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rsv@Genesis:2:11 @ The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

rsv@Genesis:4:19 @ And Lamech took two wives; the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

rsv@Genesis:4:20 @ Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of those who dwell in tents and have cattle.

rsv@Genesis:4:22 @ Zillah bore Tubal-cain; he was the forger of all instruments of bronze and iron. The sister of Tubal-cain was Na'amah.

rsv@Genesis:4:23 @ Lamech said to his wives: "Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; you wives of Lamech, hearken to what I say: I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for striking me.

rsv@Genesis:5:21 @ When Enoch had lived sixty-five years, he became the father of Methu'selah.

rsv@Genesis:5:22 @ Enoch walked with God after the birth of Methu'selah three hundred years, and had other sons and daughters.

rsv@Genesis:5:25 @ When Methu'selah had lived a hundred and eighty-seven years, he became the father of Lamech.

rsv@Genesis:5:26 @ Methu'selah lived after the birth of Lamech seven hundred and eighty-two years, and had other sons and daughters.

rsv@Genesis:5:27 @ Thus all the days of Methu'selah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years; and he died.

rsv@Genesis:5:29 @ and called his name Noah, saying, "Out of the ground which the LORD has cursed this one shall bring us relief from our work and from the toil of our hands."

rsv@Genesis:5:30 @ Lamech lived after the birth of Noah five hundred and ninety-five years, and had other sons and daughters.

rsv@Genesis:5:32 @ After Noah was five hundred years old, Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

rsv@Genesis:6:8 @ But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.

rsv@Genesis:6:9 @ These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.

rsv@Genesis:6:10 @ And Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

rsv@Genesis:6:13 @ And God said to Noah, "I have determined to make an end of all flesh; for the earth is filled with violence through them; behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

rsv@Genesis:6:22 @ Noah did this; he did all that God commanded him.

rsv@Genesis:7:1 @ Then the LORD said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.

rsv@Genesis:7:5 @ And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.

rsv@Genesis:7:6 @ Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came upon the earth.

rsv@Genesis:7:7 @ And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him went into the ark, to escape the waters of the flood.

rsv@Genesis:7:9 @ two and two, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, as God had commanded Noah.

rsv@Genesis:7:11 @ In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.

rsv@Genesis:7:13 @ On the very same day Noah and his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them entered the ark,

rsv@Genesis:7:15 @ They went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life.

rsv@Genesis:7:23 @ He blotted out every living thing that was upon the face of the ground, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those that were with him in the ark.

rsv@Genesis:8:1 @ But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided;

rsv@Genesis:8:6 @ At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made,

rsv@Genesis:8:11 @ and the dove came back to him in the evening, and lo, in her mouth a freshly plucked olive leaf; so Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth.

rsv@Genesis:8:13 @ In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried from off the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry.

rsv@Genesis:8:15 @ Then God said to Noah,

rsv@Genesis:8:18 @ So Noah went forth, and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him.

rsv@Genesis:8:20 @ Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

rsv@Genesis:9:1 @ And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

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

rsv@Genesis:9:17 @ God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth."

rsv@Genesis:9:18 @ The sons of Noah who went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham was the father of Canaan.

rsv@Genesis:9:19 @ These three were the sons of Noah; and from these the whole earth was peopled.

rsv@Genesis:9:20 @ Noah was the first tiller of the soil. He planted a vineyard;

rsv@Genesis:9:24 @ When Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his youngest son had done to him,

rsv@Genesis:9:28 @ After the flood Noah lived three hundred and fifty years.

rsv@Genesis:9:29 @ All the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years; and he died.

rsv@Genesis:10:1 @ These are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth; sons were born to them after the flood.

rsv@Genesis:10:3 @ The sons of Gomer: Ash'kenaz, Riphath, and Togar'mah.

rsv@Genesis:10:4 @ The sons of Javan: Eli'shah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Do'danim.

rsv@Genesis:10:7 @ The sons of Cush: Seba, Hav'ilah, Sabtah, Ra'amah, and Sab'teca. The sons of Ra'amah: Sheba and Dedan.

rsv@Genesis:10:11 @ From that land he went into Assyria, and built Nin'eveh, Reho'both-Ir, Calah, and

rsv@Genesis:10:12 @ Resen between Nin'eveh and Calah; that is the great city.

rsv@Genesis:10:19 @ And the territory of the Canaanites extended from Sidon, in the direction of Gerar, as far as Gaza, and in the direction of Sodom, Gomor'rah, Admah, and Zeboi'im, as far as Lasha.

rsv@Genesis:10:24 @ Arpach'shad became the father of Shelah; and Shelah became the father of Eber.

rsv@Genesis:10:26 @ Joktan became the father of Almo'dad, Sheleph, Hazarma'veth, Jerah,

rsv@Genesis:10:27 @ Hador'am, Uzal, Diklah,

rsv@Genesis:10:29 @ Ophir, Hav'ilah, and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.

rsv@Genesis:10:32 @ These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, in their nations; and from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood.

rsv@Genesis:11:12 @ When Arpach'shad had lived thirty-five years, he became the father of Shelah;

rsv@Genesis:11:13 @ and Arpach'shad lived after the birth of Shelah four hundred and three years, and had other sons and daughters.

rsv@Genesis:11:14 @ When Shelah had lived thirty years, he became the father of Eber;

rsv@Genesis:11:15 @ and Shelah lived after the birth of Eber four hundred and three years, and had other sons and daughters.

rsv@Genesis:11:22 @ When Serug had lived thirty years, he became the father of Nahor;

rsv@Genesis:11:23 @ and Serug lived after the birth of Nahor two hundred years, and had other sons and daughters.

rsv@Genesis:11:24 @ When Nahor had lived twenty-nine years, he became the father of Terah;

rsv@Genesis:11:25 @ and Nahor lived after the birth of Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and had other sons and daughters.

rsv@Genesis:11:26 @ When Terah had lived seventy years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

rsv@Genesis:11:27 @ Now these are the descendants of Terah. Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot.

rsv@Genesis:11:28 @ Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chalde'ans.

rsv@Genesis:11:29 @ And Abram and Nahor took wives; the name of Abram's wife was Sar'ai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and Iscah.

rsv@Genesis:11:31 @ Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sar'ai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and they went forth together from Ur of the Chalde'ans to go into the land of Canaan; but when they came to Haran, they settled there.

rsv@Genesis:11:32 @ The days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran.

rsv@Genesis:13:10 @ And Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw that the Jordan valley was well watered everywhere like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, in the direction of Zo'ar; this was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomor'rah.

rsv@Genesis:14:2 @ these kings made war with Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomor'rah, Shinab king of Admah, Sheme'ber king of Zeboi'im, and the king of Bela (that is, Zo'ar).

rsv@Genesis:14:8 @ Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomor'rah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboi'im, and the king of Bela (that is, Zo'ar) went out, and they joined battle in the Valley of Siddim

rsv@Genesis:14:10 @ Now the Valley of Siddim was full of bitumen pits; and as the kings of Sodom and Gomor'rah fled, some fell into them, and the rest fled to the mountain.

rsv@Genesis:14:11 @ So the enemy took all the goods of Sodom and Gomor'rah, and all their provisions, and went their way;

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

rsv@Genesis:17:5 @ No longer shall your name be Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.

rsv@Genesis:17:9 @ And God said to Abraham, "As for you, you shall keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.

rsv@Genesis:17:15 @ And God said to Abraham, "As for Sar'ai your wife, you shall not call her name Sar'ai, but Sarah shall be her name.

rsv@Genesis:17:17 @ Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said to himself, "Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?"

rsv@Genesis:17:18 @ And Abraham said to God, "O that Ish'mael might live in thy sight!"

rsv@Genesis:17:19 @ God said, "No, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.

rsv@Genesis:17:21 @ But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this season next year."

rsv@Genesis:17:22 @ When he had finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.

rsv@Genesis:17:23 @ Then Abraham took Ish'mael his son and all the slaves born in his house or bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that very day, as God had said to him.

rsv@Genesis:17:24 @ Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

rsv@Genesis:17:26 @ That very day Abraham and his son Ish'mael were circumcised;

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

rsv@Genesis:18:7 @ And Abraham ran to the herd, and took a calf, tender and good, and gave it to the servant, who hastened to prepare it.

rsv@Genesis:18:9 @ They said to him, "Where is Sarah your wife?" And he said, "She is in the tent."

rsv@Genesis:18:10 @ The LORD said, "I will surely return to you in the spring, and Sarah your wife shall have a son." And Sarah was listening at the tent door behind him.

rsv@Genesis:18:11 @ Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in age; it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

rsv@Genesis:18:12 @ So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, "After I have grown old, and my husband is old, shall I have pleasure?"

rsv@Genesis:18:13 @ The LORD said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, and say, `Shall I indeed bear a child, now that I am old?'

rsv@Genesis:18:14 @ Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you, in the spring, and Sarah shall have a son."

rsv@Genesis:18:15 @ But Sarah denied, saying, "I did not laugh"; for she was afraid. He said, "No, but you did laugh."

rsv@Genesis:18:16 @ Then the men set out from there, and they looked toward Sodom; and Abraham went with them to set them on their way.

rsv@Genesis:18:17 @ The LORD said, "Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do,

rsv@Genesis:18:18 @ seeing that Abraham shall become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall bless themselves by him?

rsv@Genesis:18:19 @ No, for I have chosen him, that he may charge his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing righteousness and justice; so that the LORD may bring to Abraham what he has promised him."

rsv@Genesis:18:20 @ Then the LORD said, "Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomor'rah is great and their sin is very grave,

rsv@Genesis:18:22 @ So the men turned from there, and went toward Sodom; but Abraham still stood before the LORD.

rsv@Genesis:18:23 @ Then Abraham drew near, and said, "Wilt thou indeed destroy the righteous with the wicked?

rsv@Genesis:18:27 @ Abraham answered, "Behold, I have taken upon myself to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.

rsv@Genesis:18:33 @ And the LORD went his way, when he had finished speaking to Abraham; and Abraham returned to his place.

rsv@Genesis:19:24 @ Then the LORD rained on Sodom and Gomor'rah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;

rsv@Genesis:19:27 @ And Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD;

rsv@Genesis:19:28 @ and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomor'rah and toward all the land of the valley, and beheld, and lo, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace.

rsv@Genesis:19:29 @ So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.

rsv@Genesis:20:1 @ From there Abraham journeyed toward the territory of the Negeb, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned in Gerar.

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

rsv@Genesis:20:9 @ Then Abim'elech called Abraham, and said to him, "What have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me things that ought not to be done."

rsv@Genesis:20:10 @ And Abim'elech said to Abraham, "What were you thinking of, that you did this thing?"

rsv@Genesis:20:11 @ Abraham said, "I did it because I thought, There is no fear of God at all in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.

rsv@Genesis:20:14 @ Then Abim'elech took sheep and oxen, and male and female slaves, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah his wife to him.

rsv@Genesis:20:16 @ To Sarah he said, "Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver; it is your vindication in the eyes of all who are with you; and before every one you are righted."

rsv@Genesis:20:17 @ Then Abraham prayed to God; and God healed Abim'elech, and also healed his wife and female slaves so that they bore children.

rsv@Genesis:20:18 @ For the LORD had closed all the wombs of the house of Abim'elech because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

rsv@Genesis:21:1 @ The LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did to Sarah as he had promised.

rsv@Genesis:21:2 @ And Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the time of which God had spoken to him.

rsv@Genesis:21:3 @ Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore him, Isaac.

rsv@Genesis:21:4 @ And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.

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

rsv@Genesis:21:6 @ And Sarah said, "God has made laughter for me; every one who hears will laugh over me."

rsv@Genesis:21:7 @ And she said, "Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would suckle children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age."

rsv@Genesis:21:8 @ And the child grew, and was weaned; and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

rsv@Genesis:21:9 @ But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, playing with her son Isaac.

rsv@Genesis:21:10 @ So she said to Abraham, "Cast out this slave woman with her son; for the son of this slave woman shall not be heir with my son Isaac."

rsv@Genesis:21:11 @ And the thing was very displeasing to Abraham on account of his son.

rsv@Genesis:21:12 @ But God said to Abraham, "Be not displeased because of the lad and because of your slave woman; whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for through Isaac shall your descendants be named.

rsv@Genesis:21:14 @ So Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.

rsv@Genesis:21:22 @ At that time Abim'elech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, "God is with you in all that you do;

rsv@Genesis:21:24 @ And Abraham said, "I will swear."

rsv@Genesis:21:25 @ When Abraham complained to Abim'elech about a well of water which Abim'elech's servants had seized,

rsv@Genesis:21:27 @ So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abim'elech, and the two men made a covenant.

rsv@Genesis:21:28 @ Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock apart.

rsv@Genesis:21:29 @ And Abim'elech said to Abraham, "What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs which you have set apart?"

rsv@Genesis:21:33 @ Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God.

rsv@Genesis:21:34 @ And Abraham sojourned many days in the land of the Philistines.

rsv@Genesis:22:1 @ After these things God tested Abraham, and said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here am I."

rsv@Genesis:22:2 @ He said, "Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Mori'ah, and offer him there as a burnt offering upon one of the mountains of which I shall tell you."

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

rsv@Genesis:22:4 @ On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place afar off.

rsv@Genesis:22:5 @ Then Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the ass; I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you."

rsv@Genesis:22:6 @ And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it on Isaac his son; and he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So they went both of them together.

rsv@Genesis:22:7 @ And Isaac said to his father Abraham, "My father!" And he said, "Here am I, my son." He said, "Behold, the fire and the wood; but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"

rsv@Genesis:22:8 @ Abraham said, "God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they went both of them together.

rsv@Genesis:22:9 @ When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, upon the wood.

rsv@Genesis:22:10 @ Then Abraham put forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.

rsv@Genesis:22:11 @ But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven, and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" And he said, "Here am I."

rsv@Genesis:22:13 @ And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns; and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.

rsv@Genesis:22:14 @ So Abraham called the name of that place The LORD will provide; as it is said to this day, "On the mount of the LORD it shall be provided."

rsv@Genesis:22:15 @ And the angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time from heaven,

rsv@Genesis:22:19 @ So Abraham returned to his young men, and they arose and went together to Beer-sheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba.

rsv@Genesis:22:20 @ Now after these things it was told Abraham, "Behold, Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor:

rsv@Genesis:22:23 @ Bethu'el became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.

rsv@Genesis:22:24 @ Moreover, his concubine, whose name was Reumah, bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Ma'acah.

rsv@Genesis:23:1 @ Sarah lived a hundred and twenty-seven years; these were the years of the life of Sarah.

rsv@Genesis:23:2 @ And Sarah died at Kir'iath-ar'ba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan; and Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.

rsv@Genesis:23:3 @ And Abraham rose up from before his dead, and said to the Hittites,

rsv@Genesis:23:5 @ The Hittites answered Abraham,

rsv@Genesis:23:7 @ Abraham rose and bowed to the Hittites, the people of the land.

rsv@Genesis:23:9 @ that he may give me the cave of Mach-pe'lah, which he owns; it is at the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me in your presence as a possession for a burying place."

rsv@Genesis:23:10 @ Now Ephron was sitting among the Hittites; and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the Hittites, of all who went in at the gate of his city,

rsv@Genesis:23:12 @ Then Abraham bowed down before the people of the land.

rsv@Genesis:23:14 @ Ephron answered Abraham,

rsv@Genesis:23:16 @ Abraham agreed with Ephron; and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver which he had named in the hearing of the Hittites, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the weights current among the merchants.

rsv@Genesis:23:17 @ So the field of Ephron in Mach-pe'lah, which was to the east of Mamre, the field with the cave which was in it and all the trees that were in the field, throughout its whole area, was made over

rsv@Genesis:23:18 @ to Abraham as a possession in the presence of the Hittites, before all who went in at the gate of his city.

rsv@Genesis:23:19 @ After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Mach-pe'lah east of Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.

rsv@Genesis:23:20 @ The field and the cave that is in it were made over to Abraham as a possession for a burying place by the Hittites.

rsv@Genesis:24:1 @ Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years; and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.

rsv@Genesis:24:2 @ And Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his house, who had charge of all that he had, "Put your hand under my thigh,

rsv@Genesis:24:6 @ Abraham said to him, "See to it that you do not take my son back there.

rsv@Genesis:24:9 @ So the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.

rsv@Genesis:24:10 @ Then the servant took ten of his master's camels and departed, taking all sorts of choice gifts from his master; and he arose, and went to Mesopota'mia, to the city of Nahor.

rsv@Genesis:24:12 @ And he said, "O LORD, God of my master Abraham, grant me success today, I pray thee, and show steadfast love to my master Abraham.

rsv@Genesis:24:15 @ Before he had done speaking, behold, Rebekah, who was born to Bethu'el the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, came out with her water jar upon her shoulder.

rsv@Genesis:24:24 @ She said to him, "I am the daughter of Bethu'el the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor."

rsv@Genesis:24:27 @ and said, "Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his steadfast love and his faithfulness toward my master. As for me, the LORD has led me in the way to the house of my master's kinsmen."

rsv@Genesis:24:29 @ Rebekah had a brother whose name was Laban; and Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.

rsv@Genesis:24:30 @ When he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister's arms, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, "Thus the man spoke to me," he went to the man; and behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.

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

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

rsv@Genesis:24:42 @ "I came today to the spring, and said, `O LORD, the God of my master Abraham, if now thou wilt prosper the way which I go,

rsv@Genesis:24:45 @ "Before I had done speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her water jar on her shoulder; and she went down to the spring, and drew. I said to her, `Pray let me drink.'

rsv@Genesis:24:47 @ Then I asked her, `Whose daughter are you?' She said, The daughter of Bethu'el, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bore to him.' So I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her arms.

rsv@Genesis:24:48 @ Then I bowed my head and worshiped the LORD, and blessed the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me by the right way to take the daughter of my master's kinsman for his son.

rsv@Genesis:24:51 @ Behold, Rebekah is before you, take her and go, and let her be the wife of your master's son, as the LORD has spoken."

rsv@Genesis:24:52 @ When Abraham's servant heard their words, he bowed himself to the earth before the LORD.

rsv@Genesis:24:53 @ And the servant brought forth jewelry of silver and of gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah; he also gave to her brother and to her mother costly ornaments.

rsv@Genesis:24:58 @ And they called Rebekah, and said to her, "Will you go with this man?" She said, "I will go."

rsv@Genesis:24:59 @ So they sent away Rebekah their sister and her nurse, and Abraham's servant and his men.

rsv@Genesis:24:60 @ And they blessed Rebekah, and said to her, "Our sister, be the mother of thousands of ten thousands; and may your descendants possess the gate of those who hate them!"

rsv@Genesis:24:61 @ Then Rebekah and her maids arose, and rode upon the camels and followed the man; thus the servant took Rebekah, and went his way.

rsv@Genesis:24:64 @ And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she alighted from the camel,

rsv@Genesis:24:67 @ Then Isaac brought her into the tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

rsv@Genesis:25:1 @ Abraham took another wife, whose name was Ketu'rah.

rsv@Genesis:25:2 @ She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Mid'ian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

rsv@Genesis:25:4 @ The sons of Mid'ian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abi'da, and Elda'ah. All these were the children of Ketu'rah.

rsv@Genesis:25:5 @ Abraham gave all he had to Isaac.

rsv@Genesis:25:6 @ But to the sons of his concubines Abraham gave gifts, and while he was still living he sent them away from his son Isaac, eastward to the east country.

rsv@Genesis:25:7 @ These are the days of the years of Abraham's life, a hundred and seventy-five years.

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

rsv@Genesis:25:9 @ Isaac and Ish'mael his sons buried him in the cave of Mach-pe'lah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, east of Mamre,

rsv@Genesis:25:10 @ the field which Abraham purchased from the Hittites. There Abraham was buried, with Sarah his wife.

rsv@Genesis:25:11 @ After the death of Abraham God blessed Isaac his son. And Isaac dwelt at Beer-la'hai-roi.

rsv@Genesis:25:12 @ These are the descendants of Ish'mael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's maid, bore to Abraham.

rsv@Genesis:25:14 @ Mishma, Dumah, Massa,

rsv@Genesis:25:15 @ Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Ked'emah.

rsv@Genesis:25:18 @ They dwelt from Hav'ilah to Shur, which is opposite Egypt in the direction of Assyria; he settled over against all his people.

rsv@Genesis:25:19 @ These are the descendants of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham was the father of Isaac,

rsv@Genesis:25:20 @ and Isaac was forty years old when he took to wife Rebekah, the daughter of Bethu'el the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean.

rsv@Genesis:25:21 @ And Isaac prayed to the LORD for his wife, because she was barren; and the LORD granted his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

rsv@Genesis:25:28 @ Isaac loved Esau, because he ate of his game; but Rebekah loved Jacob.

rsv@Genesis:26:1 @ Now there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Gerar, to Abim'elech king of the Philistines.

rsv@Genesis:26:3 @ Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you; for to you and to your descendants I will give all these lands, and I will fulfil the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

rsv@Genesis:26:5 @ because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."

rsv@Genesis:26:7 @ When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, "She is my sister"; for he feared to say, "My wife," thinking, "lest the men of the place should kill me for the sake of Rebekah"; because she was fair to look upon.

rsv@Genesis:26:8 @ When he had been there a long time, Abim'elech king of the Philistines looked out of a window and saw Isaac fondling Rebekah his wife.

rsv@Genesis:26:15 @ (Now the Philistines had stopped and filled with earth all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father.)

rsv@Genesis:26:18 @ And Isaac dug again the wells of water which had been dug in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham; and he gave them the names which his father had given them.

rsv@Genesis:26:21 @ Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over that also; so he called its name Sitnah.

rsv@Genesis:26:24 @ And the LORD appeared to him the same night and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father; fear not, for I am with you and will bless you and multiply your descendants for my servant Abraham's sake."

rsv@Genesis:26:26 @ Then Abim'elech went to him from Gerar with Ahuz'zath his adviser and Phicol the commander of his army.

rsv@Genesis:26:33 @ He called it Shibah; therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba to this day.

rsv@Genesis:26:35 @ and they made life bitter for Isaac and Rebekah.

rsv@Genesis:27:5 @ Now Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to his son Esau. So when Esau went to the field to hunt for game and bring it,

rsv@Genesis:27:6 @ Rebekah said to her son Jacob, "I heard your father speak to your brother Esau,

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

rsv@Genesis:27:15 @ Then Rebekah took the best garments of Esau her older son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son;

rsv@Genesis:27:42 @ But the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah; so she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said to him, "Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself by planning to kill you.

rsv@Genesis:27:46 @ Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am weary of my life because of the Hittite women. If Jacob marries one of the Hittite women such as these, one of the women of the land, what good will my life be to me?"

rsv@Genesis:28:4 @ May he give the blessing of Abraham to you and to your descendants with you, that you may take possession of the land of your sojournings which God gave to Abraham!"

rsv@Genesis:28:5 @ Thus Isaac sent Jacob away; and he went to Paddan-aram to Laban, the son of Bethu'el the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.

rsv@Genesis:28:9 @ Esau went to Ish'mael and took to wife, besides the wives he had, Ma'halath the daughter of Ish'mael Abraham's son, the sister of Neba'ioth.

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

rsv@Genesis:29:5 @ He said to them, "Do you know Laban the son of Nahor?" They said, "We know him."

rsv@Genesis:29:12 @ And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's kinsman, and that he was Rebekah's son; and she ran and told her father.

rsv@Genesis:29:16 @ Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

rsv@Genesis:29:17 @ Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful and lovely.

rsv@Genesis:29:23 @ But in the evening he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob; and he went in to her.

rsv@Genesis:29:24 @ (Laban gave his maid Zilpah to his daughter Leah to be her maid.)

rsv@Genesis:29:25 @ And in the morning, behold, it was Leah; and Jacob said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? Did I not serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?"

rsv@Genesis:29:29 @ (Laban gave his maid Bilhah to his daughter Rachel to be her maid.)

rsv@Genesis:29:30 @ So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served Laban for another seven years.

rsv@Genesis:29:31 @ When the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.

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

rsv@Genesis:29:35 @ And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, "This time I will praise the LORD"; therefore she called his name Judah; then she ceased bearing.

rsv@Genesis:30:3 @ Then she said, "Here is my maid Bilhah; go in to her, that she may bear upon my knees, and even I may have children through her."

rsv@Genesis:30:4 @ So she gave him her maid Bilhah as a wife; and Jacob went in to her.

rsv@Genesis:30:5 @ And Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.

rsv@Genesis:30:7 @ Rachel's maid Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.

rsv@Genesis:30:9 @ When Leah saw that she had ceased bearing children, she took her maid Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

rsv@Genesis:30:10 @ Then Leah's maid Zilpah bore Jacob a son.

rsv@Genesis:30:11 @ And Leah said, "Good fortune!" so she called his name Gad.

rsv@Genesis:30:12 @ Leah's maid Zilpah bore Jacob a second son.

rsv@Genesis:30:13 @ And Leah said, "Happy am I! For the women will call me happy"; so she called his name Asher.

rsv@Genesis:30:14 @ In the days of wheat harvest Reuben went and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, "Give me, I pray, some of your son's mandrakes."

rsv@Genesis:30:16 @ When Jacob came from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him, and said, "You must come in to me; for I have hired you with my son's mandrakes." So he lay with her that night.

rsv@Genesis:30:17 @ And God hearkened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.

rsv@Genesis:30:18 @ Leah said, "God has given me my hire because I gave my maid to my husband"; so she called his name Is'sachar.

rsv@Genesis:30:19 @ And Leah conceived again, and she bore Jacob a sixth son.

rsv@Genesis:30:20 @ Then Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good dowry; now my husband will honor me, because I have borne him six sons"; so she called his name Zeb'ulun.

rsv@Genesis:30:21 @ Afterwards she bore a daughter, and called her name Dinah.

rsv@Genesis:31:4 @ So Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah into the field where his flock was,

rsv@Genesis:31:14 @ Then Rachel and Leah answered him, "Is there any portion or inheritance left to us in our father's house?

rsv@Genesis:31:33 @ So Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two maidservants, but he did not find them. And he went out of Leah's tent, and entered Rachel's.

rsv@Genesis:31:42 @ If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been on my side, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God saw my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night."

rsv@Genesis:31:47 @ Laban called it Je'gar-sahadu'tha: but Jacob called it Galeed.

rsv@Genesis:31:49 @ and the pillar Mizpah, for he said, "The LORD watch between you and me, when we are absent one from the other.

rsv@Genesis:31:53 @ The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us." So Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac,

rsv@Genesis:32:2 @ and when Jacob saw them he said, "This is God's army!" So he called the name of that place Mahana'im.

rsv@Genesis:32:9 @ And Jacob said, "O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O LORD who didst say to me, `Return to your country and to your kindred, and I will do you good,'

rsv@Genesis:33:1 @ And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau was coming, and four hundred men with him. So he divided the children among Leah and Rachel and the two maids.

rsv@Genesis:33:2 @ And he put the maids with their children in front, then Leah with her children, and Rachel and Joseph last of all.

rsv@Genesis:33:7 @ Leah likewise and her children drew near and bowed down; and last Joseph and Rachel drew near, and they bowed down.

rsv@Genesis:34:1 @ Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the women of the land;

rsv@Genesis:34:3 @ And his soul was drawn to Dinah the daughter of Jacob; he loved the maiden and spoke tenderly to her.

rsv@Genesis:34:5 @ Now Jacob heard that he had defiled his daughter Dinah; but his sons were with his cattle in the field, so Jacob held his peace until they came.

rsv@Genesis:34:13 @ The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully, because he had defiled their sister Dinah.

rsv@Genesis:34:25 @ On the third day, when they were sore, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took their swords and came upon the city unawares, and killed all the males.

rsv@Genesis:34:26 @ They slew Hamor and his son Shechem with the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went away.

rsv@Genesis:35:8 @ And Deb'orah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried under an oak below Bethel; so the name of it was called Al'lon-bacuth.

rsv@Genesis:35:12 @ The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the land to your descendants after you."

rsv@Genesis:35:22 @ While Israel dwelt in that land Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine; and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.

rsv@Genesis:35:23 @ The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob's first-born), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Is'sachar, and Zeb'ulun.

rsv@Genesis:35:25 @ The sons of Bilhah, Rachel's maid: Dan and Naph'tali.

rsv@Genesis:35:26 @ The sons of Zilpah, Leah's maid: Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram.

rsv@Genesis:35:27 @ And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, or Kir'iath-ar'ba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.

rsv@Genesis:36:2 @ Esau took his wives from the Canaanites: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, Oholiba'mah the daughter of Anah the son of Zib'eon the Hivite,

rsv@Genesis:36:4 @ And Adah bore to Esau, El'iphaz; Bas'emath bore Reu'el;

rsv@Genesis:36:5 @ and Oholiba'mah bore Je'ush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons of Esau who were born to him in the land of Canaan.

rsv@Genesis:36:10 @ These are the names of Esau's sons: El'iphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau, Reu'el the son of Bas'emath the wife of Esau.

rsv@Genesis:36:12 @ (Timna was a concubine of El'iphaz, Esau's son; she bore Am'alek to El'iphaz.) These are the sons of Adah, Esau's wife.

rsv@Genesis:36:13 @ These are the sons of Reu'el: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These are the sons of Bas'emath, Esau's wife.

rsv@Genesis:36:14 @ These are the sons of Oholiba'mah the daughter of Anah the son of Zib'eon, Esau's wife: she bore to Esau Je'ush, Jalam, and Korah.

rsv@Genesis:36:16 @ Korah, Gatam, and Am'alek; these are the chiefs of El'iphaz in the land of Edom; they are the sons of Adah.

rsv@Genesis:36:17 @ These are the sons of Reu'el, Esau's son: the chiefs Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah; these are the chiefs of Reu'el in the land of Edom; they are the sons of Bas'emath, Esau's wife.

rsv@Genesis:36:18 @ These are the sons of Oholiba'mah, Esau's wife: the chiefs Je'ush, Jalam, and Korah; these are the chiefs born of Oholiba'mah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife.

rsv@Genesis:36:20 @ These are the sons of Se'ir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zib'eon, Anah,

rsv@Genesis:36:23 @ These are the sons of Shobal: Alvan, Man'ahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.

rsv@Genesis:36:24 @ These are the sons of Zib'eon: A'iah and Anah; he is the Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he pastured the asses of Zib'eon his father.

rsv@Genesis:36:25 @ These are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholiba'mah the daughter of Anah.

rsv@Genesis:36:29 @ These are the chiefs of the Horites: the chiefs Lotan, Shobal, Zib'eon, Anah,

rsv@Genesis:36:32 @ Bela the son of Be'or reigned in Edom, the name of his city being Din'habah.

rsv@Genesis:36:33 @ Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead.

rsv@Genesis:36:36 @ Hadad died, and Samlah of Masre'kah reigned in his stead.

rsv@Genesis:36:37 @ Samlah died, and Shaul of Reho'both on the Euphra'tes reigned in his stead.

rsv@Genesis:36:39 @ Ba'al-ha'nan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his stead, the name of his city being Pau; his wife's name was Mehet'abel, the daughter of Matred, daughter of Me'zahab.

rsv@Genesis:36:40 @ These are the names of the chiefs of Esau, according to their families and their dwelling places, by their names: the chiefs Timna, Alvah, Jetheth,

rsv@Genesis:36:41 @ Oholiba'mah, Elah, Pinon,

rsv@Genesis:37:2 @ This is the history of the family of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was shepherding the flock with his brothers; he was a lad with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives; and Joseph brought an ill report of them to their father.

rsv@Genesis:37:26 @ Then Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we slay our brother and conceal his blood?

rsv@Genesis:38:1 @ It happened at that time that Judah went down from his brothers, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.

rsv@Genesis:38:2 @ There Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua; he married her and went in to her,

rsv@Genesis:38:5 @ Yet again she bore a son, and she called his name Shelah. She was in Chezib when she bore him.

rsv@Genesis:38:6 @ And Judah took a wife for Er his first-born, and her name was Tamar.

rsv@Genesis:38:7 @ But Er, Judah's first-born, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD slew him.

rsv@Genesis:38:8 @ Then Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother's wife, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother."

rsv@Genesis:38:11 @ Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, "Remain a widow in your father's house, till Shelah my son grows up"--for he feared that he would die, like his brothers. So Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.

rsv@Genesis:38:12 @ In course of time the wife of Judah, Shua's daughter, died; and when Judah was comforted, he went up to Timnah to his sheepshearers, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

rsv@Genesis:38:13 @ And when Tamar was told, "Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,"

rsv@Genesis:38:14 @ she put off her widow's garments, and put on a veil, wrapping herself up, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she had not been given to him in marriage.

rsv@Genesis:38:15 @ When Judah saw her, he thought her to be a harlot, for she had covered her face.

rsv@Genesis:38:20 @ When Judah sent the kid by his friend the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman's hand, he could not find her.

rsv@Genesis:38:22 @ So he returned to Judah, and said, "I have not found her; and also the men of the place said, `No harlot has been here.'"

rsv@Genesis:38:23 @ And Judah replied, "Let her keep the things as her own, lest we be laughed at; you see, I sent this kid, and you could not find her."

rsv@Genesis:38:24 @ About three months later Judah was told, "Tamar your daughter-in-law has played the harlot; and moreover she is with child by harlotry." And Judah said, "Bring her out, and let her be burned."

rsv@Genesis:38:26 @ Then Judah acknowledged them and said, "She is more righteous than I, inasmuch as I did not give her to my son Shelah." And he did not lie with her again.

rsv@Genesis:38:30 @ Afterward his brother came out with the scarlet thread upon his hand; and his name was called Zerah.

rsv@Genesis:41:45 @ And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaph'enath-pane'ah; and he gave him in marriage As'enath, the daughter of Poti'phera priest of On. So Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.

rsv@Genesis:43:3 @ But Judah said to him, "The man solemnly warned us, saying, `You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'

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

rsv@Genesis:44:14 @ When Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house, he was still there; and they fell before him to the ground.

rsv@Genesis:44:16 @ And Judah said, "What shall we say to my lord? What shall we speak? Or how can we clear ourselves? God has found out the guilt of your servants; behold, we are my lord's slaves, both we and he also in whose hand the cup has been found."

rsv@Genesis:44:18 @ Then Judah went up to him and said, "O my lord, let your servant, I pray you, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not your anger burn against your servant; for you are like Pharaoh himself.

rsv@Genesis:46:12 @ The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan); and the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.

rsv@Genesis:46:13 @ The sons of Is'sachar: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron.

rsv@Genesis:46:14 @ The sons of Zeb'ulun: Sered, Elon, and Jah'leel

rsv@Genesis:46:15 @ (these are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, together with his daughter Dinah; altogether his sons and his daughters numbered thirty-three).

rsv@Genesis:46:17 @ The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beri'ah, with Serah their sister. And the sons of Beri'ah: Heber and Mal'chi-el

rsv@Genesis:46:18 @ (these are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and these she bore to Jacob--sixteen persons).

rsv@Genesis:46:24 @ The sons of Naph'tali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem

rsv@Genesis:46:25 @ (these are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob--seven persons in all).

rsv@Genesis:46:28 @ He sent Judah before him to Joseph, to appear before him in Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.

rsv@Genesis:48:15 @ And he blessed Joseph, and said, "The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has led me all my life long to this day,

rsv@Genesis:48:16 @ the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and in them let my name be perpetuated, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth."

rsv@Genesis:49:8 @ Judah, your brothers shall praise you; your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; your father's sons shall bow down before you.

rsv@Genesis:49:9 @ Judah is a lion's whelp; from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as a lioness; who dares rouse him up?

rsv@Genesis:49:10 @ The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs; and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.

rsv@Genesis:49:30 @ in the cave that is in the field at Mach-pe'lah, to the east of Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place.

rsv@Genesis:49:31 @ There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah--

rsv@Genesis:50:13 @ for his sons carried him to the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field at Mach-pe'lah, to the east of Mamre, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite, to possess as a burying place.

rsv@Genesis:50:24 @ And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die; but God will visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."

rsv@Exodus:1:2 @ Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,

rsv@Exodus:1:15 @ Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiph'rah and the other Pu'ah,

rsv@Exodus:2:21 @ And Moses was content to dwell with the man, and he gave Moses his daughter Zippo'rah.

rsv@Exodus:2:24 @ And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

rsv@Exodus:3:6 @ And he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.

rsv@Exodus:3:15 @ God also said to Moses, "Say this to the people of Israel, `The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you': this is my name for ever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations.

rsv@Exodus:3:16 @ Go and gather the elders of Israel together, and say to them, `The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, "I have observed you and what has been done to you in Egypt;

rsv@Exodus:4:5 @ "that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you."

rsv@Exodus:4:25 @ Then Zippo'rah took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin, and touched Moses' feet with it, and said, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me!"

rsv@Exodus:6:3 @ I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name the LORD I did not make myself known to them.

rsv@Exodus:6:8 @ And I will bring you into the land which I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; I will give it to you for a possession. I am the LORD.'"

rsv@Exodus:6:19 @ The sons of Merar'i: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations.

rsv@Exodus:6:21 @ The sons of Izhar: Korah, Nepheg, and Zichri.

rsv@Exodus:6:23 @ Aaron took to wife Eli'sheba, the daughter of Ammin'adab and the sister of Nahshon; and she bore him Nadab, Abi'hu, Elea'zar, and Ith'amar.

rsv@Exodus:6:24 @ The sons of Korah: Assir, Elka'nah, and Abi'asaph; these are the families of the Ko'rahites.

rsv@Exodus:15:23 @ When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water of Marah because it was bitter; therefore it was named Marah.

rsv@Exodus:16:36 @ (An omer is the tenth part of an ephah.)

rsv@Exodus:17:7 @ And he called the name of the place Massah and Mer'ibah, because of the faultfinding of the children of Israel, and because they put the LORD to the proof by saying, "Is the LORD among us or not?"

rsv@Exodus:18:2 @ Now Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, had taken Zippo'rah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away,

rsv@Exodus:30:13 @ Each who is numbered in the census shall give this: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as an offering to the LORD.

rsv@Exodus:31:2 @ "See, I have called by name Bez'alel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah:

rsv@Exodus:31:6 @ And behold, I have appointed with him Oho'liab, the son of Ahis'amach, of the tribe of Dan; and I have given to all able men ability, that they may make all that I have commanded you:

rsv@Exodus:32:13 @ Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou didst swear by thine own self, and didst say to them, `I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it for ever.'"

rsv@Exodus:33:1 @ The LORD said to Moses, "Depart, go up hence, you and the people whom you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, `To your descendants I will give it.'

rsv@Exodus:35:30 @ And Moses said to the people of Israel, "See, the LORD has called by name Bez'alel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah;

rsv@Exodus:35:34 @ And he has inspired him to teach, both him and Oho'liab the son of Ahis'amach of the tribe of Daniel.

rsv@Exodus:38:22 @ Bez'alel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that the LORD commanded Moses;

rsv@Exodus:38:23 @ and with him was Oho'liab the son of Ahis'amach, of the tribe of Dan, a craftsman and designer and embroiderer in blue and purple and scarlet stuff and fine twined linen.

rsv@Leviticus:5:11 @ "But if he cannot afford two turtledoves or two young pigeons, then he shall bring, as his offering for the sin which he has committed, a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering; he shall put no oil upon it, and shall put no frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.

rsv@Leviticus:6:20 @ "This is the offering which Aaron and his sons shall offer to the LORD on the day when he is anointed: a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a regular cereal offering, half of it in the morning and half in the evening.

rsv@Leviticus:14:10 @ "And on the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish, and a cereal offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, and one log of oil.

rsv@Leviticus:14:21 @ "But if he is poor and cannot afford so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a guilt offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering, and a log of oil;

rsv@Leviticus:19:36 @ You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

rsv@Leviticus:23:13 @ And the cereal offering with it shall be two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, to be offered by fire to the LORD, a pleasing odor; and the drink offering with it shall be of wine, a fourth of a hin.

rsv@Leviticus:23:17 @ You shall bring from your dwellings two loaves of bread to be waved, made of two tenths of an ephah; they shall be of fine flour, they shall be baked with leaven, as first fruits to the LORD.

rsv@Leviticus:24:5 @ "And you shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it; two tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake.

rsv@Leviticus:26:42 @ then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.

rsv@Leviticus:27:25 @ Every valuation shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall make a shekel.

rsv@Numbers:1:7 @ from Judah, Nahshon the son of Ammin'adab;

rsv@Numbers:1:10 @ from the sons of Joseph, from E'phraim, Eli'shama the son of Ammi'hud, and from Manas'seh, Gama'liel the son of Pedah'zur;

rsv@Numbers:1:12 @ from Dan, Ahi-e'zer the son of Ammishad'dai;

rsv@Numbers:1:15 @ from Naph'tali, Ahi'ra the son of Enan."

rsv@Numbers:1:26 @ Of the people of Judah, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go forth to war:

rsv@Numbers:1:27 @ the number of the tribe of Judah was seventy-four thousand six hundred.

rsv@Numbers:2:3 @ Those to encamp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be of the standard of the camp of Judah by their companies, the leader of the people of Judah being Nahshon the son of Ammin'adab,

rsv@Numbers:2:9 @ The whole number of the camp of Judah, by their companies, is a hundred and eighty-six thousand four hundred. They shall set out first on the march.

rsv@Numbers:2:20 @ And next to him shall be the tribe of Manas'seh, the leader of the people of Manas'seh being Gama'liel the son of Pedah'zur,

rsv@Numbers:2:25 @ "On the north side shall be the standard of the camp of Dan by their companies, the leader of the people of Dan being Ahi-e'zer the son of Ammishad'dai,

rsv@Numbers:2:29 @ Then the tribe of Naph'tali, the leader of the people of Naph'tali being Ahi'ra the son of Enan,

rsv@Numbers:3:20 @ And the sons of Merar'i by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites, by their fathers' houses.

rsv@Numbers:3:33 @ Of Merar'i were the family of the Mahlites and the family of the Mushites: these are the families of Merar'i.

rsv@Numbers:3:47 @ you shall take five shekels apiece; reckoning by the shekel of the sanctuary, the shekel of twenty gerahs, you shall take them,

rsv@Numbers:5:15 @ then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and bring the offering required of her, a tenth of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it and put no frankincense on it, for it is a cereal offering of jealousy, a cereal offering of remembrance, bringing iniquity to remembrance.

rsv@Numbers:7:12 @ He who offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Ammin'adab, of the tribe of Judah;

rsv@Numbers:7:17 @ and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nahshon the son of Ammin'adab.

rsv@Numbers:7:54 @ On the eighth day Gama'liel the son of Pedah'zur, the leader of the men of Manas'seh:

rsv@Numbers:7:59 @ and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Gama'liel the son of Pedah'zur.

rsv@Numbers:7:66 @ On the tenth day Ahie'zer the son of Ammishad'dai, the leader of the men of Dan:

rsv@Numbers:7:71 @ and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Ahie'zer the son of Ammishad'dai.

rsv@Numbers:7:78 @ On the twelfth day Ahi'ra the son of Enan, the leader of the men of Naph'tali:

rsv@Numbers:7:83 @ and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Ahi'ra the son of Enan.

rsv@Numbers:10:14 @ The standard of the camp of the men of Judah set out first by their companies; and over their host was Nahshon the son of Ammin'adab.

rsv@Numbers:10:23 @ And over the host of the tribe of the men of Manas'seh was Gama'liel the son of Pedah'zur.

rsv@Numbers:10:25 @ Then the standard of the camp of the men of Dan, acting as the rear guard of all the camps, set out by their companies; and over their host was Ahie'zer the son of Ammishad'dai.

rsv@Numbers:10:27 @ And over the host of the tribe of the men of Naph'tali was Ahi'ra the son of Enan.

rsv@Numbers:11:3 @ So the name of that place was called Tab'erah, because the fire of the LORD burned among them.

rsv@Numbers:11:34 @ Therefore the name of that place was called Kib'roth-hatta'avah, because there they buried the people who had the craving.

rsv@Numbers:11:35 @ From Kib'roth-hatta'avah the people journeyed to Haze'roth; and they remained at Haze'roth.

rsv@Numbers:13:6 @ from the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephun'neh;

rsv@Numbers:13:14 @ from the tribe of Naph'tali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi;

rsv@Numbers:13:22 @ They went up into the Negeb, and came to Hebron; and Ahi'man, She'shai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were there. (Hebron was built seven years before Zo'an in Egypt.)

rsv@Numbers:14:45 @ Then the Amal'ekites and the Canaanites who dwelt in that hill country came down, and defeated them and pursued them, even to Hormah.

rsv@Numbers:15:4 @ then he who brings his offering shall offer to the LORD a cereal offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with a fourth of a hin of oil;

rsv@Numbers:15:6 @ Or for a ram, you shall prepare for a cereal offering two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a third of a hin of oil;

rsv@Numbers:15:9 @ then one shall offer with the bull a cereal offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with half a hin of oil,

rsv@Numbers:16:1 @ Now Korah the son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, and Dathan and Abi'ram the sons of Eli'ab, and On the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben,

rsv@Numbers:16:5 @ and he said to Korah and all his company, "In the morning the LORD will show who is his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to him; him whom he will choose he will cause to come near to him.

rsv@Numbers:16:6 @ Do this: take censers, Korah and all his company;

rsv@Numbers:16:8 @ And Moses said to Korah, "Hear now, you sons of Levi:

rsv@Numbers:16:16 @ And Moses said to Korah, "Be present, you and all your company, before the LORD, you and they, and Aaron, tomorrow;

rsv@Numbers:16:19 @ Then Korah assembled all the congregation against them at the entrance of the tent of meeting. And the glory of the LORD appeared to all the congregation.

rsv@Numbers:16:24 @ "Say to the congregation, Get away from about the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abi'ram."

rsv@Numbers:16:27 @ So they got away from about the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abi'ram; and Dathan and Abi'ram came out and stood at the door of their tents, together with their wives, their sons, and their little ones.

rsv@Numbers:16:32 @ and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the men that belonged to Korah and all their goods.

rsv@Numbers:16:40 @ to be a reminder to the people of Israel, so that no one who is not a priest, who is not of the descendants of Aaron, should draw near to burn incense before the LORD, lest he become as Korah and as his company--as the LORD said to Elea'zar through Moses.

rsv@Numbers:16:49 @ Now those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand seven hundred, besides those who died in the affair of Korah.

rsv@Numbers:18:16 @ And their redemption price (at a month old you shall redeem them) you shall fix at five shekels in silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.

rsv@Numbers:20:13 @ These are the waters of Mer'ibah, where the people of Israel contended with the LORD, and he showed himself holy among them.

rsv@Numbers:20:24 @ "Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter the land which I have given to the people of Israel, because you rebelled against my command at the waters of Mer'ibah.

rsv@Numbers:21:3 @ And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and gave over the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities; so the name of the place was called Hormah.

rsv@Numbers:21:14 @ Wherefore it is said in the Book of the Wars of the LORD, "Waheb in Suphah, and the valleys of the Arnon,

rsv@Numbers:21:18 @ the well which the princes dug, which the nobles of the people delved, with the scepter and with their staves." And from the wilderness they went on to Mat'tanah,

rsv@Numbers:21:19 @ and from Mat'tanah to Nahal'iel, and from Nahal'iel to Bamoth,

rsv@Numbers:21:20 @ and from Bamoth to the valley lying in the region of Moab by the top of Pisgah which looks down upon the desert.

rsv@Numbers:21:23 @ But Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his territory. He gathered all his men together, and went out against Israel to the wilderness, and came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel.

rsv@Numbers:22:26 @ Then the angel of the LORD went ahead, and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn either to the right or to the left.

rsv@Numbers:23:14 @ And he took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

rsv@Numbers:26:9 @ The sons of Eli'ab: Nem'uel, Dathan, and Abi'ram. These are the Dathan and Abi'ram, chosen from the congregation, who contended against Moses and Aaron in the company of Korah, when they contended against the LORD,

rsv@Numbers:26:10 @ and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, when the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men; and they became a warning.

rsv@Numbers:26:11 @ Notwithstanding, the sons of Korah did not die.

rsv@Numbers:26:13 @ of Zerah, the family of the Zer'ahites; of Sha'ul, the family of the Sha'ulites.

rsv@Numbers:26:19 @ The sons of Judah were Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.

rsv@Numbers:26:20 @ And the sons of Judah according to their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shela'nites; of Perez, the family of the Per'ezites; of Zerah, the family of the Zer'ahites.

rsv@Numbers:26:22 @ These are the families of Judah according to their number, seventy-six thousand five hundred.

rsv@Numbers:26:23 @ The sons of Is'sachar according to their families: of Tola, the family of the To'laites; of Puvah, the family of the Punites;

rsv@Numbers:26:26 @ The sons of Zeb'ulun, according to their families: of Sered, the family of the Ser'edites; of Elon, the family of the E'lonites; of Jahleel, the family of the Jah'leelites.

rsv@Numbers:26:33 @ Now Zeloph'ehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zeloph'ehad were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

rsv@Numbers:26:35 @ These are the sons of E'phraim according to their families: of Shuthe'lah, the family of the Shuthe'lahites; of Becher, the family of the Bech'erites; of Tahan, the family of the Ta'hanites.

rsv@Numbers:26:36 @ And these are the sons of Shuthe'lah: of Eran, the family of the E'ranites.

rsv@Numbers:26:38 @ The sons of Benjamin according to their families: of Bela, the family of the Be'la-ites; of Ashbel, the family of the Ash'belites; of Ahi'ram, the family of the Ahi'ramites;

rsv@Numbers:26:44 @ The sons of Asher according to their families: of Imnah, the family of the Imnites; of Ishvi, the family of the Ishvites; of Beri'ah, the family of the Beri'ites.

rsv@Numbers:26:45 @ Of the sons of Beri'ah: of Heber, the family of the He'berites; of Mal'chi-el, the family of the Mal'chi-elites.

rsv@Numbers:26:46 @ And the name of the daughter of Asher was Serah.

rsv@Numbers:26:48 @ The sons of Naph'tali according to their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jah'zeelites; of Guni, the family of the Gunites;

rsv@Numbers:26:58 @ These are the families of Levi: the family of the Libnites, the family of the He'bronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Ko'rahites. And Kohath was the father of Amram.

rsv@Numbers:27:1 @ Then drew near the daughters of Zeloph'ehad the son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manas'seh, from the families of Manas'seh the son of Joseph. The names of his daughters were: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

rsv@Numbers:27:3 @ "Our father died in the wilderness; he was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah, but died for his own sin; and he had no sons.

rsv@Numbers:27:14 @ because you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin during the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the waters before their eyes." (These are the waters of Mer'ibah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)

rsv@Numbers:28:5 @ also a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a cereal offering, mixed with a fourth of a hin of beaten oil.

rsv@Numbers:28:9 @ "On the sabbath day two male lambs a year old without blemish, and two tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a cereal offering, mixed with oil, and its drink offering:

rsv@Numbers:28:12 @ also three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a cereal offering, mixed with oil, for each bull; and two tenths of fine flour for a cereal offering, mixed with oil, for the one ram;

rsv@Numbers:28:20 @ also their cereal offering of fine flour mixed with oil; three tenths of an ephah shall you offer for a bull, and two tenths for a ram;

rsv@Numbers:28:28 @ also their cereal offering of fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an ephah for each bull, two tenths for one ram,

rsv@Numbers:29:3 @ also their cereal offering of fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an ephah for the bull, two tenths for the ram,

rsv@Numbers:29:9 @ and their cereal offering of fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an ephah for the bull, two tenths for the one ram,

rsv@Numbers:29:14 @ and their cereal offering of fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an ephah for each of the thirteen bulls, two tenths for each of the two rams,

rsv@Numbers:32:3 @ "At'aroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elea'leh, Sebam, Nebo, and Be'on,

rsv@Numbers:32:11 @ `Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because they have not wholly followed me;

rsv@Numbers:32:35 @ At'roth-sho'phan, Jazer, Jog'behah,

rsv@Numbers:32:36 @ Beth-nim'rah and Beth-har'an, fortified cities, and folds for sheep.

rsv@Numbers:32:38 @ Nebo, and Ba'al-me'on (their names to be changed), and Sibmah; and they gave other names to the cities which they built.

rsv@Numbers:32:42 @ And Nobah went and took Kenath and its villages, and called it Nobah, after his own name.

rsv@Numbers:33:7 @ And they set out from Etham, and turned back to Pi-hahi'roth, which is east of Ba'al-ze'phon; and they encamped before Migdol.

rsv@Numbers:33:8 @ And they set out from before Hahi'roth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and they went a three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and encamped at Marah.

rsv@Numbers:33:9 @ And they set out from Marah, and came to Elim; at Elim there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there.

rsv@Numbers:33:12 @ And they set out from the wilderness of Sin, and encamped at Dophkah.

rsv@Numbers:33:13 @ And they set out from Dophkah, and encamped at Alush.

rsv@Numbers:33:16 @ And they set out from the wilderness of Sinai, and encamped at Kib'roth-hatta'avah.

rsv@Numbers:33:17 @ And they set out from Kib'roth-hatta'avah, and encamped at Haze'roth.

rsv@Numbers:33:18 @ And they set out from Haze'roth, and encamped at Rithmah.

rsv@Numbers:33:19 @ And they set out from Rithmah, and encamped at Rim'mon-per'ez.

rsv@Numbers:33:20 @ And they set out from Rim'mon-per'ez, and encamped at Libnah.

rsv@Numbers:33:21 @ And they set out from Libnah, and encamped at Rissah.

rsv@Numbers:33:22 @ And they set out from Rissah, and encamped at Kehela'thah.

rsv@Numbers:33:23 @ And they set out from Kehela'thah, and encamped at Mount Shepher.

rsv@Numbers:33:24 @ And they set out from Mount Shepher, and encamped at Hara'dah.

rsv@Numbers:33:25 @ And they set out from Hara'dah, and encamped at Makhe'loth.

rsv@Numbers:33:26 @ And they set out from Makhe'loth, and encamped at Tahath.

rsv@Numbers:33:27 @ And they set out from Tahath, and encamped at Terah.

rsv@Numbers:33:28 @ And they set out from Terah, and encamped at Mithkah.

rsv@Numbers:33:29 @ And they set out from Mithkah, and encamped at Hashmo'nah.

rsv@Numbers:33:30 @ And they set out from Hashmo'nah, and encamped at Mose'roth.

rsv@Numbers:33:33 @ And they set out from Hor-haggid'gad, and encamped at Jot'bathah.

rsv@Numbers:33:34 @ And they set out from Jot'bathah, and encamped at Abro'nah.

rsv@Numbers:33:35 @ And they set out from Abro'nah, and encamped at E'zion-ge'ber.

rsv@Numbers:33:41 @ And they set out from Mount Hor, and encamped at Zalmo'nah.

rsv@Numbers:33:42 @ And they set out from Zalmo'nah, and encamped at Punon.

rsv@Numbers:34:11 @ and the boundary shall go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of A'in; and the boundary shall go down, and reach to the shoulder of the sea of Chin'nereth on the east;

rsv@Numbers:34:19 @ These are the names of the men: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephun'neh.

rsv@Numbers:34:27 @ And of the tribe of the sons of Asher a leader, Ahi'hud the son of Shelo'mi.

rsv@Numbers:34:28 @ Of the tribe of the sons of Naph'tali a leader, Pedah'el the son of Ammi'hud.

rsv@Numbers:36:11 @ for Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zeloph'ehad, were married to sons of their father's brothers.

rsv@Deuteronomy:1:1 @ These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah over against Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Haze'roth, and Di'-zahab.

rsv@Deuteronomy:1:7 @ turn and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites, and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, in the hill country and in the lowland, and in the Negeb, and by the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphra'tes.

rsv@Deuteronomy:1:8 @ Behold, I have set the land before you; go in and take possession of the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their descendants after them.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:1:44 @ Then the Amorites who lived in that hill country came out against you and chased you as bees do and beat you down in Se'ir as far as Hormah.

rsv@Deuteronomy:2:8 @ So we went on, away from our brethren the sons of Esau who live in Se'ir, away from the Arabah road from Elath and E'zion-ge'ber. "And we turned and went in the direction of the wilderness of Moab.

rsv@Deuteronomy:2:32 @ Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz.

rsv@Deuteronomy:3:10 @ all the cities of the tableland and all Gilead and all Bashan, as far as Sal'ecah and Ed're-i, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

rsv@Deuteronomy:3:11 @ (For only Og the king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Reph'aim; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbah of the Ammonites? Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its breadth, according to the common cubit.)

rsv@Deuteronomy:3:17 @ the Arabah also, with the Jordan as the boundary, from Chin'nereth as far as the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah on the east.

rsv@Deuteronomy:3:27 @ Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward and northward and southward and eastward, and behold it with your eyes; for you shall not go over this Jordan.

rsv@Deuteronomy:4:49 @ together with all the Arabah on the east side of the Jordan as far as the Sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.

rsv@Deuteronomy:6:10 @ "And when the LORD your God brings you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, with great and goodly cities, which you did not build,

rsv@Deuteronomy:6:16 @ "You shall not put the LORD your God to the test, as you tested him at Massah.

rsv@Deuteronomy:9:5 @ Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land; but because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm the word which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

rsv@Deuteronomy:9:22 @ "At Tab'erah also, and at Massah, and at Kib'roth-hatta'avah, you provoked the LORD to wrath.

rsv@Deuteronomy:9:27 @ Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not regard the stubbornness of this people, or their wickedness, or their sin,

rsv@Deuteronomy:10:6 @ (The people of Israel journeyed from Be-er'oth Bene-ja'akan to Mose'rah. There Aaron died, and there he was buried; and his son Elea'zar ministered as priest in his stead.

rsv@Deuteronomy:10:7 @ From there they journeyed to Gud'godah, and from Gud'godah to Jot'bathah, a land with brooks of water.

rsv@Deuteronomy:11:30 @ Are they not beyond the Jordan, west of the road, toward the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah, over against Gilgal, beside the oak of Moreh?

rsv@Deuteronomy:16:21 @ "You shall not plant any tree as an Ashe'rah beside the altar of the LORD your God which you shall make.

rsv@Deuteronomy:27:12 @ "When you have passed over the Jordan, these shall stand upon Mount Ger'izim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Is'sachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.

rsv@Deuteronomy:29:13 @ that he may establish you this day as his people, and that he may be your God, as he promised you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

rsv@Deuteronomy:29:23 @ the whole land brimstone and salt, and a burnt-out waste, unsown, and growing nothing, where no grass can sprout, an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomor'rah, Admah and Zeboi'im, which the LORD overthrew in his anger and wrath--

rsv@Deuteronomy:30:20 @ loving the LORD your God, obeying his voice, and cleaving to him; for that means life to you and length of days, that you may dwell in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them."

rsv@Deuteronomy:32:32 @ For their vine comes from the vine of Sodom, and from the fields of Gomor'rah; their grapes are grapes of poison, their clusters are bitter;

rsv@Deuteronomy:33:7 @ And this he said of Judah: "Hear, O LORD, the voice of Judah, and bring him in to his people. With thy hands contend for him, and be a help against his adversaries."

rsv@Deuteronomy:33:8 @ And of Levi he said, "Give to Levi thy Thummim, and thy Urim to thy godly one, whom thou didst test at Massah, with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Mer'ibah;

rsv@Deuteronomy:34:1 @ And Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho. And the LORD showed him all the land, Gilead as far as Dan,

rsv@Deuteronomy:34:2 @ all Naph'tali, the land of E'phraim and Manas'seh, all the land of Judah as far as the Western Sea,

rsv@Deuteronomy:34:4 @ And the LORD said to him, "This is the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, `I will give it to your descendants.' I have let you see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there."

rsv@Joshua:2:1 @ And Joshua the son of Nun sent two men secretly from Shittim as spies, saying, "Go, view the land, especially Jericho." And they went, and came into the house of a harlot whose name was Rahab, and lodged there.

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: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: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:6:23 @ So the young men who had been spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father and mother and brothers and all who belonged to her; and they brought all her kindred, and set them outside the camp of Israel.

rsv@Joshua:6:25 @ But Rahab the harlot, and her father's household, and all who belonged to her, Joshua saved alive; and she dwelt in Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

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:7:16 @ So Joshua rose early in the morning, and brought Israel near tribe by tribe, and the tribe of Judah was taken;

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:7:18 @ and he brought near his household man by man, and Achan the son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.

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:8:14 @ 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:9:17 @ And the people of Israel set out and reached their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, Chephi'rah, Be-er'oth, and Kir'iath-je'arim.

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:10:11 @ And as they fled before Israel, while they were going down the ascent of Beth-hor'on, the LORD threw down great stones from heaven upon them as far as Aze'kah, and they died; there were more who died because of the hailstones than the men of Israel killed with the sword.

rsv@Joshua:10:16 @ These five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave at Makke'dah.

rsv@Joshua:10:17 @ And it was told Joshua, "The five kings have been found, hidden in the cave at Makke'dah."

rsv@Joshua:10:21 @ all the people returned safe to Joshua in the camp at Makke'dah; not a man moved his tongue against any of the people of Israel.

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:10:29 @ Then Joshua passed on from Makke'dah, and all Israel with him, to Libnah, and fought against Libnah;

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:10:39 @ 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:11:2 @ and to the kings who were in the northern hill country, and in the Arabah south of Chin'neroth, and in the lowland, and in Naphoth-dor on the west,

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:11:16 @ So Joshua took all that land, the hill country and all the Negeb and all the land of Goshen and the lowland and the Arabah and the hill country of Israel and its lowland

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:12:3 @ and the Arabah to the Sea of Chin'neroth eastward, and in the direction of Beth-jesh'imoth, to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, southward to the foot of the slopes of Pisgah;

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:12:8 @ 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:12:14 @ the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;

rsv@Joshua:12:15 @ the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;

rsv@Joshua:12:16 @ the king of Makke'dah, one; the king of Bethel, one;

rsv@Joshua:12:17 @ the king of Tap'puah, one; the king of Hepher, one;

rsv@Joshua:12:24 @ the king of Tirzah, one: in all, thirty-one kings.

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:13:11 @ 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:13:18 @ and Jahaz, and Ked'emoth, and Meph'aath,

rsv@Joshua:13:19 @ and Kir'iatha'im, and Sibmah, and Zer'eth-sha'har on the hill of the valley,

rsv@Joshua:13:20 @ and Beth-pe'or, and the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jesh'imoth,

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:13:27 @ and in the valley Beth-ha'ram, Beth-nim'rah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, having the Jordan as a boundary, to the lower end of the Sea of Chin'nereth, eastward beyond the Jordan.

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: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:15:1 @ The lot for the tribe of the people of Judah according to their families reached southward to the boundary of Edom, to the wilderness of Zin at the farthest south.

rsv@Joshua:15:6 @ and the boundary goes up to Beth-hoglah, and passes along north of Beth-arabah; and the boundary goes up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben;

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:15:10 @ and the boundary circles west of Ba'alah to Mount Se'ir, passes along to the northern shoulder of Mount Je'arim (that is, Ches'alon), and goes down to Beth-she'mesh, and passes along by Timnah;

rsv@Joshua:15:11 @ the boundary goes out to the shoulder of the hill north of Ekron, then the boundary bends round to Shik'keron, and passes along to Mount Ba'alah, and goes out to Jabneel; then the boundary comes to an end at the sea.

rsv@Joshua:15:12 @ And the west boundary was the Great Sea with its coast-line. This is the boundary round about the people of Judah according to their families.

rsv@Joshua:15:13 @ According to the commandment of the LORD to Joshua, he gave to Caleb the son of Jephun'neh a portion among the people of Judah, Kir'iath-ar'ba, that is, Hebron (Arba was the father of Anak).

rsv@Joshua:15:14 @ And Caleb drove out from there the three sons of Anak, She'shai and Ahi'man and Talmai, the descendants of Anak.

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:15:20 @ This is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Judah according to their families.

rsv@Joshua:15:21 @ The cities belonging to the tribe of the people of Judah in the extreme South, toward the boundary of Edom, were Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur,

rsv@Joshua:15:22 @ Kinah, Dimo'nah, Ada'dah,

rsv@Joshua:15:25 @ Ha'zor-hadat'tah, Ker'i-oth-hezron (that is, Hazor),

rsv@Joshua:15:26 @ Amam, Shema, Mola'dah,

rsv@Joshua:15:27 @ Ha'zar-gad'dah, Heshmon, Beth-pel'et,

rsv@Joshua:15:28 @ Hazar-shu'al, Beer-sheba, Biziothi'ah,

rsv@Joshua:15:29 @ Ba'alah, I'im, Ezem,

rsv@Joshua:15:30 @ Elto'lad, Chesil, Hormah,

rsv@Joshua:15:31 @ Ziklag, Madman'nah, Sansan'nah,

rsv@Joshua:15:33 @ And in the lowland, Eshta'ol, Zorah, Ashnah,

rsv@Joshua:15:34 @ Zano'ah, En-gan'nim, Tap'puah, Enam,

rsv@Joshua:15:35 @ Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Aze'kah,

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

rsv@Joshua:15:37 @ Zenan, Hadash'ah, Mig'dal-gad,

rsv@Joshua:15:40 @ Cabbon, Lahmam, Chitlish,

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

rsv@Joshua:15:42 @ Libnah, Ether, Ashan,

rsv@Joshua:15:43 @ Iphtah, Ashnah, Nezib,

rsv@Joshua:15:44 @ Kei'lah, Achzib, and Mare'shah: nine cities with their villages.

rsv@Joshua:15:49 @ Dannah, Kir'iath-san'nah (that is, Debir),

rsv@Joshua:15:52 @ Arab, Dumah, Eshan,

rsv@Joshua:15:53 @ Janim, Beth-tap'puah, Aphe'kah,

rsv@Joshua:15:54 @ Humtah, Kir'iath-ar'ba (that is, Hebron), and Zi'or: nine cities with their villages.

rsv@Joshua:15:55 @ Ma'on, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah,

rsv@Joshua:15:56 @ Jezreel, Jok'de-am, Zano'ah,

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

rsv@Joshua:15:60 @ Kir'iath-ba'al (that is, Kir'iath-je'arim), and Rabbah: two cities with their villages.

rsv@Joshua:15:61 @ In the wilderness, Beth-arabah, Middin, Seca'cah,

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:16:6 @ and the boundary goes thence to the sea; on the north is Mich-me'thath; then on the east the boundary turns round toward Ta'anath-shi'loh, and passes along beyond it on the east to Jan-o'ah,

rsv@Joshua:16:7 @ then it goes down from Jan-o'ah to At'aroth and to Na'arah, and touches Jericho, ending at the Jordan.

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: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:17:7 @ 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:17:8 @ The land of Tap'puah belonged to Manas'seh, but the town of Tap'puah on the boundary of Manas'seh belonged to the sons of E'phraim.

rsv@Joshua:17:9 @ Then the boundary went down to the brook Kanah. The cities here, to the south of the brook, among the cities of Manas'seh, belong to E'phraim. Then the boundary of Manas'seh goes on the north side of the brook and ends at the sea;

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:18:11 @ 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:18:18 @ and passing on to the north of the shoulder of Beth-arabah it goes down to the Arabah;

rsv@Joshua:18:19 @ then the boundary passes on to the north of the shoulder of Beth-hoglah; and the boundary ends at the northern bay of the Salt Sea, at the south end of the Jordan: this is the southern border.

rsv@Joshua:18:21 @ Now the cities of the tribe of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, Beth-hoglah, Emek-ke'ziz,

rsv@Joshua:18:22 @ Beth-arabah, Zemara'im, Bethel,

rsv@Joshua:18:23 @ Avvim, Parah, Ophrah,

rsv@Joshua:18:25 @ Gibeon, Ramah, Be-er'oth,

rsv@Joshua:18:26 @ Mizpeh, Chephi'rah, Mozah,

rsv@Joshua:18:27 @ Rekem, Irpeel, Tar'alah,

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:19:1 @ The second lot came out for Simeon, for the tribe of Simeon, according to its families; and its inheritance was in the midst of the inheritance of the tribe of Judah.

rsv@Joshua:19:2 @ And it had for its inheritance Beer-sheba, Sheba, Mola'dah,

rsv@Joshua:19:3 @ Hazar-shu'al, Balah, Ezem,

rsv@Joshua:19:4 @ Elto'lad, Bethul, Hormah,

rsv@Joshua:19:5 @ Ziklag, Beth-mar'caboth, Ha'zar-su'sah,

rsv@Joshua:19:8 @ together with all the villages round about these cities as far as Ba'alath-beer, Ramah of the Negeb. This was the inheritance of the tribe of Simeon according to its families.

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:19:13 @ from there it passes along on the east toward the sunrise to Gath-hepher, to Eth-kazin, and going on to Rimmon it bends toward Ne'ah;

rsv@Joshua:19:14 @ then on the north the boundary turns about to Han'nathon, and it ends at the valley of Iph'tahel;

rsv@Joshua:19:15 @ and Kattath, Nahal'al, Shimron, I'dalah, and Bethlehem--twelve cities with their villages.

rsv@Joshua:19:21 @ Remeth, En-gan'nim, En-had'dah, Beth-paz'zez;

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:19:27 @ then it turns eastward, it goes to Beth-dagon, and touches Zeb'ulun and the valley of Iph'tahel northward to Beth-emek and Nei'el; then it continues in the north to Cabul,

rsv@Joshua:19:28 @ Ebron, Rehob, Hammon, Kanah, as far as Sidon the Great;

rsv@Joshua:19:29 @ then the boundary turns to Ramah, reaching to the fortified city of Tyre; then the boundary turns to Hosah, and it ends at the sea; Mahalab, Achzib,

rsv@Joshua:19:30 @ Ummah, Aphek and Rehob--twenty-two cities with their villages.

rsv@Joshua:19:34 @ then the boundary turns westward to Az'noth-tabor, and goes from there to Hukkok, touching Zeb'ulun at the south, and Asher on the west, and Judah on the east at the Jordan.

rsv@Joshua:19:36 @ Ad'amah, Ramah, Hazor,

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

rsv@Joshua:19:42 @ Sha-alab'bin, Ai'jalon, Ithlah,

rsv@Joshua:19:43 @ Elon, Timnah, Ekron,

rsv@Joshua:19:50 @ By command of the LORD they gave him the city which he asked, Tim'nath-se'rah in the hill country of E'phraim; and he rebuilt the city, and settled in it.

rsv@Joshua:20:7 @ So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naph'tali, and Shechem in the hill country of E'phraim, and Kir'iath-ar'ba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.

