare. The nakedness of your harlotry shall be uncov ered, both your lewdness and your harlotry.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:30 @ I will do these things to you because you have gone as a harlot aft er the Gentiles, because you have become defiled by their idols.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:31 @ You have walked in the way of your sist er; th erefore I will put h er cup in your hand.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:32 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: "You shall drink of your sist er's cup, The deep and wide one; You shall be laughed to scorn And held in d erision; It contains much.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:33 @ You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, The cup of horror and desolation, The cup of your sist er Samaria.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:35 @ "Th erefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Because you have forgotten Me and cast Me behind your back, Th erefore you shall bear the penalty Of your lewdness and your harlotry."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:37 @ For they have committed adult ery, and blood is on their hands. They have committed adult ery with their idols, and even sacrificed their sons whom they bore to Me, passing them through the fire, to devour them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:38 @ Moreov er they have done this to Me: They have defiled My sanctuary on the same day and profaned My Sabbaths.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:39 @ For aft er they had slain their children for their idols, on the same day they came into My sanctuary to profane it; and indeed thus they have done in the midst of My house.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:40 @ "Furth ermore you sent for men to come from afar, to whom a messeng er was sent; and th ere they came. And you washed yourself for them, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with ornaments.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:42 @ The sound of a carefree multitude was with h er, and Sabeans w ere brought from the wild erness with men of the common sort, who put bracelets on their wrists and beautiful crowns on their heads.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:43 @ Then I said conc erning h er who had grown old in adult eries, "Will they commit harlotry with h er now, and she with them?'

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:44 @ Yet they went in to h er, as men go in to a woman who plays the harlot; thus they went in to Oholah and Oholibah, the lewd women.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:45 @ But righteous men will judge them aft er the mann er of adult eresses, and aft er the mann er of women who shed blood, because they are adult eresses, and blood is on their hands.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:46 @ "For thus says the Lord GOD: "Bring up an assembly against them, give them up to trouble and plund er.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:47 @ The assembly shall stone them with stones and execute them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daught ers, and burn their houses with fire.

nkjv@Ezekiel:24:2 @ "Son of man, write down the name of the day, this v ery day--the king of Babylon started his siege against J erusalem this v ery day.

nkjv@Ezekiel:24:3 @ And utt er a parable to the rebellious house, and say to them, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "Put on a pot, set it on, And also pour wat er into it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:24:4 @ Gath er pieces of meat in it, Ev ery good piece, The thigh and the should er. Fill it with choice cuts;

nkjv@Ezekiel:24:5 @ Take the choice of the flock. Also pile fuel bones und er it, Make it boil well, And let the cuts simm er in it."

nkjv@Ezekiel:24:6 @ "Th erefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Woe to the bloody city, To the pot whose scum is in it, And whose scum is not gone from it! Bring it out piece by piece, On which no lot has fallen.

nkjv@Ezekiel:24:7 @ For h er blood is in h er midst; She set it on top of a rock; She did not pour it on the ground, To cov er it with dust.

nkjv@Ezekiel:24:8 @ That it may raise up fury and take vengeance, I have set h er blood on top of a rock, That it may not be cov ered."

nkjv@Ezekiel:24:9 @ "Th erefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Woe to the bloody city! I too will make the pyre great.

nkjv@Ezekiel:24:12 @ She has grown weary with lies, And h er great scum has not gone from h er. Let h er scum be in the fire!

nkjv@Ezekiel:24:13 @ In your filthiness is lewdness. Because I have cleansed you, and you w ere not cleansed, You will not be cleansed of your filthiness anymore, Till I have caused My fury to rest upon you.

nkjv@Ezekiel:24:16 @ "Son of man, behold, I take away from you the desire of your eyes with one stroke; yet you shall neith er mourn nor weep, nor shall your tears run down.

nkjv@Ezekiel:24:17 @ Sigh in silence, make no mourning for the dead; bind your turban on your head, and put your sandals on your feet; do not cov er your lips, and do not eat man's bread of sorrow."

nkjv@Ezekiel:24:20 @ Then I answ ered them, "The word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@Ezekiel:24:21 @ "Speak to the house of Israel, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I will profane My sanctuary, your arrogant boast, the desire of your eyes, the delight of your soul; and your sons and daught ers whom you left behind shall fall by the sword.

nkjv@Ezekiel:24:22 @ And you shall do as I have done; you shall not cov er your lips nor eat man's bread of sorrow.

nkjv@Ezekiel:24:23 @ Your turbans shall be on your heads and your sandals on your feet; you shall neith er mourn nor weep, but you shall pine away in your iniquities and mourn with one anoth er.

nkjv@Ezekiel:24:25 @ "And you, son of man--will it not be in the day when I take from them their stronghold, their joy and their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that on which they set their minds, their sons and their daught ers:

nkjv@Ezekiel:24:27 @ on that day your mouth will be opened to him who has escaped; you shall speak and no long er be mute. Thus you will be a sign to them, and they shall know that I am the LORD."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:25:4 @ indeed, th erefore, I will deliv er you as a possession to the men of the East, and they shall set their encampments among you and make their dwellings among you; they shall eat your fruit, and they shall drink your milk.

nkjv@Ezekiel:25:7 @ indeed, th erefore, I will stretch out My hand against you, and give you as plund er to the nations; I will cut you off from the peoples, and I will cause you to p erish from the countries; I will destroy you, and you shall know that I am the LORD."

nkjv@Ezekiel:25:9 @ th erefore, behold, I will clear the t erritory of Moab of cities, of the cities on its fronti er, the glory of the country, Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon, and Kirjathaim.

nkjv@Ezekiel:25:10 @ To the men of the East I will give it as a possession, togeth er with the Ammonites, that the Ammonites may not be rememb ered among the nations.

nkjv@Ezekiel:25:13 @ th erefore thus says the Lord GOD: "I will also stretch out My hand against Edom, cut off man and beast from it, and make it desolate from Teman; Dedan shall fall by the sword.

nkjv@Ezekiel:25:14 @ I will lay My vengeance on Edom by the hand of My people Israel, that they may do in Edom according to My ang er and according to My fury; and they shall know My vengeance," says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:25:16 @ th erefore thus says the Lord GOD: "I will stretch out My hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off the Ch erethites and destroy the remnant of the seacoast.

nkjv@Ezekiel:26:2 @ "Son of man, because Tyre has said against J erusalem, "Aha! She is broken who was the gateway of the peoples; now she is turned ov er to me; I shall be filled; she is laid waste.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:26:3 @ "Th erefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes its waves to come up.

nkjv@Ezekiel:26:4 @ And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre and break down h er tow ers; I will also scrape h er dust from h er, and make h er like the top of a rock.

nkjv@Ezekiel:26:5 @ It shall be a place for spreading nets in the midst of the sea, for I have spoken,' says the Lord GOD; "it shall become plund er for the nations.

nkjv@Ezekiel:26:6 @ Also h er daught er villages which are in the fields shall be slain by the sword. Then they shall know that I am the LORD.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:26:8 @ He will slay with the sword your daught er villages in the fields; he will heap up a siege mound against you, build a wall against you, and raise a defense against you.

nkjv@Ezekiel:26:9 @ He will direct his batt ering rams against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your tow ers.

nkjv@Ezekiel:26:10 @ Because of the abundance of his horses, their dust will cov er you; your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen, the wagons, and the chariots, when he ent ers your gates, as men ent er a city that has been breached.

nkjv@Ezekiel:26:12 @ They will plund er your riches and pillage your m erchandise; they will break down your walls and destroy your pleasant houses; they will lay your stones, your timb er, and your soil in the midst of the wat er.

nkjv@Ezekiel:26:14 @ I will make you like the top of a rock; you shall be a place for spreading nets, and you shall nev er be rebuilt, for I the LORD have spoken,' says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:26:15 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD to Tyre: "Will the coastlands not shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded cry, when slaught er is made in the midst of you?

nkjv@Ezekiel:26:16 @ Then all the princes of the sea will come down from their thrones, lay aside their robes, and take off their embroid ered garments; they will clothe themselves with trembling; they will sit on the ground, tremble ev ery moment, and be astonished at you.

nkjv@Ezekiel:26:17 @ And they will take up a lamentation for you, and say to you: "How you have p erished, O one inhabited by seafaring men, O renowned city, Who was strong at sea, She and h er inhabitants, Who caused their t error to be on all h er inhabitants!

nkjv@Ezekiel:26:19 @ "For thus says the Lord GOD: "When I make you a desolate city, like cities that are not inhabited, when I bring the deep upon you, and great wat ers cov er you,

nkjv@Ezekiel:26:20 @ then I will bring you down with those who descend into the Pit, to the people of old, and I will make you dwell in the lowest part of the earth, in places desolate from antiquity, with those who go down to the Pit, so that you may nev er be inhabited; and I shall establish glory in the land of the living.

nkjv@Ezekiel:26:21 @ I will make you a t error, and you shall be no more; though you are sought for, you will nev er be found again,' says the Lord GOD."

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:3 @ and say to Tyre, "You who are situated at the entrance of the sea, m erchant of the peoples on many coastlands, thus says the Lord GOD: "O Tyre, you have said, "I am p erfect in beauty.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:4 @ Your bord ers are in the midst of the seas. Your build ers have p erfected your beauty.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:7 @ Fine embroid ered linen from Egypt was what you spread for your sail; Blue and purple from the coasts of Elishah was what cov ered you.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:8 @ "Inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad w ere your oarsmen; Your wise men, O Tyre, w ere in you; They became your pilots.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:9 @ Eld ers of Gebal and its wise men W ere in you to caulk your seams; All the ships of the sea And their oarsmen w ere in you To market your m erchandise.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:10 @ "Those from P ersia, Lydia, and Libya W ere in your army as men of war; They hung shield and helmet in you; They gave splendor to you.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:11 @ Men of Arvad with your army w ere on your walls all around, And the men of Gammad w ere in your tow ers; They hung their shields on your walls all around; They made your beauty p erfect.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:12 @ "Tarshish was your m erchant because of your many luxury goods. They gave you silv er, iron, tin, and lead for your goods.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:13 @ Javan, Tubal, and Meshech w ere your trad ers. They bart ered human lives and vessels of bronze for your m erchandise.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:15 @ The men of Dedan w ere your trad ers; many isles w ere the market of your hand. They brought you ivory tusks and ebony as payment.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:16 @ Syria was your m erchant because of the abundance of goods you made. They gave you for your wares em eralds, purple, embroid ery, fine linen, corals, and rubies.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:17 @ Judah and the land of Israel w ere your trad ers. They traded for your m erchandise wheat of Minnith, millet, honey, oil, and balm.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:18 @ Damascus was your m erchant because of the abundance of goods you made, because of your many luxury items, with the wine of Helbon and with white wool.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:19 @ Dan and Javan paid for your wares, trav ersing back and forth. Wrought iron, cassia, and cane w ere among your m erchandise.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:20 @ Dedan was your m erchant in saddlecloths for riding.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:21 @ Arabia and all the princes of Kedar w ere your regular m erchants. They traded with you in lambs, rams, and goats.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:22 @ The m erchants of Sheba and Raamah w ere your m erchants. They traded for your wares the choicest spices, all kinds of precious stones, and gold.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:23 @ Haran, Canneh, Eden, the m erchants of Sheba, Assyria, and Chilmad w ere your m erchants.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:24 @ These w ere your m erchants in choice items--in purple clothes, in embroid ered garments, in chests of multicolored apparel, in sturdy woven cords, which w ere in your marketplace.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:25 @ "The ships of Tarshish w ere carri ers of your m erchandise. You w ere filled and v ery glorious in the midst of the seas.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:26 @ Your oarsmen brought you into many wat ers, But the east wind broke you in the midst of the seas.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:27 @ "Your riches, wares, and m erchandise, Your marin ers and pilots, Your caulk ers and m erchandis ers, All your men of war who are in you, And the entire company which is in your midst, Will fall into the midst of the seas on the day of your ruin.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:29 @ "All who handle the oar, The marin ers, All the pilots of the sea Will come down from their ships and stand on the shore.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:30 @ They will make their voice heard because of you; They will cry bitt erly and cast dust on their heads; They will roll about in ashes;

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:31 @ They will shave themselves completely bald because of you, Gird themselves with sackcloth, And weep for you With bitt erness of heart and bitt er wailing.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:33 @ "When your wares went out by sea, You satisfied many people; You enriched the kings of the earth With your many luxury goods and your m erchandise.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:34 @ But you are broken by the seas in the depths of the wat ers; Your m erchandise and the entire company will fall in your midst.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:36 @ The m erchants among the peoples will hiss at you; You will become a horror, and be no more forev er."""

nkjv@Ezekiel:28:3 @ (Behold, you are wis er than Daniel! Th ere is no secret that can be hidden from you!

nkjv@Ezekiel:28:4 @ With your wisdom and your und erstanding You have gained riches for yourself, And gath ered gold and silv er into your treasuries;

nkjv@Ezekiel:28:6 @ "Th erefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Because you have set your heart as the heart of a god,

nkjv@Ezekiel:28:7 @ Behold, th erefore, I will bring strang ers against you, The most t errible of the nations; And they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, And defile your splendor.

nkjv@Ezekiel:28:11 @ Moreov er the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@Ezekiel:28:12 @ "Son of man, take up a lamentation for the king of Tyre, and say to him, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "You w ere the seal of p erfection, Full of wisdom and p erfect in beauty.

nkjv@Ezekiel:28:13 @ You w ere in Eden, the garden of God; Ev ery precious stone was your cov ering: The sardius, topaz, and diamond, B eryl, onyx, and jasp er, Sapphire, turquoise, and em erald with gold. The workmanship of your timbrels and pipes Was prepared for you on the day you w ere created.

nkjv@Ezekiel:28:14 @ "You w ere the anointed ch erub who cov ers; I established you; You w ere on the holy mountain of God; You walked back and forth in the midst of fi ery stones.

nkjv@Ezekiel:28:15 @ You w ere p erfect in your ways from the day you w ere created, Till iniquity was found in you.

nkjv@Ezekiel:28:16 @ "By the abundance of your trading You became filled with violence within, And you sinned; Th erefore I cast you as a profane thing Out of the mountain of God; And I destroyed you, O cov ering ch erub, From the midst of the fi ery stones.

nkjv@Ezekiel:28:18 @ "You defiled your sanctuaries By the multitude of your iniquities, By the iniquity of your trading; Th erefore I brought fire from your midst; It devoured you, And I turned you to ashes upon the earth In the sight of all who saw you.

nkjv@Ezekiel:28:19 @ All who knew you among the peoples are astonished at you; You have become a horror, And shall be no more forev er.""'

nkjv@Ezekiel:28:21 @ "Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against h er,

nkjv@Ezekiel:28:22 @ and say, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I am against you, O Sidon; I will be glorified in your midst; And they shall know that I am the LORD, When I execute judgments in h er and am hallowed in h er.

nkjv@Ezekiel:28:23 @ For I will send pestilence upon h er, And blood in h er streets; The wounded shall be judged in h er midst By the sword against h er on ev ery side; Then they shall know that I am the LORD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:28:24 @ "And th ere shall no long er be a pricking bri er or a painful thorn for the house of Israel from among all who are around them, who despise them. Then they shall know that I am the Lord GOD."

nkjv@Ezekiel:28:25 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: "When I have gath ered the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scatt ered, and am hallowed in them in the sight of the Gentiles, then they will dwell in their own land which I gave to My s ervant Jacob.

nkjv@Ezekiel:28:26 @ And they will dwell safely th ere, build houses, and plant vineyards; yes, they will dwell securely, when I execute judgments on all those around them who despise them. Then they shall know that I am the LORD their God.""'

nkjv@Ezekiel:29:3 @ Speak, and say, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I am against you, O Pharaoh king of Egypt, O great monst er who lies in the midst of his riv ers, Who has said, "My Riv er is my own; I have made it for myself.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:29:4 @ But I will put hooks in your jaws, And cause the fish of your riv ers to stick to your scales; I will bring you up out of the midst of your riv ers, And all the fish in your riv ers will stick to your scales.

nkjv@Ezekiel:29:5 @ I will leave you in the wild erness, You and all the fish of your riv ers; You shall fall on the open field; You shall not be picked up or gath ered. I have given you as food To the beasts of the field And to the birds of the heavens.

nkjv@Ezekiel:29:7 @ When they took hold of you with the hand, You broke and tore all their should ers; When they leaned on you, You broke and made all their backs quiv er."

nkjv@Ezekiel:29:8 @ "Th erefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Surely I will bring a sword upon you and cut off from you man and beast.

nkjv@Ezekiel:29:9 @ And the land of Egypt shall become desolate and waste; then they will know that I am the LORD, because he said, "The Riv er is mine, and I have made it.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:29:10 @ Indeed, th erefore, I am against you and against your riv ers, and I will make the land of Egypt utt erly waste and desolate, from Migdol to Syene, as far as the bord er of Ethiopia.

nkjv@Ezekiel:29:11 @ Neith er foot of man shall pass through it nor foot of beast pass through it, and it shall be uninhabited forty years.

nkjv@Ezekiel:29:12 @ I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate; and among the cities that are laid waste, h er cities shall be desolate forty years; and I will scatt er the Egyptians among the nations and disp erse them throughout the countries."

nkjv@Ezekiel:29:13 @ "Yet, thus says the Lord GOD: "At the end of forty years I will gath er the Egyptians from the peoples among whom they w ere scatt ered.

nkjv@Ezekiel:29:14 @ I will bring back the captives of Egypt and cause them to return to the land of Pathros, to the land of their origin, and th ere they shall be a lowly kingdom.

nkjv@Ezekiel:29:15 @ It shall be the lowliest of kingdoms; it shall nev er again exalt itself above the nations, for I will diminish them so that they will not rule ov er the nations anymore.

nkjv@Ezekiel:29:16 @ No long er shall it be the confidence of the house of Israel, but will remind them of their iniquity when they turned to follow them. Then they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.""'

nkjv@Ezekiel:29:18 @ "Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to labor strenuously against Tyre; ev ery head was made bald, and ev ery should er rubbed raw; yet neith er he nor his army received wages from Tyre, for the labor which they expended on it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:29:19 @ Th erefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Surely I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; he shall take away h er wealth, carry off h er spoil, and remove h er pillage; and that will be the wages for his army.

nkjv@Ezekiel:30:4 @ The sword shall come upon Egypt, And great anguish shall be in Ethiopia, When the slain fall in Egypt, And they take away h er wealth, And h er foundations are broken down.

nkjv@Ezekiel:30:6 @ "Thus says the LORD: "Those who uphold Egypt shall fall, And the pride of h er pow er shall come down. From Migdol to Syene Those within h er shall fall by the sword," Says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:30:7 @ "They shall be desolate in the midst of the desolate countries, And h er cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are laid waste.

nkjv@Ezekiel:30:8 @ Then they will know that I am the LORD, When I have set a fire in Egypt And all h er help ers are destroyed.

nkjv@Ezekiel:30:9 @ On that day messeng ers shall go forth from Me in ships To make the careless Ethiopians afraid, And great anguish shall come upon them, As on the day of Egypt; For indeed it is coming!"

nkjv@Ezekiel:30:11 @ He and his people with him, the most t errible of the nations, Shall be brought to destroy the land; They shall draw their swords against Egypt, And fill the land with the slain.

nkjv@Ezekiel:30:12 @ I will make the riv ers dry, And sell the land into the hand of the wicked; I will make the land waste, and all that is in it, By the hand of aliens. I, the LORD, have spoken."

nkjv@Ezekiel:30:13 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: "I will also destroy the idols, And cause the images to cease from Noph; Th ere shall no long er be princes from the land of Egypt; I will put fear in the land of Egypt.

nkjv@Ezekiel:30:18 @ At Tehaphnehes the day shall also be darkened, When I break the yokes of Egypt th ere. And h er arrogant strength shall cease in h er; As for h er, a cloud shall cov er h er, And h er daught ers shall go into captivity.

nkjv@Ezekiel:30:22 @ Th erefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Surely I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, both the strong one and the one that was broken; and I will make the sword fall out of his hand.

nkjv@Ezekiel:30:23 @ I will scatt er the Egyptians among the nations, and disp erse them throughout the countries.

nkjv@Ezekiel:30:26 @ I will scatt er the Egyptians among the nations and disp erse them throughout the countries. Then they shall know that I am the LORD."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:31:4 @ The wat ers made it grow; Und erground wat ers gave it height, With their riv ers running around the place wh ere it was planted, And sent out rivulets to all the trees of the field.

nkjv@Ezekiel:31:5 @ "Th erefore its height was exalted above all the trees of the field; Its boughs w ere multiplied, And its branches became long because of the abundance of wat er, As it sent them out.

nkjv@Ezekiel:31:6 @ All the birds of the heavens made their nests in its boughs; Und er its branches all the beasts of the field brought forth their young; And in its shadow all great nations made their home.

nkjv@Ezekiel:31:7 @ "Thus it was beautiful in greatness and in the length of its branches, Because its roots reached to abundant wat ers.

nkjv@Ezekiel:31:8 @ The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; The fir trees w ere not like its boughs, And the chestnut trees w ere not like its branches; No tree in the garden of God was like it in beauty.

nkjv@Ezekiel:31:9 @ I made it beautiful with a multitude of branches, So that all the trees of Eden envied it, That w ere in the garden of God.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:31:10 @ "Th erefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Because you have increased in height, and it set its top among the thick boughs, and its heart was lifted up in its height,

nkjv@Ezekiel:31:11 @ th erefore I will deliv er it into the hand of the mighty one of the nations, and he shall surely deal with it; I have driven it out for its wickedness.

nkjv@Ezekiel:31:12 @ And aliens, the most t errible of the nations, have cut it down and left it; its branches have fallen on the mountains and in all the valleys; its boughs lie broken by all the riv ers of the land; and all the peoples of the earth have gone from und er its shadow and left it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:31:14 @ "So that no trees by the wat ers may ev er again exalt themselves for their height, nor set their tops among the thick boughs, that no tree which drinks wat er may ev er be high enough to reach up to them. "For they have all been deliv ered to death, To the depths of the earth, Among the children of men who go down to the Pit.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:31:15 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: "In the day when it went down to hell, I caused mourning. I cov ered the deep because of it. I restrained its riv ers, and the great wat ers w ere held back. I caused Lebanon to mourn for it, and all the trees of the field wilted because of it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:31:16 @ I made the nations shake at the sound of its fall, when I cast it down to hell togeth er with those who descend into the Pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink wat er, w ere comforted in the depths of the earth.

nkjv@Ezekiel:31:17 @ They also went down to hell with it, with those slain by the sword; and those who w ere its strong arm dwelt in its shadows among the nations.

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:2 @ "Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him: "You are like a young lion among the nations, And you are like a monst er in the seas, Bursting forth in your riv ers, Troubling the wat ers with your feet, And fouling their riv ers.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:3 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: "I will th erefore spread My net ov er you with a company of many people, And they will draw you up in My net.

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:6 @ "I will also wat er the land with the flow of your blood, Even to the mountains; And the riv erbeds will be full of you.

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:7 @ When I put out your light, I will cov er the heavens, and make its stars dark; I will cov er the sun with a cloud, And the moon shall not give h er light.

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:8 @ All the bright lights of the heavens I will make dark ov er you, And bring darkness upon your land,' Says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:10 @ Yes, I will make many peoples astonished at you, and their kings shall be horribly afraid of you when I brandish My sword before them; and they shall tremble ev ery moment, ev ery man for his own life, in the day of your fall.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:12 @ By the swords of the mighty warriors, all of them the most t errible of the nations, I will cause your multitude to fall. "They shall plund er the pomp of Egypt, And all its multitude shall be destroyed.

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:13 @ Also I will destroy all its animals From beside its great wat ers; The foot of man shall muddy them no more, Nor shall the hooves of animals muddy them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:14 @ Then I will make their wat ers clear, And make their riv ers run like oil,' Says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:16 @ "This is the lamentation With which they shall lament h er; The daught ers of the nations shall lament h er; They shall lament for h er, for Egypt, And for all h er multitude,' Says the Lord GOD."

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:18 @ "Son of man, wail ov er the multitude of Egypt, And cast them down to the depths of the earth, H er and the daught ers of the famous nations, With those who go down to the Pit:

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:20 @ "They shall fall in the midst of those slain by the sword; She is deliv ered to the sword, Drawing h er and all h er multitudes.

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:22 @ "Assyria is th ere, and all h er company, With their graves all around h er, All of them slain, fallen by the sword.

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:23 @ H er graves are set in the recesses of the Pit, And h er company is all around h er grave, All of them slain, fallen by the sword, Who caused t error in the land of the living.

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:24 @ "Th ere is Elam and all h er multitude, All around h er grave, All of them slain, fallen by the sword, Who have gone down uncircumcised to the low er parts of the earth, Who caused their t error in the land of the living; Now they bear their shame with those who go down to the Pit.

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:25 @ They have set h er bed in the midst of the slain, With all h er multitude, With h er graves all around it, All of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; Though their t error was caused In the land of the living, Yet they bear their shame With those who go down to the Pit; It was put in the midst of the slain.

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:26 @ "Th ere are Meshech and Tubal and all their multitudes, With all their graves around it, All of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, Though they caused their t error in the land of the living.

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:27 @ They do not lie with the mighty Who are fallen of the uncircumcised, Who have gone down to hell with their weapons of war; They have laid their swords und er their heads, But their iniquities will be on their bones, Because of the t error of the mighty in the land of the living.

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:29 @ "Th ere is Edom, H er kings and all h er princes, Who despite their might Are laid beside those slain by the sword; They shall lie with the uncircumcised, And with those who go down to the Pit.

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:30 @ Th ere are the princes of the north, All of them, and all the Sidonians, Who have gone down with the slain In shame at the t error which they caused by their might; They lie uncircumcised with those slain by the sword, And bear their shame with those who go down to the Pit.

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:31 @ "Pharaoh will see them And be comforted ov er all his multitude, Pharaoh and all his army, Slain by the sword," Says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:32 @ "For I have caused My t error in the land of the living; And he shall be placed in the midst of the uncircumcised With those slain by the sword, Pharaoh and all his multitude," Says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:2 @ "Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and say to them: "When I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from their t erritory and make him their watchman,

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:4 @ then whoev er hears the sound of the trumpet and does not take warning, if the sword comes and takes him away, his blood shall be on his own head.

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:6 @ But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, and the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any p erson from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at the watchman's hand.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:7 @ "So you, son of man: I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; th erefore you shall hear a word from My mouth and warn them for Me.

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:9 @ Nev ertheless if you warn the wicked to turn from his way, and he does not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have deliv ered your soul.

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:10 @ "Th erefore you, O son of man, say to the house of Israel: "Thus you say, "If our transgressions and our sins lie upon us, and we pine away in them, how can we then live?"'

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:12 @ "Th erefore you, O son of man, say to the children of your people: "The righteousness of the righteous man shall not deliv er him in the day of his transgression; as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall because of it in the day that he turns from his wickedness; nor shall the righteous be able to live because of his righteousness in the day that he sins.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:13 @ When I say to the righteous that he shall surely live, but he trusts in his own righteousness and commits iniquity, none of his righteous works shall be rememb ered; but because of the iniquity that he has committed, he shall die.

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:16 @ None of his sins which he has committed shall be rememb ered against him; he has done what is lawful and right; he shall surely live.

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:20 @ Yet you say, "The way of the LORD is not fair.' O house of Israel, I will judge ev ery one of you according to his own ways."

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:21 @ And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month, that one who had escaped from J erusalem came to me and said, "The city has been captured!"

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:22 @ Now the hand of the LORD had been upon me the evening before the man came who had escaped. And He had opened my mouth; so when he came to me in the morning, my mouth was opened, and I was no long er mute.

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:24 @ "Son of man, they who inhabit those ruins in the land of Israel are saying, "Abraham was only one, and he inh erited the land. But we are many; the land has been given to us as a possession.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:25 @ "Th erefore say to them, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "You eat meat with blood, you lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood. Should you then possess the land?

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:26 @ You rely on your sword, you commit abominations, and you defile one anoth er's wives. Should you then possess the land?"'

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:28 @ For I will make the land most desolate, h er arrogant strength shall cease, and the mountains of Israel shall be so desolate that no one will pass through.

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:30 @ "As for you, son of man, the children of your people are talking about you beside the walls and in the doors of the houses; and they speak to one anoth er, ev eryone saying to his broth er, "Please come and hear what the word is that comes from the LORD.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:32 @ Indeed you are to them as a v ery lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they do not do them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:2 @ "Son of man, prophesy against the sheph erds of Israel, prophesy and say to them, "Thus says the Lord GOD to the sheph erds: "Woe to the sheph erds of Israel who feed themselves! Should not the sheph erds feed the flocks?

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:3 @ You eat the fat and clothe yourselves with the wool; you slaught er the fatlings, but you do not feed the flock.

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:4 @ The weak you have not strengthened, nor have you healed those who w ere sick, nor bound up the broken, nor brought back what was driven away, nor sought what was lost; but with force and cruelty you have ruled them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:5 @ So they w ere scatt ered because th ere was no sheph erd; and they became food for all the beasts of the field when they w ere scatt ered.

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:6 @ My sheep wand ered through all the mountains, and on ev ery high hill; yes, My flock was scatt ered ov er the whole face of the earth, and no one was seeking or searching for them."

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:7 @ "Th erefore, you sheph erds, hear the word of the LORD:

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:8 @ "As I live," says the Lord GOD, "surely because My flock became a prey, and My flock became food for ev ery beast of the field, because th ere was no sheph erd, nor did My sheph erds search for My flock, but the sheph erds fed themselves and did not feed My flock"--

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:9 @ th erefore, O sheph erds, hear the word of the LORD!

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:10 @ Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I am against the sheph erds, and I will require My flock at their hand; I will cause them to cease feeding the sheep, and the sheph erds shall feed themselves no more; for I will deliv er My flock from their mouths, that they may no long er be food for them."

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:12 @ As a sheph erd seeks out his flock on the day he is among his scatt ered sheep, so will I seek out My sheep and deliv er them from all the places wh ere they w ere scatt ered on a cloudy and dark day.

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:13 @ And I will bring them out from the peoples and gath er them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land; I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, in the valleys and in all the inhabited places of the country.

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:14 @ I will feed them in good pasture, and their fold shall be on the high mountains of Israel. Th ere they shall lie down in a good fold and feed in rich pasture on the mountains of Israel.

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:18 @ Is it too little for you to have eaten up the good pasture, that you must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture--and to have drunk of the clear wat ers, that you must foul the residue with your feet?

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:20 @ "Th erefore thus says the Lord GOD to them: "Behold, I Myself will judge between the fat and the lean sheep.

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:21 @ Because you have pushed with side and should er, butted all the weak ones with your horns, and scatt ered them abroad,

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:22 @ th erefore I will save My flock, and they shall no long er be a prey; and I will judge between sheep and sheep.

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:23 @ I will establish one sheph erd ov er them, and he shall feed them--My s ervant David. He shall feed them and be their sheph erd.

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:24 @ And I, the LORD, will be their God, and My s ervant David a prince among them; I, the LORD, have spoken.

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:25 @ "I will make a covenant of peace with them, and cause wild beasts to cease from the land; and they will dwell safely in the wild erness and sleep in the woods.

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:26 @ I will make them and the places all around My hill a blessing; and I will cause show ers to come down in their season; th ere shall be show ers of blessing.

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:27 @ Then the trees of the field shall yield their fruit, and the earth shall yield h er increase. They shall be safe in their land; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke and deliv ered them from the hand of those who enslaved them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:28 @ And they shall no long er be a prey for the nations, nor shall beasts of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and no one shall make them afraid.

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:29 @ I will raise up for them a garden of renown, and they shall no long er be consumed with hung er in the land, nor bear the shame of the Gentiles anymore.

nkjv@Ezekiel:35:1 @ Moreov er the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@Ezekiel:35:5 @ "Because you have had an ancient hatred, and have shed the blood of the children of Israel by the pow er of the sword at the time of their calamity, when their iniquity came to an end,

nkjv@Ezekiel:35:6 @ th erefore, as I live," says the Lord GOD, "I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you; since you have not hated blood, th erefore blood shall pursue you.

nkjv@Ezekiel:35:9 @ I will make you p erpetually desolate, and your cities shall be uninhabited; then you shall know that I am the LORD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:35:10 @ "Because you have said, "These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess them,' although the LORD was th ere,

nkjv@Ezekiel:35:11 @ th erefore, as I live," says the Lord GOD, "I will do according to your ang er and according to the envy which you showed in your hatred against them; and I will make Myself known among them when I judge you.

nkjv@Ezekiel:35:15 @ As you rejoiced because the inh eritance of the house of Israel was desolate, so I will do to you; you shall be desolate, O Mount Seir, as well as all of Edom--all of it! Then they shall know that I am the LORD."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:3 @ th erefore prophesy, and say, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "Because they made you desolate and swallowed you up on ev ery side, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and you are taken up by the lips of talk ers and sland ered by the people"--

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:4 @ th erefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains, the hills, the riv ers, the valleys, the desolate wastes, and the cities that have been forsaken, which became plund er and mock ery to the rest of the nations all around--

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:5 @ th erefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Surely I have spoken in My burning jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who gave My land to themselves as a possession, with wholehearted joy and spiteful minds, in ord er to plund er its open country."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:6 @ "Th erefore prophesy conc erning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains, the hills, the riv ers, and the valleys, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I have spoken in My jealousy and My fury, because you have borne the shame of the nations."

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:7 @ Th erefore thus says the Lord GOD: "I have raised My hand in an oath that surely the nations that are around you shall bear their own shame.

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:11 @ I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bear young; I will make you inhabited as in form er times, and do bett er for you than at your beginnings. Then you shall know that I am the LORD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:12 @ Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, My people Israel; they shall take possession of you, and you shall be their inh eritance; no more shall you b ereave them of children."

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:13 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: "Because they say to you, "You devour men and b ereave your nation of children,'

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:14 @ th erefore you shall devour men no more, nor b ereave your nation anymore," says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:16 @ Moreov er the word of the LORD came to me, saying:

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:17 @ "Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own ways and deeds; to Me their way was like the uncleanness of a woman in h er customary impurity.

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:18 @ Th erefore I poured out My fury on them for the blood they had shed on the land, and for their idols with which they had defiled it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:19 @ So I scatt ered them among the nations, and they w ere disp ersed throughout the countries; I judged them according to their ways and their deeds.

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:20 @ When they came to the nations, wh erev er they went, they profaned My holy name--when they said of them, "These are the people of the LORD, and yet they have gone out of His land.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:21 @ But I had conc ern for My holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations wh erev er they went.

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:22 @ "Th erefore say to the house of Israel, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "I do not do this for your sake, O house of Israel, but for My holy name's sake, which you have profaned among the nations wh erev er you went.

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:24 @ For I will take you from among the nations, gath er you out of all countries, and bring you into your own land.

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:25 @ Then I will sprinkle clean wat er on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols.

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:28 @ Then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fath ers; you shall be My people, and I will be your God.

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:29 @ I will deliv er you from all your uncleannesses. I will call for the grain and multiply it, and bring no famine upon you.

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:30 @ And I will multiply the fruit of your trees and the increase of your fields, so that you need nev er again bear the reproach of famine among the nations.

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:31 @ Then you will rememb er your evil ways and your deeds that w ere not good; and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight, for your iniquities and your abominations.

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:38 @ Like a flock off ered as holy sacrifices, like the flock at J erusalem on its feast days, so shall the ruined cities be filled with flocks of men. Then they shall know that I am the LORD.""'

nkjv@Ezekiel:37:2 @ Then He caused me to pass by them all around, and behold, th ere w ere v ery many in the open valley; and indeed they w ere v ery dry.

nkjv@Ezekiel:37:3 @ And He said to me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" So I answ ered, "O Lord GOD, You know."

nkjv@Ezekiel:37:5 @ Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones: "Surely I will cause breath to ent er into you, and you shall live.

nkjv@Ezekiel:37:6 @ I will put sinews on you and bring flesh upon you, cov er you with skin and put breath in you; and you shall live. Then you shall know that I am the LORD.""'

nkjv@Ezekiel:37:7 @ So I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, th ere was a noise, and suddenly a rattling; and the bones came togeth er, bone to bone.

nkjv@Ezekiel:37:8 @ Indeed, as I looked, the sinews and the flesh came upon them, and the skin cov ered them ov er; but th ere was no breath in them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:37:12 @ Th erefore prophesy and say to them, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, O My people, I will open your graves and cause you to come up from your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.

nkjv@Ezekiel:37:14 @ I will put My Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land. Then you shall know that I, the LORD, have spoken it and p erformed it," says the LORD."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:37:16 @ "As for you, son of man, take a stick for yourself and write on it: "For Judah and for the children of Israel, his companions.' Then take anoth er stick and write on it, "For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel, his companions.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:37:17 @ Then join them one to anoth er for yourself into one stick, and they will become one in your hand.

nkjv@Ezekiel:37:21 @ "Then say to them, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "Surely I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, wh erev er they have gone, and will gath er them from ev ery side and bring them into their own land;

nkjv@Ezekiel:37:22 @ and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king ov er them all; they shall no long er be two nations, nor shall they ev er be divided into two kingdoms again.

nkjv@Ezekiel:37:23 @ They shall not defile themselves anymore with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will deliv er them from all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. Then they shall be My people, and I will be their God.

nkjv@Ezekiel:37:24 @ "David My s ervant shall be king ov er them, and they shall all have one sheph erd; they shall also walk in My judgments and obs erve My statutes, and do them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:37:25 @ Then they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob My s ervant, wh ere your fath ers dwelt; and they shall dwell th ere, they, their children, and their children's children, forev er; and My s ervant David shall be their prince forev er.

nkjv@Ezekiel:37:26 @ Moreov er I will make a covenant of peace with them, and it shall be an ev erlasting covenant with them; I will establish them and multiply them, and I will set My sanctuary in their midst forev ermore.

nkjv@Ezekiel:37:27 @ My tab ernacle also shall be with them; indeed I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

nkjv@Ezekiel:37:28 @ The nations also will know that I, the LORD, sanctify Israel, when My sanctuary is in their midst forev ermore.""'

nkjv@Ezekiel:38:4 @ I will turn you around, put hooks into your jaws, and lead you out, with all your army, horses, and horsemen, all splendidly clothed, a great company with buckl ers and shields, all of them handling swords.

nkjv@Ezekiel:38:5 @ P ersia, Ethiopia, and Libya are with them, all of them with shield and helmet;

nkjv@Ezekiel:38:6 @ Gom er and all its troops; the house of Togarmah from the far north and all its troops--many people are with you.

nkjv@Ezekiel:38:7 @ "Prepare yourself and be ready, you and all your companies that are gath ered about you; and be a guard for them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:38:8 @ Aft er many days you will be visited. In the latt er years you will come into the land of those brought back from the sword and gath ered from many people on the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate; they w ere brought out of the nations, and now all of them dwell safely.

nkjv@Ezekiel:38:9 @ You will ascend, coming like a storm, cov ering the land like a cloud, you and all your troops and many peoples with you."

nkjv@Ezekiel:38:11 @ You will say, "I will go up against a land of unwalled villages; I will go to a peaceful people, who dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neith er bars nor gates'--

nkjv@Ezekiel:38:12 @ to take plund er and to take booty, to stretch out your hand against the waste places that are again inhabited, and against a people gath ered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell in the midst of the land.

nkjv@Ezekiel:38:13 @ Sheba, Dedan, the m erchants of Tarshish, and all their young lions will say to you, "Have you come to take plund er? Have you gath ered your army to take booty, to carry away silv er and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great plund er?""

nkjv@Ezekiel:38:14 @ "Th erefore, son of man, prophesy and say to Gog, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "On that day when My people Israel dwell safely, will you not know it?

nkjv@Ezekiel:38:16 @ You will come up against My people Israel like a cloud, to cov er the land. It will be in the latt er days that I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may know Me, when I am hallowed in you, O Gog, before their eyes."

nkjv@Ezekiel:38:17 @ Thus says the Lord GOD: "Are you he of whom I have spoken in form er days by My s ervants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied for years in those days that I would bring you against them?

nkjv@Ezekiel:38:19 @ For in My jealousy and in the fire of My wrath I have spoken: "Surely in that day th ere shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel,

nkjv@Ezekiel:38:20 @ so that the fish of the sea, the birds of the heavens, the beasts of the field, all creeping things that creep on the earth, and all men who are on the face of the earth shall shake at My presence. The mountains shall be thrown down, the steep places shall fall, and ev ery wall shall fall to the ground.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:38:21 @ I will call for a sword against Gog throughout all My mountains," says the Lord GOD. "Ev ery man's sword will be against his broth er.

nkjv@Ezekiel:39:4 @ You shall fall upon the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the peoples who are with you; I will give you to birds of prey of ev ery sort and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.

nkjv@Ezekiel:39:9 @ "Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out and set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and buckl ers, the bows and arrows, the javelins and spears; and they will make fires with them for seven years.

nkjv@Ezekiel:39:10 @ They will not take wood from the field nor cut down any from the forests, because they will make fires with the weapons; and they will plund er those who plund ered them, and pillage those who pillaged them," says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:39:11 @ "It will come to pass in that day that I will give Gog a burial place th ere in Israel, the valley of those who pass by east of the sea; and it will obstruct travel ers, because th ere they will bury Gog and all his multitude. Th erefore they will call it the Valley of Hamon Gog.

nkjv@Ezekiel:39:12 @ For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them, in ord er to cleanse the land.

nkjv@Ezekiel:39:14 @ "They will set apart men regularly employed, with the help of a search party, to pass through the land and bury those bodies remaining on the ground, in ord er to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will make a search.

nkjv@Ezekiel:39:15 @ The search party will pass through the land; and when anyone sees a man's bone, he shall set up a mark er by it, till the buri ers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon Gog.

nkjv@Ezekiel:39:17 @ "And as for you, son of man, thus says the Lord GOD, "Speak to ev ery sort of bird and to ev ery beast of the field: "Assemble yourselves and come; Gath er togeth er from all sides to My sacrificial meal Which I am sacrificing for you, A great sacrificial meal on the mountains of Israel, That you may eat flesh and drink blood.

nkjv@Ezekiel:39:20 @ You shall be filled at My table With horses and rid ers, With mighty men And with all the men of war," says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:39:23 @ The Gentiles shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they w ere unfaithful to Me, th erefore I hid My face from them. I gave them into the hand of their enemies, and they all fell by the sword.

nkjv@Ezekiel:39:25 @ "Th erefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Now I will bring back the captives of Jacob, and have m ercy on the whole house of Israel; and I will be jealous for My holy name--

nkjv@Ezekiel:39:26 @ aft er they have borne their shame, and all their unfaithfulness in which they w ere unfaithful to Me, when they dwelt safely in their own land and no one made them afraid.

nkjv@Ezekiel:39:27 @ When I have brought them back from the peoples and gath ered them out of their enemies' lands, and I am hallowed in them in the sight of many nations,

nkjv@Ezekiel:39:28 @ then they shall know that I am the LORD their God, who sent them into captivity among the nations, but also brought them back to their land, and left none of them captive any long er.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:1 @ In the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year aft er the city was captured, on the v ery same day the hand of the LORD was upon me; and He took me th ere.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:2 @ In the visions of God He took me into the land of Israel and set me on a v ery high mountain; on it toward the south was something like the structure of a city.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:3 @ He took me th ere, and behold, th ere was a man whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze. He had a line of flax and a measuring rod in his hand, and he stood in the gateway.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:4 @ And the man said to me, "Son of man, look with your eyes and hear with your ears, and fix your mind on ev erything I show you; for you w ere brought h ere so that I might show them to you. Declare to the house of Israel ev erything you see."

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:5 @ Now th ere was a wall all around the outside of the temple. In the man's hand was a measuring rod six cubits long, each being a cubit and a handbreadth; and he measured the width of the wall structure, one rod; and the height, one rod.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:6 @ Then he went to the gateway which faced east; and he went up its stairs and measured the threshold of the gateway, which was one rod wide, and the oth er threshold was one rod wide.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:7 @ Each gate chamb er was one rod long and one rod wide; between the gate chamb ers was a space of five cubits; and the threshold of the gateway by the vestibule of the inside gate was one rod.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:10 @ In the east ern gateway w ere three gate chamb ers on one side and three on the oth er; the three w ere all the same size; also the gateposts w ere of the same size on this side and that side.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:12 @ Th ere was a space in front of the gate chamb ers, one cubit on this side and one cubit on that side; the gate chamb ers w ere six cubits on this side and six cubits on that side.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:13 @ Then he measured the gateway from the roof of one gate chamb er to the roof of the oth er; the width was twenty-five cubits, as door faces door.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:15 @ From the front of the entrance gate to the front of the vestibule of the inn er gate was fifty cubits.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:16 @ Th ere w ere beveled window frames in the gate chamb ers and in their int ervening archways on the inside of the gateway all around, and likewise in the vestibules. Th ere w ere windows all around on the inside. And on each gatepost w ere palm trees.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:17 @ Then he brought me into the out er court; and th ere w ere chamb ers and a pavement made all around the court; thirty chamb ers faced the pavement.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:18 @ The pavement was by the side of the gateways, corresponding to the length of the gateways; this was the low er pavement.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:19 @ Then he measured the width from the front of the low er gateway to the front of the inn er court ext erior, one hundred cubits toward the east and the north.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:20 @ On the out er court was also a gateway facing north, and he measured its length and its width.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:21 @ Its gate chamb ers, three on this side and three on that side, its gateposts and its archways, had the same measurements as the first gate; its length was fifty cubits and its width twenty-five cubits.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:23 @ A gate of the inn er court was opposite the north ern gateway, just as the east ern gateway; and he measured from gateway to gateway, one hundred cubits.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:24 @ Aft er that he brought me toward the south, and th ere a gateway was facing south; and he measured its gateposts and archways according to these same measurements.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:25 @ Th ere w ere windows in it and in its archways all around like those windows; its length was fifty cubits and its width twenty-five cubits.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:27 @ Th ere was also a gateway on the inn er court, facing south; and he measured from gateway to gateway toward the south, one hundred cubits.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:28 @ Then he brought me to the inn er court through the south ern gateway; he measured the south ern gateway according to these same measurements.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:29 @ Also its gate chamb ers, its gateposts, and its archways w ere according to these same measurements; th ere w ere windows in it and in its archways all around; it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:30 @ Th ere w ere archways all around, twenty-five cubits long and five cubits wide.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:31 @ Its archways faced the out er court, palm trees w ere on its gateposts, and going up to it w ere eight steps.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:32 @ And he brought me into the inn er court facing east; he measured the gateway according to these same measurements.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:33 @ Also its gate chamb ers, its gateposts, and its archways w ere according to these same measurements; and th ere w ere windows in it and in its archways all around; it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:34 @ Its archways faced the out er court, and palm trees w ere on its gateposts on this side and on that side; and going up to it w ere eight steps.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:36 @ also its gate chamb ers, its gateposts, and its archways. It had windows all around; its length was fifty cubits and its width twenty-five cubits.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:37 @ Its gateposts faced the out er court, palm trees w ere on its gateposts on this side and on that side, and going up to it w ere eight steps.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:38 @ Th ere was a chamb er and its entrance by the gateposts of the gateway, wh ere they washed the burnt off ering.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:39 @ In the vestibule of the gateway w ere two tables on this side and two tables on that side, on which to slay the burnt off ering, the sin off ering, and the trespass off ering.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:40 @ At the out er side of the vestibule, as one goes up to the entrance of the north ern gateway, w ere two tables; and on the oth er side of the vestibule of the gateway w ere two tables.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:41 @ Four tables w ere on this side and four tables on that side, by the side of the gateway, eight tables on which they slaught ered the sacrifices.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:42 @ Th ere w ere also four tables of hewn stone for the burnt off ering, one cubit and a half long, one cubit and a half wide, and one cubit high; on these they laid the instruments with which they slaught ered the burnt off ering and the sacrifice.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:43 @ Inside w ere hooks, a handbreadth wide, fastened all around; and the flesh of the sacrifices was on the tables.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:44 @ Outside the inn er gate w ere the chamb ers for the sing ers in the inn er court, one facing south at the side of the north ern gateway, and the oth er facing north at the side of the south ern gateway.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:45 @ Then he said to me, "This chamb er which faces south is for the priests who have charge of the temple.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:46 @ The chamb er which faces north is for the priests who have charge of the altar; these are the sons of Zadok, from the sons of Levi, who come near the LORD to minist er to Him."

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:49 @ The length of the vestibule was twenty cubits, and the width eleven cubits; and by the steps which led up to it th ere w ere pillars by the doorposts, one on this side and anoth er on that side.

nkjv@Ezekiel:41:1 @ Then he brought me into the sanctuary and measured the doorposts, six cubits wide on one side and six cubits wide on the oth er side--the width of the tab ernacle.

nkjv@Ezekiel:41:2 @ The width of the entryway was ten cubits, and the side walls of the entrance w ere five cubits on this side and five cubits on the oth er side; and he measured its length, forty cubits, and its width, twenty cubits.

nkjv@Ezekiel:41:5 @ Next, he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits. The width of each side chamb er all around the temple was four cubits on ev ery side.

nkjv@Ezekiel:41:6 @ The side chamb ers w ere in three stories, one above the oth er, thirty chamb ers in each story; they rested on ledges which w ere for the side chamb ers all around, that they might be supported, but not fastened to the wall of the temple.

nkjv@Ezekiel:41:7 @ As one went up from story to story, the side chamb ers became wid er all around, because their supporting ledges in the wall of the temple ascended like steps; th erefore the width of the structure increased as one went up from the lowest story to the highest by way of the middle one.

nkjv@Ezekiel:41:8 @ I also saw an elevation all around the temple; it was the foundation of the side chamb ers, a full rod, that is, six cubits high.

nkjv@Ezekiel:41:9 @ The thickness of the out er wall of the side chamb ers was five cubits, and so also the remaining t errace by the place of the side chamb ers of the temple.

nkjv@Ezekiel:41:10 @ And between it and the wall chamb ers was a width of twenty cubits all around the temple on ev ery side.

nkjv@Ezekiel:41:11 @ The doors of the side chamb ers opened on the t errace, one door toward the north and anoth er toward the south; and the width of the t errace was five cubits all around.

nkjv@Ezekiel:41:12 @ The building that faced the separating courtyard at its west ern end was seventy cubits wide; the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits.

nkjv@Ezekiel:41:14 @ also the width of the east ern face of the temple, including the separating courtyard, was one hundred cubits.

nkjv@Ezekiel:41:15 @ He measured the length of the building behind it, facing the separating courtyard, with its gall eries on the one side and on the oth er side, one hundred cubits, as well as the inn er temple and the porches of the court,

nkjv@Ezekiel:41:16 @ their doorposts and the beveled window frames. And the gall eries all around their three stories opposite the threshold w ere paneled with wood from the ground to the windows--the windows w ere cov ered--

nkjv@Ezekiel:41:17 @ from the space above the door, even to the inn er room, as well as outside, and on ev ery wall all around, inside and outside, by measure.

nkjv@Ezekiel:41:18 @ And it was made with ch erubim and palm trees, a palm tree between ch erub and ch erub. Each ch erub had two faces,

nkjv@Ezekiel:41:19 @ so that the face of a man was toward a palm tree on one side, and the face of a young lion toward a palm tree on the oth er side; thus it was made throughout the temple all around.

nkjv@Ezekiel:41:20 @ From the floor to the space above the door, and on the wall of the sanctuary, ch erubim and palm trees w ere carved.

nkjv@Ezekiel:41:21 @ The doorposts of the temple w ere square, as was the front of the sanctuary; their appearance was similar.

nkjv@Ezekiel:41:22 @ The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and its length two cubits. Its corn ers, its length, and its sides w ere of wood; and he said to me, "This is the table that is before the LORD."

nkjv@Ezekiel:41:24 @ The doors had two panels apiece, two folding panels: two panels for one door and two panels for the oth er door.

nkjv@Ezekiel:41:25 @ Ch erubim and palm trees w ere carved on the doors of the temple just as they w ere carved on the walls. A wooden canopy was on the front of the vestibule outside.

nkjv@Ezekiel:41:26 @ Th ere w ere beveled window frames and palm trees on one side and on the oth er, on the sides of the vestibule--also on the side chamb ers of the temple and on the canopies.

nkjv@Ezekiel:42:1 @ Then he brought me out into the out er court, by the way toward the north; and he brought me into the chamb er which was opposite the separating courtyard, and which was opposite the building toward the north.

nkjv@Ezekiel:42:3 @ Opposite the inn er court of twenty cubits, and opposite the pavement of the out er court, was gall ery against gall ery in three stories.

nkjv@Ezekiel:42:4 @ In front of the chamb ers, toward the inside, was a walk ten cubits wide, at a distance of one cubit; and their doors faced north.

nkjv@Ezekiel:42:5 @ Now the upp er chamb ers w ere short er, because the gall eries took away space from them more than from the low er and middle stories of the building.

nkjv@Ezekiel:42:6 @ For they w ere in three stories and did not have pillars like the pillars of the courts; th erefore the upp er level was shortened more than the low er and middle levels from the ground up.

nkjv@Ezekiel:42:7 @ And a wall which was outside ran parallel to the chamb ers, at the front of the chamb ers, toward the out er court; its length was fifty cubits.

nkjv@Ezekiel:42:8 @ The length of the chamb ers toward the out er court was fifty cubits, wh ereas that facing the temple was one hundred cubits.

nkjv@Ezekiel:42:9 @ At the low er chamb ers was the entrance on the east side, as one goes into them from the out er court.

nkjv@Ezekiel:42:10 @ Also th ere w ere chamb ers in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, opposite the separating courtyard and opposite the building.

nkjv@Ezekiel:42:11 @ Th ere was a walk in front of them also, and their appearance was like the chamb ers which w ere toward the north; they w ere as long and as wide as the oth ers, and all their exits and entrances w ere according to plan.

nkjv@Ezekiel:42:12 @ And corresponding to the doors of the chamb ers that w ere facing south, as one ent ers them, th ere was a door in front of the walk, the way directly in front of the wall toward the east.

nkjv@Ezekiel:42:13 @ Then he said to me, "The north chamb ers and the south chamb ers, which are opposite the separating courtyard, are the holy chamb ers wh ere the priests who approach the LORD shall eat the most holy off erings. Th ere they shall lay the most holy off erings--the grain off ering, the sin off ering, and the trespass off ering--for the place is holy.

nkjv@Ezekiel:42:14 @ When the priests ent er them, they shall not go out of the holy chamb er into the out er court; but th ere they shall leave their garments in which they minist er, for they are holy. They shall put on oth er garments; then they may approach that which is for the people."

nkjv@Ezekiel:42:15 @ Now when he had finished measuring the inn er temple, he brought me out through the gateway that faces toward the east, and measured it all around.

nkjv@Ezekiel:43:1 @ Aft erward he brought me to the gate, the gate that faces toward the east.

nkjv@Ezekiel:43:2 @ And behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east. His voice was like the sound of many wat ers; and the earth shone with His glory.

nkjv@Ezekiel:43:3 @ It was like the appearance of the vision which I saw--like the vision which I saw when I came to destroy the city. The visions w ere like the vision which I saw by the Riv er Chebar; and I fell on my face.

nkjv@Ezekiel:43:5 @ The Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inn er court; and behold, the glory of the LORD filled the temple.

nkjv@Ezekiel:43:7 @ And He said to me, "Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place of the soles of My feet, wh ere I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forev er. No more shall the house of Israel defile My holy name, they nor their kings, by their harlotry or with the carcasses of their kings on their high places.

nkjv@Ezekiel:43:8 @ When they set their threshold by My threshold, and their doorpost by My doorpost, with a wall between them and Me, they defiled My holy name by the abominations which they committed; th erefore I have consumed them in My ang er.

nkjv@Ezekiel:43:9 @ Now let them put their harlotry and the carcasses of their kings far away from Me, and I will dwell in their midst forev er.

nkjv@Ezekiel:43:10 @ "Son of man, describe the temple to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the patt ern.

nkjv@Ezekiel:43:11 @ And if they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the design of the temple and its arrangement, its exits and its entrances, its entire design and all its ordinances, all its forms and all its laws. Write it down in their sight, so that they may keep its whole design and all its ordinances, and p erform them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:43:14 @ from the base on the ground to the low er ledge, two cubits; the width of the ledge, one cubit; from the small er ledge to the larg er ledge, four cubits; and the width of the ledge, one cubit.

nkjv@Ezekiel:43:16 @ The altar hearth is twelve cubits long, twelve wide, square at its four corn ers;

nkjv@Ezekiel:43:18 @ And He said to me, "Son of man, thus says the Lord GOD: "These are the ordinances for the altar on the day when it is made, for sacrificing burnt off erings on it, and for sprinkling blood on it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:43:19 @ You shall give a young bull for a sin off ering to the priests, the Levites, who are of the seed of Zadok, who approach Me to minist er to Me,' says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:43:20 @ You shall take some of its blood and put it on the four horns of the altar, on the four corn ers of the ledge, and on the rim around it; thus you shall cleanse it and make atonement for it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:43:21 @ Then you shall also take the bull of the sin off ering, and burn it in the appointed place of the temple, outside the sanctuary.

nkjv@Ezekiel:43:22 @ On the second day you shall off er a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin off ering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they cleansed it with the bull.

nkjv@Ezekiel:43:23 @ When you have finished cleansing it, you shall off er a young bull without blemish, and a ram from the flock without blemish.

nkjv@Ezekiel:43:24 @ When you off er them before the LORD, the priests shall throw salt on them, and they will off er them up as a burnt off ering to the LORD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:43:25 @ Ev ery day for seven days you shall prepare a goat for a sin off ering; they shall also prepare a young bull and a ram from the flock, both without blemish.

nkjv@Ezekiel:43:27 @ When these days are ov er it shall be, on the eighth day and th ereaft er, that the priests shall off er your burnt off erings and your peace off erings on the altar; and I will accept you,' says the Lord GOD."

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:1 @ Then He brought me back to the out er gate of the sanctuary which faces toward the east, but it was shut.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:2 @ And the LORD said to me, "This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened, and no man shall ent er by it, because the LORD God of Israel has ent ered by it; th erefore it shall be shut.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:3 @ As for the prince, because he is the prince, he may sit in it to eat bread before the LORD; he shall ent er by way of the vestibule of the gateway, and go out the same way."

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:5 @ And the LORD said to me, "Son of man, mark well, see with your eyes and hear with your ears, all that I say to you conc erning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD and all its laws. Mark well who may ent er the house and all who go out from the sanctuary.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:7 @ When you brought in foreign ers, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in My sanctuary to defile it--My house--and when you off ered My food, the fat and the blood, then they broke My covenant because of all your abominations.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:8 @ And you have not kept charge of My holy things, but you have set oth ers to keep charge of My sanctuary for you."

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:9 @ Thus says the Lord GOD: "No foreign er, uncircumcised in heart or uncircumcised in flesh, shall ent er My sanctuary, including any foreign er who is among the children of Israel.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:10 @ "And the Levites who went far from Me, when Israel went astray, who strayed away from Me aft er their idols, they shall bear their iniquity.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:11 @ Yet they shall be minist ers in My sanctuary, as gatekeep ers of the house and minist ers of the house; they shall slay the burnt off ering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minist er to them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:12 @ Because they minist ered to them before their idols and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity, th erefore I have raised My hand in an oath against them," says the Lord GOD, "that they shall bear their iniquity.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:13 @ And they shall not come near Me to minist er to Me as priest, nor come near any of My holy things, nor into the Most Holy Place; but they shall bear their shame and their abominations which they have committed.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:14 @ Nev ertheless I will make them keep charge of the temple, for all its work, and for all that has to be done in it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:15 @ "But the priests, the Levites, the sons of Zadok, who kept charge of My sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from Me, they shall come near Me to minist er to Me; and they shall stand before Me to off er to Me the fat and the blood," says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:16 @ "They shall ent er My sanctuary, and they shall come near My table to minist er to Me, and they shall keep My charge.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:17 @ And it shall be, whenev er they ent er the gates of the inn er court, that they shall put on linen garments; no wool shall come upon them while they minist er within the gates of the inn er court or within the house.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:18 @ They shall have linen turbans on their heads and linen trous ers on their bodies; they shall not clothe themselves with anything that causes sweat.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:19 @ When they go out to the out er court, to the out er court to the people, they shall take off their garments in which they have minist ered, leave them in the holy chamb ers, and put on oth er garments; and in their holy garments they shall not sanctify the people.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:20 @ "They shall neith er shave their heads, nor let their hair grow long, but they shall keep their hair well trimmed.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:21 @ No priest shall drink wine when he ent ers the inn er court.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:23 @ "And they shall teach My people the diff erence between the holy and the unholy, and cause them to disc ern between the unclean and the clean.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:24 @ In controv ersy they shall stand as judges, and judge it according to My judgments. They shall keep My laws and My statutes in all My appointed meetings, and they shall hallow My Sabbaths.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:25 @ "They shall not defile themselves by coming near a dead p erson. Only for fath er or moth er, for son or daught er, for broth er or unmarried sist er may they defile themselves.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:26 @ Aft er he is cleansed, they shall count seven days for him.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:27 @ And on the day that he goes to the sanctuary to minist er in the sanctuary, he must off er his sin off ering in the inn er court," says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:28 @ "It shall be, in regard to their inh eritance, that I am their inh eritance. You shall give them no possession in Israel, for I am their possession.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:29 @ They shall eat the grain off ering, the sin off ering, and the trespass off ering; ev ery dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:30 @ The best of all firstfruits of any kind, and ev ery sacrifice of any kind from all your sacrifices, shall be the priest's; also you shall give to the priest the first of your ground meal, to cause a blessing to rest on your house.

nkjv@Ezekiel:45:1 @ "Moreov er, when you divide the land by lot into inh eritance, you shall set apart a district for the LORD, a holy section of the land; its length shall be twenty-five thousand cubits, and the width ten thousand. It shall be holy throughout its t erritory all around.

nkjv@Ezekiel:45:2 @ Of this th ere shall be a square plot for the sanctuary, five hundred by five hundred rods, with fifty cubits around it for an open space.

nkjv@Ezekiel:45:4 @ It shall be a holy section of the land, belonging to the priests, the minist ers of the sanctuary, who come near to minist er to the LORD; it shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.

nkjv@Ezekiel:45:5 @ An area twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand wide shall belong to the Levites, the minist ers of the temple; they shall have twenty chamb ers as a possession.

nkjv@Ezekiel:45:6 @ "You shall appoint as the prop erty of the city an area five thousand cubits wide and twenty-five thousand long, adjacent to the district of the holy section; it shall belong to the whole house of Israel.

nkjv@Ezekiel:45:7 @ "The prince shall have a section on one side and the oth er of the holy district and the city's prop erty; and bord ering on the holy district and the city's prop erty, extending westward on the west side and eastward on the east side, the length shall be side by side with one of the tribal portions, from the west bord er to the east bord er.

nkjv@Ezekiel:45:9 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: "Enough, O princes of Israel! Remove violence and plund ering, execute justice and righteousness, and stop dispossessing My people," says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:45:11 @ The ephah and the bath shall be of the same measure, so that the bath contains one-tenth of a hom er, and the ephah one-tenth of a hom er; their measure shall be according to the hom er.

nkjv@Ezekiel:45:12 @ The shekel shall be twenty g erahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall be your mina.

nkjv@Ezekiel:45:13 @ "This is the off ering which you shall off er: you shall give one-sixth of an ephah from a hom er of wheat, and one-sixth of an ephah from a hom er of barley.

nkjv@Ezekiel:45:14 @ The ordinance conc erning oil, the bath of oil, is one-tenth of a bath from a kor. A kor is a hom er or ten baths, for ten baths are a hom er.

nkjv@Ezekiel:45:15 @ And one lamb shall be given from a flock of two hundred, from the rich pastures of Israel. These shall be for grain off erings, burnt off erings, and peace off erings, to make atonement for them," says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:45:16 @ "All the people of the land shall give this off ering for the prince in Israel.

nkjv@Ezekiel:45:17 @ Then it shall be the prince's part to give burnt off erings, grain off erings, and drink off erings, at the feasts, the New Moons, the Sabbaths, and at all the appointed seasons of the house of Israel. He shall prepare the sin off ering, the grain off ering, the burnt off ering, and the peace off erings to make atonement for the house of Israel."

nkjv@Ezekiel:45:19 @ The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin off ering and put it on the doorposts of the temple, on the four corn ers of the ledge of the altar, and on the gateposts of the gate of the inn er court.

nkjv@Ezekiel:45:20 @ And so you shall do on the seventh day of the month for ev eryone who has sinned unintentionally or in ignorance. Thus you shall make atonement for the temple.

nkjv@Ezekiel:45:21 @ "In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall obs erve the Passov er, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.

nkjv@Ezekiel:45:22 @ And on that day the prince shall prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bull for a sin off ering.

nkjv@Ezekiel:45:23 @ On the seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt off ering to the LORD, seven bulls and seven rams without blemish, daily for seven days, and a kid of the goats daily for a sin off ering.

nkjv@Ezekiel:45:24 @ And he shall prepare a grain off ering of one ephah for each bull and one ephah for each ram, togeth er with a hin of oil for each ephah.

nkjv@Ezekiel:45:25 @ "In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, at the feast, he shall do likewise for seven days, according to the sin off ering, the burnt off ering, the grain off ering, and the oil."

nkjv@Ezekiel:46:1 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: "The gateway of the inn er court that faces toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the Sabbath it shall be opened, and on the day of the New Moon it shall be opened.

nkjv@Ezekiel:46:2 @ The prince shall ent er by way of the vestibule of the gateway from the outside, and stand by the gatepost. The priests shall prepare his burnt off ering and his peace off erings. He shall worship at the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out, but the gate shall not be shut until evening.

nkjv@Ezekiel:46:4 @ The burnt off ering that the prince off ers to the LORD on the Sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish;

nkjv@Ezekiel:46:5 @ and the grain off ering shall be one ephah for a ram, and the grain off ering for the lambs, as much as he wants to give, as well as a hin of oil with ev ery ephah.

nkjv@Ezekiel:46:7 @ He shall prepare a grain off ering of an ephah for a bull, an ephah for a ram, as much as he wants to give for the lambs, and a hin of oil with ev ery ephah.

nkjv@Ezekiel:46:8 @ When the prince ent ers, he shall go in by way of the vestibule of the gateway, and go out the same way.

nkjv@Ezekiel:46:9 @ "But when the people of the land come before the LORD on the appointed feast days, whoev er ent ers by way of the north gate to worship shall go out by way of the south gate; and whoev er ent ers by way of the south gate shall go out by way of the north gate. He shall not return by way of the gate through which he came, but shall go out through the opposite gate.

nkjv@Ezekiel:46:11 @ At the festivals and the appointed feast days the grain off ering shall be an ephah for a bull, an ephah for a ram, as much as he wants to give for the lambs, and a hin of oil with ev ery ephah.

nkjv@Ezekiel:46:12 @ "Now when the prince makes a voluntary burnt off ering or voluntary peace off ering to the LORD, the gate that faces toward the east shall then be opened for him; and he shall prepare his burnt off ering and his peace off erings as he did on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and aft er he goes out the gate shall be shut.

nkjv@Ezekiel:46:13 @ "You shall daily make a burnt off ering to the LORD of a lamb of the first year without blemish; you shall prepare it ev ery morning.

nkjv@Ezekiel:46:14 @ And you shall prepare a grain off ering with it ev ery morning, a sixth of an ephah, and a third of a hin of oil to moisten the fine flour. This grain off ering is a p erpetual ordinance, to be made regularly to the LORD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:46:15 @ Thus they shall prepare the lamb, the grain off ering, and the oil, as a regular burnt off ering ev ery morning."

nkjv@Ezekiel:46:16 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: "If the prince gives a gift of some of his inh eritance to any of his sons, it shall belong to his sons; it is their possession by inh eritance.

nkjv@Ezekiel:46:17 @ But if he gives a gift of some of his inh eritance to one of his s ervants, it shall be his until the year of lib erty, aft er which it shall return to the prince. But his inh eritance shall belong to his sons; it shall become theirs.

nkjv@Ezekiel:46:18 @ Moreov er the prince shall not take any of the people's inh eritance by evicting them from their prop erty; he shall provide an inh eritance for his sons from his own prop erty, so that none of My people may be scatt ered from his prop erty.""'

nkjv@Ezekiel:46:19 @ Now he brought me through the entrance, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chamb ers of the priests which face toward the north; and th ere a place was situated at their extreme west ern end.

nkjv@Ezekiel:46:20 @ And he said to me, "This is the place wh ere the priests shall boil the trespass off ering and the sin off ering, and wh ere they shall bake the grain off ering, so that they do not bring them out into the out er court to sanctify the people."

nkjv@Ezekiel:46:21 @ Then he brought me out into the out er court and caused me to pass by the four corn ers of the court; and in fact, in ev ery corn er of the court th ere was anoth er court.

nkjv@Ezekiel:46:22 @ In the four corn ers of the court w ere enclosed courts, forty cubits long and thirty wide; all four corn ers w ere the same size.

nkjv@Ezekiel:46:23 @ Th ere was a row of building stones all around in them, all around the four of them; and cooking hearths w ere made und er the rows of stones all around.

nkjv@Ezekiel:46:24 @ And he said to me, "These are the kitchens wh ere the minist ers of the temple shall boil the sacrifices of the people."

nkjv@Ezekiel:47:1 @ Then he brought me back to the door of the temple; and th ere was wat er, flowing from und er the threshold of the temple toward the east, for the front of the temple faced east; the wat er was flowing from und er the right side of the temple, south of the altar.

nkjv@Ezekiel:47:2 @ He brought me out by way of the north gate, and led me around on the outside to the out er gateway that faces east; and th ere was wat er, running out on the right side.

nkjv@Ezekiel:47:3 @ And when the man went out to the east with the line in his hand, he measured one thousand cubits, and he brought me through the wat ers; the wat er came up to my ankles.

nkjv@Ezekiel:47:4 @ Again he measured one thousand and brought me through the wat ers; the wat er came up to my knees. Again he measured one thousand and brought me through; the wat er came up to my waist.

nkjv@Ezekiel:47:5 @ Again he measured one thousand, and it was a riv er that I could not cross; for the wat er was too deep, wat er in which one must swim, a riv er that could not be crossed.

nkjv@Ezekiel:47:6 @ He said to me, "Son of man, have you seen this?" Then he brought me and returned me to the bank of the riv er.

nkjv@Ezekiel:47:7 @ When I returned, th ere, along the bank of the riv er, w ere v ery many trees on one side and the oth er.

nkjv@Ezekiel:47:8 @ Then he said to me: "This wat er flows toward the east ern region, goes down into the valley, and ent ers the sea. When it reaches the sea, its wat ers are healed.

nkjv@Ezekiel:47:9 @ And it shall be that ev ery living thing that moves, wh erev er the riv ers go, will live. Th ere will be a v ery great multitude of fish, because these wat ers go th ere; for they will be healed, and ev erything will live wh erev er the riv er goes.

nkjv@Ezekiel:47:10 @ It shall be that fish ermen will stand by it from En Gedi to En Eglaim; they will be places for spreading their nets. Their fish will be of the same kinds as the fish of the Great Sea, exceedingly many.

nkjv@Ezekiel:47:11 @ But its swamps and marshes will not be healed; they will be given ov er to salt.

nkjv@Ezekiel:47:12 @ Along the bank of the riv er, on this side and that, will grow all kinds of trees used for food; their leaves will not with er, and their fruit will not fail. They will bear fruit ev ery month, because their wat er flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for medicine."

nkjv@Ezekiel:47:13 @ Thus says the Lord GOD: "These are the bord ers by which you shall divide the land as an inh eritance among the twelve tribes of Israel. Joseph shall have two portions.

nkjv@Ezekiel:47:14 @ You shall inh erit it equally with one anoth er; for I raised My hand in an oath to give it to your fath ers, and this land shall fall to you as your inh eritance.

nkjv@Ezekiel:47:15 @ "This shall be the bord er of the land on the north: from the Great Sea, by the road to Hethlon, as one goes to Zedad,

nkjv@Ezekiel:47:16 @ Hamath, B erothah, Sibraim (which is between the bord er of Damascus and the bord er of Hamath), to Hazar Hatticon (which is on the bord er of Hauran).

nkjv@Ezekiel:47:17 @ Thus the boundary shall be from the Sea to Hazar Enan, the bord er of Damascus; and as for the north, northward, it is the bord er of Hamath. This is the north side.

nkjv@Ezekiel:47:18 @ "On the east side you shall mark out the bord er from between Hauran and Damascus, and between Gilead and the land of Israel, along the Jordan, and along the east ern side of the sea. This is the east side.

nkjv@Ezekiel:47:19 @ "The south side, toward the South, shall be from Tamar to the wat ers of M eribah by Kadesh, along the brook to the Great Sea. This is the south side, toward the South.

nkjv@Ezekiel:47:20 @ "The west side shall be the Great Sea, from the south ern boundary until one comes to a point opposite Hamath. This is the west side.

nkjv@Ezekiel:47:22 @ It shall be that you will divide it by lot as an inh eritance for yourselves, and for the strang ers who dwell among you and who bear children among you. They shall be to you as native-born among the children of Israel; they shall have an inh eritance with you among the tribes of Israel.

nkjv@Ezekiel:47:23 @ And it shall be that in whatev er tribe the strang er dwells, th ere you shall give him his inh eritance," says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:1 @ "Now these are the names of the tribes: From the north ern bord er along the road to Hethlon at the entrance of Hamath, to Hazar Enan, the bord er of Damascus northward, in the direction of Hamath, th ere shall be one section for Dan from its east to its west side;

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:2 @ by the bord er of Dan, from the east side to the west, one section for Ash er;

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:3 @ by the bord er of Ash er, from the east side to the west, one section for Naphtali;

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:4 @ by the bord er of Naphtali, from the east side to the west, one section for Manasseh;

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:5 @ by the bord er of Manasseh, from the east side to the west, one section for Ephraim;

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:6 @ by the bord er of Ephraim, from the east side to the west, one section for Reuben;

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:7 @ by the bord er of Reuben, from the east side to the west, one section for Judah;

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:8 @ by the bord er of Judah, from the east side to the west, shall be the district which you shall set apart, twenty-five thousand cubits in width, and in length the same as one of the oth er portions, from the east side to the west, with the sanctuary in the cent er.

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:10 @ To these--to the priests--the holy district shall belong: on the north twenty-five thousand cubits in length, on the west ten thousand in width, on the east ten thousand in width, and on the south twenty-five thousand in length. The sanctuary of the LORD shall be in the cent er.

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:12 @ And this district of land that is set apart shall be to them a thing most holy by the bord er of the Levites.

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:13 @ "Opposite the bord er of the priests, the Levites shall have an area twenty-five thousand cubits in length and ten thousand in width; its entire length shall be twenty-five thousand and its width ten thousand.

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:15 @ "The five thousand cubits in width that remain, along the edge of the twenty-five thousand, shall be for gen eral use by the city, for dwellings and common-land; and the city shall be in the cent er.

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:18 @ The rest of the length, alongside the district of the holy section, shall be ten thousand cubits to the east and ten thousand to the west. It shall be adjacent to the district of the holy section, and its produce shall be food for the work ers of the city.

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:19 @ The work ers of the city, from all the tribes of Israel, shall cultivate it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:20 @ The entire district shall be twenty-five thousand cubits by twenty-five thousand cubits, foursquare. You shall set apart the holy district with the prop erty of the city.

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:21 @ "The rest shall belong to the prince, on one side and on the oth er of the holy district and of the city's prop erty, next to the twenty-five thousand cubits of the holy district as far as the east ern bord er, and westward next to the twenty-five thousand as far as the west ern bord er, adjacent to the tribal portions; it shall belong to the prince. It shall be the holy district, and the sanctuary of the temple shall be in the cent er.

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:22 @ Moreov er, apart from the possession of the Levites and the possession of the city which are in the midst of what belongs to the prince, the area between the bord er of Judah and the bord er of Benjamin shall belong to the prince.

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:24 @ by the bord er of Benjamin, from the east side to the west, Simeon shall have one section;

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:25 @ by the bord er of Simeon, from the east side to the west, Issachar shall have one section;

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:26 @ by the bord er of Issachar, from the east side to the west, Zebulun shall have one section;

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:27 @ by the bord er of Zebulun, from the east side to the west, Gad shall have one section;

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:28 @ by the bord er of Gad, on the south side, toward the South, the bord er shall be from Tamar to the wat ers of M eribah by Kadesh, along the brook to the Great Sea.

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:29 @ This is the land which you shall divide by lot as an inh eritance among the tribes of Israel, and these are their portions," says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:31 @ (the gates of the city shall be named aft er the tribes of Israel), the three gates northward: one gate for Reuben, one gate for Judah, and one gate for Levi;

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:34 @ on the west side, four thousand five hundred cubits with their three gates: one gate for Gad, one gate for Ash er, and one gate for Naphtali.

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:35 @ All the way around shall be eighteen thousand cubits; and the name of the city from that day shall be: THE LORD IS TH ERE."

nkjv@Daniel:1:1 @ In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to J erusalem and besieged it.

nkjv@Daniel:1:3 @ Then the king instructed Ashpenaz, the mast er of his eunuchs, to bring some of the children of Israel and some of the king's descendants and some of the nobles,

nkjv@Daniel:1:4 @ young men in whom th ere was no blemish, but good-looking, gifted in all wisdom, possessing knowledge and quick to und erstand, who had ability to s erve in the king's palace, and whom they might teach the language and lit erature of the Chaldeans.

nkjv@Daniel:1:5 @ And the king appointed for them a daily provision of the king's delicacies and of the wine which he drank, and three years of training for them, so that at the end of that time they might s erve before the king.

nkjv@Daniel:1:6 @ Now from among those of the sons of Judah w ere Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

nkjv@Daniel:1:8 @ But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's delicacies, nor with the wine which he drank; th erefore he requested of the chief of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

nkjv@Daniel:1:10 @ And the chief of the eunuchs said to Daniel, "I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your food and drink. For why should he see your faces looking worse than the young men who are your age? Then you would endang er my head before the king."

nkjv@Daniel:1:11 @ So Daniel said to the steward whom the chief of the eunuchs had set ov er Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,

nkjv@Daniel:1:12 @ "Please test your s ervants for ten days, and let them give us vegetables to eat and wat er to drink.

nkjv@Daniel:1:13 @ Then let our appearance be examined before you, and the appearance of the young men who eat the portion of the king's delicacies; and as you see fit, so deal with your s ervants."

nkjv@Daniel:1:14 @ So he consented with them in this matt er, and tested them ten days.

nkjv@Daniel:1:15 @ And at the end of ten days their features appeared bett er and fatt er in flesh than all the young men who ate the portion of the king's delicacies.

nkjv@Daniel:1:16 @ Thus the steward took away their portion of delicacies and the wine that they w ere to drink, and gave them vegetables.

nkjv@Daniel:1:17 @ As for these four young men, God gave them knowledge and skill in all lit erature and wisdom; and Daniel had und erstanding in all visions and dreams.

nkjv@Daniel:1:19 @ Then the king int erviewed them, and among them all none was found like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah; th erefore they s erved before the king.

nkjv@Daniel:1:20 @ And in all matt ers of wisdom and und erstanding about which the king examined them, he found them ten times bett er than all the magicians and astrolog ers who w ere in all his realm.

nkjv@Daniel:2:2 @ Then the king gave the command to call the magicians, the astrolog ers, the sorc er ers, and the Chaldeans to tell the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king.

nkjv@Daniel:2:4 @ Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in Aramaic, "O king, live forev er! Tell your s ervants the dream, and we will give the int erpretation."

nkjv@Daniel:2:5 @ The king answ ered and said to the Chaldeans, "My decision is firm: if you do not make known the dream to me, and its int erpretation, you shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made an ash heap.

nkjv@Daniel:2:6 @ Howev er, if you tell the dream and its int erpretation, you shall receive from me gifts, rewards, and great honor. Th erefore tell me the dream and its int erpretation."

nkjv@Daniel:2:7 @ They answ ered again and said, "Let the king tell his s ervants the dream, and we will give its int erpretation."

nkjv@Daniel:2:8 @ The king answ ered and said, "I know for c ertain that you would gain time, because you see that my decision is firm:

nkjv@Daniel:2:9 @ if you do not make known the dream to me, th ere is only one decree for you! For you have agreed to speak lying and corrupt words before me till the time has changed. Th erefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that you can give me its int erpretation."

nkjv@Daniel:2:10 @ The Chaldeans answ ered the king, and said, "Th ere is not a man on earth who can tell the king's matt er; th erefore no king, lord, or rul er has ev er asked such things of any magician, astrolog er, or Chaldean.

nkjv@Daniel:2:11 @ It is a difficult thing that the king requests, and th ere is no oth er who can tell it to the king except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh."

nkjv@Daniel:2:12 @ For this reason the king was angry and v ery furious, and gave the command to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.

nkjv@Daniel:2:14 @ Then with counsel and wisdom Daniel answ ered Arioch, the captain of the king's guard, who had gone out to kill the wise men of Babylon;

nkjv@Daniel:2:15 @ he answ ered and said to Arioch the king's captain, "Why is the decree from the king so urgent?" Then Arioch made the decision known to Daniel.

nkjv@Daniel:2:16 @ So Daniel went in and asked the king to give him time, that he might tell the king the int erpretation.

nkjv@Daniel:2:18 @ that they might seek m ercies from the God of heaven conc erning this secret, so that Daniel and his companions might not p erish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

nkjv@Daniel:2:20 @ Daniel answ ered and said: "Blessed be the name of God forev er and ev er, For wisdom and might are His.

nkjv@Daniel:2:21 @ And He changes the times and the seasons; He removes kings and raises up kings; He gives wisdom to the wise And knowledge to those who have und erstanding.

nkjv@Daniel:2:23 @ "I thank You and praise You, O God of my fath ers; You have given me wisdom and might, And have now made known to me what we asked of You, For You have made known to us the king's demand."

nkjv@Daniel:2:24 @ Th erefore Daniel went to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon. He went and said thus to him: "Do not destroy the wise men of Babylon; take me before the king, and I will tell the king the int erpretation."

nkjv@Daniel:2:25 @ Then Arioch quickly brought Daniel before the king, and said thus to him, "I have found a man of the captives of Judah, who will make known to the king the int erpretation."

nkjv@Daniel:2:26 @ The king answ ered and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, "Are you able to make known to me the dream which I have seen, and its int erpretation?"

nkjv@Daniel:2:27 @ Daniel answ ered in the presence of the king, and said, "The secret which the king has demanded, the wise men, the astrolog ers, the magicians, and the soothsay ers cannot declare to the king.

nkjv@Daniel:2:28 @ But th ere is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and He has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latt er days. Your dream, and the visions of your head upon your bed, w ere these:

nkjv@Daniel:2:29 @ As for you, O king, thoughts came to your mind while on your bed, about what would come to pass aft er this; and He who reveals secrets has made known to you what will be.

nkjv@Daniel:2:30 @ But as for me, this secret has not been revealed to me because I have more wisdom than anyone living, but for our sakes who make known the int erpretation to the king, and that you may know the thoughts of your heart.

nkjv@Daniel:2:31 @ "You, O king, w ere watching; and behold, a great image! This great image, whose splendor was excellent, stood before you; and its form was awesome.

nkjv@Daniel:2:32 @ This image's head was of fine gold, its chest and arms of silv er, its belly and thighs of bronze,

nkjv@Daniel:2:35 @ Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silv er, and the gold w ere crushed togeth er, and became like chaff from the summ er threshing floors; the wind carried them away so that no trace of them was found. And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

nkjv@Daniel:2:36 @ "This is the dream. Now we will tell the int erpretation of it before the king.

nkjv@Daniel:2:37 @ You, O king, are a king of kings. For the God of heaven has given you a kingdom, pow er, strength, and glory;

nkjv@Daniel:2:38 @ and wh erev er the children of men dwell, or the beasts of the field and the birds of the heaven, He has given them into your hand, and has made you rul er ov er them all--you are this head of gold.

nkjv@Daniel:2:39 @ But aft er you shall arise anoth er kingdom inf erior to yours; then anoth er, a third kingdom of bronze, which shall rule ov er all the earth.

nkjv@Daniel:2:40 @ And the fourth kingdom shall be as strong as iron, inasmuch as iron breaks in pieces and shatt ers ev erything; and like iron that crushes, that kingdom will break in pieces and crush all the oth ers.

nkjv@Daniel:2:41 @ Wh ereas you saw the feet and toes, partly of pott er's clay and partly of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; yet the strength of the iron shall be in it, just as you saw the iron mixed with c eramic clay.

nkjv@Daniel:2:42 @ And as the toes of the feet w ere partly of iron and partly of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly fragile.

nkjv@Daniel:2:43 @ As you saw iron mixed with c eramic clay, they will mingle with the seed of men; but they will not adh ere to one anoth er, just as iron does not mix with clay.

nkjv@Daniel:2:44 @ And in the days of these kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall nev er be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to oth er people; it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forev er.

nkjv@Daniel:2:45 @ Inasmuch as you saw that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silv er, and the gold--the great God has made known to the king what will come to pass aft er this. The dream is c ertain, and its int erpretation is sure."

nkjv@Daniel:2:46 @ Then King Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face, prostrate before Daniel, and commanded that they should present an off ering and incense to him.

nkjv@Daniel:2:47 @ The king answ ered Daniel, and said, "Truly your God is the God of gods, the Lord of kings, and a reveal er of secrets, since you could reveal this secret."

nkjv@Daniel:2:48 @ Then the king promoted Daniel and gave him many great gifts; and he made him rul er ov er the whole province of Babylon, and chief administrator ov er all the wise men of Babylon.

nkjv@Daniel:2:49 @ Also Daniel petitioned the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego ov er the affairs of the province of Babylon; but Daniel sat in the gate of the king.

nkjv@Daniel:3:2 @ And King Nebuchadnezzar sent word to gath er togeth er the satraps, the administrators, the gov ernors, the counselors, the treasur ers, the judges, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

nkjv@Daniel:3:3 @ So the satraps, the administrators, the gov ernors, the counselors, the treasur ers, the judges, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces gath ered togeth er for the dedication of the image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

nkjv@Daniel:3:4 @ Then a h erald cried aloud: "To you it is commanded, O peoples, nations, and languages,

nkjv@Daniel:3:5 @ that at the time you hear the sound of the horn, flute, harp, lyre, and psalt ery, in symphony with all kinds of music, you shall fall down and worship the gold image that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up;

nkjv@Daniel:3:6 @ and whoev er does not fall down and worship shall be cast immediately into the midst of a burning fi ery furnace."

nkjv@Daniel:3:8 @ Th erefore at that time c ertain Chaldeans came forward and accused the Jews.

nkjv@Daniel:3:9 @ They spoke and said to King Nebuchadnezzar, "O king, live forev er!

nkjv@Daniel:3:10 @ You, O king, have made a decree that ev eryone who hears the sound of the horn, flute, harp, lyre, and psalt ery, in symphony with all kinds of music, shall fall down and worship the gold image;

nkjv@Daniel:3:11 @ and whoev er does not fall down and worship shall be cast into the midst of a burning fi ery furnace.

nkjv@Daniel:3:12 @ Th ere are c ertain Jews whom you have set ov er the affairs of the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego; these men, O king, have not paid due regard to you. They do not s erve your gods or worship the gold image which you have set up."

nkjv@Daniel:3:14 @ Nebuchadnezzar spoke, saying to them, "Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, that you do not s erve my gods or worship the gold image which I have set up?

nkjv@Daniel:3:15 @ Now if you are ready at the time you hear the sound of the horn, flute, harp, lyre, and psalt ery, in symphony with all kinds of music, and you fall down and worship the image which I have made, good! But if you do not worship, you shall be cast immediately into the midst of a burning fi ery furnace. And who is the god who will deliv er you from my hands?"

nkjv@Daniel:3:16 @ Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego answ ered and said to the king, "O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answ er you in this matt er.

nkjv@Daniel:3:17 @ If that is the case, our God whom we s erve is able to deliv er us from the burning fi ery furnace, and He will deliv er us from your hand, O king.

nkjv@Daniel:3:18 @ But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we do not s erve your gods, nor will we worship the gold image which you have set up."

nkjv@Daniel:3:20 @ And he commanded c ertain mighty men of valor who w ere in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, and cast them into the burning fi ery furnace.

nkjv@Daniel:3:21 @ Then these men w ere bound in their coats, their trous ers, their turbans, and their oth er garments, and w ere cast into the midst of the burning fi ery furnace.

nkjv@Daniel:3:22 @ Th erefore, because the king's command was urgent, and the furnace exceedingly hot, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego.

nkjv@Daniel:3:23 @ And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fi ery furnace.

nkjv@Daniel:3:24 @ Then King Nebuchadnezzar was astonished; and he rose in haste and spoke, saying to his counselors, "Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire?" They answ ered and said to the king, "True, O king."

nkjv@Daniel:3:25 @ "Look!" he answ ered, "I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire; and they are not hurt, and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God."

nkjv@Daniel:3:26 @ Then Nebuchadnezzar went near the mouth of the burning fi ery furnace and spoke, saying, "Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, s ervants of the Most High God, come out, and come h ere." Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego came from the midst of the fire.

nkjv@Daniel:3:27 @ And the satraps, administrators, gov ernors, and the king's counselors gath ered togeth er, and they saw these men on whose bodies the fire had no pow er; the hair of their head was not singed nor w ere their garments affected, and the smell of fire was not on them.

nkjv@Daniel:3:28 @ Nebuchadnezzar spoke, saying, "Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, who sent His Angel and deliv ered His s ervants who trusted in Him, and they have frustrated the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they should not s erve nor worship any god except their own God!

nkjv@Daniel:3:29 @ Th erefore I make a decree that any people, nation, or language which speaks anything amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made an ash heap; because th ere is no oth er God who can deliv er like this."

nkjv@Daniel:4:2 @ I thought it good to declare the signs and wond ers that the Most High God has worked for me.

nkjv@Daniel:4:3 @ How great are His signs, And how mighty His wond ers! His kingdom is an ev erlasting kingdom, And His dominion is from gen eration to gen eration.

nkjv@Daniel:4:6 @ Th erefore I issued a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known to me the int erpretation of the dream.

nkjv@Daniel:4:7 @ Then the magicians, the astrolog ers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsay ers came in, and I told them the dream; but they did not make known to me its int erpretation.

nkjv@Daniel:4:9 @ "Belteshazzar, chief of the magicians, because I know that the Spirit of the Holy God is in you, and no secret troubles you, explain to me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and its int erpretation.

nkjv@Daniel:4:10 @ "These w ere the visions of my head while on my bed: I was looking, and behold, A tree in the midst of the earth, And its height was great.

nkjv@Daniel:4:12 @ Its leaves w ere lovely, Its fruit abundant, And in it was food for all. The beasts of the field found shade und er it, The birds of the heavens dwelt in its branches, And all flesh was fed from it.

nkjv@Daniel:4:13 @ "I saw in the visions of my head while on my bed, and th ere was a watch er, a holy one, coming down from heaven.

nkjv@Daniel:4:14 @ He cried aloud and said thus: "Chop down the tree and cut off its branches, Strip off its leaves and scatt er its fruit. Let the beasts get out from und er it, And the birds from its branches.

nkjv@Daniel:4:15 @ Nev ertheless leave the stump and roots in the earth, Bound with a band of iron and bronze, In the tend er grass of the field. Let it be wet with the dew of heaven, And let him graze with the beasts On the grass of the earth.

nkjv@Daniel:4:16 @ Let his heart be changed from that of a man, Let him be given the heart of a beast, And let seven times pass ov er him.

nkjv@Daniel:4:17 @ "This decision is by the decree of the watch ers, And the sentence by the word of the holy ones, In ord er that the living may know That the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, Gives it to whomev er He will, And sets ov er it the lowest of men.'

nkjv@Daniel:4:18 @ "This dream I, King Nebuchadnezzar, have seen. Now you, Belteshazzar, declare its int erpretation, since all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known to me the int erpretation; but you are able, for the Spirit of the Holy God is in you."

nkjv@Daniel:4:19 @ Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was astonished for a time, and his thoughts troubled him. So the king spoke, and said, "Belteshazzar, do not let the dream or its int erpretation trouble you." Belteshazzar answ ered and said, "My lord, may the dream conc ern those who hate you, and its int erpretation conc ern your enemies!

nkjv@Daniel:4:21 @ whose leaves w ere lovely and its fruit abundant, in which was food for all, und er which the beasts of the field dwelt, and in whose branches the birds of the heaven had their home--

nkjv@Daniel:4:23 @ "And inasmuch as the king saw a watch er, a holy one, coming down from heaven and saying, "Chop down the tree and destroy it, but leave its stump and roots in the earth, bound with a band of iron and bronze in the tend er grass of the field; let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let him graze with the beasts of the field, till seven times pass ov er him';

nkjv@Daniel:4:24 @ this is the int erpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the Most High, which has come upon my lord the king:

nkjv@Daniel:4:25 @ They shall drive you from men, your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make you eat grass like oxen. They shall wet you with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass ov er you, till you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomev er He chooses.

nkjv@Daniel:4:26 @ "And inasmuch as they gave the command to leave the stump and roots of the tree, your kingdom shall be assured to you, aft er you come to know that Heaven rules.

nkjv@Daniel:4:27 @ Th erefore, O king, let my advice be acceptable to you; break off your sins by being righteous, and your iniquities by showing m ercy to the poor. P erhaps th ere may be a lengthening of your prosp erity."

nkjv@Daniel:4:30 @ The king spoke, saying, "Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for a royal dwelling by my mighty pow er and for the honor of my majesty?"

nkjv@Daniel:4:32 @ And they shall drive you from men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. They shall make you eat grass like oxen; and seven times shall pass ov er you, until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomev er He chooses."

nkjv@Daniel:4:33 @ That v ery hour the word was fulfilled conc erning Nebuchadnezzar; he was driven from men and ate grass like oxen; his body was wet with the dew of heaven till his hair had grown like eagles' feath ers and his nails like birds' claws.

nkjv@Daniel:4:34 @ And at the end of the time I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my und erstanding returned to me; and I blessed the Most High and praised and honored Him who lives forev er: For His dominion is an ev erlasting dominion, And His kingdom is from gen eration to gen eration.

nkjv@Daniel:5:2 @ While he tasted the wine, Belshazzar gave the command to bring the gold and silv er vessels which his fath er Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple which had been in J erusalem, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them.

nkjv@Daniel:5:3 @ Then they brought the gold vessels that had been taken from the temple of the house of God which had been in J erusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them.

nkjv@Daniel:5:4 @ They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold and silv er, bronze and iron, wood and stone.

nkjv@Daniel:5:5 @ In the same hour the fing ers of a man's hand appeared and wrote opposite the lampstand on the plast er of the wall of the king's palace; and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

nkjv@Daniel:5:6 @ Then the king's countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his hips w ere loosened and his knees knocked against each oth er.

nkjv@Daniel:5:7 @ The king cried aloud to bring in the astrolog ers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsay ers. The king spoke, saying to the wise men of Babylon, "Whoev er reads this writing, and tells me its int erpretation, shall be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold around his neck; and he shall be the third rul er in the kingdom."

nkjv@Daniel:5:8 @ Now all the king's wise men came, but they could not read the writing, or make known to the king its int erpretation.

nkjv@Daniel:5:9 @ Then King Belshazzar was greatly troubled, his countenance was changed, and his lords w ere astonished.

nkjv@Daniel:5:10 @ The queen, because of the words of the king and his lords, came to the banquet hall. The queen spoke, saying, "O king, live forev er! Do not let your thoughts trouble you, nor let your countenance change.

nkjv@Daniel:5:11 @ Th ere is a man in your kingdom in whom is the Spirit of the Holy God. And in the days of your fath er, light and und erstanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, w ere found in him; and King Nebuchadnezzar your fath er--your fath er the king--made him chief of the magicians, astrolog ers, Chaldeans, and soothsay ers.

nkjv@Daniel:5:12 @ Inasmuch as an excellent spirit, knowledge, und erstanding, int erpreting dreams, solving riddles, and explaining enigmas w ere found in this Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar, now let Daniel be called, and he will give the int erpretation."

nkjv@Daniel:5:13 @ Then Daniel was brought in before the king. The king spoke, and said to Daniel, "Are you that Daniel who is one of the captives from Judah, whom my fath er the king brought from Judah?

nkjv@Daniel:5:14 @ I have heard of you, that the Spirit of God is in you, and that light and und erstanding and excellent wisdom are found in you.

nkjv@Daniel:5:15 @ Now the wise men, the astrolog ers, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing and make known to me its int erpretation, but they could not give the int erpretation of the thing.

nkjv@Daniel:5:16 @ And I have heard of you, that you can give int erpretations and explain enigmas. Now if you can read the writing and make known to me its int erpretation, you shall be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold around your neck, and shall be the third rul er in the kingdom."

nkjv@Daniel:5:17 @ Then Daniel answ ered, and said before the king, "Let your gifts be for yourself, and give your rewards to anoth er; yet I will read the writing to the king, and make known to him the int erpretation.

nkjv@Daniel:5:18 @ O king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your fath er a kingdom and majesty, glory and honor.

nkjv@Daniel:5:19 @ And because of the majesty that He gave him, all peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. Whomev er he wished, he executed; whomev er he wished, he kept alive; whomev er he wished, he set up; and whomev er he wished, he put down.

nkjv@Daniel:5:21 @ Then he was driven from the sons of men, his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. They fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and appoints ov er it whomev er He chooses.

nkjv@Daniel:5:23 @ And you have lifted yourself up against the Lord of heaven. They have brought the vessels of His house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silv er and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, which do not see or hear or know; and the God who holds your breath in His hand and owns all your ways, you have not glorified.

nkjv@Daniel:5:24 @ Then the fing ers of the hand w ere sent from Him, and this writing was written.

nkjv@Daniel:5:26 @ This is the int erpretation of each word. MENE: God has numb ered your kingdom, and finished it;

nkjv@Daniel:5:28 @ P ERES: Your kingdom has been divided, and given to the Medes and P ersians."

nkjv@Daniel:5:29 @ Then Belshazzar gave the command, and they clothed Daniel with purple and put a chain of gold around his neck, and made a proclamation conc erning him that he should be the third rul er in the kingdom.

nkjv@Daniel:5:30 @ That v ery night Belshazzar, king of the Chaldeans, was slain.

nkjv@Daniel:6:1 @ It pleased Darius to set ov er the kingdom one hundred and twenty satraps, to be ov er the whole kingdom;

nkjv@Daniel:6:2 @ and ov er these, three gov ernors, of whom Daniel was one, that the satraps might give account to them, so that the king would suff er no loss.

nkjv@Daniel:6:3 @ Then this Daniel distinguished himself above the gov ernors and satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king gave thought to setting him ov er the whole realm.

nkjv@Daniel:6:4 @ So the gov ernors and satraps sought to find some charge against Daniel conc erning the kingdom; but they could find no charge or fault, because he was faithful; nor was th ere any error or fault found in him.

nkjv@Daniel:6:5 @ Then these men said, "We shall not find any charge against this Daniel unless we find it against him conc erning the law of his God."

nkjv@Daniel:6:6 @ So these gov ernors and satraps thronged before the king, and said thus to him: "King Darius, live forev er!

nkjv@Daniel:6:7 @ All the gov ernors of the kingdom, the administrators and satraps, the counselors and advisors, have consulted togeth er to establish a royal statute and to make a firm decree, that whoev er petitions any god or man for thirty days, except you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions.

nkjv@Daniel:6:8 @ Now, O king, establish the decree and sign the writing, so that it cannot be changed, according to the law of the Medes and P ersians, which does not alt er."

nkjv@Daniel:6:9 @ Th erefore King Darius signed the written decree.

nkjv@Daniel:6:10 @ Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went home. And in his upp er room, with his windows open toward J erusalem, he knelt down on his knees three times that day, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as was his custom since early days.

nkjv@Daniel:6:12 @ And they went before the king, and spoke conc erning the king's decree: "Have you not signed a decree that ev ery man who petitions any god or man within thirty days, except you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions?" The king answ ered and said, "The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and P ersians, which does not alt er."

nkjv@Daniel:6:13 @ So they answ ered and said before the king, "That Daniel, who is one of the captives from Judah, does not show due regard for you, O king, or for the decree that you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day."

nkjv@Daniel:6:14 @ And the king, when he heard these words, was greatly displeased with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliv er him; and he labored till the going down of the sun to deliv er him.

nkjv@Daniel:6:15 @ Then these men approached the king, and said to the king, "Know, O king, that it is the law of the Medes and P ersians that no decree or statute which the king establishes may be changed."

nkjv@Daniel:6:16 @ So the king gave the command, and they brought Daniel and cast him into the den of lions. But the king spoke, saying to Daniel, "Your God, whom you s erve continually, He will deliv er you."

nkjv@Daniel:6:17 @ Then a stone was brought and laid on the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his own signet ring and with the signets of his lords, that the purpose conc erning Daniel might not be changed.

nkjv@Daniel:6:18 @ Now the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting; and no musicians w ere brought before him. Also his sleep went from him.

nkjv@Daniel:6:19 @ Then the king arose v ery early in the morning and went in haste to the den of lions.

nkjv@Daniel:6:20 @ And when he came to the den, he cried out with a lamenting voice to Daniel. The king spoke, saying to Daniel, "Daniel, s ervant of the living God, has your God, whom you s erve continually, been able to deliv er you from the lions?"

nkjv@Daniel:6:21 @ Then Daniel said to the king, "O king, live forev er!

nkjv@Daniel:6:23 @ Now the king was exceedingly glad for him, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no injury whatev er was found on him, because he believed in his God.

nkjv@Daniel:6:24 @ And the king gave the command, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions--them, their children, and their wives; and the lions ov erpow ered them, and broke all their bones in pieces before they ev er came to the bottom of the den.

nkjv@Daniel:6:26 @ I make a decree that in ev ery dominion of my kingdom men must tremble and fear before the God of Daniel. For He is the living God, And steadfast forev er; His kingdom is the one which shall not be destroyed, And His dominion shall endure to the end.

nkjv@Daniel:6:27 @ He deliv ers and rescues, And He works signs and wond ers In heaven and on earth, Who has deliv ered Daniel from the pow er of the lions.

nkjv@Daniel:6:28 @ So this Daniel prosp ered in the reign of Darius and in the reign of Cyrus the P ersian.

nkjv@Daniel:7:2 @ Daniel spoke, saying, "I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven w ere stirring up the Great Sea.

nkjv@Daniel:7:3 @ And four great beasts came up from the sea, each diff erent from the oth er.

nkjv@Daniel:7:4 @ The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings. I watched till its wings w ere plucked off; and it was lifted up from the earth and made to stand on two feet like a man, and a man's heart was given to it.

nkjv@Daniel:7:5 @ "And suddenly anoth er beast, a second, like a bear. It was raised up on one side, and had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth. And they said thus to it: "Arise, devour much flesh!'

nkjv@Daniel:7:6 @ "Aft er this I looked, and th ere was anoth er, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings of a bird. The beast also had four heads, and dominion was given to it.

nkjv@Daniel:7:7 @ "Aft er this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, dreadful and t errible, exceedingly strong. It had huge iron teeth; it was devouring, breaking in pieces, and trampling the residue with its feet. It was diff erent from all the beasts that w ere before it, and it had ten horns.

nkjv@Daniel:7:8 @ I was consid ering the horns, and th ere was anoth er horn, a little one, coming up among them, before whom three of the first horns w ere plucked out by the roots. And th ere, in this horn, w ere eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking pompous words.

nkjv@Daniel:7:9 @ "I watched till thrones w ere put in place, And the Ancient of Days was seated; His garment was white as snow, And the hair of His head was like pure wool. His throne was a fi ery flame, Its wheels a burning fire;

nkjv@Daniel:7:10 @ A fi ery stream issued And came forth from before Him. A thousand thousands minist ered to Him; Ten thousand times ten thousand stood before Him. The court was seated, And the books w ere opened.

nkjv@Daniel:7:12 @ As for the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away, yet their lives w ere prolonged for a season and a time.

nkjv@Daniel:7:14 @ Then to Him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, That all peoples, nations, and languages should s erve Him. His dominion is an ev erlasting dominion, Which shall not pass away, And His kingdom the one Which shall not be destroyed.

nkjv@Daniel:7:16 @ I came near to one of those who stood by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me and made known to me the int erpretation of these things:

nkjv@Daniel:7:18 @ But the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forev er, even forev er and ev er.'

nkjv@Daniel:7:19 @ "Then I wished to know the truth about the fourth beast, which was diff erent from all the oth ers, exceedingly dreadful, with its teeth of iron and its nails of bronze, which devoured, broke in pieces, and trampled the residue with its feet;

nkjv@Daniel:7:20 @ and the ten horns that w ere on its head, and the oth er horn which came up, before which three fell, namely, that horn which had eyes and a mouth which spoke pompous words, whose appearance was great er than his fellows.

nkjv@Daniel:7:23 @ "Thus he said: "The fourth beast shall be A fourth kingdom on earth, Which shall be diff erent from all oth er kingdoms, And shall devour the whole earth, Trample it and break it in pieces.

nkjv@Daniel:7:24 @ The ten horns are ten kings Who shall arise from this kingdom. And anoth er shall rise aft er them; He shall be diff erent from the first ones, And shall subdue three kings.

nkjv@Daniel:7:25 @ He shall speak pompous words against the Most High, Shall p ersecute the saints of the Most High, And shall intend to change times and law. Then the saints shall be given into his hand For a time and times and half a time.

nkjv@Daniel:7:26 @ "But the court shall be seated, And they shall take away his dominion, To consume and destroy it forev er.

nkjv@Daniel:7:27 @ Then the kingdom and dominion, And the greatness of the kingdoms und er the whole heaven, Shall be given to the people, the saints of the Most High. His kingdom is an ev erlasting kingdom, And all dominions shall s erve and obey Him.'

nkjv@Daniel:7:28 @ "This is the end of the account. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts greatly troubled me, and my countenance changed; but I kept the matt er in my heart."

nkjv@Daniel:8:1 @ In the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar a vision appeared to me--to me, Daniel--aft er the one that appeared to me the first time.

nkjv@Daniel:8:2 @ I saw in the vision, and it so happened while I was looking, that I was in Shushan, the citadel, which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in the vision that I was by the Riv er Ulai.

nkjv@Daniel:8:3 @ Then I lifted my eyes and saw, and th ere, standing beside the riv er, was a ram which had two horns, and the two horns w ere high; but one was high er than the oth er, and the high er one came up last.

nkjv@Daniel:8:4 @ I saw the ram pushing westward, northward, and southward, so that no animal could withstand him; nor was th ere any that could deliv er from his hand, but he did according to his will and became great.

nkjv@Daniel:8:5 @ And as I was consid ering, suddenly a male goat came from the west, across the surface of the whole earth, without touching the ground; and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes.

nkjv@Daniel:8:6 @ Then he came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen standing beside the riv er, and ran at him with furious pow er.

nkjv@Daniel:8:7 @ And I saw him confronting the ram; he was moved with rage against him, attacked the ram, and broke his two horns. Th ere was no pow er in the ram to withstand him, but he cast him down to the ground and trampled him; and th ere was no one that could deliv er the ram from his hand.

nkjv@Daniel:8:8 @ Th erefore the male goat grew v ery great; but when he became strong, the large horn was broken, and in place of it four notable ones came up toward the four winds of heaven.

nkjv@Daniel:8:11 @ He even exalted himself as high as the Prince of the host; and by him the daily sacrifices w ere taken away, and the place of His sanctuary was cast down.

nkjv@Daniel:8:12 @ Because of transgression, an army was given ov er to the horn to oppose the daily sacrifices; and he cast truth down to the ground. He did all this and prosp ered.

nkjv@Daniel:8:13 @ Then I heard a holy one speaking; and anoth er holy one said to that c ertain one who was speaking, "How long will the vision be, conc erning the daily sacrifices and the transgression of desolation, the giving of both the sanctuary and the host to be trampled und erfoot?"

nkjv@Daniel:8:15 @ Then it happened, when I, Daniel, had seen the vision and was seeking the meaning, that suddenly th ere stood before me one having the appearance of a man.

nkjv@Daniel:8:16 @ And I heard a man's voice between the banks of the Ulai, who called, and said, "Gabriel, make this man und erstand the vision."

nkjv@Daniel:8:17 @ So he came near wh ere I stood, and when he came I was afraid and fell on my face; but he said to me, "Und erstand, son of man, that the vision ref ers to the time of the end."

nkjv@Daniel:8:19 @ And he said, "Look, I am making known to you what shall happen in the latt er time of the indignation; for at the appointed time the end shall be.

nkjv@Daniel:8:20 @ The ram which you saw, having the two horns--they are the kings of Media and P ersia.

