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rsv@Joshua:1:1 @ After the death of Moses the servant of the LORD, the LORD said to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister,

rsv@Joshua:1:4 @ From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphra'tes, all the land of the Hittites to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your territory.

rsv@Joshua:1:8 @ This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

rsv@Joshua:1:9 @ Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; be not frightened, neither be dismayed; for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go."

rsv@Joshua:1:12 @ And to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manas'seh Joshua said,

rsv@Joshua:1:18 @ Whoever rebels against your commandment and disobeys your words, whatever you command him, shall be put to death. Only be strong and of good courage."

rsv@Joshua:2:3 @ Then the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, "Bring forth the men that have come to you, who entered your house; for they have come to search out all the land."

rsv@Joshua:2:5 @ and when the gate was to be closed, at dark, the men went out; where the men went I do not know; pursue them quickly, for you will overtake them."

rsv@Joshua:2:7 @ So the men pursued after them on the way to the Jordan as far as the fords; and as soon as the pursuers had gone out, the gate was shut.

rsv@Joshua:2:10 @ For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites that were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed.

rsv@Joshua:2:11 @ And as soon as we heard it, our hearts melted, and there was no courage left in any man, because of you; for the LORD your God is he who is God in heaven above and on earth beneath.

rsv@Joshua:2:13 @ and save alive my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them, and deliver our lives from death."

rsv@Joshua:2:14 @ And the men said to her, "Our life for yours! If you do not tell this business of ours, then we will deal kindly and faithfully with you when the LORD gives us the land."

rsv@Joshua:2:16 @ And she said to them, "Go into the hills, lest the pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers have returned; then afterward you may go your way."

rsv@Joshua:2:20 @ But if you tell this business of ours, then we shall be guiltless with respect to your oath which you have made us swear."

rsv@Joshua:2:21 @ And she said, "According to your words, so be it." Then she sent them away, and they departed; and she bound the scarlet cord in the window.

rsv@Joshua:2:22 @ They departed, and went into the hills, and remained there three days, until the pursuers returned; for the pursuers had made search all along the way and found nothing.

rsv@Joshua:2:24 @ And they said to Joshua, "Truly the LORD has given all the land into our hands; and moreover all the inhabitants of the land are fainthearted because of us."

rsv@Joshua:3:8 @ And you shall command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, `When you come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.'"

rsv@Joshua:3:10 @ And Joshua said, "Hereby you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Per'izzites, the Gir'gashites, the Amorites, and the Jeb'usites.

rsv@Joshua:3:13 @ And when 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 waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan shall be stopped from flowing, and the waters coming down from above shall stand in one heap."

rsv@Joshua:3:14 @ So, when the people set out from their tents, to pass over the Jordan with the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people,

rsv@Joshua:3:15 @ and when those who bore the ark had come to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests bearing the ark were dipped in the brink of the water (the Jordan overflows all its banks throughout the time of harvest),

rsv@Joshua:3:16 @ the waters coming down from above stood and rose up in a heap far off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zar'ethan, and those flowing down toward the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off; and the people passed over opposite Jericho.

rsv@Joshua:4:4 @ Then Joshua called the twelve men from the people of Israel, whom he had appointed, a man from each tribe;

rsv@Joshua:4:7 @ Then you shall tell them that the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. So these stones shall be to the people of Israel a memorial for ever."

rsv@Joshua:4:10 @ For the priests who bore the ark stood in the midst of the Jordan, until everything was finished that the LORD commanded Joshua to tell the people, according to all that Moses had commanded Joshua. The people passed over in haste;

rsv@Joshua:4:14 @ On that day the LORD exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they stood in awe of him, as they had stood in awe of Moses, all the days of his life.

rsv@Joshua:4:16 @ "Command the priests who bear the ark of the testimony to come up out of the Jordan."

rsv@Joshua:4:18 @ And when the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of the LORD came up from the midst of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up on dry ground, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and overflowed all its banks, as before.

rsv@Joshua:4:19 @ The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they encamped in Gilgal on the east border of Jericho.

rsv@Joshua:4:23 @ For the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan for you until you passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up for us until we passed over,

rsv@Joshua:5:1 @ When all the kings of the Amorites that were beyond the Jordan to the west, and all the kings of the Canaanites that were by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan for the people of Israel until they had crossed over, their heart melted, and there was no longer any spirit in them, because of the people of Israel.

rsv@Joshua:5:4 @ And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised them: all the males of the people who came out of Egypt, all the men of war, had died on the way in the wilderness after they had come out of Egypt.

rsv@Joshua:5:5 @ Though all the people who came out had been circumcised, yet all the people that were born on the way in the wilderness after they had come out of Egypt had not been circumcised.

rsv@Joshua:5:7 @ So it was their children, whom he raised up in their stead, that Joshua circumcised; for they were uncircumcised, because they had not been circumcised on the way.

rsv@Joshua:5:10 @ While the people of Israel were encamped in Gilgal they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho.

rsv@Joshua:5:11 @ And on the morrow after the passover, on that very day, they ate of the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and parched grain.

rsv@Joshua:5:12 @ And the manna ceased on the morrow, when they ate of the produce of the land; and the people of Israel had manna no more, but ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.

rsv@Joshua:5:13 @ When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man stood before him with his drawn sword in his hand; and Joshua went to him and said to him, "Are you for us, or for our adversaries?"

rsv@Joshua:6:9 @ And the armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the rear guard came after the ark, while the trumpets blew continually.

rsv@Joshua:6:13 @ And the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD passed on, blowing the trumpets continually; and the armed men went before them, and the rear guard came after the ark of the LORD, while the trumpets blew continually.

rsv@Joshua:6:17 @ And the city and all that is within it shall be devoted to the LORD for destruction; only Rahab the harlot and all who are with her in her house shall live, because she hid the messengers that we sent.

rsv@Joshua:6:18 @ But you, keep yourselves from the things devoted to destruction, lest when you have devoted them you take any of the devoted things and make the camp of Israel a thing for destruction, and bring trouble upon it.

rsv@Joshua:6:20 @ So the people shouted, and the trumpets were blown. As soon as the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people raised a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.

rsv@Joshua:6:21 @ Then they utterly destroyed all in the city, both men and women, young and old, oxen, sheep, and asses, with the edge of the sword.

rsv@Joshua:6:26 @ Joshua laid an oath upon them at that time, saying, "Cursed before the LORD be the man that rises up and rebuilds this city, Jericho. At the cost of his first-born shall he lay its foundation, and at the cost of his youngest son shall he set up its gates."

rsv@Joshua:7:1 @ But the people of Israel broke faith in regard to the devoted things; for Achan the son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things; and the anger of the LORD burned against the people of Israel.

rsv@Joshua:7:5 @ and the men of Ai killed about thirty-six men of them, and chased them before the gate as far as Sheb'arim, and slew them at the descent. And the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.

rsv@Joshua:7:7 @ And Joshua said, "Alas, O Lord GOD, why hast thou brought this people over the Jordan at all, to give us into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy us? Would that we had been content to dwell beyond the Jordan!

rsv@Joshua:7:9 @ For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth; and what wilt thou do for thy great name?"

rsv@Joshua:7:11 @ Israel has sinned; they have transgressed my covenant which I commanded them; they have taken some of the devoted things; they have stolen, and lied, and put them among their own stuff.

rsv@Joshua:7:12 @ Therefore the people of Israel cannot stand before their enemies; they turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become a thing for destruction. I will be with you no more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you.

rsv@Joshua:7:13 @ Up, sanctify the people, and say, `Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow; for thus says the LORD, God of Israel, "There are devoted things in the midst of you, O Israel; you cannot stand before your enemies, until you take away the devoted things from among you."

rsv@Joshua:7:15 @ And he who is taken with the devoted things shall be burned with fire, he and all that he has, because he has transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and because he has done a shameful thing in Israel.'"

rsv@Joshua:7:17 @ and he brought near the families of Judah, and the family of the Zer'ahites was taken; and he brought near the family of the Zer'ahites man by man, and Zabdi was taken;

rsv@Joshua:7:19 @ Then Joshua said to Achan, "My son, give glory to the LORD God of Israel, and render praise to him; and tell me now what you have done; do not hide it from me."

rsv@Joshua:7:21 @ when I saw among the spoil a beautiful mantle from Shinar, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them, and took them; and behold, they are hidden in the earth inside my tent, with the silver underneath."

rsv@Joshua:7:22 @ So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent; and behold, it was hidden in his tent with the silver underneath.

rsv@Joshua:7:23 @ And they took them out of the tent and brought them to Joshua and all the people of Israel; and they laid them down before the LORD.

rsv@Joshua:7:24 @ And Joshua and all Israel with him took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver and the mantle and the bar of gold, and his sons and daughters, and his oxen and asses and sheep, and his tent, and all that he had; and they brought them up to the Valley of Achor.

rsv@Joshua:8:6 @ and they will come out after us, till we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, `They are fleeing from us, as before.' So we will flee from them;

rsv@Joshua:8:10 @ And Joshua arose early in the morning and mustered the people, and went up, with the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.

rsv@Joshua:8:14 @ And when the king of Ai saw this he and all his people, the men of the city, made haste and went out early to the descent toward the Arabah to meet Israel in battle; but he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.

rsv@Joshua:8:15 @ And Joshua and all Israel made a pretense of being beaten before them, and fled in the direction of the wilderness.

rsv@Joshua:8:17 @ There was not a man left in Ai or Bethel, who did not go out after Israel; they left the city open, and pursued Israel.

rsv@Joshua:8:19 @ And the ambush rose quickly out of their place, and as soon as he had stretched out his hand, they ran and entered the city and took it; and they made haste to set the city on fire.

rsv@Joshua:8:21 @ And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city went up, then they turned back and smote the men of Ai.

rsv@Joshua:8:22 @ And the others came forth from the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side; and Israel smote them, until there was left none that survived or escaped.

rsv@Joshua:8:24 @ When Israel had finished slaughtering all the inhabitants of Ai in the open wilderness where they pursued them and all of them to the very last had fallen by the edge of the sword, all Israel returned to Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.

rsv@Joshua:8:26 @ For Joshua did not draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

rsv@Joshua:8:29 @ And he hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening; and at the going down of the sun Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised over it a great heap of stones, which stands there to this day.

rsv@Joshua:8:31 @ as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded the people of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, "an altar of unhewn stones, upon which no man has lifted an iron tool"; and they offered on it burnt offerings to the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings.

rsv@Joshua:8:32 @ And there, in the presence of the people of Israel, he wrote upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written.

rsv@Joshua:8:33 @ And all Israel, sojourner as well as homeborn, with their elders and officers and their judges, stood on opposite sides of the ark before the Levitical priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, half of them in front of Mount Ger'izim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel.

rsv@Joshua:8:34 @ And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the law.

rsv@Joshua:9:1 @ When all the kings who were beyond the Jordan in the hill country and in the lowland all along the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Per'izzites, the Hivites, and the Jeb'usites, heard of this,

rsv@Joshua:9:4 @ they on their part acted with cunning, and went and made ready provisions, and took worn-out sacks upon their asses, and wineskins, worn-out and torn and mended,

rsv@Joshua:9:7 @ But the men of Israel said to the Hivites, "Perhaps you live among us; then how can we make a covenant with you?"

rsv@Joshua:9:10 @ and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan, who dwelt in Ash'taroth.

rsv@Joshua:9:16 @ At the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, they heard that they were their neighbors, and that they dwelt among them.

rsv@Joshua:9:21 @ And the leaders said to them, "Let them live." So they became hewers of wood and drawers of water for all the congregation, as the leaders had said of them.

rsv@Joshua:9:23 @ Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you shall always be slaves, hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God."

rsv@Joshua:9:27 @ But Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of the LORD, to continue to this day, in the place which he should choose.

rsv@Joshua:10:1 @ When Ado'ni-ze'dek king of Jerusalem heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it, doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king, and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were among them,

rsv@Joshua:10:2 @ he feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty.

rsv@Joshua:10:4 @ "Come up to me, and help me, and let us smite Gibeon; for it has made peace with Joshua and with the people of Israel."

rsv@Joshua:10:5 @ Then the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon, gathered their forces, and went up with all their armies and encamped against Gibeon, and made war against it.

rsv@Joshua:10:6 @ And the men of Gibeon sent to Joshua at the camp in Gilgal, saying, "Do not relax your hand from your servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us; for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the hill country are gathered against us."

rsv@Joshua:10:10 @ And the LORD threw them into a panic before Israel, who slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth-hor'on, and smote them as far as Aze'kah and Makke'dah.

rsv@Joshua:10:12 @ Then spoke Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD gave the Amorites over to the men of Israel; and he said in the sight of Israel, "Sun, stand thou still at Gibeon, and thou Moon in the valley of Ai'jalon."

rsv@Joshua:10:13 @ And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation took vengeance on their enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? The sun stayed in the midst of heaven, and did not hasten to go down for about a whole day.

rsv@Joshua:10:19 @ but do not stay there yourselves, pursue your enemies, fall upon their rear, do not let them enter their cities; for the LORD your God has given them into your hand."

rsv@Joshua:10:20 @ When Joshua and the men of Israel had finished slaying them with a very great slaughter, until they were wiped out, and when the remnant which remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,

rsv@Joshua:10:26 @ And afterward Joshua smote them and put them to death, and he hung them on five trees. And they hung upon the trees until evening;

rsv@Joshua:10:28 @ And Joshua took Makke'dah on that day, and smote it and its king with the edge of the sword; he utterly destroyed every person in it, he left none remaining; and he did to the king of Makke'dah as he had done to the king of Jericho.

rsv@Joshua:10:30 @ and the LORD gave it also and its king into the hand of Israel; and he smote it with the edge of the sword, and every person in it; he left none remaining in it; and he did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.

rsv@Joshua:10:31 @ And Joshua passed on from Libnah, and all Israel with him, to Lachish, and laid siege to it, and assaulted it:

rsv@Joshua:10:32 @ and the LORD gave Lachish into the hand of Israel, and he took it on the second day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and every person in it, as he had done to Libnah.

rsv@Joshua:10:33 @ Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua smote him and his people, until he left none remaining.

rsv@Joshua:10:34 @ And Joshua passed on with all Israel from Lachish to Eglon; and they laid siege to it, and assaulted it;

rsv@Joshua:10:35 @ and they took it on that day, and smote it with the edge of the sword; and every person in it he utterly destroyed that day, as he had done to Lachish.

rsv@Joshua:10:36 @ Then Joshua went up with all Israel from Eglon to Hebron; and they assaulted it,

rsv@Joshua:10:37 @ and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and its king and its towns, and every person in it; he left none remaining, as he had done to Eglon, and utterly destroyed it with every person in it.

rsv@Joshua:10:38 @ Then Joshua, with all Israel, turned back to Debir and assaulted it,

rsv@Joshua:10:39 @ and he took it with its king and all its towns; and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed every person in it; he left none remaining; as he had done to Hebron and to Libnah and its king, so he did to Debir and to its king.

rsv@Joshua:10:40 @ So Joshua defeated the whole land, the hill country and the Negeb and the lowland and the slopes, and all their kings; he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD God of Israel commanded.

rsv@Joshua:10:41 @ And Joshua defeated them from Ka'desh-bar'nea to Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, as far as Gibeon.

rsv@Joshua:11:3 @ to the Canaanites in the east and the west, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Per'izzites, and the Jeb'usites in the hill country, and the Hivites under Hermon in the land of Mizpah.

rsv@Joshua:11:5 @ And all these kings joined their forces, and came and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight with Israel.

rsv@Joshua:11:7 @ So Joshua came suddenly upon them with all his people of war, by the waters of Merom, and fell upon them.

rsv@Joshua:11:8 @ And the LORD gave them into the hand of Israel, who smote them and chased them as far as Great Sidon and Mis'rephoth-ma'im, and eastward as far as the valley of Mizpeh; and they smote them, until they left none remaining.

rsv@Joshua:11:10 @ And Joshua turned back at that time, and took Hazor, and smote its king with the sword; for Hazor formerly was the head of all those kingdoms.

rsv@Joshua:11:11 @ And they put to the sword all who were in it, utterly destroying them; there was none left that breathed, and he burned Hazor with fire.

rsv@Joshua:11:12 @ And all the cities of those kings, and all their kings, Joshua took, and smote them with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded.

rsv@Joshua:11:14 @ And all the spoil of these cities and the cattle, the people of Israel took for their booty; but every man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, and they did not leave any that breathed.

rsv@Joshua:11:17 @ from Mount Halak, that rises toward Se'ir, as far as Ba'al-gad in the valley of Lebanon below Mount Hermon. And he took all their kings, and smote them, and put them to death.

rsv@Joshua:11:19 @ There was not a city that made peace with the people of Israel, except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon; they took all in battle.

rsv@Joshua:11:20 @ For it was the LORD's doing to harden their hearts that they should come against Israel in battle, in order that they should be utterly destroyed, and should receive no mercy but be exterminated, as the LORD commanded Moses.

rsv@Joshua:11:21 @ And Joshua came at that time, and wiped out the Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel; Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities.

rsv@Joshua:12:1 @ Now these are the kings of the land, whom the people of Israel defeated, and took possession of their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrising, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, with all the Arabah eastward:

rsv@Joshua:12:2 @ Sihon king of the Amorites who dwelt at Heshbon, and ruled from Aro'er, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and from the middle of the valley as far as the river Jabbok, the boundary of the Ammonites, that is, half of Gilead,

rsv@Joshua:12:5 @ and ruled over Mount Hermon and Sal'ecah and all Bashan to the boundary of the Gesh'urites and the Ma-ac'athites, and over half of Gilead to the boundary of Sihon king of Heshbon.

rsv@Joshua:12:6 @ Moses, the servant of the LORD, and the people of Israel defeated them; and Moses the servant of the LORD gave their land for a possession to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manas'seh.

rsv@Joshua:12:7 @ And these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the people of Israel defeated on the west side of the Jordan, from Ba'al-gad in the valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, that rises toward Se'ir (and Joshua gave their land to the tribes of Israel as a possession according to their allotments,

rsv@Joshua:12:8 @ in the hill country, in the lowland, in the Arabah, in the slopes, in the wilderness, and in the Negeb, the land of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Per'izzites, the Hivites, and the Jeb'usites):

rsv@Joshua:13:2 @ This is the land that yet remains: all the regions of the Philistines, and all those of the Gesh'urites

rsv@Joshua:13:3 @ (from the Shihor, which is east of Egypt, northward to the boundary of Ekron, it is reckoned as Canaanite; there are five rulers of the Philistines, those of Gaza, Ashdod, Ash'kelon, Gath, and Ekron), and those of the Avvim,

rsv@Joshua:13:4 @ in the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mear'ah which belongs to the Sido'nians, to Aphek, to the boundary of the Amorites,

rsv@Joshua:13:5 @ and the land of the Geb'alites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Ba'al-gad below Mount Hermon to the entrance of Hamath,

rsv@Joshua:13:8 @ With the other half of the tribe of Manas'seh the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them:

rsv@Joshua:13:10 @ and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the boundary of the Ammonites;

rsv@Joshua:13:11 @ and Gilead, and the region of the Gesh'urites and Ma-ac'athites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Sal'ecah;

rsv@Joshua:13:12 @ all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ash'taroth and in Ed're-i (he alone was left of the remnant of the Reph'aim); these Moses had defeated and driven out.

rsv@Joshua:13:13 @ Yet the people of Israel did not drive out the Gesh'urites or the Ma-ac'athites; but Geshur and Ma'acath dwell in the midst of Israel to this day.

rsv@Joshua:13:15 @ And Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the Reubenites according to their families.

rsv@Joshua:13:16 @ So their territory was from Aro'er, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the tableland by Med'eba;

rsv@Joshua:13:21 @ that is, all the cities of the tableland, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses defeated with the leaders of Mid'ian, Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who dwelt in the land.

rsv@Joshua:13:23 @ And the border of the people of Reuben was the Jordan as a boundary. This was the inheritance of the Reubenites, according to their families with their cities and villages.

rsv@Joshua:13:24 @ And Moses gave an inheritance also to the tribe of the Gadites, according to their families.

rsv@Joshua:13:25 @ Their territory was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites, to Aro'er, which is east of Rabbah,

rsv@Joshua:13:26 @ and from Heshbon to Ra'math-miz'peh and Bet'onim, and from Mahana'im to the territory of Debir,

rsv@Joshua:13:28 @ This is the inheritance of the Gadites according to their families, with their cities and villages.

rsv@Joshua:13:29 @ And Moses gave an inheritance to the half-tribe of Manas'seh; it was allotted to the half-tribe of the Manas'sites according to their families.

rsv@Joshua:13:30 @ Their region extended from Mahana'im, through all Bashan, the whole kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Ja'ir, which are in Bashan, sixty cities,

rsv@Joshua:13:31 @ and half Gilead, and Ash'taroth, and Ed're-i, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan; these were allotted to the people of Machir the son of Manas'seh for the half of the Machirites according to their families.

rsv@Joshua:13:32 @ These are the inheritances which Moses distributed in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan east of Jericho.

rsv@Joshua:14:1 @ And these are the inheritances which the people of Israel received in the land of Canaan, which Elea'zar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the people of Israel distributed to them.

rsv@Joshua:14:3 @ For Moses had given an inheritance to the two and one-half tribes beyond the Jordan; but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.

rsv@Joshua:14:4 @ For the people of Joseph were two tribes, Manas'seh and E'phraim; and no portion was given to the Levites in the land, but only cities to dwell in, with their pasture lands for their cattle and their substance.

rsv@Joshua:14:5 @ The people of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses; they allotted the land.

rsv@Joshua:14:6 @ Then the people of Judah came to Joshua at Gilgal; and Caleb the son of Jephun'neh the Ken'izzite said to him, "You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God in Ka'desh-bar'nea concerning you and me.

rsv@Joshua:14:14 @ So Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephun'neh the Ken'izzite to this day, because he wholly followed the LORD, the God of Israel.

rsv@Joshua:14:15 @ Now the name of Hebron formerly was Kir'iath-ar'ba; this Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim. And the land had rest from war.

rsv@Joshua:15:7 @ and the boundary goes up to Debir from the Valley of Achor, and so northward, turning toward Gilgal, which is opposite the ascent of Adum'mim, which is on the south side of the valley; and the boundary passes along to the waters of En-she'mesh, and ends at En-ro'gel;

rsv@Joshua:15:8 @ then the boundary goes up by the valley of the son of Hinnom at the southern shoulder of the Jeb'usite (that is, Jerusalem); and the boundary goes up to the top of the mountain that lies over against the valley of Hinnom, on the west, at the northern end of the valley of Reph'aim;

rsv@Joshua:15:9 @ then the boundary extends from the top of the mountain to the spring of the Waters of Nephto'ah, and from there to the cities of Mount Ephron; then the boundary bends round to Ba'alah (that is, Kir'iath-je'arim);

rsv@Joshua:15:16 @ And Caleb said, "Whoever smites Kir'iath-se'pher, and takes it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter as wife."

rsv@Joshua:15:17 @ And Oth'ni-el the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it; and he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.

rsv@Joshua:15:18 @ When she came to him, she urged him to ask her father for a field; and she alighted from her ass, and Caleb said to her, "What do you wish?"

rsv@Joshua:15:19 @ She said to him, "Give me a present; since you have set me in the land of the Negeb, give me also springs of water." And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

rsv@Joshua:15:24 @ Ziph, Telem, Be-a'loth,

rsv@Joshua:15:36 @ Shaara'im, Aditha'im, Gede'rah, Gederotha'im: fourteen cities with their villages.

rsv@Joshua:15:41 @ Gede'roth, Beth-da'gon, Na'amah, and Makke'dah: sixteen cities with their villages.

rsv@Joshua:15:50 @ Anab, Esh'temoh, Anim,

rsv@Joshua:15:57 @ Kain, Gib'e-ah, and Timnah: ten cities with their villages.

rsv@Joshua:15:59 @ Ma'arath, Beth-anoth, and El'tekon: six cities with their villages.

rsv@Joshua:15:63 @ But the Jeb'usites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the people of Judah could not drive out; so the Jeb'usites dwell with the people of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.

rsv@Joshua:16:1 @ The allotment of the descendants of Joseph went from the Jordan by Jericho, east of the waters of Jericho, into the wilderness, going up from Jericho into the hill country to Bethel;

rsv@Joshua:16:2 @ then going from Bethel to Luz, it passes along to At'aroth, the territory of the Archites;

rsv@Joshua:16:3 @ then it goes down westward to the territory of the Japh'letites, as far as the territory of Lower Beth-hor'on, then to Gezer, and it ends at the sea.

rsv@Joshua:16:5 @ The territory of the E'phraimites by their families was as follows: the boundary of their inheritance on the east was At'aroth-ad'dar as far as Upper Beth-hor'on,

rsv@Joshua:16:8 @ From Tap'puah the boundary goes westward to the brook Kanah, and ends at the sea. Such is the inheritance of the tribe of the E'phraimites by their families,

rsv@Joshua:16:9 @ together with the towns which were set apart for the E'phraimites within the inheritance of the Manas'sites, all those towns with their villages.

rsv@Joshua:16:10 @ However they did not drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: so the Canaanites have dwelt in the midst of E'phraim to this day but have become slaves to do forced labor.

rsv@Joshua:17:1 @ Then allotment was made to the tribe of Manas'seh, for he was the first-born of Joseph. To Machir the first-born of Manas'seh, the father of Gilead, were allotted Gilead and Bashan, because he was a man of war.

rsv@Joshua:17:3 @ Now Zeloph'ehad the son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manas'seh, had no sons, but only daughters; and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

rsv@Joshua:17:5 @ Thus there fell to Manas'seh ten portions, besides the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is on the other side of the Jordan;

rsv@Joshua:17:6 @ because the daughters of Manas'seh received an inheritance along with his sons. The land of Gilead was allotted to the rest of the Manas'sites.

rsv@Joshua:17:7 @ The territory of Manas'seh reached from Asher to Mich-me'thath, which is east of Shechem; then the boundary goes along southward to the inhabitants of En-tap'puah.

rsv@Joshua:17:12 @ Yet the sons of Manas'seh could not take possession of those cities; but the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land.

rsv@Joshua:17:13 @ But when the people of Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and did not utterly drive them out.

rsv@Joshua:17:15 @ And Joshua said to them, "If you are a numerous people, go up to the forest, and there clear ground for yourselves in the land of the Per'izzites and the Reph'aim, since the hill country of E'phraim is too narrow for you."

rsv@Joshua:17:16 @ The tribe of Joseph said, "The hill country is not enough for us; yet all the Canaanites who dwell in the plain have chariots of iron, both those in Beth-she'an and its villages and those in the Valley of Jezreel."

rsv@Joshua:17:18 @ but the hill country shall be yours, for though it is a forest, you shall clear it and possess it to its farthest borders; for you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong."

rsv@Joshua:18:1 @ Then the whole congregation of the people of Israel assembled at Shiloh, and set up the tent of meeting there; the land lay subdued before them.

rsv@Joshua:18:5 @ They shall divide it into seven portions, Judah continuing in his territory on the south, and the house of Joseph in their territory on the north.

rsv@Joshua:18:7 @ The Levites have no portion among you, for the priesthood of the LORD is their heritage; and Gad and Reuben and half the tribe of Manas'seh have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan eastward, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them."

rsv@Joshua:18:8 @ So the men started on their way; and Joshua charged those who went to write the description of the land, saying, "Go up and down and write a description of the land, and come again to me; and I will cast lots for you here before the LORD in Shiloh."

rsv@Joshua:18:11 @ The lot of the tribe of Benjamin according to its families came up, and the territory allotted to it fell between the tribe of Judah and the tribe of Joseph.

rsv@Joshua:18:14 @ Then the boundary goes in another direction, turning on the western side southward from the mountain that lies to the south, opposite Beth-hor'on, and it ends at Kir'iath-ba'al (that is, Kir'iath-je'arim), a city belonging to the tribe of Judah. This forms the western side.

rsv@Joshua:18:15 @ And the southern side begins at the outskirts of Kir'iath-je'arim; and the boundary goes from there to Ephron, to the spring of the Waters of Nephto'ah;

rsv@Joshua:18:16 @ then the boundary goes down to the border of the mountain that overlooks the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is at the north end of the valley of Reph'aim; and it then goes down the valley of Hinnom, south of the shoulder of the Jeb'usites, and downward to En-rogel;

rsv@Joshua:18:17 @ then it bends in a northerly direction going on to En-she'mesh, and thence goes to Geli'loth, which is opposite the ascent of Adum'mim; then it goes down to the Stone of Bohan the son of Reuben;

rsv@Joshua:18:20 @ The Jordan forms its boundary on the eastern side. This is the inheritance of the tribe of Benjamin, according to its families, boundary by boundary round about.

rsv@Joshua:18:28 @ Zela, Ha-eleph, Jebus (that is, Jerusalem), Gib'e-ah and Kir'iath-je'arim--fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the tribe of Benjamin according to its families.

rsv@Joshua:19:6 @ Beth-leba'oth, and Sharu'hen-- thirteen cities with their villages;

rsv@Joshua:19:9 @ The inheritance of the tribe of Simeon formed part of the territory of Judah; because the portion of the tribe of Judah was too large for them, the tribe of Simeon obtained an inheritance in the midst of their inheritance.

rsv@Joshua:19:10 @ The third lot came up for the tribe of Zeb'ulun, according to its families. And the territory of its inheritance reached as far as Sarid;

rsv@Joshua:19:18 @ Its territory included Jezreel, Chesul'loth, Shunem,

rsv@Joshua:19:22 @ the boundary also touches Tabor, Shahazu'mah, and Beth-she'mesh, and its boundary ends at the Jordan--sixteen cities with their villages.

rsv@Joshua:19:25 @ Its territory included Helkath, Hali, Beten, Ach'shaph,

rsv@Joshua:19:38 @ Yiron, Mig'dal-el, Horem, Beth-anath, and Beth-she'mesh-- nineteen cities with their villages.

rsv@Joshua:19:41 @ And the territory of its inheritance included Zorah, Esh'ta-ol, Ir-she'mesh,

rsv@Joshua:19:44 @ El'tekeh, Gib'bethon, Ba'alath,

rsv@Joshua:19:46 @ and Me-jar'kon and Rakkon with the territory over against Joppa.

rsv@Joshua:19:47 @ When the territory of the Danites was lost to them, the Danites went up and fought against Leshem, and after capturing it and putting it to the sword they took possession of it and settled in it, calling Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their ancestor.

rsv@Joshua:19:49 @ When they had finished distributing the several territories of the land as inheritances, the people of Israel gave an inheritance among them to Joshua the son of Nun.

rsv@Joshua:19:51 @ These are the inheritances which Elea'zar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the people of Israel distributed by lot at Shiloh before the LORD, at the door of the tent of meeting. So they finished dividing the land.

rsv@Joshua:20:3 @ that the manslayer who kills any person without intent or unwittingly may flee there; they shall be for you a refuge from the avenger of blood.

rsv@Joshua:20:4 @ He shall flee to one of these cities and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and explain his case to the elders of that city; then they shall take him into the city, and give him a place, and he shall remain with them.

rsv@Joshua:20:8 @ And beyond the Jordan east of Jericho, they appointed Bezer in the wilderness on the tableland, from the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead, from the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan, from the tribe of Manas'seh.

rsv@Joshua:20:9 @ These were the cities designated for all the people of Israel, and for the stranger sojourning among them, that any one who killed a person without intent could flee there, so that he might not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, till he stood before the congregation.

rsv@Joshua:21:1 @ Then the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites came to Elea'zar the priest and to Joshua the son of Nun and to the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the people of Israel;

rsv@Joshua:21:3 @ So by command of the LORD the people of Israel gave to the Levites the following cities and pasture lands out of their inheritance.

rsv@Joshua:21:4 @ The lot came out for the families of the Ko'hathites. So those Levites who were descendants of Aaron the priest received by lot from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin, thirteen cities.

rsv@Joshua:21:5 @ And the rest of the Ko'hathites received by lot from the families of the tribe of E'phraim, from the tribe of Dan and the half-tribe of Manas'seh, ten cities.

rsv@Joshua:21:6 @ The Gersonites received by lot from the families of the tribe of Is'sachar, from the tribe of Asher, from the tribe of Naph'tali, and from the half-tribe of Manas'seh in Bashan, thirteen cities.

rsv@Joshua:21:7 @ The Merar'ites according to their families received from the tribe of Reuben, the tribe of Gad, and the tribe of Zeb'ulun, twelve cities.

rsv@Joshua:21:8 @ These cities and their pasture lands the people of Israel gave by lot to the Levites, as the LORD had commanded through Moses.

rsv@Joshua:21:10 @ which went to the descendants of Aaron, one of the families of the Ko'hathites who belonged to the Levites; since the lot fell to them first.

rsv@Joshua:21:14 @ Jattir with its pasture lands, Eshtemo'a with its pasture lands,

rsv@Joshua:21:19 @ The cities of the descendants of Aaron, the priests, were in all thirteen cities with their pasture lands.

rsv@Joshua:21:20 @ As to the rest of the Ko'hathites belonging to the Ko'hathite families of the Levites, the cities allotted to them were out of the tribe of E'phraim.

rsv@Joshua:21:23 @ and out of the tribe of Dan, El'teke with its pasture lands, Gib'bethon with its pasture lands,

rsv@Joshua:21:26 @ The cities of the families of the rest of the Ko'hathites were ten in all with their pasture lands.

rsv@Joshua:21:27 @ And to the Gershonites, one of the families of the Levites, were given out of the half-tribe of Manas'seh, Golan in Bashan with its pasture lands, the city of refuge for the slayer, and Beesh'terah with its pasture lands--two cities;

rsv@Joshua:21:33 @ The cities of the several families of the Gershonites were in all thirteen cities with their pasture lands.

rsv@Joshua:21:34 @ And to the rest of the Levites, the Merar'ite families, were given out of the tribe of Zeb'ulun, Jok'ne-am with its pasture lands, Kartah with its pasture lands,

rsv@Joshua:21:40 @ As for the cities of the several Merar'ite families, that is, the remainder of the families of the Levites, those allotted to them were in all twelve cities.

rsv@Joshua:21:41 @ The cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession of the people of Israel were in all forty-eight cities with their pasture lands.

rsv@Joshua:22:1 @ Then Joshua summoned the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manas'seh,

rsv@Joshua:22:9 @ So the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manas'seh returned home, parting from the people of Israel at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, their own land of which they had possessed themselves by command of the LORD through Moses.

rsv@Joshua:22:10 @ And when they came to the region about the Jordan, that lies in the land of Canaan, the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manas'seh built there an altar by the Jordan, an altar of great size.

rsv@Joshua:22:11 @ And the people of Israel heard say, "Behold, the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manas'seh have built an altar at the frontier of the land of Canaan, in the region about the Jordan, on the side that belongs to the people of Israel."

rsv@Joshua:22:13 @ Then the people of Israel sent to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manas'seh, in the land of Gilead, Phin'ehas the son of Elea'zar the priest,

rsv@Joshua:22:14 @ and with him ten chiefs, one from each of the tribal families of Israel, every one of them the head of a family among the clans of Israel.

rsv@Joshua:22:15 @ And they came to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manas'seh, in the land of Gilead, and they said to them,

rsv@Joshua:22:16 @ "Thus says the whole congregation of the LORD, `What is this treachery which you have committed against the God of Israel in turning away this day from following the LORD, by building yourselves an altar this day in rebellion against the LORD?

rsv@Joshua:22:20 @ Did not Achan the son of Zerah break faith in the matter of the devoted things, and wrath fell upon all the congregation of Israel? And he did not perish alone for his iniquity.'"

rsv@Joshua:22:21 @ Then the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manas'seh said in answer to the heads of the families of Israel,

rsv@Joshua:22:25 @ For the LORD has made the Jordan a boundary between us and you, you Reubenites and Gadites; you have no portion in the LORD.' So your children might make our children cease to worship the LORD.

rsv@Joshua:22:27 @ but to be a witness between us and you, and between the generations after us, that we do perform the service of the LORD in his presence with our burnt offerings and sacrifices and peace offerings; lest your children say to our children in time to come, "You have no portion in the LORD."'

rsv@Joshua:22:30 @ When Phin'ehas the priest and the chiefs of the congregation, the heads of the families of Israel who were with him, heard the words that the Reubenites and the Gadites and the Manas'sites spoke, it pleased them well.

rsv@Joshua:22:31 @ And Phin'ehas the son of Elea'zar the priest said to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the Manas'sites, "Today we know that the LORD is in the midst of us, because you have not committed this treachery against the LORD; now you have saved the people of Israel from the hand of the LORD."

rsv@Joshua:22:32 @ Then Phin'ehas the son of Elea'zar the priest, and the chiefs, returned from the Reubenites and the Gadites in the land of Gilead to the land of Canaan, to the people of Israel, and brought back word to them.

rsv@Joshua:22:33 @ And the report pleased the people of Israel; and the people of Israel blessed God and spoke no more of making war against them, to destroy the land where the Reubenites and the Gadites were settled.

rsv@Joshua:22:34 @ The Reubenites and the Gadites called the altar Witness; "For," said they, "it is a witness between us that the LORD is God."

rsv@Joshua:23:1 @ A long time afterward, when the LORD had given rest to Israel from all their enemies round about, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years,

rsv@Joshua:23:4 @ Behold, I have allotted to you as an inheritance for your tribes those nations that remain, along with all the nations that I have already cut off, from the Jordan to the Great Sea in the west.

rsv@Joshua:23:6 @ Therefore be very steadfast to keep and do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, turning aside from it neither to the right hand nor to the left,

rsv@Joshua:24:1 @ Then Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and summoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of Israel; and they presented themselves before God.

rsv@Joshua:24:2 @ And Joshua said to all the people, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, `Your fathers lived of old beyond the Euphra'tes, Terah, the father of Abraham and of Nahor; and they served other gods.

rsv@Joshua:24:5 @ And I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt with what I did in the midst of it; and afterwards I brought you out.

rsv@Joshua:24:8 @ Then I brought you to the land of the Amorites, who lived on the other side of the Jordan; they fought with you, and I gave them into your hand, and you took possession of their land, and I destroyed them before you.

rsv@Joshua:24:9 @ Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel; and he sent and invited Balaam the son of Be'or to curse you,

rsv@Joshua:24:10 @ but I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he blessed you; so I delivered you out of his hand.

rsv@Joshua:24:11 @ And you went over the Jordan and came to Jericho, and the men of Jericho fought against you, and also the Amorites, the Per'izzites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Gir'gashites, the Hivites, and the Jeb'usites; and I gave them into your hand.

rsv@Joshua:24:12 @ And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out before you, the two kings of the Amorites; it was not by your sword or by your bow.

rsv@Joshua:24:15 @ And if you be unwilling to serve the LORD, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD."

rsv@Joshua:24:18 @ and the LORD drove out before us all the peoples, the Amorites who lived in the land; therefore we also will serve the LORD, for he is our God."

rsv@Joshua:24:20 @ If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you harm, and consume you, after having done you good."

rsv@Joshua:24:25 @ So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made statutes and ordinances for them at Shechem.

rsv@Joshua:24:26 @ And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak in the sanctuary of the LORD.

rsv@Joshua:24:29 @ After these things Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being a hundred and ten years old.

rsv@Judges:1:1 @ After the death of Joshua the people of Israel inquired of the LORD,of "Who shall go up first for us against the Canaanites, to fight against them?"

rsv@Judges:1:3 @ And Judah said to Simeon his brother, "Come up with me into the territory allotted to me, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with you into the territory allotted to you." So Simeon went with him.

rsv@Judges:1:4 @ Then Judah went up and the LORD gave the Canaanites and the Per'izzites into their hand; and they defeated ten thousand of them at Bezek.

rsv@Judges:1:5 @ They came upon Ado'ni-be'zek at Bezek, and fought against him, and defeated the Canaanites and the Per'izzites.

rsv@Judges:1:7 @ And Ado'ni-be'zek said, "Seventy kings with their thumbs and their great toes cut off used to pick up scraps under my table; as I have done, so God has requited me." And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

rsv@Judges:1:8 @ And the men of Judah fought against Jerusalem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.

rsv@Judges:1:9 @ And afterward the men of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who dwelt in the hill country, in the Negeb, and in the lowland.

rsv@Judges:1:10 @ And Judah went against the Canaanites who dwelt in Hebron (now the name of Hebron was formerly Kir'iath-ar'ba); and they defeated She'shai and Ahi'man and Talmai.

rsv@Judges:1:12 @ And Caleb said, "He who attacks Kir'iath-se'pher and takes it, I will give him Achsah my daughter as wife."

rsv@Judges:1:13 @ And Oth'ni-el the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it; and he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.

rsv@Judges:1:14 @ When she came to him, she urged him to ask her father for a field; and she alighted from her ass, and Caleb said to her, "What do you wish?"

rsv@Judges:1:15 @ She said to him, "Give me a present; since you have set me in the land of the Negeb, give me also springs of water." And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

rsv@Judges:1:16 @ And the descendants of the Ken'ite, Moses' father-in-law, went up with the people of Judah from the city of palms into the wilderness of Judah, which lies in the Negeb near Arad; and they went and settled with the people.

rsv@Judges:1:17 @ And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they defeated the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. So the name of the city was called Hormah.

rsv@Judges:1:18 @ Judah also took Gaza with its territory, and Ash'kelon with its territory, and Ekron with its territory.

rsv@Judges:1:21 @ But the people of Benjamin did not drive out the Jeb'usites who dwelt in Jerusalem; so the Jeb'usites have dwelt with the people of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.

rsv@Judges:1:25 @ And he showed them the way into the city; and they smote the city with the edge of the sword, but they let the man and all his family go.

rsv@Judges:1:26 @ And the man went to the land of the Hittites and built a city, and called its name Luz; that is its name to this day.

rsv@Judges:1:27 @ Manas'seh did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-she'an and its villages, or Ta'a-nach and its villages, or the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, or the inhabitants of Ibleam and its villages, or the inhabitants of Megid'do and its villages; but the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land.

rsv@Judges:1:28 @ When Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but did not utterly drive them out.

rsv@Judges:1:29 @ And E'phraim did not drive out the Canaanites who dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them.

rsv@Judges:1:30 @ Zeb'ulun did not drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, or the inhabitants of Na'halol; but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became subject to forced labor.

rsv@Judges:1:32 @ but the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; for they did not drive them out.

rsv@Judges:1:33 @ Naph'tali did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-she'mesh, or the inhabitants of Beth-anath, but dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; nevertheless the inhabitants of Beth-she'mesh and of Beth-anath became subject to forced labor for them.

rsv@Judges:1:34 @ The Amorites pressed the Danites back into the hill country, for they did not allow them to come down to the plain;

rsv@Judges:1:35 @ the Amorites persisted in dwelling in Har-heres, in Ai'jalon, and in Sha-al'bim, but the hand of the house of Joseph rested heavily upon them, and they became subject to forced labor.

rsv@Judges:1:36 @ And the border of the Amorites ran from the ascent of Akrab'bim, from Sela and upward.

rsv@Judges:2:4 @ When the angel of the LORD spoke these words to all the people of Israel, the people lifted up their voices and wept.

rsv@Judges:2:8 @ And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died at the age of one hundred and ten years.

rsv@Judges:2:10 @ And all that generation also were gathered to their fathers; and there arose another generation after them, who did not know the LORD or the work which he had done for Israel.

rsv@Judges:2:12 @ and they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt; they went after other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were round about them, and bowed down to them; and they provoked the LORD to anger.

rsv@Judges:2:17 @ And yet they did not listen to their judges; for they played the harlot after other gods and bowed down to them; they soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the LORD, and they did not do so.

rsv@Judges:2:18 @ Whenever the LORD raised up judges for them, the LORD was with the judge, and he saved them from 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 afflicted and oppressed them.

rsv@Judges:2:19 @ But whenever the judge died, they turned back and behaved worse than their fathers, going after other gods, serving them and bowing down to them; they did not drop any of their practices or their stubborn ways.

rsv@Judges:2:22 @ that by them I may test Israel, whether they will take care to walk in the way of the LORD as their fathers did, or not."

rsv@Judges:3:1 @ Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had no experience of any war in Canaan;

rsv@Judges:3:2 @ it was only that the generations of the people of Israel might know war, that he might teach war to such at least as had not known it before.

rsv@Judges:3:3 @ These are the nations: the five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sido'nians, and the Hivites who dwelt on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Ba'al-her'mon as far as the entrance of Hamath.

rsv@Judges:3:4 @ They were for the testing of Israel, to know whether Israel would obey the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by Moses.

rsv@Judges:3:5 @ So the people of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Per'izzites, the Hivites, and the Jeb'usites;

rsv@Judges:3:6 @ and they took their daughters to themselves for wives, and their own daughters they gave to their sons; and they served their gods.

rsv@Judges:3:13 @ He gathered to himself the Ammonites and the Amal'ekites, and went and defeated Israel; and they took possession of the city of palms.

rsv@Judges:3:14 @ And the people of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.

rsv@Judges:3:15 @ But when the people of Israel cried to the LORD, the LORD raised up for them a deliverer, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, a left-handed man. The people of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.

rsv@Judges:3:17 @ And he presented the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man.

rsv@Judges:3:18 @ And when Ehud had finished presenting the tribute, he sent away the people that carried the tribute.

rsv@Judges:3:19 @ But he himself turned back at the sculptured stones near Gilgal, and said, "I have a secret message for you, O king." And he commanded, "Silence." And all his attendants went out from his presence.

rsv@Judges:3:22 @ and the hilt also went in after the blade, and the fat closed over the blade, for he did not draw the sword out of his belly; and the dirt came out.

rsv@Judges:3:25 @ And they waited till they were utterly at a loss; but when he still did not open the doors of the roof chamber, they took the key and opened them; and there lay their lord dead on the floor.

rsv@Judges:3:28 @ And he said to them, "Follow after me; for the LORD has given your enemies the Moabites into your hand." So they went down after him, and seized the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites, and allowed not a man to pass over.

rsv@Judges:3:29 @ And they killed at that time about ten thousand of the Moabites, all strong, able-bodied men; not a man escaped.

rsv@Judges:3:31 @ After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who killed six hundred of the Philistines with an oxgoad; and he too delivered Israel.

rsv@Judges:4:1 @ And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, after Ehud died.

rsv@Judges:4:4 @ Now Deb'orah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapp'idoth, was judging Israel at that time.

rsv@Judges:4:6 @ She sent and summoned Barak the son of Abin'o-am from Kedesh in Naph'tali, and said to him, "The LORD, the God of Israel, commands you, `Go, gather your men at Mount Tabor, taking ten thousand from the tribe of Naph'tali and the tribe of Zeb'ulun.

rsv@Judges:4:10 @ And Barak summoned Zeb'ulun and Naph'tali to Kedesh; and ten thousand men went up at his heels; and Deb'orah went up with him.

rsv@Judges:4:11 @ Now Heber the Ken'ite had separated from the Ken'ites, the descendants of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent as far away as the oak in Za-anan'nim, which is near Kedesh.

rsv@Judges:4:14 @ And Deb'orah said to Barak, "Up! For this is the day in which the LORD has given Sis'era into your hand. Does not the LORD go out before you?" So Barak went down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him.

rsv@Judges:4:15 @ And the LORD routed Sis'era and all his chariots and all his army before Barak at the edge of the sword; and Sis'era alighted from his chariot and fled away on foot.

rsv@Judges:4:17 @ But Sis'era fled away on foot to the tent of Ja'el, the wife of Heber the Ken'ite; for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Ken'ite.

rsv@Judges:4:18 @ And Ja'el came out to meet Sis'era, and said to him, "Turn aside, my lord, turn aside to me; have no fear." So he turned aside to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.

rsv@Judges:4:19 @ And he said to her, "Pray, give me a little water to drink; for I am thirsty." So she opened a skin of milk and gave him a drink and covered him.

rsv@Judges:4:20 @ And he said to her, "Stand at the door of the tent, and if any man comes and asks you, `Is any one here?' say, No."

rsv@Judges:4:21 @ But Ja'el the wife of Heber took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him and drove the peg into his temple, till it went down into the ground, as he was lying fast asleep from weariness. So he died.

rsv@Judges:4:22 @ And behold, as Barak pursued Sis'era, Ja'el went out to meet him, and said to him, "Come, and I will show you the man whom you are seeking." So he went in to her tent; and there lay Sis'era dead, with the tent peg in his temple.

rsv@Judges:5:4 @ "LORD, when thou didst go forth from Se'ir, when thou didst march from the region of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, yea, the clouds dropped water.

rsv@Judges:5:8 @ When new gods were chosen, then war was in the gates. Was shield or spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel?

rsv@Judges:5:10 @ "Tell of it, you who ride on tawny asses, you who sit on rich carpets and you who walk by the way.

rsv@Judges:5:11 @ To the sound of musicians at the watering places, there they repeat the triumphs of the LORD, the triumphs of his peasantry in Israel. "Then down to the gates marched the people of the LORD.

rsv@Judges:5:12 @ "Awake, awake, Deb'orah! Awake, awake, utter a song! Arise, Barak, lead away your captives, O son of Abin'o-am.

rsv@Judges:5:19 @ "The kings came, they fought; then fought the kings of Canaan, at Ta'anach, by the waters of Megid'do; they got no spoils of silver.

rsv@Judges:5:22 @ "Then loud beat the horses' hoofs with the galloping, galloping of his steeds.

rsv@Judges:5:23 @ "Curse Meroz, says the angel of the LORD, curse bitterly its inhabitants, because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.

rsv@Judges:5:24 @ "Most blessed of women be Ja'el, the wife of Heber the Ken'ite, of tent-dwelling women most blessed.

rsv@Judges:5:25 @ He asked water and she gave him milk, she brought him curds in a lordly bowl.

rsv@Judges:5:26 @ She put her hand to the tent peg and her right hand to the workmen's mallet; she struck Sis'era a blow, she crushed his head, she shattered and pierced his temple.

rsv@Judges:6:3 @ For whenever the Israelites put in seed the Mid'ianites and the Amal'ekites and the people of the East would come up and attack them;

rsv@Judges:6:4 @ they would encamp against them and destroy the produce of the land, as far as the neighborhood of Gaza, and leave no sustenance in Israel, and no sheep or ox or ass.

rsv@Judges:6:5 @ For they would come up with their cattle and their tents, coming like locusts for number; both they and their camels could not be counted; so that they wasted the land as they came in.

rsv@Judges:6:7 @ When the people of Israel cried to the LORD on account of the Mid'ianites,

rsv@Judges:6:10 @ and I said to you, `I am the LORD your God; you shall not pay reverence to the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell.' But you have not given heed to my voice."

rsv@Judges:6:11 @ Now the angel of the LORD came and sat under the oak at Ophrah, which belonged to Jo'ash the Abiez'rite, as his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press, to hide it from the Mid'ianites.

rsv@Judges:6:13 @ And Gideon said to him, "Pray, sir, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this befallen us? And where are all his wonderful deeds which our fathers recounted to us, saying, `Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt?' But now the LORD has cast us off, and given us into the hand of Mid'ian."

rsv@Judges:6:16 @ And the LORD said to him, "But I will be with you, and you shall smite the Mid'ianites as one man."

rsv@Judges:6:19 @ So Gideon went into his house and prepared a kid, and unleavened cakes from an ephah of flour; the meat he put in a basket, and the broth he put in a pot, and brought them to him under the oak and presented them.

rsv@Judges:6:24 @ Then Gideon built an altar there to the LORD, and called it, The LORD is peace. To this day it still stands at Ophrah, which belongs to the Abiez'rites.

rsv@Judges:6:27 @ So Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the LORD had told him; but because he was too afraid of his family and the men of the town to do it by day, he did it by night.

rsv@Judges:6:29 @ And they said to one another, "Who has done this thing?" And after they had made search and inquired, they said, "Gideon the son of Jo'ash has done this thing."

rsv@Judges:6:31 @ But Jo'ash said to all who were arrayed against him, "Will you contend for Ba'al? Or will you defend his cause? Whoever contends for him shall be put to death by morning. If he is a god, let him contend for himself, because his altar has been pulled down."

rsv@Judges:6:32 @ Therefore on that day he was called Jerubba'al, that is to say, "Let Ba'al contend against him," because he pulled down his altar.

rsv@Judges:6:33 @ Then all the Mid'ianites and the Amal'ekites and the people of the East came together, and crossing the Jordan they encamped in the Valley of Jezreel.

rsv@Judges:6:34 @ But the Spirit of the LORD took possession of Gideon; and he sounded the trumpet, and the Abiez'rites were called out to follow him.

rsv@Judges:6:38 @ And it was so. When he rose early next morning and squeezed the fleece, he wrung enough dew from the fleece to fill a bowl with water.

rsv@Judges:7:2 @ The LORD said to Gideon, "The people with you are too many for me to give the Mid'ianites into their hand, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, `My own hand has delivered me.'

rsv@Judges:7:3 @ Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, `Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return home.'" And Gideon tested them; twenty-two thousand returned, and ten thousand remained.

rsv@Judges:7:4 @ And the LORD said to Gideon, "The people are still too many; take them down to the water and I will test them for you there; and he of whom I say to you, `This man shall go with you,' shall go with you; and any of whom I say to you, `This man shall not go with you,' shall not go."

rsv@Judges:7:5 @ So he brought the people down to the water; and the LORD said to Gideon, "Every one that laps the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, you shall set by himself; likewise every one that kneels down to drink."

rsv@Judges:7:6 @ And the number of those that lapped, putting their hands to their mouths, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people knelt down to drink water.

rsv@Judges:7:7 @ And the LORD said to Gideon, "With the three hundred men that lapped I will deliver you, and give the Mid'ianites into your hand; and let all the others go every man to his home."

rsv@Judges:7:8 @ So he took the jars of the people from their hands, and their trumpets; and he sent all the rest of Israel every man to his tent, but retained the three hundred men; and the camp of Mid'ian was below him in the valley.

rsv@Judges:7:11 @ and you shall hear what they say, and afterward your hands shall be strengthened to go down against the camp." Then he went down with Purah his servant to the outposts of the armed men that were in the camp.

rsv@Judges:7:12 @ And the Mid'ianites and the Amal'ekites and all the people of the East lay along the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is upon the seashore for multitude.

rsv@Judges:7:13 @ When Gideon came, behold, a man was telling a dream to his comrade; and he said, "Behold, I dreamed a dream; and lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Mid'ian, and came to the tent, and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat."

rsv@Judges:7:15 @ When Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, he worshiped; and he returned to the camp of Israel, and said, "Arise; for the LORD has given the host of Mid'ian into your hand."

rsv@Judges:7:23 @ And the men of Israel were called out from Naph'tali and from Asher and from all Manas'seh, and they pursued after Mid'ian.