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:21:9 @ Out of the tribe of Judah and the tribe of Simeon they gave the following cities mentioned by name,

rsv@Joshua:21:11 @ They gave them Kir'iath-ar'ba (Arba being the father of Anak), that is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, along with the pasture lands round about it.

rsv@Joshua:21:13 @ And to the descendants of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron, the city of refuge for the slayer, with its pasture lands, Libnah with its pasture lands,

rsv@Joshua:21:16 @ A'in with its pasture lands, Juttah with its pasture lands, Beth-she'mesh with its pasture lands--nine cities out of these two tribes;

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:21:34 @ 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:21:35 @ Dimnah with its pasture lands, Na'halal with its pasture lands--four cities;

rsv@Joshua:21:36 @ and out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with its pasture lands, Jahaz with its pasture lands,

rsv@Joshua:21:38 @ and out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its pasture lands, the city of refuge for the slayer, Mahana'im with its pasture lands,

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: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:24:3 @ Then I took your father Abraham from beyond the River and led him through all the land of Canaan, and made his offspring many. I gave him Isaac;

rsv@Joshua:24:30 @ And they buried him in his own inheritance at Tim'nath-se'rah, which is in the hill country of E'phraim, north of the mountain of Ga'ash.

rsv@Joshua:24:33 @ And Elea'zar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him at Gib'e-ah, the town of Phin'ehas his son, which had been given him in the hill country of E'phraim.

rsv@Judges:1:2 @ The LORD said, "Judah shall go up; behold, I have given the land into his hand."

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:1:8 @ 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:1:16 @ 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:1:19 @ And the LORD was with Judah, and he took possession of the hill country, but he could not drive out the inhabitants of the plain, because they had chariots of iron.

rsv@Judges:1:31 @ Asher did not drive out the inhabitants of Acco, or the inhabitants of Sidon, or of Ahlab, or of Achzib, or of Helbah, or of Aphik, or of Rehob;

rsv@Judges:3:26 @ Ehud escaped while they delayed, and passed beyond the sculptured stones, and escaped to Se-i'rah.

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

rsv@Judges:4:5 @ She used to sit under the palm of Deb'orah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of E'phraim; and the people of Israel came up to her for judgment.

rsv@Judges:4:9 @ And she said, "I will surely go with you; nevertheless, the road on which you are going will not lead to your glory, for the LORD will sell Sis'era into the hand of a woman." Then Deb'orah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.

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:4:14 @ 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:5:1 @ Then sang Deb'orah and Barak the son of Abin'o-am on that day:

rsv@Judges:5:7 @ The peasantry ceased in Israel, they ceased until you arose, Deb'orah, arose as a mother in Israel.

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:5:15 @ the princes of Is'sachar came with Deb'orah, and Is'sachar faithful to Barak; into the valley they rushed forth at his heels. Among the clans of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.

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:6:19 @ 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:6:25 @ That night the LORD said to him, "Take your father's bull, the second bull seven years old, and pull down the altar of Ba'al which your father has, and cut down the Ashe'rah that is beside it;

rsv@Judges:6:26 @ and build an altar to the LORD your God on the top of the stronghold here, with stones laid in due order; then take the second bull, and offer it as a burnt offering with the wood of the Ashe'rah which you shall cut down."

rsv@Judges:6:28 @ When the men of the town rose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Ba'al was broken down, and the Ashe'rah beside it was cut down, and the second bull was offered upon the altar which had been built.

rsv@Judges:6:30 @ Then the men of the town said to Jo'ash, "Bring out your son, that he may die, for he has pulled down the altar of Ba'al and cut down the Ashe'rah beside it."

rsv@Judges:7:10 @ But if you fear to go down, go down to the camp with Purah your servant;

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:7:22 @ When they blew the three hundred trumpets, the LORD set every man's sword against his fellow and against all the army; and the army fled as far as Beth-shit'tah toward Zer'erah, as far as the border of A'bel-meho'lah, by Tabbath.

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:8:5 @ 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:8:6 @ And the officials of Succoth said, "Are Zebah and Zalmun'na already in your hand, that we should give bread to your army?"

rsv@Judges:8:7 @ And Gideon said, "Well then, when the LORD has given Zebah and Zalmun'na into my hand, I will flail your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers."

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:8:12 @ And Zebah and Zalmun'na fled; and he pursued them and took the two kings of Mid'ian, Zebah and Zalmun'na, and he threw all the army into a panic.

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:8:18 @ Then he said to Zebah and Zalmun'na, "Where are the men whom you slew at Tabor?" They answered, "As you are, so were they, every one of them; they resembled the sons of a king."

rsv@Judges:8:21 @ Then Zebah and Zalmun'na said, "Rise yourself, and fall upon us; for as the man is, so is his strength." And Gideon arose and slew Zebah and Zalmun'na; and he took the crescents that were on 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:8:32 @ 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:9:5 @ And he went to his father's house at Ophrah, and slew his brothers the sons of Jerubba'al, seventy men, upon one stone; but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubba'al was left, for he hid himself.

rsv@Judges:9:31 @ And he sent messengers to Abim'elech at Aru'mah, saying, "Behold, Ga'al the son of Ebed and his kinsmen have come to Shechem, and they are stirring up the city against you.

rsv@Judges:9:41 @ And Abim'elech dwelt at Aru'mah; and Zebul drove out Ga'al and his kinsmen, so that they could not live on at Shechem.

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:10:9 @ 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:10:17 @ 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: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:11:2 @ And Gilead's wife also bore him sons; and when his wife's sons grew up, they thrust Jephthah out, and said to him, "You shall not inherit in our father's house; for you are the son of another woman."

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:11:5 @ 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:11:10 @ And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "The LORD will be witness between us; we will surely do as you say."

rsv@Judges:11:11 @ So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and leader over them; and Jephthah spoke all his words before the LORD at Mizpah.

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:11:20 @ 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:11:28 @ 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:11:32 @ So Jephthah crossed over to the Ammonites to fight against them; and the LORD gave them into his hand.

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:11:40 @ 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:12:4 @ 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:12:7 @ Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died, and was buried in his city in Gilead.

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:13:8 @ 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:13:11 @ 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:13:12 @ And Mano'ah said, "Now when your words come true, what is to be the boy's manner of life, and what is he to do?"

rsv@Judges:13:13 @ And the angel of the LORD said to Mano'ah, "Of all that I said to the woman let her beware.

rsv@Judges:13:15 @ Mano'ah said to the angel of the LORD, "Pray, let us detain you, and prepare a kid for you."

rsv@Judges:13:16 @ And the angel of the LORD said to Mano'ah, "If you detain me, I will not eat of your food; but if you make ready a burnt offering, then offer it to the LORD." (For Mano'ah did not know that he was the angel of the LORD.)

rsv@Judges:13:17 @ And Mano'ah said to the angel of the LORD, "What is your name, so that, when your words come true, we may honor you?"

rsv@Judges:13:19 @ So Mano'ah took the kid with the cereal offering, and offered it upon the rock to the LORD, to him who works wonders.

rsv@Judges:13:20 @ And when the flame went up toward heaven from the altar, the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar while Mano'ah and his wife looked on; and they fell on their faces to the ground.

rsv@Judges:13:21 @ The angel of the LORD appeared no more to Mano'ah and to his wife. Then Mano'ah knew that he was the angel of the LORD.

rsv@Judges:13:22 @ And Mano'ah said to his wife, "We shall surely die, for we have seen God."

rsv@Judges:13:25 @ And the Spirit of the LORD began to stir him in Ma'haneh-dan, between Zorah and Esh'ta-ol.

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:14:5 @ Then Samson went down with his father and mother to Timnah, and he came to the vineyards of Timnah. And behold, a young lion roared against him;

rsv@Judges:15:9 @ Then the Philistines came up and encamped in Judah, and made a raid on Lehi.

rsv@Judges:15:10 @ And the men of Judah said, "Why have you come up against us?" They said, "We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he did to us."

rsv@Judges:15:11 @ Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, "Do you not know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?" And he said to them, "As they did to me, so have I done to them."

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:16:12 @ So Deli'lah took new ropes and bound him with them, and said to him, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" And the men lying in wait were in an inner chamber. But he snapped the ropes off his arms like a thread.

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:16:14 @ So while he slept, Deli'lah took the seven locks of his head and wove them into the web. And she made them tight with the pin, and said to him, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" But he awoke from his sleep, and pulled away the pin, the loom, and the web.

rsv@Judges:16:18 @ When Deli'lah saw that he had told her all his mind, she sent and called the lords of the Philistines, saying, "Come up this once, for he has told me all his mind." Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her, and brought the money in their hands.

rsv@Judges:16:31 @ Then his brothers and all his family came down and took him and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Esh'ta-ol in the tomb of Mano'ah his father. He had judged Israel twenty years.

rsv@Judges:17:1 @ There was a man of the hill country of E'phraim, whose name was Micah.

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:17:12 @ 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:18:2 @ 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:18:4 @ And he said to them, "Thus and thus has Micah dealt with me: he has hired me, and I have become his priest."

rsv@Judges:18:8 @ And when they came to their brethren at Zorah and Esh'ta-ol, their brethren said to them, "What do you report?"

rsv@Judges:18:11 @ And six hundred men of the tribe of Dan, armed with weapons of war, set forth from Zorah and Esh'ta-ol,

rsv@Judges:18:12 @ and went up and encamped at Kir'iath-je'arim in Judah. On this account that place is called Ma'haneh-dan to this day; behold, it is west of Kir'iath-je'arim.

rsv@Judges:18:13 @ And they passed on from there to the hill country of E'phraim, and came to the house of Micah.

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:18:18 @ 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:18:22 @ 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:18:26 @ 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:18:31 @ So they set up Micah's graven image which he made, as long as the house of God was at Shiloh.

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:19:2 @ And his concubine became angry with him, and she went away from him to her father's house at Bethlehem in Judah, and was there some four months.

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:19:13 @ And he said to his servant, "Come and let us draw near to one of these places, and spend the night at Gib'e-ah or at Ramah."

rsv@Judges:19:14 @ So they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down on them near Gib'e-ah, which belongs to Benjamin,

rsv@Judges:19:15 @ and they turned aside there, to go in and spend the night at Gib'e-ah. And he went in and sat down in the open square of the city; for no man took them into his house to spend the night.

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:19:18 @ 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:20:1 @ Then all the people of Israel came out, from Dan to Beer-sheba, including the land of Gilead, and the congregation assembled as one man to the LORD at Mizpah.

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:20:5 @ And the men of Gib'e-ah rose against me, and beset the house round about me by night; they meant to kill me, and they ravished my concubine, and she is dead.

rsv@Judges:20:9 @ But now this is what we will do to Gib'e-ah: we will go up against it by lot,

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:20:13 @ 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:20:18 @ 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:20:19 @ Then the people of Israel rose in the morning, and encamped against Gib'e-ah.

rsv@Judges:20:20 @ And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel drew up the battle line against them at Gib'e-ah.

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:20:25 @ 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:20:29 @ So Israel set men in ambush round about Gib'e-ah.

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:20:34 @ 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:20:36 @ 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:20:43 @ 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: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:21:5 @ And the people of Israel said, "Which of all the tribes of Israel did not come up in the assembly to the LORD?" For they had taken a great oath concerning him who did not come up to the LORD to Mizpah, saying, "He shall be put to death."

rsv@Judges:21:8 @ And they said, "What one is there of the tribes of Israel that did not come up to the LORD to Mizpah?" And behold, no one had come to the camp from Ja'besh-gil'ead, to the assembly.

rsv@Judges:21:19 @ So they said, "Behold, there is the yearly feast of the LORD at Shiloh, which is north of Bethel, on the east of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebo'nah."

rsv@Ruth:1:1 @ In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land, and a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons.

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:1:5 @ and both Mahlon and Chil'ion died, so that the woman was bereft of her two sons and her husband.

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

rsv@Ruth:2:17 @ So she gleaned in the field until evening; then she beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.

rsv@Ruth:4:9 @ Then Bo'az said to the elders and all the people, "You are witnesses this day that I have bought from the hand of Na'omi all that belonged to Elim'elech and all that belonged to Chil'ion and to Mahlon.

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:4:12 @ and may your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the children that the LORD will give you by this young woman."

rsv@Ruth:4:20 @ Ammin'adab of Nahshon, Nahshon of Salmon,

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:1:2 @ He had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Penin'nah. And Penin'nah had children, but Hannah had no children.

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:1:5 @ and, although he loved Hannah, he would give Hannah only one portion, 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:1:13 @ Hannah was speaking in her heart; only her lips moved, and her voice was not heard; therefore Eli took her to be a drunken woman.

rsv@1Samuel:1:15 @ But Hannah answered, "No, my lord, I am a woman sorely troubled; I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I have been pouring out my soul before the LORD.

rsv@1Samuel:1:19 @ They rose early in the morning and worshiped before the LORD; then they went back to their house at Ramah. And Elka'nah knew Hannah his wife, and the LORD remembered her;

rsv@1Samuel:1:20 @ and in due time Hannah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Samuel, for she said, "I have asked him of the LORD."

rsv@1Samuel:1:21 @ And the man Elka'nah and all his house went up to offer to the LORD the yearly sacrifice, and to pay his vow.

rsv@1Samuel:1:22 @ But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, "As soon as the child is weaned, I will bring him, that he may appear in the presence of the LORD, and abide there for ever."

rsv@1Samuel:1:23 @ Elka'nah her husband said to her, "Do what seems best to you, wait until you have weaned him; only, may the LORD establish his word." So the woman remained and nursed her son, until she weaned him.

rsv@1Samuel:1:24 @ And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, along with a three-year-old bull, an ephah of flour, and a skin of wine; and she brought him to the house of the LORD at Shiloh; and the child was young.

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

rsv@1Samuel:2:20 @ Then Eli would bless Elka'nah and his wife, and say, "The LORD give you children by this woman for the loan which she lent to the LORD"; so then they would return to their home.

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:7:5 @ Then Samuel said, "Gather all Israel at Mizpah, and I will pray to the LORD for you."

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:7:7 @ Now when the Philistines heard that the people of Israel had gathered at Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. And when the people of Israel heard of it they were afraid of the Philistines.

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:7:12 @ Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Jesha'nah, and called its name Ebene'zer; for he said, "Hitherto the LORD has helped us."

rsv@1Samuel:7:16 @ And he went on a circuit year by year to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah; and he judged Israel in all these places.

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:8:2 @ The name of his first-born son was Jo'el, and the name of his second, Abi'jah; they were judges in Beer-sheba.

rsv@1Samuel:8:4 @ Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah,

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:9:4 @ And they passed through the hill country of E'phraim and passed through the land of Shal'ishah, but they did not find them. And they passed through the land of Sha'alim, but they were not there. Then they passed through the land of Benjamin, but did not find them.

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: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:10:10 @ When they came to Gib'e-ah, behold, a band of prophets met him; and the spirit of God came mightily upon him, and he prophesied among them.

rsv@1Samuel:10:17 @ Now Samuel called the people together to the LORD at Mizpah;

rsv@1Samuel:10:26 @ Saul also went to his home at Gib'e-ah, and with him went men of valor whose hearts God had touched.

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:11:4 @ 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:11:8 @ When he mustered them at Bezek, the men of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.

rsv@1Samuel:12:11 @ And the LORD sent Jerubba'al and Barak, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side; and you dwelt in safety.

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: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:13:15 @ And Samuel arose, and went up from Gilgal to Gib'e-ah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people who were present with him, about six hundred men.

rsv@1Samuel:13:17 @ And raiders came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies; one company turned toward Ophrah, to the land of Shu'al,

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:14:3 @ and Ahi'jah the son of Ahi'tub, Ich'abod's brother, son of Phin'ehas, son of Eli, the priest of the LORD in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people did not know that Jonathan had gone.

rsv@1Samuel:14:16 @ And the watchmen of Saul in Gib'e-ah of Benjamin looked; and behold, the multitude was surging hither and thither.

rsv@1Samuel:14:18 @ And Saul said to Ahi'jah, "Bring hither the ark of God." For the ark of God went at that time with the people of Israel.

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:14:50 @ 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:15:4 @ 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:15:7 @ And Saul defeated the Amal'ekites, from Hav'ilah as far as Shur, which is east of Egypt.

rsv@1Samuel:15:34 @ Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house in Gib'e-ah of Saul.

rsv@1Samuel:16:9 @ Then Jesse made Shammah pass by. And he said, "Neither has the LORD chosen this one."

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:17:1 @ Now the Philistines gathered their armies for battle; and they were gathered at Socoh, which belongs to Judah, and encamped between Socoh and Aze'kah, in E'phes-dam'mim.

rsv@1Samuel:17:2 @ And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered, and encamped in the valley of Elah, and drew up in line of battle against the Philistines.

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:17:13 @ The three eldest sons of Jesse had followed Saul to the battle; and the names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eli'ab the first-born, and next to him Abin'adab, and the third Shammah.

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:17:19 @ Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.

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:18:16 @ But all Israel and Judah loved David; for he went out and came in before them.

rsv@1Samuel:19:18 @ Now David fled and escaped, and he came to Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and dwelt at Nai'oth.

rsv@1Samuel:19:19 @ And it was told Saul, "Behold, David is at Nai'oth in Ramah."

rsv@1Samuel:19:22 @ Then he himself went to Ramah, and came to the great well that is in Secu; and he asked, "Where are Samuel and David?" And one said, "Behold, they are at Nai'oth in Ramah."

rsv@1Samuel:19:23 @ And he went from there to Nai'oth in Ramah; and the Spirit of God came upon him also, and as he went he prophesied, until he came to Nai'oth in Ramah.

rsv@1Samuel:20:1 @ Then David fled from Nai'oth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, "What have I done? What is my guilt? And what is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?"

rsv@1Samuel:21:1 @ Then came David to Nob to Ahim'elech the priest; and Ahim'elech came to meet David trembling, and said to him, "Why are you alone, and no one with you?"

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:21:8 @ 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:21:9 @ And the priest said, "The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod; if you will take that, take it, for there is none but that here." And David said, "There is none like that; give it to me."

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:22:6 @ Now Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men who were with him. Saul was sitting at Gib'e-ah, under the tamarisk tree on the height, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him.

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:22:11 @ Then the king sent to summon Ahim'elech the priest, the son of Ahi'tub, and all his father's house, the priests who were at Nob; and all of them came to the king.

rsv@1Samuel:22:12 @ And Saul said, "Hear now, son of Ahi'tub." And he answered, "Here I am, my lord."

rsv@1Samuel:22:14 @ Then Ahim'elech answered the king, "And who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and captain over your bodyguard, and honored in your house?

rsv@1Samuel:22:16 @ And the king said, "You shall surely die, Ahim'elech, you and all your father's house."

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:23:1 @ Now they told David, "Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Kei'lah, and are robbing the threshing floors."

rsv@1Samuel:23:2 @ Therefore David inquired of the LORD, "Shall I go and attack these Philistines?" And the LORD said to David, "Go and attack the Philistines and save Kei'lah."

rsv@1Samuel:23:3 @ But David's men said to him, "Behold, we are afraid here in Judah; how much more then if we go to Kei'lah against the armies of the Philistines?"

rsv@1Samuel:23:4 @ Then David inquired of the LORD again. And the LORD answered him, "Arise, go down to Kei'lah; for I will give the Philistines into your hand."

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:23:6 @ When Abi'athar the son of Ahim'elech fled to David to Kei'lah, he came down with an ephod in his hand.

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:23:8 @ And Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Kei'lah, to besiege David and his men.

rsv@1Samuel:23:10 @ Then said David, "O LORD, the God of Israel, thy servant has surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Kei'lah, to destroy the city on my account.

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:23:12 @ Then said David, "Will the men of Kei'lah surrender me and my men into the hand of Saul?" And the LORD said, "They will surrender you."

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:23:24 @ And they arose, and went to Ziph ahead of Saul. Now David and his men were in the wilderness of Ma'on, in the Arabah to the south of Jeshi'mon.

rsv@1Samuel:25:1 @ Now Samuel died; and all Israel assembled and mourned for him, and they buried him in his house at Ramah. Then David rose and went down to the wilderness of Paran.

rsv@1Samuel:25:43 @ David also took Ahin'o-am of Jezreel; and both of them became his wives.

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:27:3 @ And David dwelt with A'chish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, and David with his two wives, Ahin'o-am of Jezreel, and Ab'igail of Carmel, Nabal's widow.

rsv@1Samuel:27:6 @ So that day A'chish gave him Ziklag; therefore Ziklag has belonged to the kings of Judah to this day.

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:28:3 @ Now Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, his own city. And Saul had put the mediums and the wizards out of the land.

rsv@1Samuel:30:5 @ David's two wives also had been taken captive, Ahin'o-am of Jezreel, and Ab'igail the widow of Nabal of Carmel.

rsv@1Samuel:30:7 @ And David said to Abi'athar the priest, the son of Ahim'elech, "Bring me the ephod." So Abi'athar brought the ephod to David.

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:30:16 @ And when he had taken him down, behold, they were spread abroad over all the land, eating and drinking and dancing, because of all the great spoil they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.

rsv@1Samuel:30:26 @ When David came to Ziklag, he sent part of the spoil to his friends, the elders of Judah, saying, "Here is a present for you from the spoil of the enemies of the LORD";

rsv@1Samuel:30:29 @ in Racal, in the cities of the Jerah'meelites, in the cities of the Ken'ites,

rsv@1Samuel:30:30 @ in Hormah, in Borash'an, in A'thach,

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: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:2:2 @ So David went up there, and his two wives also, Ahin'o-am of Jezreel, and Ab'igail the widow of Nabal of Carmel.

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:2:7 @ 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:2:8 @ Now Abner the son of Ner, commander of Saul's army, had taken Ish-bo'sheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahana'im;

rsv@2Samuel:2:10 @ Ish-bo'sheth, Saul's son, was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.

rsv@2Samuel:2:11 @ And the time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.

rsv@2Samuel:2:12 @ Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ish-bo'sheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahana'im to Gibeon.

rsv@2Samuel:2:13 @ And Jo'ab the son of Zeru'iah, and the servants of David, went out and met them at the pool of Gibeon; and they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool.

rsv@2Samuel:2:18 @ And the three sons of Zeru'iah were there, Jo'ab, Abi'shai, and As'ahel. Now As'ahel was as swift of foot as a wild gazelle;

rsv@2Samuel:2:19 @ and As'ahel pursued Abner, and as he went he turned neither to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner.

rsv@2Samuel:2:20 @ Then Abner looked behind him and said, "Is it you, As'ahel?" And he answered, "It is I."

rsv@2Samuel:2:21 @ Abner said to him, "Turn aside to your right hand or to your left, and seize one of the young men, and take his spoil." But As'ahel would not turn aside from following him.

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:2:24 @ But Jo'ab and Abi'shai pursued Abner; and as the sun was going down they came to the hill of Ammah, which lies before Gi'ah on the way to the wilderness of Gibeon.

rsv@2Samuel:2:29 @ And Abner and his men went all that night through the Arabah; they crossed the Jordan, and marching the whole forenoon they came to Mahana'im.

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:2:32 @ And they took up As'ahel, and buried him in the tomb of his father, which was at Bethlehem. And Jo'ab and his men marched all night, and the day broke upon them at Hebron.

rsv@2Samuel:3:2 @ And sons were born to David at Hebron: his first-born was Amnon, of Ahin'o-am of Jezreel;

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:3:4 @ and the fourth, Adoni'jah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephati'ah the son of Abi'tal;

rsv@2Samuel:3:5 @ and the sixth, Ith're-am, of Eglah, David's wife. These were born to David in Hebron.

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:3:8 @ Then Abner was very angry over the words of Ish-bo'sheth, and said, "Am I a dog's head of Judah? This day I keep showing loyalty to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not given you into the hand of David; and yet you charge me today with a fault concerning a woman.

rsv@2Samuel:3:10 @ to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul, and set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan to Beer-sheba."

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:3:26 @ 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:3:30 @ So Jo'ab and Abi'shai his brother slew Abner, because he had killed their brother As'ahel in the battle at Gibeon.

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:4:2 @ Now Saul's son had two men who were captains of raiding bands; the name of the one was Ba'anah, and the name of the other Rechab, sons of Rimmon a man of Benjamin from Be-er'oth (for Be-er'oth also is reckoned to Benjamin;

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:4:6 @ And behold, the doorkeeper of the house had been cleaning wheat, but she grew drowsy and slept; so Rechab and Ba'anah his brother slipped in.

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:5:5 @ At Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months; and at Jerusalem he reigned over all Israel and Judah thirty-three years.

rsv@2Samuel:6:2 @ And David arose and went with all the people who were with him from Ba'ale-judah, to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the name of the LORD of hosts who sits enthroned on the cherubim.

rsv@2Samuel:6:3 @ And they carried the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abin'adab which was on the hill; and Uzzah and Ahi'o, the sons of Abin'adab, were driving the new cart

rsv@2Samuel:6:4 @ with the ark of God; and Ahi'o went before the ark.

rsv@2Samuel:6:6 @ And when they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah put out his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen stumbled.

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:6:8 @ And David was angry because the LORD had broken forth upon Uzzah; and that place is called Pe'rez-uz'zah, to this day.

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:8:3 @ 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:8:5 @ And when the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadade'zer king of Zobah, David slew twenty-two thousand men of the Syrians.

rsv@2Samuel:8:8 @ And from Betah and from Bero'thai, cities of Hadade'zer, King David took very much bronze.

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:8:16 @ And Jo'ab the son of Zeru'iah was over the army; and Jehosh'aphat the son of Ahi'lud was recorder;

rsv@2Samuel:8:17 @ and Zadok the son of Ahi'tub and Ahim'elech the son of Abi'athar were priests; and Serai'ah was secretary;

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: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:10:6 @ 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: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:11:3 @ 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:11:7 @ When Uri'ah came to him, David asked how Jo'ab was doing, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered.

rsv@2Samuel:11:8 @ Then David said to Uri'ah, "Go down to your house, and wash your feet." And Uri'ah went out of the king's house, and there followed him a present from the king.

rsv@2Samuel:11:9 @ But Uri'ah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house.

rsv@2Samuel:11:10 @ When they told David, "Uri'ah did not go down to his house," David said to Uri'ah, "Have you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?"

rsv@2Samuel:11:11 @ Uri'ah said to David, "The ark and Israel and Judah dwell in booths; and my lord Jo'ab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field; shall I then go to my house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing."

rsv@2Samuel:11:12 @ Then David said to Uri'ah, "Remain here today also, and tomorrow I will let you depart." So Uri'ah remained in Jerusalem that day, and the next.

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:11:16 @ And as Jo'ab was besieging the city, he assigned Uri'ah to the place where he knew there were valiant men.

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:11:21 @ 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:11:24 @ 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:11:26 @ When the wife of Uri'ah heard that Uri'ah her husband was dead, she made lamentation for her husband.

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:12:15 @ Then Nathan went to his house. And the LORD struck the child that Uri'ah's wife bore to David, and it became sick.

rsv@2Samuel:12:25 @ and sent a message by Nathan the prophet; so he called his name Jedidi'ah, because of the LORD.

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:12:29 @ So David gathered all the people together and went to Rabbah, and fought against it and took it.

rsv@2Samuel:13:3 @ But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jon'adab, the son of Shim'e-ah, David's brother; and Jon'adab was a very crafty man.

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:14:1 @ Now Jo'ab the son of Zeru'iah perceived that the king's heart went out to Ab'salom.

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:15:27 @ The king also said to Zadok the priest, "Look, go back to the city in peace, you and Abi'athar, with your two sons, Ahim'a-az your son, and Jonathan the son of Abi'athar.

rsv@2Samuel:15:31 @ And it was told David, "Ahith'ophel is among the conspirators with Ab'salom." And David said, "O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahith'ophel into foolishness."

rsv@2Samuel:15:34 @ But if you return to the city, and say to Ab'salom, `I will be your servant, O king; as I have been your father's servant in time past, so now I will be your servant,' then you will defeat for me the counsel of Ahith'ophel.

rsv@2Samuel:15:36 @ Behold, their two sons are with them there, Ahim'a-az, Zadok's son, and Jonathan, Abi'athar's son; and by them you shall send to me everything you hear."

rsv@2Samuel:16:5 @ When King David came to Bahu'rim, there came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shim'e-i, the son of Gera; and as he came he cursed continually.

rsv@2Samuel:16:9 @ Then Abi'shai the son of Zeru'iah said to the king, "Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over and take off his head."

rsv@2Samuel:16:10 @ But the king said, "What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeru'iah? If he is cursing because the LORD has said to him, `Curse David,' who then shall say, `Why have you done so?'"

rsv@2Samuel:16:15 @ Now Ab'salom and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahith'ophel with him.

rsv@2Samuel:16:20 @ Then Ab'salom said to Ahith'ophel, "Give your counsel; what shall we do?"

rsv@2Samuel:16:21 @ Ahith'ophel said to Ab'salom, "Go in to your father's concubines, whom he has left to keep the house; and all Israel will hear that you have made yourself odious to your father, and the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened."

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:17:1 @ Moreover Ahith'ophel said to Ab'salom, "Let me choose twelve thousand men, and I will set out and pursue David tonight.

rsv@2Samuel:17:6 @ And when Hushai came to Ab'salom, Ab'salom said to him, "Thus has Ahith'ophel spoken; shall we do as he advises? If not, you speak."

rsv@2Samuel:17:7 @ Then Hushai said to Ab'salom, "This time the counsel which Ahith'ophel has given is not good."

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:17:15 @ Then Hushai said to Zadok and Abi'athar the priests, "Thus and so did Ahith'ophel counsel Ab'salom and the elders of Israel; and thus and so have I counseled.

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:17:18 @ But a lad saw them, and told Ab'salom; so both of them went away quickly, and came to the house of a man at Bahu'rim, who had a well in his courtyard; and they went down into 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:17:23 @ When Ahith'ophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and went off home to his own city. And he set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.

rsv@2Samuel:17:24 @ Then David came to Mahana'im. And Ab'salom crossed the Jordan with all the men of Israel.

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:18:2 @ 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:18:19 @ Then said Ahi'ma-az the son of Zadok, "Let me run, and carry tidings to the king that the LORD has delivered him from the power of his enemies."

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:18:27 @ And the watchman said, "I think the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahi'ma-az the son of Zadok." And the king said, "He is a good man, and comes with good tidings."

rsv@2Samuel:18:28 @ Then Ahi'ma-az cried out to the king, "All is well." And he bowed before the king with his face to the earth, and said, "Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delivered up the men who raised their hand against my lord the king."

rsv@2Samuel:18:29 @ And the king said, "Is it well with the young man Ab'salom?" Ahi'ma-az answered, "When Jo'ab sent your servant, I saw a great tumult, but I do not know what it was."

rsv@2Samuel:19:11 @ And King David sent this message to Zadok and Abi'athar the priests, "Say to the elders of Judah, `Why should you be the last to bring the king back to his house, when the word of all Israel has come to the king?

rsv@2Samuel:19:14 @ And he swayed the heart of all the men of Judah as one man; so that they sent word to the king, "Return, both you and all your servants."

rsv@2Samuel:19:15 @ So the king came back to the Jordan; and Judah came to Gilgal to meet the king and to bring the king over the Jordan.

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:19:21 @ 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:19:22 @ But David said, "What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeru'iah, that you should this day be as an adversary to me? Shall any one be put to death in Israel this day? For do I not know that I am this day king over Israel?"

rsv@2Samuel:19:32 @ Barzil'lai was a very aged man, eighty years old; and he had provided the king with food while he stayed at Mahana'im; for he was a very wealthy man.

rsv@2Samuel:19:40 @ The king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him; all the people of Judah, and also half the people of Israel, brought the king on his way.

rsv@2Samuel:19:41 @ Then all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to the king, "Why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen you away, and brought the king and his household over the Jordan, and all David's men with him?"

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:20:2 @ 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:20:4 @ Then the king said to Ama'sa, "Call the men of Judah together to me within three days, and be here yourself."

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:20:14 @ 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:20:23 @ 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:20:24 @ and Ador'am was in charge of the forced labor; and Jehosh'aphat the son of Ahi'lud was the recorder;

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:21:8 @ 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:21:10 @ 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:21:17 @ But Abi'shai the son of Zeru'iah came to his aid, and attacked the Philistine and killed him. Then David's men adjured him, "You shall no more go out with us to battle, lest you quench the lamp of Israel."

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:23:9 @ And next to him among the three mighty men was Elea'zar the son of Dodo, son of Aho'hi. He was with David when they defied the Philistines who were gathered there for battle, and the men of Israel withdrew.

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:23:18 @ Now Abi'shai, the brother of Jo'ab, the son of Zeru'iah, was chief of the thirty. And he wielded his spear against three hundred men and slew them, and won a name beside the three.

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:23:21 @ And he slew an Egyptian, a handsome man. The Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but Benai'ah went down to him with a staff, and snatched the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.

rsv@2Samuel:23:22 @ These things did Benai'ah the son of Jehoi'ada, and won a name beside the three mighty men.

rsv@2Samuel:23:24 @ As'ahel the brother of Jo'ab was one of the thirty; Elha'nan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,

rsv@2Samuel:23:25 @ Shammah of Harod, Eli'ka of Harod,

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:23:30 @ Benai'ah of Pira'thon, Hid'dai of the brooks of Ga'ash,

rsv@2Samuel:23:31 @ Abi-al'bon the Ar'bathite, Az'maveth of Bahu'rim,

rsv@2Samuel:23:32 @ Eli'ahba of Sha-al'bon, the sons of Jashen, Jonathan,

rsv@2Samuel:23:33 @ Shammah the Har'arite, Ahi'am the son of Sharar the Har'arite,

rsv@2Samuel:23:34 @ Eliph'elet the son of Ahas'bai of Ma'acah, Eli'am the son of Ahith'ophel of Gilo,

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:23:39 @ 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:24:7 @ 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:24:9 @ And Jo'ab gave the sum of the numbering of the people to the king: in Israel there were eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword, and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand.

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:24:20 @ And when Arau'nah looked down, he saw the king and his servants coming on toward him; and Arau'nah went forth, and did obeisance to the king with his face to the ground.

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:24:22 @ Then Arau'nah said to David, "Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him; here are the oxen for the burnt offering, and the threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood.

rsv@2Samuel:24:23 @ All this, O king, Arau'nah gives to the king." And Arau'nah said to the king, "The LORD your God accept you."

rsv@2Samuel:24:24 @ But the king said to Arau'nah, "No, but I will buy it of you for a price; I will not offer burnt offerings to the LORD my God which cost me nothing." So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

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:1:7 @ He conferred with Jo'ab the son of Zeru'iah and with Abi'athar the priest; and they followed Adoni'jah and helped him.

rsv@1Kings:1:8 @ But Zadok the priest, and Benai'ah the son of Jehoi'ada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shim'e-i, and Re'i, and David's mighty men were not with Adoni'jah.

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:1:11 @ Then Nathan said to Bathshe'ba the mother of Solomon, "Have you not heard that Adoni'jah the son of Haggith has become king and David our lord does not know it?

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:1:18 @ And now, behold, Adoni'jah is king, although you, my lord the king, do not know it.

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:1:32 @ King David said, "Call to me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benai'ah the son of Jehoi'ada." So they came before the king.

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:1:36 @ And Benai'ah the son of Jehoi'ada answered the king, "Amen! May the LORD, the God of my lord the king, say so.

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:1:41 @ Adoni'jah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they finished feasting. And when Jo'ab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, "What does this uproar in the city mean?"

rsv@1Kings:1:42 @ While he was still speaking, behold, Jonathan the son of Abi'athar the priest came; and Adoni'jah said, "Come in, for you are a worthy man and bring good news."

rsv@1Kings:1:43 @ Jonathan answered Adoni'jah, "No, for our lord King David has made Solomon king;

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:1:49 @ Then all the guests of Adoni'jah trembled, and rose, and each went his own way.

rsv@1Kings:1:50 @ And Adoni'jah feared Solomon; and he arose, and went, and caught hold of the horns of the altar.

rsv@1Kings:1:51 @ And it was told Solomon, "Behold, Adoni'jah fears King Solomon; for, lo, he has laid hold of the horns of the altar, saying, `Let King Solomon swear to me first that he will not slay his servant with the sword.'"

rsv@1Kings:2:5 @ "Moreover you know also what Jo'ab the son of Zeru'iah did to me, how he dealt with the two commanders of the armies of Israel, Abner the son of Ner, and Ama'sa the son of Jether, whom he murdered, avenging in time of peace blood which had been shed in war, and putting innocent blood upon the girdle about my loins, and upon the sandals on my feet.

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:2:13 @ Then Adoni'jah the son of Haggith came to Bathshe'ba the mother of Solomon. And she said, "Do you come peaceably?" He said, "Peaceably."

rsv@1Kings:2:19 @ So Bathshe'ba went to King Solomon, to speak to him on behalf of Adoni'jah. And the king rose to meet her, and bowed down to her; then he sat on his throne, and had a seat brought for the king's mother; and she sat on his right.

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:2:23 @ Then King Solomon swore by the LORD, saying, "God do so to me and more also if this word does not cost Adoni'jah his life!

rsv@1Kings:2:24 @ Now therefore as the LORD lives, who has established me, and placed me on the throne of David my father, and who has made me a house, as he promised, Adoni'jah shall be put to death this day."

rsv@1Kings:2:25 @ So King Solomon sent Benai'ah the son of Jehoi'ada; and he struck him down, and he died.

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:2:34 @ Then Benai'ah the son of Jehoi'ada went up, and struck him down and killed him; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.

rsv@1Kings:2:35 @ The king put Benai'ah the son of Jehoi'ada over the army in place of Jo'ab, and the king put Zadok the priest in the place of Abi'athar.

rsv@1Kings:2:39 @ But it happened at the end of three years that two of Shim'e-i's slaves ran away to Achish, son of Ma'acah, king of Gath. And when it was told Shim'e-i, "Behold, your slaves are in Gath,"

rsv@1Kings:2:46 @ Then the king commanded Benai'ah the son of Jehoi'ada; and he went out and struck him down, and he died. So the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.

rsv@1Kings:4:2 @ and these were his high officials: Azari'ah the son of Zadok was the priest;

rsv@1Kings:4:3 @ Elihor'eph and Ahi'jah the sons of Shisha were secretaries; Jehosh'aphat the son of Ahi'lud was recorder;

rsv@1Kings:4:4 @ Benai'ah the son of Jehoi'ada was in command of the army; Zadok and Abi'athar were priests;

rsv@1Kings:4:5 @ Azari'ah the son of Nathan was over the officers; Zabud the son of Nathan was priest and king's friend;

rsv@1Kings:4:6 @ Ahi'shar was in charge of the palace; and Adoni'ram the son of Abda was in charge of the forced labor.

rsv@1Kings:4:12 @ Ba'ana the son of Ahi'lud, in Ta'anach, Megid'do, and all Beth-she'an which is beside Zarethan below Jezreel, and from Beth-she'an to A'bel-meho'lah, as far as the other side of Jok'meam;

rsv@1Kings:4:14 @ Ahin'adab the son of Iddo, in Mahana'im;

rsv@1Kings:4:15 @ Ahi'ma-az, in Naph'tali (he had taken Bas'emath the daughter of Solomon as his wife);

rsv@1Kings:4:17 @ Jehosh'aphat the son of Paru'ah, in Is'sachar;

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:4:24 @ 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:4:25 @ And Judah and Israel dwelt in safety, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, all the days of Solomon.

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:9:18 @ and Ba'alath and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land of Judah,

rsv@1Kings:10:27 @ And the king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stone, and he made cedar as plentiful as the sycamore of the Shephe'lah.

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:11:26 @ 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:11:29 @ 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:11:30 @ Then Ahi'jah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and tore it into twelve pieces.

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:12:17 @ But Rehobo'am reigned over the people of Israel who dwelt in the cities of Judah.

rsv@1Kings:12:20 @ And when all Israel heard that Jerobo'am had returned, they sent and called him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. There was none that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.

rsv@1Kings:12:21 @ When Rehobo'am came to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to restore the kingdom to Rehobo'am the son of Solomon.

rsv@1Kings:12:22 @ But the word of God came to Shemai'ah the man of God:

rsv@1Kings:12:23 @ "Say to Rehobo'am the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people,

rsv@1Kings:12:27 @ if this people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will turn again to their lord, to Rehobo'am king of Judah, and they will kill me and return to Rehobo'am king of Judah."

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:13:1 @ And behold, a man of God came out of Judah by the word of the LORD to Bethel. Jerobo'am was standing by the altar to burn incense.

rsv@1Kings:13:2 @ And the man cried against the altar by the word of the LORD, and said, "O altar, altar, thus says the LORD: `Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josi'ah by name; and he shall sacrifice upon you the priests of the high places who burn incense upon you, and men's bones shall be burned upon you.'"

rsv@1Kings:13:12 @ And their father said to them, "Which way did he go?" And his sons showed him the way which the man of God who came from Judah had gone.

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:13:21 @ and he cried to the man of God who came from Judah, "Thus says the LORD, `Because you have disobeyed the word of the LORD, and have not kept the commandment which the LORD your God commanded you,

rsv@1Kings:14:1 @ At that time Abi'jah the son of Jerobo'am fell sick.

rsv@1Kings:14:2 @ And Jerobo'am said to his wife, "Arise, and disguise yourself, that it be not known that you are the wife of Jerobo'am, and go to Shiloh; behold, Ahi'jah the prophet is there, who said of me that I should be king over this people.

rsv@1Kings:14:4 @ Jerobo'am's wife did so; she arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahi'jah. Now Ahi'jah could not see, for his eyes were dim because of his age.

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:14:17 @ 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:14:18 @ And all Israel buried him and mourned for him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke by his servant Ahi'jah the prophet.

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:14:29 @ 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:15:5 @ 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:15:9 @ In the twentieth year of Jerobo'am king of Israel Asa began to reign over Judah,

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:15:13 @ He also removed Ma'acah his mother from being queen mother because she had an abominable image made for Ashe'rah; and Asa cut down her image and burned it at the brook Kidron.

rsv@1Kings:15:17 @ Ba'asha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might permit no one to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.

rsv@1Kings:15:20 @ And Ben-ha'dad hearkened to King Asa, and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel, and conquered Ijon, Dan, A'bel-beth-ma'acah, and all Chin'neroth, with all the land of Naph'tali.

rsv@1Kings:15:21 @ And when Ba'asha heard of it, he stopped building Ramah, and he dwelt in Tirzah.

rsv@1Kings:15:22 @ Then King Asa made a proclamation to all Judah, none was exempt, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its timber, with which Ba'asha had been building; and with them King Asa built Geba of Benjamin and Mizpah.

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:15:25 @ Nadab the son of Jerobo'am began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah; and he reigned over Israel two years.

rsv@1Kings:15:27 @ Ba'asha the son of Ahi'jah, of the house of Is'sachar, conspired against him; and Ba'asha struck him down at Gib'bethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel were laying siege to Gib'bethon.

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:15:33 @ In the third year of Asa king of Judah, Ba'asha the son of Ahi'jah began to reign over all Israel at Tirzah, and reigned twenty-four years.

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:16:8 @ In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah the son of Ba'asha began to reign over Israel in Tirzah, and reigned two years.

rsv@1Kings:16:9 @ But his servant Zimri, commander of half his chariots, conspired against him. When he was at Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah,

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:16:13 @ for all the sins of Ba'asha and the sins of Elah his son which they sinned, and which they made Israel to sin, provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their idols.

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:16:15 @ In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned seven days in Tirzah. Now the troops were encamped against Gib'bethon, which belonged to the Philistines,

rsv@1Kings:16:17 @ So Omri went up from Gib'bethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.

rsv@1Kings:16:23 @ In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri began to reign over Israel, and reigned for twelve years; six years he reigned in Tirzah.

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:16:29 @ In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, Ahab the son of Omri began to reign over Israel, and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Sama'ria twenty-two years.

rsv@1Kings:16:30 @ And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD more than all that were before him.

rsv@1Kings:16:33 @ And Ahab made an Ashe'rah. Ahab did more to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

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:17:13 @ 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:17:16 @ The jar of meal was not spent, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD which he spoke by Eli'jah.

rsv@1Kings:17:18 @ And she said to Eli'jah, "What have you against me, O man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to remembrance, and to cause the death of my son!"

rsv@1Kings:17:22 @ And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Eli'jah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.

rsv@1Kings:17:23 @ And Eli'jah took the child, and brought him down from the upper chamber into the house, and delivered him to his mother; and Eli'jah said, "See, your son lives."

rsv@1Kings:17:24 @ And the woman said to Eli'jah, "Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of the LORD in your mouth is truth."

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:18:2 @ So Eli'jah went to show himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Sama'ria.

rsv@1Kings:18:3 @ And Ahab called Obadi'ah, who was over the household. (Now Obadi'ah revered the LORD greatly;

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:18:6 @ So they divided the land between them to pass through it; Ahab went in one direction by himself, and Obadi'ah went in another direction by himself.

rsv@1Kings:18:7 @ And as Obadi'ah was on the way, behold, Eli'jah met him; and Obadi'ah recognized him, and fell on his face, and said, "Is it you, my lord Eli'jah?"

rsv@1Kings:18:8 @ And he answered him, "It is I. Go, tell your lord, `Behold, Eli'jah is here.'"

rsv@1Kings:18:9 @ And he said, "Wherein have I sinned, that you would give your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me?

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:18:14 @ And now you say, `Go, tell your lord, "Behold, Eli'jah is here"'; and he will kill me."

rsv@1Kings:18:15 @ And Eli'jah said, "As the LORD of hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today."

rsv@1Kings:18:16 @ So Obadi'ah went to meet Ahab, and told him; and Ahab went to meet Eli'jah.

rsv@1Kings:18:17 @ When Ahab saw Eli'jah, Ahab said to him, "Is it you, you troubler of Israel?"

rsv@1Kings:18:19 @ Now therefore send and gather all Israel to me at Mount Carmel, and the four hundred and fifty prophets of Ba'al and the four hundred prophets of Ashe'rah, who eat at Jez'ebel's table."

rsv@1Kings:18:20 @ So Ahab sent to all the people of Israel, and gathered the prophets together at Mount Carmel.

rsv@1Kings:18:21 @ And Eli'jah came near to all the people, and said, "How long will you go limping with two different opinions? If the LORD is God, follow him; but if Ba'al, then follow him." And the people did not answer him a word.

rsv@1Kings:18:22 @ Then Eli'jah said to the people, "I, even I only, am left a prophet of the LORD; but Ba'al's prophets are four hundred and fifty men.

rsv@1Kings:18:25 @ Then Eli'jah said to the prophets of Ba'al, "Choose for yourselves one bull and prepare it first, for you are many; and call on the name of your god, but put no fire to it."

rsv@1Kings:18:27 @ And at noon Eli'jah mocked them, saying, "Cry aloud, for he is a god; either he is musing, or he has gone aside, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep and must be awakened."

rsv@1Kings:18:30 @ Then Eli'jah said to all the people, "Come near to me"; and all the people came near to him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD that had been thrown down;

rsv@1Kings:18:31 @ Eli'jah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the LORD came, saying, "Israel shall be your name";

rsv@1Kings:18:36 @ And at the time of the offering of the oblation, Eli'jah the prophet came near and said, "O LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word.

rsv@1Kings:18:40 @ And Eli'jah said to them, "Seize the prophets of Ba'al; let not one of them escape." And they seized them; and Eli'jah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there.

rsv@1Kings:18:41 @ And Eli'jah said to Ahab, "Go up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of the rushing of rain."

rsv@1Kings:18:42 @ So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Eli'jah went up to the top of Carmel; and he bowed himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees.

rsv@1Kings:18:44 @ And at the seventh time he said, "Behold, a little cloud like a man's hand is rising out of the sea." And he said, "Go up, say to Ahab, `Prepare your chariot and go down, lest the rain stop you.'"

rsv@1Kings:18:45 @ And in a little while the heavens grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode and went to Jezreel.

rsv@1Kings:18:46 @ And the hand of the LORD was on Eli'jah; and he girded up his loins and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

rsv@1Kings:19:1 @ Ahab told Jez'ebel all that Eli'jah had done, and how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.

rsv@1Kings:19:2 @ Then Jez'ebel sent a messenger to Eli'jah, saying, "So may the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by this time tomorrow."

rsv@1Kings:19:3 @ Then he was afraid, and he arose and went for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.

rsv@1Kings:19:9 @ And there he came to a cave, and lodged there; and behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and he said to him, "What are you doing here, Eli'jah?"

rsv@1Kings:19:13 @ And when Eli'jah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. And behold, there came a voice to him, and said, "What are you doing here, Eli'jah?"

rsv@1Kings:19:16 @ and Jehu the son of Nimshi you shall anoint to be king over Israel; and Eli'sha the son of Shaphat of A'bel-meho'lah you shall anoint to be prophet in your place.

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:20:2 @ And he sent messengers into the city to Ahab king of Israel, and said to him, "Thus says Ben-ha'dad:

rsv@1Kings:20:13 @ And behold, a prophet came near to Ahab king of Israel and said, "Thus says the LORD, Have you seen all this great multitude? Behold, I will give it into your hand this day; and you shall know that I am the LORD."

rsv@1Kings:20:14 @ And Ahab said, "By whom?" He said, "Thus says the LORD, By the servants of the governors of the districts." Then he said, "Who shall begin the battle?" He answered, "You."

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: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:21:3 @ But Naboth said to Ahab, "The LORD forbid that I should give you the inheritance of my fathers."

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:21:8 @ 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:21:15 @ 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:21:18 @ "Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who is in Sama'ria; behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, where he has gone to take possession.

rsv@1Kings:21:20 @ Ahab said to Eli'jah, "Have you found me, O my enemy?" He answered, "I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do what is evil in the sight of the LORD.

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:21:22 @ and I will make your house like the house of Jerobo'am the son of Nebat, and like the house of Ba'asha the son of Ahi'jah, for the anger to which you have provoked me, and because you have made Israel to sin.

rsv@1Kings:21:24 @ Any one belonging to Ahab who dies in the city the dogs shall eat; and any one of his who dies in the open country the birds of the air shall eat."

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:21:27 @ 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:21:29 @ "Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but in his son's days I will bring the evil upon his house."

rsv@1Kings:22:2 @ But in the third year Jehosh'aphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.

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:22:9 @ Then the king of Israel summoned an officer and said, "Bring quickly Micai'ah the son of Imlah."

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:22:11 @ And Zedeki'ah the son of Chena'anah made for himself horns of iron, and said, "Thus says the LORD, `With these you shall push the Syrians until they are destroyed.'"

rsv@1Kings:22:13 @ And the messenger who went to summon Micai'ah said to him, "Behold, the words of the prophets with one accord are favorable to the king; let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak favorably."

rsv@1Kings:22:14 @ But Micai'ah said, "As the LORD lives, what the LORD says to me, that I will speak."

rsv@1Kings:22:15 @ And when he had come to the king, the king said to him, "Micai'ah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall we forbear?" And he answered him, "Go up and triumph; the LORD will give it into the hand of the king."

rsv@1Kings:22:19 @ And Micai'ah said, "Therefore hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing beside him on his right hand and on his left;

rsv@1Kings:22:20 @ and the LORD said, `Who will entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?' And one said one thing, and another said another.

rsv@1Kings:22:24 @ Then Zedeki'ah the son of Chena'anah came near and struck Micai'ah on the cheek, and said, "How did the Spirit of the LORD go from me to speak to you?"

rsv@1Kings:22:25 @ And Micai'ah said, "Behold, you shall see on that day when you go into an inner chamber to hide yourself."

rsv@1Kings:22:26 @ And the king of Israel said, "Seize Micai'ah, and take him back to Amon the governor of the city and to Jo'ash the king's son;

rsv@1Kings:22:28 @ And Micai'ah said, "If you return in peace, the LORD has not spoken by me." And he said, "Hear, all you peoples!"

rsv@1Kings:22:29 @ So the king of Israel and Jehosh'aphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.

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:22:41 @ Jehosh'aphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.

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:22:49 @ Then Ahazi'ah the son of Ahab said to Jehosh'aphat, "Let my servants go with your servants in the ships," but Jehosh'aphat was not willing.

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:1:4 @ Now therefore thus says the LORD, `You shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone, but you shall surely die.'" So Eli'jah went.

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:1:9 @ Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty men with his fifty. He went up to Eli'jah, who was sitting on the top of a hill, and said to him, "O man of God, the king says, `Come down.'"

rsv@2Kings:1:10 @ But Eli'jah answered the captain of fifty, "If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty." Then fire came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.

rsv@2Kings:1:12 @ But Eli'jah answered them, "If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty." Then the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.

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:1:15 @ Then the angel of the LORD said to Eli'jah, "Go down with him; do not be afraid of him." So he arose and went down with him to the king,

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:2:1 @ Now when the LORD was about to take Eli'jah up to heaven by a whirlwind, Eli'jah and Eli'sha were on their way from Gilgal.

rsv@2Kings:2:2 @ And Eli'jah said to Eli'sha, "Tarry here, I pray you; for the LORD has sent me as far as Bethel." But Eli'sha said, "As the LORD lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you." So they went down to Bethel.

rsv@2Kings:2:4 @ Eli'jah said to him, "Eli'sha, tarry here, I pray you; for the LORD has sent me to Jericho." But he said, "As the LORD lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you." So they came to Jericho.

rsv@2Kings:2:6 @ Then Eli'jah said to him, "Tarry here, I pray you; for the LORD has sent me to the Jordan." But he said, "As the LORD lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you." So the two of them went on.

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:2:9 @ When they had crossed, Eli'jah said to Eli'sha, "Ask what I shall do for you, before I am taken from you." And Eli'sha said, "I pray you, let me inherit a double share of your spirit."

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:2:13 @ And he took up the mantle of Eli'jah that had fallen from him, and went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan.

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:2:15 @ Now when the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho saw him over against them, they said, "The spirit of Eli'jah rests on Eli'sha." And they came to meet him, and bowed to the ground before him.

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:3:5 @ But when Ahab died, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.

rsv@2Kings:3:7 @ And he went and sent word to Jehosh'aphat king of Judah, "The king of Moab has rebelled against me; will you go with me to battle against Moab?" And he said, "I will go; I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses."

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:3:14 @ And Eli'sha said, "As the LORD of hosts lives, whom I serve, were it not that I have regard for Jehosh'aphat the king of Judah, I would neither look at you, nor see you.

rsv@2Kings:4:31 @ Geha'zi went on ahead and laid the staff upon the face of the child, but there was no sound or sign of life. Therefore he returned to meet him, and told him, "The child has not awaked."

rsv@2Kings:4:42 @ A man came from Ba'al-shal'ishah, bringing the man of God bread of the first fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and fresh ears of grain in his sack. And Eli'sha said, "Give to the men, that they may eat."

rsv@2Kings:8:16 @ In the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Jeho'ram the son of Jehosh'aphat, king of Judah, began to reign.

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:8:19 @ Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah, for the sake of David his servant, since he promised to give a lamp to him and to his sons for ever.

rsv@2Kings:8:20 @ In his days Edom revolted from the rule of Judah, and set up a king of their own.

rsv@2Kings:8:22 @ 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:8:25 @ In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Ahazi'ah the son of Jeho'ram, king of Judah, began to reign.

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:8:27 @ He also walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as the house of Ahab had done, for he was son-in-law to the house of Ahab.

rsv@2Kings:8:28 @ He went with Joram the son of Ahab to make war against Haz'ael king of Syria at Ramoth-gilead, where the Syrians wounded Joram.

rsv@2Kings:8:29 @ And King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Haz'ael king of Syria. And Ahazi'ah the son of Jeho'ram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.

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:9:8 @ For the whole house of Ahab shall perish; and I will cut off from Ahab every male, bond or free, in Israel.

rsv@2Kings:9:9 @ And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jerobo'am the son of Nebat, and like the house of Ba'asha the son of Ahi'jah.

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:9:21 @ 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:9:23 @ Then Joram reined about and fled, saying to Ahazi'ah, "Treachery, O Ahazi'ah!"

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:9:27 @ When Ahazi'ah the king of Judah saw this, he fled in the direction of Beth-haggan. And Jehu pursued him, and said, "Shoot him also"; and they shot him in the chariot at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he fled to Megid'do, and died there.

rsv@2Kings:9:29 @ In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab, Ahazi'ah began to reign over Judah.

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: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:10:10 @ Know then that there shall fall to the earth nothing of the word of the LORD, which the LORD spoke concerning the house of Ahab; for the LORD has done what he said by his servant Eli'jah."

rsv@2Kings:10:11 @ So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, all his great men, and his familiar friends, and his priests, until he left him none remaining.

rsv@2Kings:10:13 @ Jehu met the kinsmen of Ahazi'ah king of Judah, and he said, "Who are you?" And they answered, "We are the kinsmen of Ahazi'ah, and we came down to visit the royal princes and the sons of the queen mother."

rsv@2Kings:10:17 @ And when he came to Sama'ria, he slew all that remained to Ahab in Sama'ria, till he had wiped them out, according to the word of the LORD which he spoke to Eli'jah.

rsv@2Kings:10:18 @ Then Jehu assembled all the people, and said to them, "Ahab served Ba'al a little; but Jehu will serve him much.

rsv@2Kings:10:30 @ And the LORD said to Jehu, "Because you have done well in carrying out what is right in my eyes, and have done to the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart, your sons of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne 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:11:1 @ Now when Athali'ah the mother of Ahazi'ah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal family.

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:11:3 @ and he remained with her six years, hid in the house of the LORD, while Athali'ah reigned over the land.

rsv@2Kings:11:13 @ When Athali'ah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she went into the house of the LORD to the people;

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:11:20 @ 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:12:1 @ In the seventh year of Jehu Jeho'ash began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zib'iah of Beer-sheba.

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:13:4 @ Then Jeho'ahaz besought the LORD, and the LORD hearkened to him; for he saw the oppression of Israel, how the king of Syria oppressed them.

rsv@2Kings:13:6 @ Nevertheless they did not depart from the sins of the house of Jerobo'am, which he made Israel to sin, but walked in them; and the Ashe'rah also remained in Sama'ria.)

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:13:22 @ Now Haz'ael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jeho'ahaz.

rsv@2Kings:13:23 @ But the LORD was gracious to them and had compassion on them, and he turned toward them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them; nor has he cast them from his presence until now.

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:14:1 @ In the second year of Jo'ash the son of Jo'ahaz, king of Israel, Amazi'ah the son of Jo'ash, king of Judah, began to reign.

rsv@2Kings:14:8 @ Then Amazi'ah sent messengers to Jeho'ash the son of Jeho'ahaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, "Come, let us look one another in the face."

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:14:17 @ 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:14:21 @ 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:14:25 @ He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath as far as the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word of the LORD, the God of Israel, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amit'tai, the prophet, who was from Gath-he'pher.

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:15:1 @ In the twenty-seventh year of Jerobo'am king of Israel Azari'ah the son of Amazi'ah, king of Judah, began to reign.

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:15:3 @ And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that his father Amazi'ah had done.

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:15:8 @ In the thirty-eighth year of Azari'ah king of Judah Zechari'ah the son of Jerobo'am reigned over Israel in Sama'ria six months.

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:15:13 @ Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the thirty-ninth year of Uzzi'ah king of Judah, and he reigned one month in Sama'ria.

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:15:16 @ 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:15:19 @ Pul the king of Assyria came against the land; and Men'ahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that he might help him to confirm his hold of the royal power.

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:15:23 @ In the fiftieth year of Azari'ah king of Judah Pekahi'ah the son of Men'ahem began to reign over Israel in Sama'ria, and he reigned two years.

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:15:27 @ In the fifty-second year of Azari'ah king of Judah Pekah the son of Remali'ah began to reign over Israel in Sama'ria, and reigned twenty years.

rsv@2Kings:15:29 @ In the days of Pekah king of Israel Tig'lath-pile'ser king of Assyria came and captured I'jon, A'bel-beth-ma'acah, Jan-o'ah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naph'tali; and he carried the people captive to Assyria.

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:15:32 @ In the second year of Pekah the son of Remali'ah, king of Israel, Jotham the son of Uzzi'ah, king of Judah, began to reign.

rsv@2Kings:15:34 @ And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzzi'ah had done.

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:15:37 @ In those days the LORD began to send Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remali'ah against 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:16:5 @ Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remali'ah, king of Israel, came up to wage war on Jerusalem, and they besieged Ahaz but could not conquer him.

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:16:7 @ So Ahaz sent messengers to Tig'lath-pile'ser king of Assyria, saying, "I am your servant and your son. Come up, and rescue me from the hand of the king of Syria and from the hand of the king of Israel, who are attacking me."

rsv@2Kings:16:8 @ Ahaz also took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the LORD and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent a present to the king of Assyria.

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:16:11 @ And Uri'ah the priest built the altar; in accordance with all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so Uri'ah the priest made it, before King Ahaz arrived from Damascus.

rsv@2Kings:16:15 @ And King Ahaz commanded Uri'ah the priest, saying, "Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening cereal offering, and the king's burnt offering, and his cereal offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their cereal offering, and their drink offering; and throw upon it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice; but the bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by."

rsv@2Kings:16:16 @ Uri'ah the priest did all this, as King Ahaz commanded.

rsv@2Kings:16:17 @ And King Ahaz cut off the frames of the stands, and removed the laver from them, and he took down the sea from off the bronze oxen that were under it, and put it upon a pediment of stone.

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:17:1 @ In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah Hoshe'a the son of Elah began to reign in Sama'ria over Israel, and he reigned nine years.

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:17:16 @ 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:17:18 @ Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight; none was left but the tribe of Judah only.

rsv@2Kings:17:19 @ Judah also did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the customs which Israel had introduced.

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:18:1 @ In the third year of Hoshe'a son of Elah, king of Israel, Hezeki'ah the son of Ahaz, king of Judah, began to reign.

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:18:4 @ He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Ashe'rah. And he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the people of Israel had burned incense to it; it was called Nehush'tan.

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:18:9 @ In the fourth year of King Hezeki'ah, which was the seventh year of Hoshe'a son of Elah, king of Israel, Shalmane'ser king of Assyria came up against Sama'ria and besieged it

rsv@2Kings:18:10 @ and at the end of three years he took it. In the sixth year of Hezeki'ah, which was the ninth year of Hoshe'a king of Israel, Sama'ria was taken.

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:18:13 @ 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:18:15 @ And Hezeki'ah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasuries of the king's house.

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:18:17 @ And the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rab'saris, and the Rab'shakeh with a great army from Lachish to King Hezeki'ah at Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. When they arrived, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway to the Fuller's Field.

rsv@2Kings:18:18 @ And when they called for the king, there came out to them Eli'akim the son of Hilki'ah, who was over the household, and Shebnah the secretary, and Jo'ah the son of Asaph, the recorder.

rsv@2Kings:18:19 @ And the Rab'shakeh said to them, "Say to Hezeki'ah, `Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: On what do you rest this confidence of yours?

rsv@2Kings:18:22 @ But if you say to me, "We rely on the LORD our God," is it not he whose high places and altars Hezeki'ah has removed, saying to Judah and to Jerusalem, "You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem"?

rsv@2Kings:18:26 @ Then Eli'akim the son of Hilki'ah, and Shebnah, and Jo'ah, said to the Rab'shakeh, "Pray, speak to your servants in the Aramaic language, for we understand it; do not speak to us in the language of Judah within the hearing of the people who are on the wall."

rsv@2Kings:18:28 @ Then the Rab'shakeh stood and called out in a loud voice in the language of Judah: "Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria!

rsv@2Kings:18:29 @ Thus says the king: `Do not let Hezeki'ah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you out of my hand.

rsv@2Kings:18:30 @ Do not let Hezeki'ah make you to rely on the LORD by saying, The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.'

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:18:34 @ Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharva'im, Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Sama'ria out of my hand?

rsv@2Kings:18:37 @ Then Eli'akim the son of Hilki'ah, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and Jo'ah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezeki'ah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of the Rab'shakeh.

rsv@2Kings:19:1 @ When King Hezeki'ah heard it, he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.

rsv@2Kings:19:2 @ And he sent Eli'akim, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and the senior priests, covered with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz.

rsv@2Kings:19:3 @ They said to him, "Thus says Hezeki'ah, This day is a day of distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace; children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth.

rsv@2Kings:19:5 @ When the servants of King Hezeki'ah came to Isaiah,

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:19:8 @ The Rab'shakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah; for he heard that the king had left Lachish.

rsv@2Kings:19:9 @ And when the king heard concerning Tirha'kah king of Ethiopia, "Behold, he has set out to fight against you," he sent messengers again to Hezeki'ah, saying,

rsv@2Kings:19:10 @ "Thus shall you speak to Hezeki'ah king of Judah: `Do not let your God on whom you rely deceive you by promising that Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.

rsv@2Kings:19:13 @ Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharva'im, the king of Hena, or the king of Ivvah?'"

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:19:15 @ And Hezeki'ah prayed before the LORD, and said: "O LORD the God of Israel, who art enthroned above the cherubim, thou art the God, thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.

rsv@2Kings:19:20 @ Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezeki'ah, saying, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Your prayer to me about Sennach'erib king of Assyria I have heard.

rsv@2Kings:19:30 @ And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward;

rsv@2Kings:20:1 @ In those days Hezeki'ah became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, "Thus says the LORD, `Set your house in order; for you shall die, you shall not recover.'"

rsv@2Kings:20:2 @ Then Hezeki'ah turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the LORD, saying,

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:20:4 @ And before Isaiah had gone out of the middle court, the word of the LORD came to him:

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:20:7 @ And Isaiah said, "Bring a cake of figs. And let them take and lay it on the boil, that he may recover."

rsv@2Kings:20:8 @ And Hezeki'ah said to Isaiah, "What shall be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of the LORD on the third day?"

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:20:13 @ And Hezeki'ah welcomed them, and he showed them all his treasure house, the silver, the gold, the spices, the precious oil, his armory, all that was found in his storehouses; there was nothing in his house or in all his realm that Hezeki'ah did not show them.

rsv@2Kings:20:14 @ Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezeki'ah, and said to him, "What did these men say? And whence did they come to you?" And Hezeki'ah said, "They have come from a far country, from Babylon."

rsv@2Kings:20:15 @ He said, "What have they seen in your house?" And Hezeki'ah answered, "They have seen all that is in my house; there is nothing in my storehouses that I did not show them."

rsv@2Kings:20:16 @ Then Isaiah said to Hezeki'ah, "Hear the word of the LORD:

rsv@2Kings:20:19 @ Then said Hezeki'ah to Isaiah, "The word of the LORD which you have spoken is good." For he thought, "Why not, if there will be peace and security in my days?"

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:21:1 @ Manas'seh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Heph'zibah.

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:21:7 @ And the graven image of Ashe'rah that he had made he set in the house of which the LORD said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name for ever;

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:21:12 @ therefore thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing upon Jerusalem and Judah such evil that the ears of every one who hears of it will tingle.

rsv@2Kings:21:13 @ And I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line of Sama'ria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab; and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.

rsv@2Kings:21:16 @ Moreover Manas'seh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides the sin which he made Judah to sin so that they did what was evil in the sight of the LORD.

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:21:19 @ 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:22:8 @ And Hilki'ah the high priest said to Shaphan the secretary, "I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD." And Hilki'ah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.

rsv@2Kings:22:10 @ Then Shaphan the secretary told the king, "Hilki'ah the priest has given me a book." And Shaphan read it before the king.

rsv@2Kings:22:12 @ And the king commanded Hilki'ah the priest, and Ahi'kam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Micai'ah, and Shaphan the secretary, and Asai'ah the king's servant, saying,

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:22:16 @ Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place and upon its inhabitants, all the words of the book which the king of Judah has read.

rsv@2Kings:22:18 @ But as to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, thus shall you say to him, Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Regarding the words which you have heard,

rsv@2Kings:23:1 @ Then the king sent, and all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem were gathered to him.

rsv@2Kings:23:2 @ And the king went up to the house of the LORD, and with him all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests and the prophets, all the people, both small and great; and he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant which had been found in the house of the LORD.

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:23:6 @ And he brought out the Ashe'rah from the house of the LORD, outside Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust and cast the dust of it upon the graves of the common people.

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:23:11 @ 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:23:12 @ And the altars on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manas'seh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, he pulled down and broke in pieces, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.

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:23:19 @ And all the shrines also of the high places that were in the cities of Sama'ria, which kings of Israel had made, provoking the LORD to anger, Josi'ah removed; he did to them according to all that he had done at Bethel.

rsv@2Kings:23:22 @ For no such passover had been kept since the days of the judges who judged Israel, or during all the days of the kings of Israel or of the kings of Judah;

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:23:26 @ Still the LORD did not turn from the fierceness of his great wrath, by which his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manas'seh had provoked him.

rsv@2Kings:23:27 @ And the LORD said, "I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and I will cast off this city which I have chosen, Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there."

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:23:34 @ And Pharaoh Neco made Eli'akim the son of Josi'ah king in the place of Josi'ah his father, and changed his name to Jehoi'akim. But he took Jeho'ahaz away; and he came to Egypt, and died there.

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:24:3 @ Surely this came upon Judah at the command of the LORD, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manas'seh, according to all that he had done,

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:24:12 @ and Jehoi'achin the king of Judah gave himself up to the king of Babylon, himself, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his palace officials. The king of Babylon took him prisoner in the eighth year of his reign,

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:24:20 @ For because of the anger of the LORD it came to the point in Jerusalem and Judah that he cast them out from his presence. And Zedeki'ah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

rsv@2Kings:25:2 @ So the city was besieged till the eleventh year of King Zedeki'ah.

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:25:6 @ 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:25:18 @ And the captain of the guard took Serai'ah the chief priest, and Zephani'ah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold;

rsv@2Kings:25:20 @ And Nebu'zarad'an the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

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:25:24 @ And Gedali'ah swore to them and their men, saying, "Do not be afraid because of the Chalde'an officials; dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you."

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@2Kings:25:27 @ And in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoi'achin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, Evil-mero'dach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, graciously freed Jehoi'achin king of Judah from prison;

rsv@1Chronicles:1:3 @ Enoch, Methu'selah, Lamech;

rsv@1Chronicles:1:4 @ Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:6 @ The sons of Gomer: Ash'kenaz, Diphath, and Togar'mah.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:7 @ The sons of Javan: Eli'shah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Ro'danim.