nkjv@Daniel:8:22 @ As for the broken horn and the four that stood up in its place, four kingdoms shall arise out of that nation, but not with its pow er.

nkjv@Daniel:8:23 @ "And in the latt er time of their kingdom, When the transgressors have reached their fullness, A king shall arise, Having fi erce features, Who und erstands sinist er schemes.

nkjv@Daniel:8:24 @ His pow er shall be mighty, but not by his own pow er; He shall destroy fearfully, And shall prosp er and thrive; He shall destroy the mighty, and also the holy people.

nkjv@Daniel:8:25 @ "Through his cunning He shall cause deceit to prosp er und er his rule; And he shall exalt himself in his heart. He shall destroy many in their prosp erity. He shall even rise against the Prince of princes; But he shall be broken without human means.

nkjv@Daniel:8:26 @ "And the vision of the evenings and mornings Which was told is true; Th erefore seal up the vision, For it ref ers to many days in the future."

nkjv@Daniel:8:27 @ And I, Daniel, fainted and was sick for days; aft erward I arose and went about the king's business. I was astonished by the vision, but no one und erstood it.

nkjv@Daniel:9:1 @ In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasu erus, of the lineage of the Medes, who was made king ov er the realm of the Chaldeans--

nkjv@Daniel:9:2 @ in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, und erstood by the books the numb er of the years specified by the word of the LORD through J eremiah the prophet, that He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of J erusalem.

nkjv@Daniel:9:3 @ Then I set my face toward the Lord God to make request by pray er and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.

nkjv@Daniel:9:4 @ And I prayed to the LORD my God, and made confession, and said, "O Lord, great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and m ercy with those who love Him, and with those who keep His commandments,

nkjv@Daniel:9:6 @ Neith er have we heeded Your s ervants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings and our princes, to our fath ers and all the people of the land.

nkjv@Daniel:9:7 @ O Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but to us shame of face, as it is this day--to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of J erusalem and all Israel, those near and those far off in all the countries to which You have driven them, because of the unfaithfulness which they have committed against You.

nkjv@Daniel:9:8 @ "O Lord, to us belongs shame of face, to our kings, our princes, and our fath ers, because we have sinned against You.

nkjv@Daniel:9:9 @ To the Lord our God belong m ercy and forgiveness, though we have rebelled against Him.

nkjv@Daniel:9:10 @ We have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in His laws, which He set before us by His s ervants the prophets.

nkjv@Daniel:9:11 @ Yes, all Israel has transgressed Your law, and has departed so as not to obey Your voice; th erefore the curse and the oath written in the Law of Moses the s ervant of God have been poured out on us, because we have sinned against Him.

nkjv@Daniel:9:12 @ And He has confirmed His words, which He spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us a great disast er; for und er the whole heaven such has nev er been done as what has been done to J erusalem.

nkjv@Daniel:9:13 @ "As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disast er has come upon us; yet we have not made our pray er before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities and und erstand Your truth.

nkjv@Daniel:9:14 @ Th erefore the LORD has kept the disast er in mind, and brought it upon us; for the LORD our God is righteous in all the works which He does, though we have not obeyed His voice.

nkjv@Daniel:9:16 @ "O Lord, according to all Your righteousness, I pray, let Your ang er and Your fury be turned away from Your city J erusalem, Your holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fath ers, J erusalem and Your people are a reproach to all those around us.

nkjv@Daniel:9:17 @ Now th erefore, our God, hear the pray er of Your s ervant, and his supplications, and for the Lord's sake cause Your face to shine on Your sanctuary, which is desolate.

nkjv@Daniel:9:18 @ O my God, incline Your ear and hear; open Your eyes and see our desolations, and the city which is called by Your name; for we do not present our supplications before You because of our righteous deeds, but because of Your great m ercies.

nkjv@Daniel:9:21 @ yes, while I was speaking in pray er, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, reached me about the time of the evening off ering.

nkjv@Daniel:9:22 @ And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, "O Daniel, I have now come forth to give you skill to und erstand.

nkjv@Daniel:9:23 @ At the beginning of your supplications the command went out, and I have come to tell you, for you are greatly beloved; th erefore consid er the matt er, and und erstand the vision:

nkjv@Daniel:9:24 @ "Seventy weeks are det ermined For your people and for your holy city, To finish the transgression, To make an end of sins, To make reconciliation for iniquity, To bring in ev erlasting righteousness, To seal up vision and prophecy, And to anoint the Most Holy.

nkjv@Daniel:9:25 @ "Know th erefore and und erstand, That from the going forth of the command To restore and build J erusalem Until Messiah the Prince, Th ere shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; The street shall be built again, and the wall, Even in troublesome times.

nkjv@Daniel:9:26 @ "And aft er the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself; And the people of the prince who is to come Shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end of it shall be with a flood, And till the end of the war desolations are det ermined.

nkjv@Daniel:9:27 @ Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week; But in the middle of the week He shall bring an end to sacrifice and off ering. And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate, Even until the consummation, which is det ermined, Is poured out on the desolate."

nkjv@Daniel:10:1 @ In the third year of Cyrus king of P ersia a message was revealed to Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar. The message was true, but the appointed time was long; and he und erstood the message, and had und erstanding of the vision.

nkjv@Daniel:10:3 @ I ate no pleasant food, no meat or wine came into my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks w ere fulfilled.

nkjv@Daniel:10:4 @ Now on the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great riv er, that is, the Tigris,

nkjv@Daniel:10:5 @ I lifted my eyes and looked, and behold, a c ertain man clothed in linen, whose waist was girded with gold of Uphaz!

nkjv@Daniel:10:6 @ His body was like b eryl, his face like the appearance of lightning, his eyes like torches of fire, his arms and feet like burnished bronze in color, and the sound of his words like the voice of a multitude.

nkjv@Daniel:10:7 @ And I, Daniel, alone saw the vision, for the men who w ere with me did not see the vision; but a great t error fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves.

nkjv@Daniel:10:8 @ Th erefore I was left alone when I saw this great vision, and no strength remained in me; for my vigor was turned to frailty in me, and I retained no strength.

nkjv@Daniel:10:11 @ And he said to me, "O Daniel, man greatly beloved, und erstand the words that I speak to you, and stand upright, for I have now been sent to you." While he was speaking this word to me, I stood trembling.

nkjv@Daniel:10:12 @ Then he said to me, "Do not fear, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to und erstand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words w ere heard; and I have come because of your words.

nkjv@Daniel:10:13 @ But the prince of the kingdom of P ersia withstood me twenty-one days; and behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I had been left alone th ere with the kings of P ersia.

nkjv@Daniel:10:14 @ Now I have come to make you und erstand what will happen to your people in the latt er days, for the vision ref ers to many days yet to come."

nkjv@Daniel:10:16 @ And suddenly, one having the likeness of the sons of men touched my lips; then I opened my mouth and spoke, saying to him who stood before me, "My lord, because of the vision my sorrows have ov erwhelmed me, and I have retained no strength.

nkjv@Daniel:10:17 @ For how can this s ervant of my lord talk with you, my lord? As for me, no strength remains in me now, nor is any breath left in me."

nkjv@Daniel:10:20 @ Then he said, "Do you know why I have come to you? And now I must return to fight with the prince of P ersia; and when I have gone forth, indeed the prince of Greece will come.

nkjv@Daniel:11:2 @ And now I will tell you the truth: Behold, three more kings will arise in P ersia, and the fourth shall be far rich er than them all; by his strength, through his riches, he shall stir up all against the realm of Greece.

nkjv@Daniel:11:4 @ And when he has arisen, his kingdom shall be broken up and divided toward the four winds of heaven, but not among his post erity nor according to his dominion with which he ruled; for his kingdom shall be uprooted, even for oth ers besides these.

nkjv@Daniel:11:5 @ "Also the king of the South shall become strong, as well as one of his princes; and he shall gain pow er ov er him and have dominion. His dominion shall be a great dominion.

nkjv@Daniel:11:6 @ And at the end of some years they shall join forces, for the daught er of the king of the South shall go to the king of the North to make an agreement; but she shall not retain the pow er of h er authority, and neith er he nor his authority shall stand; but she shall be given up, with those who brought h er, and with him who begot h er, and with him who strengthened h er in those times.

nkjv@Daniel:11:7 @ But from a branch of h er roots one shall arise in his place, who shall come with an army, ent er the fortress of the king of the North, and deal with them and prevail.

nkjv@Daniel:11:8 @ And he shall also carry their gods captive to Egypt, with their princes and their precious articles of silv er and gold; and he shall continue more years than the king of the North.

nkjv@Daniel:11:10 @ Howev er his sons shall stir up strife, and assemble a multitude of great forces; and one shall c ertainly come and ov erwhelm and pass through; then he shall return to his fortress and stir up strife.

nkjv@Daniel:11:11 @ "And the king of the South shall be moved with rage, and go out and fight with him, with the king of the North, who shall must er a great multitude; but the multitude shall be given into the hand of his enemy.

nkjv@Daniel:11:13 @ For the king of the North will return and must er a multitude great er than the form er, and shall c ertainly come at the end of some years with a great army and much equipment.

nkjv@Daniel:11:16 @ But he who comes against him shall do according to his own will, and no one shall stand against him. He shall stand in the Glorious Land with destruction in his pow er.

nkjv@Daniel:11:17 @ "He shall also set his face to ent er with the strength of his whole kingdom, and upright ones with him; thus shall he do. And he shall give him the daught er of women to destroy it; but she shall not stand with him, or be for him.

nkjv@Daniel:11:18 @ Aft er this he shall turn his face to the coastlands, and shall take many. But a rul er shall bring the reproach against them to an end; and with the reproach removed, he shall turn back on him.

nkjv@Daniel:11:20 @ "Th ere shall arise in his place one who imposes taxes on the glorious kingdom; but within a few days he shall be destroyed, but not in ang er or in battle.

nkjv@Daniel:11:21 @ And in his place shall arise a vile p erson, to whom they will not give the honor of royalty; but he shall come in peaceably, and seize the kingdom by intrigue.

nkjv@Daniel:11:23 @ And aft er the league is made with him he shall act deceitfully, for he shall come up and become strong with a small numb er of people.

nkjv@Daniel:11:24 @ He shall ent er peaceably, even into the richest places of the province; and he shall do what his fath ers have not done, nor his forefath ers: he shall disp erse among them the plund er, spoil, and riches; and he shall devise his plans against the strongholds, but only for a time.

nkjv@Daniel:11:25 @ "He shall stir up his pow er and his courage against the king of the South with a great army. And the king of the South shall be stirred up to battle with a v ery great and mighty army; but he shall not stand, for they shall devise plans against him.

nkjv@Daniel:11:27 @ Both these kings' hearts shall be bent on evil, and they shall speak lies at the same table; but it shall not prosp er, for the end will still be at the appointed time.

nkjv@Daniel:11:29 @ "At the appointed time he shall return and go toward the south; but it shall not be like the form er or the latt er.

nkjv@Daniel:11:30 @ For ships from Cyprus shall come against him; th erefore he shall be grieved, and return in rage against the holy covenant, and do damage. "So he shall return and show regard for those who forsake the holy covenant.

nkjv@Daniel:11:31 @ And forces shall be must ered by him, and they shall defile the sanctuary fortress; then they shall take away the daily sacrifices, and place th ere the abomination of desolation.

nkjv@Daniel:11:32 @ Those who do wickedly against the covenant he shall corrupt with flatt ery; but the people who know their God shall be strong, and carry out great exploits.

nkjv@Daniel:11:33 @ And those of the people who und erstand shall instruct many; yet for many days they shall fall by sword and flame, by captivity and plund ering.

nkjv@Daniel:11:35 @ And some of those of und erstanding shall fall, to refine them, purify them, and make them white, until the time of the end; because it is still for the appointed time.

nkjv@Daniel:11:36 @ "Then the king shall do according to his own will: he shall exalt and magnify himself above ev ery god, shall speak blasphemies against the God of gods, and shall prosp er till the wrath has been accomplished; for what has been det ermined shall be done.

nkjv@Daniel:11:37 @ He shall regard neith er the God of his fath ers nor the desire of women, nor regard any god; for he shall exalt himself above them all.

nkjv@Daniel:11:38 @ But in their place he shall honor a god of fortresses; and a god which his fath ers did not know he shall honor with gold and silv er, with precious stones and pleasant things.

nkjv@Daniel:11:39 @ Thus he shall act against the strongest fortresses with a foreign god, which he shall acknowledge, and advance its glory; and he shall cause them to rule ov er many, and divide the land for gain.

nkjv@Daniel:11:40 @ "At the time of the end the king of the South shall attack him; and the king of the North shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall ent er the countries, ov erwhelm them, and pass through.

nkjv@Daniel:11:41 @ He shall also ent er the Glorious Land, and many countries shall be ov erthrown; but these shall escape from his hand: Edom, Moab, and the prominent people of Ammon.

nkjv@Daniel:11:43 @ He shall have pow er ov er the treasures of gold and silv er, and ov er all the precious things of Egypt; also the Libyans and Ethiopians shall follow at his heels.

nkjv@Daniel:11:44 @ But news from the east and the north shall trouble him; th erefore he shall go out with great fury to destroy and annihilate many.

nkjv@Daniel:12:1 @ "At that time Michael shall stand up, The great prince who stands watch ov er the sons of your people; And th ere shall be a time of trouble, Such as nev er was since th ere was a nation, Even to that time. And at that time your people shall be deliv ered, Ev ery one who is found written in the book.

nkjv@Daniel:12:2 @ And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, Some to ev erlasting life, Some to shame and ev erlasting contempt.

nkjv@Daniel:12:3 @ Those who are wise shall shine Like the brightness of the firmament, And those who turn many to righteousness Like the stars forev er and ev er.

nkjv@Daniel:12:5 @ Then I, Daniel, looked; and th ere stood two oth ers, one on this riv erbank and the oth er on that riv erbank.

nkjv@Daniel:12:6 @ And one said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the wat ers of the riv er, "How long shall the fulfillment of these wond ers be?"

nkjv@Daniel:12:7 @ Then I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the wat ers of the riv er, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by Him who lives forev er, that it shall be for a time, times, and half a time; and when the pow er of the holy people has been completely shatt ered, all these things shall be finished.

nkjv@Daniel:12:8 @ Although I heard, I did not und erstand. Then I said, "My lord, what shall be the end of these things?"

nkjv@Daniel:12:10 @ Many shall be purified, made white, and refined, but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall und erstand, but the wise shall und erstand.

nkjv@Daniel:12:11 @ "And from the time that the daily sacrifice is taken away, and the abomination of desolation is set up, th ere shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety days.

nkjv@Daniel:12:13 @ "But you, go your way till the end; for you shall rest, and will arise to your inh eritance at the end of the days."

nkjv@Hosea:1:1 @ The word of the LORD that came to Hosea the son of Be eri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of J eroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.

nkjv@Hosea:1:3 @ So he went and took Gom er the daught er of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.

nkjv@Hosea:1:6 @ And she conceived again and bore a daught er. Then God said to him: "Call h er name Lo-Ruhamah, For I will no long er have m ercy on the house of Israel, But I will utt erly take them away.

nkjv@Hosea:1:7 @ Yet I will have m ercy on the house of Judah, Will save them by the LORD their God, And will not save them by bow, Nor by sword or battle, By horses or horsemen."

nkjv@Hosea:1:10 @ "Yet the numb er of the children of Israel Shall be as the sand of the sea, Which cannot be measured or numb ered. And it shall come to pass In the place wh ere it was said to them, "You are not My people,' Th ere it shall be said to them, "You are sons of the living God.'

nkjv@Hosea:1:11 @ Then the children of Judah and the children of Israel Shall be gath ered togeth er, And appoint for themselves one head; And they shall come up out of the land, For great will be the day of Jezreel!

nkjv@Hosea:2:1 @ Say to your brethren, "My people,' And to your sist ers, "M ercy is shown.'

nkjv@Hosea:2:2 @ "Bring charges against your moth er, bring charges; For she is not My wife, nor am I h er Husband! Let h er put away h er harlotries from h er sight, And h er adult eries from between h er breasts;

nkjv@Hosea:2:3 @ Lest I strip h er naked And expose h er, as in the day she was born, And make h er like a wild erness, And set h er like a dry land, And slay h er with thirst.

nkjv@Hosea:2:4 @ "I will not have m ercy on h er children, For they are the children of harlotry.

nkjv@Hosea:2:5 @ For their moth er has played the harlot; She who conceived them has behaved shamefully. For she said, "I will go aft er my lov ers, Who give me my bread and my wat er, My wool and my linen, My oil and my drink.'

nkjv@Hosea:2:6 @ "Th erefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, And wall h er in, So that she cannot find h er paths.

nkjv@Hosea:2:7 @ She will chase h er lov ers, But not ov ertake them; Yes, she will seek them, but not find them. Then she will say, "I will go and return to my first husband, For then it was bett er for me than now.'

nkjv@Hosea:2:8 @ For she did not know That I gave h er grain, new wine, and oil, And multiplied h er silv er and gold-- Which they prepared for Baal.

nkjv@Hosea:2:9 @ "Th erefore I will return and take away My grain in its time And My new wine in its season, And will take back My wool and My linen, Given to cov er h er nakedness.

nkjv@Hosea:2:10 @ Now I will uncov er h er lewdness in the sight of h er lov ers, And no one shall deliv er h er from My hand.

nkjv@Hosea:2:11 @ I will also cause all h er mirth to cease, H er feast days, H er New Moons, H er Sabbaths-- All h er appointed feasts.

nkjv@Hosea:2:12 @ "And I will destroy h er vines and h er fig trees, Of which she has said, "These are my wages that my lov ers have given me.' So I will make them a forest, And the beasts of the field shall eat them.

nkjv@Hosea:2:13 @ I will punish h er For the days of the Baals to which she burned incense. She decked h erself with h er earrings and jewelry, And went aft er h er lov ers; But Me she forgot," says the LORD.

nkjv@Hosea:2:14 @ "Th erefore, behold, I will allure h er, Will bring h er into the wild erness, And speak comfort to h er.

nkjv@Hosea:2:15 @ I will give h er h er vineyards from th ere, And the Valley of Achor as a door of hope; She shall sing th ere, As in the days of h er youth, As in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt.

nkjv@Hosea:2:16 @ "And it shall be, in that day," Says the LORD, "That you will call Me "My Husband,' And no long er call Me "My Mast er,'

nkjv@Hosea:2:17 @ For I will take from h er mouth the names of the Baals, And they shall be rememb ered by their name no more.

nkjv@Hosea:2:18 @ In that day I will make a covenant for them With the beasts of the field, With the birds of the air, And with the creeping things of the ground. Bow and sword of battle I will shatt er from the earth, To make them lie down safely.

nkjv@Hosea:2:19 @ "I will betroth you to Me forev er; Yes, I will betroth you to Me In righteousness and justice, In lovingkindness and m ercy;

nkjv@Hosea:2:21 @ "It shall come to pass in that day That I will answ er," says the LORD; "I will answ er the heavens, And they shall answ er the earth.

nkjv@Hosea:2:22 @ The earth shall answ er With grain, With new wine, And with oil; They shall answ er Jezreel.

nkjv@Hosea:2:23 @ Then I will sow h er for Myself in the earth, And I will have m ercy on h er who had not obtained m ercy; Then I will say to those who w ere not My people, "You are My people!' And they shall say, "You are my God!"'

nkjv@Hosea:3:1 @ Then the LORD said to me, "Go again, love a woman who is loved by a lov er and is committing adult ery, just like the love of the LORD for the children of Israel, who look to oth er gods and love the raisin cakes of the pagans."

nkjv@Hosea:3:2 @ So I bought h er for myself for fifteen shekels of silv er, and one and one-half hom ers of barley.

nkjv@Hosea:3:3 @ And I said to h er, "You shall stay with me many days; you shall not play the harlot, nor shall you have a man--so, too, will I be toward you."

nkjv@Hosea:3:4 @ For the children of Israel shall abide many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, without ephod or t eraphim.

nkjv@Hosea:3:5 @ Aft erward the children of Israel shall return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They shall fear the LORD and His goodness in the latt er days.

nkjv@Hosea:4:1 @ Hear the word of the LORD, You children of Israel, For the LORD brings a charge against the inhabitants of the land: "Th ere is no truth or m ercy Or knowledge of God in the land.

nkjv@Hosea:4:2 @ By swearing and lying, Killing and stealing and committing adult ery, They break all restraint, With bloodshed upon bloodshed.

nkjv@Hosea:4:3 @ Th erefore the land will mourn; And ev eryone who dwells th ere will waste away With the beasts of the field And the birds of the air; Even the fish of the sea will be taken away.

nkjv@Hosea:4:4 @ "Now let no man contend, or rebuke anoth er; For your people are like those who contend with the priest.

nkjv@Hosea:4:5 @ Th erefore you shall stumble in the day; The prophet also shall stumble with you in the night; And I will destroy your moth er.

nkjv@Hosea:4:13 @ They off er sacrifices on the mountaintops, And burn incense on the hills, Und er oaks, poplars, and t erebinths, Because their shade is good. Th erefore your daught ers commit harlotry, And your brides commit adult ery.

nkjv@Hosea:4:14 @ "I will not punish your daught ers when they commit harlotry, Nor your brides when they commit adult ery; For the men themselves go apart with harlots, And off er sacrifices with a ritual harlot. Th erefore people who do not und erstand will be trampled.

nkjv@Hosea:4:18 @ Their drink is rebellion, They commit harlotry continually. H er rul ers dearly love dishonor.

nkjv@Hosea:4:19 @ The wind has wrapped h er up in its wings, And they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

nkjv@Hosea:5:2 @ The revolt ers are deeply involved in slaught er, Though I rebuke them all.

nkjv@Hosea:5:5 @ The pride of Israel testifies to his face; Th erefore Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity; Judah also stumbles with them.

nkjv@Hosea:5:6 @ "With their flocks and h erds They shall go to seek the LORD, But they will not find Him; He has withdrawn Himself from them.

nkjv@Hosea:5:7 @ They have dealt treach erously with the LORD, For they have begotten pagan children. Now a New Moon shall devour them and their h eritage.

nkjv@Hosea:5:10 @ "The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark; I will pour out My wrath on them like wat er.

nkjv@Hosea:5:12 @ Th erefore I will be to Ephraim like a moth, And to the house of Judah like rottenness.

nkjv@Hosea:6:2 @ Aft er two days He will revive us; On the third day He will raise us up, That we may live in His sight.

nkjv@Hosea:6:3 @ Let us know, Let us pursue the knowledge of the LORD. His going forth is established as the morning; He will come to us like the rain, Like the latt er and form er rain to the earth.

nkjv@Hosea:6:5 @ Th erefore I have hewn them by the prophets, I have slain them by the words of My mouth; And your judgments are like light that goes forth.

nkjv@Hosea:6:6 @ For I desire m ercy and not sacrifice, And the knowledge of God more than burnt off erings.

nkjv@Hosea:6:7 @ "But like men they transgressed the covenant; Th ere they dealt treach erously with Me.

nkjv@Hosea:6:8 @ Gilead is a city of evildo ers And defiled with blood.

nkjv@Hosea:6:9 @ As bands of robb ers lie in wait for a man, So the company of priests murd er on the way to Shechem; Surely they commit lewdness.

nkjv@Hosea:6:10 @ I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: Th ere is the harlotry of Ephraim; Israel is defiled.

nkjv@Hosea:7:1 @ "When I would have healed Israel, Then the iniquity of Ephraim was uncov ered, And the wickedness of Samaria. For they have committed fraud; A thief comes in; A band of robb ers takes spoil outside.

nkjv@Hosea:7:2 @ They do not consid er in their hearts That I rememb er all their wickedness; Now their own deeds have surrounded them; They are before My face.

nkjv@Hosea:7:4 @ "They are all adult er ers. Like an oven heated by a bak er-- He ceases stirring the fire aft er kneading the dough, Until it is leavened.

nkjv@Hosea:7:5 @ In the day of our king Princes have made him sick, inflamed with wine; He stretched out his hand with scoff ers.

nkjv@Hosea:7:6 @ They prepare their heart like an oven, While they lie in wait; Their bak er sleeps all night; In the morning it burns like a flaming fire.

nkjv@Hosea:7:9 @ Aliens have devoured his strength, But he does not know it; Yes, gray hairs are h ere and th ere on him, Yet he does not know it.

nkjv@Hosea:7:12 @ Wh erev er they go, I will spread My net on them; I will bring them down like birds of the air; I will chastise them According to what their congregation has heard.

nkjv@Hosea:7:14 @ They did not cry out to Me with their heart When they wailed upon their beds. "They assemble togeth er for grain and new wine, They rebel against Me;

nkjv@Hosea:7:16 @ They return, but not to the Most High; They are like a treach erous bow. Their princes shall fall by the sword For the cursings of their tongue. This shall be their d erision in the land of Egypt.

nkjv@Hosea:8:4 @ "They set up kings, but not by Me; They made princes, but I did not acknowledge them. From their silv er and gold They made idols for themselves-- That they might be cut off.

nkjv@Hosea:8:5 @ Your calf is rejected, O Samaria! My ang er is aroused against them-- How long until they attain to innocence?

nkjv@Hosea:8:7 @ "They sow the wind, And reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no bud; It shall nev er produce meal. If it should produce, Aliens would swallow it up.

nkjv@Hosea:8:9 @ For they have gone up to Assyria, Like a wild donkey alone by itself; Ephraim has hired lov ers.

nkjv@Hosea:8:10 @ Yes, though they have hired among the nations, Now I will gath er them; And they shall sorrow a little, Because of the burden of the king of princes.

nkjv@Hosea:8:12 @ I have written for him the great things of My law, But they w ere consid ered a strange thing.

nkjv@Hosea:8:13 @ For the sacrifices of My off erings they sacrifice flesh and eat it, But the LORD does not accept them. Now He will rememb er their iniquity and punish their sins. They shall return to Egypt.

nkjv@Hosea:8:14 @ "For Israel has forgotten his Mak er, And has built temples; Judah also has multiplied fortified cities; But I will send fire upon his cities, And it shall devour his palaces."

nkjv@Hosea:9:1 @ Do not rejoice, O Israel, with joy like oth er peoples, For you have played the harlot against your God. You have made love for hire on ev ery threshing floor.

nkjv@Hosea:9:2 @ The threshing floor and the winepress Shall not feed them, And the new wine shall fail in h er.

nkjv@Hosea:9:4 @ They shall not off er wine off erings to the LORD, Nor shall their sacrifices be pleasing to Him. It shall be like bread of mourn ers to them; All who eat it shall be defiled. For their bread shall be for their own life; It shall not come into the house of the LORD.

nkjv@Hosea:9:6 @ For indeed they are gone because of destruction. Egypt shall gath er them up; Memphis shall bury them. Nettles shall possess their valuables of silv er; Thorns shall be in their tents.

nkjv@Hosea:9:8 @ The watchman of Ephraim is with my God; But the prophet is a fowl er's snare in all his ways-- Enmity in the house of his God.

nkjv@Hosea:9:9 @ They are deeply corrupted, As in the days of Gibeah. He will rememb er their iniquity; He will punish their sins.

nkjv@Hosea:9:10 @ "I found Israel Like grapes in the wild erness; I saw your fath ers As the firstfruits on the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal Peor, And separated themselves to that shame; They became an abomination like the thing they loved.

nkjv@Hosea:9:12 @ Though they bring up their children, Yet I will b ereave them to the last man. Yes, woe to them when I depart from them!

nkjv@Hosea:9:13 @ Just as I saw Ephraim like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place, So Ephraim will bring out his children to the murd er er."

nkjv@Hosea:9:15 @ "All their wickedness is in Gilgal, For th ere I hated them. Because of the evil of their deeds I will drive them from My house; I will love them no more. All their princes are rebellious.

nkjv@Hosea:9:16 @ Ephraim is stricken, Their root is dried up; They shall bear no fruit. Yes, w ere they to bear children, I would kill the darlings of their womb."

nkjv@Hosea:9:17 @ My God will cast them away, Because they did not obey Him; And they shall be wand er ers among the nations.

nkjv@Hosea:10:7 @ As for Samaria, h er king is cut off Like a twig on the wat er.

nkjv@Hosea:10:8 @ Also the high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, Shall be destroyed. The thorn and thistle shall grow on their altars; They shall say to the mountains, "Cov er us!" And to the hills, "Fall on us!"

nkjv@Hosea:10:9 @ "O Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah; Th ere they stood. The battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity Did not ov ertake them.

nkjv@Hosea:10:10 @ When it is My desire, I will chasten them. Peoples shall be gath ered against them When I bind them for their two transgressions.

nkjv@Hosea:10:11 @ Ephraim is a trained heif er That loves to thresh grain; But I harnessed h er fair neck, I will make Ephraim pull a plow. Judah shall plow; Jacob shall break his clods."

nkjv@Hosea:10:12 @ Sow for yourselves righteousness; Reap in m ercy; Break up your fallow ground, For it is time to seek the LORD, Till He comes and rains righteousness on you.

nkjv@Hosea:10:14 @ Th erefore tumult shall arise among your people, And all your fortresses shall be plund ered As Shalman plund ered Beth Arbel in the day of battle-- A moth er dashed in pieces upon h er children.

nkjv@Hosea:10:15 @ Thus it shall be done to you, O Bethel, Because of your great wickedness. At dawn the king of Israel Shall be cut off utt erly.

nkjv@Hosea:11:8 @ "How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you ov er, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I set you like Zeboiim? My heart churns within Me; My sympathy is stirred.

nkjv@Hosea:11:9 @ I will not execute the fi erceness of My ang er; I will not again destroy Ephraim. For I am God, and not man, The Holy One in your midst; And I will not come with t error.

nkjv@Hosea:11:10 @ "They shall walk aft er the LORD. He will roar like a lion. When He roars, Then His sons shall come trembling from the west;

nkjv@Hosea:12:3 @ He took his broth er by the heel in the womb, And in his strength he struggled with God.

nkjv@Hosea:12:4 @ Yes, he struggled with the Angel and prevailed; He wept, and sought favor from Him. He found Him in Bethel, And th ere He spoke to us--

nkjv@Hosea:12:6 @ So you, by the help of your God, return; Obs erve m ercy and justice, And wait on your God continually.

nkjv@Hosea:12:9 @ "But I am the LORD your God, Ev er since the land of Egypt; I will again make you dwell in tents, As in the days of the appointed feast.

nkjv@Hosea:12:12 @ Jacob fled to the country of Syria; Israel s erved for a spouse, And for a wife he tended sheep.

nkjv@Hosea:12:13 @ By a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, And by a prophet he was pres erved.

nkjv@Hosea:12:14 @ Ephraim provoked Him to ang er most bitt erly; Th erefore his Lord will leave the guilt of his bloodshed upon him, And return his reproach upon him.

nkjv@Hosea:13:2 @ Now they sin more and more, And have made for themselves molded images, Idols of their silv er, according to their skill; All of it is the work of craftsmen. They say of them, "Let the men who sacrifice kiss the calves!"

nkjv@Hosea:13:3 @ Th erefore they shall be like the morning cloud And like the early dew that passes away, Like chaff blown off from a threshing floor And like smoke from a chimney.

nkjv@Hosea:13:4 @ "Yet I am the LORD your God Ev er since the land of Egypt, And you shall know no God but Me; For th ere is no savior besides Me.

nkjv@Hosea:13:5 @ I knew you in the wild erness, In the land of great drought.

nkjv@Hosea:13:6 @ When they had pasture, they w ere filled; They w ere filled and their heart was exalted; Th erefore they forgot Me.

nkjv@Hosea:13:8 @ I will meet them like a bear deprived of h er cubs; I will tear open their rib cage, And th ere I will devour them like a lion. The wild beast shall tear them.

nkjv@Hosea:13:10 @ I will be your King; Wh ere is any oth er, That he may save you in all your cities? And your judges to whom you said, "Give me a king and princes'?

nkjv@Hosea:13:11 @ I gave you a king in My ang er, And took him away in My wrath.

nkjv@Hosea:13:13 @ The sorrows of a woman in childbirth shall come upon him. He is an unwise son, For he should not stay long wh ere children are born.

nkjv@Hosea:13:14 @ "I will ransom them from the pow er of the grave; I will redeem them from death. O Death, I will be your plagues! O Grave, I will be your destruction! Pity is hidden from My eyes."

nkjv@Hosea:13:15 @ Though he is fruitful among his brethren, An east wind shall come; The wind of the LORD shall come up from the wild erness. Then his spring shall become dry, And his fountain shall be dried up. He shall plund er the treasury of ev ery desirable prize.

nkjv@Hosea:13:16 @ Samaria is held guilty, For she has rebelled against h er God. They shall fall by the sword, Their infants shall be dashed in pieces, And their women with child ripped open.

nkjv@Hosea:14:2 @ Take words with you, And return to the LORD. Say to Him, "Take away all iniquity; Receive us graciously, For we will off er the sacrifices of our lips.

nkjv@Hosea:14:3 @ Assyria shall not save us, We will not ride on horses, Nor will we say anymore to the work of our hands, "You are our gods.' For in You the fath erless finds m ercy."

nkjv@Hosea:14:4 @ "I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely, For My ang er has turned away from him.

nkjv@Hosea:14:7 @ Those who dwell und er his shadow shall return; They shall be revived like grain, And grow like a vine. Their scent shall be like the wine of Lebanon.

nkjv@Hosea:14:8 @ "Ephraim shall say, "What have I to do anymore with idols?' I have heard and obs erved him. I am like a green cypress tree; Your fruit is found in Me."

nkjv@Hosea:14:9 @ Who is wise? Let him und erstand these things. Who is prudent? Let him know them. For the ways of the LORD are right; The righteous walk in them, But transgressors stumble in them.

nkjv@Joel:1:2 @ Hear this, you eld ers, And give ear, all you inhabitants of the land! Has anything like this happened in your days, Or even in the days of your fath ers?

nkjv@Joel:1:3 @ Tell your children about it, Let your children tell their children, And their children anoth er gen eration.

nkjv@Joel:1:5 @ Awake, you drunkards, and weep; And wail, all you drink ers of wine, Because of the new wine, For it has been cut off from your mouth.

nkjv@Joel:1:6 @ For a nation has come up against My land, Strong, and without numb er; His teeth are the teeth of a lion, And he has the fangs of a fi erce lion.

nkjv@Joel:1:8 @ Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth For the husband of h er youth.

nkjv@Joel:1:9 @ The grain off ering and the drink off ering Have been cut off from the house of the LORD; The priests mourn, who minist er to the LORD.

nkjv@Joel:1:11 @ Be ashamed, you farm ers, Wail, you vinedress ers, For the wheat and the barley; Because the harvest of the field has p erished.

nkjv@Joel:1:12 @ The vine has dried up, And the fig tree has with ered; The pomegranate tree, The palm tree also, And the apple tree-- All the trees of the field are with ered; Surely joy has with ered away from the sons of men.

nkjv@Joel:1:13 @ Gird yourselves and lament, you priests; Wail, you who minist er before the altar; Come, lie all night in sackcloth, You who minist er to my God; For the grain off ering and the drink off ering Are withheld from the house of your God.

nkjv@Joel:1:14 @ Consecrate a fast, Call a sacred assembly; Gath er the eld ers And all the inhabitants of the land Into the house of the LORD your God, And cry out to the LORD.

nkjv@Joel:1:17 @ The seed shrivels und er the clods, Storehouses are in shambles; Barns are broken down, For the grain has with ered.

nkjv@Joel:1:18 @ How the animals groan! The h erds of cattle are restless, Because they have no pasture; Even the flocks of sheep suff er punishment.

nkjv@Joel:1:20 @ The beasts of the field also cry out to You, For the wat er brooks are dried up, And fire has devoured the open pastures.

nkjv@Joel:2:2 @ A day of darkness and gloominess, A day of clouds and thick darkness, Like the morning clouds spread ov er the mountains. A people come, great and strong, The like of whom has nev er been; Nor will th ere ev er be any such aft er them, Even for many successive gen erations.

nkjv@Joel:2:3 @ A fire devours before them, And behind them a flame burns; The land is like the Garden of Eden before them, And behind them a desolate wild erness; Surely nothing shall escape them.

nkjv@Joel:2:5 @ With a noise like chariots Ov er mountaintops they leap, Like the noise of a flaming fire that devours the stubble, Like a strong people set in battle array.

nkjv@Joel:2:7 @ They run like mighty men, They climb the wall like men of war; Ev ery one marches in formation, And they do not break ranks.

nkjv@Joel:2:8 @ They do not push one anoth er; Ev ery one marches in his own column. Though they lunge between the weapons, They are not cut down.

nkjv@Joel:2:9 @ They run to and fro in the city, They run on the wall; They climb into the houses, They ent er at the windows like a thief.

nkjv@Joel:2:11 @ The LORD gives voice before His army, For His camp is v ery great; For strong is the One who executes His word. For the day of the LORD is great and v ery t errible; Who can endure it?

nkjv@Joel:2:12 @ "Now, th erefore," says the LORD, "Turn to Me with all your heart, With fasting, with weeping, and with mourning."

nkjv@Joel:2:13 @ So rend your heart, and not your garments; Return to the LORD your God, For He is gracious and m erciful, Slow to ang er, and of great kindness; And He relents from doing harm.

nkjv@Joel:2:14 @ Who knows if He will turn and relent, And leave a blessing behind Him-- A grain off ering and a drink off ering For the LORD your God?

nkjv@Joel:2:16 @ Gath er the people, Sanctify the congregation, Assemble the eld ers, Gath er the children and nursing babes; Let the bridegroom go out from his chamb er, And the bride from h er dressing room.

nkjv@Joel:2:17 @ Let the priests, who minist er to the LORD, Weep between the porch and the altar; Let them say, "Spare Your people, O LORD, And do not give Your h eritage to reproach, That the nations should rule ov er them. Why should they say among the peoples, "Wh ere is their God?"'

nkjv@Joel:2:19 @ The LORD will answ er and say to His people, "Behold, I will send you grain and new wine and oil, And you will be satisfied by them; I will no long er make you a reproach among the nations.

nkjv@Joel:2:20 @ "But I will remove far from you the north ern army, And will drive him away into a barren and desolate land, With his face toward the east ern sea And his back toward the west ern sea; His stench will come up, And his foul odor will rise, Because he has done monstrous things."

nkjv@Joel:2:23 @ Be glad then, you children of Zion, And rejoice in the LORD your God; For He has given you the form er rain faithfully, And He will cause the rain to come down for you-- The form er rain, And the latt er rain in the first month.

nkjv@Joel:2:24 @ The threshing floors shall be full of wheat, And the vats shall ov erflow with new wine and oil.

nkjv@Joel:2:26 @ You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, And praise the name of the LORD your God, Who has dealt wondrously with you; And My people shall nev er be put to shame.

nkjv@Joel:2:27 @ Then you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel: I am the LORD your God And th ere is no oth er. My people shall nev er be put to shame.

nkjv@Joel:2:28 @ "And it shall come to pass aft erward That I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daught ers shall prophesy, Your old men shall dream dreams, Your young men shall see visions.

nkjv@Joel:2:29 @ And also on My mens ervants and on My maids ervants I will pour out My Spirit in those days.

nkjv@Joel:2:30 @ "And I will show wond ers in the heavens and in the earth: Blood and fire and pillars of smoke.

nkjv@Joel:2:32 @ And it shall come to pass That whoev er calls on the name of the LORD Shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in J erusalem th ere shall be deliv erance, As the LORD has said, Among the remnant whom the LORD calls.

nkjv@Joel:3:1 @ "For behold, in those days and at that time, When I bring back the captives of Judah and J erusalem,

nkjv@Joel:3:2 @ I will also gath er all nations, And bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; And I will ent er into judgment with them th ere On account of My people, My h eritage Israel, Whom they have scatt ered among the nations; They have also divided up My land.

nkjv@Joel:3:5 @ Because you have taken My silv er and My gold, And have carried into your temples My prized possessions.

nkjv@Joel:3:6 @ Also the people of Judah and the people of J erusalem You have sold to the Greeks, That you may remove them far from their bord ers.

nkjv@Joel:3:8 @ I will sell your sons and your daught ers Into the hand of the people of Judah, And they will sell them to the Sabeans, To a people far off; For the LORD has spoken."

nkjv@Joel:3:11 @ Assemble and come, all you nations, And gath er togeth er all around. Cause Your mighty ones to go down th ere, O LORD.

nkjv@Joel:3:12 @ "Let the nations be wakened, and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; For th ere I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.

nkjv@Joel:3:13 @ Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, go down; For the winepress is full, The vats ov erflow-- For their wickedness is great."

nkjv@Joel:3:16 @ The LORD also will roar from Zion, And utt er His voice from J erusalem; The heavens and earth will shake; But the LORD will be a shelt er for His people, And the strength of the children of Israel.

nkjv@Joel:3:17 @ "So you shall know that I am the LORD your God, Dwelling in Zion My holy mountain. Then J erusalem shall be holy, And no aliens shall ev er pass through h er again."

nkjv@Joel:3:18 @ And it will come to pass in that day That the mountains shall drip with new wine, The hills shall flow with milk, And all the brooks of Judah shall be flooded with wat er; A fountain shall flow from the house of the LORD And wat er the Valley of Acacias.

nkjv@Joel:3:19 @ "Egypt shall be a desolation, And Edom a desolate wild erness, Because of violence against the people of Judah, For they have shed innocent blood in their land.

nkjv@Joel:3:20 @ But Judah shall abide forev er, And J erusalem from gen eration to gen eration.

nkjv@Amos:1:1 @ The words of Amos, who was among the sheepbreed ers of Tekoa, which he saw conc erning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of J eroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.

nkjv@Amos:1:2 @ And he said: "The LORD roars from Zion, And utt ers His voice from J erusalem; The pastures of the sheph erds mourn, And the top of Carmel with ers."

nkjv@Amos:1:5 @ I will also break the gate bar of Damascus, And cut off the inhabitant from the Valley of Aven, And the one who holds the scept er from Beth Eden. The people of Syria shall go captive to Kir," Says the LORD.

nkjv@Amos:1:6 @ Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, Because they took captive the whole captivity To deliv er them up to Edom.

nkjv@Amos:1:8 @ I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, And the one who holds the scept er from Ashkelon; I will turn My hand against Ekron, And the remnant of the Philistines shall p erish," Says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Amos:1:9 @ Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, Because they deliv ered up the whole captivity to Edom, And did not rememb er the covenant of broth erhood.

nkjv@Amos:1:11 @ Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, Because he pursued his broth er with the sword, And cast off all pity; His ang er tore p erpetually, And he kept his wrath forev er.

nkjv@Amos:1:13 @ Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of the people of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, Because they ripped open the women with child in Gilead, That they might enlarge their t erritory.

nkjv@Amos:1:15 @ Their king shall go into captivity, He and his princes togeth er," Says the LORD.

nkjv@Amos:2:2 @ But I will send a fire upon Moab, And it shall devour the palaces of K erioth; Moab shall die with tumult, With shouting and trumpet sound.

nkjv@Amos:2:4 @ Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, Because they have despised the law of the LORD, And have not kept His commandments. Their lies lead them astray, Lies which their fath ers followed.

nkjv@Amos:2:5 @ But I will send a fire upon Judah, And it shall devour the palaces of J erusalem."

nkjv@Amos:2:6 @ Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, Because they sell the righteous for silv er, And the poor for a pair of sandals.

nkjv@Amos:2:7 @ They pant aft er the dust of the earth which is on the head of the poor, And p erv ert the way of the humble. A man and his fath er go in to the same girl, To defile My holy name.

nkjv@Amos:2:8 @ They lie down by ev ery altar on clothes taken in pledge, And drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.

nkjv@Amos:2:10 @ Also it was I who brought you up from the land of Egypt, And led you forty years through the wild erness, To possess the land of the Amorite.

nkjv@Amos:2:14 @ Th erefore flight shall p erish from the swift, The strong shall not strengthen his pow er, Nor shall the mighty deliv er himself;

nkjv@Amos:2:15 @ He shall not stand who handles the bow, The swift of foot shall not escape, Nor shall he who rides a horse deliv er himself.

nkjv@Amos:3:2 @ "You only have I known of all the families of the earth; Th erefore I will punish you for all your iniquities."

nkjv@Amos:3:3 @ Can two walk togeth er, unless they are agreed?

nkjv@Amos:3:5 @ Will a bird fall into a snare on the earth, wh ere th ere is no trap for it? Will a snare spring up from the earth, if it has caught nothing at all?

nkjv@Amos:3:6 @ If a trumpet is blown in a city, will not the people be afraid? If th ere is calamity in a city, will not the LORD have done it?

nkjv@Amos:3:7 @ Surely the Lord GOD does nothing, Unless He reveals His secret to His s ervants the prophets.

nkjv@Amos:3:9 @ "Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod, And in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say: "Assemble on the mountains of Samaria; See great tumults in h er midst, And the oppressed within h er.

nkjv@Amos:3:10 @ For they do not know to do right,' Says the LORD, "Who store up violence and robb ery in their palaces."'

nkjv@Amos:3:11 @ Th erefore thus says the Lord GOD: "An adv ersary shall be all around the land; He shall sap your strength from you, And your palaces shall be plund ered."

nkjv@Amos:3:12 @ Thus says the LORD: "As a sheph erd takes from the mouth of a lion Two legs or a piece of an ear, So shall the children of Israel be taken out Who dwell in Samaria-- In the corn er of a bed and on the edge of a couch!

nkjv@Amos:3:15 @ I will destroy the wint er house along with the summ er house; The houses of ivory shall p erish, And the great houses shall have an end," Says the LORD.

nkjv@Amos:4:2 @ The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness: "Behold, the days shall come upon you When He will take you away with fishhooks, And your post erity with fishhooks.

nkjv@Amos:4:3 @ You will go out through broken walls, Each one straight ahead of h er, And you will be cast into Harmon," Says the LORD.

nkjv@Amos:4:4 @ "Come to Bethel and transgress, At Gilgal multiply transgression; Bring your sacrifices ev ery morning, Your tithes ev ery three days.

nkjv@Amos:4:5 @ Off er a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, Proclaim and announce the freewill off erings; For this you love, You children of Israel!" Says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Amos:4:7 @ "I also withheld rain from you, When th ere w ere still three months to the harvest. I made it rain on one city, I withheld rain from anoth er city. One part was rained upon, And wh ere it did not rain the part with ered.

nkjv@Amos:4:8 @ So two or three cities wand ered to anoth er city to drink wat er, But they w ere not satisfied; Yet you have not returned to Me," Says the LORD.

nkjv@Amos:4:10 @ "I sent among you a plague aft er the mann er of Egypt; Your young men I killed with a sword, Along with your captive horses; I made the stench of your camps come up into your nostrils; Yet you have not returned to Me," Says the LORD.

nkjv@Amos:4:11 @ "I ov erthrew some of you, As God ov erthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, And you w ere like a firebrand plucked from the burning; Yet you have not returned to Me," Says the LORD.

nkjv@Amos:4:12 @ "Th erefore thus will I do to you, O Israel; Because I will do this to you, Prepare to meet your God, O Israel!"

nkjv@Amos:5:2 @ The virgin of Israel has fallen; She will rise no more. She lies forsaken on h er land; Th ere is no one to raise h er up.

nkjv@Amos:5:5 @ But do not seek Bethel, Nor ent er Gilgal, Nor pass ov er to Be ersheba; For Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, And Bethel shall come to nothing.

nkjv@Amos:5:8 @ He made the Pleiades and Orion; He turns the shadow of death into morning And makes the day dark as night; He calls for the wat ers of the sea And pours them out on the face of the earth; The LORD is His name.

nkjv@Amos:5:11 @ Th erefore, because you tread down the poor And take grain taxes from him, Though you have built houses of hewn stone, Yet you shall not dwell in them; You have planted pleasant vineyards, But you shall not drink wine from them.

nkjv@Amos:5:12 @ For I know your manifold transgressions And your mighty sins: Afflicting the just and taking bribes; Div erting the poor from justice at the gate.

nkjv@Amos:5:13 @ Th erefore the prudent keep silent at that time, For it is an evil time.

nkjv@Amos:5:16 @ Th erefore the LORD God of hosts, the Lord, says this: "Th ere shall be wailing in all streets, And they shall say in all the highways, "Alas! Alas!' They shall call the farm er to mourning, And skillful lament ers to wailing.

nkjv@Amos:5:17 @ In all vineyards th ere shall be wailing, For I will pass through you," Says the LORD.

nkjv@Amos:5:19 @ It will be as though a man fled from a lion, And a bear met him! Or as though he went into the house, Leaned his hand on the wall, And a s erpent bit him!

nkjv@Amos:5:20 @ Is not the day of the LORD darkness, and not light? Is it not v ery dark, with no brightness in it?

nkjv@Amos:5:22 @ Though you off er Me burnt off erings and your grain off erings, I will not accept them, Nor will I regard your fattened peace off erings.

nkjv@Amos:5:24 @ But let justice run down like wat er, And righteousness like a mighty stream.

nkjv@Amos:5:25 @ "Did you off er Me sacrifices and off erings In the wild erness forty years, O house of Israel?

nkjv@Amos:5:27 @ Th erefore I will send you into captivity beyond Damascus," Says the LORD, whose name is the God of hosts.

nkjv@Amos:6:1 @ Woe to you who are at ease in Zion, And trust in Mount Samaria, Notable p ersons in the chief nation, To whom the house of Israel comes!

nkjv@Amos:6:2 @ Go ov er to Calneh and see; And from th ere go to Hamath the great; Then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are you bett er than these kingdoms? Or is their t erritory great er than your t erritory?

nkjv@Amos:6:7 @ Th erefore they shall now go captive as the first of the captives, And those who recline at banquets shall be removed.

nkjv@Amos:6:8 @ The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself, The LORD God of hosts says: "I abhor the pride of Jacob, And hate his palaces; Th erefore I will deliv er up the city And all that is in it."

nkjv@Amos:6:10 @ And when a relative of the dead, with one who will burn the bodies, picks up the bodies to take them out of the house, he will say to one inside the house, "Are th ere any more with you?" Then someone will say, "None." And he will say, "Hold your tongue! For we dare not mention the name of the LORD."

nkjv@Amos:6:12 @ Do horses run on rocks? Does one plow th ere with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into gall, And the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,

nkjv@Amos:6:13 @ You who rejoice ov er Lo Debar, Who say, "Have we not taken Karnaim for ourselves By our own strength?"

nkjv@Amos:7:1 @ Thus the Lord GOD showed me: Behold, He formed locust swarms at the beginning of the late crop; indeed it was the late crop aft er the king's mowings.

nkjv@Amos:7:3 @ So the LORD relented conc erning this. "It shall not be," said the LORD.

nkjv@Amos:7:4 @ Thus the Lord GOD showed me: Behold, the Lord GOD called for conflict by fire, and it consumed the great deep and devoured the t erritory.

nkjv@Amos:7:6 @ So the LORD relented conc erning this. "This also shall not be," said the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Amos:7:9 @ The high places of Isaac shall be desolate, And the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste. I will rise with the sword against the house of J eroboam."

nkjv@Amos:7:10 @ Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to J eroboam king of Israel, saying, "Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words.

nkjv@Amos:7:11 @ For thus Amos has said: "J eroboam shall die by the sword, And Israel shall surely be led away captive From their own land."'

nkjv@Amos:7:12 @ Then Amaziah said to Amos: "Go, you se er! Flee to the land of Judah. Th ere eat bread, And th ere prophesy.

nkjv@Amos:7:13 @ But nev er again prophesy at Bethel, For it is the king's sanctuary, And it is the royal residence."

nkjv@Amos:7:14 @ Then Amos answ ered, and said to Amaziah: "I was no prophet, Nor was I a son of a prophet, But I was a sheepbreed er And a tend er of sycamore fruit.

nkjv@Amos:7:16 @ Now th erefore, hear the word of the LORD: You say, "Do not prophesy against Israel, And do not spout against the house of Isaac.'

nkjv@Amos:7:17 @ "Th erefore thus says the LORD: "Your wife shall be a harlot in the city; Your sons and daught ers shall fall by the sword; Your land shall be divided by survey line; You shall die in a defiled land; And Israel shall surely be led away captive From his own land."'

nkjv@Amos:8:1 @ Thus the Lord GOD showed me: Behold, a basket of summ er fruit.

nkjv@Amos:8:2 @ And He said, "Amos, what do you see?" So I said, "A basket of summ er fruit." Then the LORD said to me: "The end has come upon My people Israel; I will not pass by them anymore.

nkjv@Amos:8:3 @ And the songs of the temple Shall be wailing in that day," Says the Lord GOD-- "Many dead bodies ev erywh ere, They shall be thrown out in silence."

nkjv@Amos:8:6 @ That we may buy the poor for silv er, And the needy for a pair of sandals-- Even sell the bad wheat?"

nkjv@Amos:8:7 @ The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob: "Surely I will nev er forget any of their works.

nkjv@Amos:8:8 @ Shall the land not tremble for this, And ev eryone mourn who dwells in it? All of it shall swell like the Riv er, Heave and subside Like the Riv er of Egypt.

nkjv@Amos:8:10 @ I will turn your feasts into mourning, And all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on ev ery waist, And baldness on ev ery head; I will make it like mourning for an only son, And its end like a bitt er day.

nkjv@Amos:8:11 @ "Behold, the days are coming," says the Lord GOD, "That I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine of bread, Nor a thirst for wat er, But of hearing the words of the LORD.

nkjv@Amos:8:12 @ They shall wand er from sea to sea, And from north to east; They shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the LORD, But shall not find it.

nkjv@Amos:8:14 @ Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, Who say, "As your god lives, O Dan!' And, "As the way of Be ersheba lives!' They shall fall and nev er rise again."

nkjv@Amos:9:1 @ I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and He said: "Strike the doorposts, that the thresholds may shake, And break them on the heads of them all. I will slay the last of them with the sword. He who flees from them shall not get away, And he who escapes from them shall not be deliv ered.

nkjv@Amos:9:2 @ "Though they dig into hell, From th ere My hand shall take them; Though they climb up to heaven, From th ere I will bring them down;

nkjv@Amos:9:3 @ And though they hide themselves on top of Carmel, From th ere I will search and take them; Though they hide from My sight at the bottom of the sea, From th ere I will command the s erpent, and it shall bite them;

nkjv@Amos:9:4 @ Though they go into captivity before their enemies, From th ere I will command the sword, And it shall slay them. I will set My eyes on them for harm and not for good."

nkjv@Amos:9:5 @ The Lord GOD of hosts, He who touches the earth and it melts, And all who dwell th ere mourn; All of it shall swell like the Riv er, And subside like the Riv er of Egypt.

nkjv@Amos:9:6 @ He who builds His lay ers in the sky, And has founded His strata in the earth; Who calls for the wat ers of the sea, And pours them out on the face of the earth-- The LORD is His name.

nkjv@Amos:9:8 @ "Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are on the sinful kingdom, And I will destroy it from the face of the earth; Yet I will not utt erly destroy the house of Jacob," Says the LORD.

nkjv@Amos:9:10 @ All the sinn ers of My people shall die by the sword, Who say, "The calamity shall not ov ertake nor confront us.'

nkjv@Amos:9:11 @ "On that day I will raise up The tab ernacle of David, which has fallen down, And repair its damages; I will raise up its ruins, And rebuild it as in the days of old;

nkjv@Amos:9:13 @ "Behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "When the plowman shall ov ertake the reap er, And the tread er of grapes him who sows seed; The mountains shall drip with sweet wine, And all the hills shall flow with it.

nkjv@Amos:9:15 @ I will plant them in their land, And no long er shall they be pulled up From the land I have given them," Says the LORD your God.

nkjv@Obadiah:1:1 @ The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord GOD conc erning Edom (We have heard a report from the LORD, And a messeng er has been sent among the nations, saying, "Arise, and let us rise up against h er for battle"):

nkjv@Obadiah:1:4 @ Though you ascend as high as the eagle, And though you set your nest among the stars, From th ere I will bring you down," says the LORD.

nkjv@Obadiah:1:5 @ "If thieves had come to you, If robb ers by night-- Oh, how you will be cut off!-- Would they not have stolen till they had enough? If grape-gath er ers had come to you, Would they not have left some gleanings?

nkjv@Obadiah:1:6 @ "Oh, how Esau shall be searched out! How his hidden treasures shall be sought aft er!

nkjv@Obadiah:1:7 @ All the men in your confed eracy Shall force you to the bord er; The men at peace with you Shall deceive you and prevail against you. Those who eat your bread shall lay a trap for you. No one is aware of it.

nkjv@Obadiah:1:8 @ "Will I not in that day," says the LORD, "Even destroy the wise men from Edom, And und erstanding from the mountains of Esau?

nkjv@Obadiah:1:9 @ Then your mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, To the end that ev eryone from the mountains of Esau May be cut off by slaught er.

nkjv@Obadiah:1:10 @ "For violence against your broth er Jacob, Shame shall cov er you, And you shall be cut off forev er.

nkjv@Obadiah:1:11 @ In the day that you stood on the oth er side-- In the day that strang ers carried captive his forces, When foreign ers ent ered his gates And cast lots for J erusalem-- Even you w ere as one of them.

nkjv@Obadiah:1:12 @ "But you should not have gazed on the day of your broth er In the day of his captivity; Nor should you have rejoiced ov er the children of Judah In the day of their destruction; Nor should you have spoken proudly In the day of distress.

nkjv@Obadiah:1:13 @ You should not have ent ered the gate of My people In the day of their calamity. Indeed, you should not have gazed on their affliction In the day of their calamity, Nor laid hands on their substance In the day of their calamity.

nkjv@Obadiah:1:14 @ You should not have stood at the crossroads To cut off those among them who escaped; Nor should you have deliv ered up those among them who remained In the day of distress.

nkjv@Obadiah:1:16 @ For as you drank on My holy mountain, So shall all the nations drink continually; Yes, they shall drink, and swallow, And they shall be as though they had nev er been.

nkjv@Obadiah:1:17 @ "But on Mount Zion th ere shall be deliv erance, And th ere shall be holiness; The house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.

nkjv@Obadiah:1:20 @ And the captives of this host of the children of Israel Shall possess the land of the Canaanites As far as Zarephath. The captives of J erusalem who are in Sepharad Shall possess the cities of the South.

nkjv@Jonah:1:4 @ But the LORD sent out a great wind on the sea, and th ere was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship was about to be broken up.

nkjv@Jonah:1:5 @ Then the marin ers w ere afraid; and ev ery man cried out to his god, and threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea, to lighten the load. But Jonah had gone down into the lowest parts of the ship, had lain down, and was fast asleep.

nkjv@Jonah:1:6 @ So the captain came to him, and said to him, "What do you mean, sleep er? Arise, call on your God; p erhaps your God will consid er us, so that we may not p erish."

nkjv@Jonah:1:7 @ And they said to one anoth er, "Come, let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this trouble has come upon us." So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.

nkjv@Jonah:1:8 @ Then they said to him, "Please tell us! For whose cause is this trouble upon us? What is your occupation? And wh ere do you come from? What is your country? And of what people are you?"

nkjv@Jonah:1:10 @ Then the men w ere exceedingly afraid, and said to him, "Why have you done this?" For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.

nkjv@Jonah:1:13 @ Nev ertheless the men rowed hard to return to land, but they could not, for the sea continued to grow more tempestuous against them.

nkjv@Jonah:1:14 @ Th erefore they cried out to the LORD and said, "We pray, O LORD, please do not let us p erish for this man's life, and do not charge us with innocent blood; for You, O LORD, have done as it pleased You."

nkjv@Jonah:1:16 @ Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and off ered a sacrifice to the LORD and took vows.

nkjv@Jonah:2:2 @ And he said: "I cried out to the LORD because of my affliction, And He answ ered me. "Out of the belly of Sheol I cried, And You heard my voice.

nkjv@Jonah:2:3 @ For You cast me into the deep, Into the heart of the seas, And the floods surrounded me; All Your billows and Your waves passed ov er me.

nkjv@Jonah:2:5 @ The wat ers surrounded me, even to my soul; The deep closed around me; Weeds w ere wrapped around my head.

nkjv@Jonah:2:6 @ I went down to the moorings of the mountains; The earth with its bars closed behind me forev er; Yet You have brought up my life from the pit, O LORD, my God.

nkjv@Jonah:2:7 @ "When my soul fainted within me, I rememb ered the LORD; And my pray er went up to You, Into Your holy temple.

nkjv@Jonah:2:8 @ "Those who regard worthless idols Forsake their own M ercy.

nkjv@Jonah:3:4 @ And Jonah began to ent er the city on the first day's walk. Then he cried out and said, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be ov erthrown!"

nkjv@Jonah:3:6 @ Then word came to the king of Nineveh; and he arose from his throne and laid aside his robe, cov ered himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes.

nkjv@Jonah:3:7 @ And he caused it to be proclaimed and published throughout Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neith er man nor beast, h erd nor flock, taste anything; do not let them eat, or drink wat er.

nkjv@Jonah:3:8 @ But let man and beast be cov ered with sackcloth, and cry mightily to God; yes, let ev ery one turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands.

nkjv@Jonah:3:9 @ Who can tell if God will turn and relent, and turn away from His fi erce ang er, so that we may not p erish?

nkjv@Jonah:3:10 @ Then God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God relented from the disast er that He had said He would bring upon them, and He did not do it.

nkjv@Jonah:4:2 @ So he prayed to the LORD, and said, "Ah, LORD, was not this what I said when I was still in my country? Th erefore I fled previously to Tarshish; for I know that You are a gracious and m erciful God, slow to ang er and abundant in lovingkindness, One who relents from doing harm.

nkjv@Jonah:4:3 @ Th erefore now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is bett er for me to die than to live!"

nkjv@Jonah:4:5 @ So Jonah went out of the city and sat on the east side of the city. Th ere he made himself a shelt er and sat und er it in the shade, till he might see what would become of the city.

nkjv@Jonah:4:6 @ And the LORD God prepared a plant and made it come up ov er Jonah, that it might be shade for his head to deliv er him from his mis ery. So Jonah was v ery grateful for the plant.

nkjv@Jonah:4:7 @ But as morning dawned the next day God prepared a worm, and it so damaged the plant that it with ered.

nkjv@Jonah:4:8 @ And it happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah's head, so that he grew faint. Then he wished death for himself, and said, "It is bett er for me to die than to live."

nkjv@Jonah:4:10 @ But the LORD said, "You have had pity on the plant for which you have not labored, nor made it grow, which came up in a night and p erished in a night.

nkjv@Jonah:4:11 @ And should I not pity Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred and twenty thousand p ersons who cannot disc ern between their right hand and their left--and much livestock?"

nkjv@Micah:1:1 @ The word of the LORD that came to Micah of Moresheth in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw conc erning Samaria and J erusalem.

nkjv@Micah:1:4 @ The mountains will melt und er Him, And the valleys will split Like wax before the fire, Like wat ers poured down a steep place.

nkjv@Micah:1:5 @ All this is for the transgression of Jacob And for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what are the high places of Judah? Are they not J erusalem?

nkjv@Micah:1:6 @ "Th erefore I will make Samaria a heap of ruins in the field, Places for planting a vineyard; I will pour down h er stones into the valley, And I will uncov er h er foundations.

nkjv@Micah:1:7 @ All h er carved images shall be beaten to pieces, And all h er pay as a harlot shall be burned with the fire; All h er idols I will lay desolate, For she gath ered it from the pay of a harlot, And they shall return to the pay of a harlot."

nkjv@Micah:1:8 @ Th erefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked; I will make a wailing like the jackals And a mourning like the ostriches,

nkjv@Micah:1:9 @ For h er wounds are incurable. For it has come to Judah; It has come to the gate of My people-- To J erusalem.

nkjv@Micah:1:12 @ For the inhabitant of Maroth pined for good, But disast er came down from the LORD To the gate of J erusalem.

nkjv@Micah:1:13 @ O inhabitant of Lachish, Harness the chariot to the swift steeds (She was the beginning of sin to the daught er of Zion), For the transgressions of Israel w ere found in you.

nkjv@Micah:1:14 @ Th erefore you shall give presents to Moresheth Gath; The houses of Achzib shall be a lie to the kings of Israel.

nkjv@Micah:2:1 @ Woe to those who devise iniquity, And work out evil on their beds! At morning light they practice it, Because it is in the pow er of their hand.

nkjv@Micah:2:2 @ They covet fields and take them by violence, Also houses, and seize them. So they oppress a man and his house, A man and his inh eritance.

nkjv@Micah:2:3 @ Th erefore thus says the LORD: "Behold, against this family I am devising disast er, From which you cannot remove your necks; Nor shall you walk haughtily, For this is an evil time.

nkjv@Micah:2:4 @ In that day one shall take up a prov erb against you, And lament with a bitt er lamentation, saying: "We are utt erly destroyed! He has changed the h eritage of my people; How He has removed it from me! To a turncoat He has divided our fields."'

nkjv@Micah:2:5 @ Th erefore you will have no one to det ermine boundaries by lot In the assembly of the LORD.

nkjv@Micah:2:9 @ The women of My people you cast out From their pleasant houses; From their children You have taken away My glory forev er.

nkjv@Micah:2:10 @ "Arise and depart, For this is not your rest; Because it is defiled, it shall destroy, Yes, with utt er destruction.

nkjv@Micah:2:11 @ If a man should walk in a false spirit And speak a lie, saying, "I will prophesy to you of wine and drink,' Even he would be the prattl er of this people.

nkjv@Micah:2:12 @ "I will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob, I will surely gath er the remnant of Israel; I will put them togeth er like sheep of the fold, Like a flock in the midst of their pasture; They shall make a loud noise because of so many people.

nkjv@Micah:3:1 @ And I said: "Hear now, O heads of Jacob, And you rul ers of the house of Israel: Is it not for you to know justice?

nkjv@Micah:3:5 @ Thus says the LORD conc erning the prophets Who make my people stray; Who chant "Peace" While they chew with their teeth, But who prepare war against him Who puts nothing into their mouths:

nkjv@Micah:3:6 @ "Th erefore you shall have night without vision, And you shall have darkness without divination; The sun shall go down on the prophets, And the day shall be dark for them.

nkjv@Micah:3:7 @ So the se ers shall be ashamed, And the divin ers abashed; Indeed they shall all cov er their lips; For th ere is no answ er from God."

nkjv@Micah:3:8 @ But truly I am full of pow er by the Spirit of the LORD, And of justice and might, To declare to Jacob his transgression And to Israel his sin.

nkjv@Micah:3:9 @ Now hear this, You heads of the house of Jacob And rul ers of the house of Israel, Who abhor justice And p erv ert all equity,

nkjv@Micah:3:10 @ Who build up Zion with bloodshed And J erusalem with iniquity:

nkjv@Micah:3:11 @ H er heads judge for a bribe, H er priests teach for pay, And h er prophets divine for money. Yet they lean on the LORD, and say, "Is not the LORD among us? No harm can come upon us."

nkjv@Micah:3:12 @ Th erefore because of you Zion shall be plowed like a field, J erusalem shall become heaps of ruins, And the mountain of the temple Like the bare hills of the forest.

nkjv@Micah:4:1 @ Now it shall come to pass in the latt er days That the mountain of the LORD's house Shall be established on the top of the mountains, And shall be exalted above the hills; And peoples shall flow to it.

nkjv@Micah:4:2 @ Many nations shall come and say, "Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, To the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, And we shall walk in His paths." For out of Zion the law shall go forth, And the word of the LORD from J erusalem.

nkjv@Micah:4:3 @ He shall judge between many peoples, And rebuke strong nations afar off; They shall beat their swords into plowshares, And their spears into pruning hooks; Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, Neith er shall they learn war anymore.

nkjv@Micah:4:4 @ But ev eryone shall sit und er his vine and und er his fig tree, And no one shall make them afraid; For the mouth of the LORD of hosts has spoken.

nkjv@Micah:4:5 @ For all people walk each in the name of his god, But we will walk in the name of the LORD our God Forev er and ev er.

nkjv@Micah:4:6 @ "In that day," says the LORD, "I will assemble the lame, I will gath er the outcast And those whom I have afflicted;

nkjv@Micah:4:7 @ I will make the lame a remnant, And the outcast a strong nation; So the LORD will reign ov er them in Mount Zion From now on, even forev er.

nkjv@Micah:4:8 @ And you, O tow er of the flock, The stronghold of the daught er of Zion, To you shall it come, Even the form er dominion shall come, The kingdom of the daught er of J erusalem."

nkjv@Micah:4:9 @ Now why do you cry aloud? Is th ere no king in your midst? Has your counselor p erished? For pangs have seized you like a woman in labor.

nkjv@Micah:4:10 @ Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, O daught er of Zion, Like a woman in birth pangs. For now you shall go forth from the city, You shall dwell in the field, And to Babylon you shall go. Th ere you shall be deliv ered; Th ere the LORD will redeem you From the hand of your enemies.

nkjv@Micah:4:11 @ Now also many nations have gath ered against you, Who say, "Let h er be defiled, And let our eye look upon Zion."

nkjv@Micah:4:12 @ But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD, Nor do they und erstand His counsel; For He will gath er them like sheaves to the threshing floor.

nkjv@Micah:4:13 @ "Arise and thresh, O daught er of Zion; For I will make your horn iron, And I will make your hooves bronze; You shall beat in pieces many peoples; I will consecrate their gain to the LORD, And their substance to the Lord of the whole earth."

nkjv@Micah:5:1 @ Now gath er yourself in troops, O daught er of troops; He has laid siege against us; They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.

nkjv@Micah:5:2 @ "But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, Though you are little among the thousands of Judah, Yet out of you shall come forth to Me The One to be Rul er in Israel, Whose goings forth are from of old, From ev erlasting."

nkjv@Micah:5:3 @ Th erefore He shall give them up, Until the time that she who is in labor has given birth; Then the remnant of His brethren Shall return to the children of Israel.

nkjv@Micah:5:5 @ And this One shall be peace. When the Assyrian comes into our land, And when he treads in our palaces, Then we will raise against him Seven sheph erds and eight princely men.

nkjv@Micah:5:6 @ They shall waste with the sword the land of Assyria, And the land of Nimrod at its entrances; Thus He shall deliv er us from the Assyrian, When he comes into our land And when he treads within our bord ers.

nkjv@Micah:5:7 @ Then the remnant of Jacob Shall be in the midst of many peoples, Like dew from the LORD, Like show ers on the grass, That tarry for no man Nor wait for the sons of men.

nkjv@Micah:5:8 @ And the remnant of Jacob Shall be among the Gentiles, In the midst of many peoples, Like a lion among the beasts of the forest, Like a young lion among flocks of sheep, Who, if he passes through, Both treads down and tears in pieces, And none can deliv er.

nkjv@Micah:5:9 @ Your hand shall be lifted against your adv ersaries, And all your enemies shall be cut off.

nkjv@Micah:5:12 @ I will cut off sorc eries from your hand, And you shall have no soothsay ers.

nkjv@Micah:5:15 @ And I will execute vengeance in ang er and fury On the nations that have not heard."

nkjv@Micah:6:5 @ O My people, rememb er now What Balak king of Moab counseled, And what Balaam the son of Beor answ ered him, From Acacia Grove to Gilgal, That you may know the righteousness of the LORD."

nkjv@Micah:6:6 @ With what shall I come before the LORD, And bow myself before the High God? Shall I come before Him with burnt off erings, With calves a year old?

nkjv@Micah:6:7 @ Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, Ten thousand riv ers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

nkjv@Micah:6:8 @ He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the LORD require of you But to do justly, To love m ercy, And to walk humbly with your God?

nkjv@Micah:6:10 @ Are th ere yet the treasures of wickedness In the house of the wicked, And the short measure that is an abomination?

nkjv@Micah:6:12 @ For h er rich men are full of violence, H er inhabitants have spoken lies, And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

nkjv@Micah:6:13 @ "Th erefore I will also make you sick by striking you, By making you desolate because of your sins.

nkjv@Micah:6:14 @ You shall eat, but not be satisfied; Hung er shall be in your midst. You may carry some away, but shall not save them; And what you do rescue I will give ov er to the sword.

nkjv@Micah:6:16 @ For the statutes of Omri are kept; All the works of Ahab's house are done; And you walk in their counsels, That I may make you a desolation, And your inhabitants a hissing. Th erefore you shall bear the reproach of My people."

nkjv@Micah:7:1 @ Woe is me! For I am like those who gath er summ er fruits, Like those who glean vintage grapes; Th ere is no clust er to eat Of the first-ripe fruit which my soul desires.

nkjv@Micah:7:2 @ The faithful man has p erished from the earth, And th ere is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; Ev ery man hunts his broth er with a net.

nkjv@Micah:7:3 @ That they may successfully do evil with both hands-- The prince asks for gifts, The judge seeks a bribe, And the great man utt ers his evil desire; So they scheme togeth er.

nkjv@Micah:7:4 @ The best of them is like a bri er; The most upright is sharp er than a thorn hedge; The day of your watchman and your punishment comes; Now shall be their p erplexity.

nkjv@Micah:7:5 @ Do not trust in a friend; Do not put your confidence in a companion; Guard the doors of your mouth From h er who lies in your bosom.

nkjv@Micah:7:6 @ For son dishonors fath er, Daught er rises against h er moth er, Daught er-in-law against h er moth er-in-law; A man's enemies are the men of his own household.

nkjv@Micah:7:7 @ Th erefore I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation; My God will hear me.

nkjv@Micah:7:8 @ Do not rejoice ov er me, my enemy; When I fall, I will arise; When I sit in darkness, The LORD will be a light to me.

nkjv@Micah:7:10 @ Then she who is my enemy will see, And shame will cov er h er who said to me, "Wh ere is the LORD your God?" My eyes will see h er; Now she will be trampled down Like mud in the streets.

nkjv@Micah:7:12 @ In that day they shall come to you From Assyria and the fortified cities, From the fortress to the Riv er, From sea to sea, And mountain to mountain.

nkjv@Micah:7:14 @ Sheph erd Your people with Your staff, The flock of Your h eritage, Who dwell solitarily in a woodland, In the midst of Carmel; Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, As in days of old.

nkjv@Micah:7:15 @ "As in the days when you came out of the land of Egypt, I will show them wond ers."

nkjv@Micah:7:16 @ The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might; They shall put their hand ov er their mouth; Their ears shall be deaf.

nkjv@Micah:7:17 @ They shall lick the dust like a s erpent; They shall crawl from their holes like snakes of the earth. They shall be afraid of the LORD our God, And shall fear because of You.

nkjv@Micah:7:18 @ Who is a God like You, Pardoning iniquity And passing ov er the transgression of the remnant of His h eritage? He does not retain His ang er forev er, Because He delights in m ercy.

nkjv@Micah:7:20 @ You will give truth to Jacob And m ercy to Abraham, Which You have sworn to our fath ers From days of old.

nkjv@Nahum:1:2 @ God is jealous, and the LORD avenges; The LORD avenges and is furious. The LORD will take vengeance on His adv ersaries, And He res erves wrath for His enemies;

nkjv@Nahum:1:3 @ The LORD is slow to ang er and great in pow er, And will not at all acquit the wicked. The LORD has His way In the whirlwind and in the storm, And the clouds are the dust of His feet.

nkjv@Nahum:1:4 @ He rebukes the sea and makes it dry, And dries up all the riv ers. Bashan and Carmel with er, And the flow er of Lebanon wilts.

nkjv@Nahum:1:6 @ Who can stand before His indignation? And who can endure the fi erceness of His ang er? His fury is poured out like fire, And the rocks are thrown down by Him.

nkjv@Nahum:1:8 @ But with an ov erflowing flood He will make an utt er end of its place, And darkness will pursue His enemies.

nkjv@Nahum:1:9 @ What do you conspire against the LORD? He will make an utt er end of it. Affliction will not rise up a second time.

nkjv@Nahum:1:12 @ Thus says the LORD: "Though they are safe, and likewise many, Yet in this mann er they will be cut down When he passes through. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more;

nkjv@Nahum:1:14 @ The LORD has given a command conc erning you: "Your name shall be p erpetuated no long er. Out of the house of your gods I will cut off the carved image and the molded image. I will dig your grave, For you are vile."

nkjv@Nahum:1:15 @ Behold, on the mountains The feet of him who brings good tidings, Who proclaims peace! O Judah, keep your appointed feasts, P erform your vows. For the wicked one shall no more pass through you; He is utt erly cut off.

nkjv@Nahum:2:1 @ He who scatt ers has come up before your face. Man the fort! Watch the road! Strengthen your flanks! Fortify your pow er mightily.

nkjv@Nahum:2:2 @ For the LORD will restore the excellence of Jacob Like the excellence of Israel, For the empti ers have emptied them out And ruined their vine branches.

nkjv@Nahum:2:4 @ The chariots rage in the streets, They jostle one anoth er in the broad roads; They seem like torches, They run like lightning.

nkjv@Nahum:2:5 @ He rememb ers his nobles; They stumble in their walk; They make haste to h er walls, And the defense is prepared.

nkjv@Nahum:2:6 @ The gates of the riv ers are opened, And the palace is dissolved.

nkjv@Nahum:2:7 @ It is decreed: She shall be led away captive, She shall be brought up; And h er maids ervants shall lead h er as with the voice of doves, Beating their breasts.

nkjv@Nahum:2:8 @ Though Nineveh of old was like a pool of wat er, Now they flee away. "Halt! Halt!" they cry; But no one turns back.

nkjv@Nahum:2:9 @ Take spoil of silv er! Take spoil of gold! Th ere is no end of treasure, Or wealth of ev ery desirable prize.

nkjv@Nahum:2:10 @ She is empty, desolate, and waste! The heart melts, and the knees shake; Much pain is in ev ery side, And all their faces are drained of color. 1

nkjv@Nahum:2:11 @ Wh ere is the dwelling of the lions, And the feeding place of the young lions, Wh ere the lion walked, the lioness and lion's cub, And no one made them afraid?

nkjv@Nahum:2:13 @ "Behold, I am against you," says the LORD of hosts, "I will burn your chariots in smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions; I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messeng ers shall be heard no more."

nkjv@Nahum:3:1 @ Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robb ery. Its victim nev er departs.

nkjv@Nahum:3:2 @ The noise of a whip And the noise of rattling wheels, Of galloping horses, Of clatt ering chariots!

nkjv@Nahum:3:3 @ Horsemen charge with bright sword and glitt ering spear. Th ere is a multitude of slain, A great numb er of bodies, Countless corpses-- They stumble ov er the corpses--

nkjv@Nahum:3:4 @ Because of the multitude of harlotries of the seductive harlot, The mistress of sorc eries, Who sells nations through h er harlotries, And families through h er sorc eries.

nkjv@Nahum:3:5 @ "Behold, I am against you," says the LORD of hosts; "I will lift your skirts ov er your face, I will show the nations your nakedness, And the kingdoms your shame.

nkjv@Nahum:3:7 @ It shall come to pass that all who look upon you Will flee from you, and say, "Nineveh is laid waste! Who will bemoan h er?' Wh ere shall I seek comfort ers for you?"

nkjv@Nahum:3:8 @ Are you bett er than No Amon That was situated by the Riv er, That had the wat ers around h er, Whose rampart was the sea, Whose wall was the sea?

nkjv@Nahum:3:9 @ Ethiopia and Egypt w ere h er strength, And it was boundless; Put and Lubim w ere your help ers.

nkjv@Nahum:3:10 @ Yet she was carried away, She went into captivity; H er young children also w ere dashed to pieces At the head of ev ery street; They cast lots for h er honorable men, And all h er great men w ere bound in chains.

nkjv@Nahum:3:12 @ All your strongholds are fig trees with ripened figs: If they are shaken, They fall into the mouth of the eat er.

nkjv@Nahum:3:14 @ Draw your wat er for the siege! Fortify your strongholds! Go into the clay and tread the mortar! Make strong the brick kiln!

nkjv@Nahum:3:15 @ Th ere the fire will devour you, The sword will cut you off; It will eat you up like a locust. Make yourself many--like the locust! Make yourself many-- like the swarming locusts!

nkjv@Nahum:3:16 @ You have multiplied your m erchants more than the stars of heaven. The locust plund ers and flies away.

nkjv@Nahum:3:17 @ Your command ers are like swarming locusts, And your gen erals like great grasshopp ers, Which camp in the hedges on a cold day; When the sun rises they flee away, And the place wh ere they are is not known.

nkjv@Nahum:3:18 @ Your sheph erds slumb er, O king of Assyria; Your nobles rest in the dust. Your people are scatt ered on the mountains, And no one gath ers them.

nkjv@Nahum:3:19 @ Your injury has no healing, Your wound is sev ere. All who hear news of you Will clap their hands ov er you, For upon whom has not your wickedness passed continually?

nkjv@Habakkuk:1:3 @ Why do You show me iniquity, And cause me to see trouble? For plund ering and violence are before me; Th ere is strife, and contention arises.

nkjv@Habakkuk:1:4 @ Th erefore the law is pow erless, And justice nev er goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous; Th erefore p erv erse judgment proceeds.

nkjv@Habakkuk:1:5 @ "Look among the nations and watch-- Be utt erly astounded! For I will work a work in your days Which you would not believe, though it w ere told you.

nkjv@Habakkuk:1:6 @ For indeed I am raising up the Chaldeans, A bitt er and hasty nation Which marches through the breadth of the earth, To possess dwelling places that are not theirs.

nkjv@Habakkuk:1:7 @ They are t errible and dreadful; Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.

nkjv@Habakkuk:1:8 @ Their horses also are swift er than leopards, And more fi erce than evening wolves. Their charg ers charge ahead; Their cavalry comes from afar; They fly as the eagle that hastens to eat.

nkjv@Habakkuk:1:9 @ "They all come for violence; Their faces are set like the east wind. They gath er captives like sand.

nkjv@Habakkuk:1:10 @ They scoff at kings, And princes are scorned by them. They d eride ev ery stronghold, For they heap up earthen mounds and seize it.

nkjv@Habakkuk:1:11 @ Then his mind changes, and he transgresses; He commits offense, Ascribing this pow er to his god."

nkjv@Habakkuk:1:12 @ Are You not from ev erlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O LORD, You have appointed them for judgment; O Rock, You have marked them for correction.

nkjv@Habakkuk:1:13 @ You are of pur er eyes than to behold evil, And cannot look on wickedness. Why do You look on those who deal treach erously, And hold Your tongue when the wicked devours A p erson more righteous than he?

nkjv@Habakkuk:1:14 @ Why do You make men like fish of the sea, Like creeping things that have no rul er ov er them?

nkjv@Habakkuk:1:15 @ They take up all of them with a hook, They catch them in their net, And gath er them in their dragnet. Th erefore they rejoice and are glad.

nkjv@Habakkuk:1:16 @ Th erefore they sacrifice to their net, And burn incense to their dragnet; Because by them their share is sumptuous And their food plentiful.

nkjv@Habakkuk:1:17 @ Shall they th erefore empty their net, And continue to slay nations without pity?

nkjv@Habakkuk:2:1 @ I will stand my watch And set myself on the rampart, And watch to see what He will say to me, And what I will answ er when I am corrected.

nkjv@Habakkuk:2:2 @ Then the LORD answ ered me and said: "Write the vision And make it plain on tablets, That he may run who reads it.

nkjv@Habakkuk:2:5 @ "Indeed, because he transgresses by wine, He is a proud man, And he does not stay at home. Because he enlarges his desire as hell, And he is like death, and cannot be satisfied, He gath ers to himself all nations And heaps up for himself all peoples.

nkjv@Habakkuk:2:6 @ "Will not all these take up a prov erb against him, And a taunting riddle against him, and say, "Woe to him who increases What is not his--how long? And to him who loads himself with many pledges'?

nkjv@Habakkuk:2:8 @ Because you have plund ered many nations, All the remnant of the people shall plund er you, Because of men's blood And the violence of the land and the city, And of all who dwell in it.

nkjv@Habakkuk:2:9 @ "Woe to him who covets evil gain for his house, That he may set his nest on high, That he may be deliv ered from the pow er of disast er!

nkjv@Habakkuk:2:11 @ For the stone will cry out from the wall, And the beam from the timb ers will answ er it.

nkjv@Habakkuk:2:14 @ For the earth will be filled With the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, As the wat ers cov er the sea.

nkjv@Habakkuk:2:16 @ You are filled with shame instead of glory. You also--drink! And be exposed as uncircumcised! The cup of the LORD's right hand will be turned against you, And utt er shame will be on your glory.

nkjv@Habakkuk:2:17 @ For the violence done to Lebanon will cov er you, And the plund er of beasts which made them afraid, Because of men's blood And the violence of the land and the city, And of all who dwell in it.

nkjv@Habakkuk:2:18 @ "What profit is the image, that its mak er should carve it, The molded image, a teach er of lies, That the mak er of its mold should trust in it, To make mute idols?

nkjv@Habakkuk:2:19 @ Woe to him who says to wood, "Awake!' To silent stone, "Arise! It shall teach!' Behold, it is ov erlaid with gold and silv er, Yet in it th ere is no breath at all.

nkjv@Habakkuk:3:1 @ A pray er of Habakkuk the prophet, on Shigionoth.

nkjv@Habakkuk:3:2 @ O LORD, I have heard Your speech and was afraid; O LORD, revive Your work in the midst of the years! In the midst of the years make it known; In wrath rememb er m ercy.

nkjv@Habakkuk:3:3 @ God came from Teman, The Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah His glory cov ered the heavens, And the earth was full of His praise.

nkjv@Habakkuk:3:4 @ His brightness was like the light; He had rays flashing from His hand, And th ere His pow er was hidden.

nkjv@Habakkuk:3:5 @ Before Him went pestilence, And fev er followed at His feet.

nkjv@Habakkuk:3:6 @ He stood and measured the earth; He looked and startled the nations. And the ev erlasting mountains w ere scatt ered, The p erpetual hills bowed. His ways are ev erlasting.

nkjv@Habakkuk:3:8 @ O LORD, w ere You displeased with the riv ers, Was Your ang er against the riv ers, Was Your wrath against the sea, That You rode on Your horses, Your chariots of salvation?

nkjv@Habakkuk:3:9 @ Your bow was made quite ready; Oaths w ere sworn ov er Your arrows. Selah You divided the earth with riv ers.

nkjv@Habakkuk:3:10 @ The mountains saw You and trembled; The ov erflowing of the wat er passed by. The deep utt ered its voice, And lifted its hands on high.

nkjv@Habakkuk:3:11 @ The sun and moon stood still in their habitation; At the light of Your arrows they went, At the shining of Your glitt ering spear.

nkjv@Habakkuk:3:12 @ You marched through the land in indignation; You trampled the nations in ang er.

nkjv@Habakkuk:3:14 @ You thrust through with his own arrows The head of his villages. They came out like a whirlwind to scatt er me; Their rejoicing was like feasting on the poor in secret.

nkjv@Habakkuk:3:15 @ You walked through the sea with Your horses, Through the heap of great wat ers.

nkjv@Habakkuk:3:16 @ When I heard, my body trembled; My lips quiv ered at the voice; Rottenness ent ered my bones; And I trembled in myself, That I might rest in the day of trouble. When he comes up to the people, He will invade them with his troops.

nkjv@Habakkuk:3:17 @ Though the fig tree may not blossom, Nor fruit be on the vines; Though the labor of the olive may fail, And the fields yield no food; Though the flock may be cut off from the fold, And th ere be no h erd in the stalls--

nkjv@Habakkuk:3:19 @ The LORD God is my strength; He will make my feet like de er's feet, And He will make me walk on my high hills. To the Chief Musician. With my stringed instruments.

nkjv@Zephaniah:1:2 @ "I will utt erly consume ev erything From the face of the land," Says the LORD;

nkjv@Zephaniah:1:4 @ "I will stretch out My hand against Judah, And against all the inhabitants of J erusalem. I will cut off ev ery trace of Baal from this place, The names of the idolatrous priests with the pagan priests--

nkjv@Zephaniah:1:9 @ In the same day I will punish All those who leap ov er the threshold, Who fill their mast ers' houses with violence and deceit.

nkjv@Zephaniah:1:10 @ "And th ere shall be on that day," says the LORD, "The sound of a mournful cry from the Fish Gate, A wailing from the Second Quart er, And a loud crashing from the hills.

nkjv@Zephaniah:1:11 @ Wail, you inhabitants of Maktesh! For all the m erchant people are cut down; All those who handle money are cut off.

nkjv@Zephaniah:1:12 @ "And it shall come to pass at that time That I will search J erusalem with lamps, And punish the men Who are settled in complacency, Who say in their heart, "The LORD will not do good, Nor will He do evil.'

nkjv@Zephaniah:1:13 @ Th erefore their goods shall become booty, And their houses a desolation; They shall build houses, but not inhabit them; They shall plant vineyards, but not drink their wine."

nkjv@Zephaniah:1:14 @ The great day of the LORD is near; It is near and hastens quickly. The noise of the day of the LORD is bitt er; Th ere the mighty men shall cry out.

nkjv@Zephaniah:1:16 @ A day of trumpet and alarm Against the fortified cities And against the high tow ers.

nkjv@Zephaniah:1:18 @ Neith er their silv er nor their gold Shall be able to deliv er them In the day of the LORD's wrath; But the whole land shall be devoured By the fire of His jealousy, For He will make speedy riddance Of all those who dwell in the land.

nkjv@Zephaniah:2:1 @ Gath er yourselves togeth er, yes, gath er togeth er, O undesirable nation,

nkjv@Zephaniah:2:2 @ Before the decree is issued, Or the day passes like chaff, Before the LORD's fi erce ang er comes upon you, Before the day of the LORD's ang er comes upon you!

nkjv@Zephaniah:2:3 @ Seek the LORD, all you meek of the earth, Who have upheld His justice. Seek righteousness, seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden In the day of the LORD's ang er.

nkjv@Zephaniah:2:5 @ Woe to the inhabitants of the seacoast, The nation of the Ch erethites! The word of the LORD is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines: "I will destroy you; So th ere shall be no inhabitant."

nkjv@Zephaniah:2:6 @ The seacoast shall be pastures, With shelt ers for sheph erds and folds for flocks.

nkjv@Zephaniah:2:7 @ The coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; They shall feed their flocks th ere; In the houses of Ashkelon they shall lie down at evening. For the LORD their God will int ervene for them, And return their captives.

nkjv@Zephaniah:2:8 @ "I have heard the reproach of Moab, And the insults of the people of Ammon, With which they have reproached My people, And made arrogant threats against their bord ers.

nkjv@Zephaniah:2:9 @ Th erefore, as I live," Says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "Surely Moab shall be like Sodom, And the people of Ammon like Gomorrah-- Ov errun with weeds and saltpits, And a p erpetual desolation. The residue of My people shall plund er them, And the remnant of My people shall possess them."

nkjv@Zephaniah:2:13 @ And He will stretch out His hand against the north, Destroy Assyria, And make Nineveh a desolation, As dry as the wild erness.

nkjv@Zephaniah:2:14 @ The h erds shall lie down in h er midst, Ev ery beast of the nation. Both the pelican and the bitt ern Shall lodge on the capitals of h er pillars; Their voice shall sing in the windows; Desolation shall be at the threshold; For He will lay bare the cedar work.

nkjv@Zephaniah:2:15 @ This is the rejoicing city That dwelt securely, That said in h er heart, "I am it, and th ere is none besides me." How has she become a desolation, A place for beasts to lie down! Ev eryone who passes by h er Shall hiss and shake his fist.

nkjv@Zephaniah:3:1 @ Woe to h er who is rebellious and polluted, To the oppressing city!

nkjv@Zephaniah:3:2 @ She has not obeyed His voice, She has not received correction; She has not trusted in the LORD, She has not drawn near to h er God.

nkjv@Zephaniah:3:3 @ H er princes in h er midst are roaring lions; H er judges are evening wolves That leave not a bone till morning.

nkjv@Zephaniah:3:4 @ H er prophets are insolent, treach erous people; H er priests have polluted the sanctuary, They have done violence to the law.

nkjv@Zephaniah:3:5 @ The LORD is righteous in h er midst, He will do no unrighteousness. Ev ery morning He brings His justice to light; He nev er fails, But the unjust knows no shame.

nkjv@Zephaniah:3:6 @ "I have cut off nations, Their fortresses are devastated; I have made their streets desolate, With none passing by. Their cities are destroyed; Th ere is no one, no inhabitant.

nkjv@Zephaniah:3:7 @ I said, "Surely you will fear Me, You will receive instruction'-- So that h er dwelling would not be cut off, Despite ev erything for which I punished h er. But they rose early and corrupted all their deeds.

nkjv@Zephaniah:3:8 @ "Th erefore wait for Me," says the LORD, "Until the day I rise up for plund er; My det ermination is to gath er the nations To My assembly of kingdoms, To pour on them My indignation, All My fi erce ang er; All the earth shall be devoured With the fire of My jealousy.

nkjv@Zephaniah:3:9 @ "For then I will restore to the peoples a pure language, That they all may call on the name of the LORD, To s erve Him with one accord.

nkjv@Zephaniah:3:10 @ From beyond the riv ers of Ethiopia My worship ers, The daught er of My disp ersed ones, Shall bring My off ering.

nkjv@Zephaniah:3:11 @ In that day you shall not be shamed for any of your deeds In which you transgress against Me; For then I will take away from your midst Those who rejoice in your pride, And you shall no long er be haughty In My holy mountain.

nkjv@Zephaniah:3:14 @ Sing, O daught er of Zion! Shout, O Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, O daught er of J erusalem!

nkjv@Zephaniah:3:15 @ The LORD has taken away your judgments, He has cast out your enemy. The King of Israel, the LORD, is in your midst; You shall see disast er no more.

nkjv@Zephaniah:3:16 @ In that day it shall be said to J erusalem: "Do not fear; Zion, let not your hands be weak.

nkjv@Zephaniah:3:17 @ The LORD your God in your midst, The Mighty One, will save; He will rejoice ov er you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice ov er you with singing."

nkjv@Zephaniah:3:18 @ "I will gath er those who sorrow ov er the appointed assembly, Who are among you, To whom its reproach is a burden.

nkjv@Zephaniah:3:19 @ Behold, at that time I will deal with all who afflict you; I will save the lame, And gath er those who w ere driven out; I will appoint them for praise and fame In ev ery land wh ere they w ere put to shame.

nkjv@Zephaniah:3:20 @ At that time I will bring you back, Even at the time I gath er you; For I will give you fame and praise Among all the peoples of the earth, When I return your captives before your eyes," Says the LORD.

nkjv@Haggai:1:1 @ In the second year of King Darius, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet to Z erubbabel the son of Shealtiel, gov ernor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,

nkjv@Haggai:1:5 @ Now th erefore, thus says the LORD of hosts: "Consid er your ways!

nkjv@Haggai:1:7 @ Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Consid er your ways!

nkjv@Haggai:1:9 @ "You looked for much, but indeed it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?" says the LORD of hosts. "Because of My house that is in ruins, while ev ery one of you runs to his own house.

nkjv@Haggai:1:10 @ Th erefore the heavens above you withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.

nkjv@Haggai:1:11 @ For I called for a drought on the land and the mountains, on the grain and the new wine and the oil, on whatev er the ground brings forth, on men and livestock, and on all the labor of your hands."

nkjv@Haggai:1:12 @ Then Z erubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him; and the people feared the presence of the LORD.

nkjv@Haggai:1:13 @ Then Haggai, the LORD's messeng er, spoke the LORD's message to the people, saying, "I am with you, says the LORD."

nkjv@Haggai:1:14 @ So the LORD stirred up the spirit of Z erubbabel the son of Shealtiel, gov ernor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,

nkjv@Haggai:2:2 @ "Speak now to Z erubbabel the son of Shealtiel, gov ernor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the remnant of the people, saying:

nkjv@Haggai:2:3 @ "Who is left among you who saw this temple in its form er glory? And how do you see it now? In comparison with it, is this not in your eyes as nothing?

nkjv@Haggai:2:4 @ Yet now be strong, Z erubbabel,' says the LORD; "and be strong, Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest; and be strong, all you people of the land,' says the LORD, "and work; for I am with you,' says the LORD of hosts.

nkjv@Haggai:2:8 @ "The silv er is Mine, and the gold is Mine,' says the LORD of hosts.

nkjv@Haggai:2:9 @ "The glory of this latt er temple shall be great er than the form er,' says the LORD of hosts. "And in this place I will give peace,' says the LORD of hosts."

nkjv@Haggai:2:11 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Now, ask the priests conc erning the law, saying,

nkjv@Haggai:2:12 @ "If one carries holy meat in the fold of his garment, and with the edge he touches bread or stew, wine or oil, or any food, will it become holy?""' Then the priests answ ered and said, "No."

nkjv@Haggai:2:13 @ And Haggai said, "If one who is unclean because of a dead body touches any of these, will it be unclean?" So the priests answ ered and said, "It shall be unclean."

nkjv@Haggai:2:14 @ Then Haggai answ ered and said, ""So is this people, and so is this nation before Me,' says the LORD, "and so is ev ery work of their hands; and what they off er th ere is unclean.

nkjv@Haggai:2:15 @ "And now, carefully consid er from this day forward: from before stone was laid upon stone in the temple of the LORD--

nkjv@Haggai:2:16 @ since those days, when one came to a heap of twenty ephahs, th ere w ere but ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty baths from the press, th ere w ere but twenty.

nkjv@Haggai:2:18 @ "Consid er now from this day forward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the day that the foundation of the LORD's temple was laid--consid er it:

nkjv@Haggai:2:21 @ "Speak to Z erubbabel, gov ernor of Judah, saying: "I will shake heaven and earth.

nkjv@Haggai:2:22 @ I will ov erthrow the throne of kingdoms; I will destroy the strength of the Gentile kingdoms. I will ov erthrow the chariots And those who ride in them; The horses and their rid ers shall come down, Ev ery one by the sword of his broth er.

nkjv@Haggai:2:23 @ "In that day,' says the LORD of hosts, "I will take you, Z erubbabel My s ervant, the son of Shealtiel,' says the LORD, "and will make you like a signet ring; for I have chosen you,' says the LORD of hosts."

nkjv@Zechariah:1:1 @ In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah the son of B erechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,

nkjv@Zechariah:1:2 @ "The LORD has been v ery angry with your fath ers.

nkjv@Zechariah:1:3 @ Th erefore say to them, "Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Return to Me," says the LORD of hosts, "and I will return to you," says the LORD of hosts.

nkjv@Zechariah:1:4 @ "Do not be like your fath ers, to whom the form er prophets preached, saying, "Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Turn now from your evil ways and your evil deeds."' But they did not hear nor heed Me," says the LORD.

nkjv@Zechariah:1:5 @ "Your fath ers, wh ere are they? And the prophets, do they live forev er?

nkjv@Zechariah:1:6 @ Yet surely My words and My statutes, Which I commanded My s ervants the prophets, Did they not ov ertake your fath ers? "So they returned and said: "Just as the LORD of hosts det ermined to do to us, According to our ways and according to our deeds, So He has dealt with us."""

nkjv@Zechariah:1:7 @ On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah the son of B erechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet:

nkjv@Zechariah:1:8 @ I saw by night, and behold, a man riding on a red horse, and it stood among the myrtle trees in the hollow; and behind him w ere horses: red, sorrel, and white.

nkjv@Zechariah:1:10 @ And the man who stood among the myrtle trees answ ered and said, "These are the ones whom the LORD has sent to walk to and fro throughout the earth."

nkjv@Zechariah:1:11 @ So they answ ered the Angel of the LORD, who stood among the myrtle trees, and said, "We have walked to and fro throughout the earth, and behold, all the earth is resting quietly."

nkjv@Zechariah:1:12 @ Then the Angel of the LORD answ ered and said, "O LORD of hosts, how long will You not have m ercy on J erusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which You w ere angry these seventy years?"

nkjv@Zechariah:1:13 @ And the LORD answ ered the angel who talked to me, with good and comforting words.

nkjv@Zechariah:1:14 @ So the angel who spoke with me said to me, "Proclaim, saying, "Thus says the LORD of hosts: "I am zealous for J erusalem And for Zion with great zeal.

nkjv@Zechariah:1:16 @ "Th erefore thus says the LORD: "I am returning to J erusalem with m ercy; My house shall be built in it," says the LORD of hosts, "And a surveyor's line shall be stretched out ov er J erusalem."'

nkjv@Zechariah:1:17 @ "Again proclaim, saying, "Thus says the LORD of hosts: "My cities shall again spread out through prosp erity; The LORD will again comfort Zion, And will again choose J erusalem.""'

nkjv@Zechariah:1:18 @ Then I raised my eyes and looked, and th ere w ere four horns.

nkjv@Zechariah:1:19 @ And I said to the angel who talked with me, "What are these?" So he answ ered me, "These are the horns that have scatt ered Judah, Israel, and J erusalem."

nkjv@Zechariah:1:21 @ And I said, "What are these coming to do?" So he said, "These are the horns that scatt ered Judah, so that no one could lift up his head; but the craftsmen are coming to t errify them, to cast out the horns of the nations that lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatt er it."

nkjv@Zechariah:2:2 @ So I said, "Wh ere are you going?" And he said to me, "To measure J erusalem, to see what is its width and what is its length."

nkjv@Zechariah:2:3 @ And th ere was the angel who talked with me, going out; and anoth er angel was coming out to meet him,

nkjv@Zechariah:2:4 @ who said to him, "Run, speak to this young man, saying: "J erusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls, because of the multitude of men and livestock in it.

nkjv@Zechariah:2:5 @ For I,' says the LORD, "will be a wall of fire all around h er, and I will be the glory in h er midst."'

nkjv@Zechariah:2:7 @ "Up, Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the daught er of Babylon."

nkjv@Zechariah:2:8 @ For thus says the LORD of hosts: "He sent Me aft er glory, to the nations which plund er you; for he who touches you touches the apple of His eye.

nkjv@Zechariah:2:9 @ For surely I will shake My hand against them, and they shall become spoil for their s ervants. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent Me.

nkjv@Zechariah:2:10 @ "Sing and rejoice, O daught er of Zion! For behold, I am coming and I will dwell in your midst," says the LORD.

nkjv@Zechariah:2:12 @ And the LORD will take possession of Judah as His inh eritance in the Holy Land, and will again choose J erusalem.

nkjv@Zechariah:3:2 @ And the LORD said to Satan, "The LORD rebuke you, Satan! The LORD who has chosen J erusalem rebuke you! Is this not a brand plucked from the fire?"

nkjv@Zechariah:3:4 @ Then He answ ered and spoke to those who stood before Him, saying, "Take away the filthy garments from him." And to him He said, "See, I have removed your iniquity from you, and I will clothe you with rich robes."

nkjv@Zechariah:3:7 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts: "If you will walk in My ways, And if you will keep My command, Then you shall also judge My house, And likewise have charge of My courts; I will give you places to walk Among these who stand h ere.

nkjv@Zechariah:3:8 @ "Hear, O Joshua, the high priest, You and your companions who sit before you, For they are a wondrous sign; For behold, I am bringing forth My S ervant the BRANCH.

nkjv@Zechariah:3:10 @ In that day,' says the LORD of hosts, "Ev eryone will invite his neighbor Und er his vine and und er his fig tree."'

nkjv@Zechariah:4:2 @ And he said to me, "What do you see?" So I said, "I am looking, and th ere is a lampstand of solid gold with a bowl on top of it, and on the stand seven lamps with seven pipes to the seven lamps.

nkjv@Zechariah:4:3 @ Two olive trees are by it, one at the right of the bowl and the oth er at its left."

nkjv@Zechariah:4:4 @ So I answ ered and spoke to the angel who talked with me, saying, "What are these, my lord?"

nkjv@Zechariah:4:5 @ Then the angel who talked with me answ ered and said to me, "Do you not know what these are?" And I said, "No, my lord."

nkjv@Zechariah:4:6 @ So he answ ered and said to me: "This is the word of the LORD to Z erubbabel: "Not by might nor by pow er, but by My Spirit,' Says the LORD of hosts.

nkjv@Zechariah:4:7 @ "Who are you, O great mountain? Before Z erubbabel you shall become a plain! And he shall bring forth the capstone With shouts of "Grace, grace to it!""'

nkjv@Zechariah:4:8 @ Moreov er the word of the LORD came to me, saying:

nkjv@Zechariah:4:9 @ "The hands of Z erubbabel Have laid the foundation of this temple; His hands shall also finish it. Then you will know That the LORD of hosts has sent Me to you.

nkjv@Zechariah:4:10 @ For who has despised the day of small things? For these seven rejoice to see The plumb line in the hand of Z erubbabel. They are the eyes of the LORD, Which scan to and fro throughout the whole earth."

nkjv@Zechariah:4:11 @ Then I answ ered and said to him, "What are these two olive trees--at the right of the lampstand and at its left?"

nkjv@Zechariah:4:12 @ And I furth er answ ered and said to him, "What are these two olive branches that drip into the receptacles of the two gold pipes from which the golden oil drains?"

nkjv@Zechariah:4:13 @ Then he answ ered me and said, "Do you not know what these are?" And I said, "No, my lord."

nkjv@Zechariah:5:1 @ Then I turned and raised my eyes, and saw th ere a flying scroll.

nkjv@Zechariah:5:2 @ And he said to me, "What do you see?" So I answ ered, "I see a flying scroll. Its length is twenty cubits and its width ten cubits."

nkjv@Zechariah:5:3 @ Then he said to me, "This is the curse that goes out ov er the face of the whole earth: "Ev ery thief shall be expelled,' according to this side of the scroll; and, "Ev ery p erjur er shall be expelled,' according to that side of it."

nkjv@Zechariah:5:4 @ "I will send out the curse," says the LORD of hosts; "It shall ent er the house of the thief And the house of the one who swears falsely by My name. It shall remain in the midst of his house And consume it, with its timb er and stones."

nkjv@Zechariah:5:7 @ H ere is a lead disc lifted up, and this is a woman sitting inside the basket";

nkjv@Zechariah:5:8 @ then he said, "This is Wickedness!" And he thrust h er down into the basket, and threw the lead cov er ov er its mouth.

nkjv@Zechariah:5:9 @ Then I raised my eyes and looked, and th ere w ere two women, coming with the wind in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between earth and heaven.

nkjv@Zechariah:5:10 @ So I said to the angel who talked with me, "Wh ere are they carrying the basket?"

nkjv@Zechariah:5:11 @ And he said to me, "To build a house for it in the land of Shinar; when it is ready, the basket will be set th ere on its base."

nkjv@Zechariah:6:1 @ Then I turned and raised my eyes and looked, and behold, four chariots w ere coming from between two mountains, and the mountains w ere mountains of bronze.

nkjv@Zechariah:6:2 @ With the first chariot w ere red horses, with the second chariot black horses,

nkjv@Zechariah:6:4 @ Then I answ ered and said to the angel who talked with me, "What are these, my lord?"

nkjv@Zechariah:6:5 @ And the angel answ ered and said to me, "These are four spirits of heaven, who go out from their station before the Lord of all the earth.

nkjv@Zechariah:6:6 @ The one with the black horses is going to the north country, the white are going aft er them, and the dappled are going toward the south country."

nkjv@Zechariah:6:7 @ Then the strong steeds went out, eag er to go, that they might walk to and fro throughout the earth. And He said, "Go, walk to and fro throughout the earth." So they walked to and fro throughout the earth.

nkjv@Zechariah:6:10 @ "Receive the gift from the captives--from Heldai, Tobijah, and Jedaiah, who have come from Babylon--and go the same day and ent er the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah.

nkjv@Zechariah:6:11 @ Take the silv er and gold, make an elaborate crown, and set it on the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest.

nkjv@Zechariah:7:2 @ when the people sent Sh erez er, with Regem-Melech and his men, to the house of God, to pray before the LORD,

nkjv@Zechariah:7:3 @ and to ask the priests who w ere in the house of the LORD of hosts, and the prophets, saying, "Should I weep in the fifth month and fast as I have done for so many years?"

nkjv@Zechariah:7:7 @ Should you not have obeyed the words which the LORD proclaimed through the form er prophets when J erusalem and the cities around it w ere inhabited and prosp erous, and the South and the Lowland w ere inhabited?"'

nkjv@Zechariah:7:9 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Execute true justice, Show m ercy and compassion Ev eryone to his broth er.

nkjv@Zechariah:7:10 @ Do not oppress the widow or the fath erless, The alien or the poor. Let none of you plan evil in his heart Against his broth er.'

nkjv@Zechariah:7:11 @ But they refused to heed, shrugged their should ers, and stopped their ears so that they could not hear.

nkjv@Zechariah:7:12 @ Yes, they made their hearts like flint, refusing to hear the law and the words which the LORD of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the form er prophets. Thus great wrath came from the LORD of hosts.

nkjv@Zechariah:7:13 @ Th erefore it happened, that just as He proclaimed and they would not hear, so they called out and I would not listen," says the LORD of hosts.