rsv@Judges:7:24 @ And Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of E'phraim, saying, "Come down against the Mid'ianites and seize the waters against them, as far as Beth-bar'ah, and also the Jordan." So all the men of E'phraim were called out, and they seized the waters as far as Beth-bar'ah, and also the Jordan.

rsv@Judges:8:2 @ And he said to them, "What have I done now in comparison with you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of E'phraim better than the vintage of Abi-e'zer?

rsv@Judges:8:3 @ God has given into your hands the princes of Mid'ian, Oreb and Zeeb; what have I been able to do in comparison with you?" Then their anger against him was abated, when he had said this.

rsv@Judges:8:5 @ So he said to the men of Succoth, "Pray, give loaves of bread to the people who follow me; for they are faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmun'na, the kings of Mid'ian."

rsv@Judges:8:10 @ Now Zebah and Zalmun'na were in Karkor with their army, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of all the army of the people of the East; for there had fallen a hundred and twenty thousand men who drew the sword.

rsv@Judges:8:11 @ And Gideon went up by the caravan route east of Nobah and Jog'behah, and attacked the army; for the army was off its guard.

rsv@Judges:8:14 @ And he caught a young man of Succoth, and questioned him; and he wrote down for him the officials and elders of Succoth, seventy-seven men.

rsv@Judges:8:15 @ And he came to the men of Succoth, and said, "Behold Zebah and Zalmun'na, about whom you taunted me, saying, `Are Zebah and Zalmun'na already in your hand, that we should give bread to your men who are faint?'"

rsv@Judges:8:24 @ And Gideon said to them, "Let me make a request of you; give me every man of you the earrings of his spoil." (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ish'maelites.)

rsv@Judges:8:26 @ And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was one thousand seven hundred shekels of gold; besides the crescents and the pendants and the purple garments worn by the kings of Mid'ian, and besides the collars that were about the necks of their camels.

rsv@Judges:8:27 @ And Gideon made an ephod of it and put it in his city, in Ophrah; and all Israel played the harlot after it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and to his family.

rsv@Judges:8:28 @ So Mid'ian was subdued before the people of Israel, and they lifted up their heads no more. And the land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.

rsv@Judges:8:32 @ And Gideon the son of Jo'ash died in a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of Jo'ash his father, at Ophrah of the Abiez'rites.

rsv@Judges:8:33 @ As soon as Gideon died, the people of Israel turned again and played the harlot after the Ba'als, and made Ba'al-be'rith their god.

rsv@Judges:9:2 @ "Say in the ears of all the citizens of Shechem, `Which is better for you, that all seventy of the sons of Jerubba'al rule over you, or that one rule over you?' Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh."

rsv@Judges:9:7 @ When it was told to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Ger'izim, and cried aloud and said to them, "Listen to me, you men of Shechem, that God may listen to you.

rsv@Judges:9:16 @ "Now therefore, if you acted in good faith and honor when you made Abim'elech king, and if you have dealt well with Jerubba'al and his house, and have done to him as his deeds deserved--

rsv@Judges:9:19 @ if you then have acted in good faith and honor with Jerubba'al and with his house this day, then rejoice in Abim'elech, and let him also rejoice in you;

rsv@Judges:9:27 @ And they went out into the field, and gathered the grapes from their vineyards and trod them, and held festival, and went into the house of their god, and ate and drank and reviled Abim'elech.

rsv@Judges:9:35 @ And Ga'al the son of Ebed went out and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city; and Abim'elech and the men that were with him rose from the ambush.

rsv@Judges:9:37 @ Ga'al spoke again and said, "Look, men are coming down from the center of the land, and one company is coming from the direction of the Diviners' Oak."

rsv@Judges:9:40 @ And Abim'elech chased him, and he fled before him; and many fell wounded, up to the entrance of the gate.

rsv@Judges:9:44 @ Abim'elech and the company that was with him rushed forward and stood at the entrance of the gate of the city, while the two companies rushed upon all who were in the fields and slew them.

rsv@Judges:9:46 @ When all the people of the Tower of Shechem heard of it, they entered the stronghold of the house of El-be'rith.

rsv@Judges:9:48 @ And Abim'elech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the men that were with him; and Abim'elech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bundle of brushwood, and took it up and laid it on his shoulder. And he said to the men that were with him, "What you have seen me do, make haste to do, as I have done."

rsv@Judges:9:55 @ And when the men of Israel saw that Abim'elech was dead, they departed every man to his home.

rsv@Judges:9:56 @ Thus God requited the crime of Abim'elech, which he committed against his father in killing his seventy brothers;

rsv@Judges:10:1 @ After Abim'elech there arose to deliver Israel Tola the son of Pu'ah, son of Dodo, a man of Is'sachar; and he lived at Shamir in the hill country of E'phraim.

rsv@Judges:10:3 @ After him arose Ja'ir the Gileadite, who judged Israel twenty-two years.

rsv@Judges:10:6 @ And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and served the Ba'als and the Ash'taroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines; and they forsook the LORD, and did not serve him.

rsv@Judges:10:7 @ And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the Ammonites,

rsv@Judges:10:8 @ and they crushed and oppressed the children of Israel that year. For eighteen years they oppressed all the people of Israel that were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.

rsv@Judges:10:9 @ And the Ammonites crossed the Jordan to fight also against Judah and against Benjamin and against the house of E'phraim; so that Israel was sorely distressed.

rsv@Judges:10:11 @ And the LORD said to the people of Israel, "Did I not deliver you from the Egyptians and from the Amorites, from the Ammonites and from the Philistines?

rsv@Judges:10:12 @ The Sido'nians also, and the Amal'ekites, and the Ma'onites, oppressed you; and you cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand.

rsv@Judges:10:15 @ And the people of Israel said to the LORD, "We have sinned; do to us whatever seems good to thee; only deliver us, we pray thee, this day."

rsv@Judges:10:17 @ Then the Ammonites were called to arms, and they encamped in Gilead; and the people of Israel came together, and they encamped at Mizpah.

rsv@Judges:10:18 @ And the people, the leaders of Gilead, said one to another, "Who is the man that will begin to fight against the Ammonites? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead."

rsv@Judges:11:1 @ Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior, but he was the son of a harlot. Gilead was the father of Jephthah.

rsv@Judges:11:3 @ Then Jephthah fled from his brothers, and dwelt in the land of Tob; and worthless fellows collected round Jephthah, and went raiding with him.

rsv@Judges:11:4 @ After a time the Ammonites made war against Israel.

rsv@Judges:11:5 @ And when the Ammonites made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to bring Jephthah from the land of Tob;

rsv@Judges:11:6 @ and they said to Jephthah, "Come and be our leader, that we may fight with the Ammonites."

rsv@Judges:11:7 @ But Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, "Did you not hate me, and drive me out of my father's house? Why have you come to me now when you are in trouble?"

rsv@Judges:11:8 @ And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "That is why we have turned to you now, that you may go with us and fight with the Ammonites, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead."

rsv@Judges:11:9 @ Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, "If you bring me home again to fight with the Ammonites, and the LORD gives them over to me, I will be your head."

rsv@Judges:11:12 @ Then Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites and said, "What have you against me, that you have come to me to fight against my land?"

rsv@Judges:11:13 @ And the king of the Ammonites answered the messengers of Jephthah, "Because Israel on coming from Egypt took away my land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok and to the Jordan; now therefore restore it peaceably."

rsv@Judges:11:14 @ And Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the Ammonites

rsv@Judges:11:15 @ and said to him, "Thus says Jephthah: Israel did not take away the land of Moab or the land of the Ammonites,

rsv@Judges:11:17 @ Israel then sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, `Let us pass, we pray, through your land'; but the king of Edom would not listen. And they sent also to the king of Moab, but he would not consent. So Israel remained at Kadesh.

rsv@Judges:11:18 @ Then they journeyed through the wilderness, and went around the land of Edom and the land of Moab, and arrived on the east side of the land of Moab, and camped on the other side of the Arnon; but they did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was the boundary of Moab.

rsv@Judges:11:19 @ Israel then sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, `Let us pass, we pray, through your land to our country.'

rsv@Judges:11:20 @ But Sihon did not trust Israel to pass through his territory; so Sihon gathered all his people together, and encamped at Jahaz, and fought with Israel.

rsv@Judges:11:21 @ And the LORD, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they defeated them; so Israel took possession of all the land of the Amorites, who inhabited that country.

rsv@Judges:11:22 @ And they took possession of all the territory of the Amorites from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the wilderness to the Jordan.

rsv@Judges:11:23 @ So then the LORD, the God of Israel, dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel; and are you to take possession of them?

rsv@Judges:11:25 @ Now are you any better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever go to war with them?

rsv@Judges:11:28 @ But the king of the Ammonites did not heed the message of Jephthah which he sent to him.

rsv@Judges:11:29 @ Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed through Gilead and Manas'seh, and passed on to Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed on to the Ammonites.

rsv@Judges:11:30 @ And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD, and said, "If thou wilt give the Ammonites into my hand,

rsv@Judges:11:31 @ then whoever comes forth from the doors of my house to meet me, when I return victorious from the Ammonites, shall be the LORD's, and I will offer him up for a burnt offering."

rsv@Judges:11:32 @ So Jephthah crossed over to the Ammonites to fight against them; and the LORD gave them into his hand.

rsv@Judges:11:33 @ And he smote them from Aro'er to the neighborhood of Minnith, twenty cities, and as far as Abel-keramim, with a very great slaughter. So the Ammonites were subdued before the people of Israel.

rsv@Judges:11:34 @ Then Jephthah came to his home at Mizpah; and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances; she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.

rsv@Judges:11:35 @ And when he saw her, he rent his clothes, and said, "Alas, my daughter! you have brought me very low, and you have become the cause of great trouble to me; for I have opened my mouth to the LORD, and I cannot take back my vow."

rsv@Judges:11:36 @ And she said to him, "My father, if you have opened your mouth to the LORD, do to me according to what has gone forth from your mouth, now that the LORD has avenged you on your enemies, on the Ammonites."

rsv@Judges:11:38 @ And he said, "Go." And he sent her away for two months; and she departed, she and her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.

rsv@Judges:11:40 @ that the daughters of Israel went year by year to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in the year.

rsv@Judges:12:1 @ The men of E'phraim were called to arms, and they crossed to Zaphon and said to Jephthah, "Why did you cross over to fight against the Ammonites, and did not call us to go with you? We will burn your house over you with fire."

rsv@Judges:12:2 @ And Jephthah said to them, "I and my people had a great feud with the Ammonites; and when I called you, you did not deliver me from their hand.

rsv@Judges:12:3 @ And when I saw that you would not deliver me, I took my life in my hand, and crossed over against the Ammonites, and the LORD gave them into my hand; why then have you come up to me this day, to fight against me?"

rsv@Judges:12:4 @ Then Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead and fought with E'phraim; and the men of Gilead smote E'phraim, because they said, "You are fugitives of E'phraim, you Gileadites, in the midst of E'phraim and Manas'seh."

rsv@Judges:12:5 @ And the Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the E'phraimites. And when any of the fugitives of E'phraim said, "Let me go over," the men of Gilead said to him, "Are you an E'phraimite?" When he said, "No,"

rsv@Judges:12:6 @ they said to him, "Then say Shibboleth," and he said, "Sibboleth," for he could not pronounce it right; then they seized him and slew him at the fords of the Jordan. And there fell at that time forty-two thousand of the E'phraimites.

rsv@Judges:12:7 @ Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died, and was buried in his city in Gilead.

rsv@Judges:12:8 @ After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.

rsv@Judges:12:9 @ He had thirty sons; and thirty daughters he gave in marriage outside his clan, and thirty daughters he brought in from outside for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.

rsv@Judges:12:11 @ After him Elon the Zeb'ulunite judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years.

rsv@Judges:12:12 @ Then Elon the Zeb'ulunite died, and was buried at Ai'jalon in the land of Zeb'ulun.

rsv@Judges:12:13 @ After him Abdon the son of Hillel the Pira'thonite judged Israel.

rsv@Judges:12:15 @ Then Abdon the son of Hillel the Pira'thonite died, and was buried at Pira'thon in the land of E'phraim, in the hill country of the Amal'ekites.

rsv@Judges:13:2 @ And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the tribe of the Danites, whose name was Mano'ah; and his wife was barren and had no children.

rsv@Judges:13:5 @ for lo, you shall conceive and bear a son. No razor shall come upon his head, for the boy shall be a Nazirite to God from birth; and he shall begin to deliver Israel from the hand of the Philistines."

rsv@Judges:13:6 @ Then the woman came and told her husband, "A man of God came to me, and his countenance was like the countenance of the angel of God, very terrible; I did not ask him whence he was, and he did not tell me his name;

rsv@Judges:13:7 @ but he said to me, `Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son; so then drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean, for the boy shall be a Nazirite to God from birth to the day of his death.'"

rsv@Judges:13:8 @ Then Mano'ah entreated the LORD, and said, "O, LORD, I pray thee, let the man of God whom thou didst send come again to us, and teach us what we are to do with the boy that will be born."

rsv@Judges:13:9 @ And God listened to the voice of Mano'ah, and the angel of God came again to the woman as she sat in the field; but Mano'ah her husband was not with her.

rsv@Judges:13:10 @ And the woman ran in haste and told her husband, "Behold, the man who came to me the other day has appeared to me."

rsv@Judges:13:11 @ And Mano'ah arose and went after his wife, and came to the man and said to him, "Are you the man who spoke to this woman?" And he said, "I am."

rsv@Judges:13:23 @ But his wife said to him, "If the LORD had meant to kill us, he would not have accepted a burnt offering and a cereal offering at our hands, or shown us all these things, or now announced to us such things as these."

rsv@Judges:14:1 @ Samson went down to Timnah, and at Timnah he saw one of the daughters of the Philistines.

rsv@Judges:14:2 @ Then he came up, and told his father and mother, "I saw one of the daughters of the Philistines at Timnah; now get her for me as my wife."

rsv@Judges:14:3 @ But his father and mother said to him, "Is there not a woman among the daughters of your kinsmen, or among all our people, that you must go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?" But Samson said to his father, "Get her for me; for she pleases me well."

rsv@Judges:14:6 @ and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he tore the lion asunder as one tears a kid; and he had nothing in his hand. But he did not tell his father or his mother what he had done.

rsv@Judges:14:8 @ And after a while he returned to take her; and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion, and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.

rsv@Judges:14:9 @ He scraped it out into his hands, and went on, eating as he went; and he came to his father and mother, and gave some to them, and they ate. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the carcass of the lion.

rsv@Judges:14:12 @ And Samson said to them, "Let me now put a riddle to you; if you can tell me what it is, within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty festal garments;

rsv@Judges:14:13 @ but if you cannot tell me what it is, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty festal garments." And they said to him, "Put your riddle, that we may hear it."

rsv@Judges:14:14 @ And he said to them, "Out of the eater came something to eat. Out of the strong came something sweet." And they could not in three days tell what the riddle was.

rsv@Judges:14:15 @ On the fourth day they said to Samson's wife, "Entice your husband to tell us what the riddle is, lest we burn you and your father's house with fire. Have you invited us here to impoverish us?"

rsv@Judges:14:16 @ And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, "You only hate me, you do not love me; you have put a riddle to my countrymen, and you have not told me what it is." And he said to her, "Behold, I have not told my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?"

rsv@Judges:14:17 @ She wept before him the seven days that their feast lasted; and on the seventh day he told her, because she pressed him hard. Then she told the riddle to her countrymen.

rsv@Judges:14:18 @ And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, "What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?" And he said to them, "If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have found out my riddle."

rsv@Judges:15:1 @ After a while, at the time of wheat harvest, Samson went to visit his wife with a kid; and he said, "I will go in to my wife in the chamber." But her father would not allow him to go in.

rsv@Judges:15:2 @ And her father said, "I really thought that you utterly hated her; so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister fairer than she? Pray take her instead."

rsv@Judges:15:6 @ Then the Philistines said, "Who has done this?" And they said, "Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion." And the Philistines came up, and burned her and her father with fire.

rsv@Judges:15:7 @ And Samson said to them, "If this is what you do, I swear I will be avenged upon you, and after that I will quit."

rsv@Judges:15:8 @ And he smote them hip and thigh with great slaughter; and he went down and stayed in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

rsv@Judges:15:14 @ When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting to meet him; and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the ropes which were on his arms became as flax that has caught fire, and his bonds melted off his hands.

rsv@Judges:15:18 @ And he was very thirsty, and he called on the LORD and said, "Thou hast granted this great deliverance by the hand of thy servant; and shall I now die of thirst, and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?"

rsv@Judges:15:19 @ And God split open the hollow place that is at Lehi, and there came water from it; and when he drank, his spirit returned, and he revived. Therefore the name of it was called En-hakkor'e; it is at Lehi to this day.

rsv@Judges:16:2 @ The Gazites were told, "Samson has come here," and they surrounded the place and lay in wait for him all night at the gate of the city. They kept quiet all night, saying, "Let us wait till the light of the morning; then we will kill him."

rsv@Judges:16:3 @ But Samson lay till midnight, and at midnight he arose and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city and the two posts, and pulled them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that is before Hebron.

rsv@Judges:16:4 @ After this he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Deli'lah.

rsv@Judges:16:6 @ And Deli'lah said to Samson, "Please tell me wherein your great strength lies, and how you might be bound, that one could subdue you."

rsv@Judges:16:10 @ And Deli'lah said to Samson, "Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies; please tell me how you might be bound."

rsv@Judges:16:13 @ And Deli'lah said to Samson, "Until now you have mocked me, and told me lies; tell me how you might be bound." And he said to her, "If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web and make it tight with the pin, then I shall become weak, and be like any other man."

rsv@Judges:16:16 @ And when she pressed him hard with her words day after day, and urged him, his soul was vexed to death.

rsv@Judges:16:17 @ And he told her all his mind, and said to her, "A razor has never come upon my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother's womb. If I be shaved, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man."

rsv@Judges:16:21 @ And the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with bronze fetters; and he ground at the mill in the prison.

rsv@Judges:16:22 @ But the hair of his head began to grow again after it had been shaved.

rsv@Judges:16:29 @ And Samson grasped the two middle pillars upon which the house rested, and he leaned his weight upon them, his right hand on the one and his left hand on the other.

rsv@Judges:17:2 @ And he said to his mother, "The eleven hundred pieces of silver which were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it." And his mother said, "Blessed be my son by the LORD."

rsv@Judges:17:3 @ And he restored the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother; and his mother said, "I consecrate the silver to the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image; now therefore I will restore it to you."

rsv@Judges:17:4 @ So when he restored the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver, and gave it to the silversmith, who made it into a graven image and a molten image; and it was in the house of Micah.

rsv@Judges:17:5 @ And the man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and teraphim, and installed one of his sons, who became his priest.

rsv@Judges:17:7 @ Now there was a young man of Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he sojourned there.

rsv@Judges:17:8 @ And the man departed from the town of Bethlehem in Judah, to live where he could find a place; and as he journeyed, he came to the hill country of E'phraim to the house of Micah.

rsv@Judges:17:9 @ And Micah said to him, "From where do you come?" And he said to him, "I am a Levite of Bethlehem in Judah, and I am going to sojourn where I may find a place."

rsv@Judges:17:10 @ And Micah said to him, "Stay with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten pieces of silver a year, and a suit of apparel, and your living."

rsv@Judges:17:11 @ And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man became to him like one of his sons.

rsv@Judges:17:12 @ And Micah installed the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.

rsv@Judges:17:13 @ Then Micah said, "Now I know that the LORD will prosper me, because I have a Levite as priest."

rsv@Judges:18:1 @ In those days there was no king in Israel. And in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking for itself an inheritance to dwell in; for until then no inheritance among the tribes of Israel had fallen to them.

rsv@Judges:18:2 @ So the Danites sent five able men from the whole number of their tribe, from Zorah and from Esh'ta-ol, to spy out the land and to explore it; and they said to them, "Go and explore the land." And they came to the hill country of E'phraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.

rsv@Judges:18:3 @ When they were by the house of Micah, they recognized the voice of the young Levite; and they turned aside and said to him, "Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? What is your business here?"

rsv@Judges:18:7 @ Then the five men departed, and came to La'ish, and saw the people who were there, how they dwelt in security, after the manner of the Sido'nians, quiet and unsuspecting, lacking nothing that is in the earth, and possessing wealth, and how they were far from the Sido'nians and had no dealings with any one.

rsv@Judges:18:9 @ They said, "Arise, and let us go up against them; for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very fertile. And will you do nothing? Do not be slow to go, and enter in and possess the land.

rsv@Judges:18:14 @ Then the five men who had gone to spy out the country of La'ish said to their brethren, "Do you know that in these houses there are an ephod, teraphim, a graven image, and a molten image? Now therefore consider what you will do."

rsv@Judges:18:15 @ And they turned aside thither, and came to the house of the young Levite, at the home of Micah, and asked him of his welfare.

rsv@Judges:18:16 @ Now the six hundred men of the Danites, armed with their weapons of war, stood by the entrance of the gate;

rsv@Judges:18:17 @ and the five men who had gone to spy out the land went up, and entered and took the graven image, the ephod, the teraphim, and the molten image, while the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men armed with weapons of war.

rsv@Judges:18:18 @ And when these went into Micah's house and took the graven image, the ephod, the teraphim, and the molten image, the priest said to them, "What are you doing?"

rsv@Judges:18:19 @ And they said to him, "Keep quiet, put your hand upon your mouth, and come with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and family in Israel?"

rsv@Judges:18:20 @ And the priest's heart was glad; he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people.

rsv@Judges:18:21 @ So they turned and departed, putting the little ones and the cattle and the goods in front of them.

rsv@Judges:18:22 @ When they were a good way from the home of Micah, the men who were in the houses near Micah's house were called out, and they overtook the Danites.

rsv@Judges:18:23 @ And they shouted to the Danites, who turned round and said to Micah, "What ails you that you come with such a company?"

rsv@Judges:18:25 @ And the Danites said to him, "Do not let your voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows fall upon you, and you lose your life with the lives of your household."

rsv@Judges:18:26 @ Then the Danites went their way; and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his home.

rsv@Judges:18:27 @ And taking what Micah had made, and the priest who belonged to him, the Danites came to La'ish, to a people quiet and unsuspecting, and smote them with the edge of the sword, and burned the city with fire.

rsv@Judges:18:29 @ And they named the city Dan, after the name of Dan their ancestor, who was born to Israel; but the name of the city was La'ish at the first.

rsv@Judges:18:30 @ And the Danites set up the graven image for themselves; and Jonathan the son of Gershom, son of Moses, and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.

rsv@Judges:19:1 @ In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was sojourning in the remote parts of the hill country of E'phraim, who took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.

rsv@Judges:19:3 @ Then her husband arose and went after her, to speak kindly to her and bring her back. He had with him his servant and a couple of asses. And he came to her father's house; and when the girl's father saw him, he came with joy to meet him.

rsv@Judges:19:4 @ And his father-in-law, the girl's father, made him stay, and he remained with him three days; so they ate and drank, and lodged there.

rsv@Judges:19:5 @ And on the fourth day they arose early in the morning, and he prepared to go; but the girl's father said to his son-in-law, "Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, and after that you may go."

rsv@Judges:19:6 @ So the two men sat and ate and drank together; and the girl's father said to the man, "Be pleased to spend the night, and let your heart be merry."

rsv@Judges:19:8 @ And on the fifth day he arose early in the morning to depart; and the girl's father said, "Strengthen your heart, and tarry until the day declines." So they ate, both of them.

rsv@Judges:19:10 @ But the man would not spend the night; he rose up and departed, and arrived opposite Jebus (that is, Jerusalem). He had with him a couple of saddled asses, and his concubine was with him.

rsv@Judges:19:11 @ When they were near Jebus, the day was far spent, and the servant said to his master, "Come now, let us turn aside to this city of the Jeb'usites, and spend the night in it."

rsv@Judges:19:12 @ And his master said to him, "We will not turn aside into the city of foreigners, who do not belong to the people of Israel; but we will pass on to Gib'e-ah."

rsv@Judges:19:16 @ And behold, an old man was coming from his work in the field at evening; the man was from the hill country of E'phraim, and he was sojourning in Gib'e-ah; the men of the place were Benjaminites.

rsv@Judges:19:17 @ And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfarer in the open square of the city; and the old man said, "Where are you going? and whence do you come?"

rsv@Judges:19:18 @ And he said to him, "We are passing from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote parts of the hill country of E'phraim, from which I come. I went to Bethlehem in Judah; and I am going to my home; and nobody takes me into his house.

rsv@Judges:19:21 @ So he brought him into his house, and gave the asses provender; and they washed their feet, and ate and drank.

rsv@Judges:19:22 @ As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, base fellows, beset the house round about, beating on the door; and they said to the old man, the master of the house, "Bring out the man who came into your house, that we may know him."

rsv@Judges:19:23 @ And the man, the master of the house, went out to them and said to them, "No, my brethren, do not act so wickedly; seeing that this man has come into my house, do not do this vile thing.

rsv@Judges:19:24 @ Behold, here are my virgin daughter and his concubine; let me bring them out now. Ravish them and do with them what seems good to you; but against this man do not do so vile a thing."

rsv@Judges:19:25 @ But the men would not listen to him. So the man seized his concubine, and put her out to them; and they knew her, and abused her all night until the morning. And as the dawn began to break, they let her go.

rsv@Judges:19:26 @ And as morning appeared, the woman came and fell down at the door of the man's house where her master was, till it was light.

rsv@Judges:19:27 @ And her master rose up in the morning, and when he opened the doors of the house and went out to go on his way, behold, there was his concubine lying at the door of the house, with her hands on the threshold.

rsv@Judges:19:29 @ And when he entered his house, he took a knife, and laying hold of his concubine he divided her, limb by limb, into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout all the territory of Israel.

rsv@Judges:20:2 @ And the chiefs of all the people, of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand men on foot that drew the sword.

rsv@Judges:20:3 @ (Now the Benjaminites heard that the people of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) And the people of Israel said, "Tell us, how was this wickedness brought to pass?"

rsv@Judges:20:4 @ And the Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered and said, "I came to Gib'e-ah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to spend the night.

rsv@Judges:20:6 @ And I took my concubine and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel; for they have committed abomination and wantonness in Israel.

rsv@Judges:20:8 @ And all the people arose as one man, saying, "We will not any of us go to his tent, and none of us will return to his house.

rsv@Judges:20:10 @ and we will take ten men of a hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred of a thousand, and a thousand of ten thousand, to bring provisions for the people, that when they come they may requite Gib'e-ah of Benjamin, for all the wanton crime which they have committed in Israel."

rsv@Judges:20:11 @ So all the men of Israel gathered against the city, united as one man.

rsv@Judges:20:13 @ Now therefore give up the men, the base fellows in Gib'e-ah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel." But the Benjaminites would not listen to the voice of their brethren, the people of Israel.

rsv@Judges:20:14 @ And the Benjaminites came together out of the cities to Gib'e-ah, to go out to battle against the people of Israel.

rsv@Judges:20:15 @ And the Benjaminites mustered out of their cities on that day twenty-six thousand men that drew the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gib'e-ah, who mustered seven hundred picked men.

rsv@Judges:20:17 @ And the men of Israel, apart from Benjamin, mustered four hundred thousand men that drew sword; all these were men of war.

rsv@Judges:20:18 @ The people of Israel arose and went up to Bethel, and inquired of God, "Which of us shall go up first to battle against the Benjaminites?" And the LORD said, "Judah shall go up first."

rsv@Judges:20:21 @ The Benjaminites came out of Gib'e-ah, and felled to the ground on that day twenty-two thousand men of the Israelites.

rsv@Judges:20:23 @ And the people of Israel went up and wept before the LORD until the evening; and they inquired of the LORD, "Shall we again draw near to battle against our brethren the Benjaminites?" And the LORD said, "Go up against them."

rsv@Judges:20:24 @ So the people of Israel came near against the Benjaminites the second day.

rsv@Judges:20:25 @ And Benjamin went against them out of Gib'e-ah the second day, and felled to the ground eighteen thousand men of the people of Israel; all these were men who drew the sword.

rsv@Judges:20:26 @ Then all the people of Israel, the whole army, went up and came to Bethel and wept; they sat there before the LORD, and fasted that day until evening, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.

rsv@Judges:20:28 @ and Phin'ehas the son of Elea'zar, son of Aaron, ministered before it in those days), saying, "Shall we yet again go out to battle against our brethren the Benjaminites, or shall we cease?" And the LORD said, "Go up; for tomorrow I will give them into your hand."

rsv@Judges:20:30 @ And the people of Israel went up against the Benjaminites on the third day, and set themselves in array against Gib'e-ah, as at other times.

rsv@Judges:20:31 @ And the Benjaminites went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and as at other times they began to smite and kill some of the people, in the highways, one of which goes up to Bethel and the other to Gib'e-ah, and in the open country, about thirty men of Israel.

rsv@Judges:20:32 @ And the Benjaminites said, "They are routed before us, as at the first." But the men of Israel said, "Let us flee, and draw them away from the city to the highways."

rsv@Judges:20:34 @ And there came against Gib'e-ah ten thousand picked men out of all Israel, and the battle was hard; but the Benjaminites did not know that disaster was close upon them.

rsv@Judges:20:35 @ And the LORD defeated Benjamin before Israel; and the men of Israel destroyed twenty-five thousand one hundred men of Benjamin that day; all these were men who drew the sword.

rsv@Judges:20:36 @ So the Benjaminites saw that they were defeated. The men of Israel gave ground to Benjamin, because they trusted to the men in ambush whom they had set against Gib'e-ah.

rsv@Judges:20:37 @ And the men in ambush made haste and rushed upon Gib'e-ah; the men in ambush moved out and smote all the city with the edge of the sword.

rsv@Judges:20:38 @ Now the appointed signal between the men of Israel and the men in ambush was that when they made a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city

rsv@Judges:20:39 @ the men of Israel should turn in battle. Now Benjamin had begun to smite and kill about thirty men of Israel; they said, "Surely they are smitten down before us, as in the first battle."

rsv@Judges:20:40 @ But when the signal began to rise out of the city in a column of smoke, the Benjaminites looked behind them; and behold, the whole of the city went up in smoke to heaven.

rsv@Judges:20:41 @ Then the men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed, for they saw that disaster was close upon them.

rsv@Judges:20:43 @ Cutting down the Benjaminites, they pursued them and trod them down from Nohah as far as opposite Gib'e-ah on the east.

rsv@Judges:20:44 @ Eighteen thousand men of Benjamin fell, all of them men of valor.

rsv@Judges:20:48 @ And the men of Israel turned back against the Benjaminites, and smote them with the edge of the sword, men and beasts and all that they found. And all the towns which they found they set on fire.

rsv@Judges:21:1 @ Now the men of Israel had sworn at Mizpah, "No one of us shall give his daughter in marriage to Benjamin."

rsv@Judges:21:2 @ And the people came to Bethel, and sat there till evening before God, and they lifted up their voices and wept bitterly.

rsv@Judges:21:7 @ What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them any of our daughters for wives?"

rsv@Judges:21:9 @ For when the people were mustered, behold, not one of the inhabitants of Ja'besh-gil'ead was there.

rsv@Judges:21:10 @ So the congregation sent thither twelve thousand of their bravest men, and commanded them, "Go and smite the inhabitants of Ja'besh-gil'ead with the edge of the sword; also the women and the little ones.

rsv@Judges:21:11 @ This is what you shall do; every male and every woman that has lain with a male you shall utterly destroy."

rsv@Judges:21:13 @ Then the whole congregation sent word to the Benjaminites who were at the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them.

rsv@Judges:21:17 @ And they said, "There must be an inheritance for the survivors of Benjamin, that a tribe be not blotted out from Israel.

rsv@Judges:21:18 @ Yet we cannot give them wives of our daughters." For the people of Israel had sworn, "Cursed be he who gives a wife to Benjamin."

rsv@Judges:21:20 @ And they commanded the Benjaminites, saying, "Go and lie in wait in the vineyards,

rsv@Judges:21:21 @ and watch; if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards and seize each man his wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.

rsv@Judges:21:23 @ And the Benjaminites did so, and took their wives, according to their number, from the dancers whom they carried off; then they went and returned to their inheritance, and rebuilt the towns, and dwelt in them.

rsv@Judges:21:24 @ And the people of Israel departed from there at that time, every man to his tribe and family, and they went out from there every man to his inheritance.

rsv@Ruth:1:2 @ The name of the man was Elim'elech and the name of his wife Na'omi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chil'ion; they were Eph'rathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They went into the country of Moab and remained there.

rsv@Ruth:1:4 @ These took Moabite wives; the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. They lived there about ten years;

rsv@Ruth:1:6 @ Then she started with her daughters-in-law to return from the country of Moab, for she had heard in the country of Moab that the LORD had visited his people and given them food.

rsv@Ruth:1:7 @ So she set out from the place where she was, with her two daughters-in-law, and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah.

rsv@Ruth:1:8 @ But Na'omi said to her two daughters-in-law, "Go, return each of you to her mother's house. May the LORD deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me.

rsv@Ruth:1:9 @ The LORD grant that you may find a home, each of you in the house of her husband!" Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices and wept.

rsv@Ruth:1:11 @ But Na'omi said, "Turn back, my daughters, why will you go with me? Have I yet sons in my womb that they may become your husbands?

rsv@Ruth:1:12 @ Turn back, my daughters, go your way, for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say I have hope, even if I should have a husband this night and should bear sons,

rsv@Ruth:1:13 @ would you therefore wait till they were grown? Would you therefore refrain from marrying? No, my daughters, for it is exceedingly bitter to me for your sake that the hand of the LORD has gone forth against me."

rsv@Ruth:1:14 @ Then they lifted up their voices and wept again; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.

rsv@Ruth:1:15 @ And she said, "See, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods; return after your sister-in-law."

rsv@Ruth:1:18 @ And when Na'omi saw that she was determined to go with her, she said no more.

rsv@Ruth:1:20 @ She said to them, "Do not call me Na'omi, call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

rsv@Ruth:1:21 @ I went away full, and the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Na'omi, when the LORD has afflicted me and the Almighty has brought calamity upon me?"

rsv@Ruth:1:22 @ So Na'omi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess her daughter-in-law with her, who returned from the country of Moab. And they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of barley harvest.

rsv@Ruth:2:2 @ And Ruth the Moabitess said to Na'omi, "Let me go to the field, and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall find favor." And she said to her, "Go, my daughter."

rsv@Ruth:2:3 @ So she set forth and went and gleaned in the field after the reapers; and she happened to come to the part of the field belonging to Bo'az, who was of the family of Elim'elech.

rsv@Ruth:2:6 @ And the servant who was in charge of the reapers answered, "It is the Moabite maiden, who came back with Na'omi from the country of Moab.

rsv@Ruth:2:7 @ She said, `Pray, let me glean and gather among the sheaves after the reapers.' So she came, and she has continued from early morning until now, without resting even for a moment."

rsv@Ruth:2:8 @ Then Bo'az said to Ruth, "Now, listen, my daughter, do not go to glean in another field or leave this one, but keep close to my maidens.

rsv@Ruth:2:9 @ Let your eyes be upon the field which they are reaping, and go after them. Have I not charged the young men not to molest you? And when you are thirsty, go to the vessels and drink what the young men have drawn."

rsv@Ruth:2:13 @ Then she said, "You are most gracious to me, my lord, for you have comforted me and spoken kindly to your maidservant, though I am not one of your maidservants."

rsv@Ruth:2:14 @ And at mealtime Bo'az said to her, "Come here, and eat some bread, and dip your morsel in the wine." So she sat beside the reapers, and he passed to her parched grain; and she ate until she was satisfied, and she had some left over.

rsv@Ruth:2:15 @ When she rose to glean, Bo'az instructed his young men, saying, "Let her glean even among the sheaves, and do not reproach her.

rsv@Ruth:2:18 @ And she took it up and went into the city; she showed her mother-in-law what she had gleaned, and she also brought out and gave her what food she had left over after being satisfied.

rsv@Ruth:2:20 @ And Na'omi said to her daughter-in-law, "Blessed be he by the LORD, whose kindness has not forsaken the living or the dead!" Na'omi also said to her, "The man is a relative of ours, one of our nearest kin."

rsv@Ruth:2:21 @ And Ruth the Moabitess said, "Besides, he said to me, `You shall keep close by my servants, till they have finished all my harvest.'"

rsv@Ruth:2:22 @ And Na'omi said to Ruth, her daughter-in-law, "It is well, my daughter, that you go out with his maidens, lest in another field you be molested."

rsv@Ruth:3:1 @ Then Na'omi her mother-in-law said to her, "My daughter, should I not seek a home for you, that it may be well with you?

rsv@Ruth:3:4 @ But when he lies down, observe the place where he lies; then, go and uncover his feet and lie down; and he will tell you what to do."

rsv@Ruth:3:7 @ And when Bo'az had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. Then she came softly, and uncovered his feet, and lay down.

rsv@Ruth:3:10 @ And he said, "May you be blessed by the LORD, my daughter; you have made this last kindness greater than the first, in that you have not gone after young men, whether poor or rich.

rsv@Ruth:3:11 @ And now, my daughter, do not fear, I will do for you all that you ask, for all my fellow townsmen know that you are a woman of worth.

rsv@Ruth:3:16 @ And when she came to her mother-in-law, she said, "How did you fare, my daughter?" Then she told her all that the man had done for her,

rsv@Ruth:3:18 @ She replied, "Wait, my daughter, until you learn how the matter turns out, for the man will not rest, but will settle the matter today."

rsv@Ruth:4:1 @ And Bo'az went up to the gate and sat down there; and behold, the next of kin, of whom Bo'az had spoken, came by. So Bo'az said, "Turn aside, friend; sit down here"; and he turned aside and sat down.

rsv@Ruth:4:2 @ And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, "Sit down here"; so they sat down.

rsv@Ruth:4:4 @ So I thought I would tell you of it, and say, Buy it in the presence of those sitting here, and in the presence of the elders of my people. If you will redeem it, redeem it; but if you will not, tell me, that I may know, for there is no one besides you to redeem it, and I come after you." And he said, "I will redeem it."

rsv@Ruth:4:5 @ Then Bo'az said, "The day you buy the field from the hand of Na'omi, you are also buying Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of the dead, in order to restore the name of the dead to his inheritance."

rsv@Ruth:4:7 @ Now this was the custom in former times in Israel concerning redeeming and exchanging: to confirm a transaction, the one drew off his sandal and gave it to the other, and this was the manner of attesting in Israel.

rsv@Ruth:4:10 @ Also Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of Mahlon, I have bought to be my wife, to perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brethren and from the gate of his native place; you are witnesses this day."

rsv@Ruth:4:11 @ Then all the people who were at the gate, and the elders, said, "We are witnesses. May the LORD make the woman, who is coming into your house, like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you prosper in Eph'rathah and be renowned in Bethlehem;

rsv@Ruth:4:15 @ He shall be to you a restorer of life and a nourisher of your old age; for your daughter-in-law who loves you, who is more to you than seven sons, has borne him."

rsv@1Samuel:1:1 @ There was a certain man of Ramatha'im-zo'phim of the hill country of E'phraim, whose name was Elka'nah the son of Jero'ham, son of Eli'hu, son of Tohu, son of Zuph, an E'phraimite.

rsv@1Samuel:1:4 @ On the day when Elka'nah sacrificed, he would give portions to Penin'nah his wife and to all her sons and daughters;

rsv@1Samuel:1:6 @ And her rival used to provoke her sorely, to irritate her, because the LORD had closed her womb.

rsv@1Samuel:1:7 @ So it went on year by year; as often as she went up to the house of the LORD, she used to provoke her. Therefore Hannah wept and would not eat.

rsv@1Samuel:1:8 @ And Elka'nah, her husband, said to her, "Hannah, why do you weep? And why do you not eat? And why is your heart sad? Am I not more to you than ten sons?"

rsv@1Samuel:1:9 @ After they had eaten and drunk in Shiloh, Hannah rose. Now Eli the priest was sitting on the seat beside the doorpost of the temple of the LORD.

rsv@1Samuel:1:10 @ She was deeply distressed and prayed to the LORD, and wept bitterly.

rsv@1Samuel:1:18 @ And she said, "Let your maidservant find favor in your eyes." Then the woman went her way and ate, and her countenance was no longer sad.

rsv@1Samuel:1:27 @ For this child I prayed; and the LORD has granted me my petition which I made to him.

rsv@1Samuel:2:1 @ Hannah also prayed and said, "My heart exults in the LORD; my strength is exalted in the LORD. My mouth derides my enemies, because I rejoice in thy salvation.

rsv@1Samuel:2:10 @ The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; against them he will thunder in heaven. The LORD will judge the ends of the earth; he will give strength to his king, and exalt the power of his anointed."

rsv@1Samuel:2:11 @ Then Elka'nah went home to Ramah. And the boy ministered to the LORD, in the presence of Eli the priest.

rsv@1Samuel:2:14 @ and he would thrust it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the fork brought up the priest would take for himself. So they did at Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there.

rsv@1Samuel:2:17 @ Thus the sin of the young men was very great in the sight of the LORD; for the men treated the offering of the LORD with contempt.

rsv@1Samuel:2:18 @ Samuel was ministering before the LORD, a boy girded with a linen ephod.

rsv@1Samuel:2:21 @ And the LORD visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. And the boy Samuel grew in the presence of the LORD.

rsv@1Samuel:2:22 @ Now Eli was very old, and he heard all that his sons were doing to all Israel, and how they lay with the women who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

rsv@1Samuel:2:25 @ If a man sins against a man, God will mediate for him; but if a man sins against the LORD, who can intercede for him?" But they would not listen to the voice of their father; for it was the will of the LORD to slay them.

rsv@1Samuel:2:29 @ Why then look with greedy eye at my sacrifices and my offerings which I commanded, and honor your sons above me by fattening yourselves upon the choicest parts of every offering of my people Israel?'

rsv@1Samuel:2:30 @ Therefore the LORD the God of Israel declares: `I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me for ever'; but now the LORD declares: `Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

rsv@1Samuel:2:35 @ And I will raise up for myself a faithful priest, who shall do according to what is in my heart and in my mind; and I will build him a sure house, and he shall go in and out before my anointed for ever.

rsv@1Samuel:3:1 @ Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the LORD under Eli. And the word of the LORD was rare in those days; there was no frequent vision.

rsv@1Samuel:3:3 @ the lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down within the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God was.

rsv@1Samuel:3:13 @ And I tell him that I am about to punish his house for ever, for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons were blaspheming God, and he did not restrain them.

rsv@1Samuel:3:14 @ Therefore I swear to the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be expiated by sacrifice or offering for ever."

rsv@1Samuel:3:15 @ Samuel lay until morning; then he opened the doors of the house of the LORD. And Samuel was afraid to tell the vision to Eli.

rsv@1Samuel:4:2 @ The Philistines drew up in line against Israel, and when the battle spread, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who slew about four thousand men on the field of battle.

rsv@1Samuel:4:8 @ Woe to us! Who can deliver us from the power of these mighty gods? These are the gods who smote the Egyptians with every sort of plague in the wilderness.

rsv@1Samuel:4:10 @ So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and they fled, every man to his home; and there was a very great slaughter, for there fell of Israel thirty thousand foot soldiers.

rsv@1Samuel:4:14 @ When Eli heard the sound of the outcry, he said, "What is this uproar?" Then the man hastened and came and told Eli.

rsv@1Samuel:4:17 @ He who brought the tidings answered and said, "Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has also been a great slaughter among the people; your two sons also, Hophni and Phin'ehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been captured."

rsv@1Samuel:4:18 @ When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell over backward from his seat by the side of the gate; and his neck was broken and he died, for he was an old man, and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.

rsv@1Samuel:4:19 @ Now his daughter-in-law, the wife of Phin'ehas, was with child, about to give birth. And when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was captured, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed and gave birth; for her pains came upon her.

rsv@1Samuel:4:20 @ And about the time of her death the women attending her said to her, "Fear not, for you have borne a son." But she did not answer or give heed.

rsv@1Samuel:4:21 @ And she named the child Ich'abod, saying, "The glory has departed from Israel!" because the ark of God had been captured and because of her father-in-law and her husband.

rsv@1Samuel:4:22 @ And she said, "The glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God has been captured."

rsv@1Samuel:5:5 @ This is why the priests of Dagon and all who enter the house of Dagon do not tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod to this day.

rsv@1Samuel:5:6 @ The hand of the LORD was heavy upon the people of Ashdod, and he terrified and afflicted them with tumors, both Ashdod and its territory.

rsv@1Samuel:5:9 @ But after they had brought it around, the hand of the LORD was against the city, causing a very great panic, and he afflicted the men of the city, both young and old, so that tumors broke out upon them.

rsv@1Samuel:6:2 @ And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners and said, "What shall we do with the ark of the LORD? Tell us with what we shall send it to its place."

rsv@1Samuel:6:5 @ So you must make images of your tumors and images of your mice that ravage the land, and give glory to the God of Israel; perhaps he will lighten his hand from off you and your gods and your land.

rsv@1Samuel:6:6 @ Why should you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? After he had made sport of them, did not they let the people go, and they departed?

rsv@1Samuel:6:12 @ And the cows went straight in the direction of Beth-she'mesh along one highway, lowing as they went; they turned neither to the right nor to the left, and the lords of the Philistines went after them as far as the border of Beth-she'mesh.

rsv@1Samuel:6:13 @ Now the people of Beth-she'mesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley; and when they lifted up their eyes and saw the ark, they rejoiced to see it.

rsv@1Samuel:6:15 @ And the Levites took down the ark of the LORD and the box that was beside it, in which were the golden figures, and set them upon the great stone; and the men of Beth-she'mesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices on that day to the LORD.

rsv@1Samuel:6:19 @ And he slew some of the men of Beth-she'mesh, because they looked into the ark of the LORD; he slew seventy men of them, and the people mourned because the LORD had made a great slaughter among the people.

rsv@1Samuel:7:1 @ And the men of Kir'iath-je'arim came and took up the ark of the LORD, and brought it to the house of Abin'adab on the hill; and they consecrated his son, Elea'zar, to have charge of the ark of the LORD.

rsv@1Samuel:7:2 @ From the day that the ark was lodged at Kir'iath-je'arim, a long time passed, some twenty years, and all the house of Israel lamented after the LORD.

rsv@1Samuel:7:6 @ So they gathered at Mizpah, and drew water and poured it out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there, "We have sinned against the LORD." And Samuel judged the people of Israel at Mizpah.

rsv@1Samuel:7:10 @ As Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to attack Israel; but the LORD thundered with a mighty voice that day against the Philistines and threw them into confusion; and they were routed before Israel.

rsv@1Samuel:7:11 @ And the men of Israel went out of Mizpah and pursued the Philistines, and smote them, as far as below Beth-car.

rsv@1Samuel:7:13 @ So the Philistines were subdued and did not again enter the territory of Israel. And the hand of the LORD was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.

rsv@1Samuel:7:14 @ The cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron to Gath; and Israel rescued their territory from the hand of the Philistines. There was peace also between Israel and the Amorites.

rsv@1Samuel:7:17 @ Then he would come back to Ramah, for his home was there, and there also he administered justice to Israel. And he built there an altar to the LORD.

rsv@1Samuel:8:3 @ Yet his sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after gain; they took bribes and perverted justice.

rsv@1Samuel:8:7 @ And the LORD said to Samuel, "Hearken to the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them.

rsv@1Samuel:8:13 @ He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers.

rsv@1Samuel:8:15 @ He will take the tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and to his servants.

rsv@1Samuel:8:17 @ He will take the tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves.

rsv@1Samuel:8:19 @ But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, "No! but we will have a king over us,

rsv@1Samuel:8:21 @ And when Samuel had heard all the words of the people, he repeated them in the ears of the LORD.

rsv@1Samuel:9:1 @ There was a man of Benjamin whose name was Kish, the son of Abi'el, son of Zeror, son of Beco'rath, son of Aphi'ah, a Benjaminite, a man of wealth;

rsv@1Samuel:9:6 @ But he said to him, "Behold, there is a man of God in this city, and he is a man that is held in honor; all that he says comes true. Let us go there; perhaps he can tell us about the journey on which we have set out."

rsv@1Samuel:9:8 @ The servant answered Saul again, "Here, I have with me the fourth part of a shekel of silver, and I will give it to the man of God, to tell us our way."

rsv@1Samuel:9:11 @ As they went up the hill to the city, they met young maidens coming out to draw water, and said to them, "Is the seer here?"

rsv@1Samuel:9:12 @ They answered, "He is; behold, he is just ahead of you. Make haste; he has come just now to the city, because the people have a sacrifice today on the high place.

rsv@1Samuel:9:13 @ As soon as you enter the city, you will find him, before he goes up to the high place to eat; for the people will not eat till he comes, since he must bless the sacrifice; afterward those eat who are invited. Now go up, for you will meet him immediately."

rsv@1Samuel:9:14 @ So they went up to the city. As they were entering the city, they saw Samuel coming out toward them on his way up to the high place.

rsv@1Samuel:9:18 @ Then Saul approached Samuel in the gate, and said, "Tell me where is the house of the seer?"

rsv@1Samuel:9:19 @ Samuel answered Saul, "I am the seer; go up before me to the high place, for today you shall eat with me, and in the morning I will let you go and will tell you all that is on your mind.

rsv@1Samuel:9:21 @ Saul answered, "Am I not a Benjaminite, from the least of the tribes of Israel? And is not my family the humblest of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? Why then have you spoken to me in this way?"

rsv@1Samuel:9:22 @ Then Samuel took Saul and his servant and brought them into the hall and gave them a place at the head of those who had been invited, who were about thirty persons.

rsv@1Samuel:9:24 @ So the cook took up the leg and the upper portion and set them before Saul; and Samuel said, "See, what was kept is set before you. Eat; because it was kept for you until the hour appointed, that you might eat with the guests." So Saul ate with Samuel that day.

rsv@1Samuel:9:27 @ As they were going down to the outskirts of the city, Samuel said to Saul, "Tell the servant to pass on before us, and when he has passed on stop here yourself for a while, that I may make known to you the word of God."

rsv@1Samuel:10:1 @ Then Samuel took a vial of oil and poured it on his head, and kissed him and said, "Has not the LORD anointed you to be prince over his people Israel? And you shall reign over the people of the LORD and you will save them from the hand of their enemies round about. And this shall be the sign to you that the LORD has anointed you to be prince over his heritage.

rsv@1Samuel:10:2 @ When you depart from me today you will meet two men by Rachel's tomb in the territory of Benjamin at Zelzah, and they will say to you, `The asses which you went to seek are found, and now your father has ceased to care about the asses and is anxious about you, saying, "What shall I do about my son?"'

rsv@1Samuel:10:5 @ After that you shall come to Gib'e-ath-elo'him, where there is a garrison of the Philistines; and there, as you come to the city, you will meet a band of prophets coming down from the high place with harp, tambourine, flute, and lyre before them, prophesying.

rsv@1Samuel:10:7 @ Now when these signs meet you, do whatever your hand finds to do, for God is with you.

rsv@1Samuel:10:15 @ And Saul's uncle said, "Pray, tell me what Samuel said to you."

rsv@1Samuel:10:16 @ And Saul said to his uncle, "He told us plainly that the asses had been found." But about the matter of the kingdom, of which Samuel had spoken, he did not tell him anything.

rsv@1Samuel:10:19 @ But you have this day rejected your God, who saves you from all your calamities and your distresses; and you have said, `No! but set a king over us.' Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes and by your thousands."

rsv@1Samuel:10:21 @ He brought the tribe of Benjamin near by its families, and the family of the Matrites was taken by lot; finally he brought the family of the Matrites near man by man, and Saul the son of Kish was taken by lot. But when they sought him, he could not be found.

rsv@1Samuel:10:24 @ And Samuel said to all the people, "Do you see him whom the LORD has chosen? There is none like him among all the people." And all the people shouted, "Long live the king!"

rsv@1Samuel:10:25 @ Then Samuel told the people the rights and duties of the kingship; and he wrote them in a book and laid it up before the LORD. Then Samuel sent all the people away, each one to his home.

rsv@1Samuel:11:1 @ Then Nahash the Ammonite went up and besieged Ja'besh-gil'ead; and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, "Make a treaty with us, and we will serve you."

rsv@1Samuel:11:2 @ But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, "On this condition I will make a treaty with you, that I gouge out all your right eyes, and thus put disgrace upon all Israel."

rsv@1Samuel:11:3 @ The elders of Jabesh said to him, "Give us seven days respite that we may send messengers through all the territory of Israel. Then, if there is no one to save us, we will give ourselves up to you."

rsv@1Samuel:11:4 @ When the messengers came to Gib'e-ah of Saul, they reported the matter in the ears of the people; and all the people wept aloud.

rsv@1Samuel:11:7 @ He took a yoke of oxen, and cut them in pieces and sent them throughout all the territory of Israel by the hand of messengers, saying, "Whoever does not come out after Saul and Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen!" Then the dread of the LORD fell upon the people, and they came out as one man.

rsv@1Samuel:11:8 @ When he mustered them at Bezek, the men of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.

rsv@1Samuel:11:10 @ Therefore the men of Jabesh said, "Tomorrow we will give ourselves up to you, and you may do to us whatever seems good to you."

rsv@1Samuel:11:11 @ And on the morrow Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the camp in the morning watch, and cut down the Ammonites until the heat of the day; and those who survived were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.

rsv@1Samuel:12:3 @ Here I am; testify against me before the LORD and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Or whose ass have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or from whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? Testify against me and I will restore it to you."

rsv@1Samuel:12:5 @ And 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 said, "He is witness."

rsv@1Samuel:12:6 @ And Samuel said to the people, "The LORD is witness, who appointed Moses and Aaron and brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.

rsv@1Samuel:12:12 @ And when you saw that Nahash the king of the Ammonites came against you, you said to me, `No, but a king shall reign over us,' when the LORD your God was your king.

rsv@1Samuel:12:21 @ and do not turn aside after vain things which cannot profit or save, for they are vain.

rsv@1Samuel:13:2 @ Saul chose three thousand men of Israel; two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gib'e-ah of Benjamin; the rest of the people he sent home, every man to his tent.

rsv@1Samuel:13:3 @ Jonathan defeated the garrison of the Philistines which was at Geba; and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, "Let the Hebrews hear."

rsv@1Samuel:13:4 @ And all Israel heard it said that Saul had defeated the garrison of the Philistines, and also that Israel had become odious to the Philistines. And the people were called out to join Saul at Gilgal.

rsv@1Samuel:13:5 @ And the Philistines mustered to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and troops like the sand on the seashore in multitude; they came up and encamped in Michmash, to the east of Beth-a'ven.