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:1:18 @ Arpach'shad was the father of Shelah; and Shelah was the father of Eber.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:20 @ Joktan was the father of Almo'dad, Sheleph, Hazarma'veth, Jerah,

rsv@1Chronicles:1:21 @ Hador'am, Uzal, Diklah,

rsv@1Chronicles:1:23 @ Ophir, Hav'ilah, and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:24 @ Shem, Arpach'shad, Shelah;

rsv@1Chronicles:1:26 @ Serug, Nahor, Terah;

rsv@1Chronicles:1:27 @ Abram, that is, Abraham.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:28 @ The sons of Abraham: Isaac and Ish'mael.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:30 @ Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema,

rsv@1Chronicles:1:31 @ Jetur, Naphish, and Ked'emah. These are the sons of Ish'mael.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:32 @ The sons of Ketu'rah, Abraham's concubine: she bore Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Mid'ian, Ishbak, and Shu'ah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:33 @ The sons of Mid'ian: Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Elda'ah. All these were the descendants of Ketu'rah.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:34 @ Abraham was the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:35 @ The sons of Esau: Eli'phaz, Reu'el, Je'ush, Jalam, and Korah.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:37 @ The sons of Reu'el: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:38 @ The sons of Se'ir: Lotan, Shobal, Zib'eon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:40 @ The sons of Shobal: Al'ian, Man'ahath, Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. The sons of Zib'eon: Ai'ah and Anah.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:41 @ The sons of Anah: Dishon. The sons of Dishon: Hamran, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.

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:1:47 @ 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:1:50 @ 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:1:51 @ And Hadad died. The chiefs of Edom were: chiefs Timna, Al'iah, Jetheth,

rsv@1Chronicles:1:52 @ Oholiba'mah, Elah, Pinon,

rsv@1Chronicles:2:1 @ These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Is'sachar, Zeb'ulun,

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:2:6 @ The sons of Zerah: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara, five in all.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:8 @ and Ethan's son was Azari'ah.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:9 @ The sons of Hezron, that were born to him: Jerah'meel, Ram, and Chelu'bai.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:10 @ Ram was the father of Ammin'adab, and Ammin'adab was the father of Nahshon, prince of the sons of Judah.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:11 @ Nahshon was the father of Salma, Salma of Bo'az,

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:2:18 @ Caleb the son of Hezron had children by his wife Azu'bah, and by Jer'ioth; and these were her sons: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:19 @ When Azu'bah died, Caleb married Ephrath, who bore him Hur.

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:2:25 @ The sons of Jerah'meel, the first-born of Hezron: Ram, his first-born, Bunah, Oren, Ozem, and Ahi'jah.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:26 @ Jerah'meel also had another wife, whose name was At'arah; she was the mother of Onam.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:27 @ The sons of Ram, the first-born of Jerah'meel: Ma'az, Jamin, and Eker.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:29 @ The name of Abi'shur's wife was Ab'ihail, and she bore him Ahban and Molid.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:31 @ The sons of Ap'pa-im: Ishi. The sons of Ishi: Sheshan. The sons of Sheshan: Ahlai.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:33 @ The sons of Jonathan: Peleth and Zaza. These were the descendants of Jerah'meel.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:38 @ Obed was the father of Jehu, and Jehu of Azari'ah.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:39 @ Azari'ah was the father of Helez, and Helez of Ele-a'sah.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:40 @ Ele-a'sah was the father of Sismai, and Sismai of Shallum.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:41 @ Shallum was the father of Jekami'ah, and Jekami'ah of Eli'shama.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:42 @ The sons of Caleb the brother of Jerah'meel: Mare'shah his first-born, who was the father of Ziph. The sons of Mare'shah: Hebron.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:43 @ The sons of Hebron: Korah, Tap'puah, Rekem, and Shema.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:44 @ Shema was the father of Raham, the father of Jor'ke-am; and Rekem was the father of Sham'mai.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:46 @ Ephah also, Caleb's concubine, bore Haran, Moza, and Gazez; and Haran was the father of Gazez.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:47 @ The sons of Jah'dai: Regem, Jotham, Geshan, Pelet, Ephah, and Sha'aph.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:48 @ Ma'acah, Caleb's concubine, bore Sheber and Tir'hanah.

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:2:50 @ These were the descendants of Caleb. The sons of Hur the first-born of Eph'rathah: Shobal the father of Kir'iath-je'arim,

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: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:3:3 @ the fifth Shephati'ah, by Abi'tal; the sixth Ith'ream, by his wife Eglah;

rsv@1Chronicles:3:7 @ Nogah, Nepheg, Japhi'a,

rsv@1Chronicles:3:10 @ The descendants of Solomon: Rehobo'am, Abi'jah his son, Asa his son, Jehosh'aphat his son,

rsv@1Chronicles:3:11 @ Joram his son, Ahazi'ah his son, Jo'ash his son,

rsv@1Chronicles:3:12 @ Amazi'ah his son, Azari'ah his son, Jotham his son,

rsv@1Chronicles:3:13 @ Ahaz his son, Hezeki'ah his son, Manas'seh his son,

rsv@1Chronicles:3:14 @ Amon his son, Josi'ah his son.

rsv@1Chronicles:3:15 @ The sons of Josi'ah: Joha'nan the first-born, the second Jehoi'akim, the third Zedeki'ah, the fourth Shallum.

rsv@1Chronicles:3:16 @ The descendants of Jehoi'akim: Jeconi'ah his son, Zedeki'ah his son;

rsv@1Chronicles:3:17 @ and the sons of Jeconi'ah, the captive: Sheal'tiel his son,

rsv@1Chronicles:3:18 @ Malchi'ram, Pedai'ah, Shenaz'zar, Jekami'ah, Hosh'ama, and Nedabi'ah;

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:3:20 @ and Hashu'bah, Ohel, Berechi'ah, Hasadi'ah, and Ju'shab-he'sed, five.

rsv@1Chronicles:3:21 @ The sons of Hanani'ah: Pelati'ah and Jeshai'ah, his son Rephai'ah, his son Arnan, his son Obadi'ah, his son Shecani'ah.

rsv@1Chronicles:3:22 @ The sons of Shecani'ah: Shemai'ah. And the sons of Shemai'ah: Hattush, Igal, Bari'ah, Neari'ah, and Shaphat, six.

rsv@1Chronicles:3:23 @ The sons of Neari'ah: Eli-o-e'nai, Hizki'ah, and Azri'kam, three.

rsv@1Chronicles:3:24 @ The sons of Eli-o-e'nai: Hod'avi'ah, Eli'ashib, Pelai'ah, Akkub, Joha'nan, Delai'ah, and Ana'ni, seven.

rsv@1Chronicles:4:1 @ The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur, and Shobal.

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:4:4 @ and Penu'el was the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah. These were the sons of Hur, the first-born of Eph'rathah, the father of Bethlehem.

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:4:7 @ The sons of Helah: Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan.

rsv@1Chronicles:4:8 @ Koz was the father of Anub, Zobe'bah, and the families of Ahar'hel the son of Harum.

rsv@1Chronicles:4:11 @ Chelub, the brother of Shuhah, was the father of Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.

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:4:13 @ The sons of Kenaz: Oth'ni-el and Serai'ah; and the sons of Oth'ni-el: Hathath and Meo'nothai.

rsv@1Chronicles:4:14 @ Meo'nothai was the father of Ophrah; and Serai'ah was the father of Jo'ab the father of Ge-har'ashim, so-called because they were craftsmen.

rsv@1Chronicles:4:15 @ The sons of Caleb the son of Jephun'neh: Iru, Elah, and Na'am; and the sons of Elah: Kenaz.

rsv@1Chronicles:4:16 @ The sons of Jehal'lelel: Ziph, Ziphah, Tir'i-a, and As'arel.

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:4:18 @ And his Jewish wife bore Jered the father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soco, and Jeku'thiel the father of Zano'ah.

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:4:20 @ The sons of Shimon: Amnon, Rinnah, Ben-ha'nan, and Tilon. The sons of Ishi: Zoheth and Ben-zo'heth.

rsv@1Chronicles:4:21 @ The sons of Shelah the son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, La'adah the father of Mare'shah, and the families of the house of linen workers at Beth-ashbe'a;

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:4:24 @ The sons of Simeon: Nem'uel, Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Sha'ul;

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:4:28 @ They dwelt in Beer-sheba, Mola'dah, Ha'zar-shu'al,

rsv@1Chronicles:4:29 @ Bilhah, Ezem, Tolad,

rsv@1Chronicles:4:30 @ Bethu'el, Hormah, Ziklag,

rsv@1Chronicles:4:34 @ Mesho'bab, Jamlech, Joshah the son of Amazi'ah,

rsv@1Chronicles:4:35 @ Jo'el, Jehu the son of Joshibi'ah, son of Serai'ah, son of As'i-el,

rsv@1Chronicles:4:36 @ Eli-o-e'nai, Ja-ako'bah, Jeshohai'ah, Asai'ah, Ad'i-el, Jesim'iel, Benai'ah,

rsv@1Chronicles:4:37 @ Ziza the son of Shiphi, son of Allon, son of Jedai'ah, son of Shimri, son of Shemai'ah--

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:5:2 @ though Judah became strong among his brothers and a prince was from him, yet the birthright belonged to Joseph),

rsv@1Chronicles:5:4 @ The sons of Jo'el: Shemai'ah his son, Gog his son, Shim'e-i his son,

rsv@1Chronicles:5:5 @ Micah his son, Re-ai'ah his son, Ba'al his son,

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:5:7 @ And his kinsmen by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned: the chief, Je-i'el, and Zechari'ah,

rsv@1Chronicles:5:11 @ The sons of Gad dwelt over against them in the land of Bashan as far as Sal'ecah:

rsv@1Chronicles:5:14 @ These were the sons of Ab'ihail the son of Huri, son of Jaro'ah, son of Gilead, son of Michael, son of Jeshish'ai, son of Jahdo, son of Buz;

rsv@1Chronicles:5:15 @ Ahi the son of Ab'di-el, son of Guni, was chief in their fathers' houses;

rsv@1Chronicles:5:17 @ All of these were enrolled by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jerobo'am king of Israel.

rsv@1Chronicles:5:24 @ These were the heads of their fathers' houses: Epher, Ishi, Eli'el, Az'ri-el, Jeremiah, Hodavi'ah, and Jah'di-el, mighty warriors, famous men, heads of their fathers' houses.

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:6:6 @ Uzzi of Zerahi'ah, Zerahi'ah of Merai'oth,

rsv@1Chronicles:6:7 @ Merai'oth of Amari'ah, Amari'ah of Ahi'tub,

rsv@1Chronicles:6:8 @ Ahi'tub of Zadok, Zadok of Ahim'a-az,

rsv@1Chronicles:6:9 @ Ahim'a-az of Azari'ah, Azari'ah of Joha'nan,

rsv@1Chronicles:6:10 @ and Joha'nan of Azari'ah (it was he who served as priest in the house that Solomon built in Jerusalem).

rsv@1Chronicles:6:11 @ Azari'ah was the father of Amari'ah, Amari'ah of Ahi'tub,

rsv@1Chronicles:6:12 @ Ahi'tub of Zadok, Zadok of Shallum,

rsv@1Chronicles:6:13 @ Shallum of Hilki'ah, Hilki'ah of Azari'ah,

rsv@1Chronicles:6:14 @ Azari'ah of Serai'ah, Serai'ah of Jehoz'adak;

rsv@1Chronicles:6:15 @ and Jehoz'adak went into exile when the LORD sent Judah and Jerusalem into exile by the hand of Nebuchadnez'zar.

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:6:20 @ Of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son,

rsv@1Chronicles:6:21 @ Jo'ah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Je-ath'erai his son.

rsv@1Chronicles:6:22 @ The sons of Kohath: Ammin'adab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son,

rsv@1Chronicles:6:23 @ Elka'nah his son, Ebi'asaph his son, Assir his son,

rsv@1Chronicles:6:24 @ Tahath his son, Uri'el his son, Uzzi'ah his son, and Sha'ul his son.

rsv@1Chronicles:6:25 @ The sons of Elka'nah: Ama'sai and Ahi'moth,

rsv@1Chronicles:6:26 @ Elka'nah his son, Zophai his son, Nahath his son,

rsv@1Chronicles:6:27 @ Eli'ab his son, Jero'ham his son, Elka'nah his son.

rsv@1Chronicles:6:28 @ The sons of Samuel: Jo'el his first-born, the second Abi'jah.

rsv@1Chronicles:6:29 @ The sons of Merar'i: Mahli, Libni his son, Shim'e-i his son, Uzzah his son,

rsv@1Chronicles:6:30 @ Shim'e-a his son, Haggi'ah his son, and Asai'ah his son.

rsv@1Chronicles:6:34 @ son of Elka'nah, son of Jero'ham, son of Eli'el, son of To'ah,

rsv@1Chronicles:6:35 @ son of Zuph, son of Elka'nah, son of Mahath, son of Ama'sai,

rsv@1Chronicles:6:36 @ son of Elka'nah, son of Jo'el, son of Azari'ah, son of Zephani'ah,

rsv@1Chronicles:6:37 @ son of Tahath, son of Assir, son of Ebi'asaph, son of Korah,

rsv@1Chronicles:6:39 @ and his brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, namely, Asaph the son of Berechi'ah, son of Shim'e-a,

rsv@1Chronicles:6:40 @ son of Michael, son of Ba-ase'iah, son of Malchi'jah,

rsv@1Chronicles:6:41 @ son of Ethni, son of Zerah, son of Adai'ah,

rsv@1Chronicles:6:42 @ son of Ethan, son of Zimmah, son of Shim'e-i,

rsv@1Chronicles:6:43 @ son of Jahath, son of Gershom, son of Levi.

rsv@1Chronicles:6:45 @ son of Hashabi'ah, son of Amazi'ah, son of Hilki'ah,

rsv@1Chronicles:6:47 @ son of Mahli, son of Mushi, son of Merar'i, son of Levi;

rsv@1Chronicles:6:51 @ Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahi'ah his son,

rsv@1Chronicles:6:52 @ Merai'oth his son, Amari'ah his son, Ahi'tub his son,

rsv@1Chronicles:6:53 @ Zadok his son, Ahim'a-az his son.

rsv@1Chronicles:6:55 @ to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah and its surrounding pasture lands,

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:6:65 @ They also gave them by lot out of the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin these cities which are mentioned by name.

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:6:80 @ and out of the tribe of Gad: Ramoth in Gilead with its pasture lands, Mahana'im with its pasture lands,

rsv@1Chronicles:7:1 @ The sons of Is'sachar: Tola, Pu'ah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.

rsv@1Chronicles:7:2 @ The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephai'ah, Je'ri-el, Jah'mai, Ibsam, and Shem'uel, heads of their fathers' houses, namely of Tola, mighty warriors of their generations, their number in the days of David being twenty-two thousand six hundred.

rsv@1Chronicles:7:3 @ The sons of Uzzi: Izrahi'ah. And the sons of Izrahi'ah: Michael, Obadi'ah, Jo'el, and Isshi'ah, five, all of them chief men;

rsv@1Chronicles:7:8 @ The sons of Becher: Zemi'rah, Jo'ash, Elie'zer, Eli-o-e'nai, Omri, Jer'emoth, Abi'jah, An'athoth, and Al'emeth. All these were the sons of Becher;

rsv@1Chronicles:7:10 @ The sons of Jedi'a-el: Bilhan. And the sons of Bilhan: Je'ush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chena'anah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahish'ahar.

rsv@1Chronicles:7:12 @ And Shuppim and Huppim were the sons of Ir, Hushim the sons of Aher.

rsv@1Chronicles:7:13 @ The sons of Naph'tali: Jah'zi-el, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum, the offspring of Bilhah.

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:7:16 @ And Ma'acah the wife of Machir bore a son, and she called his name Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.

rsv@1Chronicles:7:18 @ And his sister Hammo'lecheth bore Ishhod, Abi-e'zer, and Mahlah.

rsv@1Chronicles:7:19 @ The sons of Shemi'da were Ahi'an, Shechem, Likhi, and Ani'am.

rsv@1Chronicles:7:20 @ The sons of E'phraim: Shuthe'lah, and Bered his son, Tahath his son, Ele-a'dah his son, Tahath his son,

rsv@1Chronicles:7:21 @ Zabad his son, Shuthe'lah his son, and Ezer and E'le-ad, whom the men of Gath who were born in the land slew, because they came down to raid their cattle.

rsv@1Chronicles:7:23 @ And E'phraim went in to his wife, and she conceived and bore a son; and he called his name Beri'ah, because evil had befallen his house.

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:7:28 @ Their possessions and settlements were Bethel and its towns, and eastward Na'aran, and westward Gezer and its towns, Shechem and its towns, and Ayyah and its towns;

rsv@1Chronicles:7:30 @ The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beri'ah, and their sister Serah.

rsv@1Chronicles:7:31 @ The sons of Beri'ah: Heber and Mal'chi-el, who was the father of Bir'zaith.

rsv@1Chronicles:7:34 @ The sons of Shemer his brother: Rohgah, Jehub'bah, and Aram.

rsv@1Chronicles:7:35 @ The sons of Helem his brother: Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal.

rsv@1Chronicles:7:36 @ The sons of Zophah: Su'ah, Har'nepher, Shu'al, Beri, Imrah,

rsv@1Chronicles:7:37 @ Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran, and Be-e'ra.

rsv@1Chronicles:7:39 @ The sons of Ulla: Arah, Han'niel, and Rizi'a.

rsv@1Chronicles:8:1 @ Benjamin was the father of Bela his first-born, Ashbel the second, Ahar'ah the third,

rsv@1Chronicles:8:2 @ Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.

rsv@1Chronicles:8:4 @ Abishu'a, Na'aman, Aho'ah,

rsv@1Chronicles:8:7 @ Na'aman, Ahi'jah, and Gera, that is, Heglam, who was the father of Uzza and Ahi'hud.

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:8:10 @ Je'uz, Sachi'a, and Mirmah. These were his sons, heads of fathers' houses.

rsv@1Chronicles:8:13 @ and Beri'ah and Shema (they were heads of fathers' houses of the inhabitants of Ai'jalon, who put to flight the inhabitants of Gath);

rsv@1Chronicles:8:14 @ and Ahi'o, Shashak, and Jer'emoth.

rsv@1Chronicles:8:15 @ Zebadi'ah, Arad, Eder,

rsv@1Chronicles:8:16 @ Michael, Ishpah, and Joha were sons of Beri'ah.

rsv@1Chronicles:8:17 @ Zebadi'ah, Meshul'lam, Hizki, Heber,

rsv@1Chronicles:8:18 @ Ish'merai, Izli'ah, and Jobab were the sons of Elpa'al.

rsv@1Chronicles:8:21 @ Adai'ah, Berai'ah, and Shimrath were the sons of Shim'e-i.

rsv@1Chronicles:8:24 @ Hanani'ah, Elam, Anthothi'jah,

rsv@1Chronicles:8:25 @ Iphdei'ah, and Penu'el were the sons of Shashak.

rsv@1Chronicles:8:26 @ Sham'sherai, Shehari'ah, Athali'ah,

rsv@1Chronicles:8:27 @ Ja-areshi'ah, Eli'jah, and Zichri were the sons of Jero'ham.

rsv@1Chronicles:8:29 @ Je-i'el the father of Gibeon dwelt in Gibeon, and the name of his wife was Ma'acah.

rsv@1Chronicles:8:31 @ Gedor, Ahi'o, Zecher,

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:8:34 @ and the son of Jonathan was Mer'ib-ba'al; and Mer'ib-ba'al was the father of Micah.

rsv@1Chronicles:8:35 @ The sons of Micah: Pithon, Melech, Tare'a, and Ahaz.

rsv@1Chronicles:8:36 @ Ahaz was the father of Jeho'addah; and Jeho'addah was the father of Al'emeth, Az'maveth, and Zimri; Zimri was the father of Moza.

rsv@1Chronicles:8:37 @ Moza was the father of Bin'e-a; Raphah was his son, Ele-a'sah his son, Azel his son.

rsv@1Chronicles:8:38 @ Azel had six sons, and these are their names: Azri'kam, Bo'cheru, Ish'mael, She-ari'ah, Obadi'ah, and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel.

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:9:3 @ And some of the people of Judah, Benjamin, E'phraim, and Manas'seh dwelt in Jerusalem:

rsv@1Chronicles:9:4 @ Uthai the son of Ammi'hud, son of Omri, son of Imri, son of Bani, from the sons of Perez the son of Judah.

rsv@1Chronicles:9:5 @ And of the Shi'lonites: Asai'ah the first-born, and his sons.

rsv@1Chronicles:9:6 @ Of the sons of Zerah: Jeu'el and their kinsmen, six hundred and ninety.

rsv@1Chronicles:9:7 @ Of the Benjaminites: Sallu the son of Meshul'lam, son of Hodavi'ah, son of Hassenu'ah,

rsv@1Chronicles:9:8 @ Ibne'iah the son of Jero'ham, Elah the son of Uzzi, son of Michri, and Meshul'lam the son of Shephati'ah, son of Reu'el, son of Ibni'jah;

rsv@1Chronicles:9:10 @ Of the priests: Jedai'ah, Jehoi'arib, Jachin,

rsv@1Chronicles:9:11 @ and Azari'ah the son of Hilki'ah, son of Meshul'lam, son of Zadok, son of Merai'oth, son of Ahi'tub, the chief officer of the house of God;

rsv@1Chronicles:9:12 @ and Adai'ah the son of Jero'ham, son of Pashhur, son of Malchi'jah, and Ma'asai the son of Ad'i-el, son of Jah'zerah, son of Meshul'lam, son of Meshil'lemith, son of Immer;

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:9:15 @ and Bakbak'kar, Heresh, Galal, and Mattani'ah the son of Mica, son of Zichri, son of Asaph;

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:9:19 @ 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:9:31 @ 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:9:35 @ In Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon, Je-i'el, and the name of his wife was Ma'acah,

rsv@1Chronicles:9:37 @ Gedor, Ahi'o, Zech-ari'ah and Mikloth;

rsv@1Chronicles:9:40 @ and the son of Jonathan was Mer'ib-ba'al; and Mer'ib-ba'al was the father of Micah.

rsv@1Chronicles:9:41 @ The sons of Micah: Pithon, Melech, Tahr'e-a, and Ahaz;

rsv@1Chronicles:9:42 @ and Ahaz was the father of Jarah, and Jarah of Al'emeth, Az'maveth, and Zimri; and Zimri was the father of Moza.

rsv@1Chronicles:9:43 @ Moza was the father of Bin'e-a; and Rephai'ah was his son, Ele-a'sah his son, Azel his son.

rsv@1Chronicles:9:44 @ Azel had six sons and these are their names: Azri'kam, Bo'cheru, Ish'mael, She-ari'ah, Obadi'ah, and Hanan; these were the sons of Azel.

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:11:12 @ And next to him among the three mighty men was Elea'zar the son of Dodo, the Aho'hite.

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:11:23 @ And he slew an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits tall. The Egyptian had in his hand a spear like a weaver's beam; but Benai'ah went down to him with a staff, and snatched the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.

rsv@1Chronicles:11:24 @ These things did Benai'ah the son of Jehoi'ada, and won a name beside the three mighty men.

rsv@1Chronicles:11:26 @ The mighty men of the armies were As'ahel the brother of Jo'ab, Elha'nan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,

rsv@1Chronicles:11:29 @ Sib'becai the Hu'shathite, I'lai the Aho'hite,

rsv@1Chronicles:11:30 @ Ma'harai of Netoph'ah, Heled the son of Ba'anah of Netoph'ah,

rsv@1Chronicles:11:31 @ Ithai the son of Ribai of Gib'e-ah of the Benjaminites, Benai'ah of Pira'thon,

rsv@1Chronicles:11:33 @ Az'maveth of Baha'rum, Eli'ahba of Sha-al'bon,

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:11:41 @ Uri'ah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,

rsv@1Chronicles:11:43 @ Hanan the son of Ma'acah, and Josh'aphat the Mithnite,

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:12:3 @ The chief was Ahi-e'zer, then Jo'ash, both sons of Shema'ah of Gib'e-ah; also Je'zi-el and Pelet the sons of Az'maveth; Ber'acah, Jehu of An'athoth,

rsv@1Chronicles:12:4 @ Ishma'iah of Gibeon, a mighty man among the thirty and a leader over the thirty; Jeremiah, Jaha'ziel, Joha'nan, Joz'abad of Gede'rah,

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:12:7 @ and Joe'lah and Zebadi'ah, the sons of Jero'ham of Gedor.

rsv@1Chronicles:12:9 @ Ezer the chief, Obadi'ah second, Eli'ab third,

rsv@1Chronicles:12:10 @ Mishman'nah fourth, Jeremiah fifth,

rsv@1Chronicles:12:13 @ Jeremiah tenth, Mach'bannai eleventh.

rsv@1Chronicles:12:16 @ And some of the men of Benjamin and Judah came to the stronghold to David.

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:12:24 @ The men of Judah bearing shield and spear were six thousand eight hundred armed troops.

rsv@1Chronicles:13:6 @ And David and all Israel went up to Ba'alah, that is, to Kir'iath-je'arim which belongs to Judah, to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the name of the LORD who sits enthroned above the cherubim.

rsv@1Chronicles:13:7 @ And they carried the ark of God upon a new cart, from the house of Abin'adab, and Uzzah and Ahi'o were driving the cart.

rsv@1Chronicles:13:9 @ And when they came to the threshing floor of Chidon, Uzzah put out his hand to hold the ark, for the oxen stumbled.

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:13:11 @ And David was angry because the LORD had broken forth upon Uzzah; and that place is called Pe'rez-uz'za to this day.

rsv@1Chronicles:14:6 @ Nogah, Nepheg, Japhi'a,

rsv@1Chronicles:15:6 @ of the sons of Merar'i, Asai'ah the chief, with two hundred and twenty of his brethren;

rsv@1Chronicles:15:8 @ of the sons of Eli-za'phan, Shemai'ah the chief, with two hundred of his brethren;

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:15:17 @ 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:15:20 @ Zechari'ah, A'zi-el, Shemi'ramoth, Jehi'el, Unni, Eli'ab, Ma-asei'ah, and Benai'ah were to play harps according to Al'amoth;

rsv@1Chronicles:15:21 @ but Mattithi'ah, Eliph'elehu, Miknei'ah, O'bed-e'dom, Je-i'el, and Azazi'ah were to lead with lyres according to the Shem'inith.

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:15:27 @ 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:16:5 @ Asaph was the chief, and second to him were Zechari'ah, Je-i'el, Shemi'ramoth, Jehi'el, Mattithi'ah, Eli'ab, Benai'ah, O'bed-e'dom, and Je-i'el, who were to play harps and lyres; Asaph was to sound the cymbals,

rsv@1Chronicles:16:6 @ and Benai'ah and Jaha'ziel the priests were to blow trumpets continually, before the ark of the covenant of God.

rsv@1Chronicles:16:13 @ O offspring of Abraham his servant, sons of Jacob, his chosen ones!

rsv@1Chronicles:16:16 @ the covenant which he made with Abraham, his sworn promise to Isaac,

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: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:18:5 @ And when the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadade'zer king of Zobah, David slew twenty-two thousand men of the Syrians.

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:18:12 @ And Abi'shai, the son of Zeru'iah, slew eighteen thousand E'domites in the Valley of Salt.

rsv@1Chronicles:18:15 @ And Jo'ab the son of Zeru'iah was over the army; and Jehosh'aphat the son of Ahi'lud was recorder;

rsv@1Chronicles:18:16 @ and Zadok the son of Ahi'tub and Ahim'elech the son of Abi'athar were priests; and Shavsha was secretary;

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:19:6 @ 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: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:20:5 @ 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:21:5 @ And Jo'ab gave the sum of the numbering of the people to David. In all Israel there were one million one hundred thousand men who drew the sword, and in Judah four hundred and seventy thousand who drew the sword.

rsv@1Chronicles:23:10 @ And the sons of Shim'e-i: Jahath, Zina, and Je'ush, and Beri'ah. These four were the sons of Shim'e-i.

rsv@1Chronicles:23:11 @ Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second; but Je'ush and Beri'ah had not many sons, therefore they became a father's house in one reckoning.

rsv@1Chronicles:23:17 @ The sons of Elie'zer: Rehabi'ah the chief; Elie'zer had no other sons, but the sons of Rehabi'ah were very many.

rsv@1Chronicles:23:19 @ The sons of Hebron: Jeri'ah the chief, Amari'ah the second, Jaha'ziel the third, and Jekame'am the fourth.

rsv@1Chronicles:23:20 @ The sons of Uz'ziel: Micah the chief and Isshi'ah the second.

rsv@1Chronicles:23:21 @ The sons of Merar'i: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Elea'zar and Kish.

rsv@1Chronicles:23:23 @ The sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder, and Jer'emoth, three.

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:24:6 @ 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:24:7 @ The first lot fell to Jehoi'arib, the second to Jedai'ah,

rsv@1Chronicles:24:9 @ the fifth to Malchi'jah, the sixth to Mij'amin,

rsv@1Chronicles:24:10 @ the seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abi'jah,

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:24:16 @ the nineteenth to Pethahi'ah, the twentieth to Jehez'kel,

rsv@1Chronicles:24:18 @ the twenty-third to Delai'ah, the twenty-fourth to Ma-azi'ah.

rsv@1Chronicles:24:20 @ And of the rest of the sons of Levi: of the sons of Amram, Shu'ba-el; of the sons of Shu'ba-el, Jehde'iah.

rsv@1Chronicles:24:21 @ Of Rehabi'ah: of the sons of Rehabi'ah, Isshi'ah the chief.

rsv@1Chronicles:24:22 @ Of the Iz'harites, Shelo'moth; of the sons of Shelo'moth, Jahath.

rsv@1Chronicles:24:23 @ The sons of Hebron: Jeri'ah the chief, Amari'ah the second, Jaha'ziel the third, Jekame'am the fourth.

rsv@1Chronicles:24:24 @ The sons of Uz'ziel, Micah; of the sons of Micah, Shamir.

rsv@1Chronicles:24:25 @ The brother of Micah, Isshi'ah; of the sons of Isshi'ah, Zechari'ah.

rsv@1Chronicles:24:26 @ The sons of Merar'i: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Ja-azi'ah: Beno.

rsv@1Chronicles:24:27 @ The sons of Merar'i: of Ja-azi'ah, Beno, Shoham, Zaccur, and Ibri.

rsv@1Chronicles:24:28 @ Of Mahli: Elea'zar, who had no sons.

rsv@1Chronicles:24:29 @ Of Kish, the sons of Kish: Jerah'meel.

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:25:2 @ Of the sons of Asaph: Zaccur, Joseph, Nethani'ah, and Ashare'lah, sons of Asaph, under the direction of Asaph, who prophesied under the direction of the king.

rsv@1Chronicles:25:3 @ Of Jedu'thun, the sons of Jedu'thun: Gedali'ah, Zeri, Jeshai'ah, Shim'e-i, Hashabi'ah, and Mattithi'ah, six, under the direction of their father Jedu'thun, who prophesied with the lyre in thanksgiving and praise to the LORD.

rsv@1Chronicles:25:4 @ Of Heman, the sons of Heman: Bukki'ah, Mattani'ah, Uz'ziel, Shebu'el, and Jer'imoth, Hanani'ah, Hana'ni, Eli'athah, Giddal'ti, and Romam'ti-e'zer, Joshbekash'ah, Mallo'thi, Hothir, Maha'zi-oth.

rsv@1Chronicles:25:9 @ The first lot fell for Asaph to Joseph; the second to Gedali'ah, to him and his brethren and his sons, twelve;

rsv@1Chronicles:25:12 @ the fifth to Nethani'ah, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

rsv@1Chronicles:25:13 @ the sixth to Bukki'ah, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

rsv@1Chronicles:25:14 @ the seventh to Jeshare'lah, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

rsv@1Chronicles:25:15 @ the eighth to Jeshai'ah, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

rsv@1Chronicles:25:16 @ the ninth to Mattani'ah, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

rsv@1Chronicles:25:19 @ the twelfth to Hashabi'ah, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

rsv@1Chronicles:25:21 @ to the fourteenth, Mattithi'ah, 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:25:27 @ to the twentieth, to Eli'athah, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

rsv@1Chronicles:25:30 @ to the twenty-third, to Maha'zi-oth, 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:26:2 @ And Meshelemi'ah had sons: Zechari'ah the first-born, Jedi'a-el the second, Zebadi'ah the third, Jath'ni-el the fourth,

rsv@1Chronicles:26:4 @ And O'bed-e'dom had sons: Shemai'ah the first-born, Jehoz'abad the second, Jo'ah the third, Sachar the fourth, Nethan'el the fifth,

rsv@1Chronicles:26:6 @ Also to his son Shemai'ah were sons born who were rulers in their fathers' houses, for they were men of great ability.

rsv@1Chronicles:26:7 @ The sons of Shemai'ah: Othni, Reph'a-el, Obed, and Elza'bad, whose brethren were able men, Eli'hu and Semachi'ah.

rsv@1Chronicles:26:9 @ And Meshelemi'ah had sons and brethren, able men, eighteen.

rsv@1Chronicles:26:10 @ And Hosah, of the sons of Merar'i, had sons: Shimri the chief (for though he was not the first-born, his father made him chief),

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:26:14 @ The lot for the east fell to Shelemi'ah. They cast lots also for his son Zechari'ah, a shrewd counselor, and his lot came out for the north.

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:26:25 @ His brethren: from Elie'zer were his son Rehabi'ah, and his son Jeshai'ah, and his son Joram, and his son Zichri, and his son Shelo'moth.

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: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:27:5 @ The third commander, for the third month, was Benai'ah, the son of Jehoi'ada the priest, as chief; in his division were twenty-four thousand.

rsv@1Chronicles:27:6 @ This is the Benai'ah who was a mighty man of the thirty and in command of the thirty; Ammiz'abad his son was in charge of his division.

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:27:11 @ Eighth, for the eighth month, was Sib'becai the Hu'shathite, of the Ze'rahites; in his division were twenty-four thousand.

rsv@1Chronicles:27:13 @ Tenth, for the tenth month, was Ma'harai of Netoph'ah, of the Ze'rahites; in his division were twenty-four thousand.

rsv@1Chronicles:27:14 @ Eleventh, for the eleventh month, was Benai'ah of Pira'thon, of the sons of E'phraim; 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:27:17 @ for Levi, Hashabi'ah the son of Kem'uel; for Aaron, Zadok;

rsv@1Chronicles:27:18 @ for Judah, Eli'hu, one of David's brothers; for Is'sachar, Omri the son of Michael;

rsv@1Chronicles:27:19 @ for Zeb'ulun, Ishma'iah the son of Obadi'ah; for Naph'tali, Jer'emoth the son of Az'riel;

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:27:21 @ for the half-tribe of Manas'seh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechari'ah; for Benjamin, Ja-a'si-el the son of Abner;

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:27:25 @ Over the king's treasuries was Az'maveth the son of Ad'i-el; and over the treasuries in the country, in the cities, in the villages and in the towers, was Jonathan the son of Uzzi'ah;

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:27:30 @ 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:27:33 @ Ahith'ophel was the king's counselor, and Hushai the Archite was the king's friend.

rsv@1Chronicles:27:34 @ Ahith'ophel was succeeded by Jehoi'ada the son of Benai'ah, and Abi'athar. Jo'ab was commander of the king's army.

rsv@1Chronicles:28:4 @ Yet the LORD God of Israel chose me from all my father's house to be king over Israel for ever; for he chose Judah as leader, and in the house of Judah my father's house, and among my father's sons he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel.

rsv@1Chronicles:29:18 @ O LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our fathers, keep for ever such purposes and thoughts in the hearts of thy people, and direct their hearts toward thee.

rsv@2Chronicles:1:15 @ And the king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stone, and he made cedar as plentiful as the sycamore of the Shephe'lah.

rsv@2Chronicles:2:7 @ So now send me a man skilled to work in gold, silver, bronze, and iron, and in purple, crimson, and blue fabrics, trained also in engraving, to be with the skilled workers who are with me in Judah and Jerusalem, whom David my father provided.

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:4:17 @ In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zer'edah.

rsv@2Chronicles:8:3 @ And Solomon went to Ha'math-zo'bah, and took it.

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:9:27 @ And the king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stone, and cedar as plentiful as the sycamore of the Shephe'lah.

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: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:10:17 @ But Rehobo'am reigned over the people of Israel who dwelt in the cities of Judah.

rsv@2Chronicles:11:1 @ When Rehobo'am came to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah, and Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen warriors, to fight against Israel, to restore the kingdom to Rehobo'am.

rsv@2Chronicles:11:2 @ But the word of the LORD came to Shemai'ah the man of God:

rsv@2Chronicles:11:3 @ "Say to Rehobo'am the son of Solomon king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin,

rsv@2Chronicles:11:5 @ Rehobo'am dwelt in Jerusalem, and he built cities for defense in Judah.

rsv@2Chronicles:11:8 @ Gath, Mare'shah, Ziph,

rsv@2Chronicles:11:9 @ Adora'im, Lachish, Aze'kah,

rsv@2Chronicles:11:10 @ Zorah, Ai'jalon, and Hebron, fortified cities which are in Judah and in Benjamin.

rsv@2Chronicles:11:12 @ And he put shields and spears in all the cities, and made them very strong. So he held Judah and Benjamin.

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:11:17 @ They strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and for three years they made Rehobo'am the son of Solomon secure, for they walked for three years in the way of David and Solomon.

rsv@2Chronicles:11:19 @ and she bore him sons, Je'ush, Shemari'ah, and Zaham.

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:12:4 @ And he took the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.

rsv@2Chronicles:12:5 @ Then Shemai'ah the prophet came to Rehobo'am and to the princes of Judah, who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, "Thus says the LORD, `You abandoned me, so I have abandoned you to the hand of Shishak.'"

rsv@2Chronicles:12:7 @ When the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemai'ah: "They have humbled themselves; I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.

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:13:3 @ Abi'jah went out to battle having an army of valiant men of war, four hundred thousand picked men; and Jerobo'am drew up his line of battle against him with eight hundred thousand picked mighty warriors.

rsv@2Chronicles:13:4 @ Then Abi'jah stood up on Mount Zemara'im which is in the hill country of E'phraim, and said, "Hear me, O Jerobo'am and all Israel!

rsv@2Chronicles:13:13 @ Jerobo'am had sent an ambush around to come on them from behind; thus his troops were in front of Judah, and the ambush was behind them.

rsv@2Chronicles:13:14 @ And when Judah looked, behold, the battle was before and behind them; and they cried to the LORD, and the priests blew the trumpets.

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:13:16 @ The men of Israel fled before Judah, and God gave them into their hand.

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:13:18 @ Thus the men of Israel were subdued at that time, and the men of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon the LORD, the God of their fathers.

rsv@2Chronicles:13:19 @ And Abi'jah pursued Jerobo'am, and took cities from him, Bethel with its villages and Jesha'nah with its villages and Ephron with its villages.

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:14:4 @ and commanded Judah to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, and to keep the law and the commandment.

rsv@2Chronicles:14:5 @ He also took out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the incense altars. And the kingdom had rest under him.

rsv@2Chronicles:14:6 @ He built fortified cities in Judah, for the land had rest. He had no war in those years, for the LORD gave him peace.

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:14:8 @ And Asa had an army of three hundred thousand from Judah, armed with bucklers and spears, and two hundred and eighty thousand men from Benjamin, that carried shields and drew bows; all these were mighty men of valor.

rsv@2Chronicles:14:9 @ Zerah the Ethiopian came out against them with an army of a million men and three hundred chariots, and came as far as Mare'shah.

rsv@2Chronicles:14:10 @ And Asa went out to meet him, and they drew up their lines of battle in the valley of Zeph'athah at Mare'shah.

rsv@2Chronicles:14:12 @ So the LORD defeated the Ethiopians before Asa and before Judah, and the Ethiopians fled.

rsv@2Chronicles:14:13 @ Asa and the people that were with him pursued them as far as Gerar, and the Ethiopians fell until none remained alive; for they were broken before the LORD and his army. The men of Judah carried away very much booty.

rsv@2Chronicles:15:1 @ The Spirit of God came upon Azari'ah the son of Oded,

rsv@2Chronicles:15:2 @ and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, "Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: The LORD is with you, while you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

rsv@2Chronicles:15:8 @ When Asa heard these words, the prophecy of Azari'ah the son of Oded, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols from all the land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities which he had taken in the hill country of E'phraim, and he repaired the altar of the LORD that was in front of the vestibule of the house of the LORD.

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:15:15 @ And all Judah rejoiced over the oath; for they had sworn with all their heart, and had sought him with their whole desire, and he was found by them, and the LORD gave them rest round about.

rsv@2Chronicles:15:16 @ Even Ma'acah, his mother, King Asa removed from being queen mother because she had made an abominable image for Ashe'rah. Asa cut down her image, crushed it, and burned it at the brook Kidron.

rsv@2Chronicles:16:1 @ In the thirty-sixth year of the reign of Asa, Ba'asha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might permit no one to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.

rsv@2Chronicles:16:5 @ And when Ba'asha heard of it, he stopped building Ramah, and let his work cease.

rsv@2Chronicles:16:6 @ Then King Asa took all Judah, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its timber, with which Ba'asha had been building, and with them he built Geba and Mizpah.

rsv@2Chronicles:16:7 @ At that time Hana'ni the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said to him, "Because you relied on the king of Syria, and did not rely on the LORD your God, the army of the king of Syria has escaped you.

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:17:2 @ He placed forces in all the fortified cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of E'phraim which Asa his father had taken.

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:17:6 @ His heart was courageous in the ways of the LORD; and furthermore he took the high places and the Ashe'rim out of Judah.

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:17:9 @ And they taught in Judah, having the book of the law of the LORD with them; they went about through all the cities of Judah and taught among the people.

rsv@2Chronicles:17:10 @ And the fear of the LORD fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that were round about Judah, and they made no war against Jehosh'aphat.

rsv@2Chronicles:17:12 @ And Jehosh'aphat grew steadily greater. He built in Judah fortresses and store-cities,

rsv@2Chronicles:17:13 @ and he had great stores in the cities of Judah. He had soldiers, mighty men of valor, in Jerusalem.

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:17:19 @ These were in the service of the king, besides those whom the king had placed in the fortified cities throughout all Judah.

rsv@2Chronicles:18:1 @ Now Jehosh'aphat had great riches and honor; and he made a marriage alliance with Ahab.

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:18:3 @ Ahab king of Israel said to Jehosh'aphat king of Judah, "Will you go with me to Ramoth-gilead?" He answered him, "I am as you are, my people as your people. We will be with you in the war."

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:18:8 @ Then the king of Israel summoned an officer and said, "Bring quickly Micai'ah the son of Imlah."

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:18:10 @ And Zedeki'ah the son of Chena'anah made for himself horns of iron, and said, "Thus says the LORD, `With these you shall push the Syrians until they are destroyed.'"

rsv@2Chronicles:18:12 @ And the messenger who went to summon Micai'ah said to him, "Behold, the words of the prophets with one accord are favorable to the king; let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak favorably."

rsv@2Chronicles:18:13 @ But Micai'ah said, "As the LORD lives, what my God says, that I will speak."

rsv@2Chronicles:18:14 @ And when he had come to the king, the king said to him, "Micai'ah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear?" And he answered, "Go up and triumph; they will be given into your hand."

rsv@2Chronicles:18:18 @ And Micai'ah said, "Therefore hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left;

rsv@2Chronicles:18:19 @ and the LORD said, `Who will entice Ahab the king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?' And one said one thing, and another said another.

rsv@2Chronicles:18:23 @ Then Zedeki'ah the son of Chena'anah came near and struck Micai'ah on the cheek, and said, "Which way did the Spirit of the LORD go from me to speak to you?"

rsv@2Chronicles:18:24 @ And Micai'ah said, "Behold, you shall see on that day when you go into an inner chamber to hide yourself."

rsv@2Chronicles:18:25 @ And the king of Israel said, "Seize Micai'ah, and take him back to Amon the governor of the city and to Jo'ash the king's son;

rsv@2Chronicles:18:27 @ And Micai'ah said, "If you return in peace, the LORD has not spoken by me." And he said, "Hear, all you peoples!"

rsv@2Chronicles:18:28 @ So the king of Israel and Jehosh'aphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.

rsv@2Chronicles:19:1 @ Jehosh'aphat the king of Judah returned in safety to his house in Jerusalem.

rsv@2Chronicles:19:3 @ Nevertheless some good is found in you, for you destroyed the Ashe'rahs out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God."

rsv@2Chronicles:19:5 @ He appointed judges in the land in all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,

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:20:3 @ Then Jehosh'aphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

rsv@2Chronicles:20:4 @ And Judah assembled to seek help from the LORD; from all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD.

rsv@2Chronicles:20:5 @ And Jehosh'aphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court,

rsv@2Chronicles:20:7 @ Didst thou not, O our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and give it for ever to the descendants of Abraham thy friend?

rsv@2Chronicles:20:13 @ Meanwhile all the men of Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.

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:20:15 @ And he said, "Hearken, all Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, and King Jehosh'aphat: Thus says the LORD to you, `Fear not, and be not dismayed at this great multitude; for the battle is not yours but God's.

rsv@2Chronicles:20:17 @ You will not need to fight in this battle; take your position, stand still, and see the victory of the LORD on your behalf, O Judah and Jerusalem.' Fear not, and be not dismayed; tomorrow go out against them, and the LORD will be with you."

rsv@2Chronicles:20:18 @ Then Jehosh'aphat bowed his head with his face to the ground, and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down before the LORD, worshiping the LORD.

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:20:22 @ 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:20:24 @ When Judah came to the watchtower of the wilderness, they looked toward the multitude; and behold, they were dead bodies lying on the ground; none had escaped.

rsv@2Chronicles:20:26 @ On the fourth day they assembled in the Valley of Bera'cah, for there they blessed the LORD; therefore the name of that place has been called the Valley of Bera'cah to this day.

rsv@2Chronicles:20:27 @ Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehosh'aphat at their head, returning to Jerusalem with joy, for the LORD had made them rejoice over their enemies.

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:20:35 @ After this Jehosh'aphat king of Judah joined with Ahazi'ah king of Israel, who did wickedly.

rsv@2Chronicles:20:37 @ Then Elie'zer the son of Do-dav'ahu of Mare'shah prophesied against Jehosh'aphat, saying, "Because you have joined with Ahazi'ah, the LORD will destroy what you have made." And the ships were wrecked and were not able to go to Tarshish.

rsv@2Chronicles:21:2 @ He had brothers, the sons of Jehosh'aphat: Azari'ah, Jehi'el, Zechari'ah, Azari'ah, Michael, and Shephati'ah; all these were the sons of Jehosh'aphat king of Judah.

rsv@2Chronicles:21:3 @ Their father gave them great gifts, of silver, gold, and valuable possessions, together with fortified cities in Judah; but he gave the kingdom to Jeho'ram, because he was the first-born.

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:21:10 @ 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:21:11 @ Moreover he made high places in the hill country of Judah, and led the inhabitants of Jerusalem into unfaithfulness, and made Judah go astray.

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:21:17 @ and they came up against Judah, and invaded it, and carried away all the possessions they found that belonged to the king's house, and also his sons and his wives, so that no son was left to him except Jeho'ahaz, his youngest son.

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:22:3 @ He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor in doing wickedly.

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:22:5 @ He even followed their counsel, and went with Jeho'ram the son of Ahab king of Israel to make war against Haz'ael king of Syria at Ramoth-gilead. And the Syrians wounded Joram,

rsv@2Chronicles:22:6 @ and he returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which he had received at Ramah, when he fought against Haz'ael king of Syria. And Ahazi'ah the son of Jeho'ram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.

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:22:9 @ He searched for Ahazi'ah, and he was captured while hiding in Sama'ria, and he was brought to Jehu and put to death. They buried him, for they said, "He is the grandson of Jehosh'aphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart." And the house of Ahazi'ah had no one able to rule the kingdom.

rsv@2Chronicles:22:10 @ Now when Athali'ah the mother of Ahazi'ah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal family of the house of Judah.

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:22:12 @ and he remained with them six years, hid in the house of God, while Athali'ah reigned over the land.

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:23:8 @ 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:23:12 @ When Athali'ah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she went into the house of the LORD to the people;

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:23:21 @ So all the people of the land rejoiced; and the city was quiet, after Athali'ah had been slain with the sword.

rsv@2Chronicles:24:1 @ Jo'ash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem; his mother's name was Zib'iah of Beer-sheba.

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:24:9 @ And proclamation was made throughout Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in for the LORD the tax that Moses the servant of God laid upon Israel in the wilderness.

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:24:18 @ And they forsook the house of the LORD, the God of their fathers, and served the Ashe'rim and the idols. And wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their guilt.

rsv@2Chronicles:24:20 @ Then the Spirit of God took possession of Zechari'ah the son of Jehoi'ada the priest; and he stood above the people, and said to them, "Thus says God, `Why do you transgress the commandments of the LORD, so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the LORD, he has forsaken you.'"

rsv@2Chronicles:24:22 @ Thus Jo'ash the king did not remember the kindness which Jehoi'ada, Zechari'ah's father, had shown him, but killed his son. And when he was dying, he said, "May the LORD see and avenge!"

rsv@2Chronicles:24:23 @ At the end of the year the army of the Syrians came up against Jo'ash. They came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all their spoil to the king of Damascus.

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:25:1 @ Amazi'ah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jeho-ad'dan of Jerusalem.

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:25:9 @ And Amazi'ah said to the man of God, "But what shall we do about the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel?" The man of God answered, "The LORD is able to give you much more than this."

rsv@2Chronicles:25:10 @ Then Amazi'ah discharged the army that had come to him from E'phraim, to go home again. And they became very angry with Judah, and returned home in fierce anger.

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:25:13 @ But the men of the army whom Amazi'ah sent back, not letting them go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of Judah, from Sama'ria to Beth-hor'on, and killed three thousand people in them, and took much spoil.

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:25:17 @ Then Amazi'ah king of Judah took counsel and sent to Jo'ash the son of Jeho'ahaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, "Come, let us look one another in the face."

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:25:21 @ So Jo'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@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: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:26:4 @ And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that his father Amazi'ah had done.

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:26:8 @ 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:26:14 @ And Uzzi'ah prepared for all the army shields, spears, helmets, coats of mail, bows, and stones for slinging.

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:26:19 @ Then Uzzi'ah was angry. Now he had a censer in his hand to burn incense, and when he became angry with the priests leprosy broke out on his forehead, in the presence of the priests in the house of the LORD, by the altar of incense.

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:27:4 @ Moreover he built cities in the hill country of Judah, and forts and towers on the wooded hills.

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:27:9 @ 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:28:6 @ For Pekah the son of Remali'ah slew a hundred and twenty thousand in Judah in one day, all of them men of valor, because they had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers.

rsv@2Chronicles:28:7 @ And Zichri, a mighty man of E'phraim, slew Ma-asei'ah the king's son and Azri'kam the commander of the palace and Elka'nah the next in authority to the king.

rsv@2Chronicles:28:9 @ But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded; and he went out to meet the army that came to Sama'ria, and said to them, "Behold, because the LORD, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he gave them into your hand, but you have slain them in a rage which has reached up to heaven.

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:28:12 @ Certain chiefs also of the men of E'phraim, Azari'ah the son of Joha'nan, Berechi'ah the son of Meshil'lemoth, Jehizki'ah the son of Shallum, and Ama'sa the son of Hadlai, stood up against those who were coming from the war,

rsv@2Chronicles:28:16 @ At that time King Ahaz sent to the king of Assyria for help.

rsv@2Chronicles:28:17 @ For the E'domites had again invaded and defeated Judah, and carried away captives.

rsv@2Chronicles:28:18 @ And the Philistines had made raids on the cities in the Shephe'lah and the Negeb of Judah, and had taken Beth-she'mesh, Ai'jalon, Gede'roth, Soco with its villages, Timnah with its villages, and Gimzo with its villages; and they settled there.

rsv@2Chronicles:28:19 @ For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel, for he had dealt wantonly in Judah and had been faithless to the LORD.

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:28:22 @ In the time of his distress he became yet more faithless to the LORD--this same King Ahaz.

rsv@2Chronicles:28:24 @ And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and he shut up the doors of the house of the LORD; and he made himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem.

rsv@2Chronicles:28:25 @ In every city of Judah he made high places to burn incense to other gods, provoking to anger the LORD, the God of his fathers.

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:29:8 @ Therefore the wrath of the LORD came on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has made them an object of horror, of astonishment, and of hissing, as you see with your own eyes.

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:29:13 @ and of the sons of Eli-za'phan, Shimri and Jeu'el; and of the sons of Asaph, Zechari'ah and Mattani'ah;

rsv@2Chronicles:29:14 @ and of the sons of Heman, Jehu'el and Shim'e-i; and of the sons of Jedu'thun, Shemai'ah and Uz'ziel.

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:29:20 @ Then Hezeki'ah the king rose early and gathered the officials of the city, and went up to the house of the LORD.

rsv@2Chronicles:29:21 @ And they brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven he-goats for a sin offering for the kingdom and for the sanctuary and for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of the LORD.

rsv@2Chronicles:29:27 @ Then Hezeki'ah commanded that the burnt offering be offered on the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song to the LORD began also, and the trumpets, accompanied by the instruments of David king of Israel.

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:29:36 @ And Hezeki'ah and all the people rejoiced because of what God had done for the people; for the thing came about suddenly.

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:30:12 @ The hand of God was also upon Judah to give them one heart to do what the king and the princes commanded by the word of 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:30:20 @ And the LORD heard Hezeki'ah, and healed the people.

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:31:1 @ Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah and broke in pieces the pillars and hewed down the Ashe'rim and broke down the high places and the altars throughout all Judah and Benjamin, and in E'phraim and Manas'seh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the people of Israel returned to their cities, every man to his possession.

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:31:6 @ 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:31:8 @ When Hezeki'ah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed the LORD and his people Israel.

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:31:11 @ Then Hezeki'ah commanded them to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD; and they prepared them.

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:31:13 @ while Jehi'el, Azazi'ah, Nahath, As'ahel, Jer'imoth, Jo'zabad, Eli'el, Ismachi'ah, Mahath, and Benai'ah were overseers assisting Conani'ah and Shim'e-i his brother, by the appointment of Hezeki'ah the king and Azari'ah the chief officer of the house of God.

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:31:20 @ Thus Hezeki'ah did throughout all Judah; and he did what was good and right and faithful before the LORD his God.

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:32:8 @ With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God, to help us and to fight our battles." And the people took confidence from the words of Hezeki'ah king of Judah.

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:32:12 @ Has not this same Hezeki'ah taken away his high places and his altars and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, "Before one altar you shall worship, and upon it you shall burn your sacrifices"?

rsv@2Chronicles:32:15 @ Now therefore do not let Hezeki'ah deceive you or mislead you in this fashion, and do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or from the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand!'"

rsv@2Chronicles:32:16 @ And his servants said still more against the Lord GOD and against his servant Hezeki'ah.

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:32:20 @ Then Hezeki'ah the king and Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, prayed because of this and cried to heaven.

rsv@2Chronicles:32:22 @ So the LORD saved Hezeki'ah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennach'erib king of Assyria and from the hand of all his enemies; and he gave them rest on every side.

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:32:24 @ In those days Hezeki'ah became sick and was at the point of death, and he prayed to the LORD; and he answered him and gave him a sign.

rsv@2Chronicles:32:25 @ But Hezeki'ah did not make return according to the benefit done to him, for his heart was proud. Therefore wrath came upon him and Judah and Jerusalem.

rsv@2Chronicles:32:26 @ But Hezeki'ah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD did not come upon them in the days of Hezeki'ah.

rsv@2Chronicles:32:27 @ And Hezeki'ah had very great riches and honor; and he made for himself treasuries for silver, for gold, for precious stones, for spices, for shields, and for all kinds of costly vessels;

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:32:32 @ 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:33:9 @ Manas'seh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that they did more evil than the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the people of Israel.

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:33:16 @ He also restored the altar of the LORD and offered upon it sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving; and he commanded Judah to serve the LORD the God of Israel.

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:34:1 @ Josi'ah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.

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:34:5 @ He also burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.

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:34:14 @ While they were bringing out the money that had been brought into the house of the LORD, Hilki'ah the priest found the book of the law of the LORD given through Moses.

rsv@2Chronicles:34:15 @ Then Hilki'ah said to Shaphan the secretary, "I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD"; and Hilki'ah gave the book to Shaphan.

rsv@2Chronicles:34:18 @ Then Shaphan the secretary told the king, "Hilki'ah the priest has given me a book." And Shaphan read it before the king.

rsv@2Chronicles:34:20 @ And the king commanded Hilki'ah, Ahi'kam the son of Shaphan, Abdon the son of Micah, Shaphan the secretary, and Asai'ah the king's servant, saying,

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:34:24 @ 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:34:26 @ But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, thus shall you say to him, Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Regarding the words which you have heard,

rsv@2Chronicles:34:29 @ Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

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:34:33 @ 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:35:7 @ 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:35:16 @ So all the service of the LORD was prepared that day, to keep the passover and to offer burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD, according to the command of King Josi'ah.

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:35:23 @ And the archers shot King Josi'ah; and the king said to his servants, "Take me away, for I am badly wounded."

rsv@2Chronicles:35:24 @ So his servants took him out of the chariot and carried him in his second chariot and brought him to Jerusalem. And he died, and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josi'ah.

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:36:2 @ Jeho'ahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.

rsv@2Chronicles:36:4 @ And the king of Egypt made Eli'akim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoi'akim; but Neco took Jeho'ahaz his brother and carried him to Egypt.

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:36:10 @ In the spring of the year King Nebuchadnez'zar sent and brought him to Babylon, with the precious vessels of the house of the LORD, and made his brother Zedeki'ah king over Judah and Jerusalem.

rsv@2Chronicles:36:11 @ Zedeki'ah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.

rsv@2Chronicles:36:12 @ He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD his God. He did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet, who spoke from the mouth of the LORD.

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@2Chronicles:36:22 @ Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing:

rsv@2Chronicles:36:23 @ "Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, `The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever is among you of all his people, may the LORD his God be with him. Let him go up.'"

rsv@Ezra:1:1 @ In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing:

rsv@Ezra:1:2 @ "Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

rsv@Ezra:1:3 @ Whoever is among you of all his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and rebuild the house of the LORD, the God of Israel-- he is the God who 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:2:1 @ Now these were the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of those exiles whom Nebuchadnez'zar the king of Babylon had carried captive to Babylonia; they returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town.

rsv@Ezra:2:2 @ They came with Zerub'babel, Jeshua, Nehemi'ah, Serai'ah, Re-el-ai'ah, Mor'decai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigva'i, Rehum, and Ba'anah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:

rsv@Ezra:2:4 @ The sons of Shephati'ah, three hundred and seventy-two.

rsv@Ezra:2:5 @ The sons of Arah, seven hundred and seventy-five.

rsv@Ezra:2:16 @ The sons of Ater, namely of Hezeki'ah, ninety-eight.

rsv@Ezra:2:18 @ The sons of Jorah, one hundred and twelve.

rsv@Ezra:2:22 @ The men of Neto'phah, fifty-six.

rsv@Ezra:2:25 @ The sons of Kir'iathar'im, Chephi'rah, and Be-er'oth, seven hundred and forty-three.

rsv@Ezra:2:26 @ The sons of Ramah and Geba, six hundred and twenty-one.

rsv@Ezra:2:35 @ The sons of Sena'ah, three thousand six hundred and thirty.

rsv@Ezra:2:36 @ The priests: the sons of Jedai'ah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred and seventy-three.

rsv@Ezra:2:40 @ The Levites: the sons of Jeshua and Kad'mi-el, of the sons of Hodavi'ah, seventy-four.

rsv@Ezra:2:44 @ the sons of Keros, the sons of Si'aha, the sons of Padon,

rsv@Ezra:2:45 @ the sons of Leba'nah, the sons of Hag'abah, the sons of Akkub,

rsv@Ezra:2:47 @ the sons of Giddel, the sons of Gahar, the sons of Re-ai'ah,

rsv@Ezra:2:49 @ the sons of Uzza, the sons of Pase'ah, the sons of Besai,

rsv@Ezra:2:50 @ the sons of Asnah, the sons of Me-u'nim, the sons of Nephi'sim,

rsv@Ezra:2:53 @ the sons of Barkos, the sons of Sis'era, the sons of Temah,

rsv@Ezra:2:54 @ the sons of Nezi'ah, and the sons of Hati'pha.

rsv@Ezra:2:56 @ the sons of Ja'alah, the sons of Darkon, the sons of Giddel,

rsv@Ezra:2:57 @ the sons of Shephati'ah, the sons of Hattil, the sons of Po'chereth-hazzeba'im, and the sons of Ami.

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:2:60 @ the sons of Delai'ah, the sons of Tobi'ah, and the sons of Neko'da, six hundred and fifty-two.

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: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: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:4:4 @ Then the people of the land discouraged the people of Judah, and made them afraid to build,

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:5:1 @ Now the prophets, Haggai and Zechari'ah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem, in the name of the God of Israel who was over them.

rsv@Ezra:5:8 @ Be it known to the king that we went to the province of Judah, to the house of the great God. It is being built with huge stones, and timber is laid in the walls; this work goes on diligently and prospers in their hands.

rsv@Ezra:6:14 @ And the elders of the Jews built and prospered, through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechari'ah the son of Iddo. They finished their building by command of the God of Israel and by decree of Cyrus and Darius and Ar-ta-xerx'es king of Persia;

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:7:2 @ son of Shallum, son of Zadok, son of Ahi'tub,

rsv@Ezra:7:3 @ son of Amari'ah, son of Azari'ah, son of Merai'oth,

rsv@Ezra:7:4 @ son of Zerahi'ah, son of Uzzi, son of Bukki,

rsv@Ezra:7:14 @ For you are sent by the king and his seven counselors to make inquiries about Judah and Jerusalem according to the law of your God, which is in your hand,

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:8:4 @ Of the sons of Pa'hath-mo'ab, Eli-e-ho-e'nai the son of Zerahi'ah, and with him two hundred men.

rsv@Ezra:8:5 @ Of the sons of Zattu, Shecani'ah the son of Jaha'ziel, and with him three hundred men.

rsv@Ezra:8:7 @ Of the sons of Elam, Jeshai'ah the son of Athali'ah, and with him seventy men.

rsv@Ezra:8:8 @ Of the sons of Shephati'ah, Zebadi'ah the son of Michael, and with him eighty 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:8:10 @ Of the sons of Bani, Shelo'mith the son of Josiphi'ah, and with him a hundred and sixty men.

rsv@Ezra:8:11 @ Of the sons of Be'bai, Zechari'ah, the son of Be'bai, and with him twenty-eight 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:8:15 @ I gathered them to the river that runs to Aha'va, and there we encamped three days. As I reviewed the people and the priests, I found there none of the sons of Levi.

rsv@Ezra:8:16 @ Then I sent for Elie'zer, Ar'i-el, Shemai'ah, Elna'than, Jarib, Elna'than, Nathan, Zechari'ah, and Meshul'lam, leading men, and for Joi'arib and Elna'than, who were men of insight,

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:8:19 @ also Hashabi'ah and with him Jeshai'ah of the sons of Merar'i, with his kinsmen and their sons, twenty;

rsv@Ezra:8:21 @ Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Aha'va, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a straight way for ourselves, our children, and all our goods.

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:8:31 @ 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: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:10:7 @ And a proclamation was made throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the returned exiles that they should assemble at Jerusalem,

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:10:15 @ 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:10:18 @ Of the sons of the priests who had married foreign women were found Ma-asei'ah, Elie'zer, Jarib, and Gedali'ah, of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jo'zadak and his brethren.

rsv@Ezra:10:20 @ Of the sons of Immer: Hana'ni and Zebadi'ah.

rsv@Ezra:10:21 @ Of the sons of Harim: Ma-asei'ah, Eli'jah, Shemai'ah, Jehi'el, and Uzzi'ah.

rsv@Ezra:10:22 @ Of the sons of Pashhur: Eli-o-e'nai, Ma-asei'ah, Ish'mael, Nethan'el, Jo'zabad, and Ela'sah.

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:10:25 @ And of Israel: of the sons of Parosh: Rami'ah, Izzi'ah, Malchi'jah, Mi'jamin, Elea'zar, Hashabi'ah, and Benai'ah.

rsv@Ezra:10:26 @ Of the sons of Elam: Mattani'ah, Zechari'ah, Jehi'el, Abdi, Jer'emoth, and Eli'jah.

rsv@Ezra:10:27 @ Of the sons of Zattu: Eli-o-e'nai, Eli'ashib, Mattani'ah, Jer'emoth, Zabad, and Azi'za.

rsv@Ezra:10:28 @ Of the sons of Be'bai were Jehoha'nan, Hanani'ah, Zab'bai, and Ath'lai.

rsv@Ezra:10:29 @ Of the sons of Bani were Meshul'lum, Malluch, Adai'ah, Jashub, She'al, and Jer'emoth.

rsv@Ezra:10:30 @ Of the sons of Pa'hath-mo'ab: Adna, Chelal, Benai'ah, Ma-asei'ah, Mattani'ah, Bez'alel, Bin'nui, and Manas'seh.

rsv@Ezra:10:31 @ Of the sons of Harim: Elie'zer, Isshi'jah, Malchi'jah, Shemai'ah, Shim'e-on,

rsv@Ezra:10:32 @ Benjamin, Malluch, and Shemari'ah.

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:10:35 @ Benai'ah, Bedei'ah, Chel'uhi,

rsv@Ezra:10:36 @ Vani'ah, Mer'emoth, Eli'ashib,

rsv@Ezra:10:37 @ Mattani'ah, Matte'nai, Ja'asu.

rsv@Ezra:10:39 @ Shelemi'ah, Nathan, Adai'ah,

rsv@Ezra:10:41 @ Az'arel, Shelemi'ah, Shemari'ah,

rsv@Ezra:10:42 @ Shallum, Amari'ah, and Joseph.

rsv@Ezra:10:43 @ Of the sons of Nebo: Je-i'el, Mattithi'ah, Zabad, Zebi'na, Jaddai, Jo'el, and Benai'ah.

rsv@Nehemiah:1:1 @ The words of Nehemi'ah the son of Hacali'ah. Now it happened in the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Susa the capital,

rsv@Nehemiah:1:2 @ that Hana'ni, one of my brethren, came with certain men out of Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews that survived, who had escaped exile, and concerning Jerusalem.

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:1:4 @ When I heard these words I sat down and wept, and mourned for days; and I continued fasting and praying before the God of heaven.

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:1:9 @ but if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, though your dispersed be under the farthest skies, I will gather them thence and bring them to the place which I have chosen, to make my name dwell there.'

rsv@Nehemiah:1:10 @ They are thy servants and thy people, whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power and by thy strong hand.

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:2:1 @ In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Ar-ta-xerx'es, when wine was before him, I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad in his presence.

rsv@Nehemiah:2:2 @ And the king said to me, "Why is your face sad, seeing you are not sick? This is nothing else but sadness of the heart." Then I was very much afraid.

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:2:4 @ Then the king said to me, "For what do you make request?" So I prayed to the God of heaven.

rsv@Nehemiah:2:5 @ And I said to the king, "If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may rebuild it."

rsv@Nehemiah:2:6 @ And the king said to me (the queen sitting beside him), "How long will you be gone, and when will you return?" So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.

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:2:11 @ So I came to Jerusalem and was there three days.

rsv@Nehemiah:2:12 @ Then I arose in the night, I and a few men with me; and I told no one what my God had put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. There was no beast with me but the beast on which I rode.

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:2:16 @ And the officials did not know where I had gone or what I was doing; and I had not yet told the Jews, the priests, the nobles, the officials, and the rest that were to do the work.

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:2:18 @ And I told them of the hand of my God which had been upon me for good, and also of the words which the king had spoken to me. And they said, "Let us rise up and build." So they strengthened their hands for the good work.

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:2:20 @ Then I replied to them, "The God of heaven will make us prosper, and we his servants will arise and build; but you have no portion or right or memorial in Jerusalem."

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:3:2 @ And next to him the men of Jericho built. And next to them Zaccur the son of Imri built.

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:3:4 @ And next to them Mer'emoth the son of Uri'ah, son of Hakkoz repaired. And next to them Meshul'lam the son of Berechi'ah, son of Meshez'abel repaired. And next to them Zadok the son of Ba'ana repaired.

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:3:8 @ Next to them Uz'ziel the son of Harhai'ah, goldsmiths, repaired. Next to him Hanani'ah, one of the perfumers, repaired; and they restored Jerusalem as far as the Broad Wall.

rsv@Nehemiah:3:9 @ Next to them Rephai'ah the son of Hur, ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, repaired.

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:3:11 @ Malchi'jah the son of Harim and Hasshub the son of Pa'hath-mo'ab repaired another section and the Tower of the Ovens.

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:4:1 @ Now when Sanbal'lat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry and greatly enraged, and he ridiculed the Jews.

rsv@Nehemiah:4:2 @ And he said in the presence of his brethren and of the army of Sama'ria, "What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they restore things? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish up in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, and burned ones at that?"

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:4:4 @ Hear, O our God, for we are despised; turn back their taunt upon their own heads, and give them up to be plundered in a land where they are captives.

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:4:6 @ So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half its height. For the people had a mind to work.

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:4:10 @ But Judah said, "The strength of the burden-bearers is failing, and there is much rubbish; we are not able to work on the wall."

rsv@Nehemiah:4:11 @ And our enemies said, "They will not know or see till we come into the midst of them and kill them and stop the work."

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:4:13 @ So in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in open places, I stationed the people according to their families, with their swords, their spears, and their bows.

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:4:16 @ From that day on, half of my servants worked on construction, and half held the spears, shields, bows, and coats of mail; and the leaders stood behind all the house of Judah,

rsv@Nehemiah:4:17 @ who were building on the wall. Those who carried burdens were laden in such a way that each with one hand labored on the work and with the other held his weapon.

rsv@Nehemiah:4:18 @ And each of the builders had his sword girded at his side while he built. The man who sounded the trumpet was beside me.

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:4:20 @ In the place where you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally to us there. Our God will fight for us."

rsv@Nehemiah:4:21 @ So we labored at the work, and half of them held the spears from the break of dawn till the stars came out.

rsv@Nehemiah:4:22 @ I also said to the people at that time, "Let every man and his servant pass the night within Jerusalem, that they may be a guard for us by night and may labor by day."

rsv@Nehemiah:4:23 @ So neither I nor my brethren nor my servants nor the men of the guard who followed me, none of us took off our clothes; each kept his weapon in his hand.

rsv@Nehemiah:5:1 @ Now there arose a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brethren.

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:5:3 @ There were also those who said, "We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses to get grain because of the famine."

rsv@Nehemiah:5:4 @ And there were those who said, "We have borrowed money for the king's tax upon our fields and our vineyards.

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:5:6 @ I was very angry when I heard their outcry and these words.

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:5:8 @ and said to them, "We, as far as we are able, have bought back our Jewish brethren who have been sold to the nations; but you even sell your brethren that they may be sold to us!" They were silent, and could not find a word to say.

rsv@Nehemiah:5:9 @ So I said, "The thing that you are doing is not good. Ought you not to walk in the fear of our God to prevent the taunts of the nations our enemies?