nkjv@Zechariah:7:14 @ "But I scatt ered them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they had not known. Thus the land became desolate aft er them, so that no one passed through or returned; for they made the pleasant land desolate."

nkjv@Zechariah:8:2 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts: "I am zealous for Zion with great zeal; With great f ervor I am zealous for h er.'

nkjv@Zechariah:8:3 @ "Thus says the LORD: "I will return to Zion, And dwell in the midst of J erusalem. J erusalem shall be called the City of Truth, The Mountain of the LORD of hosts, The Holy Mountain.'

nkjv@Zechariah:8:4 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Old men and old women shall again sit In the streets of J erusalem, Each one with his staff in his hand Because of great age.

nkjv@Zechariah:8:8 @ I will bring them back, And they shall dwell in the midst of J erusalem. They shall be My people And I will be their God, In truth and righteousness.'

nkjv@Zechariah:8:10 @ For before these days Th ere w ere no wages for man nor any hire for beast; Th ere was no peace from the enemy for whoev er went out or came in; For I set all men, ev eryone, against his neighbor.

nkjv@Zechariah:8:11 @ But now I will not treat the remnant of this people as in the form er days,' says the LORD of hosts.

nkjv@Zechariah:8:12 @ "For the seed shall be prosp erous, The vine shall give its fruit, The ground shall give h er increase, And the heavens shall give their dew-- I will cause the remnant of this people To possess all these.

nkjv@Zechariah:8:13 @ And it shall come to pass That just as you w ere a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, So I will save you, and you shall be a blessing. Do not fear, Let your hands be strong.'

nkjv@Zechariah:8:14 @ "For thus says the LORD of hosts: "Just as I det ermined to punish you When your fath ers provoked Me to wrath,' Says the LORD of hosts, "And I would not relent,

nkjv@Zechariah:8:15 @ So again in these days I am det ermined to do good To J erusalem and to the house of Judah. Do not fear.

nkjv@Zechariah:8:19 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts: "The fast of the fourth month, The fast of the fifth, The fast of the seventh, And the fast of the tenth, Shall be joy and gladness and che erful feasts For the house of Judah. Th erefore love truth and peace.'

nkjv@Zechariah:8:21 @ The inhabitants of one city shall go to anoth er, saying, "Let us continue to go and pray before the LORD, And seek the LORD of hosts. I myself will go also."

nkjv@Zechariah:8:22 @ Yes, many peoples and strong nations Shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in J erusalem, And to pray before the LORD.'

nkjv@Zechariah:8:23 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts: "In those days ten men from ev ery language of the nations shall grasp the sleeve of a Jewish man, saying, "Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.""'

nkjv@Zechariah:9:2 @ Also against Hamath, which bord ers on it, And against Tyre and Sidon, though they are v ery wise.

nkjv@Zechariah:9:3 @ For Tyre built h erself a tow er, Heaped up silv er like the dust, And gold like the mire of the streets.

nkjv@Zechariah:9:4 @ Behold, the LORD will cast h er out; He will destroy h er pow er in the sea, And she will be devoured by fire.

nkjv@Zechariah:9:5 @ Ashkelon shall see it and fear; Gaza also shall be v ery sorrowful; And Ekron, for He dried up h er expectation. The king shall p erish from Gaza, And Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.

nkjv@Zechariah:9:7 @ I will take away the blood from his mouth, And the abominations from between his teeth. But he who remains, even he shall be for our God, And shall be like a lead er in Judah, And Ekron like a Jebusite.

nkjv@Zechariah:9:9 @ "Rejoice greatly, O daught er of Zion! Shout, O daught er of J erusalem! Behold, your King is coming to you; He is just and having salvation, Lowly and riding on a donkey, A colt, the foal of a donkey.

nkjv@Zechariah:9:10 @ I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim And the horse from J erusalem; The battle bow shall be cut off. He shall speak peace to the nations; His dominion shall be "from sea to sea, And from the Riv er to the ends of the earth.'

nkjv@Zechariah:9:11 @ "As for you also, Because of the blood of your covenant, I will set your prison ers free from the wat erless pit.

nkjv@Zechariah:9:12 @ Return to the stronghold, You prison ers of hope. Even today I declare That I will restore double to you.

nkjv@Zechariah:9:14 @ Then the LORD will be seen ov er them, And His arrow will go forth like lightning. The Lord GOD will blow the trumpet, And go with whirlwinds from the south.

nkjv@Zechariah:9:15 @ The LORD of hosts will defend them; They shall devour and subdue with slingstones. They shall drink and roar as if with wine; They shall be filled with blood like basins, Like the corn ers of the altar.

nkjv@Zechariah:9:16 @ The LORD their God will save them in that day, As the flock of His people. For they shall be like the jewels of a crown, Lifted like a bann er ov er His land--

nkjv@Zechariah:10:1 @ Ask the LORD for rain In the time of the latt er rain. The LORD will make flashing clouds; He will give them show ers of rain, Grass in the field for ev eryone.

nkjv@Zechariah:10:2 @ For the idols speak delusion; The divin ers envision lies, And tell false dreams; They comfort in vain. Th erefore the people wend their way like sheep; They are in trouble because th ere is no sheph erd.

nkjv@Zechariah:10:3 @ "My ang er is kindled against the sheph erds, And I will punish the goath erds. For the LORD of hosts will visit His flock, The house of Judah, And will make them as His royal horse in the battle.

nkjv@Zechariah:10:4 @ From him comes the corn erstone, From him the tent peg, From him the battle bow, From him ev ery rul er togeth er.

nkjv@Zechariah:10:5 @ They shall be like mighty men, Who tread down their enemies In the mire of the streets in the battle. They shall fight because the LORD is with them, And the rid ers on horses shall be put to shame.

nkjv@Zechariah:10:6 @ "I will strengthen the house of Judah, And I will save the house of Joseph. I will bring them back, Because I have m ercy on them. They shall be as though I had not cast them aside; For I am the LORD their God, And I will hear them.

nkjv@Zechariah:10:8 @ I will whistle for them and gath er them, For I will redeem them; And they shall increase as they once increased.

nkjv@Zechariah:10:9 @ "I will sow them among the peoples, And they shall rememb er Me in far countries; They shall live, togeth er with their children, And they shall return.

nkjv@Zechariah:10:10 @ I will also bring them back from the land of Egypt, And gath er them from Assyria. I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon, Until no more room is found for them.

nkjv@Zechariah:10:11 @ He shall pass through the sea with affliction, And strike the waves of the sea: All the depths of the Riv er shall dry up. Then the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, And the scept er of Egypt shall depart.

nkjv@Zechariah:11:3 @ Th ere is the sound of wailing sheph erds! For their glory is in ruins. Th ere is the sound of roaring lions! For the pride of the Jordan is in ruins.

nkjv@Zechariah:11:4 @ Thus says the LORD my God, "Feed the flock for slaught er,

nkjv@Zechariah:11:5 @ whose own ers slaught er them and feel no guilt; those who sell them say, "Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich'; and their sheph erds do not pity them.

nkjv@Zechariah:11:6 @ For I will no long er pity the inhabitants of the land," says the LORD. "But indeed I will give ev eryone into his neighbor's hand and into the hand of his king. They shall attack the land, and I will not deliv er them from their hand."

nkjv@Zechariah:11:7 @ So I fed the flock for slaught er, in particular the poor of the flock. I took for myself two staffs: the one I called Beauty, and the oth er I called Bonds; and I fed the flock.

nkjv@Zechariah:11:8 @ I dismissed the three sheph erds in one month. My soul loathed them, and their soul also abhorred me.

nkjv@Zechariah:11:9 @ Then I said, "I will not feed you. Let what is dying die, and what is p erishing p erish. Let those that are left eat each oth er's flesh."

nkjv@Zechariah:11:11 @ So it was broken on that day. Thus the poor of the flock, who w ere watching me, knew that it was the word of the LORD.

nkjv@Zechariah:11:12 @ Then I said to them, "If it is agreeable to you, give me my wages; and if not, refrain." So they weighed out for my wages thirty pieces of silv er.

nkjv@Zechariah:11:13 @ And the LORD said to me, "Throw it to the pott er"--that princely price they set on me. So I took the thirty pieces of silv er and threw them into the house of the LORD for the pott er.

nkjv@Zechariah:11:14 @ Then I cut in two my oth er staff, Bonds, that I might break the broth erhood between Judah and Israel.

nkjv@Zechariah:11:15 @ And the LORD said to me, "Next, take for yourself the implements of a foolish sheph erd.

nkjv@Zechariah:11:16 @ For indeed I will raise up a sheph erd in the land who will not care for those who are cut off, nor seek the young, nor heal those that are broken, nor feed those that still stand. But he will eat the flesh of the fat and tear their hooves in pieces.

nkjv@Zechariah:11:17 @ "Woe to the worthless sheph erd, Who leaves the flock! A sword shall be against his arm And against his right eye; His arm shall completely with er, And his right eye shall be totally blinded."

nkjv@Zechariah:12:2 @ "Behold, I will make J erusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples, when they lay siege against Judah and J erusalem.

nkjv@Zechariah:12:3 @ And it shall happen in that day that I will make J erusalem a v ery heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gath ered against it.

nkjv@Zechariah:12:4 @ In that day," says the LORD, "I will strike ev ery horse with confusion, and its rid er with madness; I will open My eyes on the house of Judah, and will strike ev ery horse of the peoples with blindness.

nkjv@Zechariah:12:5 @ And the gov ernors of Judah shall say in their heart, "The inhabitants of J erusalem are my strength in the LORD of hosts, their God.'

nkjv@Zechariah:12:6 @ In that day I will make the gov ernors of Judah like a firepan in the woodpile, and like a fi ery torch in the sheaves; they shall devour all the surrounding peoples on the right hand and on the left, but J erusalem shall be inhabited again in h er own place--J erusalem.

nkjv@Zechariah:12:7 @ "The LORD will save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of J erusalem shall not become great er than that of Judah.

nkjv@Zechariah:12:8 @ In that day the LORD will defend the inhabitants of J erusalem; the one who is feeble among them in that day shall be like David, and the house of David shall be like God, like the Angel of the LORD before them.

nkjv@Zechariah:12:9 @ It shall be in that day that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against J erusalem.

nkjv@Zechariah:12:10 @ "And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of J erusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pi erced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn.

nkjv@Zechariah:12:11 @ In that day th ere shall be a great mourning in J erusalem, like the mourning at Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.

nkjv@Zechariah:12:12 @ And the land shall mourn, ev ery family by itself: the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves;

nkjv@Zechariah:12:14 @ all the families that remain, ev ery family by itself, and their wives by themselves.

nkjv@Zechariah:13:1 @ "In that day a fountain shall be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of J erusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.

nkjv@Zechariah:13:2 @ "It shall be in that day," says the LORD of hosts, "that I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, and they shall no long er be rememb ered. I will also cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to depart from the land.

nkjv@Zechariah:13:3 @ It shall come to pass that if anyone still prophesies, then his fath er and moth er who begot him will say to him, "You shall not live, because you have spoken lies in the name of the LORD.' And his fath er and moth er who begot him shall thrust him through when he prophesies.

nkjv@Zechariah:13:4 @ "And it shall be in that day that ev ery prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies; they will not wear a robe of coarse hair to deceive.

nkjv@Zechariah:13:5 @ But he will say, "I am no prophet, I am a farm er; for a man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.'

nkjv@Zechariah:13:6 @ And one will say to him, "What are these wounds between your arms?' Then he will answ er, "Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.'

nkjv@Zechariah:13:7 @ "Awake, O sword, against My Sheph erd, Against the Man who is My Companion," Says the LORD of hosts. "Strike the Sheph erd, And the sheep will be scatt ered; Then I will turn My hand against the little ones.

nkjv@Zechariah:13:9 @ I will bring the one-third through the fire, Will refine them as silv er is refined, And test them as gold is tested. They will call on My name, And I will answ er them. I will say, "This is My people'; And each one will say, "The LORD is my God."'

nkjv@Zechariah:14:2 @ For I will gath er all the nations to battle against J erusalem; The city shall be taken, The houses rifled, And the women ravished. Half of the city shall go into captivity, But the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

nkjv@Zechariah:14:4 @ And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, Which faces J erusalem on the east. And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two, From east to west, Making a v ery large valley; Half of the mountain shall move toward the north And half of it toward the south.

nkjv@Zechariah:14:6 @ It shall come to pass in that day That th ere will be no light; The lights will diminish.

nkjv@Zechariah:14:7 @ It shall be one day Which is known to the LORD-- Neith er day nor night. But at evening time it shall happen That it will be light.

nkjv@Zechariah:14:8 @ And in that day it shall be That living wat ers shall flow from J erusalem, Half of them toward the east ern sea And half of them toward the west ern sea; In both summ er and wint er it shall occur.

nkjv@Zechariah:14:9 @ And the LORD shall be King ov er all the earth. In that day it shall be-- "The LORD is one," And His name one.

nkjv@Zechariah:14:10 @ All the land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of J erusalem. J erusalem shall be raised up and inhabited in h er place from Benjamin's Gate to the place of the First Gate and the Corn er Gate, and from the Tow er of Hananel to the king's winepresses.

nkjv@Zechariah:14:11 @ The people shall dwell in it; And no long er shall th ere be utt er destruction, But J erusalem shall be safely inhabited.

nkjv@Zechariah:14:12 @ And this shall be the plague with which the LORD will strike all the people who fought against J erusalem: Their flesh shall dissolve while they stand on their feet, Their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets, And their tongues shall dissolve in their mouths.

nkjv@Zechariah:14:13 @ It shall come to pass in that day That a great panic from the LORD will be among them. Ev eryone will seize the hand of his neighbor, And raise his hand against his neighbor's hand;

nkjv@Zechariah:14:14 @ Judah also will fight at J erusalem. And the wealth of all the surrounding nations Shall be gath ered togeth er: Gold, silv er, and apparel in great abundance.

nkjv@Zechariah:14:16 @ And it shall come to pass that ev eryone who is left of all the nations which came against J erusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tab ernacles.

nkjv@Zechariah:14:17 @ And it shall be that whichev er of the families of the earth do not come up to J erusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, on them th ere will be no rain.

nkjv@Zechariah:14:18 @ If the family of Egypt will not come up and ent er in, they shall have no rain; they shall receive the plague with which the LORD strikes the nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tab ernacles.

nkjv@Zechariah:14:19 @ This shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not come up to keep the Feast of Tab ernacles.

nkjv@Zechariah:14:21 @ Yes, ev ery pot in J erusalem and Judah shall be holiness to the LORD of hosts. Ev eryone who sacrifices shall come and take them and cook in them. In that day th ere shall no long er be a Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.

nkjv@Malachi:1:2 @ "I have loved you," says the LORD. "Yet you say, "In what way have You loved us?' Was not Esau Jacob's broth er?" Says the LORD. "Yet Jacob I have loved;

nkjv@Malachi:1:3 @ But Esau I have hated, And laid waste his mountains and his h eritage For the jackals of the wild erness."

nkjv@Malachi:1:4 @ Even though Edom has said, "We have been impov erished, But we will return and build the desolate places," Thus says the LORD of hosts: "They may build, but I will throw down; They shall be called the T erritory of Wickedness, And the people against whom the LORD will have indignation forev er.

nkjv@Malachi:1:5 @ Your eyes shall see, And you shall say, "The LORD is magnified beyond the bord er of Israel.'

nkjv@Malachi:1:6 @ "A son honors his fath er, And a s ervant his mast er. If then I am the Fath er, Wh ere is My honor? And if I am a Mast er, Wh ere is My rev erence? Says the LORD of hosts To you priests who despise My name. Yet you say, "In what way have we despised Your name?'

nkjv@Malachi:1:7 @ "You off er defiled food on My altar, But say, "In what way have we defiled You?' By saying, "The table of the LORD is contemptible.'

nkjv@Malachi:1:8 @ And when you off er the blind as a sacrifice, Is it not evil? And when you off er the lame and sick, Is it not evil? Off er it then to your gov ernor! Would he be pleased with you? Would he accept you favorably?" Says the LORD of hosts.

nkjv@Malachi:1:10 @ "Who is th ere even among you who would shut the doors, So that you would not kindle fire on My altar in vain? I have no pleasure in you," Says the LORD of hosts, "Nor will I accept an off ering from your hands.

nkjv@Malachi:1:11 @ For from the rising of the sun, even to its going down, My name shall be great among the Gentiles; In ev ery place incense shall be off ered to My name, And a pure off ering; For My name shall be great among the nations," Says the LORD of hosts.

nkjv@Malachi:1:13 @ You also say, "Oh, what a weariness!' And you sne er at it," Says the LORD of hosts. "And you bring the stolen, the lame, and the sick; Thus you bring an off ering! Should I accept this from your hand?" Says the LORD.

nkjv@Malachi:1:14 @ "But cursed be the deceiv er Who has in his flock a male, And takes a vow, But sacrifices to the Lord what is blemished-- For I am a great King," Says the LORD of hosts, "And My name is to be feared among the nations.

nkjv@Malachi:2:5 @ "My covenant was with him, one of life and peace, And I gave them to him that he might fear Me; So he feared Me And was rev erent before My name.

nkjv@Malachi:2:7 @ "For the lips of a priest should keep knowledge, And people should seek the law from his mouth; For he is the messeng er of the LORD of hosts.

nkjv@Malachi:2:9 @ "Th erefore I also have made you contemptible and base Before all the people, Because you have not kept My ways But have shown partiality in the law."

nkjv@Malachi:2:10 @ Have we not all one Fath er? Has not one God created us? Why do we deal treach erously with one anoth er By profaning the covenant of the fath ers?

nkjv@Malachi:2:11 @ Judah has dealt treach erously, And an abomination has been committed in Israel and in J erusalem, For Judah has profaned The LORD's holy institution which He loves: He has married the daught er of a foreign god.

nkjv@Malachi:2:12 @ May the LORD cut off from the tents of Jacob The man who does this, being awake and aware, Yet who brings an off ering to the LORD of hosts!

nkjv@Malachi:2:13 @ And this is the second thing you do: You cov er the altar of the LORD with tears, With weeping and crying; So He does not regard the off ering anymore, Nor receive it with goodwill from your hands.

nkjv@Malachi:2:14 @ Yet you say, "For what reason?" Because the LORD has been witness Between you and the wife of your youth, With whom you have dealt treach erously; Yet she is your companion And your wife by covenant.

nkjv@Malachi:2:15 @ But did He not make them one, Having a remnant of the Spirit? And why one? He seeks godly offspring. Th erefore take heed to your spirit, And let none deal treach erously with the wife of his youth.

nkjv@Malachi:2:16 @ "For the LORD God of Israel says That He hates divorce, For it cov ers one's garment with violence," Says the LORD of hosts. "Th erefore take heed to your spirit, That you do not deal treach erously."

nkjv@Malachi:2:17 @ You have wearied the LORD with your words; Yet you say, "In what way have we wearied Him?" In that you say, "Ev eryone who does evil Is good in the sight of the LORD, And He delights in them," Or, "Wh ere is the God of justice?"

nkjv@Malachi:3:1 @ "Behold, I send My messeng er, And he will prepare the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, Will suddenly come to His temple, Even the Messeng er of the covenant, In whom you delight. Behold, He is coming," Says the LORD of hosts.

nkjv@Malachi:3:2 @ "But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refin er's fire And like laund er ers' soap.

nkjv@Malachi:3:3 @ He will sit as a refin er and a purifi er of silv er; He will purify the sons of Levi, And purge them as gold and silv er, That they may off er to the LORD An off ering in righteousness.

nkjv@Malachi:3:4 @ "Then the off ering of Judah and J erusalem Will be pleasant to the LORD, As in the days of old, As in form er years.

nkjv@Malachi:3:5 @ And I will come near you for judgment; I will be a swift witness Against sorc er ers, Against adult er ers, Against p erjur ers, Against those who exploit wage earn ers and widows and orphans, And against those who turn away an alien-- Because they do not fear Me," Says the LORD of hosts.

nkjv@Malachi:3:6 @ "For I am the LORD, I do not change; Th erefore you are not consumed, O sons of Jacob.

nkjv@Malachi:3:7 @ Yet from the days of your fath ers You have gone away from My ordinances And have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you," Says the LORD of hosts. "But you said, "In what way shall we return?'

nkjv@Malachi:3:8 @ "Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed Me! But you say, "In what way have we robbed You?' In tithes and off erings.

nkjv@Malachi:3:10 @ Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, That th ere may be food in My house, And try Me now in this," Says the LORD of hosts, "If I will not open for you the windows of heaven And pour out for you such blessing That th ere will not be room enough to receive it.

nkjv@Malachi:3:11 @ "And I will rebuke the devour er for your sakes, So that he will not destroy the fruit of your ground, Nor shall the vine fail to bear fruit for you in the field," Says the LORD of hosts;

nkjv@Malachi:3:14 @ You have said, "It is useless to s erve God; What profit is it that we have kept His ordinance, And that we have walked as mourn ers Before the LORD of hosts?

nkjv@Malachi:3:16 @ Then those who feared the LORD spoke to one anoth er, And the LORD listened and heard them; So a book of remembrance was written before Him For those who fear the LORD And who meditate on His name.

nkjv@Malachi:3:17 @ "They shall be Mine," says the LORD of hosts, "On the day that I make them My jewels. And I will spare them As a man spares his own son who s erves him."

nkjv@Malachi:3:18 @ Then you shall again disc ern Between the righteous and the wicked, Between one who s erves God And one who does not s erve Him.

nkjv@Malachi:4:1 @ "For behold, the day is coming, Burning like an oven, And all the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be stubble. And the day which is coming shall burn them up," Says the LORD of hosts, "That will leave them neith er root nor branch.

nkjv@Malachi:4:3 @ You shall trample the wicked, For they shall be ashes und er the soles of your feet On the day that I do this," Says the LORD of hosts.

nkjv@Malachi:4:4 @ "Rememb er the Law of Moses, My s ervant, Which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel, With the statutes and judgments.

nkjv@Malachi:4:6 @ And he will turn The hearts of the fath ers to the children, And the hearts of the children to their fath ers, Lest I come and strike the earth with a curse."

nkjv@Matthew:1:2 @ Abraham begot Isaac, Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob begot Judah and his broth ers.

nkjv@Matthew:1:3 @ Judah begot P erez and Z erah by Tamar, P erez begot Hezron, and Hezron begot Ram.

nkjv@Matthew:1:6 @ and Jesse begot David the king. David the king begot Solomon by h er who had been the wife of Uriah.

nkjv@Matthew:1:11 @ Josiah begot Jeconiah and his broth ers about the time they w ere carried away to Babylon.

nkjv@Matthew:1:12 @ And aft er they w ere brought to Babylon, Jeconiah begot Shealtiel, and Shealtiel begot Z erubbabel.

nkjv@Matthew:1:13 @ Z erubbabel begot Abiud, Abiud begot Eliakim, and Eliakim begot Azor.

nkjv@Matthew:1:17 @ So all the gen erations from Abraham to David are fourteen gen erations, from David until the captivity in Babylon are fourteen gen erations, and from the captivity in Babylon until the Christ are fourteen gen erations.

nkjv@Matthew:1:18 @ Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: Aft er His moth er Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they came togeth er, she was found with child of the Holy Spirit.

nkjv@Matthew:1:19 @ Then Joseph h er husband, being a just man, and not wanting to make h er a public example, was minded to put h er away secretly.

nkjv@Matthew:1:20 @ But while he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take to you Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in h er is of the Holy Spirit.

nkjv@Matthew:1:25 @ and did not know h er till she had brought forth h er firstborn Son. And he called His name JESUS.

nkjv@Matthew:2:1 @ Now aft er Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of H erod the king, behold, wise men from the East came to J erusalem,

nkjv@Matthew:2:2 @ saying, "Wh ere is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the East and have come to worship Him."

nkjv@Matthew:2:3 @ When H erod the king heard this, he was troubled, and all J erusalem with him.

nkjv@Matthew:2:4 @ And when he had gath ered all the chief priests and scribes of the people togeth er, he inquired of them wh ere the Christ was to be born.

nkjv@Matthew:2:6 @ "But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, Are not the least among the rul ers of Judah; For out of you shall come a Rul er Who will sheph erd My people Israel."'

nkjv@Matthew:2:7 @ Then H erod, when he had secretly called the wise men, det ermined from them what time the star appeared.

nkjv@Matthew:2:9 @ When they heard the king, they departed; and behold, the star which they had seen in the East went before them, till it came and stood ov er wh ere the young Child was.

nkjv@Matthew:2:11 @ And when they had come into the house, they saw the young Child with Mary His moth er, and fell down and worshiped Him. And when they had opened their treasures, they presented gifts to Him: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

nkjv@Matthew:2:12 @ Then, being divinely warned in a dream that they should not return to H erod, they departed for their own country anoth er way.

nkjv@Matthew:2:13 @ Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, "Arise, take the young Child and His moth er, flee to Egypt, and stay th ere until I bring you word; for H erod will seek the young Child to destroy Him."

nkjv@Matthew:2:14 @ When he arose, he took the young Child and His moth er by night and departed for Egypt,

nkjv@Matthew:2:15 @ and was th ere until the death of H erod, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, "Out of Egypt I called My Son."

nkjv@Matthew:2:16 @ Then H erod, when he saw that he was deceived by the wise men, was exceedingly angry; and he sent forth and put to death all the male children who w ere in Bethlehem and in all its districts, from two years old and und er, according to the time which he had det ermined from the wise men.

nkjv@Matthew:2:17 @ Then was fulfilled what was spoken by J eremiah the prophet, saying:

nkjv@Matthew:2:18 @ "A voice was heard in Ramah, Lamentation, weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for h er children, Refusing to be comforted, Because they are no more."

nkjv@Matthew:2:19 @ Now when H erod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,

nkjv@Matthew:2:20 @ saying, "Arise, take the young Child and His moth er, and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the young Child's life are dead."

nkjv@Matthew:2:21 @ Then he arose, took the young Child and His moth er, and came into the land of Israel.

nkjv@Matthew:2:22 @ But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning ov er Judea instead of his fath er H erod, he was afraid to go th ere. And being warned by God in a dream, he turned aside into the region of Galilee.

nkjv@Matthew:3:1 @ In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wild erness of Judea,

nkjv@Matthew:3:3 @ For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, saying: "The voice of one crying in the wild erness: "Prepare the way of the LORD; Make His paths straight."'

nkjv@Matthew:3:4 @ Now John himself was clothed in camel's hair, with a leath er belt around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey.

nkjv@Matthew:3:5 @ Then J erusalem, all Judea, and all the region around the Jordan went out to him

nkjv@Matthew:3:6 @ and w ere baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.

nkjv@Matthew:3:7 @ But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, "Brood of vip ers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

nkjv@Matthew:3:8 @ Th erefore bear fruits worthy of repentance,

nkjv@Matthew:3:9 @ and do not think to say to yourselves, "We have Abraham as our fath er.' For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.

nkjv@Matthew:3:10 @ And even now the ax is laid to the root of the trees. Th erefore ev ery tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

nkjv@Matthew:3:11 @ I indeed baptize you with wat er unto repentance, but He who is coming aft er me is mighti er than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

nkjv@Matthew:3:12 @ His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gath er His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire."

nkjv@Matthew:3:15 @ But Jesus answ ered and said to him, "P ermit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness." Then he allowed Him.

nkjv@Matthew:3:16 @ When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the wat er; and behold, the heavens w ere opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him.

nkjv@Matthew:4:1 @ Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wild erness to be tempted by the devil.

nkjv@Matthew:4:2 @ And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, aft erward He was hungry.

nkjv@Matthew:4:3 @ Now when the tempt er came to Him, he said, "If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread."

nkjv@Matthew:4:4 @ But He answ ered and said, "It is written, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by ev ery word that proceeds from the mouth of God."'

nkjv@Matthew:4:6 @ and said to Him, "If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down. For it is written: "He shall give His angels charge ov er you,' and, "In their hands they shall bear you up, Lest you dash your foot against a stone."'

nkjv@Matthew:4:10 @ Then Jesus said to him, "Away with you, Satan! For it is written, "You shall worship the LORD your God, and Him only you shall s erve."'

nkjv@Matthew:4:11 @ Then the devil left Him, and behold, angels came and minist ered to Him.

nkjv@Matthew:4:13 @ And leaving Nazareth, He came and dwelt in Cap ernaum, which is by the sea, in the regions of Zebulun and Naphtali,

nkjv@Matthew:4:18 @ And Jesus, walking by the Sea of Galilee, saw two broth ers, Simon called Pet er, and Andrew his broth er, casting a net into the sea; for they w ere fish ermen.

nkjv@Matthew:4:19 @ Then He said to them, "Follow Me, and I will make you fish ers of men."

nkjv@Matthew:4:21 @ Going on from th ere, He saw two oth er broth ers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his broth er, in the boat with Zebedee their fath er, mending their nets. He called them,

nkjv@Matthew:4:22 @ and immediately they left the boat and their fath er, and followed Him.

nkjv@Matthew:4:24 @ Then His fame went throughout all Syria; and they brought to Him all sick people who w ere afflicted with various diseases and torments, and those who w ere demon-possessed, epileptics, and paralytics; and He healed them.

nkjv@Matthew:4:25 @ Great multitudes followed Him--from Galilee, and from Decapolis, J erusalem, Judea, and beyond the Jordan.

nkjv@Matthew:5:5 @ Blessed are the meek, For they shall inh erit the earth.

nkjv@Matthew:5:6 @ Blessed are those who hung er and thirst for righteousness, For they shall be filled.

nkjv@Matthew:5:7 @ Blessed are the m erciful, For they shall obtain m ercy.

nkjv@Matthew:5:9 @ Blessed are the peacemak ers, For they shall be called sons of God.

nkjv@Matthew:5:10 @ Blessed are those who are p ersecuted for righteousness' sake, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

nkjv@Matthew:5:11 @ "Blessed are you when they revile and p ersecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake.

nkjv@Matthew:5:12 @ Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they p ersecuted the prophets who w ere before you.

nkjv@Matthew:5:13 @ "You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled und erfoot by men.

nkjv@Matthew:5:15 @ Nor do they light a lamp and put it und er a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house.

nkjv@Matthew:5:16 @ Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Fath er in heaven.

nkjv@Matthew:5:19 @ Whoev er th erefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoev er does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

nkjv@Matthew:5:20 @ For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means ent er the kingdom of heaven.

nkjv@Matthew:5:21 @ "You have heard that it was said to those of old, "You shall not murd er, and whoev er murd ers will be in dang er of the judgment.'

nkjv@Matthew:5:22 @ But I say to you that whoev er is angry with his broth er without a cause shall be in dang er of the judgment. And whoev er says to his broth er, "Raca!' shall be in dang er of the council. But whoev er says, "You fool!' shall be in dang er of hell fire.

nkjv@Matthew:5:23 @ Th erefore if you bring your gift to the altar, and th ere rememb er that your broth er has something against you,

nkjv@Matthew:5:24 @ leave your gift th ere before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your broth er, and then come and off er your gift.

nkjv@Matthew:5:25 @ Agree with your adv ersary quickly, while you are on the way with him, lest your adv ersary deliv er you to the judge, the judge hand you ov er to the offic er, and you be thrown into prison.

nkjv@Matthew:5:26 @ Assuredly, I say to you, you will by no means get out of th ere till you have paid the last penny.

nkjv@Matthew:5:27 @ "You have heard that it was said to those of old, "You shall not commit adult ery.'

nkjv@Matthew:5:28 @ But I say to you that whoev er looks at a woman to lust for h er has already committed adult ery with h er in his heart.

nkjv@Matthew:5:29 @ If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your memb ers p erish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.

nkjv@Matthew:5:30 @ And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your memb ers p erish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.

nkjv@Matthew:5:31 @ "Furth ermore it has been said, "Whoev er divorces his wife, let him give h er a c ertificate of divorce.'

nkjv@Matthew:5:32 @ But I say to you that whoev er divorces his wife for any reason except sexual immorality causes h er to commit adult ery; and whoev er marries a woman who is divorced commits adult ery.

nkjv@Matthew:5:33 @ "Again you have heard that it was said to those of old, "You shall not swear falsely, but shall p erform your oaths to the Lord.'

nkjv@Matthew:5:34 @ But I say to you, do not swear at all: neith er by heaven, for it is God's throne;

nkjv@Matthew:5:35 @ nor by the earth, for it is His footstool; nor by J erusalem, for it is the city of the great King.

nkjv@Matthew:5:37 @ But let your "Yes' be "Yes,' and your "No,' "No.' For whatev er is more than these is from the evil one.

nkjv@Matthew:5:39 @ But I tell you not to resist an evil p erson. But whoev er slaps you on your right cheek, turn the oth er to him also.

nkjv@Matthew:5:41 @ And whoev er compels you to go one mile, go with him two.

nkjv@Matthew:5:44 @ But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and p ersecute you,

nkjv@Matthew:5:45 @ that you may be sons of your Fath er in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

nkjv@Matthew:5:47 @ And if you greet your brethren only, what do you do more than oth ers? Do not even the tax collectors do so?

nkjv@Matthew:5:48 @ Th erefore you shall be p erfect, just as your Fath er in heaven is p erfect.

nkjv@Matthew:6:1 @ "Take heed that you do not do your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them. Oth erwise you have no reward from your Fath er in heaven.

nkjv@Matthew:6:2 @ Th erefore, when you do a charitable deed, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory from men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward.

nkjv@Matthew:6:4 @ that your charitable deed may be in secret; and your Fath er who sees in secret will Himself reward you openly.

nkjv@Matthew:6:5 @ "And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corn ers of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward.

nkjv@Matthew:6:6 @ But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Fath er who is in the secret place; and your Fath er who sees in secret will reward you openly.

nkjv@Matthew:6:8 @ "Th erefore do not be like them. For your Fath er knows the things you have need of before you ask Him.

nkjv@Matthew:6:9 @ In this mann er, th erefore, pray: Our Fath er in heaven, Hallowed be Your name.

nkjv@Matthew:6:13 @ And do not lead us into temptation, But deliv er us from the evil one. For Yours is the kingdom and the pow er and the glory forev er. Amen.

nkjv@Matthew:6:14 @ "For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Fath er will also forgive you.

nkjv@Matthew:6:15 @ But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neith er will your Fath er forgive your trespasses.

nkjv@Matthew:6:16 @ "Moreov er, when you fast, do not be like the hypocrites, with a sad countenance. For they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men to be fasting. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward.

nkjv@Matthew:6:18 @ so that you do not appear to men to be fasting, but to your Fath er who is in the secret place; and your Fath er who sees in secret will reward you openly.

nkjv@Matthew:6:19 @ "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, wh ere moth and rust destroy and wh ere thieves break in and steal;

nkjv@Matthew:6:20 @ but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, wh ere neith er moth nor rust destroys and wh ere thieves do not break in and steal.

nkjv@Matthew:6:21 @ For wh ere your treasure is, th ere your heart will be also.

nkjv@Matthew:6:22 @ "The lamp of the body is the eye. If th erefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light.

nkjv@Matthew:6:23 @ But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If th erefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

nkjv@Matthew:6:24 @ "No one can s erve two mast ers; for eith er he will hate the one and love the oth er, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the oth er. You cannot s erve God and mammon.

nkjv@Matthew:6:25 @ "Th erefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?

nkjv@Matthew:6:26 @ Look at the birds of the air, for they neith er sow nor reap nor gath er into barns; yet your heavenly Fath er feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?

nkjv@Matthew:6:28 @ "So why do you worry about clothing? Consid er the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neith er toil nor spin;

nkjv@Matthew:6:31 @ "Th erefore do not worry, saying, "What shall we eat?' or "What shall we drink?' or "What shall we wear?'

nkjv@Matthew:6:32 @ For aft er all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Fath er knows that you need all these things.

nkjv@Matthew:6:34 @ Th erefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

nkjv@Matthew:7:3 @ And why do you look at the speck in your broth er's eye, but do not consid er the plank in your own eye?

nkjv@Matthew:7:4 @ Or how can you say to your broth er, "Let me remove the speck from your eye'; and look, a plank is in your own eye?

nkjv@Matthew:7:5 @ Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your broth er's eye.

nkjv@Matthew:7:6 @ "Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them und er their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces.

nkjv@Matthew:7:8 @ For ev eryone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.

nkjv@Matthew:7:9 @ Or what man is th ere among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?

nkjv@Matthew:7:10 @ Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a s erpent?

nkjv@Matthew:7:11 @ If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Fath er who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!

nkjv@Matthew:7:12 @ Th erefore, whatev er you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

nkjv@Matthew:7:13 @ "Ent er by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and th ere are many who go in by it.

nkjv@Matthew:7:14 @ Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and th ere are few who find it.

nkjv@Matthew:7:16 @ You will know them by their fruits. Do men gath er grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles?

nkjv@Matthew:7:17 @ Even so, ev ery good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.

nkjv@Matthew:7:19 @ Ev ery tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

nkjv@Matthew:7:20 @ Th erefore by their fruits you will know them.

nkjv@Matthew:7:21 @ "Not ev eryone who says to Me, "Lord, Lord,' shall ent er the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Fath er in heaven.

nkjv@Matthew:7:22 @ Many will say to Me in that day, "Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wond ers in Your name?'

nkjv@Matthew:7:23 @ And then I will declare to them, "I nev er knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!'

nkjv@Matthew:7:24 @ "Th erefore whoev er hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock:

nkjv@Matthew:7:26 @ "But ev eryone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand:

nkjv@Matthew:7:28 @ And so it was, when Jesus had ended these sayings, that the people w ere astonished at His teaching,

nkjv@Matthew:8:2 @ And behold, a lep er came and worshiped Him, saying, "Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean."

nkjv@Matthew:8:4 @ And Jesus said to him, "See that you tell no one; but go your way, show yourself to the priest, and off er the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them."

nkjv@Matthew:8:5 @ Now when Jesus had ent ered Cap ernaum, a centurion came to Him, pleading with Him,

nkjv@Matthew:8:6 @ saying, "Lord, my s ervant is lying at home paralyzed, dreadfully tormented."

nkjv@Matthew:8:8 @ The centurion answ ered and said, "Lord, I am not worthy that You should come und er my roof. But only speak a word, and my s ervant will be healed.

nkjv@Matthew:8:9 @ For I also am a man und er authority, having soldi ers und er me. And I say to this one, "Go,' and he goes; and to anoth er, "Come,' and he comes; and to my s ervant, "Do this,' and he does it."

nkjv@Matthew:8:12 @ But the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into out er darkness. Th ere will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

nkjv@Matthew:8:13 @ Then Jesus said to the centurion, "Go your way; and as you have believed, so let it be done for you." And his s ervant was healed that same hour.

nkjv@Matthew:8:14 @ Now when Jesus had come into Pet er's house, He saw his wife's moth er lying sick with a fev er.

nkjv@Matthew:8:15 @ So He touched h er hand, and the fev er left h er. And she arose and s erved them.

nkjv@Matthew:8:16 @ When evening had come, they brought to Him many who w ere demon-possessed. And He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who w ere sick,

nkjv@Matthew:8:18 @ And when Jesus saw great multitudes about Him, He gave a command to depart to the oth er side.

nkjv@Matthew:8:19 @ Then a c ertain scribe came and said to Him, "Teach er, I will follow You wh erev er You go."

nkjv@Matthew:8:20 @ And Jesus said to him, "Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowh ere to lay His head."

nkjv@Matthew:8:21 @ Then anoth er of His disciples said to Him, "Lord, let me first go and bury my fath er."

nkjv@Matthew:8:24 @ And suddenly a great tempest arose on the sea, so that the boat was cov ered with the waves. But He was asleep.

nkjv@Matthew:8:25 @ Then His disciples came to Him and awoke Him, saying, "Lord, save us! We are p erishing!"

nkjv@Matthew:8:26 @ But He said to them, "Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?" Then He arose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and th ere was a great calm.

nkjv@Matthew:8:28 @ When He had come to the oth er side, to the country of the G ergesenes, th ere met Him two demon-possessed men, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fi erce, so that no one could pass that way.

nkjv@Matthew:8:29 @ And suddenly they cried out, saying, "What have we to do with You, Jesus, You Son of God? Have You come h ere to torment us before the time?"

nkjv@Matthew:8:30 @ Now a good way off from them th ere was a h erd of many swine feeding.

nkjv@Matthew:8:31 @ So the demons begged Him, saying, "If You cast us out, p ermit us to go away into the h erd of swine."

nkjv@Matthew:8:32 @ And He said to them, "Go." So when they had come out, they went into the h erd of swine. And suddenly the whole h erd of swine ran violently down the steep place into the sea, and p erished in the wat er.

nkjv@Matthew:8:33 @ Then those who kept them fled; and they went away into the city and told ev erything, including what had happened to the demon-possessed men.

nkjv@Matthew:9:1 @ So He got into a boat, crossed ov er, and came to His own city.

nkjv@Matthew:9:2 @ Then behold, they brought to Him a paralytic lying on a bed. When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, "Son, be of good che er; your sins are forgiven you."

nkjv@Matthew:9:5 @ For which is easi er, to say, "Your sins are forgiven you,' or to say, "Arise and walk'?

nkjv@Matthew:9:6 @ But that you may know that the Son of Man has pow er on earth to forgive sins"--then He said to the paralytic, "Arise, take up your bed, and go to your house."

nkjv@Matthew:9:8 @ Now when the multitudes saw it, they marveled and glorified God, who had given such pow er to men.

nkjv@Matthew:9:9 @ As Jesus passed on from th ere, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, "Follow Me." So he arose and followed Him.

nkjv@Matthew:9:10 @ Now it happened, as Jesus sat at the table in the house, that behold, many tax collectors and sinn ers came and sat down with Him and His disciples.

nkjv@Matthew:9:11 @ And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to His disciples, "Why does your Teach er eat with tax collectors and sinn ers?"

nkjv@Matthew:9:13 @ But go and learn what this means: "I desire m ercy and not sacrifice.' For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinn ers, to repentance."

nkjv@Matthew:9:17 @ Nor do they put new wine into old wineskins, or else the wineskins break, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But they put new wine into new wineskins, and both are pres erved."

nkjv@Matthew:9:18 @ While He spoke these things to them, behold, a rul er came and worshiped Him, saying, "My daught er has just died, but come and lay Your hand on h er and she will live."

nkjv@Matthew:9:21 @ For she said to h erself, "If only I may touch His garment, I shall be made well."

nkjv@Matthew:9:22 @ But Jesus turned around, and when He saw h er He said, "Be of good che er, daught er; your faith has made you well." And the woman was made well from that hour.

nkjv@Matthew:9:23 @ When Jesus came into the rul er's house, and saw the flute play ers and the noisy crowd wailing,

nkjv@Matthew:9:25 @ But when the crowd was put outside, He went in and took h er by the hand, and the girl arose.

nkjv@Matthew:9:27 @ When Jesus departed from th ere, two blind men followed Him, crying out and saying, "Son of David, have m ercy on us!"

nkjv@Matthew:9:30 @ And their eyes w ere opened. And Jesus st ernly warned them, saying, "See that no one knows it."

nkjv@Matthew:9:33 @ And when the demon was cast out, the mute spoke. And the multitudes marveled, saying, "It was nev er seen like this in Israel!"

nkjv@Matthew:9:34 @ But the Pharisees said, "He casts out demons by the rul er of the demons."

nkjv@Matthew:9:35 @ Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing ev ery sickness and ev ery disease among the people.

nkjv@Matthew:9:36 @ But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they w ere weary and scatt ered, like sheep having no sheph erd.

nkjv@Matthew:9:37 @ Then He said to His disciples, "The harvest truly is plentiful, but the labor ers are few.

nkjv@Matthew:9:38 @ Th erefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out labor ers into His harvest."

nkjv@Matthew:10:1 @ And when He had called His twelve disciples to Him, He gave them pow er ov er unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease.

nkjv@Matthew:10:2 @ Now the names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon, who is called Pet er, and Andrew his broth er; James the son of Zebedee, and John his broth er;

nkjv@Matthew:10:5 @ These twelve Jesus sent out and commanded them, saying: "Do not go into the way of the Gentiles, and do not ent er a city of the Samaritans.

nkjv@Matthew:10:6 @ But go rath er to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

nkjv@Matthew:10:8 @ Heal the sick, cleanse the lep ers, raise the dead, cast out demons. Freely you have received, freely give.

nkjv@Matthew:10:9 @ Provide neith er gold nor silv er nor copp er in your money belts,

nkjv@Matthew:10:10 @ nor bag for your journey, nor two tunics, nor sandals, nor staffs; for a work er is worthy of his food.

nkjv@Matthew:10:11 @ "Now whatev er city or town you ent er, inquire who in it is worthy, and stay th ere till you go out.

nkjv@Matthew:10:14 @ And whoev er will not receive you nor hear your words, when you depart from that house or city, shake off the dust from your feet.

nkjv@Matthew:10:15 @ Assuredly, I say to you, it will be more tol erable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!

nkjv@Matthew:10:16 @ "Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Th erefore be wise as s erpents and harmless as doves.

nkjv@Matthew:10:17 @ But beware of men, for they will deliv er you up to councils and scourge you in their synagogues.

nkjv@Matthew:10:18 @ You will be brought before gov ernors and kings for My sake, as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles.

nkjv@Matthew:10:19 @ But when they deliv er you up, do not worry about how or what you should speak. For it will be given to you in that hour what you should speak;

nkjv@Matthew:10:20 @ for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Fath er who speaks in you.

nkjv@Matthew:10:21 @ "Now broth er will deliv er up broth er to death, and a fath er his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.

nkjv@Matthew:10:23 @ When they p ersecute you in this city, flee to anoth er. For assuredly, I say to you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

nkjv@Matthew:10:24 @ "A disciple is not above his teach er, nor a s ervant above his mast er.

nkjv@Matthew:10:25 @ It is enough for a disciple that he be like his teach er, and a s ervant like his mast er. If they have called the mast er of the house Beelzebub, how much more will they call those of his household!

nkjv@Matthew:10:26 @ Th erefore do not fear them. For th ere is nothing cov ered that will not be revealed, and hidden that will not be known.

nkjv@Matthew:10:27 @ "Whatev er I tell you in the dark, speak in the light; and what you hear in the ear, preach on the housetops.

nkjv@Matthew:10:28 @ And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rath er fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

nkjv@Matthew:10:29 @ Are not two sparrows sold for a copp er coin? And not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Fath er's will.

nkjv@Matthew:10:30 @ But the v ery hairs of your head are all numb ered.

nkjv@Matthew:10:31 @ Do not fear th erefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.

nkjv@Matthew:10:32 @ "Th erefore whoev er confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Fath er who is in heaven.

nkjv@Matthew:10:33 @ But whoev er denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Fath er who is in heaven.

nkjv@Matthew:10:35 @ For I have come to "set a man against his fath er, a daught er against h er moth er, and a daught er-in-law against h er moth er-in-law';

nkjv@Matthew:10:37 @ He who loves fath er or moth er more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daught er more than Me is not worthy of Me.

nkjv@Matthew:10:38 @ And he who does not take his cross and follow aft er Me is not worthy of Me.

nkjv@Matthew:10:42 @ And whoev er gives one of these little ones only a cup of cold wat er in the name of a disciple, assuredly, I say to you, he shall by no means lose his reward."

nkjv@Matthew:11:1 @ Now it came to pass, when Jesus finished commanding His twelve disciples, that He departed from th ere to teach and to preach in their cities.

nkjv@Matthew:11:3 @ and said to Him, "Are You the Coming One, or do we look for anoth er?"

nkjv@Matthew:11:4 @ Jesus answ ered and said to them, "Go and tell John the things which you hear and see:

nkjv@Matthew:11:5 @ The blind see and the lame walk; the lep ers are cleansed and the deaf hear; the dead are raised up and the poor have the gospel preached to them.

nkjv@Matthew:11:7 @ As they departed, Jesus began to say to the multitudes conc erning John: "What did you go out into the wild erness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

nkjv@Matthew:11:10 @ For this is he of whom it is written: "Behold, I send My messeng er before Your face, Who will prepare Your way before You.'

nkjv@Matthew:11:11 @ "Assuredly, I say to you, among those born of women th ere has not risen one great er than John the Baptist; but he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is great er than he.

nkjv@Matthew:11:12 @ And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suff ers violence, and the violent take it by force.

nkjv@Matthew:11:16 @ "But to what shall I liken this gen eration? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to their companions,

nkjv@Matthew:11:18 @ For John came neith er eating nor drinking, and they say, "He has a demon.'

nkjv@Matthew:11:19 @ The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, "Look, a glutton and a winebibb er, a friend of tax collectors and sinn ers!' But wisdom is justified by h er children."

nkjv@Matthew:11:21 @ "Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works which w ere done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

nkjv@Matthew:11:22 @ But I say to you, it will be more tol erable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you.

nkjv@Matthew:11:23 @ And you, Cap ernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades; for if the mighty works which w ere done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.

nkjv@Matthew:11:24 @ But I say to you that it shall be more tol erable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for you."

nkjv@Matthew:11:25 @ At that time Jesus answ ered and said, "I thank You, Fath er, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and have revealed them to babes.

nkjv@Matthew:11:26 @ Even so, Fath er, for so it seemed good in Your sight.

nkjv@Matthew:11:27 @ All things have been deliv ered to Me by My Fath er, and no one knows the Son except the Fath er. Nor does anyone know the Fath er except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.

nkjv@Matthew:12:1 @ At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. And His disciples w ere hungry, and began to pluck heads of grain and to eat.

nkjv@Matthew:12:3 @ But He said to them, "Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who w ere with him:

nkjv@Matthew:12:4 @ how he ent ered the house of God and ate the showbread which was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those who w ere with him, but only for the priests?

nkjv@Matthew:12:6 @ Yet I say to you that in this place th ere is One great er than the temple.

nkjv@Matthew:12:7 @ But if you had known what this means, "I desire m ercy and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the guiltless.

nkjv@Matthew:12:9 @ Now when He had departed from th ere, He went into their synagogue.

nkjv@Matthew:12:10 @ And behold, th ere was a man who had a with ered hand. And they asked Him, saying, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?"--that they might accuse Him.

nkjv@Matthew:12:11 @ Then He said to them, "What man is th ere among you who has one sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not lay hold of it and lift it out?

nkjv@Matthew:12:12 @ Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep? Th erefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath."

nkjv@Matthew:12:13 @ Then He said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." And he stretched it out, and it was restored as whole as the oth er.

nkjv@Matthew:12:15 @ But when Jesus knew it, He withdrew from th ere. And great multitudes followed Him, and He healed them all.

nkjv@Matthew:12:18 @ "Behold! My S ervant whom I have chosen, My Beloved in whom My soul is well pleased! I will put My Spirit upon Him, And He will declare justice to the Gentiles.

nkjv@Matthew:12:23 @ And all the multitudes w ere amazed and said, "Could this be the Son of David?"

nkjv@Matthew:12:24 @ Now when the Pharisees heard it they said, "This fellow does not cast out demons except by Beelzebub, the rul er of the demons."

nkjv@Matthew:12:25 @ But Jesus knew their thoughts, and said to them: "Ev ery kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and ev ery city or house divided against itself will not stand.

nkjv@Matthew:12:27 @ And if I cast out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons cast them out? Th erefore they shall be your judges.

nkjv@Matthew:12:29 @ Or how can one ent er a strong man's house and plund er his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? And then he will plund er his house.

nkjv@Matthew:12:30 @ He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gath er with Me scatt ers abroad.

nkjv@Matthew:12:31 @ "Th erefore I say to you, ev ery sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men.

nkjv@Matthew:12:32 @ Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoev er speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, eith er in this age or in the age to come.

nkjv@Matthew:12:33 @ "Eith er make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for a tree is known by its fruit.

nkjv@Matthew:12:34 @ Brood of vip ers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

nkjv@Matthew:12:36 @ But I say to you that for ev ery idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.

nkjv@Matthew:12:38 @ Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answ ered, saying, "Teach er, we want to see a sign from You."

nkjv@Matthew:12:39 @ But He answ ered and said to them, "An evil and adult erous gen eration seeks aft er a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.

nkjv@Matthew:12:41 @ The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this gen eration and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and indeed a great er than Jonah is h ere.

nkjv@Matthew:12:42 @ The queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with this gen eration and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and indeed a great er than Solomon is h ere.

nkjv@Matthew:12:44 @ Then he says, "I will return to my house from which I came.' And when he comes, he finds it empty, swept, and put in ord er.

nkjv@Matthew:12:45 @ Then he goes and takes with him seven oth er spirits more wicked than himself, and they ent er and dwell th ere; and the last state of that man is worse than the first. So shall it also be with this wicked gen eration."

nkjv@Matthew:12:46 @ While He was still talking to the multitudes, behold, His moth er and broth ers stood outside, seeking to speak with Him.

nkjv@Matthew:12:47 @ Then one said to Him, "Look, Your moth er and Your broth ers are standing outside, seeking to speak with You."

nkjv@Matthew:12:48 @ But He answ ered and said to the one who told Him, "Who is My moth er and who are My broth ers?"

nkjv@Matthew:12:49 @ And He stretched out His hand toward His disciples and said, "H ere are My moth er and My broth ers!

nkjv@Matthew:12:50 @ For whoev er does the will of My Fath er in heaven is My broth er and sist er and moth er."

nkjv@Matthew:13:2 @ And great multitudes w ere gath ered togeth er to Him, so that He got into a boat and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore.

nkjv@Matthew:13:3 @ Then He spoke many things to them in parables, saying: "Behold, a sow er went out to sow.

nkjv@Matthew:13:5 @ Some fell on stony places, wh ere they did not have much earth; and they immediately sprang up because they had no depth of earth.

nkjv@Matthew:13:6 @ But when the sun was up they w ere scorched, and because they had no root they with ered away.

nkjv@Matthew:13:8 @ But oth ers fell on good ground and yielded a crop: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

nkjv@Matthew:13:11 @ He answ ered and said to them, "Because it has been given to you to know the myst eries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.

nkjv@Matthew:13:12 @ For whoev er has, to him more will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoev er does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.

nkjv@Matthew:13:13 @ Th erefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they und erstand.

nkjv@Matthew:13:14 @ And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says: "Hearing you will hear and shall not und erstand, And seeing you will see and not p erceive;

nkjv@Matthew:13:15 @ For the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, And their eyes they have closed, Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, Lest they should und erstand with their hearts and turn, So that I should heal them.'

nkjv@Matthew:13:18 @ "Th erefore hear the parable of the sow er:

nkjv@Matthew:13:19 @ When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and does not und erstand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is he who received seed by the wayside.

nkjv@Matthew:13:21 @ yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while. For when tribulation or p ersecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

nkjv@Matthew:13:23 @ But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and und erstands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty."

nkjv@Matthew:13:24 @ Anoth er parable He put forth to them, saying: "The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field;

nkjv@Matthew:13:27 @ So the s ervants of the own er came and said to him, "Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?'

nkjv@Matthew:13:28 @ He said to them, "An enemy has done this.' The s ervants said to him, "Do you want us then to go and gath er them up?'

nkjv@Matthew:13:29 @ But he said, "No, lest while you gath er up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them.

nkjv@Matthew:13:30 @ Let both grow togeth er until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reap ers, "First gath er togeth er the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gath er the wheat into my barn.""'

nkjv@Matthew:13:31 @ Anoth er parable He put forth to them, saying: "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field,

nkjv@Matthew:13:32 @ which indeed is the least of all the seeds; but when it is grown it is great er than the h erbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches."

nkjv@Matthew:13:33 @ Anoth er parable He spoke to them: "The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal till it was all leavened."

nkjv@Matthew:13:35 @ that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: "I will open My mouth in parables; I will utt er things kept secret from the foundation of the world."

nkjv@Matthew:13:37 @ He answ ered and said to them: "He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man.

nkjv@Matthew:13:39 @ The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the end of the age, and the reap ers are the angels.

nkjv@Matthew:13:40 @ Th erefore as the tares are gath ered and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of this age.

nkjv@Matthew:13:41 @ The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gath er out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness,

nkjv@Matthew:13:42 @ and will cast them into the furnace of fire. Th ere will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

nkjv@Matthew:13:43 @ Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Fath er. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!

nkjv@Matthew:13:44 @ "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and hid; and for joy ov er it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.

nkjv@Matthew:13:45 @ "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a m erchant seeking beautiful pearls,

nkjv@Matthew:13:47 @ "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a dragnet that was cast into the sea and gath ered some of ev ery kind,

nkjv@Matthew:13:48 @ which, when it was full, they drew to shore; and they sat down and gath ered the good into vessels, but threw the bad away.

nkjv@Matthew:13:50 @ and cast them into the furnace of fire. Th ere will be wailing and gnashing of teeth."

nkjv@Matthew:13:51 @ Jesus said to them, "Have you und erstood all these things?" They said to Him, "Yes, Lord."

nkjv@Matthew:13:52 @ Then He said to them, "Th erefore ev ery scribe instructed conc erning the kingdom of heaven is like a household er who brings out of his treasure things new and old."

nkjv@Matthew:13:53 @ Now it came to pass, when Jesus had finished these parables, that He departed from th ere.

nkjv@Matthew:13:54 @ When He had come to His own country, He taught them in their synagogue, so that they w ere astonished and said, "Wh ere did this Man get this wisdom and these mighty works?

nkjv@Matthew:13:55 @ Is this not the carpent er's son? Is not His moth er called Mary? And His broth ers James, Joses, Simon, and Judas?

nkjv@Matthew:13:56 @ And His sist ers, are they not all with us? Wh ere then did this Man get all these things?"

nkjv@Matthew:13:57 @ So they w ere offended at Him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his own country and in his own house."

nkjv@Matthew:13:58 @ Now He did not do many mighty works th ere because of their unbelief.

nkjv@Matthew:14:1 @ At that time H erod the tetrarch heard the report about Jesus

nkjv@Matthew:14:2 @ and said to his s ervants, "This is John the Baptist; he is risen from the dead, and th erefore these pow ers are at work in him."

nkjv@Matthew:14:3 @ For H erod had laid hold of John and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of H erodias, his broth er Philip's wife.

nkjv@Matthew:14:4 @ Because John had said to him, "It is not lawful for you to have h er."

nkjv@Matthew:14:6 @ But when H erod's birthday was celebrated, the daught er of H erodias danced before them and pleased H erod.

nkjv@Matthew:14:7 @ Th erefore he promised with an oath to give h er whatev er she might ask.

nkjv@Matthew:14:8 @ So she, having been prompted by h er moth er, said, "Give me John the Baptist's head h ere on a platt er."

nkjv@Matthew:14:9 @ And the king was sorry; nev ertheless, because of the oaths and because of those who sat with him, he commanded it to be given to h er.

nkjv@Matthew:14:11 @ And his head was brought on a platt er and given to the girl, and she brought it to h er moth er.

nkjv@Matthew:14:13 @ When Jesus heard it, He departed from th ere by boat to a des erted place by Himself. But when the multitudes heard it, they followed Him on foot from the cities.

nkjv@Matthew:14:15 @ When it was evening, His disciples came to Him, saying, "This is a des erted place, and the hour is already late. Send the multitudes away, that they may go into the villages and buy themselves food."

nkjv@Matthew:14:17 @ And they said to Him, "We have h ere only five loaves and two fish."

nkjv@Matthew:14:18 @ He said, "Bring them h ere to Me."

nkjv@Matthew:14:20 @ So they all ate and w ere filled, and they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments that remained.

nkjv@Matthew:14:21 @ Now those who had eaten w ere about five thousand men, besides women and children.

nkjv@Matthew:14:22 @ Immediately Jesus made His disciples get into the boat and go before Him to the oth er side, while He sent the multitudes away.

nkjv@Matthew:14:23 @ And when He had sent the multitudes away, He went up on the mountain by Himself to pray. Now when evening came, He was alone th ere.

nkjv@Matthew:14:26 @ And when the disciples saw Him walking on the sea, they w ere troubled, saying, "It is a ghost!" And they cried out for fear.

nkjv@Matthew:14:27 @ But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, "Be of good che er! It is I; do not be afraid."

nkjv@Matthew:14:28 @ And Pet er answ ered Him and said, "Lord, if it is You, command me to come to You on the wat er."

nkjv@Matthew:14:29 @ So He said, "Come." And when Pet er had come down out of the boat, he walked on the wat er to go to Jesus.

nkjv@Matthew:14:30 @ But when he saw that the wind was boist erous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink he cried out, saying, "Lord, save me!"

nkjv@Matthew:14:33 @ Then those who w ere in the boat came and worshiped Him, saying, "Truly You are the Son of God."

nkjv@Matthew:14:34 @ When they had crossed ov er, they came to the land of Gennesaret.

nkjv@Matthew:14:35 @ And when the men of that place recognized Him, they sent out into all that surrounding region, brought to Him all who w ere sick,

nkjv@Matthew:14:36 @ and begged Him that they might only touch the hem of His garment. And as many as touched it w ere made p erfectly well.

nkjv@Matthew:15:1 @ Then the scribes and Pharisees who w ere from J erusalem came to Jesus, saying,

nkjv@Matthew:15:2 @ "Why do Your disciples transgress the tradition of the eld ers? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread."

nkjv@Matthew:15:3 @ He answ ered and said to them, "Why do you also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition?

nkjv@Matthew:15:4 @ For God commanded, saying, "Honor your fath er and your moth er'; and, "He who curses fath er or moth er, let him be put to death.'

nkjv@Matthew:15:5 @ But you say, "Whoev er says to his fath er or moth er, "Whatev er profit you might have received from me is a gift to God"--

nkjv@Matthew:15:6 @ then he need not honor his fath er or moth er.' Thus you have made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.

nkjv@Matthew:15:10 @ When He had called the multitude to Himself, He said to them, "Hear and und erstand:

nkjv@Matthew:15:12 @ Then His disciples came and said to Him, "Do You know that the Pharisees w ere offended when they heard this saying?"

nkjv@Matthew:15:13 @ But He answ ered and said, "Ev ery plant which My heavenly Fath er has not planted will be uprooted.

nkjv@Matthew:15:14 @ Let them alone. They are blind lead ers of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a ditch."

nkjv@Matthew:15:15 @ Then Pet er answ ered and said to Him, "Explain this parable to us."

nkjv@Matthew:15:16 @ So Jesus said, "Are you also still without und erstanding?

nkjv@Matthew:15:17 @ Do you not yet und erstand that whatev er ent ers the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated?

nkjv@Matthew:15:19 @ For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murd ers, adult eries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.

nkjv@Matthew:15:21 @ Then Jesus went out from th ere and departed to the region of Tyre and Sidon.

nkjv@Matthew:15:22 @ And behold, a woman of Canaan came from that region and cried out to Him, saying, "Have m ercy on me, O Lord, Son of David! My daught er is sev erely demon-possessed."

nkjv@Matthew:15:23 @ But He answ ered h er not a word. And His disciples came and urged Him, saying, "Send h er away, for she cries out aft er us."

nkjv@Matthew:15:24 @ But He answ ered and said, "I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."

nkjv@Matthew:15:26 @ But He answ ered and said, "It is not good to take the children's bread and throw it to the little dogs."

nkjv@Matthew:15:27 @ And she said, "Yes, Lord, yet even the little dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their mast ers' table."

nkjv@Matthew:15:28 @ Then Jesus answ ered and said to h er, "O woman, great is your faith! Let it be to you as you desire." And h er daught er was healed from that v ery hour.

nkjv@Matthew:15:29 @ Jesus departed from th ere, skirted the Sea of Galilee, and went up on the mountain and sat down th ere.

nkjv@Matthew:15:30 @ Then great multitudes came to Him, having with them the lame, blind, mute, maimed, and many oth ers; and they laid them down at Jesus' feet, and He healed them.

nkjv@Matthew:15:33 @ Then His disciples said to Him, "Wh ere could we get enough bread in the wild erness to fill such a great multitude?"

nkjv@Matthew:15:37 @ So they all ate and w ere filled, and they took up seven large baskets full of the fragments that w ere left.

nkjv@Matthew:15:38 @ Now those who ate w ere four thousand men, besides women and children.

nkjv@Matthew:16:2 @ He answ ered and said to them, "When it is evening you say, "It will be fair weath er, for the sky is red';

nkjv@Matthew:16:3 @ and in the morning, "It will be foul weath er today, for the sky is red and threatening.' Hypocrites! You know how to disc ern the face of the sky, but you cannot disc ern the signs of the times.

nkjv@Matthew:16:4 @ A wicked and adult erous gen eration seeks aft er a sign, and no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah." And He left them and departed.

nkjv@Matthew:16:5 @ Now when His disciples had come to the oth er side, they had forgotten to take bread.

nkjv@Matthew:16:9 @ Do you not yet und erstand, or rememb er the five loaves of the five thousand and how many baskets you took up?

nkjv@Matthew:16:11 @ How is it you do not und erstand that I did not speak to you conc erning bread?--but to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees."

nkjv@Matthew:16:12 @ Then they und erstood that He did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

nkjv@Matthew:16:14 @ So they said, "Some say John the Baptist, some Elijah, and oth ers J eremiah or one of the prophets."

nkjv@Matthew:16:16 @ Simon Pet er answ ered and said, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."

nkjv@Matthew:16:17 @ Jesus answ ered and said to him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Fath er who is in heaven.

nkjv@Matthew:16:18 @ And I also say to you that you are Pet er, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.

nkjv@Matthew:16:19 @ And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatev er you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatev er you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven."

nkjv@Matthew:16:21 @ From that time Jesus began to show to His disciples that He must go to J erusalem, and suff er many things from the eld ers and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third day.

nkjv@Matthew:16:22 @ Then Pet er took Him aside and began to rebuke Him, saying, "Far be it from You, Lord; this shall not happen to You!"

nkjv@Matthew:16:23 @ But He turned and said to Pet er, "Get behind Me, Satan! You are an offense to Me, for you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men."

nkjv@Matthew:16:24 @ Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone desires to come aft er Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.

nkjv@Matthew:16:25 @ For whoev er desires to save his life will lose it, but whoev er loses his life for My sake will find it.

nkjv@Matthew:16:27 @ For the Son of Man will come in the glory of His Fath er with His angels, and then He will reward each according to his works.

nkjv@Matthew:16:28 @ Assuredly, I say to you, th ere are some standing h ere who shall not taste death till they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom."

nkjv@Matthew:17:1 @ Now aft er six days Jesus took Pet er, James, and John his broth er, led them up on a high mountain by themselves;

nkjv@Matthew:17:4 @ Then Pet er answ ered and said to Jesus, "Lord, it is good for us to be h ere; if You wish, let us make h ere three tab ernacles: one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

nkjv@Matthew:17:5 @ While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud ov ershadowed them; and suddenly a voice came out of the cloud, saying, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear Him!"

nkjv@Matthew:17:6 @ And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their faces and w ere greatly afraid.

nkjv@Matthew:17:11 @ Jesus answ ered and said to them, "Indeed, Elijah is coming first and will restore all things.

nkjv@Matthew:17:12 @ But I say to you that Elijah has come already, and they did not know him but did to him whatev er they wished. Likewise the Son of Man is also about to suff er at their hands."

nkjv@Matthew:17:13 @ Then the disciples und erstood that He spoke to them of John the Baptist.

nkjv@Matthew:17:15 @ "Lord, have m ercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and suff ers sev erely; for he often falls into the fire and often into the wat er.

nkjv@Matthew:17:17 @ Then Jesus answ ered and said, "O faithless and p erv erse gen eration, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him h ere to Me."

nkjv@Matthew:17:18 @ And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him; and the child was cured from that v ery hour.

nkjv@Matthew:17:20 @ So Jesus said to them, "Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, "Move from h ere to th ere,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.

nkjv@Matthew:17:21 @ Howev er, this kind does not go out except by pray er and fasting."

nkjv@Matthew:17:22 @ Now while they w ere staying in Galilee, Jesus said to them, "The Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men,

nkjv@Matthew:17:23 @ and they will kill Him, and the third day He will be raised up." And they w ere exceedingly sorrowful.

nkjv@Matthew:17:24 @ When they had come to Cap ernaum, those who received the temple tax came to Pet er and said, "Does your Teach er not pay the temple tax?"

nkjv@Matthew:17:25 @ He said, "Yes." And when he had come into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, "What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth take customs or taxes, from their sons or from strang ers?"

nkjv@Matthew:17:26 @ Pet er said to Him, "From strang ers." Jesus said to him, "Then the sons are free.

nkjv@Matthew:17:27 @ Nev ertheless, lest we offend them, go to the sea, cast in a hook, and take the fish that comes up first. And when you have opened its mouth, you will find a piece of money; take that and give it to them for Me and you."

nkjv@Matthew:18:3 @ and said, "Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are conv erted and become as little children, you will by no means ent er the kingdom of heaven.

nkjv@Matthew:18:4 @ Th erefore whoev er humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

nkjv@Matthew:18:5 @ Whoev er receives one little child like this in My name receives Me.

nkjv@Matthew:18:6 @ "Whoev er causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be bett er for him if a millstone w ere hung around his neck, and he w ere drowned in the depth of the sea.

nkjv@Matthew:18:8 @ "If your hand or foot causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you. It is bett er for you to ent er into life lame or maimed, rath er than having two hands or two feet, to be cast into the ev erlasting fire.

nkjv@Matthew:18:9 @ And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you. It is bett er for you to ent er into life with one eye, rath er than having two eyes, to be cast into hell fire.

nkjv@Matthew:18:10 @ "Take heed that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that in heaven their angels always see the face of My Fath er who is in heaven.

nkjv@Matthew:18:13 @ And if he should find it, assuredly, I say to you, he rejoices more ov er that sheep than ov er the ninety-nine that did not go astray.

nkjv@Matthew:18:14 @ Even so it is not the will of your Fath er who is in heaven that one of these little ones should p erish.

nkjv@Matthew:18:15 @ "Moreov er if your broth er sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your broth er.

nkjv@Matthew:18:16 @ But if he will not hear, take with you one or two more, that "by the mouth of two or three witnesses ev ery word may be established.'

nkjv@Matthew:18:18 @ "Assuredly, I say to you, whatev er you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatev er you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.

nkjv@Matthew:18:19 @ "Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth conc erning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Fath er in heaven.

nkjv@Matthew:18:20 @ For wh ere two or three are gath ered togeth er in My name, I am th ere in the midst of them."

nkjv@Matthew:18:21 @ Then Pet er came to Him and said, "Lord, how often shall my broth er sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?"

nkjv@Matthew:18:23 @ Th erefore the kingdom of heaven is like a c ertain king who wanted to settle accounts with his s ervants.

nkjv@Matthew:18:25 @ But as he was not able to pay, his mast er commanded that he be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and that payment be made.

nkjv@Matthew:18:26 @ The s ervant th erefore fell down before him, saying, "Mast er, have patience with me, and I will pay you all.'

nkjv@Matthew:18:27 @ Then the mast er of that s ervant was moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt.

nkjv@Matthew:18:28 @ "But that s ervant went out and found one of his fellow s ervants who owed him a hundred denarii; and he laid hands on him and took him by the throat, saying, "Pay me what you owe!'

nkjv@Matthew:18:29 @ So his fellow s ervant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, "Have patience with me, and I will pay you all.'

nkjv@Matthew:18:31 @ So when his fellow s ervants saw what had been done, they w ere v ery grieved, and came and told their mast er all that had been done.

nkjv@Matthew:18:32 @ Then his mast er, aft er he had called him, said to him, "You wicked s ervant! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me.

nkjv@Matthew:18:33 @ Should you not also have had compassion on your fellow s ervant, just as I had pity on you?'

nkjv@Matthew:18:34 @ And his mast er was angry, and deliv ered him to the tortur ers until he should pay all that was due to him.

nkjv@Matthew:18:35 @ "So My heavenly Fath er also will do to you if each of you, from his heart, does not forgive his broth er his trespasses."

nkjv@Matthew:19:2 @ And great multitudes followed Him, and He healed them th ere.

nkjv@Matthew:19:4 @ And He answ ered and said to them, "Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning "made them male and female,'

nkjv@Matthew:19:5 @ and said, "For this reason a man shall leave his fath er and moth er and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'?

nkjv@Matthew:19:6 @ So then, they are no long er two but one flesh. Th erefore what God has joined togeth er, let not man separate."

nkjv@Matthew:19:7 @ They said to Him, "Why then did Moses command to give a c ertificate of divorce, and to put h er away?"

nkjv@Matthew:19:8 @ He said to them, "Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, p ermitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.

nkjv@Matthew:19:9 @ And I say to you, whoev er divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries anoth er, commits adult ery; and whoev er marries h er who is divorced commits adult ery."

nkjv@Matthew:19:10 @ His disciples said to Him, "If such is the case of the man with his wife, it is bett er not to marry."

nkjv@Matthew:19:12 @ For th ere are eunuchs who w ere born thus from their moth er's womb, and th ere are eunuchs who w ere made eunuchs by men, and th ere are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He who is able to accept it, let him accept it."

nkjv@Matthew:19:13 @ Then little children w ere brought to Him that He might put His hands on them and pray, but the disciples rebuked them.

nkjv@Matthew:19:15 @ And He laid His hands on them and departed from th ere.

nkjv@Matthew:19:16 @ Now behold, one came and said to Him, "Good Teach er, what good thing shall I do that I may have et ernal life?"

nkjv@Matthew:19:17 @ So He said to him, "Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God. But if you want to ent er into life, keep the commandments."

nkjv@Matthew:19:18 @ He said to Him, "Which ones?" Jesus said, ""You shall not murd er,' "You shall not commit adult ery,' "You shall not steal,' "You shall not bear false witness,'

nkjv@Matthew:19:19 @ "Honor your fath er and your moth er,' and, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."'

nkjv@Matthew:19:21 @ Jesus said to him, "If you want to be p erfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me."

nkjv@Matthew:19:23 @ Then Jesus said to His disciples, "Assuredly, I say to you that it is hard for a rich man to ent er the kingdom of heaven.

nkjv@Matthew:19:24 @ And again I say to you, it is easi er for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to ent er the kingdom of God."

nkjv@Matthew:19:25 @ When His disciples heard it, they w ere greatly astonished, saying, "Who then can be saved?"

nkjv@Matthew:19:27 @ Then Pet er answ ered and said to Him, "See, we have left all and followed You. Th erefore what shall we have?"

nkjv@Matthew:19:28 @ So Jesus said to them, "Assuredly I say to you, that in the regen eration, when the Son of Man sits on the throne of His glory, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

nkjv@Matthew:19:29 @ And ev eryone who has left houses or broth ers or sist ers or fath er or moth er or wife or children or lands, for My name's sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and inh erit et ernal life.

nkjv@Matthew:20:1 @ "For the kingdom of heaven is like a landown er who went out early in the morning to hire labor ers for his vineyard.

nkjv@Matthew:20:2 @ Now when he had agreed with the labor ers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

nkjv@Matthew:20:3 @ And he went out about the third hour and saw oth ers standing idle in the marketplace,

nkjv@Matthew:20:4 @ and said to them, "You also go into the vineyard, and whatev er is right I will give you.' So they went.

nkjv@Matthew:20:6 @ And about the eleventh hour he went out and found oth ers standing idle, and said to them, "Why have you been standing h ere idle all day?'

nkjv@Matthew:20:7 @ They said to him, "Because no one hired us.' He said to them, "You also go into the vineyard, and whatev er is right you will receive.'

nkjv@Matthew:20:8 @ "So when evening had come, the own er of the vineyard said to his steward, "Call the labor ers and give them their wages, beginning with the last to the first.'

nkjv@Matthew:20:9 @ And when those came who w ere hired about the eleventh hour, they each received a denarius.

nkjv@Matthew:20:11 @ And when they had received it, they complained against the landown er,

nkjv@Matthew:20:13 @ But he answ ered one of them and said, "Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius?

nkjv@Matthew:20:17 @ Now Jesus, going up to J erusalem, took the twelve disciples aside on the road and said to them,

nkjv@Matthew:20:18 @ "Behold, we are going up to J erusalem, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and to the scribes; and they will condemn Him to death,

nkjv@Matthew:20:19 @ and deliv er Him to the Gentiles to mock and to scourge and to crucify. And the third day He will rise again."

nkjv@Matthew:20:20 @ Then the moth er of Zebedee's sons came to Him with h er sons, kneeling down and asking something from Him.

nkjv@Matthew:20:21 @ And He said to h er, "What do you wish?" She said to Him, "Grant that these two sons of mine may sit, one on Your right hand and the oth er on the left, in Your kingdom."

nkjv@Matthew:20:22 @ But Jesus answ ered and said, "You do not know what you ask. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?" They said to Him, "We are able."

nkjv@Matthew:20:23 @ So He said to them, "You will indeed drink My cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with; but to sit on My right hand and on My left is not Mine to give, but it is for those for whom it is prepared by My Fath er."

nkjv@Matthew:20:24 @ And when the ten heard it, they w ere greatly displeased with the two broth ers.

nkjv@Matthew:20:25 @ But Jesus called them to Himself and said, "You know that the rul ers of the Gentiles lord it ov er them, and those who are great ex ercise authority ov er them.

nkjv@Matthew:20:26 @ Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoev er desires to become great among you, let him be your s ervant.

nkjv@Matthew:20:27 @ And whoev er desires to be first among you, let him be your slave--

nkjv@Matthew:20:28 @ just as the Son of Man did not come to be s erved, but to s erve, and to give His life a ransom for many."

nkjv@Matthew:20:29 @ Now as they went out of J ericho, a great multitude followed Him.

nkjv@Matthew:20:30 @ And behold, two blind men sitting by the road, when they heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out, saying, "Have m ercy on us, O Lord, Son of David!"

nkjv@Matthew:20:31 @ Then the multitude warned them that they should be quiet; but they cried out all the more, saying, "Have m ercy on us, O Lord, Son of David!"

nkjv@Matthew:21:1 @ Now when they drew near J erusalem, and came to Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,

nkjv@Matthew:21:2 @ saying to them, "Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with h er. Loose them and bring them to Me.

nkjv@Matthew:21:5 @ "Tell the daught er of Zion, "Behold, your King is coming to you, Lowly, and sitting on a donkey, A colt, the foal of a donkey."'

nkjv@Matthew:21:8 @ And a v ery great multitude spread their clothes on the road; oth ers cut down branches from the trees and spread them on the road.

nkjv@Matthew:21:10 @ And when He had come into J erusalem, all the city was moved, saying, "Who is this?"

nkjv@Matthew:21:12 @ Then Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and ov erturned the tables of the money chang ers and the seats of those who sold doves.

nkjv@Matthew:21:13 @ And He said to them, "It is written, "My house shall be called a house of pray er,' but you have made it a "den of thieves."'

nkjv@Matthew:21:15 @ But when the chief priests and scribes saw the wond erful things that He did, and the children crying out in the temple and saying, "Hosanna to the Son of David!" they w ere indignant

nkjv@Matthew:21:16 @ and said to Him, "Do You hear what these are saying?" And Jesus said to them, "Yes. Have you nev er read, "Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have p erfected praise'?"

nkjv@Matthew:21:17 @ Then He left them and went out of the city to Bethany, and He lodged th ere.

nkjv@Matthew:21:19 @ And seeing a fig tree by the road, He came to it and found nothing on it but leaves, and said to it, "Let no fruit grow on you ev er again." Immediately the fig tree with ered away.

nkjv@Matthew:21:20 @ And when the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, "How did the fig tree with er away so soon?"

nkjv@Matthew:21:21 @ So Jesus answ ered and said to them, "Assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but also if you say to this mountain, "Be removed and be cast into the sea,' it will be done.

nkjv@Matthew:21:22 @ And whatev er things you ask in pray er, believing, you will receive."

nkjv@Matthew:21:23 @ Now when He came into the temple, the chief priests and the eld ers of the people confronted Him as He was teaching, and said, "By what authority are You doing these things? And who gave You this authority?"

nkjv@Matthew:21:24 @ But Jesus answ ered and said to them, "I also will ask you one thing, which if you tell Me, I likewise will tell you by what authority I do these things:

nkjv@Matthew:21:25 @ The baptism of John--wh ere was it from? From heaven or from men?" And they reasoned among themselves, saying, "If we say, "From heaven,' He will say to us, "Why then did you not believe him?'

nkjv@Matthew:21:27 @ So they answ ered Jesus and said, "We do not know." And He said to them, "Neith er will I tell you by what authority I do these things.

nkjv@Matthew:21:29 @ He answ ered and said, "I will not,' but aft erward he regretted it and went.

nkjv@Matthew:21:30 @ Then he came to the second and said likewise. And he answ ered and said, "I go, sir,' but he did not go.

nkjv@Matthew:21:31 @ Which of the two did the will of his fath er?" They said to Him, "The first." Jesus said to them, "Assuredly, I say to you that tax collectors and harlots ent er the kingdom of God before you.

nkjv@Matthew:21:32 @ For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him; but tax collectors and harlots believed him; and when you saw it, you did not aft erward relent and believe him.

nkjv@Matthew:21:33 @ "Hear anoth er parable: Th ere was a c ertain landown er who planted a vineyard and set a hedge around it, dug a winepress in it and built a tow er. And he leased it to vinedress ers and went into a far country.

nkjv@Matthew:21:34 @ Now when vintage-time drew near, he sent his s ervants to the vinedress ers, that they might receive its fruit.

nkjv@Matthew:21:35 @ And the vinedress ers took his s ervants, beat one, killed one, and stoned anoth er.

nkjv@Matthew:21:36 @ Again he sent oth er s ervants, more than the first, and they did likewise to them.

nkjv@Matthew:21:38 @ But when the vinedress ers saw the son, they said among themselves, "This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and seize his inh eritance.'

nkjv@Matthew:21:40 @ "Th erefore, when the own er of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those vinedress ers?"

nkjv@Matthew:21:41 @ They said to Him, "He will destroy those wicked men mis erably, and lease his vineyard to oth er vinedress ers who will rend er to him the fruits in their seasons."

nkjv@Matthew:21:42 @ Jesus said to them, "Have you nev er read in the Scriptures: "The stone which the build ers rejected Has become the chief corn erstone. This was the LORD's doing, And it is marvelous in our eyes'?

nkjv@Matthew:21:43 @ "Th erefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a nation bearing the fruits of it.

nkjv@Matthew:21:44 @ And whoev er falls on this stone will be broken; but on whomev er it falls, it will grind him to powd er."

nkjv@Matthew:21:45 @ Now when the chief priests and Pharisees heard His parables, they p erceived that He was speaking of them.

nkjv@Matthew:22:1 @ And Jesus answ ered and spoke to them again by parables and said:

nkjv@Matthew:22:2 @ "The kingdom of heaven is like a c ertain king who arranged a marriage for his son,

nkjv@Matthew:22:3 @ and sent out his s ervants to call those who w ere invited to the wedding; and they w ere not willing to come.

nkjv@Matthew:22:4 @ Again, he sent out oth er s ervants, saying, "Tell those who are invited, "See, I have prepared my dinn er; my oxen and fatted cattle are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the wedding."'

nkjv@Matthew:22:5 @ But they made light of it and went their ways, one to his own farm, anoth er to his business.

nkjv@Matthew:22:6 @ And the rest seized his s ervants, treated them spitefully, and killed them.

nkjv@Matthew:22:7 @ But when the king heard about it, he was furious. And he sent out his armies, destroyed those murd er ers, and burned up their city.

nkjv@Matthew:22:8 @ Then he said to his s ervants, "The wedding is ready, but those who w ere invited w ere not worthy.

nkjv@Matthew:22:9 @ Th erefore go into the highways, and as many as you find, invite to the wedding.'

nkjv@Matthew:22:10 @ So those s ervants went out into the highways and gath ered togeth er all whom they found, both bad and good. And the wedding hall was filled with guests.

nkjv@Matthew:22:11 @ "But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw a man th ere who did not have on a wedding garment.

nkjv@Matthew:22:12 @ So he said to him, "Friend, how did you come in h ere without a wedding garment?' And he was speechless.

nkjv@Matthew:22:13 @ Then the king said to the s ervants, "Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and cast him into out er darkness; th ere will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'

nkjv@Matthew:22:16 @ And they sent to Him their disciples with the H erodians, saying, "Teach er, we know that You are true, and teach the way of God in truth; nor do You care about anyone, for You do not regard the p erson of men.

nkjv@Matthew:22:17 @ Tell us, th erefore, what do You think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?"

nkjv@Matthew:22:18 @ But Jesus p erceived their wickedness, and said, "Why do you test Me, you hypocrites?

nkjv@Matthew:22:21 @ They said to Him, "Caesar's." And He said to them, "Rend er th erefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."

nkjv@Matthew:22:23 @ The same day the Sadducees, who say th ere is no resurrection, came to Him and asked Him,

nkjv@Matthew:22:24 @ saying: "Teach er, Moses said that if a man dies, having no children, his broth er shall marry his wife and raise up offspring for his broth er.

nkjv@Matthew:22:25 @ Now th ere w ere with us seven broth ers. The first died aft er he had married, and having no offspring, left his wife to his broth er.

nkjv@Matthew:22:28 @ Th erefore, in the resurrection, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had h er."

nkjv@Matthew:22:29 @ Jesus answ ered and said to them, "You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures nor the pow er of God.

nkjv@Matthew:22:30 @ For in the resurrection they neith er marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels of God in heaven.

nkjv@Matthew:22:31 @ But conc erning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, saying,

nkjv@Matthew:22:33 @ And when the multitudes heard this, they w ere astonished at His teaching.

nkjv@Matthew:22:34 @ But when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they gath ered togeth er.

nkjv@Matthew:22:35 @ Then one of them, a lawy er, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying,

nkjv@Matthew:22:36 @ "Teach er, which is the great commandment in the law?"

nkjv@Matthew:22:41 @ While the Pharisees w ere gath ered togeth er, Jesus asked them,

nkjv@Matthew:22:46 @ And no one was able to answ er Him a word, nor from that day on did anyone dare question Him anymore.

nkjv@Matthew:23:3 @ Th erefore whatev er they tell you to obs erve, that obs erve and do, but do not do according to their works; for they say, and do not do.

nkjv@Matthew:23:4 @ For they bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men's should ers; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fing ers.

nkjv@Matthew:23:5 @ But all their works they do to be seen by men. They make their phylact eries broad and enlarge the bord ers of their garments.

nkjv@Matthew:23:8 @ But you, do not be called "Rabbi'; for One is your Teach er, the Christ, and you are all brethren.

nkjv@Matthew:23:9 @ Do not call anyone on earth your fath er; for One is your Fath er, He who is in heaven.

nkjv@Matthew:23:10 @ And do not be called teach ers; for One is your Teach er, the Christ.

nkjv@Matthew:23:11 @ But he who is greatest among you shall be your s ervant.

nkjv@Matthew:23:12 @ And whoev er exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.

nkjv@Matthew:23:13 @ "But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neith er go in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are ent ering to go in.

nkjv@Matthew:23:14 @ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long pray ers. Th erefore you will receive great er condemnation.

nkjv@Matthew:23:16 @ "Woe to you, blind guides, who say, "Whoev er swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoev er swears by the gold of the temple, he is obliged to p erform it.'

nkjv@Matthew:23:17 @ Fools and blind! For which is great er, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold?

nkjv@Matthew:23:18 @ And, "Whoev er swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoev er swears by the gift that is on it, he is obliged to p erform it.'

nkjv@Matthew:23:19 @ Fools and blind! For which is great er, the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

nkjv@Matthew:23:20 @ Th erefore he who swears by the altar, swears by it and by all things on it.

nkjv@Matthew:23:23 @ "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have neglected the weighti er matt ers of the law: justice and m ercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the oth ers undone.

nkjv@Matthew:23:30 @ and say, "If we had lived in the days of our fath ers, we would not have been partak ers with them in the blood of the prophets.'

nkjv@Matthew:23:31 @ "Th erefore you are witnesses against yourselves that you are sons of those who murd ered the prophets.

nkjv@Matthew:23:32 @ Fill up, then, the measure of your fath ers' guilt.

nkjv@Matthew:23:33 @ S erpents, brood of vip ers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell?

nkjv@Matthew:23:34 @ Th erefore, indeed, I send you prophets, wise men, and scribes: some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and p ersecute from city to city,

nkjv@Matthew:23:35 @ that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of B erechiah, whom you murd ered between the temple and the altar.

nkjv@Matthew:23:36 @ Assuredly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this gen eration.

nkjv@Matthew:23:37 @ "O J erusalem, J erusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to h er! How often I wanted to gath er your children togeth er, as a hen gath ers h er chicks und er h er wings, but you w ere not willing!

nkjv@Matthew:24:2 @ And Jesus said to them, "Do you not see all these things? Assuredly, I say to you, not one stone shall be left h ere upon anoth er, that shall not be thrown down."

nkjv@Matthew:24:4 @ And Jesus answ ered and said to them: "Take heed that no one deceives you.

nkjv@Matthew:24:7 @ For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And th ere will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places.

nkjv@Matthew:24:9 @ "Then they will deliv er you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name's sake.

nkjv@Matthew:24:10 @ And then many will be offended, will betray one anoth er, and will hate one anoth er.

nkjv@Matthew:24:15 @ "Th erefore when you see the "abomination of desolation,' spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place" (whoev er reads, let him und erstand),

nkjv@Matthew:24:20 @ And pray that your flight may not be in wint er or on the Sabbath.

nkjv@Matthew:24:21 @ For then th ere will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ev er shall be.

nkjv@Matthew:24:22 @ And unless those days w ere shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect's sake those days will be shortened.

nkjv@Matthew:24:23 @ "Then if anyone says to you, "Look, h ere is the Christ!' or "Th ere!' do not believe it.

nkjv@Matthew:24:24 @ For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wond ers to deceive, if possible, even the elect.

nkjv@Matthew:24:26 @ "Th erefore if they say to you, "Look, He is in the des ert!' do not go out; or "Look, He is in the inn er rooms!' do not believe it.

nkjv@Matthew:24:28 @ For wh erev er the carcass is, th ere the eagles will be gath ered togeth er.

nkjv@Matthew:24:29 @ "Immediately aft er the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the pow ers of the heavens will be shaken.

nkjv@Matthew:24:30 @ Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with pow er and great glory.

nkjv@Matthew:24:31 @ And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gath er togeth er His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the oth er.

nkjv@Matthew:24:32 @ "Now learn this parable from the fig tree: When its branch has already become tend er and puts forth leaves, you know that summ er is near.

nkjv@Matthew:24:34 @ Assuredly, I say to you, this gen eration will by no means pass away till all these things take place.

nkjv@Matthew:24:36 @ "But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Fath er only.

nkjv@Matthew:24:37 @ But as the days of Noah w ere, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.

nkjv@Matthew:24:38 @ For as in the days before the flood, they w ere eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah ent ered the ark,

nkjv@Matthew:24:40 @ Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and the oth er left.

nkjv@Matthew:24:41 @ Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and the oth er left.

nkjv@Matthew:24:42 @ Watch th erefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming.

nkjv@Matthew:24:43 @ But know this, that if the mast er of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.

nkjv@Matthew:24:44 @ Th erefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

nkjv@Matthew:24:45 @ "Who then is a faithful and wise s ervant, whom his mast er made rul er ov er his household, to give them food in due season?

nkjv@Matthew:24:46 @ Blessed is that s ervant whom his mast er, when he comes, will find so doing.

nkjv@Matthew:24:47 @ Assuredly, I say to you that he will make him rul er ov er all his goods.

nkjv@Matthew:24:48 @ But if that evil s ervant says in his heart, "My mast er is delaying his coming,'

nkjv@Matthew:24:49 @ and begins to beat his fellow s ervants, and to eat and drink with the drunkards,

nkjv@Matthew:24:50 @ the mast er of that s ervant will come on a day when he is not looking for him and at an hour that he is not aware of,

nkjv@Matthew:24:51 @ and will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites. Th ere shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

nkjv@Matthew:25:2 @ Now five of them w ere wise, and five w ere foolish.

nkjv@Matthew:25:3 @ Those who w ere foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them,

nkjv@Matthew:25:5 @ But while the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumb ered and slept.

nkjv@Matthew:25:9 @ But the wise answ ered, saying, "No, lest th ere should not be enough for us and you; but go rath er to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.'

nkjv@Matthew:25:10 @ And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who w ere ready went in with him to the wedding; and the door was shut.

nkjv@Matthew:25:11 @ "Aft erward the oth er virgins came also, saying, "Lord, Lord, open to us!'

nkjv@Matthew:25:12 @ But he answ ered and said, "Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you.'

nkjv@Matthew:25:13 @ "Watch th erefore, for you know neith er the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

nkjv@Matthew:25:14 @ "For the kingdom of heaven is like a man traveling to a far country, who called his own s ervants and deliv ered his goods to them.

nkjv@Matthew:25:15 @ And to one he gave five talents, to anoth er two, and to anoth er one, to each according to his own ability; and immediately he went on a journey.

nkjv@Matthew:25:16 @ Then he who had received the five talents went and traded with them, and made anoth er five talents.

nkjv@Matthew:25:19 @ Aft er a long time the lord of those s ervants came and settled accounts with them.

nkjv@Matthew:25:20 @ "So he who had received five talents came and brought five oth er talents, saying, "Lord, you deliv ered to me five talents; look, I have gained five more talents besides them.'

nkjv@Matthew:25:21 @ His lord said to him, "Well done, good and faithful s ervant; you w ere faithful ov er a few things, I will make you rul er ov er many things. Ent er into the joy of your lord.'

nkjv@Matthew:25:22 @ He also who had received two talents came and said, "Lord, you deliv ered to me two talents; look, I have gained two more talents besides them.'

nkjv@Matthew:25:23 @ His lord said to him, "Well done, good and faithful s ervant; you have been faithful ov er a few things, I will make you rul er ov er many things. Ent er into the joy of your lord.'

nkjv@Matthew:25:24 @ "Then he who had received the one talent came and said, "Lord, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping wh ere you have not sown, and gath ering wh ere you have not scatt ered seed.

nkjv@Matthew:25:25 @ And I was afraid, and went and hid your talent in the ground. Look, th ere you have what is yours.'

nkjv@Matthew:25:26 @ "But his lord answ ered and said to him, "You wicked and lazy s ervant, you knew that I reap wh ere I have not sown, and gath er wh ere I have not scatt ered seed.

nkjv@Matthew:25:27 @ So you ought to have deposited my money with the bank ers, and at my coming I would have received back my own with int erest.

nkjv@Matthew:25:29 @ "For to ev eryone who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.

nkjv@Matthew:25:30 @ And cast the unprofitable s ervant into the out er darkness. Th ere will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'

nkjv@Matthew:25:32 @ All the nations will be gath ered before Him, and He will separate them one from anoth er, as a sheph erd divides his sheep from the goats.

nkjv@Matthew:25:34 @ Then the King will say to those on His right hand, "Come, you blessed of My Fath er, inh erit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

nkjv@Matthew:25:35 @ for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a strang er and you took Me in;

nkjv@Matthew:25:37 @ "Then the righteous will answ er Him, saying, "Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink?

nkjv@Matthew:25:38 @ When did we see You a strang er and take You in, or naked and clothe You?

nkjv@Matthew:25:40 @ And the King will answ er and say to them, "Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.'

nkjv@Matthew:25:41 @ "Then He will also say to those on the left hand, "Depart from Me, you cursed, into the ev erlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels:

nkjv@Matthew:25:43 @ I was a strang er and you did not take Me in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.'

nkjv@Matthew:25:44 @ "Then they also will answ er Him, saying, "Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a strang er or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minist er to You?'

nkjv@Matthew:25:45 @ Then He will answ er them, saying, "Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.'

nkjv@Matthew:25:46 @ And these will go away into ev erlasting punishment, but the righteous into et ernal life."

nkjv@Matthew:26:2 @ "You know that aft er two days is the Passov er, and the Son of Man will be deliv ered up to be crucified."

nkjv@Matthew:26:3 @ Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the eld ers of the people assembled at the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,

nkjv@Matthew:26:4 @ and plotted to take Jesus by trick ery and kill Him.

nkjv@Matthew:26:5 @ But they said, "Not during the feast, lest th ere be an uproar among the people."

nkjv@Matthew:26:6 @ And when Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon the lep er,

nkjv@Matthew:26:7 @ a woman came to Him having an alabast er flask of v ery costly fragrant oil, and she poured it on His head as He sat at the table.

nkjv@Matthew:26:8 @ But when His disciples saw it, they w ere indignant, saying, "Why this waste?

nkjv@Matthew:26:13 @ Assuredly, I say to you, wh erev er this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told as a memorial to h er."

nkjv@Matthew:26:15 @ and said, "What are you willing to give me if I deliv er Him to you?" And they counted out to him thirty pieces of silv er.

nkjv@Matthew:26:17 @ Now on the first day of the Feast of the Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying to Him, "Wh ere do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passov er?"

nkjv@Matthew:26:18 @ And He said, "Go into the city to a c ertain man, and say to him, "The Teach er says, "My time is at hand; I will keep the Passov er at your house with My disciples.""'

nkjv@Matthew:26:19 @ So the disciples did as Jesus had directed them; and they prepared the Passov er.

nkjv@Matthew:26:21 @ Now as they w ere eating, He said, "Assuredly, I say to you, one of you will betray Me."

nkjv@Matthew:26:22 @ And they w ere exceedingly sorrowful, and each of them began to say to Him, "Lord, is it I?"

nkjv@Matthew:26:23 @ He answ ered and said, "He who dipped his hand with Me in the dish will betray Me.

nkjv@Matthew:26:25 @ Then Judas, who was betraying Him, answ ered and said, "Rabbi, is it I?" He said to him, "You have said it."

nkjv@Matthew:26:26 @ And as they w ere eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, "Take, eat; this is My body."

nkjv@Matthew:26:29 @ But I say to you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in My Fath er's kingdom."

nkjv@Matthew:26:31 @ Then Jesus said to them, "All of you will be made to stumble because of Me this night, for it is written: "I will strike the Sheph erd, And the sheep of the flock will be scatt ered.'

nkjv@Matthew:26:32 @ But aft er I have been raised, I will go before you to Galilee."

nkjv@Matthew:26:33 @ Pet er answ ered and said to Him, "Even if all are made to stumble because of You, I will nev er be made to stumble."

nkjv@Matthew:26:34 @ Jesus said to him, "Assuredly, I say to you that this night, before the roost er crows, you will deny Me three times."

nkjv@Matthew:26:35 @ Pet er said to Him, "Even if I have to die with You, I will not deny You!" And so said all the disciples.

nkjv@Matthew:26:36 @ Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to the disciples, "Sit h ere while I go and pray ov er th ere."

nkjv@Matthew:26:37 @ And He took with Him Pet er and the two sons of Zebedee, and He began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed.

nkjv@Matthew:26:38 @ Then He said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay h ere and watch with Me."

nkjv@Matthew:26:39 @ He went a little farth er and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, "O My Fath er, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nev ertheless, not as I will, but as You will."

nkjv@Matthew:26:40 @ Then He came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and said to Pet er, "What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?

nkjv@Matthew:26:41 @ Watch and pray, lest you ent er into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."

nkjv@Matthew:26:42 @ Again, a second time, He went away and prayed, saying, "O My Fath er, if this cup cannot pass away from Me unless I drink it, Your will be done."

nkjv@Matthew:26:43 @ And He came and found them asleep again, for their eyes w ere heavy.

nkjv@Matthew:26:45 @ Then He came to His disciples and said to them, "Are you still sleeping and resting? Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinn ers.

nkjv@Matthew:26:46 @ Rise, let us be going. See, My betray er is at hand."

nkjv@Matthew:26:47 @ And while He was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, with a great multitude with swords and clubs, came from the chief priests and eld ers of the people.

nkjv@Matthew:26:48 @ Now His betray er had given them a sign, saying, "Whomev er I kiss, He is the One; seize Him."

nkjv@Matthew:26:51 @ And suddenly, one of those who w ere with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword, struck the s ervant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.

nkjv@Matthew:26:52 @ But Jesus said to him, "Put your sword in its place, for all who take the sword will p erish by the sword.

nkjv@Matthew:26:53 @ Or do you think that I cannot now pray to My Fath er, and He will provide Me with more than twelve legions of angels?

nkjv@Matthew:26:55 @ In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, "Have you come out, as against a robb er, with swords and clubs to take Me? I sat daily with you, teaching in the temple, and you did not seize Me.

nkjv@Matthew:26:57 @ And those who had laid hold of Jesus led Him away to Caiaphas the high priest, wh ere the scribes and the eld ers w ere assembled.

nkjv@Matthew:26:58 @ But Pet er followed Him at a distance to the high priest's courtyard. And he went in and sat with the s ervants to see the end.

nkjv@Matthew:26:59 @ Now the chief priests, the eld ers, and all the council sought false testimony against Jesus to put Him to death,

nkjv@Matthew:26:62 @ And the high priest arose and said to Him, "Do You answ er nothing? What is it these men testify against You?"

nkjv@Matthew:26:63 @ But Jesus kept silent. And the high priest answ ered and said to Him, "I put You und er oath by the living God: Tell us if You are the Christ, the Son of God!"

nkjv@Matthew:26:64 @ Jesus said to him, "It is as you said. Nev ertheless, I say to you, h ereaft er you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Pow er, and coming on the clouds of heaven."

nkjv@Matthew:26:65 @ Then the high priest tore his clothes, saying, "He has spoken blasphemy! What furth er need do we have of witnesses? Look, now you have heard His blasphemy!

nkjv@Matthew:26:66 @ What do you think?" They answ ered and said, "He is des erving of death."

nkjv@Matthew:26:67 @ Then they spat in His face and beat Him; and oth ers struck Him with the palms of their hands,

nkjv@Matthew:26:69 @ Now Pet er sat outside in the courtyard. And a s ervant girl came to him, saying, "You also w ere with Jesus of Galilee."

nkjv@Matthew:26:71 @ And when he had gone out to the gateway, anoth er girl saw him and said to those who w ere th ere, "This fellow also was with Jesus of Nazareth."

nkjv@Matthew:26:73 @ And a little lat er those who stood by came up and said to Pet er, "Surely you also are one of them, for your speech betrays you."

nkjv@Matthew:26:74 @ Then he began to curse and swear, saying, "I do not know the Man!" Immediately a roost er crowed.

nkjv@Matthew:26:75 @ And Pet er rememb ered the word of Jesus who had said to him, "Before the roost er crows, you will deny Me three times." So he went out and wept bitt erly.

nkjv@Matthew:27:1 @ When morning came, all the chief priests and eld ers of the people plotted against Jesus to put Him to death.

nkjv@Matthew:27:2 @ And when they had bound Him, they led Him away and deliv ered Him to Pontius Pilate the gov ernor.

nkjv@Matthew:27:3 @ Then Judas, His betray er, seeing that He had been condemned, was remorseful and brought back the thirty pieces of silv er to the chief priests and eld ers,

nkjv@Matthew:27:5 @ Then he threw down the pieces of silv er in the temple and departed, and went and hanged himself.

nkjv@Matthew:27:6 @ But the chief priests took the silv er pieces and said, "It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, because they are the price of blood."

nkjv@Matthew:27:7 @ And they consulted togeth er and bought with them the pott er's field, to bury strang ers in.

nkjv@Matthew:27:8 @ Th erefore that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day.

nkjv@Matthew:27:9 @ Then was fulfilled what was spoken by J eremiah the prophet, saying, "And they took the thirty pieces of silv er, the value of Him who was priced, whom they of the children of Israel priced,

nkjv@Matthew:27:10 @ and gave them for the pott er's field, as the LORD directed me."

nkjv@Matthew:27:11 @ Now Jesus stood before the gov ernor. And the gov ernor asked Him, saying, "Are You the King of the Jews?" Jesus said to him, "It is as you say."

nkjv@Matthew:27:12 @ And while He was being accused by the chief priests and eld ers, He answ ered nothing.

nkjv@Matthew:27:14 @ But He answ ered him not one word, so that the gov ernor marveled greatly.

nkjv@Matthew:27:15 @ Now at the feast the gov ernor was accustomed to releasing to the multitude one prison er whom they wished.

nkjv@Matthew:27:16 @ And at that time they had a notorious prison er called Barabbas.

nkjv@Matthew:27:17 @ Th erefore, when they had gath ered togeth er, Pilate said to them, "Whom do you want me to release to you? Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?"

nkjv@Matthew:27:18 @ For he knew that they had handed Him ov er because of envy.

nkjv@Matthew:27:19 @ While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, "Have nothing to do with that just Man, for I have suff ered many things today in a dream because of Him."

nkjv@Matthew:27:20 @ But the chief priests and eld ers p ersuaded the multitudes that they should ask for Barabbas and destroy Jesus.

nkjv@Matthew:27:21 @ The gov ernor answ ered and said to them, "Which of the two do you want me to release to you?" They said, "Barabbas!"

nkjv@Matthew:27:23 @ Then the gov ernor said, "Why, what evil has He done?" But they cried out all the more, saying, "Let Him be crucified!"

nkjv@Matthew:27:24 @ When Pilate saw that he could not prevail at all, but rath er that a tumult was rising, he took wat er and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this just P erson. You see to it."

nkjv@Matthew:27:25 @ And all the people answ ered and said, "His blood be on us and on our children."

nkjv@Matthew:27:26 @ Then he released Barabbas to them; and when he had scourged Jesus, he deliv ered Him to be crucified.

nkjv@Matthew:27:27 @ Then the soldi ers of the gov ernor took Jesus into the Praetorium and gath ered the whole garrison around Him.

nkjv@Matthew:27:36 @ Sitting down, they kept watch ov er Him th ere.

nkjv@Matthew:27:37 @ And they put up ov er His head the accusation written against Him: THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.

nkjv@Matthew:27:38 @ Then two robb ers w ere crucified with Him, one on the right and anoth er on the left.

nkjv@Matthew:27:41 @ Likewise the chief priests also, mocking with the scribes and eld ers, said,

nkjv@Matthew:27:42 @ "He saved oth ers; Himself He cannot save. If He is the King of Israel, let Him now come down from the cross, and we will believe Him.

nkjv@Matthew:27:43 @ He trusted in God; let Him deliv er Him now if He will have Him; for He said, "I am the Son of God."'

nkjv@Matthew:27:44 @ Even the robb ers who w ere crucified with Him reviled Him with the same thing.

nkjv@Matthew:27:45 @ Now from the sixth hour until the ninth hour th ere was darkness ov er all the land.

nkjv@Matthew:27:47 @ Some of those who stood th ere, when they heard that, said, "This Man is calling for Elijah!"

nkjv@Matthew:27:48 @ Immediately one of them ran and took a sponge, filled it with sour wine and put it on a reed, and off ered it to Him to drink.

nkjv@Matthew:27:51 @ Then, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth quaked, and the rocks w ere split,

nkjv@Matthew:27:52 @ and the graves w ere opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep w ere raised;

nkjv@Matthew:27:53 @ and coming out of the graves aft er His resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many.

nkjv@Matthew:27:54 @ So when the centurion and those with him, who w ere guarding Jesus, saw the earthquake and the things that had happened, they feared greatly, saying, "Truly this was the Son of God!"

nkjv@Matthew:27:55 @ And many women who followed Jesus from Galilee, minist ering to Him, w ere th ere looking on from afar,

nkjv@Matthew:27:56 @ among whom w ere Mary Magdalene, Mary the moth er of James and Joses, and the moth er of Zebedee's sons.

nkjv@Matthew:27:57 @ Now when evening had come, th ere came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who himself had also become a disciple of Jesus.

nkjv@Matthew:27:61 @ And Mary Magdalene was th ere, and the oth er Mary, sitting opposite the tomb.

nkjv@Matthew:27:62 @ On the next day, which followed the Day of Preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees gath ered togeth er to Pilate,

nkjv@Matthew:27:63 @ saying, "Sir, we rememb er, while He was still alive, how that deceiv er said, "Aft er three days I will rise.'

nkjv@Matthew:27:64 @ Th erefore command that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest His disciples come by night and steal Him away, and say to the people, "He has risen from the dead.' So the last deception will be worse than the first."

nkjv@Matthew:28:1 @ Now aft er the Sabbath, as the first day of the week began to dawn, Mary Magdalene and the oth er Mary came to see the tomb.

nkjv@Matthew:28:2 @ And behold, th ere was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat on it.

nkjv@Matthew:28:5 @ But the angel answ ered and said to the women, "Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified.

nkjv@Matthew:28:6 @ He is not h ere; for He is risen, as He said. Come, see the place wh ere the Lord lay.

nkjv@Matthew:28:7 @ And go quickly and tell His disciples that He is risen from the dead, and indeed He is going before you into Galilee; th ere you will see Him. Behold, I have told you."

nkjv@Matthew:28:10 @ Then Jesus said to them, "Do not be afraid. Go and tell My brethren to go to Galilee, and th ere they will see Me."

nkjv@Matthew:28:11 @ Now while they w ere going, behold, some of the guard came into the city and reported to the chief priests all the things that had happened.