rsv@1Samuel:13:6 @ When the men of Israel saw that they were in straits (for the people were hard pressed), the people hid themselves in caves and in holes and in rocks and in tombs and in cisterns,

rsv@1Samuel:13:8 @ He waited seven days, the time appointed by Samuel; but Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the people were scattering from him.

rsv@1Samuel:13:10 @ As soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him and salute him.

rsv@1Samuel:13:11 @ Samuel said, "What have you done?" And Saul said, "When I saw that the people were scattering from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines had mustered at Michmash,

rsv@1Samuel:13:12 @ I said, `Now the Philistines will come down upon me at Gilgal, and I have not entreated the favor of the LORD'; so I forced myself, and offered the burnt offering."

rsv@1Samuel:13:14 @ But now your kingdom shall not continue; the LORD has sought out a man after his own heart; and the LORD has appointed him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept what the LORD commanded you."

rsv@1Samuel:13:20 @ but every one of the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen his plowshare, his mattock, his axe, or his sickle;

rsv@1Samuel:14:1 @ One day Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man who bore his armor, "Come, let us go over to the Philistine garrison on yonder side." But he did not tell his father.

rsv@1Samuel:14:2 @ Saul was staying in the outskirts of Gib'e-ah under the pomegranate tree which is at Migron; the people who were with him were about six hundred men,

rsv@1Samuel:14:12 @ And the men of the garrison hailed Jonathan and his armor-bearer, and said, "Come up to us, and we will show you a thing." And Jonathan said to his armor-bearer, "Come up after me; for the LORD has given them into the hand of Israel."

rsv@1Samuel:14:13 @ Then Jonathan climbed up on his hands and feet, and his armor-bearer after him. And they fell before Jonathan, and his armor-bearer killed them after him;

rsv@1Samuel:14:14 @ and that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armor-bearer made, was of about twenty men within as it were half a furrow's length in an acre of land.

rsv@1Samuel:14:21 @ Now the Hebrews who had been with the Philistines before that time and who had gone up with them into the camp, even they also turned to be with the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan.

rsv@1Samuel:14:22 @ Likewise, when all the men of Israel who had hid themselves in the hill country of E'phraim heard that the Philistines were fleeing, they too followed hard after them in the battle.

rsv@1Samuel:14:24 @ And the men of Israel were distressed that day; for Saul laid an oath on the people, saying, "Cursed be the man who eats food until it is evening and I am avenged on my enemies." So none of the people tasted food.

rsv@1Samuel:14:26 @ And when the people entered the forest, behold, the honey was dropping, but no man put his hand to his mouth; for the people feared the oath.

rsv@1Samuel:14:29 @ Then Jonathan said, "My father has troubled the land; see how my eyes have become bright, because I tasted a little of this honey.

rsv@1Samuel:14:30 @ How much better if the people had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies which they found; for now the slaughter among the Philistines has not been great."

rsv@1Samuel:14:32 @ the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep and oxen and calves, and slew them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood.

rsv@1Samuel:14:36 @ Then Saul said, "Let us go down after the Philistines by night and despoil them until the morning light; let us not leave a man of them." And they said, "Do whatever seems good to you." But the priest said, "Let us draw near hither to God."

rsv@1Samuel:14:37 @ And Saul inquired of God, "Shall I go down after the Philistines? Wilt thou give them into the hand of Israel?" But he did not answer him that day.

rsv@1Samuel:14:43 @ Then Saul said to Jonathan, "Tell me what you have done." And Jonathan told him, "I tasted a little honey with the tip of the staff that was in my hand; here I am, I will die."

rsv@1Samuel:14:47 @ When Saul had taken the kingship over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, against the Ammonites, against Edom, against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines; wherever he turned he put them to the worse.

rsv@1Samuel:14:48 @ And he did valiantly, and smote the Amal'ekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of those who plundered them.

rsv@1Samuel:14:49 @ Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Mal'chishu'a; and the names of his two daughters were these: the name of the first-born was Merab, and the name of the younger Michal;

rsv@1Samuel:14:50 @ and the name of Saul's wife was Ahin'o-am the daughter of Ahim'a-az. And the name of the commander of his army was Abner the son of Ner, Saul's uncle;

rsv@1Samuel:15:3 @ Now go and smite Am'alek, and utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.'"

rsv@1Samuel:15:4 @ So Saul summoned the people, and numbered them in Tela'im, two hundred thousand men on foot, and ten thousand men of Judah.

rsv@1Samuel:15:6 @ And Saul said to the Ken'ites, "Go, depart, go down from among the Amal'ekites, lest I destroy you with them; for you showed kindness to all the people of Israel when they came up out of Egypt." So the Ken'ites departed from among the Amal'ekites.

rsv@1Samuel:15:7 @ And Saul defeated the Amal'ekites, from Hav'ilah as far as Shur, which is east of Egypt.

rsv@1Samuel:15:8 @ And he took Agag the king of the Amal'ekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

rsv@1Samuel:15:9 @ But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them; all that was despised and worthless they utterly destroyed.

rsv@1Samuel:15:15 @ Saul said, "They have brought them from the Amal'ekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice to the LORD your God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed."

rsv@1Samuel:15:16 @ Then Samuel said to Saul, "Stop! I will tell you what the LORD said to me this night." And he said to him, "Say on."

rsv@1Samuel:15:17 @ And Samuel said, "Though you are little in your own eyes, are you not the head of the tribes of Israel? The LORD anointed you king over Israel.

rsv@1Samuel:15:18 @ And the LORD sent you on a mission, and said, `Go, utterly destroy the sinners, the Amal'ekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.'

rsv@1Samuel:15:20 @ And Saul said to Samuel, "I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, I have gone on the mission on which the LORD sent me, I have brought Agag the king of Am'alek, and I have utterly destroyed the Amal'ekites.

rsv@1Samuel:15:21 @ But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the best of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the LORD your God in Gilgal."

rsv@1Samuel:15:22 @ And Samuel said, "Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.

rsv@1Samuel:15:23 @ For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has also rejected you from being king."

rsv@1Samuel:15:26 @ And 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 over Israel."

rsv@1Samuel:15:28 @ And Samuel said to him, "The LORD has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day, and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you.

rsv@1Samuel:15:31 @ So Samuel turned back after Saul; and Saul worshiped the LORD.

rsv@1Samuel:15:32 @ Then Samuel said, "Bring here to me Agag the king of the Amal'ekites." And Agag came to him cheerfully. Agag said, "Surely the bitterness of death is past."

rsv@1Samuel:15:35 @ And Samuel did not see Saul again until the day of his death, but Samuel grieved over Saul. And the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.

rsv@1Samuel:16:1 @ The LORD said to Samuel, "How long will you grieve over Saul, seeing I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go; I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons."

rsv@1Samuel:16:3 @ And invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do; and you shall anoint for me him whom I name to you."

rsv@1Samuel:16:5 @ And he said, "Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to the LORD; consecrate yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice." And he consecrated Jesse and his sons, and invited them to the sacrifice.

rsv@1Samuel:16:6 @ When they came, he looked on Eli'ab and thought, "Surely the LORD'S anointed is before him."

rsv@1Samuel:16:7 @ But the LORD said to Samuel, "Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for the LORD sees not as man sees; man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart."

rsv@1Samuel:16:13 @ Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brothers; and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon David from that day forward. And Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.

rsv@1Samuel:16:14 @ Now the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD tormented him.

rsv@1Samuel:16:18 @ One of the young men answered, "Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skilful in playing, a man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a man of good presence; and the LORD is with him."

rsv@1Samuel:16:21 @ And David came to Saul, and entered his service. And Saul loved him greatly, and he became his armor-bearer.

rsv@1Samuel:16:23 @ And whenever the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, David took the lyre and played it with his hand; so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.

rsv@1Samuel:17:8 @ He stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, "Why have you come out to draw up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me.

rsv@1Samuel:17:12 @ Now David was the son of an Eph'rathite of Bethlehem in Judah, named Jesse, who had eight sons. In the days of Saul the man was already old and advanced in years.

rsv@1Samuel:17:17 @ And Jesse said to David his son, "Take for your brothers an ephah of this parched grain, and these ten loaves, and carry them quickly to the camp to your brothers;

rsv@1Samuel:17:18 @ also take these ten cheeses to the commander of their thousand. See how your brothers fare, and bring some token from them."

rsv@1Samuel:17:22 @ And David left the things in charge of the keeper of the baggage, and ran to the ranks, and went and greeted his brothers.

rsv@1Samuel:17:25 @ And the men of Israel said, "Have you seen this man who has come up? Surely he has come up to defy Israel; and the man who kills him, the king will enrich with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel."

rsv@1Samuel:17:31 @ When the words which David spoke were heard, they repeated them before Saul; and he sent for him.

rsv@1Samuel:17:35 @ I went after him and smote him and delivered it out of his mouth; and if he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him and killed him.

rsv@1Samuel:17:52 @ And the men of Israel and Judah rose with a shout and pursued the Philistines as far as Gath and the gates of Ekron, so that the wounded Philistines fell on the way from Sha-ara'im as far as Gath and Ekron.

rsv@1Samuel:17:53 @ And the Israelites came back from chasing the Philistines, and they plundered their camp.

rsv@1Samuel:17:54 @ And David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem; but he put his armor in his tent.

rsv@1Samuel:17:55 @ When Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the commander of the army, "Abner, whose son is this youth?" And Abner said, "As your soul lives, O king, I cannot tell."

rsv@1Samuel:17:57 @ And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.

rsv@1Samuel:17:58 @ And Saul said to him, "Whose son are you, young man?" And David answered, "I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite."

rsv@1Samuel:18:7 @ And the women sang to one another as they made merry, "Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands."

rsv@1Samuel:18:8 @ And Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him; he said, "They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed thousands; and what more can he have but the kingdom?"

rsv@1Samuel:18:12 @ Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him but had departed from Saul.

rsv@1Samuel:18:17 @ Then Saul said to David, "Here is my elder daughter Merab; I will give her to you for a wife; only be valiant for me and fight the LORD'S battles." For Saul thought, "Let not my hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him."

rsv@1Samuel:18:19 @ But at the time when Merab, Saul's daughter, should have been given to David, she was given to A'driel the Meho'lathite for a wife.

rsv@1Samuel:18:20 @ Now Saul's daughter Michal loved David; and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.

rsv@1Samuel:18:22 @ And Saul commanded his servants, "Speak to David in private and say, `Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you; now then become the king's son-in-law.'"

rsv@1Samuel:18:23 @ And Saul's servants spoke those words in the ears of David. And David said, "Does it seem to you a little thing to become the king's son-in-law, seeing that I am a poor man and of no repute?"

rsv@1Samuel:18:27 @ David arose and went, along with his men, and killed two hundred of the Philistines; and David brought their foreskins, which were given in full number to the king, that he might become the king's son-in-law. And Saul gave him his daughter Michal for a wife.

rsv@1Samuel:18:30 @ Then the princes of the Philistines came out to battle, and as often as they came out David had more success than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was highly esteemed.

rsv@1Samuel:19:1 @ And Saul spoke to Jonathan his son and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul's son, delighted much in David.

rsv@1Samuel:19:3 @ and I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I will speak to my father about you; and if I learn anything I will tell you."

rsv@1Samuel:19:8 @ And there was war again; and David went out and fought with the Philistines, and made a great slaughter among them, so that they fled before him.

rsv@1Samuel:20:3 @ But David replied, "Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he thinks, `Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved.' But truly, as the LORD lives and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death."

rsv@1Samuel:20:4 @ Then said Jonathan to David, "Whatever you say, I will do for you."

rsv@1Samuel:20:7 @ If he says, `Good!' it will be well with your servant; but if he is angry, then know that evil is determined by him.

rsv@1Samuel:20:9 @ And Jonathan said, "Far be it from you! If I knew that it was determined by my father that evil should come upon you, would I not tell you?"

rsv@1Samuel:20:10 @ Then said David to Jonathan, "Who will tell me if your father answers you roughly?"

rsv@1Samuel:20:19 @ And on the third day you will be greatly missed; then go to the place where you hid yourself when the matter was in hand, and remain beside yonder stone heap.

rsv@1Samuel:20:23 @ And as for the matter of which you and I have spoken, behold, the LORD is between you and me for ever."

rsv@1Samuel:20:25 @ The king sat upon his seat, as at other times, upon the seat by the wall; Jonathan sat opposite, and Abner sat by Saul's side, but David's place was empty.

rsv@1Samuel:20:27 @ But on the second day, the morrow after the new moon, David's place was empty. And Saul said to Jonathan his son, "Why has not the son of Jesse come to the meal, either yesterday or today?"

rsv@1Samuel:20:33 @ But Saul cast his spear at him to smite him; so Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death.

rsv@1Samuel:20:34 @ And Jonathan rose from the table in fierce anger and ate no food the second day of the month, for he was grieved for David, because his father had disgraced him.

rsv@1Samuel:20:37 @ And when the lad came to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan called after the lad and said, "Is not the arrow beyond you?"

rsv@1Samuel:20:38 @ And Jonathan called after the lad, "Hurry, make haste, stay not." So Jonathan's lad gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.

rsv@1Samuel:20:39 @ But the lad knew nothing; only Jonathan and David knew the matter.

rsv@1Samuel:20:42 @ Then Jonathan said to David, "Go in peace, forasmuch as we have sworn both of us in the name of the LORD, saying, `The LORD shall be between me and you, and between my descendants and your descendants, for ever.'" And he rose and departed; and Jonathan went into the city.

rsv@1Samuel:21:2 @ And David said to Ahim'elech the priest, "The king has charged me with a matter, and said to me, `Let no one know anything of the matter about which I send you, and with which I have charged you.' I have made an appointment with the young men for such and such a place.

rsv@1Samuel:21:3 @ Now then, what have you at hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever is here."

rsv@1Samuel:21:7 @ Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD; his name was Do'eg the E'domite, the chief of Saul's herdsmen.

rsv@1Samuel:21:8 @ And David said to Ahim'elech, "And have you not here a spear or a sword at hand? For I have brought neither my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste."

rsv@1Samuel:21:11 @ And the servants of A'chish said to him, "Is not this David the king of the land? Did they not sing to one another of him in dances, `Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands'?"

rsv@1Samuel:21:13 @ So he changed his behavior before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and made marks on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle run down his beard.

rsv@1Samuel:22:1 @ David departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam; and when his brothers and all his father's house heard it, they went down there to him.

rsv@1Samuel:22:2 @ And every one who was in distress, and every one who was in debt, and every one who was discontented, gathered to him; and he became captain over them. And there were with him about four hundred men.

rsv@1Samuel:22:5 @ Then the prophet Gad said to David, "Do not remain in the stronghold; depart, and go into the land of Judah." So David departed, and went into the forest of Hereth.

rsv@1Samuel:22:7 @ And Saul said to his servants who stood about him, "Hear now, you Benjaminites; will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards, will he make you all commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds,

rsv@1Samuel:22:9 @ Then answered Do'eg the E'domite, who stood by the servants of Saul, "I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahim'elech the son of Ahi'tub,

rsv@1Samuel:22:15 @ Is today the first time that I have inquired of God for him? No! Let not the king impute anything to his servant or to all the house of my father; for your servant has known nothing of all this, much or little."

rsv@1Samuel:22:18 @ Then the king said to Do'eg, "You turn and fall upon the priests." And Do'eg the E'domite turned and fell upon the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five persons who wore the linen ephod.

rsv@1Samuel:22:20 @ But one of the sons of Ahim'elech the son of Ahi'tub, named Abi'athar, escaped and fled after David.

rsv@1Samuel:22:22 @ And David said to Abi'athar, "I knew on that day, when Do'eg the E'domite was there, that he would surely tell Saul. I have occasioned the death of all the persons of your father's house.

rsv@1Samuel:23:5 @ And David and his men went to Kei'lah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and made a great slaughter among them. So David delivered the inhabitants of Kei'lah.

rsv@1Samuel:23:7 @ Now it was told Saul that David had come to Kei'lah. And Saul said, "God has given him into my hand; for he has shut himself in by entering a town that has gates and bars."

rsv@1Samuel:23:11 @ Will the men of Kei'lah surrender me into his hand? Will Saul come down, as thy servant has heard? O LORD, the God of Israel, I beseech thee, tell thy servant." And the LORD said, "He will come down."

rsv@1Samuel:23:13 @ Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed from Kei'lah, and they went wherever they could go. When Saul was told that David had escaped from Kei'lah, he gave up the expedition.

rsv@1Samuel:23:19 @ Then the Ziphites went up to Saul at Gib'e-ah, saying, "Does not David hide among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachi'lah, which is south of Jeshi'mon?

rsv@1Samuel:23:23 @ See therefore, and take note of all the lurking places where he hides, and come back to me with sure information. Then I will go with you; and if he is in the land, I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah."

rsv@1Samuel:23:25 @ And Saul and his men went to seek him. And David was told; therefore he went down to the rock which is in the wilderness of Ma'on. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Ma'on.

rsv@1Samuel:23:26 @ Saul went on one side of the mountain, and David and his men on the other side of the mountain; and David was making haste to get away from Saul, as Saul and his men were closing in upon David and his men to capture them,

rsv@1Samuel:23:27 @ when a messenger came to Saul, saying, "Make haste and come; for the Philistines have made a raid upon the land."

rsv@1Samuel:23:28 @ So Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines; therefore that place was called the Rock of Escape.

rsv@1Samuel:24:4 @ And the men of David said to him, "Here is the day of which the LORD said to you, `Behold, I will give your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it shall seem good to you.'" Then David arose and stealthily cut off the skirt of Saul's robe.

rsv@1Samuel:24:5 @ And afterward David's heart smote him, because he had cut off Saul's skirt.

rsv@1Samuel:24:6 @ He said to his men, "The LORD forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, the LORD'S anointed, to put forth my hand against him, seeing he is the LORD'S anointed."

rsv@1Samuel:24:8 @ Afterward David also arose, and went out of the cave, and called after Saul, "My lord the king!" And when Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the earth, and did obeisance.

rsv@1Samuel:24:9 @ And David said to Saul, "Why do you listen to the words of men who say, `Behold, David seeks your hurt'?

rsv@1Samuel:24:10 @ Lo, this day your eyes have seen how the LORD gave you today into my hand in the cave; and some bade me kill you, but I spared you. I said, `I will not put forth my hand against my lord; for he is the LORD'S anointed.'

rsv@1Samuel:24:14 @ After whom has the king of Israel come out? After whom do you pursue? After a dead dog! After a flea!

rsv@1Samuel:24:15 @ May the LORD therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and you, and see to it, and plead my cause, and deliver me from your hand."

rsv@1Samuel:24:16 @ When David had finished speaking these words to Saul, Saul said, "Is this your voice, my son David?" And Saul lifted up his voice and wept.

rsv@1Samuel:24:17 @ He said to David, "You are more righteous than I; for you have repaid me good, whereas I have repaid you evil.

rsv@1Samuel:24:21 @ Swear to me therefore by the LORD that you will not cut off my descendants after me, and that you will not destroy my name out of my father's house."

rsv@1Samuel:25:3 @ Now the name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Ab'igail. The woman was of good understanding and beautiful, but the man was churlish and ill-behaved; he was a Calebite.

rsv@1Samuel:25:5 @ So David sent ten young men; and David said to the young men, "Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name.

rsv@1Samuel:25:6 @ And thus you shall salute him: `Peace be to you, and peace be to your house, and peace be to all that you have.

rsv@1Samuel:25:8 @ Ask your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore let my young men find favor in your eyes; for we come on a feast day. Pray, give whatever you have at hand to your servants and to your son David.'"

rsv@1Samuel:25:9 @ When David's young men came, they said all this to Nabal in the name of David; and then they waited.

rsv@1Samuel:25:10 @ And Nabal answered David's servants, "Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants nowadays who are breaking away from their masters.

rsv@1Samuel:25:11 @ Shall I take my bread and my water and my meat that I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men who come from I do not know where?"

rsv@1Samuel:25:13 @ And David said to his men, "Every man gird on his sword!" And every man of them girded on his sword; David also girded on his sword; and about four hundred men went up after David, while two hundred remained with the baggage.

rsv@1Samuel:25:14 @ But one of the young men told Ab'igail, Nabal's wife, "Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed at them.

rsv@1Samuel:25:17 @ Now therefore know this and consider what you should do; for evil is determined against our master and against all his house, and he is so ill-natured that one cannot speak to him."

rsv@1Samuel:25:18 @ Then Ab'igail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two skins of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched grain, and a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.

rsv@1Samuel:25:19 @ And she said to her young men, "Go on before me; behold, I come after you." But she did not tell her husband Nabal.

rsv@1Samuel:25:23 @ When Ab'igail saw David, she made haste, and alighted from the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed to the ground.

rsv@1Samuel:25:30 @ And when the LORD has done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you, and has appointed you prince over Israel,

rsv@1Samuel:25:34 @ For as surely as the LORD the God of Israel lives, who has restrained me from hurting you, unless you had made haste and come to meet me, truly by morning there had not been left to Nabal so much as one male."

rsv@1Samuel:25:35 @ Then David received from her hand what she had brought him; and he said to her, "Go up in peace to your house; see, I have hearkened to your voice, and I have granted your petition."

rsv@1Samuel:25:38 @ And about ten days later the LORD smote Nabal; and he died.

rsv@1Samuel:25:42 @ And Ab'igail made haste and rose and mounted on an ass, and her five maidens attended her; she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.

rsv@1Samuel:25:44 @ Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Palti the son of La'ish, who was of Gallim.

rsv@1Samuel:26:1 @ Then the Ziphites came to Saul at Gib'e-ah, saying, "Is not David hiding himself on the hill of Hachi'lah, which is on the east of Jeshi'mon?"

rsv@1Samuel:26:3 @ And Saul encamped on the hill of Hachi'lah, which is beside the road on the east of Jeshi'mon. But David remained in the wilderness; and when he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness,

rsv@1Samuel:26:6 @ Then David said to Ahim'elech the Hittite, and to Jo'ab's brother Abi'shai the son of Zeru'iah, "Who will go down with me into the camp to Saul?" And Abi'shai said, "I will go down with you."

rsv@1Samuel:26:9 @ But David said to Abi'shai, "Do not destroy him; for who can put forth his hand against the LORD'S anointed, and be guiltless?"

rsv@1Samuel:26:10 @ And David said, "As the LORD lives, the LORD will smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.

rsv@1Samuel:26:11 @ The LORD forbid that I should put forth my hand against the LORD'S anointed; but take now the spear that is at his head, and the jar of water, and let us go."

rsv@1Samuel:26:12 @ So David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul's head; and they went away. No man saw it, or knew it, nor did any awake; for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the LORD had fallen upon them.

rsv@1Samuel:26:16 @ This thing that you have done is not good. As the LORD lives, you deserve to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord, the LORD'S anointed. And now see where the king's spear is, and the jar of water that was at his head."

rsv@1Samuel:26:18 @ And he said, "Why does my lord pursue after his servant? For what have I done? What guilt is on my hands?

rsv@1Samuel:26:23 @ The LORD rewards every man for his righteousness and his faithfulness; for the LORD gave you into my hand today, and I would not put forth my hand against the LORD'S anointed.

rsv@1Samuel:27:1 @ And David said in his heart, "I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul; there is nothing better for me than that I should escape to the land of the Philistines; then Saul will despair of seeking me any longer within the borders of Israel, and I shall escape out of his hand."

rsv@1Samuel:27:8 @ Now David and his men went up, and made raids upon the Gesh'urites, the Gir'zites, and the Amal'ekites; for these were the inhabitants of the land from of old, as far as Shur, to the land of Egypt.

rsv@1Samuel:27:9 @ And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, but took away the sheep, the oxen, the asses, the camels, and the garments, and came back to A'chish.

rsv@1Samuel:27:10 @ When A'chish asked, "Against whom have you made a raid today?" David would say, "Against the Negeb of Judah," or "Against the Negeb of the Jerah'meelites," or, "Against the Negeb of the Ken'ites."

rsv@1Samuel:27:11 @ And David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring tidings to Gath, thinking, "Lest they should tell about us, and say, `So David has done.'" Such was his custom all the while he dwelt in the country of the Philistines.

rsv@1Samuel:27:12 @ And A'chish trusted David, thinking, "He has made himself utterly abhorred by his people Israel; therefore he shall be my servant always."

rsv@1Samuel:28:15 @ Then Samuel said to Saul, "Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?" Saul answered, "I am in great distress; for the Philistines are warring against me, and God has turned away from me and answers me no more, either by prophets or by dreams; therefore I have summoned you to tell me what I shall do."

rsv@1Samuel:28:20 @ Then Saul fell at once full length upon the ground, filled with fear because of the words of Samuel; and there was no strength in him, for he had eaten nothing all day and all night.

rsv@1Samuel:28:21 @ And the woman came to Saul, and when she saw that he was terrified, she said to him, "Behold, your handmaid has hearkened to you; I have taken my life in my hand, and have hearkened to what you have said to me.

rsv@1Samuel:28:24 @ Now the woman had a fatted calf in the house, and she quickly killed it, and she took flour, and kneaded it and baked unleavened bread of it,

rsv@1Samuel:28:25 @ and she put it before Saul and his servants; and they ate. Then they rose and went away that night.

rsv@1Samuel:29:1 @ Now the Philistines gathered all their forces at Aphek; and the Israelites were encamped by the fountain which is in Jezreel.

rsv@1Samuel:29:3 @ the commanders of the Philistines said, "What are these Hebrews doing here?" And A'chish said to the commanders of the Philistines, "Is not this David, the servant of Saul, king of Israel, who has been with me now for days and years, and since he deserted to me I have found no fault in him to this day."

rsv@1Samuel:29:5 @ Is not this David, of whom they sing to one another in dances, `Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands'?"

rsv@1Samuel:29:8 @ And David said to A'chish, "But what have I done? What have you found in your servant from the day I entered your service until now, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?"

rsv@1Samuel:30:1 @ Now when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, the Amal'ekites had made a raid upon the Negeb and upon Ziklag. They had overcome Ziklag, and burned it with fire,

rsv@1Samuel:30:3 @ And when David and his men came to the city, they found it burned with fire, and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive.

rsv@1Samuel:30:6 @ And David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because all the people were bitter in soul, each for his sons and daughters. But David strengthened himself in the LORD his God.

rsv@1Samuel:30:8 @ And David inquired of the LORD, "Shall I pursue after this band? Shall I overtake them?" He answered him, "Pursue; for you shall surely overtake and shall surely rescue."

rsv@1Samuel:30:10 @ But David went on with the pursuit, he and four hundred men; two hundred stayed behind, who were too exhausted to cross the brook Besor.

rsv@1Samuel:30:11 @ They found an Egyptian in the open country, and brought him to David; and they gave him bread and he ate, they gave him water to drink,

rsv@1Samuel:30:12 @ and they gave him a piece of a cake of figs and two clusters of raisins. And when he had eaten, his spirit revived; for he had not eaten bread or drunk water for three days and three nights.

rsv@1Samuel:30:13 @ And David said to him, "To whom do you belong? And where are you from?" He said, "I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amal'ekite; and my master left me behind because I fell sick three days ago.

rsv@1Samuel:30:14 @ We had made a raid upon the Negeb of the Cher'ethites and upon that which belongs to Judah and upon the Negeb of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire."

rsv@1Samuel:30:15 @ And David said to him, "Will you take me down to this band?" And he said, "Swear to me by God, that you will not kill me, or deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will take you down to this band."

rsv@1Samuel:30:17 @ And David smote them from twilight until the evening of the next day; and not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men, who mounted camels and fled.

rsv@1Samuel:30:18 @ David recovered all that the Amal'ekites had taken; and David rescued his two wives.

rsv@1Samuel:30:19 @ Nothing was missing, whether small or great, sons or daughters, spoil or anything that had been taken; David brought back all.

rsv@1Samuel:30:21 @ Then David came to the two hundred men, who had been too exhausted to follow David, and who had been left at the brook Besor; and they went out to meet David and to meet the people who were with him; and when David drew near to the people he saluted them.

rsv@1Samuel:30:24 @ Who would listen to you in this matter? For as his share is who goes down into the battle, so shall his share be who stays by the baggage; they shall share alike."

rsv@1Samuel:30:25 @ And from that day forward he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel to this day.

rsv@1Samuel:30:28 @ in Aro'er, in Siphmoth, in Eshtemo'a,

rsv@1Samuel:30:29 @ in Racal, in the cities of the Jerah'meelites, in the cities of the Ken'ites,

rsv@1Samuel:31:10 @ They put his armor in the temple of Ash'taroth; and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.

rsv@1Samuel:31:13 @ And they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

rsv@2Samuel:1:1 @ After the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amal'ekites, David remained two days in Ziklag;

rsv@2Samuel:1:4 @ And David said to him, "How did it go? Tell me." And he answered, "The people have fled from the battle, and many of the people also have fallen and are dead; and Saul and his son Jonathan are also dead."

rsv@2Samuel:1:8 @ And he said to me, `Who are you?' I answered him, `I am an Amal'ekite.'

rsv@2Samuel:1:10 @ So I stood beside him, and slew him, because I was sure that he could not live after he had fallen; and I took the crown which was on his head and the armlet which was on his arm, and I have brought them here to my lord."

rsv@2Samuel:1:12 @ and they mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and for Jonathan his son and for the people of the LORD and for the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.

rsv@2Samuel:1:13 @ And David said to the young man who told him, "Where do you come from?" And he answered, "I am the son of a sojourner, an Amal'ekite."

rsv@2Samuel:1:14 @ David said to him, "How is it you were not afraid to put forth your hand to destroy the LORD'S anointed?"

rsv@2Samuel:1:15 @ Then David called one of the young men and said, "Go, fall upon him." And he smote him so that he died.

rsv@2Samuel:1:16 @ And David said to him, "Your blood be upon your head; for your own mouth has testified against you, saying, `I have slain the LORD'S anointed.'"

rsv@2Samuel:1:17 @ And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and Jonathan his son,

rsv@2Samuel:1:18 @ and he said it should be taught to the people of Judah; behold, it is written in the Book of Jashar. He said:

rsv@2Samuel:1:20 @ Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Ash'kelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised exult.

rsv@2Samuel:1:21 @ "Ye mountains of Gilbo'a, let there be no dew or rain upon you, nor upsurging of the deep! For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, not anointed with oil.

rsv@2Samuel:1:23 @ "Saul and Jonathan, beloved and lovely! In life and in death they were not divided; they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.

rsv@2Samuel:1:24 @ "Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you daintily in scarlet, who put ornaments of gold upon your apparel.

rsv@2Samuel:2:1 @ After this David inquired of the LORD, "Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah?" And the LORD said to him, "Go up." David said, "To which shall I go up?" And he said, "To Hebron."

rsv@2Samuel:2:4 @ And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. When they told David, "It was the men of Ja'besh-gil'ead who buried Saul,"

rsv@2Samuel:2:6 @ Now may the LORD show steadfast love and faithfulness to you! And I will do good to you because you have done this thing.

rsv@2Samuel:2:7 @ Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be valiant; for Saul your lord is dead, and the house of Judah has anointed me king over them."

rsv@2Samuel:2:9 @ and he made him king over Gilead and the Ash'urites and Jezreel and E'phraim and Benjamin and all Israel.

rsv@2Samuel:2:17 @ And the battle was very fierce that day; and Abner and the men of Israel were beaten before the servants of David.

rsv@2Samuel:2:22 @ And Abner said again to As'ahel, "Turn aside from following me; why should I smite you to the ground? How then could I lift up my face to your brother Jo'ab?"

rsv@2Samuel:2:23 @ But he refused to turn aside; therefore Abner smote him in the belly with the butt of his spear, so that the spear came out at his back; and he fell there, and died where he was. And all who came to the place where As'ahel had fallen and died, stood still.

rsv@2Samuel:2:25 @ And the Benjaminites gathered themselves together behind Abner, and became one band, and took their stand on the top of a hill.

rsv@2Samuel:2:26 @ Then Abner called to Jo'ab, "Shall the sword devour for ever? Do you not know that the end will be bitter? How long will it be before you bid your people turn from the pursuit of their brethren?"

rsv@2Samuel:2:30 @ Jo'ab returned from the pursuit of Abner; and when he had gathered all the people together, there were missing of David's servants nineteen men besides As'ahel.

rsv@2Samuel:3:3 @ and his second, Chil'e-ab, of Ab'igail the widow of Nabal of Carmel; and the third, Ab'salom the son of Ma'acah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;

rsv@2Samuel:3:7 @ Now Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Ai'ah; and Ish-bo'sheth said to Abner, "Why have you gone in to my father's concubine?"

rsv@2Samuel:3:13 @ And he said, "Good; I will make a covenant with you; but one thing I require of you; that is, you shall not see my face, unless you first bring Michal, Saul's daughter, when you come to see my face."

rsv@2Samuel:3:16 @ But her husband went with her, weeping after her all the way to Bahu'rim. Then Abner said to him, "Go, return"; and he returned.

rsv@2Samuel:3:19 @ Abner also spoke to Benjamin; and then Abner went to tell David at Hebron all that Israel and the whole house of Benjamin thought good to do.

rsv@2Samuel:3:26 @ When Jo'ab came out from David's presence, he sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the cistern of Sirah; but David did not know about it.

rsv@2Samuel:3:27 @ And when Abner returned to Hebron, Jo'ab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him privately, and there he smote him in the belly, so that he died, for the blood of As'ahel his brother.

rsv@2Samuel:3:28 @ Afterward, when David heard of it, he said, "I and my kingdom are for ever guiltless before the LORD for the blood of Abner the son of Ner.

rsv@2Samuel:3:32 @ They buried Abner at Hebron; and the king lifted up his voice and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people wept.

rsv@2Samuel:3:33 @ And the king lamented for Abner, saying, "Should Abner die as a fool dies?

rsv@2Samuel:3:34 @ Your hands were not bound, your feet were not fettered; as one falls before the wicked you have fallen." And all the people wept again over him.

rsv@2Samuel:3:35 @ Then all the people came to persuade David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David swore, saying, "God do so to me and more also, if I taste bread or anything else till the sun goes down!"

rsv@2Samuel:3:39 @ And I am this day weak, though anointed king; these men the sons of Zeru'iah are too hard for me. The LORD requite the evildoer according to his wickedness!"

rsv@2Samuel:4:3 @ the Be-er'othites fled to Gitta'im, and have been sojourners there to this day).

rsv@2Samuel:4:4 @ Jonathan, the son of Saul, had a son who was crippled in his feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel; and his nurse took him up, and fled; and, as she fled in her haste, he fell, and became lame. And his name was Mephib'osheth.

rsv@2Samuel:4:5 @ Now the sons of Rimmon the Be-er'othite, Rechab and Ba'anah, set out, and about the heat of the day they came to the house of Ish-bo'sheth, as he was taking his noonday rest.

rsv@2Samuel:4:7 @ When they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him. They took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night,

rsv@2Samuel:4:9 @ But David answered Rechab and Ba'anah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Be-er'othite, "As the LORD lives, who has redeemed my life out of every adversity,

rsv@2Samuel:4:11 @ How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous man in his own house upon his bed, shall I not now require his blood at your hand, and destroy you from the earth?"

rsv@2Samuel:5:3 @ So all the elders 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 over Israel.

rsv@2Samuel:5:6 @ And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jeb'usites, the inhabitants of the land, who said to David, "You will not come in here, but the blind and the lame will ward you off"--thinking, "David cannot come in here."

rsv@2Samuel:5:8 @ And David said on that day, "Whoever would smite the Jeb'usites, let him get up the water shaft to attack the lame and the blind, who are hated by David's soul." Therefore it is said, "The blind and the lame shall not come into the house."

rsv@2Samuel:5:10 @ And David became greater and greater, for the LORD, the God of hosts, was with him.

rsv@2Samuel:5:11 @ And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, also carpenters and masons who built David a house.

rsv@2Samuel:5:12 @ And David perceived that the LORD had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for the sake of his people Israel.

rsv@2Samuel:5:13 @ And David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, after he came from Hebron; and more sons and daughters were born to David.

rsv@2Samuel:5:17 @ When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over Israel, all the Philistines went up in search of David; but David heard of it and went down to the stronghold.

rsv@2Samuel:5:20 @ And David came to Ba'al-pera'zim, and David defeated them there; and he said, "The LORD has broken through my enemies before me, like a bursting flood." Therefore the name of that place is called Ba'al-pera'zim.

rsv@2Samuel:5:23 @ And when David inquired of the LORD, he said, "You shall not go up; go around to their rear, and come upon them opposite the balsam trees.

rsv@2Samuel:5:24 @ And when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, then bestir yourself; for then the LORD has gone out before you to smite the army of the Philistines."

rsv@2Samuel:5:25 @ And David did as the LORD commanded him, and smote the Philistines from Geba to Gezer.

rsv@2Samuel:6:7 @ And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there because he put forth his hand to the ark; and he died there beside the ark of God.

rsv@2Samuel:6:10 @ So David was not willing to take the ark of the LORD into the city of David; but David took it aside to the house of O'bed-e'dom the Gittite.

rsv@2Samuel:6:11 @ And the ark of the LORD remained in the house of O'bed-e'dom the Gittite three months; and the LORD blessed O'bed-e'dom and all his household.

rsv@2Samuel:6:16 @ As the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window, and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.

rsv@2Samuel:6:17 @ And they brought in the ark of the LORD, and set it in its place, inside the tent which David had pitched for it; and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.

rsv@2Samuel:6:19 @ and distributed among all the people, the whole multitude of Israel, both men and women, to each a cake of bread, a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins. Then all the people departed, each to his house.

rsv@2Samuel:6:20 @ And David returned to bless his household. But Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, "How the king of Israel honored himself today, uncovering himself today before the eyes of his servants' maids, as one of the vulgar fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!"

rsv@2Samuel:6:22 @ I will make myself yet more contemptible than this, and I will be abased in your eyes; but by the maids of whom you have spoken, by them I shall be held in honor."

rsv@2Samuel:6:23 @ And Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death.

rsv@2Samuel:7:2 @ the king said to Nathan the prophet, "See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells in a tent."

rsv@2Samuel:7:5 @ "Go and tell my servant David, `Thus says the LORD: Would you build me a house to dwell in?

rsv@2Samuel:7:6 @ I have not dwelt in a house since the day I brought up the people of Israel from Egypt to this day, but I have been moving about in a tent for my dwelling.

rsv@2Samuel:7:11 @ from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel; and I will give you rest from all your enemies. Moreover the LORD declares to you that the LORD will make you a house.

rsv@2Samuel:7:12 @ When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come forth from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.

rsv@2Samuel:7:14 @ I will be his father, and he shall be my son. When he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men;

rsv@2Samuel:7:15 @ but I will not take my steadfast love from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you.

rsv@2Samuel:7:23 @ What other nation on earth is like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem to be his people, making himself a name, and doing for them great and terrible things, by driving out before his people a nation and its gods?

rsv@2Samuel:8:1 @ After this David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and David took Meth'eg-am'mah out of the hand of the Philistines.

rsv@2Samuel:8:2 @ And he defeated Moab, and measured them with a line, making them lie down on the ground; two lines he measured to be put to death, and one full line to be spared. And the Moabites became servants to David and brought tribute.

rsv@2Samuel:8:3 @ David also defeated Hadade'zer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to restore his power at the river Euphra'tes.

rsv@2Samuel:8:6 @ Then David put garrisons in Aram of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David and brought tribute. And the LORD gave victory to David wherever he went.

rsv@2Samuel:8:9 @ When To'i king of Hamath heard that David had defeated the whole army of Hadade'zer,

rsv@2Samuel:8:10 @ To'i sent his son Joram to King David, to greet him, and to congratulate him because he had fought against Hadade'zer and defeated him; for Hadade'zer had often been at war with To'i. And Joram brought with him articles of silver, of gold, and of bronze;

rsv@2Samuel:8:11 @ these also King David dedicated to the LORD, together with the silver and gold which he dedicated from all the nations he subdued,

rsv@2Samuel:8:12 @ from Edom, Moab, the Ammonites, the Philistines, Am'alek, and from the spoil of Hadade'zer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah.

rsv@2Samuel:8:13 @ And David won a name for himself. When he returned, he slew eighteen thousand E'domites in the Valley of Salt.

rsv@2Samuel:8:14 @ And he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom he put garrisons, and all the E'domites became David's servants. And the LORD gave victory to David wherever he went.

rsv@2Samuel:8:15 @ So David reigned over all Israel; and David administered justice and equity to all his people.

rsv@2Samuel:8:18 @ and Benai'ah the son of Jehoi'ada was over the Cher'ethites and the Pel'ethites; and David's sons were priests.

rsv@2Samuel:9:9 @ Then the king called Ziba, Saul's servant, and said to him, "All that belonged to Saul and to all his house I have given to your master's son.

rsv@2Samuel:9:10 @ And you and your sons and your servants shall till the land for him, and shall bring in the produce, that your master's son may have bread to eat; but Mephib'osheth your master's son shall always eat at my table." Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

rsv@2Samuel:9:11 @ Then Ziba said to the king, "According to all that my lord the king commands his servant, so will your servant do." So Mephib'osheth ate at David's table, like one of the king's sons.

rsv@2Samuel:9:13 @ So Mephib'osheth dwelt in Jerusalem; for he ate always at the king's table. Now he was lame in both his feet.

rsv@2Samuel:10:1 @ After this the king of the Ammonites died, and Hanun his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@2Samuel:10:2 @ And David said, "I will deal loyally with Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father dealt loyally with me." So David sent by his servants to console him concerning his father. And David's servants came into the land of the Ammonites.

rsv@2Samuel:10:3 @ But the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun their lord, "Do you think, because David has sent comforters to you, that he is honoring your father? Has not David sent his servants to you to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?"

rsv@2Samuel:10:6 @ When the Ammonites saw that they had become odious to David, the Ammonites sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-re'hob, and the Syrians of Zobah, twenty thousand foot soldiers, and the king of Ma'acah with a thousand men, and the men of Tob, twelve thousand men.

rsv@2Samuel:10:8 @ And the Ammonites came out and drew up in battle array at the entrance of the gate; and the Syrians of Zobah and of Rehob, and the men of Tob and Ma'acah, were by themselves in the open country.

rsv@2Samuel:10:10 @ the rest of his men he put in the charge of Abi'shai his brother, and he arrayed them against the Ammonites.

rsv@2Samuel:10:11 @ And he said, "If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will come and help you.

rsv@2Samuel:10:14 @ And when the Ammonites saw that the Syrians fled, they likewise fled before Abi'shai, and entered the city. Then Jo'ab returned from fighting against the Ammonites, and came to Jerusalem.

rsv@2Samuel:10:15 @ But when the Syrians saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they gathered themselves together.

rsv@2Samuel:10:16 @ And Hadade'zer sent, and brought out the Syrians who were beyond the Euphra'tes; and they came to Helam, with Shobach the commander of the army of Hadade'zer at their head.

rsv@2Samuel:10:19 @ And when all the kings who were servants of Hadade'zer saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with Israel, and became subject to them. So the Syrians feared to help the Ammonites any more.

rsv@2Samuel:11:1 @ In the spring of the year, the time when kings go forth to battle, David sent Jo'ab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they ravaged the Ammonites, and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.

rsv@2Samuel:11:2 @ It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking upon the roof of the king's house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful.

rsv@2Samuel:11:3 @ And David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, "Is not this Bathshe'ba, the daughter of Eli'am, the wife of Uri'ah the Hittite?"

rsv@2Samuel:11:6 @ So David sent word to Jo'ab, "Send me Uri'ah the Hittite." And Jo'ab sent Uri'ah to David.

rsv@2Samuel:11:13 @ And David invited him, and he ate in his presence and drank, so that he made him drunk; and in the evening he went out to lie on his couch with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.

rsv@2Samuel:11:14 @ In the morning David wrote a letter to Jo'ab, and sent it by the hand of Uri'ah.

rsv@2Samuel:11:15 @ In the letter he wrote, "Set Uri'ah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, that he may be struck down, and die."

rsv@2Samuel:11:17 @ And the men of the city came out and fought with Jo'ab; and some of the servants of David among the people fell. Uri'ah the Hittite was slain also.

rsv@2Samuel:11:19 @ and he instructed the messenger, "When you have finished telling all the news about the fighting to the king,

rsv@2Samuel:11:21 @ Who killed Abim'elech the son of Jerub'besheth? Did not a woman cast an upper millstone upon him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?' then you shall say, `Your servant Uri'ah the Hittite is dead also.'"

rsv@2Samuel:11:22 @ So the messenger went, and came and told David all that Jo'ab had sent him to tell.

rsv@2Samuel:11:23 @ The messenger said to David, "The men gained an advantage over us, and came out against us in the field; but we drove them back to the entrance of the gate.

rsv@2Samuel:11:24 @ Then the archers shot at your servants from the wall; some of the king's servants are dead; and your servant Uri'ah the Hittite is dead also."

rsv@2Samuel:11:25 @ David said to the messenger, "Thus shall you say to Jo'ab, `Do not let this matter trouble you, for the sword devours now one and now another; strengthen your attack upon the city, and overthrow it.' And encourage him."

rsv@2Samuel:12:3 @ but the poor man had nothing but one little ewe lamb, which he had bought. And he brought it up, and it grew up with him and with his children; it used to eat of his morsel, and drink from his cup, and lie in his bosom, and it was like a daughter to him.

rsv@2Samuel:12:7 @ Nathan said to David, "You are the man. Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, `I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul;

rsv@2Samuel:12:8 @ and I gave you your master's house, and your master's wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if this were too little, I would add to you as much more.

rsv@2Samuel:12:9 @ Why have you despised the word of the LORD, to do what is evil in his sight? You have smitten Uri'ah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites.

rsv@2Samuel:12:10 @ Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me, and have taken the wife of Uri'ah the Hittite to be your wife.'

rsv@2Samuel:12:14 @ Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly scorned the LORD, the child that is born to you shall die."

rsv@2Samuel:12:16 @ David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in and lay all night upon the ground.

rsv@2Samuel:12:18 @ On the seventh day the child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead; for they said, "Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he did not listen to us; how then can we say to him the child is dead? He may do himself some harm."

rsv@2Samuel:12:20 @ Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his clothes; and he went into the house of the LORD, and worshiped; he then went to his own house; and when he asked, they set food before him, and he ate.

rsv@2Samuel:12:21 @ Then his servants said to him, "What is this thing that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while it was alive; but when the child died, you arose and ate food."

rsv@2Samuel:12:22 @ He said, "While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, `Who knows whether the LORD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?'

rsv@2Samuel:12:24 @ Then David comforted his wife, Bathshe'ba, and went in to her, and lay with her; and she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. And the LORD loved him,

rsv@2Samuel:12:26 @ Now Jo'ab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites, and took the royal city.

rsv@2Samuel:12:27 @ And Jo'ab sent messengers to David, and said, "I have fought against Rabbah; moreover, I have taken the city of waters.

rsv@2Samuel:12:31 @ And he brought forth the people who were in it, and set them to labor with saws and iron picks and iron axes, and made them toil at the brickkilns; and thus he did to all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

rsv@2Samuel:13:1 @ Now Ab'salom, David's son, had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar; and after a time Amnon, David's son, loved her.

rsv@2Samuel:13:2 @ And Amnon was so tormented that he made himself ill because of his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin, and it seemed impossible to Amnon to do anything to her.

rsv@2Samuel:13:4 @ And he said to him, "O son of the king, why are you so haggard morning after morning? Will you not tell me?" Amnon said to him, "I love Tamar, my brother Ab'salom's sister."

rsv@2Samuel:13:5 @ Jon'adab said to him, "Lie down on your bed, and pretend to be ill; and when your father comes to see you, say to him, `Let my sister Tamar come and give me bread to eat, and prepare the food in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it from her hand.'"

rsv@2Samuel:13:6 @ So Amnon lay down, and pretended to be ill; and when the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king, "Pray let my sister Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat from her hand."

rsv@2Samuel:13:11 @ But when she brought them near him to eat, he took hold of her, and said to her, "Come, lie with me, my sister."

rsv@2Samuel:13:14 @ But he would not listen to her; and being stronger than she, he forced her, and lay with her.

rsv@2Samuel:13:15 @ Then Amnon hated her with very great hatred; so that the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. And Amnon said to her, "Arise, be gone."

rsv@2Samuel:13:16 @ But she said to him, "No, my brother; for this wrong in sending me away is greater than the other which you did to me." But he would not listen to her.

rsv@2Samuel:13:17 @ He called the young man who served him and said, "Put this woman out of my presence, and bolt the door after her."

rsv@2Samuel:13:18 @ Now she was wearing a long robe with sleeves; for thus were the virgin daughters of the king clad of old. So his servant put her out, and bolted the door after her.

rsv@2Samuel:13:20 @ And her brother Ab'salom said to her, "Has Amnon your brother been with you? Now hold your peace, my sister; he is your brother; do not take this to heart." So Tamar dwelt, a desolate woman, in her brother Ab'salom's house.

rsv@2Samuel:13:22 @ But Ab'salom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad; for Ab'salom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.

rsv@2Samuel:13:23 @ After two full years Ab'salom had sheepshearers at Ba'al-ha'zor, which is near E'phraim, and Ab'salom invited all the king's sons.

rsv@2Samuel:13:29 @ So the servants of Ab'salom did to Amnon as Ab'salom had commanded. Then all the king's sons arose, and each mounted his mule and fled.

rsv@2Samuel:13:32 @ But Jon'adab the son of Shim'e-ah, David's brother, said, "Let not my lord suppose that they have killed all the young men the king's sons, for Amnon alone is dead, for by the command of Ab'salom this has been determined from the day he forced his sister Tamar.

rsv@2Samuel:13:34 @ But Ab'salom fled. And the young man who kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, many people were coming from the Horona'im road by the side of the mountain.

rsv@2Samuel:13:36 @ And as soon as he had finished speaking, behold, the king's sons came, and lifted up their voice and wept; and the king also and all his servants wept very bitterly.

rsv@2Samuel:13:37 @ But Ab'salom fled, and went to Talmai the son of Ammi'hud, king of Geshur. And David mourned for his son day after day.

rsv@2Samuel:13:39 @ And the spirit of the king longed to go forth to Ab'salom; for he was comforted about Amnon, seeing he was dead.

rsv@2Samuel:14:2 @ And Jo'ab sent to Teko'a, and fetched from there a wise woman, and said to her, "Pretend to be a mourner, and put on mourning garments; do not anoint yourself with oil, but behave like a woman who has been mourning many days for the dead;

rsv@2Samuel:14:4 @ When the woman of Teko'a came to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, "Help, O king."

rsv@2Samuel:14:9 @ And the woman of Teko'a said to the king, "On me be the guilt, my lord the king, and on my father's house; let the king and his throne be guiltless."

rsv@2Samuel:14:14 @ We must all die, we are like water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; but God will not take away the life of him who devises means not to keep his banished one an outcast.

rsv@2Samuel:14:22 @ And Jo'ab fell on his face to the ground, and did obeisance, and blessed the king; and Jo'ab said, "Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord the king, in that the king has granted the request of his servant."

rsv@2Samuel:14:27 @ There were born to Ab'salom three sons, and one daughter whose name was Tamar; she was a beautiful woman.

rsv@2Samuel:14:32 @ Ab'salom answered Jo'ab, "Behold, I sent word to you, `Come here, that I may send you to the king, to ask, "Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still." Now therefore let me go into the presence of the king; and if there is guilt in me, let him kill me.'"

rsv@2Samuel:15:1 @ After this Ab'salom got himself a chariot and horses, and fifty men to run before him.

rsv@2Samuel:15:2 @ And Ab'salom used to rise early and stand beside the way of the gate; and when any man had a suit to come before the king for judgment, Ab'salom would call to him, and say, "From what city are you?" And when he said, "Your servant is of such and such a tribe in Israel,"

rsv@2Samuel:15:3 @ Ab'salom would say to him, "See, your claims are good and right; but there is no man deputed by the king to hear you."

rsv@2Samuel:15:11 @ With Ab'salom went two hundred men from Jerusalem who were invited guests, and they went in their simplicity, and knew nothing.

rsv@2Samuel:15:12 @ And while Ab'salom was offering the sacrifices, he sent for Ahith'ophel the Gi'lonite, David's counselor, from his city Giloh. And the conspiracy grew strong, and the people with Ab'salom kept increasing.

rsv@2Samuel:15:13 @ And a messenger came to David, saying, "The hearts of the men of Israel have gone after Ab'salom."

rsv@2Samuel:15:14 @ Then David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, "Arise, and let us flee; or else there will be no escape for us from Ab'salom; go in haste, lest he overtake us quickly, and bring down evil upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the sword."

rsv@2Samuel:15:15 @ And the king's servants said to the king, "Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king decides."

rsv@2Samuel:15:16 @ So the king went forth, and all his household after him. And the king left ten concubines to keep the house.

rsv@2Samuel:15:17 @ And the king went forth, and all the people after him; and they halted at the last house.

rsv@2Samuel:15:18 @ And all his servants passed by him; and all the Cher'ethites, and all the Pel'ethites, and all the six hundred Gittites who had followed him from Gath, passed on before the king.

rsv@2Samuel:15:19 @ Then the king said to It'tai the Gittite, "Why do you also go with us? Go back, and stay with the king; for you are a foreigner, and also an exile from your home.

rsv@2Samuel:15:20 @ You came only yesterday, and shall I today make you wander about with us, seeing I go I know not where? Go back, and take your brethren with you; and may the LORD show steadfast love and faithfulness to you."

rsv@2Samuel:15:22 @ And David said to It'tai, "Go then, pass on." So It'tai the Gittite passed on, with all his men and all the little ones who were with him.

rsv@2Samuel:15:24 @ And Abi'athar came up, and lo, Zadok came also, with all the Levites, bearing the ark of the covenant of God; and they set down the ark of God, until the people had all passed out of the city.

rsv@2Samuel:15:32 @ When David came to the summit, where God was worshiped, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat rent and earth upon his head.

rsv@2Samuel:15:35 @ Are not Zadok and Abi'athar the priests with you there? So whatever you hear from the king's house, tell it to Zadok and Abi'athar the priests.

rsv@2Samuel:15:37 @ So Hushai, David's friend, came into the city, just as Ab'salom was entering Jerusalem.

rsv@2Samuel:16:3 @ And the king said, "And where is your master's son?" Ziba said to the king, "Behold, he remains in Jerusalem; for he said, `Today the house of Israel will give me back the kingdom of my father.'"

rsv@2Samuel:16:11 @ And David said to Abi'shai and to all his servants, "Behold, my own son seeks my life; how much more now may this Benjaminite! Let him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD has bidden him.

rsv@2Samuel:16:13 @ So David and his men went on the road, while Shim'e-i went along on the hillside opposite him and cursed as he went, and threw stones at him and flung dust.

rsv@2Samuel:16:16 @ And when Hushai the Archite, David's friend, came to Ab'salom, Hushai said to Ab'salom, "Long live the king! Long live the king!"