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:5:11 @ Return to them this very day their fields, their vineyards, their olive orchards, and their houses, and the hundredth of money, grain, wine, and oil which you have been exacting of them."

rsv@Nehemiah:5:12 @ Then they said, "We will restore these and require nothing from them. We will do as you say." And I called the priests, and took an oath of them to do as they had promised.

rsv@Nehemiah:5:13 @ I also shook out my lap and said, "So may God shake out every man from his house and from his labor who does not perform this promise. So may he be shaken out and emptied." And all the assembly said "Amen" and praised the LORD. And the people did as they had promised.

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:5:15 @ The former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens upon the people, and took from them food and wine, besides forty shekels of silver. Even their servants lorded it over the people. But I did not do so, because of the fear of God.

rsv@Nehemiah:5:16 @ I also held to the work on this wall, and acquired no land; and all my servants were gathered there for the work.

rsv@Nehemiah:5:17 @ Moreover there were at my table a hundred and fifty men, Jews and officials, besides those who came to us from the nations which were about us.

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:5:19 @ Remember for my good, O my God, all that I have done for 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:6:3 @ And I sent messengers to them, saying, "I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?"

rsv@Nehemiah:6:4 @ And they sent to me four times in this way and I answered them in the same manner.

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:6:8 @ Then I sent to him, saying, "No such things as you say have been done, for you are inventing them out of your own mind."

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:6:12 @ And I understood, and saw that God had not sent him, but he had pronounced the prophecy against me because Tobi'ah and Sanbal'lat had hired him.

rsv@Nehemiah:6:13 @ For this purpose he was hired, that I should be afraid and act in this way and sin, and so they could give me an evil name, in order to taunt me.

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:6:15 @ So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty-two days.

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:7:2 @ I gave my brother Hana'ni and Hanani'ah the governor of the castle charge over Jerusalem, for he was a more faithful and God-fearing man than many.

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:7:4 @ The city was wide and large, but the people within it were few and no houses had been built.

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:7:6 @ These were the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of those exiles whom Nebuchadnez'zar the king of Babylon had carried into exile; they returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his town.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:7 @ They came with Zerub'babel, Jeshua, Nehemi'ah, Azari'ah, Raami'ah, Naham'ani, Mor'decai, Bilshan, Mis'pereth, Bigva'i, Nehum, Ba'anah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:

rsv@Nehemiah:7:8 @ the sons of Parosh, two thousand a hundred and seventy-two.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:9 @ The sons of Shephati'ah, three hundred and seventy-two.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:10 @ The sons of Arah, six hundred and fifty-two.

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:7:12 @ The sons of Elam, a thousand two hundred and fifty-four.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:13 @ The sons of Zattu, eight hundred and forty-five.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:14 @ The sons of Zac'cai, seven hundred and sixty.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:15 @ The sons of Bin'nui, six hundred and forty-eight.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:16 @ The sons of Be'bai, six hundred and twenty-eight.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:17 @ The sons of Azgad, two thousand three hundred and twenty-two.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:18 @ The sons of Adoni'kam, six hundred and sixty-seven.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:19 @ The sons of Bigva'i, two thousand and sixty-seven.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:20 @ The sons of Adin, six hundred and fifty-five.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:21 @ The sons of Ater, namely of Hezeki'ah, ninety-eight.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:22 @ The sons of Hashum, three hundred and twenty-eight.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:23 @ The sons of Be'zai, three hundred and twenty-four.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:24 @ The sons of Hariph, a hundred and twelve.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:25 @ The sons of Gibeon, ninety-five.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:26 @ The men of Bethlehem and Neto'phah, a hundred and eighty-eight.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:27 @ The men of An'athoth, a hundred and twenty-eight.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:28 @ The men of Beth-az'maveth, forty-two.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:29 @ The men of Kir'iath-je'arim, Chephi'rah, and Be-er'oth, seven hundred and forty-three.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:30 @ The men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred and twenty-one.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:31 @ The men of Michmas, a hundred and twenty-two.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:32 @ The men of Bethel and Ai, a hundred and twenty-three.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:33 @ The men of the other Nebo, fifty-two.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:34 @ The sons of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred and fifty-four.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:35 @ The sons of Harim, three hundred and twenty.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:36 @ The sons of Jericho, three hundred and forty-five.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:37 @ The sons of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred and twenty-one.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:38 @ The sons of Sena'ah, three thousand nine hundred and thirty.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:39 @ The priests: the sons of Jedai'ah, namely the house of Jeshua, nine hundred and seventy-three.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:40 @ The sons of Immer, a thousand and fifty-two.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:41 @ The sons of Pashhur, a thousand two hundred and forty-seven.

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:7:44 @ The singers: the sons of Asaph, a hundred and forty-eight.

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:7:47 @ the sons of Keros, the sons of Si'a, the sons of Padon,

rsv@Nehemiah:7:48 @ the sons of Leba'na, the sons of Hag'aba, the sons of Shalmai,

rsv@Nehemiah:7:49 @ the sons of Hanan, the sons of Giddel, the sons of Gahar,

rsv@Nehemiah:7:50 @ the sons of Re-ai'ah, the sons of Rezin, the sons of Neko'da,

rsv@Nehemiah:7:51 @ the sons of Gazzam, the sons of Uzza, the sons of Pase'ah,

rsv@Nehemiah:7:52 @ the sons of Besai, the sons of Me-u'nim, the sons of Nephush'esim,

rsv@Nehemiah:7:53 @ the sons of Bakbuk, the sons of Haku'pha, the sons of Harhur,

rsv@Nehemiah:7:54 @ the sons of Bazlith, the sons of Mehi'da, the sons of Harsha,

rsv@Nehemiah:7:55 @ the sons of Barkos, the sons of Sis'era, the sons of Temah,

rsv@Nehemiah:7:56 @ the sons of Nezi'ah, the sons of Hati'pha.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:57 @ The sons of Solomon's servants: the sons of So'tai, the sons of So'phereth, the sons of Peri'da,

rsv@Nehemiah:7:58 @ the sons of Ja'ala, the sons of Darkon, the sons of Giddel,

rsv@Nehemiah:7:59 @ the sons of Shephati'ah, the sons of Hattil, the sons of Po'chereth-hazzeba'im, the sons of Amon.

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:7:62 @ the sons of Delai'ah, the sons of Tobi'ah, the sons of Neko'da, six hundred and forty-two.

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:7:64 @ These sought their registration among those enrolled in the genealogies, but it was not found there, so they were excluded from the priesthood as unclean;

rsv@Nehemiah:7:65 @ the governor told them that they were not to partake of the most holy food, until a priest with Urim and Thummim should arise.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:66 @ The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty,

rsv@Nehemiah:7:67 @ besides their menservants and maidservants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven; and they had two hundred and forty-five singers, male and female.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:68 @ Their horses were seven hundred and thirty-six, their mules two hundred and forty-five,

rsv@Nehemiah:7:69 @ their camels four hundred and thirty-five, and their asses six thousand seven hundred and twenty.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:70 @ Now some of the heads of fathers' houses gave to the work. The governor gave to the treasury a thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, five hundred and thirty priests' garments.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:71 @ And some of the heads of fathers' houses gave into the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold and two thousand two hundred minas of silver.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:72 @ And what the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, two thousand minas of silver, and sixty-seven priests' garments.

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:8:2 @ And Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly, both men and women and all who could hear with understanding, on the first day of the seventh month.

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:8:4 @ And Ezra the scribe stood on a wooden pulpit which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithi'ah, Shema, Anai'ah, Uri'ah, Hilki'ah, and Ma-asei'ah on his right hand; and Pedai'ah, Mish'a-el, Malchi'jah, Hashum, Hash-bad'danah, Zechari'ah, and Meshul'lam on his left hand.

rsv@Nehemiah:8:5 @ And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people, for he was above all the people; and when he opened it all the people stood.

rsv@Nehemiah:8:6 @ And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God; and all the people answered, "Amen, Amen," lifting up their hands; and they bowed their heads and worshiped the LORD with their faces to the ground.

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:8:8 @ And they read from the book, from the law of God, clearly; and they gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading.

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:8:10 @ Then he said to them, "Go your way, eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord; and do not be grieved, for the joy of the LORD is your strength."

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:8:12 @ And all the people went their way to eat and drink and to send portions and to make great rejoicing, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.

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:8:17 @ And all the assembly of those who had returned from the captivity made booths and dwelt in the booths; for from the days of Jeshua the son of Nun to that day the people of Israel had not done so. And there was very great rejoicing.

rsv@Nehemiah:8:18 @ And day by day, from the first day to the last day, he read from the book of the law of God. They kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day there was a solemn assembly, according to the ordinance.

rsv@Nehemiah:9:1 @ Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the people of Israel were assembled with fasting and in sackcloth, and with earth upon their heads.

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:9:3 @ And they stood up in their place and read from the book of the law of the LORD their God for a fourth of the day; for another fourth of it they made confession and worshiped the LORD their God.

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:9:6 @ And Ezra said: "Thou art the LORD, thou alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them; and thou preservest all of them; and the host of heaven worships thee.

rsv@Nehemiah:9:7 @ Thou art the LORD, the God who didst choose Abram and bring him forth out of Ur of the Chalde'ans and give him the name Abraham;

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:9:9 @ "And thou didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt and hear their cry at the Red Sea,

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:9:12 @ By a pillar of cloud thou didst lead them in the day, and by a pillar of fire in the night to light for them the way in which they should go.

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:9:21 @ Forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing; their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.

rsv@Nehemiah:9:22 @ And thou didst give them kingdoms and peoples, and didst allot to them every corner; so they took possession of the land of Sihon king of Heshbon and the land of Og king of Bashan.

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:9:27 @ Therefore thou didst give them into the hand of their enemies, who made them suffer; and in the time of their suffering they cried to thee and thou didst hear them from heaven; and according to thy great mercies thou didst give them saviors who saved them from the hand of their enemies.

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:9:30 @ Many years thou didst bear with them, and didst warn them by thy Spirit through thy prophets; yet they would not give ear. Therefore thou didst give them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

rsv@Nehemiah:9:31 @ Nevertheless in thy great mercies thou didst not make an end of them or forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God.

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:9:34 @ our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept thy law or heeded thy commandments and thy warnings which thou didst give them.

rsv@Nehemiah:9:35 @ They did not serve thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness which thou gavest them, and in the large and rich land which thou didst set before them; and they did not turn from their wicked works.

rsv@Nehemiah:9:36 @ Behold, we are slaves this day; in the land that thou gavest to our fathers to enjoy its fruit and its good gifts, behold, we are slaves.

rsv@Nehemiah:9:37 @ And its rich yield goes to the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins; they have power also over our bodies and over our cattle at their pleasure, and we are in great distress."

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:10:1 @ Those who set their seal are Nehemi'ah the governor, the son of Hacali'ah, Zedeki'ah,

rsv@Nehemiah:10:2 @ Serai'ah, Azari'ah, Jeremiah,

rsv@Nehemiah:10:3 @ Pashhur, Amari'ah, Malchi'jah,

rsv@Nehemiah:10:4 @ Hattush, Shebani'ah, Malluch,

rsv@Nehemiah:10:5 @ Harim, Mer'emoth, Obadi'ah,

rsv@Nehemiah:10:6 @ Daniel, Gin'nethon, Baruch,

rsv@Nehemiah:10:7 @ Meshul'lam, Abi'jah, Mi'jamin,

rsv@Nehemiah:10:8 @ Ma-azi'ah, Bil'gai, Shemai'ah; these are the priests.

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:10:10 @ and their brethren, Shebani'ah, Hodi'ah, Keli'ta, Pelai'ah, Hanan,

rsv@Nehemiah:10:11 @ Mica, Rehob, Hashabi'ah,

rsv@Nehemiah:10:12 @ Zaccur, Sherebi'ah, Shebani'ah,

rsv@Nehemiah:10:13 @ Hodi'ah, Bani, Beni'nu.

rsv@Nehemiah:10:14 @ The chiefs of the people: Parosh, Pa'hath-mo'ab, Elam, Zattu, Bani,

rsv@Nehemiah:10:15 @ Bunni, Azgad, Be'bai,

rsv@Nehemiah:10:16 @ Adoni'jah, Bigva'i, Adin,

rsv@Nehemiah:10:17 @ Ater, Hezeki'ah, Azzur,

rsv@Nehemiah:10:18 @ Hodi'ah, Hashum, Be'zai,

rsv@Nehemiah:10:19 @ Hariph, An'athoth, Ne'bai,

rsv@Nehemiah:10:20 @ Mag'piash, Meshul'lam, Hezir,

rsv@Nehemiah:10:21 @ Meshez'abel, Zadok, Jad'du-a,

rsv@Nehemiah:10:22 @ Pelati'ah, Hanan, Anai'ah,

rsv@Nehemiah:10:23 @ Hoshe'a, Hanani'ah, Hasshub,

rsv@Nehemiah:10:24 @ Hallo'hesh, Pi'lha, Shobek,

rsv@Nehemiah:10:25 @ Rehum, Hashab'nah, Ma-asei'ah,

rsv@Nehemiah:10:26 @ Ahi'ah, Hanan, Anan,

rsv@Nehemiah:10:27 @ Malluch, Harim, Ba'anah.

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:10:31 @ and if the peoples of the land bring in wares or any grain on the sabbath day to sell, we will not buy from them on the sabbath or on a holy day; and we will forego the crops of the seventh year and the exaction of every debt.

rsv@Nehemiah:10:32 @ We also lay upon ourselves the obligation to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God:

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:11:2 @ And the people blessed all the men who willingly offered to live in Jerusalem.

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:11:4 @ And in Jerusalem lived certain of the sons of Judah and of the sons of Benjamin. Of the sons of Judah: Athai'ah the son of Uzzi'ah, son of Zechari'ah, son of Amari'ah, son of Shephati'ah, son of Mahal'alel, of the sons of Perez;

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:11:6 @ All the sons of Perez who lived in Jerusalem were four hundred and sixty-eight valiant men.

rsv@Nehemiah:11:7 @ And these are the sons of Benjamin: Sallu the son of Meshul'lam, son of Jo'ed, son of Pedai'ah, son of Kolai'ah, son of Ma-asei'ah, son of I'thi-el, son of Jeshai'ah.

rsv@Nehemiah:11:8 @ And after him Gabba'i, Salla'i, nine hundred and twenty-eight.

rsv@Nehemiah:11:9 @ Jo'el the son of Zichri was their overseer; and Judah the son of Hassen'u-ah was second over the city.

rsv@Nehemiah:11:10 @ Of the priests: Jedai'ah the son of Joi'arib, Jachin,

rsv@Nehemiah:11:11 @ Serai'ah the son of Hilki'ah, son of Meshul'lam, son of Zadok, son of Merai'oth, son of Ahi'tub, ruler of the house of God,

rsv@Nehemiah:11:12 @ and their brethren who did the work of the house, eight hundred and twenty-two; and Adai'ah the son of Jero'ham, son of Pelali'ah, son of Amzi, son of Zechari'ah, son of Pashhur, son of Malchi'jah,

rsv@Nehemiah:11:13 @ and his brethren, heads of fathers' houses, two hundred and forty-two; and Amash'sai, the son of Az'arel, son of Ah'zai, son of Meshil'lemoth, son of Immer,

rsv@Nehemiah:11:14 @ and their brethren, mighty men of valor, a hundred and twenty-eight; their overseer was Zab'diel the son of Haggedo'lim.

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:11:17 @ and Mattani'ah the son of Mica, son of Zabdi, son of Asaph, who was the leader to begin the thanksgiving in prayer, and Bakbuki'ah, the second among his brethren; and Abda the son of Sham'mua, son of Galal, son of Jedu'thun.

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:11:23 @ For there was a command from the king concerning them, and a settled provision for the singers, as every day required.

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:11:25 @ And as for the villages, with their fields, some of the people of Judah lived in Kir'iath-ar'ba and its villages, and in Dibon and its villages, and in Jekab'zeel and its villages,

rsv@Nehemiah:11:26 @ and in Jeshua and in Mola'dah and Beth-pelet,

rsv@Nehemiah:11:27 @ in Ha'zar-shu'al, in Beer-sheba and its villages,

rsv@Nehemiah:11:28 @ in Ziklag, in Meco'nah and its villages,

rsv@Nehemiah:11:29 @ in En-rim'mon, in Zorah, in Jarmuth,

rsv@Nehemiah:11:30 @ Zano'ah, Adullam, and their villages, Lachish and its fields, and Aze'kah and its villages. So they encamped from Beer-sheba to the valley of Hinnom.

rsv@Nehemiah:11:31 @ The people of Benjamin also lived from Geba onward, at Michmash, Ai'ja, Bethel and its villages,

rsv@Nehemiah:11:32 @ An'athoth, Nob, Anani'ah,

rsv@Nehemiah:11:33 @ Hazor, Ramah, Git'taim,

rsv@Nehemiah:11:34 @ Hadid, Zebo'im, Nebal'lat,

rsv@Nehemiah:11:35 @ Lod, and Ono, the valley of craftsmen.

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:12:2 @ Amari'ah, Malluch, Hattush,

rsv@Nehemiah:12:3 @ Shecani'ah, Rehum, Mer'emoth,

rsv@Nehemiah:12:4 @ Iddo, Gin'nethoi, Abi'jah,

rsv@Nehemiah:12:5 @ Mi'jamin, Ma-adi'ah, Bilgah,

rsv@Nehemiah:12:6 @ Shemai'ah, Joi'arib, Jedai'ah,

rsv@Nehemiah:12:7 @ Sallu, Amok, Hilki'ah, Jedai'ah. These were the chiefs of the priests and of their brethren in the days of Jeshua.

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:12:10 @ And Jeshua was the father of Joi'akim, Joi'akim the father of Eli'ashib, Eli'ashib the father of Joi'ada,

rsv@Nehemiah:12:11 @ Joi'ada the father of Jonathan, and Jonathan the father of Jad'du-a.

rsv@Nehemiah:12:12 @ And in the days of Joi'akim were priests, heads of fathers' houses: of Serai'ah, Merai'ah; of Jeremiah, Hanani'ah;

rsv@Nehemiah:12:13 @ of Ezra, Meshul'lam; of Amari'ah, Jehoha'nan;

rsv@Nehemiah:12:14 @ of Mal'luchi, Jonathan; of Shebani'ah, Joseph;

rsv@Nehemiah:12:15 @ of Harim, Adna; of Merai'oth, Hel'kai;

rsv@Nehemiah:12:16 @ of Iddo, Zechari'ah; of Gin'nethon, Meshul'lam;

rsv@Nehemiah:12:17 @ of Abi'jah, Zichri; of Mini'amin, of Moadi'ah, Pil'tai;

rsv@Nehemiah:12:18 @ of Bilgah, Sham'mu-a; of Shemai'ah, Jehon'athan;

rsv@Nehemiah:12:19 @ of Joi'arib, Matte'nai; of Jedai'ah, Uzzi;

rsv@Nehemiah:12:20 @ of Sal'lai, Kal'lai; of Amok, Eber;

rsv@Nehemiah:12:21 @ of Hilki'ah, Hashabi'ah; of Jedai'ah, Nethan'el.

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:12:26 @ These were in the days of Joi'akim the son of Jeshua son of Jo'zadak, and in the days of Nehemi'ah the governor and of Ezra the priest the scribe.

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:12:29 @ also from Beth-gilgal and from the region of Geba and Az'maveth; for the singers had built for themselves villages around Jerusalem.

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:12:33 @ and Azari'ah, Ezra, Meshul'lam,

rsv@Nehemiah:12:34 @ Judah, Benjamin, Shemai'ah, and Jeremiah,

rsv@Nehemiah:12:35 @ and certain of the priests' sons with trumpets: Zechari'ah the son of Jonathan, son of Shemai'ah, son of Mattani'ah, son of Micai'ah, son of Zaccur, son of Asaph;

rsv@Nehemiah:12:36 @ and his kinsmen, Shemai'ah, Az'arel, Mil'alai, Gil'alai, Ma'ai, Nethan'el, Judah, and Hana'ni, with the musical instruments of David the man of God; and Ezra the scribe went before them.

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:12:38 @ The other company of those who gave thanks went to the left, and I followed them with half of the people, upon the wall, above the Tower of the Ovens, to the Broad Wall,

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:12:40 @ So both companies of those who gave thanks stood in the house of God, and I and half of the officials with me;

rsv@Nehemiah:12:41 @ and the priests Eli'akim, Ma-asei'ah, Mini'amin, Micai'ah, Eli-o-e'nai, Zechari'ah, and Hanani'ah, with trumpets;

rsv@Nehemiah:12:42 @ and Ma-asei'ah, Shemai'ah, Elea'zar, Uzzi, Jehoha'nan, Malchi'jah, Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sang with Jezrahi'ah as their leader.

rsv@Nehemiah:12:43 @ And they offered great sacrifices that day and rejoiced, for God had made them rejoice with great joy; the women and children also rejoiced. And the joy of Jerusalem was heard afar off.

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:12:46 @ For in the days of David and Asaph of old there was a chief of the singers, and there were songs of praise and thanksgiving to God.

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:13:7 @ and came to Jerusalem, and I then discovered the evil that Eli'ashib had done for Tobi'ah, preparing for him a chamber in the courts of the house of God.

rsv@Nehemiah:13:8 @ And I was very angry, and I threw all the household furniture of Tobi'ah out of the chamber.

rsv@Nehemiah:13:9 @ Then I gave orders and they cleansed the chambers; and I brought back thither the vessels of the house of God, with the cereal offering and the frankincense.

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:13:12 @ Then all Judah brought the tithe of the grain, wine, and oil into the storehouses.

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:13:14 @ Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God and for his service.

rsv@Nehemiah:13:15 @ In those days I saw in Judah men treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in heaps of grain and loading them on asses; and also wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day; and I warned them on the day when they sold food.

rsv@Nehemiah:13:16 @ Men of Tyre also, who lived in the city, brought in fish and all kinds of wares and sold them on the sabbath to the people of Judah, and in Jerusalem.

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:13:18 @ Did not your fathers act in this way, and did not our God bring all this evil on us and on this city? Yet you bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath."

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:13:20 @ Then the merchants and sellers of all kinds of wares lodged outside Jerusalem once or twice.

rsv@Nehemiah:13:21 @ But I warned them and said to them, "Why do you lodge before the wall? If you do so again I will lay hands on you." From that time on they did not come on the sabbath.

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:13:23 @ In those days also I saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab;

rsv@Nehemiah:13:24 @ and half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod, and they could not speak the language of Judah, but the language of each people.

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:13:26 @ Did not Solomon king of Israel sin on account of such women? Among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel; nevertheless foreign women made even him to sin.

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:1:1 @ In the days of Ahasu-e'rus, the Ahasu-e'rus who reigned from India to Ethiopia over one hundred and twenty-seven provinces,

rsv@Esther:1:2 @ in those days when King Ahasu-e'rus sat on his royal throne in Susa the capital,

rsv@Esther:1:9 @ Queen Vashti also gave a banquet for the women in the palace which belonged to King Ahasu-e'rus.

rsv@Esther:1:10 @ On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehu'man, Biztha, Harbo'na, Bigtha and Abag'tha, Zethar and Carkas, the seven eunuchs who served King Ahasu-e'rus as chamberlains,

rsv@Esther:1:15 @ "According to the law, what is to be done to Queen Vashti, because she has not performed the command of King Ahasu-e'rus conveyed by the eunuchs?"

rsv@Esther:1:16 @ Then Memu'can said in presence of the king and the princes, "Not only to the king has Queen Vashti done wrong, but also to all the princes and all the peoples who are in all the provinces of King Ahasu-e'rus.

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:1:19 @ 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: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:2:6 @ who had been carried away from Jerusalem among the captives carried away with Jeconi'ah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnez'zar king of Babylon had carried away.

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:2:16 @ 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:2:21 @ 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: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:3:6 @ But he disdained to lay hands on Mor'decai alone. So, as they had made known to him the people of Mor'decai, Haman sought to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mor'decai, throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasu-e'rus.

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:3:12 @ 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: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:7:5 @ Then King Ahasu-e'rus said to Queen Esther, "Who is he, and where is he, that would presume to do this?"

rsv@Esther:8:1 @ On that day King Ahasu-e'rus gave to Queen Esther the house of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mor'decai came before the king, for Esther had told what he was to her;

rsv@Esther:8:7 @ Then King Ahasu-e'rus said to Queen Esther and to Mor'decai the Jew, "Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and they have hanged him on the gallows, because he would lay hands on the Jews.

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:8:12 @ 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:9:2 @ the Jews gathered in their cities throughout all the provinces of King Ahasu-e'rus to lay hands on such as sought their hurt. And no one could make a stand against them, for the fear of them had fallen upon all peoples.

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:9:30 @ 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:10:1 @ King Ahasu-e'rus laid tribute on the land and on the coastlands of the sea.

rsv@Esther:10:3 @ For Mor'decai the Jew was next in rank to King Ahasu-e'rus, and he was great among the Jews and popular with the multitude of his brethren, for he sought the welfare of his people and spoke peace to all his people.

rsv@Job:9:13 @ "God will not turn back his anger; beneath him bowed the helpers of Rahab.

rsv@Job:26:12 @ By his power he stilled the sea; by his understanding he smote Rahab.

rsv@Job:39:25 @ When the trumpet sounds, he says `trumpet sounds, he says "Aha!' He smells the battle from afar, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

rsv@Job:42:14 @ And he called the name of the first Jemi'mah; and the name of the second Kezi'ah; and the name of the third Ker'en-hap'puch.

rsv@Psalms:3:3 @ many are saying of me, there is no help for him in God. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:3:5 @ I cry aloud to the LORD, and he answers me from his holy hill. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:3:8 @ Arise, O LORD! Deliver me, O my God! For thou dost smite all my enemies on the cheek, thou dost break the teeth of the wicked. [ (Psalms strkjv@3:9) Deliverance belongs to the LORD; thy blessing be upon thy people! [Selah] ]

rsv@Psalms:4:3 @ O men, how long shall my honor suffer shame? How long will you love vain words, and seek after lies? [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:4:5 @ Be angry, but sin not; commune with your own hearts on your beds, and be silent. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:7:6 @ let the enemy pursue me and overtake me, and let him trample my life to the ground, and lay my soul in the dust. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:9:17 @ The LORD has made himself known, he has executed judgment; the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. [Higgaion. Selah]

rsv@Psalms:9:20 @ Arise, O LORD! Let not man prevail; let the nations be judged before thee! [ (Psalms strkjv@9:21) Put them in fear, O LORD! Let the nations know that they are but men! [Selah] ]

rsv@Psalms:20:4 @ May he remember all your offerings, and regard with favor your burnt sacrifices! [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:21:3 @ Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withheld the request of his lips. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:24:7 @ Such is the generation of those who seek him, who seek the face of the God of Jacob. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:24:10 @ Lift up your heads, O gates! and be lifted up, O ancient doors! that the King of glory may come in. [ (Psalms strkjv@24:11) Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory! [Selah] ]

rsv@Psalms:32:5 @ For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:32:6 @ I acknowledged my sin to thee, and I did not hide my iniquity; I said, "I will confess my transgressions to the LORD"; then thou didst forgive the guilt of my sin. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:32:8 @ Thou art a hiding place for me, thou preservest me from trouble; thou dost encompass me with deliverance. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:35:22 @ They open wide their mouths against me; they say, "Aha, Aha! our eyes have seen it!"

rsv@Psalms:35:26 @ Let them not say to themselves, "Aha, we have our heart's desire!" Let them not say, "We have swallowed him up."

rsv@Psalms:39:6 @ Behold, thou hast made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing in thy sight. Surely every man stands as a mere breath! [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:39:12 @ When thou dost chasten man with rebukes for sin, thou dost consume like a moth what is dear to him; surely every man is a mere breath! [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:40:16 @ Let them be appalled because of their shame who say to me, "Aha, Aha!"

rsv@Psalms:42:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah.

rsv@Psalms:44:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah.

rsv@Psalms:44:9 @ In God we have boasted continually, and we will give thanks to thy name for ever. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:45:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah; a love song.

rsv@Psalms:46:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Songs.

rsv@Psalms:46:4 @ though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble with its tumult. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:46:8 @ The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:46:11 @ "Be still, and know that I am God. I am exalted among the nations, I am exalted in the earth!" [ (Psalms strkjv@46:12) The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. [Selah] ]

rsv@Psalms:47:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.

rsv@Psalms:47:5 @ He chose our heritage for us, the pride of Jacob whom he loves. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:47:9 @ God reigns over the nations; God sits on his holy throne. [ (Psalms strkjv@47:10) The princes of the peoples gather as the people of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God; he is highly exalted! ]

rsv@Psalms:48:1 @ A Songs. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.

rsv@Psalms:48:9 @ As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God, which God establishes for ever. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:48:12 @ let Mount Zion be glad! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of thy judgments!

rsv@Psalms:49:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.

rsv@Psalms:49:14 @ This is the fate of those who have foolish confidence, the end of those who are pleased with their portion. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:49:16 @ But God will ransom my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:50:7 @ The heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge! [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:52:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Maskil of David, when Doeg, the Edomite, came and told Saul, "David has come to the house of Ahimelech."

rsv@Psalms:52:4 @ You love evil more than good, and lying more than speaking the truth. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:52:6 @ But God will break you down for ever; he will snatch and tear you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:53:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to Mahalath. A Maskil of David.

rsv@Psalms:54:4 @ For insolent men have risen against me, ruthless men seek my life; they do not set God before them. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:55:8 @ yea, I would wander afar, I would lodge in the wilderness, [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:55:20 @ God will give ear, and humble them, he who is enthroned from of old; because they keep no law, and do not fear God. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:57:4 @ He will send from heaven and save me, he will put to shame those who trample upon me. [Selah] God will send forth his steadfast love and his faithfulness!

rsv@Psalms:57:7 @ They set a net for my steps; my soul was bowed down. They dug a pit in my way, but they have fallen into it themselves. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:59:6 @ Thou, LORD God of hosts, art God of Israel. Awake to punish all the nations; spare none of those who treacherously plot evil. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:59:14 @ consume them in wrath, consume them till they are no more, that men may know that God rules over Jacob to the ends of the earth. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:60:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to Shushan Eduth. A Miktam of David; for instruction; when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and when Joab on his return killed twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt.

rsv@Psalms:60:5 @ Thou hast set up a banner for those who fear thee, to rally to it from the bow. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:60:8 @ Gilead is mine; Manas'seh is mine; E'phraim is my helmet; Judah is my scepter.

rsv@Psalms:61:5 @ Let me dwell in thy tent for ever! Oh to be safe under the shelter of thy wings! [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:62:5 @ They only plan to thrust him down from his eminence. They take pleasure in falsehood. They bless with their mouths, but inwardly they curse. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:62:9 @ Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before him; God is a refuge for us. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:63:1 @ A Psalm of David, when he was in the Wilderness of Judah.

rsv@Psalms:66:5 @ All the earth worships thee; they sing praises to thee, sing praises to thy name." [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:66:8 @ who rules by his might for ever, whose eyes keep watch on the nations-- let not the rebellious exalt themselves. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:66:16 @ I will offer to thee burnt offerings of fatlings, with the smoke of the sacrifice of rams; I will make an offering of bulls and goats. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:67:2 @ May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us, [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:67:5 @ Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for thou dost judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:68:8 @ O God, when thou didst go forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness, [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:68:20 @ Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears us up; God is our salvation. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:68:28 @ There is Benjamin, the least of them, in the lead, the princes of Judah in their throng, the princes of Zeb'ulun, the princes of Naph'tali.

rsv@Psalms:68:33 @ Sing to God, O kingdoms of the earth; sing praises to the Lord, [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:69:36 @ For God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah; and his servants shall dwell there and possess it; [ (Psalms strkjv@69:37) the children of his servants shall inherit it, and those who love his name shall dwell in it. ]

rsv@Psalms:70:4 @ Let them be appalled because of their shame who say, "Aha, Aha!"

rsv@Psalms:75:4 @ When the earth totters, and all its inhabitants, it is I who keep steady its pillars. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:76:2 @ In Judah God is known, his name is great in Israel.

rsv@Psalms:76:4 @ There he broke the flashing arrows, the shield, the sword, and the weapons of war. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:76:10 @ when God arose to establish judgment to save all the oppressed of the earth. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:77:4 @ I think of God, and I moan; I meditate, and my spirit faints. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:77:10 @ Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he in anger shut up his compassion?" [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:77:16 @ Thou didst with thy arm redeem thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:78:69 @ but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loves.

rsv@Psalms:81:8 @ In distress you called, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Mer'ibah. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:82:3 @ "How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:83:9 @ Assyria also has joined them; they are the strong arm of the children of Lot. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:83:12 @ Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmun'na,

rsv@Psalms:84:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.

rsv@Psalms:84:5 @ Blessed are those who dwell in thy house, ever singing thy praise! [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:84:9 @ O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, O God of Jacob! [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:85:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.

rsv@Psalms:85:3 @ Thou didst forgive the iniquity of thy people; thou didst pardon all their sin. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:87:1 @ A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. A Songs.

rsv@Psalms:87:4 @ Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:87:5 @ Among those who know me I mention Rahab and Babylon; behold, Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia-- "This one was born there," they say.

rsv@Psalms:87:7 @ The LORD records as he registers the peoples, "This one was born there." [Selah] [ (Psalms strkjv@87:8) Singers and dancers alike say, "All my springs are in you." ]

rsv@Psalms:88:1 @ A Songs. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. To the choirmaster: according to Mahalath Leannoth. A Maskil of Heman the Ezrahite.

rsv@Psalms:88:8 @ Thy wrath lies heavy upon me, and thou dost overwhelm me with all thy waves. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:88:11 @ Dost thou work wonders for the dead? Do the shades rise up to praise thee? [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:89:1 @ A Maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite.

rsv@Psalms:89:5 @ `your descendants for ever, and build your throne for all generations.'" [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:89:11 @ Thou didst crush Rahab like a carcass, thou didst scatter thy enemies with thy mighty arm.

rsv@Psalms:89:38 @ Like the moon it shall be established for ever; it shall stand firm while the skies endure." [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:89:46 @ Thou hast cut short the days of his youth; thou hast covered him with shame. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:89:49 @ What man can live and never see death? Who can deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:95:8 @ Harden not your hearts, as at Mer'ibah, as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,

rsv@Psalms:97:8 @ Zion hears and is glad, and the daughters of Judah rejoice, because of thy judgments, O God.

rsv@Psalms:105:6 @ O offspring of Abraham his servant, sons of Jacob, his chosen ones!

rsv@Psalms:105:9 @ the covenant which he made with Abraham, his sworn promise to Isaac,

rsv@Psalms:105:17 @ he had sent a man ahead of them, Joseph, who was sold as a slave.

rsv@Psalms:105:42 @ For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant.

rsv@Psalms:106:32 @ They angered him at the waters of Mer'ibah, and it went ill with Moses on their account;

rsv@Psalms:108:9 @ Gilead is mine; Manas'seh is mine; E'phraim is my helmet; Judah my scepter.

rsv@Psalms:114:2 @ Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.

rsv@Psalms:132:7 @ Lo, we heard of it in Eph'rathah, we found it in the fields of Ja'ar.

rsv@Psalms:140:4 @ They make their tongue sharp as a serpent's, and under their lips is the poison of vipers. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:140:6 @ Arrogant men have hidden a trap for me, and with cords they have spread a net, by the wayside they have set snares for me. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:140:9 @ Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked; do not further his evil plot! [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:143:7 @ I stretch out my hands to thee; my soul thirsts for thee like a parched land. [Selah]

rsv@Proverbs:25:1 @ These also are proverbs of Solomon which the men of Hezeki'ah king of Judah copied.

rsv@Songs:6:4 @ You are beautiful as Tirzah, my love, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.

rsv@Isaiah:1:1 @ The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzzi'ah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezeki'ah, kings of Judah.

rsv@Isaiah:1:2 @ Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the LORD has spoken: "Sons have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me.

rsv@Isaiah:1:3 @ The ox knows its owner, and the ass its master's crib; but Israel does not know, my people does not understand."

rsv@Isaiah:1:4 @ Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, sons who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged.

rsv@Isaiah:1:5 @ Why will you still be smitten, that you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

rsv@Isaiah:1:6 @ From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness in it, but bruises and sores and bleeding wounds; they are not pressed out, or bound up, or softened with oil.

rsv@Isaiah:1:7 @ Your country lies desolate, your cities are burned with fire; in your very presence aliens devour your land; it is desolate, as overthrown by aliens.

rsv@Isaiah:1:8 @ And the daughter of Zion is left like a booth in a vineyard, like a lodge in a cucumber field, like a besieged city.

rsv@Isaiah:1:9 @ If the LORD of hosts had not left us a few survivors, we should have been like Sodom, and become like Gomor'rah.

rsv@Isaiah:1:10 @ Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom! Give ear to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomor'rah!

rsv@Isaiah:1:11 @ "What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the LORD; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of he-goats.

rsv@Isaiah:1:12 @ "When you come to appear before me, who requires of you this trampling of my courts?

rsv@Isaiah:1:13 @ Bring no more vain offerings; incense is an abomination to me. New moon and sabbath and the calling of assemblies-- I cannot endure iniquity and solemn assembly.

rsv@Isaiah:1:14 @ Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates; they have become a burden to me, I am weary of bearing them.

rsv@Isaiah:1:15 @ When you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.

rsv@Isaiah:1:16 @ Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil,

rsv@Isaiah:1:17 @ learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; defend the fatherless, plead for the widow.

rsv@Isaiah:1:18 @ "Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.

rsv@Isaiah:1:19 @ If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;

rsv@Isaiah:1:20 @ But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken."

rsv@Isaiah:1:21 @ How the faithful city has become a harlot, she that was full of justice! Righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.

rsv@Isaiah:1:22 @ Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water.

rsv@Isaiah:1:23 @ Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Every one loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not defend the fatherless, and the widow's cause does not come to them.

rsv@Isaiah:1:24 @ Therefore the Lord says, the LORD of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: "Ah, I will vent my wrath on my enemies, and avenge myself on my foes.

rsv@Isaiah:1:25 @ I will turn my hand against you and will smelt away your dross as with lye and remove all your alloy.

rsv@Isaiah:1:26 @ And I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city."

rsv@Isaiah:1:27 @ Zion shall be redeemed by justice, and those in her who repent, by righteousness.

rsv@Isaiah:1:28 @ But rebels and sinners shall be destroyed together, and those who forsake the LORD shall be consumed.

rsv@Isaiah:1:29 @ For you shall be ashamed of the oaks in which you delighted; and you shall blush for the gardens which you have chosen.

rsv@Isaiah:1:30 @ For you shall be like an oak whose leaf withers, and like a garden without water.

rsv@Isaiah:1:31 @ And the strong shall become tow, and his work a spark, and both of them shall burn together, with none to quench them.

rsv@Isaiah:2:1 @ The word which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

rsv@Isaiah:2:2 @ It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it,

rsv@Isaiah:2:3 @ and many peoples shall come, and say: "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths." For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

rsv@Isaiah:2:4 @ He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

rsv@Isaiah:2:5 @ O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the LORD.

rsv@Isaiah:2:6 @ For thou hast rejected thy people, the house of Jacob, because they are full of diviners from the east and of soothsayers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with foreigners.

rsv@Isaiah:2:7 @ Their land is filled with silver and gold, and there is no end to their treasures; their land is filled with horses, and there is no end to their chariots.

rsv@Isaiah:2:8 @ Their land is filled with idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their own fingers have made.

rsv@Isaiah:2:9 @ So man is humbled, and men are brought low-- forgive them not!

rsv@Isaiah:2:10 @ Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust from before the terror of the LORD, and from the glory of his majesty.

rsv@Isaiah:2:11 @ The haughty looks of man shall be brought low, and the pride of men shall be humbled; and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.

rsv@Isaiah:2:12 @ For the LORD of hosts has a day against all that is proud and lofty, against all that is lifted up and high;

rsv@Isaiah:2:13 @ against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up; and against all the oaks of Bashan;

rsv@Isaiah:2:14 @ against all the high mountains, and against all the lofty hills;

rsv@Isaiah:2:15 @ against every high tower, and against every fortified wall;

rsv@Isaiah:2:16 @ against all the ships of Tarshish, and against all the beautiful craft.

rsv@Isaiah:2:17 @ And the haughtiness of man shall be humbled, and the pride of men shall be brought low; and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.

rsv@Isaiah:2:18 @ And the idols shall utterly pass away.

rsv@Isaiah:2:19 @ And men shall enter the caves of the rocks and the holes of the ground, from before the terror of the LORD, and from the glory of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.

rsv@Isaiah:2:20 @ In that day men will cast forth their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats,

rsv@Isaiah:2:21 @ to enter the caverns of the rocks and the clefts of the cliffs, from before the terror of the LORD, and from the glory of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.

rsv@Isaiah:2:22 @ Turn away from man in whose nostrils is breath, for of what account is he?

rsv@Isaiah:3:1 @ For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water;

rsv@Isaiah:3:2 @ the mighty man and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder,

rsv@Isaiah:3:3 @ the captain of fifty and the man of rank, the counselor and the skilful magician and the expert in charms.

rsv@Isaiah:3:4 @ And I will make boys their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

rsv@Isaiah:3:5 @ And the people will oppress one another, every man his fellow and every man his neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the base fellow to the honorable.

rsv@Isaiah:3:6 @ When a man takes hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying: "You have a mantle; you shall be our leader, and this heap of ruins shall be under your rule";

rsv@Isaiah:3:7 @ in that day he will speak out, saying: "I will not be a healer; in my house there is neither bread nor mantle; you shall not make me leader of the people."

rsv@Isaiah:3:8 @ For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen; because their speech and their deeds are against the LORD, defying his glorious presence.

rsv@Isaiah:3:9 @ Their partiality witnesses against them; they proclaim their sin like Sodom, they do not hide it. Woe to them! For they have brought evil upon themselves.

rsv@Isaiah:3:10 @ Tell the righteous that it shall be well with them, for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

rsv@Isaiah:3:11 @ Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him, for what his hands have done shall be done to him.

rsv@Isaiah:3:12 @ My people-- children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, your leaders mislead you, and confuse the course of your paths.

rsv@Isaiah:3:13 @ The LORD has taken his place to contend, he stands to judge his people.

rsv@Isaiah:3:14 @ The LORD enters into judgment with the elders and princes of his people: "It is you who have devoured the vineyard, the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

rsv@Isaiah:3:15 @ What do you mean by crushing my people, by grinding the face of the poor?" says the Lord GOD of hosts.

rsv@Isaiah:3:16 @ The LORD said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks, glancing wantonly with their eyes, mincing along as they go, tinkling with their feet;

rsv@Isaiah:3:17 @ the Lord will smite with a scab the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will lay bare their secret parts.

rsv@Isaiah:3:18 @ In that day the Lord will take away the finery of the anklets, the headbands, and the crescents;

rsv@Isaiah:3:19 @ the pendants, the bracelets, and the scarfs;

rsv@Isaiah:3:20 @ the headdresses, the armlets, the sashes, the perfume boxes, and the amulets;

rsv@Isaiah:3:21 @ the signet rings and nose rings;

rsv@Isaiah:3:22 @ the festal robes, the mantles, the cloaks, and the handbags;

rsv@Isaiah:3:23 @ the garments of gauze, the linen garments, the turbans, and the veils.

rsv@Isaiah:3:24 @ Instead of perfume there will be rottenness; and instead of a girdle, a rope; and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and instead of a rich robe, a girding of sackcloth; instead of beauty, shame.

rsv@Isaiah:3:25 @ Your men shall fall by the sword and your mighty men in battle.

rsv@Isaiah:3:26 @ And her gates shall lament and mourn; ravaged, she shall sit upon the ground.

rsv@Isaiah:4:1 @ And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, "We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothes, only let us be called by your name; take away our reproach."

rsv@Isaiah:4:2 @ In that day the branch of the LORD shall be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land shall be the pride and glory of the survivors of Israel.

rsv@Isaiah:4:3 @ And he who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called holy, every one who has been recorded for life in Jerusalem,

rsv@Isaiah:4:4 @ when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains of Jerusalem from its midst by a spirit of judgment and by a spirit of burning.

rsv@Isaiah:4:5 @ Then the LORD will create over the whole site of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud by day, and smoke and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory there will be a canopy and a pavilion.

rsv@Isaiah:4:6 @ It will be for a shade by day from the heat, and for a refuge and a shelter from the storm and rain.

rsv@Isaiah:5:1 @ Let me sing for my beloved a love song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.

rsv@Isaiah:5:2 @ He digged it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and he looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.

rsv@Isaiah:5:3 @ And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard.

rsv@Isaiah:5:4 @ What more was there to do for my vineyard, that I have not done in it? When I looked for it to yield grapes, why did it yield wild grapes?

rsv@Isaiah:5:5 @ And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down.

rsv@Isaiah:5:6 @ I will make it a waste; it shall not be pruned or hoed, and briers and thorns shall grow up; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

rsv@Isaiah:5:7 @ For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, a cry!

rsv@Isaiah:5:8 @ Woe to those who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is no more room, and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land.

rsv@Isaiah:5:9 @ The LORD of hosts has sworn in my hearing: "Surely many houses shall be desolate, large and beautiful houses, without inhabitant.

rsv@Isaiah:5:10 @ For ten acres of vineyard shall yield but one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah."

rsv@Isaiah:5:11 @ Woe to those who rise early in the morning, that they may run after strong drink, who tarry late into the evening till wine inflames them!

rsv@Isaiah:5:12 @ They have lyre and harp, timbrel and flute and wine at their feasts; but they do not regard the deeds of the LORD, or see the work of his hands.

rsv@Isaiah:5:13 @ Therefore my people go into exile for want of knowledge; their honored men are dying of hunger, and their multitude is parched with thirst.

rsv@Isaiah:5:14 @ Therefore Sheol has enlarged its appetite and opened its mouth beyond measure, and the nobility of Jerusalem and her multitude go down, her throng and he who exults in her.

rsv@Isaiah:5:15 @ Man is bowed down, and men are brought low, and the eyes of the haughty are humbled.

rsv@Isaiah:5:16 @ But the LORD of hosts is exalted in justice, and the Holy God shows himself holy in righteousness.

rsv@Isaiah:5:17 @ Then shall the lambs graze as in their pasture, fatlings and kids shall feed among the ruins.

rsv@Isaiah:5:18 @ Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, who draw sin as with cart ropes,

rsv@Isaiah:5:19 @ who say: "Let him make haste, let him speed his work that we may see it; let the purpose of the Holy One of Israel draw near, and let it come, that we may know it!"

rsv@Isaiah:5:20 @ Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

rsv@Isaiah:5:21 @ Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight!

rsv@Isaiah:5:22 @ Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine, and valiant men in mixing strong drink,

rsv@Isaiah:5:23 @ who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of his right!

rsv@Isaiah:5:24 @ Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root will be as rottenness, and their blossom go up like dust; for they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts, and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

rsv@Isaiah:5:25 @ Therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against his people, and he stretched out his hand against them and smote them, and the mountains quaked; and their corpses were as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away and his hand is stretched out still.

rsv@Isaiah:5:26 @ He will raise a signal for a nation afar off, and whistle for it from the ends of the earth; and lo, swiftly, speedily it comes!

rsv@Isaiah:5:27 @ None is weary, none stumbles, none slumbers or sleeps, not a waistcloth is loose, not a sandal-thong broken;

rsv@Isaiah:5:28 @ their arrows are sharp, all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs seem like flint, and their wheels like the whirlwind.

rsv@Isaiah:5:29 @ Their roaring is like a lion, like young lions they roar; they growl and seize their prey, they carry it off, and none can rescue.

rsv@Isaiah:5:30 @ They will growl over it on that day, like the roaring of the sea. And if one look to the land, behold, darkness and distress; and the light is darkened by its clouds.

rsv@Isaiah:6:1 @ In the year that King Uzzi'ah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.

rsv@Isaiah:6:2 @ Above him stood the seraphim; each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.

rsv@Isaiah:6:3 @ And one called to another and said: "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory."

rsv@Isaiah:6:4 @ And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke.

rsv@Isaiah:6:5 @ And I said: "Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!"

rsv@Isaiah:6:6 @ Then flew one of the seraphim to me, having in his hand a burning coal which he had taken with tongs from the altar.

rsv@Isaiah:6:7 @ And he touched my mouth, and said: "Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin forgiven."

rsv@Isaiah:6:8 @ And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" Then I said, "Here am I! Send me."

rsv@Isaiah:6:9 @ And he said, "Go, and say to this people: `Hear and hear, but do not understand; see and see, but do not perceive.'

rsv@Isaiah:6:10 @ Make the heart of this people fat, and their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed."

rsv@Isaiah:6:11 @ Then I said, "How long, O Lord?" And he said: "Until cities lie waste without inhabitant, and houses without men, and the land is utterly desolate,

rsv@Isaiah:6:12 @ and the LORD removes men far away, and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.

rsv@Isaiah:6:13 @ And though a tenth remain in it, it will be burned again, like a terebinth or an oak, whose stump remains standing when it is felled." The holy seed is its stump.

rsv@Isaiah:7:1 @ In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, son of Uzzi'ah, king of Judah, Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remali'ah the king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but they could not conquer it.

rsv@Isaiah:7:2 @ When the house of David was told, "Syria is in league with E'phraim," his heart and the heart of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake before the wind.

rsv@Isaiah:7:3 @ And the LORD said to Isaiah, "Go forth to meet Ahaz, you and She'ar-jash'ub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool on the highway to the Fuller's Field,

rsv@Isaiah:7:4 @ and say to him, `Take heed, be quiet, do not fear, and do not let your heart be faint because of these two smoldering stumps of firebrands, at the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria and the son of Remali'ah.

rsv@Isaiah:7:5 @ Because Syria, with E'phraim and the son of Remali'ah, has devised evil against you, saying,

rsv@Isaiah:7:6 @ "Let us go up against Judah and terrify it, and let us conquer it for ourselves, and set up the son of Ta'be-el as king in the midst of it,"

rsv@Isaiah:7:7 @ thus says the Lord GOD: It shall not stand, and it shall not come to pass.

rsv@Isaiah:7:8 @ For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. (Within sixty-five years E'phraim will be broken to pieces so that it will no longer be a people.)

rsv@Isaiah:7:9 @ And the head of E'phraim is Sama'ria, and the head of Sama'ria is the son of Remali'ah. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.'"

rsv@Isaiah:7:10 @ Again the LORD spoke to Ahaz,

rsv@Isaiah:7:11 @ "Ask a sign of the LORD your God; let it be deep as Sheol or high as heaven."

rsv@Isaiah:7:12 @ But Ahaz said, "I will not ask, and I will not put the LORD to the test."

rsv@Isaiah:7:13 @ And he said, "Hear then, O house of David! Is it too little for you to weary men, that you weary my God also?

rsv@Isaiah:7:14 @ Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, a young woman shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Imman'u-el.

rsv@Isaiah:7:15 @ He shall eat curds and honey when he knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good.

rsv@Isaiah:7:16 @ For before the child knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land before whose two kings you are in dread will be deserted.

rsv@Isaiah:7:17 @ The LORD will bring upon you and upon your people and upon your father's house such days as have not come since the day that E'phraim departed from Judah-- the king of Assyria."

rsv@Isaiah:7:18 @ In that day the LORD will whistle for the fly which is at the sources of the streams of Egypt, and for the bee which is in the land of Assyria.

rsv@Isaiah:7:19 @ And they will all come and settle in the steep ravines, and in the clefts of the rocks, and on all the thornbushes, and on all the pastures.

rsv@Isaiah:7:20 @ In that day the Lord will shave with a razor which is hired beyond the River-- with the king of Assyria-- the head and the hair of the feet, and it will sweep away the beard also.

rsv@Isaiah:7:21 @ In that day a man will keep alive a young cow and two sheep;

rsv@Isaiah:7:22 @ and because of the abundance of milk which they give, he will eat curds; for every one that is left in the land will eat curds and honey.

rsv@Isaiah:7:23 @ In that day every place where there used to be a thousand vines, worth a thousand shekels of silver, will become briers and thorns.

rsv@Isaiah:7:24 @ With bow and arrows men will come there, for all the land will be briers and thorns;

rsv@Isaiah:7:25 @ and as for all the hills which used to be hoed with a hoe, you will not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but they will become a place where cattle are let loose and where sheep tread.

rsv@Isaiah:8:1 @ Then the LORD said to me, "Take a large tablet and write upon it in common characters, `Belonging to Ma'her-shal'al-hash-baz.'"

rsv@Isaiah:8:2 @ And I got reliable witnesses, Uri'ah the priest and Zechari'ah the son of Jeberechi'ah, to attest for me.

rsv@Isaiah:8:3 @ And I went to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son. Then the LORD said to me, "Call his name Ma'her-shal'al-hash-baz;

rsv@Isaiah:8:4 @ for before the child knows how to cry `My father' or `My mother,' the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Sama'ria will be carried away before the king of Assyria."

rsv@Isaiah:8:5 @ The LORD spoke to me again:

rsv@Isaiah:8:6 @ "Because this people have refused the waters of Shilo'ah that flow gently, and melt in fear before Rezin and the son of Remali'ah;

rsv@Isaiah:8:7 @ therefore, behold, the Lord is bringing up against them the waters of the River, mighty and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory; and it will rise over all its channels and go over all its banks;

rsv@Isaiah:8:8 @ and it will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass on, reaching even to the neck; and its outspread wings will fill the breadth of your land, O Imman'u-el."

rsv@Isaiah:8:9 @ Be broken, you peoples, and be dismayed; give ear, all you far countries; gird yourselves and be dismayed; gird yourselves and be dismayed.

rsv@Isaiah:8:10 @ Take counsel together, but it will come to nought; speak a word, but it will not stand, for God is with us.

rsv@Isaiah:8:11 @ For the LORD spoke thus to me with his strong hand upon me, and warned me not to walk in the way of this people, saying:

rsv@Isaiah:8:12 @ "Do not call conspiracy all that this people call conspiracy, and do not fear what they fear, nor be in dread.

rsv@Isaiah:8:13 @ But the LORD of hosts, him you shall regard as holy; let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

rsv@Isaiah:8:14 @ And he will become a sanctuary, and a stone of offense, and a rock of stumbling to both houses of Israel, a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

rsv@Isaiah:8:15 @ And many shall stumble thereon; they shall fall and be broken; they shall be snared and taken."

rsv@Isaiah:8:16 @ Bind up the testimony, seal the teaching among my disciples.

rsv@Isaiah:8:17 @ I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in him.

rsv@Isaiah:8:18 @ Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are signs and portents in Israel from the LORD of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.

rsv@Isaiah:8:19 @ And when they say to you, "Consult the mediums and the wizards who chirp and mutter," should not a people consult their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?

rsv@Isaiah:8:20 @ To the teaching and to the testimony! Surely for this word which they speak there is no dawn.

rsv@Isaiah:8:21 @ They will pass through the land, greatly distressed and hungry; and when they are hungry, they will be enraged and will curse their king and their God, and turn their faces upward;

rsv@Isaiah:8:22 @ and they will look to the earth, but behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they will be thrust into thick darkness.

rsv@Isaiah:9:1 @ But there will be no gloom for her that was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zeb'ulun and the land of Naph'tali, but in the latter time he will make glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.

rsv@Isaiah:9:2 @ The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shined.

rsv@Isaiah:9:3 @ Thou hast multiplied the nation, thou hast increased its joy; they rejoice before thee as with joy at the harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

rsv@Isaiah:9:4 @ For the yoke of his burden, and the staff for his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, thou hast broken as on the day of Mid'ian.

rsv@Isaiah:9:5 @ For every boot of the tramping warrior in battle tumult and every garment rolled in blood will be burned as fuel for the fire.

rsv@Isaiah:9:6 @ For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his shoulder, and his name will be called "Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace."

rsv@Isaiah:9:7 @ Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, upon the throne of David, and over his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and for evermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.

rsv@Isaiah:9:8 @ The Lord has sent a word against Jacob, and it will light upon Israel;

rsv@Isaiah:9:9 @ and all the people will know, E'phraim and the inhabitants of Sama'ria, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart:

rsv@Isaiah:9:10 @ "The bricks have fallen, but we will build with dressed stones; the sycamores have been cut down, but we will put cedars in their place."

rsv@Isaiah:9:11 @ So the LORD raises adversaries against them, and stirs up their enemies.

rsv@Isaiah:9:12 @ The Syrians on the east and the Philistines on the west devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away and his hand is stretched out still.

rsv@Isaiah:9:13 @ The people did not turn to him who smote them, nor seek the LORD of hosts.

rsv@Isaiah:9:14 @ So the LORD cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed in one day--

rsv@Isaiah:9:15 @ the elder and honored man is the head, and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail;

rsv@Isaiah:9:16 @ for those who lead this people lead them astray, and those who are led by them are swallowed up.

rsv@Isaiah:9:17 @ Therefore the Lord does not rejoice over their young men, and has no compassion on their fatherless and widows; for every one is godless and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away and his hand is stretched out still.

rsv@Isaiah:9:18 @ For wickedness burns like a fire, it consumes briers and thorns; it kindles the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

rsv@Isaiah:9:19 @ Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts the land is burned, and the people are like fuel for the fire; no man spares his brother.

rsv@Isaiah:9:20 @ They snatch on the right, but are still hungry, and they devour on the left, but are not satisfied; each devours his neighbor's flesh,

rsv@Isaiah:9:21 @ Manas'seh E'phraim, and E'phraim Manas'seh, and together they are against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away and his hand is stretched out still.

rsv@Isaiah:10:1 @ Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees, and the writers who keep writing oppression,

rsv@Isaiah:10:2 @ to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

rsv@Isaiah:10:3 @ What will you do on the day of punishment, in the storm which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth?

rsv@Isaiah:10:4 @ Nothing remains but to crouch among the prisoners or fall among the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away and his hand is stretched out still.

rsv@Isaiah:10:5 @ Ah, Assyria, the rod of my anger, the staff of my fury!

rsv@Isaiah:10:6 @ Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

rsv@Isaiah:10:7 @ But he does not so intend, and his mind does not so think; but it is in his mind to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few;

rsv@Isaiah:10:8 @ for he says: "Are not my commanders all kings?

rsv@Isaiah:10:9 @ Is not Calno like Car'chemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Sama'ria like Damascus?

rsv@Isaiah:10:10 @ As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols whose graven images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Sama'ria,

rsv@Isaiah:10:11 @ shall I not do to Jerusalem and her idols as I have done to Sama'ria and her images?"

rsv@Isaiah:10:12 @ When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem he will punish the arrogant boasting of the king of Assyria and his haughty pride.

rsv@Isaiah:10:13 @ For he says: "By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I have understanding; I have removed the boundaries of peoples, and have plundered their treasures; like a bull I have brought down those who sat on thrones.

rsv@Isaiah:10:14 @ My hand has found like a nest the wealth of the peoples; and as men gather eggs that have been forsaken so I have gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved a wing, or opened the mouth, or chirped."

rsv@Isaiah:10:15 @ Shall the axe vaunt itself over him who hews with it, or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it? As if a rod should wield him who lifts it, or as if a staff should lift him who is not wood!

rsv@Isaiah:10:16 @ Therefore the Lord, the LORD of hosts, will send wasting sickness among his stout warriors, and under his glory a burning will be kindled, like the burning of fire.

rsv@Isaiah:10:17 @ The light of Israel will become a fire, and his Holy One a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and briers in one day.

rsv@Isaiah:10:18 @ The glory of his forest and of his fruitful land the LORD will destroy, both soul and body, and it will be as when a sick man wastes away.

rsv@Isaiah:10:19 @ The remnant of the trees of his forest will be so few that a child can write them down.

rsv@Isaiah:10:20 @ In that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no more lean upon him that smote them, but will lean upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

rsv@Isaiah:10:21 @ A remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.

rsv@Isaiah:10:22 @ For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. Destruction is decreed, overflowing with righteousness.

rsv@Isaiah:10:23 @ For the Lord, the LORD of hosts, will make a full end, as decreed, in the midst of all the earth.

rsv@Isaiah:10:24 @ Therefore thus says the Lord, the LORD of hosts: "O my people, who dwell in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrians when they smite with the rod and lift up their staff against you as the Egyptians did.

rsv@Isaiah:10:25 @ For in a very little while my indignation will come to an end, and my anger will be directed to their destruction.

rsv@Isaiah:10:26 @ And the LORD of hosts will wield against them a scourge, as when he smote Mid'ian at the rock of Oreb; and his rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it as he did in Egypt.

rsv@Isaiah:10:27 @ And in that day his burden will depart from your shoulder, and his yoke will be destroyed from your neck." He has gone up from Rimmon,

rsv@Isaiah:10:28 @ he has come to Ai'ath; he has passed through Migron, at Michmash he stores his baggage;

rsv@Isaiah:10:29 @ they have crossed over the pass, at Geba they lodge for the night; Ramah trembles, Gib'e-ah of Saul has fled.

rsv@Isaiah:10:30 @ Cry aloud, O daughter of Gallim! Hearken, O La'ishah! Answer her, O An'athoth!

rsv@Isaiah:10:31 @ Madme'nah is in flight, the inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety.

rsv@Isaiah:10:32 @ This very day he will halt at Nob, he will shake his fist at the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

rsv@Isaiah:10:33 @ Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts will lop the boughs with terrifying power; the great in height will be hewn down, and the lofty will be brought low.

rsv@Isaiah:10:34 @ He will cut down the thickets of the forest with an axe, and Lebanon with its majestic trees will fall.

rsv@Isaiah:11:1 @ There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots.

rsv@Isaiah:11:2 @ And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD.

rsv@Isaiah:11:3 @ And his delight shall be in the fear of the LORD. He shall not judge by what his eyes see, or decide by what his ears hear;

rsv@Isaiah:11:4 @ but with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked.

rsv@Isaiah:11:5 @ Righteousness shall be the girdle of his waist, and faithfulness the girdle of his loins.

rsv@Isaiah:11:6 @ The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them.

rsv@Isaiah:11:7 @ The cow and the bear shall feed; their young shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

rsv@Isaiah:11:8 @ The sucking child shall play over the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den.

rsv@Isaiah:11:9 @ They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.

rsv@Isaiah:11:10 @ In that day the root of Jesse shall stand as an ensign to the peoples; him shall the nations seek, and his dwellings shall be glorious.

rsv@Isaiah:11:11 @ In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant which is left of his people, from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Ethiopia, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the coastlands of the sea.

rsv@Isaiah:11:12 @ He will raise an ensign for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

rsv@Isaiah:11:13 @ The jealousy of E'phraim shall depart, and those who harass Judah shall be cut off; E'phraim shall not be jealous of Judah, and Judah shall not harass E'phraim.

rsv@Isaiah:11:14 @ But they shall swoop down upon the shoulder of the Philistines in the west, and together they shall plunder the people of the east. They shall put forth their hand against Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites shall obey them.

rsv@Isaiah:11:15 @ And the LORD will utterly destroy the tongue of the sea of Egypt; and will wave his hand over the River with his scorching wind, and smite it into seven channels that men may cross dryshod.

rsv@Isaiah:11:16 @ And there will be a highway from Assyria for the remnant which is left of his people, as there was for Israel when they came up from the land of Egypt.

rsv@Isaiah:12:1 @ You will say in that day: "I will give thanks to thee, O LORD, for though thou wast angry with me, thy anger turned away, and thou didst comfort me.

rsv@Isaiah:12:2 @ "Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the LORD GOD is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation."

rsv@Isaiah:12:3 @ With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.

rsv@Isaiah:12:4 @ And you will say in that day: "Give thanks to the LORD, call upon his name; make known his deeds among the nations, proclaim that his name is exalted.

rsv@Isaiah:12:5 @ "Sing praises to the LORD, for he has done gloriously; let this be known in all the earth.

rsv@Isaiah:12:6 @ Shout, and sing for joy, O inhabitant of Zion, for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel."

rsv@Isaiah:13:1 @ The oracle concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.

rsv@Isaiah:13:2 @ On a bare hill raise a signal, cry aloud to them; wave the hand for them to enter the gates of the nobles.

rsv@Isaiah:13:3 @ I myself have commanded my consecrated ones, have summoned my mighty men to execute my anger, my proudly exulting ones.

rsv@Isaiah:13:4 @ Hark, a tumult on the mountains as of a great multitude! Hark, an uproar of kingdoms, of nations gathering together! The LORD of hosts is mustering a host for battle.

rsv@Isaiah:13:5 @ They come from a distant land, from the end of the heavens, the LORD and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole earth.

rsv@Isaiah:13:6 @ Wail, for the day of the LORD is near; as destruction from the Almighty it will come!

rsv@Isaiah:13:7 @ Therefore all hands will be feeble, and every man's heart will melt,

rsv@Isaiah:13:8 @ and they will be dismayed. Pangs and agony will seize them; they will be in anguish like a woman in travail. They will look aghast at one another; their faces will be aflame.

rsv@Isaiah:13:9 @ Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger, to make the earth a desolation and to destroy its sinners from it.

rsv@Isaiah:13:10 @ For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be dark at its rising and the moon will not shed its light.

rsv@Isaiah:13:11 @ I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant, and lay low the haughtiness of the ruthless.

rsv@Isaiah:13:12 @ I will make men more rare than fine gold, and mankind than the gold of Ophir.

rsv@Isaiah:13:13 @ Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place, at the wrath of the LORD of hosts in the day of his fierce anger.

rsv@Isaiah:13:14 @ And like a hunted gazelle, or like sheep with none to gather them, every man will turn to his own people, and every man will flee to his own land.

rsv@Isaiah:13:15 @ Whoever is found will be thrust through, and whoever is caught will fall by the sword.

rsv@Isaiah:13:16 @ Their infants will be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered and their wives ravished.

rsv@Isaiah:13:17 @ Behold, I am stirring up the Medes against them, who have no regard for silver and do not delight in gold.

rsv@Isaiah:13:18 @ Their bows will slaughter the young men; they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb; their eyes will not pity children.

rsv@Isaiah:13:19 @ And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the splendor and pride of the Chalde'ans, will be like Sodom and Gomor'rah when God overthrew them.

rsv@Isaiah:13:20 @ It will never be inhabited or dwelt in for all generations; no Arab will pitch his tent there, no shepherds will make their flocks lie down there.

rsv@Isaiah:13:21 @ But wild beasts will lie down there, and its houses will be full of howling creatures; there ostriches will dwell, and there satyrs will dance.

rsv@Isaiah:13:22 @ Hyenas will cry in its towers, and jackals in the pleasant palaces; its time is close at hand and its days will not be prolonged.

rsv@Isaiah:14:1 @ The LORD will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel, and will set them in their own land, and aliens will join them and will cleave to the house of Jacob.

rsv@Isaiah:14:2 @ And the peoples will take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them in the LORD's land as male and female slaves; they will take captive those who were their captors, and rule over those who oppressed them.

rsv@Isaiah:14:3 @ When the LORD has given you rest from your pain and turmoil and the hard service with which you were made to serve,

rsv@Isaiah:14:4 @ you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: "How the oppressor has ceased, the insolent fury ceased!

rsv@Isaiah:14:5 @ The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of rulers,

rsv@Isaiah:14:6 @ that smote the peoples in wrath with unceasing blows, that ruled the nations in anger with unrelenting persecution.

rsv@Isaiah:14:7 @ The whole earth is at rest and quiet; they break forth into singing.

rsv@Isaiah:14:8 @ The cypresses rejoice at you, the cedars of Lebanon, saying, `Since you were laid low, no hewer comes up against us.'

rsv@Isaiah:14:9 @ Sheol beneath is stirred up to meet you when you come, it rouses the shades to greet you, all who were leaders of the earth; it raises from their thrones all who were kings of the nations.

rsv@Isaiah:14:10 @ All of them will speak and say to you: `You too have become as weak as we! You have become like us!'

rsv@Isaiah:14:11 @ Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, the sound of your harps; maggots are the bed beneath you, and worms are your covering.

rsv@Isaiah:14:12 @ "How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low!

rsv@Isaiah:14:13 @ You said in your heart, `I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far north;

rsv@Isaiah:14:14 @ I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will make myself like the Most High.'

rsv@Isaiah:14:15 @ But you are brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the Pit.

rsv@Isaiah:14:16 @ Those who see you will stare at you, and ponder over you: `Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms,

rsv@Isaiah:14:17 @ who made the world like a desert and overthrew its cities, who did not let his prisoners go home?'

rsv@Isaiah:14:18 @ All the kings of the nations lie in glory, each in his own tomb;

rsv@Isaiah:14:19 @ but you are cast out, away from your sepulchre, like a loathed untimely birth, clothed with the slain, those pierced by the sword, who go down to the stones of the Pit, like a dead body trodden under foot.

rsv@Isaiah:14:20 @ You will not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land, you have slain your people. "May the descendants of evildoers nevermore be named!

rsv@Isaiah:14:21 @ Prepare slaughter for his sons because of the guilt of their fathers, lest they rise and possess the earth, and fill the face of the world with cities."

rsv@Isaiah:14:22 @ "I will rise up against them," says the LORD of hosts, "and will cut off from Babylon name and remnant, offspring and posterity, says the LORD.

rsv@Isaiah:14:23 @ And I will make it a possession of the hedgehog, and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, says the LORD of hosts."

rsv@Isaiah:14:24 @ The LORD of hosts has sworn: "As I have planned, so shall it be, and as I have purposed, so shall it stand,

rsv@Isaiah:14:25 @ that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains trample him under foot; and his yoke shall depart from them, and his burden from their shoulder."

rsv@Isaiah:14:26 @ This is the purpose that is purposed concerning the whole earth; and this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.

rsv@Isaiah:14:27 @ For the LORD of hosts has purposed, and who will annul it? His hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back?

rsv@Isaiah:14:28 @ In the year that King Ahaz died came this oracle:

rsv@Isaiah:14:29 @ "Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of you, that the rod which smote you is broken, for from the serpent's root will come forth an adder, and its fruit will be a flying serpent.

rsv@Isaiah:14:30 @ And the first-born of the poor will feed, and the needy lie down in safety; but I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant I will slay.

rsv@Isaiah:14:31 @ Wail, O gate; cry, O city; melt in fear, O Philistia, all of you! For smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks."

rsv@Isaiah:14:32 @ What will one answer the messengers of the nation? "The LORD has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people find refuge."

rsv@Isaiah:15:1 @ An oracle concerning Moab. Because Ar is laid waste in a night Moab is undone; because Kir is laid waste in a night Moab is undone.