nkjv@Matthew:28:12 @ When they had assembled with the eld ers and consulted togeth er, they gave a large sum of money to the soldi ers,

nkjv@Matthew:28:14 @ And if this comes to the gov ernor's ears, we will appease him and make you secure."

nkjv@Matthew:28:15 @ So they took the money and did as they w ere instructed; and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day.

nkjv@Matthew:28:19 @ Go th erefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Fath er and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

nkjv@Matthew:28:20 @ teaching them to obs erve all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.

nkjv@Mark:1:2 @ As it is written in the Prophets: "Behold, I send My messeng er before Your face, Who will prepare Your way before You."

nkjv@Mark:1:3 @ "The voice of one crying in the wild erness: "Prepare the way of the LORD; Make His paths straight."'

nkjv@Mark:1:4 @ John came baptizing in the wild erness and preaching a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.

nkjv@Mark:1:5 @ Then all the land of Judea, and those from J erusalem, went out to him and w ere all baptized by him in the Jordan Riv er, confessing their sins.

nkjv@Mark:1:6 @ Now John was clothed with camel's hair and with a leath er belt around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey.

nkjv@Mark:1:7 @ And he preached, saying, "Th ere comes One aft er me who is mighti er than I, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to stoop down and loose.

nkjv@Mark:1:8 @ I indeed baptized you with wat er, but He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit."

nkjv@Mark:1:10 @ And immediately, coming up from the wat er, He saw the heavens parting and the Spirit descending upon Him like a dove.

nkjv@Mark:1:12 @ Immediately the Spirit drove Him into the wild erness.

nkjv@Mark:1:13 @ And He was th ere in the wild erness forty days, tempted by Satan, and was with the wild beasts; and the angels minist ered to Him.

nkjv@Mark:1:14 @ Now aft er John was put in prison, Jesus came to Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,

nkjv@Mark:1:16 @ And as He walked by the Sea of Galilee, He saw Simon and Andrew his broth er casting a net into the sea; for they w ere fish ermen.

nkjv@Mark:1:17 @ Then Jesus said to them, "Follow Me, and I will make you become fish ers of men."

nkjv@Mark:1:19 @ When He had gone a little farth er from th ere, He saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his broth er, who also w ere in the boat mending their nets.

nkjv@Mark:1:20 @ And immediately He called them, and they left their fath er Zebedee in the boat with the hired s ervants, and went aft er Him.

nkjv@Mark:1:21 @ Then they went into Cap ernaum, and immediately on the Sabbath He ent ered the synagogue and taught.

nkjv@Mark:1:22 @ And they w ere astonished at His teaching, for He taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.

nkjv@Mark:1:23 @ Now th ere was a man in their synagogue with an unclean spirit. And he cried out,

nkjv@Mark:1:27 @ Then they w ere all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, "What is this? What new doctrine is this? For with authority He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey Him."

nkjv@Mark:1:29 @ Now as soon as they had come out of the synagogue, they ent ered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.

nkjv@Mark:1:30 @ But Simon's wife's moth er lay sick with a fev er, and they told Him about h er at once.

nkjv@Mark:1:31 @ So He came and took h er by the hand and lifted h er up, and immediately the fev er left h er. And she s erved them.

nkjv@Mark:1:32 @ At evening, when the sun had set, they brought to Him all who w ere sick and those who w ere demon-possessed.

nkjv@Mark:1:33 @ And the whole city was gath ered togeth er at the door.

nkjv@Mark:1:34 @ Then He healed many who w ere sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons; and He did not allow the demons to speak, because they knew Him.

nkjv@Mark:1:35 @ Now in the morning, having risen a long while before daylight, He went out and departed to a solitary place; and th ere He prayed.

nkjv@Mark:1:36 @ And Simon and those who w ere with Him searched for Him.

nkjv@Mark:1:37 @ When they found Him, they said to Him, "Ev eryone is looking for You."

nkjv@Mark:1:38 @ But He said to them, "Let us go into the next towns, that I may preach th ere also, because for this purpose I have come forth."

nkjv@Mark:1:40 @ Now a lep er came to Him, imploring Him, kneeling down to Him and saying to Him, "If You are willing, You can make me clean."

nkjv@Mark:1:44 @ and said to him, "See that you say nothing to anyone; but go your way, show yourself to the priest, and off er for your cleansing those things which Moses commanded, as a testimony to them."

nkjv@Mark:1:45 @ Howev er, he went out and began to proclaim it freely, and to spread the matt er, so that Jesus could no long er openly ent er the city, but was outside in des erted places; and they came to Him from ev ery direction.

nkjv@Mark:2:1 @ And again He ent ered Cap ernaum aft er some days, and it was heard that He was in the house.

nkjv@Mark:2:2 @ Immediately many gath ered togeth er, so that th ere was no long er room to receive them, not even near the door. And He preached the word to them.

nkjv@Mark:2:4 @ And when they could not come near Him because of the crowd, they uncov ered the roof wh ere He was. So when they had broken through, they let down the bed on which the paralytic was lying.

nkjv@Mark:2:6 @ And some of the scribes w ere sitting th ere and reasoning in their hearts,

nkjv@Mark:2:8 @ But immediately, when Jesus p erceived in His spirit that they reasoned thus within themselves, He said to them, "Why do you reason about these things in your hearts?

nkjv@Mark:2:9 @ Which is easi er, to say to the paralytic, "Your sins are forgiven you,' or to say, "Arise, take up your bed and walk'?

nkjv@Mark:2:10 @ But that you may know that the Son of Man has pow er on earth to forgive sins"--He said to the paralytic,

nkjv@Mark:2:12 @ Immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went out in the presence of them all, so that all w ere amazed and glorified God, saying, "We nev er saw anything like this!"

nkjv@Mark:2:15 @ Now it happened, as He was dining in Levi's house, that many tax collectors and sinn ers also sat togeth er with Jesus and His disciples; for th ere w ere many, and they followed Him.

nkjv@Mark:2:16 @ And when the scribes and Pharisees saw Him eating with the tax collectors and sinn ers, they said to His disciples, "How is it that He eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinn ers?"

nkjv@Mark:2:17 @ When Jesus heard it, He said to them, "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinn ers, to repentance."

nkjv@Mark:2:18 @ The disciples of John and of the Pharisees w ere fasting. Then they came and said to Him, "Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but Your disciples do not fast?"

nkjv@Mark:2:25 @ But He said to them, "Have you nev er read what David did when he was in need and hungry, he and those with him:

nkjv@Mark:2:26 @ how he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the showbread, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and also gave some to those who w ere with him?"

nkjv@Mark:2:28 @ Th erefore the Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath."

nkjv@Mark:3:1 @ And He ent ered the synagogue again, and a man was th ere who had a with ered hand.

nkjv@Mark:3:2 @ So they watched Him closely, wheth er He would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse Him.

nkjv@Mark:3:3 @ And He said to the man who had the with ered hand, "Step forward."

nkjv@Mark:3:5 @ And when He had looked around at them with ang er, being grieved by the hardness of their hearts, He said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored as whole as the oth er.

nkjv@Mark:3:6 @ Then the Pharisees went out and immediately plotted with the H erodians against Him, how they might destroy Him.

nkjv@Mark:3:8 @ and J erusalem and Idumea and beyond the Jordan; and those from Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they heard how many things He was doing, came to Him.

nkjv@Mark:3:11 @ And the unclean spirits, whenev er they saw Him, fell down before Him and cried out, saying, "You are the Son of God."

nkjv@Mark:3:12 @ But He st ernly warned them that they should not make Him known.

nkjv@Mark:3:15 @ and to have pow er to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons:

nkjv@Mark:3:16 @ Simon, to whom He gave the name Pet er;

nkjv@Mark:3:17 @ James the son of Zebedee and John the broth er of James, to whom He gave the name Boan erges, that is, "Sons of Thund er";

nkjv@Mark:3:20 @ Then the multitude came togeth er again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.

nkjv@Mark:3:22 @ And the scribes who came down from J erusalem said, "He has Beelzebub," and, "By the rul er of the demons He casts out demons."

nkjv@Mark:3:27 @ No one can ent er a strong man's house and plund er his goods, unless he first binds the strong man. And then he will plund er his house.

nkjv@Mark:3:28 @ "Assuredly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the sons of men, and whatev er blasphemies they may utt er;

nkjv@Mark:3:29 @ but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit nev er has forgiveness, but is subject to et ernal condemnation"--

nkjv@Mark:3:31 @ Then His broth ers and His moth er came, and standing outside they sent to Him, calling Him.

nkjv@Mark:3:32 @ And a multitude was sitting around Him; and they said to Him, "Look, Your moth er and Your broth ers are outside seeking You."

nkjv@Mark:3:33 @ But He answ ered them, saying, "Who is My moth er, or My broth ers?"

nkjv@Mark:3:34 @ And He looked around in a circle at those who sat about Him, and said, "H ere are My moth er and My broth ers!

nkjv@Mark:3:35 @ For whoev er does the will of God is My broth er and My sist er and moth er."

nkjv@Mark:4:1 @ And again He began to teach by the sea. And a great multitude was gath ered to Him, so that He got into a boat and sat in it on the sea; and the whole multitude was on the land facing the sea.

nkjv@Mark:4:3 @ "Listen! Behold, a sow er went out to sow.

nkjv@Mark:4:5 @ Some fell on stony ground, wh ere it did not have much earth; and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of earth.

nkjv@Mark:4:6 @ But when the sun was up it was scorched, and because it had no root it with ered away.

nkjv@Mark:4:8 @ But oth er seed fell on good ground and yielded a crop that sprang up, increased and produced: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred."

nkjv@Mark:4:11 @ And He said to them, "To you it has been given to know the myst ery of the kingdom of God; but to those who are outside, all things come in parables,

nkjv@Mark:4:12 @ so that "Seeing they may see and not p erceive, And hearing they may hear and not und erstand; Lest they should turn, And their sins be forgiven them."'

nkjv@Mark:4:13 @ And He said to them, "Do you not und erstand this parable? How then will you und erstand all the parables?

nkjv@Mark:4:14 @ The sow er sows the word.

nkjv@Mark:4:15 @ And these are the ones by the wayside wh ere the word is sown. When they hear, Satan comes immediately and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts.

nkjv@Mark:4:17 @ and they have no root in themselves, and so endure only for a time. Aft erward, when tribulation or p ersecution arises for the word's sake, immediately they stumble.

nkjv@Mark:4:19 @ and the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for oth er things ent ering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

nkjv@Mark:4:21 @ Also He said to them, "Is a lamp brought to be put und er a basket or und er a bed? Is it not to be set on a lampstand?

nkjv@Mark:4:22 @ For th ere is nothing hidden which will not be revealed, nor has anything been kept secret but that it should come to light.

nkjv@Mark:4:25 @ For whoev er has, to him more will be given; but whoev er does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him."

nkjv@Mark:4:26 @ And He said, "The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatt er seed on the ground,

nkjv@Mark:4:28 @ For the earth yields crops by itself: first the blade, then the head, aft er that the full grain in the head.

nkjv@Mark:4:31 @ It is like a mustard seed which, when it is sown on the ground, is small er than all the seeds on earth;

nkjv@Mark:4:32 @ but when it is sown, it grows up and becomes great er than all h erbs, and shoots out large branches, so that the birds of the air may nest und er its shade."

nkjv@Mark:4:33 @ And with many such parables He spoke the word to them as they w ere able to hear it.

nkjv@Mark:4:34 @ But without a parable He did not speak to them. And when they w ere alone, He explained all things to His disciples.

nkjv@Mark:4:35 @ On the same day, when evening had come, He said to them, "Let us cross ov er to the oth er side."

nkjv@Mark:4:36 @ Now when they had left the multitude, they took Him along in the boat as He was. And oth er little boats w ere also with Him.

nkjv@Mark:4:38 @ But He was in the st ern, asleep on a pillow. And they awoke Him and said to Him, "Teach er, do You not care that we are p erishing?"

nkjv@Mark:4:39 @ Then He arose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace, be still!" And the wind ceased and th ere was a great calm.

nkjv@Mark:4:41 @ And they feared exceedingly, and said to one anoth er, "Who can this be, that even the wind and the sea obey Him!"

nkjv@Mark:5:1 @ Then they came to the oth er side of the sea, to the country of the Gadarenes.

nkjv@Mark:5:2 @ And when He had come out of the boat, immediately th ere met Him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,

nkjv@Mark:5:4 @ because he had often been bound with shackles and chains. And the chains had been pulled apart by him, and the shackles broken in pieces; neith er could anyone tame him.

nkjv@Mark:5:9 @ Then He asked him, "What is your name?" And he answ ered, saying, "My name is Legion; for we are many."

nkjv@Mark:5:11 @ Now a large h erd of swine was feeding th ere near the mountains.

nkjv@Mark:5:12 @ So all the demons begged Him, saying, "Send us to the swine, that we may ent er them."

nkjv@Mark:5:13 @ And at once Jesus gave them p ermission. Then the unclean spirits went out and ent ered the swine (th ere w ere about two thousand); and the h erd ran violently down the steep place into the sea, and drowned in the sea.

nkjv@Mark:5:15 @ Then they came to Jesus, and saw the one who had been demon-possessed and had the legion, sitting and clothed and in his right mind. And they w ere afraid.

nkjv@Mark:5:19 @ Howev er, Jesus did not p ermit him, but said to him, "Go home to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how He has had compassion on you."

nkjv@Mark:5:21 @ Now when Jesus had crossed ov er again by boat to the oth er side, a great multitude gath ered to Him; and He was by the sea.

nkjv@Mark:5:22 @ And behold, one of the rul ers of the synagogue came, Jairus by name. And when he saw Him, he fell at His feet

nkjv@Mark:5:23 @ and begged Him earnestly, saying, "My little daught er lies at the point of death. Come and lay Your hands on h er, that she may be healed, and she will live."

nkjv@Mark:5:25 @ Now a c ertain woman had a flow of blood for twelve years,

nkjv@Mark:5:26 @ and had suff ered many things from many physicians. She had spent all that she had and was no bett er, but rath er grew worse.

nkjv@Mark:5:29 @ Immediately the fountain of h er blood was dried up, and she felt in h er body that she was healed of the affliction.

nkjv@Mark:5:30 @ And Jesus, immediately knowing in Himself that pow er had gone out of Him, turned around in the crowd and said, "Who touched My clothes?"

nkjv@Mark:5:32 @ And He looked around to see h er who had done this thing.

nkjv@Mark:5:33 @ But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had happened to h er, came and fell down before Him and told Him the whole truth.

nkjv@Mark:5:34 @ And He said to h er, "Daught er, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be healed of your affliction."

nkjv@Mark:5:35 @ While He was still speaking, some came from the rul er of the synagogue's house who said, "Your daught er is dead. Why trouble the Teach er any furth er?"

nkjv@Mark:5:36 @ As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, He said to the rul er of the synagogue, "Do not be afraid; only believe."

nkjv@Mark:5:37 @ And He p ermitted no one to follow Him except Pet er, James, and John the broth er of James.

nkjv@Mark:5:38 @ Then He came to the house of the rul er of the synagogue, and saw a tumult and those who wept and wailed loudly.

nkjv@Mark:5:40 @ And they ridiculed Him. But when He had put them all outside, He took the fath er and the moth er of the child, and those who w ere with Him, and ent ered wh ere the child was lying.

nkjv@Mark:5:41 @ Then He took the child by the hand, and said to h er, "Talitha, cumi," which is translated, "Little girl, I say to you, arise."

nkjv@Mark:5:42 @ Immediately the girl arose and walked, for she was twelve years of age. And they w ere ov ercome with great amazement.

nkjv@Mark:5:43 @ But He commanded them strictly that no one should know it, and said that something should be given h er to eat.

nkjv@Mark:6:1 @ Then He went out from th ere and came to His own country, and His disciples followed Him.

nkjv@Mark:6:2 @ And when the Sabbath had come, He began to teach in the synagogue. And many hearing Him w ere astonished, saying, "Wh ere did this Man get these things? And what wisdom is this which is given to Him, that such mighty works are p erformed by His hands!

nkjv@Mark:6:3 @ Is this not the carpent er, the Son of Mary, and broth er of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And are not His sist ers h ere with us?" So they w ere offended at Him.

nkjv@Mark:6:5 @ Now He could do no mighty work th ere, except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them.

nkjv@Mark:6:7 @ And He called the twelve to Himself, and began to send them out two by two, and gave them pow er ov er unclean spirits.

nkjv@Mark:6:8 @ He commanded them to take nothing for the journey except a staff--no bag, no bread, no copp er in their money belts--

nkjv@Mark:6:10 @ Also He said to them, "In whatev er place you ent er a house, stay th ere till you depart from that place.

nkjv@Mark:6:11 @ And whoev er will not receive you nor hear you, when you depart from th ere, shake off the dust und er your feet as a testimony against them. Assuredly, I say to you, it will be more tol erable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!"

nkjv@Mark:6:13 @ And they cast out many demons, and anointed with oil many who w ere sick, and healed them.

nkjv@Mark:6:14 @ Now King H erod heard of Him, for His name had become well known. And he said, "John the Baptist is risen from the dead, and th erefore these pow ers are at work in him."

nkjv@Mark:6:15 @ Oth ers said, "It is Elijah." And oth ers said, "It is the Prophet, or like one of the prophets."

nkjv@Mark:6:16 @ But when H erod heard, he said, "This is John, whom I beheaded; he has been raised from the dead!"

nkjv@Mark:6:17 @ For H erod himself had sent and laid hold of John, and bound him in prison for the sake of H erodias, his broth er Philip's wife; for he had married h er.

nkjv@Mark:6:18 @ Because John had said to H erod, "It is not lawful for you to have your broth er's wife."

nkjv@Mark:6:19 @ Th erefore H erodias held it against him and wanted to kill him, but she could not;

nkjv@Mark:6:20 @ for H erod feared John, knowing that he was a just and holy man, and he protected him. And when he heard him, he did many things, and heard him gladly.

nkjv@Mark:6:21 @ Then an opportune day came when H erod on his birthday gave a feast for his nobles, the high offic ers, and the chief men of Galilee.

nkjv@Mark:6:22 @ And when H erodias' daught er h erself came in and danced, and pleased H erod and those who sat with him, the king said to the girl, "Ask me whatev er you want, and I will give it to you."

nkjv@Mark:6:23 @ He also swore to h er, "Whatev er you ask me, I will give you, up to half my kingdom."

nkjv@Mark:6:24 @ So she went out and said to h er moth er, "What shall I ask?" And she said, "The head of John the Baptist!"

nkjv@Mark:6:25 @ Immediately she came in with haste to the king and asked, saying, "I want you to give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platt er."

nkjv@Mark:6:26 @ And the king was exceedingly sorry; yet, because of the oaths and because of those who sat with him, he did not want to refuse h er.

nkjv@Mark:6:27 @ Immediately the king sent an execution er and commanded his head to be brought. And he went and beheaded him in prison,

nkjv@Mark:6:28 @ brought his head on a platt er, and gave it to the girl; and the girl gave it to h er moth er.

nkjv@Mark:6:30 @ Then the apostles gath ered to Jesus and told Him all things, both what they had done and what they had taught.

nkjv@Mark:6:31 @ And He said to them, "Come aside by yourselves to a des erted place and rest a while." For th ere w ere many coming and going, and they did not even have time to eat.

nkjv@Mark:6:32 @ So they departed to a des erted place in the boat by themselves.

nkjv@Mark:6:33 @ But the multitudes saw them departing, and many knew Him and ran th ere on foot from all the cities. They arrived before them and came togeth er to Him.

nkjv@Mark:6:34 @ And Jesus, when He came out, saw a great multitude and was moved with compassion for them, because they w ere like sheep not having a sheph erd. So He began to teach them many things.

nkjv@Mark:6:35 @ When the day was now far spent, His disciples came to Him and said, "This is a des erted place, and already the hour is late.

nkjv@Mark:6:37 @ But He answ ered and said to them, "You give them something to eat." And they said to Him, "Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread and give them something to eat?"

nkjv@Mark:6:42 @ So they all ate and w ere filled.

nkjv@Mark:6:44 @ Now those who had eaten the loaves w ere about five thousand men.

nkjv@Mark:6:45 @ Immediately He made His disciples get into the boat and go before Him to the oth er side, to Bethsaida, while He sent the multitude away.

nkjv@Mark:6:50 @ for they all saw Him and w ere troubled. But immediately He talked with them and said to them, "Be of good che er! It is I; do not be afraid."

nkjv@Mark:6:51 @ Then He went up into the boat to them, and the wind ceased. And they w ere greatly amazed in themselves beyond measure, and marveled.

nkjv@Mark:6:52 @ For they had not und erstood about the loaves, because their heart was hardened.

nkjv@Mark:6:53 @ When they had crossed ov er, they came to the land of Gennesaret and anchored th ere.

nkjv@Mark:6:55 @ ran through that whole surrounding region, and began to carry about on beds those who w ere sick to wh erev er they heard He was.

nkjv@Mark:6:56 @ Wh erev er He ent ered, into villages, cities, or the country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces, and begged Him that they might just touch the hem of His garment. And as many as touched Him w ere made well.

nkjv@Mark:7:1 @ Then the Pharisees and some of the scribes came togeth er to Him, having come from J erusalem.

nkjv@Mark:7:3 @ For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands in a special way, holding the tradition of the eld ers.

nkjv@Mark:7:4 @ When they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And th ere are many oth er things which they have received and hold, like the washing of cups, pitch ers, copp er vessels, and couches.

nkjv@Mark:7:5 @ Then the Pharisees and scribes asked Him, "Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the eld ers, but eat bread with unwashed hands?"

nkjv@Mark:7:6 @ He answ ered and said to them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written: "This people honors Me with their lips, But their heart is far from Me.

nkjv@Mark:7:8 @ For laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men --the washing of pitch ers and cups, and many oth er such things you do."

nkjv@Mark:7:10 @ For Moses said, "Honor your fath er and your moth er'; and, "He who curses fath er or moth er, let him be put to death.'

nkjv@Mark:7:11 @ But you say, "If a man says to his fath er or moth er, "Whatev er profit you might have received from me is Corban"--' (that is, a gift to God),

nkjv@Mark:7:12 @ then you no long er let him do anything for his fath er or his moth er,

nkjv@Mark:7:14 @ When He had called all the multitude to Himself, He said to them, "Hear Me, ev eryone, and und erstand:

nkjv@Mark:7:15 @ Th ere is nothing that ent ers a man from outside which can defile him; but the things which come out of him, those are the things that defile a man.

nkjv@Mark:7:17 @ When He had ent ered a house away from the crowd, His disciples asked Him conc erning the parable.

nkjv@Mark:7:18 @ So He said to them, "Are you thus without und erstanding also? Do you not p erceive that whatev er ent ers a man from outside cannot defile him,

nkjv@Mark:7:19 @ because it does not ent er his heart but his stomach, and is eliminated, thus purifying all foods?"

nkjv@Mark:7:21 @ For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adult eries, fornications, murd ers,

nkjv@Mark:7:24 @ From th ere He arose and went to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And He ent ered a house and wanted no one to know it, but He could not be hidden.

nkjv@Mark:7:25 @ For a woman whose young daught er had an unclean spirit heard about Him, and she came and fell at His feet.

nkjv@Mark:7:26 @ The woman was a Greek, a Syro-Phoenician by birth, and she kept asking Him to cast the demon out of h er daught er.

nkjv@Mark:7:27 @ But Jesus said to h er, "Let the children be filled first, for it is not good to take the children's bread and throw it to the little dogs."

nkjv@Mark:7:28 @ And she answ ered and said to Him, "Yes, Lord, yet even the little dogs und er the table eat from the children's crumbs."

nkjv@Mark:7:29 @ Then He said to h er, "For this saying go your way; the demon has gone out of your daught er."

nkjv@Mark:7:30 @ And when she had come to h er house, she found the demon gone out, and h er daught er lying on the bed.

nkjv@Mark:7:33 @ And He took him aside from the multitude, and put His fing ers in his ears, and He spat and touched his tongue.

nkjv@Mark:7:35 @ Immediately his ears w ere opened, and the impediment of his tongue was loosed, and he spoke plainly.

nkjv@Mark:7:37 @ And they w ere astonished beyond measure, saying, "He has done all things well. He makes both the deaf to hear and the mute to speak."

nkjv@Mark:8:1 @ In those days, the multitude being v ery great and having nothing to eat, Jesus called His disciples to Him and said to them,

nkjv@Mark:8:4 @ Then His disciples answ ered Him, "How can one satisfy these people with bread h ere in the wild erness?"

nkjv@Mark:8:8 @ So they ate and w ere filled, and they took up seven large baskets of leftov er fragments.

nkjv@Mark:8:9 @ Now those who had eaten w ere about four thousand. And He sent them away,

nkjv@Mark:8:12 @ But He sighed deeply in His spirit, and said, "Why does this gen eration seek a sign? Assuredly, I say to you, no sign shall be given to this gen eration."

nkjv@Mark:8:13 @ And He left them, and getting into the boat again, departed to the oth er side.

nkjv@Mark:8:15 @ Then He charged them, saying, "Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of H erod."

nkjv@Mark:8:17 @ But Jesus, being aware of it, said to them, "Why do you reason because you have no bread? Do you not yet p erceive nor und erstand? Is your heart still hardened?

nkjv@Mark:8:18 @ Having eyes, do you not see? And having ears, do you not hear? And do you not rememb er?

nkjv@Mark:8:21 @ So He said to them, "How is it you do not und erstand?"

nkjv@Mark:8:25 @ Then He put His hands on his eyes again and made him look up. And he was restored and saw ev eryone clearly.

nkjv@Mark:8:26 @ Then He sent him away to his house, saying, "Neith er go into the town, nor tell anyone in the town."

nkjv@Mark:8:28 @ So they answ ered, "John the Baptist; but some say, Elijah; and oth ers, one of the prophets."

nkjv@Mark:8:29 @ He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Pet er answ ered and said to Him, "You are the Christ."

nkjv@Mark:8:31 @ And He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suff er many things, and be rejected by the eld ers and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and aft er three days rise again.

nkjv@Mark:8:32 @ He spoke this word openly. Then Pet er took Him aside and began to rebuke Him.

nkjv@Mark:8:33 @ But when He had turned around and looked at His disciples, He rebuked Pet er, saying, "Get behind Me, Satan! For you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men."

nkjv@Mark:8:34 @ When He had called the people to Himself, with His disciples also, He said to them, "Whoev er desires to come aft er Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.

nkjv@Mark:8:35 @ For whoev er desires to save his life will lose it, but whoev er loses his life for My sake and the gospel's will save it.

nkjv@Mark:8:38 @ For whoev er is ashamed of Me and My words in this adult erous and sinful gen eration, of him the Son of Man also will be ashamed when He comes in the glory of His Fath er with the holy angels."

nkjv@Mark:9:1 @ And He said to them, "Assuredly, I say to you that th ere are some standing h ere who will not taste death till they see the kingdom of God present with pow er."

nkjv@Mark:9:2 @ Now aft er six days Jesus took Pet er, James, and John, and led them up on a high mountain apart by themselves; and He was transfigured before them.

nkjv@Mark:9:3 @ His clothes became shining, exceedingly white, like snow, such as no laund er er on earth can whiten them.

nkjv@Mark:9:4 @ And Elijah appeared to them with Moses, and they w ere talking with Jesus.

nkjv@Mark:9:5 @ Then Pet er answ ered and said to Jesus, "Rabbi, it is good for us to be h ere; and let us make three tab ernacles: one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah"--

nkjv@Mark:9:6 @ because he did not know what to say, for they w ere greatly afraid.

nkjv@Mark:9:7 @ And a cloud came and ov ershadowed them; and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, "This is My beloved Son. Hear Him!"

nkjv@Mark:9:12 @ Then He answ ered and told them, "Indeed, Elijah is coming first and restores all things. And how is it written conc erning the Son of Man, that He must suff er many things and be treated with contempt?

nkjv@Mark:9:13 @ But I say to you that Elijah has also come, and they did to him whatev er they wished, as it is written of him."

nkjv@Mark:9:15 @ Immediately, when they saw Him, all the people w ere greatly amazed, and running to Him, greeted Him.

nkjv@Mark:9:17 @ Then one of the crowd answ ered and said, "Teach er, I brought You my son, who has a mute spirit.

nkjv@Mark:9:18 @ And wh erev er it seizes him, it throws him down; he foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth, and becomes rigid. So I spoke to Your disciples, that they should cast it out, but they could not."

nkjv@Mark:9:19 @ He answ ered him and said, "O faithless gen eration, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to Me."

nkjv@Mark:9:21 @ So He asked his fath er, "How long has this been happening to him?" And he said, "From childhood.

nkjv@Mark:9:22 @ And often he has thrown him both into the fire and into the wat er to destroy him. But if You can do anything, have compassion on us and help us."

nkjv@Mark:9:24 @ Immediately the fath er of the child cried out and said with tears, "Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!"

nkjv@Mark:9:25 @ When Jesus saw that the people came running togeth er, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, "Deaf and dumb spirit, I command you, come out of him and ent er him no more!"

nkjv@Mark:9:29 @ So He said to them, "This kind can come out by nothing but pray er and fasting."

nkjv@Mark:9:30 @ Then they departed from th ere and passed through Galilee, and He did not want anyone to know it.

nkjv@Mark:9:31 @ For He taught His disciples and said to them, "The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of men, and they will kill Him. And aft er He is killed, He will rise the third day."

nkjv@Mark:9:32 @ But they did not und erstand this saying, and w ere afraid to ask Him.

nkjv@Mark:9:33 @ Then He came to Cap ernaum. And when He was in the house He asked them, "What was it you disputed among yourselves on the road?"

nkjv@Mark:9:35 @ And He sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, "If anyone desires to be first, he shall be last of all and s ervant of all."

nkjv@Mark:9:37 @ "Whoev er receives one of these little children in My name receives Me; and whoev er receives Me, receives not Me but Him who sent Me."

nkjv@Mark:9:38 @ Now John answ ered Him, saying, "Teach er, we saw someone who does not follow us casting out demons in Your name, and we forbade him because he does not follow us."

nkjv@Mark:9:39 @ But Jesus said, "Do not forbid him, for no one who works a miracle in My name can soon aft erward speak evil of Me.

nkjv@Mark:9:41 @ For whoev er gives you a cup of wat er to drink in My name, because you belong to Christ, assuredly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward.

nkjv@Mark:9:42 @ "But whoev er causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be bett er for him if a millstone w ere hung around his neck, and he w ere thrown into the sea.

nkjv@Mark:9:43 @ If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is bett er for you to ent er into life maimed, rath er than having two hands, to go to hell, into the fire that shall nev er be quenched--

nkjv@Mark:9:44 @ wh ere "Their worm does not die And the fire is not quenched.'

nkjv@Mark:9:45 @ And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is bett er for you to ent er life lame, rath er than having two feet, to be cast into hell, into the fire that shall nev er be quenched--

nkjv@Mark:9:46 @ wh ere "Their worm does not die And the fire is not quenched.'

nkjv@Mark:9:47 @ And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is bett er for you to ent er the kingdom of God with one eye, rath er than having two eyes, to be cast into hell fire--

nkjv@Mark:9:48 @ wh ere "Their worm does not die And the fire is not quenched.'

nkjv@Mark:9:49 @ "For ev eryone will be seasoned with fire, and ev ery sacrifice will be seasoned with salt.

nkjv@Mark:9:50 @ Salt is good, but if the salt loses its flavor, how will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace with one anoth er."

nkjv@Mark:10:1 @ Then He arose from th ere and came to the region of Judea by the oth er side of the Jordan. And multitudes gath ered to Him again, and as He was accustomed, He taught them again.

nkjv@Mark:10:3 @ And He answ ered and said to them, "What did Moses command you?"

nkjv@Mark:10:4 @ They said, "Moses p ermitted a man to write a c ertificate of divorce, and to dismiss h er."

nkjv@Mark:10:5 @ And Jesus answ ered and said to them, "Because of the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.

nkjv@Mark:10:7 @ "For this reason a man shall leave his fath er and moth er and be joined to his wife,

nkjv@Mark:10:8 @ and the two shall become one flesh'; so then they are no long er two, but one flesh.

nkjv@Mark:10:9 @ Th erefore what God has joined togeth er, let not man separate."

nkjv@Mark:10:10 @ In the house His disciples also asked Him again about the same matt er.

nkjv@Mark:10:11 @ So He said to them, "Whoev er divorces his wife and marries anoth er commits adult ery against h er.

nkjv@Mark:10:12 @ And if a woman divorces h er husband and marries anoth er, she commits adult ery."

nkjv@Mark:10:15 @ Assuredly, I say to you, whoev er does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will by no means ent er it."

nkjv@Mark:10:17 @ Now as He was going out on the road, one came running, knelt before Him, and asked Him, "Good Teach er, what shall I do that I may inh erit et ernal life?"

nkjv@Mark:10:19 @ You know the commandments: "Do not commit adult ery,' "Do not murd er,' "Do not steal,' "Do not bear false witness,' "Do not defraud,' "Honor your fath er and your moth er."'

nkjv@Mark:10:20 @ And he answ ered and said to Him, "Teach er, all these things I have kept from my youth."

nkjv@Mark:10:21 @ Then Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, "One thing you lack: Go your way, sell whatev er you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, take up the cross, and follow Me."

nkjv@Mark:10:23 @ Then Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, "How hard it is for those who have riches to ent er the kingdom of God!"

nkjv@Mark:10:24 @ And the disciples w ere astonished at His words. But Jesus answ ered again and said to them, "Children, how hard it is for those who trust in riches to ent er the kingdom of God!

nkjv@Mark:10:25 @ It is easi er for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to ent er the kingdom of God."

nkjv@Mark:10:26 @ And they w ere greatly astonished, saying among themselves, "Who then can be saved?"

nkjv@Mark:10:28 @ Then Pet er began to say to Him, "See, we have left all and followed You."

nkjv@Mark:10:29 @ So Jesus answ ered and said, "Assuredly, I say to you, th ere is no one who has left house or broth ers or sist ers or fath er or moth er or wife or children or lands, for My sake and the gospel's,

nkjv@Mark:10:30 @ who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time--houses and broth ers and sist ers and moth ers and children and lands, with p ersecutions--and in the age to come, et ernal life.

nkjv@Mark:10:32 @ Now they w ere on the road, going up to J erusalem, and Jesus was going before them; and they w ere amazed. And as they followed they w ere afraid. Then He took the twelve aside again and began to tell them the things that would happen to Him:

nkjv@Mark:10:33 @ "Behold, we are going up to J erusalem, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and to the scribes; and they will condemn Him to death and deliv er Him to the Gentiles;

nkjv@Mark:10:35 @ Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to Him, saying, "Teach er, we want You to do for us whatev er we ask."

nkjv@Mark:10:37 @ They said to Him, "Grant us that we may sit, one on Your right hand and the oth er on Your left, in Your glory."

nkjv@Mark:10:42 @ But Jesus called them to Himself and said to them, "You know that those who are consid ered rul ers ov er the Gentiles lord it ov er them, and their great ones ex ercise authority ov er them.

nkjv@Mark:10:43 @ Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoev er desires to become great among you shall be your s ervant.

nkjv@Mark:10:44 @ And whoev er of you desires to be first shall be slave of all.

nkjv@Mark:10:45 @ For even the Son of Man did not come to be s erved, but to s erve, and to give His life a ransom for many."

nkjv@Mark:10:46 @ Now they came to J ericho. As He went out of J ericho with His disciples and a great multitude, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the road begging.

nkjv@Mark:10:47 @ And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, "Jesus, Son of David, have m ercy on me!"

nkjv@Mark:10:48 @ Then many warned him to be quiet; but he cried out all the more, "Son of David, have m ercy on me!"

nkjv@Mark:10:49 @ So Jesus stood still and commanded him to be called. Then they called the blind man, saying to him, "Be of good che er. Rise, He is calling you."

nkjv@Mark:10:51 @ So Jesus answ ered and said to him, "What do you want Me to do for you?" The blind man said to Him, "Rabboni, that I may receive my sight."

nkjv@Mark:11:1 @ Now when they drew near J erusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, He sent two of His disciples;

nkjv@Mark:11:2 @ and He said to them, "Go into the village opposite you; and as soon as you have ent ered it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has sat. Loose it and bring it.

nkjv@Mark:11:3 @ And if anyone says to you, "Why are you doing this?' say, "The Lord has need of it,' and immediately he will send it h ere."

nkjv@Mark:11:5 @ But some of those who stood th ere said to them, "What are you doing, loosing the colt?"

nkjv@Mark:11:8 @ And many spread their clothes on the road, and oth ers cut down leafy branches from the trees and spread them on the road.

nkjv@Mark:11:10 @ Blessed is the kingdom of our fath er David That comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!"

nkjv@Mark:11:11 @ And Jesus went into J erusalem and into the temple. So when He had looked around at all things, as the hour was already late, He went out to Bethany with the twelve.

nkjv@Mark:11:13 @ And seeing from afar a fig tree having leaves, He went to see if p erhaps He would find something on it. When He came to it, He found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.

nkjv@Mark:11:14 @ In response Jesus said to it, "Let no one eat fruit from you ev er again." And His disciples heard it.

nkjv@Mark:11:15 @ So they came to J erusalem. Then Jesus went into the temple and began to drive out those who bought and sold in the temple, and ov erturned the tables of the money chang ers and the seats of those who sold doves.

nkjv@Mark:11:17 @ Then He taught, saying to them, "Is it not written, "My house shall be called a house of pray er for all nations'? But you have made it a "den of thieves."'

nkjv@Mark:11:18 @ And the scribes and chief priests heard it and sought how they might destroy Him; for they feared Him, because all the people w ere astonished at His teaching.

nkjv@Mark:11:21 @ And Pet er, rememb ering, said to Him, "Rabbi, look! The fig tree which You cursed has with ered away."

nkjv@Mark:11:22 @ So Jesus answ ered and said to them, "Have faith in God.

nkjv@Mark:11:23 @ For assuredly, I say to you, whoev er says to this mountain, "Be removed and be cast into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatev er he says.

nkjv@Mark:11:24 @ Th erefore I say to you, whatev er things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.

nkjv@Mark:11:25 @ "And whenev er you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Fath er in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses.

nkjv@Mark:11:26 @ But if you do not forgive, neith er will your Fath er in heaven forgive your trespasses."

nkjv@Mark:11:27 @ Then they came again to J erusalem. And as He was walking in the temple, the chief priests, the scribes, and the eld ers came to Him.

nkjv@Mark:11:29 @ But Jesus answ ered and said to them, "I also will ask you one question; then answ er Me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things:

nkjv@Mark:11:30 @ The baptism of John--was it from heaven or from men? Answ er Me."

nkjv@Mark:11:33 @ So they answ ered and said to Jesus, "We do not know." And Jesus answ ered and said to them, "Neith er will I tell you by what authority I do these things."

nkjv@Mark:12:1 @ Then He began to speak to them in parables: "A man planted a vineyard and set a hedge around it, dug a place for the wine vat and built a tow er. And he leased it to vinedress ers and went into a far country.

nkjv@Mark:12:2 @ Now at vintage-time he sent a s ervant to the vinedress ers, that he might receive some of the fruit of the vineyard from the vinedress ers.

nkjv@Mark:12:4 @ Again he sent them anoth er s ervant, and at him they threw stones, wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully treated.

nkjv@Mark:12:5 @ And again he sent anoth er, and him they killed; and many oth ers, beating some and killing some.

nkjv@Mark:12:6 @ Th erefore still having one son, his beloved, he also sent him to them last, saying, "They will respect my son.'

nkjv@Mark:12:7 @ But those vinedress ers said among themselves, "This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inh eritance will be ours.'

nkjv@Mark:12:9 @ "Th erefore what will the own er of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the vinedress ers, and give the vineyard to oth ers.

nkjv@Mark:12:10 @ Have you not even read this Scripture: "The stone which the build ers rejected Has become the chief corn erstone.

nkjv@Mark:12:13 @ Then they sent to Him some of the Pharisees and the H erodians, to catch Him in His words.

nkjv@Mark:12:14 @ When they had come, they said to Him, "Teach er, we know that You are true, and care about no one; for You do not regard the p erson of men, but teach the way of God in truth. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?

nkjv@Mark:12:17 @ And Jesus answ ered and said to them, "Rend er to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." And they marveled at Him.

nkjv@Mark:12:18 @ Then some Sadducees, who say th ere is no resurrection, came to Him; and they asked Him, saying:

nkjv@Mark:12:19 @ "Teach er, Moses wrote to us that if a man's broth er dies, and leaves his wife behind, and leaves no children, his broth er should take his wife and raise up offspring for his broth er.

nkjv@Mark:12:20 @ Now th ere w ere seven broth ers. The first took a wife; and dying, he left no offspring.

nkjv@Mark:12:21 @ And the second took h er, and he died; nor did he leave any offspring. And the third likewise.

nkjv@Mark:12:22 @ So the seven had h er and left no offspring. Last of all the woman died also.

nkjv@Mark:12:23 @ Th erefore, in the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be? For all seven had h er as wife."

nkjv@Mark:12:24 @ Jesus answ ered and said to them, "Are you not th erefore mistaken, because you do not know the Scriptures nor the pow er of God?

nkjv@Mark:12:25 @ For when they rise from the dead, they neith er marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

nkjv@Mark:12:26 @ But conc erning the dead, that they rise, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the burning bush passage, how God spoke to him, saying, "I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?

nkjv@Mark:12:27 @ He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living. You are th erefore greatly mistaken."

nkjv@Mark:12:28 @ Then one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning togeth er, p erceiving that He had answ ered them well, asked Him, "Which is the first commandment of all?"

nkjv@Mark:12:29 @ Jesus answ ered him, "The first of all the commandments is: "Hear, O Israel, the LORD our God, the LORD is one.

nkjv@Mark:12:31 @ And the second, like it, is this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' Th ere is no oth er commandment great er than these."

nkjv@Mark:12:32 @ So the scribe said to Him, "Well said, Teach er. You have spoken the truth, for th ere is one God, and th ere is no oth er but He.

nkjv@Mark:12:33 @ And to love Him with all the heart, with all the und erstanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, is more than all the whole burnt off erings and sacrifices."

nkjv@Mark:12:34 @ Now when Jesus saw that he answ ered wisely, He said to him, "You are not far from the kingdom of God." But aft er that no one dared question Him.

nkjv@Mark:12:35 @ Then Jesus answ ered and said, while He taught in the temple, "How is it that the scribes say that the Christ is the Son of David?

nkjv@Mark:12:37 @ Th erefore David himself calls Him "Lord'; how is He then his Son?" And the common people heard Him gladly.

nkjv@Mark:12:40 @ who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long pray ers. These will receive great er condemnation."

nkjv@Mark:12:41 @ Now Jesus sat opposite the treasury and saw how the people put money into the treasury. And many who w ere rich put in much.

nkjv@Mark:12:44 @ for they all put in out of their abundance, but she out of h er pov erty put in all that she had, h er whole livelihood."

nkjv@Mark:13:1 @ Then as He went out of the temple, one of His disciples said to Him, "Teach er, see what mann er of stones and what buildings are h ere!"

nkjv@Mark:13:2 @ And Jesus answ ered and said to him, "Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone shall be left upon anoth er, that shall not be thrown down."

nkjv@Mark:13:3 @ Now as He sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Pet er, James, John, and Andrew asked Him privately,

nkjv@Mark:13:5 @ And Jesus, answ ering them, began to say: "Take heed that no one deceives you.

nkjv@Mark:13:8 @ For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And th ere will be earthquakes in various places, and th ere will be famines and troubles. These are the beginnings of sorrows.

nkjv@Mark:13:9 @ "But watch out for yourselves, for they will deliv er you up to councils, and you will be beaten in the synagogues. You will be brought before rul ers and kings for My sake, for a testimony to them.

nkjv@Mark:13:11 @ But when they arrest you and deliv er you up, do not worry beforehand, or premeditate what you will speak. But whatev er is given you in that hour, speak that; for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.

nkjv@Mark:13:12 @ Now broth er will betray broth er to death, and a fath er his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.

nkjv@Mark:13:14 @ "So when you see the "abomination of desolation,' spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing wh ere it ought not" (let the read er und erstand), "then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.

nkjv@Mark:13:15 @ Let him who is on the housetop not go down into the house, nor ent er to take anything out of his house.

nkjv@Mark:13:18 @ And pray that your flight may not be in wint er.

nkjv@Mark:13:19 @ For in those days th ere will be tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the creation which God created until this time, nor ev er shall be.

nkjv@Mark:13:21 @ "Then if anyone says to you, "Look, h ere is the Christ!' or, "Look, He is th ere!' do not believe it.

nkjv@Mark:13:22 @ For false christs and false prophets will rise and show signs and wond ers to deceive, if possible, even the elect.

nkjv@Mark:13:24 @ "But in those days, aft er that tribulation, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light;

nkjv@Mark:13:25 @ the stars of heaven will fall, and the pow ers in the heavens will be shaken.

nkjv@Mark:13:26 @ Then they will see the Son of Man coming in the clouds with great pow er and glory.

nkjv@Mark:13:27 @ And then He will send His angels, and gath er togeth er His elect from the four winds, from the farthest part of earth to the farthest part of heaven.

nkjv@Mark:13:28 @ "Now learn this parable from the fig tree: When its branch has already become tend er, and puts forth leaves, you know that summ er is near.

nkjv@Mark:13:30 @ Assuredly, I say to you, this gen eration will by no means pass away till all these things take place.

nkjv@Mark:13:32 @ "But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Fath er.

nkjv@Mark:13:34 @ It is like a man going to a far country, who left his house and gave authority to his s ervants, and to each his work, and commanded the doorkeep er to watch.

nkjv@Mark:13:35 @ Watch th erefore, for you do not know when the mast er of the house is coming--in the evening, at midnight, at the crowing of the roost er, or in the morning--

nkjv@Mark:14:1 @ Aft er two days it was the Passov er and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take Him by trick ery and put Him to death.

nkjv@Mark:14:2 @ But they said, "Not during the feast, lest th ere be an uproar of the people."

nkjv@Mark:14:3 @ And being in Bethany at the house of Simon the lep er, as He sat at the table, a woman came having an alabast er flask of v ery costly oil of spikenard. Then she broke the flask and poured it on His head.

nkjv@Mark:14:4 @ But th ere w ere some who w ere indignant among themselves, and said, "Why was this fragrant oil wasted?

nkjv@Mark:14:5 @ For it might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor." And they criticized h er sharply.

nkjv@Mark:14:6 @ But Jesus said, "Let h er alone. Why do you trouble h er? She has done a good work for Me.

nkjv@Mark:14:7 @ For you have the poor with you always, and whenev er you wish you may do them good; but Me you do not have always.

nkjv@Mark:14:9 @ Assuredly, I say to you, wh erev er this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told as a memorial to h er."

nkjv@Mark:14:11 @ And when they heard it, they w ere glad, and promised to give him money. So he sought how he might conveniently betray Him.

nkjv@Mark:14:12 @ Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they killed the Passov er lamb, His disciples said to Him, "Wh ere do You want us to go and prepare, that You may eat the Passov er?"

nkjv@Mark:14:13 @ And He sent out two of His disciples and said to them, "Go into the city, and a man will meet you carrying a pitch er of wat er; follow him.

nkjv@Mark:14:14 @ Wh erev er he goes in, say to the mast er of the house, "The Teach er says, "Wh ere is the guest room in which I may eat the Passov er with My disciples?"'

nkjv@Mark:14:15 @ Then he will show you a large upp er room, furnished and prepared; th ere make ready for us."

nkjv@Mark:14:16 @ So His disciples went out, and came into the city, and found it just as He had said to them; and they prepared the Passov er.

nkjv@Mark:14:19 @ And they began to be sorrowful, and to say to Him one by one, "Is it I?" And anoth er said, "Is it I?"

nkjv@Mark:14:20 @ He answ ered and said to them, "It is one of the twelve, who dips with Me in the dish.

nkjv@Mark:14:21 @ The Son of Man indeed goes just as it is written of Him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been good for that man if he had nev er been born."

nkjv@Mark:14:22 @ And as they w ere eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them and said, "Take, eat; this is My body."

nkjv@Mark:14:25 @ Assuredly, I say to you, I will no long er drink of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God."

nkjv@Mark:14:27 @ Then Jesus said to them, "All of you will be made to stumble because of Me this night, for it is written: "I will strike the Sheph erd, And the sheep will be scatt ered.'

nkjv@Mark:14:28 @ "But aft er I have been raised, I will go before you to Galilee."

nkjv@Mark:14:29 @ Pet er said to Him, "Even if all are made to stumble, yet I will not be."

nkjv@Mark:14:30 @ Jesus said to him, "Assuredly, I say to you that today, even this night, before the roost er crows twice, you will deny Me three times."

nkjv@Mark:14:32 @ Then they came to a place which was named Gethsemane; and He said to His disciples, "Sit h ere while I pray."

nkjv@Mark:14:33 @ And He took Pet er, James, and John with Him, and He began to be troubled and deeply distressed.

nkjv@Mark:14:34 @ Then He said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay h ere and watch."

nkjv@Mark:14:35 @ He went a little farth er, and fell on the ground, and prayed that if it w ere possible, the hour might pass from Him.

nkjv@Mark:14:36 @ And He said, "Abba, Fath er, all things are possible for You. Take this cup away from Me; nev ertheless, not what I will, but what You will."

nkjv@Mark:14:37 @ Then He came and found them sleeping, and said to Pet er, "Simon, are you sleeping? Could you not watch one hour?

nkjv@Mark:14:38 @ Watch and pray, lest you ent er into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."

nkjv@Mark:14:40 @ And when He returned, He found them asleep again, for their eyes w ere heavy; and they did not know what to answ er Him.

nkjv@Mark:14:41 @ Then He came the third time and said to them, "Are you still sleeping and resting? It is enough! The hour has come; behold, the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinn ers.

nkjv@Mark:14:42 @ Rise, let us be going. See, My betray er is at hand."

nkjv@Mark:14:43 @ And immediately, while He was still speaking, Judas, one of the twelve, with a great multitude with swords and clubs, came from the chief priests and the scribes and the eld ers.

nkjv@Mark:14:44 @ Now His betray er had given them a signal, saying, "Whomev er I kiss, He is the One; seize Him and lead Him away safely."

nkjv@Mark:14:47 @ And one of those who stood by drew his sword and struck the s ervant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.

nkjv@Mark:14:48 @ Then Jesus answ ered and said to them, "Have you come out, as against a robb er, with swords and clubs to take Me?

nkjv@Mark:14:51 @ Now a c ertain young man followed Him, having a linen cloth thrown around his naked body. And the young men laid hold of him,

nkjv@Mark:14:53 @ And they led Jesus away to the high priest; and with him w ere assembled all the chief priests, the eld ers, and the scribes.

nkjv@Mark:14:54 @ But Pet er followed Him at a distance, right into the courtyard of the high priest. And he sat with the s ervants and warmed himself at the fire.

nkjv@Mark:14:58 @ "We heard Him say, "I will destroy this temple made with hands, and within three days I will build anoth er made without hands."'

nkjv@Mark:14:60 @ And the high priest stood up in the midst and asked Jesus, saying, "Do You answ er nothing? What is it these men testify against You?"

nkjv@Mark:14:61 @ But He kept silent and answ ered nothing. Again the high priest asked Him, saying to Him, "Are You the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?"

nkjv@Mark:14:62 @ Jesus said, "I am. And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Pow er, and coming with the clouds of heaven."

nkjv@Mark:14:63 @ Then the high priest tore his clothes and said, "What furth er need do we have of witnesses?

nkjv@Mark:14:64 @ You have heard the blasphemy! What do you think?" And they all condemned Him to be des erving of death.

nkjv@Mark:14:65 @ Then some began to spit on Him, and to blindfold Him, and to beat Him, and to say to Him, "Prophesy!" And the offic ers struck Him with the palms of their hands.

nkjv@Mark:14:66 @ Now as Pet er was below in the courtyard, one of the s ervant girls of the high priest came.

nkjv@Mark:14:67 @ And when she saw Pet er warming himself, she looked at him and said, "You also w ere with Jesus of Nazareth."

nkjv@Mark:14:68 @ But he denied it, saying, "I neith er know nor und erstand what you are saying." And he went out on the porch, and a roost er crowed.

nkjv@Mark:14:69 @ And the s ervant girl saw him again, and began to say to those who stood by, "This is one of them."

nkjv@Mark:14:70 @ But he denied it again. And a little lat er those who stood by said to Pet er again, "Surely you are one of them; for you are a Galilean, and your speech shows it."

nkjv@Mark:14:72 @ A second time the roost er crowed. Then Pet er called to mind the word that Jesus had said to him, "Before the roost er crows twice, you will deny Me three times." And when he thought about it, he wept.

nkjv@Mark:15:1 @ Immediately, in the morning, the chief priests held a consultation with the eld ers and scribes and the whole council; and they bound Jesus, led Him away, and deliv ered Him to Pilate.

nkjv@Mark:15:2 @ Then Pilate asked Him, "Are You the King of the Jews?" He answ ered and said to him, "It is as you say."

nkjv@Mark:15:3 @ And the chief priests accused Him of many things, but He answ ered nothing.

nkjv@Mark:15:4 @ Then Pilate asked Him again, saying, "Do You answ er nothing? See how many things they testify against You!"

nkjv@Mark:15:5 @ But Jesus still answ ered nothing, so that Pilate marveled.

nkjv@Mark:15:6 @ Now at the feast he was accustomed to releasing one prison er to them, whomev er they requested.

nkjv@Mark:15:7 @ And th ere was one named Barabbas, who was chained with his fellow rebels; they had committed murd er in the rebellion.

nkjv@Mark:15:9 @ But Pilate answ ered them, saying, "Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?"

nkjv@Mark:15:10 @ For he knew that the chief priests had handed Him ov er because of envy.

nkjv@Mark:15:11 @ But the chief priests stirred up the crowd, so that he should rath er release Barabbas to them.

nkjv@Mark:15:12 @ Pilate answ ered and said to them again, "What then do you want me to do with Him whom you call the King of the Jews?"

nkjv@Mark:15:15 @ So Pilate, wanting to gratify the crowd, released Barabbas to them; and he deliv ered Jesus, aft er he had scourged Him, to be crucified.

nkjv@Mark:15:16 @ Then the soldi ers led Him away into the hall called Praetorium, and they called togeth er the whole garrison.

nkjv@Mark:15:21 @ Then they compelled a c ertain man, Simon a Cyrenian, the fath er of Alexand er and Rufus, as he was coming out of the country and passing by, to bear His cross.

nkjv@Mark:15:24 @ And when they crucified Him, they divided His garments, casting lots for them to det ermine what ev ery man should take.

nkjv@Mark:15:27 @ With Him they also crucified two robb ers, one on His right and the oth er on His left.

nkjv@Mark:15:28 @ So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "And He was numb ered with the transgressors."

nkjv@Mark:15:31 @ Likewise the chief priests also, mocking among themselves with the scribes, said, "He saved oth ers; Himself He cannot save.

nkjv@Mark:15:32 @ Let the Christ, the King of Israel, descend now from the cross, that we may see and believe." Even those who w ere crucified with Him reviled Him.

nkjv@Mark:15:33 @ Now when the sixth hour had come, th ere was darkness ov er the whole land until the ninth hour.

nkjv@Mark:15:36 @ Then someone ran and filled a sponge full of sour wine, put it on a reed, and off ered it to Him to drink, saying, "Let Him alone; let us see if Elijah will come to take Him down."

nkjv@Mark:15:40 @ Th ere w ere also women looking on from afar, among whom w ere Mary Magdalene, Mary the moth er of James the Less and of Joses, and Salome,

nkjv@Mark:15:41 @ who also followed Him and minist ered to Him when He was in Galilee, and many oth er women who came up with Him to J erusalem.

nkjv@Mark:15:43 @ Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent council memb er, who was himself waiting for the kingdom of God, coming and taking courage, went in to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.

nkjv@Mark:15:47 @ And Mary Magdalene and Mary the moth er of Joses obs erved wh ere He was laid.

nkjv@Mark:16:1 @ Now when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, Mary the moth er of James, and Salome bought spices, that they might come and anoint Him.

nkjv@Mark:16:2 @ V ery early in the morning, on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen.

nkjv@Mark:16:4 @ But when they looked up, they saw that the stone had been rolled away--for it was v ery large.

nkjv@Mark:16:5 @ And ent ering the tomb, they saw a young man clothed in a long white robe sitting on the right side; and they w ere alarmed.

nkjv@Mark:16:6 @ But he said to them, "Do not be alarmed. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He is risen! He is not h ere. See the place wh ere they laid Him.

nkjv@Mark:16:7 @ But go, tell His disciples--and Pet er--that He is going before you into Galilee; th ere you will see Him, as He said to you."

nkjv@Mark:16:8 @ So they went out quickly and fled from the tomb, for they trembled and w ere amazed. And they said nothing to anyone, for they w ere afraid.

nkjv@Mark:16:11 @ And when they heard that He was alive and had been seen by h er, they did not believe.

nkjv@Mark:16:12 @ Aft er that, He appeared in anoth er form to two of them as they walked and went into the country.

nkjv@Mark:16:13 @ And they went and told it to the rest, but they did not believe them eith er.

nkjv@Mark:16:14 @ Lat er He appeared to the eleven as they sat at the table; and He rebuked their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen Him aft er He had risen.

nkjv@Mark:16:15 @ And He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to ev ery creature.

nkjv@Mark:16:18 @ they will take up s erpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recov er."

nkjv@Mark:16:19 @ So then, aft er the Lord had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

nkjv@Mark:16:20 @ And they went out and preached ev erywh ere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word through the accompanying signs. Amen.

nkjv@Luke:1:1 @ Inasmuch as many have taken in hand to set in ord er a narrative of those things which have been fulfilled among us,

nkjv@Luke:1:2 @ just as those who from the beginning w ere eyewitnesses and minist ers of the word deliv ered them to us,

nkjv@Luke:1:3 @ it seemed good to me also, having had p erfect und erstanding of all things from the v ery first, to write to you an ord erly account, most excellent Theophilus,

nkjv@Luke:1:4 @ that you may know the c ertainty of those things in which you w ere instructed.

nkjv@Luke:1:5 @ Th ere was in the days of H erod, the king of Judea, a c ertain priest named Zacharias, of the division of Abijah. His wife was of the daught ers of Aaron, and h er name was Elizabeth.

nkjv@Luke:1:6 @ And they w ere both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

nkjv@Luke:1:7 @ But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they w ere both well advanced in years.

nkjv@Luke:1:8 @ So it was, that while he was s erving as priest before God in the ord er of his division,

nkjv@Luke:1:13 @ But the angel said to him, "Do not be afraid, Zacharias, for your pray er is heard; and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

nkjv@Luke:1:15 @ For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neith er wine nor strong drink. He will also be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his moth er's womb.

nkjv@Luke:1:17 @ He will also go before Him in the spirit and pow er of Elijah, "to turn the hearts of the fath ers to the children,' and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord."

nkjv@Luke:1:19 @ And the angel answ ered and said to him, "I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God, and was sent to speak to you and bring you these glad tidings.

nkjv@Luke:1:21 @ And the people waited for Zacharias, and marveled that he ling ered so long in the temple.

nkjv@Luke:1:22 @ But when he came out, he could not speak to them; and they p erceived that he had seen a vision in the temple, for he beckoned to them and remained speechless.

nkjv@Luke:1:23 @ So it was, as soon as the days of his s ervice w ere completed, that he departed to his own house.

nkjv@Luke:1:24 @ Now aft er those days his wife Elizabeth conceived; and she hid h erself five months, saying,

nkjv@Luke:1:28 @ And having come in, the angel said to h er, "Rejoice, highly favored one, the Lord is with you; blessed are you among women!"

nkjv@Luke:1:29 @ But when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and consid ered what mann er of greeting this was.

nkjv@Luke:1:30 @ Then the angel said to h er, "Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.

nkjv@Luke:1:32 @ He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His fath er David.

nkjv@Luke:1:33 @ And He will reign ov er the house of Jacob forev er, and of His kingdom th ere will be no end."

nkjv@Luke:1:35 @ And the angel answ ered and said to h er, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the pow er of the Highest will ov ershadow you; th erefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God.

nkjv@Luke:1:36 @ Now indeed, Elizabeth your relative has also conceived a son in h er old age; and this is now the sixth month for h er who was called barren.

nkjv@Luke:1:38 @ Then Mary said, "Behold the maids ervant of the Lord! Let it be to me according to your word." And the angel departed from h er.

nkjv@Luke:1:40 @ and ent ered the house of Zacharias and greeted Elizabeth.

nkjv@Luke:1:41 @ And it happened, when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, that the babe leaped in h er womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.

nkjv@Luke:1:43 @ But why is this granted to me, that the moth er of my Lord should come to me?

nkjv@Luke:1:45 @ Blessed is she who believed, for th ere will be a fulfillment of those things which w ere told h er from the Lord."

nkjv@Luke:1:48 @ For He has regarded the lowly state of His maids ervant; For behold, henceforth all gen erations will call me blessed.

nkjv@Luke:1:50 @ And His m ercy is on those who fear Him From gen eration to gen eration.

nkjv@Luke:1:51 @ He has shown strength with His arm; He has scatt ered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

nkjv@Luke:1:54 @ He has helped His s ervant Israel, In remembrance of His m ercy,

nkjv@Luke:1:55 @ As He spoke to our fath ers, To Abraham and to his seed forev er."

nkjv@Luke:1:56 @ And Mary remained with h er about three months, and returned to h er house.

nkjv@Luke:1:57 @ Now Elizabeth's full time came for h er to be deliv ered, and she brought forth a son.

nkjv@Luke:1:58 @ When h er neighbors and relatives heard how the Lord had shown great m ercy to h er, they rejoiced with h er.

nkjv@Luke:1:59 @ So it was, on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him by the name of his fath er, Zacharias.

nkjv@Luke:1:60 @ His moth er answ ered and said, "No; he shall be called John."

nkjv@Luke:1:61 @ But they said to h er, "Th ere is no one among your relatives who is called by this name."

nkjv@Luke:1:62 @ So they made signs to his fath er--what he would have him called.

nkjv@Luke:1:65 @ Then fear came on all who dwelt around them; and all these sayings w ere discussed throughout all the hill country of Judea.

nkjv@Luke:1:67 @ Now his fath er Zacharias was filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying:

nkjv@Luke:1:69 @ And has raised up a horn of salvation for us In the house of His s ervant David,

nkjv@Luke:1:72 @ To p erform the m ercy promised to our fath ers And to rememb er His holy covenant,

nkjv@Luke:1:73 @ The oath which He swore to our fath er Abraham:

nkjv@Luke:1:74 @ To grant us that we, Being deliv ered from the hand of our enemies, Might s erve Him without fear,

nkjv@Luke:1:78 @ Through the tend er m ercy of our God, With which the Dayspring from on high has visited us;

nkjv@Luke:1:80 @ So the child grew and became strong in spirit, and was in the des erts till the day of his manifestation to Israel.

nkjv@Luke:2:1 @ And it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be regist ered.

nkjv@Luke:2:2 @ This census first took place while Quirinius was gov erning Syria.

nkjv@Luke:2:3 @ So all went to be regist ered, ev eryone to his own city.

nkjv@Luke:2:5 @ to be regist ered with Mary, his betrothed wife, who was with child.

nkjv@Luke:2:6 @ So it was, that while they w ere th ere, the days w ere completed for h er to be deliv ered.

nkjv@Luke:2:7 @ And she brought forth h er firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a mang er, because th ere was no room for them in the inn.

nkjv@Luke:2:8 @ Now th ere w ere in the same country sheph erds living out in the fields, keeping watch ov er their flock by night.

nkjv@Luke:2:9 @ And behold, an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they w ere greatly afraid.

nkjv@Luke:2:11 @ For th ere is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

nkjv@Luke:2:12 @ And this will be the sign to you: You will find a Babe wrapped in swaddling cloths, lying in a mang er."

nkjv@Luke:2:13 @ And suddenly th ere was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying:

nkjv@Luke:2:15 @ So it was, when the angels had gone away from them into heaven, that the sheph erds said to one anoth er, "Let us now go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has come to pass, which the Lord has made known to us."

nkjv@Luke:2:16 @ And they came with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the Babe lying in a mang er.

nkjv@Luke:2:17 @ Now when they had seen Him, they made widely known the saying which was told them conc erning this Child.

nkjv@Luke:2:18 @ And all those who heard it marveled at those things which w ere told them by the sheph erds.

nkjv@Luke:2:19 @ But Mary kept all these things and pond ered them in h er heart.

nkjv@Luke:2:20 @ Then the sheph erds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told them.

nkjv@Luke:2:21 @ And when eight days w ere completed for the circumcision of the Child, His name was called JESUS, the name given by the angel before He was conceived in the womb.

nkjv@Luke:2:22 @ Now when the days of h er purification according to the law of Moses w ere completed, they brought Him to J erusalem to present Him to the Lord

nkjv@Luke:2:23 @ (as it is written in the law of the Lord, "Ev ery male who opens the womb shall be called holy to the LORD"),

nkjv@Luke:2:24 @ and to off er a sacrifice according to what is said in the law of the Lord, "A pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons."

nkjv@Luke:2:25 @ And behold, th ere was a man in J erusalem whose name was Simeon, and this man was just and devout, waiting for the Consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.

nkjv@Luke:2:29 @ "Lord, now You are letting Your s ervant depart in peace, According to Your word;

nkjv@Luke:2:33 @ And Joseph and His moth er marveled at those things which w ere spoken of Him.

nkjv@Luke:2:34 @ Then Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary His moth er, "Behold, this Child is destined for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which will be spoken against

nkjv@Luke:2:35 @ (yes, a sword will pi erce through your own soul also), that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed."

nkjv@Luke:2:36 @ Now th ere was one, Anna, a prophetess, the daught er of Phanuel, of the tribe of Ash er. She was of a great age, and had lived with a husband seven years from h er virginity;

nkjv@Luke:2:37 @ and this woman was a widow of about eighty-four years, who did not depart from the temple, but s erved God with fastings and pray ers night and day.

nkjv@Luke:2:38 @ And coming in that instant she gave thanks to the Lord, and spoke of Him to all those who looked for redemption in J erusalem.

nkjv@Luke:2:39 @ So when they had p erformed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own city, Nazareth.

nkjv@Luke:2:41 @ His parents went to J erusalem ev ery year at the Feast of the Passov er.

nkjv@Luke:2:42 @ And when He was twelve years old, they went up to J erusalem according to the custom of the feast.

nkjv@Luke:2:43 @ When they had finished the days, as they returned, the Boy Jesus ling ered behind in J erusalem. And Joseph and His moth er did not know it;

nkjv@Luke:2:45 @ So when they did not find Him, they returned to J erusalem, seeking Him.

nkjv@Luke:2:46 @ Now so it was that aft er three days they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teach ers, both listening to them and asking them questions.

nkjv@Luke:2:47 @ And all who heard Him w ere astonished at His und erstanding and answ ers.

nkjv@Luke:2:48 @ So when they saw Him, they w ere amazed; and His moth er said to Him, "Son, why have You done this to us? Look, Your fath er and I have sought You anxiously."

nkjv@Luke:2:49 @ And He said to them, "Why did you seek Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Fath er's business?"

nkjv@Luke:2:50 @ But they did not und erstand the statement which He spoke to them.

nkjv@Luke:2:51 @ Then He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was subject to them, but His moth er kept all these things in h er heart.

nkjv@Luke:3:1 @ Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tib erius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being gov ernor of Judea, H erod being tetrarch of Galilee, his broth er Philip tetrarch of Iturea and the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

nkjv@Luke:3:2 @ while Annas and Caiaphas w ere high priests, the word of God came to John the son of Zacharias in the wild erness.

nkjv@Luke:3:4 @ as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, saying: "The voice of one crying in the wild erness: "Prepare the way of the LORD; Make His paths straight.

nkjv@Luke:3:5 @ Ev ery valley shall be filled And ev ery mountain and hill brought low; The crooked places shall be made straight And the rough ways smooth;

nkjv@Luke:3:7 @ Then he said to the multitudes that came out to be baptized by him, "Brood of vip ers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

nkjv@Luke:3:8 @ Th erefore bear fruits worthy of repentance, and do not begin to say to yourselves, "We have Abraham as our fath er.' For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.

nkjv@Luke:3:9 @ And even now the ax is laid to the root of the trees. Th erefore ev ery tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire."

nkjv@Luke:3:11 @ He answ ered and said to them, "He who has two tunics, let him give to him who has none; and he who has food, let him do likewise."

nkjv@Luke:3:12 @ Then tax collectors also came to be baptized, and said to him, "Teach er, what shall we do?"

nkjv@Luke:3:14 @ Likewise the soldi ers asked him, saying, "And what shall we do?" So he said to them, "Do not intimidate anyone or accuse falsely, and be content with your wages."

nkjv@Luke:3:15 @ Now as the people w ere in expectation, and all reasoned in their hearts about John, wheth er he was the Christ or not,

nkjv@Luke:3:16 @ John answ ered, saying to all, "I indeed baptize you with wat er; but One mighti er than I is coming, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to loose. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

nkjv@Luke:3:17 @ His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gath er the wheat into His barn; but the chaff He will burn with unquenchable fire."

nkjv@Luke:3:18 @ And with many oth er exhortations he preached to the people.

nkjv@Luke:3:19 @ But H erod the tetrarch, being rebuked by him conc erning H erodias, his broth er Philip's wife, and for all the evils which H erod had done,

nkjv@Luke:3:21 @ When all the people w ere baptized, it came to pass that Jesus also was baptized; and while He prayed, the heaven was opened.

nkjv@Luke:3:27 @ the son of Joannas, the son of Rhesa, the son of Z erubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, the son of N eri,

nkjv@Luke:3:28 @ the son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son of Elmodam, the son of Er,

nkjv@Luke:3:29 @ the son of Jose, the son of Eliez er, the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi,

nkjv@Luke:3:33 @ the son of Amminadab, the son of Ram, the son of Hezron, the son of P erez, the son of Judah,

nkjv@Luke:3:34 @ the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of T erah, the son of Nahor,

nkjv@Luke:3:35 @ the son of S erug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eb er, the son of Shelah,

nkjv@Luke:4:1 @ Then Jesus, being filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wild erness,

nkjv@Luke:4:2 @ being tempted for forty days by the devil. And in those days He ate nothing, and aft erward, when they had ended, He was hungry.

nkjv@Luke:4:4 @ But Jesus answ ered him, saying, "It is written, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by ev ery word of God."'

nkjv@Luke:4:6 @ And the devil said to Him, "All this authority I will give You, and their glory; for this has been deliv ered to me, and I give it to whomev er I wish.

nkjv@Luke:4:7 @ Th erefore, if You will worship before me, all will be Yours."

nkjv@Luke:4:8 @ And Jesus answ ered and said to him, "Get behind Me, Satan! For it is written, "You shall worship the LORD your God, and Him only you shall s erve."'

nkjv@Luke:4:9 @ Then he brought Him to J erusalem, set Him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to Him, "If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down from h ere.

nkjv@Luke:4:10 @ For it is written: "He shall give His angels charge ov er you, To keep you,'

nkjv@Luke:4:12 @ And Jesus answ ered and said to him, "It has been said, "You shall not tempt the LORD your God."'

nkjv@Luke:4:13 @ Now when the devil had ended ev ery temptation, he departed from Him until an opportune time.

nkjv@Luke:4:14 @ Then Jesus returned in the pow er of the Spirit to Galilee, and news of Him went out through all the surrounding region.

nkjv@Luke:4:16 @ So He came to Nazareth, wh ere He had been brought up. And as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.

nkjv@Luke:4:17 @ And He was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when He had opened the book, He found the place wh ere it was written:

nkjv@Luke:4:18 @ "The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me To preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim lib erty to the captives And recov ery of sight to the blind, To set at lib erty those who are oppressed;

nkjv@Luke:4:20 @ Then He closed the book, and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all who w ere in the synagogue w ere fixed on Him.

nkjv@Luke:4:23 @ He said to them, "You will surely say this prov erb to Me, "Physician, heal yourself! Whatev er we have heard done in Cap ernaum, do also h ere in Your country."'

nkjv@Luke:4:25 @ But I tell you truly, many widows w ere in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, and th ere was a great famine throughout all the land;

nkjv@Luke:4:27 @ And many lep ers w ere in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, and none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian."

nkjv@Luke:4:28 @ So all those in the synagogue, when they heard these things, w ere filled with wrath,

nkjv@Luke:4:29 @ and rose up and thrust Him out of the city; and they led Him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built, that they might throw Him down ov er the cliff.

nkjv@Luke:4:31 @ Then He went down to Cap ernaum, a city of Galilee, and was teaching them on the Sabbaths.

nkjv@Luke:4:32 @ And they w ere astonished at His teaching, for His word was with authority.

nkjv@Luke:4:33 @ Now in the synagogue th ere was a man who had a spirit of an unclean demon. And he cried out with a loud voice,

nkjv@Luke:4:36 @ Then they w ere all amazed and spoke among themselves, saying, "What a word this is! For with authority and pow er He commands the unclean spirits, and they come out."

nkjv@Luke:4:37 @ And the report about Him went out into ev ery place in the surrounding region.

nkjv@Luke:4:38 @ Now He arose from the synagogue and ent ered Simon's house. But Simon's wife's moth er was sick with a high fev er, and they made request of Him conc erning h er.

nkjv@Luke:4:39 @ So He stood ov er h er and rebuked the fev er, and it left h er. And immediately she arose and s erved them.

nkjv@Luke:4:40 @ When the sun was setting, all those who had any that w ere sick with various diseases brought them to Him; and He laid His hands on ev ery one of them and healed them.

nkjv@Luke:4:42 @ Now when it was day, He departed and went into a des erted place. And the crowd sought Him and came to Him, and tried to keep Him from leaving them;

nkjv@Luke:4:43 @ but He said to them, "I must preach the kingdom of God to the oth er cities also, because for this purpose I have been sent."

nkjv@Luke:5:2 @ and saw two boats standing by the lake; but the fish ermen had gone from them and w ere washing their nets.

nkjv@Luke:5:5 @ But Simon answ ered and said to Him, "Mast er, we have toiled all night and caught nothing; nev ertheless at Your word I will let down the net."

nkjv@Luke:5:6 @ And when they had done this, they caught a great numb er of fish, and their net was breaking.

nkjv@Luke:5:7 @ So they signaled to their partn ers in the oth er boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink.

nkjv@Luke:5:8 @ When Simon Pet er saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, "Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord!"

nkjv@Luke:5:9 @ For he and all who w ere with him w ere astonished at the catch of fish which they had taken;

nkjv@Luke:5:10 @ and so also w ere James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who w ere partn ers with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, "Do not be afraid. From now on you will catch men."

nkjv@Luke:5:12 @ And it happened when He was in a c ertain city, that behold, a man who was full of leprosy saw Jesus; and he fell on his face and implored Him, saying, "Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean."

nkjv@Luke:5:14 @ And He charged him to tell no one, "But go and show yourself to the priest, and make an off ering for your cleansing, as a testimony to them, just as Moses commanded."

nkjv@Luke:5:15 @ Howev er, the report went around conc erning Him all the more; and great multitudes came togeth er to hear, and to be healed by Him of their infirmities.

nkjv@Luke:5:16 @ So He Himself often withdrew into the wild erness and prayed.

nkjv@Luke:5:17 @ Now it happened on a c ertain day, as He was teaching, that th ere w ere Pharisees and teach ers of the law sitting by, who had come out of ev ery town of Galilee, Judea, and J erusalem. And the pow er of the Lord was present to heal them.

nkjv@Luke:5:22 @ But when Jesus p erceived their thoughts, He answ ered and said to them, "Why are you reasoning in your hearts?

nkjv@Luke:5:23 @ Which is easi er, to say, "Your sins are forgiven you,' or to say, "Rise up and walk'?

nkjv@Luke:5:24 @ But that you may know that the Son of Man has pow er on earth to forgive sins"--He said to the man who was paralyzed, "I say to you, arise, take up your bed, and go to your house."

nkjv@Luke:5:26 @ And they w ere all amazed, and they glorified God and w ere filled with fear, saying, "We have seen strange things today!"

nkjv@Luke:5:27 @ Aft er these things He went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, "Follow Me."

nkjv@Luke:5:29 @ Then Levi gave Him a great feast in his own house. And th ere w ere a great numb er of tax collectors and oth ers who sat down with them.

nkjv@Luke:5:30 @ And their scribes and the Pharisees complained against His disciples, saying, "Why do You eat and drink with tax collectors and sinn ers?"

nkjv@Luke:5:31 @ Jesus answ ered and said to them, "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.

nkjv@Luke:5:32 @ I have not come to call the righteous, but sinn ers, to repentance."

nkjv@Luke:5:33 @ Then they said to Him, "Why do the disciples of John fast often and make pray ers, and likewise those of the Pharisees, but Yours eat and drink?"

nkjv@Luke:5:36 @ Then He spoke a parable to them: "No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old one; oth erwise the new makes a tear, and also the piece that was taken out of the new does not match the old.

nkjv@Luke:5:38 @ But new wine must be put into new wineskins, and both are pres erved.

nkjv@Luke:5:39 @ And no one, having drunk old wine, immediately desires new; for he says, "The old is bett er."'

nkjv@Luke:6:1 @ Now it happened on the second Sabbath aft er the first that He went through the grainfields. And His disciples plucked the heads of grain and ate them, rubbing them in their hands.

nkjv@Luke:6:3 @ But Jesus answ ering them said, "Have you not even read this, what David did when he was hungry, he and those who w ere with him:

nkjv@Luke:6:6 @ Now it happened on anoth er Sabbath, also, that He ent ered the synagogue and taught. And a man was th ere whose right hand was with ered.

nkjv@Luke:6:7 @ So the scribes and Pharisees watched Him closely, wheth er He would heal on the Sabbath, that they might find an accusation against Him.

nkjv@Luke:6:8 @ But He knew their thoughts, and said to the man who had the with ered hand, "Arise and stand h ere." And he arose and stood.

nkjv@Luke:6:10 @ And when He had looked around at them all, He said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." And he did so, and his hand was restored as whole as the oth er.

nkjv@Luke:6:11 @ But they w ere filled with rage, and discussed with one anoth er what they might do to Jesus.

nkjv@Luke:6:12 @ Now it came to pass in those days that He went out to the mountain to pray, and continued all night in pray er to God.

nkjv@Luke:6:14 @ Simon, whom He also named Pet er, and Andrew his broth er; James and John; Philip and Bartholomew;

nkjv@Luke:6:17 @ And He came down with them and stood on a level place with a crowd of His disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and J erusalem, and from the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear Him and be healed of their diseases,

nkjv@Luke:6:18 @ as well as those who w ere tormented with unclean spirits. And they w ere healed.

nkjv@Luke:6:19 @ And the whole multitude sought to touch Him, for pow er went out from Him and healed them all.

nkjv@Luke:6:21 @ Blessed are you who hung er now, For you shall be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, For you shall laugh.

nkjv@Luke:6:23 @ Rejoice in that day and leap for joy! For indeed your reward is great in heaven, For in like mann er their fath ers did to the prophets.

nkjv@Luke:6:25 @ Woe to you who are full, For you shall hung er. Woe to you who laugh now, For you shall mourn and weep.

nkjv@Luke:6:26 @ Woe to you when all men speak well of you, For so did their fath ers to the false prophets.

nkjv@Luke:6:29 @ To him who strikes you on the one cheek, off er the oth er also. And from him who takes away your cloak, do not withhold your tunic eith er.

nkjv@Luke:6:30 @ Give to ev eryone who asks of you. And from him who takes away your goods do not ask them back.

nkjv@Luke:6:32 @ "But if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinn ers love those who love them.

nkjv@Luke:6:33 @ And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinn ers do the same.

nkjv@Luke:6:34 @ And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive back, what credit is that to you? For even sinn ers lend to sinn ers to receive as much back.

nkjv@Luke:6:36 @ Th erefore be m erciful, just as your Fath er also is m erciful.

nkjv@Luke:6:38 @ Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken togeth er, and running ov er will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you."

nkjv@Luke:6:40 @ A disciple is not above his teach er, but ev eryone who is p erfectly trained will be like his teach er.

nkjv@Luke:6:41 @ And why do you look at the speck in your broth er's eye, but do not p erceive the plank in your own eye?

nkjv@Luke:6:42 @ Or how can you say to your broth er, "Broth er, let me remove the speck that is in your eye,' when you yourself do not see the plank that is in your own eye? Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck that is in your broth er's eye.

nkjv@Luke:6:44 @ For ev ery tree is known by its own fruit. For men do not gath er figs from thorns, nor do they gath er grapes from a bramble bush.

nkjv@Luke:6:47 @ Whoev er comes to Me, and hears My sayings and does them, I will show you whom he is like:

nkjv@Luke:7:1 @ Now when He concluded all His sayings in the hearing of the people, He ent ered Cap ernaum.

nkjv@Luke:7:2 @ And a c ertain centurion's s ervant, who was dear to him, was sick and ready to die.

nkjv@Luke:7:3 @ So when he heard about Jesus, he sent eld ers of the Jews to Him, pleading with Him to come and heal his s ervant.

nkjv@Luke:7:4 @ And when they came to Jesus, they begged Him earnestly, saying that the one for whom He should do this was des erving,

nkjv@Luke:7:6 @ Then Jesus went with them. And when He was already not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to Him, saying to Him, "Lord, do not trouble Yourself, for I am not worthy that You should ent er und er my roof.

nkjv@Luke:7:7 @ Th erefore I did not even think myself worthy to come to You. But say the word, and my s ervant will be healed.

nkjv@Luke:7:8 @ For I also am a man placed und er authority, having soldi ers und er me. And I say to one, "Go,' and he goes; and to anoth er, "Come,' and he comes; and to my s ervant, "Do this,' and he does it."

nkjv@Luke:7:10 @ And those who w ere sent, returning to the house, found the s ervant well who had been sick.

nkjv@Luke:7:11 @ Now it happened, the day aft er, that He went into a city called Nain; and many of His disciples went with Him, and a large crowd.

nkjv@Luke:7:12 @ And when He came near the gate of the city, behold, a dead man was being carried out, the only son of his moth er; and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the city was with h er.

nkjv@Luke:7:13 @ When the Lord saw h er, He had compassion on h er and said to h er, "Do not weep."

nkjv@Luke:7:15 @ So he who was dead sat up and began to speak. And He presented him to his moth er.

nkjv@Luke:7:18 @ Then the disciples of John reported to him conc erning all these things.

nkjv@Luke:7:19 @ And John, calling two of his disciples to him, sent them to Jesus, saying, "Are You the Coming One, or do we look for anoth er?"

nkjv@Luke:7:20 @ When the men had come to Him, they said, "John the Baptist has sent us to You, saying, "Are You the Coming One, or do we look for anoth er?"'

nkjv@Luke:7:21 @ And that v ery hour He cured many of infirmities, afflictions, and evil spirits; and to many blind He gave sight.

nkjv@Luke:7:22 @ Jesus answ ered and said to them, "Go and tell John the things you have seen and heard: that the blind see, the lame walk, the lep ers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have the gospel preached to them.

nkjv@Luke:7:24 @ When the messeng ers of John had departed, He began to speak to the multitudes conc erning John: "What did you go out into the wild erness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

nkjv@Luke:7:27 @ This is he of whom it is written: "Behold, I send My messeng er before Your face, Who will prepare Your way before You.'

nkjv@Luke:7:28 @ For I say to you, among those born of women th ere is not a great er prophet than John the Baptist; but he who is least in the kingdom of God is great er than he."

nkjv@Luke:7:30 @ But the Pharisees and lawy ers rejected the will of God for themselves, not having been baptized by him.

nkjv@Luke:7:31 @ And the Lord said, "To what then shall I liken the men of this gen eration, and what are they like?

nkjv@Luke:7:32 @ They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to one anoth er, saying: "We played the flute for you, And you did not dance; We mourned to you, And you did not weep.'

nkjv@Luke:7:33 @ For John the Baptist came neith er eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, "He has a demon.'

nkjv@Luke:7:34 @ The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, "Look, a glutton and a winebibb er, a friend of tax collectors and sinn ers!'

nkjv@Luke:7:35 @ But wisdom is justified by all h er children."

nkjv@Luke:7:37 @ And behold, a woman in the city who was a sinn er, when she knew that Jesus sat at the table in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabast er flask of fragrant oil,

nkjv@Luke:7:38 @ and stood at His feet behind Him weeping; and she began to wash His feet with h er tears, and wiped them with the hair of h er head; and she kissed His feet and anointed them with the fragrant oil.

nkjv@Luke:7:39 @ Now when the Pharisee who had invited Him saw this, he spoke to himself, saying, "This Man, if He w ere a prophet, would know who and what mann er of woman this is who is touching Him, for she is a sinn er."

nkjv@Luke:7:40 @ And Jesus answ ered and said to him, "Simon, I have something to say to you." So he said, "Teach er, say it."

nkjv@Luke:7:41 @ "Th ere was a c ertain creditor who had two debtors. One owed five hundred denarii, and the oth er fifty.

nkjv@Luke:7:42 @ And when they had nothing with which to repay, he freely forgave them both. Tell Me, th erefore, which of them will love him more?"

nkjv@Luke:7:43 @ Simon answ ered and said, "I suppose the one whom he forgave more." And He said to him, "You have rightly judged."

nkjv@Luke:7:44 @ Then He turned to the woman and said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I ent ered your house; you gave Me no wat er for My feet, but she has washed My feet with h er tears and wiped them with the hair of h er head.

nkjv@Luke:7:47 @ Th erefore I say to you, h er sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little."

nkjv@Luke:7:48 @ Then He said to h er, "Your sins are forgiven."

nkjv@Luke:8:1 @ Now it came to pass, aft erward, that He went through ev ery city and village, preaching and bringing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God. And the twelve w ere with Him,

nkjv@Luke:8:2 @ and c ertain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities--Mary called Magdalene, out of whom had come seven demons,

nkjv@Luke:8:3 @ and Joanna the wife of Chuza, H erod's steward, and Susanna, and many oth ers who provided for Him from their substance.

nkjv@Luke:8:4 @ And when a great multitude had gath ered, and they had come to Him from ev ery city, He spoke by a parable:

nkjv@Luke:8:5 @ "A sow er went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell by the wayside; and it was trampled down, and the birds of the air devoured it.

nkjv@Luke:8:6 @ Some fell on rock; and as soon as it sprang up, it with ered away because it lacked moisture.

nkjv@Luke:8:8 @ But oth ers fell on good ground, sprang up, and yielded a crop a hundredfold." When He had said these things He cried, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear!"

nkjv@Luke:8:10 @ And He said, "To you it has been given to know the myst eries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest it is given in parables, that "Seeing they may not see, And hearing they may not und erstand.'

nkjv@Luke:8:16 @ "No one, when he has lit a lamp, cov ers it with a vessel or puts it und er a bed, but sets it on a lampstand, that those who ent er may see the light.

nkjv@Luke:8:18 @ Th erefore take heed how you hear. For whoev er has, to him more will be given; and whoev er does not have, even what he seems to have will be taken from him."

nkjv@Luke:8:19 @ Then His moth er and broth ers came to Him, and could not approach Him because of the crowd.

nkjv@Luke:8:20 @ And it was told Him by some, who said, "Your moth er and Your broth ers are standing outside, desiring to see You."

nkjv@Luke:8:21 @ But He answ ered and said to them, "My moth er and My broth ers are these who hear the word of God and do it."

nkjv@Luke:8:22 @ Now it happened, on a c ertain day, that He got into a boat with His disciples. And He said to them, "Let us cross ov er to the oth er side of the lake." And they launched out.

nkjv@Luke:8:23 @ But as they sailed He fell asleep. And a windstorm came down on the lake, and they w ere filling with wat er, and w ere in jeopardy.

nkjv@Luke:8:24 @ And they came to Him and awoke Him, saying, "Mast er, Mast er, we are p erishing!" Then He arose and rebuked the wind and the raging of the wat er. And they ceased, and th ere was a calm.

nkjv@Luke:8:25 @ But He said to them, "Wh ere is your faith?" And they w ere afraid, and marveled, saying to one anoth er, "Who can this be? For He commands even the winds and wat er, and they obey Him!"

nkjv@Luke:8:27 @ And when He stepped out on the land, th ere met Him a c ertain man from the city who had demons for a long time. And he wore no clothes, nor did he live in a house but in the tombs.

nkjv@Luke:8:29 @ For He had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For it had often seized him, and he was kept und er guard, bound with chains and shackles; and he broke the bonds and was driven by the demon into the wild erness.

nkjv@Luke:8:30 @ Jesus asked him, saying, "What is your name?" And he said, "Legion," because many demons had ent ered him.

nkjv@Luke:8:32 @ Now a h erd of many swine was feeding th ere on the mountain. So they begged Him that He would p ermit them to ent er them. And He p ermitted them.

nkjv@Luke:8:33 @ Then the demons went out of the man and ent ered the swine, and the h erd ran violently down the steep place into the lake and drowned.

nkjv@Luke:8:35 @ Then they went out to see what had happened, and came to Jesus, and found the man from whom the demons had departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind. And they w ere afraid.

nkjv@Luke:8:37 @ Then the whole multitude of the surrounding region of the Gadarenes asked Him to depart from them, for they w ere seized with great fear. And He got into the boat and returned.

nkjv@Luke:8:40 @ So it was, when Jesus returned, that the multitude welcomed Him, for they w ere all waiting for Him.

nkjv@Luke:8:41 @ And behold, th ere came a man named Jairus, and he was a rul er of the synagogue. And he fell down at Jesus' feet and begged Him to come to his house,

nkjv@Luke:8:42 @ for he had an only daught er about twelve years of age, and she was dying. But as He went, the multitudes thronged Him.

nkjv@Luke:8:43 @ Now a woman, having a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all h er livelihood on physicians and could not be healed by any,

nkjv@Luke:8:44 @ came from behind and touched the bord er of His garment. And immediately h er flow of blood stopped.

nkjv@Luke:8:45 @ And Jesus said, "Who touched Me?" When all denied it, Pet er and those with him said, "Mast er, the multitudes throng and press You, and You say, "Who touched Me?"'

nkjv@Luke:8:46 @ But Jesus said, "Somebody touched Me, for I p erceived pow er going out from Me."

nkjv@Luke:8:48 @ And He said to h er, "Daught er, be of good che er; your faith has made you well. Go in peace."

nkjv@Luke:8:49 @ While He was still speaking, someone came from the rul er of the synagogue's house, saying to him, "Your daught er is dead. Do not trouble the Teach er."

nkjv@Luke:8:50 @ But when Jesus heard it, He answ ered him, saying, "Do not be afraid; only believe, and she will be made well."

nkjv@Luke:8:51 @ When He came into the house, He p ermitted no one to go in except Pet er, James, and John, and the fath er and moth er of the girl.

nkjv@Luke:8:52 @ Now all wept and mourned for h er; but He said, "Do not weep; she is not dead, but sleeping."

nkjv@Luke:8:54 @ But He put them all outside, took h er by the hand and called, saying, "Little girl, arise."

nkjv@Luke:8:55 @ Then h er spirit returned, and she arose immediately. And He commanded that she be given something to eat.

nkjv@Luke:8:56 @ And h er parents w ere astonished, but He charged them to tell no one what had happened.

nkjv@Luke:9:1 @ Then He called His twelve disciples togeth er and gave them pow er and authority ov er all demons, and to cure diseases.

nkjv@Luke:9:3 @ And He said to them, "Take nothing for the journey, neith er staffs nor bag nor bread nor money; and do not have two tunics apiece.

nkjv@Luke:9:4 @ "Whatev er house you ent er, stay th ere, and from th ere depart.

nkjv@Luke:9:5 @ And whoev er will not receive you, when you go out of that city, shake off the v ery dust from your feet as a testimony against them."

nkjv@Luke:9:6 @ So they departed and went through the towns, preaching the gospel and healing ev erywh ere.

nkjv@Luke:9:7 @ Now H erod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by Him; and he was p erplexed, because it was said by some that John had risen from the dead,

nkjv@Luke:9:8 @ and by some that Elijah had appeared, and by oth ers that one of the old prophets had risen again.

nkjv@Luke:9:9 @ H erod said, "John I have beheaded, but who is this of whom I hear such things?" So he sought to see Him.

nkjv@Luke:9:10 @ And the apostles, when they had returned, told Him all that they had done. Then He took them and went aside privately into a des erted place belonging to the city called Bethsaida.

nkjv@Luke:9:12 @ When the day began to wear away, the twelve came and said to Him, "Send the multitude away, that they may go into the surrounding towns and country, and lodge and get provisions; for we are in a des erted place h ere."

nkjv@Luke:9:14 @ For th ere w ere about five thousand men. Then He said to His disciples, "Make them sit down in groups of fifty."

nkjv@Luke:9:17 @ So they all ate and w ere filled, and twelve baskets of the leftov er fragments w ere taken up by them.

nkjv@Luke:9:19 @ So they answ ered and said, "John the Baptist, but some say Elijah; and oth ers say that one of the old prophets has risen again."

nkjv@Luke:9:20 @ He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Pet er answ ered and said, "The Christ of God."

nkjv@Luke:9:22 @ saying, "The Son of Man must suff er many things, and be rejected by the eld ers and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third day."

nkjv@Luke:9:23 @ Then He said to them all, "If anyone desires to come aft er Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.

nkjv@Luke:9:24 @ For whoev er desires to save his life will lose it, but whoev er loses his life for My sake will save it.

nkjv@Luke:9:26 @ For whoev er is ashamed of Me and My words, of him the Son of Man will be ashamed when He comes in His own glory, and in His Fath er's, and of the holy angels.

nkjv@Luke:9:27 @ But I tell you truly, th ere are some standing h ere who shall not taste death till they see the kingdom of God."

nkjv@Luke:9:28 @ Now it came to pass, about eight days aft er these sayings, that He took Pet er, John, and James and went up on the mountain to pray.

nkjv@Luke:9:29 @ As He prayed, the appearance of His face was alt ered, and His robe became white and glistening.

nkjv@Luke:9:30 @ And behold, two men talked with Him, who w ere Moses and Elijah,

nkjv@Luke:9:31 @ who appeared in glory and spoke of His decease which He was about to accomplish at J erusalem.

nkjv@Luke:9:32 @ But Pet er and those with him w ere heavy with sleep; and when they w ere fully awake, they saw His glory and the two men who stood with Him.

nkjv@Luke:9:33 @ Then it happened, as they w ere parting from Him, that Pet er said to Jesus, "Mast er, it is good for us to be h ere; and let us make three tab ernacles: one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah"--not knowing what he said.

nkjv@Luke:9:34 @ While he was saying this, a cloud came and ov ershadowed them; and they w ere fearful as they ent ered the cloud.

nkjv@Luke:9:38 @ Suddenly a man from the multitude cried out, saying, "Teach er, I implore You, look on my son, for he is my only child.

nkjv@Luke:9:41 @ Then Jesus answ ered and said, "O faithless and p erv erse gen eration, how long shall I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son h ere."

nkjv@Luke:9:42 @ And as he was still coming, the demon threw him down and convulsed him. Then Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the child, and gave him back to his fath er.

nkjv@Luke:9:43 @ And they w ere all amazed at the majesty of God. But while ev eryone marveled at all the things which Jesus did, He said to His disciples,

nkjv@Luke:9:45 @ But they did not und erstand this saying, and it was hidden from them so that they did not p erceive it; and they w ere afraid to ask Him about this saying.

nkjv@Luke:9:47 @ And Jesus, p erceiving the thought of their heart, took a little child and set him by Him,

nkjv@Luke:9:48 @ and said to them, "Whoev er receives this little child in My name receives Me; and whoev er receives Me receives Him who sent Me. For he who is least among you all will be great."

nkjv@Luke:9:49 @ Now John answ ered and said, "Mast er, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we forbade him because he does not follow with us."

nkjv@Luke:9:51 @ Now it came to pass, when the time had come for Him to be received up, that He steadfastly set His face to go to J erusalem,

nkjv@Luke:9:52 @ and sent messeng ers before His face. And as they went, they ent ered a village of the Samaritans, to prepare for Him.

nkjv@Luke:9:53 @ But they did not receive Him, because His face was set for the journey to J erusalem.

nkjv@Luke:9:55 @ But He turned and rebuked them, and said, "You do not know what mann er of spirit you are of.

nkjv@Luke:9:56 @ For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men's lives but to save them." And they went to anoth er village.

nkjv@Luke:9:57 @ Now it happened as they journeyed on the road, that someone said to Him, "Lord, I will follow You wh erev er You go."

nkjv@Luke:9:58 @ And Jesus said to him, "Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowh ere to lay His head."

nkjv@Luke:9:59 @ Then He said to anoth er, "Follow Me." But he said, "Lord, let me first go and bury my fath er."

nkjv@Luke:9:61 @ And anoth er also said, "Lord, I will follow You, but let me first go and bid them farewell who are at my house."

nkjv@Luke:10:1 @ Aft er these things the Lord appointed seventy oth ers also, and sent them two by two before His face into ev ery city and place wh ere He Himself was about to go.

nkjv@Luke:10:2 @ Then He said to them, "The harvest truly is great, but the labor ers are few; th erefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out labor ers into His harvest.

nkjv@Luke:10:4 @ Carry neith er money bag, knapsack, nor sandals; and greet no one along the road.

nkjv@Luke:10:5 @ But whatev er house you ent er, first say, "Peace to this house.'

nkjv@Luke:10:6 @ And if a son of peace is th ere, your peace will rest on it; if not, it will return to you.

nkjv@Luke:10:7 @ And remain in the same house, eating and drinking such things as they give, for the labor er is worthy of his wages. Do not go from house to house.

nkjv@Luke:10:8 @ Whatev er city you ent er, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you.

nkjv@Luke:10:9 @ And heal the sick th ere, and say to them, "The kingdom of God has come near to you.'

nkjv@Luke:10:10 @ But whatev er city you ent er, and they do not receive you, go out into its streets and say,

nkjv@Luke:10:11 @ "The v ery dust of your city which clings to us we wipe off against you. Nev ertheless know this, that the kingdom of God has come near you.'

nkjv@Luke:10:12 @ But I say to you that it will be more tol erable in that Day for Sodom than for that city.

nkjv@Luke:10:13 @ "Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works which w ere done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

nkjv@Luke:10:14 @ But it will be more tol erable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you.

nkjv@Luke:10:15 @ And you, Cap ernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades.

nkjv@Luke:10:19 @ Behold, I give you the authority to trample on s erpents and scorpions, and ov er all the pow er of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

nkjv@Luke:10:20 @ Nev ertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rath er rejoice because your names are written in heaven."

nkjv@Luke:10:21 @ In that hour Jesus rejoiced in the Spirit and said, "I thank You, Fath er, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them to babes. Even so, Fath er, for so it seemed good in Your sight.

nkjv@Luke:10:22 @ All things have been deliv ered to Me by My Fath er, and no one knows who the Son is except the Fath er, and who the Fath er is except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him."

nkjv@Luke:10:25 @ And behold, a c ertain lawy er stood up and tested Him, saying, "Teach er, what shall I do to inh erit et ernal life?"

nkjv@Luke:10:27 @ So he answ ered and said, ""You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,' and "your neighbor as yourself."'

nkjv@Luke:10:28 @ And He said to him, "You have answ ered rightly; do this and you will live."

nkjv@Luke:10:30 @ Then Jesus answ ered and said: "A c ertain man went down from J erusalem to J ericho, and fell among thieves, who stripped him of his clothing, wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.

nkjv@Luke:10:31 @ Now by chance a c ertain priest came down that road. And when he saw him, he passed by on the oth er side.

nkjv@Luke:10:32 @ Likewise a Levite, when he arrived at the place, came and looked, and passed by on the oth er side.

nkjv@Luke:10:33 @ But a c ertain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came wh ere he was. And when he saw him, he had compassion.

nkjv@Luke:10:35 @ On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, gave them to the innkeep er, and said to him, "Take care of him; and whatev er more you spend, when I come again, I will repay you.'

nkjv@Luke:10:37 @ And he said, "He who showed m ercy on him." Then Jesus said to him, "Go and do likewise."

nkjv@Luke:10:38 @ Now it happened as they went that He ent ered a c ertain village; and a c ertain woman named Martha welcomed Him into h er house.

nkjv@Luke:10:39 @ And she had a sist er called Mary, who also sat at Jesus' feet and heard His word.

nkjv@Luke:10:40 @ But Martha was distracted with much s erving, and she approached Him and said, "Lord, do You not care that my sist er has left me to s erve alone? Th erefore tell h er to help me."

nkjv@Luke:10:41 @ And Jesus answ ered and said to h er, "Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things.

nkjv@Luke:10:42 @ But one thing is needed, and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken away from h er."

nkjv@Luke:11:1 @ Now it came to pass, as He was praying in a c ertain place, when He ceased, that one of His disciples said to Him, "Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples."

nkjv@Luke:11:2 @ So He said to them, "When you pray, say: Our Fath er in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven.

nkjv@Luke:11:4 @ And forgive us our sins, For we also forgive ev eryone who is indebted to us. And do not lead us into temptation, But deliv er us from the evil one."

nkjv@Luke:11:7 @ and he will answ er from within and say, "Do not trouble me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give to you'?

nkjv@Luke:11:8 @ I say to you, though he will not rise and give to him because he is his friend, yet because of his p ersistence he will rise and give him as many as he needs.

nkjv@Luke:11:10 @ For ev eryone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.

nkjv@Luke:11:11 @ If a son asks for bread from any fath er among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a s erpent instead of a fish?

nkjv@Luke:11:12 @ Or if he asks for an egg, will he off er him a scorpion?

nkjv@Luke:11:13 @ If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Fath er give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!"

nkjv@Luke:11:15 @ But some of them said, "He casts out demons by Beelzebub, the rul er of the demons."

nkjv@Luke:11:16 @ Oth ers, testing Him, sought from Him a sign from heaven.

nkjv@Luke:11:17 @ But He, knowing their thoughts, said to them: "Ev ery kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and a house divided against a house falls.

nkjv@Luke:11:19 @ And if I cast out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons cast them out? Th erefore they will be your judges.

nkjv@Luke:11:20 @ But if I cast out demons with the fing er of God, surely the kingdom of God has come upon you.

nkjv@Luke:11:22 @ But when a strong er than he comes upon him and ov ercomes him, he takes from him all his armor in which he trusted, and divides his spoils.

nkjv@Luke:11:23 @ He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gath er with Me scatt ers.

nkjv@Luke:11:25 @ And when he comes, he finds it swept and put in ord er.

nkjv@Luke:11:26 @ Then he goes and takes with him seven oth er spirits more wicked than himself, and they ent er and dwell th ere; and the last state of that man is worse than the first."

nkjv@Luke:11:27 @ And it happened, as He spoke these things, that a c ertain woman from the crowd raised h er voice and said to Him, "Blessed is the womb that bore You, and the breasts which nursed You!"

nkjv@Luke:11:29 @ And while the crowds w ere thickly gath ered togeth er, He began to say, "This is an evil gen eration. It seeks a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah the prophet.

nkjv@Luke:11:30 @ For as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so also the Son of Man will be to this gen eration.

nkjv@Luke:11:31 @ The queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with the men of this gen eration and condemn them, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and indeed a great er than Solomon is h ere.

nkjv@Luke:11:32 @ The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this gen eration and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and indeed a great er than Jonah is h ere.

nkjv@Luke:11:33 @ "No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a secret place or und er a basket, but on a lampstand, that those who come in may see the light.

nkjv@Luke:11:34 @ The lamp of the body is the eye. Th erefore, when your eye is good, your whole body also is full of light. But when your eye is bad, your body also is full of darkness.

nkjv@Luke:11:35 @ Th erefore take heed that the light which is in you is not darkness.

nkjv@Luke:11:37 @ And as He spoke, a c ertain Pharisee asked Him to dine with him. So He went in and sat down to eat.

nkjv@Luke:11:38 @ When the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that He had not first washed before dinn er.

nkjv@Luke:11:41 @ But rath er give alms of such things as you have; then indeed all things are clean to you.

nkjv@Luke:11:42 @ "But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and all mann er of h erbs, and pass by justice and the love of God. These you ought to have done, without leaving the oth ers undone.

nkjv@Luke:11:44 @ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like graves which are not seen, and the men who walk ov er them are not aware of them."

nkjv@Luke:11:45 @ Then one of the lawy ers answ ered and said to Him, "Teach er, by saying these things You reproach us also."

nkjv@Luke:11:46 @ And He said, "Woe to you also, lawy ers! For you load men with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fing ers.

nkjv@Luke:11:47 @ Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fath ers killed them.

nkjv@Luke:11:48 @ In fact, you bear witness that you approve the deeds of your fath ers; for they indeed killed them, and you build their tombs.

nkjv@Luke:11:49 @ Th erefore the wisdom of God also said, "I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and p ersecute,'

nkjv@Luke:11:50 @ that the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this gen eration,

nkjv@Luke:11:51 @ from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah who p erished between the altar and the temple. Yes, I say to you, it shall be required of this gen eration.

nkjv@Luke:11:52 @ "Woe to you lawy ers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not ent er in yourselves, and those who w ere ent ering in you hind ered."

nkjv@Luke:12:1 @ In the meantime, when an innum erable multitude of people had gath ered togeth er, so that they trampled one anoth er, He began to say to His disciples first of all, "Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

nkjv@Luke:12:2 @ For th ere is nothing cov ered that will not be revealed, nor hidden that will not be known.

nkjv@Luke:12:3 @ Th erefore whatev er you have spoken in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have spoken in the ear in inn er rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.

nkjv@Luke:12:4 @ "And I say to you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and aft er that have no more that they can do.

nkjv@Luke:12:5 @ But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear Him who, aft er He has killed, has pow er to cast into hell; yes, I say to you, fear Him!

nkjv@Luke:12:6 @ "Are not five sparrows sold for two copp er coins? And not one of them is forgotten before God.

nkjv@Luke:12:7 @ But the v ery hairs of your head are all numb ered. Do not fear th erefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.

nkjv@Luke:12:8 @ "Also I say to you, whoev er confesses Me before men, him the Son of Man also will confess before the angels of God.

nkjv@Luke:12:11 @ "Now when they bring you to the synagogues and magistrates and authorities, do not worry about how or what you should answ er, or what you should say.

nkjv@Luke:12:12 @ For the Holy Spirit will teach you in that v ery hour what you ought to say."

nkjv@Luke:12:13 @ Then one from the crowd said to Him, "Teach er, tell my broth er to divide the inh eritance with me."

nkjv@Luke:12:14 @ But He said to him, "Man, who made Me a judge or an arbitrator ov er you?"

nkjv@Luke:12:16 @ Then He spoke a parable to them, saying: "The ground of a c ertain rich man yielded plentifully.

nkjv@Luke:12:18 @ So he said, "I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build great er, and th ere I will store all my crops and my goods.

nkjv@Luke:12:19 @ And I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take your ease; eat, drink, and be m erry."'

nkjv@Luke:12:22 @ Then He said to His disciples, "Th erefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; nor about the body, what you will put on.

nkjv@Luke:12:24 @ Consid er the ravens, for they neith er sow nor reap, which have neith er storehouse nor barn; and God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds?

nkjv@Luke:12:27 @ Consid er the lilies, how they grow: they neith er toil nor spin; and yet I say to you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

nkjv@Luke:12:30 @ For all these things the nations of the world seek aft er, and your Fath er knows that you need these things.

nkjv@Luke:12:32 @ "Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Fath er's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

nkjv@Luke:12:33 @ Sell what you have and give alms; provide yourselves money bags which do not grow old, a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, wh ere no thief approaches nor moth destroys.

nkjv@Luke:12:34 @ For wh ere your treasure is, th ere your heart will be also.

nkjv@Luke:12:36 @ and you yourselves be like men who wait for their mast er, when he will return from the wedding, that when he comes and knocks they may open to him immediately.

nkjv@Luke:12:37 @ Blessed are those s ervants whom the mast er, when he comes, will find watching. Assuredly, I say to you that he will gird himself and have them sit down to eat, and will come and s erve them.

nkjv@Luke:12:38 @ And if he should come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those s ervants.

nkjv@Luke:12:39 @ But know this, that if the mast er of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.

nkjv@Luke:12:40 @ Th erefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect."

nkjv@Luke:12:41 @ Then Pet er said to Him, "Lord, do You speak this parable only to us, or to all people?"

nkjv@Luke:12:42 @ And the Lord said, "Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his mast er will make rul er ov er his household, to give them their portion of food in due season?

nkjv@Luke:12:43 @ Blessed is that s ervant whom his mast er will find so doing when he comes.

nkjv@Luke:12:44 @ Truly, I say to you that he will make him rul er ov er all that he has.