rsv@2Samuel:16:22 @ So they pitched a tent for Ab'salom upon the roof; and Ab'salom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.

rsv@2Samuel:16:23 @ Now in those days the counsel which Ahith'ophel gave was as if one consulted the oracle of God; so was all the counsel of Ahith'ophel esteemed, both by David and by Ab'salom.

rsv@2Samuel:17:5 @ Then Ab'salom said, "Call Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear what he has to say."

rsv@2Samuel:17:9 @ Behold, even now he has hidden himself in one of the pits, or in some other place. And when some of the people fall at the first attack, whoever hears it will say, `There has been a slaughter among the people who follow Ab'salom.'

rsv@2Samuel:17:10 @ Then even the valiant man, whose heart is like the heart of a lion, will utterly melt with fear; for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and that those who are with him are valiant men.

rsv@2Samuel:17:14 @ And Ab'salom and all the men of Israel said, "The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahith'ophel." For the LORD had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahith'ophel, so that the LORD might bring evil upon Ab'salom.

rsv@2Samuel:17:16 @ Now therefore send quickly and tell David, `Do not lodge tonight at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over; lest the king and all the people who are with him be swallowed up.'"

rsv@2Samuel:17:17 @ Now Jonathan and Ahim'a-az were waiting at En-ro'gel; a maidservant used to go and tell them, and they would go and tell King David; for they must not be seen entering the city.

rsv@2Samuel:17:19 @ And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth, and scattered grain upon it; and nothing was known of it.

rsv@2Samuel:17:20 @ When Ab'salom's servants came to the woman at the house, they said, "Where are Ahim'a-az and Jonathan?" And the woman said to them, "They have gone over the brook of water." And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.

rsv@2Samuel:17:21 @ After they had gone, the men came up out of the well, and went and told King David. They said to David, "Arise, and go quickly over the water; for thus and so has Ahith'ophel counseled against you."

rsv@2Samuel:17:25 @ Now Ab'salom had set Ama'sa over the army instead of Jo'ab. Ama'sa was the son of a man named Ithra the Ish'maelite, who had married Ab'igal the daughter of Nahash, sister of Zeru'iah, Jo'ab's mother.

rsv@2Samuel:17:27 @ When David came to Mahana'im, Shobi the son of Nahash from Rabbah of the Ammonites, and Machir the son of Am'miel from Lo-debar, and Barzil'lai the Gileadite from Ro'gelim,

rsv@2Samuel:18:1 @ Then David mustered the men who were with him, and set over them commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds.

rsv@2Samuel:18:2 @ And David sent forth the army, one third under the command of Jo'ab, one third under the command of Abi'shai the son of Zeru'iah, Jo'ab's brother, and one third under the command of It'tai the Gittite. And the king said to the men, "I myself will also go out with you."

rsv@2Samuel:18:3 @ But the men said, "You shall not go out. For if we flee, they will not care about us. If half of us die, they will not care about us. But you are worth ten thousand of us; therefore it is better that you send us help from the city."

rsv@2Samuel:18:4 @ The king said to them, "Whatever seems best to you I will do." So the king stood at the side of the gate, while all the army marched out by hundreds and by thousands.

rsv@2Samuel:18:7 @ And the men of Israel were defeated there by the servants of David, and the slaughter there was great on that day, twenty thousand men.

rsv@2Samuel:18:11 @ Jo'ab said to the man who told him, "What, you saw him! Why then did you not strike him there to the ground? I would have been glad to give you ten pieces of silver and a girdle."

rsv@2Samuel:18:12 @ But the man said to Jo'ab, "Even if I felt in my hand the weight of a thousand pieces of silver, I would not put forth my hand against the king's son; for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abi'shai and It'tai, `For my sake protect the young man Ab'salom.'

rsv@2Samuel:18:14 @ Jo'ab said, "I will not waste time like this with you." And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them into the heart of Ab'salom, while he was still alive in the oak.

rsv@2Samuel:18:15 @ And ten young men, Jo'ab's armor-bearers, surrounded Ab'salom and struck him, and killed him.

rsv@2Samuel:18:18 @ Now Ab'salom in his lifetime had taken and set up for himself the pillar which is in the King's Valley, for he said, "I have no son to keep my name in remembrance"; he called the pillar after his own name, and it is called Ab'salom's monument to this day.

rsv@2Samuel:18:21 @ Then Jo'ab said to the Cushite, "Go, tell the king what you have seen." The Cushite bowed before Jo'ab, and ran.

rsv@2Samuel:18:22 @ Then Ahi'ma-az the son of Zadok said again to Jo'ab, "Come what may, let me also run after the Cushite." And Jo'ab said, "Why will you run, my son, seeing that you will have no reward for the tidings?"

rsv@2Samuel:18:23 @ "Come what may," he said, "I will run." So he said to him, "Run." Then Ahi'ma-az ran by the way of the plain, and outran the Cushite.

rsv@2Samuel:18:24 @ Now David was sitting between the two gates; and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate by the wall, and when he lifted up his eyes and looked, he saw a man running alone.

rsv@2Samuel:18:26 @ And the watchman saw another man running; and the watchman called to the gate and said, "See, another man running alone!" The king said, "He also brings tidings."

rsv@2Samuel:18:31 @ And behold, the Cushite came; and the Cushite said, "Good tidings for my lord the king! For the LORD has delivered you this day from the power of all who rose up against you."

rsv@2Samuel:18:32 @ The king said to the Cushite, "Is it well with the young man Ab'salom?" And the Cushite answered, "May the enemies of my lord the king, and all who rise up against you for evil, be like that young man."

rsv@2Samuel:18:33 @ And the king was deeply moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept; and as he went, he said, "O my son Ab'salom, my son, my son Ab'salom! Would I had died instead of you, O Ab'salom, my son, my son!"

rsv@2Samuel:19:3 @ And the people stole into the city that day as people steal in who are ashamed when they flee in battle.

rsv@2Samuel:19:5 @ Then Jo'ab came into the house to the king, and said, "You have today covered with shame the faces of all your servants, who have this day saved your life, and the lives of your sons and your daughters, and the lives of your wives and your concubines,

rsv@2Samuel:19:6 @ because you love those who hate you and hate those who love you. For you have made it clear today that commanders and servants are nothing to you; for today I perceive that if Ab'salom were alive and all of us were dead today, then you would be pleased.

rsv@2Samuel:19:8 @ Then the king arose, and took his seat in the gate. And the people were all told, "Behold, the king is sitting in the gate"; and all the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his own home.

rsv@2Samuel:19:10 @ But Ab'salom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why do you say nothing about bringing the king back?"

rsv@2Samuel:19:16 @ And Shim'e-i the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, from Bahu'rim, made haste to come down with the men of Judah to meet King David;

rsv@2Samuel:19:17 @ and with him were a thousand men from Benjamin. And Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, with his fifteen sons and his twenty servants, rushed down to the Jordan before the king,

rsv@2Samuel:19:21 @ Abi'shai the son of Zeru'iah answered, "Shall not Shim'e-i be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD'S anointed?"

rsv@2Samuel:19:24 @ And Mephib'osheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; he had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came back in safety.

rsv@2Samuel:19:31 @ Now Barzil'lai the Gileadite had come down from Ro'gelim; and he went on with the king to the Jordan, to escort him over the Jordan.

rsv@2Samuel:19:35 @ I am this day eighty years old; can I discern what is pleasant and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or what he drinks? Can I still listen to the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?

rsv@2Samuel:19:37 @ Pray let your servant return, that I may die in my own city, near the grave of my father and my mother. But here is your servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do for him whatever seems good to you."

rsv@2Samuel:19:38 @ And the king answered, "Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do for him whatever seems good to you; and all that you desire of me I will do for you."

rsv@2Samuel:19:42 @ All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, "Because the king is near of kin to us. Why then are you angry over this matter? Have we eaten at all at the king's expense? Or has he given us any gift?"

rsv@2Samuel:19:43 @ And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, "We have ten shares in the king, and in David also we have more than you. Why then did you despise us? Were we not the first to speak of bringing back our king?" But the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.

rsv@2Samuel:20:1 @ Now there happened to be there a worthless fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjaminite; and he blew the trumpet, and said, "We have no portion in David, and we have no inheritance in the son of Jesse; every man to his tents, O Israel!"

rsv@2Samuel:20:2 @ So all the men of Israel withdrew from David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of Judah followed their king steadfastly from the Jordan to Jerusalem.

rsv@2Samuel:20:3 @ And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten concubines whom he had left to care for the house, and put them in a house under guard, and provided for them, but did not go in to them. So they were shut up until the day of their death, living as if in widowhood.

rsv@2Samuel:20:5 @ So Ama'sa went to summon Judah; but he delayed beyond the set time which had been appointed him.

rsv@2Samuel:20:7 @ And there went out after Abi'shai, Jo'ab and the Cher'ethites and the Pel'ethites, and all the mighty men; they went out from Jerusalem to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.

rsv@2Samuel:20:8 @ When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Ama'sa came to meet them. Now Jo'ab was wearing a soldier's garment, and over it was a girdle with a sword in its sheath fastened upon his loins, and as he went forward it fell out.

rsv@2Samuel:20:13 @ When he was taken out of the highway, all the people went on after Jo'ab to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.

rsv@2Samuel:20:14 @ And Sheba passed through all the tribes of Israel to Abel of Beth-ma'acah; and all the Bichrites assembled, and followed him in.

rsv@2Samuel:20:15 @ And all the men who were with Jo'ab came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-ma'acah; they cast up a mound against the city, and it stood against the rampart; and they were battering the wall, to throw it down.

rsv@2Samuel:20:16 @ Then a wise woman called from the city, "Hear! Hear! Tell Jo'ab, `Come here, that I may speak to you.'"

rsv@2Samuel:20:17 @ And he came near her; and the woman said, "Are you Jo'ab?" He answered, "I am." Then she said to him, "Listen to the words of your maidservant." And he answered, "I am listening."

rsv@2Samuel:20:18 @ Then she said, "They were wont to say in old time, `Let them but ask counsel at Abel'; and so they settled a matter.

rsv@2Samuel:20:21 @ That is not true. But a man of the hill country of E'phraim, called Sheba the son of Bichri, has lifted up his hand against King David; give up him alone, and I will withdraw from the city." And the woman said to Jo'ab, "Behold, his head shall be thrown to you over the wall."

rsv@2Samuel:20:23 @ Now Jo'ab was in command of all the army of Israel; and Benai'ah the son of Jehoi'ada was in command of the Cher'ethites and the Pel'ethites;

rsv@2Samuel:20:26 @ and Ira the Ja'irite was also David's priest.

rsv@2Samuel:21:1 @ Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, "There is bloodguilt on Saul and on his house, because he put the Gib'eonites to death."

rsv@2Samuel:21:2 @ So the king called the Gib'eonites. Now the Gib'eonites were not of the people of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; although the people of Israel had sworn to spare them, Saul had sought to slay them in his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.

rsv@2Samuel:21:3 @ And David said to the Gib'eonites, "What shall I do for you? And how shall I make expiation, that you may bless the heritage of the LORD?"

rsv@2Samuel:21:4 @ The Gib'eonites said to him, "It is not a matter of silver or gold between us and Saul or his house; neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel." And he said, "What do you say that I shall do for you?"

rsv@2Samuel:21:5 @ They said to the king, "The man who consumed us and planned to destroy us, so that we should have no place in all the territory of Israel,

rsv@2Samuel:21:8 @ The king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Ai'ah, whom she bore to Saul, Armo'ni and Mephib'osheth; and the five sons of Merab the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to A'dri-el the son of Barzil'lai the Meho'lathite;

rsv@2Samuel:21:9 @ and he gave them into the hands of the Gib'eonites, and they hanged them on the mountain before the LORD, and the seven of them perished together. They were put to death in the first days of harvest, at the beginning of barley harvest.

rsv@2Samuel:21:10 @ Then Rizpah the daughter of Ai'ah took sackcloth, and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until rain fell upon them from the heavens; and she did not allow the birds of the air to come upon them by day, or the beasts of the field by night.

rsv@2Samuel:21:11 @ When David was told what Rizpah the daughter of Ai'ah, the concubine of Saul, had done,

rsv@2Samuel:21:14 @ And they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the land of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father; and they did all that the king commanded. And after that God heeded supplications for the land.

rsv@2Samuel:21:18 @ After this there was again war with the Philistines at Gob; then Sib'becai the Hu'shathite slew Saph, who was one of the descendants of the giants.

rsv@2Samuel:21:19 @ And there was again war with the Philistines at Gob; and Elha'nan the son of Ja'areor'egim, the Bethlehemite, slew Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.

rsv@2Samuel:21:21 @ And when he taunted Israel, Jonathan the son of Shim'e-i, David's brother, slew him.

rsv@2Samuel:22:6 @ the cords of Sheol entangled me, the snares of death confronted me.

rsv@2Samuel:22:7 @ "In my distress I called upon the LORD; to my God I called. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry came to his ears.

rsv@2Samuel:22:12 @ He made darkness around him his canopy, thick clouds, a gathering of water.

rsv@2Samuel:22:14 @ The LORD thundered from heaven, and the Most High uttered his voice.

rsv@2Samuel:22:15 @ And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and routed them.

rsv@2Samuel:22:17 @ "He reached from on high, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.

rsv@2Samuel:22:18 @ He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.

rsv@2Samuel:22:20 @ He brought me forth into a broad place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

rsv@2Samuel:22:21 @ "The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he recompensed me.

rsv@2Samuel:22:22 @ For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

rsv@2Samuel:22:23 @ For all his ordinances were before me, and from his statutes I did not turn aside.

rsv@2Samuel:22:25 @ Therefore the LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in his sight.

rsv@2Samuel:22:29 @ Yea, thou art my lamp, O LORD, and my God lightens my darkness.

rsv@2Samuel:22:37 @ Thou didst give a wide place for my steps under me, and my feet did not slip;

rsv@2Samuel:22:41 @ Thou didst make my enemies turn their backs to me, those who hated me, and I destroyed them.

rsv@2Samuel:22:47 @ "The LORD lives; and blessed be my rock, and exalted be my God, the rock of my salvation,

rsv@2Samuel:22:51 @ Great triumphs he gives to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David, and his descendants for ever."

rsv@2Samuel:23:1 @ Now these are the last words of David: The oracle of David, the son of Jesse, the oracle of the man who was raised on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, the sweet psalmist of Israel:

rsv@2Samuel:23:7 @ but the man who touches them arms himself with iron and the shaft of a spear, and they are utterly consumed with fire."

rsv@2Samuel:23:8 @ These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb-basshe'beth a Tah-che'monite; he was chief of the three; he wielded his spear against eight hundred whom he slew at one time.

rsv@2Samuel:23:10 @ He rose and struck down the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand cleaved to the sword; and the LORD wrought a great victory that day; and the men returned after him only to strip the slain.

rsv@2Samuel:23:11 @ And next to him was Shammah, the son of Agee the Har'arite. The Philistines gathered together at Lehi, where there was a plot of ground full of lentils; and the men fled from the Philistines.

rsv@2Samuel:23:15 @ And David said longingly, "O that some one would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem which is by the gate!"

rsv@2Samuel:23:16 @ Then the three mighty men broke through the camp of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem which was by the gate, and took and brought it to David. But he would not drink of it; he poured it out to the LORD,

rsv@2Samuel:23:20 @ And Benai'ah the son of Jehoi'ada was a valiant man of Kabzeel, a doer of great deeds; he smote two ariels of Moab. He also went down and slew a lion in a pit on a day when snow had fallen.

rsv@2Samuel:23:26 @ Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh of Teko'a,

rsv@2Samuel:23:27 @ Abi-e'zer, of An'athoth, Mebun'nai the Hu'shathite,

rsv@2Samuel:23:28 @ Zalmon the Aho'hite, Ma'harai of Netoph'ah,

rsv@2Samuel:23:29 @ Heleb the son of Ba'anah of Netoph'ah, It'tai the son of Ri'bai of Gib'e-ah of the Benjaminites,

rsv@2Samuel:23:31 @ Abi-al'bon the Ar'bathite, Az'maveth of Bahu'rim,

rsv@2Samuel:23:33 @ Shammah the Har'arite, Ahi'am the son of Sharar the Har'arite,

rsv@2Samuel:23:35 @ Hezro of Carmel, Pa'arai the Arbite,

rsv@2Samuel:23:36 @ Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,

rsv@2Samuel:23:37 @ Zelek the Ammonite, Na'harai of Be-er'oth, the armor-bearer of Jo'ab the son of Zeru'iah,

rsv@2Samuel:23:38 @ Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,

rsv@2Samuel:23:39 @ Uri'ah the Hittite: thirty-seven in all.

rsv@2Samuel:24:1 @ Again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, "Go, number Israel and Judah."

rsv@2Samuel:24:6 @ Then they came to Gilead, and to Kadesh in the land of the Hittites; and they came to Dan, and from Dan they went around to Sidon,

rsv@2Samuel:24:7 @ and came to the fortress of Tyre and to all the cities of the Hivites and Canaanites; and they went out to the Negeb of Judah at Beer-sheba.

rsv@2Samuel:24:10 @ But David's heart smote him after he had numbered the people. And David said to the LORD, "I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, O LORD, I pray thee, take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly."

rsv@2Samuel:24:15 @ So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning until the appointed time; and there died of the people from Dan to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men.

rsv@2Samuel:24:16 @ And when the angel stretched forth his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented of the evil, and said to the angel who was working destruction among the people, "It is enough; now stay your hand." And the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Arau'nah the Jeb'usite.

rsv@2Samuel:24:18 @ And Gad came that day to David, and said to him, "Go up, rear an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Arau'nah the Jeb'usite."

rsv@2Samuel:24:21 @ And Arau'nah said, "Why has my lord the king come to his servant?" David said, "To buy the threshing floor of you, in order to build an altar to the LORD, that the plague may be averted from the people."

rsv@2Samuel:24:25 @ And David built there an altar to the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD heeded supplications for the land, and the plague was averted from Israel.

rsv@1Kings:1:3 @ So they sought for a beautiful maiden throughout all the territory of Israel, and found Ab'ishag the Shu'nammite, and brought her to the king.

rsv@1Kings:1:4 @ The maiden was very beautiful; and she became the king's nurse and ministered to him; but the king knew her not.

rsv@1Kings:1:5 @ Now Adoni'jah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, "I will be king"; and he prepared for himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.

rsv@1Kings:1:6 @ His father had never at any time displeased him by asking, "Why have you done thus and so?" He was also a very handsome man; and he was born next after Ab'salom.

rsv@1Kings:1:9 @ Adoni'jah sacrificed sheep, oxen, and fatlings by the Serpent's Stone, which is beside En-ro'gel, and he invited all his brothers, the king's sons, and all the royal officials of Judah,

rsv@1Kings:1:10 @ but he did not invite Nathan the prophet or Benai'ah or the mighty men or Solomon his brother.

rsv@1Kings:1:13 @ Go in at once to King David, and say to him, `Did you not, my lord the king, swear to your maidservant, saying, "Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne"? Why then is Adoni'jah king?'

rsv@1Kings:1:14 @ Then while you are still speaking with the king, I also will come in after you and confirm your words."

rsv@1Kings:1:15 @ So Bathshe'ba went to the king into his chamber (now the king was very old, and Ab'ishag the Shu'nammite was ministering to the king).

rsv@1Kings:1:17 @ She said to him, "My lord, you swore to your maidservant by the LORD your God, saying, `Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne.'

rsv@1Kings:1:19 @ He has sacrificed oxen, fatlings, and sheep in abundance, and has invited all the sons of the king, Abi'athar the priest, and Jo'ab the commander of the army; but Solomon your servant he has not invited.

rsv@1Kings:1:20 @ And now, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are upon you, to tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.

rsv@1Kings:1:21 @ Otherwise it will come to pass, when my lord the king sleeps with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be counted offenders."

rsv@1Kings:1:24 @ And Nathan said, "My lord the king, have you said, `Adoni'jah shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne'?

rsv@1Kings:1:25 @ For he has gone down this day, and has sacrificed oxen, fatlings, and sheep in abundance, and has invited all the king's sons, Jo'ab the commander of the army, and Abi'athar the priest; and behold, they are eating and drinking before him, and saying, `Long live King Adoni'jah!'

rsv@1Kings:1:26 @ But me, your servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benai'ah the son of Jehoi'ada, and your servant Solomon, he has not invited.

rsv@1Kings:1:27 @ Has this thing been brought about by my lord the king and you have not told your servants who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?"

rsv@1Kings:1:30 @ as I swore to you by the LORD, the God of Israel, saying, `Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne in my stead'; even so will I do this day."

rsv@1Kings:1:35 @ You shall then come up after him, and he shall come and sit upon my throne; for he shall be king in my stead; and I have appointed him to be ruler over Israel and over Judah."

rsv@1Kings:1:37 @ As the LORD has been with my lord the king, even so may he be with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord King David."

rsv@1Kings:1:38 @ So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benai'ah the son of Jehoi'ada, and the Cher'ethites and the Pel'ethites, went down and caused Solomon to ride on King David's mule, and brought him to Gihon.

rsv@1Kings:1:39 @ There Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the tent, and anointed Solomon. Then they blew the trumpet; and all the people said, "Long live King Solomon!"

rsv@1Kings:1:40 @ And all the people went up after him, playing on pipes, and rejoicing with great joy, so that the earth was split by their noise.

rsv@1Kings:1:44 @ and the king has sent with him Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benai'ah the son of Jehoi'ada, and the Cher'ethites and the Pel'ethites; and they have caused him to ride on the king's mule;

rsv@1Kings:1:45 @ and Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king at Gihon; and they have gone up from there rejoicing, so that the city is in an uproar. This is the noise that you have heard.

rsv@1Kings:1:47 @ Moreover the king's servants came to congratulate our lord King David, saying, `Your God make the name of Solomon more famous than yours, and make his throne greater than your throne.' And the king bowed himself upon the bed.

rsv@1Kings:1:48 @ And the king also said, `Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who has granted one of my offspring to sit on my throne this day, my own eyes seeing it.'"

rsv@1Kings:2:3 @ and keep the charge of the LORD your God, walking in his ways and keeping his statutes, his commandments, his ordinances, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn;

rsv@1Kings:2:7 @ But deal loyally with the sons of Barzil'lai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table; for with such loyalty they met me when I fled from Ab'salom your brother.

rsv@1Kings:2:8 @ And there is also with you Shim'e-i the son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahu'rim, who cursed me with a grievous curse on the day when I went to Mahana'im; but when he came down to meet me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the LORD, saying, `I will not put you to death with the sword.'

rsv@1Kings:2:15 @ He said, "You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel fully expected me to reign; however the kingdom has turned about and become my brother's, for it was his from the LORD.

rsv@1Kings:2:17 @ And he said, "Pray ask King Solomon--he will not refuse you--to give me Ab'ishag the Shu'nammite as my wife."

rsv@1Kings:2:21 @ She said, "Let Ab'ishag the Shu'nammite be given to Adoni'jah your brother as his wife."

rsv@1Kings:2:22 @ King Solomon answered his mother, "And why do you ask Ab'ishag the Shu'nammite for Adoni'jah? Ask for him the kingdom also; for he is my elder brother, and on his side are Abi'athar the priest and Jo'ab the son of Zeru'iah."

rsv@1Kings:2:26 @ And to Abi'athar the priest the king said, "Go to An'athoth, to your estate; for you deserve death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you bore the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, and because you shared in all the affliction of my father."

rsv@1Kings:2:28 @ When the news came to Jo'ab --for Jo'ab had supported Adoni'jah although he had not supported Ab'salom-- Jo'ab fled to the tent of the LORD and caught hold of the horns of the altar.

rsv@1Kings:2:29 @ And when it was told King Solomon, "Jo'ab has fled to the tent of the LORD, and behold, he is beside the altar," Solomon sent Benai'ah the son of Jehoi'ada, saying, "Go, strike him down."

rsv@1Kings:2:30 @ So Benai'ah came to the tent of the LORD, and said to him, "The king commands, `Come forth.'" But he said, "No, I will die here." Then Benai'ah brought the king word again, saying, "Thus said Jo'ab, and thus he answered me."

rsv@1Kings:2:32 @ The LORD will bring back his bloody deeds upon his own head, because, without the knowledge of my father David, he attacked and slew with the sword two men more righteous and better than himself, Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Ama'sa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.

rsv@1Kings:2:36 @ Then the king sent and summoned Shim'e-i, and said to him, "Build yourself a house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and do not go forth from there to any place whatever.

rsv@1Kings:2:42 @ the king sent and summoned Shim'e-i, and said to him, "Did I not make you swear by the LORD, and solemnly admonish you, saying, `Know for certain that on the day you go forth and go to any place whatever, you shall die'? And you said to me, `What you say is good; I obey.'

rsv@1Kings:3:1 @ Solomon made a marriage alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt; he took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had finished building his own house and the house of the LORD and the wall around Jerusalem.

rsv@1Kings:3:3 @ Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father; only, he sacrificed and burnt incense at the high places.

rsv@1Kings:3:6 @ And Solomon said, "Thou hast shown great and steadfast love to thy servant David my father, because he walked before thee in faithfulness, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart toward thee; and thou hast kept for him this great and steadfast love, and hast given him a son to sit on his throne this day.

rsv@1Kings:3:8 @ And thy servant is in the midst of thy people whom thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered or counted for multitude.

rsv@1Kings:3:12 @ behold, I now do according to your word. Behold, I give you a wise and discerning mind, so that none like you has been before you and none like you shall arise after you.

rsv@1Kings:3:14 @ And if you will walk in my ways, keeping my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days."

rsv@1Kings:3:18 @ Then on the third day after I was delivered, this woman also gave birth; and we were alone; there was no one else with us in the house, only we two were in the house.

rsv@1Kings:4:11 @ Ben-abin'adab, in all Naphath-dor (he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon as his wife);

rsv@1Kings:4:15 @ Ahi'ma-az, in Naph'tali (he had taken Bas'emath the daughter of Solomon as his wife);

rsv@1Kings:4:19 @ Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan. And there was one officer in the land of Judah.

rsv@1Kings:4:20 @ Judah and Israel were as many as the sand by the sea; they ate and drank and were happy.

rsv@1Kings:4:21 @ Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the Euphra'tes to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt; they brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.

rsv@1Kings:4:23 @ ten fat oxen, and twenty pasture-fed cattle, a hundred sheep, besides harts, gazelles, roebucks, and fatted fowl.

rsv@1Kings:4:24 @ For he had dominion over all the region west of the Euphra'tes from Tiphsah to Gaza, over all the kings west of the Euphra'tes; and he had peace on all sides round about him.

rsv@1Kings:4:28 @ Barley also and straw for the horses and swift steeds they brought to the place where it was required, each according to his charge.

rsv@1Kings:4:31 @ For he was wiser than all other men, wiser than Ethan the Ez'rahite, and Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his fame was in all the nations round about.

rsv@1Kings:4:32 @ He also uttered three thousand proverbs; and his songs were a thousand and five.

rsv@1Kings:5:1 @ Now Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon, when he heard that they had anointed him king in place of his father; for Hiram always loved David.

rsv@1Kings:5:8 @ And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, "I have heard the message which you have sent to me; I am ready to do all you desire in the matter of cedar and cypress timber.

rsv@1Kings:5:11 @ while Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand cors of wheat as food for his household, and twenty thousand cors of beaten oil. Solomon gave this to Hiram year by year.

rsv@1Kings:5:14 @ And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month in relays; they would be a month in Lebanon and two months at home; Adoni'ram was in charge of the levy.

rsv@1Kings:6:1 @ In the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the LORD.

rsv@1Kings:6:3 @ The vestibule in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits long, equal to the width of the house, and ten cubits deep in front of the house.

rsv@1Kings:6:6 @ The lowest story was five cubits broad, the middle one was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for around the outside of the house he made offsets on the wall in order that the supporting beams should not be inserted into the walls of the house.

rsv@1Kings:6:7 @ When the house was built, it was with stone prepared at the quarry; so that neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron was heard in the temple, while it was being built.

rsv@1Kings:6:12 @ "Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes and obey my ordinances and keep all my commandments and walk in them, then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.

rsv@1Kings:6:15 @ He lined the walls of the house on the inside with boards of cedar; from the floor of the house to the rafters of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with boards of cypress.

rsv@1Kings:6:16 @ He built twenty cubits of the rear of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the rafters, and he built this within as an inner sanctuary, as the most holy place.

rsv@1Kings:6:23 @ In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olivewood, each ten cubits high.

rsv@1Kings:6:24 @ Five cubits was the length of one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the length of the other wing of the cherub; it was ten cubits from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other.

rsv@1Kings:6:25 @ The other cherub also measured ten cubits; both cherubim had the same measure and the same form.

rsv@1Kings:6:26 @ The height of one cherub was ten cubits, and so was that of the other cherub.

rsv@1Kings:6:29 @ He carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, in the inner and outer rooms.

rsv@1Kings:6:30 @ The floor of the house he overlaid with gold in the inner and outer rooms.

rsv@1Kings:6:31 @ For the entrance to the inner sanctuary he made doors of olivewood; the lintel and the doorposts formed a pentagon.

rsv@1Kings:7:1 @ Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished his entire house.

rsv@1Kings:7:3 @ And it was covered with cedar above the chambers that were upon the forty-five pillars, fifteen in each row.

rsv@1Kings:7:4 @ There were window frames in three rows, and window opposite window in three tiers.

rsv@1Kings:7:5 @ All the doorways and windows had square frames, and window was opposite window in three tiers.

rsv@1Kings:7:7 @ And he made the Hall of the Throne where he was to pronounce judgment, even the Hall of Judgment; it was finished with cedar from floor to rafters.

rsv@1Kings:7:8 @ His own house where he was to dwell, in the other court back of the hall, was of like workmanship. Solomon also made a house like this hall for Pharaoh's daughter whom he had taken in marriage.

rsv@1Kings:7:10 @ The foundation was of costly stones, huge stones, stones of eight and ten cubits.

rsv@1Kings:7:15 @ He cast two pillars of bronze. Eighteen cubits was the height of one pillar, and a line of twelve cubits measured its circumference; it was hollow, and its thickness was four fingers; the second pillar was the same.

rsv@1Kings:7:16 @ He also made two capitals of molten bronze, to set upon the tops of the pillars; the height of the one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits.

rsv@1Kings:7:18 @ Likewise he made pomegranates; in two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the capital that was upon the top of the pillar; and he did the same with the other capital.

rsv@1Kings:7:20 @ The capitals were upon the two pillars and also above the rounded projection which was beside the network; there were two hundred pomegranates, in two rows round about; and so with the other capital.

rsv@1Kings:7:21 @ He set up the pillars at the vestibule of the temple; he set up the pillar on the south and called its name Jachin; and he set up the pillar on the north and called its name Bo'az.

rsv@1Kings:7:23 @ Then he made the molten sea; it was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.

rsv@1Kings:7:27 @ He also made the ten stands of bronze; each stand was four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high.

rsv@1Kings:7:31 @ Its opening was within a crown which projected upward one cubit; its opening was round, as a pedestal is made, a cubit and a half deep. At its opening there were carvings; and its panels were square, not round.

rsv@1Kings:7:37 @ After this manner he made the ten stands; all of them were cast alike, of the same measure and the same form.

rsv@1Kings:7:38 @ And he made ten lavers of bronze; each laver held forty baths, each laver measured four cubits, and there was a laver for each of the ten stands.

rsv@1Kings:7:42 @ and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were upon the pillars;

rsv@1Kings:7:43 @ the ten stands, and the ten lavers upon the stands;

rsv@1Kings:7:50 @ the cups, snuffers, basins, dishes for incense, and firepans, of pure gold; and the sockets of gold, for the doors of the innermost part of the house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the nave of the temple.

rsv@1Kings:7:51 @ Thus all the work that King Solomon did on the house of the LORD was finished. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated, the silver, the gold, and the vessels, and stored them in the treasuries of the house of the LORD.

rsv@1Kings:8:4 @ And they brought up the ark of the LORD, the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the tent; the priests and the Levites brought them up.

rsv@1Kings:8:5 @ And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who had assembled before him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.

rsv@1Kings:8:11 @ so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD.

rsv@1Kings:8:13 @ I have built thee an exalted house, a place for thee to dwell in for ever."

rsv@1Kings:8:23 @ and said, "O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above or on earth beneath, keeping covenant and showing steadfast love to thy servants who walk before thee with all their heart;

rsv@1Kings:8:32 @ then hear thou in heaven, and act, and judge thy servants, condemning the guilty by bringing his conduct upon his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.

rsv@1Kings:8:33 @ "When thy people Israel are defeated before the enemy because they have sinned against thee, if they turn again to thee, and acknowledge thy name, and pray and make supplication to thee in this house;

rsv@1Kings:8:36 @ then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, thy people Israel, when thou dost teach them the good way in which they should walk; and grant rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people as an inheritance.

rsv@1Kings:8:37 @ "If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in any of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is;

rsv@1Kings:8:38 @ whatever prayer, whatever supplication is made by any man or by all thy people Israel, each knowing the affliction of his own heart and stretching out his hands toward this house;

rsv@1Kings:8:44 @ "If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way thou shalt send them, and they pray to the LORD toward the city which thou hast chosen and the house which I have built for thy name,

rsv@1Kings:8:47 @ yet if they lay it to heart in the land to which they have been carried captive, and repent, and make supplication to thee in the land of their captors, saying, `We have sinned, and have acted perversely and wickedly';

rsv@1Kings:8:50 @ and forgive thy people who have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions which they have committed against thee; and grant them compassion in the sight of those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them

rsv@1Kings:8:53 @ For thou didst separate them from among all the peoples of the earth, to be thy heritage, as thou didst declare through Moses, thy servant, when thou didst bring our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord GOD."

rsv@1Kings:8:56 @ "Blessed be the LORD who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised; not one word has failed of all his good promise, which he uttered by Moses his servant.

rsv@1Kings:8:58 @ that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers.

rsv@1Kings:8:61 @ Let your heart therefore be wholly true to the LORD our God, walking in his statutes and keeping his commandments, as at this day."

rsv@1Kings:8:63 @ Solomon offered as peace offerings to the LORD twenty-two thousand oxen and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD.

rsv@1Kings:8:64 @ The same day the king consecrated the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD; for there he offered the burnt offering and the cereal offering and the fat pieces of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before the LORD was too small to receive the burnt offering and the cereal offering and the fat pieces of the peace offerings.

rsv@1Kings:9:3 @ And the LORD said to him, "I have heard your prayer and your supplication, which you have made before me; I have consecrated this house which you have built, and put my name there for ever; my eyes and my heart will be there for all time.

rsv@1Kings:9:4 @ And as for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, with integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you, and keeping my statutes and my ordinances,

rsv@1Kings:9:6 @ But if you turn aside from following me, you or your children, and do not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them,

rsv@1Kings:9:7 @ then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them; and the house which I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight; and Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

rsv@1Kings:9:16 @ (Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and captured Gezer and burnt it with fire, and had slain the Canaanites who dwelt in the city, and had given it as dowry to his daughter, Solomon's wife;

rsv@1Kings:9:19 @ and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

rsv@1Kings:9:20 @ All the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Per'izzites, the Hivites, and the Jeb'usites, who were not of the people of Israel--

rsv@1Kings:9:21 @ their descendants who were left after them in the land, whom the people of Israel were unable to destroy utterly--these Solomon made a forced levy of slaves, and so they are to this day.

rsv@1Kings:9:24 @ But Pharaoh's daughter went up from the city of David to her own house which Solomon had built for her; then he built the Millo.

rsv@1Kings:10:1 @ Now when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to test him with hard questions.

rsv@1Kings:10:5 @ the food of his table, the seating of his officials, and the attendance of his servants, their clothing, his cupbearers, and his burnt offerings which he offered at the house of the LORD, there was no more spirit in her.

rsv@1Kings:10:9 @ Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you and set you on the throne of Israel! Because the LORD loved Israel for ever, he has made you king, that you may execute justice and righteousness."

rsv@1Kings:10:13 @ And King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all that she desired, whatever she asked besides what was given her by the bounty of King Solomon. So she turned and went back to her own land, with her servants.

rsv@1Kings:10:16 @ King Solomon made two hundred large shields of beaten gold; six hundred shekels of gold went into each shield.

rsv@1Kings:10:17 @ And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three minas of gold went into each shield; and the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.

rsv@1Kings:10:19 @ The throne had six steps, and at the back of the throne was a calf's head, and on each side of the seat were arm rests and two lions standing beside the arm rests,

rsv@1Kings:10:20 @ while twelve lions stood there, one on each end of a step on the six steps. The like of it was never made in any kingdom.

rsv@1Kings:10:26 @ And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen; he had fourteen hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.

rsv@1Kings:10:29 @ A chariot could be imported from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty; and so through the king's traders they were exported to all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Syria.

rsv@1Kings:11:1 @ Now King Solomon loved many foreign women: the daughter of Pharaoh, and Moabite, Ammonite, E'domite, Sido'nian, and Hittite women,

rsv@1Kings:11:2 @ from the nations concerning which the LORD had said to the people of Israel, "You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods"; Solomon clung to these in love.

rsv@1Kings:11:4 @ For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not wholly true to the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.

rsv@1Kings:11:5 @ For Solomon went after Ash'toreth the goddess of the Sido'nians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

rsv@1Kings:11:7 @ Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem.

rsv@1Kings:11:10 @ and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods; but he did not keep what the LORD commanded.

rsv@1Kings:11:11 @ Therefore the LORD said to Solomon, "Since this has been your mind and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you and will give it to your servant.

rsv@1Kings:11:12 @ Yet for the sake of David your father I will not do it in your days, but I will tear it out of the hand of your son.

rsv@1Kings:11:13 @ However I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem which I have chosen."

rsv@1Kings:11:14 @ And the LORD raised up an adversary against Solomon, Hadad the E'domite; he was of the royal house in Edom.

rsv@1Kings:11:17 @ but Hadad fled to Egypt, together with certain E'domites of his father's servants, Hadad being yet a little child.

rsv@1Kings:11:19 @ And Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him in marriage the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tah'penes the queen.

rsv@1Kings:11:20 @ And the sister of Tah'penes bore him Genu'bath his son, whom Tah'penes weaned in Pharaoh's house; and Genu'bath was in Pharaoh's house among the sons of Pharaoh.

rsv@1Kings:11:23 @ God also raised up as an adversary to him, Rezon the son of Eli'ada, who had fled from his master Hadade'zer king of Zobah.

rsv@1Kings:11:24 @ And he gathered men about him and became leader of a marauding band, after the slaughter by David; and they went to Damascus, and dwelt there, and made him king in Damascus.

rsv@1Kings:11:26 @ Jerobo'am the son of Nebat, an E'phraimite of Zer'edah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother's name was Zeru'ah, a widow, also lifted up his hand against the king.

rsv@1Kings:11:27 @ And this was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king. Solomon built the Millo, and closed up the breach of the city of David his father.

rsv@1Kings:11:29 @ And at that time, when Jerobo'am went out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahi'jah the Shi'lonite found him on the road. Now Ahi'jah had clad himself with a new garment; and the two of them were alone in the open country.

rsv@1Kings:11:31 @ And he said to Jerobo'am, "Take for yourself ten pieces; for thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, `Behold, I am about to tear the kingdom from the hand of Solomon, and will give you ten tribes

rsv@1Kings:11:33 @ because he has forsaken me, and worshiped Ash'toreth the goddess of the Sido'nians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites, and has not walked in my ways, doing what is right in my sight and keeping my statutes and my ordinances, as David his father did.

rsv@1Kings:11:34 @ Nevertheless I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand; but I will make him ruler all the days of his life, for the sake of David my servant whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes;

rsv@1Kings:11:35 @ but I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give it to you, ten tribes.

rsv@1Kings:11:38 @ And if you will hearken to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do what is right in my eyes by keeping my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did, I will be with you, and will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.

rsv@1Kings:11:41 @ Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon?

rsv@1Kings:11:43 @ And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father; and Rehobo'am his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@1Kings:12:4 @ "Your father made our yoke heavy. Now therefore lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke upon us, and we will serve you."

rsv@1Kings:12:9 @ And he said to them, "What do you advise that we answer this people who have said to me, `Lighten the yoke that your father put upon us'?"

rsv@1Kings:12:10 @ And the young men who had grown up with him said to him, "Thus shall you speak to this people who said to you, `Your father made our yoke heavy, but do you lighten it for us'; thus shall you say to them, `My little finger is thicker than my father's loins.

rsv@1Kings:12:15 @ So the king did not hearken to the people; for it was a turn of affairs brought about by the LORD that he might fulfil his word, which the LORD spoke by Ahi'jah the Shi'lonite to Jerobo'am the son of Nebat.

rsv@1Kings:12:16 @ And when all Israel saw that the king did not hearken to them, the people answered the king, "What portion have we in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, David." So Israel departed to their tents.

rsv@1Kings:12:18 @ Then King Rehobo'am sent Ador'am, who was taskmaster over the forced labor, and all Israel stoned him to death with stones. And King Rehobo'am made haste to mount his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.

rsv@1Kings:12:31 @ He also made houses on high places, and appointed priests from among all the people, who were not of the Levites.

rsv@1Kings:12:32 @ And Jerobo'am appointed a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices upon the altar; so he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made. And he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.

rsv@1Kings:12:33 @ He went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and he ordained a feast for the people of Israel, and went up to the altar to burn incense.

rsv@1Kings:13:6 @ And the king said to the man of God, "Entreat now the favor of the LORD your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored to me." And the man of God entreated the LORD; and the king's hand was restored to him, and became as it was before.

rsv@1Kings:13:8 @ And the man of God said to the king, "If you give me half your house, I will not go in with you. And I will not eat bread or drink water in this place;

rsv@1Kings:13:9 @ for so was it commanded me by the word of the LORD, saying, `You shall neither eat bread, nor drink water, nor return by the way that you came.'"

rsv@1Kings:13:13 @ And he said to his sons, "Saddle the ass for me." So they saddled the ass for him and he mounted it.

rsv@1Kings:13:14 @ And he went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak; and he said to him, "Are you the man of God who came from Judah?" And he said, "I am."

rsv@1Kings:13:16 @ And he said, "I may not return with you, or go in with you; neither will I eat bread nor drink water with you in this place;

rsv@1Kings:13:17 @ for it was said to me by the word of the LORD, `You shall neither eat bread nor drink water there, nor return by the way that you came.'"

rsv@1Kings:13:18 @ And he said to him, "I also am a prophet as you are, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, `Bring him back with you into your house that he may eat bread and drink water.'" But he lied to him.

rsv@1Kings:13:19 @ So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house, and drank water.

rsv@1Kings:13:22 @ but have come back, and have eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which he said to you, "Eat no bread, and drink no water"; your body shall not come to the tomb of your fathers.'"

rsv@1Kings:13:23 @ And after he had eaten bread and drunk, he saddled the ass for the prophet whom he had brought back.

rsv@1Kings:13:28 @ And he went and found his body thrown in the road, and the ass and the lion standing beside the body. The lion had not eaten the body or torn the ass.

rsv@1Kings:13:31 @ And after he had buried him, he said to his sons, "When I die, bury me in the grave in which the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.

rsv@1Kings:13:33 @ After this thing Jerobo'am did not turn from his evil way, but made priests for the high places again from among all the people; any who would, he consecrated to be priests of the high places.

rsv@1Kings:14:3 @ Take with you ten loaves, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him; he will tell you what shall happen to the child."

rsv@1Kings:14:5 @ And the LORD said to Ahi'jah, "Behold, the wife of Jerobo'am is coming to inquire of you concerning her son; for he is sick. Thus and thus shall you say to her." When she came, she pretended to be another woman.

rsv@1Kings:14:6 @ But when Ahi'jah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, he said, "Come in, wife of Jerobo'am; why do you pretend to be another? For I am charged with heavy tidings for you.

rsv@1Kings:14:7 @ Go, tell Jerobo'am, `Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: "Because I exalted you from among the people, and made you leader over my people Israel,

rsv@1Kings:14:9 @ but you have done evil above all that were before you and have gone and made for yourself other gods, and molten images, provoking me to anger, and have cast me behind your back;

rsv@1Kings:14:10 @ therefore behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jerobo'am, and will cut off from Jerobo'am every male, both bond and free in Israel, and will utterly consume the house of Jerobo'am, as a man burns up dung until it is all gone.

rsv@1Kings:14:12 @ Arise therefore, go to your house. When your feet enter the city, the child shall die.

rsv@1Kings:14:15 @ the LORD will smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and scatter them beyond the Euphra'tes, because they have made their Ashe'rim, provoking the LORD to anger.

rsv@1Kings:14:17 @ Then Jerobo'am's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah. And as she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.

rsv@1Kings:14:19 @ Now the rest of the acts of Jerobo'am, how he warred and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.

rsv@1Kings:14:20 @ And the time that Jerobo'am reigned was twenty-two years; and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@1Kings:14:21 @ Now Rehobo'am the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehobo'am was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. His mother's name was Na'amah the Ammonitess.

rsv@1Kings:14:22 @ And Judah did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, more than all that their fathers had done.

rsv@1Kings:14:24 @ and there were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.

rsv@1Kings:14:27 @ and King Rehobo'am made in their stead shields of bronze, and committed them to the hands of the officers of the guard, who kept the door of the king's house.

rsv@1Kings:14:28 @ And as often as the king went into the house of the LORD, the guard bore them and brought them back to the guardroom.

rsv@1Kings:14:29 @ Now the rest of the acts of Rehobo'am, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

rsv@1Kings:14:31 @ And Rehobo'am slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. His mother's name was Na'amah the Ammonitess. And Abi'jam his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@1Kings:15:1 @ Now in the eighteenth year of King Jerobo'am the son of Nebat, Abi'jam began to reign over Judah.

rsv@1Kings:15:2 @ He reigned for three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Ma'acah the daughter of Abish'alom.

rsv@1Kings:15:4 @ Nevertheless for David's sake the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, setting up his son after him, and establishing Jerusalem;

rsv@1Kings:15:5 @ because David did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, and did not turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uri'ah the Hittite.

rsv@1Kings:15:7 @ The rest of the acts of Abi'jam, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? And there was war between Abi'jam and Jerobo'am.

rsv@1Kings:15:8 @ And Abi'jam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David. And Asa his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@1Kings:15:10 @ and he reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Ma'acah the daughter of Abish'alom.

rsv@1Kings:15:12 @ He put away the male cult prostitutes out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

rsv@1Kings:15:23 @ Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? But in his old age he was diseased in his feet.

rsv@1Kings:15:24 @ And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father; and Jehosh'aphat his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@1Kings:15:28 @ So Ba'asha killed him in the third year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his stead.

rsv@1Kings:15:29 @ And as soon as he was king, he killed all the house of Jerobo'am; he left to the house of Jerobo'am not one that breathed, until he had destroyed it, according to the word of the LORD which he spoke by his servant Ahi'jah the Shi'lonite;

rsv@1Kings:15:31 @ Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

rsv@1Kings:16:2 @ "Since I exalted you out of the dust and made you leader over my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jerobo'am, and have made my people Israel to sin, provoking me to anger with their sins,

rsv@1Kings:16:3 @ behold, I will utterly sweep away Ba'asha and his house, and I will make your house like the house of Jerobo'am the son of Nebat.

rsv@1Kings:16:5 @ Now the rest of the acts of Ba'asha, and what he did, and his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

rsv@1Kings:16:6 @ And Ba'asha slept with his fathers, and was buried at Tirzah; and Elah his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@1Kings:16:10 @ Zimri came in and struck him down and killed him, in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his stead.

rsv@1Kings:16:11 @ When he began to reign, as soon as he had seated himself on his throne, he killed all the house of Ba'asha; he did not leave him a single male of his kinsmen or his friends.

rsv@1Kings:16:14 @ Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

rsv@1Kings:16:19 @ because of his sins which he committed, doing evil in the sight of the LORD, walking in the way of Jerobo'am, and for his sin which he committed, making Israel to sin.

rsv@1Kings:16:20 @ Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and the conspiracy which he made, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

rsv@1Kings:16:24 @ He bought the hill of Sama'ria from Shemer for two talents of silver; and he fortified the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, Sama'ria, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill.

rsv@1Kings:16:27 @ Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and the might that he showed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

rsv@1Kings:16:28 @ And Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Sama'ria; and Ahab his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@1Kings:16:31 @ And as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jerobo'am the son of Nebat, he took for wife Jez'ebel the daughter of Ethba'al king of the Sido'nians, and went and served Ba'al, and worshiped him.

rsv@1Kings:16:32 @ He erected an altar for Ba'al in the house of Ba'al, which he built in Sama'ria.

rsv@1Kings:16:34 @ In his days Hi'el of Bethel built Jericho; he laid its foundation at the cost of Abi'ram his first-born, and set up its gates at the cost of his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke by Joshua the son of Nun.

rsv@1Kings:17:1 @ Now Eli'jah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the LORD the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word."

rsv@1Kings:17:7 @ And after a while the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.

rsv@1Kings:17:10 @ So he arose and went to Zar'ephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks; and he called to her and said, "Bring me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink."

rsv@1Kings:17:13 @ And Eli'jah said to her, "Fear not; go and do as you have said; but first make me a little cake of it and bring it to me, and afterward make for yourself and your son.

rsv@1Kings:17:15 @ And she went and did as Eli'jah said; and she, and he, and her household ate for many days.

rsv@1Kings:17:17 @ After this the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became ill; and his illness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.

rsv@1Kings:18:1 @ After many days the word of the LORD came to Eli'jah, in the third year, saying, "Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth."

rsv@1Kings:18:4 @ and when Jez'ebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, Obadi'ah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

rsv@1Kings:18:5 @ And Ahab said to Obadi'ah, "Go through the land to all the springs of water and to all the valleys; perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, and not lose some of the animals."

rsv@1Kings:18:8 @ And he answered him, "It is I. Go, tell your lord, `Behold, Eli'jah is here.'"

rsv@1Kings:18:11 @ And now you say, `Go, tell your lord, "Behold, Eli'jah is here."'

rsv@1Kings:18:12 @ And as soon as I have gone from you, the Spirit of the LORD will carry you whither I know not; and so, when I come and tell Ahab and he cannot find you, he will kill me, although I your servant have revered the LORD from my youth.

rsv@1Kings:18:13 @ Has it not been told my lord what I did when Jez'ebel killed the prophets of the LORD, how I hid a hundred men of the LORD'S prophets by fifties in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

rsv@1Kings:18:14 @ And now you say, `Go, tell your lord, "Behold, Eli'jah is here"'; and he will kill me."

rsv@1Kings:18:28 @ And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their custom with swords and lances, until the blood gushed out upon them.

rsv@1Kings:18:33 @ And he put the wood in order, and cut the bull in pieces and laid it on the wood. And he said, "Fill four jars with water, and pour it on the burnt offering, and on the wood."

rsv@1Kings:18:35 @ And the water ran round about the altar, and filled the trench also with water.

rsv@1Kings:18:38 @ Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt offering, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.

rsv@1Kings:19:4 @ But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree; and he asked that he might die, saying, "It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am no better than my fathers."

rsv@1Kings:19:6 @ And he looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baked on hot stones and a jar of water. And he ate and drank, and lay down again.

rsv@1Kings:19:8 @ And he arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.

rsv@1Kings:19:11 @ And he said, "Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD." And behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake;

rsv@1Kings:19:12 @ and after the earthquake a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire; and after the fire a still small voice.

rsv@1Kings:19:19 @ So he departed from there, and found Eli'sha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing, with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he was with the twelfth. Eli'jah passed by him and cast his mantle upon him.

rsv@1Kings:19:20 @ And he left the oxen, and ran after Eli'jah, and said, "Let me kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you." And he said to him, "Go back again; for what have I done to you?"

rsv@1Kings:19:21 @ And he returned from following him, and took the yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the yokes of the oxen, and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he arose and went after Eli'jah, and ministered to him.

rsv@1Kings:20:6 @ nevertheless I will send my servants to you tomorrow about this time, and they shall search your house and the houses of your servants, and lay hands on whatever pleases them, and take it away.'"

rsv@1Kings:20:9 @ So he said to the messengers of Ben-ha'dad, "Tell my lord the king, `All that you first demanded of your servant I will do; but this thing I cannot do.'" And the messengers departed and brought him word again.

rsv@1Kings:20:11 @ And the king of Israel answered, "Tell him, `Let not him that girds on his armor boast himself as he that puts it off.'"

rsv@1Kings:20:15 @ Then he mustered the servants of the governors of the districts, and they were two hundred and thirty-two; and after them he mustered all the people of Israel, seven thousand.

rsv@1Kings:20:17 @ The servants of the governors of the districts went out first. And Ben-ha'dad sent out scouts, and they reported to him, "Men are coming out from Sama'ria."

rsv@1Kings:20:21 @ And the king of Israel went out, and captured the horses and chariots, and killed the Syrians with a great slaughter.

rsv@1Kings:20:25 @ and muster 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, and surely we shall be stronger than they." And he hearkened to their voice, and did so.

rsv@1Kings:20:26 @ In the spring Ben-ha'dad mustered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel.

rsv@1Kings:20:27 @ And the people of Israel were mustered, and were provisioned, and went against them; the people of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of goats, but the Syrians filled the country.

rsv@1Kings:20:29 @ And they encamped opposite one another seven days. Then on the seventh day the battle was joined; and the people of Israel smote of the Syrians a hundred thousand foot soldiers in one day.

rsv@1Kings:20:30 @ And the rest fled into the city of Aphek; and the wall fell upon twenty-seven thousand men that were left. Ben-ha'dad also fled, and entered an inner chamber in the city.

rsv@1Kings:20:34 @ And Ben-ha'dad said to him, "The cities which my father took from your father I will restore; and you may establish bazaars for yourself in Damascus, as my father did in Sama'ria." And Ahab said, "I will let you go on these terms." So he made a covenant with him and let him go.

rsv@1Kings:20:36 @ Then he said to him, "Because you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as you have gone from me, a lion shall kill you." And as soon as he had departed from him, a lion met him and killed him.

rsv@1Kings:20:38 @ So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, disguising himself with a bandage over his eyes.

rsv@1Kings:20:41 @ Then he made haste to take the bandage away from his eyes; and the king of Israel recognized him as one of the prophets.

rsv@1Kings:20:42 @ And he said to him, "Thus says the LORD, `Because you have let go out of your hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore your life shall go for his life, and your people for his people.'"

rsv@1Kings:21:1 @ Now Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard in Jezreel, beside the palace of Ahab king of Sama'ria.

rsv@1Kings:21:2 @ And after this Ahab said to Naboth, "Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a vegetable garden, because it is near my house; and I will give you a better vineyard for it; or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its value in money."