rsv@Isaiah:15:2 @ The daughter of Dibon has gone up to the high places to weep; over Nebo and over Med'eba Moab wails. On every head is baldness, every beard is shorn;

rsv@Isaiah:15:3 @ in the streets they gird on sackcloth; on the housetops and in the squares every one wails and melts in tears.

rsv@Isaiah:15:4 @ Heshbon and Ele-a'leh cry out, their voice is heard as far as Jahaz; therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud; his soul trembles.

rsv@Isaiah:15:5 @ My heart cries out for Moab; his fugitives flee to Zo'ar, to Eg'lath-shelish'iyah. For at the ascent of Luhith they go up weeping; on the road to Horona'im they raise a cry of destruction;

rsv@Isaiah:15:6 @ the waters of Nimrim are a desolation; the grass is withered, the new growth fails, the verdure is no more.

rsv@Isaiah:15:7 @ Therefore the abundance they have gained and what they have laid up they carry away over the Brook of the Willows.

rsv@Isaiah:15:8 @ For a cry has gone round the land of Moab; the wailing reaches to Egla'im, the wailing reaches to Beer-e'lim.

rsv@Isaiah:15:9 @ For the waters of Dibon are full of blood; yet I will bring upon Dibon even more, a lion for those of Moab who escape, for the remnant of the land.

rsv@Isaiah:16:1 @ They have sent lambs to the ruler of the land, from Sela, by way of the desert, to the mount of the daughter of Zion.

rsv@Isaiah:16:2 @ Like fluttering birds, like scattered nestlings, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon.

rsv@Isaiah:16:3 @ "Give counsel, grant justice; make your shade like night at the height of noon; hide the outcasts, betray not the fugitive;

rsv@Isaiah:16:4 @ let the outcasts of Moab sojourn among you; be a refuge to them from the destroyer. When the oppressor is no more, and destruction has ceased, and he who tramples under foot has vanished from the land,

rsv@Isaiah:16:5 @ then a throne will be established in steadfast love and on it will sit in faithfulness in the tent of David one who judges and seeks justice and is swift to do righteousness."

rsv@Isaiah:16:6 @ We have heard of the pride of Moab, how proud he was; of his arrogance, his pride, and his insolence-- his boasts are false.

rsv@Isaiah:16:7 @ Therefore let Moab wail, let every one wail for Moab. Mourn, utterly stricken, for the raisin-cakes of Kir-har'eseth.

rsv@Isaiah:16:8 @ For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have struck down its branches, which reached to Jazer and strayed to the desert; its shoots spread abroad and passed over the sea.

rsv@Isaiah:16:9 @ Therefore I weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; I drench you with my tears, O Heshbon and Ele-a'leh; for upon your fruit and your harvest the battle shout has fallen.

rsv@Isaiah:16:10 @ And joy and gladness are taken away from the fruitful field; and in the vineyards no songs are sung, no shouts are raised; no treader treads out wine in the presses; the vintage shout is hushed.

rsv@Isaiah:16:11 @ Therefore my soul moans like a lyre for Moab, and my heart for Kir-he'res.

rsv@Isaiah:16:12 @ And when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself upon the high place, when he comes to his sanctuary to pray, he will not prevail.

rsv@Isaiah:16:13 @ This is the word which the LORD spoke concerning Moab in the past.

rsv@Isaiah:16:14 @ But now the LORD says, "In three years, like the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab will be brought into contempt, in spite of all his great multitude, and those who survive will be very few and feeble."

rsv@Isaiah:17:1 @ An oracle concerning Damascus. Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city, and will become a heap of ruins.

rsv@Isaiah:17:2 @ Her cities will be deserted for ever; they will be for flocks, which will lie down, and none will make them afraid.

rsv@Isaiah:17:3 @ The fortress will disappear from E'phraim, and the kingdom from Damascus; and the remnant of Syria will be like the glory of the children of Israel, says the LORD of hosts.

rsv@Isaiah:17:4 @ And in that day the glory of Jacob will be brought low, and the fat of his flesh will grow lean.

rsv@Isaiah:17:5 @ And it shall be as when the reaper gathers standing grain and his arm harvests the ears, and as when one gleans the ears of grain in the Valley of Reph'aim.

rsv@Isaiah:17:6 @ Gleanings will be left in it, as when an olive tree is beaten-- two or three berries in the top of the highest bough, four or five on the branches of a fruit tree, says the LORD God of Israel.

rsv@Isaiah:17:7 @ In that day men will regard their Maker, and their eyes will look to the Holy One of Israel;

rsv@Isaiah:17:8 @ they will not have regard for the altars, the work of their hands, and they will not look to what their own fingers have made, either the Ashe'rim or the altars of incense.

rsv@Isaiah:17:9 @ In that day their strong cities will be like the deserted places of the Hivites and the Amorites, which they deserted because of the children of Israel, and there will be desolation.

rsv@Isaiah:17:10 @ For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the Rock of your refuge; therefore, though you plant pleasant plants and set out slips of an alien god,

rsv@Isaiah:17:11 @ though you make them grow on the day that you plant them, and make them blossom in the morning that you sow; yet the harvest will flee away in a day of grief and incurable pain.

rsv@Isaiah:17:12 @ Ah, the thunder of many peoples, they thunder like the thundering of the sea! Ah, the roar of nations, they roar like the roaring of mighty waters!

rsv@Isaiah:17:13 @ The nations roar like the roaring of many waters, but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away, chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind and whirling dust before the storm.

rsv@Isaiah:17:14 @ At evening time, behold, terror! Before morning, they are no more! This is the portion of those who despoil us, and the lot of those who plunder us.

rsv@Isaiah:18:1 @ Ah, land of whirring wings which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;

rsv@Isaiah:18:2 @ which sends ambassadors by the Nile, in vessels of papyrus upon the waters! Go, you swift messengers, to a nation, tall and smooth, to a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide.

rsv@Isaiah:18:3 @ All you inhabitants of the world, you who dwell on the earth, when a signal is raised on the mountains, look! When a trumpet is blown, hear!

rsv@Isaiah:18:4 @ For thus the LORD said to me: "I will quietly look from my dwelling like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest."

rsv@Isaiah:18:5 @ For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the shoots with pruning hooks, and the spreading branches he will hew away.

rsv@Isaiah:18:6 @ They shall all of them be left to the birds of prey of the mountains and to the beasts of the earth. And the birds of prey will summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth will winter upon them.

rsv@Isaiah:18:7 @ At that time gifts will be brought to the LORD of hosts from a people tall and smooth, from a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide, to Mount Zion, the place of the name of the LORD of hosts.

rsv@Isaiah:19:1 @ An oracle concerning Egypt. Behold, the LORD is riding on a swift cloud and comes to Egypt; and the idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence, and the heart of the Egyptians will melt within them.

rsv@Isaiah:19:2 @ And I will stir up Egyptians against Egyptians, and they will fight, every man against his brother and every man against his neighbor, city against city, kingdom against kingdom;

rsv@Isaiah:19:3 @ and the spirit of the Egyptians within them will be emptied out, and I will confound their plans; and they will consult the idols and the sorcerers, and the mediums and the wizards;

rsv@Isaiah:19:4 @ and I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a hard master; and a fierce king will rule over them, says the Lord, the LORD of hosts.

rsv@Isaiah:19:5 @ And the waters of the Nile will be dried up, and the river will be parched and dry;

rsv@Isaiah:19:6 @ and its canals will become foul, and the branches of Egypt's Nile will diminish and dry up, reeds and rushes will rot away.

rsv@Isaiah:19:7 @ There will be bare places by the Nile, on the brink of the Nile, and all that is sown by the Nile will dry up, be driven away, and be no more.

rsv@Isaiah:19:8 @ The fishermen will mourn and lament, all who cast hook in the Nile; and they will languish who spread nets upon the water.

rsv@Isaiah:19:9 @ The workers in combed flax will be in despair, and the weavers of white cotton.

rsv@Isaiah:19:10 @ Those who are the pillars of the land will be crushed, and all who work for hire will be grieved.

rsv@Isaiah:19:11 @ The princes of Zo'an are utterly foolish; the wise counselors of Pharaoh give stupid counsel. How can you say to Pharaoh, "I am a son of the wise, a son of ancient kings"?

rsv@Isaiah:19:12 @ Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you and make known what the LORD of hosts has purposed against Egypt.

rsv@Isaiah:19:13 @ The princes of Zo'an have become fools, and the princes of Memphis are deluded; those who are the cornerstones of her tribes have led Egypt astray.

rsv@Isaiah:19:14 @ The LORD has mingled within her a spirit of confusion; and they have made Egypt stagger in all her doings as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.

rsv@Isaiah:19:15 @ And there will be nothing for Egypt which head or tail, palm branch or reed, may do.

rsv@Isaiah:19:16 @ In that day the Egyptians will be like women, and tremble with fear before the hand which the LORD of hosts shakes over them.

rsv@Isaiah:19:17 @ And the land of Judah will become a terror to the Egyptians; every one to whom it is mentioned will fear because of the purpose which the LORD of hosts has purposed against them.

rsv@Isaiah:19:18 @ In that day there will be five cities in the land of Egypt which speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the LORD of hosts. One of these will be called the City of the Sun.

rsv@Isaiah:19:19 @ In that day there will be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the LORD at its border.

rsv@Isaiah:19:20 @ It will be a sign and a witness to the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt; when they cry to the LORD because of oppressors he will send them a savior, and will defend and deliver them.

rsv@Isaiah:19:21 @ And the LORD will make himself known to the Egyptians; and the Egyptians will know the LORD in that day and worship with sacrifice and burnt offering, and they will make vows to the LORD and perform them.

rsv@Isaiah:19:22 @ And the LORD will smite Egypt, smiting and healing, and they will return to the LORD, and he will heed their supplications and heal them.

rsv@Isaiah:19:23 @ In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian will come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians.

rsv@Isaiah:19:24 @ In that day Israel will be the third with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth,

rsv@Isaiah:19:25 @ whom the LORD of hosts has blessed, saying, "Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my heritage."

rsv@Isaiah:20:1 @ In the year that the commander in chief, who was sent by Sargon the king of Assyria, came to Ashdod and fought against it and took it,--

rsv@Isaiah:20:2 @ at that time the LORD had spoken by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, "Go, and loose the sackcloth from your loins and take off your shoes from your feet," and he had done so, walking naked and barefoot--

rsv@Isaiah:20:3 @ the LORD said, "As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot for three years as a sign and a portent against Egypt and Ethiopia,

rsv@Isaiah:20:4 @ so shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians captives and the Ethiopians exiles, both the young and the old, naked and barefoot, with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

rsv@Isaiah:20:5 @ Then they shall be dismayed and confounded because of Ethiopia their hope and of Egypt their boast.

rsv@Isaiah:20:6 @ And the inhabitants of this coastland will say in that day, `Behold, this is what has happened to those in whom we hoped and to whom we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria! And we, how shall we escape?'"

rsv@Isaiah:21:1 @ The oracle concerning the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the Negeb sweep on, it comes from the desert, from a terrible land.

rsv@Isaiah:21:2 @ A stern vision is told to me; the plunderer plunders, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, O Elam, lay siege, O Media; all the sighing she has caused I bring to an end.

rsv@Isaiah:21:3 @ Therefore my loins are filled with anguish; pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman in travail; I am bowed down so that I cannot hear, I am dismayed so that I cannot see.

rsv@Isaiah:21:4 @ My mind reels, horror has appalled me; the twilight I longed for has been turned for me into trembling.

rsv@Isaiah:21:5 @ They prepare the table, they spread the rugs, they eat, they drink. Arise, O princes, oil the shield!

rsv@Isaiah:21:6 @ For thus the Lord said to me: "Go, set a watchman, let him announce what he sees.

rsv@Isaiah:21:7 @ When he sees riders, horsemen in pairs, riders on asses, riders on camels, let him listen diligently, very diligently."

rsv@Isaiah:21:8 @ Then he who saw cried: "Upon a watchtower I stand, O Lord, continually by day, and at my post I am stationed whole nights.

rsv@Isaiah:21:9 @ And, behold, here come riders, horsemen in pairs!" And he answered, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the images of her gods he has shattered to the ground."

rsv@Isaiah:21:10 @ O my threshed and winnowed one, what I have heard from the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, I announce to you.

rsv@Isaiah:21:11 @ The oracle concerning Dumah. One is calling to me from Se'ir, "Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?"

rsv@Isaiah:21:12 @ The watchman says: "Morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire; come back again."

rsv@Isaiah:21:13 @ The oracle concerning Arabia. In the thickets in Arabia you will lodge, O caravans of De'danites.

rsv@Isaiah:21:14 @ To the thirsty bring water, meet the fugitive with bread, O inhabitants of the land of Tema.

rsv@Isaiah:21:15 @ For they have fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the press of battle.

rsv@Isaiah:21:16 @ For thus the Lord said to me, "Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end;

rsv@Isaiah:21:17 @ and the remainder of the archers of the mighty men of the sons of Kedar will be few; for the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken."

rsv@Isaiah:22:1 @ The oracle concerning the valley of vision. What do you mean that you have gone up, all of you, to the housetops,

rsv@Isaiah:22:2 @ you who are full of shoutings, tumultuous city, exultant town? Your slain are not slain with the sword or dead in battle.

rsv@Isaiah:22:3 @ All your rulers have fled together, without the bow they were captured. All of you who were found were captured, though they had fled far away.

rsv@Isaiah:22:4 @ Therefore I said: "Look away from me, let me weep bitter tears; do not labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people."

rsv@Isaiah:22:5 @ For the Lord GOD of hosts has a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in the valley of vision, a battering down of walls and a shouting to the mountains.

rsv@Isaiah:22:6 @ And Elam bore the quiver with chariots and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.

rsv@Isaiah:22:7 @ Your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen took their stand at the gates.

rsv@Isaiah:22:8 @ He has taken away the covering of Judah. In that day you looked to the weapons of the House of the Forest,

rsv@Isaiah:22:9 @ and you saw that the breaches of the city of David were many, and you collected the waters of the lower pool,

rsv@Isaiah:22:10 @ and you counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.

rsv@Isaiah:22:11 @ You made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you did not look to him who did it, or have regard for him who planned it long ago.

rsv@Isaiah:22:12 @ In that day the Lord GOD of hosts called to weeping and mourning, to baldness and girding with sackcloth;

rsv@Isaiah:22:13 @ and behold, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine. "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."

rsv@Isaiah:22:14 @ The LORD of hosts has revealed himself in my ears: "Surely this iniquity will not be forgiven you till you die," says the Lord GOD of hosts.

rsv@Isaiah:22:15 @ Thus says the Lord GOD of hosts, "Come, go to this steward, to Shebna, who is over the household, and say to him:

rsv@Isaiah:22:16 @ What have you to do here and whom have you here, that you have hewn here a tomb for yourself, you who hew a tomb on the height, and carve a habitation for yourself in the rock?

rsv@Isaiah:22:17 @ Behold, the LORD will hurl you away violently, O you strong man. He will seize firm hold on you,

rsv@Isaiah:22:18 @ and whirl you round and round, and throw you like a ball into a wide land; there you shall die, and there shall be your splendid chariots, you shame of your master's house.

rsv@Isaiah:22:19 @ I will thrust you from your office, and you will be cast down from your station.

rsv@Isaiah:22:20 @ In that day I will call my servant Eli'akim the son of Hilki'ah,

rsv@Isaiah:22:21 @ and I will clothe him with your robe, and will bind your girdle on him, and will commit your authority to his hand; and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.

rsv@Isaiah:22:22 @ And I will place on his shoulder the key of the house of David; he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.

rsv@Isaiah:22:23 @ And I will fasten him like a peg in a sure place, and he will become a throne of honor to his father's house.

rsv@Isaiah:22:24 @ And they will hang on him the whole weight of his father's house, the offspring and issue, every small vessel, from the cups to all the flagons.

rsv@Isaiah:22:25 @ In that day, says the LORD of hosts, the peg that was fastened in a sure place will give way; and it will be cut down and fall, and the burden that was upon it will be cut off, for the LORD has spoken."

rsv@Isaiah:23:1 @ The oracle concerning Tyre. Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for Tyre is laid waste, without house or haven! From the land of Cyprus it is revealed to them.

rsv@Isaiah:23:2 @ Be still, O inhabitants of the coast, O merchants of Sidon; your messengers passed over the sea

rsv@Isaiah:23:3 @ and were on many waters; your revenue was the grain of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile; you were the merchant of the nations.

rsv@Isaiah:23:4 @ Be ashamed, O Sidon, for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying: "I have neither travailed nor given birth, I have neither reared young men nor brought up virgins."

rsv@Isaiah:23:5 @ When the report comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish over the report about Tyre.

rsv@Isaiah:23:6 @ Pass over to Tarshish, wail, O inhabitants of the coast!

rsv@Isaiah:23:7 @ Is this your exultant city whose origin is from days of old, whose feet carried her to settle afar?

rsv@Isaiah:23:8 @ Who has purposed this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the honored of the earth?

rsv@Isaiah:23:9 @ The LORD of hosts has purposed it, to defile the pride of all glory, to dishonor all the honored of the earth.

rsv@Isaiah:23:10 @ Overflow your land like the Nile, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no restraint any more.

rsv@Isaiah:23:11 @ He has stretched out his hand over the sea, he has shaken the kingdoms; the LORD has given command concerning Canaan to destroy its strongholds.

rsv@Isaiah:23:12 @ And he said: "You will no more exult, O oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon; arise, pass over to Cyprus, even there you will have no rest."

rsv@Isaiah:23:13 @ Behold the land of the Chalde'ans! This is the people; it was not Assyria. They destined Tyre for wild beasts. They erected their siegetowers, they razed her palaces, they made her a ruin.

rsv@Isaiah:23:14 @ Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste.

rsv@Isaiah:23:15 @ In that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, like the days of one king. At the end of seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot:

rsv@Isaiah:23:16 @ "Take a harp, go about the city, O forgotten harlot! Make sweet melody, sing many songs, that you may be remembered."

rsv@Isaiah:23:17 @ At the end of seventy years, the LORD will visit Tyre, and she will return to her hire, and will play the harlot with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.

rsv@Isaiah:23:18 @ Her merchandise and her hire will be dedicated to the LORD; it will not be stored or hoarded, but her merchandise will supply abundant food and fine clothing for those who dwell before the LORD.

rsv@Isaiah:24:1 @ Behold, the LORD will lay waste the earth and make it desolate, and he will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants.

rsv@Isaiah:24:2 @ And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the slave, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the creditor, so with the debtor.

rsv@Isaiah:24:3 @ The earth shall be utterly laid waste and utterly despoiled; for the LORD has spoken this word.

rsv@Isaiah:24:4 @ The earth mourns and withers, the world languishes and withers; the heavens languish together with the earth.

rsv@Isaiah:24:5 @ The earth lies polluted under its inhabitants; for they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.

rsv@Isaiah:24:6 @ Therefore a curse devours the earth, and its inhabitants suffer for their guilt; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are scorched, and few men are left.

rsv@Isaiah:24:7 @ The wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted sigh.

rsv@Isaiah:24:8 @ The mirth of the timbrels is stilled, the noise of the jubilant has ceased, the mirth of the lyre is stilled.

rsv@Isaiah:24:9 @ No more do they drink wine with singing; strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.

rsv@Isaiah:24:10 @ The city of chaos is broken down, every house is shut up so that none can enter.

rsv@Isaiah:24:11 @ There is an outcry in the streets for lack of wine; all joy has reached its eventide; the gladness of the earth is banished.

rsv@Isaiah:24:12 @ Desolation is left in the city, the gates are battered into ruins.

rsv@Isaiah:24:13 @ For thus it shall be in the midst of the earth among the nations, as when an olive tree is beaten, as at the gleaning when the vintage is done.

rsv@Isaiah:24:14 @ They lift up their voices, they sing for joy; over the majesty of the LORD they shout from the west.

rsv@Isaiah:24:15 @ Therefore in the east give glory to the LORD; in the coastlands of the sea, to the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.

rsv@Isaiah:24:16 @ From the ends of the earth we hear songs of praise, of glory to the Righteous One. But I say, "I pine away, I pine away. Woe is me! For the treacherous deal treacherously, the treacherous deal very treacherously."

rsv@Isaiah:24:17 @ Terror, and the pit, and the snare are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth!

rsv@Isaiah:24:18 @ He who flees at the sound of the terror shall fall into the pit; and he who climbs out of the pit shall be caught in the snare. For the windows of heaven are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.

rsv@Isaiah:24:19 @ The earth is utterly broken, the earth is rent asunder, the earth is violently shaken.

rsv@Isaiah:24:20 @ The earth staggers like a drunken man, it sways like a hut; its transgression lies heavy upon it, and it falls, and will not rise again.

rsv@Isaiah:24:21 @ On that day the LORD will punish the host of heaven, in heaven, and the kings of the earth, on the earth.

rsv@Isaiah:24:22 @ They will be gathered together as prisoners in a pit; they will be shut up in a prison, and after many days they will be punished.

rsv@Isaiah:24:23 @ Then the moon will be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for the LORD of hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem and before his elders he will manifest his glory.

rsv@Isaiah:25:1 @ O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things, plans formed of old, faithful and sure.

rsv@Isaiah:25:2 @ For thou hast made the city a heap, the fortified city a ruin; the palace of aliens is a city no more, it will never be rebuilt.

rsv@Isaiah:25:3 @ Therefore strong peoples will glorify thee; cities of ruthless nations will fear thee.

rsv@Isaiah:25:4 @ For thou hast been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat; for the blast of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall,

rsv@Isaiah:25:5 @ like heat in a dry place. Thou dost subdue the noise of the aliens; as heat by the shade of a cloud, so the song of the ruthless is stilled.

rsv@Isaiah:25:6 @ On this mountain the LORD of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of wine on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wine on the lees well refined.

rsv@Isaiah:25:7 @ And he will destroy on this mountain the covering that is cast over all peoples, the veil that is spread over all nations.

rsv@Isaiah:25:8 @ He will swallow up death for ever, and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth; for the LORD has spoken.

rsv@Isaiah:25:9 @ It will be said on that day, "Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, that he might save us. This is the LORD; we have waited for him; let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation."

rsv@Isaiah:25:10 @ For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain, and Moab shall be trodden down in his place, as straw is trodden down in a dung-pit.

rsv@Isaiah:25:11 @ And he will spread out his hands in the midst of it as a swimmer spreads his hands out to swim; but the LORD will lay low his pride together with the skill of his hands.

rsv@Isaiah:25:12 @ And the high fortifications of his walls he will bring down, lay low, and cast to the ground, even to the dust.

rsv@Isaiah:26:1 @ In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: "We have a strong city; he sets up salvation as walls and bulwarks.

rsv@Isaiah:26:2 @ Open the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps faith may enter in.

rsv@Isaiah:26:3 @ Thou dost keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee, because he trusts in thee.

rsv@Isaiah:26:4 @ Trust in the LORD for ever, for the LORD GOD is an everlasting rock.

rsv@Isaiah:26:5 @ For he has brought low the inhabitants of the height, the lofty city. He lays it low, lays it low to the ground, casts it to the dust.

rsv@Isaiah:26:6 @ The foot tramples it, the feet of the poor, the steps of the needy."

rsv@Isaiah:26:7 @ The way of the righteous is level; thou dost make smooth the path of the righteous.

rsv@Isaiah:26:8 @ In the path of thy judgments, O LORD, we wait for thee; thy memorial name is the desire of our soul.

rsv@Isaiah:26:9 @ My soul yearns for thee in the night, my spirit within me earnestly seeks thee. For when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

rsv@Isaiah:26:10 @ If favor is shown to the wicked, he does not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness he deals perversely and does not see the majesty of the LORD.

rsv@Isaiah:26:11 @ O LORD, thy hand is lifted up, but they see it not. Let them see thy zeal for thy people, and be ashamed. Let the fire for thy adversaries consume them.

rsv@Isaiah:26:12 @ O LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us, thou hast wrought for us all our works.

rsv@Isaiah:26:13 @ O LORD our God, other lords besides thee have ruled over us, but thy name alone we acknowledge.

rsv@Isaiah:26:14 @ They are dead, they will not live; they are shades, they will not arise; to that end thou hast visited them with destruction and wiped out all remembrance of them.

rsv@Isaiah:26:15 @ But thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation; thou art glorified; thou hast enlarged all the borders of the land.

rsv@Isaiah:26:16 @ O LORD, in distress they sought thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.

rsv@Isaiah:26:17 @ Like a woman with child, who writhes and cries out in her pangs, when she is near her time, so were we because of thee, O LORD;

rsv@Isaiah:26:18 @ we were with child, we writhed, we have as it were brought forth wind. We have wrought no deliverance in the earth, and the inhabitants of the world have not fallen.

rsv@Isaiah:26:19 @ Thy dead shall live, their bodies shall rise. O dwellers in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For thy dew is a dew of light, and on the land of the shades thou wilt let it fall.

rsv@Isaiah:26:20 @ Come, my people, enter your chambers, and shut your doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until the wrath is past.

rsv@Isaiah:26:21 @ For behold, the LORD is coming forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity, and the earth will disclose the blood shed upon her, and will no more cover her slain.

rsv@Isaiah:27:1 @ In that day the LORD with his hard and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea.

rsv@Isaiah:27:2 @ In that day: "A pleasant vineyard, sing of it!

rsv@Isaiah:27:3 @ I, the LORD, am its keeper; every moment I water it. Lest any one harm it, I guard it night and day;

rsv@Isaiah:27:4 @ I have no wrath. Would that I had thorns and briers to battle! I would set out against them, I would burn them up together.

rsv@Isaiah:27:5 @ Or let them lay hold of my protection, let them make peace with me, let them make peace with me."

rsv@Isaiah:27:6 @ In days to come Jacob shall take root, Israel shall blossom and put forth shoots, and fill the whole world with fruit.

rsv@Isaiah:27:7 @ Has he smitten them as he smote those who smote them? Or have they been slain as their slayers were slain?

rsv@Isaiah:27:8 @ Measure by measure, by exile thou didst contend with them; he removed them with his fierce blast in the day of the east wind.

rsv@Isaiah:27:9 @ Therefore by this the guilt of Jacob will be expiated, and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: when he makes all the stones of the altars like chalkstones crushed to pieces, no Ashe'rim or incense altars will remain standing.

rsv@Isaiah:27:10 @ For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness; there the calf grazes, there he lies down, and strips its branches.

rsv@Isaiah:27:11 @ When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and make a fire of them. For this is a people without discernment; therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, he that formed them will show them no favor.

rsv@Isaiah:27:12 @ In that day from the river Euphra'tes to the Brook of Egypt the LORD will thresh out the grain, and you will be gathered one by one, O people of Israel.

rsv@Isaiah:27:13 @ And in that day a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were lost in the land of Assyria and those who were driven out to the land of Egypt will come and worship the LORD on the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

rsv@Isaiah:28:1 @ Woe to the proud crown of the drunkards of E'phraim, and to the fading flower of its glorious beauty, which is on the head of the rich valley of those overcome with wine!

rsv@Isaiah:28:2 @ Behold, the Lord has one who is mighty and strong; like a storm of hail, a destroying tempest, like a storm of mighty, overflowing waters, he will cast down to the earth with violence.

rsv@Isaiah:28:3 @ The proud crown of the drunkards of E'phraim will be trodden under foot;

rsv@Isaiah:28:4 @ and the fading flower of its glorious beauty, which is on the head of the rich valley, will be like a first-ripe fig before the summer: when a man sees it, he eats it up as soon as it is in his hand.

rsv@Isaiah:28:5 @ In that day the LORD of hosts will be a crown of glory, and a diadem of beauty, to the remnant of his people;

rsv@Isaiah:28:6 @ and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.

rsv@Isaiah:28:7 @ These also reel with wine and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are confused with wine, they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in giving judgment.

rsv@Isaiah:28:8 @ For all tables are full of vomit, no place is without filthiness.

rsv@Isaiah:28:9 @ "Whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, those taken from the breast?

rsv@Isaiah:28:10 @ For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little."

rsv@Isaiah:28:11 @ Nay, but by men of strange lips and with an alien tongue the LORD will speak to this people,

rsv@Isaiah:28:12 @ to whom he has said, "This is rest; give rest to the weary; and this is repose"; yet they would not hear.

rsv@Isaiah:28:13 @ Therefore the word of the LORD will be to them precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little; that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

rsv@Isaiah:28:14 @ Therefore hear the word of the LORD, you scoffers, who rule this people in Jerusalem!

rsv@Isaiah:28:15 @ Because you have said, "We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have an agreement; when the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have taken shelter";

rsv@Isaiah:28:16 @ therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I am laying in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation: `He who believes will not be in haste.'

rsv@Isaiah:28:17 @ And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plummet; and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will overwhelm the shelter."

rsv@Isaiah:28:18 @ Then your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand; when the overwhelming scourge passes through you will be beaten down by it.

rsv@Isaiah:28:19 @ As often as it passes through it will take you; for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will be sheer terror to understand the message.

rsv@Isaiah:28:20 @ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on it, and the covering too narrow to wrap oneself in it.

rsv@Isaiah:28:21 @ For the LORD will rise up as on Mount Pera'zim, he will be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon; to do his deed-- strange is his deed! and to work his work-- alien is his work!

rsv@Isaiah:28:22 @ Now therefore do not scoff, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord GOD of hosts upon the whole land.

rsv@Isaiah:28:23 @ Give ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.

rsv@Isaiah:28:24 @ Does he who plows for sowing plow continually? does he continually open and harrow his ground?

rsv@Isaiah:28:25 @ When he has leveled its surface, does he not scatter dill, sow cummin, and put in wheat in rows and barley in its proper place, and spelt as the border?

rsv@Isaiah:28:26 @ For he is instructed aright; his God teaches him.

rsv@Isaiah:28:27 @ Dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge, nor is a cart wheel rolled over cummin; but dill is beaten out with a stick, and cummin with a rod.

rsv@Isaiah:28:28 @ Does one crush bread grain? No, he does not thresh it for ever; when he drives his cart wheel over it with his horses, he does not crush it.

rsv@Isaiah:28:29 @ This also comes from the LORD of hosts; he is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.

rsv@Isaiah:29:1 @ Ho Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts run their round.

rsv@Isaiah:29:2 @ Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be moaning and lamentation, and she shall be to me like an Ariel.

rsv@Isaiah:29:3 @ And I will encamp against you round about, and will besiege you with towers and I will raise siegeworks against you.

rsv@Isaiah:29:4 @ Then deep from the earth you shall speak, from low in the dust your words shall come; your voice shall come from the ground like the voice of a ghost, and your speech shall whisper out of the dust.

rsv@Isaiah:29:5 @ But the multitude of your foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the ruthless like passing chaff. And in an instant, suddenly,

rsv@Isaiah:29:6 @ you will be visited by the LORD of hosts with thunder and with earthquake and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of a devouring fire.

rsv@Isaiah:29:7 @ And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, all that fight against her and her stronghold and distress her, shall be like a dream, a vision of the night.

rsv@Isaiah:29:8 @ As when a hungry man dreams he is eating and awakes with his hunger not satisfied, or as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking and awakes faint, with his thirst not quenched, so shall the multitude of all the nations be that fight against Mount Zion.

rsv@Isaiah:29:9 @ Stupefy yourselves and be in a stupor, blind yourselves and be blind! Be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not with strong drink!

rsv@Isaiah:29:10 @ For the LORD has poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets, and covered your heads, the seers.

rsv@Isaiah:29:11 @ And the vision of all this has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed. When men give it to one who can read, saying, "Read this," he says, "I cannot, for it is sealed."

rsv@Isaiah:29:12 @ And when they give the book to one who cannot read, saying, "Read this," he says, "I cannot read."

rsv@Isaiah:29:13 @ And the Lord said: "Because this people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men learned by rote;

rsv@Isaiah:29:14 @ therefore, behold, I will again do marvelous things with this people, wonderful and marvelous; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the discernment of their discerning men shall be hid."

rsv@Isaiah:29:15 @ Woe to those who hide deep from the LORD their counsel, whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, "Who sees us? Who knows us?"

rsv@Isaiah:29:16 @ You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be regarded as the clay; that the thing made should say of its maker, "He did not make me"; or the thing formed say of him who formed it, "He has no understanding"?

rsv@Isaiah:29:17 @ Is it not yet a very little while until Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be regarded as a forest?

rsv@Isaiah:29:18 @ In that day the deaf shall hear the words of a book, and out of their gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind shall see.

rsv@Isaiah:29:19 @ The meek shall obtain fresh joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall exult in the Holy One of Israel.

rsv@Isaiah:29:20 @ For the ruthless shall come to nought and the scoffer cease, and all who watch to do evil shall be cut off,

rsv@Isaiah:29:21 @ who by a word make a man out to be an offender, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, and with an empty plea turn aside him who is in the right.

rsv@Isaiah:29:22 @ Therefore thus says the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob: "Jacob shall no more be ashamed, no more shall his face grow pale.

rsv@Isaiah:29:23 @ For when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in his midst, they will sanctify my name; they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.

rsv@Isaiah:29:24 @ And those who err in spirit will come to understanding, and those who murmur will accept instruction."

rsv@Isaiah:30:1 @ "Woe to the rebellious children," says the LORD, "who carry out a plan, but not mine; and who make a league, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin;

rsv@Isaiah:30:2 @ who set out to go down to Egypt, without asking for my counsel, to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh, and to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt!

rsv@Isaiah:30:3 @ Therefore shall the protection of Pharaoh turn to your shame, and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt to your humiliation.

rsv@Isaiah:30:4 @ For though his officials are at Zo'an and his envoys reach Ha'nes,

rsv@Isaiah:30:5 @ every one comes to shame through a people that cannot profit them, that brings neither help nor profit, but shame and disgrace."

rsv@Isaiah:30:6 @ An oracle on the beasts of the Negeb. Through a land of trouble and anguish, from where come the lioness and the lion, the viper and the flying serpent, they carry their riches on the backs of asses, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people that cannot profit them.

rsv@Isaiah:30:7 @ For Egypt's help is worthless and empty, therefore I have called her "Rahab who sits still."

rsv@Isaiah:30:8 @ And now, go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come as a witness for ever.

rsv@Isaiah:30:9 @ For they are a rebellious people, lying sons, sons who will not hear the instruction of the LORD;

rsv@Isaiah:30:10 @ who say to the seers, "See not"; and to the prophets, "Prophesy not to us what is right; speak to us smooth things, prophesy illusions,

rsv@Isaiah:30:11 @ leave the way, turn aside from the path, let us hear no more of the Holy One of Israel."

rsv@Isaiah:30:12 @ Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, "Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on them;

rsv@Isaiah:30:13 @ therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a break in a high wall, bulging out, and about to collapse, whose crash comes suddenly, in an instant;

rsv@Isaiah:30:14 @ and its breaking is like that of a potter's vessel which is smashed so ruthlessly that among its fragments not a sherd is found with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern."

rsv@Isaiah:30:15 @ For thus said the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, "In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength." And you would not,

rsv@Isaiah:30:16 @ but you said, "No! We will speed upon horses," therefore you shall speed away; and, "We will ride upon swift steeds," therefore your pursuers shall be swift.

rsv@Isaiah:30:17 @ A thousand shall flee at the threat of one, at the threat of five you shall flee, till you are left like a flagstaff on the top of a mountain, like a signal on a hill.

rsv@Isaiah:30:18 @ Therefore the LORD waits to be gracious to you; therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the LORD is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.

rsv@Isaiah:30:19 @ Yea, O people in Zion who dwell at Jerusalem; you shall weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when he hears it, he will answer you.

rsv@Isaiah:30:20 @ And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your Teacher will not hide himself any more, but your eyes shall see your Teacher.

rsv@Isaiah:30:21 @ And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, "This is the way, walk in it," when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left.

rsv@Isaiah:30:22 @ Then you will defile your silver-covered graven images and your gold-plated molten images. You will scatter them as unclean things; you will say to them, "Begone!"

rsv@Isaiah:30:23 @ And he will give rain for the seed with which you sow the ground, and grain, the produce of the ground, which will be rich and plenteous. In that day your cattle will graze in large pastures;

rsv@Isaiah:30:24 @ and the oxen and the asses that till the ground will eat salted provender, which has been winnowed with shovel and fork.

rsv@Isaiah:30:25 @ And upon every lofty mountain and every high hill there will be brooks running with water, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

rsv@Isaiah:30:26 @ Moreover the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day when the LORD binds up the hurt of his people, and heals the wounds inflicted by his blow.

rsv@Isaiah:30:27 @ Behold, the name of the LORD comes from far, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke; his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is like a devouring fire;

rsv@Isaiah:30:28 @ his breath is like an overflowing stream that reaches up to the neck; to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction, and to place on the jaws of the peoples a bridle that leads astray.

rsv@Isaiah:30:29 @ You shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one sets out to the sound of the flute to go to the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel.

rsv@Isaiah:30:30 @ And the LORD will cause his majestic voice to be heard and the descending blow of his arm to be seen, in furious anger and a flame of devouring fire, with a cloudburst and tempest and hailstones.

rsv@Isaiah:30:31 @ The Assyrians will be terror-stricken at the voice of the LORD, when he smites with his rod.

rsv@Isaiah:30:32 @ And every stroke of the staff of punishment which the LORD lays upon them will be to the sound of timbrels and lyres; battling with brandished arm he will fight with them.

rsv@Isaiah:30:33 @ For a burning place has long been prepared; yea, for the king it is made ready, its pyre made deep and wide, with fire and wood in abundance; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, kindles it.

rsv@Isaiah:31:1 @ Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help and rely on horses, who trust in chariots because they are many and in horsemen because they are very strong, but do not look to the Holy One of Israel or consult the LORD!

rsv@Isaiah:31:2 @ And yet he is wise and brings disaster, he does not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the helpers of those who work iniquity.

rsv@Isaiah:31:3 @ The Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses are flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD stretches out his hand, the helper will stumble, and he who is helped will fall, and they will all perish together.

rsv@Isaiah:31:4 @ For thus the LORD said to me, As a lion or a young lion growls over his prey, and when a band of shepherds is called forth against him is not terrified by their shouting or daunted at their noise, so the LORD of hosts will come down to fight upon Mount Zion and upon its hill.

rsv@Isaiah:31:5 @ Like birds hovering, so the LORD of hosts will protect Jerusalem; he will protect and deliver it, he will spare and rescue it.

rsv@Isaiah:31:6 @ Turn to him from whom you have deeply revolted, O people of Israel.

rsv@Isaiah:31:7 @ For in that day every one shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which your hands have sinfully made for you.

rsv@Isaiah:31:8 @ "And the Assyrian shall fall by a sword, not of man; and a sword, not of man, shall devour him; and he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be put to forced labor.

rsv@Isaiah:31:9 @ His rock shall pass away in terror, and his officers desert the standard in panic," says the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.

rsv@Isaiah:32:1 @ Behold, a king will reign in righteousness, and princes will rule in justice.

rsv@Isaiah:32:2 @ Each will be like a hiding place from the wind, a covert from the tempest, like streams of water in a dry place, like the shade of a great rock in a weary land.

rsv@Isaiah:32:3 @ Then the eyes of those who see will not be closed, and the ears of those who hear will hearken.

rsv@Isaiah:32:4 @ The mind of the rash will have good judgment, and the tongue of the stammerers will speak readily and distinctly.

rsv@Isaiah:32:5 @ The fool will no more be called noble, nor the knave said to be honorable.

rsv@Isaiah:32:6 @ For the fool speaks folly, and his mind plots iniquity: to practice ungodliness, to utter error concerning the LORD, to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied, and to deprive the thirsty of drink.

rsv@Isaiah:32:7 @ The knaveries of the knave are evil; he devises wicked devices to ruin the poor with lying words, even when the plea of the needy is right.

rsv@Isaiah:32:8 @ But he who is noble devises noble things, and by noble things he stands.

rsv@Isaiah:32:9 @ Rise up, you women who are at ease, hear my voice; you complacent daughters, give ear to my speech.

rsv@Isaiah:32:10 @ In little more than a year you will shudder, you complacent women; for the vintage will fail, the fruit harvest will not come.

rsv@Isaiah:32:11 @ Tremble, you women who are at ease, shudder, you complacent ones; strip, and make yourselves bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.

rsv@Isaiah:32:12 @ Beat upon your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine,

rsv@Isaiah:32:13 @ for the soil of my people growing up in thorns and briers; yea, for all the joyous houses in the joyful city.

rsv@Isaiah:32:14 @ For the palace will be forsaken, the populous city deserted; the hill and the watchtower will become dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;

rsv@Isaiah:32:15 @ until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is deemed a forest.

rsv@Isaiah:32:16 @ Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness abide in the fruitful field.

rsv@Isaiah:32:17 @ And the effect of righteousness will be peace, and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust for ever.

rsv@Isaiah:32:18 @ My people will abide in a peaceful habitation, in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places.

rsv@Isaiah:32:19 @ And the forest will utterly go down, and the city will be utterly laid low.

rsv@Isaiah:32:20 @ Happy are you who sow beside all waters, who let the feet of the ox and the ass range free.

rsv@Isaiah:33:1 @ Woe to you, destroyer, who yourself have not been destroyed; you treacherous one, with whom none has dealt treacherously! When you have ceased to destroy, you will be destroyed; and when you have made an end of dealing treacherously, you will be dealt with treacherously.

rsv@Isaiah:33:2 @ O LORD, be gracious to us; we wait for thee. Be our arm every morning, our salvation in the time of trouble.

rsv@Isaiah:33:3 @ At the thunderous noise peoples flee, at the lifting up of thyself nations are scattered;

rsv@Isaiah:33:4 @ and spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathers; as locusts leap, men leap upon it.

rsv@Isaiah:33:5 @ The LORD is exalted, for he dwells on high; he will fill Zion with justice and righteousness;

rsv@Isaiah:33:6 @ and he will be the stability of your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge; the fear of the LORD is his treasure.

rsv@Isaiah:33:7 @ Behold, the valiant ones cry without; the envoys of peace weep bitterly.

rsv@Isaiah:33:8 @ The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceases. Covenants are broken, witnesses are despised, there is no regard for man.

rsv@Isaiah:33:9 @ The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is confounded and withers away; Sharon is like a desert; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.

rsv@Isaiah:33:10 @ "Now I will arise," says the LORD, "now I will lift myself up; now I will be exalted.

rsv@Isaiah:33:11 @ You conceive chaff, you bring forth stubble; your breath is a fire that will consume you.

rsv@Isaiah:33:12 @ And the peoples will be as if burned to lime, like thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire."

rsv@Isaiah:33:13 @ Hear, you who are far off, what I have done; and you who are near, acknowledge my might.

rsv@Isaiah:33:14 @ The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling has seized the godless: "Who among us can dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings?"

rsv@Isaiah:33:15 @ He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly, who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands, lest they hold a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed and shuts his eyes from looking upon evil,

rsv@Isaiah:33:16 @ he will dwell on the heights; his place of defense will be the fortresses of rocks; his bread will be given him, his water will be sure.

rsv@Isaiah:33:17 @ Your eyes will see the king in his beauty; they will behold a land that stretches afar.

rsv@Isaiah:33:18 @ Your mind will muse on the terror: "Where is he who counted, where is he who weighed the tribute? Where is he who counted the towers?"

rsv@Isaiah:33:19 @ You will see no more the insolent people, the people of an obscure speech which you cannot comprehend, stammering in a tongue which you cannot understand.

rsv@Isaiah:33:20 @ Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed feasts! Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet habitation, an immovable tent, whose stakes will never be plucked up, nor will any of its cords be broken.

rsv@Isaiah:33:21 @ But there the LORD in majesty will be for us a place of broad rivers and streams, where no galley with oars can go, nor stately ship can pass.

rsv@Isaiah:33:22 @ For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our ruler, the LORD is our king; he will save us.

rsv@Isaiah:33:23 @ Your tackle hangs loose; it cannot hold the mast firm in its place, or keep the sail spread out. Then prey and spoil in abundance will be divided; even the lame will take the prey.

rsv@Isaiah:33:24 @ And no inhabitant will say, "I am sick"; the people who dwell there will be forgiven their iniquity.

rsv@Isaiah:34:1 @ Draw near, O nations, to hear, and hearken, O peoples! Let the earth listen, and all that fills it; the world, and all that comes from it.

rsv@Isaiah:34:2 @ For the LORD is enraged against all the nations, and furious against all their host, he has doomed them, has given them over for slaughter.

rsv@Isaiah:34:3 @ Their slain shall be cast out, and the stench of their corpses shall rise; the mountains shall flow with their blood.

rsv@Isaiah:34:4 @ All the host of heaven shall rot away, and the skies roll up like a scroll. All their host shall fall, as leaves fall from the vine, like leaves falling from the fig tree.

rsv@Isaiah:34:5 @ For my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens; behold, it descends for judgment upon Edom, upon the people I have doomed.

rsv@Isaiah:34:6 @ The LORD has a sword; it is sated with blood, it is gorged with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

rsv@Isaiah:34:7 @ Wild oxen shall fall with them, and young steers with the mighty bulls. Their land shall be soaked with blood, and their soil made rich with fat.

rsv@Isaiah:34:8 @ For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

rsv@Isaiah:34:9 @ And the streams of Edom shall be turned into pitch, and her soil into brimstone; her land shall become burning pitch.

rsv@Isaiah:34:10 @ Night and day it shall not be quenched; its smoke shall go up for ever. From generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.

rsv@Isaiah:34:11 @ But the hawk and the porcupine shall possess it, the owl and the raven shall dwell in it. He shall stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plummet of chaos over its nobles.

rsv@Isaiah:34:12 @ They shall name it No Kingdom There, and all its princes shall be nothing.

rsv@Isaiah:34:13 @ Thorns shall grow over its strongholds, nettles and thistles in its fortresses. It shall be the haunt of jackals, an abode for ostriches.

rsv@Isaiah:34:14 @ And wild beasts shall meet with hyenas, the satyr shall cry to his fellow; yea, there shall the night hag alight, and find for herself a resting place.

rsv@Isaiah:34:15 @ There shall the owl nest and lay and hatch and gather her young in her shadow; yea, there shall the kites be gathered, each one with her mate.

rsv@Isaiah:34:16 @ Seek and read from the book of the LORD: Not one of these shall be missing; none shall be without her mate. For the mouth of the LORD has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them.

rsv@Isaiah:34:17 @ He has cast the lot for them, his hand has portioned it out to them with the line; they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation they shall dwell in it.

rsv@Isaiah:35:1 @ The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad, the desert shall rejoice and blossom; like the crocus

rsv@Isaiah:35:2 @ it shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the majesty of Carmel and Sharon. They shall see the glory of the LORD, the majesty of our God.

rsv@Isaiah:35:3 @ Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees.

rsv@Isaiah:35:4 @ Say to those who are of a fearful heart, "Be strong, fear not! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God. He will come and save you."

rsv@Isaiah:35:5 @ Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped;

rsv@Isaiah:35:6 @ then shall the lame man leap like a hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing for joy. For waters shall break forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert;

rsv@Isaiah:35:7 @ the burning sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water; the haunt of jackals shall become a swamp, the grass shall become reeds and rushes.

rsv@Isaiah:35:8 @ And a highway shall be there, and it shall be called the Holy Way; the unclean shall not pass over it, and fools shall not err therein.

rsv@Isaiah:35:9 @ No lion shall be there, nor shall any ravenous beast come up on it; they shall not be found there, but the redeemed shall walk there.

rsv@Isaiah:35:10 @ And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

rsv@Isaiah:36:1 @ 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@Isaiah:36:2 @ And the king of Assyria sent the Rab'shakeh from Lachish to King Hezeki'ah at Jerusalem, with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool on the highway to the Fuller's Field.

rsv@Isaiah:36:3 @ And there came out to him Eli'akim the son of Hilki'ah, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and Jo'ah the son of Asaph, the recorder.

rsv@Isaiah:36:4 @ And the Rab'shakeh said to them, "Say to Hezeki'ah, `Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: On what do you rest this confidence of yours?

rsv@Isaiah:36:5 @ 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@Isaiah:36:6 @ Behold, you are relying on Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of any man who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who rely on him.

rsv@Isaiah:36:7 @ But if you say to me, "We rely on the LORD our God," is it not he whose high places and altars Hezeki'ah has removed, saying to Judah and to Jerusalem, "You shall worship before this altar"?

rsv@Isaiah:36:8 @ 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@Isaiah:36:9 @ 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@Isaiah:36:10 @ Moreover, is it without the LORD that I have come up against this land to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.'"

rsv@Isaiah:36:11 @ Then Eli'akim, Shebna, and Jo'ah said to the Rab'shakeh, "Pray, speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it; do not speak to us in the language of Judah within the hearing of the people who are on the wall."

rsv@Isaiah:36:12 @ But the Rab'shakeh said, "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 drink their own urine?"

rsv@Isaiah:36:13 @ Then the Rab'shakeh stood and called out in a loud voice in the language of Judah: "Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!

rsv@Isaiah:36:14 @ Thus says the king: `Do not let Hezeki'ah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you.

rsv@Isaiah:36:15 @ Do not let Hezeki'ah make you rely on the LORD by saying, "The LORD will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."

rsv@Isaiah:36:16 @ 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@Isaiah:36:17 @ 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.

rsv@Isaiah:36:18 @ Beware lest Hezeki'ah mislead you by saying, "The LORD will deliver us." Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

rsv@Isaiah:36:19 @ Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharva'im? Have they delivered Sama'ria out of my hand?

rsv@Isaiah:36:20 @ Who among all the gods of these countries have delivered their countries out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?'"

rsv@Isaiah:36:21 @ But they were silent and answered him not a word, for the king's command was, "Do not answer him."

rsv@Isaiah:36:22 @ Then Eli'akim the son of Hilki'ah, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and Jo'ah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezeki'ah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of the Rab'shakeh.

rsv@Isaiah:37:1 @ When King Hezeki'ah heard it, he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.

rsv@Isaiah:37:2 @ And he sent Eli'akim, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and the senior priests, clothed with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz.

rsv@Isaiah:37:3 @ They said to him, "Thus says Hezeki'ah, `This day is a day of distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace; children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth.

rsv@Isaiah:37:4 @ It may be that the LORD your God heard 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@Isaiah:37:5 @ When the servants of King Hezeki'ah came to Isaiah,

rsv@Isaiah:37:6 @ 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@Isaiah:37:7 @ Behold, I will put a spirit in him, so that he shall hear a rumor, and return to his own land; and I will make him fall by the sword in his own land.'"

rsv@Isaiah:37:8 @ The Rab'shakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah; for he had heard that the king had left Lachish.

rsv@Isaiah:37:9 @ Now the king heard concerning Tirha'kah king of Ethiopia, "He has set out to fight against you." And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezeki'ah, saying,

rsv@Isaiah:37:10 @ "Thus shall you speak to Hezeki'ah king of Judah: `Do not let your God on whom you rely deceive you by promising that Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.

rsv@Isaiah:37:11 @ Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, destroying them utterly. And shall you be delivered?

rsv@Isaiah:37:12 @ 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@Isaiah:37:13 @ Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharva'im, the king of Hena, or the king of Ivvah?'"

rsv@Isaiah:37:14 @ 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@Isaiah:37:15 @ And Hezeki'ah prayed to the LORD:

rsv@Isaiah:37:16 @ "O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, who art enthroned above the cherubim, thou art the God, thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.

rsv@Isaiah:37:17 @ Incline thy ear, O LORD, and hear; open thy eyes, O LORD, and see; and hear all the words of Sennach'erib, which he has sent to mock the living God.

rsv@Isaiah:37:18 @ Of a truth, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their lands,

rsv@Isaiah:37:19 @ and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore they were destroyed.

rsv@Isaiah:37:20 @ So now, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou alone art the LORD."

rsv@Isaiah:37:21 @ Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezeki'ah, saying, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Because you have prayed to me concerning Sennach'erib king of Assyria,

rsv@Isaiah:37:22 @ 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@Isaiah:37:23 @ `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@Isaiah:37:24 @ By your servants 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 came to its remotest height, its densest forest.

rsv@Isaiah:37:25 @ I dug wells and drank waters, and I dried up with the sole of my foot all the streams of Egypt.

rsv@Isaiah:37:26 @ `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 make fortified cities crash into heaps of ruins,

rsv@Isaiah:37:27 @ 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@Isaiah:37:28 @ `I know your sitting down and your going out and coming in, and your raging against me.

rsv@Isaiah:37:29 @ Because you have raged against me and your arrogance has come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will turn you back on the way by which you came.'

rsv@Isaiah:37:30 @ "And this shall be the sign for you: this year eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs of the same; then in the third year sow and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.

rsv@Isaiah:37:31 @ And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward;

rsv@Isaiah:37:32 @ for out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will accomplish this.

rsv@Isaiah:37:33 @ "Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city, or shoot an arrow there, or come before it with a shield, or cast up a siege mound against it.

rsv@Isaiah:37:34 @ By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come into this city, says the LORD.

rsv@Isaiah:37:35 @ For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David."

rsv@Isaiah:37:36 @ And the angel of the LORD went forth, and slew a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

rsv@Isaiah:37:37 @ Then Sennach'erib king of Assyria departed, and went home and dwelt at Nin'eveh.

rsv@Isaiah:37:38 @ 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 E'sar-had'don his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@Isaiah:38:1 @ In those days Hezeki'ah became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, "Thus says the LORD: Set your house in order; for you shall die, you shall not recover."

rsv@Isaiah:38:2 @ Then Hezeki'ah turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the LORD,

rsv@Isaiah:38:3 @ and said, "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@Isaiah:38:4 @ Then the word of the LORD came to Isaiah:

rsv@Isaiah:38:5 @ "Go and say to Hezeki'ah, Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.

rsv@Isaiah:38:6 @ I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and defend this city.

rsv@Isaiah:38:7 @ "This is the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he has promised:

rsv@Isaiah:38:8 @ Behold, I will make the shadow cast by the declining sun on the dial of Ahaz turn back ten steps." So the sun turned back on the dial the ten steps by which it had declined.

rsv@Isaiah:38:9 @ A writing of Hezeki'ah king of Judah, after he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness:

rsv@Isaiah:38:10 @ I said, In the noontide of my days I must depart; I am consigned to the gates of Sheol for the rest of my years.

rsv@Isaiah:38:11 @ I said, I shall not see the LORD in the land of the living; I shall look upon man no more among the inhabitants of the world.

rsv@Isaiah:38:12 @ My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me like a shepherd's tent; like a weaver I have rolled up my life; he cuts me off from the loom; from day to night thou dost bring me to an end;

rsv@Isaiah:38:13 @ I cry for help until morning; like a lion he breaks all my bones; from day to night thou dost bring me to an end.

rsv@Isaiah:38:14 @ Like a swallow or a crane I clamor, I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be thou my security!

rsv@Isaiah:38:15 @ But what can I say? For he has spoken to me, and he himself has done it. All my sleep has fled because of the bitterness of my soul.

rsv@Isaiah:38:16 @ O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these is the life of my spirit. Oh, restore me to health and make me live!

rsv@Isaiah:38:17 @ Lo, it was for my welfare that I had great bitterness; but thou hast held back my life from the pit of destruction, for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

rsv@Isaiah:38:18 @ For Sheol cannot thank thee, death cannot praise thee; those who go down to the pit cannot hope for thy faithfulness.

rsv@Isaiah:38:19 @ The living, the living, he thanks thee, as I do this day; the father makes known to the children thy faithfulness.

rsv@Isaiah:38:20 @ The LORD will save me, and we will sing to stringed instruments all the days of our life, at the house of the LORD.

rsv@Isaiah:38:21 @ Now Isaiah had said, "Let them take a cake of figs, and apply it to the boil, that he may recover."

rsv@Isaiah:38:22 @ Hezeki'ah also had said, "What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?"

rsv@Isaiah:39:1 @ At that time Mer'odach-bal'adan the son of Bal'adan, king of Babylon, sent envoys with letters and a present to Hezeki'ah, for he heard that he had been sick and had recovered.

rsv@Isaiah:39:2 @ And Hezeki'ah welcomed them; and he showed them his treasure house, the silver, the gold, the spices, the precious oil, his whole armory, all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his house or in all his realm that Hezeki'ah did not show them.

rsv@Isaiah:39:3 @ Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezeki'ah, and said to him, "What did these men say? And whence did they come to you?" Hezeki'ah said, "They have come to me from a far country, from Babylon."

rsv@Isaiah:39:4 @ He said, "What have they seen in your house?" Hezeki'ah answered, "They have seen all that is in my house; there is nothing in my storehouses that I did not show them."

rsv@Isaiah:39:5 @ Then Isaiah said to Hezeki'ah, "Hear the word of the LORD of hosts:

rsv@Isaiah:39:6 @ Behold, the days are coming, when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up till this day, shall be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left, says the LORD.

rsv@Isaiah:39:7 @ And some of your own sons, who are born to you, shall be taken away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon."

rsv@Isaiah:39:8 @ Then said Hezeki'ah to Isaiah, "The word of the LORD which you have spoken is good." For he thought, "There will be peace and security in my days."

rsv@Isaiah:40:1 @ Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.

rsv@Isaiah:40:2 @ Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the LORD's hand double for all her sins.

rsv@Isaiah:40:3 @ A voice cries: "In the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

rsv@Isaiah:40:4 @ Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain.

rsv@Isaiah:40:5 @ And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the LORD has spoken."

rsv@Isaiah:40:6 @ A voice says, "Cry!" And I said, "What shall I cry?" All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field.

rsv@Isaiah:40:7 @ The grass withers, the flower fades, when the breath of the LORD blows upon it; surely the people is grass.

rsv@Isaiah:40:8 @ The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God will stand for ever.

rsv@Isaiah:40:9 @ Get you up to a high mountain, O Zion, herald of good tidings; lift up your voice with strength, O Jerusalem, herald of good tidings, lift it up, fear not; say to the cities of Judah, "Behold your God!"

rsv@Isaiah:40:10 @ Behold, the Lord GOD comes with might, and his arm rules for him; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.

rsv@Isaiah:40:11 @ He will feed his flock like a shepherd, he will gather the lambs in his arms, he will carry them in his bosom, and gently lead those that are with young.

rsv@Isaiah:40:12 @ Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?

rsv@Isaiah:40:13 @ Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or as his counselor has instructed him?

rsv@Isaiah:40:14 @ Whom did he consult for his enlightenment, and who taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?

rsv@Isaiah:40:15 @ Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and are accounted as the dust on the scales; behold, he takes up the isles like fine dust.

rsv@Isaiah:40:16 @ Lebanon would not suffice for fuel, nor are its beasts enough for a burnt offering.

rsv@Isaiah:40:17 @ All the nations are as nothing before him, they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.

rsv@Isaiah:40:18 @ To whom then will you liken God, or what likeness compare with him?

rsv@Isaiah:40:19 @ The idol! a workman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts for it silver chains.

rsv@Isaiah:40:20 @ He who is impoverished chooses for an offering wood that will not rot; he seeks out a skilful craftsman to set up an image that will not move.

rsv@Isaiah:40:21 @ Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?

rsv@Isaiah:40:22 @ It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;

rsv@Isaiah:40:23 @ who brings princes to nought, and makes the rulers of the earth as nothing.

rsv@Isaiah:40:24 @ Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown, scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth, when he blows upon them, and they wither, and the tempest carries them off like stubble.

rsv@Isaiah:40:25 @ To whom then will you compare me, that I should be like him? says the Holy One.

rsv@Isaiah:40:26 @ Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these? He who brings out their host by number, calling them all by name; by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power not one is missing.

rsv@Isaiah:40:27 @ Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, "My way is hid from the LORD, and my right is disregarded by my God"?

rsv@Isaiah:40:28 @ Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary, his understanding is unsearchable.

rsv@Isaiah:40:29 @ He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength.

rsv@Isaiah:40:30 @ Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted;

rsv@Isaiah:40:31 @ but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.

rsv@Isaiah:41:1 @ Listen to me in silence, O coastlands; let the peoples renew their strength; let them approach, then let them speak; let us together draw near for judgment.

rsv@Isaiah:41:2 @ Who stirred up one from the east whom victory meets at every step? He gives up nations before him, so that he tramples kings under foot; he makes them like dust with his sword, like driven stubble with his bow.

rsv@Isaiah:41:3 @ He pursues them and passes on safely, by paths his feet have not trod.

rsv@Isaiah:41:4 @ Who has performed and done this, calling the generations from the beginning? I, the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am He.

rsv@Isaiah:41:5 @ The coastlands have seen and are afraid, the ends of the earth tremble; they have drawn near and come.

rsv@Isaiah:41:6 @ Every one helps his neighbor, and says to his brother, "Take courage!"

rsv@Isaiah:41:7 @ The craftsman encourages the goldsmith, and he who smooths with the hammer him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, "It is good"; and they fasten it with nails so that it cannot be moved.

rsv@Isaiah:41:8 @ But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, my friend;

rsv@Isaiah:41:9 @ you whom I took from the ends of the earth, and called from its farthest corners, saying to you, "You are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you off";

rsv@Isaiah:41:10 @ fear not, for I am with you, be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my victorious right hand.

rsv@Isaiah:41:11 @ Behold, all who are incensed against you shall be put to shame and confounded; those who strive against you shall be as nothing and shall perish.

rsv@Isaiah:41:12 @ You shall seek those who contend with you, but you shall not find them; those who war against you shall be as nothing at all.

rsv@Isaiah:41:13 @ For I, the LORD your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, "Fear not, I will help you."

rsv@Isaiah:41:14 @ Fear not, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel! I will help you, says the LORD; your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

rsv@Isaiah:41:15 @ Behold, I will make of you a threshing sledge, new, sharp, and having teeth; you shall thresh the mountains and crush them, and you shall make the hills like chaff;

rsv@Isaiah:41:16 @ You shall winnow them and the wind shall carry them away, and the tempest shall scatter them. And you shall rejoice in the LORD; in the Holy One of Israel you shall glory.

rsv@Isaiah:41:17 @ When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I the LORD will answer them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.

rsv@Isaiah:41:18 @ I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

rsv@Isaiah:41:19 @ I will put in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive; I will set in the desert the cypress, the plane and the pine together;

rsv@Isaiah:41:20 @ that men may see and know, may consider and understand together, that the hand of the LORD has done this, the Holy One of Israel has created it.

rsv@Isaiah:41:21 @ Set forth your case, says the LORD; bring your proofs, says the King of Jacob.

rsv@Isaiah:41:22 @ Let them bring them, and tell us what is to happen. Tell us the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, that we may know their outcome; or declare to us the things to come.

rsv@Isaiah:41:23 @ Tell us what is to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods; do good, or do harm, that we may be dismayed and terrified.

rsv@Isaiah:41:24 @ Behold, you are nothing, and your work is nought; an abomination is he who chooses you.

rsv@Isaiah:41:25 @ I stirred up one from the north, and he has come, from the rising of the sun, and he shall call on my name; he shall trample on rulers as on mortar, as the potter treads clay.

rsv@Isaiah:41:26 @ Who declared it from the beginning, that we might know, and beforetime, that we might say, "He is right"? There was none who declared it, none who proclaimed, none who heard your words.

rsv@Isaiah:41:27 @ I first have declared it to Zion, and I give to Jerusalem a herald of good tidings.

rsv@Isaiah:41:28 @ But when I look there is no one; among these there is no counselor who, when I ask, gives an answer.

rsv@Isaiah:41:29 @ Behold, they are all a delusion; their works are nothing; their molten images are empty wind.

rsv@Isaiah:42:1 @ Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him, he will bring forth justice to the nations.

rsv@Isaiah:42:2 @ He will not cry or lift up his voice, or make it heard in the street;

rsv@Isaiah:42:3 @ a bruised reed he will not break, and a dimly burning wick he will not quench; he will faithfully bring forth justice.

rsv@Isaiah:42:4 @ He will not fail or be discouraged till he has established justice in the earth; and the coastlands wait for his law.

rsv@Isaiah:42:5 @ Thus says God, the LORD, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread forth the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people upon it and spirit to those who walk in it:

rsv@Isaiah:42:6 @ "I am the LORD, I have called you in righteousness, I have taken you by the hand and kept you; I have given you as a covenant to the people, a light to the nations,

rsv@Isaiah:42:7 @ to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness.

rsv@Isaiah:42:8 @ I am the LORD, that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to graven images.

rsv@Isaiah:42:9 @ Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them."

rsv@Isaiah:42:10 @ Sing to the LORD a new song, his praise from the end of the earth! Let the sea roar and all that fills it, the coastlands and their inhabitants.

rsv@Isaiah:42:11 @ Let the desert and its cities lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar inhabits; let the inhabitants of Sela sing for joy, let them shout from the top of the mountains.

rsv@Isaiah:42:12 @ Let them give glory to the LORD, and declare his praise in the coastlands.

rsv@Isaiah:42:13 @ The LORD goes forth like a mighty man, like a man of war he stirs up his fury; he cries out, he shouts aloud, he shows himself mighty against his foes.

rsv@Isaiah:42:14 @ For a long time I have held my peace, I have kept still and restrained myself; now I will cry out like a woman in travail, I will gasp and pant.

rsv@Isaiah:42:15 @ I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbage; I will turn the rivers into islands, and dry up the pools.

rsv@Isaiah:42:16 @ And I will lead the blind in a way that they know not, in paths that they have not known I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I will do, and I will not forsake them.

rsv@Isaiah:42:17 @ They shall be turned back and utterly put to shame, who trust in graven images, who say to molten images, "You are our gods."

rsv@Isaiah:42:18 @ Hear, you deaf; and look, you blind, that you may see!

rsv@Isaiah:42:19 @ Who is blind but my servant, or deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is blind as my dedicated one, or blind as the servant of the LORD?

rsv@Isaiah:42:20 @ He sees many things, but does not observe them; his ears are open, but he does not hear.

rsv@Isaiah:42:21 @ The LORD was pleased, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify his law and make it glorious.

rsv@Isaiah:42:22 @ But this is a people robbed and plundered, they are all of them trapped in holes and hidden in prisons; they have become a prey with none to rescue, a spoil with none to say, "Restore!"

rsv@Isaiah:42:23 @ Who among you will give ear to this, will attend and listen for the time to come?

rsv@Isaiah:42:24 @ Who gave up Jacob to the spoiler, and Israel to the robbers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned, in whose ways they would not walk, and whose law they would not obey?

rsv@Isaiah:42:25 @ So he poured upon him the heat of his anger and the might of battle; it set him on fire round about, but he did not understand; it burned him, but he did not take it to heart.

rsv@Isaiah:43:1 @ But now thus says the LORD, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: "Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.

rsv@Isaiah:43:2 @ When you pass through the waters I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.

rsv@Isaiah:43:3 @ For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in exchange for you.

rsv@Isaiah:43:4 @ Because you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you, I give men in return for you, peoples in exchange for your life.

rsv@Isaiah:43:5 @ Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east, and from the west I will gather you;

rsv@Isaiah:43:6 @ I will say to the north, Give up, and to the south, Do not withhold; bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the end of the earth,

rsv@Isaiah:43:7 @ every one who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made."

rsv@Isaiah:43:8 @ Bring forth the people who are blind, yet have eyes, who are deaf, yet have ears!

rsv@Isaiah:43:9 @ Let all the nations gather together, and let the peoples assemble. Who among them can declare this, and show us the former things? Let them bring their witnesses to justify them, and let them hear and say, It is true.

rsv@Isaiah:43:10 @ "You are my witnesses," says the LORD, "and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am He. Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me.

rsv@Isaiah:43:11 @ I, I am the LORD, and besides me there is no savior.

rsv@Isaiah:43:12 @ I declared and saved and proclaimed, when there was no strange god among you; and you are my witnesses," says the LORD.

rsv@Isaiah:43:13 @ "I am God, and also henceforth I am He; there is none who can deliver from my hand; I work and who can hinder it?"

rsv@Isaiah:43:14 @ Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: "For your sake I will send to Babylon and break down all the bars, and the shouting of the Chalde'ans will be turned to lamentations.

rsv@Isaiah:43:15 @ I am the LORD, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King."

rsv@Isaiah:43:16 @ Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters,

rsv@Isaiah:43:17 @ who brings forth chariot and horse, army and warrior; they lie down, they cannot rise, they are extinguished, quenched like a wick:

rsv@Isaiah:43:18 @ "Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old.

rsv@Isaiah:43:19 @ Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.

rsv@Isaiah:43:20 @ The wild beasts will honor me, the jackals and the ostriches; for I give water in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give drink to my chosen people,

rsv@Isaiah:43:21 @ the people whom I formed for myself that they might declare my praise.

rsv@Isaiah:43:22 @ "Yet you did not call upon me, O Jacob; but you have been weary of me, O Israel!

rsv@Isaiah:43:23 @ You have not brought me your sheep for burnt offerings, or honored me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings, or wearied you with frankincense.

rsv@Isaiah:43:24 @ You have not bought me sweet cane with money, or satisfied me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins, you have wearied me with your iniquities.

rsv@Isaiah:43:25 @ "I, I am He who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.

rsv@Isaiah:43:26 @ Put me in remembrance, let us argue together; set forth your case, that you may be proved right.

rsv@Isaiah:43:27 @ Your first father sinned, and your mediators transgressed against me.

rsv@Isaiah:43:28 @ Therefore I profaned the princes of the sanctuary, I delivered Jacob to utter destruction and Israel to reviling.

rsv@Isaiah:44:1 @ "But now hear, O Jacob my servant, Israel whom I have chosen!

rsv@Isaiah:44:2 @ Thus says the LORD who made you, who formed you from the womb and will help you: Fear not, O Jacob my servant, Jeshu'run whom I have chosen.

rsv@Isaiah:44:3 @ For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit upon your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring.

rsv@Isaiah:44:4 @ They shall spring up like grass amid waters, like willows by flowing streams.

rsv@Isaiah:44:5 @ This one will say, `I am the LORD's,' another will call himself by the name of Jacob, and another will write on his hand, `The LORD's,' and surname himself by the name of Israel."

rsv@Isaiah:44:6 @ Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts: "I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god.

rsv@Isaiah:44:7 @ Who is like me? Let him proclaim it, let him declare and set it forth before me. Who has announced from of old the things to come? Let them tell us what is yet to be.

rsv@Isaiah:44:8 @ Fear not, nor be afraid; have I not told you from of old and declared it? And you are my witnesses! Is there a God besides me? There is no Rock; I know not any."

rsv@Isaiah:44:9 @ All who make idols are nothing, and the things they delight in do not profit; their witnesses neither see nor know, that they may be put to shame.