nkjv@Luke:12:45 @ But if that s ervant says in his heart, "My mast er is delaying his coming,' and begins to beat the male and female s ervants, and to eat and drink and be drunk,

nkjv@Luke:12:46 @ the mast er of that s ervant will come on a day when he is not looking for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the unbeliev ers.

nkjv@Luke:12:47 @ And that s ervant who knew his mast er's will, and did not prepare himself or do according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

nkjv@Luke:12:48 @ But he who did not know, yet committed things des erving of stripes, shall be beaten with few. For ev eryone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more.

nkjv@Luke:12:49 @ "I came to send fire on the earth, and how I wish it w ere already kindled!

nkjv@Luke:12:51 @ Do you suppose that I came to give peace on earth? I tell you, not at all, but rath er division.

nkjv@Luke:12:53 @ Fath er will be divided against son and son against fath er, moth er against daught er and daught er against moth er, moth er-in-law against h er daught er-in-law and daught er-in-law against h er moth er-in-law."

nkjv@Luke:12:54 @ Then He also said to the multitudes, "Whenev er you see a cloud rising out of the west, immediately you say, "A show er is coming'; and so it is.

nkjv@Luke:12:55 @ And when you see the south wind blow, you say, "Th ere will be hot weath er'; and th ere is.

nkjv@Luke:12:56 @ Hypocrites! You can disc ern the face of the sky and of the earth, but how is it you do not disc ern this time?

nkjv@Luke:12:58 @ When you go with your adv ersary to the magistrate, make ev ery effort along the way to settle with him, lest he drag you to the judge, the judge deliv er you to the offic er, and the offic er throw you into prison.

nkjv@Luke:12:59 @ I tell you, you shall not depart from th ere till you have paid the v ery last mite."

nkjv@Luke:13:1 @ Th ere w ere present at that season some who told Him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.

nkjv@Luke:13:2 @ And Jesus answ ered and said to them, "Do you suppose that these Galileans w ere worse sinn ers than all oth er Galileans, because they suff ered such things?

nkjv@Luke:13:3 @ I tell you, no; but unless you repent you will all likewise p erish.

nkjv@Luke:13:4 @ Or those eighteen on whom the tow er in Siloam fell and killed them, do you think that they w ere worse sinn ers than all oth er men who dwelt in J erusalem?

nkjv@Luke:13:5 @ I tell you, no; but unless you repent you will all likewise p erish."

nkjv@Luke:13:6 @ He also spoke this parable: "A c ertain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none.

nkjv@Luke:13:7 @ Then he said to the keep er of his vineyard, "Look, for three years I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree and find none. Cut it down; why does it use up the ground?'

nkjv@Luke:13:8 @ But he answ ered and said to him, "Sir, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and f ertilize it.

nkjv@Luke:13:9 @ And if it bears fruit, well. But if not, aft er that you can cut it down."'

nkjv@Luke:13:11 @ And behold, th ere was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bent ov er and could in no way raise h erself up.

nkjv@Luke:13:12 @ But when Jesus saw h er, He called h er to Him and said to h er, "Woman, you are loosed from your infirmity."

nkjv@Luke:13:13 @ And He laid His hands on h er, and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.

nkjv@Luke:13:14 @ But the rul er of the synagogue answ ered with indignation, because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath; and he said to the crowd, "Th ere are six days on which men ought to work; th erefore come and be healed on them, and not on the Sabbath day."

nkjv@Luke:13:15 @ The Lord then answ ered him and said, "Hypocrite! Does not each one of you on the Sabbath loose his ox or donkey from the stall, and lead it away to wat er it?

nkjv@Luke:13:16 @ So ought not this woman, being a daught er of Abraham, whom Satan has bound--think of it--for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath?"

nkjv@Luke:13:17 @ And when He said these things, all His adv ersaries w ere put to shame; and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things that w ere done by Him.

nkjv@Luke:13:22 @ And He went through the cities and villages, teaching, and journeying toward J erusalem.

nkjv@Luke:13:23 @ Then one said to Him, "Lord, are th ere few who are saved?" And He said to them,

nkjv@Luke:13:24 @ "Strive to ent er through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to ent er and will not be able.

nkjv@Luke:13:25 @ When once the Mast er of the house has risen up and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock at the door, saying, "Lord, Lord, open for us,' and He will answ er and say to you, "I do not know you, wh ere you are from,'

nkjv@Luke:13:27 @ But He will say, "I tell you I do not know you, wh ere you are from. Depart from Me, all you work ers of iniquity.'

nkjv@Luke:13:28 @ Th ere will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and yourselves thrust out.

nkjv@Luke:13:30 @ And indeed th ere are last who will be first, and th ere are first who will be last."

nkjv@Luke:13:31 @ On that v ery day some Pharisees came, saying to Him, "Get out and depart from h ere, for H erod wants to kill You."

nkjv@Luke:13:32 @ And He said to them, "Go, tell that fox, "Behold, I cast out demons and p erform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I shall be p erfected.'

nkjv@Luke:13:33 @ Nev ertheless I must journey today, tomorrow, and the day following; for it cannot be that a prophet should p erish outside of J erusalem.

nkjv@Luke:13:34 @ "O J erusalem, J erusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to h er! How often I wanted to gath er your children togeth er, as a hen gath ers h er brood und er h er wings, but you w ere not willing!

nkjv@Luke:14:1 @ Now it happened, as He went into the house of one of the rul ers of the Pharisees to eat bread on the Sabbath, that they watched Him closely.

nkjv@Luke:14:2 @ And behold, th ere was a c ertain man before Him who had dropsy.

nkjv@Luke:14:3 @ And Jesus, answ ering, spoke to the lawy ers and Pharisees, saying, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?"

nkjv@Luke:14:5 @ Then He answ ered them, saying, "Which of you, having a donkey or an ox that has fallen into a pit, will not immediately pull him out on the Sabbath day?"

nkjv@Luke:14:6 @ And they could not answ er Him regarding these things.

nkjv@Luke:14:7 @ So He told a parable to those who w ere invited, when He noted how they chose the best places, saying to them:

nkjv@Luke:14:10 @ But when you are invited, go and sit down in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes he may say to you, "Friend, go up high er.' Then you will have glory in the presence of those who sit at the table with you.

nkjv@Luke:14:11 @ For whoev er exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."

nkjv@Luke:14:12 @ Then He also said to him who invited Him, "When you give a dinn er or a supp er, do not ask your friends, your broth ers, your relatives, nor rich neighbors, lest they also invite you back, and you be repaid.

nkjv@Luke:14:16 @ Then He said to him, "A c ertain man gave a great supp er and invited many,

nkjv@Luke:14:17 @ and sent his s ervant at supp er time to say to those who w ere invited, "Come, for all things are now ready.'

nkjv@Luke:14:19 @ And anoth er said, "I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to test them. I ask you to have me excused.'

nkjv@Luke:14:20 @ Still anoth er said, "I have married a wife, and th erefore I cannot come.'

nkjv@Luke:14:21 @ So that s ervant came and reported these things to his mast er. Then the mast er of the house, being angry, said to his s ervant, "Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in h ere the poor and the maimed and the lame and the blind.'

nkjv@Luke:14:22 @ And the s ervant said, "Mast er, it is done as you commanded, and still th ere is room.'

nkjv@Luke:14:23 @ Then the mast er said to the s ervant, "Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.

nkjv@Luke:14:24 @ For I say to you that none of those men who w ere invited shall taste my supp er."'

nkjv@Luke:14:26 @ "If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his fath er and moth er, wife and children, broth ers and sist ers, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.

nkjv@Luke:14:27 @ And whoev er does not bear his cross and come aft er Me cannot be My disciple.

nkjv@Luke:14:28 @ For which of you, intending to build a tow er, does not sit down first and count the cost, wheth er he has enough to finish it--

nkjv@Luke:14:29 @ lest, aft er he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him,

nkjv@Luke:14:31 @ Or what king, going to make war against anoth er king, does not sit down first and consid er wheth er he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

nkjv@Luke:14:32 @ Or else, while the oth er is still a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks conditions of peace.

nkjv@Luke:14:33 @ So likewise, whoev er of you does not forsake all that he has cannot be My disciple.

nkjv@Luke:14:35 @ It is neith er fit for the land nor for the dunghill, but men throw it out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!"

nkjv@Luke:15:1 @ Then all the tax collectors and the sinn ers drew near to Him to hear Him.

nkjv@Luke:15:2 @ And the Pharisees and scribes complained, saying, "This Man receives sinn ers and eats with them."

nkjv@Luke:15:4 @ "What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wild erness, and go aft er the one which is lost until he finds it?

nkjv@Luke:15:5 @ And when he has found it, he lays it on his should ers, rejoicing.

nkjv@Luke:15:6 @ And when he comes home, he calls togeth er his friends and neighbors, saying to them, "Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!'

nkjv@Luke:15:7 @ I say to you that likewise th ere will be more joy in heaven ov er one sinn er who repents than ov er ninety-nine just p ersons who need no repentance.

nkjv@Luke:15:8 @ "Or what woman, having ten silv er coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it?

nkjv@Luke:15:9 @ And when she has found it, she calls h er friends and neighbors togeth er, saying, "Rejoice with me, for I have found the piece which I lost!'

nkjv@Luke:15:10 @ Likewise, I say to you, th ere is joy in the presence of the angels of God ov er one sinn er who repents."

nkjv@Luke:15:11 @ Then He said: "A c ertain man had two sons.

nkjv@Luke:15:12 @ And the young er of them said to his fath er, "Fath er, give me the portion of goods that falls to me.' So he divided to them his livelihood.

nkjv@Luke:15:13 @ And not many days aft er, the young er son gath ered all togeth er, journeyed to a far country, and th ere wasted his possessions with prodigal living.

nkjv@Luke:15:14 @ But when he had spent all, th ere arose a sev ere famine in that land, and he began to be in want.

nkjv@Luke:15:17 @ "But when he came to himself, he said, "How many of my fath er's hired s ervants have bread enough and to spare, and I p erish with hung er!

nkjv@Luke:15:18 @ I will arise and go to my fath er, and will say to him, "Fath er, I have sinned against heaven and before you,

nkjv@Luke:15:19 @ and I am no long er worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired s ervants."'

nkjv@Luke:15:20 @ "And he arose and came to his fath er. But when he was still a great way off, his fath er saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.

nkjv@Luke:15:21 @ And the son said to him, "Fath er, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight, and am no long er worthy to be called your son.'

nkjv@Luke:15:22 @ "But the fath er said to his s ervants, "Bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet.

nkjv@Luke:15:23 @ And bring the fatted calf h ere and kill it, and let us eat and be m erry;

nkjv@Luke:15:24 @ for this my son was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.' And they began to be m erry.

nkjv@Luke:15:25 @ "Now his old er son was in the field. And as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing.

nkjv@Luke:15:26 @ So he called one of the s ervants and asked what these things meant.

nkjv@Luke:15:27 @ And he said to him, "Your broth er has come, and because he has received him safe and sound, your fath er has killed the fatted calf.'

nkjv@Luke:15:28 @ "But he was angry and would not go in. Th erefore his fath er came out and pleaded with him.

nkjv@Luke:15:29 @ So he answ ered and said to his fath er, "Lo, these many years I have been s erving you; I nev er transgressed your commandment at any time; and yet you nev er gave me a young goat, that I might make m erry with my friends.

nkjv@Luke:15:32 @ It was right that we should make m erry and be glad, for your broth er was dead and is alive again, and was lost and is found."'

nkjv@Luke:16:1 @ He also said to His disciples: "Th ere was a c ertain rich man who had a steward, and an accusation was brought to him that this man was wasting his goods.

nkjv@Luke:16:2 @ So he called him and said to him, "What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your stewardship, for you can no long er be steward.'

nkjv@Luke:16:3 @ "Then the steward said within himself, "What shall I do? For my mast er is taking the stewardship away from me. I cannot dig; I am ashamed to beg.

nkjv@Luke:16:5 @ "So he called ev ery one of his mast er's debtors to him, and said to the first, "How much do you owe my mast er?'

nkjv@Luke:16:7 @ Then he said to anoth er, "And how much do you owe?' So he said, "A hundred measures of wheat.' And he said to him, "Take your bill, and write eighty.'

nkjv@Luke:16:8 @ So the mast er commended the unjust steward because he had dealt shrewdly. For the sons of this world are more shrewd in their gen eration than the sons of light.

nkjv@Luke:16:9 @ "And I say to you, make friends for yourselves by unrighteous mammon, that when you fail, they may receive you into an ev erlasting home.

nkjv@Luke:16:11 @ Th erefore if you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

nkjv@Luke:16:12 @ And if you have not been faithful in what is anoth er man's, who will give you what is your own?

nkjv@Luke:16:13 @ "No s ervant can s erve two mast ers; for eith er he will hate the one and love the oth er, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the oth er. You cannot s erve God and mammon."

nkjv@Luke:16:14 @ Now the Pharisees, who w ere lov ers of money, also heard all these things, and they d erided Him.

nkjv@Luke:16:16 @ "The law and the prophets w ere until John. Since that time the kingdom of God has been preached, and ev eryone is pressing into it.

nkjv@Luke:16:17 @ And it is easi er for heaven and earth to pass away than for one tittle of the law to fail.

nkjv@Luke:16:18 @ "Whoev er divorces his wife and marries anoth er commits adult ery; and whoev er marries h er who is divorced from h er husband commits adult ery.

nkjv@Luke:16:19 @ "Th ere was a c ertain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously ev ery day.

nkjv@Luke:16:20 @ But th ere was a c ertain beggar named Lazarus, full of sores, who was laid at his gate,

nkjv@Luke:16:21 @ desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table. Moreov er the dogs came and licked his sores.

nkjv@Luke:16:24 @ "Then he cried and said, "Fath er Abraham, have m ercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his fing er in wat er and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.'

nkjv@Luke:16:25 @ But Abraham said, "Son, rememb er that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted and you are tormented.

nkjv@Luke:16:26 @ And besides all this, between us and you th ere is a great gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass from h ere to you cannot, nor can those from th ere pass to us.'

nkjv@Luke:16:27 @ "Then he said, "I beg you th erefore, fath er, that you would send him to my fath er's house,

nkjv@Luke:16:28 @ for I have five broth ers, that he may testify to them, lest they also come to this place of torment.'

nkjv@Luke:16:30 @ And he said, "No, fath er Abraham; but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.'

nkjv@Luke:16:31 @ But he said to him, "If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neith er will they be p ersuaded though one rise from the dead."'

nkjv@Luke:17:2 @ It would be bett er for him if a millstone w ere hung around his neck, and he w ere thrown into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.

nkjv@Luke:17:3 @ Take heed to yourselves. If your broth er sins against you, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.

nkjv@Luke:17:6 @ So the Lord said, "If you have faith as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulb erry tree, "Be pulled up by the roots and be planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.

nkjv@Luke:17:7 @ And which of you, having a s ervant plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he has come in from the field, "Come at once and sit down to eat'?

nkjv@Luke:17:8 @ But will he not rath er say to him, "Prepare something for my supp er, and gird yourself and s erve me till I have eaten and drunk, and aft erward you will eat and drink'?

nkjv@Luke:17:9 @ Does he thank that s ervant because he did the things that w ere commanded him? I think not.

nkjv@Luke:17:10 @ So likewise you, when you have done all those things which you are commanded, say, "We are unprofitable s ervants. We have done what was our duty to do."'

nkjv@Luke:17:11 @ Now it happened as He went to J erusalem that He passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.

nkjv@Luke:17:12 @ Then as He ent ered a c ertain village, th ere met Him ten men who w ere lep ers, who stood afar off.

nkjv@Luke:17:13 @ And they lifted up their voices and said, "Jesus, Mast er, have m ercy on us!"

nkjv@Luke:17:14 @ So when He saw them, He said to them, "Go, show yourselves to the priests." And so it was that as they went, they w ere cleansed.

nkjv@Luke:17:17 @ So Jesus answ ered and said, "W ere th ere not ten cleansed? But wh ere are the nine?

nkjv@Luke:17:18 @ W ere th ere not any found who returned to give glory to God except this foreign er?"

nkjv@Luke:17:20 @ Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answ ered them and said, "The kingdom of God does not come with obs ervation;

nkjv@Luke:17:21 @ nor will they say, "See h ere!' or "See th ere!' For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you."

nkjv@Luke:17:23 @ And they will say to you, "Look h ere!' or "Look th ere!' Do not go aft er them or follow them.

nkjv@Luke:17:24 @ For as the lightning that flashes out of one part und er heaven shines to the oth er part und er heaven, so also the Son of Man will be in His day.

nkjv@Luke:17:25 @ But first He must suff er many things and be rejected by this gen eration.

nkjv@Luke:17:27 @ They ate, they drank, they married wives, they w ere given in marriage, until the day that Noah ent ered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

nkjv@Luke:17:32 @ Rememb er Lot's wife.

nkjv@Luke:17:33 @ Whoev er seeks to save his life will lose it, and whoev er loses his life will pres erve it.

nkjv@Luke:17:34 @ I tell you, in that night th ere will be two men in one bed: the one will be taken and the oth er will be left.

nkjv@Luke:17:35 @ Two women will be grinding togeth er: the one will be taken and the oth er left.

nkjv@Luke:17:36 @ Two men will be in the field: the one will be taken and the oth er left."

nkjv@Luke:17:37 @ And they answ ered and said to Him, "Wh ere, Lord?" So He said to them, "Wh erev er the body is, th ere the eagles will be gath ered togeth er."

nkjv@Luke:18:2 @ saying: "Th ere was in a c ertain city a judge who did not fear God nor regard man.

nkjv@Luke:18:3 @ Now th ere was a widow in that city; and she came to him, saying, "Get justice for me from my adv ersary.'

nkjv@Luke:18:4 @ And he would not for a while; but aft erward he said within himself, "Though I do not fear God nor regard man,

nkjv@Luke:18:5 @ yet because this widow troubles me I will avenge h er, lest by h er continual coming she weary me."'

nkjv@Luke:18:8 @ I tell you that He will avenge them speedily. Nev ertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?"

nkjv@Luke:18:9 @ Also He spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they w ere righteous, and despised oth ers:

nkjv@Luke:18:10 @ "Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the oth er a tax collector.

nkjv@Luke:18:11 @ The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, "God, I thank You that I am not like oth er men--extortion ers, unjust, adult er ers, or even as this tax collector.

nkjv@Luke:18:13 @ And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, "God, be m erciful to me a sinn er!'

nkjv@Luke:18:14 @ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rath er than the oth er; for ev eryone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."

nkjv@Luke:18:17 @ Assuredly, I say to you, whoev er does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will by no means ent er it."

nkjv@Luke:18:18 @ Now a c ertain rul er asked Him, saying, "Good Teach er, what shall I do to inh erit et ernal life?"

nkjv@Luke:18:20 @ You know the commandments: "Do not commit adult ery,' "Do not murd er,' "Do not steal,' "Do not bear false witness,' "Honor your fath er and your moth er."'

nkjv@Luke:18:23 @ But when he heard this, he became v ery sorrowful, for he was v ery rich.

nkjv@Luke:18:24 @ And when Jesus saw that he became v ery sorrowful, He said, "How hard it is for those who have riches to ent er the kingdom of God!

nkjv@Luke:18:25 @ For it is easi er for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to ent er the kingdom of God."

nkjv@Luke:18:28 @ Then Pet er said, "See, we have left all and followed You."

nkjv@Luke:18:29 @ So He said to them, "Assuredly, I say to you, th ere is no one who has left house or parents or broth ers or wife or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God,

nkjv@Luke:18:30 @ who shall not receive many times more in this present time, and in the age to come et ernal life."

nkjv@Luke:18:31 @ Then He took the twelve aside and said to them, "Behold, we are going up to J erusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets conc erning the Son of Man will be accomplished.

nkjv@Luke:18:32 @ For He will be deliv ered to the Gentiles and will be mocked and insulted and spit upon.

nkjv@Luke:18:34 @ But they und erstood none of these things; this saying was hidden from them, and they did not know the things which w ere spoken.

nkjv@Luke:18:35 @ Then it happened, as He was coming near J ericho, that a c ertain blind man sat by the road begging.

nkjv@Luke:18:38 @ And he cried out, saying, "Jesus, Son of David, have m ercy on me!"

nkjv@Luke:18:39 @ Then those who went before warned him that he should be quiet; but he cried out all the more, "Son of David, have m ercy on me!"

nkjv@Luke:19:1 @ Then Jesus ent ered and passed through J ericho.

nkjv@Luke:19:2 @ Now behold, th ere was a man named Zacchaeus who was a chief tax collector, and he was rich.

nkjv@Luke:19:7 @ But when they saw it, they all complained, saying, "He has gone to be a guest with a man who is a sinn er."

nkjv@Luke:19:11 @ Now as they heard these things, He spoke anoth er parable, because He was near J erusalem and because they thought the kingdom of God would appear immediately.

nkjv@Luke:19:12 @ Th erefore He said: "A c ertain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and to return.

nkjv@Luke:19:13 @ So he called ten of his s ervants, deliv ered to them ten minas, and said to them, "Do business till I come.'

nkjv@Luke:19:14 @ But his citizens hated him, and sent a delegation aft er him, saying, "We will not have this man to reign ov er us.'

nkjv@Luke:19:15 @ "And so it was that when he returned, having received the kingdom, he then commanded these s ervants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know how much ev ery man had gained by trading.

nkjv@Luke:19:16 @ Then came the first, saying, "Mast er, your mina has earned ten minas.'

nkjv@Luke:19:17 @ And he said to him, "Well done, good s ervant; because you w ere faithful in a v ery little, have authority ov er ten cities.'

nkjv@Luke:19:18 @ And the second came, saying, "Mast er, your mina has earned five minas.'

nkjv@Luke:19:19 @ Likewise he said to him, "You also be ov er five cities.'

nkjv@Luke:19:20 @ "Then anoth er came, saying, "Mast er, h ere is your mina, which I have kept put away in a handk erchief.

nkjv@Luke:19:21 @ For I feared you, because you are an aust ere man. You collect what you did not deposit, and reap what you did not sow.'

nkjv@Luke:19:22 @ And he said to him, "Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked s ervant. You knew that I was an aust ere man, collecting what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow.

nkjv@Luke:19:23 @ Why then did you not put my money in the bank, that at my coming I might have collected it with int erest?'

nkjv@Luke:19:25 @ (But they said to him, "Mast er, he has ten minas.')

nkjv@Luke:19:26 @ "For I say to you, that to ev eryone who has will be given; and from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.

nkjv@Luke:19:27 @ But bring h ere those enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign ov er them, and slay them before me."'

nkjv@Luke:19:28 @ When He had said this, He went on ahead, going up to J erusalem.

nkjv@Luke:19:30 @ saying, "Go into the village opposite you, wh ere as you ent er you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ev er sat. Loose it and bring it h ere.

nkjv@Luke:19:32 @ So those who w ere sent went their way and found it just as He had said to them.

nkjv@Luke:19:33 @ But as they w ere loosing the colt, the own ers of it said to them, "Why are you loosing the colt?"

nkjv@Luke:19:39 @ And some of the Pharisees called to Him from the crowd, "Teach er, rebuke Your disciples."

nkjv@Luke:19:40 @ But He answ ered and said to them, "I tell you that if these should keep silent, the stones would immediately cry out."

nkjv@Luke:19:41 @ Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept ov er it,

nkjv@Luke:19:43 @ For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on ev ery side,

nkjv@Luke:19:44 @ and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon anoth er, because you did not know the time of your visitation."

nkjv@Luke:19:46 @ saying to them, "It is written, "My house is a house of pray er,' but you have made it a "den of thieves."'

nkjv@Luke:19:47 @ And He was teaching daily in the temple. But the chief priests, the scribes, and the lead ers of the people sought to destroy Him,

nkjv@Luke:19:48 @ and w ere unable to do anything; for all the people w ere v ery attentive to hear Him.

nkjv@Luke:20:1 @ Now it happened on one of those days, as He taught the people in the temple and preached the gospel, that the chief priests and the scribes, togeth er with the eld ers, confronted Him

nkjv@Luke:20:3 @ But He answ ered and said to them, "I also will ask you one thing, and answ er Me:

nkjv@Luke:20:6 @ But if we say, "From men,' all the people will stone us, for they are p ersuaded that John was a prophet."

nkjv@Luke:20:7 @ So they answ ered that they did not know wh ere it was from.

nkjv@Luke:20:8 @ And Jesus said to them, "Neith er will I tell you by what authority I do these things."

nkjv@Luke:20:9 @ Then He began to tell the people this parable: "A c ertain man planted a vineyard, leased it to vinedress ers, and went into a far country for a long time.

nkjv@Luke:20:10 @ Now at vintage-time he sent a s ervant to the vinedress ers, that they might give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the vinedress ers beat him and sent him away empty-handed.

nkjv@Luke:20:11 @ Again he sent anoth er s ervant; and they beat him also, treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty-handed.

nkjv@Luke:20:13 @ "Then the own er of the vineyard said, "What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. Probably they will respect him when they see him.'

nkjv@Luke:20:14 @ But when the vinedress ers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, "This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, that the inh eritance may be ours.'

nkjv@Luke:20:15 @ So they cast him out of the vineyard and killed him. Th erefore what will the own er of the vineyard do to them?

nkjv@Luke:20:16 @ He will come and destroy those vinedress ers and give the vineyard to oth ers." And when they heard it they said, "C ertainly not!"

nkjv@Luke:20:17 @ Then He looked at them and said, "What then is this that is written: "The stone which the build ers rejected Has become the chief corn erstone'?

nkjv@Luke:20:18 @ Whoev er falls on that stone will be broken; but on whomev er it falls, it will grind him to powd er."

nkjv@Luke:20:19 @ And the chief priests and the scribes that v ery hour sought to lay hands on Him, but they feared the people --for they knew He had spoken this parable against them.

nkjv@Luke:20:20 @ So they watched Him, and sent spies who pretended to be righteous, that they might seize on His words, in ord er to deliv er Him to the pow er and the authority of the gov ernor.

nkjv@Luke:20:21 @ Then they asked Him, saying, "Teach er, we know that You say and teach rightly, and You do not show p ersonal favoritism, but teach the way of God in truth:

nkjv@Luke:20:23 @ But He p erceived their craftiness, and said to them, "Why do you test Me?

nkjv@Luke:20:24 @ Show Me a denarius. Whose image and inscription does it have?" They answ ered and said, "Caesar's."

nkjv@Luke:20:25 @ And He said to them, "Rend er th erefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."

nkjv@Luke:20:26 @ But they could not catch Him in His words in the presence of the people. And they marveled at His answ er and kept silent.

nkjv@Luke:20:27 @ Then some of the Sadducees, who deny that th ere is a resurrection, came to Him and asked Him,

nkjv@Luke:20:28 @ saying: "Teach er, Moses wrote to us that if a man's broth er dies, having a wife, and he dies without children, his broth er should take his wife and raise up offspring for his broth er.

nkjv@Luke:20:29 @ Now th ere w ere seven broth ers. And the first took a wife, and died without children.

nkjv@Luke:20:30 @ And the second took h er as wife, and he died childless.

nkjv@Luke:20:31 @ Then the third took h er, and in like mann er the seven also; and they left no children, and died.

nkjv@Luke:20:33 @ Th erefore, in the resurrection, whose wife does she become? For all seven had h er as wife."

nkjv@Luke:20:34 @ Jesus answ ered and said to them, "The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage.

nkjv@Luke:20:35 @ But those who are counted worthy to attain that age, and the resurrection from the dead, neith er marry nor are given in marriage;

nkjv@Luke:20:39 @ Then some of the scribes answ ered and said, "Teach er, You have spoken well."

nkjv@Luke:20:40 @ But aft er that they dared not question Him anymore.

nkjv@Luke:20:44 @ Th erefore David calls Him "Lord'; how is He then his Son?"

nkjv@Luke:20:47 @ who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long pray ers. These will receive great er condemnation."

nkjv@Luke:21:2 @ and He saw also a c ertain poor widow putting in two mites.

nkjv@Luke:21:4 @ for all these out of their abundance have put in off erings for God, but she out of h er pov erty put in all the livelihood that she had."

nkjv@Luke:21:6 @ "These things which you see--the days will come in which not one stone shall be left upon anoth er that shall not be thrown down."

nkjv@Luke:21:7 @ So they asked Him, saying, "Teach er, but when will these things be? And what sign will th ere be when these things are about to take place?"

nkjv@Luke:21:8 @ And He said: "Take heed that you not be deceived. For many will come in My name, saying, "I am He,' and, "The time has drawn near.' Th erefore do not go aft er them.

nkjv@Luke:21:9 @ But when you hear of wars and commotions, do not be t errified; for these things must come to pass first, but the end will not come immediately."

nkjv@Luke:21:11 @ And th ere will be great earthquakes in various places, and famines and pestilences; and th ere will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven.

nkjv@Luke:21:12 @ But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and p ersecute you, deliv ering you up to the synagogues and prisons. You will be brought before kings and rul ers for My name's sake.

nkjv@Luke:21:14 @ Th erefore settle it in your hearts not to meditate beforehand on what you will answ er;

nkjv@Luke:21:15 @ for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adv ersaries will not be able to contradict or resist.

nkjv@Luke:21:16 @ You will be betrayed even by parents and broth ers, relatives and friends; and they will put some of you to death.

nkjv@Luke:21:20 @ "But when you see J erusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is near.

nkjv@Luke:21:21 @ Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those who are in the midst of h er depart, and let not those who are in the country ent er h er.

nkjv@Luke:21:23 @ But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! For th ere will be great distress in the land and wrath upon this people.

nkjv@Luke:21:24 @ And they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations. And J erusalem will be trampled by Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

nkjv@Luke:21:25 @ "And th ere will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with p erplexity, the sea and the waves roaring;

nkjv@Luke:21:26 @ men's hearts failing them from fear and the expectation of those things which are coming on the earth, for the pow ers of the heavens will be shaken.

nkjv@Luke:21:27 @ Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with pow er and great glory.

nkjv@Luke:21:30 @ When they are already budding, you see and know for yourselves that summ er is now near.

nkjv@Luke:21:32 @ Assuredly, I say to you, this gen eration will by no means pass away till all things take place.

nkjv@Luke:21:36 @ Watch th erefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man."

nkjv@Luke:22:1 @ Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread drew near, which is called Passov er.

nkjv@Luke:22:3 @ Then Satan ent ered Judas, surnamed Iscariot, who was numb ered among the twelve.

nkjv@Luke:22:4 @ So he went his way and conf erred with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray Him to them.

nkjv@Luke:22:5 @ And they w ere glad, and agreed to give him money.

nkjv@Luke:22:7 @ Then came the Day of Unleavened Bread, when the Passov er must be killed.

nkjv@Luke:22:8 @ And He sent Pet er and John, saying, "Go and prepare the Passov er for us, that we may eat."

nkjv@Luke:22:9 @ So they said to Him, "Wh ere do You want us to prepare?"

nkjv@Luke:22:10 @ And He said to them, "Behold, when you have ent ered the city, a man will meet you carrying a pitch er of wat er; follow him into the house which he ent ers.

nkjv@Luke:22:11 @ Then you shall say to the mast er of the house, "The Teach er says to you, "Wh ere is the guest room wh ere I may eat the Passov er with My disciples?"'

nkjv@Luke:22:12 @ Then he will show you a large, furnished upp er room; th ere make ready."

nkjv@Luke:22:13 @ So they went and found it just as He had said to them, and they prepared the Passov er.

nkjv@Luke:22:15 @ Then He said to them, "With f ervent desire I have desired to eat this Passov er with you before I suff er;

nkjv@Luke:22:16 @ for I say to you, I will no long er eat of it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God."

nkjv@Luke:22:20 @ Likewise He also took the cup aft er supp er, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is shed for you.

nkjv@Luke:22:21 @ But behold, the hand of My betray er is with Me on the table.

nkjv@Luke:22:22 @ And truly the Son of Man goes as it has been det ermined, but woe to that man by whom He is betrayed!"

nkjv@Luke:22:24 @ Now th ere was also a dispute among them, as to which of them should be consid ered the greatest.

nkjv@Luke:22:25 @ And He said to them, "The kings of the Gentiles ex ercise lordship ov er them, and those who ex ercise authority ov er them are called "benefactors.'

nkjv@Luke:22:26 @ But not so among you; on the contrary, he who is greatest among you, let him be as the young er, and he who gov erns as he who s erves.

nkjv@Luke:22:27 @ For who is great er, he who sits at the table, or he who s erves? Is it not he who sits at the table? Yet I am among you as the One who s erves.

nkjv@Luke:22:29 @ And I bestow upon you a kingdom, just as My Fath er bestowed one upon Me,

nkjv@Luke:22:34 @ Then He said, "I tell you, Pet er, the roost er shall not crow this day before you will deny three times that you know Me."

nkjv@Luke:22:37 @ For I say to you that this which is written must still be accomplished in Me: "And He was numb ered with the transgressors.' For the things conc erning Me have an end."

nkjv@Luke:22:38 @ So they said, "Lord, look, h ere are two swords." And He said to them, "It is enough."

nkjv@Luke:22:40 @ When He came to the place, He said to them, "Pray that you may not ent er into temptation."

nkjv@Luke:22:42 @ saying, "Fath er, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; nev ertheless not My will, but Yours, be done."

nkjv@Luke:22:45 @ When He rose up from pray er, and had come to His disciples, He found them sleeping from sorrow.

nkjv@Luke:22:46 @ Then He said to them, "Why do you sleep? Rise and pray, lest you ent er into temptation."

nkjv@Luke:22:50 @ And one of them struck the s ervant of the high priest and cut off his right ear.

nkjv@Luke:22:51 @ But Jesus answ ered and said, "P ermit even this." And He touched his ear and healed him.

nkjv@Luke:22:52 @ Then Jesus said to the chief priests, captains of the temple, and the eld ers who had come to Him, "Have you come out, as against a robb er, with swords and clubs?

nkjv@Luke:22:53 @ When I was with you daily in the temple, you did not try to seize Me. But this is your hour, and the pow er of darkness."

nkjv@Luke:22:54 @ Having arrested Him, they led Him and brought Him into the high priest's house. But Pet er followed at a distance.

nkjv@Luke:22:55 @ Now when they had kindled a fire in the midst of the courtyard and sat down togeth er, Pet er sat among them.

nkjv@Luke:22:56 @ And a c ertain s ervant girl, seeing him as he sat by the fire, looked intently at him and said, "This man was also with Him."

nkjv@Luke:22:58 @ And aft er a little while anoth er saw him and said, "You also are of them." But Pet er said, "Man, I am not!"

nkjv@Luke:22:59 @ Then aft er about an hour had passed, anoth er confidently affirmed, saying, "Surely this fellow also was with Him, for he is a Galilean."

nkjv@Luke:22:60 @ But Pet er said, "Man, I do not know what you are saying!" Immediately, while he was still speaking, the roost er crowed.

nkjv@Luke:22:61 @ And the Lord turned and looked at Pet er. Then Pet er rememb ered the word of the Lord, how He had said to him, "Before the roost er crows, you will deny Me three times."

nkjv@Luke:22:62 @ So Pet er went out and wept bitt erly.

nkjv@Luke:22:65 @ And many oth er things they blasphemously spoke against Him.

nkjv@Luke:22:66 @ As soon as it was day, the eld ers of the people, both chief priests and scribes, came togeth er and led Him into their council, saying,

nkjv@Luke:22:68 @ And if I also ask you, you will by no means answ er Me or let Me go.

nkjv@Luke:22:69 @ H ereaft er the Son of Man will sit on the right hand of the pow er of God."

nkjv@Luke:22:71 @ And they said, "What furth er testimony do we need? For we have heard it ourselves from His own mouth."

nkjv@Luke:23:2 @ And they began to accuse Him, saying, "We found this fellow p erv erting the nation, and forbidding to pay taxes to Caesar, saying that He Himself is Christ, a King."

nkjv@Luke:23:3 @ Then Pilate asked Him, saying, "Are You the King of the Jews?" He answ ered him and said, "It is as you say."

nkjv@Luke:23:5 @ But they w ere the more fi erce, saying, "He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee to this place."

nkjv@Luke:23:6 @ When Pilate heard of Galilee, he asked if the Man w ere a Galilean.

nkjv@Luke:23:7 @ And as soon as he knew that He belonged to H erod's jurisdiction, he sent Him to H erod, who was also in J erusalem at that time.

nkjv@Luke:23:8 @ Now when H erod saw Jesus, he was exceedingly glad; for he had desired for a long time to see Him, because he had heard many things about Him, and he hoped to see some miracle done by Him.

nkjv@Luke:23:9 @ Then he questioned Him with many words, but He answ ered him nothing.

nkjv@Luke:23:11 @ Then H erod, with his men of war, treated Him with contempt and mocked Him, arrayed Him in a gorgeous robe, and sent Him back to Pilate.

nkjv@Luke:23:12 @ That v ery day Pilate and H erod became friends with each oth er, for previously they had been at enmity with each oth er.

nkjv@Luke:23:13 @ Then Pilate, when he had called togeth er the chief priests, the rul ers, and the people,

nkjv@Luke:23:14 @ said to them, "You have brought this Man to me, as one who misleads the people. And indeed, having examined Him in your presence, I have found no fault in this Man conc erning those things of which you accuse Him;

nkjv@Luke:23:15 @ no, neith er did H erod, for I sent you back to him; and indeed nothing des erving of death has been done by Him.

nkjv@Luke:23:16 @ I will th erefore chastise Him and release Him"

nkjv@Luke:23:19 @ who had been thrown into prison for a c ertain rebellion made in the city, and for murd er.

nkjv@Luke:23:20 @ Pilate, th erefore, wishing to release Jesus, again called out to them.

nkjv@Luke:23:22 @ Then he said to them the third time, "Why, what evil has He done? I have found no reason for death in Him. I will th erefore chastise Him and let Him go."

nkjv@Luke:23:23 @ But they w ere insistent, demanding with loud voices that He be crucified. And the voices of these men and of the chief priests prevailed.

nkjv@Luke:23:25 @ And he released to them the one they requested, who for rebellion and murd er had been thrown into prison; but he deliv ered Jesus to their will.

nkjv@Luke:23:26 @ Now as they led Him away, they laid hold of a c ertain man, Simon a Cyrenian, who was coming from the country, and on him they laid the cross that he might bear it aft er Jesus.

nkjv@Luke:23:28 @ But Jesus, turning to them, said, "Daught ers of J erusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.

nkjv@Luke:23:29 @ For indeed the days are coming in which they will say, "Blessed are the barren, wombs that nev er bore, and breasts which nev er nursed!'

nkjv@Luke:23:30 @ Then they will begin "to say to the mountains, "Fall on us!" and to the hills, "Cov er us!"'

nkjv@Luke:23:32 @ Th ere w ere also two oth ers, criminals, led with Him to be put to death.

nkjv@Luke:23:33 @ And when they had come to the place called Calvary, th ere they crucified Him, and the criminals, one on the right hand and the oth er on the left.

nkjv@Luke:23:34 @ Then Jesus said, "Fath er, forgive them, for they do not know what they do." And they divided His garments and cast lots.

nkjv@Luke:23:35 @ And the people stood looking on. But even the rul ers with them sne ered, saying, "He saved oth ers; let Him save Himself if He is the Christ, the chosen of God."

nkjv@Luke:23:36 @ The soldi ers also mocked Him, coming and off ering Him sour wine,

nkjv@Luke:23:38 @ And an inscription also was written ov er Him in lett ers of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew: THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.

nkjv@Luke:23:39 @ Then one of the criminals who w ere hanged blasphemed Him, saying, "If You are the Christ, save Yourself and us."

nkjv@Luke:23:40 @ But the oth er, answ ering, rebuked him, saying, "Do you not even fear God, seeing you are und er the same condemnation?

nkjv@Luke:23:42 @ Then he said to Jesus, "Lord, rememb er me when You come into Your kingdom."

nkjv@Luke:23:44 @ Now it was about the sixth hour, and th ere was darkness ov er all the earth until the ninth hour.

nkjv@Luke:23:46 @ And when Jesus had cried out with a loud voice, He said, "Fath er, "into Your hands I commit My spirit."' Having said this, He breathed His last.

nkjv@Luke:23:47 @ So when the centurion saw what had happened, he glorified God, saying, "C ertainly this was a righteous Man!"

nkjv@Luke:23:48 @ And the whole crowd who came togeth er to that sight, seeing what had been done, beat their breasts and returned.

nkjv@Luke:23:50 @ Now behold, th ere was a man named Joseph, a council memb er, a good and just man.

nkjv@Luke:23:53 @ Then he took it down, wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a tomb that was hewn out of the rock, wh ere no one had ev er lain before.

nkjv@Luke:23:55 @ And the women who had come with Him from Galilee followed aft er, and they obs erved the tomb and how His body was laid.

nkjv@Luke:24:1 @ Now on the first day of the week, v ery early in the morning, they, and c ertain oth er women with them, came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared.

nkjv@Luke:24:4 @ And it happened, as they w ere greatly p erplexed about this, that behold, two men stood by them in shining garments.

nkjv@Luke:24:5 @ Then, as they w ere afraid and bowed their faces to the earth, they said to them, "Why do you seek the living among the dead?

nkjv@Luke:24:6 @ He is not h ere, but is risen! Rememb er how He spoke to you when He was still in Galilee,

nkjv@Luke:24:7 @ saying, "The Son of Man must be deliv ered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again."'

nkjv@Luke:24:8 @ And they rememb ered His words.

nkjv@Luke:24:10 @ It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the moth er of James, and the oth er women with them, who told these things to the apostles.

nkjv@Luke:24:12 @ But Pet er arose and ran to the tomb; and stooping down, he saw the linen cloths lying by themselves; and he departed, marveling to himself at what had happened.

nkjv@Luke:24:13 @ Now behold, two of them w ere traveling that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was seven miles from J erusalem.

nkjv@Luke:24:14 @ And they talked togeth er of all these things which had happened.

nkjv@Luke:24:15 @ So it was, while they conv ersed and reasoned, that Jesus Himself drew near and went with them.

nkjv@Luke:24:16 @ But their eyes w ere restrained, so that they did not know Him.

nkjv@Luke:24:17 @ And He said to them, "What kind of conv ersation is this that you have with one anoth er as you walk and are sad?"

nkjv@Luke:24:18 @ Then the one whose name was Cleopas answ ered and said to Him, "Are You the only strang er in J erusalem, and have You not known the things which happened th ere in these days?"

nkjv@Luke:24:19 @ And He said to them, "What things?" So they said to Him, "The things conc erning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a Prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people,

nkjv@Luke:24:20 @ and how the chief priests and our rul ers deliv ered Him to be condemned to death, and crucified Him.

nkjv@Luke:24:21 @ But we w ere hoping that it was He who was going to redeem Israel. Indeed, besides all this, today is the third day since these things happened.

nkjv@Luke:24:22 @ Yes, and c ertain women of our company, who arrived at the tomb early, astonished us.

nkjv@Luke:24:24 @ And c ertain of those who w ere with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said; but Him they did not see."

nkjv@Luke:24:26 @ Ought not the Christ to have suff ered these things and to ent er into His glory?"

nkjv@Luke:24:27 @ And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things conc erning Himself.

nkjv@Luke:24:28 @ Then they drew near to the village wh ere they w ere going, and He indicated that He would have gone farth er.

nkjv@Luke:24:31 @ Then their eyes w ere opened and they knew Him; and He vanished from their sight.

nkjv@Luke:24:32 @ And they said to one anoth er, "Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?"

nkjv@Luke:24:33 @ So they rose up that v ery hour and returned to J erusalem, and found the eleven and those who w ere with them gath ered togeth er,

nkjv@Luke:24:37 @ But they w ere t errified and frightened, and supposed they had seen a spirit.

nkjv@Luke:24:41 @ But while they still did not believe for joy, and marveled, He said to them, "Have you any food h ere?"

nkjv@Luke:24:44 @ Then He said to them, "These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which w ere written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms conc erning Me."

nkjv@Luke:24:45 @ And He opened their und erstanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures.

nkjv@Luke:24:46 @ Then He said to them, "Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suff er and to rise from the dead the third day,

nkjv@Luke:24:47 @ and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at J erusalem.

nkjv@Luke:24:49 @ Behold, I send the Promise of My Fath er upon you; but tarry in the city of J erusalem until you are endued with pow er from on high."

nkjv@Luke:24:52 @ And they worshiped Him, and returned to J erusalem with great joy,

nkjv@Luke:24:53 @ and w ere continually in the temple praising and blessing God. Amen.

nkjv@John:1:3 @ All things w ere made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.

nkjv@John:1:6 @ Th ere was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

nkjv@John:1:9 @ That was the true Light which gives light to ev ery man coming into the world.

nkjv@John:1:13 @ who w ere born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

nkjv@John:1:14 @ And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Fath er, full of grace and truth.

nkjv@John:1:15 @ John bore witness of Him and cried out, saying, "This was He of whom I said, "He who comes aft er me is pref erred before me, for He was before me."'

nkjv@John:1:18 @ No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Fath er, He has declared Him.

nkjv@John:1:19 @ Now this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from J erusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"

nkjv@John:1:21 @ And they asked him, "What then? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" And he answ ered, "No."

nkjv@John:1:22 @ Then they said to him, "Who are you, that we may give an answ er to those who sent us? What do you say about yourself?"

nkjv@John:1:23 @ He said: "I am "The voice of one crying in the wild erness: "Make straight the way of the LORD,"' as the prophet Isaiah said."

nkjv@John:1:24 @ Now those who w ere sent w ere from the Pharisees.

nkjv@John:1:26 @ John answ ered them, saying, "I baptize with wat er, but th ere stands One among you whom you do not know.

nkjv@John:1:27 @ It is He who, coming aft er me, is pref erred before me, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to loose."

nkjv@John:1:28 @ These things w ere done in Bethabara beyond the Jordan, wh ere John was baptizing.

nkjv@John:1:30 @ This is He of whom I said, "Aft er me comes a Man who is pref erred before me, for He was before me.'

nkjv@John:1:31 @ I did not know Him; but that He should be revealed to Israel, th erefore I came baptizing with wat er."

nkjv@John:1:33 @ I did not know Him, but He who sent me to baptize with wat er said to me, "Upon whom you see the Spirit descending, and remaining on Him, this is He who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.'

nkjv@John:1:38 @ Then Jesus turned, and seeing them following, said to them, "What do you seek?" They said to Him, "Rabbi" (which is to say, when translated, Teach er), "wh ere are You staying?"

nkjv@John:1:39 @ He said to them, "Come and see." They came and saw wh ere He was staying, and remained with Him that day (now it was about the tenth hour).

nkjv@John:1:40 @ One of the two who heard John speak, and followed Him, was Andrew, Simon Pet er's broth er.

nkjv@John:1:41 @ He first found his own broth er Simon, and said to him, "We have found the Messiah" (which is translated, the Christ).

nkjv@John:1:44 @ Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Pet er.

nkjv@John:1:48 @ Nathanael said to Him, "How do You know me?" Jesus answ ered and said to him, "Before Philip called you, when you w ere und er the fig tree, I saw you."

nkjv@John:1:49 @ Nathanael answ ered and said to Him, "Rabbi, You are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!"

nkjv@John:1:50 @ Jesus answ ered and said to him, "Because I said to you, "I saw you und er the fig tree,' do you believe? You will see great er things than these."

nkjv@John:1:51 @ And He said to him, "Most assuredly, I say to you, h ereaft er you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man."

nkjv@John:2:1 @ On the third day th ere was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the moth er of Jesus was th ere.

nkjv@John:2:2 @ Now both Jesus and His disciples w ere invited to the wedding.

nkjv@John:2:3 @ And when they ran out of wine, the moth er of Jesus said to Him, "They have no wine."

nkjv@John:2:4 @ Jesus said to h er, "Woman, what does your conc ern have to do with Me? My hour has not yet come."

nkjv@John:2:5 @ His moth er said to the s ervants, "Whatev er He says to you, do it."

nkjv@John:2:6 @ Now th ere w ere set th ere six wat erpots of stone, according to the mann er of purification of the Jews, containing twenty or thirty gallons apiece.

nkjv@John:2:7 @ Jesus said to them, "Fill the wat erpots with wat er." And they filled them up to the brim.

nkjv@John:2:8 @ And He said to them, "Draw some out now, and take it to the mast er of the feast." And they took it.

nkjv@John:2:9 @ When the mast er of the feast had tasted the wat er that was made wine, and did not know wh ere it came from (but the s ervants who had drawn the wat er knew), the mast er of the feast called the bridegroom.

nkjv@John:2:10 @ And he said to him, "Ev ery man at the beginning sets out the good wine, and when the guests have well drunk, then the inf erior. You have kept the good wine until now!"

nkjv@John:2:12 @ Aft er this He went down to Cap ernaum, He, His moth er, His broth ers, and His disciples; and they did not stay th ere many days.

nkjv@John:2:13 @ Now the Passov er of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to J erusalem.

nkjv@John:2:14 @ And He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money chang ers doing business.

nkjv@John:2:15 @ When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the chang ers' money and ov erturned the tables.

nkjv@John:2:16 @ And He said to those who sold doves, "Take these things away! Do not make My Fath er's house a house of m erchandise!"

nkjv@John:2:17 @ Then His disciples rememb ered that it was written, "Zeal for Your house has eaten Me up."

nkjv@John:2:18 @ So the Jews answ ered and said to Him, "What sign do You show to us, since You do these things?"

nkjv@John:2:19 @ Jesus answ ered and said to them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."

nkjv@John:2:22 @ Th erefore, when He had risen from the dead, His disciples rememb ered that He had said this to them; and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had said.

nkjv@John:2:23 @ Now when He was in J erusalem at the Passov er, during the feast, many believed in His name when they saw the signs which He did.

nkjv@John:3:1 @ Th ere was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a rul er of the Jews.

nkjv@John:3:2 @ This man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, "Rabbi, we know that You are a teach er come from God; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him."

nkjv@John:3:3 @ Jesus answ ered and said to him, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."

nkjv@John:3:4 @ Nicodemus said to Him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he ent er a second time into his moth er's womb and be born?"

nkjv@John:3:5 @ Jesus answ ered, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of wat er and the Spirit, he cannot ent er the kingdom of God.

nkjv@John:3:8 @ The wind blows wh ere it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell wh ere it comes from and wh ere it goes. So is ev eryone who is born of the Spirit."

nkjv@John:3:9 @ Nicodemus answ ered and said to Him, "How can these things be?"

nkjv@John:3:10 @ Jesus answ ered and said to him, "Are you the teach er of Israel, and do not know these things?

nkjv@John:3:14 @ And as Moses lifted up the s erpent in the wild erness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

nkjv@John:3:15 @ that whoev er believes in Him should not p erish but have et ernal life.

nkjv@John:3:16 @ For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoev er believes in Him should not p erish but have ev erlasting life.

nkjv@John:3:19 @ And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rath er than light, because their deeds w ere evil.

nkjv@John:3:20 @ For ev eryone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.

nkjv@John:3:22 @ Aft er these things Jesus and His disciples came into the land of Judea, and th ere He remained with them and baptized.

nkjv@John:3:23 @ Now John also was baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because th ere was much wat er th ere. And they came and w ere baptized.

nkjv@John:3:25 @ Then th ere arose a dispute between some of John's disciples and the Jews about purification.

nkjv@John:3:27 @ John answ ered and said, "A man can receive nothing unless it has been given to him from heaven.

nkjv@John:3:29 @ He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. Th erefore this joy of mine is fulfilled.

nkjv@John:3:33 @ He who has received His testimony has c ertified that God is true.

nkjv@John:3:35 @ The Fath er loves the Son, and has given all things into His hand.

nkjv@John:3:36 @ He who believes in the Son has ev erlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him."

nkjv@John:4:1 @ Th erefore, when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John

nkjv@John:4:6 @ Now Jacob's well was th ere. Jesus th erefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

nkjv@John:4:7 @ A woman of Samaria came to draw wat er. Jesus said to h er, "Give Me a drink."

nkjv@John:4:10 @ Jesus answ ered and said to h er, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, "Give Me a drink,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living wat er."

nkjv@John:4:11 @ The woman said to Him, "Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Wh ere then do You get that living wat er?

nkjv@John:4:12 @ Are You great er than our fath er Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?"

nkjv@John:4:13 @ Jesus answ ered and said to h er, "Whoev er drinks of this wat er will thirst again,

nkjv@John:4:14 @ but whoev er drinks of the wat er that I shall give him will nev er thirst. But the wat er that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of wat er springing up into ev erlasting life."

nkjv@John:4:15 @ The woman said to Him, "Sir, give me this wat er, that I may not thirst, nor come h ere to draw."

nkjv@John:4:16 @ Jesus said to h er, "Go, call your husband, and come h ere."

nkjv@John:4:17 @ The woman answ ered and said, "I have no husband." Jesus said to h er, "You have well said, "I have no husband,'

nkjv@John:4:19 @ The woman said to Him, "Sir, I p erceive that You are a prophet.

nkjv@John:4:20 @ Our fath ers worshiped on this mountain, and you Jews say that in J erusalem is the place wh ere one ought to worship."

nkjv@John:4:21 @ Jesus said to h er, "Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neith er on this mountain, nor in J erusalem, worship the Fath er.

nkjv@John:4:23 @ But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worship ers will worship the Fath er in spirit and truth; for the Fath er is seeking such to worship Him.

nkjv@John:4:26 @ Jesus said to h er, "I who speak to you am He."

nkjv@John:4:27 @ And at this point His disciples came, and they marveled that He talked with a woman; yet no one said, "What do You seek?" or, "Why are You talking with h er?"

nkjv@John:4:28 @ The woman then left h er wat erpot, went h er way into the city, and said to the men,

nkjv@John:4:29 @ "Come, see a Man who told me all things that I ev er did. Could this be the Christ?"

nkjv@John:4:33 @ Th erefore the disciples said to one anoth er, "Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?"

nkjv@John:4:35 @ Do you not say, "Th ere are still four months and then comes the harvest'? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest!

nkjv@John:4:36 @ And he who reaps receives wages, and gath ers fruit for et ernal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice togeth er.

nkjv@John:4:37 @ For in this the saying is true: "One sows and anoth er reaps.'

nkjv@John:4:38 @ I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; oth ers have labored, and you have ent ered into their labors."

nkjv@John:4:39 @ And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified, "He told me all that I ev er did."

nkjv@John:4:40 @ So when the Samaritans had come to Him, they urged Him to stay with them; and He stayed th ere two days.

nkjv@John:4:43 @ Now aft er the two days He departed from th ere and went to Galilee.

nkjv@John:4:45 @ So when He came to Galilee, the Galileans received Him, having seen all the things He did in J erusalem at the feast; for they also had gone to the feast.

nkjv@John:4:46 @ So Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee wh ere He had made the wat er wine. And th ere was a c ertain nobleman whose son was sick at Cap ernaum.

nkjv@John:4:48 @ Then Jesus said to him, "Unless you people see signs and wond ers, you will by no means believe."

nkjv@John:4:51 @ And as he was now going down, his s ervants met him and told him, saying, "Your son lives!"

nkjv@John:4:52 @ Then he inquired of them the hour when he got bett er. And they said to him, "Yest erday at the seventh hour the fev er left him."

nkjv@John:4:53 @ So the fath er knew that it was at the same hour in which Jesus said to him, "Your son lives." And he himself believed, and his whole household.

nkjv@John:5:1 @ Aft er this th ere was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to J erusalem.

nkjv@John:5:2 @ Now th ere is in J erusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches.

nkjv@John:5:3 @ In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the wat er.

nkjv@John:5:4 @ For an angel went down at a c ertain time into the pool and stirred up the wat er; then whoev er stepped in first, aft er the stirring of the wat er, was made well of whatev er disease he had.

nkjv@John:5:5 @ Now a c ertain man was th ere who had an infirmity thirty-eight years.

nkjv@John:5:6 @ When Jesus saw him lying th ere, and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, "Do you want to be made well?"

nkjv@John:5:7 @ The sick man answ ered Him, "Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the wat er is stirred up; but while I am coming, anoth er steps down before me."

nkjv@John:5:10 @ The Jews th erefore said to him who was cured, "It is the Sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed."

nkjv@John:5:11 @ He answ ered them, "He who made me well said to me, "Take up your bed and walk."'

nkjv@John:5:14 @ Aft erward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, "See, you have been made well. Sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you."

nkjv@John:5:16 @ For this reason the Jews p ersecuted Jesus, and sought to kill Him, because He had done these things on the Sabbath.

nkjv@John:5:17 @ But Jesus answ ered them, "My Fath er has been working until now, and I have been working."

nkjv@John:5:18 @ Th erefore the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Fath er, making Himself equal with God.

nkjv@John:5:19 @ Then Jesus answ ered and said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Fath er do; for whatev er He does, the Son also does in like mann er.

nkjv@John:5:20 @ For the Fath er loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself does; and He will show Him great er works than these, that you may marvel.

nkjv@John:5:21 @ For as the Fath er raises the dead and gives life to them, even so the Son gives life to whom He will.

nkjv@John:5:22 @ For the Fath er judges no one, but has committed all judgment to the Son,

nkjv@John:5:23 @ that all should honor the Son just as they honor the Fath er. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Fath er who sent Him.

nkjv@John:5:24 @ "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has ev erlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.

nkjv@John:5:26 @ For as the Fath er has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have life in Himself,

nkjv@John:5:30 @ I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Fath er who sent Me.

nkjv@John:5:32 @ Th ere is anoth er who bears witness of Me, and I know that the witness which He witnesses of Me is true.

nkjv@John:5:35 @ He was the burning and shining lamp, and you w ere willing for a time to rejoice in his light.

nkjv@John:5:36 @ But I have a great er witness than John's; for the works which the Fath er has given Me to finish--the v ery works that I do--bear witness of Me, that the Fath er has sent Me.

nkjv@John:5:37 @ And the Fath er Himself, who sent Me, has testified of Me. You have neith er heard His voice at any time, nor seen His form.

nkjv@John:5:39 @ You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have et ernal life; and these are they which testify of Me.

nkjv@John:5:43 @ I have come in My Fath er's name, and you do not receive Me; if anoth er comes in his own name, him you will receive.

nkjv@John:5:44 @ How can you believe, who receive honor from one anoth er, and do not seek the honor that comes from the only God?

nkjv@John:5:45 @ Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Fath er; th ere is one who accuses you--Moses, in whom you trust.

nkjv@John:6:1 @ Aft er these things Jesus went ov er the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tib erias.

nkjv@John:6:2 @ Then a great multitude followed Him, because they saw His signs which He p erformed on those who w ere diseased.

nkjv@John:6:3 @ And Jesus went up on the mountain, and th ere He sat with His disciples.

nkjv@John:6:4 @ Now the Passov er, a feast of the Jews, was near.

nkjv@John:6:5 @ Then Jesus lifted up His eyes, and seeing a great multitude coming toward Him, He said to Philip, "Wh ere shall we buy bread, that these may eat?"

nkjv@John:6:7 @ Philip answ ered Him, "Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that ev ery one of them may have a little."

nkjv@John:6:8 @ One of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Pet er's broth er, said to Him,

nkjv@John:6:9 @ "Th ere is a lad h ere who has five barley loaves and two small fish, but what are they among so many?"

nkjv@John:6:10 @ Then Jesus said, "Make the people sit down." Now th ere was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in numb er about five thousand.

nkjv@John:6:12 @ So when they w ere filled, He said to His disciples, "Gath er up the fragments that remain, so that nothing is lost."

nkjv@John:6:13 @ Th erefore they gath ered them up, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves which w ere left ov er by those who had eaten.

nkjv@John:6:15 @ Th erefore when Jesus p erceived that they w ere about to come and take Him by force to make Him king, He departed again to the mountain by Himself alone.

nkjv@John:6:17 @ got into the boat, and went ov er the sea toward Cap ernaum. And it was already dark, and Jesus had not come to them.

nkjv@John:6:19 @ So when they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and drawing near the boat; and they w ere afraid.

nkjv@John:6:21 @ Then they willingly received Him into the boat, and immediately the boat was at the land wh ere they w ere going.

nkjv@John:6:22 @ On the following day, when the people who w ere standing on the oth er side of the sea saw that th ere was no oth er boat th ere, except that one which His disciples had ent ered, and that Jesus had not ent ered the boat with His disciples, but His disciples had gone away alone--

nkjv@John:6:23 @ howev er, oth er boats came from Tib erias, near the place wh ere they ate bread aft er the Lord had given thanks--

nkjv@John:6:24 @ when the people th erefore saw that Jesus was not th ere, nor His disciples, they also got into boats and came to Cap ernaum, seeking Jesus.

nkjv@John:6:25 @ And when they found Him on the oth er side of the sea, they said to Him, "Rabbi, when did You come h ere?"

nkjv@John:6:26 @ Jesus answ ered them and said, "Most assuredly, I say to you, you seek Me, not because you saw the signs, but because you ate of the loaves and w ere filled.

nkjv@John:6:27 @ Do not labor for the food which p erishes, but for the food which endures to ev erlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Fath er has set His seal on Him."

nkjv@John:6:29 @ Jesus answ ered and said to them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent."

nkjv@John:6:30 @ Th erefore they said to Him, "What sign will You p erform then, that we may see it and believe You? What work will You do?

nkjv@John:6:31 @ Our fath ers ate the manna in the des ert; as it is written, "He gave them bread from heaven to eat."'

nkjv@John:6:32 @ Then Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread from heaven, but My Fath er gives you the true bread from heaven.

nkjv@John:6:35 @ And Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall nev er hung er, and he who believes in Me shall nev er thirst.

nkjv@John:6:37 @ All that the Fath er gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out.

nkjv@John:6:39 @ This is the will of the Fath er who sent Me, that of all He has given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day.

nkjv@John:6:40 @ And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that ev eryone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have ev erlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day."

nkjv@John:6:42 @ And they said, "Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose fath er and moth er we know? How is it then that He says, "I have come down from heaven'?"

nkjv@John:6:43 @ Jesus th erefore answ ered and said to them, "Do not murmur among yourselves.

nkjv@John:6:44 @ No one can come to Me unless the Fath er who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day.

nkjv@John:6:45 @ It is written in the prophets, "And they shall all be taught by God.' Th erefore ev eryone who has heard and learned from the Fath er comes to Me.

nkjv@John:6:46 @ Not that anyone has seen the Fath er, except He who is from God; He has seen the Fath er.

nkjv@John:6:47 @ Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has ev erlasting life.

nkjv@John:6:49 @ Your fath ers ate the manna in the wild erness, and are dead.

nkjv@John:6:51 @ I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forev er; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world."

nkjv@John:6:52 @ The Jews th erefore quarreled among themselves, saying, "How can this Man give us His flesh to eat?"

nkjv@John:6:54 @ Whoev er eats My flesh and drinks My blood has et ernal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

nkjv@John:6:57 @ As the living Fath er sent Me, and I live because of the Fath er, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me.

nkjv@John:6:58 @ This is the bread which came down from heaven--not as your fath ers ate the manna, and are dead. He who eats this bread will live forev er."

nkjv@John:6:59 @ These things He said in the synagogue as He taught in Cap ernaum.

nkjv@John:6:60 @ Th erefore many of His disciples, when they heard this, said, "This is a hard saying; who can und erstand it?"

nkjv@John:6:62 @ What then if you should see the Son of Man ascend wh ere He was before?

nkjv@John:6:64 @ But th ere are some of you who do not believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who they w ere who did not believe, and who would betray Him.

nkjv@John:6:65 @ And He said, "Th erefore I have said to you that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted to him by My Fath er."

nkjv@John:6:68 @ But Simon Pet er answ ered Him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of et ernal life.

nkjv@John:6:70 @ Jesus answ ered them, "Did I not choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?"

nkjv@John:7:1 @ Aft er these things Jesus walked in Galilee; for He did not want to walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill Him.

nkjv@John:7:2 @ Now the Jews' Feast of Tab ernacles was at hand.

nkjv@John:7:3 @ His broth ers th erefore said to Him, "Depart from h ere and go into Judea, that Your disciples also may see the works that You are doing.

nkjv@John:7:5 @ For even His broth ers did not believe in Him.

nkjv@John:7:10 @ But when His broth ers had gone up, then He also went up to the feast, not openly, but as it w ere in secret.

nkjv@John:7:11 @ Then the Jews sought Him at the feast, and said, "Wh ere is He?"

nkjv@John:7:12 @ And th ere was much complaining among the people conc erning Him. Some said, "He is good"; oth ers said, "No, on the contrary, He deceives the people."

nkjv@John:7:13 @ Howev er, no one spoke openly of Him for fear of the Jews.

nkjv@John:7:15 @ And the Jews marveled, saying, "How does this Man know lett ers, having nev er studied?"

nkjv@John:7:16 @ Jesus answ ered them and said, "My doctrine is not Mine, but His who sent Me.

nkjv@John:7:17 @ If anyone wills to do His will, he shall know conc erning the doctrine, wheth er it is from God or wheth er I speak on My own authority.

nkjv@John:7:20 @ The people answ ered and said, "You have a demon. Who is seeking to kill You?"

nkjv@John:7:21 @ Jesus answ ered and said to them, "I did one work, and you all marvel.

nkjv@John:7:22 @ Moses th erefore gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fath ers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.

nkjv@John:7:25 @ Now some of them from J erusalem said, "Is this not He whom they seek to kill?

nkjv@John:7:26 @ But look! He speaks boldly, and they say nothing to Him. Do the rul ers know indeed that this is truly the Christ?

nkjv@John:7:27 @ Howev er, we know wh ere this Man is from; but when the Christ comes, no one knows wh ere He is from."

nkjv@John:7:28 @ Then Jesus cried out, as He taught in the temple, saying, "You both know Me, and you know wh ere I am from; and I have not come of Myself, but He who sent Me is true, whom you do not know.

nkjv@John:7:30 @ Th erefore they sought to take Him; but no one laid a hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come.

nkjv@John:7:32 @ The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things conc erning Him, and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent offic ers to take Him.

nkjv@John:7:33 @ Then Jesus said to them, "I shall be with you a little while long er, and then I go to Him who sent Me.

nkjv@John:7:34 @ You will seek Me and not find Me, and wh ere I am you cannot come."

nkjv@John:7:35 @ Then the Jews said among themselves, "Wh ere does He intend to go that we shall not find Him? Does He intend to go to the Disp ersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks?

nkjv@John:7:36 @ What is this thing that He said, "You will seek Me and not find Me, and wh ere I am you cannot come'?"

nkjv@John:7:38 @ He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow riv ers of living wat er."

nkjv@John:7:39 @ But this He spoke conc erning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

nkjv@John:7:40 @ Th erefore many from the crowd, when they heard this saying, said, "Truly this is the Prophet."

nkjv@John:7:41 @ Oth ers said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "Will the Christ come out of Galilee?

nkjv@John:7:42 @ Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the seed of David and from the town of Bethlehem, wh ere David was?"

nkjv@John:7:43 @ So th ere was a division among the people because of Him.

nkjv@John:7:45 @ Then the offic ers came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, "Why have you not brought Him?"

nkjv@John:7:46 @ The offic ers answ ered, "No man ev er spoke like this Man!"

nkjv@John:7:47 @ Then the Pharisees answ ered them, "Are you also deceived?

nkjv@John:7:48 @ Have any of the rul ers or the Pharisees believed in Him?

nkjv@John:7:52 @ They answ ered and said to him, "Are you also from Galilee? Search and look, for no prophet has arisen out of Galilee."

nkjv@John:7:53 @ And ev eryone went to his own house.

nkjv@John:8:3 @ Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adult ery. And when they had set h er in the midst,

nkjv@John:8:4 @ they said to Him, "Teach er, this woman was caught in adult ery, in the v ery act.

nkjv@John:8:6 @ This they said, testing Him, that they might have something of which to accuse Him. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His fing er, as though He did not hear.

nkjv@John:8:7 @ So when they continued asking Him, He raised Himself up and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at h er first."

nkjv@John:8:10 @ When Jesus had raised Himself up and saw no one but the woman, He said to h er, "Woman, wh ere are those accus ers of yours? Has no one condemned you?"

nkjv@John:8:11 @ She said, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said to h er, "Neith er do I condemn you; go and sin no more."

nkjv@John:8:13 @ The Pharisees th erefore said to Him, "You bear witness of Yourself; Your witness is not true."

nkjv@John:8:14 @ Jesus answ ered and said to them, "Even if I bear witness of Myself, My witness is true, for I know wh ere I came from and wh ere I am going; but you do not know wh ere I come from and wh ere I am going.

nkjv@John:8:16 @ And yet if I do judge, My judgment is true; for I am not alone, but I am with the Fath er who sent Me.

nkjv@John:8:18 @ I am One who bears witness of Myself, and the Fath er who sent Me bears witness of Me."

nkjv@John:8:19 @ Then they said to Him, "Wh ere is Your Fath er?" Jesus answ ered, "You know neith er Me nor My Fath er. If you had known Me, you would have known My Fath er also."

nkjv@John:8:21 @ Then Jesus said to them again, "I am going away, and you will seek Me, and will die in your sin. Wh ere I go you cannot come."

nkjv@John:8:22 @ So the Jews said, "Will He kill Himself, because He says, "Wh ere I go you cannot come'?"

nkjv@John:8:24 @ Th erefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for if you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins."

nkjv@John:8:26 @ I have many things to say and to judge conc erning you, but He who sent Me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I heard from Him."

nkjv@John:8:27 @ They did not und erstand that He spoke to them of the Fath er.

nkjv@John:8:28 @ Then Jesus said to them, "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing of Myself; but as My Fath er taught Me, I speak these things.

nkjv@John:8:29 @ And He who sent Me is with Me. The Fath er has not left Me alone, for I always do those things that please Him."

nkjv@John:8:33 @ They answ ered Him, "We are Abraham's descendants, and have nev er been in bondage to anyone. How can You say, "You will be made free'?"

nkjv@John:8:34 @ Jesus answ ered them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, whoev er commits sin is a slave of sin.

nkjv@John:8:35 @ And a slave does not abide in the house forev er, but a son abides forev er.

nkjv@John:8:36 @ Th erefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.

nkjv@John:8:38 @ I speak what I have seen with My Fath er, and you do what you have seen with your fath er."

nkjv@John:8:39 @ They answ ered and said to Him, "Abraham is our fath er." Jesus said to them, "If you w ere Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham.

nkjv@John:8:41 @ You do the deeds of your fath er." Then they said to Him, "We w ere not born of fornication; we have one Fath er--God."

nkjv@John:8:42 @ Jesus said to them, "If God w ere your Fath er, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me.

nkjv@John:8:43 @ Why do you not und erstand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word.

nkjv@John:8:44 @ You are of your fath er the devil, and the desires of your fath er you want to do. He was a murd er er from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because th ere is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the fath er of it.

nkjv@John:8:47 @ He who is of God hears God's words; th erefore you do not hear, because you are not of God."

nkjv@John:8:48 @ Then the Jews answ ered and said to Him, "Do we not say rightly that You are a Samaritan and have a demon?"

nkjv@John:8:49 @ Jesus answ ered, "I do not have a demon; but I honor My Fath er, and you dishonor Me.

nkjv@John:8:50 @ And I do not seek My own glory; th ere is One who seeks and judges.

nkjv@John:8:51 @ Most assuredly, I say to you, if anyone keeps My word he shall nev er see death."

nkjv@John:8:52 @ Then the Jews said to Him, "Now we know that You have a demon! Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and You say, "If anyone keeps My word he shall nev er taste death.'

nkjv@John:8:53 @ Are You great er than our fath er Abraham, who is dead? And the prophets are dead. Who do You make Yourself out to be?"

nkjv@John:8:54 @ Jesus answ ered, "If I honor Myself, My honor is nothing. It is My Fath er who honors Me, of whom you say that He is your God.

nkjv@John:8:56 @ Your fath er Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad."

nkjv@John:9:3 @ Jesus answ ered, "Neith er this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God should be revealed in him.

nkjv@John:9:8 @ Th erefore the neighbors and those who previously had seen that he was blind said, "Is not this he who sat and begged?"

nkjv@John:9:9 @ Some said, "This is he." Oth ers said, "He is like him." He said, "I am he."

nkjv@John:9:10 @ Th erefore they said to him, "How w ere your eyes opened?"

nkjv@John:9:11 @ He answ ered and said, "A Man called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes and said to me, "Go to the pool of Siloam and wash.' So I went and washed, and I received sight."

nkjv@John:9:12 @ Then they said to him, "Wh ere is He?" He said, "I do not know."

nkjv@John:9:13 @ They brought him who form erly was blind to the Pharisees.

nkjv@John:9:16 @ Th erefore some of the Pharisees said, "This Man is not from God, because He does not keep the Sabbath." Oth ers said, "How can a man who is a sinn er do such signs?" And th ere was a division among them.

nkjv@John:9:18 @ But the Jews did not believe conc erning him, that he had been blind and received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight.

nkjv@John:9:20 @ His parents answ ered them and said, "We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind;

nkjv@John:9:23 @ Th erefore his parents said, "He is of age; ask him."

nkjv@John:9:24 @ So they again called the man who was blind, and said to him, "Give God the glory! We know that this Man is a sinn er."

nkjv@John:9:25 @ He answ ered and said, "Wheth er He is a sinn er or not I do not know. One thing I know: that though I was blind, now I see."

nkjv@John:9:27 @ He answ ered them, "I told you already, and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become His disciples?"

nkjv@John:9:29 @ We know that God spoke to Moses; as for this fellow, we do not know wh ere He is from."

nkjv@John:9:30 @ The man answ ered and said to them, "Why, this is a marvelous thing, that you do not know wh ere He is from; yet He has opened my eyes!

nkjv@John:9:31 @ Now we know that God does not hear sinn ers; but if anyone is a worship er of God and does His will, He hears him.

nkjv@John:9:33 @ If this Man w ere not from God, He could do nothing."

nkjv@John:9:34 @ They answ ered and said to him, "You w ere completely born in sins, and are you teaching us?" And they cast him out.

nkjv@John:9:36 @ He answ ered and said, "Who is He, Lord, that I may believe in Him?"

nkjv@John:9:40 @ Then some of the Pharisees who w ere with Him heard these words, and said to Him, "Are we blind also?"

nkjv@John:9:41 @ Jesus said to them, "If you w ere blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, "We see.' Th erefore your sin remains.

nkjv@John:10:1 @ "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who does not ent er the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up some oth er way, the same is a thief and a robb er.

nkjv@John:10:2 @ But he who ent ers by the door is the sheph erd of the sheep.

nkjv@John:10:3 @ To him the doorkeep er opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

nkjv@John:10:5 @ Yet they will by no means follow a strang er, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strang ers."

nkjv@John:10:6 @ Jesus used this illustration, but they did not und erstand the things which He spoke to them.

nkjv@John:10:8 @ All who ev er came before Me are thieves and robb ers, but the sheep did not hear them.

nkjv@John:10:9 @ I am the door. If anyone ent ers by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.

nkjv@John:10:11 @ "I am the good sheph erd. The good sheph erd gives His life for the sheep.

nkjv@John:10:12 @ But a hireling, he who is not the sheph erd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatt ers them.

nkjv@John:10:14 @ I am the good sheph erd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own.

nkjv@John:10:15 @ As the Fath er knows Me, even so I know the Fath er; and I lay down My life for the sheep.

nkjv@John:10:16 @ And oth er sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and th ere will be one flock and one sheph erd.

nkjv@John:10:17 @ "Th erefore My Fath er loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again.

nkjv@John:10:18 @ No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have pow er to lay it down, and I have pow er to take it again. This command I have received from My Fath er."

nkjv@John:10:19 @ Th erefore th ere was a division again among the Jews because of these sayings.

nkjv@John:10:21 @ Oth ers said, "These are not the words of one who has a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?"

nkjv@John:10:22 @ Now it was the Feast of Dedication in J erusalem, and it was wint er.

nkjv@John:10:25 @ Jesus answ ered them, "I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in My Fath er's name, they bear witness of Me.

nkjv@John:10:28 @ And I give them et ernal life, and they shall nev er p erish; neith er shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.

nkjv@John:10:29 @ My Fath er, who has given them to Me, is great er than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Fath er's hand.

nkjv@John:10:30 @ I and My Fath er are one."

nkjv@John:10:32 @ Jesus answ ered them, "Many good works I have shown you from My Fath er. For which of those works do you stone Me?"

nkjv@John:10:33 @ The Jews answ ered Him, saying, "For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself God."

nkjv@John:10:34 @ Jesus answ ered them, "Is it not written in your law, "I said, "You are gods"'?

nkjv@John:10:36 @ do you say of Him whom the Fath er sanctified and sent into the world, "You are blaspheming,' because I said, "I am the Son of God'?

nkjv@John:10:37 @ If I do not do the works of My Fath er, do not believe Me;

nkjv@John:10:38 @ but if I do, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Fath er is in Me, and I in Him."

nkjv@John:10:39 @ Th erefore they sought again to seize Him, but He escaped out of their hand.

nkjv@John:10:40 @ And He went away again beyond the Jordan to the place wh ere John was baptizing at first, and th ere He stayed.

nkjv@John:10:41 @ Then many came to Him and said, "John p erformed no sign, but all the things that John spoke about this Man w ere true."

nkjv@John:10:42 @ And many believed in Him th ere.

nkjv@John:11:1 @ Now a c ertain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the town of Mary and h er sist er Martha.

nkjv@John:11:2 @ It was that Mary who anointed the Lord with fragrant oil and wiped His feet with h er hair, whose broth er Lazarus was sick.

nkjv@John:11:3 @ Th erefore the sist ers sent to Him, saying, "Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick."

nkjv@John:11:5 @ Now Jesus loved Martha and h er sist er and Lazarus.

nkjv@John:11:6 @ So, when He heard that he was sick, He stayed two more days in the place wh ere He was.

nkjv@John:11:7 @ Then aft er this He said to the disciples, "Let us go to Judea again."

nkjv@John:11:8 @ The disciples said to Him, "Rabbi, lately the Jews sought to stone You, and are You going th ere again?"

nkjv@John:11:9 @ Jesus answ ered, "Are th ere not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

nkjv@John:11:11 @ These things He said, and aft er that He said to them, "Our friend Lazarus sleeps, but I go that I may wake him up."

nkjv@John:11:13 @ Howev er, Jesus spoke of his death, but they thought that He was speaking about taking rest in sleep.

nkjv@John:11:15 @ And I am glad for your sakes that I was not th ere, that you may believe. Nev ertheless let us go to him."

nkjv@John:11:18 @ Now Bethany was near J erusalem, about two miles away.

nkjv@John:11:19 @ And many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to comfort them conc erning their broth er.

nkjv@John:11:21 @ Now Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if You had been h ere, my broth er would not have died.

nkjv@John:11:22 @ But even now I know that whatev er You ask of God, God will give You."

nkjv@John:11:23 @ Jesus said to h er, "Your broth er will rise again."

nkjv@John:11:25 @ Jesus said to h er, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live.

nkjv@John:11:26 @ And whoev er lives and believes in Me shall nev er die. Do you believe this?"

nkjv@John:11:28 @ And when she had said these things, she went h er way and secretly called Mary h er sist er, saying, "The Teach er has come and is calling for you."

nkjv@John:11:30 @ Now Jesus had not yet come into the town, but was in the place wh ere Martha met Him.

nkjv@John:11:31 @ Then the Jews who w ere with h er in the house, and comforting h er, when they saw that Mary rose up quickly and went out, followed h er, saying, "She is going to the tomb to weep th ere."

nkjv@John:11:32 @ Then, when Mary came wh ere Jesus was, and saw Him, she fell down at His feet, saying to Him, "Lord, if You had been h ere, my broth er would not have died."

nkjv@John:11:33 @ Th erefore, when Jesus saw h er weeping, and the Jews who came with h er weeping, He groaned in the spirit and was troubled.

nkjv@John:11:34 @ And He said, "Wh ere have you laid him?" They said to Him, "Lord, come and see."

nkjv@John:11:39 @ Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sist er of him who was dead, said to Him, "Lord, by this time th ere is a stench, for he has been dead four days."

nkjv@John:11:40 @ Jesus said to h er, "Did I not say to you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?"

nkjv@John:11:41 @ Then they took away the stone from the place wh ere the dead man was lying. And Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, "Fath er, I thank You that You have heard Me.

nkjv@John:11:47 @ Then the chief priests and the Pharisees gath ered a council and said, "What shall we do? For this Man works many signs.

nkjv@John:11:48 @ If we let Him alone like this, ev eryone will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and nation."

nkjv@John:11:50 @ nor do you consid er that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people, and not that the whole nation should p erish."

nkjv@John:11:52 @ and not for that nation only, but also that He would gath er togeth er in one the children of God who w ere scatt ered abroad.

nkjv@John:11:54 @ Th erefore Jesus no long er walked openly among the Jews, but went from th ere into the country near the wild erness, to a city called Ephraim, and th ere remained with His disciples.

nkjv@John:11:55 @ And the Passov er of the Jews was near, and many went from the country up to J erusalem before the Passov er, to purify themselves.

nkjv@John:11:57 @ Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a command, that if anyone knew wh ere He was, he should report it, that they might seize Him.

nkjv@John:12:1 @ Then, six days before the Passov er, Jesus came to Bethany, wh ere Lazarus was who had been dead, whom He had raised from the dead.

nkjv@John:12:2 @ Th ere they made Him a supp er; and Martha s erved, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with Him.

nkjv@John:12:3 @ Then Mary took a pound of v ery costly oil of spikenard, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped His feet with h er hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil.

nkjv@John:12:7 @ But Jesus said, "Let h er alone; she has kept this for the day of My burial.

nkjv@John:12:9 @ Now a great many of the Jews knew that He was th ere; and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might also see Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead.

nkjv@John:12:12 @ The next day a great multitude that had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to J erusalem,

nkjv@John:12:15 @ "Fear not, daught er of Zion; Behold, your King is coming, Sitting on a donkey's colt."

nkjv@John:12:16 @ His disciples did not und erstand these things at first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they rememb ered that these things w ere written about Him and that they had done these things to Him.

nkjv@John:12:17 @ Th erefore the people, who w ere with Him when He called Lazarus out of his tomb and raised him from the dead, bore witness.

nkjv@John:12:19 @ The Pharisees th erefore said among themselves, "You see that you are accomplishing nothing. Look, the world has gone aft er Him!"

nkjv@John:12:20 @ Now th ere w ere c ertain Greeks among those who came up to worship at the feast.

nkjv@John:12:23 @ But Jesus answ ered them, saying, "The hour has come that the Son of Man should be glorified.

nkjv@John:12:25 @ He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for et ernal life.

nkjv@John:12:26 @ If anyone s erves Me, let him follow Me; and wh ere I am, th ere My s ervant will be also. If anyone s erves Me, him My Fath er will honor.

nkjv@John:12:27 @ "Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? "Fath er, save Me from this hour'? But for this purpose I came to this hour.

nkjv@John:12:28 @ Fath er, glorify Your name." Then a voice came from heaven, saying, "I have both glorified it and will glorify it again."

nkjv@John:12:29 @ Th erefore the people who stood by and heard it said that it had thund ered. Oth ers said, "An angel has spoken to Him."

nkjv@John:12:30 @ Jesus answ ered and said, "This voice did not come because of Me, but for your sake.

nkjv@John:12:31 @ Now is the judgment of this world; now the rul er of this world will be cast out.

nkjv@John:12:34 @ The people answ ered Him, "We have heard from the law that the Christ remains forev er; and how can You say, "The Son of Man must be lifted up'? Who is this Son of Man?"

nkjv@John:12:35 @ Then Jesus said to them, "A little while long er the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness ov ertake you; he who walks in darkness does not know wh ere he is going.

nkjv@John:12:39 @ Th erefore they could not believe, because Isaiah said again:

nkjv@John:12:40 @ "He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, Lest they should see with their eyes, Lest they should und erstand with their hearts and turn, So that I should heal them."

nkjv@John:12:42 @ Nev ertheless even among the rul ers many believed in Him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue;

nkjv@John:12:46 @ I have come as a light into the world, that whoev er believes in Me should not abide in darkness.

nkjv@John:12:49 @ For I have not spoken on My own authority; but the Fath er who sent Me gave Me a command, what I should say and what I should speak.

nkjv@John:12:50 @ And I know that His command is ev erlasting life. Th erefore, whatev er I speak, just as the Fath er has told Me, so I speak."

nkjv@John:13:1 @ Now before the Feast of the Passov er, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Fath er, having loved His own who w ere in the world, He loved them to the end.

nkjv@John:13:2 @ And supp er being ended, the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray Him,

nkjv@John:13:3 @ Jesus, knowing that the Fath er had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going to God,

nkjv@John:13:4 @ rose from supp er and laid aside His garments, took a towel and girded Himself.

nkjv@John:13:5 @ Aft er that, He poured wat er into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded.

nkjv@John:13:6 @ Then He came to Simon Pet er. And Pet er said to Him, "Lord, are You washing my feet?"

nkjv@John:13:7 @ Jesus answ ered and said to him, "What I am doing you do not und erstand now, but you will know aft er this."

nkjv@John:13:8 @ Pet er said to Him, "You shall nev er wash my feet!" Jesus answ ered him, "If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me."

nkjv@John:13:9 @ Simon Pet er said to Him, "Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!"

nkjv@John:13:11 @ For He knew who would betray Him; th erefore He said, "You are not all clean."

nkjv@John:13:13 @ You call Me Teach er and Lord, and you say well, for so I am.

nkjv@John:13:14 @ If I then, your Lord and Teach er, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one anoth er's feet.

nkjv@John:13:16 @ Most assuredly, I say to you, a s ervant is not great er than his mast er; nor is he who is sent great er than he who sent him.

nkjv@John:13:18 @ "I do not speak conc erning all of you. I know whom I have chosen; but that the Scripture may be fulfilled, "He who eats bread with Me has lifted up his heel against Me.'

nkjv@John:13:20 @ Most assuredly, I say to you, he who receives whomev er I send receives Me; and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me."

nkjv@John:13:22 @ Then the disciples looked at one anoth er, p erplexed about whom He spoke.

nkjv@John:13:23 @ Now th ere was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved.

nkjv@John:13:24 @ Simon Pet er th erefore motioned to him to ask who it was of whom He spoke.

nkjv@John:13:26 @ Jesus answ ered, "It is he to whom I shall give a piece of bread when I have dipped it." And having dipped the bread, He gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon.

nkjv@John:13:27 @ Now aft er the piece of bread, Satan ent ered him. Then Jesus said to him, "What you do, do quickly."

nkjv@John:13:33 @ Little children, I shall be with you a little while long er. You will seek Me; and as I said to the Jews, "Wh ere I am going, you cannot come,' so now I say to you.

nkjv@John:13:34 @ A new commandment I give to you, that you love one anoth er; as I have loved you, that you also love one anoth er.

nkjv@John:13:35 @ By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one anoth er."

nkjv@John:13:36 @ Simon Pet er said to Him, "Lord, wh ere are You going?" Jesus answ ered him, "Wh ere I am going you cannot follow Me now, but you shall follow Me aft erward."

nkjv@John:13:37 @ Pet er said to Him, "Lord, why can I not follow You now? I will lay down my life for Your sake."

nkjv@John:13:38 @ Jesus answ ered him, "Will you lay down your life for My sake? Most assuredly, I say to you, the roost er shall not crow till you have denied Me three times.

nkjv@John:14:2 @ In My Fath er's house are many mansions; if it w ere not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

nkjv@John:14:3 @ And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that wh ere I am, th ere you may be also.

nkjv@John:14:4 @ And wh ere I go you know, and the way you know."

nkjv@John:14:5 @ Thomas said to Him, "Lord, we do not know wh ere You are going, and how can we know the way?"

nkjv@John:14:6 @ Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Fath er except through Me.

nkjv@John:14:7 @ "If you had known Me, you would have known My Fath er also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him."

nkjv@John:14:8 @ Philip said to Him, "Lord, show us the Fath er, and it is sufficient for us."

nkjv@John:14:9 @ Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Fath er; so how can you say, "Show us the Fath er'?

nkjv@John:14:10 @ Do you not believe that I am in the Fath er, and the Fath er in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Fath er who dwells in Me does the works.

nkjv@John:14:11 @ Believe Me that I am in the Fath er and the Fath er in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves.

nkjv@John:14:12 @ "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and great er works than these he will do, because I go to My Fath er.

nkjv@John:14:13 @ And whatev er you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Fath er may be glorified in the Son.

nkjv@John:14:16 @ And I will pray the Fath er, and He will give you anoth er Help er, that He may abide with you forev er--

nkjv@John:14:17 @ the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neith er sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.

nkjv@John:14:19 @ "A little while long er and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also.

nkjv@John:14:20 @ At that day you will know that I am in My Fath er, and you in Me, and I in you.

nkjv@John:14:21 @ He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Fath er, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him."

nkjv@John:14:23 @ Jesus answ ered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Fath er will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.

nkjv@John:14:24 @ He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Fath er's who sent Me.

nkjv@John:14:26 @ But the Help er, the Holy Spirit, whom the Fath er will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.

nkjv@John:14:27 @ Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neith er let it be afraid.

nkjv@John:14:28 @ You have heard Me say to you, "I am going away and coming back to you.' If you loved Me, you would rejoice because I said, "I am going to the Fath er,' for My Fath er is great er than I.

nkjv@John:14:30 @ I will no long er talk much with you, for the rul er of this world is coming, and he has nothing in Me.

nkjv@John:14:31 @ But that the world may know that I love the Fath er, and as the Fath er gave Me commandment, so I do. Arise, let us go from h ere.

nkjv@John:15:1 @ "I am the true vine, and My Fath er is the vinedress er.

nkjv@John:15:2 @ Ev ery branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and ev ery branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

nkjv@John:15:4 @ Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neith er can you, unless you abide in Me.

nkjv@John:15:6 @ If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is with ered; and they gath er them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

nkjv@John:15:8 @ By this My Fath er is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.

nkjv@John:15:9 @ "As the Fath er loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love.

nkjv@John:15:10 @ If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Fath er's commandments and abide in His love.

nkjv@John:15:12 @ This is My commandment, that you love one anoth er as I have loved you.

nkjv@John:15:13 @ Great er love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends.

nkjv@John:15:14 @ You are My friends if you do whatev er I command you.

nkjv@John:15:15 @ No long er do I call you s ervants, for a s ervant does not know what his mast er is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Fath er I have made known to you.

nkjv@John:15:16 @ You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatev er you ask the Fath er in My name He may give you.

nkjv@John:15:17 @ These things I command you, that you love one anoth er.

nkjv@John:15:19 @ If you w ere of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, th erefore the world hates you.

nkjv@John:15:20 @ Rememb er the word that I said to you, "A s ervant is not great er than his mast er.' If they p ersecuted Me, they will also p ersecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also.

nkjv@John:15:23 @ He who hates Me hates My Fath er also.

nkjv@John:15:24 @ If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would have no sin; but now they have seen and also hated both Me and My Fath er.

nkjv@John:15:26 @ "But when the Help er comes, whom I shall send to you from the Fath er, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Fath er, He will testify of Me.

nkjv@John:16:2 @ They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time is coming that whoev er kills you will think that he off ers God s ervice.

nkjv@John:16:3 @ And these things they will do to you because they have not known the Fath er nor Me.

nkjv@John:16:4 @ But these things I have told you, that when the time comes, you may rememb er that I told you of them. "And these things I did not say to you at the beginning, because I was with you.

nkjv@John:16:5 @ "But now I go away to Him who sent Me, and none of you asks Me, "Wh ere are You going?'

nkjv@John:16:7 @ Nev ertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Help er will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you.

nkjv@John:16:10 @ of righteousness, because I go to My Fath er and you see Me no more;

nkjv@John:16:11 @ of judgment, because the rul er of this world is judged.

nkjv@John:16:13 @ Howev er, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatev er He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come.

nkjv@John:16:15 @ All things that the Fath er has are Mine. Th erefore I said that He will take of Mine and declare it to you.

nkjv@John:16:16 @ "A little while, and you will not see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me, because I go to the Fath er."

nkjv@John:16:17 @ Then some of His disciples said among themselves, "What is this that He says to us, "A little while, and you will not see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me'; and, "because I go to the Fath er'?"

nkjv@John:16:18 @ They said th erefore, "What is this that He says, "A little while'? We do not know what He is saying."

nkjv@John:16:21 @ A woman, when she is in labor, has sorrow because h er hour has come; but as soon as she has given birth to the child, she no long er rememb ers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.

nkjv@John:16:22 @ Th erefore you now have sorrow; but I will see you again and your heart will rejoice, and your joy no one will take from you.

nkjv@John:16:23 @ "And in that day you will ask Me nothing. Most assuredly, I say to you, whatev er you ask the Fath er in My name He will give you.

nkjv@John:16:25 @ "These things I have spoken to you in figurative language; but the time is coming when I will no long er speak to you in figurative language, but I will tell you plainly about the Fath er.

nkjv@John:16:26 @ In that day you will ask in My name, and I do not say to you that I shall pray the Fath er for you;

nkjv@John:16:27 @ for the Fath er Himself loves you, because you have loved Me, and have believed that I came forth from God.

nkjv@John:16:28 @ I came forth from the Fath er and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world and go to the Fath er."

nkjv@John:16:31 @ Jesus answ ered them, "Do you now believe?

nkjv@John:16:32 @ Indeed the hour is coming, yes, has now come, that you will be scatt ered, each to his own, and will leave Me alone. And yet I am not alone, because the Fath er is with Me.

nkjv@John:16:33 @ These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good che er, I have ov ercome the world."

nkjv@John:17:1 @ Jesus spoke these words, lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said: "Fath er, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You,

nkjv@John:17:2 @ as You have given Him authority ov er all flesh, that He should give et ernal life to as many as You have given Him.

nkjv@John:17:3 @ And this is et ernal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

nkjv@John:17:5 @ And now, O Fath er, glorify Me togeth er with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.

nkjv@John:17:6 @ "I have manifested Your name to the men whom You have given Me out of the world. They w ere Yours, You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.

nkjv@John:17:11 @ Now I am no long er in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Fath er, keep through Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We are.

nkjv@John:17:12 @ While I was with them in the world, I kept them in Your name. Those whom You gave Me I have kept; and none of them is lost except the son of p erdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

nkjv@John:17:21 @ that they all may be one, as You, Fath er, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me.

nkjv@John:17:23 @ I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made p erfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.

nkjv@John:17:24 @ "Fath er, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me wh ere I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.

nkjv@John:17:25 @ O righteous Fath er! The world has not known You, but I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me.

nkjv@John:18:1 @ When Jesus had spoken these words, He went out with His disciples ov er the Brook Kidron, wh ere th ere was a garden, which He and His disciples ent ered.

nkjv@John:18:2 @ And Judas, who betrayed Him, also knew the place; for Jesus often met th ere with His disciples.

nkjv@John:18:3 @ Then Judas, having received a detachment of troops, and offic ers from the chief priests and Pharisees, came th ere with lant erns, torches, and weapons.

nkjv@John:18:4 @ Jesus th erefore, knowing all things that would come upon Him, went forward and said to them, "Whom are you seeking?"

nkjv@John:18:5 @ They answ ered Him, "Jesus of Nazareth." Jesus said to them, "I am He." And Judas, who betrayed Him, also stood with them.

nkjv@John:18:8 @ Jesus answ ered, "I have told you that I am He. Th erefore, if you seek Me, let these go their way,"

nkjv@John:18:10 @ Then Simon Pet er, having a sword, drew it and struck the high priest's s ervant, and cut off his right ear. The s ervant's name was Malchus.

nkjv@John:18:11 @ So Jesus said to Pet er, "Put your sword into the sheath. Shall I not drink the cup which My Fath er has given Me?"

nkjv@John:18:12 @ Then the detachment of troops and the captain and the offic ers of the Jews arrested Jesus and bound Him.

nkjv@John:18:13 @ And they led Him away to Annas first, for he was the fath er-in-law of Caiaphas who was high priest that year.

nkjv@John:18:15 @ And Simon Pet er followed Jesus, and so did anoth er disciple. Now that disciple was known to the high priest, and went with Jesus into the courtyard of the high priest.

nkjv@John:18:16 @ But Pet er stood at the door outside. Then the oth er disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to h er who kept the door, and brought Pet er in.

nkjv@John:18:17 @ Then the s ervant girl who kept the door said to Pet er, "You are not also one of this Man's disciples, are you?" He said, "I am not."

nkjv@John:18:18 @ Now the s ervants and offic ers who had made a fire of coals stood th ere, for it was cold, and they warmed themselves. And Pet er stood with them and warmed himself.

nkjv@John:18:20 @ Jesus answ ered him, "I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues and in the temple, wh ere the Jews always meet, and in secret I have said nothing.

nkjv@John:18:22 @ And when He had said these things, one of the offic ers who stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, "Do You answ er the high priest like that?"

nkjv@John:18:23 @ Jesus answ ered him, "If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil; but if well, why do you strike Me?"

nkjv@John:18:25 @ Now Simon Pet er stood and warmed himself. Th erefore they said to him, "You are not also one of His disciples, are you?" He denied it and said, "I am not!"

nkjv@John:18:26 @ One of the s ervants of the high priest, a relative of him whose ear Pet er cut off, said, "Did I not see you in the garden with Him?"

nkjv@John:18:27 @ Pet er then denied again; and immediately a roost er crowed.

nkjv@John:18:28 @ Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas to the Praetorium, and it was early morning. But they themselves did not go into the Praetorium, lest they should be defiled, but that they might eat the Passov er.

nkjv@John:18:30 @ They answ ered and said to him, "If He w ere not an evildo er, we would not have deliv ered Him up to you."

nkjv@John:18:31 @ Then Pilate said to them, "You take Him and judge Him according to your law." Th erefore the Jews said to him, "It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death,"

nkjv@John:18:33 @ Then Pilate ent ered the Praetorium again, called Jesus, and said to Him, "Are You the King of the Jews?"

nkjv@John:18:34 @ Jesus answ ered him, "Are you speaking for yourself about this, or did oth ers tell you this conc erning Me?"

nkjv@John:18:35 @ Pilate answ ered, "Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have deliv ered You to me. What have You done?"

nkjv@John:18:36 @ Jesus answ ered, "My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom w ere of this world, My s ervants would fight, so that I should not be deliv ered to the Jews; but now My kingdom is not from h ere."

nkjv@John:18:37 @ Pilate th erefore said to Him, "Are You a king then?" Jesus answ ered, "You say rightly that I am a king. For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Ev eryone who is of the truth hears My voice."

nkjv@John:18:39 @ "But you have a custom that I should release someone to you at the Passov er. Do you th erefore want me to release to you the King of the Jews?"

nkjv@John:18:40 @ Then they all cried again, saying, "Not this Man, but Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a robb er.

nkjv@John:19:2 @ And the soldi ers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and they put on Him a purple robe.

nkjv@John:19:6 @ Th erefore, when the chief priests and offic ers saw Him, they cried out, saying, "Crucify Him, crucify Him!" Pilate said to them, "You take Him and crucify Him, for I find no fault in Him."

nkjv@John:19:7 @ The Jews answ ered him, "We have a law, and according to our law He ought to die, because He made Himself the Son of God."

nkjv@John:19:8 @ Th erefore, when Pilate heard that saying, he was the more afraid,

nkjv@John:19:9 @ and went again into the Praetorium, and said to Jesus, "Wh ere are You from?" But Jesus gave him no answ er.

nkjv@John:19:10 @ Then Pilate said to Him, "Are You not speaking to me? Do You not know that I have pow er to crucify You, and pow er to release You?"

nkjv@John:19:11 @ Jesus answ ered, "You could have no pow er at all against Me unless it had been given you from above. Th erefore the one who deliv ered Me to you has the great er sin."

nkjv@John:19:12 @ From then on Pilate sought to release Him, but the Jews cried out, saying, "If you let this Man go, you are not Caesar's friend. Whoev er makes himself a king speaks against Caesar."

nkjv@John:19:13 @ When Pilate th erefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus out and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called The Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha.

nkjv@John:19:14 @ Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passov er, and about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews, "Behold your King!"

nkjv@John:19:15 @ But they cried out, "Away with Him, away with Him! Crucify Him!" Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your King?" The chief priests answ ered, "We have no king but Caesar!"

nkjv@John:19:16 @ Then he deliv ered Him to them to be crucified. Then they took Jesus and led Him away.

nkjv@John:19:18 @ wh ere they crucified Him, and two oth ers with Him, one on eith er side, and Jesus in the cent er.

nkjv@John:19:20 @ Then many of the Jews read this title, for the place wh ere Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin.

nkjv@John:19:21 @ Th erefore the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, "Do not write, "The King of the Jews,' but, "He said, "I am the King of the Jews.""'

nkjv@John:19:22 @ Pilate answ ered, "What I have written, I have written."

nkjv@John:19:23 @ Then the soldi ers, when they had crucified Jesus, took His garments and made four parts, to each soldi er a part, and also the tunic. Now the tunic was without seam, woven from the top in one piece.

nkjv@John:19:24 @ They said th erefore among themselves, "Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be," that the Scripture might be fulfilled which says: "They divided My garments among them, And for My clothing they cast lots." Th erefore the soldi ers did these things.

nkjv@John:19:25 @ Now th ere stood by the cross of Jesus His moth er, and His moth er's sist er, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

nkjv@John:19:26 @ When Jesus th erefore saw His moth er, and the disciple whom He loved standing by, He said to His moth er, "Woman, behold your son!"

nkjv@John:19:27 @ Then He said to the disciple, "Behold your moth er!" And from that hour that disciple took h er to his own home.

nkjv@John:19:28 @ Aft er this, Jesus, knowing that all things w ere now accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, "I thirst!"

nkjv@John:19:29 @ Now a vessel full of sour wine was sitting th ere; and they filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on hyssop, and put it to His mouth.

nkjv@John:19:31 @ Th erefore, because it was the Preparation Day, that the bodies should not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

nkjv@John:19:32 @ Then the soldi ers came and broke the legs of the first and of the oth er who was crucified with Him.

nkjv@John:19:34 @ But one of the soldi ers pi erced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and wat er came out.

nkjv@John:19:36 @ For these things w ere done that the Scripture should be fulfilled, "Not one of His bones shall be broken."

nkjv@John:19:37 @ And again anoth er Scripture says, "They shall look on Him whom they pi erced."

nkjv@John:19:38 @ Aft er this, Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly, for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate gave him p ermission. So he came and took the body of Jesus.

nkjv@John:19:41 @ Now in the place wh ere He was crucified th ere was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid.

nkjv@John:19:42 @ So th ere they laid Jesus, because of the Jews' Preparation Day, for the tomb was nearby.

nkjv@John:20:2 @ Then she ran and came to Simon Pet er, and to the oth er disciple, whom Jesus loved, and said to them, "They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know wh ere they have laid Him."

nkjv@John:20:3 @ Pet er th erefore went out, and the oth er disciple, and w ere going to the tomb.

nkjv@John:20:4 @ So they both ran togeth er, and the oth er disciple outran Pet er and came to the tomb first.

nkjv@John:20:5 @ And he, stooping down and looking in, saw the linen cloths lying th ere; yet he did not go in.

nkjv@John:20:6 @ Then Simon Pet er came, following him, and went into the tomb; and he saw the linen cloths lying th ere,

nkjv@John:20:7 @ and the handk erchief that had been around His head, not lying with the linen cloths, but folded togeth er in a place by itself.

nkjv@John:20:8 @ Then the oth er disciple, who came to the tomb first, went in also; and he saw and believed.

nkjv@John:20:12 @ And she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head and the oth er at the feet, wh ere the body of Jesus had lain.

nkjv@John:20:13 @ Then they said to h er, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "Because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know wh ere they have laid Him."

nkjv@John:20:14 @ Now when she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing th ere, and did not know that it was Jesus.

nkjv@John:20:15 @ Jesus said to h er, "Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?" She, supposing Him to be the garden er, said to Him, "Sir, if You have carried Him away, tell me wh ere You have laid Him, and I will take Him away."

nkjv@John:20:16 @ Jesus said to h er, "Mary!" She turned and said to Him, "Rabboni!" (which is to say, Teach er).

nkjv@John:20:17 @ Jesus said to h er, "Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Fath er; but go to My brethren and say to them, "I am ascending to My Fath er and your Fath er, and to My God and your God."'

nkjv@John:20:18 @ Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that He had spoken these things to h er.

nkjv@John:20:19 @ Then, the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors w ere shut wh ere the disciples w ere assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, "Peace be with you."

nkjv@John:20:20 @ When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. Then the disciples w ere glad when they saw the Lord.

nkjv@John:20:21 @ So Jesus said to them again, "Peace to you! As the Fath er has sent Me, I also send you."

nkjv@John:20:25 @ The oth er disciples th erefore said to him, "We have seen the Lord." So he said to them, "Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my fing er into the print of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe."

nkjv@John:20:26 @ And aft er eight days His disciples w ere again inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus came, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, "Peace to you!"

nkjv@John:20:27 @ Then He said to Thomas, "Reach your fing er h ere, and look at My hands; and reach your hand h ere, and put it into My side. Do not be unbelieving, but believing."

nkjv@John:20:28 @ And Thomas answ ered and said to Him, "My Lord and my God!"

nkjv@John:20:30 @ And truly Jesus did many oth er signs in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book;

nkjv@John:21:1 @ Aft er these things Jesus showed Himself again to the disciples at the Sea of Tib erias, and in this way He showed Himself:

nkjv@John:21:2 @ Simon Pet er, Thomas called the Twin, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two oth ers of His disciples w ere togeth er.

nkjv@John:21:3 @ Simon Pet er said to them, "I am going fishing." They said to him, "We are going with you also." They went out and immediately got into the boat, and that night they caught nothing.

nkjv@John:21:5 @ Then Jesus said to them, "Children, have you any food?" They answ ered Him, "No."

nkjv@John:21:6 @ And He said to them, "Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some." So they cast, and now they w ere not able to draw it in because of the multitude of fish.

nkjv@John:21:7 @ Th erefore that disciple whom Jesus loved said to Pet er, "It is the Lord!" Now when Simon Pet er heard that it was the Lord, he put on his out er garment (for he had removed it), and plunged into the sea.

nkjv@John:21:8 @ But the oth er disciples came in the little boat (for they w ere not far from land, but about two hundred cubits), dragging the net with fish.

nkjv@John:21:9 @ Then, as soon as they had come to land, they saw a fire of coals th ere, and fish laid on it, and bread.

nkjv@John:21:11 @ Simon Pet er went up and dragged the net to land, full of large fish, one hundred and fifty-three; and although th ere w ere so many, the net was not broken.

nkjv@John:21:14 @ This is now the third time Jesus showed Himself to His disciples aft er He was raised from the dead.

nkjv@John:21:15 @ So when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Pet er, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me more than these?" He said to Him, "Yes, Lord; You know that I love You." He said to him, "Feed My lambs."

nkjv@John:21:17 @ He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me?" Pet er was grieved because He said to him the third time, "Do you love Me?" And he said to Him, "Lord, You know all things; You know that I love You." Jesus said to him, "Feed My sheep.

nkjv@John:21:18 @ Most assuredly, I say to you, when you w ere young er, you girded yourself and walked wh ere you wished; but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and anoth er will gird you and carry you wh ere you do not wish."

nkjv@John:21:20 @ Then Pet er, turning around, saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following, who also had leaned on His breast at the supp er, and said, "Lord, who is the one who betrays You?"

nkjv@John:21:21 @ Pet er, seeing him, said to Jesus, "But Lord, what about this man?"

nkjv@John:21:25 @ And th ere are also many oth er things that Jesus did, which if they w ere written one by one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that would be written. Amen.

nkjv@Acts:1:1 @ The form er account I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,

nkjv@Acts:1:2 @ until the day in which He was taken up, aft er He through the Holy Spirit had given commandments to the apostles whom He had chosen,

nkjv@Acts:1:3 @ to whom He also presented Himself alive aft er His suff ering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days and speaking of the things p ertaining to the kingdom of God.

nkjv@Acts:1:4 @ And being assembled togeth er with them, He commanded them not to depart from J erusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Fath er, "which," He said, "you have heard from Me;

nkjv@Acts:1:5 @ for John truly baptized with wat er, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now."

nkjv@Acts:1:6 @ Th erefore, when they had come togeth er, they asked Him, saying, "Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?"

nkjv@Acts:1:7 @ And He said to them, "It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Fath er has put in His own authority.

nkjv@Acts:1:8 @ But you shall receive pow er when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in J erusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth."

nkjv@Acts:1:11 @ who also said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like mann er as you saw Him go into heaven."

nkjv@Acts:1:12 @ Then they returned to J erusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near J erusalem, a Sabbath day's journey.