rsv@1Kings:21:4 @ And Ahab went into his house vexed and sullen because of what Naboth the Jezreelite had said to him; for he had said, "I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers." And he lay down on his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no food.

rsv@1Kings:21:6 @ And he said to her, "Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite, and said to him, `Give me your vineyard for money; or else, if it please you, I will give you another vineyard for it'; and he answered, `I will not give you my vineyard.'"

rsv@1Kings:21:7 @ And Jez'ebel his wife said to him, "Do you now govern Israel? Arise, and eat bread, and let your heart be cheerful; I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite."

rsv@1Kings:21:8 @ So she wrote letters in Ahab's name and sealed them with his seal, and she sent the letters to the elders and the nobles who dwelt with Naboth in his city.

rsv@1Kings:21:9 @ And she wrote in the letters, "Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people;

rsv@1Kings:21:10 @ and set two base fellows opposite him, and let them bring a charge against him, saying, `You have cursed God and the king.' Then take him out, and stone him to death."

rsv@1Kings:21:11 @ And the men of his city, the elders and the nobles who dwelt in his city, did as Jez'ebel had sent word to them. As it was written in the letters which she had sent to them,

rsv@1Kings:21:13 @ And the two base fellows came in and sat opposite him; and the base fellows brought a charge against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, "Naboth cursed God and the king." So they took him outside the city, and stoned him to death with stones.

rsv@1Kings:21:15 @ As soon as Jez'ebel heard that Naboth had been stoned and was dead, Jez'ebel said to Ahab, "Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money; for Naboth is not alive, but dead."

rsv@1Kings:21:16 @ And as soon as Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, Ahab arose to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.

rsv@1Kings:21:17 @ Then the word of the LORD came to Eli'jah the Tishbite, saying,

rsv@1Kings:21:21 @ Behold, I will bring evil upon you; I will utterly sweep you away, and will cut off from Ahab every male, bond or free, in Israel;

rsv@1Kings:21:25 @ (There was none who sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of the LORD like Ahab, whom Jez'ebel his wife incited.

rsv@1Kings:21:26 @ He did very abominably in going after idols, as the Amorites had done, whom the LORD cast out before the people of Israel.)

rsv@1Kings:21:27 @ And when Ahab heard those words, he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted and lay in sackcloth, and went about dejectedly.

rsv@1Kings:21:28 @ And the word of the LORD came to Eli'jah the Tishbite, saying,

rsv@1Kings:22:8 @ And the king of Israel said to Jehosh'aphat, "There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the LORD, Micai'ah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but evil." And Jehosh'aphat said, "Let not the king say so."

rsv@1Kings:22:10 @ Now the king of Israel and Jehosh'aphat the king of Judah were sitting on their thrones, arrayed in their robes, at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Sama'ria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.

rsv@1Kings:22:17 @ And he said, "I saw all Israel scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd; and the LORD said, `These have no master; let each return to his home in peace.'"

rsv@1Kings:22:18 @ And the king of Israel said to Jehosh'aphat, "Did I not tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?"

rsv@1Kings:22:27 @ and say, `Thus says the king, "Put this fellow in prison, and feed him with scant fare of bread and water, until I come in peace."'"

rsv@1Kings:22:34 @ But a certain man drew his bow at a venture, and struck the king of Israel between the scale armor and the breastplate; therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, "Turn about, and carry me out of the battle, for I am wounded."

rsv@1Kings:22:39 @ Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he built, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

rsv@1Kings:22:40 @ So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahazi'ah his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@1Kings:22:42 @ Jehosh'aphat was thirty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Azu'bah the daughter of Shilhi.

rsv@1Kings:22:45 @ Now the rest of the acts of Jehosh'aphat, and his might that he showed, and how he warred, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

rsv@1Kings:22:46 @ And the remnant of the male cult prostitutes who remained in the days of his father Asa, he exterminated from the land.

rsv@1Kings:22:50 @ And Jehosh'aphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father; and Jeho'ram his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@1Kings:22:51 @ Ahazi'ah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Sama'ria in the seventeenth year of Jehosh'aphat king of Judah, and he reigned two years over Israel.

rsv@2Kings:1:1 @ After the death of Ahab, Moab rebelled against Israel.

rsv@2Kings:1:2 @ Now Ahazi'ah fell through the lattice in his upper chamber in Sama'ria, and lay sick; so he sent messengers, telling them, "Go, inquire of Ba'al-ze'bub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this sickness."

rsv@2Kings:1:3 @ But the angel of the LORD said to Eli'jah the Tishbite, "Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Sama'ria, and say to them, `Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of Ba'al-ze'bub, the god of Ekron?'

rsv@2Kings:1:8 @ They answered him, "He wore a garment of haircloth, with a girdle of leather about his loins." And he said, "It is Eli'jah the Tishbite."

rsv@2Kings:1:13 @ Again the king sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Eli'jah, and entreated him, "O man of God, I pray you, let my life, and the life of these fifty servants of yours, be precious in your sight.

rsv@2Kings:1:17 @ So he died according to the word of the LORD which Eli'jah had spoken. Jeho'ram, his brother, became king in his stead in the second year of Jeho'ram the son of Jehosh'aphat, king of Judah, because Ahazi'ah had no son.

rsv@2Kings:1:18 @ Now the rest of the acts of Ahazi'ah which he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

rsv@2Kings:2:3 @ And the sons of the prophets who were in Bethel came out to Eli'sha, and said to him, "Do you know that today the LORD will take away your master from over you?" And he said, "Yes, I know it; hold your peace."

rsv@2Kings:2:5 @ The sons of the prophets who were at Jericho drew near to Eli'sha, and said to him, "Do you know that today the LORD will take away your master from over you?" And he answered, "Yes, I know it; hold your peace."

rsv@2Kings:2:8 @ Then Eli'jah took his mantle, and rolled it up, and struck the water, and the water was parted to the one side and to the other, till the two of them could go over on dry ground.

rsv@2Kings:2:11 @ And as they still went on and talked, behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them. And Eli'jah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

rsv@2Kings:2:14 @ Then he took the mantle of Eli'jah that had fallen from him, and struck the water, saying, "Where is the LORD, the God of Eli'jah?" And when he had struck the water, the water was parted to the one side and to the other; and Eli'sha went over.

rsv@2Kings:2:16 @ And they said to him, "Behold now, there are with your servants fifty strong men; pray, let them go, and seek your master; it may be that the Spirit of the LORD has caught him up and cast him upon some mountain or into some valley." And he said, "You shall not send."

rsv@2Kings:2:19 @ Now the men of the city said to Eli'sha, "Behold, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees; but the water is bad, and the land is unfruitful."

rsv@2Kings:2:21 @ Then he went to the spring of water and threw salt in it, and said, "Thus says the LORD, I have made this water wholesome; henceforth neither death nor miscarriage shall come from it."

rsv@2Kings:2:22 @ So the water has been wholesome to this day, according to the word which Eli'sha spoke.

rsv@2Kings:3:1 @ In the eighteenth year of Jehosh'aphat king of Judah, Jeho'ram the son of Ahab became king over Israel in Sama'ria, and he reigned twelve years.

rsv@2Kings:3:6 @ So King Jeho'ram marched out of Sama'ria at that time and mustered all Israel.

rsv@2Kings:3:9 @ So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom. And when they had made a circuitous march of seven days, there was no water for the army or for the beasts which followed them.

rsv@2Kings:3:11 @ And Jehosh'aphat said, "Is there no prophet of the LORD here, through whom we may inquire of the LORD?" Then one of the king of Israel's servants answered, "Eli'sha the son of Shaphat is here, who poured water on the hands of Eli'jah."

rsv@2Kings:3:17 @ For thus says the LORD, `You shall not see wind or rain, but that stream-bed shall be filled with water, so that you shall drink, you, your cattle, and your beasts.'

rsv@2Kings:3:18 @ This is a light thing in the sight of the LORD; he will also give the Moabites into your hand,

rsv@2Kings:3:19 @ and you shall conquer every fortified city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop up all springs of water, and ruin every good piece of land with stones."

rsv@2Kings:3:20 @ The next morning, about the time of offering the sacrifice, behold, water came from the direction of Edom, till the country was filled with water.

rsv@2Kings:3:21 @ When all the Moabites heard that the kings had come up to fight against them, all who were able to put on armor, from the youngest to the oldest, were called out, and were drawn up at the frontier.

rsv@2Kings:3:22 @ And when they rose early in the morning, and the sun shone upon the water, the Moabites saw the water opposite them as red as blood.

rsv@2Kings:3:24 @ But when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose and attacked the Moabites, till they fled before them; and they went forward, slaughtering the Moabites as they went.

rsv@2Kings:3:25 @ And they overthrew the cities, and on every good piece of land every man threw a stone, until it was covered; they stopped every spring of water, and felled all the good trees; till only its stones were left in Kir-har'eseth, and the slingers surrounded and conquered it.

rsv@2Kings:3:26 @ When the king of Moab saw that the battle was going against him, he took with him seven hundred swordsmen to break through, opposite the king of Edom; but they could not.

rsv@2Kings:3:27 @ Then he took his eldest son who was to reign in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there came great wrath upon Israel; and they withdrew from him and returned to their own land.

rsv@2Kings:4:2 @ And Eli'sha said to her, "What shall I do for you? Tell me; what have you in the house?" And she said, "Your maidservant has nothing in the house, except a jar of oil."

rsv@2Kings:4:11 @ One day he came there, and he turned into the chamber and rested there.

rsv@2Kings:4:12 @ And he said to Geha'zi his servant, "Call this Shu'nammite." When he had called her, she stood before him.

rsv@2Kings:4:20 @ And when he had lifted him, and brought him to his mother, the child sat on her lap till noon, and then he died.

rsv@2Kings:4:24 @ Then she saddled the ass, and she said to her servant, "Urge the beast on; do not slacken the pace for me unless I tell you."

rsv@2Kings:4:25 @ So she set out, and came to the man of God at Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her coming, he said to Geha'zi his servant, "Look, yonder is the Shu'nammite;

rsv@2Kings:4:27 @ And when she came to the mountain to the man of God, she caught hold of his feet. And Geha'zi came to thrust her away. But the man of God said, "Let her alone, for she is in bitter distress; and the LORD has hidden it from me, and has not told me."

rsv@2Kings:4:29 @ He said to Geha'zi, "Gird up your loins, and take my staff in your hand, and go. If you meet any one, do not salute him; and if any one salutes you, do not reply; and lay my staff upon the face of the child."

rsv@2Kings:4:36 @ Then he summoned Geha'zi and said, "Call this Shu'nammite." So he called her. And when she came to him, he said, "Take up your son."

rsv@2Kings:4:43 @ But his servant said, "How am I to set this before a hundred men?" So he repeated, "Give them to the men, that they may eat, for thus says the LORD, `They shall eat and have some left.'"

rsv@2Kings:4:44 @ So he set it before them. And they ate, and had some left, according to the word of the LORD.

rsv@2Kings:5:1 @ Na'aman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master and in high favor, because by him the LORD had given victory to Syria. He was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.

rsv@2Kings:5:2 @ Now the Syrians on one of their raids had carried off a little maid from the land of Israel, and she waited on Na'aman's wife.

rsv@2Kings:5:5 @ And the king of Syria said, "Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel." So he went, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten festal garments.

rsv@2Kings:5:6 @ And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, which read, "When this letter reaches you, know that I have sent to you Na'aman my servant, that you may cure him of his leprosy."

rsv@2Kings:5:7 @ And when the king of Israel read the letter, he rent his clothes and said, "Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends word to me to cure a man of his leprosy? Only consider, and see how he is seeking a quarrel with me."

rsv@2Kings:5:9 @ So Na'aman came with his horses and chariots, and halted at the door of Eli'sha's house.

rsv@2Kings:5:12 @ Are not Aba'na and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them, and be clean?" So he turned and went away in a rage.

rsv@2Kings:5:18 @ In this matter may the LORD pardon your servant: when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, leaning on my arm, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, when I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon your servant in this matter."

rsv@2Kings:5:20 @ Geha'zi, the servant of Eli'sha the man of God, said, "See, my master has spared this Na'aman the Syrian, in not accepting from his hand what he brought. As the LORD lives, I will run after him, and get something from him."

rsv@2Kings:5:21 @ So Geha'zi followed Na'aman. And when Na'aman saw some one running after him, he alighted from the chariot to meet him, and said, "Is all well?"

rsv@2Kings:5:22 @ And he said, "All is well. My master has sent me to say, `There have just now come to me from the hill country of E'phraim two young men of the sons of the prophets; pray, give them a talent of silver and two festal garments.'"

rsv@2Kings:5:24 @ And when he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and put them in the house; and he sent the men away, and they departed.

rsv@2Kings:5:25 @ He went in, and stood before his master, and Eli'sha said to him, "Where have you been, Geha'zi?" And he said, "Your servant went nowhere."

rsv@2Kings:5:27 @ Therefore the leprosy of Na'aman shall cleave to you, and to your descendants for ever." So he went out from his presence a leper, as white as snow.

rsv@2Kings:6:5 @ But as one was felling a log, his axe head fell into the water; and he cried out, "Alas, my master! It was borrowed."

rsv@2Kings:6:12 @ And one of his servants said, "None, my lord, O king; but Eli'sha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedchamber."

rsv@2Kings:6:15 @ When the servant of the man of God rose early in the morning and went out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was round about the city. And the servant said, "Alas, my master! What shall we do?"

rsv@2Kings:6:20 @ As soon as they entered Sama'ria, Eli'sha said, "O LORD, open the eyes of these men, that they may see." So the LORD opened their eyes, and they saw; and lo, they were in the midst of Sama'ria.

rsv@2Kings:6:22 @ He answered, "You shall not slay them. Would you slay those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink and go to their master."

rsv@2Kings:6:23 @ So he prepared for them a great feast; and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. And the Syrians came no more on raids into the land of Israel.

rsv@2Kings:6:24 @ Afterward Ben-ha'dad king of Syria mustered his entire army, and went up, and besieged Sama'ria.

rsv@2Kings:6:29 @ So we boiled my son, and ate him. And on the next day I said to her, `Give your son, that we may eat him'; but she has hidden her son."

rsv@2Kings:6:32 @ Eli'sha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. Now the king had dispatched a man from his presence; but before the messenger arrived Eli'sha said to the elders, "Do you see how this murderer has sent to take off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold the door fast against him. Is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?"

rsv@2Kings:7:1 @ But Eli'sha said, "Hear the word of the LORD: thus says the LORD, Tomorrow about this time a measure of fine meal shall be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, at the gate of Sama'ria."

rsv@2Kings:7:3 @ Now there were four men who were lepers at the entrance to the gate; and they said to one another, "Why do we sit here till we die?

rsv@2Kings:7:4 @ If we say, `Let us enter the city,' the famine is in the city, and we shall die there; and if we sit here, we die also. So now come, let us go over to the camp of the Syrians; if they spare our lives we shall live, and if they kill us we shall but die."

rsv@2Kings:7:6 @ For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians hear the sound of chariots, and of horses, the sound of a great army, so that they said to one another, "Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Egypt to come upon us."

rsv@2Kings:7:7 @ So they fled away in the twilight and forsook their tents, their horses, and their asses, leaving the camp as it was, and fled for their lives.

rsv@2Kings:7:8 @ And when these lepers came to the edge of the camp, they went into a tent, and ate and drank, and they carried off silver and gold and clothing, and went and hid them; then they came back, and entered another tent, and carried off things from it, and went and hid them.

rsv@2Kings:7:9 @ Then they said to one another, "We are not doing right. This day is a day of good news; if we are silent and wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us; now therefore come, let us go and tell the king's household."

rsv@2Kings:7:10 @ So they came and called to the gatekeepers of the city, and told them, "We came to the camp of the Syrians, and behold, there was no one to be seen or heard there, nothing but the horses tied, and the asses tied, and the tents as they were."

rsv@2Kings:7:11 @ Then the gatekeepers called out, and it was told within the king's household.

rsv@2Kings:7:12 @ And the king rose in the night, and said to his servants, "I will tell you what the Syrians have prepared against us. They know that we are hungry; therefore they have gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the open country, thinking, `When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive and get into the city.'"

rsv@2Kings:7:14 @ So they took two mounted men, and the king sent them after the army of the Syrians, saying, "Go and see."

rsv@2Kings:7:15 @ So they went after them as far as the Jordan; and, lo, all the way was littered with garments and equipment which the Syrians had thrown away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king.

rsv@2Kings:7:17 @ Now the king had appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to have charge of the gate; and the people trod upon him in the gate, so that he died, as the man of God had said when the king came down to him.

rsv@2Kings:7:18 @ For when the man of God had said to the king, "Two measures of barley shall be sold for a shekel, and a measure of fine meal for a shekel, about this time tomorrow in the gate of Sama'ria,"

rsv@2Kings:7:20 @ And so it happened to him, for the people trod upon him in the gate and he died.

rsv@2Kings:8:4 @ Now the king was talking with Geha'zi the servant of the man of God, saying, "Tell me all the great things that Eli'sha has done."

rsv@2Kings:8:5 @ And while he was telling the king how Eli'sha had restored the dead to life, behold, the woman whose son he had restored to life appealed to the king for her house and her land. And Geha'zi said, "My lord, O king, here is the woman, and here is her son whom Eli'sha restored to life."

rsv@2Kings:8:6 @ And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed an official for her, saying, "Restore all that was hers, together with all the produce of the fields from the day that she left the land until now."

rsv@2Kings:8:14 @ Then he departed from Eli'sha, and came to his master, who said to him, "What did Eli'sha say to you?" And he answered, "He told me that you would certainly recover."

rsv@2Kings:8:15 @ But on the morrow he took the coverlet and dipped it in water and spread it over his face, till he died. And Haz'ael became king in his stead.

rsv@2Kings:8:18 @ And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife. And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD.

rsv@2Kings:8:20 @ In his days Edom revolted from the rule of Judah, and set up a king of their own.

rsv@2Kings:8:21 @ Then Joram passed over to Za'ir with all his chariots, and rose by night, and he and his chariot commanders smote the E'domites who had surrounded him; but his army fled home.

rsv@2Kings:8:22 @ So Edom revolted from the rule of Judah to this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.

rsv@2Kings:8:23 @ Now the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

rsv@2Kings:8:24 @ So Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and Ahazi'ah his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@2Kings:8:26 @ Ahazi'ah was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Athali'ah; she was a granddaughter of Omri king of Israel.

rsv@2Kings:9:7 @ And you shall strike down the house of Ahab your master, that I may avenge on Jez'ebel the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the LORD.

rsv@2Kings:9:10 @ And the dogs shall eat Jez'ebel in the territory of Jezreel, and none shall bury her." Then he opened the door, and fled.

rsv@2Kings:9:11 @ When Jehu came out to the servants of his master, they said to him, "Is all well? Why did this mad fellow come to you?" And he said to them, "You know the fellow and his talk."

rsv@2Kings:9:12 @ And they said, "That is not true; tell us now." And he said, "Thus and so he spoke to me, saying, `Thus says the LORD, I anoint you king over Israel.'"

rsv@2Kings:9:13 @ Then in haste every man of them took his garment, and put it under him on the bare steps, and they blew the trumpet, and proclaimed, "Jehu is king."

rsv@2Kings:9:15 @ but King Joram had returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Haz'ael king of Syria.) So Jehu said, "If this is your mind, then let no one slip out of the city to go and tell the news in Jezreel."

rsv@2Kings:9:16 @ Then Jehu mounted his chariot, and went to Jezreel, for Joram lay there. And Ahazi'ah king of Judah had come down to visit Joram.

rsv@2Kings:9:18 @ So a man on horseback went to meet him, and said, "Thus says the king, `Is it peace?'" And Jehu said, "What have you to do with peace? Turn round and ride behind me." And the watchman reported, saying, "The messenger reached them, but he is not coming back."

rsv@2Kings:9:20 @ Again the watchman reported, "He reached them, but he is not coming back. And the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he drives furiously."

rsv@2Kings:9:21 @ Joram said, "Make ready." And they made ready his chariot. Then Joram king of Israel and Ahazi'ah king of Judah set out, each in his chariot, and went to meet Jehu, and met him at the property of Naboth the Jezreelite.

rsv@2Kings:9:25 @ Jehu said to Bidkar his aide, "Take him up, and cast him on the plot of ground belonging to Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember, when you and I rode side by side behind Ahab his father, how the LORD uttered this oracle against him:

rsv@2Kings:9:26 @ `As surely as I saw yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons--says the LORD--I will requite you on this plot of ground.' Now therefore take him up and cast him on the plot of ground, in accordance with the word of the LORD."

rsv@2Kings:9:30 @ When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jez'ebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and adorned her head, and looked out of the window.

rsv@2Kings:9:31 @ And as Jehu entered the gate, she said, "Is it peace, you Zimri, murderer of your master?"

rsv@2Kings:9:32 @ And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, "Who is on my side? Who?" Two or three eunuchs looked out at him.

rsv@2Kings:9:33 @ He said, "Throw her down." So they threw her down; and some of her blood spattered on the wall and on the horses, and they trampled on her.

rsv@2Kings:9:34 @ Then he went in and ate and drank; and he said, "See now to this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king's daughter."

rsv@2Kings:9:36 @ When they came back and told him, he said, "This is the word of the LORD, which he spoke by his servant Eli'jah the Tishbite, `In the territory of Jezreel the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jez'ebel;

rsv@2Kings:9:37 @ and the corpse of Jez'ebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the territory of Jezreel, so that no one can say, This is Jez'ebel.'"

rsv@2Kings:10:1 @ Now Ahab had seventy sons in Sama'ria. So Jehu wrote letters, and sent them to Sama'ria, to the rulers of the city, to the elders, and to the guardians of the sons of Ahab, saying,

rsv@2Kings:10:2 @ "Now then, as soon as this letter comes to you, seeing your master's sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, fortified cities also, and weapons,

rsv@2Kings:10:3 @ select the best and fittest of your master's sons and set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house."

rsv@2Kings:10:5 @ So he who was over the palace, and he who was over the city, together with the elders and the guardians, sent to Jehu, saying, "We are your servants, and we will do all that you bid us. We will not make any one king; do whatever is good in your eyes."

rsv@2Kings:10:6 @ Then he wrote to them a second letter, saying, "If you are on my side, and if you are ready to obey me, take the heads of your master's sons, and come to me at Jezreel tomorrow at this time." Now the king's sons, seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who were bringing them up.

rsv@2Kings:10:7 @ And when the letter came to them, they took the king's sons, and slew them, seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him at Jezreel.

rsv@2Kings:10:8 @ When the messenger came and told him, "They have brought the heads of the king's sons," he said, "Lay them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning."

rsv@2Kings:10:9 @ Then in the morning, when he went out, he stood, and said to all the people, "You are innocent. It was I who conspired against my master, and slew him; but who struck down all these?

rsv@2Kings:10:15 @ And when he departed from there, he met Jehon'adab the son of Rechab coming to meet him; and he greeted him, and said to him, "Is your heart true to my heart as mine is to yours?" And Jehon'adab answered, "It is." Jehu said, "If it is, give me your hand." So he gave him his hand. And Jehu took him up with him into the chariot.

rsv@2Kings:10:21 @ And Jehu sent throughout all Israel; and all the worshipers of Ba'al came, so that there was not a man left who did not come. And they entered the house of Ba'al, and the house of Ba'al was filled from one end to the other.

rsv@2Kings:10:32 @ In those days the LORD began to cut off parts of Israel. Haz'ael defeated them throughout the territory of Israel:

rsv@2Kings:10:33 @ from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manas'sites, from Aro'er, which is by the valley of the Arnon, that is, Gilead and Bashan.

rsv@2Kings:10:34 @ Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

rsv@2Kings:10:35 @ So Jehu slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Sama'ria. And Jeho'ahaz his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@2Kings:11:2 @ But Jehosh'eba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahazi'ah, took Jo'ash the son of Ahazi'ah, and stole him away from among the king's sons who were about to be slain, and she put him and his nurse in a bedchamber. Thus she hid him from Athali'ah, so that he was not slain;

rsv@2Kings:11:4 @ But in the seventh year Jehoi'ada sent and brought the captains of the Carites and of the guards, and had them come to him in the house of the LORD; and he made a covenant with them and put them under oath in the house of the LORD, and he showed them the king's son.

rsv@2Kings:11:6 @ (another third being at the gate Sur and a third at the gate behind the guards), shall guard the palace;

rsv@2Kings:11:12 @ Then he brought out the king's son, and put the crown upon him, and gave him the testimony; and they proclaimed him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, "Long live the king!"

rsv@2Kings:11:14 @ and when she looked, there was the king standing by the pillar, according to the custom, and the captains and the trumpeters beside the king, and all the people of the land rejoicing and blowing trumpets. And Athali'ah rent her clothes, and cried, "Treason! Treason!"

rsv@2Kings:11:18 @ Then all the people of the land went to the house of Ba'al, and tore it down; his altars and his images they broke in pieces, and they slew Mattan the priest of Ba'al before the altars. And the priest posted watchmen over the house of the LORD.

rsv@2Kings:11:19 @ And he took the captains, the Carites, the guards, and all the people of the land; and they brought the king down from the house of the LORD, marching through the gate of the guards to the king's house. And he took his seat on the throne of the kings.

rsv@2Kings:11:20 @ So all the people of the land rejoiced; and the city was quiet after Athali'ah had been slain with the sword at the king's house.

rsv@2Kings:12:2 @ And Jeho'ash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all his days, because Jehoi'ada the priest instructed him.

rsv@2Kings:12:9 @ Then Jehoi'ada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar on the right side as one entered the house of the LORD; and the priests who guarded the threshold put in it all the money that was brought into the house of the LORD.

rsv@2Kings:12:10 @ And whenever they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king's secretary and the high priest came up and they counted and tied up in bags the money that was found in the house of the LORD.

rsv@2Kings:12:11 @ Then they would give the money that was weighed out into the hands of the workmen who had the oversight of the house of the LORD; and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders who worked upon the house of the LORD,

rsv@2Kings:12:12 @ and to the masons and the stonecutters, as well as to buy timber and quarried stone for making repairs on the house of the LORD, and for any outlay upon the repairs of the house.

rsv@2Kings:12:18 @ Jeho'ash king of Judah took all the votive gifts that Jehosh'aphat and Jeho'ram and Ahazi'ah, his fathers, the kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own votive gifts, and all the gold that was found in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and of the king's house, and sent these to Haz'ael king of Syria. Then Haz'ael went away from Jerusalem.

rsv@2Kings:12:19 @ Now the rest of the acts of Jo'ash, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

rsv@2Kings:12:21 @ It was Jo'zacar the son of Shim'e-ath and Jeho'zabad the son of Shomer, his servants, who struck him down, so that he died. And they buried him with his fathers in the city of David, and Amazi'ah his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@2Kings:13:1 @ In the twenty-third year of Jo'ash the son of Ahazi'ah, king of Judah, Jeho'ahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Sama'ria, and he reigned seventeen years.

rsv@2Kings:13:7 @ For there was not left to Jeho'ahaz an army of more than fifty horsemen and ten chariots and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.

rsv@2Kings:13:8 @ Now the rest of the acts of Jeho'ahaz and all that he did, and his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

rsv@2Kings:13:9 @ So Jeho'ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Sama'ria; and Jo'ash his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@2Kings:13:10 @ In the thirty-seventh year of Jo'ash king of Judah Jeho'ash the son of Jeho'ahaz began to reign over Israel in Sama'ria, and he reigned sixteen years.

rsv@2Kings:13:12 @ Now the rest of the acts of Jo'ash, and all that he did, and the might with which he fought against Amazi'ah king of Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

rsv@2Kings:13:20 @ So Eli'sha died, and they buried him. Now bands of Moabites used to invade the land in the spring of the year.

rsv@2Kings:13:24 @ When Haz'ael king of Syria died, Ben-ha'dad his son became king in his stead.

rsv@2Kings:13:25 @ Then Jeho'ash the son of Jeho'ahaz took again from Ben-ha'dad the son of Haz'ael the cities which he had taken from Jeho'ahaz his father in war. Three times Jo'ash defeated him and recovered the cities of Israel.

rsv@2Kings:14:6 @ But he did not put to death the children of the murderers; according to what is written in the book of the law of Moses, where the LORD commanded, "The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, or the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin."

rsv@2Kings:14:7 @ He killed ten thousand E'domites in the Valley of Salt and took Sela by storm, and called it Jok'the-el, which is its name to this day.

rsv@2Kings:14:9 @ And Jeho'ash king of Israel sent word to Amazi'ah king of Judah, "A thistle on Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, `Give your daughter to my son for a wife'; and a wild beast of Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thistle.

rsv@2Kings:14:10 @ You have indeed smitten Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Be content with your glory, and stay at home; for why should you provoke trouble so that you fall, you and Judah with you?"

rsv@2Kings:14:11 @ But Amazi'ah would not listen. So Jeho'ash king of Israel went up, and he and Amazi'ah king of Judah faced one another in battle at Beth-she'mesh, which belongs to Judah.

rsv@2Kings:14:12 @ And Judah was defeated by Israel, and every man fled to his home.

rsv@2Kings:14:13 @ And Jeho'ash king of Israel captured Amazi'ah king of Judah, the son of Jeho'ash, son of Ahazi'ah, at Beth-she'mesh, and came to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem for four hundred cubits, from the E'phraim Gate to the Corner Gate.

rsv@2Kings:14:15 @ Now the rest of the acts of Jeho'ash which he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amazi'ah king of Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

rsv@2Kings:14:16 @ And Jeho'ash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Sama'ria with the kings of Israel; and Jerobo'am his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@2Kings:14:17 @ Amazi'ah the son of Jo'ash, king of Judah, lived fifteen years after the death of Jeho'ash son of Jeho'ahaz, king of Israel.

rsv@2Kings:14:18 @ Now the rest of the deeds of Amazi'ah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

rsv@2Kings:14:19 @ And they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. But they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.

rsv@2Kings:14:21 @ And all the people of Judah took Azari'ah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amazi'ah.

rsv@2Kings:14:22 @ He built Elath and restored it to Judah, after the king slept with his fathers.

rsv@2Kings:14:23 @ In the fifteenth year of Amazi'ah the son of Jo'ash, king of Judah, Jerobo'am the son of Jo'ash, king of Israel, began to reign in Sama'ria, and he reigned forty-one years.

rsv@2Kings:14:26 @ For the LORD saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter, for there was none left, bond or free, and there was none to help Israel.

rsv@2Kings:14:28 @ Now the rest of the acts of Jerobo'am, and all that he did, and his might, how he fought, and how he recovered for Israel Damascus and Hamath, which had belonged to Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

rsv@2Kings:14:29 @ And Jerobo'am slept with his fathers, the kings of Israel, and Zechari'ah his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@2Kings:15:2 @ He was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jecoli'ah of Jerusalem.

rsv@2Kings:15:5 @ And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death, and he dwelt in a separate house. And Jotham the king's son was over the household, governing the people of the land.

rsv@2Kings:15:6 @ Now the rest of the acts of Azari'ah, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

rsv@2Kings:15:7 @ And Azari'ah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David, and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@2Kings:15:10 @ Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and struck him down at Ibleam, and killed him, and reigned in his stead.

rsv@2Kings:15:11 @ Now the rest of the deeds of Zechari'ah, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.

rsv@2Kings:15:14 @ Then Men'ahem the son of Gadi came up from Tirzah and came to Sama'ria, and he struck down Shallum the son of Jabesh in Sama'ria and slew him, and reigned in his stead.

rsv@2Kings:15:15 @ Now the rest of the deeds of Shallum, and the conspiracy which he made, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.

rsv@2Kings:15:16 @ At that time Men'ahem sacked Tappuah and all who were in it and its territory from Tirzah on; because they did not open it to him, therefore he sacked it, and he ripped up all the women in it who were with child.

rsv@2Kings:15:17 @ In the thirty-ninth year of Azari'ah king of Judah Men'ahem the son of Gadi began to reign over Israel, and he reigned ten years in Sama'ria.

rsv@2Kings:15:20 @ Men'ahem exacted the money from Israel, that is, from all the wealthy men, fifty shekels of silver from every man, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and did not stay there in the land.

rsv@2Kings:15:21 @ Now the rest of the deeds of Men'ahem, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

rsv@2Kings:15:22 @ And Men'ahem slept with his fathers, and Pekahi'ah his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@2Kings:15:25 @ And Pekah the son of Remali'ah, his captain, conspired against him with fifty men of the Gileadites, and slew him in Sama'ria, in the citadel of the king's house; he slew him, and reigned in his stead.

rsv@2Kings:15:26 @ Now the rest of the deeds of Pekahi'ah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.

rsv@2Kings:15:30 @ Then Hoshe'a the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remali'ah, and struck him down, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzzi'ah.

rsv@2Kings:15:31 @ Now the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.

rsv@2Kings:15:33 @ He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jeru'sha the daughter of Zadok.

rsv@2Kings:15:35 @ Nevertheless the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of the LORD.

rsv@2Kings:15:36 @ Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

rsv@2Kings:15:38 @ Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father; and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@2Kings:16:1 @ In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remali'ah, Ahaz the son of Jotham, king of Judah, began to reign.

rsv@2Kings:16:2 @ Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD his God, as his father David had done,

rsv@2Kings:16:6 @ At that time the king of Edom recovered Elath for Edom, and drove the men of Judah from Elath; and the E'domites came to Elath, where they dwell to this day.

rsv@2Kings:16:10 @ When King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tig'lath-pile'ser king of Assyria, he saw the altar that was at Damascus. And King Ahaz sent to Uri'ah the priest a model of the altar, and its pattern, exact in all its details.

rsv@2Kings:16:18 @ And the covered way for the sabbath which had been built inside the palace, and the outer entrance for the king he removed from the house of the LORD, because of the king of Assyria.

rsv@2Kings:16:19 @ Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

rsv@2Kings:16:20 @ And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and Hezeki'ah his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@2Kings:17:3 @ Against him came up Shalmane'ser king of Assyria; and Hoshe'a became his vassal, and paid him tribute.

rsv@2Kings:17:4 @ But the king of Assyria found treachery in Hoshe'a; for he had sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year; therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.

rsv@2Kings:17:6 @ In the ninth year of Hoshe'a the king of Assyria captured Sama'ria, and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

rsv@2Kings:17:13 @ Yet the LORD warned Israel and Judah by every prophet and every seer, saying, "Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets."

rsv@2Kings:17:14 @ But they would not listen, but were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the LORD their God.

rsv@2Kings:17:15 @ They despised his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and the warnings which he gave them. They went after false idols, and became false, and they followed the nations that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had commanded them that they should not do like them.

rsv@2Kings:17:16 @ And they forsook all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made for themselves molten images of two calves; and they made an Ashe'rah, and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Ba'al.

rsv@2Kings:17:17 @ And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings, and used divination and sorcery, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger.

rsv@2Kings:17:20 @ And the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel, and afflicted them, and gave them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.

rsv@2Kings:17:24 @ And the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sephar-va'im, and placed them in the cities of Sama'ria instead of the people of Israel; and they took possession of Sama'ria, and dwelt in its cities.

rsv@2Kings:17:27 @ Then the king of Assyria commanded, "Send there one of the priests whom you carried away thence; and let him go and dwell there, and teach them the law of the god of the land."

rsv@2Kings:17:31 @ and the Av'vites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sephar'vites burned their children in the fire to Adram'melech and Anam'melech, the gods of Sephar-va'im.

rsv@2Kings:17:32 @ They also feared the LORD, and appointed from among themselves all sorts of people as priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the shrines of the high places.

rsv@2Kings:17:33 @ So they feared the LORD but also served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.

rsv@2Kings:17:34 @ To this day they do according to the former manner. They do not fear the LORD, and they do not follow the statutes or the ordinances or the law or the commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel.

rsv@2Kings:17:37 @ And the statutes and the ordinances and the law and the commandment which he wrote for you, you shall always be careful to do. You shall not fear other gods,

rsv@2Kings:17:40 @ However they would not listen, but they did according to their former manner.

rsv@2Kings:18:2 @ He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Abi the daughter of Zechari'ah.

rsv@2Kings:18:5 @ He trusted in the LORD the God of Israel; so that there was none like him among all the kings of Judah after him, nor among those who were before him.

rsv@2Kings:18:8 @ He smote the Philistines as far as Gaza and its territory, from watchtower to fortified city.

rsv@2Kings:18:11 @ The king of Assyria carried the Israelites away to Assyria, and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,

rsv@2Kings:18:12 @ because they did not obey the voice of the LORD their God but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded; they neither listened nor obeyed.

rsv@2Kings:18:13 @ In the fourteenth year of King Hezeki'ah Sennach'erib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.

rsv@2Kings:18:14 @ And Hezeki'ah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, "I have done wrong; withdraw from me; whatever you impose on me I will bear." And the king of Assyria required of Hezeki'ah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.

rsv@2Kings:18:16 @ At that time Hezeki'ah stripped the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD, and from the doorposts which Hezeki'ah king of Judah had overlaid and gave it to the king of Assyria.

rsv@2Kings:18:20 @ Do you think that mere words are strategy and power for war? On whom do you now rely, that you have rebelled against me?

rsv@2Kings:18:23 @ Come now, make a wager with my master the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders upon them.

rsv@2Kings:18:24 @ How then can you repulse a single captain among the least of my master's servants, when you rely on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

rsv@2Kings:18:27 @ But the Rab'shakeh said to them, "Has my master sent me to speak these words to your master and to you, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are doomed with you to eat their own dung and to drink their own urine?"

rsv@2Kings:18:31 @ Do not listen to Hezeki'ah; for thus says the king of Assyria: `Make your peace with me and come out to me; then every one of you will eat of his own vine, and every one of his own fig tree, and every one of you will drink the water of his own cistern;

rsv@2Kings:18:32 @ until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey, that you may live, and not die. And do not listen to Hezeki'ah when he misleads you by saying, The LORD will deliver us.

rsv@2Kings:19:4 @ It may be that the LORD your God heard all the words of the Rab'shakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words which the LORD your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left."

rsv@2Kings:19:6 @ Isaiah said to them, "Say to your master, `Thus says the LORD: Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have reviled me.

rsv@2Kings:19:11 @ Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, destroying them utterly. And shall you be delivered?

rsv@2Kings:19:12 @ Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations which my fathers destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Tel-assar?

rsv@2Kings:19:14 @ Hezeki'ah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it; and Hezeki'ah went up to the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.

rsv@2Kings:19:17 @ Of a truth, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,

rsv@2Kings:19:21 @ This is the word that the LORD has spoken concerning him: "She despises you, she scorns you--the virgin daughter of Zion; she wags her head behind you--the daughter of Jerusalem.

rsv@2Kings:19:22 @ "Whom have you mocked and reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and haughtily lifted your eyes? Against the Holy One of Israel!

rsv@2Kings:19:23 @ By your messengers you have mocked the LORD, and you have said, `With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of Lebanon; I felled its tallest cedars, its choicest cypresses; I entered its farthest retreat, its densest forest.

rsv@2Kings:19:24 @ I dug wells and drank foreign waters, and I dried up with the sole of my foot all the streams of Egypt.'

rsv@2Kings:19:25 @ "Have you not heard that I determined it long ago? I planned from days of old what now I bring to pass, that you should turn fortified cities into heaps of ruins,

rsv@2Kings:19:26 @ while their inhabitants, shorn of strength, are dismayed and confounded, and have become like plants of the field, and like tender grass, like grass on the housetops; blighted before it is grown?

rsv@2Kings:19:36 @ Then Sennach'erib king of Assyria departed, and went home, and dwelt at Nin'eveh.

rsv@2Kings:19:37 @ And as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adram'melech and Share'zer, his sons, slew him with the sword, and escaped into the land of Ar'arat. And Esarhad'don his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@2Kings:20:3 @ "Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in thy sight." And Hezeki'ah wept bitterly.

rsv@2Kings:20:5 @ "Turn back, and say to Hezeki'ah the prince of my people, Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I will heal you; on the third day you shall go up to the house of the LORD.

rsv@2Kings:20:6 @ And I will add fifteen years to your life. I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city for my own sake and for my servant David's sake."

rsv@2Kings:20:9 @ And Isaiah said, "This is the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that he has promised: shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?"

rsv@2Kings:20:10 @ And Hezeki'ah answered, "It is an easy thing for the shadow to lengthen ten steps; rather let the shadow go back ten steps."

rsv@2Kings:20:11 @ And Isaiah the prophet cried to the LORD; and he brought the shadow back ten steps, by which the sun had declined on the dial of Ahaz.

rsv@2Kings:20:12 @ At that time Mero'dach-bal'adan the son of Bal'adan, king of Babylon, sent envoys with letters and a present to Hezeki'ah; for he heard that Hezeki'ah had been sick.

rsv@2Kings:20:20 @ The rest of the deeds of Hezeki'ah, and all his might, and how he made the pool and the conduit and brought water into the city, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

rsv@2Kings:20:21 @ And Hezeki'ah slept with his fathers; and Manas'seh his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@2Kings:21:3 @ For he rebuilt the high places which Hezeki'ah his father had destroyed; and he erected altars for Ba'al, and made an Ashe'rah, as Ahab king of Israel had done, and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served them.

rsv@2Kings:21:9 @ But they did not listen, and Manas'seh seduced them to do more evil than the nations had done whom the LORD destroyed before the people of Israel.

rsv@2Kings:21:11 @ "Because Manas'seh king of Judah has committed these abominations, and has done things more wicked than all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has made Judah also to sin with his idols;

rsv@2Kings:21:17 @ Now the rest of the acts of Manas'seh, and all that he did, and the sin that he committed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

rsv@2Kings:21:18 @ And Manas'seh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his house, in the garden of Uzza; and Amon his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@2Kings:21:19 @ Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Meshul'lemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.

rsv@2Kings:21:24 @ But the people of the land slew all those who had conspired against King Amon, and the people of the land made Josi'ah his son king in his stead.

rsv@2Kings:21:25 @ Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

rsv@2Kings:21:26 @ And he was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza; and Josi'ah his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@2Kings:22:1 @ Josi'ah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jedi'dah the daughter of Adai'ah of Bozkath.

rsv@2Kings:22:3 @ In the eighteenth year of King Josi'ah, the king sent Shaphan the son of Azali'ah, son of Meshul'lam, the secretary, to the house of the LORD, saying,

rsv@2Kings:22:4 @ "Go up to Hilki'ah the high priest, that he may reckon the amount of the money which has been brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the threshold have collected from the people;

rsv@2Kings:22:6 @ that is, to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, as well as for buying timber and quarried stone to repair the house.

rsv@2Kings:22:9 @ And Shaphan the secretary came to the king, and reported to the king, "Your servants have emptied out the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of the LORD."

rsv@2Kings:22:13 @ "Go, inquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that has been found; for great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book, to do according to all that is written concerning us."

rsv@2Kings:22:14 @ So Hilki'ah the priest, and Ahi'kam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asai'ah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter); and they talked with her.

rsv@2Kings:22:15 @ And she said to them, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: `Tell the man who sent you to me,

rsv@2Kings:22:19 @ because your heart was penitent, and you humbled yourself before the LORD, when you heard how I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and you have rent your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, says the LORD.

rsv@2Kings:23:3 @ And the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes, with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book; and all the people joined in the covenant.

rsv@2Kings:23:4 @ And the king commanded Hilki'ah, the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels made for Ba'al, for Ashe'rah, and for all the host of heaven; he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.

rsv@2Kings:23:5 @ And he deposed the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places at the cities of Judah and round about Jerusalem; those also who burned incense to Ba'al, to the sun, and the moon, and the constellations, and all the host of the heavens.

rsv@2Kings:23:7 @ And he broke down the houses of the male cult prostitutes which were in the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the Ashe'rah.

rsv@2Kings:23:8 @ And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beer-sheba; and he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on one's left at the gate of the city.

rsv@2Kings:23:9 @ However, the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brethren.

rsv@2Kings:23:10 @ And he defiled To'pheth, which is in the valley of the sons of Hinnom, that no one might burn his son or his daughter as an offering to Molech.

rsv@2Kings:23:11 @ And 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 chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the precincts; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

rsv@2Kings:23:13 @ And the king defiled the high places that were east of Jerusalem, to the south of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ash'toreth the abomination of the Sido'nians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

rsv@2Kings:23:15 @ Moreover the altar at Bethel, the high place erected by Jerobo'am the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, that altar with the high place he pulled down and he broke in pieces its stones, crushing them to dust; also he burned the Ashe'rah.

rsv@2Kings:23:16 @ And as Josi'ah turned, he saw the tombs there on the mount; and he sent and took the bones out of the tombs, and burned them upon the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who had predicted these things.

rsv@2Kings:23:17 @ Then he said, "What is yonder monument that I see?" And the men of the city told him, "It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and predicted these things which you have done against the altar at Bethel."

rsv@2Kings:23:21 @ And the king commanded all the people, "Keep the passover to the LORD your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant."

rsv@2Kings:23:23 @ but in the eighteenth year of King Josi'ah this passover was kept to the LORD in Jerusalem.

rsv@2Kings:23:24 @ Moreover Josi'ah put away the mediums and the wizards and the teraphim and the idols and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might establish the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilki'ah the priest found in the house of the LORD.

rsv@2Kings:23:25 @ Before him there was no king like him, who turned to the LORD with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; nor did any like him arise after him.

rsv@2Kings:23:28 @ Now the rest of the acts of Josi'ah, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

rsv@2Kings:23:29 @ In his days Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt went up to the king of Assyria to the river Euphra'tes. King Josi'ah went to meet him; and Pharaoh Neco slew him at Megid'do, when he saw him.

rsv@2Kings:23:30 @ And his servants carried him dead in a chariot from Megid'do, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own tomb. And the people of the land took Jeho'ahaz the son of Josi'ah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead.

rsv@2Kings:23:31 @ Jeho'ahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hamu'tal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

rsv@2Kings:23:33 @ And Pharaoh Neco put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem, and laid upon the land a tribute of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

rsv@2Kings:23:35 @ And Jehoi'akim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh, but he taxed the land to give the money according to the command of Pharaoh. He exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, from every one according to his assessment, to give it to Pharaoh Neco.

rsv@2Kings:23:36 @ Jehoi'akim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zebi'dah the daughter of Pedai'ah of Rumah.

rsv@2Kings:24:2 @ And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chalde'ans, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the Ammonites, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD which he spoke by his servants the prophets.

rsv@2Kings:24:5 @ Now the rest of the deeds of Jehoi'akim, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

rsv@2Kings:24:6 @ So Jehoi'akim slept with his fathers, and Jehoi'achin his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@2Kings:24:7 @ And the king of Egypt did not come again out of his land, for the king of Babylon had taken all that belonged to the king of Egypt from the Brook of Egypt to the river Euphra'tes.

rsv@2Kings:24:8 @ Jehoi'achin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Nehush'ta the daughter of Elna'than of Jerusalem.

rsv@2Kings:24:13 @ and carried off all the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold in the temple of the LORD, which Solomon king of Israel had made, as the LORD had foretold.

rsv@2Kings:24:14 @ He carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valor, ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths; none remained, except the poorest people of the land.

rsv@2Kings:24:17 @ And the king of Babylon made Mattani'ah, Jehoi'achin's uncle, king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedeki'ah.

rsv@2Kings:24:18 @ Zedeki'ah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hamu'tal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

rsv@2Kings:25:1 @ And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnez'zar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem, and laid siege to it; and they built siegeworks against it round about.

rsv@2Kings:25:4 @ Then a breach was made in the city; the king with all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by the king's garden, though the Chalde'ans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the Arabah.

rsv@2Kings:25:5 @ But the army of the Chalde'ans pursued the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.

rsv@2Kings:25:6 @ Then they captured the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, who passed sentence upon him.

rsv@2Kings:25:7 @ They slew the sons of Zedeki'ah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedeki'ah, and bound him in fetters, and took him to Babylon.

rsv@2Kings:25:8 @ In the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month--which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnez'zar, king of Babylon--Nebu'zarad'an, the captain of the bodyguard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

rsv@2Kings:25:11 @ And the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, together with the rest of the multitude, Nebu'zarad'an the captain of the guard carried into exile.

rsv@2Kings:25:14 @ And they took away the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the dishes for incense and all the vessels of bronze used in the temple service,

rsv@2Kings:25:17 @ The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and upon it was a capital of bronze; the height of the capital was three cubits; a network and pomegranates, all of bronze, were upon the capital round about. And the second pillar had the like, with the network.

rsv@2Kings:25:19 @ and from the city he took an officer who had been in command of the men of war, and five men of the king's council who were found in the city; and the secretary of the commander of the army who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the city.

rsv@2Kings:25:21 @ And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was taken into exile out of its land.

rsv@2Kings:25:22 @ And over the people who remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnez'zar king of Babylon had left, he appointed Gedali'ah the son of Ahi'kam, son of Shaphan, governor.

rsv@2Kings:25:23 @ Now when all the captains of the forces in the open country and their men heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedali'ah governor, they came with their men to Gedali'ah at Mizpah, namely, Ish'mael the son of Nethani'ah, and Joha'nan the son of Kare'ah, and Serai'ah the son of Tanhu'meth the Netoph'athite, and Ja-azani'ah the son of the Ma-ac'athite.

rsv@2Kings:25:25 @ But in the seventh month, Ish'mael the son of Nethani'ah, son of Eli'shama, of the royal family, came with ten men, and attacked and killed Gedali'ah and the Jews and the Chalde'ans who were with him at Mizpah.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:9 @ The sons of Cush: Seba, Hav'ilah, Sabta, Ra'ama, and Sab'teca. The sons of Ra'amah: Sheba and Dedan.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:14 @ and the Jeb'usites, the Am'orites, the Gir'gashites,

rsv@1Chronicles:1:15 @ the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,

rsv@1Chronicles:1:16 @ the Ar'vadites, the Zem'arites, and the Ha'mathites.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:26 @ Serug, Nahor, Terah;

rsv@1Chronicles:1:30 @ Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema,

rsv@1Chronicles:1:36 @ The sons of Eli'phaz: Teman, Omar, Zephi, Gatam, Kenaz, Timna, and Am'alek.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:39 @ The sons of Lotan: Hori and Homam; and Lotan's sister was Timna.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:43 @ These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the Israelites: Bela the son of Be'or, the name of whose city was Din'habah.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:44 @ When Bela died, Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:45 @ When Jobab died, Husham of the land of the Te'manites reigned in his stead.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:46 @ When Husham died, Hadad the son of Bedad, who defeated Mid'ian in the country of Moab, reigned in his stead; and the name of his city was Avith.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:47 @ When Hadad died, Samlah of Masre'kah reigned in his stead.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:48 @ When Samlah died, Sha'ul of Reho'both on the Euphra'tes reigned in his stead.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:49 @ When Sha'ul died, Ba'al-ha'nan, the son of Achbor, reigned in his stead.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:50 @ When Ba'al-ha'nan died, Hadad reigned in his stead; and the name of his city was Pa'i, and his wife's name Mehet'abel the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me'zahab.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:53 @ Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar,

rsv@1Chronicles:2:3 @ The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, and Shelah; these three Bath-shu'a the Canaanitess bore to him. Now Er, Judah's first-born, was wicked in the sight of the LORD, and he slew him.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:4 @ His daughter-in-law Tamar also bore him Perez and Zerah. Judah had five sons in all.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:7 @ The sons of Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Israel, who transgressed in the matter of the devoted thing;

rsv@1Chronicles:2:16 @ and their sisters were Zeru'iah and Ab'igail. The sons of Zeru'iah: Abi'shai, Jo'ab, and As'ahel, three.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:17 @ Ab'igail bore Ama'sa, and the father of Ama'sa was Jether the Ish'maelite.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:21 @ Afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was sixty years old; and she bore him Segub;

rsv@1Chronicles:2:24 @ After the death of Hezron, Caleb went in to Eph'rathah, the wife of Hezron his father, and she bore him Ashhur, the father of Teko'a.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:34 @ Now Sheshan had no sons, only daughters; but Sheshan had an Egyptian slave, whose name was Jarha.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:35 @ So Sheshan gave his daughter in marriage to Jarha his slave; and she bore him Attai.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:49 @ She also bore Sha'aph the father of Madman'nah, Sheva the father of Machbe'nah and the father of Gib'e-a; and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:53 @ And the families of Kir'iath-je'arim: the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shu'mathites, and the Mish'ra-ites; from these came the Zo'rathites and the Esh'taolites.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:54 @ The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, the Netoph'athites, At'roth-beth-jo'ab, and half of the Man'aha'thites, the Zorites.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:55 @ The families also of the scribes that dwelt at Jabez: the Ti'rathites, the Shim'e-athites, and the Su'cathites. These are the Ken'ites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.

rsv@1Chronicles:3:1 @ These are the sons of David that were born to him in Hebron: the first-born Amnon, by Ahin'o-am the Jezreelitess; the second Daniel, by Ab'igail the Car'melitess,

rsv@1Chronicles:3:2 @ the third Ab'salom, whose mother was Ma'acah, the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur; the fourth Adoni'jah, whose mother was Haggith;

rsv@1Chronicles:3:5 @ These were born to him in Jerusalem: Shim'e-a, Shobab, Nathan and Solomon, four by Bath-shu'a, the daughter of Am'mi-el;

rsv@1Chronicles:3:9 @ All these were David's sons, besides the sons of the concubines; and Tamar was their sister.

rsv@1Chronicles:3:19 @ and the sons of Pedai'ah: Zerub'babel and Shim'e-i; and the sons of Zerub'babel: Meshul'lam and Hanani'ah, and Shelo'mith was their sister;

rsv@1Chronicles:4:2 @ Re-ai'ah the son of Shobal was the father of Jahath, and Jahath was the father of Ahu'mai and Lahad. These were the families of the Zo'rathites.

rsv@1Chronicles:4:3 @ These were the sons of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash; and the name of their sister was Hazzelelpo'ni,

rsv@1Chronicles:4:5 @ Ashhur, the father of Teko'a, had two wives, Helah and Na'arah;

rsv@1Chronicles:4:6 @ Na'arah bore him Ahuz'zam, Hepher, Te'meni, and Ha-ahash'tari. These were the sons of Na'arah.

rsv@1Chronicles:4:10 @ Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, "Oh that thou wouldst bless me and enlarge my border, and that thy hand might be with me, and that thou wouldst keep me from harm so that it might not hurt me!" And God granted what he asked.

rsv@1Chronicles:4:12 @ Eshton was the father of Bethra'pha, Pase'ah, and Tehin'nah the father of Irna'hash. These are the men of Recah.

rsv@1Chronicles:4:17 @ The sons of Ezrah: Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon. These are the sons of Bith'i-ah, the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered married; and she conceived and bore Miriam, Sham'mai, and Ishbah, the father of Eshtemo'a.

rsv@1Chronicles:4:19 @ The sons of the wife of Hodi'ah, the sister of Naham, were the fathers of Kei'lah the Garmite and Eshtemo'a the Ma-ac'athite.