rsv@Isaiah:44:10 @ Who fashions a god or casts an image, that is profitable for nothing?

rsv@Isaiah:44:11 @ Behold, all his fellows shall be put to shame, and the craftsmen are but men; let them all assemble, let them stand forth, they shall be terrified, they shall be put to shame together.

rsv@Isaiah:44:12 @ The ironsmith fashions it and works it over the coals; he shapes it with hammers, and forges it with his strong arm; he becomes hungry and his strength fails, he drinks no water and is faint.

rsv@Isaiah:44:13 @ The carpenter stretches a line, he marks it out with a pencil; he fashions it with planes, and marks it with a compass; he shapes it into the figure of a man, with the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house.

rsv@Isaiah:44:14 @ He cuts down cedars; or he chooses a holm tree or an oak and lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest; he plants a cedar and the rain nourishes it.

rsv@Isaiah:44:15 @ Then it becomes fuel for a man; he takes a part of it and warms himself, he kindles a fire and bakes bread; also he makes a god and worships it, he makes it a graven image and falls down before it.

rsv@Isaiah:44:16 @ Half of it he burns in the fire; over the half he eats flesh, he roasts meat and is satisfied; also he warms himself and says, "Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire!"

rsv@Isaiah:44:17 @ And the rest of it he makes into a god, his idol; and falls down to it and worships it; he prays to it and says, "Deliver me, for thou art my god!"

rsv@Isaiah:44:18 @ They know not, nor do they discern; for he has shut their eyes, so that they cannot see, and their minds, so that they cannot understand.

rsv@Isaiah:44:19 @ No one considers, nor is there knowledge or discernment to say, "Half of it I burned in the fire, I also baked bread on its coals, I roasted flesh and have eaten; and shall I make the residue of it an abomination? Shall I fall down before a block of wood?"

rsv@Isaiah:44:20 @ He feeds on ashes; a deluded mind has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, "Is there not a lie in my right hand?"

rsv@Isaiah:44:21 @ Remember these things, O Jacob, and Israel, for you are my servant; I formed you, you are my servant; O Israel, you will not be forgotten by me.

rsv@Isaiah:44:22 @ I have swept away your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like mist; return to me, for I have redeemed you.

rsv@Isaiah:44:23 @ Sing, O heavens, for the LORD has done it; shout, O depths of the earth; break forth into singing, O mountains, O forest, and every tree in it! For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and will be glorified in Israel.

rsv@Isaiah:44:24 @ Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, who formed you from the womb: "I am the LORD, who made all things, who stretched out the heavens alone, who spread out the earth-- Who was with me?--

rsv@Isaiah:44:25 @ who frustrates the omens of liars, and makes fools of diviners; who turns wise men back, and makes their knowledge foolish;

rsv@Isaiah:44:26 @ who confirms the word of his servant, and performs the counsel of his messengers; who says of Jerusalem, `She shall be inhabited,' and of the cities of Judah, `They shall be built, and I will raise up their ruins';

rsv@Isaiah:44:27 @ who says to the deep, `Be dry, I will dry up your rivers';

rsv@Isaiah:44:28 @ who says of Cyrus, `He is my shepherd, and he shall fulfil all my purpose'; saying of Jerusalem, `She shall be built,' and of the temple, `Your foundation shall be laid.'"

rsv@Isaiah:45:1 @ Thus says the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped, to subdue nations before him and ungird the loins of kings, to open doors before him that gates may not be closed:

rsv@Isaiah:45:2 @ "I will go before you and level the mountains, I will break in pieces the doors of bronze and cut asunder the bars of iron,

rsv@Isaiah:45:3 @ I will give you the treasures of darkness and the hoards in secret places, that you may know that it is I, the LORD, the God of Israel, who call you by your name.

rsv@Isaiah:45:4 @ For the sake of my servant Jacob, and Israel my chosen, I call you by your name, I surname you, though you do not know me.

rsv@Isaiah:45:5 @ I am the LORD, and there is no other, besides me there is no God; I gird you, though you do not know me,

rsv@Isaiah:45:6 @ that men may know, from the rising of the sun and from the west, that there is none besides me; I am the LORD, and there is no other.

rsv@Isaiah:45:7 @ I form light and create darkness, I make weal and create woe, I am the LORD, who do all these things.

rsv@Isaiah:45:8 @ "Shower, O heavens, from above, and let the skies rain down righteousness; let the earth open, that salvation may sprout forth, and let it cause righteousness to spring up also; I the LORD have created it.

rsv@Isaiah:45:9 @ "Woe to him who strives with his Maker, an earthen vessel with the potter! Does the clay say to him who fashions it, `What are you making'? or `Your work has no handles'?

rsv@Isaiah:45:10 @ Woe to him who says to a father, `What are you begetting?' or to a woman, `With what are you in travail?'"

rsv@Isaiah:45:11 @ Thus says the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: "Will you question me about my children, or command me concerning the work of my hands?

rsv@Isaiah:45:12 @ I made the earth, and created man upon it; it was my hands that stretched out the heavens, and I commanded all their host.

rsv@Isaiah:45:13 @ I have aroused him in righteousness, and I will make straight all his ways; he shall build my city and set my exiles free, not for price or reward," says the LORD of hosts.

rsv@Isaiah:45:14 @ Thus says the LORD: "The wealth of Egypt and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabe'ans, men of stature, shall come over to you and be yours, they shall follow you; they shall come over in chains and bow down to you. They will make supplication to you, saying: `God is with you only, and there is no other, no god besides him.'"

rsv@Isaiah:45:15 @ Truly, thou art a God who hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Savior.

rsv@Isaiah:45:16 @ All of them are put to shame and confounded, the makers of idols go in confusion together.

rsv@Isaiah:45:17 @ But Israel is saved by the LORD with everlasting salvation; you shall not be put to shame or confounded to all eternity.

rsv@Isaiah:45:18 @ For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens (he is God!), who formed the earth and made it (he established it; he did not create it a chaos, he formed it to be inhabited!): "I am the LORD, and there is no other.

rsv@Isaiah:45:19 @ I did not speak in secret, in a land of darkness; I did not say to the offspring of Jacob, `Seek me in chaos.' I the LORD speak the truth, I declare what is right.

rsv@Isaiah:45:20 @ "Assemble yourselves and come, draw near together, you survivors of the nations! They have no knowledge who carry about their wooden idols, and keep on praying to a god that cannot save.

rsv@Isaiah:45:21 @ Declare and present your case; let them take counsel together! Who told this long ago? Who declared it of old? Was it not I, the LORD? And there is no other god besides me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none besides me.

rsv@Isaiah:45:22 @ "Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.

rsv@Isaiah:45:23 @ By myself I have sworn, from my mouth has gone forth in righteousness a word that shall not return: `To me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.'

rsv@Isaiah:45:24 @ "Only in the LORD, it shall be said of me, are righteousness and strength; to him shall come and be ashamed, all who were incensed against him.

rsv@Isaiah:45:25 @ In the LORD all the offspring of Israel shall triumph and glory."

rsv@Isaiah:46:1 @ Bel bows down, Nebo stoops, their idols are on beasts and cattle; these things you carry are loaded as burdens on weary beasts.

rsv@Isaiah:46:2 @ They stoop, they bow down together, they cannot save the burden, but themselves go into captivity.

rsv@Isaiah:46:3 @ "Hearken to me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been borne by me from your birth, carried from the womb;

rsv@Isaiah:46:4 @ even to your old age I am He, and to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will save.

rsv@Isaiah:46:5 @ "To whom will you liken me and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be alike?

rsv@Isaiah:46:6 @ Those who lavish gold from the purse, and weigh out silver in the scales, hire a goldsmith, and he makes it into a god; then they fall down and worship!

rsv@Isaiah:46:7 @ They lift it upon their shoulders, they carry it, they set it in its place, and it stands there; it cannot move from its place. If one cries to it, it does not answer or save him from his trouble.

rsv@Isaiah:46:8 @ "Remember this and consider, recall it to mind, you transgressors,

rsv@Isaiah:46:9 @ remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me,

rsv@Isaiah:46:10 @ declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, `My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,'

rsv@Isaiah:46:11 @ calling a bird of prey from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. I have spoken, and I will bring it to pass; I have purposed, and I will do it.

rsv@Isaiah:46:12 @ "Hearken to me, you stubborn of heart, you who are far from deliverance:

rsv@Isaiah:46:13 @ I bring near my deliverance, it is not far off, and my salvation will not tarry; I will put salvation in Zion, for Israel my glory."

rsv@Isaiah:47:1 @ Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chalde'ans! For you shall no more be called tender and delicate.

rsv@Isaiah:47:2 @ Take the millstones and grind meal, put off your veil, strip off your robe, uncover your legs, pass through the rivers.

rsv@Isaiah:47:3 @ Your nakedness shall be uncovered, and your shame shall be seen. I will take vengeance, and I will spare no man.

rsv@Isaiah:47:4 @ Our Redeemer-- the LORD of hosts is his name-- is the Holy One of Israel.

rsv@Isaiah:47:5 @ Sit in silence, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chalde'ans; for you shall no more be called the mistress of kingdoms.

rsv@Isaiah:47:6 @ I was angry with my people, I profaned my heritage; I gave them into your hand, you showed them no mercy; on the aged you made your yoke exceedingly heavy.

rsv@Isaiah:47:7 @ You said, "I shall be mistress for ever," so that you did not lay these things to heart or remember their end.

rsv@Isaiah:47:8 @ Now therefore hear this, you lover of pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, "I am, and there is no one besides me; I shall not sit as a widow or know the loss of children":

rsv@Isaiah:47:9 @ These two things shall come to you in a moment, in one day; the loss of children and widowhood shall come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the great power of your enchantments.

rsv@Isaiah:47:10 @ You felt secure in your wickedness, you said, "No one sees me"; your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, and you said in your heart, "I am, and there is no one besides me."

rsv@Isaiah:47:11 @ But evil shall come upon you, for which you cannot atone; disaster shall fall upon you, which you will not be able to expiate; and ruin shall come on you suddenly, of which you know nothing.

rsv@Isaiah:47:12 @ Stand fast in your enchantments and your many sorceries, with which you have labored from your youth; perhaps you may be able to succeed, perhaps you may inspire terror.

rsv@Isaiah:47:13 @ You are wearied with your many counsels; let them stand forth and save you, those who divide the heavens, who gaze at the stars, who at the new moons predict what shall befall you.

rsv@Isaiah:47:14 @ Behold, they are like stubble, the fire consumes them; they cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. No coal for warming oneself is this, no fire to sit before!

rsv@Isaiah:47:15 @ Such to you are those with whom you have labored, who have trafficked with you from your youth; they wander about each in his own direction; there is no one to save you.

rsv@Isaiah:48:1 @ Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and who came forth from the loins of Judah; who swear by the name of the LORD, and confess the God of Israel, but not in truth or right.

rsv@Isaiah:48:2 @ For they call themselves after the holy city, and stay themselves on the God of Israel; the LORD of hosts is his name.

rsv@Isaiah:48:3 @ "The former things I declared of old, they went forth from my mouth and I made them known; then suddenly I did them and they came to pass.

rsv@Isaiah:48:4 @ Because I know that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew and your forehead brass,

rsv@Isaiah:48:5 @ I declared them to you from of old, before they came to pass I announced them to you, lest you should say, `My idol did them, my graven image and my molten image commanded them.'

rsv@Isaiah:48:6 @ "You have heard; now see all this; and will you not declare it? From this time forth I make you hear new things, hidden things which you have not known.

rsv@Isaiah:48:7 @ They are created now, not long ago; before today you have never heard of them, lest you should say, `Behold, I knew them.'

rsv@Isaiah:48:8 @ You have never heard, you have never known, from of old your ear has not been opened. For I knew that you would deal very treacherously, and that from birth you were called a rebel.

rsv@Isaiah:48:9 @ "For my name's sake I defer my anger, for the sake of my praise I restrain it for you, that I may not cut you off.

rsv@Isaiah:48:10 @ Behold, I have refined you, but not like silver; I have tried you in the furnace of affliction.

rsv@Isaiah:48:11 @ For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it, for how should my name be profaned? My glory I will not give to another.

rsv@Isaiah:48:12 @ "Hearken to me, O Jacob, and Israel, whom I called! I am He, I am the first, and I am the last.

rsv@Isaiah:48:13 @ My hand laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand spread out the heavens; when I call to them, they stand forth together.

rsv@Isaiah:48:14 @ "Assemble, all of you, and hear! Who among them has declared these things? The LORD loves him; he shall perform his purpose on Babylon, and his arm shall be against the Chalde'ans.

rsv@Isaiah:48:15 @ I, even I, have spoken and called him, I have brought him, and he will prosper in his way.

rsv@Isaiah:48:16 @ Draw near to me, hear this: from the beginning I have not spoken in secret, from the time it came to be I have been there." And now the Lord GOD has sent me and his Spirit.

rsv@Isaiah:48:17 @ Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: "I am the LORD your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go.

rsv@Isaiah:48:18 @ O that you had hearkened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea;

rsv@Isaiah:48:19 @ your offspring would have been like the sand, and your descendants like its grains; their name would never be cut off or destroyed from before me."

rsv@Isaiah:48:20 @ Go forth from Babylon, flee from Chalde'a, declare this with a shout of joy, proclaim it, send it forth to the end of the earth; say, "The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob!"

rsv@Isaiah:48:21 @ They thirsted not when he led them through the deserts; he made water flow for them from the rock; he cleft the rock and the water gushed out.

rsv@Isaiah:48:22 @ "There is no peace," says the LORD, "for the wicked."

rsv@Isaiah:49:1 @ Listen to me, O coastlands, and hearken, you peoples from afar. The LORD called me from the womb, from the body of my mother he named my name.

rsv@Isaiah:49:2 @ He made my mouth like a sharp sword, in the shadow of his hand he hid me; he made me a polished arrow, in his quiver he hid me away.

rsv@Isaiah:49:3 @ And he said to me, "You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified."

rsv@Isaiah:49:4 @ But I said, "I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely my right is with the LORD, and my recompense with my God."

rsv@Isaiah:49:5 @ And now the LORD says, who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob back to him, and that Israel might be gathered to him, for I am honored in the eyes of the LORD, and my God has become my strength--

rsv@Isaiah:49:6 @ he says: "It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the preserved of Israel; I will give you as a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth."

rsv@Isaiah:49:7 @ Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel and his Holy One, to one deeply despised, abhorred by the nations, the servant of rulers: "Kings shall see and arise; princes, and they shall prostrate themselves; because of the LORD, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you."

rsv@Isaiah:49:8 @ Thus says the LORD: "In a time of favor I have answered you, in a day of salvation I have helped you; I have kept you and given you as a covenant to the people, to establish the land, to apportion the desolate heritages;

rsv@Isaiah:49:9 @ saying to the prisoners, `Come forth,' to those who are in darkness, `Appear.' They shall feed along the ways, on all bare heights shall be their pasture;

rsv@Isaiah:49:10 @ they shall not hunger or thirst, neither scorching wind nor sun shall smite them, for he who has pity on them will lead them, and by springs of water will guide them.

rsv@Isaiah:49:11 @ And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be raised up.

rsv@Isaiah:49:12 @ Lo, these shall come from afar, and lo, these from the north and from the west, and these from the land of Syene."

rsv@Isaiah:49:13 @ Sing for joy, O heavens, and exult, O earth; break forth, O mountains, into singing! For the LORD has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his afflicted.

rsv@Isaiah:49:14 @ But Zion said, "The LORD has forsaken me, my Lord has forgotten me."

rsv@Isaiah:49:15 @ "Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you.

rsv@Isaiah:49:16 @ Behold, I have graven you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.

rsv@Isaiah:49:17 @ Your builders outstrip your destroyers, and those who laid you waste go forth from you.

rsv@Isaiah:49:18 @ Lift up your eyes round about and see; they all gather, they come to you. As I live, says the LORD, you shall put them all on as an ornament, you shall bind them on as a bride does.

rsv@Isaiah:49:19 @ "Surely your waste and your desolate places and your devastated land-- surely now you will be too narrow for your inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up will be far away.

rsv@Isaiah:49:20 @ The children born in the time of your bereavement will yet say in your ears: `The place is too narrow for me; make room for me to dwell in.'

rsv@Isaiah:49:21 @ Then you will say in your heart: `Who has borne me these? I was bereaved and barren, exiled and put away, but who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; whence then have these come?'"

rsv@Isaiah:49:22 @ Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and raise my signal to the peoples; and they shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.

rsv@Isaiah:49:23 @ Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. With their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD; those who wait for me shall not be put to shame."

rsv@Isaiah:49:24 @ Can the prey be taken from the mighty, or the captives of a tyrant be rescued?

rsv@Isaiah:49:25 @ Surely, thus says the LORD: "Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken, and the prey of the tyrant be rescued, for I will contend with those who contend with you, and I will save your children.

rsv@Isaiah:49:26 @ I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh, and they shall be drunk with their own blood as with wine. Then all flesh shall know that I am the LORD your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob."

rsv@Isaiah:50:1 @ Thus says the LORD: "Where is your mother's bill of divorce, with which I put her away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was put away.

rsv@Isaiah:50:2 @ Why, when I came, was there no man? When I called, was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened, that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, by my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a desert; their fish stink for lack of water, and die of thirst.

rsv@Isaiah:50:3 @ I clothe the heavens with blackness, and make sackcloth their covering."

rsv@Isaiah:50:4 @ The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him that is weary. Morning by morning he wakens, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

rsv@Isaiah:50:5 @ The Lord GOD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, I turned not backward.

rsv@Isaiah:50:6 @ I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to those who pulled out the beard; I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

rsv@Isaiah:50:7 @ For the Lord GOD helps me; therefore I have not been confounded; therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame;

rsv@Isaiah:50:8 @ he who vindicates me is near. Who will contend with me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.

rsv@Isaiah:50:9 @ Behold, the Lord GOD helps me; who will declare me guilty? Behold, all of them will wear out like a garment; the moth will eat them up.

rsv@Isaiah:50:10 @ Who among you fears the LORD and obeys the voice of his servant, who walks in darkness and has no light, yet trusts in the name of the LORD and relies upon his God?

rsv@Isaiah:50:11 @ Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who set brands alight! Walk by the light of your fire, and by the brands which you have kindled! This shall you have from my hand: you shall lie down in torment.

rsv@Isaiah:51:1 @ "Hearken to me, you who pursue deliverance, you who seek the LORD; look to the rock from which you were hewn, and to the quarry from which you were digged.

rsv@Isaiah:51:2 @ Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him and made him many.

rsv@Isaiah:51:3 @ For the LORD will comfort Zion; he will comfort all her waste places, and will make her wilderness like Eden, her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the voice of song.

rsv@Isaiah:51:4 @ "Listen to me, my people, and give ear to me, my nation; for a law will go forth from me, and my justice for a light to the peoples.

rsv@Isaiah:51:5 @ My deliverance draws near speedily, my salvation has gone forth, and my arms will rule the peoples; the coastlands wait for me, and for my arm they hope.

rsv@Isaiah:51:6 @ Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and they who dwell in it will die like gnats; but my salvation will be for ever, and my deliverance will never be ended.

rsv@Isaiah:51:7 @ "Hearken to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear not the reproach of men, and be not dismayed at their revilings.

rsv@Isaiah:51:8 @ For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my deliverance will be for ever, and my salvation to all generations."

rsv@Isaiah:51:9 @ Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in days of old, the generations of long ago. Was it not thou that didst cut Rahab in pieces, that didst pierce the dragon?

rsv@Isaiah:51:10 @ Was it not thou that didst dry up the sea, the waters of the great deep; that didst make the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?

rsv@Isaiah:51:11 @ And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

rsv@Isaiah:51:12 @ "I, I am he that comforts you; who are you that you are afraid of man who dies, of the son of man who is made like grass,

rsv@Isaiah:51:13 @ and have forgotten the LORD, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth, and fear continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he sets himself to destroy? And where is the fury of the oppressor?

rsv@Isaiah:51:14 @ He who is bowed down shall speedily be released; he shall not die and go down to the Pit, neither shall his bread fail.

rsv@Isaiah:51:15 @ For I am the LORD your God, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar-- the LORD of hosts is his name.

rsv@Isaiah:51:16 @ And I have put my words in your mouth, and hid you in the shadow of my hand, stretching out the heavens and laying the foundations of the earth, and saying to Zion, `You are my people.'"

rsv@Isaiah:51:17 @ Rouse yourself, rouse yourself, stand up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his wrath, who have drunk to the dregs the bowl of staggering.

rsv@Isaiah:51:18 @ There is none to guide her among all the sons she has borne; there is none to take her by the hand among all the sons she has brought up.

rsv@Isaiah:51:19 @ These two things have befallen you-- who will condole with you?-- devastation and destruction, famine and sword; who will comfort you?

rsv@Isaiah:51:20 @ Your sons have fainted, they lie at the head of every street like an antelope in a net; they are full of the wrath of the LORD, the rebuke of your God.

rsv@Isaiah:51:21 @ Therefore hear this, you who are afflicted, who are drunk, but not with wine:

rsv@Isaiah:51:22 @ Thus says your Lord, the LORD, your God who pleads the cause of his people: "Behold, I have taken from your hand the cup of staggering; the bowl of my wrath you shall drink no more;

rsv@Isaiah:51:23 @ and I will put it into the hand of your tormentors, who have said to you, `Bow down, that we may pass over'; and you have made your back like the ground and like the street for them to pass over."

rsv@Isaiah:52:1 @ Awake, awake, put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city; for there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean.

rsv@Isaiah:52:2 @ Shake yourself from the dust, arise, O captive Jerusalem; loose the bonds from your neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

rsv@Isaiah:52:3 @ For thus says the LORD: "You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money.

rsv@Isaiah:52:4 @ For thus says the Lord GOD: My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there, and the Assyrian oppressed them for nothing.

rsv@Isaiah:52:5 @ Now therefore what have I here, says the LORD, seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail, says the LORD, and continually all the day my name is despised.

rsv@Isaiah:52:6 @ Therefore my people shall know my name; therefore in that day they shall know that it is I who speak; here am I."

rsv@Isaiah:52:7 @ How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good tidings, who publishes peace, who brings good tidings of good, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, "Your God reigns."

rsv@Isaiah:52:8 @ Hark, your watchmen lift up their voice, together they sing for joy; for eye to eye they see the return of the LORD to Zion.

rsv@Isaiah:52:9 @ Break forth together into singing, you waste places of Jerusalem; for the LORD has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem.

rsv@Isaiah:52:10 @ The LORD has bared his holy arm before the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

rsv@Isaiah:52:11 @ Depart, depart, go out thence, touch no unclean thing; go out from the midst of her, purify yourselves, you who bear the vessels of the LORD.

rsv@Isaiah:52:12 @ For you shall not go out in haste, and you shall not go in flight, for the LORD will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

rsv@Isaiah:52:13 @ Behold, my servant shall prosper, he shall be exalted and lifted up, and shall be very high.

rsv@Isaiah:52:14 @ As many were astonished at him-- his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance, and his form beyond that of the sons of men--

rsv@Isaiah:52:15 @ so shall he startle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths because of him; for that which has not been told them they shall see, and that which they have not heard they shall understand.

rsv@Isaiah:53:1 @ Who has believed what we have heard? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

rsv@Isaiah:53:2 @ For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or comeliness that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him.

rsv@Isaiah:53:3 @ He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

rsv@Isaiah:53:4 @ Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.

rsv@Isaiah:53:5 @ But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that made us whole, and with his stripes we are healed.

rsv@Isaiah:53:6 @ All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

rsv@Isaiah:53:7 @ He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.

rsv@Isaiah:53:8 @ By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people?

rsv@Isaiah:53:9 @ And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth.

rsv@Isaiah:53:10 @ Yet it was the will of the LORD to bruise him; he has put him to grief; when he makes himself an offering for sin, he shall see his offspring, he shall prolong his days; the will of the LORD shall prosper in his hand;

rsv@Isaiah:53:11 @ he shall see the fruit of the travail of his soul and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous; and he shall bear their iniquities.

rsv@Isaiah:53:12 @ Therefore I will divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out his soul to death, and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

rsv@Isaiah:54:1 @ "Sing, O barren one, who did not bear; break forth into singing and cry aloud, you who have not been in travail! For the children of the desolate one will be more than the children of her that is married, says the LORD.

rsv@Isaiah:54:2 @ Enlarge the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your habitations be stretched out; hold not back, lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes.

rsv@Isaiah:54:3 @ For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left, and your descendants will possess the nations and will people the desolate cities.

rsv@Isaiah:54:4 @ "Fear not, for you will not be ashamed; be not confounded, for you will not be put to shame; for you will forget the shame of your youth, and the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no more.

rsv@Isaiah:54:5 @ For your Maker is your husband, the LORD of hosts is his name; and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer, the God of the whole earth he is called.

rsv@Isaiah:54:6 @ For the LORD has called you like a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, like a wife of youth when she is cast off, says your God.

rsv@Isaiah:54:7 @ For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will gather you.

rsv@Isaiah:54:8 @ In overflowing wrath for a moment I hid my face from you, but with everlasting love I will have compassion on you, says the LORD, your Redeemer.

rsv@Isaiah:54:9 @ "For this is like the days of Noah to me: as I swore that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you and will not rebuke you.

rsv@Isaiah:54:10 @ For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast love shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not be removed, says the LORD, who has compassion on you.

rsv@Isaiah:54:11 @ "O afflicted one, storm-tossed, and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in antimony, and lay your foundations with sapphires.

rsv@Isaiah:54:12 @ I will make your pinnacles of agate, your gates of carbuncles, and all your wall of precious stones.

rsv@Isaiah:54:13 @ All your sons shall be taught by the LORD, and great shall be the prosperity of your sons.

rsv@Isaiah:54:14 @ In righteousness you shall be established; you shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear; and from terror, for it shall not come near you.

rsv@Isaiah:54:15 @ If any one stirs up strife, it is not from me; whoever stirs up strife with you shall fall because of you.

rsv@Isaiah:54:16 @ Behold, I have created the smith who blows the fire of coals, and produces a weapon for its purpose. I have also created the ravager to destroy;

rsv@Isaiah:54:17 @ no weapon that is fashioned against you shall prosper, and you shall confute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD and their vindication from me, says the LORD."

rsv@Isaiah:55:1 @ "Ho, every one who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

rsv@Isaiah:55:2 @ Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Hearken diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in fatness.

rsv@Isaiah:55:3 @ Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David.

rsv@Isaiah:55:4 @ Behold, I made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander for the peoples.

rsv@Isaiah:55:5 @ Behold, you shall call nations that you know not, and nations that knew you not shall run to you, because of the LORD your God, and of the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you.

rsv@Isaiah:55:6 @ "Seek the LORD while he may be found, call upon him while he is near;

rsv@Isaiah:55:7 @ let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that he may have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

rsv@Isaiah:55:8 @ For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says the LORD.

rsv@Isaiah:55:9 @ For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

rsv@Isaiah:55:10 @ "For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and return not thither but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,

rsv@Isaiah:55:11 @ so shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and prosper in the thing for which I sent it.

rsv@Isaiah:55:12 @ "For you shall go out in joy, and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

rsv@Isaiah:55:13 @ Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress; instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle; and it shall be to the LORD for a memorial, for an everlasting sign which shall not be cut off."

rsv@Isaiah:56:1 @ Thus says the LORD: "Keep justice, and do righteousness, for soon my salvation will come, and my deliverance be revealed.

rsv@Isaiah:56:2 @ Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast, who keeps the sabbath, not profaning it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil."

rsv@Isaiah:56:3 @ Let not the foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say, "The LORD will surely separate me from his people"; and let not the eunuch say, "Behold, I am a dry tree."

rsv@Isaiah:56:4 @ For thus says the LORD: "To the eunuchs who keep my sabbaths, who choose the things that please me and hold fast my covenant,

rsv@Isaiah:56:5 @ I will give in my house and within my walls a monument and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name which shall not be cut off.

rsv@Isaiah:56:6 @ "And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD, to minister to him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be his servants, every one who keeps the sabbath, and does not profane it, and holds fast my covenant--

rsv@Isaiah:56:7 @ these I will bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.

rsv@Isaiah:56:8 @ Thus says the Lord GOD, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, I will gather yet others to him besides those already gathered."

rsv@Isaiah:56:9 @ All you beasts of the field, come to devour-- all you beasts in the forest.

rsv@Isaiah:56:10 @ His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

rsv@Isaiah:56:11 @ The dogs have a mighty appetite; they never have enough. The shepherds also have no understanding; they have all turned to their own way, each to his own gain, one and all.

rsv@Isaiah:56:12 @ "Come," they say, "let us get wine, let us fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow will be like this day, great beyond measure."

rsv@Isaiah:57:1 @ The righteous man perishes, and no one lays it to heart; devout men are taken away, while no one understands. For the righteous man is taken away from calamity,

rsv@Isaiah:57:2 @ he enters into peace; they rest in their beds who walk in their uprightness.

rsv@Isaiah:57:3 @ But you, draw near hither, sons of the sorceress, offspring of the adulterer and the harlot.

rsv@Isaiah:57:4 @ Of whom are you making sport? Against whom do you open your mouth wide and put out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, the offspring of deceit,

rsv@Isaiah:57:5 @ you who burn with lust among the oaks, under every green tree; who slay your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?

rsv@Isaiah:57:6 @ Among the smooth stones of the valley is your portion; they, they, are your lot; to them you have poured out a drink offering, you have brought a cereal offering. Shall I be appeased for these things?

rsv@Isaiah:57:7 @ Upon a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed, and thither you went up to offer sacrifice.

rsv@Isaiah:57:8 @ Behind the door and the doorpost you have set up your symbol; for, deserting me, you have uncovered your bed, you have gone up to it, you have made it wide; and you have made a bargain for yourself with them, you have loved their bed, you have looked on nakedness.

rsv@Isaiah:57:9 @ You journeyed to Molech with oil and multiplied your perfumes; you sent your envoys far off, and sent down even to Sheol.

rsv@Isaiah:57:10 @ You were wearied with the length of your way, but you did not say, "It is hopeless"; you found new life for your strength, and so you were not faint.

rsv@Isaiah:57:11 @ Whom did you dread and fear, so that you lied, and did not remember me, did not give me a thought? Have I not held my peace, even for a long time, and so you do not fear me?

rsv@Isaiah:57:12 @ I will tell of your righteousness and your doings, but they will not help you.

rsv@Isaiah:57:13 @ When you cry out, let your collection of idols deliver you! The wind will carry them off, a breath will take them away. But he who takes refuge in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain.

rsv@Isaiah:57:14 @ And it shall be said, "Build up, build up, prepare the way, remove every obstruction from my people's way."

rsv@Isaiah:57:15 @ For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

rsv@Isaiah:57:16 @ For I will not contend for ever, nor will I always be angry; for from me proceeds the spirit, and I have made the breath of life.

rsv@Isaiah:57:17 @ Because of the iniquity of his covetousness I was angry, I smote him, I hid my face and was angry; but he went on backsliding in the way of his own heart.

rsv@Isaiah:57:18 @ I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will lead him and requite him with comfort, creating for his mourners the fruit of the lips.

rsv@Isaiah:57:19 @ Peace, peace, to the far and to the near, says the LORD; and I will heal him.

rsv@Isaiah:57:20 @ But the wicked are like the tossing sea; for it cannot rest, and its waters toss up mire and dirt.

rsv@Isaiah:57:21 @ There is no peace, says my God, for the wicked."

rsv@Isaiah:58:1 @ "Cry aloud, spare not, lift up your voice like a trumpet; declare to my people their transgression, to the house of Jacob their sins.

rsv@Isaiah:58:2 @ Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that did righteousness and did not forsake the ordinance of their God; they ask of me righteous judgments, they delight to draw near to God.

rsv@Isaiah:58:3 @ `Why have we fasted, and thou seest it not? Why have we humbled ourselves, and thou takest no knowledge of it?' Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure, and oppress all your workers.

rsv@Isaiah:58:4 @ Behold, you fast only to quarrel and to fight and to hit with wicked fist. Fasting like yours this day will not make your voice to be heard on high.

rsv@Isaiah:58:5 @ Is such the fast that I choose, a day for a man to humble himself? Is it to bow down his head like a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and a day acceptable to the LORD?

rsv@Isaiah:58:6 @ "Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?

rsv@Isaiah:58:7 @ Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?

rsv@Isaiah:58:8 @ Then shall your light break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up speedily; your righteousness shall go before you, the glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard.

rsv@Isaiah:58:9 @ Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer; you shall cry, and he will say, Here I am. "If you take away from the midst of you the yoke, the pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness,

rsv@Isaiah:58:10 @ if you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday.

rsv@Isaiah:58:11 @ And the LORD will guide you continually, and satisfy your desire with good things, and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.

rsv@Isaiah:58:12 @ And your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; you shall be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of streets to dwell in.

rsv@Isaiah:58:13 @ "If you turn back your foot from the sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day, and call the sabbath a delight and the holy day of the LORD honorable; if you honor it, not going your own ways, or seeking your own pleasure, or talking idly;

rsv@Isaiah:58:14 @ then you shall take delight in the LORD, and I will make you ride upon the heights of the earth; I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father, for the mouth of the LORD has spoken."

rsv@Isaiah:59:1 @ Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear;

rsv@Isaiah:59:2 @ but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you so that he does not hear.

rsv@Isaiah:59:3 @ For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness.

rsv@Isaiah:59:4 @ No one enters suit justly, no one goes to law honestly; they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies, they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.

rsv@Isaiah:59:5 @ They hatch adders' eggs, they weave the spider's web; he who eats their eggs dies, and from one which is crushed a viper is hatched.

rsv@Isaiah:59:6 @ Their webs will not serve as clothing; men will not cover themselves with what they make. Their works are works of iniquity, and deeds of violence are in their hands.

rsv@Isaiah:59:7 @ Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, desolation and destruction are in their highways.

rsv@Isaiah:59:8 @ The way of peace they know not, and there is no justice in their paths; they have made their roads crooked, no one who goes in them knows peace.

rsv@Isaiah:59:9 @ Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us; we look for light, and behold, darkness, and for brightness, but we walk in gloom.

rsv@Isaiah:59:10 @ We grope for the wall like the blind, we grope like those who have no eyes; we stumble at noon as in the twilight, among those in full vigor we are like dead men.

rsv@Isaiah:59:11 @ We all growl like bears, we moan and moan like doves; we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.

rsv@Isaiah:59:12 @ For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and we know our iniquities:

rsv@Isaiah:59:13 @ transgressing, and denying the LORD, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart lying words.

rsv@Isaiah:59:14 @ Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth has fallen in the public squares, and uprightness cannot enter.

rsv@Isaiah:59:15 @ Truth is lacking, and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. The LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.

rsv@Isaiah:59:16 @ He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no one to intervene; then his own arm brought him victory, and his righteousness upheld him.

rsv@Isaiah:59:17 @ He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head; he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and wrapped himself in fury as a mantle.

rsv@Isaiah:59:18 @ According to their deeds, so will he repay, wrath to his adversaries, requital to his enemies; to the coastlands he will render requital.

rsv@Isaiah:59:19 @ So they shall fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come like a rushing stream, which the wind of the LORD drives.

rsv@Isaiah:59:20 @ "And he will come to Zion as Redeemer, to those in Jacob who turn from transgression, says the LORD.

rsv@Isaiah:59:21 @ "And as for me, this is my covenant with them, says the LORD: my spirit which is upon you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, or out of the mouth of your children, or out of the mouth of your children's children, says the LORD, from this time forth and for evermore."

rsv@Isaiah:60:1 @ Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD has risen upon you.

rsv@Isaiah:60:2 @ For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but the LORD will arise upon you, and his glory will be seen upon you.

rsv@Isaiah:60:3 @ And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.

rsv@Isaiah:60:4 @ Lift up your eyes round about, and see; they all gather together, they come to you; your sons shall come from far, and your daughters shall be carried in the arms.

rsv@Isaiah:60:5 @ Then you shall see and be radiant, your heart shall thrill and rejoice; because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, the wealth of the nations shall come to you.

rsv@Isaiah:60:6 @ A multitude of camels shall cover you, the young camels of Mid'ian and Ephah; all those from Sheba shall come. They shall bring gold and frankincense, and shall proclaim the praise of the LORD.

rsv@Isaiah:60:7 @ All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered to you, the rams of Nebai'oth shall minister to you; they shall come up with acceptance on my altar, and I will glorify my glorious house.

rsv@Isaiah:60:8 @ Who are these that fly like a cloud, and like doves to their windows?

rsv@Isaiah:60:9 @ For the coastlands shall wait for me, the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your sons from far, their silver and gold with them, for the name of the LORD your God, and for the Holy One of Israel, because he has glorified you.

rsv@Isaiah:60:10 @ Foreigners shall build up your walls, and their kings shall minister to you; for in my wrath I smote you, but in my favor I have had mercy on you.

rsv@Isaiah:60:11 @ Your gates shall be open continually; day and night they shall not be shut; that men may bring to you the wealth of the nations, with their kings led in procession.

rsv@Isaiah:60:12 @ For the nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; those nations shall be utterly laid waste.

rsv@Isaiah:60:13 @ The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, the cypress, the plane, and the pine, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.

rsv@Isaiah:60:14 @ The sons of those who oppressed you shall come bending low to you; and all who despised you shall bow down at your feet; they shall call you the City of the LORD, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

rsv@Isaiah:60:15 @ Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, with no one passing through, I will make you majestic for ever, a joy from age to age.

rsv@Isaiah:60:16 @ You shall suck the milk of nations, you shall suck the breast of kings; and you shall know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

rsv@Isaiah:60:17 @ Instead of bronze I will bring gold, and instead of iron I will bring silver; instead of wood, bronze, instead of stones, iron. I will make your overseers peace and your taskmasters righteousness.

rsv@Isaiah:60:18 @ Violence shall no more be heard in your land, devastation or destruction within your borders; you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.

rsv@Isaiah:60:19 @ The sun shall be no more your light by day, nor for brightness shall the moon give light to you by night; but the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.

rsv@Isaiah:60:20 @ Your sun shall no more go down, nor your moon withdraw itself; for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your days of mourning shall be ended.

rsv@Isaiah:60:21 @ Your people shall all be righteous; they shall possess the land for ever, the shoot of my planting, the work of my hands, that I might be glorified.

rsv@Isaiah:60:22 @ The least one shall become a clan, and the smallest one a mighty nation; I am the LORD; in its time I will hasten it.

rsv@Isaiah:61:1 @ The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to bring good tidings to the afflicted; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;

rsv@Isaiah:61:2 @ to proclaim the year of the LORD's favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;

rsv@Isaiah:61:3 @ to grant to those who mourn in Zion-- to give them a garland instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the mantle of praise instead of a faint spirit; that they may be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he may be glorified.

rsv@Isaiah:61:4 @ They shall build up the ancient ruins, they shall raise up the former devastations; they shall repair the ruined cities, the devastations of many generations.

rsv@Isaiah:61:5 @ Aliens shall stand and feed your flocks, foreigners shall be your plowmen and vinedressers;

rsv@Isaiah:61:6 @ but you shall be called the priests of the LORD, men shall speak of you as the ministers of our God; you shall eat the wealth of the nations, and in their riches you shall glory.

rsv@Isaiah:61:7 @ Instead of your shame you shall have a double portion, instead of dishonor you shall rejoice in your lot; therefore in your land you shall possess a double portion; yours shall be everlasting joy.

rsv@Isaiah:61:8 @ For I the LORD love justice, I hate robbery and wrong; I will faithfully give them their recompense, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

rsv@Isaiah:61:9 @ Their descendants shall be known among the nations, and their offspring in the midst of the peoples; all who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are a people whom the LORD has blessed.

rsv@Isaiah:61:10 @ I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall exult in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

rsv@Isaiah:61:11 @ For as the earth brings forth its shoots, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to spring up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.

rsv@Isaiah:62:1 @ For Zion's sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until her vindication goes forth as brightness, and her salvation as a burning torch.

rsv@Isaiah:62:2 @ The nations shall see your vindication, and all the kings your glory; and you shall be called by a new name which the mouth of the LORD will give.

rsv@Isaiah:62:3 @ You shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.

rsv@Isaiah:62:4 @ You shall no more be termed Forsaken, and your land shall no more be termed Desolate; but you shall be called My delight is in her, and your land Married; for the LORD delights in you, and your land shall be married.

rsv@Isaiah:62:5 @ For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you, and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.

rsv@Isaiah:62:6 @ Upon your walls, O Jerusalem, I have set watchmen; all the day and all the night they shall never be silent. You who put the LORD in remembrance, take no rest,

rsv@Isaiah:62:7 @ and give him no rest until he establishes Jerusalem and makes it a praise in the earth.

rsv@Isaiah:62:8 @ The LORD has sworn by his right hand and by his mighty arm: "I will not again give your grain to be food for your enemies, and foreigners shall not drink your wine for which you have labored;

rsv@Isaiah:62:9 @ but those who garner it shall eat it and praise the LORD, and those who gather it shall drink it in the courts of my sanctuary."

rsv@Isaiah:62:10 @ Go through, go through the gates, prepare the way for the people; build up, build up the highway, clear it of stones, lift up an ensign over the peoples.

rsv@Isaiah:62:11 @ Behold, the LORD has proclaimed to the end of the earth: Say to the daughter of Zion, "Behold, your salvation comes; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him."

rsv@Isaiah:62:12 @ And they shall be called The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD; and you shall be called Sought out, a city not forsaken.

rsv@Isaiah:63:1 @ Who is this that comes from Edom, in crimsoned garments from Bozrah, he that is glorious in his apparel, marching in the greatness of his strength? "It is I, announcing vindication, mighty to save."

rsv@Isaiah:63:2 @ Why is thy apparel red, and thy garments like his that treads in the wine press?

rsv@Isaiah:63:3 @ "I have trodden the wine press alone, and from the peoples no one was with me; I trod them in my anger and trampled them in my wrath; their lifeblood is sprinkled upon my garments, and I have stained all my raiment.

rsv@Isaiah:63:4 @ For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and my year of redemption has come.

rsv@Isaiah:63:5 @ I looked, but there was no one to help; I was appalled, but there was no one to uphold; so my own arm brought me victory, and my wrath upheld me.

rsv@Isaiah:63:6 @ I trod down the peoples in my anger, I made them drunk in my wrath, and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth."

rsv@Isaiah:63:7 @ I will recount the steadfast love of the LORD, the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD has granted us, and the great goodness to the house of Israel which he has granted them according to his mercy, according to the abundance of his steadfast love.

rsv@Isaiah:63:8 @ For he said, Surely they are my people, sons who will not deal falsely; and he became their Savior.

rsv@Isaiah:63:9 @ In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them; in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.

rsv@Isaiah:63:10 @ But they rebelled and grieved his holy Spirit; therefore he turned to be their enemy, and himself fought against them.

rsv@Isaiah:63:11 @ Then he remembered the days of old, of Moses his servant. Where is he who brought up out of the sea the shepherds of his flock? Where is he who put in the midst of them his holy Spirit,

rsv@Isaiah:63:12 @ who caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them to make for himself an everlasting name,

rsv@Isaiah:63:13 @ who led them through the depths? Like a horse in the desert, they did not stumble.

rsv@Isaiah:63:14 @ Like cattle that go down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD gave them rest. So thou didst lead thy people, to make for thyself a glorious name.

rsv@Isaiah:63:15 @ Look down from heaven and see, from thy holy and glorious habitation. Where are thy zeal and thy might? The yearning of thy heart and thy compassion are withheld from me.

rsv@Isaiah:63:16 @ For thou art our Father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us; thou, O LORD, art our Father, our Redeemer from of old is thy name.

rsv@Isaiah:63:17 @ O LORD, why dost thou make us err from thy ways and harden our heart, so that we fear thee not? Return for the sake of thy servants, the tribes of thy heritage.

rsv@Isaiah:63:18 @ Thy holy people possessed thy sanctuary a little while; our adversaries have trodden it down.

rsv@Isaiah:63:19 @ We have become like those over whom thou hast never ruled, like those who are not called by thy name.

rsv@Isaiah:64:1 @ O that thou wouldst rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains might quake at thy presence--

rsv@Isaiah:64:2 @ as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil-- to make thy name known to thy adversaries, and that the nations might tremble at thy presence!

rsv@Isaiah:64:3 @ When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains quaked at thy presence.

rsv@Isaiah:64:4 @ From of old no one has heard or perceived by the ear, no eye has seen a God besides thee, who works for those who wait for him.

rsv@Isaiah:64:5 @ Thou meetest him that joyfully works righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways. Behold, thou wast angry, and we sinned; in our sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved?

rsv@Isaiah:64:6 @ We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

rsv@Isaiah:64:7 @ There is no one that calls upon thy name, that bestirs himself to take hold of thee; for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast delivered us into the hand of our iniquities.

rsv@Isaiah:64:8 @ Yet, O LORD, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou art our potter; we are all the work of thy hand.

rsv@Isaiah:64:9 @ Be not exceedingly angry, O LORD, and remember not iniquity for ever. Behold, consider, we are all thy people.

rsv@Isaiah:64:10 @ Thy holy cities have become a wilderness, Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

rsv@Isaiah:64:11 @ Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, has been burned by fire, and all our pleasant places have become ruins.

rsv@Isaiah:64:12 @ Wilt thou restrain thyself at these things, O LORD? Wilt thou keep silent, and afflict us sorely?

rsv@Isaiah:65:1 @ I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for me; I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me. I said, "Here am I, here am I," to a nation that did not call on my name.

rsv@Isaiah:65:2 @ I spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, following their own devices;

rsv@Isaiah:65:3 @ a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens and burning incense upon bricks;

rsv@Isaiah:65:4 @ who sit in tombs, and spend the night in secret places; who eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;

rsv@Isaiah:65:5 @ who say, "Keep to yourself, do not come near me, for I am set apart from you." These are a smoke in my nostrils, a fire that burns all the day.

rsv@Isaiah:65:6 @ Behold, it is written before me: "I will not keep silent, but I will repay, yea, I will repay into their bosom

rsv@Isaiah:65:7 @ their iniquities and their fathers' iniquities together, says the LORD; because they burned incense upon the mountains and reviled me upon the hills, I will measure into their bosom payment for their former doings."

rsv@Isaiah:65:8 @ Thus says the LORD: "As the wine is found in the cluster, and they say, `Do not destroy it, for there is a blessing in it,' so I will do for my servants' sake, and not destroy them all.

rsv@Isaiah:65:9 @ I will bring forth descendants from Jacob, and from Judah inheritors of my mountains; my chosen shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.

rsv@Isaiah:65:10 @ Sharon shall become a pasture for flocks, and the Valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down, for my people who have sought me.

rsv@Isaiah:65:11 @ But you who forsake the LORD, who forget my holy mountain, who set a table for Fortune and fill cups of mixed wine for Destiny;

rsv@Isaiah:65:12 @ I will destine you to the sword, and all of you shall bow down to the slaughter; because, when I called, you did not answer, when I spoke, you did not listen, but you did what was evil in my eyes, and chose what I did not delight in."

rsv@Isaiah:65:13 @ Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, my servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, but you shall be put to shame;

rsv@Isaiah:65:14 @ behold, my servants shall sing for gladness of heart, but you shall cry out for pain of heart, and shall wail for anguish of spirit.

rsv@Isaiah:65:15 @ You shall leave your name to my chosen for a curse, and the Lord GOD will slay you; but his servants he will call by a different name.

rsv@Isaiah:65:16 @ So that he who blesses himself in the land shall bless himself by the God of truth, and he who takes an oath in the land shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten and are hid from my eyes.

rsv@Isaiah:65:17 @ "For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind.

rsv@Isaiah:65:18 @ But be glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create; for behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.

rsv@Isaiah:65:19 @ I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and be glad in my people; no more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping and the cry of distress.

rsv@Isaiah:65:20 @ No more shall there be in it an infant that lives but a few days, or an old man who does not fill out his days, for the child shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.

rsv@Isaiah:65:21 @ They shall build houses and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

rsv@Isaiah:65:22 @ They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat; for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

rsv@Isaiah:65:23 @ They shall not labor in vain, or bear children for calamity; for they shall be the offspring of the blessed of the LORD, and their children with them.

rsv@Isaiah:65:24 @ Before they call I will answer, while they are yet speaking I will hear.

rsv@Isaiah:65:25 @ The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent's food. They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain, says the LORD."

rsv@Isaiah:66:1 @ Thus says the LORD: "Heaven is my throne and the earth is my footstool; what is the house which you would build for me, and what is the place of my rest?

rsv@Isaiah:66:2 @ All these things my hand has made, and so all these things are mine, says the LORD. But this is the man to whom I will look, he that is humble and contrite in spirit, and trembles at my word.

rsv@Isaiah:66:3 @ "He who slaughters an ox is like him who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, like him who breaks a dog's neck; he who presents a cereal offering, like him who offers swine's blood; he who makes a memorial offering of frankincense, like him who blesses an idol. These have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations;

rsv@Isaiah:66:4 @ I also will choose affliction for them, and bring their fears upon them; because, when I called, no one answered, when I spoke they did not listen; but they did what was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I did not delight."

rsv@Isaiah:66:5 @ Hear the word of the LORD, you who tremble at his word: "Your brethren who hate you and cast you out for my name's sake have said, `Let the LORD be glorified, that we may see your joy'; but it is they who shall be put to shame.

rsv@Isaiah:66:6 @ "Hark, an uproar from the city! A voice from the temple! The voice of the LORD, rendering recompense to his enemies!

rsv@Isaiah:66:7 @ "Before she was in labor she gave birth; before her pain came upon her she was delivered of a son.

rsv@Isaiah:66:8 @ Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? Shall a nation be brought forth in one moment? For as soon as Zion was in labor she brought forth her sons.

rsv@Isaiah:66:9 @ Shall I bring to the birth and not cause to bring forth? says the LORD; shall I, who cause to bring forth, shut the womb? says your God.

rsv@Isaiah:66:10 @ "Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her; rejoice with her in joy, all you who mourn over her;

rsv@Isaiah:66:11 @ that you may suck and be satisfied with her consoling breasts; that you may drink deeply with delight from the abundance of her glory."

rsv@Isaiah:66:12 @ For thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will extend prosperity to her like a river, and the wealth of the nations like an overflowing stream; and you shall suck, you shall be carried upon her hip, and dandled upon her knees.

rsv@Isaiah:66:13 @ As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you; you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

rsv@Isaiah:66:14 @ You shall see, and your heart shall rejoice; your bones shall flourish like the grass; and it shall be known that the hand of the LORD is with his servants, and his indignation is against his enemies.

rsv@Isaiah:66:15 @ "For behold, the LORD will come in fire, and his chariots like the stormwind, to render his anger in fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.

rsv@Isaiah:66:16 @ For by fire will the LORD execute judgment, and by his sword, upon all flesh; and those slain by the LORD shall be many.

rsv@Isaiah:66:17 @ "Those who sanctify and purify themselves to go into the gardens, following one in the midst, eating swine's flesh and the abomination and mice, shall come to an end together, says the LORD.

rsv@Isaiah:66:18 @ "For I know their works and their thoughts, and I am coming to gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come and shall see my glory,

rsv@Isaiah:66:19 @ and I will set a sign among them. And from them I will send survivors to the nations, to Tarshish, Put, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands afar off, that have not heard my fame or seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations.

rsv@Isaiah:66:20 @ And they shall bring all your brethren from all the nations as an offering to the LORD, upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the LORD, just as the Israelites bring their cereal offering in a clean vessel to the house of the LORD.

rsv@Isaiah:66:21 @ And some of them also I will take for priests and for Levites, says the LORD.

rsv@Isaiah:66:22 @ "For as the new heavens and the new earth which I will make shall remain before me, says the LORD; so shall your descendants and your name remain.

rsv@Isaiah:66:23 @ From new moon to new moon, and from sabbath to sabbath, all flesh shall come to worship before me, says the LORD.

rsv@Isaiah:66:24 @ "And they shall go forth and look on the dead bodies of the men that have rebelled against me; for their worm shall not die, their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh."

rsv@Jeremiah:1:1 @ The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilki'ah, of the priests who were in An'athoth in the land of Benjamin,

rsv@Jeremiah:1:2 @ to whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josi'ah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.

rsv@Jeremiah:1:3 @ It came also in the days of Jehoi'akim the son of Josi'ah, king of Judah, and until the end of the eleventh year of Zedeki'ah, the son of Josi'ah, king of Judah, until the captivity of Jerusalem in the fifth month.

rsv@Jeremiah:1:4 @ Now the word of the LORD came to me saying,

rsv@Jeremiah:1:5 @ "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations."

rsv@Jeremiah:1:6 @ Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I do not know how to speak, for I am only a youth."

rsv@Jeremiah:1:7 @ But the LORD said to me, "Do not say, `I am only a youth'; for to all to whom I send you you shall go, and whatever I command you you shall speak.

rsv@Jeremiah:1:8 @ Be not afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you, says the LORD."

rsv@Jeremiah:1:9 @ Then the LORD put forth his hand and touched my mouth; and the LORD said to me, "Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.

rsv@Jeremiah:1:10 @ See, I have set you this day over nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant."

rsv@Jeremiah:1:11 @ And the word of the LORD came to me, saying, "Jeremiah, what do you see?" And I said, "I see a rod of almond."

rsv@Jeremiah:1:12 @ Then the LORD said to me, "You have seen well, for I am watching over my word to perform it."

rsv@Jeremiah:1:13 @ The word of the LORD came to me a second time, saying, "What do you see?" And I said, "I see a boiling pot, facing away from the north."

rsv@Jeremiah:1:14 @ Then the LORD said to me, "Out of the north evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.

rsv@Jeremiah:1:15 @ For, lo, I am calling all the tribes of the kingdoms of the north, says the LORD; and they shall come and every one shall set his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, against all its walls round about, and against all the cities of Judah.

rsv@Jeremiah:1:16 @ And I will utter my judgments against them, for all their wickedness in forsaking me; they have burned incense to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands.

rsv@Jeremiah:1:17 @ But you, gird up your loins; arise, and say to them everything that I command you. Do not be dismayed by them, lest I dismay you before them.

rsv@Jeremiah:1:18 @ And I, behold, I make you this day a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, its princes, its priests, and the people of the land.

rsv@Jeremiah:1:19 @ They will fight against you; but they shall not prevail against you, for I am with you, says the LORD, to deliver you."

rsv@Jeremiah:2:1 @ The word of the LORD came to me, saying,

rsv@Jeremiah:2:2 @ "Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the LORD, I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.

rsv@Jeremiah:2:3 @ Israel was holy to the LORD, the first fruits of his harvest. All who ate of it became guilty; evil came upon them, says the LORD."

rsv@Jeremiah:2:4 @ Hear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel.

rsv@Jeremiah:2:5 @ Thus says the LORD: "What wrong did your fathers find in me that they went far from me, and went after worthlessness, and became worthless?

rsv@Jeremiah:2:6 @ They did not say, `Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us in the wilderness, in a land of deserts and pits, in a land of drought and deep darkness, in a land that none passes through, where no man dwells?'

rsv@Jeremiah:2:7 @ And I brought you into a plentiful land to enjoy its fruits and its good things. But when you came in you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.

rsv@Jeremiah:2:8 @ The priests did not say, `Where is the LORD?' Those who handle the law did not know me; the rulers transgressed against me; the prophets prophesied by Ba'al, and went after things that do not profit.

rsv@Jeremiah:2:9 @ "Therefore I still contend with you, says the LORD, and with your children's children I will contend.

rsv@Jeremiah:2:10 @ For cross to the coasts of Cyprus and see, or send to Kedar and examine with care; see if there has been such a thing.

rsv@Jeremiah:2:11 @ Has a nation changed its gods, even though they are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.

rsv@Jeremiah:2:12 @ Be appalled, O heavens, at this, be shocked, be utterly desolate, says the LORD,

rsv@Jeremiah:2:13 @ for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

rsv@Jeremiah:2:14 @ "Is Israel a slave? Is he a homeborn servant? Why then has he become a prey?

rsv@Jeremiah:2:15 @ The lions have roared against him, they have roared loudly. They have made his land a waste; his cities are in ruins, without inhabitant.

rsv@Jeremiah:2:16 @ Moreover, the men of Memphis and Tah'panhes have broken the crown of your head.

rsv@Jeremiah:2:17 @ Have you not brought this upon yourself by forsaking the LORD your God, when he led you in the way?

rsv@Jeremiah:2:18 @ And now what do you gain by going to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Nile? Or what do you gain by going to Assyria, to drink the waters of the Euphra'tes?

rsv@Jeremiah:2:19 @ Your wickedness will chasten you, and your apostasy will reprove you. Know and see that it is evil and bitter for you to forsake the LORD your God; the fear of me is not in you, says the Lord GOD of hosts.

rsv@Jeremiah:2:20 @ "For long ago you broke your yoke and burst your bonds; and you said, `I will not serve.' Yea, upon every high hill and under every green tree you bowed down as a harlot.

rsv@Jeremiah:2:21 @ Yet I planted you a choice vine, wholly of pure seed. How then have you turned degenerate and become a wild vine?

rsv@Jeremiah:2:22 @ Though you wash yourself with lye and use much soap, the stain of your guilt is still before me, says the Lord GOD.

rsv@Jeremiah:2:23 @ How can you say, `I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Ba'als'? Look at your way in the valley; know what you have done--a restive young camel interlacing her tracks,

rsv@Jeremiah:2:24 @ a wild ass used to the wilderness, in her heat sniffing the wind! Who can restrain her lust? None who seek her need weary themselves; in her month they will find her.

rsv@Jeremiah:2:25 @ Keep your feet from going unshod and your throat from thirst. But you said, `It is hopeless, for I have loved strangers, and after them I will go.'

rsv@Jeremiah:2:26 @ "As a thief is shamed when caught, so the house of Israel shall be shamed: they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets,

rsv@Jeremiah:2:27 @ who say to a tree, `You are my father,' and to a stone, `You gave me birth.' For they have turned their back to me, and not their face. But in the time of their trouble they say, `Arise and save us!'

rsv@Jeremiah:2:28 @ But where are your gods that you made for yourself? Let them arise, if they can save you, in your time of trouble; for as many as your cities are your gods, O Judah.

rsv@Jeremiah:2:29 @ "Why do you complain against me? You have all rebelled against me, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:2:30 @ In vain have I smitten your children, they took no correction; your own sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.

rsv@Jeremiah:2:31 @ And you, O generation, heed the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of thick darkness? Why then do my people say, `We are free, we will come no more to thee'?

rsv@Jeremiah:2:32 @ Can a maiden forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

rsv@Jeremiah:2:33 @ "How well you direct your course to seek lovers! So that even to wicked women you have taught your ways.

rsv@Jeremiah:2:34 @ Also on your skirts is found the lifeblood of guiltless poor; you did not find them breaking in. Yet in spite of all these things

rsv@Jeremiah:2:35 @ you say, `I am innocent; surely his anger has turned from me.' Behold, I will bring you to judgment for saying, `I have not sinned.'

rsv@Jeremiah:2:36 @ How lightly you gad about, changing your way! You shall be put to shame by Egypt as you were put to shame by Assyria.

rsv@Jeremiah:2:37 @ From it too you will come away with your hands upon your head, for the LORD has rejected those in whom you trust, and you will not prosper by them.

rsv@Jeremiah:3:1 @ "If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's wife, will he return to her? Would not that land be greatly polluted? You have played the harlot with many lovers; and would you return to me? says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:3:2 @ Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? By the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers like an Arab in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your vile harlotry.

rsv@Jeremiah:3:3 @ Therefore the showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come; yet you have a harlot's brow, you refuse to be ashamed.

rsv@Jeremiah:3:4 @ Have you not just now called to me, `My father, thou art the friend of my youth--

rsv@Jeremiah:3:5 @ will he be angry for ever, will he be indignant to the end?' Behold, you have spoken, but you have done all the evil that you could."

rsv@Jeremiah:3:6 @ The LORD said to me in the days of King Josi'ah: "Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and there played the harlot?

rsv@Jeremiah:3:7 @ And I thought, `After she has done all this she will return to me'; but she did not return, and her false sister Judah saw it.

rsv@Jeremiah:3:8 @ She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce; yet her false sister Judah did not fear, but she too went and played the harlot.

rsv@Jeremiah:3:9 @ Because harlotry was so light to her, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and tree.

rsv@Jeremiah:3:10 @ Yet for all this her false sister Judah did not return to me with her whole heart, but in pretense, says the LORD."

rsv@Jeremiah:3:11 @ And the LORD said to me, "Faithless Israel has shown herself less guilty than false Judah.

rsv@Jeremiah:3:12 @ Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, `Return, faithless Israel, says the LORD. I will not look on you in anger, for I am merciful, says the LORD; I will not be angry for ever.

rsv@Jeremiah:3:13 @ Only acknowledge your guilt, that you rebelled against the LORD your God and scattered your favors among strangers under every green tree, and that you have not obeyed my voice, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:3:14 @ Return, O faithless children, says the LORD; for I am your master; I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

rsv@Jeremiah:3:15 @ "`And I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.

rsv@Jeremiah:3:16 @ And when you have multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, says the LORD, they shall no more say, "The ark of the covenant of the LORD." It shall not come to mind, or be remembered, or missed; it shall not be made again.

rsv@Jeremiah:3:17 @ At that time Jerusalem shall be called the throne of the LORD, and all nations shall gather to it, to the presence of the LORD in Jerusalem, and they shall no more stubbornly follow their own evil heart.

rsv@Jeremiah:3:18 @ In those days the house of Judah shall join the house of Israel, and together they shall come from the land of the north to the land that I gave your fathers for a heritage.

rsv@Jeremiah:3:19 @ "`I thought how I would set you among my sons, and give you a pleasant land, a heritage most beauteous of all nations. And I thought you would call me, My Father, and would not turn from following me.

rsv@Jeremiah:3:20 @ Surely, as a faithless wife leaves her husband, so have you been faithless to me, O house of Israel, says the LORD.'"

rsv@Jeremiah:3:21 @ A voice on the bare heights is heard, the weeping and pleading of Israel's sons, because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten the LORD their God.

rsv@Jeremiah:3:22 @ "Return, O faithless sons, I will heal your faithlessness." "Behold, we come to thee; for thou art the LORD our God.

rsv@Jeremiah:3:23 @ Truly the hills are a delusion, the orgies on the mountains. Truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.

rsv@Jeremiah:3:24 @ "But from our youth the shameful thing has devoured all for which our fathers labored, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

rsv@Jeremiah:3:25 @ Let us lie down in our shame, and let our dishonor cover us; for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day; and we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God."

rsv@Jeremiah:4:1 @ "If you return, O Israel, says the LORD, to me you should return. If you remove your abominations from my presence, and do not waver,

rsv@Jeremiah:4:2 @ and if you swear, `As the LORD lives,' in truth, in justice, and in uprightness, then nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory."

rsv@Jeremiah:4:3 @ For thus says the LORD to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem: "Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.

rsv@Jeremiah:4:4 @ Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, remove the foreskin of your hearts, O men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn with none to quench it, because of the evil of your doings."

rsv@Jeremiah:4:5 @ Declare in Judah, and proclaim in Jerusalem, and say, "Blow the trumpet through the land; cry aloud and say, `Assemble, and let us go into the fortified cities!'

rsv@Jeremiah:4:6 @ Raise a standard toward Zion, flee for safety, stay not, for I bring evil from the north, and great destruction.

rsv@Jeremiah:4:7 @ A lion has gone up from his thicket, a destroyer of nations has set out; he has gone forth from his place to make your land a waste; your cities will be ruins without inhabitant.

rsv@Jeremiah:4:8 @ For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned back from us."

rsv@Jeremiah:4:9 @ "In that day, says the LORD, courage shall fail both king and princes; the priests shall be appalled and the prophets astounded."

rsv@Jeremiah:4:10 @ Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD, surely thou hast utterly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, `It shall be well with you'; whereas the sword has reached their very life."

rsv@Jeremiah:4:11 @ At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, "A hot wind from the bare heights in the desert toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow or cleanse,

rsv@Jeremiah:4:12 @ a wind too full for this comes for me. Now it is I who speak in judgment upon them."

rsv@Jeremiah:4:13 @ Behold, he comes up like clouds, his chariots like the whirlwind; his horses are swifter than eagles-- woe to us, for we are ruined!

rsv@Jeremiah:4:14 @ O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?

rsv@Jeremiah:4:15 @ For a voice declares from Dan and proclaims evil from Mount E'phraim.

rsv@Jeremiah:4:16 @ Warn the nations that he is coming; announce to Jerusalem, "Besiegers come from a distant land; they shout against the cities of Judah.

rsv@Jeremiah:4:17 @ Like keepers of a field are they against her round about, because she has rebelled against me, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:4:18 @ Your ways and your doings have brought this upon you. This is your doom, and it is bitter; it has reached your very heart."

rsv@Jeremiah:4:19 @ My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh, the walls of my heart! My heart is beating wildly; I cannot keep silent; for I hear the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

rsv@Jeremiah:4:20 @ Disaster follows hard on disaster, the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are destroyed, my curtains in a moment.

rsv@Jeremiah:4:21 @ How long must I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?

rsv@Jeremiah:4:22 @ "For my people are foolish, they know me not; they are stupid children, they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but how to do good they know not."

rsv@Jeremiah:4:23 @ I looked on the earth, and lo, it was waste and void; and to the heavens, and they had no light.

rsv@Jeremiah:4:24 @ I looked on the mountains, and lo, they were quaking, and all the hills moved to and fro.

rsv@Jeremiah:4:25 @ I looked, and lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the air had fled.

rsv@Jeremiah:4:26 @ I looked, and lo, the fruitful land was a desert, and all its cities were laid in ruins before the LORD, before his fierce anger.

rsv@Jeremiah:4:27 @ For thus says the LORD, "The whole land shall be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end.

rsv@Jeremiah:4:28 @ For this the earth shall mourn, and the heavens above be black; for I have spoken, I have purposed; I have not relented nor will I turn back."

rsv@Jeremiah:4:29 @ At the noise of horseman and archer every city takes to flight; they enter thickets; they climb among rocks; all the cities are forsaken, and no man dwells in them.

rsv@Jeremiah:4:30 @ And you, O desolate one, what do you mean that you dress in scarlet, that you deck yourself with ornaments of gold, that you enlarge your eyes with paint? In vain you beautify yourself. Your lovers despise you; they seek your life.

rsv@Jeremiah:4:31 @ For I heard a cry as of a woman in travail, anguish as of one bringing forth her first child, the cry of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands, "Woe is me! I am fainting before murderers."

rsv@Jeremiah:5:1 @ Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, look and take note! Search her squares to see if you can find a man, one who does justice and seeks truth; that I may pardon her.

rsv@Jeremiah:5:2 @ Though they say, "As the LORD lives," yet they swear falsely.

rsv@Jeremiah:5:3 @ O LORD, do not thy eyes look for truth? Thou hast smitten them, but they felt no anguish; thou hast consumed them, but they refused to take correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to repent.

rsv@Jeremiah:5:4 @ Then I said, "These are only the poor, they have no sense; for they do not know the way of the LORD, the law of their God.

rsv@Jeremiah:5:5 @ I will go to the great, and will speak to them; for they know the way of the LORD, the law of their God." But they all alike had broken the yoke, they had burst the bonds.

rsv@Jeremiah:5:6 @ Therefore a lion from the forest shall slay them, a wolf from the desert shall destroy them. A leopard is watching against their cities, every one who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, their apostasies are great.

rsv@Jeremiah:5:7 @ "How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and have sworn by those who are no gods. When I fed them to the full, they committed adultery and trooped to the houses of harlots.

rsv@Jeremiah:5:8 @ They were well-fed lusty stallions, each neighing for his neighbor's wife.

rsv@Jeremiah:5:9 @ Shall I not punish them for these things? says the LORD; and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?

rsv@Jeremiah:5:10 @ "Go up through her vine-rows and destroy, but make not a full end; strip away her branches, for they are not the LORD's.

rsv@Jeremiah:5:11 @ For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have been utterly faithless to me, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:5:12 @ They have spoken falsely of the LORD, and have said, `He will do nothing; no evil will come upon us, nor shall we see sword or famine.

rsv@Jeremiah:5:13 @ The prophets will become wind; the word is not in them. Thus shall it be done to them!'"

rsv@Jeremiah:5:14 @ Therefore thus says the LORD, the God of hosts: "Because they have spoken this word, behold, I am making my words in your mouth a fire, and this people wood, and the fire shall devour them.

rsv@Jeremiah:5:15 @ Behold, I am bringing upon you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, says the LORD. It is an enduring nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, nor can you understand what they say.

rsv@Jeremiah:5:16 @ Their quiver is like an open tomb, they are all mighty men.

rsv@Jeremiah:5:17 @ They shall eat up your harvest and your food; they shall eat up your sons and your daughters; they shall eat up your flocks and your herds; they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees; your fortified cities in which you trust they shall destroy with the sword."

rsv@Jeremiah:5:18 @ "But even in those days, says the LORD, I will not make a full end of you.

rsv@Jeremiah:5:19 @ And when your people say, `Why has the LORD our God done all these things to us?' you shall say to them, `As you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you shall serve strangers in a land that is not yours.'"

rsv@Jeremiah:5:20 @ Declare this in the house of Jacob, proclaim it in Judah:

rsv@Jeremiah:5:21 @ "Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes, but see not, who have ears, but hear not.

rsv@Jeremiah:5:22 @ Do you not fear me? says the LORD; Do you not tremble before me? I placed the sand as the bound for the sea, a perpetual barrier which it cannot pass; though the waves toss, they cannot prevail, though they roar, they cannot pass over it.

rsv@Jeremiah:5:23 @ But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart; they have turned aside and gone away.

rsv@Jeremiah:5:24 @ They do not say in their hearts, `Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rain in its season, the autumn rain and the spring rain, and keeps for us the weeks appointed for the harvest.'

rsv@Jeremiah:5:25 @ Your iniquities have turned these away, and your sins have kept good from you.

rsv@Jeremiah:5:26 @ For wicked men are found among my people; they lurk like fowlers lying in wait. They set a trap; they catch men.

rsv@Jeremiah:5:27 @ Like a basket full of birds, their houses are full of treachery; therefore they have become great and rich,

rsv@Jeremiah:5:28 @ they have grown fat and sleek. They know no bounds in deeds of wickedness; they judge not with justice the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.

rsv@Jeremiah:5:29 @ Shall I not punish them for these things? says the LORD, and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?"

rsv@Jeremiah:5:30 @ An appalling and horrible thing has happened in the land:

rsv@Jeremiah:5:31 @ the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule at their direction; my people love to have it so, but what will you do when the end comes?