nkjv@Acts:1:13 @ And when they had ent ered, they went up into the upp er room wh ere they w ere staying: Pet er, James, John, and Andrew; Philip and Thomas; Bartholomew and Matthew; James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot; and Judas the son of James.

nkjv@Acts:1:14 @ These all continued with one accord in pray er and supplication, with the women and Mary the moth er of Jesus, and with His broth ers.

nkjv@Acts:1:15 @ And in those days Pet er stood up in the midst of the disciples (altogeth er the numb er of names was about a hundred and twenty), and said,

nkjv@Acts:1:16 @ "Men and brethren, this Scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David conc erning Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus;

nkjv@Acts:1:17 @ for he was numb ered with us and obtained a part in this ministry."

nkjv@Acts:1:19 @ And it became known to all those dwelling in J erusalem; so that field is called in their own language, Akel Dama, that is, Field of Blood.)

nkjv@Acts:1:20 @ "For it is written in the Book of Psalms: "Let his dwelling place be desolate, And let no one live in it'; and, "Let anoth er take his office.'

nkjv@Acts:1:21 @ "Th erefore, of these men who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,

nkjv@Acts:1:26 @ And they cast their lots, and the lot fell on Matthias. And he was numb ered with the eleven apostles.

nkjv@Acts:2:1 @ When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they w ere all with one accord in one place.

nkjv@Acts:2:2 @ And suddenly th ere came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house wh ere they w ere sitting.

nkjv@Acts:2:3 @ Then th ere appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them.

nkjv@Acts:2:4 @ And they w ere all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with oth er tongues, as the Spirit gave them utt erance.

nkjv@Acts:2:5 @ And th ere w ere dwelling in J erusalem Jews, devout men, from ev ery nation und er heaven.

nkjv@Acts:2:6 @ And when this sound occurred, the multitude came togeth er, and w ere confused, because ev eryone heard them speak in his own language.

nkjv@Acts:2:7 @ Then they w ere all amazed and marveled, saying to one anoth er, "Look, are not all these who speak Galileans?

nkjv@Acts:2:8 @ And how is it that we hear, each in our own language in which we w ere born?

nkjv@Acts:2:11 @ Cretans and Arabs--we hear them speaking in our own tongues the wond erful works of God."

nkjv@Acts:2:12 @ So they w ere all amazed and p erplexed, saying to one anoth er, "Whatev er could this mean?"

nkjv@Acts:2:13 @ Oth ers mocking said, "They are full of new wine."

nkjv@Acts:2:14 @ But Pet er, standing up with the eleven, raised his voice and said to them, "Men of Judea and all who dwell in J erusalem, let this be known to you, and heed my words.

nkjv@Acts:2:17 @ "And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daught ers shall prophesy, Your young men shall see visions, Your old men shall dream dreams.

nkjv@Acts:2:18 @ And on My mens ervants and on My maids ervants I will pour out My Spirit in those days; And they shall prophesy.

nkjv@Acts:2:19 @ I will show wond ers in heaven above And signs in the earth beneath: Blood and fire and vapor of smoke.

nkjv@Acts:2:21 @ And it shall come to pass That whoev er calls on the name of the LORD Shall be saved.'

nkjv@Acts:2:22 @ "Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a Man attested by God to you by miracles, wond ers, and signs which God did through Him in your midst, as you yourselves also know--

nkjv@Acts:2:23 @ Him, being deliv ered by the det ermined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by lawless hands, have crucified, and put to death;

nkjv@Acts:2:25 @ For David says conc erning Him: "I foresaw the LORD always before my face, For He is at my right hand, that I may not be shaken.

nkjv@Acts:2:26 @ Th erefore my heart rejoiced, and my tongue was glad; Moreov er my flesh also will rest in hope.

nkjv@Acts:2:30 @ Th erefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, He would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne,

nkjv@Acts:2:31 @ he, foreseeing this, spoke conc erning the resurrection of the Christ, that His soul was not left in Hades, nor did His flesh see corruption.

nkjv@Acts:2:33 @ Th erefore being exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Fath er the promise of the Holy Spirit, He poured out this which you now see and hear.

nkjv@Acts:2:36 @ "Th erefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ."

nkjv@Acts:2:37 @ Now when they heard this, they w ere cut to the heart, and said to Pet er and the rest of the apostles, "Men and brethren, what shall we do?"

nkjv@Acts:2:38 @ Then Pet er said to them, "Repent, and let ev ery one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

nkjv@Acts:2:40 @ And with many oth er words he testified and exhorted them, saying, "Be saved from this p erv erse gen eration."

nkjv@Acts:2:41 @ Then those who gladly received his word w ere baptized; and that day about three thousand souls w ere added to them.

nkjv@Acts:2:42 @ And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in pray ers.

nkjv@Acts:2:43 @ Then fear came upon ev ery soul, and many wond ers and signs w ere done through the apostles.

nkjv@Acts:2:44 @ Now all who believed w ere togeth er, and had all things in common,

nkjv@Acts:2:47 @ praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily those who w ere being saved.

nkjv@Acts:3:1 @ Now Pet er and John went up togeth er to the temple at the hour of pray er, the ninth hour.

nkjv@Acts:3:2 @ And a c ertain man lame from his moth er's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms from those who ent ered the temple;

nkjv@Acts:3:3 @ who, seeing Pet er and John about to go into the temple, asked for alms.

nkjv@Acts:3:4 @ And fixing his eyes on him, with John, Pet er said, "Look at us."

nkjv@Acts:3:6 @ Then Pet er said, "Silv er and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk."

nkjv@Acts:3:8 @ So he, leaping up, stood and walked and ent ered the temple with them--walking, leaping, and praising God.

nkjv@Acts:3:10 @ Then they knew that it was he who sat begging alms at the Beautiful Gate of the temple; and they w ere filled with wond er and amazement at what had happened to him.

nkjv@Acts:3:11 @ Now as the lame man who was healed held on to Pet er and John, all the people ran togeth er to them in the porch which is called Solomon's, greatly amazed.

nkjv@Acts:3:12 @ So when Pet er saw it, he responded to the people: "Men of Israel, why do you marvel at this? Or why look so intently at us, as though by our own pow er or godliness we had made this man walk?

nkjv@Acts:3:13 @ The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fath ers, glorified His S ervant Jesus, whom you deliv ered up and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he was det ermined to let Him go.

nkjv@Acts:3:14 @ But you denied the Holy One and the Just, and asked for a murd er er to be granted to you,

nkjv@Acts:3:16 @ And His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which comes through Him has given him this p erfect soundness in the presence of you all.

nkjv@Acts:3:17 @ "Yet now, brethren, I know that you did it in ignorance, as did also your rul ers.

nkjv@Acts:3:18 @ But those things which God foretold by the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ would suff er, He has thus fulfilled.

nkjv@Acts:3:19 @ Repent th erefore and be conv erted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

nkjv@Acts:3:22 @ For Moses truly said to the fath ers, "The LORD your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brethren. Him you shall hear in all things, whatev er He says to you.

nkjv@Acts:3:23 @ And it shall be that ev ery soul who will not hear that Prophet shall be utt erly destroyed from among the people.'

nkjv@Acts:3:25 @ You are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fath ers, saying to Abraham, "And in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.'

nkjv@Acts:3:26 @ To you first, God, having raised up His S ervant Jesus, sent Him to bless you, in turning away ev ery one of you from your iniquities."

nkjv@Acts:4:4 @ Howev er, many of those who heard the word believed; and the numb er of the men came to be about five thousand.

nkjv@Acts:4:5 @ And it came to pass, on the next day, that their rul ers, eld ers, and scribes,

nkjv@Acts:4:6 @ as well as Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, and Alexand er, and as many as w ere of the family of the high priest, w ere gath ered togeth er at J erusalem.

nkjv@Acts:4:7 @ And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, "By what pow er or by what name have you done this?"

nkjv@Acts:4:8 @ Then Pet er, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, "Rul ers of the people and eld ers of Israel:

nkjv@Acts:4:10 @ let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands h ere before you whole.

nkjv@Acts:4:11 @ This is the "stone which was rejected by you build ers, which has become the chief corn erstone.'

nkjv@Acts:4:12 @ Nor is th ere salvation in any oth er, for th ere is no oth er name und er heaven given among men by which we must be saved."

nkjv@Acts:4:13 @ Now when they saw the boldness of Pet er and John, and p erceived that they w ere uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they realized that they had been with Jesus.

nkjv@Acts:4:15 @ But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conf erred among themselves,

nkjv@Acts:4:16 @ saying, "What shall we do to these men? For, indeed, that a notable miracle has been done through them is evident to all who dwell in J erusalem, and we cannot deny it.

nkjv@Acts:4:17 @ But so that it spreads no furth er among the people, let us sev erely threaten them, that from now on they speak to no man in this name."

nkjv@Acts:4:19 @ But Pet er and John answ ered and said to them, "Wheth er it is right in the sight of God to listen to you more than to God, you judge.

nkjv@Acts:4:21 @ So when they had furth er threatened them, they let them go, finding no way of punishing them, because of the people, since they all glorified God for what had been done.

nkjv@Acts:4:22 @ For the man was ov er forty years old on whom this miracle of healing had been p erformed.

nkjv@Acts:4:23 @ And being let go, they went to their own companions and reported all that the chief priests and eld ers had said to them.

nkjv@Acts:4:25 @ who by the mouth of Your s ervant David have said: "Why did the nations rage, And the people plot vain things?

nkjv@Acts:4:26 @ The kings of the earth took their stand, And the rul ers w ere gath ered togeth er Against the LORD and against His Christ.'

nkjv@Acts:4:27 @ "For truly against Your holy S ervant Jesus, whom You anointed, both H erod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, w ere gath ered togeth er

nkjv@Acts:4:28 @ to do whatev er Your hand and Your purpose det ermined before to be done.

nkjv@Acts:4:29 @ Now, Lord, look on their threats, and grant to Your s ervants that with all boldness they may speak Your word,

nkjv@Acts:4:30 @ by stretching out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wond ers may be done through the name of Your holy S ervant Jesus."

nkjv@Acts:4:31 @ And when they had prayed, the place wh ere they w ere assembled togeth er was shaken; and they w ere all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.

nkjv@Acts:4:32 @ Now the multitude of those who believed w ere of one heart and one soul; neith er did anyone say that any of the things he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.

nkjv@Acts:4:33 @ And with great pow er the apostles gave witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And great grace was upon them all.

nkjv@Acts:4:34 @ Nor was th ere anyone among them who lacked; for all who w ere possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of the things that w ere sold,

nkjv@Acts:5:1 @ But a c ertain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession.

nkjv@Acts:5:2 @ And he kept back part of the proceeds, his wife also being aware of it, and brought a c ertain part and laid it at the apostles' feet.

nkjv@Acts:5:3 @ But Pet er said, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the price of the land for yourself?

nkjv@Acts:5:4 @ While it remained, was it not your own? And aft er it was sold, was it not in your own control? Why have you conceived this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God."

nkjv@Acts:5:7 @ Now it was about three hours lat er when his wife came in, not knowing what had happened.

nkjv@Acts:5:8 @ And Pet er answ ered h er, "Tell me wheth er you sold the land for so much?" She said, "Yes, for so much."

nkjv@Acts:5:9 @ Then Pet er said to h er, "How is it that you have agreed togeth er to test the Spirit of the Lord? Look, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out."

nkjv@Acts:5:10 @ Then immediately she fell down at his feet and breathed h er last. And the young men came in and found h er dead, and carrying h er out, buried h er by h er husband.

nkjv@Acts:5:12 @ And through the hands of the apostles many signs and wond ers w ere done among the people. And they w ere all with one accord in Solomon's Porch.

nkjv@Acts:5:14 @ And believ ers w ere increasingly added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women,

nkjv@Acts:5:15 @ so that they brought the sick out into the streets and laid them on beds and couches, that at least the shadow of Pet er passing by might fall on some of them.

nkjv@Acts:5:16 @ Also a multitude gath ered from the surrounding cities to J erusalem, bringing sick people and those who w ere tormented by unclean spirits, and they w ere all healed.

nkjv@Acts:5:17 @ Then the high priest rose up, and all those who w ere with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they w ere filled with indignation,

nkjv@Acts:5:21 @ And when they heard that, they ent ered the temple early in the morning and taught. But the high priest and those with him came and called the council togeth er, with all the eld ers of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.

nkjv@Acts:5:22 @ But when the offic ers came and did not find them in the prison, they returned and reported,

nkjv@Acts:5:24 @ Now when the high priest, the captain of the temple, and the chief priests heard these things, they wond ered what the outcome would be.

nkjv@Acts:5:26 @ Then the captain went with the offic ers and brought them without violence, for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned.

nkjv@Acts:5:28 @ saying, "Did we not strictly command you not to teach in this name? And look, you have filled J erusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this Man's blood on us!"

nkjv@Acts:5:29 @ But Pet er and the oth er apostles answ ered and said: "We ought to obey God rath er than men.

nkjv@Acts:5:30 @ The God of our fath ers raised up Jesus whom you murd ered by hanging on a tree.

nkjv@Acts:5:33 @ When they heard this, they w ere furious and plotted to kill them.

nkjv@Acts:5:34 @ Then one in the council stood up, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teach er of the law held in respect by all the people, and commanded them to put the apostles outside for a little while.

nkjv@Acts:5:36 @ For some time ago Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody. A numb er of men, about four hundred, joined him. He was slain, and all who obeyed him w ere scatt ered and came to nothing.

nkjv@Acts:5:37 @ Aft er this man, Judas of Galilee rose up in the days of the census, and drew away many people aft er him. He also p erished, and all who obeyed him w ere disp ersed.

nkjv@Acts:5:39 @ but if it is of God, you cannot ov erthrow it--lest you even be found to fight against God."

nkjv@Acts:5:41 @ So they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they w ere counted worthy to suff er shame for His name.

nkjv@Acts:5:42 @ And daily in the temple, and in ev ery house, they did not cease teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.

nkjv@Acts:6:1 @ Now in those days, when the numb er of the disciples was multiplying, th ere arose a complaint against the Hebrews by the Hellenists, because their widows w ere neglected in the daily distribution.

nkjv@Acts:6:2 @ Then the twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said, "It is not desirable that we should leave the word of God and s erve tables.

nkjv@Acts:6:3 @ Th erefore, brethren, seek out from among you seven men of good reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may appoint ov er this business;

nkjv@Acts:6:4 @ but we will give ourselves continually to pray er and to the ministry of the word."

nkjv@Acts:6:7 @ Then the word of God spread, and the numb er of the disciples multiplied greatly in J erusalem, and a great many of the priests w ere obedient to the faith.

nkjv@Acts:6:8 @ And Stephen, full of faith and pow er, did great wond ers and signs among the people.

nkjv@Acts:6:9 @ Then th ere arose some from what is called the Synagogue of the Freedmen (Cyrenians, Alexandrians, and those from Cilicia and Asia), disputing with Stephen.

nkjv@Acts:6:10 @ And they w ere not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spoke.

nkjv@Acts:6:12 @ And they stirred up the people, the eld ers, and the scribes; and they came upon him, seized him, and brought him to the council.

nkjv@Acts:6:14 @ for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs which Moses deliv ered to us."

nkjv@Acts:7:2 @ And he said, "Brethren and fath ers, listen: The God of glory appeared to our fath er Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran,

nkjv@Acts:7:4 @ Then he came out of the land of the Chaldeans and dwelt in Haran. And from th ere, when his fath er was dead, He moved him to this land in which you now dwell.

nkjv@Acts:7:5 @ And God gave him no inh eritance in it, not even enough to set his foot on. But even when Abraham had no child, He promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his descendants aft er him.

nkjv@Acts:7:7 @ "And the nation to whom they will be in bondage I will judge,' said God, "and aft er that they shall come out and s erve Me in this place.'

nkjv@Acts:7:10 @ and deliv ered him out of all his troubles, and gave him favor and wisdom in the presence of Pharaoh, king of Egypt; and he made him gov ernor ov er Egypt and all his house.

nkjv@Acts:7:11 @ Now a famine and great trouble came ov er all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and our fath ers found no sustenance.

nkjv@Acts:7:12 @ But when Jacob heard that th ere was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fath ers first.

nkjv@Acts:7:13 @ And the second time Joseph was made known to his broth ers, and Joseph's family became known to the Pharaoh.

nkjv@Acts:7:14 @ Then Joseph sent and called his fath er Jacob and all his relatives to him, seventy-five people.

nkjv@Acts:7:15 @ So Jacob went down to Egypt; and he died, he and our fath ers.

nkjv@Acts:7:16 @ And they w ere carried back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor, the fath er of Shechem.

nkjv@Acts:7:18 @ till anoth er king arose who did not know Joseph.

nkjv@Acts:7:19 @ This man dealt treach erously with our people, and oppressed our forefath ers, making them expose their babies, so that they might not live.

nkjv@Acts:7:20 @ At this time Moses was born, and was well pleasing to God; and he was brought up in his fath er's house for three months.

nkjv@Acts:7:21 @ But when he was set out, Pharaoh's daught er took him away and brought him up as h er own son.

nkjv@Acts:7:24 @ And seeing one of them suff er wrong, he defended and avenged him who was oppressed, and struck down the Egyptian.

nkjv@Acts:7:25 @ For he supposed that his brethren would have und erstood that God would deliv er them by his hand, but they did not und erstand.

nkjv@Acts:7:26 @ And the next day he appeared to two of them as they w ere fighting, and tried to reconcile them, saying, "Men, you are brethren; why do you wrong one anoth er?'

nkjv@Acts:7:27 @ But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, "Who made you a rul er and a judge ov er us?

nkjv@Acts:7:28 @ Do you want to kill me as you did the Egyptian yest erday?'

nkjv@Acts:7:29 @ Then, at this saying, Moses fled and became a dwell er in the land of Midian, wh ere he had two sons.

nkjv@Acts:7:30 @ "And when forty years had passed, an Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire in a bush, in the wild erness of Mount Sinai.

nkjv@Acts:7:31 @ When Moses saw it, he marveled at the sight; and as he drew near to obs erve, the voice of the Lord came to him,

nkjv@Acts:7:32 @ saying, "I am the God of your fath ers--the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' And Moses trembled and dared not look.

nkjv@Acts:7:33 @ "Then the LORD said to him, "Take your sandals off your feet, for the place wh ere you stand is holy ground.

nkjv@Acts:7:34 @ I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt; I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliv er them. And now come, I will send you to Egypt."'

nkjv@Acts:7:35 @ "This Moses whom they rejected, saying, "Who made you a rul er and a judge?' is the one God sent to be a rul er and a deliv er er by the hand of the Angel who appeared to him in the bush.

nkjv@Acts:7:36 @ He brought them out, aft er he had shown wond ers and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wild erness forty years.

nkjv@Acts:7:38 @ "This is he who was in the congregation in the wild erness with the Angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fath ers, the one who received the living oracles to give to us,

nkjv@Acts:7:39 @ whom our fath ers would not obey, but rejected. And in their hearts they turned back to Egypt,

nkjv@Acts:7:41 @ And they made a calf in those days, off ered sacrifices to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.

nkjv@Acts:7:42 @ Then God turned and gave them up to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: "Did you off er Me slaught ered animals and sacrifices during forty years in the wild erness, O house of Israel?

nkjv@Acts:7:43 @ You also took up the tab ernacle of Moloch, And the star of your god Remphan, Images which you made to worship; And I will carry you away beyond Babylon.'

nkjv@Acts:7:44 @ "Our fath ers had the tab ernacle of witness in the wild erness, as He appointed, instructing Moses to make it according to the patt ern that he had seen,

nkjv@Acts:7:45 @ which our fath ers, having received it in turn, also brought with Joshua into the land possessed by the Gentiles, whom God drove out before the face of our fath ers until the days of David,

nkjv@Acts:7:48 @ "Howev er, the Most High does not dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says:

nkjv@Acts:7:51 @ "You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fath ers did, so do you.

nkjv@Acts:7:52 @ Which of the prophets did your fath ers not p ersecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you now have become the betray ers and murd er ers,

nkjv@Acts:7:54 @ When they heard these things they w ere cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.

nkjv@Acts:8:1 @ Now Saul was consenting to his death. At that time a great p ersecution arose against the church which was at J erusalem; and they w ere all scatt ered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.

nkjv@Acts:8:2 @ And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation ov er him.

nkjv@Acts:8:3 @ As for Saul, he made havoc of the church, ent ering ev ery house, and dragging off men and women, committing them to prison.

nkjv@Acts:8:4 @ Th erefore those who w ere scatt ered went ev erywh ere preaching the word.

nkjv@Acts:8:7 @ For unclean spirits, crying with a loud voice, came out of many who w ere possessed; and many who w ere paralyzed and lame w ere healed.

nkjv@Acts:8:8 @ And th ere was great joy in that city.

nkjv@Acts:8:9 @ But th ere was a c ertain man called Simon, who previously practiced sorc ery in the city and astonished the people of Samaria, claiming that he was someone great,

nkjv@Acts:8:10 @ to whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, "This man is the great pow er of God."

nkjv@Acts:8:11 @ And they heeded him because he had astonished them with his sorc eries for a long time.

nkjv@Acts:8:12 @ But when they believed Philip as he preached the things conc erning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, both men and women w ere baptized.

nkjv@Acts:8:13 @ Then Simon himself also believed; and when he was baptized he continued with Philip, and was amazed, seeing the miracles and signs which w ere done.

nkjv@Acts:8:14 @ Now when the apostles who w ere at J erusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Pet er and John to them,

nkjv@Acts:8:18 @ And when Simon saw that through the laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Spirit was given, he off ered them money,

nkjv@Acts:8:19 @ saying, "Give me this pow er also, that anyone on whom I lay hands may receive the Holy Spirit."

nkjv@Acts:8:20 @ But Pet er said to him, "Your money p erish with you, because you thought that the gift of God could be purchased with money!

nkjv@Acts:8:21 @ You have neith er part nor portion in this matt er, for your heart is not right in the sight of God.

nkjv@Acts:8:22 @ Repent th erefore of this your wickedness, and pray God if p erhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

nkjv@Acts:8:23 @ For I see that you are poisoned by bitt erness and bound by iniquity."

nkjv@Acts:8:24 @ Then Simon answ ered and said, "Pray to the Lord for me, that none of the things which you have spoken may come upon me."

nkjv@Acts:8:25 @ So when they had testified and preached the word of the Lord, they returned to J erusalem, preaching the gospel in many villages of the Samaritans.

nkjv@Acts:8:26 @ Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, "Arise and go toward the south along the road which goes down from J erusalem to Gaza." This is des ert.

nkjv@Acts:8:27 @ So he arose and went. And behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority und er Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who had charge of all h er treasury, and had come to J erusalem to worship,

nkjv@Acts:8:29 @ Then the Spirit said to Philip, "Go near and ov ertake this chariot."

nkjv@Acts:8:30 @ So Philip ran to him, and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, "Do you und erstand what you are reading?"

nkjv@Acts:8:32 @ The place in the Scripture which he read was this: "He was led as a sheep to the slaught er; And as a lamb before its shear er is silent, So He opened not His mouth.

nkjv@Acts:8:33 @ In His humiliation His justice was taken away, And who will declare His gen eration? For His life is taken from the earth."

nkjv@Acts:8:34 @ So the eunuch answ ered Philip and said, "I ask you, of whom does the prophet say this, of himself or of some oth er man?"

nkjv@Acts:8:36 @ Now as they went down the road, they came to some wat er. And the eunuch said, "See, h ere is wat er. What hind ers me from being baptized?"

nkjv@Acts:8:37 @ Then Philip said, "If you believe with all your heart, you may." And he answ ered and said, "I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God."

nkjv@Acts:8:38 @ So he commanded the chariot to stand still. And both Philip and the eunuch went down into the wat er, and he baptized him.

nkjv@Acts:8:39 @ Now when they came up out of the wat er, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, so that the eunuch saw him no more; and he went on his way rejoicing.

nkjv@Acts:9:1 @ Then Saul, still breathing threats and murd er against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest

nkjv@Acts:9:2 @ and asked lett ers from him to the synagogues of Damascus, so that if he found any who w ere of the Way, wheth er men or women, he might bring them bound to J erusalem.

nkjv@Acts:9:4 @ Then he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why are you p ersecuting Me?"

nkjv@Acts:9:5 @ And he said, "Who are You, Lord?" Then the Lord said, "I am Jesus, whom you are p ersecuting. It is hard for you to kick against the goads."

nkjv@Acts:9:8 @ Then Saul arose from the ground, and when his eyes w ere opened he saw no one. But they led him by the hand and brought him into Damascus.

nkjv@Acts:9:9 @ And he was three days without sight, and neith er ate nor drank.

nkjv@Acts:9:10 @ Now th ere was a c ertain disciple at Damascus named Ananias; and to him the Lord said in a vision, "Ananias." And he said, "H ere I am, Lord."

nkjv@Acts:9:13 @ Then Ananias answ ered, "Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much harm he has done to Your saints in J erusalem.

nkjv@Acts:9:14 @ And h ere he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on Your name."

nkjv@Acts:9:16 @ For I will show him how many things he must suff er for My name's sake."

nkjv@Acts:9:17 @ And Ananias went his way and ent ered the house; and laying his hands on him he said, "Broth er Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you came, has sent me that you may receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit."

nkjv@Acts:9:18 @ Immediately th ere fell from his eyes something like scales, and he received his sight at once; and he arose and was baptized.

nkjv@Acts:9:21 @ Then all who heard w ere amazed, and said, "Is this not he who destroyed those who called on this name in J erusalem, and has come h ere for that purpose, so that he might bring them bound to the chief priests?"

nkjv@Acts:9:23 @ Now aft er many days w ere past, the Jews plotted to kill him.

nkjv@Acts:9:26 @ And when Saul had come to J erusalem, he tried to join the disciples; but they w ere all afraid of him, and did not believe that he was a disciple.

nkjv@Acts:9:28 @ So he was with them at J erusalem, coming in and going out.

nkjv@Acts:9:31 @ Then the churches throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace and w ere edified. And walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, they w ere multiplied.

nkjv@Acts:9:32 @ Now it came to pass, as Pet er went through all parts of the country, that he also came down to the saints who dwelt in Lydda.

nkjv@Acts:9:33 @ Th ere he found a c ertain man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden eight years and was paralyzed.

nkjv@Acts:9:34 @ And Pet er said to him, "Aeneas, Jesus the Christ heals you. Arise and make your bed." Then he arose immediately.

nkjv@Acts:9:36 @ At Joppa th ere was a c ertain disciple named Tabitha, which is translated Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and charitable deeds which she did.

nkjv@Acts:9:37 @ But it happened in those days that she became sick and died. When they had washed h er, they laid h er in an upp er room.

nkjv@Acts:9:38 @ And since Lydda was near Joppa, and the disciples had heard that Pet er was th ere, they sent two men to him, imploring him not to delay in coming to them.

nkjv@Acts:9:39 @ Then Pet er arose and went with them. When he had come, they brought him to the upp er room. And all the widows stood by him weeping, showing the tunics and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.

nkjv@Acts:9:40 @ But Pet er put them all out, and knelt down and prayed. And turning to the body he said, "Tabitha, arise." And she opened h er eyes, and when she saw Pet er she sat up.

nkjv@Acts:9:41 @ Then he gave h er his hand and lifted h er up; and when he had called the saints and widows, he presented h er alive.

nkjv@Acts:9:43 @ So it was that he stayed many days in Joppa with Simon, a tann er.

nkjv@Acts:10:1 @ Th ere was a c ertain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment,

nkjv@Acts:10:2 @ a devout man and one who feared God with all his household, who gave alms gen erously to the people, and prayed to God always.

nkjv@Acts:10:4 @ And when he obs erved him, he was afraid, and said, "What is it, lord?" So he said to him, "Your pray ers and your alms have come up for a memorial before God.

nkjv@Acts:10:5 @ Now send men to Joppa, and send for Simon whose surname is Pet er.

nkjv@Acts:10:6 @ He is lodging with Simon, a tann er, whose house is by the sea. He will tell you what you must do."

nkjv@Acts:10:7 @ And when the angel who spoke to him had departed, Cornelius called two of his household s ervants and a devout soldi er from among those who waited on him continually.

nkjv@Acts:10:9 @ The next day, as they went on their journey and drew near the city, Pet er went up on the housetop to pray, about the sixth hour.

nkjv@Acts:10:10 @ Then he became v ery hungry and wanted to eat; but while they made ready, he fell into a trance

nkjv@Acts:10:11 @ and saw heaven opened and an object like a great sheet bound at the four corn ers, descending to him and let down to the earth.

nkjv@Acts:10:12 @ In it w ere all kinds of four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, creeping things, and birds of the air.

nkjv@Acts:10:13 @ And a voice came to him, "Rise, Pet er; kill and eat."

nkjv@Acts:10:14 @ But Pet er said, "Not so, Lord! For I have nev er eaten anything common or unclean."

nkjv@Acts:10:17 @ Now while Pet er wond ered within himself what this vision which he had seen meant, behold, the men who had been sent from Cornelius had made inquiry for Simon's house, and stood before the gate.

nkjv@Acts:10:18 @ And they called and asked wheth er Simon, whose surname was Pet er, was lodging th ere.

nkjv@Acts:10:19 @ While Pet er thought about the vision, the Spirit said to him, "Behold, three men are seeking you.

nkjv@Acts:10:20 @ Arise th erefore, go down and go with them, doubting nothing; for I have sent them."

nkjv@Acts:10:21 @ Then Pet er went down to the men who had been sent to him from Cornelius, and said, "Yes, I am he whom you seek. For what reason have you come?"

nkjv@Acts:10:23 @ Then he invited them in and lodged them. On the next day Pet er went away with them, and some brethren from Joppa accompanied him.

nkjv@Acts:10:24 @ And the following day they ent ered Caesarea. Now Cornelius was waiting for them, and had called togeth er his relatives and close friends.

nkjv@Acts:10:25 @ As Pet er was coming in, Cornelius met him and fell down at his feet and worshiped him.

nkjv@Acts:10:26 @ But Pet er lifted him up, saying, "Stand up; I myself am also a man."

nkjv@Acts:10:27 @ And as he talked with him, he went in and found many who had come togeth er.

nkjv@Acts:10:28 @ Then he said to them, "You know how unlawful it is for a Jewish man to keep company with or go to one of anoth er nation. But God has shown me that I should not call any man common or unclean.

nkjv@Acts:10:29 @ Th erefore I came without objection as soon as I was sent for. I ask, then, for what reason have you sent for me?"

nkjv@Acts:10:31 @ and said, "Cornelius, your pray er has been heard, and your alms are rememb ered in the sight of God.

nkjv@Acts:10:32 @ Send th erefore to Joppa and call Simon h ere, whose surname is Pet er. He is lodging in the house of Simon, a tann er, by the sea. When he comes, he will speak to you.'

nkjv@Acts:10:33 @ So I sent to you immediately, and you have done well to come. Now th erefore, we are all present before God, to hear all the things commanded you by God."

nkjv@Acts:10:34 @ Then Pet er opened his mouth and said: "In truth I p erceive that God shows no partiality.

nkjv@Acts:10:35 @ But in ev ery nation whoev er fears Him and works righteousness is accepted by Him.

nkjv@Acts:10:37 @ that word you know, which was proclaimed throughout all Judea, and began from Galilee aft er the baptism which John preached:

nkjv@Acts:10:38 @ how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with pow er, who went about doing good and healing all who w ere oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.

nkjv@Acts:10:39 @ And we are witnesses of all things which He did both in the land of the Jews and in J erusalem, whom they killed by hanging on a tree.

nkjv@Acts:10:41 @ not to all the people, but to witnesses chosen before by God, even to us who ate and drank with Him aft er He arose from the dead.

nkjv@Acts:10:43 @ To Him all the prophets witness that, through His name, whoev er believes in Him will receive remission of sins."

nkjv@Acts:10:44 @ While Pet er was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who heard the word.

nkjv@Acts:10:45 @ And those of the circumcision who believed w ere astonished, as many as came with Pet er, because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles also.

nkjv@Acts:10:46 @ For they heard them speak with tongues and magnify God. Then Pet er answ ered,

nkjv@Acts:10:47 @ "Can anyone forbid wat er, that these should not be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?"

nkjv@Acts:11:1 @ Now the apostles and brethren who w ere in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.

nkjv@Acts:11:2 @ And when Pet er came up to J erusalem, those of the circumcision contended with him,

nkjv@Acts:11:4 @ But Pet er explained it to them in ord er from the beginning, saying:

nkjv@Acts:11:5 @ "I was in the city of Joppa praying; and in a trance I saw a vision, an object descending like a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corn ers; and it came to me.

nkjv@Acts:11:6 @ When I obs erved it intently and consid ered, I saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, creeping things, and birds of the air.

nkjv@Acts:11:7 @ And I heard a voice saying to me, "Rise, Pet er; kill and eat.'

nkjv@Acts:11:8 @ But I said, "Not so, Lord! For nothing common or unclean has at any time ent ered my mouth.'

nkjv@Acts:11:9 @ But the voice answ ered me again from heaven, "What God has cleansed you must not call common.'

nkjv@Acts:11:10 @ Now this was done three times, and all w ere drawn up again into heaven.

nkjv@Acts:11:11 @ At that v ery moment, three men stood before the house wh ere I was, having been sent to me from Caesarea.

nkjv@Acts:11:12 @ Then the Spirit told me to go with them, doubting nothing. Moreov er these six brethren accompanied me, and we ent ered the man's house.

nkjv@Acts:11:13 @ And he told us how he had seen an angel standing in his house, who said to him, "Send men to Joppa, and call for Simon whose surname is Pet er,

nkjv@Acts:11:16 @ Then I rememb ered the word of the Lord, how He said, "John indeed baptized with wat er, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit.'

nkjv@Acts:11:17 @ If th erefore God gave them the same gift as He gave us when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could withstand God?"

nkjv@Acts:11:19 @ Now those who w ere scatt ered aft er the p ersecution that arose ov er Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to no one but the Jews only.

nkjv@Acts:11:20 @ But some of them w ere men from Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they had come to Antioch, spoke to the Hellenists, preaching the Lord Jesus.

nkjv@Acts:11:21 @ And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great numb er believed and turned to the Lord.

nkjv@Acts:11:22 @ Then news of these things came to the ears of the church in J erusalem, and they sent out Barnabas to go as far as Antioch.

nkjv@Acts:11:24 @ For he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And a great many people w ere added to the Lord.

nkjv@Acts:11:26 @ And when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. So it was that for a whole year they assembled with the church and taught a great many people. And the disciples w ere first called Christians in Antioch.

nkjv@Acts:11:27 @ And in these days prophets came from J erusalem to Antioch.

nkjv@Acts:11:28 @ Then one of them, named Agabus, stood up and showed by the Spirit that th ere was going to be a great famine throughout all the world, which also happened in the days of Claudius Caesar.

nkjv@Acts:11:29 @ Then the disciples, each according to his ability, det ermined to send relief to the brethren dwelling in Judea.

nkjv@Acts:11:30 @ This they also did, and sent it to the eld ers by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.

nkjv@Acts:12:1 @ Now about that time H erod the king stretched out his hand to harass some from the church.

nkjv@Acts:12:2 @ Then he killed James the broth er of John with the sword.

nkjv@Acts:12:3 @ And because he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded furth er to seize Pet er also. Now it was during the Days of Unleavened Bread.

nkjv@Acts:12:4 @ So when he had arrested him, he put him in prison, and deliv ered him to four squads of soldi ers to keep him, intending to bring him before the people aft er Passov er.

nkjv@Acts:12:5 @ Pet er was th erefore kept in prison, but constant pray er was off ered to God for him by the church.

nkjv@Acts:12:6 @ And when H erod was about to bring him out, that night Pet er was sleeping, bound with two chains between two soldi ers; and the guards before the door w ere keeping the prison.

nkjv@Acts:12:7 @ Now behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the prison; and he struck Pet er on the side and raised him up, saying, "Arise quickly!" And his chains fell off his hands.

nkjv@Acts:12:10 @ When they w ere past the first and the second guard posts, they came to the iron gate that leads to the city, which opened to them of its own accord; and they went out and went down one street, and immediately the angel departed from him.

nkjv@Acts:12:11 @ And when Pet er had come to himself, he said, "Now I know for c ertain that the Lord has sent His angel, and has deliv ered me from the hand of H erod and from all the expectation of the Jewish people."

nkjv@Acts:12:12 @ So, when he had consid ered this, he came to the house of Mary, the moth er of John whose surname was Mark, wh ere many w ere gath ered togeth er praying.

nkjv@Acts:12:13 @ And as Pet er knocked at the door of the gate, a girl named Rhoda came to answ er.

nkjv@Acts:12:14 @ When she recognized Pet er's voice, because of h er gladness she did not open the gate, but ran in and announced that Pet er stood before the gate.

nkjv@Acts:12:15 @ But they said to h er, "You are beside yourself!" Yet she kept insisting that it was so. So they said, "It is his angel."

nkjv@Acts:12:16 @ Now Pet er continued knocking; and when they opened the door and saw him, they w ere astonished.

nkjv@Acts:12:17 @ But motioning to them with his hand to keep silent, he declared to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, "Go, tell these things to James and to the brethren." And he departed and went to anoth er place.

nkjv@Acts:12:18 @ Then, as soon as it was day, th ere was no small stir among the soldi ers about what had become of Pet er.

nkjv@Acts:12:19 @ But when H erod had searched for him and not found him, he examined the guards and commanded that they should be put to death. And he went down from Judea to Caesarea, and stayed th ere.

nkjv@Acts:12:20 @ Now H erod had been v ery angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon; but they came to him with one accord, and having made Blastus the king's p ersonal aide their friend, they asked for peace, because their country was supplied with food by the king's country.

nkjv@Acts:12:21 @ So on a set day H erod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat on his throne and gave an oration to them.

nkjv@Acts:12:25 @ And Barnabas and Saul returned from J erusalem when they had fulfilled their ministry, and they also took with them John whose surname was Mark.

nkjv@Acts:13:1 @ Now in the church that was at Antioch th ere w ere c ertain prophets and teach ers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Nig er, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen who had been brought up with H erod the tetrarch, and Saul.

nkjv@Acts:13:2 @ As they minist ered to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, "Now separate to Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them."

nkjv@Acts:13:4 @ So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia, and from th ere they sailed to Cyprus.

nkjv@Acts:13:6 @ Now when they had gone through the island to Paphos, they found a c ertain sorc er er, a false prophet, a Jew whose name was Bar-Jesus,

nkjv@Acts:13:7 @ who was with the proconsul, S ergius Paulus, an intelligent man. This man called for Barnabas and Saul and sought to hear the word of God.

nkjv@Acts:13:8 @ But Elymas the sorc er er (for so his name is translated) withstood them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith.

nkjv@Acts:13:10 @ and said, "O full of all deceit and all fraud, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease p erv erting the straight ways of the Lord?

nkjv@Acts:13:13 @ Now when Paul and his party set sail from Paphos, they came to P erga in Pamphylia; and John, departing from them, returned to J erusalem.

nkjv@Acts:13:14 @ But when they departed from P erga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and sat down.

nkjv@Acts:13:15 @ And aft er the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the rul ers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, "Men and brethren, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, say on."

nkjv@Acts:13:17 @ The God of this people Israel chose our fath ers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strang ers in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm He brought them out of it.

nkjv@Acts:13:18 @ Now for a time of about forty years He put up with their ways in the wild erness.

nkjv@Acts:13:20 @ "Aft er that He gave them judges for about four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.

nkjv@Acts:13:21 @ And aft erward they asked for a king; so God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.

nkjv@Acts:13:22 @ And when He had removed him, He raised up for them David as king, to whom also He gave testimony and said, "I have found David the son of Jesse, a man aft er My own heart, who will do all My will.'

nkjv@Acts:13:24 @ aft er John had first preached, before His coming, the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

nkjv@Acts:13:25 @ And as John was finishing his course, he said, "Who do you think I am? I am not He. But behold, th ere comes One aft er me, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to loose.'

nkjv@Acts:13:27 @ For those who dwell in J erusalem, and their rul ers, because they did not know Him, nor even the voices of the Prophets which are read ev ery Sabbath, have fulfilled them in condemning Him.

nkjv@Acts:13:29 @ Now when they had fulfilled all that was written conc erning Him, they took Him down from the tree and laid Him in a tomb.

nkjv@Acts:13:31 @ He was seen for many days by those who came up with Him from Galilee to J erusalem, who are His witnesses to the people.

nkjv@Acts:13:32 @ And we declare to you glad tidings--that promise which was made to the fath ers.

nkjv@Acts:13:34 @ And that He raised Him from the dead, no more to return to corruption, He has spoken thus: "I will give you the sure m ercies of David.'

nkjv@Acts:13:35 @ Th erefore He also says in anoth er Psalm: "You will not allow Your Holy One to see corruption.'

nkjv@Acts:13:36 @ "For David, aft er he had s erved his own gen eration by the will of God, fell asleep, was buried with his fath ers, and saw corruption;

nkjv@Acts:13:38 @ Th erefore let it be known to you, brethren, that through this Man is preached to you the forgiveness of sins;

nkjv@Acts:13:39 @ and by Him ev eryone who believes is justified from all things from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

nkjv@Acts:13:40 @ Beware th erefore, lest what has been spoken in the prophets come upon you:

nkjv@Acts:13:41 @ "Behold, you despis ers, Marvel and p erish! For I work a work in your days, A work which you will by no means believe, Though one w ere to declare it to you."'

nkjv@Acts:13:43 @ Now when the congregation had broken up, many of the Jews and devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking to them, p ersuaded them to continue in the grace of God.

nkjv@Acts:13:44 @ On the next Sabbath almost the whole city came togeth er to hear the word of God.

nkjv@Acts:13:45 @ But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they w ere filled with envy; and contradicting and blaspheming, they opposed the things spoken by Paul.

nkjv@Acts:13:46 @ Then Paul and Barnabas grew bold and said, "It was necessary that the word of God should be spoken to you first; but since you reject it, and judge yourselves unworthy of ev erlasting life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.

nkjv@Acts:13:48 @ Now when the Gentiles heard this, they w ere glad and glorified the word of the Lord. And as many as had been appointed to et ernal life believed.

nkjv@Acts:13:50 @ But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, raised up p ersecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them from their region.

nkjv@Acts:13:52 @ And the disciples w ere filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

nkjv@Acts:14:1 @ Now it happened in Iconium that they went togeth er to the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude both of the Jews and of the Greeks believed.

nkjv@Acts:14:3 @ Th erefore they stayed th ere a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord, who was bearing witness to the word of His grace, granting signs and wond ers to be done by their hands.

nkjv@Acts:14:5 @ And when a violent attempt was made by both the Gentiles and Jews, with their rul ers, to abuse and stone them,

nkjv@Acts:14:6 @ they became aware of it and fled to Lystra and D erbe, cities of Lycaonia, and to the surrounding region.

nkjv@Acts:14:7 @ And they w ere preaching the gospel th ere.

nkjv@Acts:14:8 @ And in Lystra a c ertain man without strength in his feet was sitting, a cripple from his moth er's womb, who had nev er walked.

nkjv@Acts:14:9 @ This man heard Paul speaking. Paul, obs erving him intently and seeing that he had faith to be healed,

nkjv@Acts:14:12 @ And Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul, H ermes, because he was the chief speak er.

nkjv@Acts:14:16 @ who in bygone gen erations allowed all nations to walk in their own ways.

nkjv@Acts:14:17 @ Nev ertheless He did not leave Himself without witness, in that He did good, gave us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness."

nkjv@Acts:14:19 @ Then Jews from Antioch and Iconium came th ere; and having p ersuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing him to be dead.

nkjv@Acts:14:20 @ Howev er, when the disciples gath ered around him, he rose up and went into the city. And the next day he departed with Barnabas to D erbe.

nkjv@Acts:14:22 @ strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying, "We must through many tribulations ent er the kingdom of God."

nkjv@Acts:14:23 @ So when they had appointed eld ers in ev ery church, and prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

nkjv@Acts:14:24 @ And aft er they had passed through Pisidia, they came to Pamphylia.

nkjv@Acts:14:25 @ Now when they had preached the word in P erga, they went down to Attalia.

nkjv@Acts:14:26 @ From th ere they sailed to Antioch, wh ere they had been commended to the grace of God for the work which they had completed.

nkjv@Acts:14:27 @ Now when they had come and gath ered the church togeth er, they reported all that God had done with them, and that He had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.

nkjv@Acts:14:28 @ So they stayed th ere a long time with the disciples.

nkjv@Acts:15:1 @ And c ertain men came down from Judea and taught the brethren, "Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved."

nkjv@Acts:15:2 @ Th erefore, when Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and dispute with them, they det ermined that Paul and Barnabas and c ertain oth ers of them should go up to J erusalem, to the apostles and eld ers, about this question.

nkjv@Acts:15:3 @ So, being sent on their way by the church, they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, describing the conv ersion of the Gentiles; and they caused great joy to all the brethren.

nkjv@Acts:15:4 @ And when they had come to J erusalem, they w ere received by the church and the apostles and the eld ers; and they reported all things that God had done with them.

nkjv@Acts:15:6 @ Now the apostles and eld ers came togeth er to consid er this matt er.

nkjv@Acts:15:7 @ And when th ere had been much dispute, Pet er rose up and said to them: "Men and brethren, you know that a good while ago God chose among us, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe.

nkjv@Acts:15:10 @ Now th erefore, why do you test God by putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neith er our fath ers nor we w ere able to bear?

nkjv@Acts:15:11 @ But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved in the same mann er as they."

nkjv@Acts:15:12 @ Then all the multitude kept silent and listened to Barnabas and Paul declaring how many miracles and wond ers God had worked through them among the Gentiles.

nkjv@Acts:15:13 @ And aft er they had become silent, James answ ered, saying, "Men and brethren, listen to me:

nkjv@Acts:15:16 @ 'Aft er this I will return And will rebuild the tab ernacle of David, which has fallen down; I will rebuild its ruins, And I will set it up;

nkjv@Acts:15:18 @ "Known to God from et ernity are all His works.

nkjv@Acts:15:19 @ Th erefore I judge that we should not trouble those from among the Gentiles who are turning to God,

nkjv@Acts:15:21 @ For Moses has had throughout many gen erations those who preach him in ev ery city, being read in the synagogues ev ery Sabbath."

nkjv@Acts:15:22 @ Then it pleased the apostles and eld ers, with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas, namely, Judas who was also named Barsabas, and Silas, leading men among the brethren.

nkjv@Acts:15:23 @ They wrote this, lett er by them: The apostles, the eld ers, and the brethren, To the brethren who are of the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: Greetings.

nkjv@Acts:15:27 @ We have th erefore sent Judas and Silas, who will also report the same things by word of mouth.

nkjv@Acts:15:28 @ For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay upon you no great er burden than these necessary things:

nkjv@Acts:15:29 @ that you abstain from things off ered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.

nkjv@Acts:15:30 @ So when they w ere sent off, they came to Antioch; and when they had gath ered the multitude togeth er, they deliv ered the lett er.

nkjv@Acts:15:31 @ When they had read it, they rejoiced ov er its encouragement.

nkjv@Acts:15:33 @ And aft er they had stayed th ere for a time, they w ere sent back with greetings from the brethren to the apostles.

nkjv@Acts:15:34 @ Howev er, it seemed good to Silas to remain th ere.

nkjv@Acts:15:35 @ Paul and Barnabas also remained in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many oth ers also.

nkjv@Acts:15:36 @ Then aft er some days Paul said to Barnabas, "Let us now go back and visit our brethren in ev ery city wh ere we have preached the word of the Lord, and see how they are doing."

nkjv@Acts:15:37 @ Now Barnabas was det ermined to take with them John called Mark.

nkjv@Acts:15:39 @ Then the contention became so sharp that they parted from one anoth er. And so Barnabas took Mark and sailed to Cyprus;

nkjv@Acts:16:1 @ Then he came to D erbe and Lystra. And behold, a c ertain disciple was th ere, named Timothy, the son of a c ertain Jewish woman who believed, but his fath er was Greek.

nkjv@Acts:16:2 @ He was well spoken of by the brethren who w ere at Lystra and Iconium.

nkjv@Acts:16:3 @ Paul wanted to have him go on with him. And he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who w ere in that region, for they all knew that his fath er was Greek.

nkjv@Acts:16:4 @ And as they went through the cities, they deliv ered to them the decrees to keep, which w ere det ermined by the apostles and eld ers at J erusalem.

nkjv@Acts:16:5 @ So the churches w ere strengthened in the faith, and increased in numb er daily.

nkjv@Acts:16:6 @ Now when they had gone through Phrygia and the region of Galatia, they w ere forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia.

nkjv@Acts:16:7 @ Aft er they had come to Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit did not p ermit them.

nkjv@Acts:16:9 @ And a vision appeared to Paul in the night. A man of Macedonia stood and pleaded with him, saying, "Come ov er to Macedonia and help us."

nkjv@Acts:16:10 @ Now aft er he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the gospel to them.

nkjv@Acts:16:11 @ Th erefore, sailing from Troas, we ran a straight course to Samothrace, and the next day came to Neapolis,

nkjv@Acts:16:12 @ and from th ere to Philippi, which is the foremost city of that part of Macedonia, a colony. And we w ere staying in that city for some days.

nkjv@Acts:16:13 @ And on the Sabbath day we went out of the city to the riv erside, wh ere pray er was customarily made; and we sat down and spoke to the women who met th ere.

nkjv@Acts:16:14 @ Now a c ertain woman named Lydia heard us. She was a sell er of purple from the city of Thyatira, who worshiped God. The Lord opened h er heart to heed the things spoken by Paul.

nkjv@Acts:16:15 @ And when she and h er household w ere baptized, she begged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come to my house and stay." So she p ersuaded us.

nkjv@Acts:16:16 @ Now it happened, as we went to pray er, that a c ertain slave girl possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought h er mast ers much profit by fortune-telling.

nkjv@Acts:16:17 @ This girl followed Paul and us, and cried out, saying, "These men are the s ervants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation."

nkjv@Acts:16:18 @ And this she did for many days. But Paul, greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, "I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of h er." And he came out that v ery hour.

nkjv@Acts:16:19 @ But when h er mast ers saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to the authorities.

nkjv@Acts:16:21 @ and they teach customs which are not lawful for us, being Romans, to receive or obs erve."

nkjv@Acts:16:22 @ Then the multitude rose up togeth er against them; and the magistrates tore off their clothes and commanded them to be beaten with rods.

nkjv@Acts:16:23 @ And when they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, commanding the jail er to keep them securely.

nkjv@Acts:16:24 @ Having received such a charge, he put them into the inn er prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.

nkjv@Acts:16:25 @ But at midnight Paul and Silas w ere praying and singing hymns to God, and the prison ers w ere listening to them.

nkjv@Acts:16:26 @ Suddenly th ere was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison w ere shaken; and immediately all the doors w ere opened and ev eryone's chains w ere loosed.

nkjv@Acts:16:27 @ And the keep er of the prison, awaking from sleep and seeing the prison doors open, supposing the prison ers had fled, drew his sword and was about to kill himself.

nkjv@Acts:16:28 @ But Paul called with a loud voice, saying, "Do yourself no harm, for we are all h ere."

nkjv@Acts:16:32 @ Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who w ere in his house.

nkjv@Acts:16:33 @ And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their stripes. And immediately he and all his family w ere baptized.

nkjv@Acts:16:35 @ And when it was day, the magistrates sent the offic ers, saying, "Let those men go."

nkjv@Acts:16:36 @ So the keep er of the prison reported these words to Paul, saying, "The magistrates have sent to let you go. Now th erefore depart, and go in peace."

nkjv@Acts:16:38 @ And the offic ers told these words to the magistrates, and they w ere afraid when they heard that they w ere Romans.

nkjv@Acts:16:40 @ So they went out of the prison and ent ered the house of Lydia; and when they had seen the brethren, they encouraged them and departed.

nkjv@Acts:17:1 @ Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, wh ere th ere was a synagogue of the Jews.

nkjv@Acts:17:3 @ explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suff er and rise again from the dead, and saying, "This Jesus whom I preach to you is the Christ."

nkjv@Acts:17:4 @ And some of them w ere p ersuaded; and a great multitude of the devout Greeks, and not a few of the leading women, joined Paul and Silas.

nkjv@Acts:17:5 @ But the Jews who w ere not p ersuaded, becoming envious, took some of the evil men from the marketplace, and gath ering a mob, set all the city in an uproar and attacked the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.

nkjv@Acts:17:6 @ But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some brethren to the rul ers of the city, crying out, "These who have turned the world upside down have come h ere too.

nkjv@Acts:17:7 @ Jason has harbored them, and these are all acting contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying th ere is anoth er king--Jesus."

nkjv@Acts:17:8 @ And they troubled the crowd and the rul ers of the city when they heard these things.

nkjv@Acts:17:10 @ Then the brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to B erea. When they arrived, they went into the synagogue of the Jews.

nkjv@Acts:17:11 @ These w ere more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out wheth er these things w ere so.

nkjv@Acts:17:12 @ Th erefore many of them believed, and also not a few of the Greeks, prominent women as well as men.

nkjv@Acts:17:13 @ But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that the word of God was preached by Paul at B erea, they came th ere also and stirred up the crowds.

nkjv@Acts:17:14 @ Then immediately the brethren sent Paul away, to go to the sea; but both Silas and Timothy remained th ere.

nkjv@Acts:17:16 @ Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him when he saw that the city was given ov er to idols.

nkjv@Acts:17:17 @ Th erefore he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and with the Gentile worship ers, and in the marketplace daily with those who happened to be th ere.

nkjv@Acts:17:18 @ Then c ertain Epicurean and Stoic philosoph ers encount ered him. And some said, "What does this babbl er want to say?" Oth ers said, "He seems to be a proclaim er of foreign gods," because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection.

nkjv@Acts:17:20 @ For you are bringing some strange things to our ears. Th erefore we want to know what these things mean."

nkjv@Acts:17:21 @ For all the Athenians and the foreign ers who w ere th ere spent their time in nothing else but eith er to tell or to hear some new thing.

nkjv@Acts:17:22 @ Then Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, "Men of Athens, I p erceive that in all things you are v ery religious;

nkjv@Acts:17:23 @ for as I was passing through and consid ering the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Th erefore, the One whom you worship without knowing, Him I proclaim to you:

nkjv@Acts:17:24 @ God, who made the world and ev erything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands.

nkjv@Acts:17:26 @ And He has made from one blood ev ery nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has det ermined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings,

nkjv@Acts:17:29 @ Th erefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silv er or stone, something shaped by art and man's devising.

nkjv@Acts:17:30 @ Truly, these times of ignorance God ov erlooked, but now commands all men ev erywh ere to repent,

nkjv@Acts:17:32 @ And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked, while oth ers said, "We will hear you again on this matt er."

nkjv@Acts:17:34 @ Howev er, some men joined him and believed, among them Dionysius the Areopagite, a woman named Damaris, and oth ers with them.

nkjv@Acts:18:1 @ Aft er these things Paul departed from Athens and went to Corinth.

nkjv@Acts:18:2 @ And he found a c ertain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla (because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome); and he came to them.

nkjv@Acts:18:3 @ So, because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them and worked; for by occupation they w ere tentmak ers.

nkjv@Acts:18:4 @ And he reasoned in the synagogue ev ery Sabbath, and p ersuaded both Jews and Greeks.

nkjv@Acts:18:7 @ And he departed from th ere and ent ered the house of a c ertain man named Justus, one who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.

nkjv@Acts:18:8 @ Then Crispus, the rul er of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his household. And many of the Corinthians, hearing, believed and w ere baptized.

nkjv@Acts:18:11 @ And he continued th ere a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

nkjv@Acts:18:13 @ saying, "This fellow p ersuades men to worship God contrary to the law."

nkjv@Acts:18:14 @ And when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, "If it w ere a matt er of wrongdoing or wicked crimes, O Jews, th ere would be reason why I should bear with you.

nkjv@Acts:18:15 @ But if it is a question of words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves; for I do not want to be a judge of such matt ers."

nkjv@Acts:18:17 @ Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the rul er of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. But Gallio took no notice of these things.

nkjv@Acts:18:18 @ So Paul still remained a good while. Then he took leave of the brethren and sailed for Syria, and Priscilla and Aquila w ere with him. He had his hair cut off at Cenchrea, for he had taken a vow.

nkjv@Acts:18:19 @ And he came to Ephesus, and left them th ere; but he himself ent ered the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews.

nkjv@Acts:18:20 @ When they asked him to stay a long er time with them, he did not consent,

nkjv@Acts:18:21 @ but took leave of them, saying, "I must by all means keep this coming feast in J erusalem; but I will return again to you, God willing." And he sailed from Ephesus.

nkjv@Acts:18:23 @ Aft er he had spent some time th ere, he departed and went ov er the region of Galatia and Phrygia in ord er, strengthening all the disciples.

nkjv@Acts:18:24 @ Now a c ertain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man and mighty in the Scriptures, came to Ephesus.

nkjv@Acts:18:25 @ This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being f ervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things of the Lord, though he knew only the baptism of John.

nkjv@Acts:19:1 @ And it happened, while Apollos was at Corinth, that Paul, having passed through the upp er regions, came to Ephesus. And finding some disciples

nkjv@Acts:19:2 @ he said to them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" So they said to him, "We have not so much as heard wheth er th ere is a Holy Spirit."

nkjv@Acts:19:3 @ And he said to them, "Into what then w ere you baptized?" So they said, "Into John's baptism."

nkjv@Acts:19:4 @ Then Paul said, "John indeed baptized with a baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe on Him who would come aft er him, that is, on Christ Jesus."

nkjv@Acts:19:5 @ When they heard this, they w ere baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

nkjv@Acts:19:7 @ Now the men w ere about twelve in all.

nkjv@Acts:19:8 @ And he went into the synagogue and spoke boldly for three months, reasoning and p ersuading conc erning the things of the kingdom of God.

nkjv@Acts:19:9 @ But when some w ere hardened and did not believe, but spoke evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them and withdrew the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.

nkjv@Acts:19:12 @ so that even handk erchiefs or aprons w ere brought from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out of them.

nkjv@Acts:19:13 @ Then some of the itin erant Jewish exorcists took it upon themselves to call the name of the Lord Jesus ov er those who had evil spirits, saying, "We exorcise you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches."

nkjv@Acts:19:14 @ Also th ere w ere seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did so.

nkjv@Acts:19:15 @ And the evil spirit answ ered and said, "Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are you?"

nkjv@Acts:19:16 @ Then the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, ov erpow ered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

nkjv@Acts:19:19 @ Also, many of those who had practiced magic brought their books togeth er and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted up the value of them, and it totaled fifty thousand pieces of silv er.

nkjv@Acts:19:21 @ When these things w ere accomplished, Paul purposed in the Spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to J erusalem, saying, "Aft er I have been th ere, I must also see Rome."

nkjv@Acts:19:22 @ So he sent into Macedonia two of those who minist ered to him, Timothy and Erastus, but he himself stayed in Asia for a time.

nkjv@Acts:19:23 @ And about that time th ere arose a great commotion about the Way.

nkjv@Acts:19:24 @ For a c ertain man named Demetrius, a silv ersmith, who made silv er shrines of Diana, brought no small profit to the craftsmen.

nkjv@Acts:19:25 @ He called them togeth er with the work ers of similar occupation, and said: "Men, you know that we have our prosp erity by this trade.

nkjv@Acts:19:26 @ Moreov er you see and hear that not only at Ephesus, but throughout almost all Asia, this Paul has p ersuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are not gods which are made with hands.

nkjv@Acts:19:27 @ So not only is this trade of ours in dang er of falling into disrepute, but also the temple of the great goddess Diana may be despised and h er magnificence destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worship."

nkjv@Acts:19:28 @ Now when they heard this, they w ere full of wrath and cried out, saying, "Great is Diana of the Ephesians!"

nkjv@Acts:19:29 @ So the whole city was filled with confusion, and rushed into the theat er with one accord, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians, Paul's travel companions.

nkjv@Acts:19:31 @ Then some of the officials of Asia, who w ere his friends, sent to him pleading that he would not venture into the theat er.

nkjv@Acts:19:32 @ Some th erefore cried one thing and some anoth er, for the assembly was confused, and most of them did not know why they had come togeth er.

nkjv@Acts:19:33 @ And they drew Alexand er out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. And Alexand er motioned with his hand, and wanted to make his defense to the people.

nkjv@Acts:19:35 @ And when the city cl erk had quieted the crowd, he said: "Men of Ephesus, what man is th ere who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is temple guardian of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Zeus?

nkjv@Acts:19:36 @ Th erefore, since these things cannot be denied, you ought to be quiet and do nothing rashly.

nkjv@Acts:19:37 @ For you have brought these men h ere who are neith er robb ers of temples nor blasphem ers of your goddess.

nkjv@Acts:19:38 @ Th erefore, if Demetrius and his fellow craftsmen have a case against anyone, the courts are open and th ere are proconsuls. Let them bring charges against one anoth er.

nkjv@Acts:19:39 @ But if you have any oth er inquiry to make, it shall be det ermined in the lawful assembly.

nkjv@Acts:19:40 @ For we are in dang er of being called in question for today's uproar, th ere being no reason which we may give to account for this disord erly gath ering."

nkjv@Acts:20:1 @ Aft er the uproar had ceased, Paul called the disciples to himself, embraced them, and departed to go to Macedonia.

nkjv@Acts:20:2 @ Now when he had gone ov er that region and encouraged them with many words, he came to Greece

nkjv@Acts:20:4 @ And Sopat er of B erea accompanied him to Asia--also Aristarchus and Secundus of the Thessalonians, and Gaius of D erbe, and Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia.

nkjv@Acts:20:6 @ But we sailed away from Philippi aft er the Days of Unleavened Bread, and in five days joined them at Troas, wh ere we stayed seven days.

nkjv@Acts:20:7 @ Now on the first day of the week, when the disciples came togeth er to break bread, Paul, ready to depart the next day, spoke to them and continued his message until midnight.

nkjv@Acts:20:8 @ Th ere w ere many lamps in the upp er room wh ere they w ere gath ered togeth er.

nkjv@Acts:20:9 @ And in a window sat a c ertain young man named Eutychus, who was sinking into a deep sleep. He was ov ercome by sleep; and as Paul continued speaking, he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead.

nkjv@Acts:20:12 @ And they brought the young man in alive, and they w ere not a little comforted.

nkjv@Acts:20:13 @ Then we went ahead to the ship and sailed to Assos, th ere intending to take Paul on board; for so he had given ord ers, intending himself to go on foot.

nkjv@Acts:20:15 @ We sailed from th ere, and the next day came opposite Chios. The following day we arrived at Samos and stayed at Trogyllium. The next day we came to Miletus.

nkjv@Acts:20:16 @ For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so that he would not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hurrying to be at J erusalem, if possible, on the Day of Pentecost.

nkjv@Acts:20:17 @ From Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called for the eld ers of the church.

nkjv@Acts:20:18 @ And when they had come to him, he said to them: "You know, from the first day that I came to Asia, in what mann er I always lived among you,

nkjv@Acts:20:19 @ s erving the Lord with all humility, with many tears and trials which happened to me by the plotting of the Jews;

nkjv@Acts:20:22 @ And see, now I go bound in the spirit to J erusalem, not knowing the things that will happen to me th ere,

nkjv@Acts:20:23 @ except that the Holy Spirit testifies in ev ery city, saying that chains and tribulations await me.

nkjv@Acts:20:26 @ Th erefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men.

nkjv@Acts:20:28 @ Th erefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you ov erse ers, to sheph erd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.

nkjv@Acts:20:29 @ For I know this, that aft er my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.

nkjv@Acts:20:30 @ Also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking p erv erse things, to draw away the disciples aft er themselves.

nkjv@Acts:20:31 @ Th erefore watch, and rememb er that for three years I did not cease to warn ev eryone night and day with tears.

nkjv@Acts:20:32 @ "So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inh eritance among all those who are sanctified.

nkjv@Acts:20:33 @ I have coveted no one's silv er or gold or apparel.

nkjv@Acts:20:34 @ Yes, you yourselves know that these hands have provided for my necessities, and for those who w ere with me.

nkjv@Acts:20:35 @ I have shown you in ev ery way, by laboring like this, that you must support the weak. And rememb er the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive."'

nkjv@Acts:21:1 @ Now it came to pass, that when we had departed from them and set sail, running a straight course we came to Cos, the following day to Rhodes, and from th ere to Patara.

nkjv@Acts:21:2 @ And finding a ship sailing ov er to Phoenicia, we went aboard and set sail.

nkjv@Acts:21:3 @ When we had sighted Cyprus, we passed it on the left, sailed to Syria, and landed at Tyre; for th ere the ship was to unload h er cargo.

nkjv@Acts:21:4 @ And finding disciples, we stayed th ere seven days. They told Paul through the Spirit not to go up to J erusalem.

nkjv@Acts:21:5 @ When we had come to the end of those days, we departed and went on our way; and they all accompanied us, with wives and children, till we w ere out of the city. And we knelt down on the shore and prayed.

nkjv@Acts:21:6 @ When we had taken our leave of one anoth er, we boarded the ship, and they returned home.

nkjv@Acts:21:8 @ On the next day we who w ere Paul's companions departed and came to Caesarea, and ent ered the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him.

nkjv@Acts:21:9 @ Now this man had four virgin daught ers who prophesied.

nkjv@Acts:21:10 @ And as we stayed many days, a c ertain prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.

nkjv@Acts:21:11 @ When he had come to us, he took Paul's belt, bound his own hands and feet, and said, "Thus says the Holy Spirit, "So shall the Jews at J erusalem bind the man who owns this belt, and deliv er him into the hands of the Gentiles."'

nkjv@Acts:21:12 @ Now when we heard these things, both we and those from that place pleaded with him not to go up to J erusalem.

nkjv@Acts:21:13 @ Then Paul answ ered, "What do you mean by weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at J erusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus."

nkjv@Acts:21:14 @ So when he would not be p ersuaded, we ceased, saying, "The will of the Lord be done."

nkjv@Acts:21:15 @ And aft er those days we packed and went up to J erusalem.

nkjv@Acts:21:16 @ Also some of the disciples from Caesarea went with us and brought with them a c ertain Mnason of Cyprus, an early disciple, with whom we w ere to lodge.

nkjv@Acts:21:17 @ And when we had come to J erusalem, the brethren received us gladly.

nkjv@Acts:21:18 @ On the following day Paul went in with us to James, and all the eld ers w ere present.

nkjv@Acts:21:20 @ And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord. And they said to him, "You see, broth er, how many myriads of Jews th ere are who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law;

nkjv@Acts:21:22 @ What then? The assembly must c ertainly meet, for they will hear that you have come.

nkjv@Acts:21:23 @ Th erefore do what we tell you: We have four men who have taken a vow.

nkjv@Acts:21:24 @ Take them and be purified with them, and pay their expenses so that they may shave their heads, and that all may know that those things of which they w ere informed conc erning you are nothing, but that you yourself also walk ord erly and keep the law.

nkjv@Acts:21:25 @ But conc erning the Gentiles who believe, we have written and decided that they should obs erve no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from things off ered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality."

nkjv@Acts:21:26 @ Then Paul took the men, and the next day, having been purified with them, ent ered the temple to announce the expiration of the days of purification, at which time an off ering should be made for each one of them.

nkjv@Acts:21:27 @ Now when the seven days w ere almost ended, the Jews from Asia, seeing him in the temple, stirred up the whole crowd and laid hands on him,

nkjv@Acts:21:28 @ crying out, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men ev erywh ere against the people, the law, and this place; and furth ermore he also brought Greeks into the temple and has defiled this holy place."

nkjv@Acts:21:30 @ And all the city was disturbed; and the people ran togeth er, seized Paul, and dragged him out of the temple; and immediately the doors w ere shut.

nkjv@Acts:21:31 @ Now as they w ere seeking to kill him, news came to the command er of the garrison that all J erusalem was in an uproar.

nkjv@Acts:21:32 @ He immediately took soldi ers and centurions, and ran down to them. And when they saw the command er and the soldi ers, they stopped beating Paul.

nkjv@Acts:21:33 @ Then the command er came near and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and he asked who he was and what he had done.

nkjv@Acts:21:34 @ And some among the multitude cried one thing and some anoth er. So when he could not asc ertain the truth because of the tumult, he commanded him to be taken into the barracks.

nkjv@Acts:21:35 @ When he reached the stairs, he had to be carried by the soldi ers because of the violence of the mob.

nkjv@Acts:21:36 @ For the multitude of the people followed aft er, crying out, "Away with him!"

nkjv@Acts:21:37 @ Then as Paul was about to be led into the barracks, he said to the command er, "May I speak to you?" He replied, "Can you speak Greek?

nkjv@Acts:21:38 @ Are you not the Egyptian who some time ago stirred up a rebellion and led the four thousand assassins out into the wild erness?"

nkjv@Acts:21:39 @ But Paul said, "I am a Jew from Tarsus, in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city; and I implore you, p ermit me to speak to the people."

nkjv@Acts:21:40 @ So when he had given him p ermission, Paul stood on the stairs and motioned with his hand to the people. And when th ere was a great silence, he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, saying,

nkjv@Acts:22:1 @ "Brethren and fath ers, hear my defense before you now."

nkjv@Acts:22:3 @ "I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, taught according to the strictness of our fath ers' law, and was zealous toward God as you all are today.

nkjv@Acts:22:4 @ I p ersecuted this Way to the death, binding and deliv ering into prisons both men and women,

nkjv@Acts:22:5 @ as also the high priest bears me witness, and all the council of the eld ers, from whom I also received lett ers to the brethren, and went to Damascus to bring in chains even those who w ere th ere to J erusalem to be punished.

nkjv@Acts:22:7 @ And I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, "Saul, Saul, why are you p ersecuting Me?'

nkjv@Acts:22:8 @ So I answ ered, "Who are You, Lord?' And He said to me, "I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you are p ersecuting.'

nkjv@Acts:22:9 @ "And those who w ere with me indeed saw the light and w ere afraid, but they did not hear the voice of Him who spoke to me.

nkjv@Acts:22:10 @ So I said, "What shall I do, Lord?' And the Lord said to me, "Arise and go into Damascus, and th ere you will be told all things which are appointed for you to do.'

nkjv@Acts:22:11 @ And since I could not see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of those who w ere with me, I came into Damascus.

nkjv@Acts:22:12 @ "Then a c ertain Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good testimony with all the Jews who dwelt th ere,

nkjv@Acts:22:13 @ came to me; and he stood and said to me, "Broth er Saul, receive your sight.' And at that same hour I looked up at him.

nkjv@Acts:22:14 @ Then he said, "The God of our fath ers has chosen you that you should know His will, and see the Just One, and hear the voice of His mouth.

nkjv@Acts:22:17 @ "Now it happened, when I returned to J erusalem and was praying in the temple, that I was in a trance

nkjv@Acts:22:18 @ and saw Him saying to me, "Make haste and get out of J erusalem quickly, for they will not receive your testimony conc erning Me.'

nkjv@Acts:22:19 @ So I said, "Lord, they know that in ev ery synagogue I imprisoned and beat those who believe on You.

nkjv@Acts:22:20 @ And when the blood of Your martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by consenting to his death, and guarding the clothes of those who w ere killing him.'

nkjv@Acts:22:21 @ Then He said to me, "Depart, for I will send you far from h ere to the Gentiles."'

nkjv@Acts:22:24 @ the command er ord ered him to be brought into the barracks, and said that he should be examined und er scourging, so that he might know why they shouted so against him.

nkjv@Acts:22:26 @ When the centurion heard that, he went and told the command er, saying, "Take care what you do, for this man is a Roman."

nkjv@Acts:22:27 @ Then the command er came and said to him, "Tell me, are you a Roman?" He said, "Yes."

nkjv@Acts:22:28 @ The command er answ ered, "With a large sum I obtained this citizenship." And Paul said, "But I was born a citizen."

nkjv@Acts:22:29 @ Then immediately those who w ere about to examine him withdrew from him; and the command er was also afraid aft er he found out that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.

nkjv@Acts:22:30 @ The next day, because he wanted to know for c ertain why he was accused by the Jews, he released him from his bonds, and commanded the chief priests and all their council to appear, and brought Paul down and set him before them.

nkjv@Acts:23:5 @ Then Paul said, "I did not know, brethren, that he was the high priest; for it is written, "You shall not speak evil of a rul er of your people."'

nkjv@Acts:23:6 @ But when Paul p erceived that one part w ere Sadducees and the oth er Pharisees, he cried out in the council, "Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee; conc erning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!"

nkjv@Acts:23:8 @ For Sadducees say that th ere is no resurrection--and no angel or spirit; but the Pharisees confess both.

nkjv@Acts:23:9 @ Then th ere arose a loud outcry. And the scribes of the Pharisees' party arose and protested, saying, "We find no evil in this man; but if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him, let us not fight against God."

nkjv@Acts:23:10 @ Now when th ere arose a great dissension, the command er, fearing lest Paul might be pulled to pieces by them, commanded the soldi ers to go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the barracks.

nkjv@Acts:23:11 @ But the following night the Lord stood by him and said, "Be of good che er, Paul; for as you have testified for Me in J erusalem, so you must also bear witness at Rome."

nkjv@Acts:23:12 @ And when it was day, some of the Jews banded togeth er and bound themselves und er an oath, saying that they would neith er eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.

nkjv@Acts:23:13 @ Now th ere w ere more than forty who had formed this conspiracy.

nkjv@Acts:23:14 @ They came to the chief priests and eld ers, and said, "We have bound ourselves und er a great oath that we will eat nothing until we have killed Paul.

nkjv@Acts:23:15 @ Now you, th erefore, togeth er with the council, suggest to the command er that he be brought down to you tomorrow, as though you w ere going to make furth er inquiries conc erning him; but we are ready to kill him before he comes near."

nkjv@Acts:23:16 @ So when Paul's sist er's son heard of their ambush, he went and ent ered the barracks and told Paul.

nkjv@Acts:23:17 @ Then Paul called one of the centurions to him and said, "Take this young man to the command er, for he has something to tell him."

nkjv@Acts:23:18 @ So he took him and brought him to the command er and said, "Paul the prison er called me to him and asked me to bring this young man to you. He has something to say to you."

nkjv@Acts:23:19 @ Then the command er took him by the hand, went aside, and asked privately, "What is it that you have to tell me?"

nkjv@Acts:23:20 @ And he said, "The Jews have agreed to ask that you bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though they w ere going to inquire more fully about him.

nkjv@Acts:23:21 @ But do not yield to them, for more than forty of them lie in wait for him, men who have bound themselves by an oath that they will neith er eat nor drink till they have killed him; and now they are ready, waiting for the promise from you."

nkjv@Acts:23:22 @ So the command er let the young man depart, and commanded him, "Tell no one that you have revealed these things to me."

nkjv@Acts:23:23 @ And he called for two centurions, saying, "Prepare two hundred soldi ers, seventy horsemen, and two hundred spearmen to go to Caesarea at the third hour of the night;

nkjv@Acts:23:24 @ and provide mounts to set Paul on, and bring him safely to Felix the gov ernor."

nkjv@Acts:23:25 @ He wrote a lett er in the following mann er:

nkjv@Acts:23:26 @ Claudius Lysias, To the most excellent gov ernor Felix: Greetings.

nkjv@Acts:23:29 @ I found out that he was accused conc erning questions of their law, but had nothing charged against him des erving of death or chains.

nkjv@Acts:23:30 @ And when it was told me that the Jews lay in wait for the man, I sent him immediately to you, and also commanded his accus ers to state before you the charges against him. Farewell.

nkjv@Acts:23:31 @ Then the soldi ers, as they w ere commanded, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris.

nkjv@Acts:23:33 @ When they came to Caesarea and had deliv ered the lett er to the gov ernor, they also presented Paul to him.

nkjv@Acts:23:34 @ And when the gov ernor had read it, he asked what province he was from. And when he und erstood that he was from Cilicia,

nkjv@Acts:23:35 @ he said, "I will hear you when your accus ers also have come." And he commanded him to be kept in H erod's Praetorium.

nkjv@Acts:24:1 @ Now aft er five days Ananias the high priest came down with the eld ers and a c ertain orator named T ertullus. These gave evidence to the gov ernor against Paul.

nkjv@Acts:24:2 @ And when he was called upon, T ertullus began his accusation, saying: "Seeing that through you we enjoy great peace, and prosp erity is being brought to this nation by your foresight,

nkjv@Acts:24:4 @ Nev ertheless, not to be tedious to you any furth er, I beg you to hear, by your courtesy, a few words from us.

nkjv@Acts:24:5 @ For we have found this man a plague, a creator of dissension among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringlead er of the sect of the Nazarenes.

nkjv@Acts:24:7 @ But the command er Lysias came by and with great violence took him out of our hands,

nkjv@Acts:24:8 @ commanding his accus ers to come to you. By examining him yourself you may asc ertain all these things of which we accuse him."

nkjv@Acts:24:9 @ And the Jews also assented, maintaining that these things w ere so.

nkjv@Acts:24:10 @ Then Paul, aft er the gov ernor had nodded to him to speak, answ ered: "Inasmuch as I know that you have been for many years a judge of this nation, I do the more che erfully answ er for myself,

nkjv@Acts:24:11 @ because you may asc ertain that it is no more than twelve days since I went up to J erusalem to worship.

nkjv@Acts:24:12 @ And they neith er found me in the temple disputing with anyone nor inciting the crowd, eith er in the synagogues or in the city.

nkjv@Acts:24:14 @ But this I confess to you, that according to the Way which they call a sect, so I worship the God of my fath ers, believing all things which are written in the Law and in the Prophets.

nkjv@Acts:24:15 @ I have hope in God, which they themselves also accept, that th ere will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust.

nkjv@Acts:24:17 @ "Now aft er many years I came to bring alms and off erings to my nation,

nkjv@Acts:24:18 @ in the midst of which some Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neith er with a mob nor with tumult.

nkjv@Acts:24:19 @ They ought to have been h ere before you to object if they had anything against me.

nkjv@Acts:24:20 @ Or else let those who are h ere themselves say if they found any wrongdoing in me while I stood before the council,

nkjv@Acts:24:21 @ unless it is for this one statement which I cried out, standing among them, "Conc erning the resurrection of the dead I am being judged by you this day."'

nkjv@Acts:24:22 @ But when Felix heard these things, having more accurate knowledge of the Way, he adjourned the proceedings and said, "When Lysias the command er comes down, I will make a decision on your case."

nkjv@Acts:24:23 @ So he commanded the centurion to keep Paul and to let him have lib erty, and told him not to forbid any of his friends to provide for or visit him.

nkjv@Acts:24:24 @ And aft er some days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish, he sent for Paul and heard him conc erning the faith in Christ.

nkjv@Acts:24:25 @ Now as he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was afraid and answ ered, "Go away for now; when I have a convenient time I will call for you."

nkjv@Acts:24:26 @ Meanwhile he also hoped that money would be given him by Paul, that he might release him. Th erefore he sent for him more often and conv ersed with him.

nkjv@Acts:24:27 @ But aft er two years Porcius Festus succeeded Felix; and Felix, wanting to do the Jews a favor, left Paul bound.

nkjv@Acts:25:1 @ Now when Festus had come to the province, aft er three days he went up from Caesarea to J erusalem.

nkjv@Acts:25:3 @ asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to J erusalem--while they lay in ambush along the road to kill him.

nkjv@Acts:25:4 @ But Festus answ ered that Paul should be kept at Caesarea, and that he himself was going th ere shortly.

nkjv@Acts:25:5 @ "Th erefore," he said, "let those who have authority among you go down with me and accuse this man, to see if th ere is any fault in him."

nkjv@Acts:25:7 @ When he had come, the Jews who had come down from J erusalem stood about and laid many s erious complaints against Paul, which they could not prove,

nkjv@Acts:25:8 @ while he answ ered for himself, "Neith er against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar have I offended in anything at all."

nkjv@Acts:25:9 @ But Festus, wanting to do the Jews a favor, answ ered Paul and said, "Are you willing to go up to J erusalem and th ere be judged before me conc erning these things?"

nkjv@Acts:25:10 @ So Paul said, "I stand at Caesar's judgment seat, wh ere I ought to be judged. To the Jews I have done no wrong, as you v ery well know.

nkjv@Acts:25:11 @ For if I am an offend er, or have committed anything des erving of death, I do not object to dying; but if th ere is nothing in these things of which these men accuse me, no one can deliv er me to them. I appeal to Caesar."

nkjv@Acts:25:12 @ Then Festus, when he had conf erred with the council, answ ered, "You have appealed to Caesar? To Caesar you shall go!"

nkjv@Acts:25:13 @ And aft er some days King Agrippa and B ernice came to Caesarea to greet Festus.

nkjv@Acts:25:14 @ When they had been th ere many days, Festus laid Paul's case before the king, saying: "Th ere is a c ertain man left a prison er by Felix,

nkjv@Acts:25:15 @ about whom the chief priests and the eld ers of the Jews informed me, when I was in J erusalem, asking for a judgment against him.

nkjv@Acts:25:16 @ To them I answ ered, "It is not the custom of the Romans to deliv er any man to destruction before the accused meets the accus ers face to face, and has opportunity to answ er for himself conc erning the charge against him.'

nkjv@Acts:25:17 @ Th erefore when they had come togeth er, without any delay, the next day I sat on the judgment seat and commanded the man to be brought in.

nkjv@Acts:25:18 @ When the accus ers stood up, they brought no accusation against him of such things as I supposed,

nkjv@Acts:25:19 @ but had some questions against him about their own religion and about a c ertain Jesus, who had died, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.

nkjv@Acts:25:20 @ And because I was unc ertain of such questions, I asked wheth er he was willing to go to J erusalem and th ere be judged conc erning these matt ers.

nkjv@Acts:25:21 @ But when Paul appealed to be res erved for the decision of Augustus, I commanded him to be kept till I could send him to Caesar."

nkjv@Acts:25:23 @ So the next day, when Agrippa and B ernice had come with great pomp, and had ent ered the auditorium with the command ers and the prominent men of the city, at Festus' command Paul was brought in.

nkjv@Acts:25:24 @ And Festus said: "King Agrippa and all the men who are h ere present with us, you see this man about whom the whole assembly of the Jews petitioned me, both at J erusalem and h ere, crying out that he was not fit to live any long er.

nkjv@Acts:25:25 @ But when I found that he had committed nothing des erving of death, and that he himself had appealed to Augustus, I decided to send him.

nkjv@Acts:25:26 @ I have nothing c ertain to write to my lord conc erning him. Th erefore I have brought him out before you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that aft er the examination has taken place I may have something to write.

nkjv@Acts:25:27 @ For it seems to me unreasonable to send a prison er and not to specify the charges against him."

nkjv@Acts:26:1 @ Then Agrippa said to Paul, "You are p ermitted to speak for yourself." So Paul stretched out his hand and answ ered for himself:

nkjv@Acts:26:2 @ "I think myself happy, King Agrippa, because today I shall answ er for myself before you conc erning all the things of which I am accused by the Jews,

nkjv@Acts:26:3 @ especially because you are exp ert in all customs and questions which have to do with the Jews. Th erefore I beg you to hear me patiently.

nkjv@Acts:26:4 @ "My mann er of life from my youth, which was spent from the beginning among my own nation at J erusalem, all the Jews know.

nkjv@Acts:26:5 @ They knew me from the first, if they w ere willing to testify, that according to the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

nkjv@Acts:26:6 @ And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fath ers.

nkjv@Acts:26:7 @ To this promise our twelve tribes, earnestly s erving God night and day, hope to attain. For this hope's sake, King Agrippa, I am accused by the Jews.

nkjv@Acts:26:10 @ This I also did in J erusalem, and many of the saints I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they w ere put to death, I cast my vote against them.

nkjv@Acts:26:11 @ And I punished them often in ev ery synagogue and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly enraged against them, I p ersecuted them even to foreign cities.

nkjv@Acts:26:13 @ at midday, O king, along the road I saw a light from heaven, bright er than the sun, shining around me and those who journeyed with me.

nkjv@Acts:26:14 @ And when we all had fallen to the ground, I heard a voice speaking to me and saying in the Hebrew language, "Saul, Saul, why are you p ersecuting Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.'

nkjv@Acts:26:15 @ So I said, "Who are You, Lord?' And He said, "I am Jesus, whom you are p ersecuting.

nkjv@Acts:26:16 @ But rise and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to make you a minist er and a witness both of the things which you have seen and of the things which I will yet reveal to you.

nkjv@Acts:26:17 @ I will deliv er you from the Jewish people, as well as from the Gentiles, to whom I now send you,

nkjv@Acts:26:18 @ to open their eyes, in ord er to turn them from darkness to light, and from the pow er of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inh eritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.'

nkjv@Acts:26:19 @ "Th erefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,

nkjv@Acts:26:20 @ but declared first to those in Damascus and in J erusalem, and throughout all the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent, turn to God, and do works befitting repentance.

nkjv@Acts:26:22 @ Th erefore, having obtained help from God, to this day I stand, witnessing both to small and great, saying no oth er things than those which the prophets and Moses said would come--

nkjv@Acts:26:23 @ that the Christ would suff er, that He would be the first to rise from the dead, and would proclaim light to the Jewish people and to the Gentiles."

nkjv@Acts:26:26 @ For the king, before whom I also speak freely, knows these things; for I am convinced that none of these things escapes his attention, since this thing was not done in a corn er.

nkjv@Acts:26:28 @ Then Agrippa said to Paul, "You almost p ersuade me to become a Christian."

nkjv@Acts:26:29 @ And Paul said, "I would to God that not only you, but also all who hear me today, might become both almost and altogeth er such as I am, except for these chains."

nkjv@Acts:26:30 @ When he had said these things, the king stood up, as well as the gov ernor and B ernice and those who sat with them;

nkjv@Acts:26:31 @ and when they had gone aside, they talked among themselves, saying, "This man is doing nothing des erving of death or chains."

nkjv@Acts:27:1 @ And when it was decided that we should sail to Italy, they deliv ered Paul and some oth er prison ers to one named Julius, a centurion of the Augustan Regiment.

nkjv@Acts:27:2 @ So, ent ering a ship of Adramyttium, we put to sea, meaning to sail along the coasts of Asia. Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, was with us.

nkjv@Acts:27:3 @ And the next day we landed at Sidon. And Julius treated Paul kindly and gave him lib erty to go to his friends and receive care.

nkjv@Acts:27:4 @ When we had put to sea from th ere, we sailed und er the shelt er of Cyprus, because the winds w ere contrary.

nkjv@Acts:27:5 @ And when we had sailed ov er the sea which is off Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, a city of Lycia.

nkjv@Acts:27:6 @ Th ere the centurion found an Alexandrian ship sailing to Italy, and he put us on board.

nkjv@Acts:27:7 @ When we had sailed slowly many days, and arrived with difficulty off Cnidus, the wind not p ermitting us to proceed, we sailed und er the shelt er of Crete off Salmone.

nkjv@Acts:27:9 @ Now when much time had been spent, and sailing was now dang erous because the Fast was already ov er, Paul advised them,

nkjv@Acts:27:10 @ saying, "Men, I p erceive that this voyage will end with disast er and much loss, not only of the cargo and ship, but also our lives."

nkjv@Acts:27:11 @ Nev ertheless the centurion was more p ersuaded by the helmsman and the own er of the ship than by the things spoken by Paul.

nkjv@Acts:27:12 @ And because the harbor was not suitable to wint er in, the majority advised to set sail from th ere also, if by any means they could reach Phoenix, a harbor of Crete opening toward the southwest and northwest, and wint er th ere.

nkjv@Acts:27:14 @ But not long aft er, a tempestuous head wind arose, called Euroclydon.

nkjv@Acts:27:15 @ So when the ship was caught, and could not head into the wind, we let h er drive.

nkjv@Acts:27:16 @ And running und er the shelt er of an island called Clauda, we secured the skiff with difficulty.

nkjv@Acts:27:17 @ When they had taken it on board, they used cables to und ergird the ship; and fearing lest they should run aground on the Syrtis Sands, they struck sail and so w ere driven.

nkjv@Acts:27:18 @ And because we w ere exceedingly tempest-tossed, the next day they lightened the ship.

nkjv@Acts:27:19 @ On the third day we threw the ship's tackle ov erboard with our own hands.

nkjv@Acts:27:20 @ Now when neith er sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small tempest beat on us, all hope that we would be saved was finally given up.

nkjv@Acts:27:21 @ But aft er long abstinence from food, then Paul stood in the midst of them and said, "Men, you should have listened to me, and not have sailed from Crete and incurred this disast er and loss.

nkjv@Acts:27:22 @ And now I urge you to take heart, for th ere will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.

nkjv@Acts:27:23 @ For th ere stood by me this night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I s erve,

nkjv@Acts:27:25 @ Th erefore take heart, men, for I believe God that it will be just as it was told me.

nkjv@Acts:27:26 @ Howev er, we must run aground on a c ertain island."

nkjv@Acts:27:27 @ Now when the fourteenth night had come, as we w ere driven up and down in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors sensed that they w ere drawing near some land.

nkjv@Acts:27:28 @ And they took soundings and found it to be twenty fathoms; and when they had gone a little farth er, they took soundings again and found it to be fifteen fathoms.

nkjv@Acts:27:29 @ Then, fearing lest we should run aground on the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the st ern, and prayed for day to come.

nkjv@Acts:27:30 @ And as the sailors w ere seeking to escape from the ship, when they had let down the skiff into the sea, und er pretense of putting out anchors from the prow,

nkjv@Acts:27:31 @ Paul said to the centurion and the soldi ers, "Unless these men stay in the ship, you cannot be saved."

nkjv@Acts:27:32 @ Then the soldi ers cut away the ropes of the skiff and let it fall off.

nkjv@Acts:27:34 @ Th erefore I urge you to take nourishment, for this is for your survival, since not a hair will fall from the head of any of you."

nkjv@Acts:27:36 @ Then they w ere all encouraged, and also took food themselves.

nkjv@Acts:27:37 @ And in all we w ere two hundred and seventy-six p ersons on the ship.

nkjv@Acts:27:39 @ When it was day, they did not recognize the land; but they obs erved a bay with a beach, onto which they planned to run the ship if possible.

nkjv@Acts:27:40 @ And they let go the anchors and left them in the sea, meanwhile loosing the rudd er ropes; and they hoisted the mainsail to the wind and made for shore.

nkjv@Acts:27:41 @ But striking a place wh ere two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the prow stuck fast and remained immovable, but the st ern was being broken up by the violence of the waves.

nkjv@Acts:27:42 @ And the soldi ers' plan was to kill the prison ers, lest any of them should swim away and escape.

nkjv@Acts:27:43 @ But the centurion, wanting to save Paul, kept them from their purpose, and commanded that those who could swim should jump ov erboard first and get to land,

nkjv@Acts:28:3 @ But when Paul had gath ered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a vip er came out because of the heat, and fastened on his hand.

nkjv@Acts:28:4 @ So when the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one anoth er, "No doubt this man is a murd er er, whom, though he has escaped the sea, yet justice does not allow to live."

nkjv@Acts:28:5 @ But he shook off the creature into the fire and suff ered no harm.

nkjv@Acts:28:6 @ Howev er, they w ere expecting that he would swell up or suddenly fall down dead. But aft er they had looked for a long time and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds and said that he was a god.

nkjv@Acts:28:7 @ In that region th ere was an estate of the leading citizen of the island, whose name was Publius, who received us and ent ertained us courteously for three days.

nkjv@Acts:28:8 @ And it happened that the fath er of Publius lay sick of a fev er and dysent ery. Paul went in to him and prayed, and he laid his hands on him and healed him.

nkjv@Acts:28:9 @ So when this was done, the rest of those on the island who had diseases also came and w ere healed.

nkjv@Acts:28:10 @ They also honored us in many ways; and when we departed, they provided such things as w ere necessary.

nkjv@Acts:28:11 @ Aft er three months we sailed in an Alexandrian ship whose figurehead was the Twin Broth ers, which had wint ered at the island.

nkjv@Acts:28:13 @ From th ere we circled round and reached Rhegium. And aft er one day the south wind blew; and the next day we came to Puteoli,

nkjv@Acts:28:14 @ wh ere we found brethren, and w ere invited to stay with them seven days. And so we went toward Rome.

nkjv@Acts:28:15 @ And from th ere, when the brethren heard about us, they came to meet us as far as Appii Forum and Three Inns. When Paul saw them, he thanked God and took courage.

nkjv@Acts:28:16 @ Now when we came to Rome, the centurion deliv ered the prison ers to the captain of the guard; but Paul was p ermitted to dwell by himself with the soldi er who guarded him.

nkjv@Acts:28:17 @ And it came to pass aft er three days that Paul called the lead ers of the Jews togeth er. So when they had come togeth er, he said to them: "Men and brethren, though I have done nothing against our people or the customs of our fath ers, yet I was deliv ered as a prison er from J erusalem into the hands of the Romans,

nkjv@Acts:28:18 @ who, when they had examined me, wanted to let me go, because th ere was no cause for putting me to death.

nkjv@Acts:28:20 @ For this reason th erefore I have called for you, to see you and speak with you, because for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain."

nkjv@Acts:28:21 @ Then they said to him, "We neith er received lett ers from Judea conc erning you, nor have any of the brethren who came reported or spoken any evil of you.

nkjv@Acts:28:22 @ But we desire to hear from you what you think; for conc erning this sect, we know that it is spoken against ev erywh ere."

nkjv@Acts:28:23 @ So when they had appointed him a day, many came to him at his lodging, to whom he explained and solemnly testified of the kingdom of God, p ersuading them conc erning Jesus from both the Law of Moses and the Prophets, from morning till evening.

nkjv@Acts:28:24 @ And some w ere p ersuaded by the things which w ere spoken, and some disbelieved.

nkjv@Acts:28:25 @ So when they did not agree among themselves, they departed aft er Paul had said one word: "The Holy Spirit spoke rightly through Isaiah the prophet to our fath ers,

nkjv@Acts:28:26 @ saying, "Go to this people and say: "Hearing you will hear, and shall not und erstand; And seeing you will see, and not p erceive;

nkjv@Acts:28:27 @ For the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, And their eyes they have closed, Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, Lest they should und erstand with their hearts and turn, So that I should heal them."'

nkjv@Acts:28:28 @ "Th erefore let it be known to you that the salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles, and they will hear it!"

nkjv@Acts:28:31 @ preaching the kingdom of God and teaching the things which conc ern the Lord Jesus Christ with all confidence, no one forbidding him.

nkjv@Romans:1:1 @ Paul, a bonds ervant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated to the gospel of God

nkjv@Romans:1:3 @ conc erning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh,

nkjv@Romans:1:4 @ and declared to be the Son of God with pow er according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead.

nkjv@Romans:1:7 @ To all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Fath er and the Lord Jesus Christ.

nkjv@Romans:1:9 @ For God is my witness, whom I s erve with my spirit in the gospel of His Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my pray ers,

nkjv@Romans:1:12 @ that is, that I may be encouraged togeth er with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.

nkjv@Romans:1:13 @ Now I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that I often planned to come to you (but was hind ered until now), that I might have some fruit among you also, just as among the oth er Gentiles.

nkjv@Romans:1:16 @ For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the pow er of God to salvation for ev eryone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.

nkjv@Romans:1:20 @ For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being und erstood by the things that are made, even His et ernal pow er and Godhead, so that they are without excuse,

nkjv@Romans:1:21 @ because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor w ere thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts w ere darkened.

nkjv@Romans:1:24 @ Th erefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves,

nkjv@Romans:1:25 @ who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and s erved the creature rath er than the Creator, who is blessed forev er. Amen.

nkjv@Romans:1:27 @ Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one anoth er, 1men with 1men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.

nkjv@Romans:1:28 @ And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them ov er to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

nkjv@Romans:1:29 @ being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murd er, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisp er ers,

nkjv@Romans:1:30 @ backbit ers, hat ers of God, violent, proud, boast ers, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

nkjv@Romans:1:31 @ undisc erning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unm erciful;

nkjv@Romans:1:32 @ who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are des erving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them.

nkjv@Romans:2:1 @ Th erefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoev er you are who judge, for in whatev er you judge anoth er you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things.

nkjv@Romans:2:4 @ Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuff ering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

nkjv@Romans:2:6 @ who "will rend er to each one according to his deeds":

nkjv@Romans:2:7 @ et ernal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality;

nkjv@Romans:2:9 @ tribulation and anguish, on ev ery soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek;

nkjv@Romans:2:10 @ but glory, honor, and peace to ev eryone who works what is good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

nkjv@Romans:2:11 @ For th ere is no partiality with God.

nkjv@Romans:2:12 @ For as many as have sinned without law will also p erish without law, and as many as have sinned in the law will be judged by the law

nkjv@Romans:2:13 @ (for not the hear ers of the law are just in the sight of God, but the do ers of the law will be justified;

nkjv@Romans:2:20 @ an instructor of the foolish, a teach er of babes, having the form of knowledge and truth in the law.

nkjv@Romans:2:21 @ You, th erefore, who teach anoth er, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that a man should not steal, do you steal?

nkjv@Romans:2:22 @ You who say, "Do not commit adult ery," do you commit adult ery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

nkjv@Romans:2:25 @ For circumcision is indeed profitable if you keep the law; but if you are a break er of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

nkjv@Romans:2:26 @ Th erefore, if an uncircumcised man keeps the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?

nkjv@Romans:2:29 @ but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the lett er; whose praise is not from men but from God.

nkjv@Romans:3:2 @ Much in ev ery way! Chiefly because to them w ere committed the oracles of God.

nkjv@Romans:3:4 @ C ertainly not! Indeed, let God be true but ev ery man a liar. As it is written: "That You may be justified in Your words, And may ov ercome when You are judged."

nkjv@Romans:3:6 @ C ertainly not! For then how will God judge the world?

nkjv@Romans:3:7 @ For if the truth of God has increased through my lie to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinn er?

nkjv@Romans:3:8 @ And why not say, "Let us do evil that good may come"?--as we are sland erously reported and as some affirm that we say. Their condemnation is just.

nkjv@Romans:3:9 @ What then? Are we bett er than they? Not at all. For we have previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all und er sin.

nkjv@Romans:3:10 @ As it is written: "Th ere is none righteous, no, not one;

nkjv@Romans:3:11 @ Th ere is none who und erstands; Th ere is none who seeks aft er God.

nkjv@Romans:3:12 @ They have all turned aside; They have togeth er become unprofitable; Th ere is none who does good, no, not one."

nkjv@Romans:3:13 @ "Their throat is an open tomb; With their tongues they have practiced deceit"; "The poison of asps is und er their lips";

nkjv@Romans:3:14 @ "Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitt erness."

nkjv@Romans:3:16 @ Destruction and mis ery are in their ways;

nkjv@Romans:3:18 @ "Th ere is no fear of God before their eyes."

nkjv@Romans:3:19 @ Now we know that whatev er the law says, it says to those who are und er the law, that ev ery mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

nkjv@Romans:3:20 @ Th erefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

nkjv@Romans:3:22 @ even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For th ere is no diff erence;

nkjv@Romans:3:25 @ whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed ov er the sins that w ere previously committed,

nkjv@Romans:3:26 @ to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifi er of the one who has faith in Jesus.

nkjv@Romans:3:27 @ Wh ere is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith.

nkjv@Romans:3:28 @ Th erefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law.

nkjv@Romans:3:30 @ since th ere is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.

nkjv@Romans:3:31 @ Do we then make void the law through faith? C ertainly not! On the contrary, we establish the law.

nkjv@Romans:4:1 @ What then shall we say that Abraham our fath er has found according to the flesh?

nkjv@Romans:4:7 @ "BBlessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, And whose sins are cov ered;

nkjv@Romans:4:11 @ And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while still uncircumcised, that he might be the fath er of all those who believe, though they are uncircumcised, that righteousness might be imputed to them also,

nkjv@Romans:4:12 @ and the fath er of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of the faith which our fath er Abraham had while still uncircumcised.

nkjv@Romans:4:15 @ because the law brings about wrath; for wh ere th ere is no law th ere is no transgression.

nkjv@Romans:4:16 @ Th erefore it is of faith that it might be according to grace, so that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the fath er of us all

nkjv@Romans:4:17 @ (as it is written, "I have made you a fath er of many nations" ) in the presence of Him whom he believed--God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did;

nkjv@Romans:4:18 @ who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the fath er of many nations, according to what was spoken, "So shall your descendants be."

nkjv@Romans:4:19 @ And not being weak in faith, he did not consid er his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb.

nkjv@Romans:4:20 @ He did not wav er at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God,

nkjv@Romans:4:21 @ and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to p erform.

nkjv@Romans:4:22 @ And th erefore "it was accounted to him for righteousness."

nkjv@Romans:4:25 @ who was deliv ered up because of our offenses, and was raised because of our justification.

nkjv@Romans:5:1 @ Th erefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

nkjv@Romans:5:3 @ And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces p ersev erance;

nkjv@Romans:5:4 @ and p ersev erance, charact er; and charact er, hope.

nkjv@Romans:5:6 @ For when we w ere still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

nkjv@Romans:5:7 @ For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet p erhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die.

nkjv@Romans:5:8 @ But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we w ere still sinn ers, Christ died for us.

nkjv@Romans:5:10 @ For if when we w ere enemies we w ere reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.

nkjv@Romans:5:12 @ Th erefore, just as through one man sin ent ered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned--

nkjv@Romans:5:13 @ (For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when th ere is no law.

nkjv@Romans:5:14 @ Nev ertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even ov er those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.

nkjv@Romans:5:18 @ Th erefore, as through one man's offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man's righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life.

nkjv@Romans:5:19 @ For as by one man's disobedience many w ere made sinn ers, so also by one Man's obedience many will be made righteous.

nkjv@Romans:5:20 @ Moreov er the law ent ered that the offense might abound. But wh ere sin abounded, grace abounded much more,

nkjv@Romans:5:21 @ so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to et ernal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

nkjv@Romans:6:2 @ C ertainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any long er in it?

nkjv@Romans:6:3 @ Or do you not know that as many of us as w ere baptized into Christ Jesus w ere baptized into His death?

nkjv@Romans:6:4 @ Th erefore we w ere buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Fath er, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

nkjv@Romans:6:5 @ For if we have been united togeth er in the likeness of His death, c ertainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection,

nkjv@Romans:6:6 @ knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no long er be slaves of sin.

nkjv@Romans:6:9 @ knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no long er has dominion ov er Him.

nkjv@Romans:6:12 @ Th erefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

nkjv@Romans:6:13 @ And do not present your memb ers as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your memb ers as instruments of righteousness to God.

nkjv@Romans:6:14 @ For sin shall not have dominion ov er you, for you are not und er law but und er grace.

nkjv@Romans:6:15 @ What then? Shall we sin because we are not und er law but und er grace? C ertainly not!

nkjv@Romans:6:16 @ Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one's slaves whom you obey, wheth er of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?

nkjv@Romans:6:17 @ But God be thanked that though you w ere slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you w ere deliv ered.

nkjv@Romans:6:19 @ I speak in human t erms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your memb ers as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your memb ers as slaves of righteousness for holiness.

nkjv@Romans:6:20 @ For when you w ere slaves of sin, you w ere free in regard to righteousness.

nkjv@Romans:6:22 @ But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, ev erlasting life.

nkjv@Romans:6:23 @ For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is et ernal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

nkjv@Romans:7:1 @ Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has dominion ov er a man as long as he lives?

nkjv@Romans:7:2 @ For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to h er husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of h er husband.

nkjv@Romans:7:3 @ So then if, while h er husband lives, she marries anoth er man, she will be called an adult eress; but if h er husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adult eress, though she has married anoth er man.

nkjv@Romans:7:4 @ Th erefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to anoth er--to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.

nkjv@Romans:7:5 @ For when we w ere in the flesh, the sinful passions which w ere aroused by the law w ere at work in our memb ers to bear fruit to death.

nkjv@Romans:7:6 @ But now we have been deliv ered from the law, having died to what we w ere held by, so that we should s erve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the lett er.

nkjv@Romans:7:7 @ What shall we say then? Is the law sin? C ertainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."

nkjv@Romans:7:8 @ But sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all mann er of evil desire. For apart from the law sin was dead.

nkjv@Romans:7:12 @ Th erefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.

nkjv@Romans:7:13 @ Has then what is good become death to me? C ertainly not! But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.

nkjv@Romans:7:14 @ For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold und er sin.

nkjv@Romans:7:15 @ For what I am doing, I do not und erstand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do.

nkjv@Romans:7:17 @ But now, it is no long er I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.

nkjv@Romans:7:18 @ For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to p erform what is good I do not find.

nkjv@Romans:7:20 @ Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no long er I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.

nkjv@Romans:7:23 @ But I see anoth er law in my memb ers, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my memb ers.

nkjv@Romans:7:24 @ O wretched man that I am! Who will deliv er me from this body of death?

nkjv@Romans:7:25 @ I thank God--through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself s erve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.

nkjv@Romans:8:1 @ Th ere is th erefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

nkjv@Romans:8:12 @ Th erefore, brethren, we are debtors--not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.

nkjv@Romans:8:15 @ For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, "Abba, Fath er."

nkjv@Romans:8:17 @ and if children, then heirs--heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suff er with Him, that we may also be glorified togeth er.

nkjv@Romans:8:18 @ For I consid er that the suff erings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

nkjv@Romans:8:19 @ For the earnest expectation of the creation eag erly waits for the revealing of the sons of God.

nkjv@Romans:8:21 @ because the creation itself also will be deliv ered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious lib erty of the children of God.

nkjv@Romans:8:22 @ For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs togeth er until now.

nkjv@Romans:8:23 @ Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eag erly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body.

nkjv@Romans:8:24 @ For we w ere saved in this hope, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees?

nkjv@Romans:8:25 @ But if we hope for what we do not see, we eag erly wait for it with p ersev erance.

nkjv@Romans:8:26 @ Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes int ercession for us with groanings which cannot be utt ered.

nkjv@Romans:8:27 @ Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes int ercession for the saints according to the will of God.

nkjv@Romans:8:28 @ And we know that all things work togeth er for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

nkjv@Romans:8:30 @ Moreov er whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.

nkjv@Romans:8:32 @ He who did not spare His own Son, but deliv ered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?

nkjv@Romans:8:34 @ Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furth ermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes int ercession for us.

nkjv@Romans:8:35 @ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or p ersecution, or famine, or nakedness, or p eril, or sword?

nkjv@Romans:8:36 @ As it is written: "For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaught er."

nkjv@Romans:8:37 @ Yet in all these things we are more than conqu erors through Him who loved us.

nkjv@Romans:8:38 @ For I am p ersuaded that neith er death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor pow ers, nor things present nor things to come,

nkjv@Romans:8:39 @ nor height nor depth, nor any oth er created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

nkjv@Romans:9:3 @ For I could wish that I myself w ere accursed from Christ for my brethren, my countrymen according to the flesh,

nkjv@Romans:9:4 @ who are Israelites, to whom p ertain the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the s ervice of God, and the promises;

nkjv@Romans:9:5 @ of whom are the fath ers and from whom, according to the flesh, Christ came, who is ov er all, the et ernally blessed God. Amen.

nkjv@Romans:9:10 @ And not only this, but when Rebecca also had conceived by one man, even by our fath er Isaac

nkjv@Romans:9:12 @ it was said to h er, "The old er shall s erve the young er."

nkjv@Romans:9:14 @ What shall we say then? Is th ere unrighteousness with God? C ertainly not!

nkjv@Romans:9:15 @ For He says to Moses, "I will have m ercy on whomev er I will have m ercy, and I will have compassion on whomev er I will have compassion."

nkjv@Romans:9:16 @ So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows m ercy.

nkjv@Romans:9:17 @ For the Scripture says to the Pharaoh, "For this v ery purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My pow er in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth."

nkjv@Romans:9:18 @ Th erefore He has m ercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He hardens.

nkjv@Romans:9:21 @ Does not the pott er have pow er ov er the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and anoth er for dishonor?

nkjv@Romans:9:22 @ What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His pow er known, endured with much longsuff ering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

nkjv@Romans:9:23 @ and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of m ercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory,

nkjv@Romans:9:25 @ As He says also in Hosea: "I will call them My people, who w ere not My people, And h er beloved, who was not beloved."

nkjv@Romans:9:26 @ "And it shall come to pass in the place wh ere it was said to them, "You are not My people,' Th ere they shall be called sons of the living God."

nkjv@Romans:9:27 @ Isaiah also cries out conc erning Israel: "Though the numb er of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, The remnant will be saved.

nkjv@Romans:9:32 @ Why? Because they did not seek it by faith, but as it w ere, by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling stone.

nkjv@Romans:9:33 @ As it is written: "Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and rock of offense, And whoev er believes on Him will not be put to shame."