rsv@1Chronicles:4:23 @ These were the potters and inhabitants of Neta'im and Gede'rah; they dwelt there with the king for his work.

rsv@1Chronicles:4:27 @ Shim'e-i had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers had not many children, nor did all their family multiply like the men of Judah.

rsv@1Chronicles:4:41 @ These, registered by name, came in the days of Hezeki'ah, king of Judah, and destroyed their tents and the Me-u'nim who were found there, and exterminated them to this day, and settled in their place, because there was pasture there for their flocks.

rsv@1Chronicles:4:42 @ And some of them, five hundred men of the Simeonites, went to Mount Se'ir, having as their leaders Pelati'ah, Ne-ari'ah, Rephai'ah, and Uz'ziel, the sons of Ishi;

rsv@1Chronicles:4:43 @ and they destroyed the remnant of the Amal'ekites that had escaped, and they have dwelt there to this day.

rsv@1Chronicles:5:1 @ The sons of Reuben the first-born of Israel (for he was the first-born; but because he polluted his father's couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel, so that he is not enrolled in the genealogy according to the birthright;

rsv@1Chronicles:5:6 @ Be-er'ah his son, whom Til'gath-pilne'ser king of Assyria carried away into exile; he was a chieftain of the Reubenites.

rsv@1Chronicles:5:9 @ He also dwelt to the east as far as the entrance of the desert this side of the Euphra'tes, because their cattle had multiplied in the land of Gilead.

rsv@1Chronicles:5:10 @ And in the days of Saul they made war on the Hagrites, who fell by their hand; and they dwelt in their tents throughout all the region east of Gilead.

rsv@1Chronicles:5:18 @ The Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manas'seh had valiant men, who carried shield and sword, and drew the bow, expert in war, forty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty, ready for service.

rsv@1Chronicles:5:19 @ They made war upon the Hagrites, Jetur, Naphish, and Nodab;

rsv@1Chronicles:5:20 @ and when they received help against them, the Hagrites and all who were with them were given into their hands, for they cried to God in the battle, and he granted their entreaty because they trusted in him.

rsv@1Chronicles:5:25 @ But they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and played the harlot after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them.

rsv@1Chronicles:5:26 @ So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, the spirit of Til'gath-pilne'ser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, namely, the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manas'seh, and brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and the river Gozan, to this day.

rsv@1Chronicles:6:19 @ The sons of Merar'i: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers.

rsv@1Chronicles:6:31 @ These are the men whom David put in charge of the service of song in the house of the LORD, after the ark rested there.

rsv@1Chronicles:6:32 @ They ministered with song before the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, until Solomon had built the house of the LORD in Jerusalem; and they performed their service in due order.

rsv@1Chronicles:6:33 @ These are the men who served and their sons. Of the sons of the Ko'hathites: Heman the singer the son of Jo'el, son of Samuel,

rsv@1Chronicles:6:48 @ and their brethren the Levites were appointed for all the service of the tabernacle of the house of God.

rsv@1Chronicles:6:54 @ These are their dwelling places according to their settlements within their borders: to the sons of Aaron of the families of Ko'hathites, for theirs was the lot,

rsv@1Chronicles:6:57 @ To the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge: Hebron, Libnah with its pasture lands, Jattir, Eshtemo'a with its pasture lands,

rsv@1Chronicles:6:60 @ and from the tribe of Benjamin, Geba with its pasture lands, Al'emeth with its pasture lands, and An'athoth with its pasture lands. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen.

rsv@1Chronicles:6:61 @ To the rest of the Ko'hathites were given by lot out of the family of the tribe, out of the half-tribe, the half of Manas'seh, ten cities.

rsv@1Chronicles:6:62 @ To the Gershomites according to their families were allotted thirteen cities out of the tribes of Is'sachar, Asher, Naph'tali, and Manas'seh in Bashan.

rsv@1Chronicles:6:63 @ To the Merar'ites according to their families were allotted twelve cities out of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zeb'ulun.

rsv@1Chronicles:6:64 @ So the people of Israel gave the Levites the cities with their pasture lands.

rsv@1Chronicles:6:66 @ And some of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their territory out of the tribe of E'phraim.

rsv@1Chronicles:6:70 @ and out of the half-tribe of Manas'seh, Aner with its pasture lands, and Bil'e-am with its pasture lands, for the rest of the families of the Ko'hathites.

rsv@1Chronicles:6:71 @ To the Gershomites were given out of the half-tribe of Manas'seh: Golan in Bashan with its pasture lands and Ash'taroth with its pasture lands;

rsv@1Chronicles:6:77 @ To the rest of the Merar'ites were allotted out of the tribe of Zeb'ulun: Rim'mono with its pasture lands, Tabor with its pasture lands,

rsv@1Chronicles:6:78 @ and beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, out of the tribe of Reuben: Bezer in the steppe with its pasture lands, Jahzah with its pasture lands,

rsv@1Chronicles:7:11 @ All these were the sons of Jedi'a-el according to the heads of their fathers' houses, mighty warriors, seventeen thousand and two hundred, ready for service in war.

rsv@1Chronicles:7:15 @ And Machir took a wife for Huppim and for Shuppim. The name of his sister was Ma'acah. And the name of the second was Zeloph'ehad; and Zeloph'ehad had daughters.

rsv@1Chronicles:7:18 @ And his sister Hammo'lecheth bore Ishhod, Abi-e'zer, and Mahlah.

rsv@1Chronicles:7:24 @ His daughter was She'erah, who built both Lower and Upper Beth-hor'on, and Uz'zen-she'erah.

rsv@1Chronicles:7:25 @ Rephah was his son, Resheph his son, Telah his son, Tahan his son,

rsv@1Chronicles:7:29 @ also along the borders of the Manas'sites, Beth-she'an and its towns, Ta'anach and its towns, Megid'do and its towns, Dor and its towns. In these dwelt the sons of Joseph the son of Israel.

rsv@1Chronicles:7:30 @ The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beri'ah, and their sister Serah.

rsv@1Chronicles:7:32 @ Heber was the father of Japhlet, Shomer, Hotham, and their sister Shu'a.

rsv@1Chronicles:8:8 @ And Shahara'im had sons in the country of Moab after he had sent away Hushim and Ba'ara his wives.

rsv@1Chronicles:8:32 @ and Mikloth (he was the father of Shim'e-ah). Now these also dwelt opposite their kinsmen in Jerusalem, with their kinsmen.

rsv@1Chronicles:8:40 @ The sons of Ulam were men who were mighty warriors, bowmen, having many sons and grandsons, one hundred and fifty. All these were Benjaminites.

rsv@1Chronicles:9:1 @ So all Israel was enrolled by genealogies; and these are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel. And Judah was taken into exile in Babylon because of their unfaithfulness.

rsv@1Chronicles:9:2 @ Now the first to dwell again in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the temple servants.

rsv@1Chronicles:9:5 @ And of the Shi'lonites: Asai'ah the first-born, and his sons.

rsv@1Chronicles:9:7 @ Of the Benjaminites: Sallu the son of Meshul'lam, son of Hodavi'ah, son of Hassenu'ah,

rsv@1Chronicles:9:14 @ Of the Levites: Shemai'ah the son of Hasshub, son of Azri'kam, son of Hashabi'ah, of the sons of Merar'i;

rsv@1Chronicles:9:16 @ and Obadi'ah the son of Shemai'ah, son of Galal, son of Jedu'thun, and Berechi'ah the son of Asa, son of Elka'nah, who dwelt in the villages of the Netoph'athites.

rsv@1Chronicles:9:17 @ The gatekeepers were: Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahi'man, and their kinsmen (Shallum being the chief),

rsv@1Chronicles:9:18 @ stationed hitherto in the king's gate on the east side. These were the gatekeepers of the camp of the Levites.

rsv@1Chronicles:9:19 @ Shallum the son of Ko're, son of Ebi'asaph, son of Korah, and his kinsmen of his fathers' house, the Ko'rahites, were in charge of the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent, as their fathers had been in charge of the camp of the LORD, keepers of the entrance.

rsv@1Chronicles:9:21 @ Zechari'ah the son of Meshelemi'ah was gatekeeper at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

rsv@1Chronicles:9:22 @ All these, who were chosen as gatekeepers at the thresholds, were two hundred and twelve. They were enrolled by genealogies in their villages. David and Samuel the seer established them in their office of trust.

rsv@1Chronicles:9:23 @ So they and their sons were in charge of the gates of the house of the LORD, that is, the house of the tent, as guards.

rsv@1Chronicles:9:24 @ The gatekeepers were on the four sides, east, west, north, and south;

rsv@1Chronicles:9:26 @ for the four chief gatekeepers, who were Levites, were in charge of the chambers and the treasures of the house of God.

rsv@1Chronicles:9:28 @ Some of them had charge of the utensils of service, for they were required to count them when they were brought in and taken out.

rsv@1Chronicles:9:29 @ Others of them were appointed over the furniture, and over all the holy utensils, also over the fine flour, the wine, the oil, the incense, and the spices.

rsv@1Chronicles:9:31 @ and Mattithi'ah, one of the Levites, the first-born of Shallum the Ko'rahite, was in charge of making the flat cakes.

rsv@1Chronicles:9:32 @ Also some of their kinsmen of the Ko'hathites had charge of the showbread, to prepare it every sabbath.

rsv@1Chronicles:9:33 @ Now these are the singers, the heads of fathers' houses of the Levites, dwelling in the chambers of the temple free from other service, for they were on duty day and night.

rsv@1Chronicles:9:34 @ These were heads of fathers' houses of the Levites, according to their generations, leaders, who lived in Jerusalem.

rsv@1Chronicles:9:38 @ and Mikloth was the father of Shim'e-am; and these also dwelt opposite their kinsmen in Jerusalem, with their kinsmen.

rsv@1Chronicles:10:10 @ And they put his armor in the temple of their gods, and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon.

rsv@1Chronicles:10:12 @ all the valiant men arose, and took away the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh. And they buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

rsv@1Chronicles:10:13 @ So Saul died for his unfaithfulness; he was unfaithful to the LORD in that he did not keep the command of the LORD, and also consulted a medium, seeking guidance,

rsv@1Chronicles:11:3 @ So all the elders 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 over Israel, according to the word of the LORD by Samuel.

rsv@1Chronicles:11:4 @ And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, that is Jebus, where the Jeb'usites were, the inhabitants of the land.

rsv@1Chronicles:11:6 @ David said, "Whoever shall smite the Jeb'usites first shall be chief and commander." And Jo'ab the son of Zeru'iah went up first, so he became chief.

rsv@1Chronicles:11:8 @ And he built the city round about from the Millo in complete circuit; and Jo'ab repaired the rest of the city.

rsv@1Chronicles:11:9 @ And David became greater and greater, for the LORD of hosts was with him.

rsv@1Chronicles:11:11 @ This is an account of David's mighty men: Jasho'be-am, a Hach'monite, was chief of the three; he wielded his spear against three hundred whom he slew at one time.

rsv@1Chronicles:11:12 @ And next to him among the three mighty men was Elea'zar the son of Dodo, the Aho'hite.

rsv@1Chronicles:11:17 @ And David said longingly, "O that some one would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem which is by the gate!"

rsv@1Chronicles:11:18 @ Then the three mighty men broke through the camp of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem which was by the gate, and took and brought it to David. But David would not drink of it; he poured it out to the LORD,

rsv@1Chronicles:11:22 @ And Benai'ah the son of Jehoi'ada was a valiant man of Kabzeel, a doer of great deeds; he smote two ariels of Moab. He also went down and slew a lion in a pit on a day when snow had fallen.

rsv@1Chronicles:11:27 @ Shammoth of Harod, Helez the Pel'onite,

rsv@1Chronicles:11:28 @ Ira the son of Ikkesh of Teko'a, Abi-e'zer of An'athoth,

rsv@1Chronicles:11:29 @ Sib'becai the Hu'shathite, I'lai the Aho'hite,

rsv@1Chronicles:11:31 @ Ithai the son of Ribai of Gib'e-ah of the Benjaminites, Benai'ah of Pira'thon,

rsv@1Chronicles:11:32 @ Hurai of the brooks of Ga'ash, Abi'el the Ar'bathite,

rsv@1Chronicles:11:34 @ Hashem the Gi'zonite, Jonathan the son of Shagee the Har'arite,

rsv@1Chronicles:11:35 @ Ahi'am the son of Sachar the Har'arite, Eli'phal the son of Ur,

rsv@1Chronicles:11:36 @ Hepher the Meche'rathite, Ahi'jah the Pel'onite,

rsv@1Chronicles:11:39 @ Zelek the Ammonite, Na'harai of Be-er'oth, the armor-bearer of Jo'ab the son of Zeru'iah,

rsv@1Chronicles:11:40 @ Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,

rsv@1Chronicles:11:41 @ Uri'ah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,

rsv@1Chronicles:11:42 @ Ad'ina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a leader of the Reubenites, and thirty with him,

rsv@1Chronicles:11:43 @ Hanan the son of Ma'acah, and Josh'aphat the Mithnite,

rsv@1Chronicles:11:44 @ Uzzi'a the Ash'terathite, Shama and Je-i'el the sons of Hotham the Aro'erite,

rsv@1Chronicles:11:45 @ Jedi'a-el the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite,

rsv@1Chronicles:11:46 @ Eli'el the Ma'havite, and Jer'ibai, and Joshavi'ah, the sons of El'na-am, and Ithmah the Mo'abite,

rsv@1Chronicles:11:47 @ Eli'el, and Obed, and Ja-asi'el the Mezo'ba-ite.

rsv@1Chronicles:12:2 @ They were bowmen, and could shoot arrows and sling stones with either the right or the left hand; they were Benjaminites, Saul's kinsmen.

rsv@1Chronicles:12:5 @ Elu'zai, Jer'imoth, Beali'ah, Shemari'ah, Shephati'ah the Har'uphite;

rsv@1Chronicles:12:6 @ Elka'nah, Isshi'ah, Az'arel, Jo-e'zer, and Jasho'be-am, the Ko'rahites;

rsv@1Chronicles:12:8 @ From the Gadites there went over to David at the stronghold in the wilderness mighty and experienced warriors, expert with shield and spear, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and who were swift as gazelles upon the mountains:

rsv@1Chronicles:12:13 @ Jeremiah tenth, Mach'bannai eleventh.

rsv@1Chronicles:12:14 @ These Gadites were officers of the army, the lesser over a hundred and the greater over a thousand.

rsv@1Chronicles:12:19 @ Some of the men of Manas'seh deserted to David when he came with the Philistines for the battle against Saul. (Yet he did not help them, for the rulers of the Philistines took counsel and sent him away, saying, "At peril to our heads he will desert to his master Saul.")

rsv@1Chronicles:12:20 @ As he went to Ziklag these men of Manas'seh deserted to him: Adnah, Joz'abad, Jedi'a-el, Michael, Joz'abad, Eli'hu, and Zil'lethai, chiefs of thousands in Manas'seh.

rsv@1Chronicles:12:25 @ Of the Simeonites, mighty men of valor for war, seven thousand one hundred.

rsv@1Chronicles:12:26 @ Of the Levites four thousand six hundred.

rsv@1Chronicles:12:29 @ Of the Benjaminites, the kinsmen of Saul, three thousand, of whom the majority had hitherto kept their allegiance to the house of Saul.

rsv@1Chronicles:12:30 @ Of the E'phraimites twenty thousand eight hundred, mighty men of valor, famous men in their fathers' houses.

rsv@1Chronicles:12:31 @ Of the half-tribe of Manas'seh eighteen thousand, who were expressly named to come and make David king.

rsv@1Chronicles:12:35 @ Of the Danites twenty-eight thousand six hundred men equipped for battle.

rsv@1Chronicles:12:37 @ Of the Reubenites and Gadites and the half-tribe of Manas'seh from beyond the Jordan, one hundred and twenty thousand men armed with all the weapons of war.

rsv@1Chronicles:12:38 @ All these, men of war, arrayed in battle order, came to Hebron with full intent to make David king over all Israel; likewise all the rest of Israel were of a single mind to make David king.

rsv@1Chronicles:12:40 @ And also their neighbors, from as far as Is'sachar and Zeb'ulun and Naph'tali, came bringing food on asses and on camels and on mules and on oxen, abundant provisions of meal, cakes of figs, clusters of raisins, and wine and oil, oxen and sheep, for there was joy in Israel.

rsv@1Chronicles:13:1 @ David consulted with the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, with every leader.

rsv@1Chronicles:13:2 @ And David said to all the assembly of Israel, "If it seems good to you, and if it is the will of the LORD our God, let us send abroad to our brethren who remain in all the land of Israel, and with them to the priests and Levites in the cities that have pasture lands, that they may come together to us.

rsv@1Chronicles:13:3 @ Then let us bring again the ark of our God to us; for we neglected it in the days of Saul."

rsv@1Chronicles:13:10 @ And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and he smote him because he put forth his hand to the ark; and he died there before God.

rsv@1Chronicles:13:13 @ So David did not take the ark home into the city of David, but took it aside to the house of O'bed-e'dom the Gittite.

rsv@1Chronicles:14:1 @ And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, also masons and carpenters to build a house for him.

rsv@1Chronicles:14:2 @ And David perceived that the LORD had established him king over Israel, and that his kingdom was highly exalted for the sake of his people Israel.

rsv@1Chronicles:14:3 @ And David took more wives in Jerusalem, and David begot more sons and daughters.

rsv@1Chronicles:14:8 @ When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up in search of David; and David heard of it and went out against them.

rsv@1Chronicles:14:11 @ And he went up to Ba'al-pera'zim, and David defeated them there; and David said, "God has broken through my enemies by my hand, like a bursting flood." Therefore the name of that place is called Ba'al-pera'zim.

rsv@1Chronicles:14:14 @ And when David again inquired of God, God said to him, "You shall not go up after them; go around and come upon them opposite the balsam trees.

rsv@1Chronicles:14:15 @ And when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, then go out to battle; for God has gone out before you to smite the army of the Philistines."

rsv@1Chronicles:14:16 @ And David did as God commanded him, and they smote the Philistine army from Gibeon to Gezer.

rsv@1Chronicles:15:1 @ David built houses for himself in the city of David; and he prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched a tent for it.

rsv@1Chronicles:15:2 @ Then David said, "No one but the Levites may carry the ark of God, for the LORD chose them to carry the ark of the LORD and to minister to him for ever."

rsv@1Chronicles:15:4 @ And David gathered together the sons of Aaron and the Levites:

rsv@1Chronicles:15:11 @ Then David summoned the priests Zadok and Abi'athar, and the Levites Uri'el, Asai'ah, Jo'el, Shemai'ah, Eli'el, and Ammin'adab,

rsv@1Chronicles:15:12 @ and said to them, "You are the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites; sanctify yourselves, you and your brethren, so that you may bring up the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel, to the place that I have prepared for it.

rsv@1Chronicles:15:14 @ So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel.

rsv@1Chronicles:15:15 @ And the Levites carried the ark of God upon their shoulders with the poles, as Moses had commanded according to the word of the LORD.

rsv@1Chronicles:15:16 @ David also commanded the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their brethren as the singers who should play loudly on musical instruments, on harps and lyres and cymbals, to raise sounds of joy.

rsv@1Chronicles:15:17 @ So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Jo'el; and of his brethren Asaph the son of Berechi'ah; and of the sons of Merar'i, their brethren, Ethan the son of Kusha'iah;

rsv@1Chronicles:15:18 @ and with them their brethren of the second order, Zechari'ah, Ja-a'ziel, Shemi'ramoth, Jehi'el, Unni, Eli'ab, Benai'ah, Ma-asei'ah, Mattithi'ah, Eliph'elehu, and Miknei'ah, and the gatekeepers O'bed-e'dom and Je-i'el.

rsv@1Chronicles:15:22 @ Chenani'ah, leader of the Levites in music, should direct the music, for he understood it.

rsv@1Chronicles:15:23 @ Berechi'ah and Elka'nah were to be gatekeepers for the ark.

rsv@1Chronicles:15:24 @ Shebani'ah, Josh'aphat, Nethan'el, Ama'sai, Zechari'ah, Benai'ah, and Elie'zer, the priests, should blow the trumpets before the ark of God. O'bed-e'dom and Jehi'ah also were to be gatekeepers for the ark.

rsv@1Chronicles:15:26 @ And because God helped the Levites who were carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.

rsv@1Chronicles:15:27 @ David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, as also were all the Levites who were carrying the ark, and the singers, and Chenani'ah the leader of the music of the singers; and David wore a linen ephod.

rsv@1Chronicles:15:29 @ And as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window, and saw King David dancing and making merry; and she despised him in her heart.

rsv@1Chronicles:16:1 @ And they brought the ark of God, and set it inside the tent which David had pitched for it; and they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before God.

rsv@1Chronicles:16:3 @ and distributed to all Israel, both men and women, to each a loaf of bread, a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins.

rsv@1Chronicles:16:4 @ Moreover he appointed certain of the Levites as ministers before the ark of the LORD, to invoke, to thank, and to praise the LORD, the God of Israel.

rsv@1Chronicles:16:7 @ Then on that day David first appointed that thanksgiving be sung to the LORD by Asaph and his brethren.

rsv@1Chronicles:16:9 @ Sing to him, sing praises to him, tell of all his wonderful works!

rsv@1Chronicles:16:12 @ Remember the wonderful works that he has done, the wonders he wrought, the judgments he uttered,

rsv@1Chronicles:16:17 @ which he confirmed as a statute to Jacob, as an everlasting covenant to Israel,

rsv@1Chronicles:16:22 @ saying, "Touch not my anointed ones, do my prophets no harm!"

rsv@1Chronicles:16:23 @ Sing to the Lord, all the earth! Tell of his salvation from day to day.

rsv@1Chronicles:16:34 @ O give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures for ever!

rsv@1Chronicles:16:37 @ So David left Asaph and his brethren there before the ark of the covenant of the LORD to minister continually before the ark as each day required,

rsv@1Chronicles:16:38 @ and also O'bed-e'dom and his sixty-eight brethren; while O'bed-e'dom, the son of Jedu'thun, and Hosah were to be gatekeepers.

rsv@1Chronicles:16:40 @ to offer burnt offerings to the LORD upon the altar of burnt offering continually morning and evening, according to all that is written in the law of the LORD which he commanded Israel.

rsv@1Chronicles:16:41 @ With them were Heman and Jedu'thun, and the rest of those chosen and expressly named to give thanks to the LORD, for his steadfast love endures for ever.

rsv@1Chronicles:16:42 @ Heman and Jedu'thun had trumpets and cymbals for the music and instruments for sacred song. The sons of Jedu'thun were appointed to the gate.

rsv@1Chronicles:16:43 @ Then all the people departed each to his house, and David went home to bless his household.

rsv@1Chronicles:17:1 @ Now when David dwelt in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, "Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD is under a tent."

rsv@1Chronicles:17:4 @ "Go and tell my servant David, `Thus says the LORD: You shall not build me a house to dwell in.

rsv@1Chronicles:17:5 @ For I have not dwelt in a house since the day I led up Israel to this day, but I have gone from tent to tent and from dwelling to dwelling.

rsv@1Chronicles:17:9 @ And I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be disturbed no more; and violent men shall waste them no more, as formerly,

rsv@1Chronicles:17:10 @ from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel; and I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover I declare to you that the LORD will build you a house.

rsv@1Chronicles:17:11 @ When your days are fulfilled to go to be with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom.

rsv@1Chronicles:17:13 @ I will be his father, and he shall be my son; I will not take my steadfast love from him, as I took it from him who was before you,

rsv@1Chronicles:17:21 @ What other nation on earth is like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem to be his people, making for thyself a name for great and terrible things, in driving out nations before thy people whom thou didst redeem from Egypt?

rsv@1Chronicles:18:1 @ After this David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and he took Gath and its villages out of the hand of the Philistines.

rsv@1Chronicles:18:2 @ And he defeated Moab, and the Mo'abites became servants to David and brought tribute.

rsv@1Chronicles:18:3 @ David also defeated Hadade'zer king of Zobah, toward Hamath, as he went to set up his monument at the river Euphra'tes.

rsv@1Chronicles:18:6 @ Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought tribute. And the LORD gave victory to David wherever he went.

rsv@1Chronicles:18:9 @ When To'u king of Hamath heard that David had defeated the whole army of Hadade'zer, king of Zobah,

rsv@1Chronicles:18:10 @ he sent his son Hador'am to King David, to greet him, and to congratulate him because he had fought against Hadade'zer and defeated him; for Hadade'zer had often been at war with To'u. And he sent all sorts of articles of gold, of silver, and of bronze;

rsv@1Chronicles:18:11 @ these also King David dedicated to the LORD, together with the silver and gold which he had carried off from all the nations, from Edom, Moab, the Ammonites, the Philistines, and Am'alek.

rsv@1Chronicles:18:12 @ And Abi'shai, the son of Zeru'iah, slew eighteen thousand E'domites in the Valley of Salt.

rsv@1Chronicles:18:13 @ And he put garrisons in Edom; and all the E'domites became David's servants. And the LORD gave victory to David wherever he went.

rsv@1Chronicles:18:14 @ So David reigned over all Israel; and he administered justice and equity to all his people.

rsv@1Chronicles:18:17 @ and Benai'ah the son of Jehoi'ada was over the Cher'ethites and the Pel'ethites; and David's sons were the chief officials in the service of the king.

rsv@1Chronicles:19:1 @ Now after this Nahash the king of the Ammonites died, and his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@1Chronicles:19:2 @ And David said, "I will deal loyally with Hanun the son of Nahash, for his father dealt loyally with me." So David sent messengers to console him concerning his father. And David's servants came to Hanun in the land of the Ammonites, to console him.

rsv@1Chronicles:19:3 @ But the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun, "Do you think, because David has sent comforters to you, that he is honoring your father? Have not his servants come to you to search and to overthrow and to spy out the land?"

rsv@1Chronicles:19:5 @ and they departed. When David was told concerning the men, he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, "Remain at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return."

rsv@1Chronicles:19:6 @ When the Ammonites saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the Ammonites sent a thousand talents of silver to hire chariots and horsemen from Mesopota'mia, from Aram-ma'acah, and from Zobah.

rsv@1Chronicles:19:7 @ They hired thirty-two thousand chariots and the king of Ma'acah with his army, who came and encamped before Med'eba. And the Ammonites were mustered from their cities and came to battle.

rsv@1Chronicles:19:9 @ And the Ammonites came out and drew up in battle array at the entrance of the city, and the kings who had come were by themselves in the open country.

rsv@1Chronicles:19:11 @ the rest of his men he put in the charge of Abi'shai his brother, and they were arrayed against the Ammonites.

rsv@1Chronicles:19:12 @ And he said, "If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will help you.

rsv@1Chronicles:19:15 @ And when the Ammonites saw that the Syrians fled, they likewise fled before Abi'shai, Jo'ab's brother, and entered the city. Then Jo'ab came to Jerusalem.

rsv@1Chronicles:19:16 @ But when the Syrians saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they sent messengers and brought out the Syrians who were beyond the Euphra'tes, with Shophach the commander of the army of Hadade'zer at their head.

rsv@1Chronicles:19:19 @ And when the servants of Hadade'zer saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with David, and became subject to him. So the Syrians were not willing to help the Ammonites any more.

rsv@1Chronicles:20:1 @ In the spring of the year, the time when kings go forth to battle, Jo'ab led out the army, and ravaged the country of the Ammonites, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem. And Jo'ab smote Rabbah, and overthrew it.

rsv@1Chronicles:20:3 @ And he brought forth the people who were in it, and set them to labor with saws and iron picks and axes; and thus David did to all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

rsv@1Chronicles:20:4 @ And after this there arose war with the Philistines at Gezer; then Sib'becai the Hu'shathite slew Sip'pai, who was one of the descendants of the giants; and the Philistines were subdued.

rsv@1Chronicles:20:5 @ And there was again war with the Philistines; and Elha'nan the son of Ja'ir slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.

rsv@1Chronicles:20:7 @ And when he taunted Israel, Jonathan the son of Shim'e-a, David's brother, slew him.

rsv@1Chronicles:21:1 @ Satan stood up against Israel, and incited David to number Israel.

rsv@1Chronicles:21:4 @ But the king's word prevailed against Jo'ab. So Jo'ab departed and went throughout all Israel, and came back to Jerusalem.

rsv@1Chronicles:21:7 @ But God was displeased with this thing, and he smote Israel.

rsv@1Chronicles:21:12 @ either three years of famine; or three months of devastation by your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days of the sword of the LORD, pestilence upon the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the territory of Israel.' Now decide what answer I shall return to him who sent me."

rsv@1Chronicles:21:15 @ And God sent the angel to Jerusalem to destroy it; but when he was about to destroy it, the LORD saw, and he repented of the evil; and he said to the destroying angel, "It is enough; now stay your hand." And the angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jeb'usite.

rsv@1Chronicles:21:16 @ And David lifted his eyes and saw the angel of the LORD standing between earth and heaven, and in his hand a drawn sword stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.

rsv@1Chronicles:21:18 @ Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to David that David should go up and rear an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jeb'usite.

rsv@1Chronicles:21:22 @ And David said to Ornan, "Give me the site of the threshing floor that I may build on it an altar to the LORD--give it to me at its full price--that the plague may be averted from the people."

rsv@1Chronicles:21:25 @ So David paid Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the site.

rsv@1Chronicles:21:26 @ And David built there an altar to the LORD and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the LORD, and he answered him with fire from heaven upon the altar of burnt offering.

rsv@1Chronicles:21:28 @ At that time, when David saw that the LORD had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jeb'usite, he made his sacrifices there.

rsv@1Chronicles:22:2 @ David commanded to gather together the aliens who were in the land of Israel, and he set stonecutters to prepare dressed stones for building the house of God.

rsv@1Chronicles:22:3 @ David also provided great stores of iron for nails for the doors of the gates and for clamps, as well as bronze in quantities beyond weighing,

rsv@1Chronicles:22:5 @ For David said, "Solomon my son is young and inexperienced, and the house that is to be built for the LORD must be exceedingly magnificent, of fame and glory throughout all lands; I will therefore make preparation for it." So David provided materials in great quantity before his death.

rsv@1Chronicles:22:13 @ Then you will prosper if you are careful to observe the statutes and the ordinances which the LORD commanded Moses for Israel. Be strong, and of good courage. Fear not; be not dismayed.

rsv@1Chronicles:22:15 @ You have an abundance of workmen: stonecutters, masons, carpenters, and all kinds of craftsmen without number, skilled in working

rsv@1Chronicles:23:2 @ David assembled all the leaders of Israel and the priests and the Levites.

rsv@1Chronicles:23:3 @ The Levites, thirty years old and upward, were numbered, and the total was thirty-eight thousand men.

rsv@1Chronicles:23:5 @ four thousand gatekeepers, and four thousand shall offer praises to the LORD with the instruments which I have made for praise."

rsv@1Chronicles:23:13 @ The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses. Aaron was set apart to consecrate the most holy things, that he and his sons for ever should burn incense before the LORD, and minister to him and pronounce blessings in his name for ever.

rsv@1Chronicles:23:22 @ Elea'zar died having no sons, but only daughters; their kinsmen, the sons of Kish, married them.

rsv@1Chronicles:23:24 @ These were the sons of Levi by their fathers' houses, the heads of fathers' houses as they were registered according to the number of the names of the individuals from twenty years old and upward who were to do the work for the service of the house of the LORD.

rsv@1Chronicles:23:26 @ And so the Levites no longer need to carry the tabernacle or any of the things for its service"--

rsv@1Chronicles:23:27 @ for by the last words of David these were the number of the Levites from twenty years old and upward--

rsv@1Chronicles:23:32 @ Thus they shall keep charge of the tent of meeting and the sanctuary, and shall attend the sons of Aaron, their brethren, for the service of the house of the LORD."

rsv@1Chronicles:24:3 @ With the help of Zadok of the sons of Elea'zar, and Ahim'elech of the sons of Ith'amar, David organized them according to the appointed duties in their service.

rsv@1Chronicles:24:4 @ Since more chief men were found among the sons of Elea'zar than among the sons of Ith'amar, they organized them under sixteen heads of fathers' houses of the sons of Elea'zar, and eight of the sons of Ith'amar.

rsv@1Chronicles:24:6 @ And the scribe Shemai'ah the son of Nethan'el, a Levite, recorded them in the presence of the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahim'elech the son of Abi'athar, and the heads of the fathers' houses of the priests and of the Levites; one father's house being chosen for Elea'zar and one chosen for Ith'amar.

rsv@1Chronicles:24:11 @ the ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shecani'ah,

rsv@1Chronicles:24:13 @ the thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jesheb'e-ab,

rsv@1Chronicles:24:14 @ the fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer,

rsv@1Chronicles:24:15 @ the seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Hap'pizzez,

rsv@1Chronicles:24:16 @ the nineteenth to Pethahi'ah, the twentieth to Jehez'kel,

rsv@1Chronicles:24:19 @ These had as their appointed duty in their service to come into the house of the LORD according to the procedure established for them by Aaron their father, as the LORD God of Israel had commanded him.

rsv@1Chronicles:24:22 @ Of the Iz'harites, Shelo'moth; of the sons of Shelo'moth, Jahath.

rsv@1Chronicles:24:30 @ The sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder, and Jer'imoth. These were the sons of the Levites according to their fathers' houses.

rsv@1Chronicles:24:31 @ These also, the head of each father's house and his younger brother alike, cast lots, just as their brethren the sons of Aaron, in the presence of King David, Zadok, Ahim'elech, and the heads of fathers' houses of the priests and of the Levites.

rsv@1Chronicles:25:5 @ All these were the sons of Heman the king's seer, according to the promise of God to exalt him; for God had given Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.

rsv@1Chronicles:25:8 @ And they cast lots for their duties, small and great, teacher and pupil alike.

rsv@1Chronicles:25:17 @ the tenth to Shim'e-i, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

rsv@1Chronicles:25:20 @ to the thirteenth, Shu'ba-el, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

rsv@1Chronicles:25:21 @ to the fourteenth, Mattithi'ah, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

rsv@1Chronicles:25:22 @ to the fifteenth, to Jer'emoth, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

rsv@1Chronicles:25:23 @ to the sixteenth, to Hanani'ah, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

rsv@1Chronicles:25:24 @ to the seventeenth, to Joshbekash'ah, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

rsv@1Chronicles:25:25 @ to the eighteenth, to Hana'ni, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

rsv@1Chronicles:25:26 @ to the nineteenth, to Mallo'thi, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

rsv@1Chronicles:26:1 @ As for the divisions of the gatekeepers: of the Ko'rahites, Meshelemi'ah the son of Ko're, of the sons of Asaph.

rsv@1Chronicles:26:9 @ And Meshelemi'ah had sons and brethren, able men, eighteen.

rsv@1Chronicles:26:11 @ Hilki'ah the second, Tebali'ah the third, Zechari'ah the fourth: all the sons and brethren of Hosah were thirteen.

rsv@1Chronicles:26:12 @ These divisions of the gatekeepers, corresponding to their chief men, had duties, just as their brethren did, ministering in the house of the LORD;

rsv@1Chronicles:26:13 @ and they cast lots by fathers' houses, small and great alike, for their gates.

rsv@1Chronicles:26:15 @ O'bed-e'dom's came out for the south, and to his sons was allotted the storehouse.

rsv@1Chronicles:26:16 @ For Shuppim and Hosah it came out for the west, at the gate of Shal'lecheth on the road that goes up. Watch corresponded to watch.

rsv@1Chronicles:26:19 @ These were the divisions of the gatekeepers among the Ko'rahites and the sons of Merar'i.

rsv@1Chronicles:26:20 @ And of the Levites, Ahi'jah had charge of the treasuries of the house of God and the treasuries of the dedicated gifts.

rsv@1Chronicles:26:21 @ The sons of Ladan, the sons of the Gershonites belonging to Ladan, the heads of the fathers' houses belonging to Ladan the Gershonite: Jehi'eli.

rsv@1Chronicles:26:23 @ Of the Am'ramites, the Iz'harites, the He'bronites, and the Uzzie'lites--

rsv@1Chronicles:26:26 @ This Shelo'moth and his brethren were in charge of all the treasuries of the dedicated gifts which David the king, and the heads of the fathers' houses, and the officers of the thousands and the hundreds, and the commanders of the army, had dedicated.

rsv@1Chronicles:26:27 @ From spoil won in battles they dedicated gifts for the maintenance of the house of the LORD.

rsv@1Chronicles:26:28 @ Also all that Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of Kish, and Abner the son of Ner, and Jo'ab the son of Zeru'iah had dedicated--all dedicated gifts were in the care of Shelo'moth and his brethren.

rsv@1Chronicles:26:29 @ Of the Iz'harites, Chenani'ah and his sons were appointed to outside duties for Israel, as officers and judges.

rsv@1Chronicles:26:30 @ Of the He'bronites, Hashabi'ah and his brethren, one thousand seven hundred men of ability, had the oversight of Israel westward of the Jordan for all the work of the LORD and for the service of the king.

rsv@1Chronicles:26:31 @ Of the He'bronites, Jeri'jah was chief of the He'bronites of whatever genealogy or fathers' houses. (In the fortieth year of David's reign search was made and men of great ability among them were found at Jazer in Gilead.)

rsv@1Chronicles:26:32 @ King David appointed him and his brethren, two thousand seven hundred men of ability, heads of fathers' houses, to have the oversight of the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of the Manas'sites for everything pertaining to God and for the affairs of the king.

rsv@1Chronicles:27:1 @ This is the list of the people of Israel, the heads of fathers' houses, the commanders of thousands and hundreds, and their officers who served the king in all matters concerning the divisions that came and went, month after month throughout the year, each division numbering twenty-four thousand:

rsv@1Chronicles:27:4 @ Dodai the Aho'hite was in charge of the division of the second month; in his division were twenty-four thousand.

rsv@1Chronicles:27:7 @ As'ahel the brother of Jo'ab was fourth, for the fourth month, and his son Zebadi'ah after him; in his division were twenty-four thousand.

rsv@1Chronicles:27:8 @ The fifth commander, for the fifth month, was Shamhuth, the Iz'rahite; in his division were twenty-four thousand.

rsv@1Chronicles:27:9 @ Sixth, for the sixth month, was Ira, the son of Ikkesh the Teko'ite; in his division were twenty-four thousand.

rsv@1Chronicles:27:10 @ Seventh, for the seventh month, was Helez the Pel'onite, of the sons of E'phraim; in his division were twenty-four thousand.

rsv@1Chronicles:27:11 @ Eighth, for the eighth month, was Sib'becai the Hu'shathite, of the Ze'rahites; in his division were twenty-four thousand.

rsv@1Chronicles:27:12 @ Ninth, for the ninth month, was Abi-e'zer of An'athoth, a Benjaminite; in his division were twenty-four thousand.

rsv@1Chronicles:27:13 @ Tenth, for the tenth month, was Ma'harai of Netoph'ah, of the Ze'rahites; in his division were twenty-four thousand.

rsv@1Chronicles:27:15 @ Twelfth, for the twelfth month, was Heldai the Netoph'athite, of Oth'ni-el; in his division were twenty-four thousand.

rsv@1Chronicles:27:16 @ Over the tribes of Israel, for the Reubenites Elie'zer the son of Zichri was chief officer; for the Simeonites, Shephati'ah the son of Ma'acah;

rsv@1Chronicles:27:20 @ for the E'phraimites, Hoshe'a the son of Azazi'ah; for the half-tribe of Manas'seh, Jo'el the son of Pedai'ah;

rsv@1Chronicles:27:24 @ Jo'ab the son of Zeru'iah began to number, but did not finish; yet wrath came upon Israel for this, and the number was not entered in the chronicles of King David.

rsv@1Chronicles:27:27 @ and over the vineyards was Shim'e-i the Ra'mathite; and over the produce of the vineyards for the wine cellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite.

rsv@1Chronicles:27:28 @ Over the olive and sycamore trees in the Shephe'lah was Ba'al-ha'nan the Gede'rite; and over the stores of oil was Jo'ash.

rsv@1Chronicles:27:29 @ Over the herds that pastured in Sharon was Shitrai the Shar'onite; over the herds in the valleys was Shaphat the son of Adlai.

rsv@1Chronicles:27:30 @ Over the camels was Obil the Ish'maelite; and over the she-asses was Jehde'iah the Meron'othite. Over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagrite.

rsv@1Chronicles:27:31 @ All these were stewards of King David's property.

rsv@1Chronicles:27:32 @ Jonathan, David's uncle, was a counselor, being a man of understanding and a scribe; he and Jehi'el the son of Hach'moni attended the king's sons.

rsv@1Chronicles:27:33 @ Ahith'ophel was the king's counselor, and Hushai the Archite was the king's friend.

rsv@1Chronicles:28:1 @ David assembled at Jerusalem all the officials of Israel, the officials of the tribes, the officers of the divisions that served the king, the commanders of thousands, the commanders of hundreds, the stewards of all the property and cattle of the king and his sons, together with the palace officials, the mighty men, and all the seasoned warriors.

rsv@1Chronicles:28:7 @ I will establish his kingdom for ever if he continues resolute in keeping my commandments and my ordinances, as he is today.'

rsv@1Chronicles:28:8 @ Now therefore in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the LORD, and in the hearing of our God, observe and seek out all the commandments of the LORD your God; that you may possess this good land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children after you for ever.

rsv@1Chronicles:28:11 @ Then David gave Solomon his son the plan of the vestibule of the temple, and of its houses, its treasuries, its upper rooms, and its inner chambers, and of the room for the mercy seat;

rsv@1Chronicles:28:12 @ and the plan of all that he had in mind for the courts of the house of the LORD, all the surrounding chambers, the treasuries of the house of God, and the treasuries for dedicated gifts;

rsv@1Chronicles:28:13 @ for the divisions of the priests and of the Levites, and all the work of the service in the house of the LORD; for all the vessels for the service in the house of the LORD,

rsv@1Chronicles:28:21 @ And behold the divisions of the priests and the Levites for all the service of the house of God; and with you in all the work will be every willing man who has skill for any kind of service; also the officers and all the people will be wholly at your command."

rsv@1Chronicles:29:7 @ They gave for the service of the house of God five thousand talents and ten thousand darics of gold, ten thousand talents of silver, eighteen thousand talents of bronze, and a hundred thousand talents of iron.

rsv@1Chronicles:29:8 @ And whoever had precious stones gave them to the treasury of the house of the LORD, in the care of Jehi'el the Gershonite.

rsv@1Chronicles:29:11 @ Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty; for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all.

rsv@1Chronicles:29:19 @ Grant to Solomon my son that with a whole heart he may keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy statutes, performing all, and that he may build the palace for which I have made provision."

rsv@1Chronicles:29:22 @ and they ate and drank before the LORD on that day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and they anointed him as prince for the LORD, and Zadok as priest.

rsv@1Chronicles:29:23 @ Then Solomon sat on the throne of the LORD as king instead of David his father; and he prospered, and all Israel obeyed him.

rsv@1Chronicles:29:25 @ And the LORD gave Solomon great repute in the sight of all Israel, and bestowed upon him such royal majesty as had not been on any king before him in Israel.

rsv@1Chronicles:29:28 @ Then he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honor; and Solomon his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@1Chronicles:29:29 @ Now the acts of King David, from first to last, are written in the Chronicles of Samuel the seer, and in the Chronicles of Nathan the prophet, and in the Chronicles of Gad the seer,

rsv@2Chronicles:1:3 @ And Solomon, and all the assembly with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for the tent of meeting of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness, was there.

rsv@2Chronicles:1:4 @ (But David had brought up the ark of God from Kir'iath-je'arim to the place that David had prepared for it, for he had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem.)

rsv@2Chronicles:1:6 @ And Solomon went up there to the bronze altar before the LORD, which was at the tent of meeting, and offered a thousand burnt offerings upon it.

rsv@2Chronicles:1:8 @ And Solomon said to God, "Thou hast shown great and steadfast love to David my father, and hast made me king in his stead.

rsv@2Chronicles:1:11 @ God answered Solomon, "Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked possessions, wealth, honor, or the life of those who hate you, and have not even asked long life, but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself that you may rule my people over whom I have made you king,

rsv@2Chronicles:1:12 @ wisdom and knowledge are granted to you. I will also give you riches, possessions, and honor, such as none of the kings had who were before you, and none after you shall have the like."

rsv@2Chronicles:1:13 @ So Solomon came from the high place at Gibeon, from before the tent of meeting, to Jerusalem. And he reigned over Israel.

rsv@2Chronicles:1:14 @ Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen; he had fourteen hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.

rsv@2Chronicles:1:17 @ They imported a chariot from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty; likewise through them these were exported to all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Syria.

rsv@2Chronicles:2:1 @ Now Solomon purposed to build a temple for the name of the LORD, and a royal palace for himself.

rsv@2Chronicles:2:4 @ Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of the LORD my God and dedicate it to him for the burning of incense of sweet spices before him, and for the continual offering of the showbread, and for burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths and the new moons and the appointed feasts of the LORD our God, as ordained for ever for Israel.

rsv@2Chronicles:2:5 @ The house which I am to build will be great, for our God is greater than all gods.

rsv@2Chronicles:2:11 @ Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in a letter which he sent to Solomon, "Because the LORD loves his people he has made you king over them."

rsv@2Chronicles:2:12 @ Huram also said, "Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who has given King David a wise son, endued with discretion and understanding, who will build a temple for the LORD, and a royal palace for himself.

rsv@2Chronicles:2:14 @ the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre. He is trained to work in gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood, and in purple, blue, and crimson fabrics and fine linen, and to do all sorts of engraving and execute any design that may be assigned him, with your craftsmen, the craftsmen of my lord, David your father.

rsv@2Chronicles:2:16 @ and we will cut whatever timber you need from Lebanon, and bring it to you in rafts by sea to Joppa, so that you may take it up to Jerusalem."

rsv@2Chronicles:2:17 @ Then Solomon took a census of all the aliens who were in the land of Israel, after the census of them which David his father had taken; and there were found a hundred and fifty-three thousand six hundred.

rsv@2Chronicles:3:1 @ Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Mori'ah, where the LORD had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jeb'usite.

rsv@2Chronicles:3:11 @ The wings of the cherubim together extended twenty cubits: one wing of the one, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house, and its other wing, of five cubits, touched the wing of the other cherub;

rsv@2Chronicles:3:13 @ The wings of these cherubim extended twenty cubits; the cherubim stood on their feet, facing the nave.

rsv@2Chronicles:3:16 @ He made chains like a necklace and put them on the tops of the pillars; and he made a hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.

rsv@2Chronicles:3:17 @ He set up the pillars in front of the temple, one on the south, the other on the north; that on the south he called Jachin, and that on the north Bo'az.

rsv@2Chronicles:4:1 @ He made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.

rsv@2Chronicles:4:2 @ Then he made the molten sea; it was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.

rsv@2Chronicles:4:6 @ He also made ten lavers in which to wash, and set five on the south side, and five on the north side. In these they were to rinse off what was used for the burnt offering, and the sea was for the priests to wash in.

rsv@2Chronicles:4:7 @ And he made ten golden lampstands as prescribed, and set them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north.

rsv@2Chronicles:4:8 @ He also made ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north. And he made a hundred basins of gold.

rsv@2Chronicles:4:13 @ and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were upon the pillars.

rsv@2Chronicles:4:22 @ the snuffers, basins, dishes for incense, and firepans, of pure gold; and the sockets of the temple, for the inner doors to the most holy place and for the doors of the nave of the temple were of gold.

rsv@2Chronicles:5:1 @ Thus all the work that Solomon did for the house of the LORD was finished. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated, and stored the silver, the gold, and all the vessels in the treasuries of the house of God.

rsv@2Chronicles:5:4 @ And all the elders of Israel came, and the Levites took up the ark.

rsv@2Chronicles:5:5 @ And they brought up the ark, the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the tent; the priests and the Levites brought them up.

rsv@2Chronicles:5:6 @ And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who had assembled before him, were before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.

rsv@2Chronicles:5:12 @ and all the Levitical singers, Asaph, Heman, and Jedu'thun, their sons and kinsmen, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals, harps, and lyres, stood east of the altar with a hundred and twenty priests who were trumpeters;

rsv@2Chronicles:5:13 @ and it was the duty of the trumpeters and singers to make themselves heard in unison in praise and thanksgiving to the LORD), and when the song was raised, with trumpets and cymbals and other musical instruments, in praise to the LORD, "For he is good, for his steadfast love endures for ever," the house, the house of the LORD, was filled with a cloud,

rsv@2Chronicles:5:14 @ so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of God.

rsv@2Chronicles:6:2 @ I have built thee an exalted house, a place for thee to dwell in for ever."

rsv@2Chronicles:6:14 @ and said, "O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven or on earth, keeping covenant and showing steadfast love to thy servants who walk before thee with all their heart;

rsv@2Chronicles:6:23 @ then hear thou from heaven, and act, and judge thy servants, requiting the guilty by bringing his conduct upon his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.

rsv@2Chronicles:6:24 @ "If thy people Israel are defeated before the enemy because they have sinned against thee, when they turn again and acknowledge thy name, and pray and make supplication to thee in this house,

rsv@2Chronicles:6:27 @ then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, thy people Israel, when thou dost teach them the good way in which they should walk; and grant rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people as an inheritance.

rsv@2Chronicles:6:28 @ "If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in any of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is;

rsv@2Chronicles:6:29 @ whatever prayer, whatever supplication is made by any man or by all thy people Israel, each knowing his own affliction, and his own sorrow and stretching out his hands toward this house;

rsv@2Chronicles:6:34 @ "If thy people go out to battle against their enemies, by whatever way thou shalt send them, and they pray to thee toward this city which thou hast chosen and the house which I have built for thy name,

rsv@2Chronicles:6:37 @ yet if they lay it to heart in the land to which they have been carried captive, and repent, and make supplication to thee in the land of their captivity, saying, `We have sinned, and have acted perversely and wickedly';

rsv@2Chronicles:6:40 @ Now, O my God, let thy eyes be open and thy ears attentive to a prayer of this place.

rsv@2Chronicles:6:42 @ O LORD God, do not turn away the face of thy anointed one! Remember thy steadfast love for David thy servant."

rsv@2Chronicles:7:1 @ When Solomon had ended his prayer, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple.

rsv@2Chronicles:7:2 @ And the priests could not enter the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD filled the LORD's house.

rsv@2Chronicles:7:3 @ When all the children of Israel saw the fire come down and the glory of the LORD upon the temple, they bowed down with their faces to the earth on the pavement, and worshiped and gave thanks to the LORD, saying, "For he is good, for his steadfast love endures for ever."

rsv@2Chronicles:7:5 @ King Solomon offered as a sacrifice twenty-two thousand oxen and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.

rsv@2Chronicles:7:6 @ The priests stood at their posts; the Levites also, with the instruments for music to the LORD which King David had made for giving thanks to the LORD--for his steadfast love endures for ever--whenever David offered praises by their ministry; opposite them the priests sounded trumpets; and all Israel stood.

rsv@2Chronicles:7:7 @ And Solomon consecrated the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD; for there he offered the burnt offering and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar Solomon had made could not hold the burnt offering and the cereal offering and the fat.

rsv@2Chronicles:7:15 @ Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer that is made in this place.

rsv@2Chronicles:7:16 @ For now I have chosen and consecrated this house that my name may be there for ever; my eyes and my heart will be there for all time.

rsv@2Chronicles:7:17 @ And as for you, if you walk before me, as David your father walked, doing according to all that I have commanded you and keeping my statutes and my ordinances,

rsv@2Chronicles:7:18 @ then I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father, saying, `There shall not fail you a man to rule Israel.'

rsv@2Chronicles:7:19 @ "But if you turn aside and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,

rsv@2Chronicles:7:20 @ then I will pluck you up from the land which I have given you; and this house, which I have consecrated for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

rsv@2Chronicles:7:21 @ And at this house, which is exalted, every one passing by will be astonished, and say, `Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?"

rsv@2Chronicles:8:5 @ He also built Upper Beth-hor'on and Lower Beth-hor'on, fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars,

rsv@2Chronicles:8:6 @ and Ba'alath, and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

rsv@2Chronicles:8:7 @ All the people who were left of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Per'izzites, the Hivites, and the Jeb'usites, who were not of Israel,

rsv@2Chronicles:8:8 @ from their descendants who were left after them in the land, whom the people of Israel had not destroyed--these Solomon made a forced levy and so they are to this day.

rsv@2Chronicles:8:11 @ Solomon brought Pharaoh's daughter up from the city of David to the house which he had built for her, for he said, "My wife shall not live in the house of David king of Israel, for the places to which the ark of the LORD has come are holy."

rsv@2Chronicles:8:14 @ According to the ordinance of David his father, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their service, and the Levites for their offices of praise and ministry before the priests as the duty of each day required, and the gatekeepers in their divisions for the several gates; for so David the man of God had commanded.

rsv@2Chronicles:8:15 @ And they did not turn aside from what the king had commanded the priests and Levites concerning any matter and concerning the treasuries.

rsv@2Chronicles:8:16 @ Thus was accomplished all the work of Solomon from the day the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid until it was finished. So the house of the LORD was completed.

rsv@2Chronicles:9:1 @ Now when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon she came to Jerusalem to test him with hard questions, having a very great retinue and camels bearing spices and very much gold and precious stones. When she came to Solomon, she told him all that was on her mind.

rsv@2Chronicles:9:4 @ the food of his table, the seating of his officials, and the attendance of his servants, and their clothing, his cupbearers, and their clothing, and his burnt offerings which he offered at the house of the LORD, there was no more spirit in her.

rsv@2Chronicles:9:8 @ Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you and set you on his throne as king for the LORD your God! Because your God loved Israel and would establish them for ever, he has made you king over them, that you may execute justice and righteousness."

rsv@2Chronicles:9:11 @ And the king made of the algum wood steps for the house of the LORD and for the king's house, lyres also and harps for the singers; there never was seen the like of them before in the land of Judah.

rsv@2Chronicles:9:12 @ And King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all that she desired, whatever she asked besides what she had brought to the king. So she turned and went back to her own land, with her servants.

rsv@2Chronicles:9:15 @ King Solomon made two hundred large shields of beaten gold; six hundred shekels of beaten gold went into each shield.

rsv@2Chronicles:9:16 @ And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three hundred shekels of gold went into each shield; and the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.

rsv@2Chronicles:9:18 @ The throne had six steps and a footstool of gold, which were attached to the throne, and on each side of the seat were arm rests and two lions standing beside the arm rests,

rsv@2Chronicles:9:19 @ while twelve lions stood there, one on each end of a step on the six steps. The like of it was never made in any kingdom.

rsv@2Chronicles:9:26 @ And he ruled over all the kings from the Euphra'tes to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.