rsv@Jeremiah:6:1 @ Flee for safety, O people of Benjamin, from the midst of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in Teko'a, and raise a signal on Beth-hacche'rem; for evil looms out of the north, and great destruction.

rsv@Jeremiah:6:2 @ The comely and delicately bred I will destroy, the daughter of Zion.

rsv@Jeremiah:6:3 @ Shepherds with their flocks shall come against her; they shall pitch their tents around her, they shall pasture, each in his place.

rsv@Jeremiah:6:4 @ "Prepare war against her; up, and let us attack at noon!" "Woe to us, for the day declines, for the shadows of evening lengthen!"

rsv@Jeremiah:6:5 @ "Up, and let us attack by night, and destroy her palaces!"

rsv@Jeremiah:6:6 @ For thus says the LORD of hosts: "Hew down her trees; cast up a siege mound against Jerusalem. This is the city which must be punished; there is nothing but oppression within her.

rsv@Jeremiah:6:7 @ As a well keeps its water fresh, so she keeps fresh her wickedness; violence and destruction are heard within her; sickness and wounds are ever before me.

rsv@Jeremiah:6:8 @ Be warned, O Jerusalem, lest I be alienated from you; lest I make you a desolation, an uninhabited land."

rsv@Jeremiah:6:9 @ Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Glean thoroughly as a vine the remnant of Israel; like a grape-gatherer pass your hand again over its branches."

rsv@Jeremiah:6:10 @ To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ears are closed, they cannot listen; behold, the word of the LORD is to them an object of scorn, they take no pleasure in it.

rsv@Jeremiah:6:11 @ Therefore I am full of the wrath of the LORD; I am weary of holding it in. "Pour it out upon the children in the street, and upon the gatherings of young men, also; both husband and wife shall be taken, the old folk and the very aged.

rsv@Jeremiah:6:12 @ Their houses shall be turned over to others, their fields and wives together; for I will stretch out my hand against the inhabitants of the land," says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:6:13 @ "For from the least to the greatest of them, every one is greedy for unjust gain; and from prophet to priest, every one deals falsely.

rsv@Jeremiah:6:14 @ They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, `Peace, peace,' when there is no peace.

rsv@Jeremiah:6:15 @ Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time that I punish them, they shall be overthrown," says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:6:16 @ Thus says the LORD: "Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, `We will not walk in it.'

rsv@Jeremiah:6:17 @ I set watchmen over you, saying, `Give heed to the sound of the trumpet!' But they said, `We will not give heed.'

rsv@Jeremiah:6:18 @ Therefore hear, O nations, and know, O congregation, what will happen to them.

rsv@Jeremiah:6:19 @ Hear, O earth; behold, I am bringing evil upon this people, the fruit of their devices, because they have not given heed to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.

rsv@Jeremiah:6:20 @ To what purpose does frankincense come to me from Sheba, or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me.

rsv@Jeremiah:6:21 @ Therefore thus says the LORD: `Behold, I will lay before this people stumbling blocks against which they shall stumble; fathers and sons together, neighbor and friend shall perish.'"

rsv@Jeremiah:6:22 @ Thus says the LORD: "Behold, a people is coming from the north country, a great nation is stirring from the farthest parts of the earth.

rsv@Jeremiah:6:23 @ They lay hold on bow and spear, they are cruel and have no mercy, the sound of them is like the roaring sea; they ride upon horses, set in array as a man for battle, against you, O daughter of Zion!"

rsv@Jeremiah:6:24 @ We have heard the report of it, our hands fall helpless; anguish has taken hold of us, pain as of a woman in travail.

rsv@Jeremiah:6:25 @ Go not forth into the field, nor walk on the road; for the enemy has a sword, terror is on every side.

rsv@Jeremiah:6:26 @ O daughter of my people, gird on sackcloth, and roll in ashes; make mourning as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

rsv@Jeremiah:6:27 @ "I have made you an assayer and tester among my people, that you may know and assay their ways.

rsv@Jeremiah:6:28 @ They are all stubbornly rebellious, going about with slanders; they are bronze and iron, all of them act corruptly.

rsv@Jeremiah:6:29 @ The bellows blow fiercely, the lead is consumed by the fire; in vain the refining goes on, for the wicked are not removed.

rsv@Jeremiah:6:30 @ Refuse silver they are called, for the LORD has rejected them."

rsv@Jeremiah:7:1 @ The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

rsv@Jeremiah:7:2 @ "Stand in the gate of the LORD's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all you men of Judah who enter these gates to worship the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:7:3 @ Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will let you dwell in this place.

rsv@Jeremiah:7:4 @ Do not trust in these deceptive words: `This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.'

rsv@Jeremiah:7:5 @ "For if you truly amend your ways and your doings, if you truly execute justice one with another,

rsv@Jeremiah:7:6 @ if you do not oppress the alien, the fatherless or the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own hurt,

rsv@Jeremiah:7:7 @ then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave of old to your fathers for ever.

rsv@Jeremiah:7:8 @ "Behold, you trust in deceptive words to no avail.

rsv@Jeremiah:7:9 @ Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Ba'al, and go after other gods that you have not known,

rsv@Jeremiah:7:10 @ and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, `We are delivered!'--only to go on doing all these abominations?

rsv@Jeremiah:7:11 @ Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:7:12 @ Go now to my place that was in Shiloh, where I made my name dwell at first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.

rsv@Jeremiah:7:13 @ And now, because you have done all these things, says the LORD, and when I spoke to you persistently you did not listen, and when I called you, you did not answer,

rsv@Jeremiah:7:14 @ therefore I will do to the house which is called by my name, and in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.

rsv@Jeremiah:7:15 @ And I will cast you out of my sight, as I cast out all your kinsmen, all the offspring of E'phraim.

rsv@Jeremiah:7:16 @ "As for you, do not pray for this people, or lift up cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with me, for I do not hear you.

rsv@Jeremiah:7:17 @ Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

rsv@Jeremiah:7:18 @ The children gather wood, the fathers kindle fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven; and they pour out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger.

rsv@Jeremiah:7:19 @ Is it I whom they provoke? says the LORD. Is it not themselves, to their own confusion?

rsv@Jeremiah:7:20 @ Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, upon man and beast, upon the trees of the field and the fruit of the ground; it will burn and not be quenched."

rsv@Jeremiah:7:21 @ Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh.

rsv@Jeremiah:7:22 @ For in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak to your fathers or command them concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices.

rsv@Jeremiah:7:23 @ But this command I gave them, `Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; and walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.'

rsv@Jeremiah:7:24 @ But they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward.

rsv@Jeremiah:7:25 @ From the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have persistently sent all my servants the prophets to them, day after day;

rsv@Jeremiah:7:26 @ yet they did not listen to me, or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck. They did worse than their fathers.

rsv@Jeremiah:7:27 @ "So you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you. You shall call to them, but they will not answer you.

rsv@Jeremiah:7:28 @ And you shall say to them, `This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the LORD their God, and did not accept discipline; truth has perished; it is cut off from their lips.

rsv@Jeremiah:7:29 @ Cut off your hair and cast it away; raise a lamentation on the bare heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.'

rsv@Jeremiah:7:30 @ "For the sons of Judah have done evil in my sight, says the LORD; they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.

rsv@Jeremiah:7:31 @ And they have built the high place of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I did not command, nor did it come into my mind.

rsv@Jeremiah:7:32 @ Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when it will no more be called Topheth, or the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of Slaughter: for they will bury in Topheth, because there is no room elsewhere.

rsv@Jeremiah:7:33 @ And the dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the air, and for the beasts of the earth; and none will frighten them away.

rsv@Jeremiah:7:34 @ And I will make to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land shall become a waste.

rsv@Jeremiah:8:1 @ "At that time, says the LORD, the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of its princes, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be brought out of their tombs;

rsv@Jeremiah:8:2 @ and they shall be spread before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and served, which they have gone after, and which they have sought and worshiped; and they shall not be gathered or buried; they shall be as dung on the surface of the ground.

rsv@Jeremiah:8:3 @ Death shall be preferred to life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family in all the places where I have driven them, says the LORD of hosts.

rsv@Jeremiah:8:4 @ "You shall say to them, Thus says the LORD: When men fall, do they not rise again? If one turns away, does he not return?

rsv@Jeremiah:8:5 @ Why then has this people turned away in perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit, they refuse to return.

rsv@Jeremiah:8:6 @ I have given heed and listened, but they have not spoken aright; no man repents of his wickedness, saying, `What have I done?' Every one turns to his own course, like a horse plunging headlong into battle.

rsv@Jeremiah:8:7 @ Even the stork in the heavens knows her times; and the turtledove, swallow, and crane keep the time of their coming; but my people know not the ordinance of the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:8:8 @ "How can you say, `We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us'? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has made it into a lie.

rsv@Jeremiah:8:9 @ The wise men shall be put to shame, they shall be dismayed and taken; lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD, and what wisdom is in them?

rsv@Jeremiah:8:10 @ Therefore I will give their wives to others and their fields to conquerors, because from the least to the greatest every one is greedy for unjust gain; from prophet to priest every one deals falsely.

rsv@Jeremiah:8:11 @ They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, `Peace, peace,' when there is no peace.

rsv@Jeremiah:8:12 @ Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they shall be overthrown, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:8:13 @ When I would gather them, says the LORD, there are no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree; even the leaves are withered, and what I gave them has passed away from them."

rsv@Jeremiah:8:14 @ Why do we sit still? Gather together, let us go into the fortified cities and perish there; for the LORD our God has doomed us to perish, and has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:8:15 @ We looked for peace, but no good came, for a time of healing, but behold, terror.

rsv@Jeremiah:8:16 @ "The snorting of their horses is heard from Dan; at the sound of the neighing of their stallions the whole land quakes. They come and devour the land and all that fills it, the city and those who dwell in it.

rsv@Jeremiah:8:17 @ For behold, I am sending among you serpents, adders which cannot be charmed, and they shall bite you," says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:8:18 @ My grief is beyond healing, my heart is sick within me.

rsv@Jeremiah:8:19 @ Hark, the cry of the daughter of my people from the length and breadth of the land: "Is the LORD not in Zion? Is her King not in her?" "Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with their foreign idols?"

rsv@Jeremiah:8:20 @ "The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved."

rsv@Jeremiah:8:21 @ For the wound of the daughter of my people is my heart wounded, I mourn, and dismay has taken hold on me.

rsv@Jeremiah:8:22 @ Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?

rsv@Jeremiah:9:1 @ O that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

rsv@Jeremiah:9:2 @ O that I had in the desert a wayfarers' lodging place, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, a company of treacherous men.

rsv@Jeremiah:9:3 @ They bend their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:9:4 @ Let every one beware of his neighbor, and put no trust in any brother; for every brother is a supplanter, and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.

rsv@Jeremiah:9:5 @ Every one deceives his neighbor, and no one speaks the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they commit iniquity and are too weary to repent.

rsv@Jeremiah:9:6 @ Heaping oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit, they refuse to know me, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:9:7 @ Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: "Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do, because of my people?

rsv@Jeremiah:9:8 @ Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceitfully; with his mouth each speaks peaceably to his neighbor, but in his heart he plans an ambush for him.

rsv@Jeremiah:9:9 @ Shall I not punish them for these things? says the LORD; and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?

rsv@Jeremiah:9:10 @ "Take up weeping and wailing for the mountains, and a lamentation for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are laid waste so that no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard; both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled and are gone.

rsv@Jeremiah:9:11 @ I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a lair of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant."

rsv@Jeremiah:9:12 @ Who is the man so wise that he can understand this? To whom has the mouth of the LORD spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land ruined and laid waste like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?

rsv@Jeremiah:9:13 @ And the LORD says: "Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, or walked in accord with it,

rsv@Jeremiah:9:14 @ but have stubbornly followed their own hearts and have gone after the Ba'als, as their fathers taught them.

rsv@Jeremiah:9:15 @ Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will feed this people with wormwood, and give them poisonous water to drink.

rsv@Jeremiah:9:16 @ I will scatter them among the nations whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them."

rsv@Jeremiah:9:17 @ Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Consider, and call for the mourning women to come; send for the skilful women to come;

rsv@Jeremiah:9:18 @ let them make haste and raise a wailing over us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush with water.

rsv@Jeremiah:9:19 @ For a sound of wailing is heard from Zion: `How we are ruined! We are utterly shamed, because we have left the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.'"

rsv@Jeremiah:9:20 @ Hear, O women, the word of the LORD, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; teach to your daughters a lament, and each to her neighbor a dirge.

rsv@Jeremiah:9:21 @ For death has come up into our windows, it has entered our palaces, cutting off the children from the streets and the young men from the squares.

rsv@Jeremiah:9:22 @ Speak, "Thus says the LORD: `The dead bodies of men shall fall like dung upon the open field, like sheaves after the reaper, and none shall gather them.'"

rsv@Jeremiah:9:23 @ Thus says the LORD: "Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, let not the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches;

rsv@Jeremiah:9:24 @ but let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD who practice steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth; for in these things I delight, says the LORD."

rsv@Jeremiah:9:25 @ "Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will punish all those who are circumcised but yet uncircumcised--

rsv@Jeremiah:9:26 @ Egypt, Judah, Edom, the sons of Ammon, Moab, and all who dwell in the desert that cut the corners of their hair; for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart."

rsv@Jeremiah:10:1 @ Hear the word which the LORD speaks to you, O house of Israel.

rsv@Jeremiah:10:2 @ Thus says the LORD: "Learn not the way of the nations, nor be dismayed at the signs of the heavens because the nations are dismayed at them,

rsv@Jeremiah:10:3 @ for the customs of the peoples are false. A tree from the forest is cut down, and worked with an axe by the hands of a craftsman.

rsv@Jeremiah:10:4 @ Men deck it with silver and gold; they fasten it with hammer and nails so that it cannot move.

rsv@Jeremiah:10:5 @ Their idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field, and they cannot speak; they have to be carried, for they cannot walk. Be not afraid of them, for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good."

rsv@Jeremiah:10:6 @ There is none like thee, O LORD; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.

rsv@Jeremiah:10:7 @ Who would not fear thee, O King of the nations? For this is thy due; for among all the wise ones of the nations and in all their kingdoms there is none like thee.

rsv@Jeremiah:10:8 @ They are both stupid and foolish; the instruction of idols is but wood!

rsv@Jeremiah:10:9 @ Beaten silver is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz. They are the work of the craftsman and of the hands of the goldsmith; their clothing is violet and purple; they are all the work of skilled men.

rsv@Jeremiah:10:10 @ But the LORD is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation.

rsv@Jeremiah:10:11 @ Thus shall you say to them: "The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens."

rsv@Jeremiah:10:12 @ It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.

rsv@Jeremiah:10:13 @ When he utters his voice there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings for the rain, and he brings forth the wind from his storehouses.

rsv@Jeremiah:10:14 @ Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols; for his images are false, and there is no breath in them.

rsv@Jeremiah:10:15 @ They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish.

rsv@Jeremiah:10:16 @ Not like these is he who is the portion of Jacob, for he is the one who formed all things, and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance; the LORD of hosts is his name.

rsv@Jeremiah:10:17 @ Gather up your bundle from the ground, O you who dwell under siege!

rsv@Jeremiah:10:18 @ For thus says the LORD: "Behold, I am slinging out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and I will bring distress on them, that they may feel it."

rsv@Jeremiah:10:19 @ Woe is me because of my hurt! My wound is grievous. But I said, "Truly this is an affliction, and I must bear it."

rsv@Jeremiah:10:20 @ My tent is destroyed, and all my cords are broken; my children have gone from me, and they are not; there is no one to spread my tent again, and to set up my curtains.

rsv@Jeremiah:10:21 @ For the shepherds are stupid, and do not inquire of the LORD; therefore they have not prospered, and all their flock is scattered.

rsv@Jeremiah:10:22 @ Hark, a rumor! Behold, it comes!--a great commotion out of the north country to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a lair of jackals.

rsv@Jeremiah:10:23 @ I know, O LORD, that the way of man is not in himself, that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

rsv@Jeremiah:10:24 @ Correct me, O LORD, but in just measure; not in thy anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.

rsv@Jeremiah:10:25 @ Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that know thee not, and upon the peoples that call not on thy name; for they have devoured Jacob; they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.

rsv@Jeremiah:11:1 @ The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

rsv@Jeremiah:11:2 @ "Hear the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

rsv@Jeremiah:11:3 @ You shall say to them, Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Cursed be the man who does not heed the words of this covenant

rsv@Jeremiah:11:4 @ which I commanded your fathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Listen to my voice, and do all that I command you. So shall you be my people, and I will be your God,

rsv@Jeremiah:11:5 @ that I may perform the oath which I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day." Then I answered, "So be it, LORD."

rsv@Jeremiah:11:6 @ And the LORD said to me, "Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: Hear the words of this covenant and do them.

rsv@Jeremiah:11:7 @ For I solemnly warned your fathers when I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, warning them persistently, even to this day, saying, Obey my voice.

rsv@Jeremiah:11:8 @ Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but every one walked in the stubbornness of his evil heart. Therefore I brought upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did not."

rsv@Jeremiah:11:9 @ Again the LORD said to me, "There is revolt among the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

rsv@Jeremiah:11:10 @ They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words; they have gone after other gods to serve them; the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.

rsv@Jeremiah:11:11 @ Therefore, thus says the LORD, Behold, I am bringing evil upon them which they cannot escape; though they cry to me, I will not listen to them.

rsv@Jeremiah:11:12 @ Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry to the gods to whom they burn incense, but they cannot save them in the time of their trouble.

rsv@Jeremiah:11:13 @ For your gods have become as many as your cities, O Judah; and as many as the streets of Jerusalem are the altars you have set up to shame, altars to burn incense to Ba'al.

rsv@Jeremiah:11:14 @ "Therefore do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer on their behalf, for I will not listen when they call to me in the time of their trouble.

rsv@Jeremiah:11:15 @ What right has my beloved in my house, when she has done vile deeds? Can vows and sacrificial flesh avert your doom? Can you then exult?

rsv@Jeremiah:11:16 @ The LORD once called you, `A green olive tree, fair with goodly fruit'; but with the roar of a great tempest he will set fire to it, and its branches will be consumed.

rsv@Jeremiah:11:17 @ The LORD of hosts, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you, because of the evil which the house of Israel and the house of Judah have done, provoking me to anger by burning incense to Ba'al."

rsv@Jeremiah:11:18 @ The LORD made it known to me and I knew; then thou didst show me their evil deeds.

rsv@Jeremiah:11:19 @ But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter. I did not know it was against me they devised schemes, saying, "Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name be remembered no more."

rsv@Jeremiah:11:20 @ But, O LORD of hosts, who judgest righteously, who triest the heart and the mind, let me see thy vengeance upon them, for to thee have I committed my cause.

rsv@Jeremiah:11:21 @ Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the men of An'athoth, who seek your life, and say, "Do not prophesy in the name of the LORD, or you will die by our hand"--

rsv@Jeremiah:11:22 @ therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: "Behold, I will punish them; the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine;

rsv@Jeremiah:11:23 @ and none of them shall be left. For I will bring evil upon the men of An'athoth, the year of their punishment."

rsv@Jeremiah:12:1 @ Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I complain to thee; yet I would plead my case before thee. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?

rsv@Jeremiah:12:2 @ Thou plantest them, and they take root; they grow and bring forth fruit; thou art near in their mouth and far from their heart.

rsv@Jeremiah:12:3 @ But thou, O LORD, knowest me; thou seest me, and triest my mind toward thee. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and set them apart for the day of slaughter.

rsv@Jeremiah:12:4 @ How long will the land mourn, and the grass of every field wither? For the wickedness of those who dwell in it the beasts and the birds are swept away, because men said, "He will not see our latter end."

rsv@Jeremiah:12:5 @ "If you have raced with men on foot, and they have wearied you, how will you compete with horses? And if in a safe land you fall down, how will you do in the jungle of the Jordan?

rsv@Jeremiah:12:6 @ For even your brothers and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; they are in full cry after you; believe them not, though they speak fair words to you."

rsv@Jeremiah:12:7 @ "I have forsaken my house, I have abandoned my heritage; I have given the beloved of my soul into the hands of her enemies.

rsv@Jeremiah:12:8 @ My heritage has become to me like a lion in the forest, she has lifted up her voice against me; therefore I hate her.

rsv@Jeremiah:12:9 @ Is my heritage to me like a speckled bird of prey? Are the birds of prey against her round about? Go, assemble all the wild beasts; bring them to devour.

rsv@Jeremiah:12:10 @ Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trampled down my portion, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

rsv@Jeremiah:12:11 @ They have made it a desolation; desolate, it mourns to me. The whole land is made desolate, but no man lays it to heart.

rsv@Jeremiah:12:12 @ Upon all the bare heights in the desert destroyers have come; for the sword of the LORD devours from one end of the land to the other; no flesh has peace.

rsv@Jeremiah:12:13 @ They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns, they have tired themselves out but profit nothing. They shall be ashamed of their harvests because of the fierce anger of the LORD."

rsv@Jeremiah:12:14 @ Thus says the LORD concerning all my evil neighbors who touch the heritage which I have given my people Israel to inherit: "Behold, I will pluck them up from their land, and I will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.

rsv@Jeremiah:12:15 @ And after I have plucked them up, I will again have compassion on them, and I will bring them again each to his heritage and each to his land.

rsv@Jeremiah:12:16 @ And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, `As the LORD lives,' even as they taught my people to swear by Ba'al, then they shall be built up in the midst of my people.

rsv@Jeremiah:12:17 @ But if any nation will not listen, then I will utterly pluck it up and destroy it, says the LORD."

rsv@Jeremiah:13:1 @ Thus said the LORD to me, "Go and buy a linen waistcloth, and put it on your loins, and do not dip it in water."

rsv@Jeremiah:13:2 @ So I bought a waistcloth according to the word of the LORD, and put it on my loins.

rsv@Jeremiah:13:3 @ And the word of the LORD came to me a second time,

rsv@Jeremiah:13:4 @ "Take the waistcloth which you have bought, which is upon your loins, and arise, go to the Euphra'tes, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock."

rsv@Jeremiah:13:5 @ So I went, and hid it by the Euphra'tes, as the LORD commanded me.

rsv@Jeremiah:13:6 @ And after many days the LORD said to me, "Arise, go to the Euphra'tes, and take from there the waistcloth which I commanded you to hide there."

rsv@Jeremiah:13:7 @ Then I went to the Euphra'tes, and dug, and I took the waistcloth from the place where I had hidden it. And behold, the waistcloth was spoiled; it was good for nothing.

rsv@Jeremiah:13:8 @ Then the word of the LORD came to me:

rsv@Jeremiah:13:9 @ "Thus says the LORD: Even so will I spoil the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.

rsv@Jeremiah:13:10 @ This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who stubbornly follow their own heart and have gone after other gods to serve them and worship them, shall be like this waistcloth, which is good for nothing.

rsv@Jeremiah:13:11 @ For as the waistcloth clings to the loins of a man, so I made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to me, says the LORD, that they might be for me a people, a name, a praise, and a glory, but they would not listen.

rsv@Jeremiah:13:12 @ "You shall speak to them this word: `Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, "Every jar shall be filled with wine."' And they will say to you, `Do we not indeed know that every jar will be filled with wine?'

rsv@Jeremiah:13:13 @ Then you shall say to them, `Thus says the LORD: Behold, I will fill with drunkenness all the inhabitants of this land: the kings who sit on David's throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

rsv@Jeremiah:13:14 @ And I will dash them one against another, fathers and sons together, says the LORD. I will not pity or spare or have compassion, that I should not destroy them.'"

rsv@Jeremiah:13:15 @ Hear and give ear; be not proud, for the LORD has spoken.

rsv@Jeremiah:13:16 @ Give glory to the LORD your God before he brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the twilight mountains, and while you look for light he turns it into gloom and makes it deep darkness.

rsv@Jeremiah:13:17 @ But if you will not listen, my soul will weep in secret for your pride; my eyes will weep bitterly and run down with tears, because the LORD's flock has been taken captive.

rsv@Jeremiah:13:18 @ Say to the king and the queen mother: "Take a lowly seat, for your beautiful crown has come down from your head."

rsv@Jeremiah:13:19 @ The cities of the Negeb are shut up, with none to open them; all Judah is taken into exile, wholly taken into exile.

rsv@Jeremiah:13:20 @ "Lift up your eyes and see those who come from the north. Where is the flock that was given you, your beautiful flock?

rsv@Jeremiah:13:21 @ What will you say when they set as head over you those whom you yourself have taught to be friends to you? Will not pangs take hold of you, like those of a woman in travail?

rsv@Jeremiah:13:22 @ And if you say in your heart, `Why have these things come upon me?' it is for the greatness of your iniquity that your skirts are lifted up, and you suffer violence.

rsv@Jeremiah:13:23 @ Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Then also you can do good who are accustomed to do evil.

rsv@Jeremiah:13:24 @ I will scatter you like chaff driven by the wind from the desert.

rsv@Jeremiah:13:25 @ This is your lot, the portion I have measured out to you, says the LORD, because you have forgotten me and trusted in lies.

rsv@Jeremiah:13:26 @ I myself will lift up your skirts over your face, and your shame will be seen.

rsv@Jeremiah:13:27 @ I have seen your abominations, your adulteries and neighings, your lewd harlotries, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will it be before you are made clean?"

rsv@Jeremiah:14:1 @ The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:

rsv@Jeremiah:14:2 @ "Judah mourns and her gates languish; her people lament on the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem goes up.

rsv@Jeremiah:14:3 @ Her nobles send their servants for water; they come to the cisterns, they find no water, they return with their vessels empty; they are ashamed and confounded and cover their heads.

rsv@Jeremiah:14:4 @ Because of the ground which is dismayed, since there is no rain on the land, the farmers are ashamed, they cover their heads.

rsv@Jeremiah:14:5 @ Even the hind in the field forsakes her newborn calf because there is no grass.

rsv@Jeremiah:14:6 @ The wild asses stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail because there is no herbage.

rsv@Jeremiah:14:7 @ "Though our iniquities testify against us, act, O LORD, for thy name's sake; for our backslidings are many, we have sinned against thee.

rsv@Jeremiah:14:8 @ O thou hope of Israel, its savior in time of trouble, why shouldst thou be like a stranger in the land, like a wayfarer who turns aside to tarry for a night?

rsv@Jeremiah:14:9 @ Why shouldst thou be like a man confused, like a mighty man who cannot save? Yet thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not."

rsv@Jeremiah:14:10 @ Thus says the LORD concerning this people: "They have loved to wander thus, they have not restrained their feet; therefore the LORD does not accept them, now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins."

rsv@Jeremiah:14:11 @ The LORD said to me: "Do not pray for the welfare of this people.

rsv@Jeremiah:14:12 @ Though they fast, I will not hear their cry, and though they offer burnt offering and cereal offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence."

rsv@Jeremiah:14:13 @ Then I said: "Ah, Lord GOD, behold, the prophets say to them, `You shall not see the sword, nor shall you have famine, but I will give you assured peace in this place.'"

rsv@Jeremiah:14:14 @ And the LORD said to me: "The prophets are prophesying lies in my name; I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, worthless divination, and the deceit of their own minds.

rsv@Jeremiah:14:15 @ Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name although I did not send them, and who say, `Sword and famine shall not come on this land': By sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed.

rsv@Jeremiah:14:16 @ And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem, victims of famine and sword, with none to bury them--them, their wives, their sons, and their daughters. For I will pour out their wickedness upon them.

rsv@Jeremiah:14:17 @ "You shall say to them this word: `Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people is smitten with a great wound, with a very grievous blow.

rsv@Jeremiah:14:18 @ If I go out into the field, behold, those slain by the sword! And if I enter the city, behold, the diseases of famine! For both prophet and priest ply their trade through the land, and have no knowledge.'"

rsv@Jeremiah:14:19 @ Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? Does thy soul loathe Zion? Why hast thou smitten us so that there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; for a time of healing, but behold, terror.

rsv@Jeremiah:14:20 @ We acknowledge our wickedness, O LORD, and the iniquity of our fathers, for we have sinned against thee.

rsv@Jeremiah:14:21 @ Do not spurn us, for thy name's sake; do not dishonor thy glorious throne; remember and do not break thy covenant with us.

rsv@Jeremiah:14:22 @ Are there any among the false gods of the nations that can bring rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Art thou not he, O LORD our God? We set our hope on thee, for thou doest all these things.

rsv@Jeremiah:15:1 @ Then the LORD said to me, "Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go!

rsv@Jeremiah:15:2 @ And when they ask you, `Where shall we go?' you shall say to them, `Thus says the LORD: "Those who are for pestilence, to pestilence, and those who are for the sword, to the sword; those who are for famine, to famine, and those who are for captivity, to captivity."'

rsv@Jeremiah:15:3 @ "I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, says the LORD: the sword to slay, the dogs to tear, and the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.

rsv@Jeremiah:15:4 @ And I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manas'seh the son of Hezeki'ah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem.

rsv@Jeremiah:15:5 @ "Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem, or who will bemoan you? Who will turn aside to ask about your welfare?

rsv@Jeremiah:15:6 @ You have rejected me, says the LORD, you keep going backward; so I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you;--I am weary of relenting.

rsv@Jeremiah:15:7 @ I have winnowed them with a winnowing fork in the gates of the land; I have bereaved them, I have destroyed my people; they did not turn from their ways.

rsv@Jeremiah:15:8 @ I have made their widows more in number than the sand of the seas; I have brought against the mothers of young men a destroyer at noonday; I have made anguish and terror fall upon them suddenly.

rsv@Jeremiah:15:9 @ She who bore seven has languished; she has swooned away; her sun went down while it was yet day; she has been shamed and disgraced. And the rest of them I will give to the sword before their enemies, says the LORD."

rsv@Jeremiah:15:10 @ Woe is me, my mother, that you bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.

rsv@Jeremiah:15:11 @ So let it be, O LORD, if I have not entreated thee for their good, if I have not pleaded with thee on behalf of the enemy in the time of trouble and in the time of distress!

rsv@Jeremiah:15:12 @ Can one break iron, iron from the north, and bronze?

rsv@Jeremiah:15:13 @ "Your wealth and your treasures I will give as spoil, without price, for all your sins, throughout all your territory.

rsv@Jeremiah:15:14 @ I will make you serve your enemies in a land which you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled which shall burn for ever."

rsv@Jeremiah:15:15 @ O LORD, thou knowest; remember me and visit me, and take vengeance for me on my persecutors. In thy forbearance take me not away; know that for thy sake I bear reproach.

rsv@Jeremiah:15:16 @ Thy words were found, and I ate them, and thy words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart; for I am called by thy name, O LORD, God of hosts.

rsv@Jeremiah:15:17 @ I did not sit in the company of merrymakers, nor did I rejoice; I sat alone, because thy hand was upon me, for thou hadst filled me with indignation.

rsv@Jeremiah:15:18 @ Why is my pain unceasing, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Wilt thou be to me like a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?

rsv@Jeremiah:15:19 @ Therefore thus says the LORD: "If you return, I will restore you, and you shall stand before me. If you utter what is precious, and not what is worthless, you shall be as my mouth. They shall turn to you, but you shall not turn to them.

rsv@Jeremiah:15:20 @ And I will make you to this people a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you, but they shall not prevail over you, for I am with you to save you and deliver you, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:15:21 @ I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and redeem you from the grasp of the ruthless."

rsv@Jeremiah:16:1 @ The word of the LORD came to me:

rsv@Jeremiah:16:2 @ "You shall not take a wife, nor shall you have sons or daughters in this place.

rsv@Jeremiah:16:3 @ For thus says the LORD concerning the sons and daughters who are born in this place, and concerning the mothers who bore them and the fathers who begot them in this land:

rsv@Jeremiah:16:4 @ They shall die of deadly diseases. They shall not be lamented, nor shall they be buried; they shall be as dung on the surface of the ground. They shall perish by the sword and by famine, and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth.

rsv@Jeremiah:16:5 @ "For thus says the LORD: Do not enter the house of mourning, or go to lament, or bemoan them; for I have taken away my peace from this people, says the LORD, my steadfast love and mercy.

rsv@Jeremiah:16:6 @ Both great and small shall die in this land; they shall not be buried, and no one shall lament for them or cut himself or make himself bald for them.

rsv@Jeremiah:16:7 @ No one shall break bread for the mourner, to comfort him for the dead; nor shall any one give him the cup of consolation to drink for his father or his mother.

rsv@Jeremiah:16:8 @ You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and drink.

rsv@Jeremiah:16:9 @ For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will make to cease from this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.

rsv@Jeremiah:16:10 @ "And when you tell this people all these words, and they say to you, `Why has the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? What is our iniquity? What is the sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?'

rsv@Jeremiah:16:11 @ then you shall say to them: `Because your fathers have forsaken me, says the LORD, and have gone after other gods and have served and worshiped them, and have forsaken me and have not kept my law,

rsv@Jeremiah:16:12 @ and because you have done worse than your fathers, for behold, every one of you follows his stubborn evil will, refusing to listen to me;

rsv@Jeremiah:16:13 @ therefore I will hurl you out of this land into a land which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.'

rsv@Jeremiah:16:14 @ "Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when it shall no longer be said, `As the LORD lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt,'

rsv@Jeremiah:16:15 @ but `As the LORD lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the north country and out of all the countries where he had driven them.' For I will bring them back to their own land which I gave to their fathers.

rsv@Jeremiah:16:16 @ "Behold, I am sending for many fishers, says the LORD, and they shall catch them; and afterwards I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.

rsv@Jeremiah:16:17 @ For my eyes are upon all their ways; they are not hid from me, nor is their iniquity concealed from my eyes.

rsv@Jeremiah:16:18 @ And I will doubly recompense their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations."

rsv@Jeremiah:16:19 @ O LORD, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in the day of trouble, to thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: "Our fathers have inherited nought but lies, worthless things in which there is no profit.

rsv@Jeremiah:16:20 @ Can man make for himself gods? Such are no gods!"

rsv@Jeremiah:16:21 @ "Therefore, behold, I will make them know, this once I will make them know my power and my might, and they shall know that my name is the LORD."

rsv@Jeremiah:17:1 @ "The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron; with a point of diamond it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of their altars,

rsv@Jeremiah:17:2 @ while their children remember their altars and their Ashe'rim, beside every green tree, and on the high hills,

rsv@Jeremiah:17:3 @ on the mountains in the open country. Your wealth and all your treasures I will give for spoil as the price of your sin throughout all your territory.

rsv@Jeremiah:17:4 @ You shall loosen your hand from your heritage which I gave to you, and I will make you serve your enemies in a land which you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled which shall burn for ever."

rsv@Jeremiah:17:5 @ Thus says the LORD: "Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his arm, whose heart turns away from the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:17:6 @ He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land.

rsv@Jeremiah:17:7 @ "Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:17:8 @ He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit."

rsv@Jeremiah:17:9 @ The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately corrupt; who can understand it?

rsv@Jeremiah:17:10 @ "I the LORD search the mind and try the heart, to give to every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings."

rsv@Jeremiah:17:11 @ Like the partridge that gathers a brood which she did not hatch, so is he who gets riches but not by right; in the midst of his days they will leave him, and at his end he will be a fool.

rsv@Jeremiah:17:12 @ A glorious throne set on high from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary.

rsv@Jeremiah:17:13 @ O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who forsake thee shall be put to shame; those who turn away from thee shall be written in the earth, for they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living water.

rsv@Jeremiah:17:14 @ Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved; for thou art my praise.

rsv@Jeremiah:17:15 @ Behold, they say to me, "Where is the word of the LORD? Let it come!"

rsv@Jeremiah:17:16 @ I have not pressed thee to send evil, nor have I desired the day of disaster, thou knowest; that which came out of my lips was before thy face.

rsv@Jeremiah:17:17 @ Be not a terror to me; thou art my refuge in the day of evil.

rsv@Jeremiah:17:18 @ Let those be put to shame who persecute me, but let me not be put to shame; let them be dismayed, but let me not be dismayed; bring upon them the day of evil; destroy them with double destruction!

rsv@Jeremiah:17:19 @ Thus said the LORD to me: "Go and stand in the Benjamin Gate, by which the kings of Judah enter and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem,

rsv@Jeremiah:17:20 @ and say: `Hear the word of the LORD, you kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, who enter by these gates.

rsv@Jeremiah:17:21 @ Thus says the LORD: Take heed for the sake of your lives, and do not bear a burden on the sabbath day or bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem.

rsv@Jeremiah:17:22 @ And do not carry a burden out of your houses on the sabbath or do any work, but keep the sabbath day holy, as I commanded your fathers.

rsv@Jeremiah:17:23 @ Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck, that they might not hear and receive instruction.

rsv@Jeremiah:17:24 @ "`But if you listen to me, says the LORD, and bring in no burden by the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but keep the sabbath day holy and do no work on it,

rsv@Jeremiah:17:25 @ then there shall enter by the gates of this city kings who sit on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their princes, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and this city shall be inhabited for ever.

rsv@Jeremiah:17:26 @ And people shall come from the cities of Judah and the places round about Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin, from the Shephe'lah, from the hill country, and from the Negeb, bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices, cereal offerings and frankincense, and bringing thank offerings to the house of the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:17:27 @ But if you do not listen to me, to keep the sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter by the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem and shall not be quenched.'"

rsv@Jeremiah:18:1 @ The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

rsv@Jeremiah:18:2 @ "Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will let you hear my words."

rsv@Jeremiah:18:3 @ So I went down to the potter's house, and there he was working at his wheel.

rsv@Jeremiah:18:4 @ And the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter's hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do.

rsv@Jeremiah:18:5 @ Then the word of the LORD came to me:

rsv@Jeremiah:18:6 @ "O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? says the LORD. Behold, like the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.

rsv@Jeremiah:18:7 @ If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it,

rsv@Jeremiah:18:8 @ and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will repent of the evil that I intended to do to it.

rsv@Jeremiah:18:9 @ And if at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will build and plant it,

rsv@Jeremiah:18:10 @ and if it does evil in my sight, not listening to my voice, then I will repent of the good which I had intended to do to it.

rsv@Jeremiah:18:11 @ Now, therefore, say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: `Thus says the LORD, Behold, I am shaping evil against you and devising a plan against you. Return, every one from his evil way, and amend your ways and your doings.'

rsv@Jeremiah:18:12 @ "But they say, `That is in vain! We will follow our own plans, and will every one act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.'

rsv@Jeremiah:18:13 @ "Therefore thus says the LORD: Ask among the nations, who has heard the like of this? The virgin Israel has done a very horrible thing.

rsv@Jeremiah:18:14 @ Does the snow of Lebanon leave the crags of Si'rion? Do the mountain waters run dry, the cold flowing streams?

rsv@Jeremiah:18:15 @ But my people have forgotten me, they burn incense to false gods; they have stumbled in their ways, in the ancient roads, and have gone into bypaths, not the highway,

rsv@Jeremiah:18:16 @ making their land a horror, a thing to be hissed at for ever. Every one who passes by it is horrified and shakes his head.

rsv@Jeremiah:18:17 @ Like the east wind I will scatter them before the enemy. I will show them my back, not my face, in the day of their calamity."

rsv@Jeremiah:18:18 @ Then they said, "Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not heed any of his words."

rsv@Jeremiah:18:19 @ Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to my plea.

rsv@Jeremiah:18:20 @ Is evil a recompense for good? Yet they have dug a pit for my life. Remember how I stood before thee to speak good for them, to turn away thy wrath from them.

rsv@Jeremiah:18:21 @ Therefore deliver up their children to famine; give them over to the power of the sword, let their wives become childless and widowed. May their men meet death by pestilence, their youths be slain by the sword in battle.

rsv@Jeremiah:18:22 @ May a cry be heard from their houses, when thou bringest the marauder suddenly upon them! For they have dug a pit to take me, and laid snares for my feet.

rsv@Jeremiah:18:23 @ Yet, thou, O LORD, knowest all their plotting to slay me. Forgive not their iniquity, nor blot out their sin from thy sight. Let them be overthrown before thee; deal with them in the time of thine anger.

rsv@Jeremiah:19:1 @ Thus said the LORD, "Go, buy a potter's earthen flask, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the senior priests,

rsv@Jeremiah:19:2 @ and go out to the valley of the son of Hinnom at the entry of the Potsherd Gate, and proclaim there the words that I tell you.

rsv@Jeremiah:19:3 @ You shall say, `Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon this place that the ears of every one who hears of it will tingle.

rsv@Jeremiah:19:4 @ Because the people have forsaken me, and have profaned this place by burning incense in it to other gods whom neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have known; and because they have filled this place with the blood of innocents,

rsv@Jeremiah:19:5 @ and have built the high places of Ba'al to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Ba'al, which I did not command or decree, nor did it come into my mind;

rsv@Jeremiah:19:6 @ therefore, behold, days are coming, says the LORD, when this place shall no more be called Topheth, or the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of Slaughter.

rsv@Jeremiah:19:7 @ And in this place I will make void the plans of Judah and Jerusalem, and will cause their people to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life. I will give their dead bodies for food to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the earth.

rsv@Jeremiah:19:8 @ And I will make this city a horror, a thing to be hissed at; every one who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its disasters.

rsv@Jeremiah:19:9 @ And I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and every one shall eat the flesh of his neighbor in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies and those who seek their life afflict them.'

rsv@Jeremiah:19:10 @ "Then you shall break the flask in the sight of the men who go with you,

rsv@Jeremiah:19:11 @ and shall say to them, `Thus says the LORD of hosts: So will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel, so that it can never be mended. Men shall bury in Topheth because there will be no place else to bury.

rsv@Jeremiah:19:12 @ Thus will I do to this place, says the LORD, and to its inhabitants, making this city like Topheth.

rsv@Jeremiah:19:13 @ The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah--all the houses upon whose roofs incense has been burned to all the host of heaven, and drink offerings have been poured out to other gods--shall be defiled like the place of Topheth.'"

rsv@Jeremiah:19:14 @ Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the court of the LORD's house, and said to all the people:

rsv@Jeremiah:19:15 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing upon this city and upon all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have stiffened their neck, refusing to hear my words."

rsv@Jeremiah:20:1 @ Now Pashhur the priest, the son of Immer, who was chief officer in the house of the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things.

rsv@Jeremiah:20:2 @ Then Pashhur beat Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper Benjamin Gate of the house of the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:20:3 @ On the morrow, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, "The LORD does not call your name Pashhur, but Terror on every side.

rsv@Jeremiah:20:4 @ For thus says the LORD: Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They shall fall by the sword of their enemies while you look on. And I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon; he shall carry them captive to Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.

rsv@Jeremiah:20:5 @ Moreover, I will give all the wealth of the city, all its gains, all its prized belongings, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah into the hand of their enemies, who shall plunder them, and seize them, and carry them to Babylon.

rsv@Jeremiah:20:6 @ And you, Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house, shall go into captivity; to Babylon you shall go; and there you shall die, and there you shall be buried, you and all your friends, to whom you have prophesied falsely."

rsv@Jeremiah:20:7 @ O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived; thou art stronger than I, and thou hast prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all the day; every one mocks me.

rsv@Jeremiah:20:8 @ For whenever I speak, I cry out, I shout, "Violence and destruction!" For the word of the LORD has become for me a reproach and derision all day long.

rsv@Jeremiah:20:9 @ If I say, "I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name," there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot.

rsv@Jeremiah:20:10 @ For I hear many whispering. Terror is on every side! "Denounce him! Let us denounce him!" say all my familiar friends, watching for my fall. "Perhaps he will be deceived, then we can overcome him, and take our revenge on him."

rsv@Jeremiah:20:11 @ But the LORD is with me as a dread warrior; therefore my persecutors will stumble, they will not overcome me. They will be greatly shamed, for they will not succeed. Their eternal dishonor will never be forgotten.

rsv@Jeremiah:20:12 @ O LORD of hosts, who triest the righteous, who seest the heart and the mind, let me see thy vengeance upon them, for to thee have I committed my cause.

rsv@Jeremiah:20:13 @ Sing to the LORD; praise the LORD! For he has delivered the life of the needy from the hand of evildoers.

rsv@Jeremiah:20:14 @ Cursed be the day on which I was born! The day when my mother bore me, let it not be blessed!

rsv@Jeremiah:20:15 @ Cursed be the man who brought the news to my father, "A son is born to you," making him very glad.

rsv@Jeremiah:20:16 @ Let that man be like the cities which the LORD overthrew without pity; let him hear a cry in the morning and an alarm at noon,

rsv@Jeremiah:20:17 @ because he did not kill me in the womb; so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb for ever great.

rsv@Jeremiah:20:18 @ Why did I come forth from the womb to see toil and sorrow, and spend my days in shame?

rsv@Jeremiah:21:1 @ This is the word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, when King Zedeki'ah sent to him Pashhur the son of Malchi'ah and Zephani'ah the priest, the son of Ma-asei'ah, saying,

rsv@Jeremiah:21:2 @ "Inquire of the LORD for us, for Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon is making war against us; perhaps the LORD will deal with us according to all his wonderful deeds, and will make him withdraw from us."

rsv@Jeremiah:21:3 @ Then Jeremiah said to them:

rsv@Jeremiah:21:4 @ "Thus you shall say to Zedeki'ah, `Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war which are in your hands and with which you are fighting against the king of Babylon and against the Chalde'ans who are besieging you outside the walls; and I will bring them together into the midst of this city.

rsv@Jeremiah:21:5 @ I myself will fight against you with outstretched hand and strong arm, in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath.

rsv@Jeremiah:21:6 @ And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast; they shall die of a great pestilence.

rsv@Jeremiah:21:7 @ Afterward, says the LORD, I will give Zedeki'ah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people in this city who survive the pestilence, sword, and famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon and into the hand of their enemies, into the hand of those who seek their lives. He shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not pity them, or spare them, or have compassion.'

rsv@Jeremiah:21:8 @ "And to this people you shall say: `Thus says the LORD: Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.

rsv@Jeremiah:21:9 @ He who stays in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence; but he who goes out and surrenders to the Chalde'ans who are besieging you shall live and shall have his life as a prize of war.

rsv@Jeremiah:21:10 @ For I have set my face against this city for evil and not for good, says the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.'

rsv@Jeremiah:21:11 @ "And to the house of the king of Judah say, `Hear the word of the LORD,

rsv@Jeremiah:21:12 @ O house of David! Thus says the LORD: "`Execute justice in the morning, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn with none to quench it, because of your evil doings.'"

rsv@Jeremiah:21:13 @ "Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley, O rock of the plain, says the LORD; you who say, `Who shall come down against us, or who shall enter our habitations?'

rsv@Jeremiah:21:14 @ I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says the LORD; I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is round about her."

rsv@Jeremiah:22:1 @ Thus says the LORD: "Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,

rsv@Jeremiah:22:2 @ and say, `Hear the word of the LORD, O King of Judah, who sit on the throne of David, you, and your servants, and your people who enter these gates.

rsv@Jeremiah:22:3 @ Thus says the LORD: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.

rsv@Jeremiah:22:4 @ For if you will indeed obey this word, then there shall enter the gates of this house kings who sit on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their servants, and their people.

rsv@Jeremiah:22:5 @ But if you will not heed these words, I swear by myself, says the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.

rsv@Jeremiah:22:6 @ For thus says the LORD concerning the house of the king of Judah: "`You are as Gilead to me, as the summit of Lebanon, yet surely I will make you a desert, an uninhabited city.

rsv@Jeremiah:22:7 @ I will prepare destroyers against you, each with his weapons; and they shall cut down your choicest cedars, and cast them into the fire.

rsv@Jeremiah:22:8 @ "`And many nations will pass by this city, and every man will say to his neighbor, "Why has the LORD dealt thus with this great city?"

rsv@Jeremiah:22:9 @ And they will answer, "Because they forsook the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshiped other gods and served them."'"

rsv@Jeremiah:22:10 @ Weep not for him who is dead, nor bemoan him; but weep bitterly for him who goes away, for he shall return no more to see his native land.

rsv@Jeremiah:22:11 @ For thus says the LORD concerning Shallum the son of Josi'ah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josi'ah his father, and who went away from this place: "He shall return here no more,

rsv@Jeremiah:22:12 @ but in the place where they have carried him captive, there shall he die, and he shall never see this land again."

rsv@Jeremiah:22:13 @ "Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice; who makes his neighbor serve him for nothing, and does not give him his wages;

rsv@Jeremiah:22:14 @ who says, `I will build myself a great house with spacious upper rooms,' and cuts out windows for it, paneling it with cedar, and painting it with vermilion.

rsv@Jeremiah:22:15 @ Do you think you are a king because you compete in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.

rsv@Jeremiah:22:16 @ He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Is not this to know me? says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:22:17 @ But you have eyes and heart only for your dishonest gain, for shedding innocent blood, and for practicing oppression and violence."

rsv@Jeremiah:22:18 @ Therefore thus says the LORD concerning Jehoi'akim the son of Josi'ah, king of Judah: "They shall not lament for him, saying, `Ah my brother!' or `Ah sister!' They shall not lament for him, saying, `Ah lord!' or `Ah his majesty!'

rsv@Jeremiah:22:19 @ With the burial of an ass he shall be buried, dragged and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem."

rsv@Jeremiah:22:20 @ "Go up to Lebanon, and cry out, and lift up your voice in Bashan; cry from Ab'arim, for all your lovers are destroyed.

rsv@Jeremiah:22:21 @ I spoke to you in your prosperity, but you said, `I will not listen.' This has been your way from your youth, that you have not obeyed my voice.

rsv@Jeremiah:22:22 @ The wind shall shepherd all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity; then you will be ashamed and confounded because of all your wickedness.

rsv@Jeremiah:22:23 @ O inhabitant of Lebanon, nested among the cedars, how you will groan when pangs come upon you, pain as of a woman in travail!"

rsv@Jeremiah:22:24 @ "As I live, says the LORD, though Coni'ah the son of Jehoi'akim, king of Judah, were the signet ring on my right hand, yet I would tear you off

rsv@Jeremiah:22:25 @ and give you into the hand of those who seek your life, into the hand of those of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon and into the hand of the Chalde'ans.

rsv@Jeremiah:22:26 @ I will hurl you and the mother who bore you into another country, where you were not born, and there you shall die.

rsv@Jeremiah:22:27 @ But to the land to which they will long to return, there they shall not return."

rsv@Jeremiah:22:28 @ Is this man Coni'ah a despised, broken pot, a vessel no one cares for? Why are he and his children hurled and cast into a land which they do not know?

rsv@Jeremiah:22:29 @ O land, land, land, hear the word of the LORD!

rsv@Jeremiah:22:30 @ Thus says the LORD: "Write this man down as childless, a man who shall not succeed in his days; for none of his offspring shall succeed in sitting on the throne of David, and ruling again in Judah."

rsv@Jeremiah:23:1 @ "Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!" says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:23:2 @ Therefore thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the shepherds who care for my people: "You have scattered my flock, and have driven them away, and you have not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for your evil doings, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:23:3 @ Then I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and I will bring them back to their fold, and they shall be fruitful and multiply.

rsv@Jeremiah:23:4 @ I will set shepherds over them who will care for them, and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall any be missing, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:23:5 @ "Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.

rsv@Jeremiah:23:6 @ In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is the name by which he will be called: `The LORD is our righteousness.'

rsv@Jeremiah:23:7 @ "Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when men shall no longer say, `As the LORD lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt,'

rsv@Jeremiah:23:8 @ but `As the LORD lives who brought up and led the descendants of the house of Israel out of the north country and out of all the countries where he had driven them.' Then they shall dwell in their own land."

rsv@Jeremiah:23:9 @ Concerning the prophets: My heart is broken within me, all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, like a man overcome by wine, because of the LORD and because of his holy words.

rsv@Jeremiah:23:10 @ For the land is full of adulterers; because of the curse the land mourns, and the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. Their course is evil, and their might is not right.

rsv@Jeremiah:23:11 @ "Both prophet and priest are ungodly; even in my house I have found their wickedness, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:23:12 @ Therefore their way shall be to them like slippery paths in the darkness, into which they shall be driven and fall; for I will bring evil upon them in the year of their punishment, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:23:13 @ In the prophets of Sama'ria I saw an unsavory thing: they prophesied by Ba'al and led my people Israel astray.

rsv@Jeremiah:23:14 @ But in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery and walk in lies; they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns from his wickedness; all of them have become like Sodom to me, and its inhabitants like Gomor'rah."

rsv@Jeremiah:23:15 @ Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets: "Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and give them poisoned water to drink; for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone forth into all the land."

rsv@Jeremiah:23:16 @ Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you, filling you with vain hopes; they speak visions of their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:23:17 @ They say continually to those who despise the word of the LORD, `It shall be well with you'; and to every one who stubbornly follows his own heart, they say, `No evil shall come upon you.'"

rsv@Jeremiah:23:18 @ For who among them has stood in the council of the LORD to perceive and to hear his word, or who has given heed to his word and listened?

rsv@Jeremiah:23:19 @ Behold, the storm of the LORD! Wrath has gone forth, a whirling tempest; it will burst upon the head of the wicked.

rsv@Jeremiah:23:20 @ The anger of the LORD will not turn back until he has executed and accomplished the intents of his mind. In the latter days you will understand it clearly.

rsv@Jeremiah:23:21 @ "I did not send the prophets, yet they ran; I did not speak to them, yet they prophesied.

rsv@Jeremiah:23:22 @ But if they had stood in my council, then they would have proclaimed my words to my people, and they would have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.

rsv@Jeremiah:23:23 @ "Am I a God at hand, says the LORD, and not a God afar off?

rsv@Jeremiah:23:24 @ Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? says the LORD. Do I not fill heaven and earth? says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:23:25 @ I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy lies in my name, saying, `I have dreamed, I have dreamed!'

rsv@Jeremiah:23:26 @ How long shall there be lies in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, and who prophesy the deceit of their own heart,

rsv@Jeremiah:23:27 @ who think to make my people forget my name by their dreams which they tell one another, even as their fathers forgot my name for Ba'al?

rsv@Jeremiah:23:28 @ Let the prophet who has a dream tell the dream, but let him who has my word speak my word faithfully. What has straw in common with wheat? says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:23:29 @ Is not my word like fire, says the LORD, and like a hammer which breaks the rock in pieces?

rsv@Jeremiah:23:30 @ Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, says the LORD, who steal my words from one another.

rsv@Jeremiah:23:31 @ Behold, I am against the prophets, says the LORD, who use their tongues and say, `Says the LORD.'

rsv@Jeremiah:23:32 @ Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, says the LORD, and who tell them and lead my people astray by their lies and their recklessness, when I did not send them or charge them; so they do not profit this people at all, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:23:33 @ "When one of this people, or a prophet, or a priest asks you, `What is the burden of the LORD?' you shall say to them, `You are the burden, and I will cast you off, says the LORD.'

rsv@Jeremiah:23:34 @ And as for the prophet, priest, or one of the people who says, `The burden of the LORD,' I will punish that man and his household.

rsv@Jeremiah:23:35 @ Thus shall you say, every one to his neighbor and every one to his brother, `What has the LORD answered?' or `What has the LORD spoken?'

rsv@Jeremiah:23:36 @ But `the burden of the LORD' you shall mention no more, for the burden is every man's own word, and you pervert the words of the living God, the LORD of hosts, our God.

rsv@Jeremiah:23:37 @ Thus you shall say to the prophet, `What has the LORD answered you?' or `What has the LORD spoken?'

rsv@Jeremiah:23:38 @ But if you say, `The burden of the LORD,' thus says the LORD, `Because you have said these words, "The burden of the LORD," when I sent to you, saying, "You shall not say, `The burden of the LORD,'"

rsv@Jeremiah:23:39 @ therefore, behold, I will surely lift you up and cast you away from my presence, you and the city which I gave to you and your fathers.

rsv@Jeremiah:23:40 @ And I will bring upon you everlasting reproach and perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.'"

rsv@Jeremiah:24:1 @ After Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon had taken into exile from Jerusalem Jeconi'ah the son of Jehoi'akim, king of Judah, together with the princes of Judah, the craftsmen, and the smiths, and had brought them to Babylon, the LORD showed me this vision: Behold, two baskets of figs placed before the temple of the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:24:2 @ One basket had very good figs, like first-ripe figs, but the other basket had very bad figs, so bad that they could not be eaten.

rsv@Jeremiah:24:3 @ And the LORD said to me, "What do you see, Jeremiah?" I said, "Figs, the good figs very good, and the bad figs very bad, so bad that they cannot be eaten."

rsv@Jeremiah:24:4 @ Then the word of the LORD came to me:

rsv@Jeremiah:24:5 @ "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so I will regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chalde'ans.

rsv@Jeremiah:24:6 @ I will set my eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them back to this land. I will build them up, and not tear them down; I will plant them, and not uproot them.

rsv@Jeremiah:24:7 @ I will give them a heart to know that I am the LORD; and they shall be my people and I will be their God, for they shall return to me with their whole heart.

rsv@Jeremiah:24:8 @ "But thus says the LORD: Like the bad figs which are so bad they cannot be eaten, so will I treat Zedeki'ah the king of Judah, his princes, the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt.

rsv@Jeremiah:24:9 @ I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a reproach, a byword, a taunt, and a curse in all the places where I shall drive them.

rsv@Jeremiah:24:10 @ And I will send sword, famine, and pestilence upon them, until they shall be utterly destroyed from the land which I gave to them and their fathers."

rsv@Jeremiah:25:1 @ The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoi'akim the son of Josi'ah, king of Judah (that was the first year of Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon),

rsv@Jeremiah:25:2 @ which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem:

rsv@Jeremiah:25:3 @ "For twenty-three years, from the thirteenth year of Josi'ah the son of Amon, king of Judah, to this day, the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken persistently to you, but you have not listened.

rsv@Jeremiah:25:4 @ You have neither listened nor inclined your ears to hear, although the LORD persistently sent to you all his servants the prophets,

rsv@Jeremiah:25:5 @ saying, `Turn now, every one of you, from his evil way and wrong doings, and dwell upon the land which the LORD has given to you and your fathers from of old and for ever;

rsv@Jeremiah:25:6 @ do not go after other gods to serve and worship them, or provoke me to anger with the work of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.'

rsv@Jeremiah:25:7 @ Yet you have not listened to me, says the LORD, that you might provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own harm.

rsv@Jeremiah:25:8 @ "Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: Because you have not obeyed my words,

rsv@Jeremiah:25:9 @ behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, says the LORD, and for Nebuchadrez'zar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about; I will utterly destroy them, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting reproach.

rsv@Jeremiah:25:10 @ Moreover, I will banish from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the grinding of the millstones and the light of the lamp.

rsv@Jeremiah:25:11 @ This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

rsv@Jeremiah:25:12 @ Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chalde'ans, for their iniquity, says the LORD, making the land an everlasting waste.

rsv@Jeremiah:25:13 @ I will bring upon that land all the words which I have uttered against it, everything written in this book, which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations.

rsv@Jeremiah:25:14 @ For many nations and great kings shall make slaves even of them; and I will recompense them according to their deeds and the work of their hands."

rsv@Jeremiah:25:15 @ Thus the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: "Take from my hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it.

rsv@Jeremiah:25:16 @ They shall drink and stagger and be crazed because of the sword which I am sending among them."

rsv@Jeremiah:25:17 @ So I took the cup from the LORD's hand, and made all the nations to whom the Lord sent me drink it:

rsv@Jeremiah:25:18 @ Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and princes, to make them a desolation and a waste, a hissing and a curse, as at this day;

rsv@Jeremiah:25:19 @ Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his princes, all his people,

rsv@Jeremiah:25:20 @ and all the foreign folk among them; all the kings of the land of Uz and all the kings of the land of the Philistines (Ash'kelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod);

rsv@Jeremiah:25:21 @ Edom, Moab, and the sons of Ammon;

rsv@Jeremiah:25:22 @ all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastland across the sea;

rsv@Jeremiah:25:23 @ Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who cut the corners of their hair;

rsv@Jeremiah:25:24 @ all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the mixed tribes that dwell in the desert;

rsv@Jeremiah:25:25 @ all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of Media;

rsv@Jeremiah:25:26 @ all the kings of the north, far and near, one after another, and all the kingdoms of the world which are on the face of the earth. And after them the king of Babylon shall drink.

rsv@Jeremiah:25:27 @ "Then you shall say to them, `Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink, be drunk and vomit, fall and rise no more, because of the sword which I am sending among you.'

rsv@Jeremiah:25:28 @ "And if they refuse to accept the cup from your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, `Thus says the LORD of hosts: You must drink!

rsv@Jeremiah:25:29 @ For behold, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name, and shall you go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, for I am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth, says the LORD of hosts.'

rsv@Jeremiah:25:30 @ "You, therefore, shall prophesy against them all these words, and say to them: `The LORD will roar from on high, and from his holy habitation utter his voice; he will roar mightily against his fold, and shout, like those who tread grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.

rsv@Jeremiah:25:31 @ The clamor will resound to the ends of the earth, for the LORD has an indictment against the nations; he is entering into judgment with all flesh, and the wicked he will put to the sword, says the LORD.'

rsv@Jeremiah:25:32 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts: Behold, evil is going forth from nation to nation, and a great tempest is stirring from the farthest parts of the earth!

rsv@Jeremiah:25:33 @ "And those slain by the LORD on that day shall extend from one end of the earth to the other. They shall not be lamented, or gathered, or buried; they shall be dung on the surface of the ground.

rsv@Jeremiah:25:34 @ "Wail, you shepherds, and cry, and roll in ashes, you lords of the flock, for the days of your slaughter and dispersion have come, and you shall fall like choice rams.

rsv@Jeremiah:25:35 @ No refuge will remain for the shepherds, nor escape for the lords of the flock.

rsv@Jeremiah:25:36 @ Hark, the cry of the shepherds, and the wail of the lords of the flock! For the LORD is despoiling their pasture,

rsv@Jeremiah:25:37 @ and the peaceful folds are devastated, because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:25:38 @ Like a lion he has left his covert, for their land has become a waste because of the sword of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger."

rsv@Jeremiah:26:1 @ In the beginning of the reign of Jehoi'akim the son of Josi'ah, king of Judah, this word came from the LORD,

rsv@Jeremiah:26:2 @ "Thus says the LORD: Stand in the court of the LORD's house, and speak to all the cities of Judah which come to worship in the house of the LORD all the words that I command you to speak to them; do not hold back a word.

rsv@Jeremiah:26:3 @ It may be they will listen, and every one turn from his evil way, that I may repent of the evil which I intend to do to them because of their evil doings.

rsv@Jeremiah:26:4 @ You shall say to them, `Thus says the LORD: If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law which I have set before you,

rsv@Jeremiah:26:5 @ and to heed the words of my servants the prophets whom I send to you urgently, though you have not heeded,

rsv@Jeremiah:26:6 @ then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city a curse for all the nations of the earth.'"

rsv@Jeremiah:26:7 @ The priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:26:8 @ And when Jeremiah had finished speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak to all the people, then the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold of him, saying, "You shall die!

rsv@Jeremiah:26:9 @ Why have you prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, `This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without inhabitant'?" And all the people gathered about Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:26:10 @ When the princes of Judah heard these things, they came up from the king's house to the house of the LORD and took their seat in the entry of the New Gate of the house of the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:26:11 @ Then the priests and the prophets said to the princes and to all the people, "This man deserves the sentence of death, because he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears."

rsv@Jeremiah:26:12 @ Then Jeremiah spoke to all the princes and all the people, saying, "The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and this city all the words you have heard.

rsv@Jeremiah:26:13 @ Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God, and the LORD will repent of the evil which he has pronounced against you.

rsv@Jeremiah:26:14 @ But as for me, behold, I am in your hands. Do with me as seems good and right to you.

rsv@Jeremiah:26:15 @ Only know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood upon yourselves and upon this city and its inhabitants, for in truth the LORD sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears."

rsv@Jeremiah:26:16 @ Then the princes and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, "This man does not deserve the sentence of death, for he has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God."

rsv@Jeremiah:26:17 @ And certain of the elders of the land arose and spoke to all the assembled people, saying,

rsv@Jeremiah:26:18 @ "Micah of Mo'resheth prophesied in the days of Hezeki'ah king of Judah, and said to all the people of Judah: `Thus says the LORD of hosts, Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the house a wooded height.'

rsv@Jeremiah:26:19 @ Did Hezeki'ah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Did he not fear the LORD and entreat the favor of the LORD, and did not the LORD repent of the evil which he had pronounced against them? But we are about to bring great evil upon ourselves."

rsv@Jeremiah:26:20 @ There was another man who prophesied in the name of the LORD, Uri'ah the son of Shemai'ah from Kir'iath-je'arim. He prophesied against this city and against this land in words like those of Jeremiah.

rsv@Jeremiah:26:21 @ And when King Jehoi'akim, with all his warriors and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death; but when Uri'ah heard of it, he was afraid and fled and escaped to Egypt.

rsv@Jeremiah:26:22 @ Then King Jehoi'akim sent to Egypt certain men, Elna'than the son of Achbor and others with him,

rsv@Jeremiah:26:23 @ and they fetched Uri'ah from Egypt and brought him to King Jehoi'akim, who slew him with the sword and cast his dead body into the burial place of the common people.

rsv@Jeremiah:26:24 @ But the hand of Ahi'kam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah so that he was not given over to the people to be put to death.

rsv@Jeremiah:27:1 @ In the beginning of the reign of Zedeki'ah the son of Josi'ah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:27:2 @ Thus the LORD said to me: "Make yourself thongs and yoke-bars, and put them on your neck.

rsv@Jeremiah:27:3 @ Send word to the king of Edom, the king of Moab, the king of the sons of Ammon, the king of Tyre, and the king of Sidon by the hand of the envoys who have come to Jerusalem to Zedeki'ah king of Judah.

rsv@Jeremiah:27:4 @ Give them this charge for their masters: `Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: This is what you shall say to your masters:

rsv@Jeremiah:27:5 @ "It is I who by my great power and my outstretched arm have made the earth, with the men and animals that are on the earth, and I give it to whomever it seems right to me.

rsv@Jeremiah:27:6 @ Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnez'zar, the king of Babylon, my servant, and I have given him also the beasts of the field to serve him.

rsv@Jeremiah:27:7 @ All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson, until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings shall make him their slave.

rsv@Jeremiah:27:8 @ "`"But if any nation or kingdom will not serve this Nebuchadnez'zar king of Babylon, and put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, says the LORD, until I have consumed it by his hand.

rsv@Jeremiah:27:9 @ So do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your soothsayers, or your sorcerers, who are saying to you, `You shall not serve the king of Babylon.'

rsv@Jeremiah:27:10 @ For it is a lie which they are prophesying to you, with the result that you will be removed far from your land, and I will drive you out, and you will perish.

rsv@Jeremiah:27:11 @ But any nation which will bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave on its own land, to till it and dwell there, says the LORD."'"

rsv@Jeremiah:27:12 @ To Zedeki'ah king of Judah I spoke in like manner: "Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.

rsv@Jeremiah:27:13 @ Why will you and your people die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, as the LORD has spoken concerning any nation which will not serve the king of Babylon?

rsv@Jeremiah:27:14 @ Do not listen to the words of the prophets who are saying to you, `You shall not serve the king of Babylon,' for it is a lie which they are prophesying to you.

rsv@Jeremiah:27:15 @ I have not sent them, says the LORD, but they are prophesying falsely in my name, with the result that I will drive you out and you will perish, you and the prophets who are prophesying to you."

rsv@Jeremiah:27:16 @ Then I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, "Thus says the LORD: Do not listen to the words of your prophets who are prophesying to you, saying, `Behold, the vessels of the LORD's house will now shortly be brought back from Babylon,' for it is a lie which they are prophesying to you.

rsv@Jeremiah:27:17 @ Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon and live. Why should this city become a desolation?

rsv@Jeremiah:27:18 @ If they are prophets, and if the word of the LORD is with them, then let them intercede with the LORD of hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of the LORD, in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem may not go to Babylon.

rsv@Jeremiah:27:19 @ For thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars, the sea, the stands, and the rest of the vessels which are left in this city,

rsv@Jeremiah:27:20 @ which Nebuchadnez'zar king of Babylon did not take away, when he took into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon Jeconi'ah the son of Jehoi'akim, king of Judah, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem--

rsv@Jeremiah:27:21 @ thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels which are left in the house of the LORD, in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem:

rsv@Jeremiah:27:22 @ They shall be carried to Babylon and remain there until the day when I give attention to them, says the LORD. Then I will bring them back and restore them to this place."

rsv@Jeremiah:28:1 @ In that same year, at the beginning of the reign of Zedeki'ah king of Judah, in the fifth month of the fourth year, Hanani'ah the son of Azzur, the prophet from Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of the LORD, in the presence of the priests and all the people, saying,

rsv@Jeremiah:28:2 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

rsv@Jeremiah:28:3 @ Within two years I will bring back to this place all the vessels of the LORD's house, which Nebuchadnez'zar king of Babylon took away from this place and carried to Babylon.

rsv@Jeremiah:28:4 @ I will also bring back to this place Jeconi'ah the son of Jehoi'akim, king of Judah, and all the exiles from Judah who went to Babylon, says the LORD, for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon."

rsv@Jeremiah:28:5 @ Then the prophet Jeremiah spoke to Hanani'ah the prophet in the presence of the priests and all the people who were standing in the house of the LORD;

rsv@Jeremiah:28:6 @ and the prophet Jeremiah said, "Amen! May the LORD do so; may the LORD make the words which you have prophesied come true, and bring back to this place from Babylon the vessels of the house of the LORD, and all the exiles.

rsv@Jeremiah:28:7 @ Yet hear now this word which I speak in your hearing and in the hearing of all the people.

rsv@Jeremiah:28:8 @ The prophets who preceded you and me from ancient times prophesied war, famine, and pestilence against many countries and great kingdoms.

rsv@Jeremiah:28:9 @ As for the prophet who prophesies peace, when the word of that prophet comes to pass, then it will be known that the LORD has truly sent the prophet."

rsv@Jeremiah:28:10 @ Then the prophet Hanani'ah took the yoke-bars from the neck of Jeremiah the prophet, and broke them.

rsv@Jeremiah:28:11 @ And Hanani'ah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, "Thus says the LORD: Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnez'zar king of Babylon from the neck of all the nations within two years." But Jeremiah the prophet went his way.

rsv@Jeremiah:28:12 @ Sometime after the prophet Hanani'ah had broken the yoke-bars from off the neck of Jeremiah the prophet, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:

rsv@Jeremiah:28:13 @ "Go, tell Hanani'ah, `Thus says the LORD: You have broken wooden bars, but I will make in their place bars of iron.

rsv@Jeremiah:28:14 @ For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: I have put upon the neck of all these nations an iron yoke of servitude to Nebuchadnez'zar king of Babylon, and they shall serve him, for I have given to him even the beasts of the field.'"