nkjv@Romans:10:1 @ Brethren, my heart's desire and pray er to God for Israel is that they may be saved.

nkjv@Romans:10:4 @ For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to ev eryone who believes.

nkjv@Romans:10:11 @ For the Scripture says, "Whoev er believes on Him will not be put to shame."

nkjv@Romans:10:12 @ For th ere is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord ov er all is rich to all who call upon Him.

nkjv@Romans:10:13 @ For "whoev er calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved."

nkjv@Romans:10:14 @ How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preach er?

nkjv@Romans:10:19 @ But I say, did Israel not know? First Moses says: "I will provoke you to jealousy by those who are not a nation, I will move you to ang er by a foolish nation."

nkjv@Romans:10:20 @ But Isaiah is v ery bold and says: "I was found by those who did not seek Me; I was made manifest to those who did not ask for Me."

nkjv@Romans:11:1 @ I say then, has God cast away His people? C ertainly not! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

nkjv@Romans:11:4 @ But what does the divine response say to him? "I have res erved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal."

nkjv@Romans:11:5 @ Even so then, at this present time th ere is a remnant according to the election of grace.

nkjv@Romans:11:6 @ And if by grace, then it is no long er of works; oth erwise grace is no long er grace. But if it is of works, it is no long er grace; oth erwise work is no long er work.

nkjv@Romans:11:7 @ What then? Israel has not obtained what it seeks; but the elect have obtained it, and the rest w ere blinded.

nkjv@Romans:11:8 @ Just as it is written: "God has given them a spirit of stupor, Eyes that they should not see And ears that they should not hear, To this v ery day."

nkjv@Romans:11:11 @ I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? C ertainly not! But through their fall, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles.

nkjv@Romans:11:17 @ And if some of the branches w ere broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, w ere grafted in among them, and with them became a partak er of the root and fatness of the olive tree,

nkjv@Romans:11:18 @ do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, rememb er that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.

nkjv@Romans:11:19 @ You will say then, "Branches w ere broken off that I might be grafted in."

nkjv@Romans:11:20 @ Well said. Because of unbelief they w ere broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear.

nkjv@Romans:11:21 @ For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you eith er.

nkjv@Romans:11:22 @ Th erefore consid er the goodness and sev erity of God: on those who fell, sev erity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in His goodness. Oth erwise you also will be cut off.

nkjv@Romans:11:24 @ For if you w ere cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and w ere grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, who are natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

nkjv@Romans:11:25 @ For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this myst ery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.

nkjv@Romans:11:26 @ And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The Deliv er er will come out of Zion, And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;

nkjv@Romans:11:28 @ Conc erning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but conc erning the election they are beloved for the sake of the fath ers.

nkjv@Romans:11:30 @ For as you w ere once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained m ercy through their disobedience,

nkjv@Romans:11:31 @ even so these also have now been disobedient, that through the m ercy shown you they also may obtain m ercy.

nkjv@Romans:11:32 @ For God has committed them all to disobedience, that He might have m ercy on all.

nkjv@Romans:11:36 @ For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forev er. Amen.

nkjv@Romans:12:1 @ I beseech you th erefore, brethren, by the m ercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable s ervice.

nkjv@Romans:12:2 @ And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and p erfect will of God.

nkjv@Romans:12:3 @ For I say, through the grace given to me, to ev eryone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think sob erly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.

nkjv@Romans:12:4 @ For as we have many memb ers in one body, but all the memb ers do not have the same function,

nkjv@Romans:12:5 @ so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually memb ers of one anoth er.

nkjv@Romans:12:6 @ Having then gifts diff ering according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith;

nkjv@Romans:12:7 @ or ministry, let us use it in our minist ering; he who teaches, in teaching;

nkjv@Romans:12:8 @ he who exhorts, in exhortation; he who gives, with lib erality; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows m ercy, with che erfulness.

nkjv@Romans:12:10 @ Be kindly affectionate to one anoth er with broth erly love, in honor giving pref erence to one anoth er;

nkjv@Romans:12:11 @ not lagging in diligence, f ervent in spirit, s erving the Lord;

nkjv@Romans:12:12 @ rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in pray er;

nkjv@Romans:12:14 @ Bless those who p ersecute you; bless and do not curse.

nkjv@Romans:12:16 @ Be of the same mind toward one anoth er. Do not set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Do not be wise in your own opinion.

nkjv@Romans:12:19 @ Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rath er give place to wrath; for it is written, "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay," says the Lord.

nkjv@Romans:12:20 @ Th erefore "If your enemy is hungry, feed him; If he is thirsty, give him a drink; For in so doing you will heap coals of fire on his head."

nkjv@Romans:12:21 @ Do not be ov ercome by evil, but ov ercome evil with good.

nkjv@Romans:13:1 @ Let ev ery soul be subject to the gov erning authorities. For th ere is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God.

nkjv@Romans:13:2 @ Th erefore whoev er resists the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves.

nkjv@Romans:13:3 @ For rul ers are not a t error to good works, but to evil. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same.

nkjv@Romans:13:4 @ For he is God's minist er to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God's minist er, an aveng er to execute wrath on him who practices evil.

nkjv@Romans:13:5 @ Th erefore you must be subject, not only because of wrath but also for conscience' sake.

nkjv@Romans:13:6 @ For because of this you also pay taxes, for they are God's minist ers attending continually to this v ery thing.

nkjv@Romans:13:7 @ Rend er th erefore to all their due: taxes to whom taxes are due, customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor.

nkjv@Romans:13:8 @ Owe no one anything except to love one anoth er, for he who loves anoth er has fulfilled the law.

nkjv@Romans:13:9 @ For the commandments, "You shall not commit adult ery," "You shall not murd er," "You shall not steal," "You shall not bear false witness," "You shall not covet," and if th ere is any oth er commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

nkjv@Romans:13:10 @ Love does no harm to a neighbor; th erefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

nkjv@Romans:13:11 @ And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is near er than when we first believed.

nkjv@Romans:13:12 @ The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Th erefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

nkjv@Romans:13:13 @ Let us walk prop erly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy.

nkjv@Romans:14:1 @ Receive one who is weak in the faith, but not to disputes ov er doubtful things.

nkjv@Romans:14:4 @ Who are you to judge anoth er's s ervant? To his own mast er he stands or falls. Indeed, he will be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.

nkjv@Romans:14:5 @ One p erson esteems one day above anoth er; anoth er esteems ev ery day alike. Let each be fully convinced in his own mind.

nkjv@Romans:14:6 @ He who obs erves the day, obs erves it to the Lord; and he who does not obs erve the day, to the Lord he does not obs erve it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he who does not eat, to the Lord he does not eat, and gives God thanks.

nkjv@Romans:14:8 @ For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Th erefore, wheth er we live or die, we are the Lord's.

nkjv@Romans:14:10 @ But why do you judge your broth er? Or why do you show contempt for your broth er? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

nkjv@Romans:14:11 @ For it is written: "As I live, says the LORD, Ev ery knee shall bow to Me, And ev ery tongue shall confess to God."

nkjv@Romans:14:13 @ Th erefore let us not judge one anoth er anymore, but rath er resolve this, not to put a stumbling block or a cause to fall in our broth er's way.

nkjv@Romans:14:14 @ I know and am convinced by the Lord Jesus that th ere is nothing unclean of itself; but to him who consid ers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

nkjv@Romans:14:15 @ Yet if your broth er is grieved because of your food, you are no long er walking in love. Do not destroy with your food the one for whom Christ died.

nkjv@Romans:14:16 @ Th erefore do not let your good be spoken of as evil;

nkjv@Romans:14:18 @ For he who s erves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.

nkjv@Romans:14:19 @ Th erefore let us pursue the things which make for peace and the things by which one may edify anoth er.

nkjv@Romans:14:21 @ It is good neith er to eat meat nor drink wine nor do anything by which your broth er stumbles or is offended or is made weak.

nkjv@Romans:14:23 @ But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not eat from faith; for whatev er is not from faith is sin.

nkjv@Romans:15:4 @ For whatev er things w ere written before w ere written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.

nkjv@Romans:15:5 @ Now may the God of patience and comfort grant you to be like-minded toward one anoth er, according to Christ Jesus,

nkjv@Romans:15:6 @ that you may with one mind and one mouth glorify the God and Fath er of our Lord Jesus Christ.

nkjv@Romans:15:7 @ Th erefore receive one anoth er, just as Christ also received us, to the glory of God.

nkjv@Romans:15:8 @ Now I say that Jesus Christ has become a s ervant to the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made to the fath ers,

nkjv@Romans:15:9 @ and that the Gentiles might glorify God for His m ercy, as it is written: "For this reason I will confess to You among the Gentiles, And sing to Your name."

nkjv@Romans:15:12 @ And again, Isaiah says: "Th ere shall be a root of Jesse; And He who shall rise to reign ov er the Gentiles, In Him the Gentiles shall hope."

nkjv@Romans:15:13 @ Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the pow er of the Holy Spirit.

nkjv@Romans:15:14 @ Now I myself am confident conc erning you, my brethren, that you also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one anoth er.

nkjv@Romans:15:15 @ Nev ertheless, brethren, I have written more boldly to you on some points, as reminding you, because of the grace given to me by God,

nkjv@Romans:15:16 @ that I might be a minist er of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, minist ering the gospel of God, that the off ering of the Gentiles might be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

nkjv@Romans:15:17 @ Th erefore I have reason to glory in Christ Jesus in the things which p ertain to God.

nkjv@Romans:15:19 @ in mighty signs and wond ers, by the pow er of the Spirit of God, so that from J erusalem and round about to Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

nkjv@Romans:15:20 @ And so I have made it my aim to preach the gospel, not wh ere Christ was named, lest I should build on anoth er man's foundation,

nkjv@Romans:15:21 @ but as it is written: "To whom He was not announced, they shall see; And those who have not heard shall und erstand."

nkjv@Romans:15:22 @ For this reason I also have been much hind ered from coming to you.

nkjv@Romans:15:23 @ But now no long er having a place in these parts, and having a great desire these many years to come to you,

nkjv@Romans:15:24 @ whenev er I journey to Spain, I shall come to you. For I hope to see you on my journey, and to be helped on my way th ere by you, if first I may enjoy your company for a while.

nkjv@Romans:15:25 @ But now I am going to J erusalem to minist er to the saints.

nkjv@Romans:15:26 @ For it pleased those from Macedonia and Achaia to make a c ertain contribution for the poor among the saints who are in J erusalem.

nkjv@Romans:15:27 @ It pleased them indeed, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been partak ers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minist er to them in mat erial things.

nkjv@Romans:15:28 @ Th erefore, when I have p erformed this and have sealed to them this fruit, I shall go by way of you to Spain.

nkjv@Romans:15:30 @ Now I beg you, brethren, through the Lord Jesus Christ, and through the love of the Spirit, that you strive togeth er with me in pray ers to God for me,

nkjv@Romans:15:31 @ that I may be deliv ered from those in Judea who do not believe, and that my s ervice for J erusalem may be acceptable to the saints,

nkjv@Romans:15:32 @ that I may come to you with joy by the will of God, and may be refreshed togeth er with you.

nkjv@Romans:16:1 @ I commend to you Phoebe our sist er, who is a s ervant of the church in Cenchrea,

nkjv@Romans:16:2 @ that you may receive h er in the Lord in a mann er worthy of the saints, and assist h er in whatev er business she has need of you; for indeed she has been a help er of many and of myself also.

nkjv@Romans:16:3 @ Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow work ers in Christ Jesus,

nkjv@Romans:16:7 @ Greet Andronicus and Junia, my countrymen and my fellow prison ers, who are of note among the apostles, who also w ere in Christ before me.

nkjv@Romans:16:9 @ Greet Urbanus, our fellow work er in Christ, and Stachys, my beloved.

nkjv@Romans:16:11 @ Greet H erodion, my countryman. Greet those who are of the household of Narcissus who are in the Lord.

nkjv@Romans:16:12 @ Greet Tryphena and Tryphosa, who have labored in the Lord. Greet the beloved P ersis, who labored much in the Lord.

nkjv@Romans:16:13 @ Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and his moth er and mine.

nkjv@Romans:16:14 @ Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, H ermas, Patrobas, H ermes, and the brethren who are with them.

nkjv@Romans:16:15 @ Greet Philologus and Julia, N ereus and his sist er, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them.

nkjv@Romans:16:16 @ Greet one anoth er with a holy kiss. The churches of Christ greet you.

nkjv@Romans:16:18 @ For those who are such do not s erve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by smooth words and flatt ering speech deceive the hearts of the simple.

nkjv@Romans:16:19 @ For your obedience has become known to all. Th erefore I am glad on your behalf; but I want you to be wise in what is good, and simple conc erning evil.

nkjv@Romans:16:20 @ And the God of peace will crush Satan und er your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.

nkjv@Romans:16:21 @ Timothy, my fellow work er, and Lucius, Jason, and Sosipat er, my countrymen, greet you.

nkjv@Romans:16:22 @ I, T ertius, who wrote this epistle, greet you in the Lord.

nkjv@Romans:16:23 @ Gaius, my host and the host of the whole church, greets you. Erastus, the treasur er of the city, greets you, and Quartus, a broth er.

nkjv@Romans:16:25 @ Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the myst ery kept secret since the world began

nkjv@Romans:16:26 @ but now made manifest, and by the prophetic Scriptures made known to all nations, according to the commandment of the ev erlasting God, for obedience to the faith--

nkjv@Romans:16:27 @ to God, alone wise, be glory through Jesus Christ forev er. Amen.

nkjv@1Corinthians:1:1 @ Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our broth er,

nkjv@1Corinthians:1:2 @ To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who in ev ery place call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:

nkjv@1Corinthians:1:3 @ Grace to you and peace from God our Fath er and the Lord Jesus Christ.

nkjv@1Corinthians:1:4 @ I thank my God always conc erning you for the grace of God which was given to you by Christ Jesus,

nkjv@1Corinthians:1:5 @ that you w ere enriched in ev erything by Him in all utt erance and all knowledge,

nkjv@1Corinthians:1:7 @ so that you come short in no gift, eag erly waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,

nkjv@1Corinthians:1:9 @ God is faithful, by whom you w ere called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

nkjv@1Corinthians:1:10 @ Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that th ere be no divisions among you, but that you be p erfectly joined togeth er in the same mind and in the same judgment.

nkjv@1Corinthians:1:11 @ For it has been declared to me conc erning you, my brethren, by those of Chloe's household, that th ere are contentions among you.

nkjv@1Corinthians:1:13 @ Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or w ere you baptized in the name of Paul?

nkjv@1Corinthians:1:16 @ Yes, I also baptized the household of Stephanas. Besides, I do not know wheth er I baptized any oth er.

nkjv@1Corinthians:1:18 @ For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are p erishing, but to us who are being saved it is the pow er of God.

nkjv@1Corinthians:1:19 @ For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And bring to nothing the und erstanding of the prudent."

nkjv@1Corinthians:1:20 @ Wh ere is the wise? Wh ere is the scribe? Wh ere is the disput er of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

nkjv@1Corinthians:1:22 @ For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek aft er wisdom;

nkjv@1Corinthians:1:24 @ but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the pow er of God and the wisdom of God.

nkjv@1Corinthians:1:25 @ Because the foolishness of God is wis er than men, and the weakness of God is strong er than men.

nkjv@1Corinthians:2:2 @ For I det ermined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

nkjv@1Corinthians:2:4 @ And my speech and my preaching w ere not with p ersuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of pow er,

nkjv@1Corinthians:2:5 @ that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the pow er of God.

nkjv@1Corinthians:2:6 @ Howev er, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rul ers of this age, who are coming to nothing.

nkjv@1Corinthians:2:7 @ But we speak the wisdom of God in a myst ery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory,

nkjv@1Corinthians:2:8 @ which none of the rul ers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

nkjv@1Corinthians:2:9 @ But as it is written: "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have ent ered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him."

nkjv@1Corinthians:2:14 @ But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually disc erned.

nkjv@1Corinthians:3:2 @ I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you w ere not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able;

nkjv@1Corinthians:3:3 @ for you are still carnal. For wh ere th ere are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like m ere men?

nkjv@1Corinthians:3:4 @ For when one says, "I am of Paul," and anoth er, "I am of Apollos," are you not carnal?

nkjv@1Corinthians:3:5 @ Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but minist ers through whom you believed, as the Lord gave to each one?

nkjv@1Corinthians:3:6 @ I planted, Apollos wat ered, but God gave the increase.

nkjv@1Corinthians:3:7 @ So then neith er he who plants is anything, nor he who wat ers, but God who gives the increase.

nkjv@1Corinthians:3:8 @ Now he who plants and he who wat ers are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

nkjv@1Corinthians:3:9 @ For we are God's fellow work ers; you are God's field, you are God's building.

nkjv@1Corinthians:3:10 @ According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise mast er build er I have laid the foundation, and anoth er builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it.

nkjv@1Corinthians:3:11 @ For no oth er foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

nkjv@1Corinthians:3:12 @ Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silv er, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,

nkjv@1Corinthians:3:15 @ If anyone's work is burned, he will suff er loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.

nkjv@1Corinthians:3:21 @ Th erefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours:

nkjv@1Corinthians:3:22 @ wheth er Paul or Apollos or Cephas, or the world or life or death, or things present or things to come--all are yours.

nkjv@1Corinthians:4:1 @ Let a man so consid er us, as s ervants of Christ and stewards of the myst eries of God.

nkjv@1Corinthians:4:2 @ Moreov er it is required in stewards that one be found faithful.

nkjv@1Corinthians:4:3 @ But with me it is a v ery small thing that I should be judged by you or by a human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.

nkjv@1Corinthians:4:5 @ Th erefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each one's praise will come from God.

nkjv@1Corinthians:4:6 @ Now these things, brethren, I have figuratively transf erred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that you may learn in us not to think beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up on behalf of one against the oth er.

nkjv@1Corinthians:4:7 @ For who makes you diff er from anoth er? And what do you have that you did not receive? Now if you did indeed receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

nkjv@1Corinthians:4:11 @ To the present hour we both hung er and thirst, and we are poorly clothed, and beaten, and homeless.

nkjv@1Corinthians:4:12 @ And we labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being p ersecuted, we endure;

nkjv@1Corinthians:4:15 @ For though you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fath ers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

nkjv@1Corinthians:4:16 @ Th erefore I urge you, imitate me.

nkjv@1Corinthians:4:17 @ For this reason I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful son in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach ev erywh ere in ev ery church.

nkjv@1Corinthians:4:18 @ Now some are puffed up, as though I w ere not coming to you.

nkjv@1Corinthians:4:19 @ But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord wills, and I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the pow er.

nkjv@1Corinthians:4:20 @ For the kingdom of God is not in word but in pow er.

nkjv@1Corinthians:5:1 @ It is actually reported that th ere is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles--that a man has his fath er's wife!

nkjv@1Corinthians:5:2 @ And you are puffed up, and have not rath er mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you.

nkjv@1Corinthians:5:3 @ For I indeed, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged (as though I w ere present) him who has so done this deed.

nkjv@1Corinthians:5:4 @ In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gath ered togeth er, along with my spirit, with the pow er of our Lord Jesus Christ,

nkjv@1Corinthians:5:5 @ deliv er such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

nkjv@1Corinthians:5:7 @ Th erefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passov er, was sacrificed for us.

nkjv@1Corinthians:5:8 @ Th erefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sinc erity and truth.

nkjv@1Corinthians:5:10 @ Yet I c ertainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortion ers, or idolat ers, since then you would need to go out of the world.

nkjv@1Corinthians:5:11 @ But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a broth er, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolat er, or a revil er, or a drunkard, or an extortion er--not even to eat with such a p erson.

nkjv@1Corinthians:5:13 @ But those who are outside God judges. Th erefore "put away from yourselves the evil p erson."

nkjv@1Corinthians:6:1 @ Dare any of you, having a matt er against anoth er, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

nkjv@1Corinthians:6:2 @ Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world will be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matt ers?

nkjv@1Corinthians:6:3 @ Do you not know that we shall judge angels? How much more, things that p ertain to this life?

nkjv@1Corinthians:6:4 @ If then you have judgments conc erning things p ertaining to this life, do you appoint those who are least esteemed by the church to judge?

nkjv@1Corinthians:6:5 @ I say this to your shame. Is it so, that th ere is not a wise man among you, not even one, who will be able to judge between his brethren?

nkjv@1Corinthians:6:6 @ But broth er goes to law against broth er, and that before unbeliev ers!

nkjv@1Corinthians:6:7 @ Now th erefore, it is already an utt er failure for you that you go to law against one anoth er. Why do you not rath er accept wrong? Why do you not rath er let yourselves be cheated?

nkjv@1Corinthians:6:9 @ Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inh erit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neith er fornicators, nor idolat ers, nor adult er ers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites,

nkjv@1Corinthians:6:10 @ nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revil ers, nor extortion ers will inh erit the kingdom of God.

nkjv@1Corinthians:6:11 @ And such w ere some of you. But you w ere washed, but you w ere sanctified, but you w ere justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

nkjv@1Corinthians:6:12 @ All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought und er the pow er of any.

nkjv@1Corinthians:6:14 @ And God both raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by His pow er.

nkjv@1Corinthians:6:15 @ Do you not know that your bodies are memb ers of Christ? Shall I then take the memb ers of Christ and make them memb ers of a harlot? C ertainly not!

nkjv@1Corinthians:6:16 @ Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with h er? For "the two," He says, "shall become one flesh."

nkjv@1Corinthians:6:18 @ Flee sexual immorality. Ev ery sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

nkjv@1Corinthians:6:20 @ For you w ere bought at a price; th erefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

nkjv@1Corinthians:7:1 @ Now conc erning the things of which you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

nkjv@1Corinthians:7:2 @ Nev ertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have h er own husband.

nkjv@1Corinthians:7:3 @ Let the husband rend er to his wife the affection due h er, and likewise also the wife to h er husband.

nkjv@1Corinthians:7:4 @ The wife does not have authority ov er h er own body, but the husband does. And likewise the husband does not have authority ov er his own body, but the wife does.

nkjv@1Corinthians:7:5 @ Do not deprive one anoth er except with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and pray er; and come togeth er again so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

nkjv@1Corinthians:7:7 @ For I wish that all men w ere even as I myself. But each one has his own gift from God, one in this mann er and anoth er in that.

nkjv@1Corinthians:7:9 @ but if they cannot ex ercise self-control, let them marry. For it is bett er to marry than to burn with passion.

nkjv@1Corinthians:7:10 @ Now to the married I command, yet not I but the Lord: A wife is not to depart from h er husband.

nkjv@1Corinthians:7:11 @ But even if she does depart, let h er remain unmarried or be reconciled to h er husband. And a husband is not to divorce his wife.

nkjv@1Corinthians:7:12 @ But to the rest I, not the Lord, say: If any broth er has a wife who does not believe, and she is willing to live with him, let him not divorce h er.

nkjv@1Corinthians:7:13 @ And a woman who has a husband who does not believe, if he is willing to live with h er, let h er not divorce him.

nkjv@1Corinthians:7:14 @ For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; oth erwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

nkjv@1Corinthians:7:15 @ But if the unbeliev er departs, let him depart; a broth er or a sist er is not und er bondage in such cases. But God has called us to peace.

nkjv@1Corinthians:7:16 @ For how do you know, O wife, wheth er you will save your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, wheth er you will save your wife?

nkjv@1Corinthians:7:19 @ Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping the commandments of God is what matt ers.

nkjv@1Corinthians:7:21 @ W ere you called while a slave? Do not be conc erned about it; but if you can be made free, rath er use it.

nkjv@1Corinthians:7:23 @ You w ere bought at a price; do not become slaves of men.

nkjv@1Corinthians:7:25 @ Now conc erning virgins: I have no commandment from the Lord; yet I give judgment as one whom the Lord in His m ercy has made trustworthy.

nkjv@1Corinthians:7:26 @ I suppose th erefore that this is good because of the present distress--that it is good for a man to remain as he is:

nkjv@1Corinthians:7:28 @ But even if you do marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Nev ertheless such will have trouble in the flesh, but I would spare you.

nkjv@1Corinthians:7:34 @ Th ere is a diff erence between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world--how she may please h er husband.

nkjv@1Corinthians:7:35 @ And this I say for your own profit, not that I may put a leash on you, but for what is prop er, and that you may s erve the Lord without distraction.

nkjv@1Corinthians:7:36 @ But if any man thinks he is behaving improp erly toward his virgin, if she is past the flow er of youth, and thus it must be, let him do what he wishes. He does not sin; let them marry.

nkjv@1Corinthians:7:37 @ Nev ertheless he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has pow er ov er his own will, and has so det ermined in his heart that he will keep his virgin, does well.

nkjv@1Corinthians:7:38 @ So then he who gives h er in marriage does well, but he who does not give h er in marriage does bett er.

nkjv@1Corinthians:7:39 @ A wife is bound by law as long as h er husband lives; but if h er husband dies, she is at lib erty to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

nkjv@1Corinthians:7:40 @ But she is happi er if she remains as she is, according to my judgment--and I think I also have the Spirit of God.

nkjv@1Corinthians:8:1 @ Now conc erning things off ered to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.

nkjv@1Corinthians:8:4 @ Th erefore conc erning the eating of things off ered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that th ere is no oth er God but one.

nkjv@1Corinthians:8:5 @ For even if th ere are so-called gods, wheth er in heaven or on earth (as th ere are many gods and many lords),

nkjv@1Corinthians:8:6 @ yet for us th ere is one God, the Fath er, of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we live.

nkjv@1Corinthians:8:7 @ Howev er, th ere is not in ev eryone that knowledge; for some, with consciousness of the idol, until now eat it as a thing off ered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

nkjv@1Corinthians:8:8 @ But food does not commend us to God; for neith er if we eat are we the bett er, nor if we do not eat are we the worse.

nkjv@1Corinthians:8:9 @ But beware lest somehow this lib erty of yours become a stumbling block to those who are weak.

nkjv@1Corinthians:8:10 @ For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat those things off ered to idols?

nkjv@1Corinthians:8:11 @ And because of your knowledge shall the weak broth er p erish, for whom Christ died?

nkjv@1Corinthians:8:13 @ Th erefore, if food makes my broth er stumble, I will nev er again eat meat, lest I make my broth er stumble.

nkjv@1Corinthians:9:2 @ If I am not an apostle to oth ers, yet doubtless I am to you. For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

nkjv@1Corinthians:9:5 @ Do we have no right to take along a believing wife, as do also the oth er apostles, the broth ers of the Lord, and Cephas?

nkjv@1Corinthians:9:7 @ Who ev er goes to war at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not drink of the milk of the flock?

nkjv@1Corinthians:9:8 @ Do I say these things as a m ere man? Or does not the law say the same also?

nkjv@1Corinthians:9:9 @ For it is written in the law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain." Is it oxen God is conc erned about?

nkjv@1Corinthians:9:10 @ Or does He say it altogeth er for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written, that he who plows should plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should be partak er of his hope.

nkjv@1Corinthians:9:11 @ If we have sown spiritual things for you, is it a great thing if we reap your mat erial things?

nkjv@1Corinthians:9:12 @ If oth ers are partak ers of this right ov er you, are we not even more? Nev ertheless we have not used this right, but endure all things lest we hind er the gospel of Christ.

nkjv@1Corinthians:9:13 @ Do you not know that those who minist er the holy things eat of the things of the temple, and those who s erve at the altar partake of the off erings of the altar?

nkjv@1Corinthians:9:15 @ But I have used none of these things, nor have I written these things that it should be done so to me; for it would be bett er for me to die than that anyone should make my boasting void.

nkjv@1Corinthians:9:19 @ For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a s ervant to all, that I might win the more;

nkjv@1Corinthians:9:20 @ and to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might win Jews; to those who are und er the law, as und er the law, that I might win those who are und er the law;

nkjv@1Corinthians:9:21 @ to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but und er law toward Christ ), that I might win those who are without law;

nkjv@1Corinthians:9:23 @ Now this I do for the gospel's sake, that I may be partak er of it with you.

nkjv@1Corinthians:9:25 @ And ev eryone who competes for the prize is temp erate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a p erishable crown, but we for an imp erishable crown.

nkjv@1Corinthians:9:26 @ Th erefore I run thus: not with unc ertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air.

nkjv@1Corinthians:9:27 @ But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to oth ers, I myself should become disqualified.

nkjv@1Corinthians:10:1 @ Moreov er, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware that all our fath ers w ere und er the cloud, all passed through the sea,

nkjv@1Corinthians:10:2 @ all w ere baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea,

nkjv@1Corinthians:10:5 @ But with most of them God was not well pleased, for their bodies w ere scatt ered in the wild erness.

nkjv@1Corinthians:10:6 @ Now these things became our examples, to the intent that we should not lust aft er evil things as they also lusted.

nkjv@1Corinthians:10:7 @ And do not become idolat ers as w ere some of them. As it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."

nkjv@1Corinthians:10:9 @ nor let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and w ere destroyed by s erpents;

nkjv@1Corinthians:10:10 @ nor complain, as some of them also complained, and w ere destroyed by the destroy er.

nkjv@1Corinthians:10:11 @ Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they w ere written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.

nkjv@1Corinthians:10:12 @ Th erefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.

nkjv@1Corinthians:10:13 @ No temptation has ov ertaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.

nkjv@1Corinthians:10:14 @ Th erefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

nkjv@1Corinthians:10:18 @ Obs erve Israel aft er the flesh: Are not those who eat of the sacrifices partak ers of the altar?

nkjv@1Corinthians:10:19 @ What am I saying then? That an idol is anything, or what is off ered to idols is anything?

nkjv@1Corinthians:10:20 @ Rath er, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to have fellowship with demons.

nkjv@1Corinthians:10:22 @ Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we strong er than He?

nkjv@1Corinthians:10:24 @ Let no one seek his own, but each one the oth er's well-being.

nkjv@1Corinthians:10:25 @ Eat whatev er is sold in the meat market, asking no questions for conscience' sake;

nkjv@1Corinthians:10:27 @ If any of those who do not believe invites you to dinn er, and you desire to go, eat whatev er is set before you, asking no question for conscience' sake.

nkjv@1Corinthians:10:28 @ But if anyone says to you, "This was off ered to idols," do not eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and for conscience' sake; for "the earth is the LORD's, and all its fullness."

nkjv@1Corinthians:10:29 @ "Conscience," I say, not your own, but that of the oth er. For why is my lib erty judged by anoth er man's conscience?

nkjv@1Corinthians:10:30 @ But if I partake with thanks, why am I evil spoken of for the food ov er which I give thanks?

nkjv@1Corinthians:10:31 @ Th erefore, wheth er you eat or drink, or whatev er you do, do all to the glory of God.

nkjv@1Corinthians:10:32 @ Give no offense, eith er to the Jews or to the Greeks or to the church of God,

nkjv@1Corinthians:11:2 @ Now I praise you, brethren, that you rememb er me in all things and keep the traditions just as I deliv ered them to you.

nkjv@1Corinthians:11:3 @ But I want you to know that the head of ev ery man is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

nkjv@1Corinthians:11:4 @ Ev ery man praying or prophesying, having his head cov ered, dishonors his head.

nkjv@1Corinthians:11:5 @ But ev ery woman who prays or prophesies with h er head uncov ered dishonors h er head, for that is one and the same as if h er head w ere shaved.

nkjv@1Corinthians:11:6 @ For if a woman is not cov ered, let h er also be shorn. But if it is shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let h er be cov ered.

nkjv@1Corinthians:11:7 @ For a man indeed ought not to cov er his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but woman is the glory of man.

nkjv@1Corinthians:11:10 @ For this reason the woman ought to have a symbol of authority on h er head, because of the angels.

nkjv@1Corinthians:11:11 @ Nev ertheless, neith er is man independent of woman, nor woman independent of man, in the Lord.

nkjv@1Corinthians:11:13 @ Judge among yourselves. Is it prop er for a woman to pray to God with h er head uncov ered?

nkjv@1Corinthians:11:15 @ But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to h er; for h er hair is given to h er for a cov ering.

nkjv@1Corinthians:11:17 @ Now in giving these instructions I do not praise you, since you come togeth er not for the bett er but for the worse.

nkjv@1Corinthians:11:18 @ For first of all, when you come togeth er as a church, I hear that th ere are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.

nkjv@1Corinthians:11:19 @ For th ere must also be factions among you, that those who are approved may be recognized among you.

nkjv@1Corinthians:11:20 @ Th erefore when you come togeth er in one place, it is not to eat the Lord's Supp er.

nkjv@1Corinthians:11:21 @ For in eating, each one takes his own supp er ahead of oth ers; and one is hungry and anoth er is drunk.

nkjv@1Corinthians:11:23 @ For I received from the Lord that which I also deliv ered to you: that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed took bread;

nkjv@1Corinthians:11:25 @ In the same mann er He also took the cup aft er supp er, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in My blood. This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me."

nkjv@1Corinthians:11:27 @ Th erefore whoev er eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy mann er will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

nkjv@1Corinthians:11:29 @ For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy mann er eats and drinks judgment to himself, not disc erning the Lord's body.

nkjv@1Corinthians:11:33 @ Th erefore, my brethren, when you come togeth er to eat, wait for one anoth er.

nkjv@1Corinthians:11:34 @ But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest you come togeth er for judgment. And the rest I will set in ord er when I come.

nkjv@1Corinthians:12:1 @ Now conc erning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant:

nkjv@1Corinthians:12:2 @ You know that you w ere Gentiles, carried away to these dumb idols, howev er you w ere led.

nkjv@1Corinthians:12:3 @ Th erefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed, and no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit.

nkjv@1Corinthians:12:4 @ Th ere are div ersities of gifts, but the same Spirit.

nkjv@1Corinthians:12:5 @ Th ere are diff erences of ministries, but the same Lord.

nkjv@1Corinthians:12:6 @ And th ere are div ersities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all.

nkjv@1Corinthians:12:8 @ for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to anoth er the word of knowledge through the same Spirit,

nkjv@1Corinthians:12:9 @ to anoth er faith by the same Spirit, to anoth er gifts of healings by the same Spirit,

nkjv@1Corinthians:12:10 @ to anoth er the working of miracles, to anoth er prophecy, to anoth er disc erning of spirits, to anoth er diff erent kinds of tongues, to anoth er the int erpretation of tongues.

nkjv@1Corinthians:12:12 @ For as the body is one and has many memb ers, but all the memb ers of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ.

nkjv@1Corinthians:12:13 @ For by one Spirit we w ere all baptized into one body--wheth er Jews or Greeks, wheth er slaves or free--and have all been made to drink into one Spirit.

nkjv@1Corinthians:12:14 @ For in fact the body is not one memb er but many.

nkjv@1Corinthians:12:15 @ If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body," is it th erefore not of the body?

nkjv@1Corinthians:12:16 @ And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body," is it th erefore not of the body?

nkjv@1Corinthians:12:17 @ If the whole body w ere an eye, wh ere would be the hearing? If the whole w ere hearing, wh ere would be the smelling?

nkjv@1Corinthians:12:18 @ But now God has set the memb ers, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased.

nkjv@1Corinthians:12:19 @ And if they w ere all one memb er, wh ere would the body be?

nkjv@1Corinthians:12:20 @ But now indeed th ere are many memb ers, yet one body.

nkjv@1Corinthians:12:22 @ No, much rath er, those memb ers of the body which seem to be weak er are necessary.

nkjv@1Corinthians:12:23 @ And those memb ers of the body which we think to be less honorable, on these we bestow great er honor; and our unpresentable parts have great er modesty,

nkjv@1Corinthians:12:24 @ but our presentable parts have no need. But God composed the body, having given great er honor to that part which lacks it,

nkjv@1Corinthians:12:25 @ that th ere should be no schism in the body, but that the memb ers should have the same care for one anoth er.

nkjv@1Corinthians:12:26 @ And if one memb er suff ers, all the memb ers suff er with it; or if one memb er is honored, all the memb ers rejoice with it.

nkjv@1Corinthians:12:27 @ Now you are the body of Christ, and memb ers individually.

nkjv@1Corinthians:12:28 @ And God has appointed these in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teach ers, aft er that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, varieties of tongues.

nkjv@1Corinthians:12:29 @ Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teach ers? Are all work ers of miracles?

nkjv@1Corinthians:12:30 @ Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with tongues? Do all int erpret?

nkjv@1Corinthians:13:2 @ And though I have the gift of prophecy, and und erstand all myst eries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

nkjv@1Corinthians:13:4 @ Love suff ers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;

nkjv@1Corinthians:13:8 @ Love nev er fails. But wheth er th ere are prophecies, they will fail; wheth er th ere are tongues, they will cease; wheth er th ere is knowledge, it will vanish away.

nkjv@1Corinthians:13:10 @ But when that which is p erfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.

nkjv@1Corinthians:13:11 @ When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I und erstood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

nkjv@1Corinthians:14:2 @ For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one und erstands him; howev er, in the spirit he speaks myst eries.

nkjv@1Corinthians:14:5 @ I wish you all spoke with tongues, but even more that you prophesied; for he who prophesies is great er than he who speaks with tongues, unless indeed he int erprets, that the church may receive edification.

nkjv@1Corinthians:14:6 @ But now, brethren, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you unless I speak to you eith er by revelation, by knowledge, by prophesying, or by teaching?

nkjv@1Corinthians:14:7 @ Even things without life, wheth er flute or harp, when they make a sound, unless they make a distinction in the sounds, how will it be known what is piped or played?

nkjv@1Corinthians:14:8 @ For if the trumpet makes an unc ertain sound, who will prepare for battle?

nkjv@1Corinthians:14:9 @ So likewise you, unless you utt er by the tongue words easy to und erstand, how will it be known what is spoken? For you will be speaking into the air.

nkjv@1Corinthians:14:10 @ Th ere are, it may be, so many kinds of languages in the world, and none of them is without significance.

nkjv@1Corinthians:14:11 @ Th erefore, if I do not know the meaning of the language, I shall be a foreign er to him who speaks, and he who speaks will be a foreign er to me.

nkjv@1Corinthians:14:13 @ Th erefore let him who speaks in a tongue pray that he may int erpret.

nkjv@1Corinthians:14:14 @ For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my und erstanding is unfruitful.

nkjv@1Corinthians:14:15 @ What is the conclusion then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will also pray with the und erstanding. I will sing with the spirit, and I will also sing with the und erstanding.

nkjv@1Corinthians:14:16 @ Oth erwise, if you bless with the spirit, how will he who occupies the place of the uninformed say "Amen" at your giving of thanks, since he does not und erstand what you say?

nkjv@1Corinthians:14:17 @ For you indeed give thanks well, but the oth er is not edified.

nkjv@1Corinthians:14:19 @ yet in the church I would rath er speak five words with my und erstanding, that I may teach oth ers also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

nkjv@1Corinthians:14:20 @ Brethren, do not be children in und erstanding; howev er, in malice be babes, but in und erstanding be mature.

nkjv@1Corinthians:14:21 @ In the law it is written: "With men of oth er tongues and oth er lips I will speak to this people; And yet, for all that, they will not hear Me," says the Lord.

nkjv@1Corinthians:14:22 @ Th erefore tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe but to unbeliev ers; but prophesying is not for unbeliev ers but for those who believe.

nkjv@1Corinthians:14:23 @ Th erefore if the whole church comes togeth er in one place, and all speak with tongues, and th ere come in those who are uninformed or unbeliev ers, will they not say that you are out of your mind?

nkjv@1Corinthians:14:24 @ But if all prophesy, and an unbeliev er or an uninformed p erson comes in, he is convinced by all, he is convicted by all.

nkjv@1Corinthians:14:26 @ How is it then, brethren? Whenev er you come togeth er, each of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an int erpretation. Let all things be done for edification.

nkjv@1Corinthians:14:27 @ If anyone speaks in a tongue, let th ere be two or at the most three, each in turn, and let one int erpret.

nkjv@1Corinthians:14:28 @ But if th ere is no int erpret er, let him keep silent in church, and let him speak to himself and to God.

nkjv@1Corinthians:14:29 @ Let two or three prophets speak, and let the oth ers judge.

nkjv@1Corinthians:14:30 @ But if anything is revealed to anoth er who sits by, let the first keep silent.

nkjv@1Corinthians:14:34 @ Let your women keep silent in the churches, for they are not p ermitted to speak; but they are to be submissive, as the law also says.

nkjv@1Corinthians:14:39 @ Th erefore, brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and do not forbid to speak with tongues.

nkjv@1Corinthians:14:40 @ Let all things be done decently and in ord er.

nkjv@1Corinthians:15:1 @ Moreov er, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand,

nkjv@1Corinthians:15:3 @ For I deliv ered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

nkjv@1Corinthians:15:6 @ Aft er that He was seen by ov er five hundred brethren at once, of whom the great er part remain to the present, but some have fallen asleep.

nkjv@1Corinthians:15:7 @ Aft er that He was seen by James, then by all the apostles.

nkjv@1Corinthians:15:9 @ For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I p ersecuted the church of God.

nkjv@1Corinthians:15:11 @ Th erefore, wheth er it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.

nkjv@1Corinthians:15:12 @ Now if Christ is preached that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that th ere is no resurrection of the dead?

nkjv@1Corinthians:15:13 @ But if th ere is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen.

nkjv@1Corinthians:15:18 @ Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have p erished.

nkjv@1Corinthians:15:23 @ But each one in his own ord er: Christ the firstfruits, aft erward those who are Christ's at His coming.

nkjv@1Corinthians:15:24 @ Then comes the end, when He deliv ers the kingdom to God the Fath er, when He puts an end to all rule and all authority and pow er.

nkjv@1Corinthians:15:25 @ For He must reign till He has put all enemies und er His feet.

nkjv@1Corinthians:15:27 @ For "He has put all things und er His feet." But when He says "all things are put und er Him," it is evident that He who put all things und er Him is excepted.

nkjv@1Corinthians:15:28 @ Now when all things are made subject to Him, then the Son Himself will also be subject to Him who put all things und er Him, that God may be all in all.

nkjv@1Corinthians:15:29 @ Oth erwise, what will they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead do not rise at all? Why then are they baptized for the dead?

nkjv@1Corinthians:15:30 @ And why do we stand in jeopardy ev ery hour?

nkjv@1Corinthians:15:32 @ If, in the mann er of men, I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantage is it to me? If the dead do not rise, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!"

nkjv@1Corinthians:15:37 @ And what you sow, you do not sow that body that shall be, but m ere grain--p erhaps wheat or some oth er grain.

nkjv@1Corinthians:15:39 @ All flesh is not the same flesh, but th ere is one kind of flesh of men, anoth er flesh of animals, anoth er of fish, and anoth er of birds.

nkjv@1Corinthians:15:40 @ Th ere are also celestial bodies and t errestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the t errestrial is anoth er.

nkjv@1Corinthians:15:41 @ Th ere is one glory of the sun, anoth er glory of the moon, and anoth er glory of the stars; for one star diff ers from anoth er star in glory.

nkjv@1Corinthians:15:43 @ It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in pow er.

nkjv@1Corinthians:15:44 @ It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. Th ere is a natural body, and th ere is a spiritual body.

nkjv@1Corinthians:15:46 @ Howev er, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and aft erward the spiritual.

nkjv@1Corinthians:15:50 @ Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inh erit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inh erit incorruption.

nkjv@1Corinthians:15:51 @ Behold, I tell you a myst ery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed--

nkjv@1Corinthians:15:55 @ "O Death, wh ere is your sting? O Hades, wh ere is your victory?"

nkjv@1Corinthians:15:58 @ Th erefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

nkjv@1Corinthians:16:1 @ Now conc erning the collection for the saints, as I have given ord ers to the churches of Galatia, so you must do also:

nkjv@1Corinthians:16:2 @ On the first day of the week let each one of you lay something aside, storing up as he may prosp er, that th ere be no collections when I come.

nkjv@1Corinthians:16:3 @ And when I come, whomev er you approve by your lett ers I will send to bear your gift to J erusalem.

nkjv@1Corinthians:16:6 @ And it may be that I will remain, or even spend the wint er with you, that you may send me on my journey, wh erev er I go.

nkjv@1Corinthians:16:7 @ For I do not wish to see you now on the way; but I hope to stay a while with you, if the Lord p ermits.

nkjv@1Corinthians:16:9 @ For a great and effective door has opened to me, and th ere are many adv ersaries.

nkjv@1Corinthians:16:11 @ Th erefore let no one despise him. But send him on his journey in peace, that he may come to me; for I am waiting for him with the brethren.

nkjv@1Corinthians:16:12 @ Now conc erning our broth er Apollos, I strongly urged him to come to you with the brethren, but he was quite unwilling to come at this time; howev er, he will come when he has a convenient time.

nkjv@1Corinthians:16:16 @ that you also submit to such, and to ev eryone who works and labors with us.

nkjv@1Corinthians:16:18 @ For they refreshed my spirit and yours. Th erefore acknowledge such men.

nkjv@1Corinthians:16:20 @ All the brethren greet you. Greet one anoth er with a holy kiss.

nkjv@2Corinthians:1:1 @ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our broth er, To the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia:

nkjv@2Corinthians:1:2 @ Grace to you and peace from God our Fath er and the Lord Jesus Christ.

nkjv@2Corinthians:1:3 @ Blessed be the God and Fath er of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Fath er of m ercies and God of all comfort,

nkjv@2Corinthians:1:5 @ For as the suff erings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also abounds through Christ.

nkjv@2Corinthians:1:6 @ Now if we are afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effective for enduring the same suff erings which we also suff er. Or if we are comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.

nkjv@2Corinthians:1:7 @ And our hope for you is steadfast, because we know that as you are partak ers of the suff erings, so also you will partake of the consolation.

nkjv@2Corinthians:1:8 @ For we do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, of our trouble which came to us in Asia: that we w ere burdened beyond measure, above strength, so that we despaired even of life.

nkjv@2Corinthians:1:10 @ who deliv ered us from so great a death, and does deliv er us; in whom we trust that He will still deliv er us,

nkjv@2Corinthians:1:11 @ you also helping togeth er in pray er for us, that thanks may be given by many p ersons on our behalf for the gift granted to us through many.

nkjv@2Corinthians:1:12 @ For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world in simplicity and godly sinc erity, not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and more abundantly toward you.

nkjv@2Corinthians:1:13 @ For we are not writing any oth er things to you than what you read or und erstand. Now I trust you will und erstand, even to the end

nkjv@2Corinthians:1:14 @ (as also you have und erstood us in part), that we are your boast as you also are ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus.

nkjv@2Corinthians:1:17 @ Th erefore, when I was planning this, did I do it lightly? Or the things I plan, do I plan according to the flesh, that with me th ere should be Yes, Yes, and No, No?

nkjv@2Corinthians:1:23 @ Moreov er I call God as witness against my soul, that to spare you I came no more to Corinth.

nkjv@2Corinthians:1:24 @ Not that we have dominion ov er your faith, but are fellow work ers for your joy; for by faith you stand.

nkjv@2Corinthians:2:1 @ But I det ermined this within myself, that I would not come again to you in sorrow.

nkjv@2Corinthians:2:3 @ And I wrote this v ery thing to you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow ov er those from whom I ought to have joy, having confidence in you all that my joy is the joy of you all.

nkjv@2Corinthians:2:5 @ But if anyone has caused grief, he has not grieved me, but all of you to some extent--not to be too sev ere.

nkjv@2Corinthians:2:7 @ so that, on the contrary, you ought rath er to forgive and comfort him, lest p erhaps such a one be swallowed up with too much sorrow.

nkjv@2Corinthians:2:8 @ Th erefore I urge you to reaffirm your love to him.

nkjv@2Corinthians:2:9 @ For to this end I also wrote, that I might put you to the test, wheth er you are obedient in all things.

nkjv@2Corinthians:2:12 @ Furth ermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened to me by the Lord,

nkjv@2Corinthians:2:13 @ I had no rest in my spirit, because I did not find Titus my broth er; but taking my leave of them, I departed for Macedonia.

nkjv@2Corinthians:2:14 @ Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in ev ery place.

nkjv@2Corinthians:2:15 @ For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are p erishing.

nkjv@2Corinthians:2:16 @ To the one we are the aroma of death leading to death, and to the oth er the aroma of life leading to life. And who is sufficient for these things?

nkjv@2Corinthians:2:17 @ For we are not, as so many, peddling the word of God; but as of sinc erity, but as from God, we speak in the sight of God in Christ.

nkjv@2Corinthians:3:1 @ Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as some oth ers, epistles of commendation to you or lett ers of commendation from you?

nkjv@2Corinthians:3:3 @ clearly you are an epistle of Christ, minist ered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart.

nkjv@2Corinthians:3:6 @ who also made us sufficient as minist ers of the new covenant, not of the lett er but of the Spirit; for the lett er kills, but the Spirit gives life.

nkjv@2Corinthians:3:12 @ Th erefore, since we have such hope, we use great boldness of speech--

nkjv@2Corinthians:3:13 @ unlike Moses, who put a veil ov er his face so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the end of what was passing away.

nkjv@2Corinthians:3:14 @ But their minds w ere blinded. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because the veil is taken away in Christ.

nkjv@2Corinthians:3:16 @ Nev ertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

nkjv@2Corinthians:3:17 @ Now the Lord is the Spirit; and wh ere the Spirit of the Lord is, th ere is lib erty.

nkjv@2Corinthians:4:1 @ Th erefore, since we have this ministry, as we have received m ercy, we do not lose heart.

nkjv@2Corinthians:4:2 @ But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to ev ery man's conscience in the sight of God.

nkjv@2Corinthians:4:3 @ But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are p erishing,

nkjv@2Corinthians:4:5 @ For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your bonds ervants for Jesus' sake.

nkjv@2Corinthians:4:7 @ But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the pow er may be of God and not of us.

nkjv@2Corinthians:4:8 @ We are hard-pressed on ev ery side, yet not crushed; we are p erplexed, but not in despair;

nkjv@2Corinthians:4:9 @ p ersecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed--

nkjv@2Corinthians:4:11 @ For we who live are always deliv ered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

nkjv@2Corinthians:4:13 @ And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, "I believed and th erefore I spoke," we also believe and th erefore speak,

nkjv@2Corinthians:4:16 @ Th erefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is p erishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.

nkjv@2Corinthians:4:17 @ For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and et ernal weight of glory,

nkjv@2Corinthians:4:18 @ while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are et ernal.

nkjv@2Corinthians:5:1 @ For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, et ernal in the heavens.

nkjv@2Corinthians:5:4 @ For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but furth er clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life.

nkjv@2Corinthians:5:5 @ Now He who has prepared us for this v ery thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.

nkjv@2Corinthians:5:8 @ We are confident, yes, well pleased rath er to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.

nkjv@2Corinthians:5:9 @ Th erefore we make it our aim, wheth er present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him.

nkjv@2Corinthians:5:10 @ For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, wheth er good or bad.

nkjv@2Corinthians:5:11 @ Knowing, th erefore, the t error of the Lord, we p ersuade men; but we are well known to God, and I also trust are well known in your consciences.

nkjv@2Corinthians:5:12 @ For we do not commend ourselves again to you, but give you opportunity to boast on our behalf, that you may have an answ er for those who boast in appearance and not in heart.

nkjv@2Corinthians:5:15 @ and He died for all, that those who live should live no long er for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.

nkjv@2Corinthians:5:16 @ Th erefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no long er.

nkjv@2Corinthians:5:17 @ Th erefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

nkjv@2Corinthians:5:20 @ Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God w ere pleading through us: we implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God.

nkjv@2Corinthians:6:1 @ We then, as work ers togeth er with Him also plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

nkjv@2Corinthians:6:4 @ But in all things we commend ourselves as minist ers of God: in much patience, in tribulations, in needs, in distresses,

nkjv@2Corinthians:6:6 @ by purity, by knowledge, by longsuff ering, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by sinc ere love,

nkjv@2Corinthians:6:7 @ by the word of truth, by the pow er of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

nkjv@2Corinthians:6:8 @ by honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceiv ers, and yet true;

nkjv@2Corinthians:6:14 @ Do not be unequally yoked togeth er with unbeliev ers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?

nkjv@2Corinthians:6:15 @ And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believ er with an unbeliev er?

nkjv@2Corinthians:6:17 @ Th erefore "Come out from among them And be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, And I will receive you."

nkjv@2Corinthians:6:18 @ "I will be a Fath er to you, And you shall be My sons and daught ers, Says the LORD Almighty."

nkjv@2Corinthians:7:1 @ Th erefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, p erfecting holiness in the fear of God.

nkjv@2Corinthians:7:3 @ I do not say this to condemn; for I have said before that you are in our hearts, to die togeth er and to live togeth er.

nkjv@2Corinthians:7:5 @ For indeed, when we came to Macedonia, our bodies had no rest, but we w ere troubled on ev ery side. Outside w ere conflicts, inside w ere fears.

nkjv@2Corinthians:7:6 @ Nev ertheless God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus,

nkjv@2Corinthians:7:8 @ For even if I made you sorry with my lett er, I do not regret it; though I did regret it. For I p erceive that the same epistle made you sorry, though only for a while.

nkjv@2Corinthians:7:9 @ Now I rejoice, not that you w ere made sorry, but that your sorrow led to repentance. For you w ere made sorry in a godly mann er, that you might suff er loss from us in nothing.

nkjv@2Corinthians:7:11 @ For obs erve this v ery thing, that you sorrowed in a godly mann er: What diligence it produced in you, what clearing of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what vehement desire, what zeal, what vindication! In all things you proved yourselves to be clear in this matt er.

nkjv@2Corinthians:7:12 @ Th erefore, although I wrote to you, I did not do it for the sake of him who had done the wrong, nor for the sake of him who suff ered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear to you.

nkjv@2Corinthians:7:13 @ Th erefore we have been comforted in your comfort. And we rejoiced exceedingly more for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.

nkjv@2Corinthians:7:15 @ And his affections are great er for you as he rememb ers the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling you received him.

nkjv@2Corinthians:7:16 @ Th erefore I rejoice that I have confidence in you in ev erything.

nkjv@2Corinthians:8:1 @ Moreov er, brethren, we make known to you the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia:

nkjv@2Corinthians:8:2 @ that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep pov erty abounded in the riches of their lib erality.

nkjv@2Corinthians:8:3 @ For I bear witness that according to their ability, yes, and beyond their ability, they w ere freely willing,

nkjv@2Corinthians:8:4 @ imploring us with much urgency that we would receive the gift and the fellowship of the minist ering to the saints.

nkjv@2Corinthians:8:7 @ But as you abound in ev erything--in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all diligence, and in your love for us--see that you abound in this grace also.

nkjv@2Corinthians:8:8 @ I speak not by commandment, but I am testing the sinc erity of your love by the diligence of oth ers.

nkjv@2Corinthians:8:9 @ For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His pov erty might become rich.

nkjv@2Corinthians:8:10 @ And in this I give advice: It is to your advantage not only to be doing what you began and w ere desiring to do a year ago;

nkjv@2Corinthians:8:11 @ but now you also must complete the doing of it; that as th ere was a readiness to desire it, so th ere also may be a completion out of what you have.

nkjv@2Corinthians:8:12 @ For if th ere is first a willing mind, it is accepted according to what one has, and not according to what he does not have.

nkjv@2Corinthians:8:13 @ For I do not mean that oth ers should be eased and you burdened;

nkjv@2Corinthians:8:14 @ but by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may supply their lack, that their abundance also may supply your lack--that th ere may be equality.

nkjv@2Corinthians:8:15 @ As it is written, "He who gath ered much had nothing left ov er, and he who gath ered little had no lack."

nkjv@2Corinthians:8:18 @ And we have sent with him the broth er whose praise is in the gospel throughout all the churches,

nkjv@2Corinthians:8:19 @ and not only that, but who was also chosen by the churches to travel with us with this gift, which is administ ered by us to the glory of the Lord Himself and to show your ready mind,

nkjv@2Corinthians:8:20 @ avoiding this: that anyone should blame us in this lavish gift which is administ ered by us--

nkjv@2Corinthians:8:22 @ And we have sent with them our broth er whom we have often proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, because of the great confidence which we have in you.

nkjv@2Corinthians:8:23 @ If anyone inquires about Titus, he is my partn er and fellow work er conc erning you. Or if our brethren are inquired about, they are messeng ers of the churches, the glory of Christ.

nkjv@2Corinthians:8:24 @ Th erefore show to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love and of our boasting on your behalf.

nkjv@2Corinthians:9:1 @ Now conc erning the minist ering to the saints, it is sup erfluous for me to write to you;

nkjv@2Corinthians:9:5 @ Th erefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren to go to you ahead of time, and prepare your gen erous gift beforehand, which you had previously promised, that it may be ready as a matt er of gen erosity and not as a grudging obligation.

nkjv@2Corinthians:9:7 @ So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a che erful giv er.

nkjv@2Corinthians:9:8 @ And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for ev ery good work.

nkjv@2Corinthians:9:9 @ As it is written: "He has disp ersed abroad, He has given to the poor; His righteousness endures forev er."

nkjv@2Corinthians:9:10 @ Now may He who supplies seed to the sow er, and bread for food, supply and multiply the seed you have sown and increase the fruits of your righteousness,

nkjv@2Corinthians:9:11 @ while you are enriched in ev erything for all lib erality, which causes thanksgiving through us to God.

nkjv@2Corinthians:9:12 @ For the administration of this s ervice not only supplies the needs of the saints, but also is abounding through many thanksgivings to God,

nkjv@2Corinthians:9:13 @ while, through the proof of this ministry, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the gospel of Christ, and for your lib eral sharing with them and all men,

nkjv@2Corinthians:9:14 @ and by their pray er for you, who long for you because of the exceeding grace of God in you.

nkjv@2Corinthians:10:5 @ casting down arguments and ev ery high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing ev ery thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

nkjv@2Corinthians:10:7 @ Do you look at things according to the outward appearance? If anyone is convinced in himself that he is Christ's, let him again consid er this in himself, that just as he is Christ's, even so we are Christ's.

nkjv@2Corinthians:10:9 @ lest I seem to t errify you by lett ers.

nkjv@2Corinthians:10:10 @ "For his lett ers," they say, "are weighty and pow erful, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible."

nkjv@2Corinthians:10:11 @ Let such a p erson consid er this, that what we are in word by lett ers when we are absent, such we will also be in deed when we are present.

nkjv@2Corinthians:10:13 @ We, howev er, will not boast beyond measure, but within the limits of the sph ere which God appointed us--a sph ere which especially includes you.

nkjv@2Corinthians:10:14 @ For we are not ov erextending ourselves (as though our authority did not extend to you), for it was to you that we came with the gospel of Christ;

nkjv@2Corinthians:10:15 @ not boasting of things beyond measure, that is, in oth er men's labors, but having hope, that as your faith is increased, we shall be greatly enlarged by you in our sph ere,

nkjv@2Corinthians:10:16 @ to preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in anoth er man's sph ere of accomplishment.

nkjv@2Corinthians:11:3 @ But I fear, lest somehow, as the s erpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

nkjv@2Corinthians:11:4 @ For if he who comes preaches anoth er Jesus whom we have not preached, or if you receive a diff erent spirit which you have not received, or a diff erent gospel which you have not accepted--you may well put up with it!

nkjv@2Corinthians:11:5 @ For I consid er that I am not at all inf erior to the most eminent apostles.

nkjv@2Corinthians:11:8 @ I robbed oth er churches, taking wages from them to minist er to you.

nkjv@2Corinthians:11:9 @ And when I was present with you, and in need, I was a burden to no one, for what I lacked the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied. And in ev erything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and so I will keep myself.

nkjv@2Corinthians:11:13 @ For such are false apostles, deceitful work ers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.

nkjv@2Corinthians:11:14 @ And no wond er! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light.

nkjv@2Corinthians:11:15 @ Th erefore it is no great thing if his minist ers also transform themselves into minist ers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

nkjv@2Corinthians:11:16 @ I say again, let no one think me a fool. If oth erwise, at least receive me as a fool, that I also may boast a little.

nkjv@2Corinthians:11:17 @ What I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as it w ere, foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.

nkjv@2Corinthians:11:21 @ To our shame I say that we w ere too weak for that! But in whatev er anyone is bold--I speak foolishly--I am bold also.

nkjv@2Corinthians:11:23 @ Are they minist ers of Christ?--I speak as a fool--I am more: in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often.

nkjv@2Corinthians:11:26 @ in journeys often, in p erils of wat ers, in p erils of robb ers, in p erils of my own countrymen, in p erils of the Gentiles, in p erils in the city, in p erils in the wild erness, in p erils in the sea, in p erils among false brethren;

nkjv@2Corinthians:11:27 @ in weariness and toil, in sleeplessness often, in hung er and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness--

nkjv@2Corinthians:11:28 @ besides the oth er things, what comes upon me daily: my deep conc ern for all the churches.

nkjv@2Corinthians:11:30 @ If I must boast, I will boast in the things which conc ern my infirmity.

nkjv@2Corinthians:11:31 @ The God and Fath er of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed forev er, knows that I am not lying.

nkjv@2Corinthians:11:32 @ In Damascus the gov ernor, und er Aretas the king, was guarding the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desiring to arrest me;

nkjv@2Corinthians:12:2 @ I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago--wheth er in the body I do not know, or wheth er out of the body I do not know, God knows--such a one was caught up to the third heaven.

nkjv@2Corinthians:12:3 @ And I know such a man--wheth er in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows--

nkjv@2Corinthians:12:4 @ how he was caught up into Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which it is not lawful for a man to utt er.

nkjv@2Corinthians:12:7 @ And lest I should be exalted above measure by the abundance of the revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messeng er of Satan to buffet me, lest I be exalted above measure.

nkjv@2Corinthians:12:8 @ Conc erning this thing I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me.

nkjv@2Corinthians:12:9 @ And He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made p erfect in weakness." Th erefore most gladly I will rath er boast in my infirmities, that the pow er of Christ may rest upon me.

nkjv@2Corinthians:12:10 @ Th erefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in p ersecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

nkjv@2Corinthians:12:12 @ Truly the signs of an apostle w ere accomplished among you with all p ersev erance, in signs and wond ers and mighty deeds.

nkjv@2Corinthians:12:13 @ For what is it in which you w ere inf erior to oth er churches, except that I myself was not burdensome to you? Forgive me this wrong!

nkjv@2Corinthians:12:15 @ And I will v ery gladly spend and be spent for your souls; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.

nkjv@2Corinthians:12:16 @ But be that as it may, I did not burden you. Nev ertheless, being crafty, I caught you by cunning!

nkjv@2Corinthians:12:18 @ I urged Titus, and sent our broth er with him. Did Titus take advantage of you? Did we not walk in the same spirit? Did we not walk in the same steps?

nkjv@2Corinthians:12:20 @ For I fear lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I wish, and that I shall be found by you such as you do not wish; lest th ere be contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, backbitings, whisp erings, conceits, tumults;

nkjv@2Corinthians:13:1 @ This will be the third time I am coming to you. "By the mouth of two or three witnesses ev ery word shall be established."

nkjv@2Corinthians:13:2 @ I have told you before, and foretell as if I w ere present the second time, and now being absent I write to those who have sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare--

nkjv@2Corinthians:13:4 @ For though He was crucified in weakness, yet He lives by the pow er of God. For we also are weak in Him, but we shall live with Him by the pow er of God toward you.

nkjv@2Corinthians:13:5 @ Examine yourselves as to wheth er you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?--unless indeed you are disqualified.

nkjv@2Corinthians:13:10 @ Th erefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the authority which the Lord has given me for edification and not for destruction.

nkjv@2Corinthians:13:12 @ Greet one anoth er with a holy kiss.

nkjv@Galatians:1:1 @ Paul, an apostle (not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Fath er who raised Him from the dead),

nkjv@Galatians:1:3 @ Grace to you and peace from God the Fath er and our Lord Jesus Christ,

nkjv@Galatians:1:4 @ who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliv er us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Fath er,

nkjv@Galatians:1:5 @ to whom be glory forev er and ev er. Amen.

nkjv@Galatians:1:6 @ I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a diff erent gospel,

nkjv@Galatians:1:7 @ which is not anoth er; but th ere are some who trouble you and want to p erv ert the gospel of Christ.

nkjv@Galatians:1:8 @ But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any oth er gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed.

nkjv@Galatians:1:9 @ As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any oth er gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed.

nkjv@Galatians:1:10 @ For do I now p ersuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bonds ervant of Christ.

nkjv@Galatians:1:12 @ For I neith er received it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came through the revelation of Jesus Christ.

nkjv@Galatians:1:13 @ For you have heard of my form er conduct in Judaism, how I p ersecuted the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it.

nkjv@Galatians:1:14 @ And I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my own nation, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fath ers.

nkjv@Galatians:1:15 @ But when it pleased God, who separated me from my moth er's womb and called me through His grace,

nkjv@Galatians:1:16 @ to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately conf er with flesh and blood,

nkjv@Galatians:1:17 @ nor did I go up to J erusalem to those who w ere apostles before me; but I went to Arabia, and returned again to Damascus.

nkjv@Galatians:1:18 @ Then aft er three years I went up to J erusalem to see Pet er, and remained with him fifteen days.

nkjv@Galatians:1:19 @ But I saw none of the oth er apostles except James, the Lord's broth er.

nkjv@Galatians:1:20 @ (Now conc erning the things which I write to you, indeed, before God, I do not lie.)

nkjv@Galatians:1:21 @ Aft erward I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.

nkjv@Galatians:1:22 @ And I was unknown by face to the churches of Judea which w ere in Christ.

nkjv@Galatians:1:23 @ But they w ere hearing only, "He who form erly p ersecuted us now preaches the faith which he once tried to destroy."

nkjv@Galatians:2:1 @ Then aft er fourteen years I went up again to J erusalem with Barnabas, and also took Titus with me.

nkjv@Galatians:2:2 @ And I went up by revelation, and communicated to them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to those who w ere of reputation, lest by any means I might run, or had run, in vain.

nkjv@Galatians:2:4 @ And this occurred because of false brethren secretly brought in (who came in by stealth to spy out our lib erty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage),

nkjv@Galatians:2:6 @ But from those who seemed to be something--whatev er they w ere, it makes no diff erence to me; God shows p ersonal favoritism to no man--for those who seemed to be something added nothing to me.

nkjv@Galatians:2:7 @ But on the contrary, when they saw that the gospel for the uncircumcised had been committed to me, as the gospel for the circumcised was to Pet er

nkjv@Galatians:2:8 @ (for He who worked effectively in Pet er for the apostleship to the circumcised also worked effectively in me toward the Gentiles),

nkjv@Galatians:2:9 @ and when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, p erceived the grace that had been given to me, they gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.

nkjv@Galatians:2:10 @ They desired only that we should rememb er the poor, the v ery thing which I also was eag er to do.

nkjv@Galatians:2:11 @ Now when Pet er had come to Antioch, I withstood him to his face, because he was to be blamed;

nkjv@Galatians:2:12 @ for before c ertain men came from James, he would eat with the Gentiles; but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing those who w ere of the circumcision.

nkjv@Galatians:2:14 @ But when I saw that they w ere not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Pet er before them all, "If you, being a Jew, live in the mann er of Gentiles and not as the Jews, why do you compel Gentiles to live as Jews?

nkjv@Galatians:2:15 @ We who are Jews by nature, and not sinn ers of the Gentiles,

nkjv@Galatians:2:17 @ "But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinn ers, is Christ th erefore a minist er of sin? C ertainly not!

nkjv@Galatians:2:20 @ I have been crucified with Christ; it is no long er I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

nkjv@Galatians:3:3 @ Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made p erfect by the flesh?

nkjv@Galatians:3:4 @ Have you suff ered so many things in vain--if indeed it was in vain?

nkjv@Galatians:3:5 @ Th erefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?--

nkjv@Galatians:3:7 @ Th erefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham.

nkjv@Galatians:3:10 @ For as many as are of the works of the law are und er the curse; for it is written, "Cursed is ev eryone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them."

nkjv@Galatians:3:13 @ Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, "Cursed is ev eryone who hangs on a tree" ),

nkjv@Galatians:3:15 @ Brethren, I speak in the mann er of men: Though it is only a man's covenant, yet if it is confirmed, no one annuls or adds to it.

nkjv@Galatians:3:16 @ Now to Abraham and his Seed w ere the promises made. He does not say, "And to seeds," as of many, but as of one, "And to your Seed," who is Christ.

nkjv@Galatians:3:17 @ And this I say, that the law, which was four hundred and thirty years lat er, cannot annul the covenant that was confirmed before by God in Christ, that it should make the promise of no effect.

nkjv@Galatians:3:18 @ For if the inh eritance is of the law, it is no long er of promise; but God gave it to Abraham by promise.

nkjv@Galatians:3:19 @ What purpose then does the law s erve? It was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was appointed through angels by the hand of a mediator.

nkjv@Galatians:3:21 @ Is the law then against the promises of God? C ertainly not! For if th ere had been a law given which could have given life, truly righteousness would have been by the law.

nkjv@Galatians:3:22 @ But the Scripture has confined all und er sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

nkjv@Galatians:3:23 @ But before faith came, we w ere kept und er guard by the law, kept for the faith which would aft erward be revealed.

nkjv@Galatians:3:24 @ Th erefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

nkjv@Galatians:3:25 @ But aft er faith has come, we are no long er und er a tutor.

nkjv@Galatians:3:27 @ For as many of you as w ere baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

nkjv@Galatians:3:28 @ Th ere is neith er Jew nor Greek, th ere is neith er slave nor free, th ere is neith er male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

nkjv@Galatians:4:1 @ Now I say that the heir, as long as he is a child, does not diff er at all from a slave, though he is mast er of all,

nkjv@Galatians:4:2 @ but is und er guardians and stewards until the time appointed by the fath er.

nkjv@Galatians:4:3 @ Even so we, when we w ere children, w ere in bondage und er the elements of the world.

nkjv@Galatians:4:4 @ But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born und er the law,

nkjv@Galatians:4:5 @ to redeem those who w ere und er the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.

nkjv@Galatians:4:6 @ And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, "Abba, Fath er!"

nkjv@Galatians:4:7 @ Th erefore you are no long er a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

nkjv@Galatians:4:8 @ But then, indeed, when you did not know God, you s erved those which by nature are not gods.

nkjv@Galatians:4:9 @ But now aft er you have known God, or rath er are known by God, how is it that you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which you desire again to be in bondage?

nkjv@Galatians:4:10 @ You obs erve days and months and seasons and years.

nkjv@Galatians:4:16 @ Have I th erefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth?

nkjv@Galatians:4:21 @ Tell me, you who desire to be und er the law, do you not hear the law?

nkjv@Galatians:4:22 @ For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman, the oth er by a freewoman.

nkjv@Galatians:4:25 @ for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to J erusalem which now is, and is in bondage with h er children--

nkjv@Galatians:4:26 @ but the J erusalem above is free, which is the moth er of us all.

nkjv@Galatians:4:29 @ But, as he who was born according to the flesh then p ersecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, even so it is now.

nkjv@Galatians:4:30 @ Nev ertheless what does the Scripture say? "Cast out the bondwoman and h er son, for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman."

nkjv@Galatians:5:1 @ Stand fast th erefore in the lib erty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

nkjv@Galatians:5:3 @ And I testify again to ev ery man who becomes circumcised that he is a debtor to keep the whole law.

nkjv@Galatians:5:5 @ For we through the Spirit eag erly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.

nkjv@Galatians:5:6 @ For in Christ Jesus neith er circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love.

nkjv@Galatians:5:7 @ You ran well. Who hind ered you from obeying the truth?

nkjv@Galatians:5:8 @ This p ersuasion does not come from Him who calls you.

nkjv@Galatians:5:10 @ I have confidence in you, in the Lord, that you will have no oth er mind; but he who troubles you shall bear his judgment, whoev er he is.

nkjv@Galatians:5:11 @ And I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why do I still suff er p ersecution? Then the offense of the cross has ceased.

nkjv@Galatians:5:13 @ For you, brethren, have been called to lib erty; only do not use lib erty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love s erve one anoth er.

nkjv@Galatians:5:15 @ But if you bite and devour one anoth er, beware lest you be consumed by one anoth er!

nkjv@Galatians:5:17 @ For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one anoth er, so that you do not do the things that you wish.

nkjv@Galatians:5:18 @ But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not und er the law.

nkjv@Galatians:5:19 @ Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adult ery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness,

nkjv@Galatians:5:20 @ idolatry, sorc ery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, h eresies,

nkjv@Galatians:5:21 @ envy, murd ers, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inh erit the kingdom of God.

nkjv@Galatians:5:22 @ But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuff ering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

nkjv@Galatians:5:23 @ gentleness, self-control. Against such th ere is no law.

nkjv@Galatians:5:26 @ Let us not become conceited, provoking one anoth er, envying one anoth er.

nkjv@Galatians:6:1 @ Brethren, if a man is ov ertaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, consid ering yourself lest you also be tempted.

nkjv@Galatians:6:2 @ Bear one anoth er's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

nkjv@Galatians:6:4 @ But let each one examine his own work, and then he will have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in anoth er.

nkjv@Galatians:6:7 @ Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatev er a man sows, that he will also reap.

nkjv@Galatians:6:8 @ For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap ev erlasting life.

nkjv@Galatians:6:10 @ Th erefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith.

nkjv@Galatians:6:11 @ See with what large lett ers I have written to you with my own hand!

nkjv@Galatians:6:12 @ As many as desire to make a good showing in the flesh, these would compel you to be circumcised, only that they may not suff er p ersecution for the cross of Christ.

nkjv@Galatians:6:15 @ For in Christ Jesus neith er circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation.

nkjv@Galatians:6:16 @ And as many as walk according to this rule, peace and m ercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God.

nkjv@Ephesians:1:2 @ Grace to you and peace from God our Fath er and the Lord Jesus Christ.

nkjv@Ephesians:1:3 @ Blessed be the God and Fath er of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with ev ery spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

nkjv@Ephesians:1:9 @ having made known to us the myst ery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself,

nkjv@Ephesians:1:10 @ that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gath er togeth er in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth--in Him.

nkjv@Ephesians:1:11 @ In Him also we have obtained an inh eritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will,

nkjv@Ephesians:1:13 @ In Him you also trusted, aft er you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you w ere sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

nkjv@Ephesians:1:14 @ who is the guarantee of our inh eritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.

nkjv@Ephesians:1:15 @ Th erefore I also, aft er I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,

nkjv@Ephesians:1:16 @ do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my pray ers:

nkjv@Ephesians:1:17 @ that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Fath er of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him,

nkjv@Ephesians:1:18 @ the eyes of your und erstanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inh eritance in the saints,

nkjv@Ephesians:1:19 @ and what is the exceeding greatness of His pow er toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty pow er

nkjv@Ephesians:1:21 @ far above all principality and pow er and might and dominion, and ev ery name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.

nkjv@Ephesians:1:22 @ And He put all things und er His feet, and gave Him to be head ov er all things to the church,

nkjv@Ephesians:2:1 @ And you He made alive, who w ere dead in trespasses and sins,

nkjv@Ephesians:2:2 @ in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the pow er of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience,

nkjv@Ephesians:2:3 @ among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and w ere by nature children of wrath, just as the oth ers.

nkjv@Ephesians:2:4 @ But God, who is rich in m ercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,

nkjv@Ephesians:2:5 @ even when we w ere dead in trespasses, made us alive togeth er with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

nkjv@Ephesians:2:6 @ and raised us up togeth er, and made us sit togeth er in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

nkjv@Ephesians:2:11 @ Th erefore rememb er that you, once Gentiles in the flesh--who are called Uncircumcision by what is called the Circumcision made in the flesh by hands--

nkjv@Ephesians:2:12 @ that at that time you w ere without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strang ers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

nkjv@Ephesians:2:13 @ But now in Christ Jesus you who once w ere far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

nkjv@Ephesians:2:16 @ and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, th ereby putting to death the enmity.

nkjv@Ephesians:2:17 @ And He came and preached peace to you who w ere afar off and to those who w ere near.

nkjv@Ephesians:2:18 @ For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Fath er.

nkjv@Ephesians:2:19 @ Now, th erefore, you are no long er strang ers and foreign ers, but fellow citizens with the saints and memb ers of the household of God,

nkjv@Ephesians:2:20 @ having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief corn erstone,

nkjv@Ephesians:2:21 @ in whom the whole building, being fitted togeth er, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,

nkjv@Ephesians:2:22 @ in whom you also are being built togeth er for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.

nkjv@Ephesians:3:1 @ For this reason I, Paul, the prison er of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles--

nkjv@Ephesians:3:3 @ how that by revelation He made known to me the myst ery (as I have briefly written already,

nkjv@Ephesians:3:4 @ by which, when you read, you may und erstand my knowledge in the myst ery of Christ),

nkjv@Ephesians:3:5 @ which in oth er ages was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to His holy apostles and prophets:

nkjv@Ephesians:3:6 @ that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, of the same body, and partak ers of His promise in Christ through the gospel,

nkjv@Ephesians:3:7 @ of which I became a minist er according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effective working of His pow er.

nkjv@Ephesians:3:9 @ and to make all see what is the fellowship of the myst ery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ;

nkjv@Ephesians:3:10 @ to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church to the principalities and pow ers in the heavenly places,

nkjv@Ephesians:3:11 @ according to the et ernal purpose which He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord,

nkjv@Ephesians:3:13 @ Th erefore I ask that you do not lose heart at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

nkjv@Ephesians:3:14 @ For this reason I bow my knees to the Fath er of our Lord Jesus Christ,

nkjv@Ephesians:3:16 @ that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inn er man,

nkjv@Ephesians:3:20 @ Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the pow er that works in us,

nkjv@Ephesians:3:21 @ to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all gen erations, forev er and ev er. Amen.

nkjv@Ephesians:4:1 @ I, th erefore, the prison er of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you w ere called,

nkjv@Ephesians:4:2 @ with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuff ering, bearing with one anoth er in love,

nkjv@Ephesians:4:4 @ Th ere is one body and one Spirit, just as you w ere called in one hope of your calling;

nkjv@Ephesians:4:6 @ one God and Fath er of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

nkjv@Ephesians:4:8 @ Th erefore He says: "When He ascended on high, He led captivity captive, And gave gifts to men."

nkjv@Ephesians:4:9 @ (Now this, "He ascended"--what does it mean but that He also first descended into the low er parts of the earth?

nkjv@Ephesians:4:11 @ And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teach ers,

nkjv@Ephesians:4:13 @ till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a p erfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;

nkjv@Ephesians:4:14 @ that we should no long er be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with ev ery wind of doctrine, by the trick ery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting,

nkjv@Ephesians:4:16 @ from whom the whole body, joined and knit togeth er by what ev ery joint supplies, according to the effective working by which ev ery part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.

nkjv@Ephesians:4:17 @ This I say, th erefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no long er walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind,

nkjv@Ephesians:4:18 @ having their und erstanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart;

nkjv@Ephesians:4:19 @ who, being past feeling, have given themselves ov er to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

nkjv@Ephesians:4:22 @ that you put off, conc erning your form er conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,

nkjv@Ephesians:4:25 @ Th erefore, putting away lying, "Let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor," for we are memb ers of one anoth er.

nkjv@Ephesians:4:28 @ Let him who stole steal no long er, but rath er let him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give him who has need.

nkjv@Ephesians:4:29 @ Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hear ers.

nkjv@Ephesians:4:30 @ And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you w ere sealed for the day of redemption.

nkjv@Ephesians:4:31 @ Let all bitt erness, wrath, ang er, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.

nkjv@Ephesians:4:32 @ And be kind to one anoth er, tend erhearted, forgiving one anoth er, even as God in Christ forgave you.

nkjv@Ephesians:5:1 @ Th erefore be imitators of God as dear children.

nkjv@Ephesians:5:2 @ And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an off ering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.

nkjv@Ephesians:5:4 @ neith er filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rath er giving of thanks.

nkjv@Ephesians:5:5 @ For this you know, that no fornicator, unclean p erson, nor covetous man, who is an idolat er, has any inh eritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

nkjv@Ephesians:5:7 @ Th erefore do not be partak ers with them.

nkjv@Ephesians:5:8 @ For you w ere once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light

nkjv@Ephesians:5:11 @ And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rath er expose them.

nkjv@Ephesians:5:13 @ But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatev er makes manifest is light.

nkjv@Ephesians:5:14 @ Th erefore He says: "Awake, you who sleep, Arise from the dead, And Christ will give you light."

nkjv@Ephesians:5:17 @ Th erefore do not be unwise, but und erstand what the will of the Lord is.

nkjv@Ephesians:5:19 @ speaking to one anoth er in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,

nkjv@Ephesians:5:20 @ giving thanks always for all things to God the Fath er in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

nkjv@Ephesians:5:21 @ submitting to one anoth er in the fear of God.

nkjv@Ephesians:5:24 @ Th erefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in ev erything.

nkjv@Ephesians:5:25 @ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for h er,

nkjv@Ephesians:5:26 @ that He might sanctify and cleanse h er with the washing of wat er by the word,

nkjv@Ephesians:5:27 @ that He might present h er to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.

nkjv@Ephesians:5:29 @ For no one ev er hated his own flesh, but nourishes and ch erishes it, just as the Lord does the church.

nkjv@Ephesians:5:30 @ For we are memb ers of His body, of His flesh and of His bones.

nkjv@Ephesians:5:31 @ "For this reason a man shall leave his fath er and moth er and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh."

nkjv@Ephesians:5:32 @ This is a great myst ery, but I speak conc erning Christ and the church.

nkjv@Ephesians:5:33 @ Nev ertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects h er husband.

nkjv@Ephesians:6:2 @ "Honor your fath er and moth er," which is the first commandment with promise:

nkjv@Ephesians:6:4 @ And you, fath ers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.

nkjv@Ephesians:6:5 @ Bonds ervants, be obedient to those who are your mast ers according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in sinc erity of heart, as to Christ;

nkjv@Ephesians:6:6 @ not with eyes ervice, as men-pleas ers, but as bonds ervants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

nkjv@Ephesians:6:7 @ with goodwill doing s ervice, as to the Lord, and not to men,

nkjv@Ephesians:6:8 @ knowing that whatev er good anyone does, he will receive the same from the Lord, wheth er he is a slave or free.

nkjv@Ephesians:6:9 @ And you, mast ers, do the same things to them, giving up threatening, knowing that your own Mast er also is in heaven, and th ere is no partiality with Him.

nkjv@Ephesians:6:10 @ Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the pow er of His might.

nkjv@Ephesians:6:12 @ For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against pow ers, against the rul ers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

nkjv@Ephesians:6:13 @ Th erefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

nkjv@Ephesians:6:14 @ Stand th erefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

nkjv@Ephesians:6:16 @ above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fi ery darts of the wicked one.

nkjv@Ephesians:6:18 @ praying always with all pray er and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all p ersev erance and supplication for all the saints--

nkjv@Ephesians:6:19 @ and for me, that utt erance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the myst ery of the gospel,

nkjv@Ephesians:6:21 @ But that you also may know my affairs and how I am doing, Tychicus, a beloved broth er and faithful minist er in the Lord, will make all things known to you;

nkjv@Ephesians:6:22 @ whom I have sent to you for this v ery purpose, that you may know our affairs, and that he may comfort your hearts.

nkjv@Ephesians:6:23 @ Peace to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Fath er and the Lord Jesus Christ.

nkjv@Ephesians:6:24 @ Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ in sinc erity. Amen.

nkjv@Philippians:1:1 @ Paul and Timothy, bonds ervants of Jesus Christ, To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:

nkjv@Philippians:1:2 @ Grace to you and peace from God our Fath er and the Lord Jesus Christ.

nkjv@Philippians:1:3 @ I thank my God upon ev ery remembrance of you,

nkjv@Philippians:1:4 @ always in ev ery pray er of mine making request for you all with joy,

nkjv@Philippians:1:6 @ being confident of this v ery thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ;

nkjv@Philippians:1:7 @ just as it is right for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart, inasmuch as both in my chains and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partak ers with me of grace.

nkjv@Philippians:1:9 @ And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all disc ernment,

nkjv@Philippians:1:10 @ that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sinc ere and without offense till the day of Christ,

nkjv@Philippians:1:12 @ But I want you to know, brethren, that the things which happened to me have actually turned out for the furth erance of the gospel,

nkjv@Philippians:1:16 @ The form er preach Christ from selfish ambition, not sinc erely, supposing to add affliction to my chains;

nkjv@Philippians:1:17 @ but the latt er out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel.

nkjv@Philippians:1:18 @ What then? Only that in ev ery way, wheth er in pretense or in truth, Christ is preached; and in this I rejoice, yes, and will rejoice.

nkjv@Philippians:1:19 @ For I know that this will turn out for my deliv erance through your pray er and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

nkjv@Philippians:1:20 @ according to my earnest expectation and hope that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ will be magnified in my body, wheth er by life or by death.

nkjv@Philippians:1:23 @ For I am hard-pressed between the two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far bett er.

nkjv@Philippians:1:24 @ Nev ertheless to remain in the flesh is more needful for you.

nkjv@Philippians:1:27 @ Only let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that wheth er I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving togeth er for the faith of the gospel,

nkjv@Philippians:1:28 @ and not in any way t errified by your adv ersaries, which is to them a proof of p erdition, but to you of salvation, and that from God.

nkjv@Philippians:1:29 @ For to you it has been granted on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in Him, but also to suff er for His sake,

nkjv@Philippians:2:1 @ Th erefore if th ere is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and m ercy,

nkjv@Philippians:2:3 @ Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem oth ers bett er than himself.

nkjv@Philippians:2:4 @ Let each of you look out not only for his own int erests, but also for the int erests of oth ers.

nkjv@Philippians:2:6 @ who, being in the form of God, did not consid er it robb ery to be equal with God,

nkjv@Philippians:2:7 @ but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bonds ervant, and coming in the likeness of men.

nkjv@Philippians:2:9 @ Th erefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above ev ery name,

nkjv@Philippians:2:10 @ that at the name of Jesus ev ery knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those und er the earth,

nkjv@Philippians:2:11 @ and that ev ery tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Fath er.

nkjv@Philippians:2:12 @ Th erefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;

nkjv@Philippians:2:15 @ that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and p erv erse gen eration, among whom you shine as lights in the world,

nkjv@Philippians:2:17 @ Yes, and if I am being poured out as a drink off ering on the sacrifice and s ervice of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all.

nkjv@Philippians:2:20 @ For I have no one like-minded, who will sinc erely care for your state.

nkjv@Philippians:2:22 @ But you know his proven charact er, that as a son with his fath er he s erved with me in the gospel.

nkjv@Philippians:2:23 @ Th erefore I hope to send him at once, as soon as I see how it goes with me.

nkjv@Philippians:2:25 @ Yet I consid ered it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my broth er, fellow work er, and fellow soldi er, but your messeng er and the one who minist ered to my need;

nkjv@Philippians:2:27 @ For indeed he was sick almost unto death; but God had m ercy on him, and not only on him but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

nkjv@Philippians:2:28 @ Th erefore I sent him the more eag erly, that when you see him again you may rejoice, and I may be less sorrowful.

nkjv@Philippians:2:29 @ Receive him th erefore in the Lord with all gladness, and hold such men in esteem;

nkjv@Philippians:2:30 @ because for the work of Christ he came close to death, not regarding his life, to supply what was lacking in your s ervice toward me.

nkjv@Philippians:3:2 @ Beware of dogs, beware of evil work ers, beware of the mutilation!

nkjv@Philippians:3:5 @ circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; conc erning the law, a Pharisee;

nkjv@Philippians:3:6 @ conc erning zeal, p ersecuting the church; conc erning the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.

nkjv@Philippians:3:7 @ But what things w ere gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ.

nkjv@Philippians:3:8 @ Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suff ered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ

nkjv@Philippians:3:10 @ that I may know Him and the pow er of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His suff erings, being conformed to His death,

nkjv@Philippians:3:12 @ Not that I have already attained, or am already p erfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.

nkjv@Philippians:3:15 @ Th erefore let us, as many as are mature, have this mind; and if in anything you think oth erwise, God will reveal even this to you.

nkjv@Philippians:3:16 @ Nev ertheless, to the degree that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us be of the same mind.

nkjv@Philippians:3:17 @ Brethren, join in following my example, and note those who so walk, as you have us for a patt ern.

nkjv@Philippians:3:20 @ For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eag erly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

nkjv@Philippians:4:1 @ Th erefore, my beloved and longed-for brethren, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, beloved.

nkjv@Philippians:4:3 @ And I urge you also, true companion, help these women who labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow work ers, whose names are in the Book of Life.

nkjv@Philippians:4:6 @ Be anxious for nothing, but in ev erything by pray er and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;

nkjv@Philippians:4:7 @ and the peace of God, which surpasses all und erstanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

nkjv@Philippians:4:8 @ Finally, brethren, whatev er things are true, whatev er things are noble, whatev er things are just, whatev er things are pure, whatev er things are lovely, whatev er things are of good report, if th ere is any virtue and if th ere is anything praiseworthy--meditate on these things.

nkjv@Philippians:4:11 @ Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatev er state I am, to be content:

nkjv@Philippians:4:12 @ I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Ev erywh ere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suff er need.

nkjv@Philippians:4:14 @ Nev ertheless you have done well that you shared in my distress.

nkjv@Philippians:4:15 @ Now you Philippians know also that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church shared with me conc erning giving and receiving but you only.

nkjv@Philippians:4:20 @ Now to our God and Fath er be glory forev er and ev er. Amen.

nkjv@Philippians:4:21 @ Greet ev ery saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren who are with me greet you.

nkjv@Colossians:1:1 @ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our broth er,

nkjv@Colossians:1:2 @ To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ who are in Colosse: Grace to you and peace from God our Fath er and the Lord Jesus Christ.

nkjv@Colossians:1:3 @ We give thanks to the God and Fath er of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,

nkjv@Colossians:1:7 @ as you also learned from Epaphras, our dear fellow s ervant, who is a faithful minist er of Christ on your behalf,

nkjv@Colossians:1:9 @ For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual und erstanding;

nkjv@Colossians:1:10 @ that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in ev ery good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;

nkjv@Colossians:1:11 @ strengthened with all might, according to His glorious pow er, for all patience and longsuff ering with joy;

nkjv@Colossians:1:12 @ giving thanks to the Fath er who has qualified us to be partak ers of the inh eritance of the saints in the light.

nkjv@Colossians:1:13 @ He has deliv ered us from the pow er of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,

nkjv@Colossians:1:15 @ He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn ov er all creation.

nkjv@Colossians:1:16 @ For by Him all things w ere created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, wheth er thrones or dominions or principalities or pow ers. All things w ere created through Him and for Him.

nkjv@Colossians:1:19 @ For it pleased the Fath er that in Him all the fullness should dwell,

nkjv@Colossians:1:20 @ and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, wheth er things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross.

nkjv@Colossians:1:21 @ And you, who once w ere alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled

nkjv@Colossians:1:23 @ if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to ev ery creature und er heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minist er.

nkjv@Colossians:1:24 @ I now rejoice in my suff erings for you, and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ, for the sake of His body, which is the church,

nkjv@Colossians:1:25 @ of which I became a minist er according to the stewardship from God which was given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God,

nkjv@Colossians:1:26 @ the myst ery which has been hidden from ages and from gen erations, but now has been revealed to His saints.

nkjv@Colossians:1:27 @ To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this myst ery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

nkjv@Colossians:1:28 @ Him we preach, warning ev ery man and teaching ev ery man in all wisdom, that we may present ev ery man p erfect in Christ Jesus.

nkjv@Colossians:2:2 @ that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit togeth er in love, and attaining to all riches of the full assurance of und erstanding, to the knowledge of the myst ery of God, both of the Fath er and of Christ,

nkjv@Colossians:2:4 @ Now this I say lest anyone should deceive you with p ersuasive words.

nkjv@Colossians:2:5 @ For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good ord er and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.

nkjv@Colossians:2:6 @ As you th erefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,

nkjv@Colossians:2:10 @ and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and pow er.

nkjv@Colossians:2:11 @ In Him you w ere also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,

nkjv@Colossians:2:12 @ buried with Him in baptism, in which you also w ere raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.

nkjv@Colossians:2:13 @ And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive togeth er with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses,

nkjv@Colossians:2:15 @ Having disarmed principalities and pow ers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing ov er them in it.

nkjv@Colossians:2:19 @ and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit togeth er by joints and ligaments, grows with the increase that is from God.

nkjv@Colossians:2:20 @ Th erefore, if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations--

nkjv@Colossians:2:22 @ which all conc ern things which p erish with the using--according to the commandments and doctrines of men?

nkjv@Colossians:3:1 @ If then you w ere raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, wh ere Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God.

nkjv@Colossians:3:5 @ Th erefore put to death your memb ers which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

nkjv@Colossians:3:8 @ But now you yourselves are to put off all these: ang er, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth.

nkjv@Colossians:3:9 @ Do not lie to one anoth er, since you have put off the old man with his deeds,

nkjv@Colossians:3:11 @ wh ere th ere is neith er Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all and in all.

nkjv@Colossians:3:12 @ Th erefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tend er m ercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuff ering;

nkjv@Colossians:3:13 @ bearing with one anoth er, and forgiving one anoth er, if anyone has a complaint against anoth er; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do.

nkjv@Colossians:3:14 @ But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of p erfection.

nkjv@Colossians:3:15 @ And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you w ere called in one body; and be thankful.

nkjv@Colossians:3:16 @ Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one anoth er in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

nkjv@Colossians:3:17 @ And whatev er you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Fath er through Him.

nkjv@Colossians:3:19 @ Husbands, love your wives and do not be bitt er toward them.

nkjv@Colossians:3:21 @ Fath ers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

nkjv@Colossians:3:22 @ Bonds ervants, obey in all things your mast ers according to the flesh, not with eyes ervice, as men-pleas ers, but in sinc erity of heart, fearing God.

nkjv@Colossians:3:23 @ And whatev er you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men,

nkjv@Colossians:3:24 @ knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inh eritance; for you s erve the Lord Christ.

nkjv@Colossians:3:25 @ But he who does wrong will be repaid for what he has done, and th ere is no partiality.

nkjv@Colossians:4:1 @ Mast ers, give your bonds ervants what is just and fair, knowing that you also have a Mast er in heaven.

nkjv@Colossians:4:2 @ Continue earnestly in pray er, being vigilant in it with thanksgiving;

nkjv@Colossians:4:3 @ meanwhile praying also for us, that God would open to us a door for the word, to speak the myst ery of Christ, for which I am also in chains,

nkjv@Colossians:4:6 @ Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answ er each one.

nkjv@Colossians:4:7 @ Tychicus, a beloved broth er, faithful minist er, and fellow s ervant in the Lord, will tell you all the news about me.

nkjv@Colossians:4:8 @ I am sending him to you for this v ery purpose, that he may know your circumstances and comfort your hearts,

nkjv@Colossians:4:9 @ with Onesimus, a faithful and beloved broth er, who is one of you. They will make known to you all things which are happening h ere.

nkjv@Colossians:4:10 @ Aristarchus my fellow prison er greets you, with Mark the cousin of Barnabas (about whom you received instructions: if he comes to you, welcome him),

nkjv@Colossians:4:11 @ and Jesus who is called Justus. These are my only fellow work ers for the kingdom of God who are of the circumcision; they have proved to be a comfort to me.

nkjv@Colossians:4:12 @ Epaphras, who is one of you, a bonds ervant of Christ, greets you, always laboring f ervently for you in pray ers, that you may stand p erfect and complete in all the will of God.

nkjv@Colossians:4:13 @ For I bear him witness that he has a great zeal for you, and those who are in Laodicea, and those in Hi erapolis.

nkjv@Colossians:4:18 @ This salutation by my own hand--Paul. Rememb er my chains. Grace be with you. Amen.

nkjv@1Thessalonians:1:1 @ Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Fath er and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Fath er and the Lord Jesus Christ.

nkjv@1Thessalonians:1:2 @ We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our pray ers,

nkjv@1Thessalonians:1:3 @ rememb ering without ceasing your work of faith, labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of our God and Fath er,

nkjv@1Thessalonians:1:5 @ For our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in pow er, and in the Holy Spirit and in much assurance, as you know what kind of men we w ere among you for your sake.

nkjv@1Thessalonians:1:6 @ And you became follow ers of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

nkjv@1Thessalonians:1:8 @ For from you the word of the Lord has sounded forth, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in ev ery place. Your faith toward God has gone out, so that we do not need to say anything.

nkjv@1Thessalonians:1:9 @ For they themselves declare conc erning us what mann er of entry we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols to s erve the living and true God,

nkjv@1Thessalonians:1:10 @ and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus who deliv ers us from the wrath to come.

nkjv@1Thessalonians:2:2 @ But even aft er we had suff ered before and w ere spitefully treated at Philippi, as you know, we w ere bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God in much conflict.

nkjv@1Thessalonians:2:3 @ For our exhortation did not come from error or uncleanness, nor was it in deceit.

nkjv@1Thessalonians:2:5 @ For neith er at any time did we use flatt ering words, as you know, nor a cloak for covetousness--God is witness.

nkjv@1Thessalonians:2:6 @ Nor did we seek glory from men, eith er from you or from oth ers, when we might have made demands as apostles of Christ.

nkjv@1Thessalonians:2:7 @ But we w ere gentle among you, just as a nursing moth er ch erishes h er own children.

nkjv@1Thessalonians:2:8 @ So, affectionately longing for you, we w ere well pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God, but also our own lives, because you had become dear to us.

nkjv@1Thessalonians:2:9 @ For you rememb er, brethren, our labor and toil; for laboring night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.

nkjv@1Thessalonians:2:11 @ as you know how we exhorted, and comforted, and charged ev ery one of you, as a fath er does his own children,

nkjv@1Thessalonians:2:14 @ For you, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus. For you also suff ered the same things from your own countrymen, just as they did from the Judeans,

nkjv@1Thessalonians:2:15 @ who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have p ersecuted us; and they do not please God and are contrary to all men,

nkjv@1Thessalonians:2:16 @ forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, so as always to fill up the measure of their sins; but wrath has come upon them to the utt ermost.

nkjv@1Thessalonians:2:17 @ But we, brethren, having been taken away from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavored more eag erly to see your face with great desire.

nkjv@1Thessalonians:2:18 @ Th erefore we wanted to come to you--even I, Paul, time and again--but Satan hind ered us.

nkjv@1Thessalonians:3:1 @ Th erefore, when we could no long er endure it, we thought it good to be left in Athens alone,

nkjv@1Thessalonians:3:2 @ and sent Timothy, our broth er and minist er of God, and our fellow labor er in the gospel of Christ, to establish you and encourage you conc erning your faith,

nkjv@1Thessalonians:3:4 @ For, in fact, we told you before when we w ere with you that we would suff er tribulation, just as it happened, and you know.

nkjv@1Thessalonians:3:5 @ For this reason, when I could no long er endure it, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempt er had tempted you, and our labor might be in vain.

nkjv@1Thessalonians:3:7 @ th erefore, brethren, in all our affliction and distress we w ere comforted conc erning you by your faith.

nkjv@1Thessalonians:3:9 @ For what thanks can we rend er to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sake before our God,

nkjv@1Thessalonians:3:10 @ night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face and p erfect what is lacking in your faith?

nkjv@1Thessalonians:3:11 @ Now may our God and Fath er Himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you.

nkjv@1Thessalonians:3:12 @ And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love to one anoth er and to all, just as we do to you,

nkjv@1Thessalonians:3:13 @ so that He may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Fath er at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.

nkjv@1Thessalonians:4:6 @ that no one should take advantage of and defraud his broth er in this matt er, because the Lord is the aveng er of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified.

nkjv@1Thessalonians:4:8 @ Th erefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who has also given us His Holy Spirit.

nkjv@1Thessalonians:4:9 @ But conc erning broth erly love you have no need that I should write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one anoth er;

nkjv@1Thessalonians:4:12 @ that you may walk prop erly toward those who are outside, and that you may lack nothing.

nkjv@1Thessalonians:4:13 @ But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, conc erning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as oth ers who have no hope.

nkjv@1Thessalonians:4:17 @ Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up togeth er with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.

nkjv@1Thessalonians:4:18 @ Th erefore comfort one anoth er with these words.

nkjv@1Thessalonians:5:1 @ But conc erning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you.

nkjv@1Thessalonians:5:2 @ For you yourselves know p erfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night.

nkjv@1Thessalonians:5:4 @ But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should ov ertake you as a thief.

nkjv@1Thessalonians:5:6 @ Th erefore let us not sleep, as oth ers do, but let us watch and be sob er.

nkjv@1Thessalonians:5:8 @ But let us who are of the day be sob er, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation.

nkjv@1Thessalonians:5:10 @ who died for us, that wheth er we wake or sleep, we should live togeth er with Him.

nkjv@1Thessalonians:5:11 @ Th erefore comfort each oth er and edify one anoth er, just as you also are doing.

nkjv@1Thessalonians:5:12 @ And we urge you, brethren, to recognize those who labor among you, and are ov er you in the Lord and admonish you,

nkjv@1Thessalonians:5:13 @ and to esteem them v ery highly in love for their work's sake. Be at peace among yourselves.

nkjv@1Thessalonians:5:15 @ See that no one rend ers evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue what is good both for yourselves and for all.

nkjv@1Thessalonians:5:18 @ in ev erything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

nkjv@1Thessalonians:5:22 @ Abstain from ev ery form of evil.

nkjv@1Thessalonians:5:23 @ Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be pres erved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

nkjv@2Thessalonians:1:1 @ Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Fath er and the Lord Jesus Christ:

nkjv@2Thessalonians:1:2 @ Grace to you and peace from God our Fath er and the Lord Jesus Christ.

nkjv@2Thessalonians:1:3 @ We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is fitting, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of ev ery one of you all abounds toward each oth er,

nkjv@2Thessalonians:1:4 @ so that we ourselves boast of you among the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your p ersecutions and tribulations that you endure,

nkjv@2Thessalonians:1:5 @ which is manifest evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also suff er;

nkjv@2Thessalonians:1:9 @ These shall be punished with ev erlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His pow er,

nkjv@2Thessalonians:1:11 @ Th erefore we also pray always for you that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness and the work of faith with pow er,

nkjv@2Thessalonians:2:1 @ Now, brethren, conc erning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gath ering togeth er to Him, we ask you,

nkjv@2Thessalonians:2:2 @ not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, eith er by spirit or by word or by lett er, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come.

nkjv@2Thessalonians:2:3 @ Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of p erdition,

nkjv@2Thessalonians:2:5 @ Do you not rememb er that when I was still with you I told you these things?

nkjv@2Thessalonians:2:7 @ For the myst ery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way.

nkjv@2Thessalonians:2:9 @ The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all pow er, signs, and lying wond ers,

nkjv@2Thessalonians:2:10 @ and with all unrighteous deception among those who p erish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

nkjv@2Thessalonians:2:15 @ Th erefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the traditions which you w ere taught, wheth er by word or our epistle.

nkjv@2Thessalonians:2:16 @ Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and our God and Fath er, who has loved us and given us ev erlasting consolation and good hope by grace,

nkjv@2Thessalonians:2:17 @ comfort your hearts and establish you in ev ery good word and work.

nkjv@2Thessalonians:3:2 @ and that we may be deliv ered from unreasonable and wicked men; for not all have faith.

nkjv@2Thessalonians:3:4 @ And we have confidence in the Lord conc erning you, both that you do and will do the things we command you.

nkjv@2Thessalonians:3:6 @ But we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw from ev ery broth er who walks disord erly and not according to the tradition which he received from us.

nkjv@2Thessalonians:3:7 @ For you yourselves know how you ought to follow us, for we w ere not disord erly among you;

nkjv@2Thessalonians:3:10 @ For even when we w ere with you, we commanded you this: If anyone will not work, neith er shall he eat.

nkjv@2Thessalonians:3:11 @ For we hear that th ere are some who walk among you in a disord erly mann er, not working at all, but are busybodies.

nkjv@2Thessalonians:3:14 @ And if anyone does not obey our word in this epistle, note that p erson and do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed.

nkjv@2Thessalonians:3:15 @ Yet do not count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a broth er.

nkjv@2Thessalonians:3:16 @ Now may the Lord of peace Himself give you peace always in ev ery way. The Lord be with you all.

nkjv@2Thessalonians:3:17 @ The salutation of Paul with my own hand, which is a sign in ev ery epistle; so I write.

nkjv@1Timothy:1:2 @ To Timothy, a true son in the faith: Grace, m ercy, and peace from God our Fath er and Jesus Christ our Lord.

nkjv@1Timothy:1:3 @ As I urged you when I went into Macedonia--remain in Ephesus that you may charge some that they teach no oth er doctrine,

nkjv@1Timothy:1:4 @ nor give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which cause disputes rath er than godly edification which is in faith.

nkjv@1Timothy:1:5 @ Now the purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sinc ere faith,

nkjv@1Timothy:1:7 @ desiring to be teach ers of the law, und erstanding neith er what they say nor the things which they affirm.

nkjv@1Timothy:1:9 @ knowing this: that the law is not made for a righteous p erson, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and for sinn ers, for the unholy and profane, for murd er ers of fath ers and murd er ers of moth ers, for manslay ers,

nkjv@1Timothy:1:10 @ for fornicators, for sodomites, for kidnapp ers, for liars, for p erjur ers, and if th ere is any oth er thing that is contrary to sound doctrine,

nkjv@1Timothy:1:13 @ although I was form erly a blasphem er, a p ersecutor, and an insolent man; but I obtained m ercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

nkjv@1Timothy:1:15 @ This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinn ers, of whom I am chief.

nkjv@1Timothy:1:16 @ Howev er, for this reason I obtained m ercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show all longsuff ering, as a patt ern to those who are going to believe on Him for ev erlasting life.

nkjv@1Timothy:1:17 @ Now to the King et ernal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forev er and ev er. Amen.

nkjv@1Timothy:1:18 @ This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies previously made conc erning you, that by them you may wage the good warfare,

nkjv@1Timothy:1:19 @ having faith and a good conscience, which some having rejected, conc erning the faith have suff ered shipwreck,

nkjv@1Timothy:1:20 @ of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexand er, whom I deliv ered to Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme.

nkjv@1Timothy:2:1 @ Th erefore I exhort first of all that supplications, pray ers, int ercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men,

nkjv@1Timothy:2:2 @ for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and rev erence.

nkjv@1Timothy:2:5 @ For th ere is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus,

nkjv@1Timothy:2:7 @ for which I was appointed a preach er and an apostle--I am speaking the truth in Christ and not lying--a teach er of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

nkjv@1Timothy:2:8 @ I desire th erefore that the men pray ev erywh ere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting;

nkjv@1Timothy:2:9 @ in like mann er also, that the women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with propriety and mod eration, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly clothing,

nkjv@1Timothy:2:10 @ but, which is prop er for women professing godliness, with good works.

nkjv@1Timothy:2:12 @ And I do not p ermit a woman to teach or to have authority ov er a man, but to be in silence.

nkjv@1Timothy:2:15 @ Nev ertheless she will be saved in childbearing if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, with self-control.

nkjv@1Timothy:3:2 @ A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, temp erate, sob er-minded, of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach;

nkjv@1Timothy:3:4 @ one who rules his own house well, having his children in submission with all rev erence

nkjv@1Timothy:3:7 @ Moreov er he must have a good testimony among those who are outside, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

nkjv@1Timothy:3:8 @ Likewise deacons must be rev erent, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy for money,

nkjv@1Timothy:3:9 @ holding the myst ery of the faith with a pure conscience.

nkjv@1Timothy:3:10 @ But let these also first be tested; then let them s erve as deacons, being found blameless.

nkjv@1Timothy:3:11 @ Likewise, their wives must be rev erent, not sland er ers, temp erate, faithful in all things.

nkjv@1Timothy:3:13 @ For those who have s erved well as deacons obtain for themselves a good standing and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

nkjv@1Timothy:3:16 @ And without controv ersy great is the myst ery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, Justified in the Spirit, Seen by angels, Preached among the Gentiles, Believed on in the world, Received up in glory.

nkjv@1Timothy:4:1 @ Now the Spirit expressly says that in latt er times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons,

nkjv@1Timothy:4:4 @ For ev ery creature of God is good, and nothing is to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving;

nkjv@1Timothy:4:5 @ for it is sanctified by the word of God and pray er.

nkjv@1Timothy:4:6 @ If you instruct the brethren in these things, you will be a good minist er of Jesus Christ, nourished in the words of faith and of the good doctrine which you have carefully followed.

nkjv@1Timothy:4:7 @ But reject profane and old wives' fables, and ex ercise yourself toward godliness.

nkjv@1Timothy:4:8 @ For bodily ex ercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.

nkjv@1Timothy:4:10 @ For to this end we both labor and suff er reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.

nkjv@1Timothy:4:12 @ Let no one despise your youth, but be an example to the believ ers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

nkjv@1Timothy:4:14 @ Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the eld ership.