rsv@2Chronicles:9:28 @ And horses were imported for Solomon from Egypt and from all lands.

rsv@2Chronicles:9:29 @ Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, from first to last, are they not written in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahi'jah the Shi'lonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jerobo'am the son of Nebat?

rsv@2Chronicles:9:31 @ And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father; and Rehobo'am his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@2Chronicles:10:4 @ "Your father made our yoke heavy. Now therefore lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke upon us, and we will serve you."

rsv@2Chronicles:10:9 @ And he said to them, "What do you advise that we answer this people who have said to me, `Lighten the yoke that your father put upon us'?"

rsv@2Chronicles:10:10 @ And the young men who had grown up with him said to him, "Thus shall you speak to the people who said to you, `Your father made our yoke heavy, but do you lighten it for us'; thus shall you say to them, `My little finger is thicker than my father's loins.

rsv@2Chronicles:10:15 @ So the king did not hearken to the people; for it was a turn of affairs brought about by God that the LORD might fulfil his word, which he spoke by Ahi'jah the Shi'lonite to Jerobo'am the son of Nebat.

rsv@2Chronicles:10:16 @ And when all Israel saw that the king did not hearken to them, the people answered the king, "What portion have we in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. Each of you to your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, David." So all Israel departed to their tents.

rsv@2Chronicles:10:18 @ Then King Rehobo'am sent Hador'am, who was taskmaster over the forced labor, and the people of Israel stoned him to death with stones. And King Rehobo'am made haste to mount his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.

rsv@2Chronicles:11:6 @ He built Bethlehem, Etam, Teko'a,

rsv@2Chronicles:11:13 @ And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel resorted to him from all places where they lived.

rsv@2Chronicles:11:14 @ For the Levites left their common lands and their holdings and came to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jerobo'am and his sons cast them out from serving as priests of the LORD,

rsv@2Chronicles:11:15 @ and he appointed his own priests for the high places, and for the satyrs, and for the calves which he had made.

rsv@2Chronicles:11:16 @ And those who had set their hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel came after them from all the tribes of Israel to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the LORD, the God of their fathers.

rsv@2Chronicles:11:18 @ Rehobo'am took as wife Ma'halath the daughter of Jer'imoth the son of David, and of Ab'ihail the daughter of Eli'ab the son of Jesse;

rsv@2Chronicles:11:20 @ After her he took Ma'acah the daughter of Ab'salom, who bore him Abi'jah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelo'mith.

rsv@2Chronicles:11:21 @ Rehobo'am loved Ma'acah the daughter of Ab'salom above all his wives and concubines (he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and had twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters);

rsv@2Chronicles:11:22 @ and Rehobo'am appointed Abi'jah the son of Ma'acah as chief prince among his brothers, for he intended to make him king.

rsv@2Chronicles:11:23 @ And he dealt wisely, and distributed some of his sons through all the districts of Judah and Benjamin, in all the fortified cities; and he gave them abundant provisions, and procured wives for them.

rsv@2Chronicles:12:6 @ Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, "The LORD is righteous."

rsv@2Chronicles:12:10 @ and King Rehobo'am made in their stead shields of bronze, and committed them to the hands of the officers of the guard, who kept the door of the king's house.

rsv@2Chronicles:12:11 @ And as often as the king went into the house of the LORD, the guard came and bore them, and brought them back to the guardroom.

rsv@2Chronicles:12:12 @ And when he humbled himself the wrath of the LORD turned from him, so as not to make a complete destruction; moreover, conditions were good in Judah.

rsv@2Chronicles:12:13 @ So King Rehobo'am established himself in Jerusalem and reigned. Rehobo'am was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. His mother's name was Na'amah the Ammonitess.

rsv@2Chronicles:12:15 @ Now the acts of Rehobo'am, from first to last, are they not written in the chronicles of Shemai'ah the prophet and of Iddo the seer? There were continual wars between Rehobo'am and Jerobo'am.

rsv@2Chronicles:12:16 @ And Rehobo'am slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David; and Abi'jah his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@2Chronicles:13:1 @ In the eighteenth year of King Jerobo'am Abi'jah began to reign over Judah.

rsv@2Chronicles:13:2 @ He reigned for three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Micai'ah the daughter of U'riel of Gib'e-ah. Now there was war between Abi'jah and Jerobo'am.

rsv@2Chronicles:13:7 @ and certain worthless scoundrels gathered about him and defied Rehobo'am the son of Solomon, when Rehobo'am was young and irresolute and could not withstand them.

rsv@2Chronicles:13:9 @ Have you not driven out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made priests for yourselves like the peoples of other lands? Whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull or seven rams becomes a priest of what are no gods.

rsv@2Chronicles:13:10 @ But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken him. We have priests ministering to the LORD who are sons of Aaron, and Levites for their service.

rsv@2Chronicles:13:15 @ Then the men of Judah raised the battle shout. And when the men of Judah shouted, God defeated Jerobo'am and all Israel before Abi'jah and Judah.

rsv@2Chronicles:13:17 @ Abi'jah and his people slew them with a great slaughter; so there fell slain of Israel five hundred thousand picked men.

rsv@2Chronicles:13:20 @ Jerobo'am did not recover his power in the days of Abi'jah; and the LORD smote him, and he died.

rsv@2Chronicles:13:21 @ But Abi'jah grew mighty. And he took fourteen wives, and had twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.

rsv@2Chronicles:13:22 @ The rest of the acts of Abi'jah, his ways and his sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo.

rsv@2Chronicles:14:1 @ So Abi'jah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David; and Asa his son reigned in his stead. In his days the land had rest for ten years.

rsv@2Chronicles:14:7 @ And he said to Judah, "Let us build these cities, and surround them with walls and towers, gates and bars; the land is still ours, because we have sought the LORD our God; we have sought him, and he has given us peace on every side." So they built and prospered.

rsv@2Chronicles:14:12 @ So the LORD defeated the Ethiopians before Asa and before Judah, and the Ethiopians fled.

rsv@2Chronicles:14:14 @ And they smote all the cities round about Gerar, for the fear of the LORD was upon them. They plundered all the cities, for there was much plunder in them.

rsv@2Chronicles:14:15 @ And they smote the tents of those who had cattle, and carried away sheep in abundance and camels. Then they returned to Jerusalem.

rsv@2Chronicles:15:3 @ For a long time Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law;

rsv@2Chronicles:15:5 @ In those times there was no peace to him who went out or to him who came in, for great disturbances afflicted all the inhabitants of the lands.

rsv@2Chronicles:15:9 @ And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those from E'phraim, Manas'seh, and Simeon who were sojourning with them, for great numbers had deserted to him from Israel when they saw that the LORD his God was with him.

rsv@2Chronicles:15:10 @ They were gathered at Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.

rsv@2Chronicles:15:12 @ And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;

rsv@2Chronicles:16:10 @ Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in the stocks, in prison, for he was in a rage with him because of this. And Asa inflicted cruelties upon some of the people at the same time.

rsv@2Chronicles:16:11 @ The acts of Asa, from first to last, are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.

rsv@2Chronicles:17:1 @ Jehosh'aphat his son reigned in his stead, and strengthened himself against Israel.

rsv@2Chronicles:17:5 @ Therefore the LORD established the kingdom in his hand; and all Judah brought tribute to Jehosh'aphat; and he had great riches and honor.

rsv@2Chronicles:17:7 @ In the third year of his reign he sent his princes, Ben-hail, Obadi'ah, Zechari'ah, Nethan'el, and Micai'ah, to teach in the cities of Judah;

rsv@2Chronicles:17:8 @ and with them the Levites, Shemai'ah, Nethani'ah, Zebadi'ah, As'ahel, Shemi'ramoth, Jehon'athan, Adoni'jah, Tobi'jah, and Tobadoni'jah; and with these Levites, the priests Eli'shama and Jeho'ram.

rsv@2Chronicles:17:11 @ Some of the Philistines brought Jehosh'aphat presents, and silver for tribute; and the Arabs also brought him seven thousand seven hundred rams and seven thousand seven hundred he-goats.

rsv@2Chronicles:17:12 @ And Jehosh'aphat grew steadily greater. He built in Judah fortresses and store-cities,

rsv@2Chronicles:17:14 @ This was the muster of them by fathers' houses: Of Judah, the commanders of thousands: Adnah the commander, with three hundred thousand mighty men of valor,

rsv@2Chronicles:17:16 @ and next to him Amasi'ah the son of Zichri, a volunteer for the service of the LORD, with two hundred thousand mighty men of valor.

rsv@2Chronicles:18:2 @ After some years he went down to Ahab in Sama'ria. And Ahab killed an abundance of sheep and oxen for him and for the people who were with him, and induced him to go up against Ramoth-gilead.

rsv@2Chronicles:18:7 @ And the king of Israel said to Jehosh'aphat, "There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the LORD, Micai'ah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but always evil." And Jehosh'aphat said, "Let not the king say so."

rsv@2Chronicles:18:9 @ Now the king of Israel and Jehosh'aphat the king of Judah were sitting on their thrones, arrayed in their robes; and they were sitting at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Sama'ria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.

rsv@2Chronicles:18:16 @ And he said, "I saw all Israel scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd; and the LORD said, `These have no master; let each return to his home in peace.'"

rsv@2Chronicles:18:17 @ And the king of Israel said to Jehosh'aphat, "Did I not tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?"

rsv@2Chronicles:18:26 @ and say, `Thus says the king, Put this fellow in prison, and feed him with scant fare of bread and water, until I return in peace.'"

rsv@2Chronicles:18:33 @ But a certain man drew his bow at a venture, and struck the king of Israel between the scale armor and the breastplate; therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, "Turn about, and carry me out of the battle, for I am wounded."

rsv@2Chronicles:19:2 @ But Jehu the son of Hana'ni the seer went out to meet him, and said to King Jehosh'aphat, "Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD? Because of this, wrath has gone out against you from the LORD.

rsv@2Chronicles:19:5 @ He appointed judges in the land in all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,

rsv@2Chronicles:19:8 @ Moreover in Jerusalem Jehosh'aphat appointed certain Levites and priests and heads of families of Israel, to give judgment for the LORD and to decide disputed cases. They had their seat at Jerusalem.

rsv@2Chronicles:19:10 @ whenever a case comes to you from your brethren who live in their cities, concerning bloodshed, law or commandment, statutes or ordinances, then you shall instruct them, that they may not incur guilt before the LORD and wrath may not come upon you and your brethren. Thus you shall do, and you will not incur guilt.

rsv@2Chronicles:19:11 @ And behold, Amari'ah the chief priest is over you in all matters of the LORD; and Zebadi'ah the son of Ish'mael, the governor of the house of Judah, in all the king's matters; and the Levites will serve you as officers. Deal courageously, and may the LORD be with the upright!"

rsv@2Chronicles:20:1 @ After this the Moabites and Ammonites, and with them some of the Me-u'nites, came against Jehosh'aphat for battle.

rsv@2Chronicles:20:12 @ O our God, wilt thou not execute judgment upon them? For we are powerless against this great multitude that is coming against us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are upon thee."

rsv@2Chronicles:20:14 @ And the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jaha'ziel the son of Zechari'ah, son of Benai'ah, son of Je-i'el, son of Mattani'ah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, in the midst of the assembly.

rsv@2Chronicles:20:19 @ And the Levites, of the Ko'hathites and the Kor'ahites, stood up to praise the LORD, the God of Israel, with a very loud voice.

rsv@2Chronicles:20:20 @ And they rose early in the morning and went out into the wilderness of Teko'a; and as they went out, Jehosh'aphat stood and said, "Hear me, Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in the LORD your God, and you will be established; believe his prophets, and you will succeed."

rsv@2Chronicles:20:21 @ And when he had taken counsel with the people, he appointed those who were to sing to the LORD and praise him in holy array, as they went before the army, and say, "Give thanks to the LORD, for his steadfast love endures for ever."

rsv@2Chronicles:20:22 @ And when they began to sing and praise, the LORD set an ambush against the men of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Se'ir, who had come against Judah, so that they were routed.

rsv@2Chronicles:20:23 @ For the men of Ammon and Moab rose against the inhabitants of Mount Se'ir, destroying them utterly, and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Se'ir, they all helped to destroy one another.

rsv@2Chronicles:20:31 @ Thus Jehosh'aphat reigned over Judah. He was thirty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Azu'bah the daughter of Shilhi.

rsv@2Chronicles:20:34 @ Now the rest of the acts of Jehosh'aphat, from first to last, are written in the chronicles of Jehu the son of Hana'ni, which are recorded in the Book of the Kings of Israel.

rsv@2Chronicles:20:35 @ After this Jehosh'aphat king of Judah joined with Ahazi'ah king of Israel, who did wickedly.

rsv@2Chronicles:21:1 @ Jehosh'aphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and Jeho'ram his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@2Chronicles:21:6 @ And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done; for the daughter of Ahab was his wife. And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD.

rsv@2Chronicles:21:8 @ In his days Edom revolted from the rule of Judah, and set up a king of their own.

rsv@2Chronicles:21:9 @ Then Jeho'ram passed over with his commanders and all his chariots, and he rose by night and smote the E'domites who had surrounded him and his chariot commanders.

rsv@2Chronicles:21:10 @ So Edom revolted from the rule of Judah to this day. At that time Libnah also revolted from his rule, because he had forsaken the LORD, the God of his fathers.

rsv@2Chronicles:21:12 @ And a letter came to him from Eli'jah the prophet, saying, "Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father, `Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehosh'aphat your father, or in the ways of Asa king of Judah,

rsv@2Chronicles:21:13 @ but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem into unfaithfulness, as the house of Ahab led Israel into unfaithfulness, and also you have killed your brothers, of your father's house, who were better than yourself;

rsv@2Chronicles:21:18 @ And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.

rsv@2Chronicles:21:20 @ He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem; and he departed with no one's regret. They buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.

rsv@2Chronicles:22:1 @ And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahazi'ah his youngest son king in his stead; for the band of men that came with the Arabs to the camp had slain all the older sons. So Ahazi'ah the son of Jeho'ram king of Judah reigned.

rsv@2Chronicles:22:2 @ Ahazi'ah was forty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Athali'ah, the granddaughter of Omri.

rsv@2Chronicles:22:4 @ He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as the house of Ahab had done; for after the death of his father they were his counselors, to his undoing.

rsv@2Chronicles:22:7 @ But it was ordained by God that the downfall of Ahazi'ah should come about through his going to visit Joram. For when he came there he went out with Jeho'ram to meet Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to destroy the house of Ahab.

rsv@2Chronicles:22:8 @ And when Jehu was executing judgment upon the house of Ahab, he met the princes of Judah and the sons of Ahazi'ah's brothers, who attended Ahazi'ah, and he killed them.

rsv@2Chronicles:22:11 @ But Jeho-shab'e-ath, the daughter of the king, took Jo'ash the son of Ahazi'ah, and stole him away from among the king's sons who were about to be slain, and she put him and his nurse in a bedchamber. Thus Jeho-shab'e-ath, the daughter of King Jeho'ram and wife of Jehoi'ada the priest, because she was a sister of Ahazi'ah, hid him from Athali'ah, so that she did not slay him;

rsv@2Chronicles:23:1 @ But in the seventh year Jehoi'ada took courage, and entered into a compact with the commanders of hundreds, Azari'ah the son of Jero'ham, Ish'mael the son of Jehoha'nan, Azari'ah the son of Obed, Ma-asei'ah the son of Adai'ah, and Elisha'phat the son of Zichri.

rsv@2Chronicles:23:2 @ And they went about through Judah and gathered the Levites from all the cities of Judah, and the heads of fathers' houses of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.

rsv@2Chronicles:23:4 @ This is the thing that you shall do: of you priests and Levites who come off duty on the sabbath, one third shall be gatekeepers,

rsv@2Chronicles:23:5 @ and one third shall be at the king's house and one third at the Gate of the Foundation; and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of the LORD.

rsv@2Chronicles:23:6 @ Let no one enter the house of the LORD except the priests and ministering Levites; they may enter, for they are holy, but all the people shall keep the charge of the LORD.

rsv@2Chronicles:23:7 @ The Levites shall surround the king, each with his weapons in his hand; and whoever enters the house shall be slain. Be with the king when he comes in, and when he goes out."

rsv@2Chronicles:23:8 @ The Levites and all Judah did according to all that Jehoi'ada the priest commanded. They each brought his men, who were to go off duty on the sabbath, with those who were to come on duty on the sabbath; for Jehoi'ada the priest did not dismiss the divisions.

rsv@2Chronicles:23:11 @ Then he brought out the king's son, and put the crown upon him, and gave him the testimony; and they proclaimed him king, and Jehoi'ada and his sons anointed him, and they said, "Long live the king."

rsv@2Chronicles:23:13 @ and when she looked, there was the king standing by his pillar at the entrance, and the captains and the trumpeters beside the king, and all the people of the land rejoicing and blowing trumpets, and the singers with their musical instruments leading in the celebration. And Athali'ah rent her clothes, and cried, "Treason! Treason!"

rsv@2Chronicles:23:15 @ So they laid hands on her; and she went into the entrance of the horse gate of the king's house, and they slew her there.

rsv@2Chronicles:23:18 @ And Jehoi'ada posted watchmen for the house of the LORD under the direction of the Levitical priests and the Levites whom David had organized to be in charge of the house of the LORD, to offer burnt offerings to the LORD, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, according to the order of David.

rsv@2Chronicles:23:19 @ He stationed the gatekeepers at the gates of the house of the LORD so that no one should enter who was in any way unclean.

rsv@2Chronicles:23:20 @ And he took the captains, the nobles, the governors of the people, and all the people of the land; and they brought the king down from the house of the LORD, marching through the upper gate to the king's house. And they set the king upon the royal throne.

rsv@2Chronicles:23:21 @ So all the people of the land rejoiced; and the city was quiet, after Athali'ah had been slain with the sword.

rsv@2Chronicles:24:3 @ Jehoi'ada got for him two wives, and he had sons and daughters.

rsv@2Chronicles:24:4 @ After this Jo'ash decided to restore the house of the LORD.

rsv@2Chronicles:24:5 @ And he gathered the priests and the Levites, and said to them, "Go out to the cities of Judah, and gather from all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year; and see that you hasten the matter." But the Levites did not hasten it.

rsv@2Chronicles:24:6 @ So the king summoned Jehoi'ada the chief, and said to him, "Why have you not required the Levites to bring in from Judah and Jerusalem the tax levied by Moses, the servant of the LORD, on the congregation of Israel for the tent of testimony?"

rsv@2Chronicles:24:7 @ For the sons of Athali'ah, that wicked woman, had broken into the house of God; and had also used all the dedicated things of the house of the LORD for the Ba'als.

rsv@2Chronicles:24:8 @ So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it outside the gate of the house of the LORD.

rsv@2Chronicles:24:11 @ And whenever the chest was brought to the king's officers by the Levites, when they saw that there was much money in it, the king's secretary and the officer of the chief priest would come and empty the chest and take it and return it to its place. Thus they did day after day, and collected money in abundance.

rsv@2Chronicles:24:12 @ And the king and Jehoi'ada gave it to those who had charge of the work of the house of the LORD, and they hired masons and carpenters to restore the house of the LORD, and also workers in iron and bronze to repair the house of the LORD.

rsv@2Chronicles:24:14 @ And when they had finished, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoi'ada, and with it were made utensils for the house of the LORD, both for the service and for the burnt offerings, and dishes for incense, and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the house of the LORD continually all the days of Jehoi'ada.

rsv@2Chronicles:24:17 @ Now after the death of Jehoi'ada the princes of Judah came and did obeisance to the king; then the king hearkened to them.

rsv@2Chronicles:24:19 @ Yet he sent prophets among them to bring them back to the LORD; these testified against them, but they would not give heed.

rsv@2Chronicles:24:24 @ Though the army of the Syrians had come with few men, the LORD delivered into their hand a very great army, because they had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers. Thus they executed judgment on Jo'ash.

rsv@2Chronicles:24:25 @ When they had departed from him, leaving him severely wounded, his servants conspired against him because of the blood of the son of Jehoi'ada the priest, and slew 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.

rsv@2Chronicles:24:26 @ Those who conspired against him were Zabad the son of Shim'e-ath the Ammonitess, and Jeho'zabad the son of Shimrith the Moabitess.

rsv@2Chronicles:24:27 @ Accounts of his sons, and of the many oracles against him, and of the rebuilding of the house of God are written in the Commentary on the Book of the Kings. And Amazi'ah his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@2Chronicles:25:4 @ But he did not put their children to death, according to what is written in the law, in the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, "The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, or the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin."

rsv@2Chronicles:25:5 @ Then Amazi'ah assembled the men of Judah, and set them by fathers' houses under commanders of thousands and of hundreds for all Judah and Benjamin. He mustered those twenty years old and upward, and found that they were three hundred thousand picked men, fit for war, able to handle spear and shield.

rsv@2Chronicles:25:7 @ But a man of God came to him and said, "O king, do not let the army of Israel go with you, for the LORD is not with Israel, with all these E'phraimites.

rsv@2Chronicles:25:11 @ But Amazi'ah took courage, and led out his people, and went to the Valley of Salt and smote ten thousand men of Se'ir.

rsv@2Chronicles:25:12 @ The men of Judah captured another ten thousand alive, and took them to the top of a rock and threw them down from the top of the rock; and they were all dashed to pieces.

rsv@2Chronicles:25:14 @ After Amazi'ah came from the slaughter of the E'domites, he brought the gods of the men of Se'ir, and set them up as his gods, and worshiped them, making offerings to them.

rsv@2Chronicles:25:15 @ Therefore the LORD was angry with Amazi'ah and sent to him a prophet, who said to him, "Why have you resorted to the gods of a people, which did not deliver their own people from your hand?"

rsv@2Chronicles:25:16 @ But as he was speaking the king said to him, "Have we made you a royal counselor? Stop! Why should you be put to death?" So the prophet stopped, but said, "I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my counsel."

rsv@2Chronicles:25:18 @ And Jo'ash the king of Israel sent word to Amazi'ah king of Judah, "A thistle on Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, `Give your daughter to my son for a wife'; and a wild beast of Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thistle.

rsv@2Chronicles:25:19 @ You say, `See, I have smitten Edom,' and your heart has lifted you up in boastfulness. But now stay at home; why should you provoke trouble so that you fall, you and Judah with you?"

rsv@2Chronicles:25:20 @ But Amazi'ah would not listen; for it was of God, in order that he might give them into the hand of their enemies, because they had sought the gods of Edom.

rsv@2Chronicles:25:22 @ And Judah was defeated by Israel, and every man fled to his home.

rsv@2Chronicles:25:23 @ And Jo'ash king of Israel captured Amazi'ah king of Judah, the son of Jo'ash, son of Ahazi'ah, at Beth-she'mesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem for four hundred cubits, from the E'phraim Gate to the Corner Gate.

rsv@2Chronicles:25:25 @ Amazi'ah the son of Jo'ash king of Judah lived fifteen years after the death of Jo'ash the son of Jeho'ahaz, king of Israel.

rsv@2Chronicles:25:26 @ Now the rest of the deeds of Amazi'ah, from first to last, are they not written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel?

rsv@2Chronicles:25:27 @ From the time when he turned away from the LORD they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. But they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.

rsv@2Chronicles:26:1 @ And all the people of Judah took Uzzi'ah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amazi'ah.

rsv@2Chronicles:26:2 @ He built Eloth and restored it to Judah, after the king slept with his fathers.

rsv@2Chronicles:26:3 @ Uzzi'ah was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jecoli'ah of Jerusalem.

rsv@2Chronicles:26:5 @ He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechari'ah, who instructed him in the fear of God; and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him prosper.

rsv@2Chronicles:26:6 @ He went out and made war against the Philistines, and broke down the wall of Gath and the wall of Jabneh and the wall of Ashdod; and he built cities in the territory of Ashdod and elsewhere among the Philistines.

rsv@2Chronicles:26:7 @ God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabs that dwelt in Gurba'al, and against the Me-u'nites.

rsv@2Chronicles:26:8 @ The Ammonites paid tribute to Uzzi'ah, and his fame spread even to the border of Egypt, for he became very strong.

rsv@2Chronicles:26:9 @ Moreover Uzzi'ah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate and at the Valley Gate and at the Angle, and fortified them.

rsv@2Chronicles:26:10 @ And he built towers in the wilderness, and hewed out many cisterns, for he had large herds, both in the Shephe'lah and in the plain, and he had farmers and vinedressers in the hills and in the fertile lands, for he loved the soil.

rsv@2Chronicles:26:11 @ Moreover Uzzi'ah had an army of soldiers, fit for war, in divisions according to the numbers in the muster made by Je-i'el the secretary and Ma-asei'ah the officer, under the direction of Hanani'ah, one of the king's commanders.

rsv@2Chronicles:26:15 @ In Jerusalem he made engines, invented by skilful men, to be on the towers and the corners, to shoot arrows and great stones. And his fame spread far, for he was marvelously helped, till he was strong.

rsv@2Chronicles:26:16 @ But when he was strong he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was false to the LORD his God, and entered the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense.

rsv@2Chronicles:26:17 @ But Azari'ah the priest went in after him, with eighty priests of the LORD who were men of valor;

rsv@2Chronicles:26:18 @ and they withstood King Uzzi'ah, and said to him, "It is not for you, Uzzi'ah, to burn incense to the LORD, but for the priests the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary; for you have done wrong, and it will bring you no honor from the LORD God."

rsv@2Chronicles:26:20 @ And Azari'ah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked at him, and behold, he was leprous in his forehead! And they thrust him out quickly, and he himself hastened to go out, because the LORD had smitten him.

rsv@2Chronicles:26:21 @ And King Uzzi'ah was a leper to the day of his death, and being a leper dwelt in a separate house, for he was excluded from the house of the LORD. And Jotham his son was over the king's household, governing the people of the land.

rsv@2Chronicles:26:22 @ Now the rest of the acts of Uzzi'ah, from first to last, Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz wrote.

rsv@2Chronicles:26:23 @ And Uzzi'ah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the burial field which belonged to the kings, for they said, "He is a leper." And Jotham his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@2Chronicles:27:1 @ Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jeru'shah the daughter of Zadok.

rsv@2Chronicles:27:2 @ And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD according to all that his father Uzzi'ah had done--only he did not invade the temple of the LORD. But the people still followed corrupt practices.

rsv@2Chronicles:27:3 @ He built the upper gate of the house of the LORD, and did much building on the wall of Ophel.

rsv@2Chronicles:27:5 @ He fought with the king of the Ammonites and prevailed against them. And the Ammonites gave him that year a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand cors of wheat and ten thousand of barley. The Ammonites paid him the same amount in the second and the third years.

rsv@2Chronicles:27:7 @ Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.

rsv@2Chronicles:27:8 @ He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.

rsv@2Chronicles:27:9 @ And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David; and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@2Chronicles:28:1 @ Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD, like his father David,

rsv@2Chronicles:28:2 @ but walked in the ways of the kings of Israel. He even made molten images for the Ba'als;

rsv@2Chronicles:28:5 @ Therefore the LORD his God gave him into the hand of the king of Syria, who defeated him and took captive a great number of his people and brought them to Damascus. He was also given into the hand of the king of Israel, who defeated him with great slaughter.

rsv@2Chronicles:28:8 @ The men of Israel took captive two hundred thousand of their kinsfolk, women, sons, and daughters; they also took much spoil from them and brought the spoil to Sama'ria.

rsv@2Chronicles:28:10 @ And now you intend to subjugate the people of Judah and Jerusalem, male and female, as your slaves. Have you not sins of your own against the LORD your God?

rsv@2Chronicles:28:15 @ And the men who have been mentioned by name rose and took the captives, and with the spoil they clothed all that were naked among them; they clothed them, gave them sandals, provided them with food and drink, and anointed them; and carrying all the feeble among them on asses, they brought them to their kinsfolk at Jericho, the city of palm trees. Then they returned to Sama'ria.

rsv@2Chronicles:28:17 @ For the E'domites had again invaded and defeated Judah, and carried away captives.

rsv@2Chronicles:28:20 @ So Til'gath-pilne'ser king of Assyria came against him, and afflicted him instead of strengthening him.

rsv@2Chronicles:28:21 @ For Ahaz took from the house of the LORD and the house of the king and of the princes, and gave tribute to the king of Assyria; but it did not help him.

rsv@2Chronicles:28:23 @ For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus which had defeated him, and said, "Because the gods of the kings of Syria helped them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me." But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.

rsv@2Chronicles:28:26 @ Now the rest of his acts and all his ways, from first to last, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.

rsv@2Chronicles:28:27 @ And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, in Jerusalem, for they did not bring him into the tombs of the kings of Israel. And Hezeki'ah his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@2Chronicles:29:1 @ Hezeki'ah began to reign when he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Abi'jah the daughter of Zechari'ah.

rsv@2Chronicles:29:4 @ He brought in the priests and the Levites, and assembled them in the square on the east,

rsv@2Chronicles:29:5 @ and said to them, "Hear me, Levites! Now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD, the God of your fathers, and carry out the filth from the holy place.

rsv@2Chronicles:29:9 @ For lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

rsv@2Chronicles:29:11 @ My sons, do not now be negligent, for the LORD has chosen you to stand in his presence, to minister to him, and to be his ministers and burn incense to him."

rsv@2Chronicles:29:12 @ Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Ama'sai, and Jo'el the son of Azari'ah, of the sons of the Ko'hathites; and of the sons of Merar'i, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azari'ah the son of Jehal'lelel; and of the Gershonites, Jo'ah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Jo'ah;

rsv@2Chronicles:29:16 @ The priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD to cleanse it, and they brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the LORD into the court of the house of the LORD; and the Levites took it and carried it out to the brook Kidron.

rsv@2Chronicles:29:17 @ They began to sanctify on the first day of the first month, and on the eighth day of the month they came to the vestibule of the LORD; then for eight days they sanctified the house of the LORD, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished.

rsv@2Chronicles:29:18 @ Then they went in to Hezeki'ah the king and said, "We have cleansed all the house of the LORD, the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the table for the showbread and all its utensils.

rsv@2Chronicles:29:19 @ All the utensils which King Ahaz discarded in his reign when he was faithless, we have made ready and sanctified; and behold, they are before the altar of the LORD."

rsv@2Chronicles:29:25 @ And he stationed the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, harps, and lyres, according to the commandment of David and of Gad the king's seer and of Nathan the prophet; for the commandment was from the LORD through his prophets.

rsv@2Chronicles:29:26 @ The Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.

rsv@2Chronicles:29:28 @ The whole assembly worshiped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded; all this continued until the burnt offering was finished.

rsv@2Chronicles:29:30 @ And Hezeki'ah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praises to the LORD with the words of David and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed down and worshiped.

rsv@2Chronicles:29:31 @ Then Hezeki'ah said, "You have now consecrated yourselves to the LORD; come near, bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the house of the LORD." And the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings; and all who were of a willing heart brought burnt offerings.

rsv@2Chronicles:29:33 @ And the consecrated offerings were six hundred bulls and three thousand sheep.

rsv@2Chronicles:29:34 @ But the priests were too few and could not flay all the burnt offerings, so until other priests had sanctified themselves their brethren the Levites helped them, until the work was finished--for the Levites were more upright in heart than the priests in sanctifying themselves.

rsv@2Chronicles:30:1 @ Hezeki'ah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to E'phraim and Manas'seh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover to the LORD the God of Israel.

rsv@2Chronicles:30:6 @ So couriers went throughout all Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his princes, as the king had commanded, saying, "O people of Israel, return to the LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may turn again to the remnant of you who have escaped from the hand of the kings of Assyria.

rsv@2Chronicles:30:15 @ And they killed the passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month. And the priests and the Levites were put to shame, so that they sanctified themselves, and brought burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.

rsv@2Chronicles:30:16 @ They took their accustomed posts according to the law of Moses the man of God; the priests sprinkled the blood which they received from the hand of the Levites.

rsv@2Chronicles:30:17 @ For there were many in the assembly who had not sanctified themselves; therefore the Levites had to kill the passover lamb for every one who was not clean, to make it holy to the LORD.

rsv@2Chronicles:30:18 @ For a multitude of the people, many of them from E'phraim, Manas'seh, Is'sachar, and Zeb'ulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the passover otherwise than as prescribed. For Hezeki'ah had prayed for them, saying, "The good LORD pardon every one

rsv@2Chronicles:30:21 @ And the people of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness; and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by day, singing with all their might to the LORD.

rsv@2Chronicles:30:22 @ And Hezeki'ah spoke encouragingly to all the Levites who showed good skill in the service of the LORD. So the people ate the food of the festival for seven days, sacrificing peace offerings and giving thanks to the LORD the God of their fathers.

rsv@2Chronicles:30:24 @ For Hezeki'ah king of Judah gave the assembly a thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep for offerings, and the princes gave the assembly a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep. And the priests sanctified themselves in great numbers.

rsv@2Chronicles:30:25 @ The whole assembly of Judah, and the priests and the Levites, and the whole assembly that came out of Israel, and the sojourners who came out of the land of Israel, and the sojourners who dwelt in Judah, rejoiced.

rsv@2Chronicles:30:27 @ Then the priests and the Levites arose and blessed the people, and their voice was heard, and their prayer came to his holy habitation in heaven.

rsv@2Chronicles:31:2 @ And Hezeki'ah appointed the divisions of the priests and of the Levites, division by division, each according to his service, the priests and the Levites, for burnt offerings and peace offerings, to minister in the gates of the camp of the LORD and to give thanks and praise.

rsv@2Chronicles:31:3 @ The contribution of the king from his own possessions was for the burnt offerings: the burnt offerings of morning and evening, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, the new moons, and the appointed feasts, as it is written in the law of the LORD.

rsv@2Chronicles:31:4 @ And he commanded the people who lived in Jerusalem to give the portion due to the priests and the Levites, that they might give themselves to the law of the LORD.

rsv@2Chronicles:31:6 @ And the people of Israel and Judah who lived in the cities of Judah also brought in the tithe of cattle and sheep, and the dedicated things which had been consecrated to the LORD their God, and laid them in heaps.

rsv@2Chronicles:31:9 @ And Hezeki'ah questioned the priests and the Levites about the heaps.

rsv@2Chronicles:31:10 @ Azari'ah the chief priest, who was of the house of Zadok, answered him, "Since they began to bring the contributions into the house of the LORD we have eaten and had enough and have plenty left; for the LORD has blessed his people, so that we have this great store left."

rsv@2Chronicles:31:12 @ And they faithfully brought in the contributions, the tithes and the dedicated things. The chief officer in charge of them was Conani'ah the Levite, with Shim'e-i his brother as second;

rsv@2Chronicles:31:14 @ And Ko're the son of Imnah the Levite, keeper of the east gate, was over the freewill offerings to God, to apportion the contribution reserved for the LORD and the most holy offerings.

rsv@2Chronicles:31:15 @ Eden, Mini'amin, Jeshua, Shemai'ah, Amari'ah, and Shecani'ah were faithfully assisting him in the cities of the priests, to distribute the portions to their brethren, old and young alike, by divisions,

rsv@2Chronicles:31:16 @ except those enrolled by genealogy, males from three years old and upwards, all who entered the house of the LORD as the duty of each day required, for their service according to their offices, by their divisions.

rsv@2Chronicles:31:17 @ The enrollment of the priests was according to their fathers' houses; that of the Levites from twenty years old and upwards was according to their offices, by their divisions.

rsv@2Chronicles:31:18 @ The priests were enrolled with all their little children, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, the whole multitude; for they were faithful in keeping themselves holy.

rsv@2Chronicles:31:19 @ And for the sons of Aaron, the priests, who were in the fields of common land belonging to their cities, there were men in the several cities who were designated by name to distribute portions to every male among the priests and to every one among the Levites who was enrolled.

rsv@2Chronicles:32:1 @ After these things and these acts of faithfulness Sennach'erib king of Assyria came and invaded Judah and encamped against the fortified cities, thinking to win them for himself.

rsv@2Chronicles:32:2 @ And when Hezeki'ah saw that Sennach'erib had come and intended to fight against Jerusalem,

rsv@2Chronicles:32:3 @ he planned with his officers and his mighty men to stop the water of the springs that were outside the city; and they helped him.

rsv@2Chronicles:32:4 @ A great many people were gathered, and they stopped all the springs and the brook that flowed through the land, saying, "Why should the kings of Assyria come and find much water?"

rsv@2Chronicles:32:5 @ He set to work resolutely and built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised towers upon it, and outside it he built another wall; and he strengthened the Millo in the city of David. He also made weapons and shields in abundance.

rsv@2Chronicles:32:6 @ And he set combat commanders over the people, and gathered them together to him in the square at the gate of the city and spoke encouragingly to them, saying,

rsv@2Chronicles:32:7 @ "Be strong and of good courage. Do not be afraid or dismayed before the king of Assyria and all the horde that is with him; for there is one greater with us than with him.

rsv@2Chronicles:32:9 @ After this Sennach'erib king of Assyria, who was besieging Lachish with all his forces, sent his servants to Jerusalem to Hezeki'ah king of Judah and to all the people of Judah that were in Jerusalem, saying,

rsv@2Chronicles:32:11 @ Is not Hezeki'ah misleading you, that he may give you over to die by famine and by thirst, when he tells you, "The LORD our God will deliver us from the hand of the king of Assyria"?

rsv@2Chronicles:32:14 @ Who among all the gods of those nations which my fathers utterly destroyed was able to deliver his people from my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you from my hand?

rsv@2Chronicles:32:17 @ And he wrote letters to cast contempt on the LORD the God of Israel and to speak against him, saying, "Like the gods of the nations of the lands who have not delivered their people from my hands, so the God of Hezeki'ah will not deliver his people from my hand."

rsv@2Chronicles:32:18 @ And they shouted it with a loud voice in the language of Judah to the people of Jerusalem who were upon the wall, to frighten and terrify them, in order that they might take the city.

rsv@2Chronicles:32:23 @ And many brought gifts to the LORD to Jerusalem and precious things to Hezeki'ah king of Judah, so that he was exalted in the sight of all nations from that time onward.

rsv@2Chronicles:32:30 @ This same Hezeki'ah closed the upper outlet of the waters of Gihon and directed them down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezeki'ah prospered in all his works.

rsv@2Chronicles:32:31 @ And so in the matter of the envoys of the princes of Babylon, who had been sent to him to inquire about the sign that had been done in the land, God left him to himself, in order to try him and to know all that was in his heart.

rsv@2Chronicles:32:32 @ Now the rest of the acts of Hezeki'ah, and his good deeds, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.

rsv@2Chronicles:32:33 @ And Hezeki'ah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the ascent of the tombs of the sons of David; and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honor at his death. And Manas'seh his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@2Chronicles:33:3 @ For he rebuilt the high places which his father Hezeki'ah had broken down, and erected altars to the Ba'als, and made Ashe'rahs, and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served them.

rsv@2Chronicles:33:8 @ and I will no more remove the foot of Israel from the land which I appointed for your fathers, if only they will be careful to do all that I have commanded them, all the law, the statutes, and the ordinances given through Moses."

rsv@2Chronicles:33:11 @ Therefore the LORD brought upon them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manas'seh with hooks and bound him with fetters of bronze and brought him to Babylon.

rsv@2Chronicles:33:12 @ And when he was in distress he entreated the favor of the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

rsv@2Chronicles:33:14 @ Afterwards he built an outer wall for the city of David west of Gihon, in the valley, and for the entrance into the Fish Gate, and carried it round Ophel, and raised it to a very great height; he also put commanders of the army in all the fortified cities in Judah.

rsv@2Chronicles:33:19 @ And his prayer, and how God received his entreaty, and all his sin and his faithlessness, and the sites on which he built high places and set up the Ashe'rim and the images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the Chronicles of the Seers.

rsv@2Chronicles:33:20 @ So Manas'seh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his house; and Amon his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@2Chronicles:33:25 @ But the people of the land slew all those who had conspired against King Amon; and the people of the land made Josi'ah his son king in his stead.

rsv@2Chronicles:34:3 @ For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Ashe'rim, and the graven and the molten images.

rsv@2Chronicles:34:4 @ And they broke down the altars of the Ba'als in his presence; and he hewed down the incense altars which stood above them; and he broke in pieces the Ashe'rim and the graven and the molten images, and he made dust of them and strewed it over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

rsv@2Chronicles:34:8 @ Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azali'ah, and Ma-asei'ah the governor of the city, and Jo'ah the son of Jo'ahaz, the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his God.

rsv@2Chronicles:34:9 @ They came to Hilki'ah the high priest and delivered the money that had been brought into the house of God, which the Levites, the keepers of the threshold, had collected from Manas'seh and E'phraim and from all the remnant of Israel and from all Judah and Benjamin and from the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

rsv@2Chronicles:34:11 @ They gave it to the carpenters and the builders to buy quarried stone, and timber for binders and beams for the buildings which the kings of Judah had let go to ruin.

rsv@2Chronicles:34:12 @ And the men did the work faithfully. Over them were set Jahath and Obadi'ah the Levites, of the sons of Merar'i, and Zechari'ah and Meshul'lam, of the sons of the Ko'hathites, to have oversight. The Levites, all who were skilful with instruments of music,

rsv@2Chronicles:34:13 @ were over the burden bearers and directed all who did work in every kind of service; and some of the Levites were scribes, and officials, and gatekeepers.

rsv@2Chronicles:34:16 @ Shaphan brought the book to the king, and further reported to the king, "All that was committed to your servants they are doing.

rsv@2Chronicles:34:21 @ "Go, inquire of the LORD for me and for those who are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that has been found; for great is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out on us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD, to do according to all that is written in this book."

rsv@2Chronicles:34:22 @ So Hilki'ah and those whom the king had sent went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhath, son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter) and spoke to her to that effect.

rsv@2Chronicles:34:23 @ And she said to them, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: `Tell the man who sent you to me,

rsv@2Chronicles:34:24 @ Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place and upon its inhabitants, all the curses that are written in the book which was read before the king of Judah.

rsv@2Chronicles:34:27 @ because your heart was penitent and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and its inhabitants, and you have humbled yourself before me, and have rent your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, says the LORD.

rsv@2Chronicles:34:30 @ And the king went up to the house of the LORD, with all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the priests and the Levites, all the people both 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.

rsv@2Chronicles:34:31 @ And the king stood in his place and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes, with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.

rsv@2Chronicles:34:33 @ And Josi'ah took away all the abominations from all the territory that belonged to the people of Israel, and made all who were in Israel serve the LORD their God. All his days they did not turn away from following the LORD the God of their fathers.

rsv@2Chronicles:35:1 @ Josi'ah kept a passover to the LORD in Jerusalem; and they killed the passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the first month.

rsv@2Chronicles:35:2 @ He appointed the priests to their offices and encouraged them in the service of the house of the LORD.

rsv@2Chronicles:35:3 @ And he said to the Levites who taught all Israel and who were holy to the LORD, "Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David, king of Israel, built; you need no longer carry it upon your shoulders. Now serve the LORD your God and his people Israel.

rsv@2Chronicles:35:5 @ And stand in the holy place according to the groupings of the fathers' houses of your brethren the lay people, and let there be for each a part of a father's house of the Levites.

rsv@2Chronicles:35:7 @ Then Josi'ah contributed to the lay people, as passover offerings for all that were present, lambs and kids from the flock to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bulls; these were from the king's possessions.

rsv@2Chronicles:35:8 @ And his princes contributed willingly to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilki'ah, Zechari'ah, and Jehi'el, the chief officers of the house of God, gave to the priests for the passover offerings two thousand six hundred lambs and kids and three hundred bulls.

rsv@2Chronicles:35:9 @ Conani'ah also, and Shemai'ah and Nethan'el his brothers, and Hashabi'ah and Je-i'el and Jo'zabad, the chiefs of the Levites, gave to the Levites for the passover offerings five thousand lambs and kids and five hundred bulls.

rsv@2Chronicles:35:10 @ When the service had been prepared for, the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their divisions according to the king's command.

rsv@2Chronicles:35:11 @ And they killed the passover lamb, and the priests sprinkled the blood which they received from them while the Levites flayed the victims.

rsv@2Chronicles:35:12 @ And they set aside the burnt offerings that they might distribute them according to the groupings of the fathers' houses of the lay people, to offer to the LORD, as it is written in the book of Moses. And so they did with the bulls.

rsv@2Chronicles:35:13 @ And they roasted the passover lamb with fire according to the ordinance; and they boiled the holy offerings in pots, in caldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the lay people.

rsv@2Chronicles:35:14 @ And afterward they prepared for themselves and for the priests, because the priests the sons of Aaron were busied in offering the burnt offerings and the fat parts until night; so the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests the sons of Aaron.

rsv@2Chronicles:35:15 @ The singers, the sons of Asaph, were in their place according to the command of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jedu'thun the king's seer; and the gatekeepers were at each gate; they did not need to depart from their service, for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.

rsv@2Chronicles:35:18 @ No passover like it had been kept in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet; none of the kings of Israel had kept such a passover as was kept by Josi'ah, and the priests and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

rsv@2Chronicles:35:19 @ In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josi'ah this passover was kept.

rsv@2Chronicles:35:20 @ After all this, when Josi'ah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight at Car'chemish on the Euphra'tes and Josi'ah went out against him.

rsv@2Chronicles:35:21 @ But he sent envoys to him, saying, "What have we to do with each other, king of Judah? I am not coming against you this day, but against the house with which I am at war; and God has commanded me to make haste. Cease opposing God, who is with me, lest he destroy you."

rsv@2Chronicles:35:22 @ Nevertheless Josi'ah would not turn away from him, but disguised himself in order to fight with him. He did not listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, but joined battle in the plain of Megid'do.

rsv@2Chronicles:35:25 @ Jeremiah also uttered a lament for Josi'ah; and all the singing men and singing women have spoken of Josi'ah in their laments to this day. They made these an ordinance in Israel; behold, they are written in the Laments.

rsv@2Chronicles:35:26 @ Now the rest of the acts of Josi'ah, and his good deeds according to what is written in the law of the LORD,

rsv@2Chronicles:35:27 @ and his acts, first and last, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.

rsv@2Chronicles:36:1 @ The people of the land took Jeho'ahaz the son of Josi'ah and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem.

rsv@2Chronicles:36:3 @ Then the king of Egypt deposed him in Jerusalem and laid upon the land a tribute of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

rsv@2Chronicles:36:6 @ Against him came up Nebuchadnez'zar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters to take him to Babylon.

rsv@2Chronicles:36:8 @ Now the rest of the acts of Jehoi'akim, and the abominations which he did, and what was found against him, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah; and Jehoi'achin his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@2Chronicles:36:9 @ Jehoi'achin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD.

rsv@2Chronicles:36:14 @ All the leading priests and the people likewise were exceedingly unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.

rsv@2Chronicles:36:15 @ The LORD, the God of their fathers, sent persistently to them by his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place;

rsv@2Chronicles:36:21 @ to fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its sabbaths. All the days that it lay desolate it kept sabbath, to fulfil seventy years.

rsv@Ezra:1:4 @ and let each survivor, in whatever place he sojourns, be assisted by the men of his place with silver and gold, with goods and with beasts, besides freewill offerings for the house of God which is in Jerusalem."

rsv@Ezra:1:5 @ Then rose up the heads of the fathers' houses of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and the Levites, every one whose spirit God had stirred to go up to rebuild the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem;

rsv@Ezra:1:8 @ Cyrus king of Persia brought these out in charge of Mith'redath the treasurer, who counted them out to Shesh-baz'zar the prince of Judah.

rsv@Ezra:1:10 @ thirty bowls of gold, two thousand four hundred and ten bowls of silver, and a thousand other vessels;

rsv@Ezra:2:16 @ The sons of Ater, namely of Hezeki'ah, ninety-eight.

rsv@Ezra:2:39 @ The sons of Harim, one thousand and seventeen.

rsv@Ezra:2:40 @ The Levites: the sons of Jeshua and Kad'mi-el, of the sons of Hodavi'ah, seventy-four.

rsv@Ezra:2:42 @ The sons of the gatekeepers: the sons of Shallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hati'ta, and the sons of Sho'bai, in all one hundred and thirty-nine.

rsv@Ezra:2:43 @ The temple servants: the sons of Ziha, the sons of Hasu'pha, the sons of Tabba'oth,

rsv@Ezra:2:53 @ the sons of Barkos, the sons of Sis'era, the sons of Temah,

rsv@Ezra:2:58 @ All the temple servants and the sons of Solomon's servants were three hundred and ninety-two.

rsv@Ezra:2:59 @ The following were those who came up from Tel-me'lah, Tel-har'sha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, though they could not prove their fathers' houses or their descent, whether they belonged to Israel:

rsv@Ezra:2:61 @ Also, of the sons of the priests: the sons of Habai'ah, the sons of Hakkoz, and the sons of Barzil'lai (who had taken a wife from the daughters of Barzil'lai the Gileadite, and was called by their name).

rsv@Ezra:2:68 @ Some of the heads of families, when they came to the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem, made freewill offerings for the house of God, to erect it on its site;

rsv@Ezra:2:70 @ The priests, the Levites, and some of the people lived in Jerusalem and its vicinity; and the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants lived in their towns, and all Israel in their towns.

rsv@Ezra:3:2 @ Then arose Jeshua the son of Jo'zadak, with his fellow priests, and Zerub'babel the son of She-al'ti-el with his kinsmen, and they built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings upon it, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.

rsv@Ezra:3:4 @ And they kept the feast of booths, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number according to the ordinance, as each day required,

rsv@Ezra:3:5 @ and after that the continual burnt offerings, the offerings at the new moon and at all the appointed feasts of the LORD, and the offerings of every one who made a freewill offering to the LORD.

rsv@Ezra:3:6 @ From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the LORD. But the foundation of the temple of the LORD was not yet laid.

rsv@Ezra:3:7 @ So they gave money to the masons and the carpenters, and food, drink, and oil to the Sido'nians and the Tyrians to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the grant which they had from Cyrus king of Persia.

rsv@Ezra:3:8 @ Now in the second year of their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerub'babel the son of She-al'ti-el and Jeshua the son of Jo'zadak made a beginning, together with the rest of their brethren, the priests and the Levites and all who had come to Jerusalem from the captivity. They appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to have the oversight of the work of the house of the LORD.

rsv@Ezra:3:9 @ And Jeshua with his sons and his kinsmen, and Kad'mi-el and his sons, the sons of Judah, together took the oversight of the workmen in the house of God, along with the sons of Hen'adad and the Levites, their sons and kinsmen.

rsv@Ezra:3:10 @ And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, the priests in their vestments came forward with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise the LORD, according to the directions of David king of Israel;

rsv@Ezra:3:11 @ and they sang responsively, praising and giving thanks to the LORD, "For he is good, for his steadfast love endures for ever toward Israel." And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid.

rsv@Ezra:3:12 @ But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers' houses, old men who had seen the first house, wept with a loud voice when they saw the foundation of this house being laid, though many shouted aloud for joy;

rsv@Ezra:3:13 @ so that the people could not distinguish the sound of the joyful shout from the sound of the people's weeping, for the people shouted with a great shout, and the sound was heard afar.

rsv@Ezra:4:1 @ Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the returned exiles were building a temple to the LORD, the God of Israel,

rsv@Ezra:4:5 @ and hired counselors against them to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.

rsv@Ezra:4:6 @ And in the reign of Ahasu-e'rus, in the beginning of his reign, they wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.

rsv@Ezra:4:7 @ And in the days of Ar-ta-xerx'es, Bishlam and Mith'redath and Tab'eel and the rest of their associates wrote to Ar-ta-xerx'es king of Persia; the letter was written in Aramaic and translated.

rsv@Ezra:4:8 @ Rehum the commander and Shim'shai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Ar-ta-xerx'es the king as follows--

rsv@Ezra:4:9 @ then wrote Rehum the commander, Shim'shai the scribe, and the rest of their associates, the judges, the governors, the officials, the Persians, the men of Erech, the Babylonians, the men of Susa, that is, the Elamites,

rsv@Ezra:4:10 @ and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Osnap'par deported and settled in the cities of Sama'ria and in the rest of the province Beyond the River, and now

rsv@Ezra:4:11 @ this is a copy of the letter that they sent-- "To Ar-ta-xerx'es the king: Your servants, the men of the province Beyond the River, send greeting. And now

rsv@Ezra:4:13 @ Now be it known to the king that, if this city is rebuilt and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, custom, or toll, and the royal revenue will be impaired.

rsv@Ezra:4:15 @ in order that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers. You will find in the book of the records and learn that this city is a rebellious city, hurtful to kings and provinces, and that sedition was stirred up in it from of old. That was why this city was laid waste.

rsv@Ezra:4:17 @ The king sent an answer: "To Rehum the commander and Shim'shai the scribe and the rest of their associates who live in Sama'ria and in the rest of the province Beyond the River, greeting. And now

rsv@Ezra:4:18 @ the letter which you sent to us has been plainly read before me.

rsv@Ezra:4:20 @ And mighty kings have been over Jerusalem, who ruled over the whole province Beyond the River, to whom tribute, custom, and toll were paid.

rsv@Ezra:4:22 @ And take care not to be slack in this matter; why should damage grow to the hurt of the king?"

rsv@Ezra:4:23 @ Then, when the copy of King Ar-ta-xerx'es' letter was read before Rehum and Shim'shai the scribe and their associates, they went in haste to the Jews at Jerusalem and by force and power made them cease.

rsv@Ezra:5:3 @ At the same time Tat'tenai the governor of the province Beyond the River and She'thar-boz'enai and their associates came to them and spoke to them thus, "Who gave you a decree to build this house and to finish this structure?"

rsv@Ezra:5:5 @ But the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, and they did not stop them till a report should reach Darius and then answer be returned by letter concerning it.

rsv@Ezra:5:6 @ The copy of the letter which Tat'tenai the governor of the province Beyond the River and She'thar-boz'enai and his associates the governors who were in the province Beyond the River sent to Darius the king;

rsv@Ezra:5:7 @ they sent him a report, in which was written as follows: "To Darius the king, all peace.

rsv@Ezra:5:10 @ We also asked them their names, for your information, that we might write down the names of the men at their head.

rsv@Ezra:5:14 @ And the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnez'zar had taken out of the temple that was in Jerusalem and brought into the temple of Babylon, these Cyrus the king took out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered to one whose name was Shesh-baz'zar, whom he had made governor;

rsv@Ezra:5:15 @ and he said to him, "Take these vessels, go and put them in the temple which is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be rebuilt on its site."

rsv@Ezra:5:17 @ Therefore, if it seem good to the king, let search be made in the royal archives there in Babylon, to see whether a decree was issued by Cyrus the king for the rebuilding of this house of God in Jerusalem. And let the king send us his pleasure in this matter."

rsv@Ezra:6:2 @ And in Ecbat'ana, the capital which is in the province of Media, a scroll was found on which this was written: "A record.

rsv@Ezra:6:5 @ And also let the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnez'zar took out of the temple that is in Jerusalem and brought to Babylon, be restored and brought back to the temple which is in Jerusalem, each to its place; you shall put them in the house of God."

rsv@Ezra:6:6 @ "Now therefore, Tat'tenai, governor of the province Beyond the River, She'thar-boz'enai, and your associates the governors who are in the province Beyond the River, keep away;

rsv@Ezra:6:7 @ let the work on this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews rebuild this house of God on its site.

rsv@Ezra:6:8 @ Moreover I make a decree regarding what you shall do for these elders of the Jews for the rebuilding of this house of God; the cost is to be paid to these men in full and without delay from the royal revenue, the tribute of the province from Beyond the River.

rsv@Ezra:6:9 @ And whatever is needed-- young bulls, rams, or sheep for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, or oil, as the priests at Jerusalem require-- let that be given to them day by day without fail,

rsv@Ezra:6:11 @ Also I make a decree that if any one alters this edict, a beam shall be pulled out of his house, and he shall be impaled upon it, and his house shall be made a dunghill.

rsv@Ezra:6:12 @ May the God who has caused his name to dwell there overthrow any king or people that shall put forth a hand to alter this, or to destroy this house of God which is in Jerusalem. I Darius make a decree; let it be done with all diligence."

rsv@Ezra:6:13 @ Then, according to the word sent by Darius the king, Tat'tenai, the governor of the province Beyond the River, She'thar-boz'enai, and their associates did with all diligence what Darius the king had ordered.

rsv@Ezra:6:16 @ And the people of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the rest of the returned exiles, celebrated the dedication of this house of God with joy.

rsv@Ezra:6:18 @ And they set the priests in their divisions and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God at Jerusalem, as it is written in the book of Moses.

rsv@Ezra:6:19 @ On the fourteenth day of the first month the returned exiles kept the passover.

rsv@Ezra:6:20 @ For the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together; all of them were clean. So they killed the passover lamb for all the returned exiles, for their fellow priests, and for themselves;

rsv@Ezra:6:21 @ it was eaten by the people of Israel who had returned from exile, and also by every one who had joined them and separated himself from the pollutions of the peoples of the land to worship the LORD, the God of Israel.

rsv@Ezra:7:1 @ Now after this, in the reign of Ar-ta-xerx'es king of Persia, Ezra the son of Serai'ah, son of Azari'ah, son of Hilki'ah,

rsv@Ezra:7:6 @ this Ezra went up from Babylonia. He was a scribe skilled in the law of Moses which the LORD the God of Israel had given; and the king granted him all that he asked, for the hand of the LORD his God was upon him.

rsv@Ezra:7:7 @ And there went up also to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Ar-ta-xerx'es the king, some of the people of Israel, and some of the priests and Levites, the singers and gatekeepers, and the temple servants.

rsv@Ezra:7:10 @ For Ezra had set his heart to study the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach his statutes and ordinances in Israel.

rsv@Ezra:7:11 @ This is a copy of the letter which King Ar-ta-xerx'es gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, learned in matters of the commandments of the LORD and his statutes for Israel:

rsv@Ezra:7:13 @ I make a decree that any one of the people of Israel or their priests or Levites in my kingdom, who freely offers to go to Jerusalem, may go with you.

rsv@Ezra:7:18 @ Whatever seems good to you and your brethren to do with the rest of the silver and gold, you may do, according to the will of your God.

rsv@Ezra:7:20 @ And whatever else is required for the house of your God, which you have occasion to provide, you may provide it out of the king's treasury.

rsv@Ezra:7:21 @ "And I, Ar-ta-xerx'es the king, make a decree to all the treasurers in the province Beyond the River: Whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, requires of you, be it done with all diligence,

rsv@Ezra:7:23 @ Whatever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be done in full for the house of the God of heaven, lest his wrath be against the realm of the king and his sons.

rsv@Ezra:7:24 @ We also notify you that it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, custom, or toll upon any one of the priests, the Levites, the singers, the doorkeepers, the temple servants, or other servants of this house of God.

rsv@Ezra:7:25 @ "And you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God which is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges who may judge all the people in the province Beyond the River, all such as know the laws of your God; and those who do not know them, you shall teach.

rsv@Ezra:7:26 @ Whoever will not obey the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be strictly executed upon him, whether for death or for banishment or for confiscation of his goods or for imprisonment."

rsv@Ezra:7:28 @ and who extended to me his steadfast love before the king and his counselors, and before all the king's mighty officers. I took courage, for the hand of the LORD my God was upon me, and I gathered leading men from Israel to go up with me.

rsv@Ezra:8:3 @ of the sons of Shecani'ah. Of the sons of Parosh, Zechari'ah, with whom were registered one hundred and fifty men.

rsv@Ezra:8:9 @ Of the sons of Jo'ab, Obadi'ah the son of Jehi'el, and with him two hundred and eighteen men.

rsv@Ezra:8:12 @ Of the sons of Azgad, Joha'nan the son of Hak'katan, and with him a hundred and ten men.

rsv@Ezra:8:13 @ Of the sons of Adoni'kam, those who came later, their names being Eliph'elet, Jeu'el, and Shemai'ah, and with them sixty men.

rsv@Ezra:8:17 @ and sent them to Iddo, the leading man at the place Casiphi'a, telling them what to say to Iddo and his brethren the temple servants at the place Casiphi'a, namely, to send us ministers for the house of our God.

rsv@Ezra:8:18 @ And by the good hand of our God upon us, they brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of Mahli the son of Levi, son of Israel, namely Sherebi'ah with his sons and kinsmen, eighteen;

rsv@Ezra:8:20 @ besides two hundred and twenty of the temple servants, whom David and his officials had set apart to attend the Levites. These were all mentioned by name.

rsv@Ezra:8:22 @ For I was ashamed to ask the king for a band of soldiers and horsemen to protect us against the enemy on our way; since we had told the king, "The hand of our God is for good upon all that seek him, and the power of his wrath is against all that forsake him."

rsv@Ezra:8:23 @ So we fasted and besought our God for this, and he listened to our entreaty.

rsv@Ezra:8:24 @ Then I set apart twelve of the leading priests: Sherebi'ah, Hashabi'ah, and ten of their kinsmen with them.

rsv@Ezra:8:29 @ Guard them and keep them until you weigh them before the chief priests and the Levites and the heads of fathers' houses in Israel at Jerusalem, within the chambers of the house of the LORD."

rsv@Ezra:8:30 @ So the priests and the Levites took over the weight of the silver and the gold and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem, to the house of our God.

rsv@Ezra:8:31 @ Then we departed from the river Aha'va on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem; the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambushes by the way.

rsv@Ezra:8:33 @ On the fourth day, within the house of our God, the silver and the gold and the vessels were weighed into the hands of Mer'emoth the priest, son of Uri'ah, and with him was Elea'zar the son of Phin'ehas, and with them were the Levites, Jo'zabad the son of Jeshua and No-adi'ah the son of Bin'nui.

rsv@Ezra:8:34 @ The whole was counted and weighed, and the weight of everything was recorded.

rsv@Ezra:9:1 @ After these things had been done, the officials approached me and said, "The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands with their abominations, from the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Per'izzites, the Jeb'usites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

rsv@Ezra:9:2 @ For they have taken some of their daughters to be wives for themselves and for their sons; so that the holy race has mixed itself with the peoples of the lands. And in this faithlessness the hand of the officials and chief men has been foremost."

rsv@Ezra:9:6 @ saying: "O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift my face to thee, my God, for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has mounted up to the heavens.

rsv@Ezra:9:7 @ From the days of our fathers to this day we have been in great guilt; and for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests have been given into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plundering, and to utter shame, as at this day.

rsv@Ezra:9:8 @ But now for a brief moment favor has been shown by the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant, and to give us a secure hold within his holy place, that our God may brighten our eyes and grant us a little reviving in our bondage.

rsv@Ezra:9:9 @ For we are bondmen; yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended to us his steadfast love before the kings of Persia, to grant us some reviving to set up the house of our God, to repair its ruins, and to give us protection in Judea and Jerusalem.

rsv@Ezra:9:10 @ "And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken thy commandments,

rsv@Ezra:9:11 @ which thou didst command by thy servants the prophets, saying, `The land which you are entering, to take possession of it, is a land unclean with the pollutions of the peoples of the lands, with their abominations which have filled it from end to end with their uncleanness.

rsv@Ezra:9:12 @ Therefore give not your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters for your sons, and never seek their peace or prosperity, that you may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.'

rsv@Ezra:9:13 @ And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, seeing that thou, our God, hast punished us less than our iniquities deserved and hast given us such a remnant as this,

rsv@Ezra:9:14 @ shall we break thy commandments again and intermarry with the peoples who practice these abominations? Wouldst thou not be angry with us till thou wouldst consume us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape?

rsv@Ezra:10:1 @ While Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children, gathered to him out of Israel; for the people wept bitterly.

rsv@Ezra:10:2 @ And Shecani'ah the son of Jehi'el, of the sons of Elam, addressed Ezra: "We have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land, but even now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.

rsv@Ezra:10:5 @ Then Ezra arose and made the leading priests and Levites and all Israel take oath that they would do as had been said. So they took the oath.

rsv@Ezra:10:6 @ Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God, and went to the chamber of Jehoha'nan the son of Eli'ashib, where he spent the night, neither eating bread nor drinking water; for he was mourning over the faithlessness of the exiles.

rsv@Ezra:10:8 @ and that if any one did not come within three days, by order of the officials and the elders all his property should be forfeited, and he himself banned from the congregation of the exiles.

rsv@Ezra:10:9 @ Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled at Jerusalem within the three days; it was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month. And all the people sat in the open square before the house of God, trembling because of this matter and because of the heavy rain.

rsv@Ezra:10:11 @ Now then make confession to the LORD the God of your fathers, and do his will; separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign wives."

rsv@Ezra:10:13 @ But the people are many, and it is a time of heavy rain; we cannot stand in the open. Nor is this a work for one day or for two; for we have greatly transgressed in this matter.

rsv@Ezra:10:14 @ Let our officials stand for the whole assembly; let all in our cities who have taken foreign wives come at appointed times, and with them the elders and judges of every city, till the fierce wrath of our God over this matter be averted from us."

rsv@Ezra:10:15 @ Only Jonathan the son of As'ahel and Jahzei'ah the son of Tikvah opposed this, and Meshul'lum and Shab'bethai the Levite supported them.

rsv@Ezra:10:16 @ Then the returned exiles did so. Ezra the priest selected men, heads of fathers' houses, according to their fathers' houses, each of them designated by name. On the first day of the tenth month they sat down to examine the matter;

rsv@Ezra:10:23 @ Of the Levites: Jo'zabad, Shim'e-i, Kelai'ah (that is, Keli'ta), Petha-hi'ah, Judah, and Elie'zer.

rsv@Ezra:10:24 @ Of the singers: Eli'ashib. Of the gatekeepers: Shallum, Telem, and Uri.

rsv@Ezra:10:33 @ Of the sons of Hashum: Matte'nai, Mat'tattah, Zabad, Eliph'elet, Jer'emai, Manas'seh, and Shim'e-i.

rsv@Ezra:10:37 @ Mattani'ah, Matte'nai, Ja'asu.

rsv@Nehemiah:1:3 @ And they said to me, "The survivors there in the province who escaped exile are in great trouble and shame; the wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates are destroyed by fire."

rsv@Nehemiah:1:5 @ And I said, "O LORD God of heaven, the great and terrible God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments;

rsv@Nehemiah:1:6 @ let thy ear be attentive, and thy eyes open, to hear the prayer of thy servant which I now pray before thee day and night for the people of Israel thy servants, confessing the sins of the people of Israel, which we have sinned against thee. Yea, I and my father's house have sinned.

rsv@Nehemiah:1:7 @ We have acted very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances which thou didst command thy servant Moses.

rsv@Nehemiah:1:8 @ Remember the word which thou didst command thy servant Moses, saying, `If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples;

rsv@Nehemiah:1:11 @ O Lord, let thy ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants who delight to fear thy name; and give success to thy servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man." Now I was cupbearer to the king.

rsv@Nehemiah:2:3 @ I said to the king, "Let the king live for ever! Why should not my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lies waste, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?"

rsv@Nehemiah:2:7 @ And I said to the king, "If it pleases the king, let letters be given me to the governors of the province Beyond the River, that they may let me pass through until I come to Judah;

rsv@Nehemiah:2:8 @ and a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the fortress of the temple, and for the wall of the city, and for the house which I shall occupy." And the king granted me what I asked, for the good hand of my God was upon me.

rsv@Nehemiah:2:9 @ Then I came to the governors of the province Beyond the River, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent with me officers of the army and horsemen.

rsv@Nehemiah:2:10 @ But when Sanbal'lat the Hor'onite and Tobi'ah the servant, the Ammonite, heard this, it displeased them greatly that some one had come to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.

rsv@Nehemiah:2:13 @ I went out by night by the Valley Gate to the Jackal's Well and to the Dung Gate, and I inspected the walls of Jerusalem which were broken down and its gates which had been destroyed by fire.

rsv@Nehemiah:2:14 @ Then I went on to the Fountain Gate and to the King's Pool; but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass.

rsv@Nehemiah:2:15 @ Then I went up in the night by the valley and inspected the wall; and I turned back and entered by the Valley Gate, and so returned.

rsv@Nehemiah:2:17 @ Then I said to them, "You see the trouble we are in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins with its gates burned. Come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer suffer disgrace."

rsv@Nehemiah:2:19 @ But when Sanbal'lat the Hor'onite and Tobi'ah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arab heard of it, they derided us and despised us and said, "What is this thing that you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?"

rsv@Nehemiah:3:1 @ Then Eli'ashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests and they built the Sheep Gate. They consecrated it and set its doors; they consecrated it as far as the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Tower of Hanan'el.

rsv@Nehemiah:3:3 @ And the sons of Hassena'ah built the Fish Gate; they laid its beams and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars.

rsv@Nehemiah:3:5 @ And next to them the Teko'ites repaired; but their nobles did not put their necks to the work of their Lord.

rsv@Nehemiah:3:6 @ And Joi'ada the son of Pase'ah and Meshul'lam the son of Besodei'ah repaired the Old Gate; they laid its beams and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars.

rsv@Nehemiah:3:7 @ And next to them repaired Melati'ah the Gib'eonite and Jadon the Mero'nothite, the men of Gibeon and of Mizpah, who were under the jurisdiction of the governor of the province Beyond the River.

rsv@Nehemiah:3:10 @ Next to them Jedai'ah the son of Haru'maph repaired opposite his house; and next to him Hattush the son of Hashabnei'ah repaired.

rsv@Nehemiah:3:12 @ Next to him Shallum the son of Hallo'hesh, ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, repaired, he and his daughters.

rsv@Nehemiah:3:13 @ Hanun and the inhabitants of Zano'ah repaired the Valley Gate; they rebuilt it and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and repaired a thousand cubits of the wall, as far as the Dung Gate.

rsv@Nehemiah:3:14 @ Malchi'jah the son of Rechab, ruler of the district of Beth-hacche'rem, repaired the Dung Gate; he rebuilt it and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars.

rsv@Nehemiah:3:15 @ And Shallum the son of Colho'zeh, ruler of the district of Mizpah, repaired the Fountain Gate; he rebuilt it and covered it and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars; and he built the wall of the Pool of Shelah of the king's garden, as far as the stairs that go down from the City of David.

rsv@Nehemiah:3:16 @ After him Nehemi'ah the son of Azbuk, ruler of half the district of Beth-zur, repaired to a point opposite the sepulchres of David, to the artificial pool, and to the house of the mighty men.

rsv@Nehemiah:3:17 @ After him the Levites repaired: Rehum the son of Bani; next to him Hashabi'ah, ruler of half the district of Kei'lah, repaired for his district.

rsv@Nehemiah:3:18 @ After him their brethren repaired: Bav'vai the son of Hen'adad, ruler of half the district of Kei'lah;

rsv@Nehemiah:3:19 @ next to him Ezer the son of Jeshua, ruler of Mizpah, repaired another section opposite the ascent to the armory at the Angle.

rsv@Nehemiah:3:20 @ After him Baruch the son of Zab'bai repaired another section from the Angle to the door of the house of Eli'ashib the high priest.

rsv@Nehemiah:3:21 @ After him Mer'emoth the son of Uri'ah, son of Hakkoz repaired another section from the door of the house of Eli'ashib to the end of the house of Eli'ashib.

rsv@Nehemiah:3:22 @ After him the priests, the men of the Plain, repaired.

rsv@Nehemiah:3:23 @ After them Benjamin and Hasshub repaired opposite their house. After them Azari'ah the son of Ma-asei'ah, son of Anani'ah repaired beside his own house.

rsv@Nehemiah:3:24 @ After him Bin'nui the son of Hen'adad repaired another section, from the house of Azari'ah to the Angle

rsv@Nehemiah:3:25 @ and to the corner. Palal the son of Uzai repaired opposite the Angle and the tower projecting from the upper house of the king at the court of the guard. After him Pedai'ah the son of Parosh

rsv@Nehemiah:3:26 @ and the temple servants living on Ophel repaired to a point opposite the Water Gate on the east and the projecting tower.

rsv@Nehemiah:3:27 @ After him the Teko'ites repaired another section opposite the great projecting tower as far as the wall of Ophel.

rsv@Nehemiah:3:28 @ Above the Horse Gate the priests repaired, each one opposite his own house.

rsv@Nehemiah:3:29 @ After them Zadok the son of Immer repaired opposite his own house. After him Shemai'ah the son of Shecani'ah, the keeper of the East Gate, repaired.

rsv@Nehemiah:3:30 @ After him Hanani'ah the son of Shelemi'ah and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph repaired another section. After him Meshul'lam the son of Berechi'ah repaired opposite his chamber.

rsv@Nehemiah:3:31 @ After him Malchi'jah, one of the goldsmiths, repaired as far as the house of the temple servants and of the merchants, opposite the Muster Gate, and to the upper chamber of the corner.

rsv@Nehemiah:3:32 @ And between the upper chamber of the corner and the Sheep Gate the goldsmiths and the merchants repaired.

rsv@Nehemiah:4:3 @ Tobi'ah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, "Yes, what they are building-- if a fox goes up on it he will break down their stone wall!"

rsv@Nehemiah:4:5 @ Do not cover their guilt, and let not their sin be blotted out from thy sight; for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders.

rsv@Nehemiah:4:7 @ But when Sanbal'lat and Tobi'ah and the Arabs and the Ammonites and the Ash'dodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and that the breaches were beginning to be closed, they were very angry;

rsv@Nehemiah:4:8 @ and they all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and to cause confusion in it.

rsv@Nehemiah:4:9 @ And we prayed to our God, and set a guard as a protection against them day and night.

rsv@Nehemiah:4:12 @ When the Jews who lived by them came they said to us ten times, "From all the places where they live they will come up against us."

rsv@Nehemiah:4:14 @ And I looked, and arose, and said to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, "Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes."

rsv@Nehemiah:4:15 @ When our enemies heard that it was known to us and that God had frustrated their plan, we all returned to the wall, each to his work.

rsv@Nehemiah:4:19 @ And I said to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, "The work is great and widely spread, and we are separated on the wall, far from one another.

rsv@Nehemiah:5:2 @ For there were those who said, "With our sons and our daughters, we are many; let us get grain, that we may eat and keep alive."

rsv@Nehemiah:5:5 @ Now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children are as their children; yet we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved; but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards."

rsv@Nehemiah:5:7 @ I took counsel with myself, and I brought charges against the nobles and the officials. I said to them, "You are exacting interest, each from his brother." And I held a great assembly against them,

rsv@Nehemiah:5:10 @ Moreover I and my brethren and my servants are lending them money and grain. Let us leave off this interest.

rsv@Nehemiah:5:14 @ Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year to the thirty-second year of Ar-ta-xerx'es the king, twelve years, neither I nor my brethren ate the food allowance of the governor.

rsv@Nehemiah:5:18 @ Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep; fowls likewise were prepared for me, and every ten days skins of wine in abundance; yet with all this I did not demand the food allowance of the governor, because the servitude was heavy upon this people.

rsv@Nehemiah:6:1 @ Now when it was reported to Sanbal'lat and Tobi'ah and to Geshem the Arab and to the rest of our enemies that I had built the wall and that there was no breach left in it (although up to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates),

rsv@Nehemiah:6:2 @ Sanbal'lat and Geshem sent to me, saying, "Come and let us meet together in one of the villages in the plain of Ono." But they intended to do me harm.

rsv@Nehemiah:6:5 @ In the same way Sanbal'lat for the fifth time sent his servant to me with an open letter in his hand.

rsv@Nehemiah:6:6 @ In it was written, "It is reported among the nations, and Geshem also says it, that you and the Jews intend to rebel; that is why you are building the wall; and you wish to become their king, according to this report.

rsv@Nehemiah:6:7 @ And you have also set up prophets to proclaim concerning you in Jerusalem, `There is a king in Judah.' And now it will be reported to the king according to these words. So now come, and let us take counsel together."

rsv@Nehemiah:6:9 @ For they all wanted to frighten us, thinking, "Their hands will drop from the work, and it will not be done." But now, O God, strengthen thou my hands.

rsv@Nehemiah:6:10 @ Now when I went into the house of Shemai'ah the son of Delai'ah, son of Mehet'abel, who was shut up, he said, "Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us close the doors of the temple; for they are coming to kill you, at night they are coming to kill you."

rsv@Nehemiah:6:11 @ But I said, "Should such a man as I flee? And what man such as I could go into the temple and live? I will not go in."

rsv@Nehemiah:6:14 @ Remember Tobi'ah and Sanbal'lat, O my God, according to these things that they did, and also the prophetess No-adi'ah and the rest of the prophets who wanted to make me afraid.

rsv@Nehemiah:6:16 @ And when all our enemies heard of it, all the nations round about us were afraid and fell greatly in their own esteem; for they perceived that this work had been accomplished with the help of our God.

rsv@Nehemiah:6:17 @ Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobi'ah, and Tobi'ah's letters came to them.

rsv@Nehemiah:6:18 @ For many in Judah were bound by oath to him, because he was the son-in-law of Shecani'ah the son of Arah: and his son Jehoha'nan had taken the daughter of Meshul'lam the son of Berechi'ah as his wife.

rsv@Nehemiah:6:19 @ Also they spoke of his good deeds in my presence, and reported my words to him. And Tobi'ah sent letters to make me afraid.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:1 @ Now when the wall had been built and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites had been appointed,

rsv@Nehemiah:7:3 @ And I said to them, "Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot; and while they are still standing guard let them shut and bar the doors. Appoint guards from among the inhabitants of Jerusalem, each to his station and each opposite his own house."

rsv@Nehemiah:7:5 @ Then God put it into my mind to assemble the nobles and the officials and the people to be enrolled by genealogy. And I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up at the first, and I found written in it:

rsv@Nehemiah:7:11 @ The sons of Pa'hath-mo'ab, namely the sons of Jeshua and Jo'ab, two thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:21 @ The sons of Ater, namely of Hezeki'ah, ninety-eight.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:42 @ The sons of Harim, a thousand and seventeen.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:43 @ The Levites: the sons of Jeshua, namely of Kad'mi-el of the sons of Ho'devah, seventy-four.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:45 @ The gatekeepers: the sons of Shallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hati'ta, the sons of Sho'bai, a hundred and thirty-eight.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:46 @ The temple servants: the sons of Ziha, the sons of Hasu'pha, the sons of Tabba'oth,

rsv@Nehemiah:7:55 @ the sons of Barkos, the sons of Sis'era, the sons of Temah,

rsv@Nehemiah:7:60 @ All the temple servants and the sons of Solomon's servants were three hundred and ninety-two.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:61 @ The following were those who came up from Tel-me'lah, Tel-har'sha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer, but they could not prove their fathers' houses nor their descent, whether they belonged to Israel:

rsv@Nehemiah:7:63 @ Also, of the priests: the sons of Hobai'ah, the sons of Hakkoz, the sons of Barzil'lai (who had taken a wife of the daughters of Barzil'lai the Gileadite and was called by their name).

rsv@Nehemiah:7:73 @ So the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the temple servants, and all Israel, lived in their towns. And when the seventh month had come, the children of Israel were in their towns.

rsv@Nehemiah:8:1 @ And all the people gathered as one man into the square before the Water Gate; and they told Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses which the LORD had given to Israel.

rsv@Nehemiah:8:3 @ And he read from it facing the square before the Water Gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women and those who could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive to the book of the law.

rsv@Nehemiah:8:7 @ Also Jesh'ua, Bani, Sherebi'ah, Jamin, Akkub, Shab'bethai, Hodi'ah, Ma-asei'ah, Keli'ta, Azari'ah, Jo'zabad, Hanan, Pelai'ah, the Levites, helped the people to understand the law, while the people remained in their places.

rsv@Nehemiah:8:9 @ And Nehemi'ah, who was the governor, and 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 or weep." For all the people wept when they heard the words of the law.

rsv@Nehemiah:8:11 @ So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, "Be quiet, for this day is holy; do not be grieved."

rsv@Nehemiah:8:13 @ On the second day the heads of fathers' houses of all the people, with the priests and the Levites, came together to Ezra the scribe in order to study the words of the law.

rsv@Nehemiah:8:14 @ And they found it written in the law that the LORD had commanded by Moses that the people of Israel should dwell in booths during the feast of the seventh month,

rsv@Nehemiah:8:15 @ and that they should publish and proclaim in all their towns and in Jerusalem, "Go out to the hills and bring branches of olive, wild olive, myrtle, palm, and other leafy trees to make booths, as it is written."

rsv@Nehemiah:8:16 @ So the people went out and brought them and made booths for themselves, each on his roof, and in their courts and in the courts of the house of God, and in the square at the Water Gate and in the square at the Gate of E'phraim.

rsv@Nehemiah:9:2 @ And the Israelites separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.

rsv@Nehemiah:9:4 @ Upon the stairs of the Levites stood Jeshua, Bani, Kad'mi-el, Shebani'ah, Bunni, Sherebi'ah, Bani, and Chena'ni; and they cried with a loud voice to the LORD their God.

rsv@Nehemiah:9:5 @ Then the Levites, Jeshua, Kad'mi-el, Bani, Hashabnei'ah, Sherebi'ah, Hodi'ah, Shebani'ah, and Pethahi'ah, said, "Stand up and bless the LORD your God from everlasting to everlasting. Blessed be thy glorious name which is exalted above all blessing and praise."

rsv@Nehemiah:9:8 @ and thou didst find his heart faithful before thee, and didst make with him the covenant to give to his descendants the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Per'izzite, the Jeb'usite, and the Gir'gashite; and thou hast fulfilled thy promise, for thou art righteous.

rsv@Nehemiah:9:10 @ and didst perform signs and wonders against Pharaoh and all his servants and all the people of his land, for thou knewest that they acted insolently against our fathers; and thou didst get thee a name, as it is to this day.

rsv@Nehemiah:9:11 @ And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on dry land; and thou didst cast their pursuers into the depths, as a stone into mighty waters.

rsv@Nehemiah:9:13 @ Thou didst come down upon Mount Sinai, and speak with them from heaven and give them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,

rsv@Nehemiah:9:14 @ and thou didst make known to them thy holy sabbath and command them commandments and statutes and a law by Moses thy servant.

rsv@Nehemiah:9:15 @ Thou didst give them bread from heaven for their hunger and bring forth water for them from the rock for their thirst, and thou didst tell them to go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.

rsv@Nehemiah:9:16 @ "But they and our fathers acted presumptuously and stiffened their neck and did not obey thy commandments;

rsv@Nehemiah:9:17 @ they refused to obey, and were not mindful of the wonders which thou didst perform among them; but they stiffened their neck and appointed a leader to return to their bondage in Egypt. But thou art a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and didst not forsake them.

rsv@Nehemiah:9:18 @ Even when they had made for themselves a molten calf and said, `This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,' and had committed great blasphemies,

rsv@Nehemiah:9:19 @ thou in thy great mercies didst not forsake them in the wilderness; the pillar of cloud which led them in the way did not depart from them by day, nor the pillar of fire by night which lighted for them the way by which they should go.

rsv@Nehemiah:9:20 @ Thou gavest thy good Spirit to instruct them, and didst not withhold thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.

rsv@Nehemiah:9:23 @ Thou didst multiply their descendants as the stars of heaven, and thou didst bring them into the land which thou hadst told their fathers to enter and possess.

rsv@Nehemiah:9:24 @ So the descendants went in and possessed the land, and thou didst subdue before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and didst give them into their hands, with their kings and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they would.

rsv@Nehemiah:9:25 @ And they captured fortified cities and a rich land, and took possession of houses full of all good things, cisterns hewn out, vineyards, olive orchards and fruit trees in abundance; so they ate, and were filled and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.

rsv@Nehemiah:9:26 @ "Nevertheless they were disobedient and rebelled against thee and cast thy law behind their back and killed thy prophets, who had warned them in order to turn them back to thee, and they committed great blasphemies.

rsv@Nehemiah:9:28 @ But after they had rest they did evil again before thee, and thou didst abandon them to the hand of their enemies, so that they had dominion over them; yet when they turned and cried to thee thou didst hear from heaven, and many times thou didst deliver them according to thy mercies.

rsv@Nehemiah:9:29 @ And thou didst warn them in order to turn them back to thy law. Yet they acted presumptuously and did not obey thy commandments, but sinned against thy ordinances, by the observance of which a man shall live, and turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened their neck and would not obey.

rsv@Nehemiah:9:32 @ "Now therefore, our God, the great and mighty and terrible God, who keepest covenant and steadfast love, let not all the hardship seem little to thee that has come upon us, upon our kings, our princes, our priests, our prophets, our fathers, and all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria until this day.

rsv@Nehemiah:9:33 @ Yet thou hast been just in all that has come upon us, for thou hast dealt faithfully and we have acted wickedly;

rsv@Nehemiah:9:38 @ Because of all this we make a firm covenant and write it, and our princes, our Levites, and our priests set their seal to it.

rsv@Nehemiah:10:9 @ And the Levites: Jeshua the son of Azani'ah, Bin'nui of the sons of Hen'adad, Kad'mi-el;

rsv@Nehemiah:10:17 @ Ater, Hezeki'ah, Azzur,

rsv@Nehemiah:10:28 @ The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all who have separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons, their daughters, all who have knowledge and understanding,

rsv@Nehemiah:10:29 @ join with their brethren, their nobles, and enter into a curse and an oath to walk in God's law which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord and his ordinances and his statutes.

rsv@Nehemiah:10:30 @ We will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land or take their daughters for our sons;

rsv@Nehemiah:10:33 @ for the showbread, the continual cereal offering, the continual burnt offering, the sabbaths, the new moons, the appointed feasts, the holy things, and the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.

rsv@Nehemiah:10:34 @ We have likewise cast lots, the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers' houses, at times appointed, year by year, to burn upon the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the law.

rsv@Nehemiah:10:35 @ We obligate ourselves to bring the first fruits of our ground and the first fruits of all fruit of every tree, year by year, to the house of the LORD;

rsv@Nehemiah:10:36 @ also to bring to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God, the first-born of our sons and of our cattle, as it is written in the law, and the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks;

rsv@Nehemiah:10:37 @ and to bring the first of our coarse meal, and our contributions, the fruit of every tree, the wine and the oil, to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and to bring to the Levites the tithes from our ground, for it is the Levites who collect the tithes in all our rural towns.

rsv@Nehemiah:10:38 @ And the priest, the son of Aaron, shall be with the Levites when the Levites receive the tithes; and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the chambers, to the storehouse.

rsv@Nehemiah:10:39 @ For the people of Israel and the sons of Levi shall bring the contribution of grain, wine, and oil to the chambers, where are the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests that minister, and the gatekeepers and the singers. We will not neglect the house of our God.

rsv@Nehemiah:11:1 @ Now the leaders of the people lived in Jerusalem; and the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to live in Jerusalem the holy city, while nine tenths remained in the other towns.

rsv@Nehemiah:11:3 @ These are the chiefs of the province who lived in Jerusalem; but in the towns of Judah every one lived on his property in their towns: Israel, the priests, the Levites, the temple servants, and the descendants of Solomon's servants.

rsv@Nehemiah:11:5 @ and Ma-asei'ah the son of Baruch, son of Col-ho'zeh, son of Hazai'ah, son of Adai'ah, son of Joi'arib, son of Zechari'ah, son of the Shi'lonite.

rsv@Nehemiah:11:8 @ And after him Gabba'i, Salla'i, nine hundred and twenty-eight.

rsv@Nehemiah:11:15 @ And of the Levites: Shemai'ah the son of Hasshub, son of Azri'kam, son of Hashabi'ah, son of Bunni;

rsv@Nehemiah:11:16 @ and Shab'bethai and Jo'zabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who were over the outside work of the house of God;

rsv@Nehemiah:11:18 @ All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred and eighty-four.

rsv@Nehemiah:11:19 @ The gatekeepers, Akkub, Talmon and their brethren, who kept watch at the gates, were a hundred and seventy-two.

rsv@Nehemiah:11:20 @ And the rest of Israel, and of the priests and the Levites, were in all the towns of Judah, every one in his inheritance.

rsv@Nehemiah:11:21 @ But the temple servants lived on Ophel; and Ziha and Gishpa were over the temple servants.

rsv@Nehemiah:11:22 @ The overseer of the Levites in Jerusalem was Uzzi the son of Bani, son of Hashabi'ah, son of Mattani'ah, son of Mica, of the sons of Asaph, the singers, over the work of the house of God.

rsv@Nehemiah:11:24 @ And Pethahi'ah the son of Meshez'abel, of the sons of Zerah the son of Judah, was at the king's hand in all matters concerning the people.

rsv@Nehemiah:11:36 @ And certain divisions of the Levites in Judah were joined to Benjamin.

rsv@Nehemiah:12:1 @ These are the priests and the Levites who came up with Zerub'babel the son of She-al'ti-el, and Jeshua: Serai'ah, Jeremiah, Ezra,

rsv@Nehemiah:12:8 @ And the Levites: Jeshua, Bin'nui, Kad'mi-el, Sherebi'ah, Judah, and Mattani'ah, who with his brethren was in charge of the songs of thanksgiving.

rsv@Nehemiah:12:9 @ And Bakbuki'ah and Unno their brethren stood opposite them in the service.

rsv@Nehemiah:12:19 @ of Joi'arib, Matte'nai; of Jedai'ah, Uzzi;

rsv@Nehemiah:12:22 @ As for the Levites, in the days of Eli'ashib, Joi'ada, Joha'nan, and Jad'du-a, there were recorded the heads of fathers' houses; also the priests until the reign of Darius the Persian.

rsv@Nehemiah:12:23 @ The sons of Levi, heads of fathers' houses, were written in the Book of the Chronicles until the days of Joha'nan the son of Eli'ashib.

rsv@Nehemiah:12:24 @ And the chiefs of the Levites: Hashabi'ah, Sherebi'ah, and Jeshua the son of Kad'mi-el, with their brethren over against them, to praise and to give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, watch corresponding to watch.

rsv@Nehemiah:12:25 @ Mattani'ah, Bakbuki'ah, Obadi'ah, Meshul'lam, Talmon, and Akkub were gatekeepers standing guard at the storehouses of the gates.

rsv@Nehemiah:12:27 @ And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites in all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem to celebrate the dedication with gladness, with thanksgivings and with singing, with cymbals, harps, and lyres.

rsv@Nehemiah:12:28 @ And the sons of the singers gathered together from the circuit round Jerusalem and from the villages of the Netoph'athites;

rsv@Nehemiah:12:30 @ And the priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people and the gates and the wall.

rsv@Nehemiah:12:31 @ Then I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall, and appointed two great companies which gave thanks and went in procession. One went to the right upon the wall to the Dung Gate;

rsv@Nehemiah:12:32 @ and after them went Hoshai'ah and half of the princes of Judah,

rsv@Nehemiah:12:37 @ At the Fountain Gate they went up straight before them by the stairs of the city of David, at the ascent of the wall, above the house of David, to the Water Gate on the east.

rsv@Nehemiah:12:39 @ and above the Gate of E'phraim, and by the Old Gate, and by the Fish Gate and the Tower of Hanan'el and the Tower of the Hundred, to the Sheep Gate; and they came to a halt at the Gate of the Guard.

rsv@Nehemiah:12:44 @ On that day men were appointed over the chambers for the stores, the contributions, the first fruits, and the tithes, to gather into them the portions required by the law for the priests and for the Levites according to the fields of the towns; for Judah rejoiced over the priests and the Levites who ministered.

rsv@Nehemiah:12:45 @ And they performed the service of their God and the service of purification, as did the singers and the gatekeepers, according to the command of David and his son Solomon.

rsv@Nehemiah:12:47 @ And all Israel in the days of Zerub'babel and in the days of Nehemi'ah gave the daily portions for the singers and the gatekeepers; and they set apart that which was for the Levites; and the Levites set apart that which was for the sons of Aaron.

rsv@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 ever enter the assembly of God;

rsv@Nehemiah:13:2 @ for they did not meet the children of Israel with bread and water, but hired Balaam against them to curse them-- yet our God turned the curse into a blessing.

rsv@Nehemiah:13:3 @ When the people heard the law, they separated from Israel all those of foreign descent.

rsv@Nehemiah:13:4 @ Now before this, Eli'ashib the priest, who was appointed over the chambers of the house of our God, and who was connected with Tobi'ah,

rsv@Nehemiah:13:5 @ prepared for Tobi'ah a large chamber where they had previously put the cereal offering, the frankincense, the vessels, and the tithes of grain, wine, and oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, singers, and gatekeepers, and the contributions for the priests.

rsv@Nehemiah:13:6 @ While this was taking place I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Ar-ta-xerx'es king of Babylon I went to the king. And after some time I asked leave of the king

rsv@Nehemiah:13:10 @ I also found out that the portions of the Levites had not been given to them; so that the Levites and the singers, who did the work, had fled each to his field.

rsv@Nehemiah:13:11 @ So I remonstrated with the officials and said, "Why is the house of God forsaken?" And I gathered them together and set them in their stations.

rsv@Nehemiah:13:13 @ And I appointed as treasurers over the storehouses Shelemi'ah the priest, Zadok the scribe, and Pedai'ah of the Levites, and as their assistant Hanan the son of Zaccur, son of Mattani'ah, for they were counted faithful; and their duty was to distribute to their brethren.

rsv@Nehemiah:13:17 @ Then I remonstrated with the nobles of Judah and said to them, "What is this evil thing which you are doing, profaning the sabbath day?

rsv@Nehemiah:13:19 @ When it began to be dark at the gates of Jerusalem before the sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut and gave orders that they should not be opened until after the sabbath. And I set some of my servants over the gates, that no burden might be brought in on the sabbath day.

rsv@Nehemiah:13:22 @ And I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves and come and guard the gates, to keep the sabbath day holy. Remember this also in my favor, O my God, and spare me according to the greatness of thy steadfast love.

rsv@Nehemiah:13:25 @ And I contended with them and cursed them and beat some of them and pulled out their hair; and I made them take oath in the name of God, saying, "You shall not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.

rsv@Nehemiah:13:27 @ Shall we then listen to you and do all this great evil and act treacherously against our God by marrying foreign women?"

rsv@Nehemiah:13:28 @ And one of the sons of Jehoi'ada, the son of Eli'ashib the high priest, was the son-in-law of Sanbal'lat the Hor'onite; therefore I chased him from me.

rsv@Nehemiah:13:29 @ Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.

rsv@Nehemiah:13:30 @ Thus I cleansed them from everything foreign, and I established the duties of the priests and Levites, each in his work;

rsv@Nehemiah:13:31 @ and I provided for the wood offering, at appointed times, and for the first fruits. Remember me, O my God, for good.

rsv@Esther:1:5 @ And when these days were completed, the king gave for all the people present in Susa the capital, both great and small, a banquet lasting for seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace.

rsv@Esther:1:6 @ There were white cotton curtains and blue hangings caught up with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and marble pillars, and also couches of gold and silver on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl and precious stones.

rsv@Esther:1:17 @ For this deed of the queen will be made known to all women, causing them to look with contempt upon their husbands, since they will say, `King Ahasu-e'rus commanded Queen Vashti to be brought before him, and she did not come.'

rsv@Esther:1:18 @ This very day the ladies of Persia and Media who have heard of the queen's behavior will be telling it to all the king's princes, and there will be contempt and wrath in plenty.

rsv@Esther:1:19 @ If it please the king, let a royal order go forth from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes so that it may not be altered, that Vashti is to come no more before King Ahasu-e'rus; and let the king give her royal position to another who is better than she.

rsv@Esther:1:22 @ he sent letters to all the royal provinces, to every province in its own script and to every people in its own language, that every man be lord in his own house and speak according to the language of his people.

rsv@Esther:2:1 @ After these things, when the anger of King Ahasu-e'rus had abated, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what had been decreed against her.

rsv@Esther:2:2 @ Then the king's servants who attended him said, "Let beautiful young virgins be sought out for the king.

rsv@Esther:2:4 @ And let the maiden who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti." This pleased the king, and he did so.

rsv@Esther:2:5 @ Now there was a Jew in Susa the capital whose name was Mor'decai, the son of Ja'ir, son of Shim'e-i, son of Kish, a Benjaminite,

rsv@Esther:2:7 @ He had brought up Hadas'sah, that is Esther, the daughter of his uncle, for she had neither father nor mother; the maiden was beautiful and lovely, and when her father and her mother died, Mor'decai adopted her as his own daughter.

rsv@Esther:2:12 @ Now when the turn came for each maiden to go in to King Ahasu-e'rus, after being twelve months under the regulations for the women, since this was the regular period of their beautifying, six months with oil of myrrh and six months with spices and ointments for women--

rsv@Esther:2:13 @ when the maiden went in to the king in this way she was given whatever she desired to take with her from the harem to the king's palace.

rsv@Esther:2:14 @ In the evening she went, and in the morning she came back to the second harem in custody of Sha-ash'gaz the king's eunuch who was in charge of the concubines; she did not go in to the king again, unless the king delighted in her and she was summoned by name.

rsv@Esther:2:15 @ When the turn came for Esther the daughter of Ab'ihail the uncle of Mor'decai, who had adopted her as his own daughter, to go in to the king, she asked for nothing except what Hegai the king's eunuch, who had charge of the women, advised. Now Esther found favor in the eyes of all who saw her.

rsv@Esther:2:16 @ And when Esther was taken to King Ahasu-e'rus into his royal palace in the tenth month, which is the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign,

rsv@Esther:2:17 @ the king loved Esther more than all the women, and she found grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins, so that he set the royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.

rsv@Esther:2:18 @ Then the king gave a great banquet to all his princes and servants; it was Esther's banquet. He also granted a remission of taxes to the provinces, and gave gifts with royal liberality.

rsv@Esther:2:19 @ When the virgins were gathered together the second time, Mor'decai was sitting at the king's gate.

rsv@Esther:2:21 @ And in those days, as Mor'decai was sitting at the king's gate, Bigthan and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs, who guarded the threshold, became angry and sought to lay hands on King Ahasu-e'rus.

rsv@Esther:2:23 @ When the affair was investigated and found to be so, the men were both hanged on the gallows. And it was recorded in the Book of the Chronicles in the presence of the king.

rsv@Esther:3:1 @ After these things King Ahasu-e'rus promoted Haman the Ag'agite, the son of Hammeda'tha, and advanced him and set his seat above all the princes who were with him.

rsv@Esther:3:2 @ And all the king's servants who were at the king's gate bowed down and did obeisance to Haman; for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mor'decai did not bow down or do obeisance.

rsv@Esther:3:3 @ Then the king's servants who were at the king's gate said to Mor'decai, "Why do you transgress the king's command?"

rsv@Esther:3:4 @ And when they spoke to him day after day and he would not listen to them, they told Haman, in order to see whether Mor'decai's words would avail; for he had told them that he was a Jew.

rsv@Esther:3:7 @ In the first month, which is the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasu-e'rus, they cast Pur, that is the lot, before Haman day after day; and they cast it month after month till the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar.

rsv@Esther:3:8 @ Then Haman said to King Ahasu-e'rus, "There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom; their laws are different from those of every other people, and they do not keep the king's laws, so that it is not for the king's profit to tolerate them.

rsv@Esther:3:9 @ If it please the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who have charge of the king's business, that they may put it into the king's treasuries."

rsv@Esther:3:10 @ So the king took his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman the Ag'agite, the son of Hammeda'tha, the enemy of the Jews.

rsv@Esther:3:12 @ Then the king's secretaries were summoned on the thirteenth day of the first month, and an edict, according to all that Haman commanded, was written to the king's satraps and to the governors over all the provinces and to the princes of all the peoples, to every province in its own script and every people in its own language; it was written in the name of King Ahasu-e'rus and sealed with the king's ring.

rsv@Esther:3:13 @ Letters were sent by couriers to all the king's provinces, to destroy, to slay, and to annihilate all Jews, young and old, women and children, in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods.

rsv@Esther:3:15 @ The couriers went in haste by order of the king, and the decree was issued in Susa the capital. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Susa was perplexed.

rsv@Esther:4:1 @ When Mor'decai learned all that had been done, Mor'decai rent his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, wailing with a loud and bitter cry;

rsv@Esther:4:2 @ he went up to the entrance of the king's gate, for no one might enter the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.

rsv@Esther:4:5 @ Then Esther called for Hathach, one of the king's eunuchs, who had been appointed to attend her, and ordered him to go to Mor'decai to learn what this was and why it was.

rsv@Esther:4:6 @ Hathach went out to Mor'decai in the open square of the city in front of the king's gate,

rsv@Esther:4:8 @ Mor'decai also gave him a copy of the written decree issued in Susa for their destruction, that he might show it to Esther and explain it to her and charge her to go to the king to make supplication to him and entreat him for her people.

rsv@Esther:4:11 @ "All the king's servants and the people of the king's provinces know that if any man or woman goes to the king inside the inner court without being called, there is but one law; all alike are to be put to death, except the one to whom the king holds out the golden scepter that he may live. And I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days."

rsv@Esther:4:14 @ For if you keep silence at such a time as this, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another quarter, but you and your father's house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?"

rsv@Esther:5:1 @ On the third day Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the king's palace, opposite the king's hall. The king was sitting on his royal throne inside the palace opposite the entrance to the palace;

rsv@Esther:5:2 @ and when the king saw Queen Esther standing in the court, she found favor in his sight and he held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. Then Esther approached and touched the top of the scepter.

rsv@Esther:5:6 @ And as they were drinking wine, the king said to Esther, "What is your petition? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled."

rsv@Esther:5:9 @ And Haman went out that day joyful and glad of heart. But when Haman saw Mor'decai in the king's gate, that he neither rose nor trembled before him, he was filled with wrath against Mor'decai.

rsv@Esther:5:11 @ And Haman recounted to them the splendor of his riches, the number of his sons, all the promotions with which the king had honored him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and the servants of the king.

rsv@Esther:5:12 @ And Haman added, "Even Queen Esther let no one come with the king to the banquet she prepared but myself. And tomorrow also I am invited by her together with the king.

rsv@Esther:5:13 @ Yet all this does me no good, so long as I see Mor'decai the Jew sitting at the king's gate."

rsv@Esther:5:14 @ Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, "Let a gallows fifty cubits high be made, and in the morning tell the king to have Mor'decai hanged upon it; then go merrily with the king to the dinner." This counsel pleased Haman, and he had the gallows made.

rsv@Esther:6:2 @ And it was found written how Mor'decai had told about Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs, who guarded the threshold, and who had sought to lay hands upon King Ahasu-e'rus.

rsv@Esther:6:3 @ And the king said, "What honor or dignity has been bestowed on Mor'decai for this?" The king's servants who attended him said, "Nothing has been done for him."

rsv@Esther:6:4 @ And the king said, "Who is in the court?" Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the king's palace to speak to the king about having Mor'decai hanged on the gallows that he had prepared for him.

rsv@Esther:6:10 @ Then the king said to Haman, "Make haste, take the robes and the horse, as you have said, and do so to Mor'decai the Jew who sits at the king's gate. Leave out nothing that you have mentioned."

rsv@Esther:6:12 @ Then Mor'decai returned to the king's gate. But Haman hurried to his house, mourning and with his head covered.

rsv@Esther:6:14 @ While they were yet talking with him, the king's eunuchs arrived and brought Haman in haste to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

rsv@Esther:7:2 @ And on the second day, as they were drinking wine, the king again said to Esther, "What is your petition, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled."

rsv@Esther:7:4 @ For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have held my peace; for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king."

rsv@Esther:7:6 @ And Esther said, "A foe and enemy! This wicked Haman!" Then Haman was in terror before the king and the queen.

rsv@Esther:7:7 @ And the king rose from the feast in wrath and went into the palace garden; but Haman stayed to beg his life from Queen Esther, for he saw that evil was determined against him by the king.

rsv@Esther:7:9 @ Then said Harbo'na, one of the eunuchs in attendance on the king, "Moreover, the gallows which Haman has prepared for Mor'decai, whose word saved the king, is standing in Haman's house, fifty cubits high."

rsv@Esther:7:10 @ And the king said, "Hang him on that." So they hanged Haman on the gallows which he had prepared for Mor'decai. Then the anger of the king abated.

rsv@Esther:8:3 @ Then Esther spoke again to the king; she fell at his feet and besought him with tears to avert the evil design of Haman the Ag'agite and the plot which he had devised against the Jews.

rsv@Esther:8:4 @ And the king held out the golden scepter to Esther,

rsv@Esther:8:5 @ and Esther rose and stood before the king. And she said, "If it please the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and if the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let an order be written to revoke the letters devised by Haman the Ag'agite, the son of Hammeda'tha, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the provinces of the king.

rsv@Esther:8:8 @ And you may write as you please with regard to the Jews, in the name of the king, and seal it with the king's ring; for an edict written in the name of the king and sealed with the king's ring cannot be revoked."

rsv@Esther:8:9 @ The king's secretaries were summoned at that time, in the third month, which is the month of Sivan, on the twenty-third day; and an edict was written according to all that Mor'decai commanded concerning the Jews to the satraps and the governors and the princes of the provinces from India to Ethiopia, a hundred and twenty-seven provinces, to every province in its own script and to every people in its own language, and also to the Jews in their script and their language.

rsv@Esther:8:10 @ The writing was in the name of King Ahasu-e'rus and sealed with the king's ring, and letters were sent by mounted couriers riding on swift horses that were used in the king's service, bred from the royal stud.

rsv@Esther:8:11 @ By these the king allowed the Jews who were in every city to gather and defend their lives, to destroy, to slay, and to annihilate any armed force of any people or province that might attack them, with their children and women, and to plunder their goods,

rsv@Esther:8:12 @ upon one day throughout all the provinces of King Ahasu-e'rus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar.

rsv@Esther:8:13 @ A copy of what was written was to be issued as a decree in every province, and by proclamation to all peoples, and the Jews were to be ready on that day to avenge themselves upon their enemies.

rsv@Esther:8:14 @ So the couriers, mounted on their swift horses that were used in the king's service, rode out in haste, urged by the king's command; and the decree was issued in Susa the capital.

rsv@Esther:8:15 @ Then Mor'decai went out from the presence of the king in royal robes of blue and white, with a great golden crown and a mantle of fine linen and purple, while the city of Susa shouted and rejoiced.

rsv@Esther:9:1 @ Now in the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's command and edict were about to be executed, on the very day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to get the mastery over them, but which had been changed to a day when the Jews should get the mastery over their foes,

rsv@Esther:9:5 @ So the Jews smote all their enemies with the sword, slaughtering, and destroying them, and did as they pleased to those who hated them.

rsv@Esther:9:10 @ the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammeda'tha, the enemy of the Jews; but they laid no hand on the plunder.

rsv@Esther:9:11 @ That very day the number of those slain in Susa the capital was reported to the king.

rsv@Esther:9:12 @ And the king said to Queen Esther, "In Susa the capital the Jews have slain five hundred men and also the ten sons of Haman. What then have they done in the rest of the king's provinces! Now what is your petition? It shall be granted you. And what further is your request? It shall be fulfilled."

rsv@Esther:9:13 @ And Esther said, "If it please the king, let the Jews who are in Susa be allowed tomorrow also to do according to this day's edict. And let the ten sons of Haman be hanged on the gallows."

rsv@Esther:9:14 @ So the king commanded this to be done; a decree was issued in Susa, and the ten sons of Haman were hanged.

rsv@Esther:9:15 @ The Jews who were in Susa gathered also on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and they slew three hundred men in Susa; but they laid no hands on the plunder.

rsv@Esther:9:16 @ Now the other Jews who were in the king's provinces also gathered to defend their lives, and got relief from their enemies, and slew seventy-five thousand of those who hated them; but they laid no hands on the plunder.

rsv@Esther:9:17 @ This was on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day they rested and made that a day of feasting and gladness.

rsv@Esther:9:18 @ But the Jews who were in Susa gathered on the thirteenth day and on the fourteenth, and rested on the fifteenth day, making that a day of feasting and gladness.

rsv@Esther:9:19 @ Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the open towns, hold the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day for gladness and feasting and holiday-making, and a day on which they send choice portions to one another.

rsv@Esther:9:20 @ And Mor'decai recorded these things, and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of King Ahasu-e'rus, both near and far,

rsv@Esther:9:21 @ enjoining them that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar and also the fifteenth day of the same, year by year,

rsv@Esther:9:23 @ So the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mor'decai had written to them.

rsv@Esther:9:24 @ For Haman the Ag'agite, the son of Hammeda'tha, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is the lot, to crush and destroy them;

rsv@Esther:9:26 @ Therefore they called these days Purim, after the term Pur. And therefore, because of all that was written in this letter, and of what they had faced in this matter, and of what had befallen them,

rsv@Esther:9:27 @ the Jews ordained and took it upon themselves and their descendants and all who joined them, that without fail they would keep these two days according to what was written and at the time appointed every year,

rsv@Esther:9:29 @ Then Queen Esther, the daughter of Ab'ihail, and Mor'decai the Jew gave full written authority, confirming this second letter about Purim.

rsv@Esther:9:30 @ Letters were sent to all the Jews, to the hundred and twenty-seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasu-e'rus, in words of peace and truth,

rsv@Esther:9:31 @ that these days of Purim should be observed at their appointed seasons, as Mor'decai the Jew and Queen Esther enjoined upon the Jews, and as they had laid down for themselves and for their descendants, with regard to their fasts and their lamenting.

rsv@Esther:10:1 @ King Ahasu-e'rus laid tribute on the land and on the coastlands of the sea.

rsv@Esther:10:2 @ And all the acts of his power and might, and the full account of the high honor of Mor'decai, to which the king advanced him, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?


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