nkjv@1Timothy:5:1 @ Do not rebuke an old er man, but exhort him as a fath er, young er men as broth ers,

nkjv@1Timothy:5:2 @ old er women as moth ers, young er women as sist ers, with all purity.

nkjv@1Timothy:5:5 @ Now she who is really a widow, and left alone, trusts in God and continues in supplications and pray ers night and day.

nkjv@1Timothy:5:8 @ But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliev er.

nkjv@1Timothy:5:9 @ Do not let a widow und er sixty years old be taken into the numb er, and not unless she has been the wife of one man,

nkjv@1Timothy:5:10 @ well reported for good works: if she has brought up children, if she has lodged strang ers, if she has washed the saints' feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, if she has diligently followed ev ery good work.

nkjv@1Timothy:5:11 @ But refuse the young er widows; for when they have begun to grow wanton against Christ, they desire to marry,

nkjv@1Timothy:5:13 @ And besides they learn to be idle, wand ering about from house to house, and not only idle but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.

nkjv@1Timothy:5:14 @ Th erefore I desire that the young er widows marry, bear children, manage the house, give no opportunity to the adv ersary to speak reproachfully.

nkjv@1Timothy:5:15 @ For some have already turned aside aft er Satan.

nkjv@1Timothy:5:17 @ Let the eld ers who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and doctrine.

nkjv@1Timothy:5:18 @ For the Scripture says, "You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain," and, "The labor er is worthy of his wages."

nkjv@1Timothy:5:19 @ Do not receive an accusation against an eld er except from two or three witnesses.

nkjv@1Timothy:5:21 @ I charge you before God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the elect angels that you obs erve these things without prejudice, doing nothing with partiality.

nkjv@1Timothy:5:22 @ Do not lay hands on anyone hastily, nor share in oth er people's sins; keep yourself pure.

nkjv@1Timothy:5:23 @ No long er drink only wat er, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake and your frequent infirmities.

nkjv@1Timothy:5:24 @ Some men's sins are clearly evident, preceding them to judgment, but those of some men follow lat er.

nkjv@1Timothy:5:25 @ Likewise, the good works of some are clearly evident, and those that are oth erwise cannot be hidden.

nkjv@1Timothy:6:1 @ Let as many bonds ervants as are und er the yoke count their own mast ers worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and His doctrine may not be blasphemed.

nkjv@1Timothy:6:2 @ And those who have believing mast ers, let them not despise them because they are brethren, but rath er s erve them because those who are benefited are believ ers and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.

nkjv@1Timothy:6:3 @ If anyone teaches oth erwise and does not consent to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which accords with godliness,

nkjv@1Timothy:6:4 @ he is proud, knowing nothing, but is obsessed with disputes and arguments ov er words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions,

nkjv@1Timothy:6:7 @ For we brought nothing into this world, and it is c ertain we can carry nothing out.

nkjv@1Timothy:6:9 @ But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and p erdition.

nkjv@1Timothy:6:10 @ For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pi erced themselves through with many sorrows.

nkjv@1Timothy:6:12 @ Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on et ernal life, to which you w ere also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

nkjv@1Timothy:6:16 @ who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see, to whom be honor and ev erlasting pow er. Amen.

nkjv@1Timothy:6:17 @ Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in unc ertain riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy.

nkjv@1Timothy:6:19 @ storing up for themselves a good foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on et ernal life.

nkjv@1Timothy:6:21 @ by professing it some have strayed conc erning the faith. Grace be with you. Amen.

nkjv@2Timothy:1:2 @ To Timothy, a beloved son: Grace, m ercy, and peace from God the Fath er and Christ Jesus our Lord.

nkjv@2Timothy:1:3 @ I thank God, whom I s erve with a pure conscience, as my forefath ers did, as without ceasing I rememb er you in my pray ers night and day,

nkjv@2Timothy:1:5 @ when I call to remembrance the genuine faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmoth er Lois and your moth er Eunice, and I am p ersuaded is in you also.

nkjv@2Timothy:1:6 @ Th erefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

nkjv@2Timothy:1:7 @ For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of pow er and of love and of a sound mind.

nkjv@2Timothy:1:8 @ Th erefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prison er, but share with me in the suff erings for the gospel according to the pow er of God,

nkjv@2Timothy:1:11 @ to which I was appointed a preach er, an apostle, and a teach er of the Gentiles.

nkjv@2Timothy:1:12 @ For this reason I also suff er these things; nev ertheless I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am p ersuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day.

nkjv@2Timothy:1:13 @ Hold fast the patt ern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.

nkjv@2Timothy:1:15 @ This you know, that all those in Asia have turned away from me, among whom are Phygellus and H ermogenes.

nkjv@2Timothy:1:16 @ The Lord grant m ercy to the household of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain;

nkjv@2Timothy:1:17 @ but when he arrived in Rome, he sought me out v ery zealously and found me.

nkjv@2Timothy:1:18 @ The Lord grant to him that he may find m ercy from the Lord in that Day--and you know v ery well how many ways he minist ered to me at Ephesus.

nkjv@2Timothy:2:1 @ You th erefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

nkjv@2Timothy:2:2 @ And the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who will be able to teach oth ers also.

nkjv@2Timothy:2:3 @ You th erefore must endure hardship as a good soldi er of Jesus Christ.

nkjv@2Timothy:2:4 @ No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldi er.

nkjv@2Timothy:2:6 @ The hardworking farm er must be first to partake of the crops.

nkjv@2Timothy:2:7 @ Consid er what I say, and may the Lord give you und erstanding in all things.

nkjv@2Timothy:2:8 @ Rememb er that Jesus Christ, of the seed of David, was raised from the dead according to my gospel,

nkjv@2Timothy:2:9 @ for which I suff er trouble as an evildo er, even to the point of chains; but the word of God is not chained.

nkjv@2Timothy:2:10 @ Th erefore I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with et ernal glory.

nkjv@2Timothy:2:14 @ Remind them of these things, charging them before the Lord not to strive about words to no profit, to the ruin of the hear ers.

nkjv@2Timothy:2:15 @ Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a work er who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

nkjv@2Timothy:2:17 @ And their message will spread like canc er. Hymenaeus and Philetus are of this sort,

nkjv@2Timothy:2:18 @ who have strayed conc erning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past; and they ov erthrow the faith of some.

nkjv@2Timothy:2:19 @ Nev ertheless the solid foundation of God stands, having this seal: "The Lord knows those who are His," and, "Let ev eryone who names the name of Christ depart from iniquity."

nkjv@2Timothy:2:20 @ But in a great house th ere are not only vessels of gold and silv er, but also of wood and clay, some for honor and some for dishonor.

nkjv@2Timothy:2:21 @ Th erefore if anyone cleanses himself from the latt er, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified and useful for the Mast er, prepared for ev ery good work.

nkjv@2Timothy:2:23 @ But avoid foolish and ignorant disputes, knowing that they gen erate strife.

nkjv@2Timothy:2:24 @ And a s ervant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient,

nkjv@2Timothy:2:25 @ in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God p erhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth,

nkjv@2Timothy:3:1 @ But know this, that in the last days p erilous times will come:

nkjv@2Timothy:3:2 @ For men will be lov ers of themselves, lov ers of money, boast ers, proud, blasphem ers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

nkjv@2Timothy:3:3 @ unloving, unforgiving, sland er ers, without self-control, brutal, despis ers of good,

nkjv@2Timothy:3:4 @ traitors, headstrong, haughty, lov ers of pleasure rath er than lov ers of God,

nkjv@2Timothy:3:5 @ having a form of godliness but denying its pow er. And from such people turn away!

nkjv@2Timothy:3:7 @ always learning and nev er able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

nkjv@2Timothy:3:8 @ Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, disapproved conc erning the faith;

nkjv@2Timothy:3:9 @ but they will progress no furth er, for their folly will be manifest to all, as theirs also was.

nkjv@2Timothy:3:10 @ But you have carefully followed my doctrine, mann er of life, purpose, faith, longsuff ering, love, p ersev erance,

nkjv@2Timothy:3:11 @ p ersecutions, afflictions, which happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra--what p ersecutions I endured. And out of them all the Lord deliv ered me.

nkjv@2Timothy:3:12 @ Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suff er p ersecution.

nkjv@2Timothy:3:17 @ that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for ev ery good work.

nkjv@2Timothy:4:1 @ I charge you th erefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom:

nkjv@2Timothy:4:2 @ Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuff ering and teaching.

nkjv@2Timothy:4:3 @ For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teach ers;

nkjv@2Timothy:4:6 @ For I am already being poured out as a drink off ering, and the time of my departure is at hand.

nkjv@2Timothy:4:8 @ Finally, th ere is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing.

nkjv@2Timothy:4:14 @ Alexand er the copp ersmith did me much harm. May the Lord repay him according to his works.

nkjv@2Timothy:4:17 @ But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, so that the message might be preached fully through me, and that all the Gentiles might hear. Also I was deliv ered out of the mouth of the lion.

nkjv@2Timothy:4:18 @ And the Lord will deliv er me from ev ery evil work and pres erve me for His heavenly kingdom. To Him be glory forev er and ev er. Amen!

nkjv@2Timothy:4:20 @ Erastus stayed in Corinth, but Trophimus I have left in Miletus sick.

nkjv@2Timothy:4:21 @ Do your utmost to come before wint er. Eubulus greets you, as well as Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brethren.

nkjv@Titus:1:1 @ Paul, a bonds ervant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect and the acknowledgment of the truth which accords with godliness,

nkjv@Titus:1:2 @ in hope of et ernal life which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began,

nkjv@Titus:1:4 @ To Titus, a true son in our common faith: Grace, m ercy, and peace from God the Fath er and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.

nkjv@Titus:1:5 @ For this reason I left you in Crete, that you should set in ord er the things that are lacking, and appoint eld ers in ev ery city as I commanded you--

nkjv@Titus:1:7 @ For a bishop must be blameless, as a steward of God, not self-willed, not quick-temp ered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money,

nkjv@Titus:1:8 @ but hospitable, a lov er of what is good, sob er-minded, just, holy, self-controlled,

nkjv@Titus:1:10 @ For th ere are many insubordinate, both idle talk ers and deceiv ers, especially those of the circumcision,

nkjv@Titus:1:11 @ whose mouths must be stopped, who subv ert whole households, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of dishonest gain.

nkjv@Titus:1:13 @ This testimony is true. Th erefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

nkjv@Titus:1:16 @ They profess to know God, but in works they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for ev ery good work.

nkjv@Titus:2:1 @ But as for you, speak the things which are prop er for sound doctrine:

nkjv@Titus:2:2 @ that the old er men be sob er, rev erent, temp erate, sound in faith, in love, in patience;

nkjv@Titus:2:3 @ the old er women likewise, that they be rev erent in behavior, not sland er ers, not given to much wine, teach ers of good things--

nkjv@Titus:2:5 @ to be discreet, chaste, homemak ers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed.

nkjv@Titus:2:6 @ Likewise, exhort the young men to be sob er-minded,

nkjv@Titus:2:7 @ in all things showing yourself to be a patt ern of good works; in doctrine showing integrity, rev erence, incorruptibility,

nkjv@Titus:2:9 @ Exhort bonds ervants to be obedient to their own mast ers, to be well pleasing in all things, not answ ering back,

nkjv@Titus:2:10 @ not pilf ering, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things.

nkjv@Titus:2:12 @ teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live sob erly, righteously, and godly in the present age,

nkjv@Titus:2:14 @ who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from ev ery lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works.

nkjv@Titus:3:1 @ Remind them to be subject to rul ers and authorities, to obey, to be ready for ev ery good work,

nkjv@Titus:3:3 @ For we ourselves w ere also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, s erving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one anoth er.

nkjv@Titus:3:5 @ not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His m ercy He saved us, through the washing of regen eration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,

nkjv@Titus:3:7 @ that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of et ernal life.

nkjv@Titus:3:10 @ Reject a divisive man aft er the first and second admonition,

nkjv@Titus:3:11 @ knowing that such a p erson is warped and sinning, being self-condemned.

nkjv@Titus:3:12 @ When I send Artemas to you, or Tychicus, be diligent to come to me at Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the wint er th ere.

nkjv@Titus:3:13 @ Send Zenas the lawy er and Apollos on their journey with haste, that they may lack nothing.

nkjv@Philemon:1:1 @ Paul, a prison er of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our broth er, To Philemon our beloved friend and fellow labor er,

nkjv@Philemon:1:2 @ to the beloved Apphia, Archippus our fellow soldi er, and to the church in your house:

nkjv@Philemon:1:3 @ Grace to you and peace from God our Fath er and the Lord Jesus Christ.

nkjv@Philemon:1:4 @ I thank my God, making mention of you always in my pray ers,

nkjv@Philemon:1:6 @ that the sharing of your faith may become effective by the acknowledgment of ev ery good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.

nkjv@Philemon:1:7 @ For we have great joy and consolation in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed by you, broth er.

nkjv@Philemon:1:8 @ Th erefore, though I might be v ery bold in Christ to command you what is fitting,

nkjv@Philemon:1:9 @ yet for love's sake I rath er appeal to you--being such a one as Paul, the aged, and now also a prison er of Jesus Christ--

nkjv@Philemon:1:12 @ I am sending him back. You th erefore receive him, that is, my own heart,

nkjv@Philemon:1:13 @ whom I wished to keep with me, that on your behalf he might minist er to me in my chains for the gospel.

nkjv@Philemon:1:14 @ But without your consent I wanted to do nothing, that your good deed might not be by compulsion, as it w ere, but voluntary.

nkjv@Philemon:1:15 @ For p erhaps he departed for a while for this purpose, that you might receive him forev er,

nkjv@Philemon:1:16 @ no long er as a slave but more than a slave--a beloved broth er, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

nkjv@Philemon:1:17 @ If then you count me as a partn er, receive him as you would me.

nkjv@Philemon:1:20 @ Yes, broth er, let me have joy from you in the Lord; refresh my heart in the Lord.

nkjv@Philemon:1:22 @ But, meanwhile, also prepare a guest room for me, for I trust that through your pray ers I shall be granted to you.

nkjv@Philemon:1:23 @ Epaphras, my fellow prison er in Christ Jesus, greets you,

nkjv@Philemon:1:24 @ as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Luke, my fellow labor ers.

nkjv@Hebrews:1:1 @ God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fath ers by the prophets,

nkjv@Hebrews:1:3 @ who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His p erson, and upholding all things by the word of His pow er, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

nkjv@Hebrews:1:4 @ having become so much bett er than the angels, as He has by inh eritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

nkjv@Hebrews:1:5 @ For to which of the angels did He ev er say: "You are My Son, Today I have begotten You"? And again: "I will be to Him a Fath er, And He shall be to Me a Son"?

nkjv@Hebrews:1:7 @ And of the angels He says: "Who makes His angels spirits And His minist ers a flame of fire."

nkjv@Hebrews:1:8 @ But to the Son He says: "Your throne, O God, is forev er and ev er; A scept er of righteousness is the scept er of Your kingdom.

nkjv@Hebrews:1:9 @ You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; Th erefore God, Your God, has anointed You With the oil of gladness more than Your companions."

nkjv@Hebrews:1:11 @ They will p erish, but You remain; And they will all grow old like a garment;

nkjv@Hebrews:1:13 @ But to which of the angels has He ev er said: "Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool"?

nkjv@Hebrews:1:14 @ Are they not all minist ering spirits sent forth to minist er for those who will inh erit salvation?

nkjv@Hebrews:2:1 @ Th erefore we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away.

nkjv@Hebrews:2:2 @ For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and ev ery transgression and disobedience received a just reward,

nkjv@Hebrews:2:4 @ God also bearing witness both with signs and wond ers, with various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to His own will?

nkjv@Hebrews:2:6 @ But one testified in a c ertain place, saying: "What is man that You are mindful of him, Or the son of man that You take care of him?

nkjv@Hebrews:2:7 @ You have made him a little low er than the angels; You have crowned him with glory and honor, And set him ov er the works of Your hands.

nkjv@Hebrews:2:8 @ You have put all things in subjection und er his feet." For in that He put all in subjection und er him, He left nothing that is not put und er him. But now we do not yet see all things put und er him.

nkjv@Hebrews:2:9 @ But we see Jesus, who was made a little low er than the angels, for the suff ering of death crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God, might taste death for ev eryone.

nkjv@Hebrews:2:10 @ For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation p erfect through suff erings.

nkjv@Hebrews:2:13 @ And again: "I will put My trust in Him." And again: "H ere am I and the children whom God has given Me."

nkjv@Hebrews:2:14 @ Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the pow er of death, that is, the devil,

nkjv@Hebrews:2:15 @ and release those who through fear of death w ere all their lifetime subject to bondage.

nkjv@Hebrews:2:17 @ Th erefore, in all things He had to be made like His brethren, that He might be a m erciful and faithful High Priest in things p ertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

nkjv@Hebrews:2:18 @ For in that He Himself has suff ered, being tempted, He is able to aid those who are tempted.

nkjv@Hebrews:3:1 @ Th erefore, holy brethren, partak ers of the heavenly calling, consid er the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus,

nkjv@Hebrews:3:4 @ For ev ery house is built by someone, but He who built all things is God.

nkjv@Hebrews:3:5 @ And Moses indeed was faithful in all His house as a s ervant, for a testimony of those things which would be spoken aft erward,

nkjv@Hebrews:3:6 @ but Christ as a Son ov er His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.

nkjv@Hebrews:3:7 @ Th erefore, as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you will hear His voice,

nkjv@Hebrews:3:8 @ Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, In the day of trial in the wild erness,

nkjv@Hebrews:3:9 @ Wh ere your fath ers tested Me, tried Me, And saw My works forty years.

nkjv@Hebrews:3:10 @ Th erefore I was angry with that gen eration, And said, "They always go astray in their heart, And they have not known My ways.'

nkjv@Hebrews:3:11 @ So I swore in My wrath, "They shall not ent er My rest."'

nkjv@Hebrews:3:12 @ Beware, brethren, lest th ere be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God;

nkjv@Hebrews:3:13 @ but exhort one anoth er daily, while it is called "Today," lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

nkjv@Hebrews:3:14 @ For we have become partak ers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end,

nkjv@Hebrews:3:17 @ Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wild erness?

nkjv@Hebrews:3:18 @ And to whom did He swear that they would not ent er His rest, but to those who did not obey?

nkjv@Hebrews:3:19 @ So we see that they could not ent er in because of unbelief.

nkjv@Hebrews:4:1 @ Th erefore, since a promise remains of ent ering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it.

nkjv@Hebrews:4:3 @ For we who have believed do ent er that rest, as He has said: "So I swore in My wrath, "They shall not ent er My rest,"' although the works w ere finished from the foundation of the world.

nkjv@Hebrews:4:4 @ For He has spoken in a c ertain place of the seventh day in this way: "And God rested on the seventh day from all His works";

nkjv@Hebrews:4:5 @ and again in this place: "They shall not ent er My rest."

nkjv@Hebrews:4:6 @ Since th erefore it remains that some must ent er it, and those to whom it was first preached did not ent er because of disobedience,

nkjv@Hebrews:4:7 @ again He designates a c ertain day, saying in David, "Today," aft er such a long time, as it has been said: "Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts."

nkjv@Hebrews:4:8 @ For if Joshua had given them rest, then He would not aft erward have spoken of anoth er day.

nkjv@Hebrews:4:9 @ Th ere remains th erefore a rest for the people of God.

nkjv@Hebrews:4:10 @ For he who has ent ered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His.

nkjv@Hebrews:4:11 @ Let us th erefore be diligent to ent er that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience.

nkjv@Hebrews:4:12 @ For the word of God is living and pow erful, and sharp er than any two-edged sword, pi ercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a disc ern er of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

nkjv@Hebrews:4:13 @ And th ere is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.

nkjv@Hebrews:4:16 @ Let us th erefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain m ercy and find grace to help in time of need.

nkjv@Hebrews:5:1 @ For ev ery high priest taken from among men is appointed for men in things p ertaining to God, that he may off er both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

nkjv@Hebrews:5:3 @ Because of this he is required as for the people, so also for himself, to off er sacrifices for sins.

nkjv@Hebrews:5:6 @ As He also says in anoth er place: "You are a priest forev er According to the ord er of Melchizedek";

nkjv@Hebrews:5:7 @ who, in the days of His flesh, when He had off ered up pray ers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His godly fear,

nkjv@Hebrews:5:8 @ though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suff ered.

nkjv@Hebrews:5:9 @ And having been p erfected, He became the author of et ernal salvation to all who obey Him,

nkjv@Hebrews:5:10 @ called by God as High Priest "according to the ord er of Melchizedek,"

nkjv@Hebrews:5:12 @ For though by this time you ought to be teach ers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food.

nkjv@Hebrews:5:13 @ For ev eryone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe.

nkjv@Hebrews:5:14 @ But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses ex ercised to disc ern both good and evil.

nkjv@Hebrews:6:1 @ Th erefore, leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to p erfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,

nkjv@Hebrews:6:2 @ of the doctrine of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of et ernal judgment.

nkjv@Hebrews:6:3 @ And this we will do if God p ermits.

nkjv@Hebrews:6:4 @ For it is impossible for those who w ere once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partak ers of the Holy Spirit,

nkjv@Hebrews:6:5 @ and have tasted the good word of God and the pow ers of the age to come,

nkjv@Hebrews:6:7 @ For the earth which drinks in the rain that often comes upon it, and bears h erbs useful for those by whom it is cultivated, receives blessing from God;

nkjv@Hebrews:6:8 @ but if it bears thorns and bri ers, it is rejected and near to being cursed, whose end is to be burned.

nkjv@Hebrews:6:9 @ But, beloved, we are confident of bett er things conc erning you, yes, things that accompany salvation, though we speak in this mann er.

nkjv@Hebrews:6:10 @ For God is not unjust to forget your work and labor of love which you have shown toward His name, in that you have minist ered to the saints, and do minist er.

nkjv@Hebrews:6:12 @ that you do not become sluggish, but imitate those who through faith and patience inh erit the promises.

nkjv@Hebrews:6:13 @ For when God made a promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no one great er, He swore by Himself,

nkjv@Hebrews:6:15 @ And so, aft er he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

nkjv@Hebrews:6:16 @ For men indeed swear by the great er, and an oath for confirmation is for them an end of all dispute.

nkjv@Hebrews:6:17 @ Thus God, det ermining to show more abundantly to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath,

nkjv@Hebrews:6:19 @ This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which ent ers the Presence behind the veil,

nkjv@Hebrews:6:20 @ wh ere the for erunn er has ent ered for us, even Jesus, having become High Priest forev er according to the ord er of Melchizedek.

nkjv@Hebrews:7:1 @ For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham returning from the slaught er of the kings and blessed him,

nkjv@Hebrews:7:3 @ without fath er, without moth er, without genealogy, having neith er beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, remains a priest continually.

nkjv@Hebrews:7:4 @ Now consid er how great this man was, to whom even the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth of the spoils.

nkjv@Hebrews:7:6 @ but he whose genealogy is not d erived from them received tithes from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises.

nkjv@Hebrews:7:7 @ Now beyond all contradiction the less er is blessed by the bett er.

nkjv@Hebrews:7:8 @ H ere mortal men receive tithes, but th ere he receives them, of whom it is witnessed that he lives.

nkjv@Hebrews:7:10 @ for he was still in the loins of his fath er when Melchizedek met him.

nkjv@Hebrews:7:11 @ Th erefore, if p erfection w ere through the Levitical priesthood (for und er it the people received the law), what furth er need was th ere that anoth er priest should rise according to the ord er of Melchizedek, and not be called according to the ord er of Aaron?

nkjv@Hebrews:7:12 @ For the priesthood being changed, of necessity th ere is also a change of the law.

nkjv@Hebrews:7:13 @ For He of whom these things are spoken belongs to anoth er tribe, from which no man has officiated at the altar.

nkjv@Hebrews:7:14 @ For it is evident that our Lord arose from Judah, of which tribe Moses spoke nothing conc erning priesthood.

nkjv@Hebrews:7:15 @ And it is yet far more evident if, in the likeness of Melchizedek, th ere arises anoth er priest

nkjv@Hebrews:7:16 @ who has come, not according to the law of a fleshly commandment, but according to the pow er of an endless life.

nkjv@Hebrews:7:17 @ For He testifies: "You are a priest forev er According to the ord er of Melchizedek."

nkjv@Hebrews:7:18 @ For on the one hand th ere is an annulling of the form er commandment because of its weakness and unprofitableness,

nkjv@Hebrews:7:19 @ for the law made nothing p erfect; on the oth er hand, th ere is the bringing in of a bett er hope, through which we draw near to God.

nkjv@Hebrews:7:21 @ (for they have become priests without an oath, but He with an oath by Him who said to Him: "The LORD has sworn And will not relent, "You are a priest forev er According to the ord er of Melchizedek"'),

nkjv@Hebrews:7:22 @ by so much more Jesus has become a surety of a bett er covenant.

nkjv@Hebrews:7:23 @ Also th ere w ere many priests, because they w ere prevented by death from continuing.

nkjv@Hebrews:7:24 @ But He, because He continues forev er, has an unchangeable priesthood.

nkjv@Hebrews:7:25 @ Th erefore He is also able to save to the utt ermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make int ercession for them.

nkjv@Hebrews:7:26 @ For such a High Priest was fitting for us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinn ers, and has become high er than the heavens;

nkjv@Hebrews:7:27 @ who does not need daily, as those high priests, to off er up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the people's, for this He did once for all when He off ered up Himself.

nkjv@Hebrews:7:28 @ For the law appoints as high priests men who have weakness, but the word of the oath, which came aft er the law, appoints the Son who has been p erfected forev er.

nkjv@Hebrews:8:2 @ a Minist er of the sanctuary and of the true tab ernacle which the Lord erected, and not man.

nkjv@Hebrews:8:3 @ For ev ery high priest is appointed to off er both gifts and sacrifices. Th erefore it is necessary that this One also have something to off er.

nkjv@Hebrews:8:4 @ For if He w ere on earth, He would not be a priest, since th ere are priests who off er the gifts according to the law;

nkjv@Hebrews:8:5 @ who s erve the copy and shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to make the tab ernacle. For He said, "See that you make all things according to the patt ern shown you on the mountain."

nkjv@Hebrews:8:6 @ But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a bett er covenant, which was established on bett er promises.

nkjv@Hebrews:8:9 @ not according to the covenant that I made with their fath ers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the LORD.

nkjv@Hebrews:8:10 @ For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel aft er those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

nkjv@Hebrews:8:11 @ None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his broth er, saying, "Know the LORD,' for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them.

nkjv@Hebrews:8:12 @ For I will be m erciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will rememb er no more."

nkjv@Hebrews:9:1 @ Then indeed, even the first covenant had ordinances of divine s ervice and the earthly sanctuary.

nkjv@Hebrews:9:2 @ For a tab ernacle was prepared: the first part, in which was the lampstand, the table, and the showbread, which is called the sanctuary;

nkjv@Hebrews:9:3 @ and behind the second veil, the part of the tab ernacle which is called the Holiest of All,

nkjv@Hebrews:9:4 @ which had the golden cens er and the ark of the covenant ov erlaid on all sides with gold, in which w ere the golden pot that had the manna, Aaron's rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant;

nkjv@Hebrews:9:5 @ and above it w ere the ch erubim of glory ov ershadowing the m ercy seat. Of these things we cannot now speak in detail.

nkjv@Hebrews:9:6 @ Now when these things had been thus prepared, the priests always went into the first part of the tab ernacle, p erforming the s ervices.

nkjv@Hebrews:9:7 @ But into the second part the high priest went alone once a year, not without blood, which he off ered for himself and for the people's sins committed in ignorance;

nkjv@Hebrews:9:8 @ the Holy Spirit indicating this, that the way into the Holiest of All was not yet made manifest while the first tab ernacle was still standing.

nkjv@Hebrews:9:9 @ It was symbolic for the present time in which both gifts and sacrifices are off ered which cannot make him who p erformed the s ervice p erfect in regard to the conscience--

nkjv@Hebrews:9:10 @ conc erned only with foods and drinks, various washings, and fleshly ordinances imposed until the time of reformation.

nkjv@Hebrews:9:11 @ But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the great er and more p erfect tab ernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation.

nkjv@Hebrews:9:12 @ Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He ent ered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained et ernal redemption.

nkjv@Hebrews:9:13 @ For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heif er, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh,

nkjv@Hebrews:9:14 @ how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the et ernal Spirit off ered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to s erve the living God?

nkjv@Hebrews:9:15 @ And for this reason He is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions und er the first covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of the et ernal inh eritance.

nkjv@Hebrews:9:16 @ For wh ere th ere is a testament, th ere must also of necessity be the death of the testator.

nkjv@Hebrews:9:17 @ For a testament is in force aft er men are dead, since it has no pow er at all while the testator lives.

nkjv@Hebrews:9:18 @ Th erefore not even the first covenant was dedicated without blood.

nkjv@Hebrews:9:19 @ For when Moses had spoken ev ery precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and goats, with wat er, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

nkjv@Hebrews:9:21 @ Then likewise he sprinkled with blood both the tab ernacle and all the vessels of the ministry.

nkjv@Hebrews:9:22 @ And according to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without shedding of blood th ere is no remission.

nkjv@Hebrews:9:23 @ Th erefore it was necessary that the copies of the things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with bett er sacrifices than these.

nkjv@Hebrews:9:24 @ For Christ has not ent ered the holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;

nkjv@Hebrews:9:25 @ not that He should off er Himself often, as the high priest ent ers the Most Holy Place ev ery year with blood of anoth er--

nkjv@Hebrews:9:26 @ He then would have had to suff er often since the foundation of the world; but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.

nkjv@Hebrews:9:27 @ And as it is appointed for men to die once, but aft er this the judgment,

nkjv@Hebrews:9:28 @ so Christ was off ered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eag erly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.

nkjv@Hebrews:10:1 @ For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the v ery image of the things, can nev er with these same sacrifices, which they off er continually year by year, make those who approach p erfect.

nkjv@Hebrews:10:2 @ For then would they not have ceased to be off ered? For the worship ers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins.

nkjv@Hebrews:10:3 @ But in those sacrifices th ere is a remind er of sins ev ery year.

nkjv@Hebrews:10:5 @ Th erefore, when He came into the world, He said: "Sacrifice and off ering You did not desire, But a body You have prepared for Me.

nkjv@Hebrews:10:6 @ In burnt off erings and sacrifices for sin You had no pleasure.

nkjv@Hebrews:10:8 @ Previously saying, "Sacrifice and off ering, burnt off erings, and off erings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure in them" (which are off ered according to the law),

nkjv@Hebrews:10:10 @ By that will we have been sanctified through the off ering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

nkjv@Hebrews:10:11 @ And ev ery priest stands minist ering daily and off ering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can nev er take away sins.

nkjv@Hebrews:10:12 @ But this Man, aft er He had off ered one sacrifice for sins forev er, sat down at the right hand of God,

nkjv@Hebrews:10:14 @ For by one off ering He has p erfected forev er those who are being sanctified.

nkjv@Hebrews:10:15 @ But the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us; for aft er He had said before,

nkjv@Hebrews:10:16 @ "This is the covenant that I will make with them aft er those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,"

nkjv@Hebrews:10:17 @ then He adds, "Their sins and their lawless deeds I will rememb er no more."

nkjv@Hebrews:10:18 @ Now wh ere th ere is remission of these, th ere is no long er an off ering for sin.

nkjv@Hebrews:10:19 @ Th erefore, brethren, having boldness to ent er the Holiest by the blood of Jesus,

nkjv@Hebrews:10:21 @ and having a High Priest ov er the house of God,

nkjv@Hebrews:10:22 @ let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure wat er.

nkjv@Hebrews:10:23 @ Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wav ering, for He who promised is faithful.

nkjv@Hebrews:10:24 @ And let us consid er one anoth er in ord er to stir up love and good works,

nkjv@Hebrews:10:25 @ not forsaking the assembling of ourselves togeth er, as is the mann er of some, but exhorting one anoth er, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

nkjv@Hebrews:10:26 @ For if we sin willfully aft er we have received the knowledge of the truth, th ere no long er remains a sacrifice for sins,

nkjv@Hebrews:10:27 @ but a c ertain fearful expectation of judgment, and fi ery indignation which will devour the adv ersaries.

nkjv@Hebrews:10:28 @ Anyone who has rejected Moses' law dies without m ercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

nkjv@Hebrews:10:29 @ Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God und erfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?

nkjv@Hebrews:10:32 @ But recall the form er days in which, aft er you w ere illuminated, you endured a great struggle with suff erings:

nkjv@Hebrews:10:33 @ partly while you w ere made a spectacle both by reproaches and tribulations, and partly while you became companions of those who w ere so treated;

nkjv@Hebrews:10:34 @ for you had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plund ering of your goods, knowing that you have a bett er and an enduring possession for yourselves in heaven.

nkjv@Hebrews:10:35 @ Th erefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward.

nkjv@Hebrews:10:36 @ For you have need of endurance, so that aft er you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise:

nkjv@Hebrews:10:39 @ But we are not of those who draw back to p erdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.

nkjv@Hebrews:11:2 @ For by it the eld ers obtained a good testimony.

nkjv@Hebrews:11:3 @ By faith we und erstand that the worlds w ere framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen w ere not made of things which are visible.

nkjv@Hebrews:11:4 @ By faith Abel off ered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and through it he being dead still speaks.

nkjv@Hebrews:11:6 @ But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a reward er of those who diligently seek Him.

nkjv@Hebrews:11:8 @ By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inh eritance. And he went out, not knowing wh ere he was going.

nkjv@Hebrews:11:10 @ for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose build er and mak er is God.

nkjv@Hebrews:11:11 @ By faith Sarah h erself also received strength to conceive seed, and she bore a child when she was past the age, because she judged Him faithful who had promised.

nkjv@Hebrews:11:12 @ Th erefore from one man, and him as good as dead, w ere born as many as the stars of the sky in multitude--innum erable as the sand which is by the seashore.

nkjv@Hebrews:11:13 @ These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off w ere assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they w ere strang ers and pilgrims on the earth.

nkjv@Hebrews:11:16 @ But now they desire a bett er, that is, a heavenly country. Th erefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.

nkjv@Hebrews:11:17 @ By faith Abraham, when he was tested, off ered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises off ered up his only begotten son,

nkjv@Hebrews:11:20 @ By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau conc erning things to come.

nkjv@Hebrews:11:22 @ By faith Joseph, when he was dying, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel, and gave instructions conc erning his bones.

nkjv@Hebrews:11:23 @ By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw he was a beautiful child; and they w ere not afraid of the king's command.

nkjv@Hebrews:11:24 @ By faith Moses, when he became of age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daught er,

nkjv@Hebrews:11:25 @ choosing rath er to suff er affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin,

nkjv@Hebrews:11:26 @ esteeming the reproach of Christ great er riches than the treasures in Egypt; for he looked to the reward.

nkjv@Hebrews:11:28 @ By faith he kept the Passov er and the sprinkling of blood, lest he who destroyed the firstborn should touch them.

nkjv@Hebrews:11:29 @ By faith they passed through the Red Sea as by dry land, wh ereas the Egyptians, attempting to do so, w ere drowned.

nkjv@Hebrews:11:30 @ By faith the walls of J ericho fell down aft er they w ere encircled for seven days.

nkjv@Hebrews:11:31 @ By faith the harlot Rahab did not p erish with those who did not believe, when she had received the spies with peace.

nkjv@Hebrews:11:34 @ quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness w ere made strong, became valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.

nkjv@Hebrews:11:35 @ Women received their dead raised to life again. Oth ers w ere tortured, not accepting deliv erance, that they might obtain a bett er resurrection.

nkjv@Hebrews:11:36 @ Still oth ers had trial of mockings and scourgings, yes, and of chains and imprisonment.

nkjv@Hebrews:11:37 @ They w ere stoned, they w ere sawn in two, w ere tempted, w ere slain with the sword. They wand ered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented--

nkjv@Hebrews:11:38 @ of whom the world was not worthy. They wand ered in des erts and mountains, in dens and caves of the earth.

nkjv@Hebrews:11:40 @ God having provided something bett er for us, that they should not be made p erfect apart from us.

nkjv@Hebrews:12:1 @ Th erefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside ev ery weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

nkjv@Hebrews:12:2 @ looking unto Jesus, the author and finish er of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

nkjv@Hebrews:12:3 @ For consid er Him who endured such hostility from sinn ers against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls.

nkjv@Hebrews:12:6 @ For whom the LORD loves He chastens, And scourges ev ery son whom He receives."

nkjv@Hebrews:12:7 @ If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is th ere whom a fath er does not chasten?

nkjv@Hebrews:12:8 @ But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partak ers, then you are illegitimate and not sons.

nkjv@Hebrews:12:9 @ Furth ermore, we have had human fath ers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Fath er of spirits and live?

nkjv@Hebrews:12:10 @ For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partak ers of His holiness.

nkjv@Hebrews:12:11 @ Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nev ertheless, aft erward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

nkjv@Hebrews:12:12 @ Th erefore strengthen the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees,

nkjv@Hebrews:12:13 @ and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated, but rath er be healed.

nkjv@Hebrews:12:15 @ looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitt erness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled;

nkjv@Hebrews:12:16 @ lest th ere be any fornicator or profane p erson like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.

nkjv@Hebrews:12:17 @ For you know that aft erward, when he wanted to inh erit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears.

nkjv@Hebrews:12:21 @ And so t errifying was the sight that Moses said, "I am exceedingly afraid and trembling." )

nkjv@Hebrews:12:22 @ But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly J erusalem, to an innum erable company of angels,

nkjv@Hebrews:12:23 @ to the gen eral assembly and church of the firstborn who are regist ered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made p erfect,

nkjv@Hebrews:12:24 @ to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks bett er things than that of Abel.

nkjv@Hebrews:12:28 @ Th erefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may s erve God acceptably with rev erence and godly fear.

nkjv@Hebrews:13:1 @ Let broth erly love continue.

nkjv@Hebrews:13:2 @ Do not forget to ent ertain strang ers, for by so doing some have unwittingly ent ertained angels.

nkjv@Hebrews:13:3 @ Rememb er the prison ers as if chained with them--those who are mistreated--since you yourselves are in the body also.

nkjv@Hebrews:13:4 @ Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adult er ers God will judge.

nkjv@Hebrews:13:5 @ Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, "I will nev er leave you nor forsake you."

nkjv@Hebrews:13:6 @ So we may boldly say: "The LORD is my help er; I will not fear. What can man do to me?"

nkjv@Hebrews:13:7 @ Rememb er those who rule ov er you, who have spoken the word of God to you, whose faith follow, consid ering the outcome of their conduct.

nkjv@Hebrews:13:8 @ Jesus Christ is the same yest erday, today, and forev er.

nkjv@Hebrews:13:10 @ We have an altar from which those who s erve the tab ernacle have no right to eat.

nkjv@Hebrews:13:12 @ Th erefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suff ered outside the gate.

nkjv@Hebrews:13:13 @ Th erefore let us go forth to Him, outside the camp, bearing His reproach.

nkjv@Hebrews:13:14 @ For h ere we have no continuing city, but we seek the one to come.

nkjv@Hebrews:13:15 @ Th erefore by Him let us continually off er the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name.

nkjv@Hebrews:13:17 @ Obey those who rule ov er you, and be submissive, for they watch out for your souls, as those who must give account. Let them do so with joy and not with grief, for that would be unprofitable for you.

nkjv@Hebrews:13:19 @ But I especially urge you to do this, that I may be restored to you the soon er.

nkjv@Hebrews:13:20 @ Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Sheph erd of the sheep, through the blood of the ev erlasting covenant,

nkjv@Hebrews:13:21 @ make you complete in ev ery good work to do His will, working in you what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forev er and ev er. Amen.

nkjv@Hebrews:13:23 @ Know that our broth er Timothy has been set free, with whom I shall see you if he comes shortly.

nkjv@Hebrews:13:24 @ Greet all those who rule ov er you, and all the saints. Those from Italy greet you.

nkjv@James:1:1 @ James, a bonds ervant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes which are scatt ered abroad: Greetings.

nkjv@James:1:4 @ But let patience have its p erfect work, that you may be p erfect and complete, lacking nothing.

nkjv@James:1:5 @ If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all lib erally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

nkjv@James:1:9 @ Let the lowly broth er glory in his exaltation,

nkjv@James:1:10 @ but the rich in his humiliation, because as a flow er of the field he will pass away.

nkjv@James:1:11 @ For no soon er has the sun risen with a burning heat than it with ers the grass; its flow er falls, and its beautiful appearance p erishes. So the rich man also will fade away in his pursuits.

nkjv@James:1:17 @ Ev ery good gift and ev ery p erfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Fath er of lights, with whom th ere is no variation or shadow of turning.

nkjv@James:1:19 @ So then, my beloved brethren, let ev ery man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;

nkjv@James:1:21 @ Th erefore lay aside all filthiness and ov erflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

nkjv@James:1:22 @ But be do ers of the word, and not hear ers only, deceiving yourselves.

nkjv@James:1:23 @ For if anyone is a hear er of the word and not a do er, he is like a man obs erving his natural face in a mirror;

nkjv@James:1:24 @ for he obs erves himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.

nkjv@James:1:25 @ But he who looks into the p erfect law of lib erty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hear er but a do er of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.

nkjv@James:1:27 @ Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Fath er is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

nkjv@James:2:2 @ For if th ere should come into your assembly a man with gold rings, in fine apparel, and th ere should also come in a poor man in filthy clothes,

nkjv@James:2:3 @ and you pay attention to the one wearing the fine clothes and say to him, "You sit h ere in a good place," and say to the poor man, "You stand th ere," or, "Sit h ere at my footstool,"

nkjv@James:2:10 @ For whoev er shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all.

nkjv@James:2:11 @ For He who said, "Do not commit adult ery," also said, "Do not murd er." Now if you do not commit adult ery, but you do murd er, you have become a transgressor of the law.

nkjv@James:2:12 @ So speak and so do as those who will be judged by the law of lib erty.

nkjv@James:2:13 @ For judgment is without m ercy to the one who has shown no m ercy. M ercy triumphs ov er judgment.

nkjv@James:2:15 @ If a broth er or sist er is naked and destitute of daily food,

nkjv@James:2:19 @ You believe that th ere is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe--and tremble!

nkjv@James:2:21 @ Was not Abraham our fath er justified by works when he off ered Isaac his son on the altar?

nkjv@James:2:22 @ Do you see that faith was working togeth er with his works, and by works faith was made p erfect?

nkjv@James:2:25 @ Likewise, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messeng ers and sent them out anoth er way?

nkjv@James:3:1 @ My brethren, let not many of you become teach ers, knowing that we shall receive a strict er judgment.

nkjv@James:3:2 @ For we all stumble in many things. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a p erfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.

nkjv@James:3:4 @ Look also at ships: although they are so large and are driven by fi erce winds, they are turned by a v ery small rudd er wh erev er the pilot desires.

nkjv@James:3:5 @ Even so the tongue is a little memb er and boasts great things. See how great a forest a little fire kindles!

nkjv@James:3:6 @ And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our memb ers that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell.

nkjv@James:3:7 @ For ev ery kind of beast and bird, of reptile and creature of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind.

nkjv@James:3:9 @ With it we bless our God and Fath er, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similitude of God.

nkjv@James:3:11 @ Does a spring send forth fresh wat er and bitt er from the same opening?

nkjv@James:3:12 @ Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Thus no spring yields both salt wat er and fresh.

nkjv@James:3:13 @ Who is wise and und erstanding among you? Let him show by good conduct that his works are done in the meekness of wisdom.

nkjv@James:3:14 @ But if you have bitt er envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.

nkjv@James:3:16 @ For wh ere envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and ev ery evil thing are th ere.

nkjv@James:3:17 @ But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of m ercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.

nkjv@James:4:1 @ Wh ere do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your memb ers?

nkjv@James:4:2 @ You lust and do not have. You murd er and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask.

nkjv@James:4:4 @ Adult er ers and adult eresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoev er th erefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

nkjv@James:4:6 @ But He gives more grace. Th erefore He says: "God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble."

nkjv@James:4:7 @ Th erefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

nkjv@James:4:8 @ Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinn ers; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

nkjv@James:4:9 @ Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laught er be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.

nkjv@James:4:11 @ Do not speak evil of one anoth er, brethren. He who speaks evil of a broth er and judges his broth er, speaks evil of the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a do er of the law but a judge.

nkjv@James:4:12 @ Th ere is one Lawgiv er, who is able to save and to destroy. Who are you to judge anoth er?

nkjv@James:4:13 @ Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year th ere, buy and sell, and make a profit";

nkjv@James:4:14 @ wh ereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

nkjv@James:4:17 @ Th erefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.

nkjv@James:5:1 @ Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your mis eries that are coming upon you!

nkjv@James:5:3 @ Your gold and silv er are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days.

nkjv@James:5:4 @ Indeed the wages of the labor ers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the reap ers have reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

nkjv@James:5:5 @ You have lived on the earth in pleasure and luxury; you have fattened your hearts as in a day of slaught er.

nkjv@James:5:6 @ You have condemned, you have murd ered the just; he does not resist you.

nkjv@James:5:7 @ Th erefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farm er waits for the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently for it until it receives the early and latt er rain.

nkjv@James:5:9 @ Do not grumble against one anoth er, brethren, lest you be condemned. Behold, the Judge is standing at the door!

nkjv@James:5:10 @ My brethren, take the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord, as an example of suff ering and patience.

nkjv@James:5:11 @ Indeed we count them blessed who endure. You have heard of the p ersev erance of Job and seen the end intended by the Lord--that the Lord is v ery compassionate and m erciful.

nkjv@James:5:12 @ But above all, my brethren, do not swear, eith er by heaven or by earth or with any oth er oath. But let your "Yes" be "Yes," and your "No," "No," lest you fall into judgment.

nkjv@James:5:13 @ Is anyone among you suff ering? Let him pray. Is anyone che erful? Let him sing psalms.

nkjv@James:5:14 @ Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the eld ers of the church, and let them pray ov er him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.

nkjv@James:5:15 @ And the pray er of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

nkjv@James:5:16 @ Confess your trespasses to one anoth er, and pray for one anoth er, that you may be healed. The effective, f ervent pray er of a righteous man avails much.

nkjv@James:5:19 @ Brethren, if anyone among you wand ers from the truth, and someone turns him back,

nkjv@James:5:20 @ let him know that he who turns a sinn er from the error of his way will save a soul from death and cov er a multitude of sins.

nkjv@1Pet er:1:1 @ Pet er, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To the pilgrims of the Disp ersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

nkjv@1Pet er:1:2 @ elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Fath er, in sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

nkjv@1Pet er:1:3 @ Blessed be the God and Fath er of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant m ercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

nkjv@1Pet er:1:4 @ to an inh eritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, res erved in heaven for you,

nkjv@1Pet er:1:5 @ who are kept by the pow er of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

nkjv@1Pet er:1:6 @ In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials,

nkjv@1Pet er:1:7 @ that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that p erishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,

nkjv@1Pet er:1:8 @ whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory,

nkjv@1Pet er:1:9 @ receiving the end of your faith--the salvation of your souls.

nkjv@1Pet er:1:10 @ Of this salvation the prophets have inquired and searched carefully, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you,

nkjv@1Pet er:1:11 @ searching what, or what mann er of time, the Spirit of Christ who was in them was indicating when He testified beforehand the suff erings of Christ and the glories that would follow.

nkjv@1Pet er:1:12 @ To them it was revealed that, not to themselves, but to us they w ere minist ering the things which now have been reported to you through those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven--things which angels desire to look into.

nkjv@1Pet er:1:13 @ Th erefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sob er, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

nkjv@1Pet er:1:14 @ as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the form er lusts, as in your ignorance;

nkjv@1Pet er:1:15 @ but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct,

nkjv@1Pet er:1:16 @ because it is written, "Be holy, for I am holy."

nkjv@1Pet er:1:17 @ And if you call on the Fath er, who without partiality judges according to each one's work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay h ere in fear;

nkjv@1Pet er:1:18 @ knowing that you w ere not redeemed with corruptible things, like silv er or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fath ers,

nkjv@1Pet er:1:19 @ but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.

nkjv@1Pet er:1:20 @ He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you

nkjv@1Pet er:1:21 @ who through Him believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

nkjv@1Pet er:1:22 @ Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sinc ere love of the brethren, love one anoth er f ervently with a pure heart,

nkjv@1Pet er:1:23 @ having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forev er,

nkjv@1Pet er:1:24 @ because "All flesh is as grass, And all the glory of man as the flow er of the grass. The grass with ers, And its flow er falls away,

nkjv@1Pet er:1:25 @ But the word of the LORD endures forev er." Now this is the word which by the gospel was preached to you.

nkjv@1Pet er:2:1 @ Th erefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking,

nkjv@1Pet er:2:2 @ as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow th ereby,

nkjv@1Pet er:2:3 @ if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

nkjv@1Pet er:2:4 @ Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious,

nkjv@1Pet er:2:5 @ you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to off er up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

nkjv@1Pet er:2:6 @ Th erefore it is also contained in the Scripture, "Behold, I lay in Zion A chief corn erstone, elect, precious, And he who believes on Him will by no means be put to shame."

nkjv@1Pet er:2:7 @ Th erefore, to you who believe, He is precious; but to those who are disobedient, "The stone which the build ers rejected Has become the chief corn erstone,"

nkjv@1Pet er:2:8 @ and "A stone of stumbling And a rock of offense." They stumble, being disobedient to the word, to which they also w ere appointed.

nkjv@1Pet er:2:9 @ But you are a chosen gen eration, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

nkjv@1Pet er:2:10 @ who once w ere not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained m ercy but now have obtained m ercy.

nkjv@1Pet er:2:11 @ Beloved, I beg you as sojourn ers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,

nkjv@1Pet er:2:12 @ having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against you as evildo ers, they may, by your good works which they obs erve, glorify God in the day of visitation.

nkjv@1Pet er:2:13 @ Th erefore submit yourselves to ev ery ordinance of man for the Lord's sake, wheth er to the king as supreme,

nkjv@1Pet er:2:14 @ or to gov ernors, as to those who are sent by him for the punishment of evildo ers and for the praise of those who do good.

nkjv@1Pet er:2:15 @ For this is the will of God, that by doing good you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men--

nkjv@1Pet er:2:16 @ as free, yet not using lib erty as a cloak for vice, but as bonds ervants of God.

nkjv@1Pet er:2:17 @ Honor all people. Love the broth erhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

nkjv@1Pet er:2:18 @ S ervants, be submissive to your mast ers with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the harsh.

nkjv@1Pet er:2:19 @ For this is commendable, if because of conscience toward God one endures grief, suff ering wrongfully.

nkjv@1Pet er:2:20 @ For what credit is it if, when you are beaten for your faults, you take it patiently? But when you do good and suff er, if you take it patiently, this is commendable before God.

nkjv@1Pet er:2:21 @ For to this you w ere called, because Christ also suff ered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps:

nkjv@1Pet er:2:22 @ "Who committed no sin, Nor was deceit found in His mouth";

nkjv@1Pet er:2:23 @ who, when He was reviled, did not revile in return; when He suff ered, He did not threaten, but committed Himself to Him who judges righteously;

nkjv@1Pet er:2:24 @ who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness--by whose stripes you w ere healed.

nkjv@1Pet er:2:25 @ For you w ere like sheep going astray, but have now returned to the Sheph erd and Ov erse er of your souls.

nkjv@1Pet er:3:1 @ Wives, likewise, be submissive to your own husbands, that even if some do not obey the word, they, without a word, may be won by the conduct of their wives,

nkjv@1Pet er:3:2 @ when they obs erve your chaste conduct accompanied by fear.

nkjv@1Pet er:3:3 @ Do not let your adornment be m erely outward--arranging the hair, wearing gold, or putting on fine apparel--

nkjv@1Pet er:3:4 @ rath er let it be the hidden p erson of the heart, with the incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is v ery precious in the sight of God.

nkjv@1Pet er:3:5 @ For in this mann er, in form er times, the holy women who trusted in God also adorned themselves, being submissive to their own husbands,

nkjv@1Pet er:3:6 @ as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose daught ers you are if you do good and are not afraid with any t error.

nkjv@1Pet er:3:7 @ Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with und erstanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weak er vessel, and as being heirs togeth er of the grace of life, that your pray ers may not be hind ered.

nkjv@1Pet er:3:8 @ Finally, all of you be of one mind, having compassion for one anoth er; love as broth ers, be tend erhearted, be courteous;

nkjv@1Pet er:3:9 @ not returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary blessing, knowing that you w ere called to this, that you may inh erit a blessing.

nkjv@1Pet er:3:10 @ For "He who would love life And see good days, Let him refrain his tongue from evil, And his lips from speaking deceit.

nkjv@1Pet er:3:11 @ Let him turn away from evil and do good; Let him seek peace and pursue it.

nkjv@1Pet er:3:12 @ For the eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, And His ears are open to their pray ers; But the face of the LORD is against those who do evil."

nkjv@1Pet er:3:13 @ And who is he who will harm you if you become follow ers of what is good?

nkjv@1Pet er:3:14 @ But even if you should suff er for righteousness' sake, you are blessed. "And do not be afraid of their threats, nor be troubled."

nkjv@1Pet er:3:15 @ But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to ev eryone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear;

nkjv@1Pet er:3:16 @ having a good conscience, that when they defame you as evildo ers, those who revile your good conduct in Christ may be ashamed.

nkjv@1Pet er:3:17 @ For it is bett er, if it is the will of God, to suff er for doing good than for doing evil.

nkjv@1Pet er:3:18 @ For Christ also suff ered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit,

nkjv@1Pet er:3:19 @ by whom also He went and preached to the spirits in prison,

nkjv@1Pet er:3:20 @ who form erly w ere disobedient, when once the Divine longsuff ering waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, w ere saved through wat er.

nkjv@1Pet er:3:21 @ Th ere is also an antitype which now saves us--baptism (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answ er of a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

nkjv@1Pet er:3:22 @ who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities and pow ers having been made subject to Him.

nkjv@1Pet er:4:1 @ Th erefore, since Christ suff ered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind, for he who has suff ered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

nkjv@1Pet er:4:2 @ that he no long er should live the rest of his time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

nkjv@1Pet er:4:3 @ For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles--when we walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries.

nkjv@1Pet er:4:4 @ In regard to these, they think it strange that you do not run with them in the same flood of dissipation, speaking evil of you.

nkjv@1Pet er:4:5 @ They will give an account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

nkjv@1Pet er:4:6 @ For this reason the gospel was preached also to those who are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

nkjv@1Pet er:4:7 @ But the end of all things is at hand; th erefore be s erious and watchful in your pray ers.

nkjv@1Pet er:4:8 @ And above all things have f ervent love for one anoth er, for "love will cov er a multitude of sins."

nkjv@1Pet er:4:9 @ Be hospitable to one anoth er without grumbling.

nkjv@1Pet er:4:10 @ As each one has received a gift, minist er it to one anoth er, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

nkjv@1Pet er:4:11 @ If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone minist ers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forev er and ev er. Amen.

nkjv@1Pet er:4:12 @ Beloved, do not think it strange conc erning the fi ery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you;

nkjv@1Pet er:4:13 @ but rejoice to the extent that you partake of Christ's suff erings, that when His glory is revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy.

nkjv@1Pet er:4:14 @ If you are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. On their part He is blasphemed, but on your part He is glorified.

nkjv@1Pet er:4:15 @ But let none of you suff er as a murd er er, a thief, an evildo er, or as a busybody in oth er people's matt ers.

nkjv@1Pet er:4:16 @ Yet if anyone suff ers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in this matt er.

nkjv@1Pet er:4:17 @ For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God?

nkjv@1Pet er:4:18 @ Now "If the righteous one is scarcely saved, Wh ere will the ungodly and the sinn er appear?"

nkjv@1Pet er:4:19 @ Th erefore let those who suff er according to the will of God commit their souls to Him in doing good, as to a faithful Creator.

nkjv@1Pet er:5:1 @ The eld ers who are among you I exhort, I who am a fellow eld er and a witness of the suff erings of Christ, and also a partak er of the glory that will be revealed:

nkjv@1Pet er:5:2 @ Sheph erd the flock of God which is among you, s erving as ov erse ers, not by compulsion but willingly, not for dishonest gain but eag erly;

nkjv@1Pet er:5:3 @ nor as being lords ov er those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock;

nkjv@1Pet er:5:4 @ and when the Chief Sheph erd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that does not fade away.

nkjv@1Pet er:5:5 @ Likewise you young er people, submit yourselves to your eld ers. Yes, all of you be submissive to one anoth er, and be clothed with humility, for "God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble."

nkjv@1Pet er:5:6 @ Th erefore humble yourselves und er the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time,

nkjv@1Pet er:5:7 @ casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.

nkjv@1Pet er:5:8 @ Be sob er, be vigilant; because your adv ersary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

nkjv@1Pet er:5:9 @ Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same suff erings are exp erienced by your broth erhood in the world.

nkjv@1Pet er:5:10 @ But may the God of all grace, who called us to His et ernal glory by Christ Jesus, aft er you have suff ered a while, p erfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

nkjv@1Pet er:5:11 @ To Him be the glory and the dominion forev er and ev er. Amen.

nkjv@1Pet er:5:12 @ By Silvanus, our faithful broth er as I consid er him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand.

nkjv@1Pet er:5:13 @ She who is in Babylon, elect togeth er with you, greets you; and so does Mark my son.

nkjv@1Pet er:5:14 @ Greet one anoth er with a kiss of love. Peace to you all who are in Christ Jesus. Amen.

nkjv@2Pet er:1:1 @ Simon Pet er, a bonds ervant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained like precious faith with us by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:

nkjv@2Pet er:1:2 @ Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,

nkjv@2Pet er:1:3 @ as His divine pow er has given to us all things that p ertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue,

nkjv@2Pet er:1:4 @ by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partak ers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

nkjv@2Pet er:1:5 @ But also for this v ery reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge,

nkjv@2Pet er:1:6 @ to knowledge self-control, to self-control p ersev erance, to p ersev erance godliness,

nkjv@2Pet er:1:7 @ to godliness broth erly kindness, and to broth erly kindness love.

nkjv@2Pet er:1:8 @ For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neith er barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

nkjv@2Pet er:1:9 @ For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.

nkjv@2Pet er:1:10 @ Th erefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will nev er stumble;

nkjv@2Pet er:1:11 @ for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the ev erlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

nkjv@2Pet er:1:12 @ For this reason I will not be negligent to remind you always of these things, though you know and are established in the present truth.

nkjv@2Pet er:1:13 @ Yes, I think it is right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you,

nkjv@2Pet er:1:14 @ knowing that shortly I must put off my tent, just as our Lord Jesus Christ showed me.

nkjv@2Pet er:1:15 @ Moreov er I will be careful to ensure that you always have a remind er of these things aft er my decease.

nkjv@2Pet er:1:16 @ For we did not follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the pow er and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but w ere eyewitnesses of His majesty.

nkjv@2Pet er:1:17 @ For He received from God the Fath er honor and glory when such a voice came to Him from the Excellent Glory: "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."

nkjv@2Pet er:1:18 @ And we heard this voice which came from heaven when we w ere with Him on the holy mountain.

nkjv@2Pet er:1:19 @ And so we have the prophetic word confirmed, which you do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts;

nkjv@2Pet er:1:20 @ knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private int erpretation,

nkjv@2Pet er:1:21 @ for prophecy nev er came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they w ere moved by the Holy Spirit.

nkjv@2Pet er:2:1 @ But th ere w ere also false prophets among the people, even as th ere will be false teach ers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive h eresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction.

nkjv@2Pet er:2:2 @ And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed.

nkjv@2Pet er:2:3 @ By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does not slumb er.

nkjv@2Pet er:2:4 @ For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and deliv ered them into chains of darkness, to be res erved for judgment;

nkjv@2Pet er:2:5 @ and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preach er of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly;

nkjv@2Pet er:2:6 @ and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who aft erward would live ungodly;

nkjv@2Pet er:2:7 @ and deliv ered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked

nkjv@2Pet er:2:8 @ (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds)--

nkjv@2Pet er:2:9 @ then the Lord knows how to deliv er the godly out of temptations and to res erve the unjust und er punishment for the day of judgment,

nkjv@2Pet er:2:10 @ and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority. They are presumptuous, self-willed. They are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries,

nkjv@2Pet er:2:11 @ wh ereas angels, who are great er in pow er and might, do not bring a reviling accusation against them before the Lord.

nkjv@2Pet er:2:12 @ But these, like natural brute beasts made to be caught and destroyed, speak evil of the things they do not und erstand, and will utt erly p erish in their own corruption,

nkjv@2Pet er:2:13 @ and will receive the wages of unrighteousness, as those who count it pleasure to carouse in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes, carousing in their own deceptions while they feast with you,

nkjv@2Pet er:2:14 @ having eyes full of adult ery and that cannot cease from sin, enticing unstable souls. They have a heart trained in covetous practices, and are accursed children.

nkjv@2Pet er:2:15 @ They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

nkjv@2Pet er:2:16 @ but he was rebuked for his iniquity: a dumb donkey speaking with a man's voice restrained the madness of the prophet.

nkjv@2Pet er:2:17 @ These are wells without wat er, clouds carried by a tempest, for whom is res erved the blackness of darkness forev er.

nkjv@2Pet er:2:18 @ For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who have actually escaped from those who live in error.

nkjv@2Pet er:2:19 @ While they promise them lib erty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a p erson is ov ercome, by him also he is brought into bondage.

nkjv@2Pet er:2:20 @ For if, aft er they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and ov ercome, the latt er end is worse for them than the beginning.

nkjv@2Pet er:2:21 @ For it would have been bett er for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment deliv ered to them.

nkjv@2Pet er:2:22 @ But it has happened to them according to the true prov erb: "A dog returns to his own vomit," and, "a sow, having washed, to h er wallowing in the mire."

nkjv@2Pet er:3:1 @ Beloved, I now write to you this second epistle (in both of which I stir up your pure minds by way of remind er),

nkjv@2Pet er:3:2 @ that you may be mindful of the words which w ere spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior,

nkjv@2Pet er:3:3 @ knowing this first: that scoff ers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts,

nkjv@2Pet er:3:4 @ and saying, "Wh ere is the promise of His coming? For since the fath ers fell asleep, all things continue as they w ere from the beginning of creation."

nkjv@2Pet er:3:5 @ For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens w ere of old, and the earth standing out of wat er and in the wat er,

nkjv@2Pet er:3:6 @ by which the world that then existed p erished, being flooded with wat er.

nkjv@2Pet er:3:7 @ But the heavens and the earth which are now pres erved by the same word, are res erved for fire until the day of judgment and p erdition of ungodly men.

nkjv@2Pet er:3:8 @ But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

nkjv@2Pet er:3:9 @ The Lord is not slack conc erning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuff ering toward us, not willing that any should p erish but that all should come to repentance.

nkjv@2Pet er:3:10 @ But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with f ervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.

nkjv@2Pet er:3:11 @ Th erefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what mann er of p ersons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness,

nkjv@2Pet er:3:12 @ looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with f ervent heat?

nkjv@2Pet er:3:13 @ Nev ertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.

nkjv@2Pet er:3:14 @ Th erefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless;

nkjv@2Pet er:3:15 @ and consid er that the longsuff ering of our Lord is salvation--as also our beloved broth er Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you,

nkjv@2Pet er:3:16 @ as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to und erstand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures.

nkjv@2Pet er:3:17 @ You th erefore, beloved, since you know this beforehand, beware lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the error of the wicked;

nkjv@2Pet er:3:18 @ but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and forev er. Amen.

nkjv@1John:1:1 @ That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, conc erning the Word of life--

nkjv@1John:1:2 @ the life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare to you that et ernal life which was with the Fath er and was manifested to us--

nkjv@1John:1:3 @ that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Fath er and with His Son Jesus Christ.

nkjv@1John:1:7 @ But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one anoth er, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.

nkjv@1John:2:1 @ My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Fath er, Jesus Christ the righteous.

nkjv@1John:2:5 @ But whoev er keeps His word, truly the love of God is p erfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him.

nkjv@1John:2:9 @ He who says he is in the light, and hates his broth er, is in darkness until now.

nkjv@1John:2:10 @ He who loves his broth er abides in the light, and th ere is no cause for stumbling in him.

nkjv@1John:2:11 @ But he who hates his broth er is in darkness and walks in darkness, and does not know wh ere he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

nkjv@1John:2:13 @ I write to you, fath ers, Because you have known Him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, Because you have ov ercome the wicked one. I write to you, little children, Because you have known the Fath er.

nkjv@1John:2:14 @ I have written to you, fath ers, Because you have known Him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, Because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, And you have ov ercome the wicked one.

nkjv@1John:2:15 @ Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Fath er is not in him.

nkjv@1John:2:16 @ For all that is in the world--the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life--is not of the Fath er but is of the world.

nkjv@1John:2:17 @ And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forev er.

nkjv@1John:2:19 @ They went out from us, but they w ere not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them w ere of us.

nkjv@1John:2:22 @ Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Fath er and the Son.

nkjv@1John:2:23 @ Whoev er denies the Son does not have the Fath er eith er; he who acknowledges the Son has the Fath er also.

nkjv@1John:2:24 @ Th erefore let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Fath er.

nkjv@1John:2:25 @ And this is the promise that He has promised us--et ernal life.

nkjv@1John:2:26 @ These things I have written to you conc erning those who try to deceive you.

nkjv@1John:2:27 @ But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you conc erning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him.

nkjv@1John:2:29 @ If you know that He is righteous, you know that ev eryone who practices righteousness is born of Him.

nkjv@1John:3:1 @ Behold what mann er of love the Fath er has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Th erefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.

nkjv@1John:3:3 @ And ev eryone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

nkjv@1John:3:4 @ Whoev er commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.

nkjv@1John:3:5 @ And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him th ere is no sin.

nkjv@1John:3:6 @ Whoev er abides in Him does not sin. Whoev er sins has neith er seen Him nor known Him.

nkjv@1John:3:9 @ Whoev er has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.

nkjv@1John:3:10 @ In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoev er does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his broth er.

nkjv@1John:3:11 @ For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one anoth er,

nkjv@1John:3:12 @ not as Cain who was of the wicked one and murd ered his broth er. And why did he murd er him? Because his works w ere evil and his broth er's righteous.

nkjv@1John:3:14 @ We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his broth er abides in death.

nkjv@1John:3:15 @ Whoev er hates his broth er is a murd er er, and you know that no murd er er has et ernal life abiding in him.

nkjv@1John:3:17 @ But whoev er has this world's goods, and sees his broth er in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?

nkjv@1John:3:20 @ For if our heart condemns us, God is great er than our heart, and knows all things.

nkjv@1John:3:22 @ And whatev er we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.

nkjv@1John:3:23 @ And this is His commandment: that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one anoth er, as He gave us commandment.

nkjv@1John:4:1 @ Beloved, do not believe ev ery spirit, but test the spirits, wheth er they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

nkjv@1John:4:2 @ By this you know the Spirit of God: Ev ery spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,

nkjv@1John:4:3 @ and ev ery spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.

nkjv@1John:4:4 @ You are of God, little children, and have ov ercome them, because He who is in you is great er than he who is in the world.

nkjv@1John:4:5 @ They are of the world. Th erefore they speak as of the world, and the world hears them.

nkjv@1John:4:6 @ We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

nkjv@1John:4:7 @ Beloved, let us love one anoth er, for love is of God; and ev eryone who loves is born of God and knows God.

nkjv@1John:4:11 @ Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one anoth er.

nkjv@1John:4:12 @ No one has seen God at any time. If we love one anoth er, God abides in us, and His love has been p erfected in us.

nkjv@1John:4:14 @ And we have seen and testify that the Fath er has sent the Son as Savior of the world.

nkjv@1John:4:15 @ Whoev er confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

nkjv@1John:4:17 @ Love has been p erfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world.

nkjv@1John:4:18 @ Th ere is no fear in love; but p erfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made p erfect in love.

nkjv@1John:4:20 @ If someone says, "I love God," and hates his broth er, he is a liar; for he who does not love his broth er whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

nkjv@1John:4:21 @ And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his broth er also.

nkjv@1John:5:1 @ Whoev er believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and ev eryone who loves Him who begot also loves him who is begotten of Him.

nkjv@1John:5:4 @ For whatev er is born of God ov ercomes the world. And this is the victory that has ov ercome the world--our faith.

nkjv@1John:5:5 @ Who is he who ov ercomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

nkjv@1John:5:6 @ This is He who came by wat er and blood--Jesus Christ; not only by wat er, but by wat er and blood. And it is the Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is truth.

nkjv@1John:5:7 @ For th ere are three that bear witness in heaven: the Fath er, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one.

nkjv@1John:5:8 @ And th ere are three that bear witness on earth: the Spirit, the wat er, and the blood; and these three agree as one.

nkjv@1John:5:9 @ If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is great er; for this is the witness of God which He has testified of His Son.

nkjv@1John:5:11 @ And this is the testimony: that God has given us et ernal life, and this life is in His Son.

nkjv@1John:5:13 @ These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have et ernal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.

nkjv@1John:5:15 @ And if we know that He hears us, whatev er we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him.

nkjv@1John:5:16 @ If anyone sees his broth er sinning a sin which does not lead to death, he will ask, and He will give him life for those who commit sin not leading to death. Th ere is sin leading to death. I do not say that he should pray about that.

nkjv@1John:5:17 @ All unrighteousness is sin, and th ere is sin not leading to death.

nkjv@1John:5:18 @ We know that whoev er is born of God does not sin; but he who has been born of God keeps himself, and the wicked one does not touch him.

nkjv@1John:5:19 @ We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies und er the sway of the wicked one.

nkjv@1John:5:20 @ And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an und erstanding, that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and et ernal life.

nkjv@2John:1:1 @ The Eld er, To the elect lady and h er children, whom I love in truth, and not only I, but also all those who have known the truth,

nkjv@2John:1:2 @ because of the truth which abides in us and will be with us forev er:

nkjv@2John:1:3 @ Grace, m ercy, and peace will be with you from God the Fath er and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Fath er, in truth and love.

nkjv@2John:1:4 @ I rejoiced greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, as we received commandment from the Fath er.

nkjv@2John:1:5 @ And now I plead with you, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment to you, but that which we have had from the beginning: that we love one anoth er.

nkjv@2John:1:7 @ For many deceiv ers have gone out into the world who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is a deceiv er and an antichrist.

nkjv@2John:1:9 @ Whoev er transgresses and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who abides in the doctrine of Christ has both the Fath er and the Son.

nkjv@2John:1:12 @ Having many things to write to you, I did not wish to do so with pap er and ink; but I hope to come to you and speak face to face, that our joy may be full.

nkjv@2John:1:13 @ The children of your elect sist er greet you. Amen.

nkjv@3John:1:1 @ The Eld er, To the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth:

nkjv@3John:1:2 @ Beloved, I pray that you may prosp er in all things and be in health, just as your soul prosp ers.

nkjv@3John:1:4 @ I have no great er joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.

nkjv@3John:1:5 @ Beloved, you do faithfully whatev er you do for the brethren and for strang ers,

nkjv@3John:1:6 @ who have borne witness of your love before the church. If you send them forward on their journey in a mann er worthy of God, you will do well,

nkjv@3John:1:8 @ We th erefore ought to receive such, that we may become fellow work ers for the truth.

nkjv@3John:1:10 @ Th erefore, if I come, I will call to mind his deeds which he does, prating against us with malicious words. And not content with that, he himself does not receive the brethren, and forbids those who wish to, putting them out of the church.

nkjv@Jude:1:1 @ Jude, a bonds ervant of Jesus Christ, and broth er of James, To those who are called, sanctified by God the Fath er, and pres erved in Jesus Christ:

nkjv@Jude:1:2 @ M ercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.

nkjv@Jude:1:3 @ Beloved, while I was v ery diligent to write to you conc erning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all deliv ered to the saints.

nkjv@Jude:1:4 @ For c ertain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago w ere marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.

nkjv@Jude:1:5 @ But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, aft erward destroyed those who did not believe.

nkjv@Jude:1:6 @ And the angels who did not keep their prop er domain, but left their own abode, He has res erved in ev erlasting chains und er darkness for the judgment of the great day;

nkjv@Jude:1:7 @ as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar mann er to these, having given themselves ov er to sexual immorality and gone aft er strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suff ering the vengeance of et ernal fire.

nkjv@Jude:1:8 @ Likewise also these dream ers defile the flesh, reject authority, and speak evil of dignitaries.

nkjv@Jude:1:10 @ But these speak evil of whatev er they do not know; and whatev er they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves.

nkjv@Jude:1:11 @ Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and p erished in the rebellion of Korah.

nkjv@Jude:1:12 @ These are spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, s erving only themselves. They are clouds without wat er, carried about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots;

nkjv@Jude:1:13 @ raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wand ering stars for whom is res erved the blackness of darkness forev er.

nkjv@Jude:1:15 @ to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinn ers have spoken against Him."

nkjv@Jude:1:16 @ These are grumbl ers, complain ers, walking according to their own lusts; and they mouth great swelling words, flatt ering people to gain advantage.

nkjv@Jude:1:17 @ But you, beloved, rememb er the words which w ere spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ:

nkjv@Jude:1:18 @ how they told you that th ere would be mock ers in the last time who would walk according to their own ungodly lusts.

nkjv@Jude:1:19 @ These are sensual p ersons, who cause divisions, not having the Spirit.

nkjv@Jude:1:21 @ keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the m ercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto et ernal life.

nkjv@Jude:1:23 @ but oth ers save with fear, pulling them out of the fire, hating even the garment defiled by the flesh.

nkjv@Jude:1:25 @ To God our Savior, Who alone is wise, Be glory and majesty, Dominion and pow er, Both now and forev er. Amen.

nkjv@Revelation:1:1 @ The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His s ervants--things which must shortly take place. And He sent and signified it by His angel to His s ervant John,

nkjv@Revelation:1:5 @ and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the rul er ov er the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood,

nkjv@Revelation:1:6 @ and has made us kings and priests to His God and Fath er, to Him be glory and dominion forev er and ev er. Amen.

nkjv@Revelation:1:7 @ Behold, He is coming with clouds, and ev ery eye will see Him, even they who pi erced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Even so, Amen.

nkjv@Revelation:1:9 @ I, John, both your broth er and companion in the tribulation and kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was on the island that is called Patmos for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.

nkjv@Revelation:1:11 @ saying, "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last," and, "What you see, write in a book and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia: to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to P ergamos, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea."

nkjv@Revelation:1:14 @ His head and hair w ere white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes like a flame of fire;

nkjv@Revelation:1:15 @ His feet w ere like fine brass, as if refined in a furnace, and His voice as the sound of many wat ers;

nkjv@Revelation:1:18 @ I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forev ermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.

nkjv@Revelation:1:19 @ Write the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will take place aft er this.

nkjv@Revelation:1:20 @ The myst ery of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands which you saw are the seven churches.

nkjv@Revelation:2:3 @ and you have p ersev ered and have patience, and have labored for My name's sake and have not become weary.

nkjv@Revelation:2:4 @ Nev ertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love.

nkjv@Revelation:2:5 @ Rememb er th erefore from wh ere you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place--unless you repent.

nkjv@Revelation:2:7 @ "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who ov ercomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God."'

nkjv@Revelation:2:9 @ "I know your works, tribulation, and pov erty (but you are rich); and I know the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

nkjv@Revelation:2:10 @ Do not fear any of those things which you are about to suff er. Indeed, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and you will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.

nkjv@Revelation:2:11 @ "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who ov ercomes shall not be hurt by the second death."'

nkjv@Revelation:2:12 @ "And to the angel of the church in P ergamos write, "These things says He who has the sharp two-edged sword:

nkjv@Revelation:2:13 @ "I know your works, and wh ere you dwell, wh ere Satan's throne is. And you hold fast to My name, and did not deny My faith even in the days in which Antipas was My faithful martyr, who was killed among you, wh ere Satan dwells.

nkjv@Revelation:2:14 @ But I have a few things against you, because you have th ere those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

nkjv@Revelation:2:17 @ "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who ov ercomes I will give some of the hidden manna to eat. And I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written which no one knows except him who receives it."'

nkjv@Revelation:2:19 @ "I know your works, love, s ervice, faith, and your patience; and as for your works, the last are more than the first.

nkjv@Revelation:2:20 @ Nev ertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls h erself a prophetess, to teach and seduce My s ervants to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.

nkjv@Revelation:2:21 @ And I gave h er time to repent of h er sexual immorality, and she did not repent.

nkjv@Revelation:2:22 @ Indeed I will cast h er into a sickbed, and those who commit adult ery with h er into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds.

nkjv@Revelation:2:23 @ I will kill h er children with death, and all the churches shall know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts. And I will give to each one of you according to your works.

nkjv@Revelation:2:24 @ "Now to you I say, and to the rest in Thyatira, as many as do not have this doctrine, who have not known the depths of Satan, as they say, I will put on you no oth er burden.

nkjv@Revelation:2:26 @ And he who ov ercomes, and keeps My works until the end, to him I will give pow er ov er the nations--

nkjv@Revelation:2:27 @ "He shall rule them with a rod of iron; They shall be dashed to pieces like the pott er's vessels' -- as I also have received from My Fath er;

nkjv@Revelation:3:2 @ Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die, for I have not found your works p erfect before God.

nkjv@Revelation:3:3 @ Rememb er th erefore how you have received and heard; hold fast and repent. Th erefore if you will not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, and you will not know what hour I will come upon you.

nkjv@Revelation:3:5 @ He who ov ercomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Fath er and before His angels.

nkjv@Revelation:3:10 @ Because you have kept My command to p ersev ere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

nkjv@Revelation:3:12 @ He who ov ercomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New J erusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God. And I will write on him My new name.

nkjv@Revelation:3:15 @ "I know your works, that you are neith er cold nor hot. I could wish you w ere cold or hot.

nkjv@Revelation:3:16 @ So then, because you are lukewarm, and neith er cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.

nkjv@Revelation:3:17 @ Because you say, "I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing'--and do not know that you are wretched, mis erable, poor, blind, and naked--

nkjv@Revelation:3:19 @ As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Th erefore be zealous and repent.

nkjv@Revelation:3:21 @ To him who ov ercomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also ov ercame and sat down with My Fath er on His throne.

nkjv@Revelation:4:1 @ Aft er these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven. And the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet speaking with me, saying, "Come up h ere, and I will show you things which must take place aft er this."

nkjv@Revelation:4:3 @ And He who sat th ere was like a jasp er and a sardius stone in appearance; and th ere was a rainbow around the throne, in appearance like an em erald.

nkjv@Revelation:4:4 @ Around the throne w ere twenty-four thrones, and on the thrones I saw twenty-four eld ers sitting, clothed in white robes; and they had crowns of gold on their heads.

nkjv@Revelation:4:5 @ And from the throne proceeded lightnings, thund erings, and voices. Seven lamps of fire w ere burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.

nkjv@Revelation:4:6 @ Before the throne th ere was a sea of glass, like crystal. And in the midst of the throne, and around the throne, w ere four living creatures full of eyes in front and in back.

nkjv@Revelation:4:8 @ The four living creatures, each having six wings, w ere full of eyes around and within. And they do not rest day or night, saying: "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, Who was and is and is to come!"

nkjv@Revelation:4:9 @ Whenev er the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to Him who sits on the throne, who lives forev er and ev er,

nkjv@Revelation:4:10 @ the twenty-four eld ers fall down before Him who sits on the throne and worship Him who lives forev er and ev er, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying:

nkjv@Revelation:4:11 @ "You are worthy, O Lord, To receive glory and honor and pow er; For You created all things, And by Your will they exist and w ere created."

nkjv@Revelation:5:3 @ And no one in heaven or on the earth or und er the earth was able to open the scroll, or to look at it.

nkjv@Revelation:5:5 @ But one of the eld ers said to me, "Do not weep. Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has prevailed to open the scroll and to loose its seven seals."

nkjv@Revelation:5:6 @ And I looked, and behold, in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the eld ers, stood a Lamb as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent out into all the earth.

nkjv@Revelation:5:8 @ Now when He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four eld ers fell down before the Lamb, each having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the pray ers of the saints.

nkjv@Revelation:5:9 @ And they sang a new song, saying: "You are worthy to take the scroll, And to open its seals; For You w ere slain, And have redeemed us to God by Your blood Out of ev ery tribe and tongue and people and nation,

nkjv@Revelation:5:11 @ Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the eld ers; and the numb er of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands,

nkjv@Revelation:5:12 @ saying with a loud voice: "Worthy is the Lamb who was slain To receive pow er and riches and wisdom, And strength and honor and glory and blessing!"

nkjv@Revelation:5:13 @ And ev ery creature which is in heaven and on the earth and und er the earth and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, I heard saying: "Blessing and honor and glory and pow er Be to Him who sits on the throne, And to the Lamb, forev er and ev er!"

nkjv@Revelation:5:14 @ Then the four living creatures said, "Amen!" And the twenty-four eld ers fell down and worshiped Him who lives forev er and ev er.

nkjv@Revelation:6:1 @ Now I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals; and I heard one of the four living creatures saying with a voice like thund er, "Come and see."

nkjv@Revelation:6:2 @ And I looked, and behold, a white horse. He who sat on it had a bow; and a crown was given to him, and he went out conqu ering and to conqu er.

nkjv@Revelation:6:4 @ Anoth er horse, fi ery red, went out. And it was granted to the one who sat on it to take peace from the earth, and that people should kill one anoth er; and th ere was given to him a great sword.

nkjv@Revelation:6:8 @ So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And pow er was given to them ov er a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hung er, with death, and by the beasts of the earth.

nkjv@Revelation:6:9 @ When He opened the fifth seal, I saw und er the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held.

nkjv@Revelation:6:11 @ Then a white robe was given to each of them; and it was said to them that they should rest a little while long er, until both the numb er of their fellow s ervants and their brethren, who would be killed as they w ere, was completed.

nkjv@Revelation:6:12 @ I looked when He opened the sixth seal, and behold, th ere was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood.

nkjv@Revelation:6:14 @ Then the sky receded as a scroll when it is rolled up, and ev ery mountain and island was moved out of its place.

nkjv@Revelation:6:15 @ And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the command ers, the mighty men, ev ery slave and ev ery free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains,

nkjv@Revelation:7:1 @ Aft er these things I saw four angels standing at the four corn ers of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, on the sea, or on any tree.

nkjv@Revelation:7:2 @ Then I saw anoth er angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God. And he cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was granted to harm the earth and the sea,

nkjv@Revelation:7:3 @ saying, "Do not harm the earth, the sea, or the trees till we have sealed the s ervants of our God on their foreheads."

nkjv@Revelation:7:4 @ And I heard the numb er of those who w ere sealed. One hundred and forty-four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel w ere sealed:

nkjv@Revelation:7:5 @ of the tribe of Judah twelve thousand w ere sealed; of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand w ere sealed; of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand w ere sealed;

nkjv@Revelation:7:6 @ of the tribe of Ash er twelve thousand w ere sealed; of the tribe of Naphtali twelve thousand w ere sealed; of the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand w ere sealed;

nkjv@Revelation:7:7 @ of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand w ere sealed; of the tribe of Levi twelve thousand w ere sealed; of the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand w ere sealed;

nkjv@Revelation:7:8 @ of the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand w ere sealed; of the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand w ere sealed; of the tribe of Benjamin twelve thousand w ere sealed.

nkjv@Revelation:7:9 @ Aft er these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could numb er, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands,

nkjv@Revelation:7:11 @ All the angels stood around the throne and the eld ers and the four living creatures, and fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God,

nkjv@Revelation:7:12 @ saying: "Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom, Thanksgiving and honor and pow er and might, Be to our God forev er and ev er. Amen."

nkjv@Revelation:7:13 @ Then one of the eld ers answ ered, saying to me, "Who are these arrayed in white robes, and wh ere did they come from?"

nkjv@Revelation:7:15 @ Th erefore they are before the throne of God, and s erve Him day and night in His temple. And He who sits on the throne will dwell among them.

nkjv@Revelation:7:16 @ They shall neith er hung er anymore nor thirst anymore; the sun shall not strike them, nor any heat;

nkjv@Revelation:7:17 @ for the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will sheph erd them and lead them to living fountains of wat ers. And God will wipe away ev ery tear from their eyes."

nkjv@Revelation:8:1 @ When He opened the seventh seal, th ere was silence in heaven for about half an hour.

nkjv@Revelation:8:2 @ And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and to them w ere given seven trumpets.

nkjv@Revelation:8:3 @ Then anoth er angel, having a golden cens er, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense, that he should off er it with the pray ers of all the saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.

nkjv@Revelation:8:4 @ And the smoke of the incense, with the pray ers of the saints, ascended before God from the angel's hand.

nkjv@Revelation:8:5 @ Then the angel took the cens er, filled it with fire from the altar, and threw it to the earth. And th ere w ere noises, thund erings, lightnings, and an earthquake.

nkjv@Revelation:8:7 @ The first angel sounded: And hail and fire followed, mingled with blood, and they w ere thrown to the earth. And a third of the trees w ere burned up, and all green grass was burned up.

nkjv@Revelation:8:9 @ And a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships w ere destroyed.

nkjv@Revelation:8:10 @ Then the third angel sounded: And a great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a third of the riv ers and on the springs of wat er.

nkjv@Revelation:8:11 @ The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the wat ers became wormwood, and many men died from the wat er, because it was made bitt er.

nkjv@Revelation:8:12 @ Then the fourth angel sounded: And a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them w ere darkened. A third of the day did not shine, and likewise the night.

nkjv@Revelation:9:2 @ And he opened the bottomless pit, and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace. So the sun and the air w ere darkened because of the smoke of the pit.

nkjv@Revelation:9:3 @ Then out of the smoke locusts came upon the earth. And to them was given pow er, as the scorpions of the earth have pow er.

nkjv@Revelation:9:4 @ They w ere commanded not to harm the grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only those men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.

nkjv@Revelation:9:5 @ And they w ere not given authority to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man.

nkjv@Revelation:9:7 @ The shape of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle. On their heads w ere crowns of something like gold, and their faces w ere like the faces of men.

nkjv@Revelation:9:8 @ They had hair like women's hair, and their teeth w ere like lions' teeth.

nkjv@Revelation:9:10 @ They had tails like scorpions, and th ere w ere stings in their tails. Their pow er was to hurt men five months.

nkjv@Revelation:9:11 @ And they had as king ov er them the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, but in Greek he has the name Apollyon.

nkjv@Revelation:9:12 @ One woe is past. Behold, still two more woes are coming aft er these things.

nkjv@Revelation:9:14 @ saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels who are bound at the great riv er Euphrates."

nkjv@Revelation:9:15 @ So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, w ere released to kill a third of mankind.

nkjv@Revelation:9:16 @ Now the numb er of the army of the horsemen was two hundred million; I heard the numb er of them.

nkjv@Revelation:9:17 @ And thus I saw the horses in the vision: those who sat on them had breastplates of fi ery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow; and the heads of the horses w ere like the heads of lions; and out of their mouths came fire, smoke, and brimstone.

nkjv@Revelation:9:19 @ For their pow er is in their mouth and in their tails; for their tails are like s erpents, having heads; and with them they do harm.

nkjv@Revelation:9:20 @ But the rest of mankind, who w ere not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold, silv er, brass, stone, and wood, which can neith er see nor hear nor walk.

nkjv@Revelation:9:21 @ And they did not repent of their murd ers or their sorc eries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.

nkjv@Revelation:10:1 @ I saw still anoth er mighty angel coming down from heaven, clothed with a cloud. And a rainbow was on his head, his face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire.

nkjv@Revelation:10:3 @ and cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roars. When he cried out, seven thund ers utt ered their voices.

nkjv@Revelation:10:4 @ Now when the seven thund ers utt ered their voices, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, "Seal up the things which the seven thund ers utt ered, and do not write them."

nkjv@Revelation:10:6 @ and swore by Him who lives forev er and ev er, who created heaven and the things that are in it, the earth and the things that are in it, and the sea and the things that are in it, that th ere should be delay no long er,

nkjv@Revelation:10:7 @ but in the days of the sounding of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, the myst ery of God would be finished, as He declared to His s ervants the prophets.

nkjv@Revelation:10:9 @ So I went to the angel and said to him, "Give me the little book." And he said to me, "Take and eat it; and it will make your stomach bitt er, but it will be as sweet as honey in your mouth."

nkjv@Revelation:10:10 @ Then I took the little book out of the angel's hand and ate it, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth. But when I had eaten it, my stomach became bitt er.

nkjv@Revelation:11:1 @ Then I was given a reed like a measuring rod. And the angel stood, saying, "Rise and measure the temple of God, the altar, and those who worship th ere.

nkjv@Revelation:11:2 @ But leave out the court which is outside the temple, and do not measure it, for it has been given to the Gentiles. And they will tread the holy city und erfoot for forty-two months.

nkjv@Revelation:11:3 @ And I will give pow er to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth."

nkjv@Revelation:11:5 @ And if anyone wants to harm them, fire proceeds from their mouth and devours their enemies. And if anyone wants to harm them, he must be killed in this mann er.

nkjv@Revelation:11:6 @ These have pow er to shut heaven, so that no rain falls in the days of their prophecy; and they have pow er ov er wat ers to turn them to blood, and to strike the earth with all plagues, as often as they desire.

nkjv@Revelation:11:7 @ When they finish their testimony, the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit will make war against them, ov ercome them, and kill them.

nkjv@Revelation:11:8 @ And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, wh ere also our Lord was crucified.

nkjv@Revelation:11:10 @ And those who dwell on the earth will rejoice ov er them, make m erry, and send gifts to one anoth er, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.

nkjv@Revelation:11:11 @ Now aft er the three-and-a-half days the breath of life from God ent ered them, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them.

nkjv@Revelation:11:12 @ And they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, "Come up h ere." And they ascended to heaven in a cloud, and their enemies saw them.

nkjv@Revelation:11:13 @ In the same hour th ere was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. In the earthquake seven thousand people w ere killed, and the rest w ere afraid and gave glory to the God of heaven.

nkjv@Revelation:11:15 @ Then the seventh angel sounded: And th ere w ere loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forev er and ev er!"

nkjv@Revelation:11:16 @ And the twenty-four eld ers who sat before God on their thrones fell on their faces and worshiped God,

nkjv@Revelation:11:17 @ saying: "We give You thanks, O Lord God Almighty, The One who is and who was and who is to come, Because You have taken Your great pow er and reigned.

nkjv@Revelation:11:18 @ The nations w ere angry, and Your wrath has come, And the time of the dead, that they should be judged, And that You should reward Your s ervants the prophets and the saints, And those who fear Your name, small and great, And should destroy those who destroy the earth."

nkjv@Revelation:11:19 @ Then the temple of God was opened in heaven, and the ark of His covenant was seen in His temple. And th ere w ere lightnings, noises, thund erings, an earthquake, and great hail.

nkjv@Revelation:12:1 @ Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon und er h er feet, and on h er head a garland of twelve stars.

nkjv@Revelation:12:3 @ And anoth er sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great, fi ery red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems on his heads.

nkjv@Revelation:12:4 @ His tail drew a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to give birth, to devour h er Child as soon as it was born.

nkjv@Revelation:12:5 @ She bore a male Child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron. And h er Child was caught up to God and His throne.

nkjv@Revelation:12:6 @ Then the woman fled into the wild erness, wh ere she has a place prepared by God, that they should feed h er th ere one thousand two hundred and sixty days.

nkjv@Revelation:12:8 @ but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any long er.

nkjv@Revelation:12:9 @ So the great dragon was cast out, that s erpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels w ere cast out with him.

nkjv@Revelation:12:10 @ Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, "Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the pow er of His Christ have come, for the accus er of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down.

nkjv@Revelation:12:11 @ And they ov ercame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.

nkjv@Revelation:12:12 @ Th erefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time."

nkjv@Revelation:12:13 @ Now when the dragon saw that he had been cast to the earth, he p ersecuted the woman who gave birth to the male Child.

nkjv@Revelation:12:14 @ But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wild erness to h er place, wh ere she is nourished for a time and times and half a time, from the presence of the s erpent.

nkjv@Revelation:12:15 @ So the s erpent spewed wat er out of his mouth like a flood aft er the woman, that he might cause h er to be carried away by the flood.

nkjv@Revelation:12:17 @ And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to make war with the rest of h er offspring, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

nkjv@Revelation:13:2 @ Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard, his feet w ere like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave him his pow er, his throne, and great authority.

nkjv@Revelation:13:6 @ Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, His tab ernacle, and those who dwell in heaven.

nkjv@Revelation:13:7 @ It was granted to him to make war with the saints and to ov ercome them. And authority was given him ov er ev ery tribe, tongue, and nation.

nkjv@Revelation:13:10 @ He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity; he who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. H ere is the patience and the faith of the saints.

nkjv@Revelation:13:11 @ Then I saw anoth er beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon.

nkjv@Revelation:13:12 @ And he ex ercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

nkjv@Revelation:13:13 @ He p erforms great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men.

nkjv@Revelation:13:15 @ He was granted pow er to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.

nkjv@Revelation:13:17 @ and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the numb er of his name.

nkjv@Revelation:13:18 @ H ere is wisdom. Let him who has und erstanding calculate the numb er of the beast, for it is the numb er of a man: His numb er is 666.

nkjv@Revelation:14:1 @ Then I looked, and behold, a Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand, having His Fath er's name written on their foreheads.

nkjv@Revelation:14:2 @ And I heard a voice from heaven, like the voice of many wat ers, and like the voice of loud thund er. And I heard the sound of harpists playing their harps.

nkjv@Revelation:14:3 @ They sang as it w ere a new song before the throne, before the four living creatures, and the eld ers; and no one could learn that song except the hundred and forty-four thousand who w ere redeemed from the earth.

nkjv@Revelation:14:4 @ These are the ones who w ere not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wh erev er He goes. These w ere redeemed from among men, being firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.

nkjv@Revelation:14:6 @ Then I saw anoth er angel flying in the midst of heaven, having the ev erlasting gospel to preach to those who dwell on the earth--to ev ery nation, tribe, tongue, and people--

nkjv@Revelation:14:7 @ saying with a loud voice, "Fear God and give glory to Him, for the hour of His judgment has come; and worship Him who made heaven and earth, the sea and springs of wat er."

nkjv@Revelation:14:8 @ And anoth er angel followed, saying, "Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of h er fornication."

nkjv@Revelation:14:11 @ And the smoke of their torment ascends forev er and ev er; and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoev er receives the mark of his name."

nkjv@Revelation:14:12 @ H ere is the patience of the saints; h ere are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.

nkjv@Revelation:14:15 @ And anoth er angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to Him who sat on the cloud, "Thrust in Your sickle and reap, for the time has come for You to reap, for the harvest of the earth is ripe."

nkjv@Revelation:14:17 @ Then anoth er angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.

nkjv@Revelation:14:18 @ And anoth er angel came out from the altar, who had pow er ov er fire, and he cried with a loud cry to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, "Thrust in your sharp sickle and gath er the clust ers of the vine of the earth, for h er grapes are fully ripe."

nkjv@Revelation:14:19 @ So the angel thrust his sickle into the earth and gath ered the vine of the earth, and threw it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.

nkjv@Revelation:15:1 @ Then I saw anoth er sign in heaven, great and marvelous: seven angels having the seven last plagues, for in them the wrath of God is complete.

nkjv@Revelation:15:2 @ And I saw something like a sea of glass mingled with fire, and those who have the victory ov er the beast, ov er his image and ov er his mark and ov er the numb er of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God.

nkjv@Revelation:15:3 @ They sing the song of Moses, the s ervant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying: "Great and marvelous are Your works, Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the saints!

nkjv@Revelation:15:5 @ Aft er these things I looked, and behold, the temple of the tab ernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened.

nkjv@Revelation:15:7 @ Then one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God who lives forev er and ev er.

nkjv@Revelation:15:8 @ The temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from His pow er, and no one was able to ent er the temple till the seven plagues of the seven angels w ere completed.

nkjv@Revelation:16:3 @ Then the second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it became blood as of a dead man; and ev ery living creature in the sea died.

nkjv@Revelation:16:4 @ Then the third angel poured out his bowl on the riv ers and springs of wat er, and they became blood.

nkjv@Revelation:16:5 @ And I heard the angel of the wat ers saying: "You are righteous, O Lord, The One who is and who was and who is to be, Because You have judged these things.

nkjv@Revelation:16:7 @ And I heard anoth er from the altar saying, "Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are Your judgments."

nkjv@Revelation:16:8 @ Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and pow er was given to him to scorch men with fire.

nkjv@Revelation:16:9 @ And men w ere scorched with great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has pow er ov er these plagues; and they did not repent and give Him glory.

nkjv@Revelation:16:12 @ Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great riv er Euphrates, and its wat er was dried up, so that the way of the kings from the east might be prepared.

nkjv@Revelation:16:14 @ For they are spirits of demons, p erforming signs, which go out to the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gath er them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.

nkjv@Revelation:16:16 @ And they gath ered them togeth er to the place called in Hebrew, Armageddon.

nkjv@Revelation:16:18 @ And th ere w ere noises and thund erings and lightnings; and th ere was a great earthquake, such a mighty and great earthquake as had not occurred since men w ere on the earth.

nkjv@Revelation:16:19 @ Now the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. And great Babylon was rememb ered before God, to give h er the cup of the wine of the fi erceness of His wrath.

nkjv@Revelation:16:20 @ Then ev ery island fled away, and the mountains w ere not found.

nkjv@Revelation:17:1 @ Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and talked with me, saying to me, "Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many wat ers,

nkjv@Revelation:17:2 @ with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth w ere made drunk with the wine of h er fornication."

nkjv@Revelation:17:3 @ So he carried me away in the Spirit into the wild erness. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

nkjv@Revelation:17:4 @ The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in h er hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of h er fornication.

nkjv@Revelation:17:5 @ And on h er forehead a name was written: MYST ERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTH ER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

nkjv@Revelation:17:6 @ I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw h er, I marveled with great amazement.

nkjv@Revelation:17:7 @ But the angel said to me, "Why did you marvel? I will tell you the myst ery of the woman and of the beast that carries h er, which has the seven heads and the ten horns.

nkjv@Revelation:17:8 @ The beast that you saw was, and is not, and will ascend out of the bottomless pit and go to p erdition. And those who dwell on the earth will marvel, whose names are not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world, when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.

nkjv@Revelation:17:9 @ "H ere is the mind which has wisdom: The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits.

nkjv@Revelation:17:10 @ Th ere are also seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, and the oth er has not yet come. And when he comes, he must continue a short time.

nkjv@Revelation:17:11 @ The beast that was, and is not, is himself also the eighth, and is of the seven, and is going to p erdition.

nkjv@Revelation:17:13 @ These are of one mind, and they will give their pow er and authority to the beast.

nkjv@Revelation:17:14 @ These will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will ov ercome them, for He is Lord of lords and King of kings; and those who are with Him are called, chosen, and faithful."

nkjv@Revelation:17:15 @ Then he said to me, "The wat ers which you saw, wh ere the harlot sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues.

nkjv@Revelation:17:16 @ And the ten horns which you saw on the beast, these will hate the harlot, make h er desolate and naked, eat h er flesh and burn h er with fire.

nkjv@Revelation:17:18 @ And the woman whom you saw is that great city which reigns ov er the kings of the earth."

nkjv@Revelation:18:1 @ Aft er these things I saw anoth er angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was illuminated with his glory.

nkjv@Revelation:18:2 @ And he cried mightily with a loud voice, saying, "Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become a dwelling place of demons, a prison for ev ery foul spirit, and a cage for ev ery unclean and hated bird!

nkjv@Revelation:18:3 @ For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of h er fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with h er, and the m erchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of h er luxury."

nkjv@Revelation:18:4 @ And I heard anoth er voice from heaven saying, "Come out of h er, my people, lest you share in h er sins, and lest you receive of h er plagues.

nkjv@Revelation:18:5 @ For h er sins have reached to heaven, and God has rememb ered h er iniquities.

nkjv@Revelation:18:6 @ Rend er to h er just as she rend ered to you, and repay h er double according to h er works; in the cup which she has mixed, mix double for h er.

nkjv@Revelation:18:7 @ In the measure that she glorified h erself and lived luxuriously, in the same measure give h er torment and sorrow; for she says in h er heart, "I sit as queen, and am no widow, and will not see sorrow.'

nkjv@Revelation:18:8 @ Th erefore h er plagues will come in one day--death and mourning and famine. And she will be utt erly burned with fire, for strong is the Lord God who judges h er.

nkjv@Revelation:18:9 @ "The kings of the earth who committed fornication and lived luxuriously with h er will weep and lament for h er, when they see the smoke of h er burning,

nkjv@Revelation:18:10 @ standing at a distance for fear of h er torment, saying, "Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! For in one hour your judgment has come.'

nkjv@Revelation:18:11 @ "And the m erchants of the earth will weep and mourn ov er h er, for no one buys their m erchandise anymore:

nkjv@Revelation:18:12 @ m erchandise of gold and silv er, precious stones and pearls, fine linen and purple, silk and scarlet, ev ery kind of citron wood, ev ery kind of object of ivory, ev ery kind of object of most precious wood, bronze, iron, and marble;

nkjv@Revelation:18:15 @ The m erchants of these things, who became rich by h er, will stand at a distance for fear of h er torment, weeping and wailing,

nkjv@Revelation:18:17 @ For in one hour such great riches came to nothing.' Ev ery shipmast er, all who travel by ship, sailors, and as many as trade on the sea, stood at a distance

nkjv@Revelation:18:18 @ and cried out when they saw the smoke of h er burning, saying, "What is like this great city?'

nkjv@Revelation:18:19 @ "They threw dust on their heads and cried out, weeping and wailing, and saying, "Alas, alas, that great city, in which all who had ships on the sea became rich by h er wealth! For in one hour she is made desolate.'

nkjv@Revelation:18:20 @ "Rejoice ov er h er, O heaven, and you holy apostles and prophets, for God has avenged you on h er!"

nkjv@Revelation:18:22 @ The sound of harpists, musicians, flutists, and trumpet ers shall not be heard in you anymore. No craftsman of any craft shall be found in you anymore, and the sound of a millstone shall not be heard in you anymore.

nkjv@Revelation:18:23 @ The light of a lamp shall not shine in you anymore, and the voice of bridegroom and bride shall not be heard in you anymore. For your m erchants w ere the great men of the earth, for by your sorc ery all the nations w ere deceived.

nkjv@Revelation:18:24 @ And in h er was found the blood of prophets and saints, and of all who w ere slain on the earth."

nkjv@Revelation:19:1 @ Aft er these things I heard a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, "Alleluia! Salvation and glory and honor and pow er belong to the Lord our God!

nkjv@Revelation:19:2 @ For true and righteous are His judgments, because He has judged the great harlot who corrupted the earth with h er fornication; and He has avenged on h er the blood of His s ervants shed by h er."

nkjv@Revelation:19:3 @ Again they said, "Alleluia! H er smoke rises up forev er and ev er!"

nkjv@Revelation:19:4 @ And the twenty-four eld ers and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who sat on the throne, saying, "Amen! Alleluia!"

nkjv@Revelation:19:5 @ Then a voice came from the throne, saying, "Praise our God, all you His s ervants and those who fear Him, both small and great!"

nkjv@Revelation:19:6 @ And I heard, as it w ere, the voice of a great multitude, as the sound of many wat ers and as the sound of mighty thund erings, saying, "Alleluia! For the Lord God Omnipotent reigns!

nkjv@Revelation:19:7 @ Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made h erself ready."

nkjv@Revelation:19:8 @ And to h er it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.

nkjv@Revelation:19:9 @ Then he said to me, "Write: "Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supp er of the Lamb!"' And he said to me, "These are the true sayings of God."

nkjv@Revelation:19:10 @ And I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, "See that you do not do that! I am your fellow s ervant, and of your brethren who have the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy."

nkjv@Revelation:19:12 @ His eyes w ere like a flame of fire, and on His head w ere many crowns. He had a name written that no one knew except Himself.

nkjv@Revelation:19:15 @ Now out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should strike the nations. And He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He Himself treads the winepress of the fi erceness and wrath of Almighty God.

nkjv@Revelation:19:17 @ Then I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the midst of heaven, "Come and gath er togeth er for the supp er of the great God,

nkjv@Revelation:19:19 @ And I saw the beast, the kings of the earth, and their armies, gath ered togeth er to make war against Him who sat on the horse and against His army.

nkjv@Revelation:19:20 @ Then the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who worked signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two w ere cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone.

nkjv@Revelation:19:21 @ And the rest w ere killed with the sword which proceeded from the mouth of Him who sat on the horse. And all the birds w ere filled with their flesh.

nkjv@Revelation:20:2 @ He laid hold of the dragon, that s erpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years;

nkjv@Revelation:20:3 @ and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years w ere finished. But aft er these things he must be released for a little while.

nkjv@Revelation:20:5 @ But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years w ere finished. This is the first resurrection.

nkjv@Revelation:20:6 @ Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Ov er such the second death has no pow er, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.

nkjv@Revelation:20:8 @ and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corn ers of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gath er them togeth er to battle, whose numb er is as the sand of the sea.

nkjv@Revelation:20:10 @ The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone wh ere the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented day and night forev er and ev er.

nkjv@Revelation:20:11 @ Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And th ere was found no place for them.

nkjv@Revelation:20:12 @ And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books w ere opened. And anoth er book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead w ere judged according to their works, by the things which w ere written in the books.

nkjv@Revelation:20:13 @ The sea gave up the dead who w ere in it, and Death and Hades deliv ered up the dead who w ere in them. And they w ere judged, each one according to his works.

nkjv@Revelation:20:14 @ Then Death and Hades w ere cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

nkjv@Revelation:21:1 @ Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also th ere was no more sea.

nkjv@Revelation:21:2 @ Then I, John, saw the holy city, New J erusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for h er husband.

nkjv@Revelation:21:3 @ And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, "Behold, the tab ernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God.

nkjv@Revelation:21:4 @ And God will wipe away ev ery tear from their eyes; th ere shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. Th ere shall be no more pain, for the form er things have passed away."

nkjv@Revelation:21:6 @ And He said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give of the fountain of the wat er of life freely to him who thirsts.

nkjv@Revelation:21:7 @ He who ov ercomes shall inh erit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son.

nkjv@Revelation:21:8 @ But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murd er ers, sexually immoral, sorc er ers, idolat ers, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."

nkjv@Revelation:21:10 @ And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the great city, the holy J erusalem, descending out of heaven from God,

nkjv@Revelation:21:11 @ having the glory of God. H er light was like a most precious stone, like a jasp er stone, clear as crystal.

nkjv@Revelation:21:14 @ Now the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them w ere the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

nkjv@Revelation:21:18 @ The construction of its wall was of jasp er; and the city was pure gold, like clear glass.

nkjv@Revelation:21:19 @ The foundations of the wall of the city w ere adorned with all kinds of precious stones: the first foundation was jasp er, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth em erald,

nkjv@Revelation:21:20 @ the fifth sardonyx, the sixth sardius, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth b eryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.

nkjv@Revelation:21:21 @ The twelve gates w ere twelve pearls: each individual gate was of one pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.

nkjv@Revelation:21:25 @ Its gates shall not be shut at all by day (th ere shall be no night th ere).

nkjv@Revelation:21:27 @ But th ere shall by no means ent er it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb's Book of Life.

nkjv@Revelation:22:1 @ And he showed me a pure riv er of wat er of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb.

nkjv@Revelation:22:2 @ In the middle of its street, and on eith er side of the riv er, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit ev ery month. The leaves of the tree w ere for the healing of the nations.

nkjv@Revelation:22:3 @ And th ere shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His s ervants shall s erve Him.

nkjv@Revelation:22:5 @ Th ere shall be no night th ere: They need no lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. And they shall reign forev er and ev er.

nkjv@Revelation:22:6 @ Then he said to me, "These words are faithful and true." And the Lord God of the holy prophets sent His angel to show His s ervants the things which must shortly take place.

nkjv@Revelation:22:9 @ Then he said to me, "See that you do not do that. For I am your fellow s ervant, and of your brethren the prophets, and of those who keep the words of this book. Worship God."

nkjv@Revelation:22:12 @ "And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to ev ery one according to his work.

nkjv@Revelation:22:14 @ Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may ent er through the gates into the city.

nkjv@Revelation:22:15 @ But outside are dogs and sorc er ers and sexually immoral and murd er ers and idolat ers, and whoev er loves and practices a lie.

nkjv@Revelation:22:17 @ And the Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" And let him who hears say, "Come!" And let him who thirsts come. Whoev er desires, let him take the wat er of life freely.

nkjv@Revelation:22:18 @ For I testify to ev eryone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book;

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