rsv@Jeremiah:28:15 @ And Jeremiah the prophet said to the prophet Hanani'ah, "Listen, Hanani'ah, the LORD has not sent you, and you have made this people trust in a lie.

rsv@Jeremiah:28:16 @ Therefore thus says the LORD: `Behold, I will remove you from the face of the earth. This very year you shall die, because you have uttered rebellion against the LORD.'"

rsv@Jeremiah:28:17 @ In that same year, in the seventh month, the prophet Hanani'ah died.

rsv@Jeremiah:29:1 @ These are the words of the letter which Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the elders of the exiles, and to the priests, the prophets, and all the people, whom Nebuchadnez'zar had taken into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.

rsv@Jeremiah:29:2 @ This was after King Jeconi'ah, and the queen mother, the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the smiths had departed from Jerusalem.

rsv@Jeremiah:29:3 @ The letter was sent by the hand of Ela'sah the son of Shaphan and Gemari'ah the son of Hilki'ah, whom Zedeki'ah king of Judah sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnez'zar king of Babylon. It said:

rsv@Jeremiah:29:4 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon:

rsv@Jeremiah:29:5 @ Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their produce.

rsv@Jeremiah:29:6 @ Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters; multiply there, and do not decrease.

rsv@Jeremiah:29:7 @ But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the LORD on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare.

rsv@Jeremiah:29:8 @ For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your diviners who are among you deceive you, and do not listen to the dreams which they dream,

rsv@Jeremiah:29:9 @ for it is a lie which they are prophesying to you in my name; I did not send them, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:29:10 @ "For thus says the LORD: When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will visit you, and I will fulfil to you my promise and bring you back to this place.

rsv@Jeremiah:29:11 @ For I know the plans I have for you, says the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

rsv@Jeremiah:29:12 @ Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you.

rsv@Jeremiah:29:13 @ You will seek me and find me; when you seek me with all your heart,

rsv@Jeremiah:29:14 @ I will be found by you, says the LORD, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, says the LORD, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.

rsv@Jeremiah:29:15 @ "Because you have said, `The LORD has raised up prophets for us in Babylon,'--

rsv@Jeremiah:29:16 @ Thus says the LORD concerning the king who sits on the throne of David, and concerning all the people who dwell in this city, your kinsmen who did not go out with you into exile:

rsv@Jeremiah:29:17 @ `Thus says the LORD of hosts, Behold, I am sending on them sword, famine, and pestilence, and I will make them like vile figs which are so bad they cannot be eaten.

rsv@Jeremiah:29:18 @ I will pursue them with sword, famine, and pestilence, and will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, a terror, a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them,

rsv@Jeremiah:29:19 @ because they did not heed my words, says the LORD, which I persistently sent to you by my servants the prophets, but you would not listen, says the LORD.'--

rsv@Jeremiah:29:20 @ Hear the word of the LORD, all you exiles whom I sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon:

rsv@Jeremiah:29:21 @ `Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kola'iah and Zedeki'ah the son of Ma-asei'ah, who are prophesying a lie to you in my name: Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon, and he shall slay them before your eyes.

rsv@Jeremiah:29:22 @ Because of them this curse shall be used by all the exiles from Judah in Babylon: "The LORD make you like Zedeki'ah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire,"

rsv@Jeremiah:29:23 @ because they have committed folly in Israel, they have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, and they have spoken in my name lying words which I did not command them. I am the one who knows, and I am witness, says the LORD.'"

rsv@Jeremiah:29:24 @ To Shemai'ah of Nehel'am you shall say:

rsv@Jeremiah:29:25 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: You have sent letters in your name to all the people who are in Jerusalem, and to Zephani'ah the son of Ma-asei'ah the priest, and to all the priests, saying,

rsv@Jeremiah:29:26 @ `The LORD has made you priest instead of Jehoi'ada the priest, to have charge in the house of the LORD over every madman who prophesies, to put him in the stocks and collar.

rsv@Jeremiah:29:27 @ Now why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of An'athoth who is prophesying to you?

rsv@Jeremiah:29:28 @ For he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, "Your exile will be long; build houses and live in them, and plant gardens and eat their produce."'"

rsv@Jeremiah:29:29 @ Zephani'ah the priest read this letter in the hearing of Jeremiah the prophet.

rsv@Jeremiah:29:30 @ Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:

rsv@Jeremiah:29:31 @ "Send to all the exiles, saying, `Thus says the LORD concerning Shemai'ah of Nehel'am: Because Shemai'ah has prophesied to you when I did not send him, and has made you trust in a lie,

rsv@Jeremiah:29:32 @ therefore thus says the LORD: Behold, I will punish Shemai'ah of Nehel'am and his descendants; he shall not have any one living among this people to see the good that I will do to my people, says the LORD, for he has talked rebellion against the LORD.'"

rsv@Jeremiah:30:1 @ The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

rsv@Jeremiah:30:2 @ "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Write in a book all the words that I have spoken to you.

rsv@Jeremiah:30:3 @ For behold, days are coming, says the LORD, when I will restore the fortunes of my people, Israel and Judah, says the LORD, and I will bring them back to the land which I gave to their fathers, and they shall take possession of it."

rsv@Jeremiah:30:4 @ These are the words which the LORD spoke concerning Israel and Judah:

rsv@Jeremiah:30:5 @ "Thus says the LORD: We have heard a cry of panic, of terror, and no peace.

rsv@Jeremiah:30:6 @ Ask now, and see, can a man bear a child? Why then do I see every man with his hands on his loins like a woman in labor? Why has every face turned pale?

rsv@Jeremiah:30:7 @ Alas! that day is so great there is none like it; it is a time of distress for Jacob; yet he shall be saved out of it.

rsv@Jeremiah:30:8 @ "And it shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD of hosts, that I will break the yoke from off their neck, and I will burst their bonds, and strangers shall no more make servants of them.

rsv@Jeremiah:30:9 @ But they shall serve the LORD their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.

rsv@Jeremiah:30:10 @ "Then fear not, O Jacob my servant, says the LORD, nor be dismayed, O Israel; for lo, I will save you from afar, and your offspring from the land of their captivity. Jacob shall return and have quiet and ease, and none shall make him afraid.

rsv@Jeremiah:30:11 @ For I am with you to save you, says the LORD; I will make a full end of all the nations among whom I scattered you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will chasten you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished.

rsv@Jeremiah:30:12 @ "For thus says the LORD: Your hurt is incurable, and your wound is grievous.

rsv@Jeremiah:30:13 @ There is none to uphold your cause, no medicine for your wound, no healing for you.

rsv@Jeremiah:30:14 @ All your lovers have forgotten you; they care nothing for you; for I have dealt you the blow of an enemy, the punishment of a merciless foe, because your guilt is great, because your sins are flagrant.

rsv@Jeremiah:30:15 @ Why do you cry out over your hurt? Your pain is incurable. Because your guilt is great, because your sins are flagrant, I have done these things to you.

rsv@Jeremiah:30:16 @ Therefore all who devour you shall be devoured, and all your foes, every one of them, shall go into captivity; those who despoil you shall become a spoil, and all who prey on you I will make a prey.

rsv@Jeremiah:30:17 @ For I will restore health to you, and your wounds I will heal, says the LORD, because they have called you an outcast: `It is Zion, for whom no one cares!'

rsv@Jeremiah:30:18 @ "Thus says the LORD: Behold, I will restore the fortunes of the tents of Jacob, and have compassion on his dwellings; the city shall be rebuilt upon its mound, and the palace shall stand where it used to be.

rsv@Jeremiah:30:19 @ Out of them shall come songs of thanksgiving, and the voices of those who make merry. I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will make them honored, and they shall not be small.

rsv@Jeremiah:30:20 @ Their children shall be as they were of old, and their congregation shall be established before me; and I will punish all who oppress them.

rsv@Jeremiah:30:21 @ Their prince shall be one of themselves, their ruler shall come forth from their midst; I will make him draw near, and he shall approach me, for who would dare of himself to approach me? says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:30:22 @ And you shall be my people, and I will be your God."

rsv@Jeremiah:30:23 @ Behold the storm of the LORD! Wrath has gone forth, a whirling tempest; it will burst upon the head of the wicked.

rsv@Jeremiah:30:24 @ The fierce anger of the LORD will not turn back until he has executed and accomplished the intents of his mind. In the latter days you will understand this.

rsv@Jeremiah:31:1 @ "At that time, says the LORD, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people."

rsv@Jeremiah:31:2 @ Thus says the LORD: "The people who survived the sword found grace in the wilderness; when Israel sought for rest,

rsv@Jeremiah:31:3 @ the LORD appeared to him from afar. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.

rsv@Jeremiah:31:4 @ Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin Israel! Again you shall adorn yourself with timbrels, and shall go forth in the dance of the merrymakers.

rsv@Jeremiah:31:5 @ Again you shall plant vineyards upon the mountains of Sama'ria; the planters shall plant, and shall enjoy the fruit.

rsv@Jeremiah:31:6 @ For there shall be a day when watchmen will call in the hill country of E'phraim: `Arise, and let us go up to Zion, to the LORD our God.'"

rsv@Jeremiah:31:7 @ For thus says the LORD: "Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob, and raise shouts for the chief of the nations; proclaim, give praise, and say, `The LORD has saved his people, the remnant of Israel.'

rsv@Jeremiah:31:8 @ Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth, among them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her who is in travail, together; a great company, they shall return here.

rsv@Jeremiah:31:9 @ With weeping they shall come, and with consolations I will lead them back, I will make them walk by brooks of water, in a straight path in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and E'phraim is my first-born.

rsv@Jeremiah:31:10 @ "Hear the word of the LORD, O nations, and declare it in the coastlands afar off; say, `He who scattered Israel will gather him, and will keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.'

rsv@Jeremiah:31:11 @ For the LORD has ransomed Jacob, and has redeemed him from hands too strong for him.

rsv@Jeremiah:31:12 @ They shall come and sing aloud on the height of Zion, and they shall be radiant over the goodness of the LORD, over the grain, the wine, and the oil, and over the young of the flock and the herd; their life shall be like a watered garden, and they shall languish no more.

rsv@Jeremiah:31:13 @ Then shall the maidens rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old shall be merry. I will turn their mourning into joy, I will comfort them, and give them gladness for sorrow.

rsv@Jeremiah:31:14 @ I will feast the soul of the priests with abundance, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, says the LORD."

rsv@Jeremiah:31:15 @ Thus says the LORD: "A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping. Rachel is weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are not."

rsv@Jeremiah:31:16 @ Thus says the LORD: "Keep your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for your work shall be rewarded, says the LORD, and they shall come back from the land of the enemy.

rsv@Jeremiah:31:17 @ There is hope for your future, says the LORD, and your children shall come back to their own country.

rsv@Jeremiah:31:18 @ I have heard E'phraim bemoaning, `Thou hast chastened me, and I was chastened, like an untrained calf; bring me back that I may be restored, for thou art the LORD my God.

rsv@Jeremiah:31:19 @ For after I had turned away I repented; and after I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh; I was ashamed, and I was confounded, because I bore the disgrace of my youth.'

rsv@Jeremiah:31:20 @ Is E'phraim my dear son? Is he my darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I do remember him still. Therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:31:21 @ "Set up waymarks for yourself, make yourself guideposts; consider well the highway, the road by which you went. Return, O virgin Israel, return to these your cities.

rsv@Jeremiah:31:22 @ How long will you waver, O faithless daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing on the earth: a woman protects a man."

rsv@Jeremiah:31:23 @ Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Once more they shall use these words in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I restore their fortunes: `The LORD bless you, O habitation of righteousness, O holy hill!'

rsv@Jeremiah:31:24 @ And Judah and all its cities shall dwell there together, and the farmers and those who wander with their flocks.

rsv@Jeremiah:31:25 @ For I will satisfy the weary soul, and every languishing soul I will replenish."

rsv@Jeremiah:31:26 @ Thereupon I awoke and looked, and my sleep was pleasant to me.

rsv@Jeremiah:31:27 @ "Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of beast.

rsv@Jeremiah:31:28 @ And it shall come to pass that as I have watched over them to pluck up and break down, to overthrow, destroy, and bring evil, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:31:29 @ In those days they shall no longer say: `The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.'

rsv@Jeremiah:31:30 @ But every one shall die for his own sin; each man who eats sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.

rsv@Jeremiah:31:31 @ "Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah,

rsv@Jeremiah:31:32 @ not like the covenant which I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant which they broke, though I was their husband, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:31:33 @ But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it upon their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

rsv@Jeremiah:31:34 @ And no longer shall each man teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, `Know the LORD,' for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the LORD; for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more."

rsv@Jeremiah:31:35 @ Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day and the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar--the LORD of hosts is his name:

rsv@Jeremiah:31:36 @ "If this fixed order departs from before me, says the LORD, then shall the descendants of Israel cease from being a nation before me for ever."

rsv@Jeremiah:31:37 @ Thus says the LORD: "If the heavens above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth below can be explored, then I will cast off all the descendants of Israel for all that they have done, says the LORD."

rsv@Jeremiah:31:38 @ "Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when the city shall be rebuilt for the LORD from the tower of Han'anel to the Corner Gate.

rsv@Jeremiah:31:39 @ And the measuring line shall go out farther, straight to the hill Gareb, and shall then turn to Go'ah.

rsv@Jeremiah:31:40 @ The whole valley of the dead bodies and the ashes, and all the fields as far as the brook Kidron, to the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east, shall be sacred to the LORD. It shall not be uprooted or overthrown any more for ever."

rsv@Jeremiah:32:1 @ The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedeki'ah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrez'zar.

rsv@Jeremiah:32:2 @ At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard which was in the palace of the king of Judah.

rsv@Jeremiah:32:3 @ For Zedeki'ah king of Judah had imprisoned him, saying, "Why do you prophesy and say, `Thus says the LORD: Behold, I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;

rsv@Jeremiah:32:4 @ Zedeki'ah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chalde'ans, but shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him face to face and see him eye to eye;

rsv@Jeremiah:32:5 @ and he shall take Zedeki'ah to Babylon, and there he shall remain until I visit him, says the LORD; though you fight against the Chalde'ans, you shall not succeed'?"

rsv@Jeremiah:32:6 @ Jeremiah said, "The word of the LORD came to me:

rsv@Jeremiah:32:7 @ Behold, Han'amel the son of Shallum your uncle will come to you and say, `Buy my field which is at An'athoth, for the right of redemption by purchase is yours.'

rsv@Jeremiah:32:8 @ Then Han'amel my cousin came to me in the court of the guard, in accordance with the word of the LORD, and said to me, `Buy my field which is at An'athoth in the land of Benjamin, for the right of possession and redemption is yours; buy it for yourself.' Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:32:9 @ "And I bought the field at An'athoth from Han'amel my cousin, and weighed out the money to him, seventeen shekels of silver.

rsv@Jeremiah:32:10 @ I signed the deed, sealed it, got witnesses, and weighed the money on scales.

rsv@Jeremiah:32:11 @ Then I took the sealed deed of purchase, containing the terms and conditions, and the open copy;

rsv@Jeremiah:32:12 @ and I gave the deed of purchase to Baruch the son of Neri'ah son of Mahsei'ah, in the presence of Han'amel my cousin, in the presence of the witnesses who signed the deed of purchase, and in the presence of all the Jews who were sitting in the court of the guard.

rsv@Jeremiah:32:13 @ I charged Baruch in their presence, saying,

rsv@Jeremiah:32:14 @ `Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Take these deeds, both this sealed deed of purchase and this open deed, and put them in an earthenware vessel, that they may last for a long time.

rsv@Jeremiah:32:15 @ For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Houses and fields and vineyards shall again be bought in this land.'

rsv@Jeremiah:32:16 @ "After I had given the deed of purchase to Baruch the son of Neri'ah, I prayed to the LORD, saying:

rsv@Jeremiah:32:17 @ `Ah Lord GOD! It is thou who hast made the heavens and the earth by thy great power and by thy outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for thee,

rsv@Jeremiah:32:18 @ who showest steadfast love to thousands, but dost requite the guilt of fathers to their children after them, O great and mighty God whose name is the LORD of hosts,

rsv@Jeremiah:32:19 @ great in counsel and mighty in deed; whose eyes are open to all the ways of men, rewarding every man according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings;

rsv@Jeremiah:32:20 @ who hast shown signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, and to this day in Israel and among all mankind, and hast made thee a name, as at this day.

rsv@Jeremiah:32:21 @ Thou didst bring thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and wonders, with a strong hand and outstretched arm, and with great terror;

rsv@Jeremiah:32:22 @ and thou gavest them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;

rsv@Jeremiah:32:23 @ and they entered and took possession of it. But they did not obey thy voice or walk in thy law; they did nothing of all thou didst command them to do. Therefore thou hast made all this evil come upon them.

rsv@Jeremiah:32:24 @ Behold, the siege mounds have come up to the city to take it, and because of sword and famine and pestilence the city is given into the hands of the Chalde'ans who are fighting against it. What thou didst speak has come to pass, and behold, thou seest it.

rsv@Jeremiah:32:25 @ Yet thou, O Lord GOD, hast said to me, "Buy the field for money and get witnesses"--though the city is given into the hands of the Chalde'ans.'"

rsv@Jeremiah:32:26 @ The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:

rsv@Jeremiah:32:27 @ "Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh; is anything too hard for me?

rsv@Jeremiah:32:28 @ Therefore, thus says the LORD: Behold, I am giving this city into the hands of the Chalde'ans and into the hand of Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon, and he shall take it.

rsv@Jeremiah:32:29 @ The Chalde'ans who are fighting against this city shall come and set this city on fire, and burn it, with the houses on whose roofs incense has been offered to Ba'al and drink offerings have been poured out to other gods, to provoke me to anger.

rsv@Jeremiah:32:30 @ For the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah have done nothing but evil in my sight from their youth; the sons of Israel have done nothing but provoke me to anger by the work of their hands, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:32:31 @ This city has aroused my anger and wrath, from the day it was built to this day, so that I will remove it from my sight

rsv@Jeremiah:32:32 @ because of all the evil of the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah which they did to provoke me to anger--their kings and their princes, their priests and their prophets, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

rsv@Jeremiah:32:33 @ They have turned to me their back and not their face; and though I have taught them persistently they have not listened to receive instruction.

rsv@Jeremiah:32:34 @ They set up their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.

rsv@Jeremiah:32:35 @ They built the high places of Ba'al in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to offer up their sons and daughters to Molech, though I did not command them, nor did it enter into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.

rsv@Jeremiah:32:36 @ "Now therefore thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning this city of which you say, `It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword, by famine, and by pestilence':

rsv@Jeremiah:32:37 @ Behold, I will gather them from all the countries to which I drove them in my anger and my wrath and in great indignation; I will bring them back to this place, and I will make them dwell in safety.

rsv@Jeremiah:32:38 @ And they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

rsv@Jeremiah:32:39 @ I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for their own good and the good of their children after them.

rsv@Jeremiah:32:40 @ I will make with them an everlasting covenant, that I will not turn away from doing good to them; and I will put the fear of me in their hearts, that they may not turn from me.

rsv@Jeremiah:32:41 @ I will rejoice in doing them good, and I will plant them in this land in faithfulness, with all my heart and all my soul.

rsv@Jeremiah:32:42 @ "For thus says the LORD: Just as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so I will bring upon them all the good that I promise them.

rsv@Jeremiah:32:43 @ Fields shall be bought in this land of which you are saying, It is a desolation, without man or beast; it is given into the hands of the Chalde'ans.

rsv@Jeremiah:32:44 @ Fields shall be bought for money, and deeds shall be signed and sealed and witnessed, in the land of Benjamin, in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, in the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the Shephe'lah, and in the cities of the Negeb; for I will restore their fortunes, says the LORD."

rsv@Jeremiah:33:1 @ The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah a second time, while he was still shut up in the court of the guard:

rsv@Jeremiah:33:2 @ "Thus says the LORD who made the earth, the LORD who formed it to establish it--the LORD is his name:

rsv@Jeremiah:33:3 @ Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things which you have not known.

rsv@Jeremiah:33:4 @ For thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city and the houses of the kings of Judah which were torn down to make a defense against the siege mounds and before the sword:

rsv@Jeremiah:33:5 @ The Chalde'ans are coming in to fight and to fill them with the dead bodies of men whom I shall smite in my anger and my wrath, for I have hidden my face from this city because of all their wickedness.

rsv@Jeremiah:33:6 @ Behold, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal them and reveal to them abundance of prosperity and security.

rsv@Jeremiah:33:7 @ I will restore the fortunes of Judah and the fortunes of Israel, and rebuild them as they were at first.

rsv@Jeremiah:33:8 @ I will cleanse them from all the guilt of their sin against me, and I will forgive all the guilt of their sin and rebellion against me.

rsv@Jeremiah:33:9 @ And this city shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth who shall hear of all the good that I do for them; they shall fear and tremble because of all the good and all the prosperity I provide for it.

rsv@Jeremiah:33:10 @ "Thus says the LORD: In this place of which you say, `It is a waste without man or beast,' in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without man or inhabitant or beast, there shall be heard again

rsv@Jeremiah:33:11 @ the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voices of those who sing, as they bring thank offerings to the house of the LORD: `Give thanks to the LORD of hosts, for the LORD is good, for his steadfast love endures for ever!' For I will restore the fortunes of the land as at first, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:33:12 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts: In this place which is waste, without man or beast, and in all of its cities, there shall again be habitations of shepherds resting their flocks.

rsv@Jeremiah:33:13 @ In the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the Shephe'lah, and in the cities of the Negeb, in the land of Benjamin, the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, flocks shall again pass under the hands of the one who counts them, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:33:14 @ "Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will fulfil the promise I made to the house of Israel and the house of Judah.

rsv@Jeremiah:33:15 @ In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch to spring forth for David; and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.

rsv@Jeremiah:33:16 @ In those days Judah will be saved and Jerusalem will dwell securely. And this is the name by which it will be called: `The LORD is our righteousness.'

rsv@Jeremiah:33:17 @ "For thus says the LORD: David shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel,

rsv@Jeremiah:33:18 @ and the Levitical priests shall never lack a man in my presence to offer burnt offerings, to burn cereal offerings, and to make sacrifices for ever."

rsv@Jeremiah:33:19 @ The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:

rsv@Jeremiah:33:20 @ "Thus says the LORD: If you can break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night, so that day and night will not come at their appointed time,

rsv@Jeremiah:33:21 @ then also my covenant with David my servant may be broken, so that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne, and my covenant with the Levitical priests my ministers.

rsv@Jeremiah:33:22 @ As the host of heaven cannot be numbered and the sands of the sea cannot be measured, so I will multiply the descendants of David my servant, and the Levitical priests who minister to me."

rsv@Jeremiah:33:23 @ The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:

rsv@Jeremiah:33:24 @ "Have you not observed what these people are saying, `The LORD has rejected the two families which he chose'? Thus they have despised my people so that they are no longer a nation in their sight.

rsv@Jeremiah:33:25 @ Thus says the LORD: If I have not established my covenant with day and night and the ordinances of heaven and earth,

rsv@Jeremiah:33:26 @ then I will reject the descendants of Jacob and David my servant and will not choose one of his descendants to rule over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will restore their fortunes, and will have mercy upon them."

rsv@Jeremiah:34:1 @ The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, when Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon and all his army and all the kingdoms of the earth under his dominion and all the peoples were fighting against Jerusalem and all of its cities:

rsv@Jeremiah:34:2 @ "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Go and speak to Zedeki'ah king of Judah and say to him, `Thus says the LORD: Behold, I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.

rsv@Jeremiah:34:3 @ You shall not escape from his hand, but shall surely be captured and delivered into his hand; you shall see the king of Babylon eye to eye and speak with him face to face; and you shall go to Babylon.'

rsv@Jeremiah:34:4 @ Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedeki'ah king of Judah! Thus says the LORD concerning you: `You shall not die by the sword.

rsv@Jeremiah:34:5 @ You shall die in peace. And as spices were burned for your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so men shall burn spices for you and lament for you, saying, "Alas, lord!"' For I have spoken the word, says the LORD."

rsv@Jeremiah:34:6 @ Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words to Zedeki'ah king of Judah, in Jerusalem,

rsv@Jeremiah:34:7 @ when the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and against all the cities of Judah that were left, Lachish and Aze'kah; for these were the only fortified cities of Judah that remained.

rsv@Jeremiah:34:8 @ The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after King Zedeki'ah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to make a proclamation of liberty to them,

rsv@Jeremiah:34:9 @ that every one should set free his Hebrew slaves, male and female, so that no one should enslave a Jew, his brother.

rsv@Jeremiah:34:10 @ And they obeyed, all the princes and all the people who had entered into the covenant that every one would set free his slave, male or female, so that they would not be enslaved again; they obeyed and set them free.

rsv@Jeremiah:34:11 @ But afterward they turned around and took back the male and female slaves they had set free, and brought them into subjection as slaves.

rsv@Jeremiah:34:12 @ The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

rsv@Jeremiah:34:13 @ "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: I made a covenant with your fathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying,

rsv@Jeremiah:34:14 @ `At the end of six years each of you must set free the fellow Hebrew who has been sold to you and has served you six years; you must set him free from your service.' But your fathers did not listen to me or incline their ears to me.

rsv@Jeremiah:34:15 @ You recently repented and did what was right in my eyes by proclaiming liberty, each to his neighbor, and you made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name;

rsv@Jeremiah:34:16 @ but then you turned around and profaned my name when each of you took back his male and female slaves, whom you had set free according to their desire, and you brought them into subjection to be your slaves.

rsv@Jeremiah:34:17 @ Therefore, thus says the LORD: You have not obeyed me by proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother and to his neighbor; behold, I proclaim to you liberty to the sword, to pestilence, and to famine, says the LORD. I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

rsv@Jeremiah:34:18 @ And the men who transgressed my covenant and did not keep the terms of the covenant which they made before me, I will make like the calf which they cut in two and passed between its parts--

rsv@Jeremiah:34:19 @ the princes of Judah, the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, the priests, and all the people of the land who passed between the parts of the calf;

rsv@Jeremiah:34:20 @ and I will give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their lives. Their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.

rsv@Jeremiah:34:21 @ And Zedeki'ah king of Judah, and his princes I will give into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their lives, into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon which has withdrawn from you.

rsv@Jeremiah:34:22 @ Behold, I will command, says the LORD, and will bring them back to this city; and they will fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without inhabitant."

rsv@Jeremiah:35:1 @ The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoi'akim the son of Josi'ah, king of Judah:

rsv@Jeremiah:35:2 @ "Go to the house of the Re'chabites, and speak with them, and bring them to the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers; then offer them wine to drink."

rsv@Jeremiah:35:3 @ So I took Ja-azani'ah the son of Jeremiah, son of Habazzini'ah, and his brothers, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Re'chabites.

rsv@Jeremiah:35:4 @ I brought them to the house of the LORD into the chamber of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdali'ah, the man of God, which was near the chamber of the princes, above the chamber of Ma-asei'ah the son of Shallum, keeper of the threshold.

rsv@Jeremiah:35:5 @ Then I set before the Re'chabites pitchers full of wine, and cups; and I said to them, "Drink wine."

rsv@Jeremiah:35:6 @ But they answered, "We will drink no wine, for Jon'adab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, `You shall not drink wine, neither you nor your sons for ever;

rsv@Jeremiah:35:7 @ you shall not build a house; you shall not sow seed; you shall not plant or have a vineyard; but you shall live in tents all your days, that you may live many days in the land where you sojourn.'

rsv@Jeremiah:35:8 @ We have obeyed the voice of Jon'adab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he commanded us, to drink no wine all our days, ourselves, our wives, our sons, or our daughters,

rsv@Jeremiah:35:9 @ and not to build houses to dwell in. We have no vineyard or field or seed;

rsv@Jeremiah:35:10 @ but we have lived in tents, and have obeyed and done all that Jon'adab our father commanded us.

rsv@Jeremiah:35:11 @ But when Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon came up against the land, we said, `Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chalde'ans and the army of the Syrians.' So we are living in Jerusalem."

rsv@Jeremiah:35:12 @ Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:

rsv@Jeremiah:35:13 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Go and say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will you not receive instruction and listen to my words? says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:35:14 @ The command which Jon'adab the son of Rechab gave to his sons, to drink no wine, has been kept; and they drink none to this day, for they have obeyed their father's command. I have spoken to you persistently, but you have not listened to me.

rsv@Jeremiah:35:15 @ I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, sending them persistently, saying, `Turn now every one of you from his evil way, and amend your doings, and do not go after other gods to serve them, and then you shall dwell in the land which I gave to you and your fathers.' But you did not incline your ear or listen to me.

rsv@Jeremiah:35:16 @ The sons of Jon'adab the son of Rechab have kept the command which their father gave them, but this people has not obeyed me.

rsv@Jeremiah:35:17 @ Therefore, thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing on Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them; because I have spoken to them and they have not listened, I have called to them and they have not answered."

rsv@Jeremiah:35:18 @ But to the house of the Re'chabites Jeremiah said, "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Because you have obeyed the command of Jon'adab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done all that he commanded you,

rsv@Jeremiah:35:19 @ therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Jon'adab the son of Rechab shall never lack a man to stand before me."

rsv@Jeremiah:36:1 @ In the fourth year of Jehoi'akim the son of Josi'ah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

rsv@Jeremiah:36:2 @ "Take a scroll and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel and Judah and all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josi'ah until today.

rsv@Jeremiah:36:3 @ It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I intend to do to them, so that every one may turn from his evil way, and that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin."

rsv@Jeremiah:36:4 @ Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neri'ah, and Baruch wrote upon a scroll at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD which he had spoken to him.

rsv@Jeremiah:36:5 @ And Jeremiah ordered Baruch, saying, "I am debarred from going to the house of the LORD;

rsv@Jeremiah:36:6 @ so you are to go, and on a fast day in the hearing of all the people in the LORD's house you shall read the words of the LORD from the scroll which you have written at my dictation. You shall read them also in the hearing of all the men of Judah who come out of their cities.

rsv@Jeremiah:36:7 @ It may be that their supplication will come before the LORD, and that every one will turn from his evil way, for great is the anger and wrath that the LORD has pronounced against this people."

rsv@Jeremiah:36:8 @ And Baruch the son of Neri'ah did all that Jeremiah the prophet ordered him about reading from the scroll the words of the LORD in the LORD's house.

rsv@Jeremiah:36:9 @ In the fifth year of Jehoi'akim the son of Josi'ah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem and all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem proclaimed a fast before the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:36:10 @ Then, in the hearing of all the people, Baruch read the words of Jeremiah from the scroll, in the house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemari'ah the son of Shaphan the secretary, which was in the upper court, at the entry of the New Gate of the LORD's house.

rsv@Jeremiah:36:11 @ When Micai'ah the son of Gemari'ah, son of Shaphan, heard all the words of the LORD from the scroll,

rsv@Jeremiah:36:12 @ he went down to the king's house, into the secretary's chamber; and all the princes were sitting there: Eli'shama the secretary, Delai'ah the son of Shemai'ah, Elna'than the son of Achbor, Gemari'ah the son of Shaphan, Zedeki'ah the son of Hanani'ah, and all the princes.

rsv@Jeremiah:36:13 @ And Micai'ah told them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the scroll in the hearing of the people.

rsv@Jeremiah:36:14 @ Then all the princes sent Jehu'di the son of Nethani'ah, son of Shelemi'ah, son of Cushi, to say to Baruch, "Take in your hand the scroll that you read in the hearing of the people, and come." So Baruch the son of Neri'ah took the scroll in his hand and came to them.

rsv@Jeremiah:36:15 @ And they said to him, "Sit down and read it." So Baruch read it to them.

rsv@Jeremiah:36:16 @ When they heard all the words, they turned one to another in fear; and they said to Baruch, "We must report all these words to the king."

rsv@Jeremiah:36:17 @ Then they asked Baruch, "Tell us, how did you write all these words? Was it at his dictation?"

rsv@Jeremiah:36:18 @ Baruch answered them, "He dictated all these words to me, while I wrote them with ink on the scroll."

rsv@Jeremiah:36:19 @ Then the princes said to Baruch, "Go and hide, you and Jeremiah, and let no one know where you are."

rsv@Jeremiah:36:20 @ So they went into the court to the king, having put the scroll in the chamber of Eli'shama the secretary; and they reported all the words to the king.

rsv@Jeremiah:36:21 @ Then the king sent Jehu'di to get the scroll, and he took it from the chamber of Eli'shama the secretary; and Jehu'di read it to the king and all the princes who stood beside the king.

rsv@Jeremiah:36:22 @ It was the ninth month, and the king was sitting in the winter house and there was a fire burning in the brazier before him.

rsv@Jeremiah:36:23 @ As Jehu'di read three or four columns, the king would cut them off with a penknife and throw them into the fire in the brazier, until the entire scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.

rsv@Jeremiah:36:24 @ Yet neither the king, nor any of his servants who heard all these words, was afraid, nor did they rend their garments.

rsv@Jeremiah:36:25 @ Even when Elna'than and Delai'ah and Gemari'ah urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.

rsv@Jeremiah:36:26 @ And the king commanded Jerah'meel the king's son and Serai'ah the son of Az'ri-el and Shelemi'ah the son of Abdeel to seize Baruch the secretary and Jeremiah the prophet, but the LORD hid them.

rsv@Jeremiah:36:27 @ Now, after the king had burned the scroll with the words which Baruch wrote at Jeremiah's dictation, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:

rsv@Jeremiah:36:28 @ "Take another scroll and write on it all the former words that were in the first scroll, which Jehoi'akim the king of Judah has burned.

rsv@Jeremiah:36:29 @ And concerning Jehoi'akim king of Judah you shall say, `Thus says the LORD, You have burned this scroll, saying, "Why have you written in it that the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will cut off from it man and beast?"

rsv@Jeremiah:36:30 @ Therefore thus says the LORD concerning Jehoi'akim king of Judah, He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David, and his dead body shall be cast out to the heat by day and the frost by night.

rsv@Jeremiah:36:31 @ And I will punish him and his offspring and his servants for their iniquity; I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them, but they would not hear.'"

rsv@Jeremiah:36:32 @ Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neri'ah, who wrote on it at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the scroll which Jehoi'akim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and many similar words were added to them.

rsv@Jeremiah:37:1 @ Zedeki'ah the son of Josi'ah, whom Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah, reigned instead of Coni'ah the son of Jehoi'akim.

rsv@Jeremiah:37:2 @ But neither he nor his servants nor the people of the land listened to the words of the LORD which he spoke through Jeremiah the prophet.

rsv@Jeremiah:37:3 @ King Zedeki'ah sent Jehu'cal the son of Shelemi'ah, and Zephani'ah the priest, the son of Ma-asei'ah, to Jeremiah the prophet, saying, "Pray for us to the LORD our God."

rsv@Jeremiah:37:4 @ Now Jeremiah was still going in and out among the people, for he had not yet been put in prison.

rsv@Jeremiah:37:5 @ The army of Pharaoh had come out of Egypt; and when the Chalde'ans who were besieging Jerusalem heard news of them, they withdrew from Jerusalem.

rsv@Jeremiah:37:6 @ Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet:

rsv@Jeremiah:37:7 @ "Thus says the LORD, God of Israel: Thus shall you say to the king of Judah who sent you to me to inquire of me, `Behold, Pharaoh's army which came to help you is about to return to Egypt, to its own land.

rsv@Jeremiah:37:8 @ And the Chalde'ans shall come back and fight against this city; they shall take it and burn it with fire.

rsv@Jeremiah:37:9 @ Thus says the LORD, Do not deceive yourselves, saying, "The Chalde'ans will surely stay away from us," for they will not stay away.

rsv@Jeremiah:37:10 @ For even if you should defeat the whole army of Chalde'ans who are fighting against you, and there remained of them only wounded men, every man in his tent, they would rise up and burn this city with fire.'"

rsv@Jeremiah:37:11 @ Now when the Chalde'an army had withdrawn from Jerusalem at the approach of Pharaoh's army,

rsv@Jeremiah:37:12 @ Jeremiah set out from Jerusalem to go to the land of Benjamin to receive his portion there among the people.

rsv@Jeremiah:37:13 @ When he was at the Benjamin Gate, a sentry there named Iri'jah the son of Shelemi'ah, son of Hanani'ah, seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, "You are deserting to the Chalde'ans."

rsv@Jeremiah:37:14 @ And Jeremiah said, "It is false; I am not deserting to the Chalde'ans." But Iri'jah would not listen to him, and seized Jeremiah and brought him to the princes.

rsv@Jeremiah:37:15 @ And the princes were enraged at Jeremiah, and they beat him and imprisoned him in the house of Jonathan the secretary, for it had been made a prison.

rsv@Jeremiah:37:16 @ When Jeremiah had come to the dungeon cells, and remained there many days,

rsv@Jeremiah:37:17 @ King Zedeki'ah sent for him, and received him. The king questioned him secretly in his house, and said, "Is there any word from the LORD?" Jeremiah said, "There is." Then he said, "You shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon."

rsv@Jeremiah:37:18 @ Jeremiah also said to King Zedeki'ah, "What wrong have I done to you or your servants or this people, that you have put me in prison?

rsv@Jeremiah:37:19 @ Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, `The king of Babylon will not come against you and against this land'?

rsv@Jeremiah:37:20 @ Now hear, I pray you, O my lord the king: let my humble plea come before you, and do not send me back to the house of Jonathan the secretary, lest I die there."

rsv@Jeremiah:37:21 @ So King Zedeki'ah gave orders, and they committed Jeremiah to the court of the guard; and a loaf of bread was given him daily from the bakers' street, until all the bread of the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

rsv@Jeremiah:38:1 @ Now Shephati'ah the son of Mattan, Gedali'ah the son of Pashhur, Jucal the son of Shelemi'ah, and Pashhur the son of Malchi'ah heard the words that Jeremiah was saying to all the people,

rsv@Jeremiah:38:2 @ "Thus says the LORD, He who stays in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence; but he who goes out to the Chalde'ans shall live; he shall have his life as a prize of war, and live.

rsv@Jeremiah:38:3 @ Thus says the LORD, This city shall surely be given into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon and be taken."

rsv@Jeremiah:38:4 @ Then the princes said to the king, "Let this man be put to death, for he is weakening the hands of the soldiers who are left in this city, and the hands of all the people, by speaking such words to them. For this man is not seeking the welfare of this people, but their harm."

rsv@Jeremiah:38:5 @ King Zedeki'ah said, "Behold, he is in your hands; for the king can do nothing against you."

rsv@Jeremiah:38:6 @ So they took Jeremiah and cast him into the cistern of Malchi'ah, the king's son, which was in the court of the guard, letting Jeremiah down by ropes. And there was no water in the cistern, but only mire, and Jeremiah sank in the mire.

rsv@Jeremiah:38:7 @ When E'bed-mel'ech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern--the king was sitting in the Benjamin Gate--

rsv@Jeremiah:38:8 @ E'bed-mel'ech went from the king's house and said to the king,

rsv@Jeremiah:38:9 @ "My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they did to Jeremiah the prophet by casting him into the cistern; and he will die there of hunger, for there is no bread left in the city."

rsv@Jeremiah:38:10 @ Then the king commanded E'bed-mel'ech, the Ethiopian, "Take three men with you from here, and lift Jeremiah the prophet out of the cistern before he dies."

rsv@Jeremiah:38:11 @ So E'bed-mel'ech took the men with him and went to the house of the king, to a wardrobe of the storehouse, and took from there old rags and worn-out clothes, which he let down to Jeremiah in the cistern by ropes.

rsv@Jeremiah:38:12 @ Then E'bed-mel'ech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, "Put the rags and clothes between your armpits and the ropes." Jeremiah did so.

rsv@Jeremiah:38:13 @ Then they drew Jeremiah up with ropes and lifted him out of the cistern. And Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

rsv@Jeremiah:38:14 @ King Zedeki'ah sent for Jeremiah the prophet and received him at the third entrance of the temple of the LORD. The king said to Jeremiah, "I will ask you a question; hide nothing from me."

rsv@Jeremiah:38:15 @ Jeremiah said to Zedeki'ah, "If I tell you, will you not be sure to put me to death? And if I give you counsel, you will not listen to me."

rsv@Jeremiah:38:16 @ Then King Zedeki'ah swore secretly to Jeremiah, "As the LORD lives, who made our souls, I will not put you to death or deliver you into the hand of these men who seek your life."

rsv@Jeremiah:38:17 @ Then Jeremiah said to Zedeki'ah, "Thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel, If you will surrender to the princes of the king of Babylon, then your life shall be spared, and this city shall not be burned with fire, and you and your house shall live.

rsv@Jeremiah:38:18 @ But if you do not surrender to the princes of the king of Babylon, then this city shall be given into the hand of the Chalde'ans, and they shall burn it with fire, and you shall not escape from their hand."

rsv@Jeremiah:38:19 @ King Zedeki'ah said to Jeremiah, "I am afraid of the Jews who have deserted to the Chalde'ans, lest I be handed over to them and they abuse me."

rsv@Jeremiah:38:20 @ Jeremiah said, "You shall not be given to them. Obey now the voice of the LORD in what I say to you, and it shall be well with you, and your life shall be spared.

rsv@Jeremiah:38:21 @ But if you refuse to surrender, this is the vision which the LORD has shown to me:

rsv@Jeremiah:38:22 @ Behold, all the women left in the house of the king of Judah were being led out to the princes of the king of Babylon and were saying, `Your trusted friends have deceived you and prevailed against you; now that your feet are sunk in the mire, they turn away from you.'

rsv@Jeremiah:38:23 @ All your wives and your sons shall be led out to the Chalde'ans, and you yourself shall not escape from their hand, but shall be seized by the king of Babylon; and this city shall be burned with fire."

rsv@Jeremiah:38:24 @ Then Zedeki'ah said to Jeremiah, "Let no one know of these words and you shall not die.

rsv@Jeremiah:38:25 @ If the princes hear that I have spoken with you and come to you and say to you, `Tell us what you said to the king and what the king said to you; hide nothing from us and we will not put you to death,'

rsv@Jeremiah:38:26 @ then you shall say to them, `I made a humble plea to the king that he would not send me back to the house of Jonathan to die there.'"

rsv@Jeremiah:38:27 @ Then all the princes came to Jeremiah and asked him, and he answered them as the king had instructed him. So they left off speaking with him, for the conversation had not been overheard.

rsv@Jeremiah:38:28 @ And Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken.

rsv@Jeremiah:39:1 @ In the ninth year of Zedeki'ah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem and besieged it;

rsv@Jeremiah:39:2 @ in the eleventh year of Zedeki'ah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city.

rsv@Jeremiah:39:3 @ When Jerusalem was taken, all the princes of the king of Babylon came and sat in the middle gate: Ner'gal-share'zer, Sam'gar-ne'bo, Sar'sechim the Rab'saris, Ner'gal-share'zer the Rabmag, with all the rest of the officers of the king of Babylon.

rsv@Jeremiah:39:4 @ When Zedeki'ah king of Judah and all the soldiers saw them, they fled, going out of the city at night by way of the king's garden through the gate between the two walls; and they went toward the Arabah.

rsv@Jeremiah:39:5 @ But the army of the Chalde'ans pursued them, and overtook Zedeki'ah in the plains of Jericho; and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon, at Riblah, in the land of Hamath; and he passed sentence upon him.

rsv@Jeremiah:39:6 @ The king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedeki'ah at Riblah before his eyes; and the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah.

rsv@Jeremiah:39:7 @ He put out the eyes of Zedeki'ah, and bound him in fetters to take him to Babylon.

rsv@Jeremiah:39:8 @ The Chalde'ans burned the king's house and the house of the people, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.

rsv@Jeremiah:39:9 @ Then Nebu'zarad'an, the captain of the guard, carried into exile to Babylon the rest of the people who were left in the city, those who had deserted to him, and the people who remained.

rsv@Jeremiah:39:10 @ Nebu'zarad'an, the captain of the guard, left in the land of Judah some of the poor people who owned nothing, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.

rsv@Jeremiah:39:11 @ Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon gave command concerning Jeremiah through Nebu'zarad'an, the captain of the guard, saying,

rsv@Jeremiah:39:12 @ "Take him, look after him well and do him no harm, but deal with him as he tells you."

rsv@Jeremiah:39:13 @ So Nebu'zarad'an the captain of the guard, Nebushaz'ban the Rab'saris, Ner'gal-share'zer the Rabmag, and all the chief officers of the king of Babylon

rsv@Jeremiah:39:14 @ sent and took Jeremiah from the court of the guard. They entrusted him to Gedali'ah the son of Ahi'kam, son of Shaphan, that he should take him home. So he dwelt among the people.

rsv@Jeremiah:39:15 @ The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah while he was shut up in the court of the guard:

rsv@Jeremiah:39:16 @ "Go, and say to E'bed-mel'ech the Ethiopian, `Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will fulfil my words against this city for evil and not for good, and they shall be accomplished before you on that day.

rsv@Jeremiah:39:17 @ But I will deliver you on that day, says the LORD, and you shall not be given into the hand of the men of whom you are afraid.

rsv@Jeremiah:39:18 @ For I will surely save you, and you shall not fall by the sword; but you shall have your life as a prize of war, because you have put your trust in me, says the LORD.'"

rsv@Jeremiah:40:1 @ The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD after Nebu'zarad'an the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he took him bound in chains along with all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah who were being exiled to Babylon.

rsv@Jeremiah:40:2 @ The captain of the guard took Jeremiah and said to him, "The LORD your God pronounced this evil against this place;

rsv@Jeremiah:40:3 @ the LORD has brought it about, and has done as he said. Because you sinned against the LORD, and did not obey his voice, this thing has come upon you.

rsv@Jeremiah:40:4 @ Now, behold, I release you today from the chains on your hands. If it seems good to you to come with me to Babylon, come, and I will look after you well; but if it seems wrong to you to come with me to Babylon, do not come. See, the whole land is before you; go wherever you think it good and right to go.

rsv@Jeremiah:40:5 @ If you remain, then return to Gedali'ah the son of Ahi'kam, son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon appointed governor of the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people; or go wherever you think it right to go." So the captain of the guard gave him an allowance of food and a present, and let him go.

rsv@Jeremiah:40:6 @ Then Jeremiah went to Gedali'ah the son of Ahi'kam, at Mizpah, and dwelt with him among the people who were left in the land.

rsv@Jeremiah:40:7 @ When all the captains of the forces in the open country and their men heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedali'ah the son of Ahi'kam governor in the land, and had committed to him men, women, and children, those of the poorest of the land who had not been taken into exile to Babylon,

rsv@Jeremiah:40:8 @ they went to Gedali'ah at Mizpah--Ish'mael the son of Nethani'ah, Joha'nan the son of Kare'ah, Serai'ah the son of Tanhu'meth, the sons of Ephai the Netoph'athite, Jezani'ah the son of the Ma-ac'athite, they and their men.

rsv@Jeremiah:40:9 @ Gedali'ah the son of Ahi'kam, son of Shaphan, swore to them and their men, saying, "Do not be afraid to serve the Chalde'ans. Dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.

rsv@Jeremiah:40:10 @ As for me, I will dwell at Mizpah, to stand for you before the Chalde'ans who will come to us; but as for you, gather wine and summer fruits and oil, and store them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that you have taken."

rsv@Jeremiah:40:11 @ Likewise, when all the Jews who were in Moab and among the Ammonites and in Edom and in other lands heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant in Judah and had appointed Gedali'ah the son of Ahi'kam, son of Shaphan, as governor over them,

rsv@Jeremiah:40:12 @ then all the Jews returned from all the places to which they had been driven and came to the land of Judah, to Gedali'ah at Mizpah; and they gathered wine and summer fruits in great abundance.

rsv@Jeremiah:40:13 @ Now Joha'nan the son of Kare'ah and all the leaders of the forces in the open country came to Gedali'ah at Mizpah

rsv@Jeremiah:40:14 @ and said to him, "Do you know that Ba'alis the king of the Ammonites has sent Ish'mael the son of Nethani'ah to take your life?" But Gedali'ah the son of Ahi'kam would not believe them.

rsv@Jeremiah:40:15 @ Then Joha'nan the son of Kare'ah spoke secretly to Gedali'ah at Mizpah, "Let me go and slay Ish'mael the son of Nethani'ah, and no one will know it. Why should he take your life, so that all the Jews who are gathered about you would be scattered, and the remnant of Judah would perish?"

rsv@Jeremiah:40:16 @ But Gedali'ah the son of Ahi'kam said to Joha'nan the son of Kare'ah, "You shall not do this thing, for you are speaking falsely of Ish'mael."

rsv@Jeremiah:41:1 @ In the seventh month, Ish'mael the son of Nethani'ah, son of Eli'shama, of the royal family, one of the chief officers of the king, came with ten men to Gedali'ah the son of Ahi'kam, at Mizpah. As they ate bread together there at Mizpah,

rsv@Jeremiah:41:2 @ Ish'mael the son of Nethani'ah and the ten men with him rose up and struck down Gedali'ah the son of Ahi'kam, son of Shaphan, with the sword, and killed him, whom the king of Babylon had appointed governor in the land.

rsv@Jeremiah:41:3 @ Ish'mael also slew all the Jews who were with Gedali'ah at Mizpah, and the Chalde'an soldiers who happened to be there.

rsv@Jeremiah:41:4 @ On the day after the murder of Gedali'ah, before any one knew of it,

rsv@Jeremiah:41:5 @ eighty men arrived from Shechem and Shiloh and Sama'ria, with their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and their bodies gashed, bringing cereal offerings and incense to present at the temple of the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:41:6 @ And Ish'mael the son of Nethani'ah came out from Mizpah to meet them, weeping as he came. As he met them, he said to them, "Come in to Gedali'ah the son of Ahi'kam."

rsv@Jeremiah:41:7 @ When they came into the city, Ish'mael the son of Nethani'ah and the men with him slew them, and cast them into a cistern.

rsv@Jeremiah:41:8 @ But there were ten men among them who said to Ish'mael, "Do not kill us, for we have stores of wheat, barley, oil, and honey hidden in the fields." So he refrained and did not kill them with their companions.

rsv@Jeremiah:41:9 @ Now the cistern into which Ish'mael cast all the bodies of the men whom he had slain was the large cistern which King Asa had made for defense against Ba'asha king of Israel; Ish'mael the son of Nethani'ah filled it with the slain.

rsv@Jeremiah:41:10 @ Then Ish'mael took captive all the rest of the people who were in Mizpah, the king's daughters and all the people who were left at Mizpah, whom Nebu'zarad'an, the captain of the guard, had committed to Gedali'ah the son of Ahi'kam. Ish'mael the son of Nethani'ah took them captive and set out to cross over to the Ammonites.

rsv@Jeremiah:41:11 @ But when Joha'nan the son of Kare'ah and all the leaders of the forces with him heard of all the evil which Ish'mael the son of Nethani'ah had done,

rsv@Jeremiah:41:12 @ they took all their men and went to fight against Ish'mael the son of Nethani'ah. They came upon him at the great pool which is in Gibeon.

rsv@Jeremiah:41:13 @ And when all the people who were with Ish'mael saw Joha'nan the son of Kare'ah and all the leaders of the forces with him, they rejoiced.

rsv@Jeremiah:41:14 @ So all the people whom Ish'mael had carried away captive from Mizpah turned about and came back, and went to Joha'nan the son of Kare'ah.

rsv@Jeremiah:41:15 @ But Ish'mael the son of Nethani'ah escaped from Joha'nan with eight men, and went to the Ammonites.

rsv@Jeremiah:41:16 @ Then Joha'nan the son of Kare'ah and all the leaders of the forces with him took all the rest of the people whom Ish'mael the son of Nethani'ah had carried away captive from Mizpah after he had slain Gedali'ah the son of Ahi'kam--soldiers, women, children, and eunuchs, whom Joha'nan brought back from Gibeon.

rsv@Jeremiah:41:17 @ And they went and stayed at Geruth Chimham near Bethlehem, intending to go to Egypt

rsv@Jeremiah:41:18 @ because of the Chalde'ans; for they were afraid of them, because Ish'mael the son of Nethani'ah had slain Gedali'ah the son of Ahi'kam, whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land.

rsv@Jeremiah:42:1 @ Then all the commanders of the forces, and Joha'nan the son of Kare'ah and Azari'ah the son of Hoshai'ah, and all the people from the least to the greatest, came near

rsv@Jeremiah:42:2 @ and said to Jeremiah the prophet, "Let our supplication come before you, and pray to the LORD your God for us, for all this remnant (for we are left but a few of many, as your eyes see us),

rsv@Jeremiah:42:3 @ that the LORD your God may show us the way we should go, and the thing that we should do."

rsv@Jeremiah:42:4 @ Jeremiah the prophet said to them, "I have heard you; behold, I will pray to the LORD your God according to your request, and whatever the LORD answers you I will tell you; I will keep nothing back from you."

rsv@Jeremiah:42:5 @ Then they said to Jeremiah, "May the LORD be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act according to all the word with which the LORD your God sends you to us.

rsv@Jeremiah:42:6 @ Whether it is good or evil, we will obey the voice of the LORD our God to whom we are sending you, that it may be well with us when we obey the voice of the LORD our God."

rsv@Jeremiah:42:7 @ At the end of ten days the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah.

rsv@Jeremiah:42:8 @ Then he summoned Joha'nan the son of Kare'ah and all the commanders of the forces who were with him, and all the people from the least to the greatest,

rsv@Jeremiah:42:9 @ and said to them, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your supplication before him:

rsv@Jeremiah:42:10 @ If you will remain in this land, then I will build you up and not pull you down; I will plant you, and not pluck you up; for I repent of the evil which I did to you.

rsv@Jeremiah:42:11 @ Do not fear the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid; do not fear him, says the LORD, for I am with you, to save you and to deliver you from his hand.

rsv@Jeremiah:42:12 @ I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy on you and let you remain in your own land.

rsv@Jeremiah:42:13 @ But if you say, `We will not remain in this land,' disobeying the voice of the LORD your God

rsv@Jeremiah:42:14 @ and saying, `No, we will go to the land of Egypt, where we shall not see war, or hear the sound of the trumpet, or be hungry for bread, and we will dwell there,'

rsv@Jeremiah:42:15 @ then hear the word of the LORD, O remnant of Judah. Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: If you set your faces to enter Egypt and go to live there,

rsv@Jeremiah:42:16 @ then the sword which you fear shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine of which you are afraid shall follow hard after you to Egypt; and there you shall die.

rsv@Jeremiah:42:17 @ All the men who set their faces to go to Egypt to live there shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence; they shall have no remnant or survivor from the evil which I will bring upon them.

rsv@Jeremiah:42:18 @ "For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: As my anger and my wrath were poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so my wrath will be poured out on you when you go to Egypt. You shall become an execration, a horror, a curse, and a taunt. You shall see this place no more.

rsv@Jeremiah:42:19 @ The LORD has said to you, O remnant of Judah, `Do not go to Egypt.' Know for a certainty that I have warned you this day

rsv@Jeremiah:42:20 @ that you have gone astray at the cost of your lives. For you sent me to the LORD your God, saying, `Pray for us to the LORD our God, and whatever the LORD our God says declare to us and we will do it.'

rsv@Jeremiah:42:21 @ And I have this day declared it to you, but you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God in anything that he sent me to tell you.

rsv@Jeremiah:42:22 @ Now therefore know for a certainty that you shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence in the place where you desire to go to live."

rsv@Jeremiah:43:1 @ When Jeremiah finished speaking to all the people all these words of the LORD their God, with which the LORD their God had sent him to them,

rsv@Jeremiah:43:2 @ Azari'ah the son of Hoshai'ah and Joha'nan the son of Kare'ah and all the insolent men said to Jeremiah, "You are telling a lie. The LORD our God did not send you to say, `Do not go to Egypt to live there';

rsv@Jeremiah:43:3 @ but Baruch the son of Neri'ah has set you against us, to deliver us into the hand of the Chalde'ans, that they may kill us or take us into exile in Babylon."

rsv@Jeremiah:43:4 @ So Joha'nan the son of Kare'ah and all the commanders of the forces and all the people did not obey the voice of the LORD, to remain in the land of Judah.

rsv@Jeremiah:43:5 @ But Joha'nan the son of Kare'ah and all the commanders of the forces took all the remnant of Judah who had returned to live in the land of Judah from all the nations to which they had been driven--

rsv@Jeremiah:43:6 @ the men, the women, the children, the princesses, and every person whom Nebu'zarad'an the captain of the guard had left with Gedali'ah the son of Ahi'kam, son of Shaphan; also Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch the son of Neri'ah.

rsv@Jeremiah:43:7 @ And they came into the land of Egypt, for they did not obey the voice of the LORD. And they arrived at Tah'panhes.

rsv@Jeremiah:43:8 @ Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah in Tah'panhes:

rsv@Jeremiah:43:9 @ "Take in your hands large stones, and hide them in the mortar in the pavement which is at the entrance to Pharaoh's palace in Tah'panhes, in the sight of the men of Judah,

rsv@Jeremiah:43:10 @ and say to them, `Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrez'zar the king of Babylon, my servant, and he will set his throne above these stones which I have hid, and he will spread his royal canopy over them.

rsv@Jeremiah:43:11 @ He shall come and smite the land of Egypt, giving to the pestilence those who are doomed to the pestilence, to captivity those who are doomed to captivity, and to the sword those who are doomed to the sword.

rsv@Jeremiah:43:12 @ He shall kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them and carry them away captive; and he shall clean the land of Egypt, as a shepherd cleans his cloak of vermin; and he shall go away from there in peace.

rsv@Jeremiah:43:13 @ He shall break the obelisks of Heliop'olis which is in the land of Egypt; and the temples of the gods of Egypt he shall burn with fire.'"

rsv@Jeremiah:44:1 @ The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews that dwelt in the land of Egypt, at Migdol, at Tah'panhes, at Memphis, and in the land of Pathros,

rsv@Jeremiah:44:2 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: You have seen all the evil that I brought upon Jerusalem and upon all the cities of Judah. Behold, this day they are a desolation, and no one dwells in them,

rsv@Jeremiah:44:3 @ because of the wickedness which they committed, provoking me to anger, in that they went to burn incense and serve other gods that they knew not, neither they, nor you, nor your fathers.

rsv@Jeremiah:44:4 @ Yet I persistently sent to you all my servants the prophets, saying, 'Oh, do not do this abominable thing that I hate!'

rsv@Jeremiah:44:5 @ But they did not listen or incline their ear, to turn from their wickedness and burn no incense to other gods.

rsv@Jeremiah:44:6 @ Therefore my wrath and my anger were poured forth and kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they became a waste and a desolation, as at this day.

rsv@Jeremiah:44:7 @ And now thus says the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel: Why do you commit this great evil against yourselves, to cut off from you man and woman, infant and child, from the midst of Judah, leaving you no remnant?

rsv@Jeremiah:44:8 @ Why do you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have come to live, that you may be cut off and become a curse and a taunt among all the nations of the earth?

rsv@Jeremiah:44:9 @ Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, the wickedness of the kings of Judah, the wickedness of their wives, your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

rsv@Jeremiah:44:10 @ They have not humbled themselves even to this day, nor have they feared, nor walked in my law and my statutes which I set before you and before your fathers.

rsv@Jeremiah:44:11 @ "Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, to cut off all Judah.

rsv@Jeremiah:44:12 @ I will take the remnant of Judah who have set their faces to come to the land of Egypt to live, and they shall all be consumed; in the land of Egypt they shall fall; by the sword and by famine they shall be consumed; from the least to the greatest, they shall die by the sword and by famine; and they shall become an execration, a horror, a curse, and a taunt.

rsv@Jeremiah:44:13 @ I will punish those who dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence,

rsv@Jeremiah:44:14 @ so that none of the remnant of Judah who have come to live in the land of Egypt shall escape or survive or return to the land of Judah, to which they desire to return to dwell there; for they shall not return, except some fugitives."

rsv@Jeremiah:44:15 @ Then all the men who knew that their wives had offered incense to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, all the people who dwelt in Pathros in the land of Egypt, answered Jeremiah:

rsv@Jeremiah:44:16 @ "As for the word which you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you.

rsv@Jeremiah:44:17 @ But we will do everything that we have vowed, burn incense to the queen of heaven and pour out libations to her, as we did, both we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then we had plenty of food, and prospered, and saw no evil.

rsv@Jeremiah:44:18 @ But since we left off burning incense to the queen of heaven and pouring out libations to her, we have lacked everything and have been consumed by the sword and by famine."

rsv@Jeremiah:44:19 @ And the women said, "When we burned incense to the queen of heaven and poured out libations to her, was it without our husbands' approval that we made cakes for her bearing her image and poured out libations to her?"

rsv@Jeremiah:44:20 @ Then Jeremiah said to all the people, men and women, all the people who had given him this answer:

rsv@Jeremiah:44:21 @ "As for the incense that you burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember it? Did it not come into his mind?

rsv@Jeremiah:44:22 @ The LORD could no longer bear your evil doings and the abominations which you committed; therefore your land has become a desolation and a waste and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.

rsv@Jeremiah:44:23 @ It is because you burned incense, and because you sinned against the LORD and did not obey the voice of the LORD or walk in his law and in his statutes and in his testimonies, that this evil has befallen you, as at this day."

rsv@Jeremiah:44:24 @ Jeremiah said to all the people and all the women, "Hear the word of the LORD, all you of Judah who are in the land of Egypt,

rsv@Jeremiah:44:25 @ Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: You and your wives have declared with your mouths, and have fulfilled it with your hands, saying, `We will surely perform our vows that we have made, to burn incense to the queen of heaven and to pour out libations to her.' Then confirm your vows and perform your vows!

rsv@Jeremiah:44:26 @ Therefore hear the word of the LORD, all you of Judah who dwell in the land of Egypt: Behold, I have sworn by my great name, says the LORD, that my name shall no more be invoked by the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, `As the Lord GOD lives.'

rsv@Jeremiah:44:27 @ Behold, I am watching over them for evil and not for good; all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by famine, until there is an end of them.

rsv@Jeremiah:44:28 @ And those who escape the sword shall return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah, few in number; and all the remnant of Judah, who came to the land of Egypt to live, shall know whose word will stand, mine or theirs.

rsv@Jeremiah:44:29 @ This shall be the sign to you, says the LORD, that I will punish you in this place, in order that you may know that my words will surely stand against you for evil:

rsv@Jeremiah:44:30 @ Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies and into the hand of those who seek his life, as I gave Zedeki'ah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon, who was his enemy and sought his life."

rsv@Jeremiah:45:1 @ The word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of Neri'ah, when he wrote these words in a book at the dictation of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoi'akim the son of Josi'ah, king of Judah:

rsv@Jeremiah:45:2 @ "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, to you, O Baruch:

rsv@Jeremiah:45:3 @ You said, `Woe is me! for the LORD has added sorrow to my pain; I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.'

rsv@Jeremiah:45:4 @ Thus shall you say to him, Thus says the LORD: Behold, what I have built I am breaking down, and what I have planted I am plucking up--that is, the whole land.

rsv@Jeremiah:45:5 @ And do you seek great things for yourself? Seek them not; for, behold, I am bringing evil upon all flesh, says the LORD; but I will give you your life as a prize of war in all places to which you may go."

rsv@Jeremiah:46:1 @ The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.

rsv@Jeremiah:46:2 @ About Egypt. Concerning the army of Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphra'tes at Car'chemish and which Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon defeated in the fourth year of Jehoi'akim the son of Josi'ah, king of Judah:

rsv@Jeremiah:46:3 @ "Prepare buckler and shield, and advance for battle!

rsv@Jeremiah:46:4 @ Harness the horses; mount, O horsemen! Take your stations with your helmets, polish your spears, put on your coats of mail!

rsv@Jeremiah:46:5 @ Why have I seen it? They are dismayed and have turned backward. Their warriors are beaten down, and have fled in haste; they look not back--terror on every side! says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:46:6 @ The swift cannot flee away, nor the warrior escape; in the north by the river Euphra'tes they have stumbled and fallen.

rsv@Jeremiah:46:7 @ "Who is this, rising like the Nile, like rivers whose waters surge?

rsv@Jeremiah:46:8 @ Egypt rises like the Nile, like rivers whose waters surge. He said, I will rise, I will cover the earth, I will destroy cities and their inhabitants.

rsv@Jeremiah:46:9 @ Advance, O horses, and rage, O chariots! Let the warriors go forth: men of Ethiopia and Put who handle the shield, men of Lud, skilled in handling the bow.

rsv@Jeremiah:46:10 @ That day is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, to avenge himself on his foes. The sword shall devour and be sated, and drink its fill of their blood. For the Lord GOD of hosts holds a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphra'tes.

rsv@Jeremiah:46:11 @ Go up to Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt! In vain you have used many medicines; there is no healing for you.

rsv@Jeremiah:46:12 @ The nations have heard of your shame, and the earth is full of your cry; for warrior has stumbled against warrior; they have both fallen together."

rsv@Jeremiah:46:13 @ The word which the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon to smite the land of Egypt:

rsv@Jeremiah:46:14 @ "Declare in Egypt, and proclaim in Migdol; proclaim in Memphis and Tah'panhes; Say, `Stand ready and be prepared, for the sword shall devour round about you.'

rsv@Jeremiah:46:15 @ Why has Apis fled? Why did not your bull stand? Because the LORD thrust him down.

rsv@Jeremiah:46:16 @ Your multitude stumbled and fell, and they said one to another, `Arise, and let us go back to our own people and to the land of our birth, because of the sword of the oppressor.'

rsv@Jeremiah:46:17 @ Call the name of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, `Noisy one who lets the hour go by.'

rsv@Jeremiah:46:18 @ "As I live, says the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts, like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, shall one come.

rsv@Jeremiah:46:19 @ Prepare yourselves baggage for exile, O inhabitants of Egypt! For Memphis shall become a waste, a ruin, without inhabitant.

rsv@Jeremiah:46:20 @ "A beautiful heifer is Egypt, but a gadfly from the north has come upon her.

rsv@Jeremiah:46:21 @ Even her hired soldiers in her midst are like fatted calves; yea, they have turned and fled together, they did not stand; for the day of their calamity has come upon them, the time of their punishment.

rsv@Jeremiah:46:22 @ "She makes a sound like a serpent gliding away; for her enemies march in force, and come against her with axes, like those who fell trees.

rsv@Jeremiah:46:23 @ They shall cut down her forest, says the LORD, though it is impenetrable, because they are more numerous than locusts; they are without number.

rsv@Jeremiah:46:24 @ The daughter of Egypt shall be put to shame, she shall be delivered into the hand of a people from the north."

rsv@Jeremiah:46:25 @ The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, said: "Behold, I am bringing punishment upon Amon of Thebes, and Pharaoh, and Egypt and her gods and her kings, upon Pharaoh and those who trust in him.

rsv@Jeremiah:46:26 @ I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their life, into the hand of Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon and his officers. Afterward Egypt shall be inhabited as in the days of old, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:46:27 @ "But fear not, O Jacob my servant, nor be dismayed, O Israel; for lo, I will save you from afar, and your offspring from the land of their captivity. Jacob shall return and have quiet and ease, and none shall make him afraid.

rsv@Jeremiah:46:28 @ Fear not, O Jacob my servant, says the LORD, for I am with you. I will make a full end of all the nations to which I have driven you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will chasten you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished."

rsv@Jeremiah:47:1 @ The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh smote Gaza.

rsv@Jeremiah:47:2 @ "Thus says the LORD: Behold, waters are rising out of the north, and shall become an overflowing torrent; they shall overflow the land and all that fills it, the city and those who dwell in it. Men shall cry out, and every inhabitant of the land shall wail.

rsv@Jeremiah:47:3 @ At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his stallions, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of their wheels, the fathers look not back to their children, so feeble are their hands,

rsv@Jeremiah:47:4 @ because of the day that is coming to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper that remains. For the LORD is destroying the Philistines, the remnant of the coastland of Caphtor.

rsv@Jeremiah:47:5 @ Baldness has come upon Gaza, Ash'kelon has perished. O remnant of the Anakim, how long will you gash yourselves?

rsv@Jeremiah:47:6 @ Ah, sword of the LORD! How long till you are quiet? Put yourself into your scabbard, rest and be still!

rsv@Jeremiah:47:7 @ How can it be quiet, when the LORD has given it a charge? Against Ash'kelon and against the seashore he has appointed it."

rsv@Jeremiah:48:1 @ Concerning Moab. Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Woe to Nebo, for it is laid waste! Kiriatha'im is put to shame, it is taken; the fortress is put to shame and broken down;

rsv@Jeremiah:48:2 @ the renown of Moab is no more. In Heshbon they planned evil against her: `Come, let us cut her off from being a nation!' You also, O Madmen, shall be brought to silence; the sword shall pursue you.

rsv@Jeremiah:48:3 @ "Hark! a cry from Horona'im, `Desolation and great destruction!'

rsv@Jeremiah:48:4 @ Moab is destroyed; a cry is heard as far as Zo'ar.

rsv@Jeremiah:48:5 @ For at the ascent of Luhith they go up weeping; for at the descent of Horona'im they have heard the cry of destruction.

rsv@Jeremiah:48:6 @ Flee! Save yourselves! Be like a wild ass in the desert!

rsv@Jeremiah:48:7 @ For, because you trusted in your strongholds and your treasures, you also shall be taken; and Chemosh shall go forth into exile, with his priests and his princes.

rsv@Jeremiah:48:8 @ The destroyer shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape; the valley shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the LORD has spoken.

rsv@Jeremiah:48:9 @ "Give wings to Moab, for she would fly away; her cities shall become a desolation, with no inhabitant in them.

rsv@Jeremiah:48:10 @ "Cursed is he who does the work of the LORD with slackness; and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from bloodshed.

rsv@Jeremiah:48:11 @ "Moab has been at ease from his youth and has settled on his lees; he has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, nor has he gone into exile; so his taste remains in him, and his scent is not changed.

rsv@Jeremiah:48:12 @ "Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I shall send to him tilters who will tilt him, and empty his vessels, and break his jars in pieces.

rsv@Jeremiah:48:13 @ Then Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence.

rsv@Jeremiah:48:14 @ "How do you say, `We are heroes and mighty men of war'?

rsv@Jeremiah:48:15 @ The destroyer of Moab and his cities has come up, and the choicest of his young men have gone down to slaughter, says the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.

rsv@Jeremiah:48:16 @ The calamity of Moab is near at hand and his affliction hastens apace.

rsv@Jeremiah:48:17 @ Bemoan him, all you who are round about him, and all who know his name; say, `How the mighty scepter is broken, the glorious staff.'

rsv@Jeremiah:48:18 @ "Come down from your glory, and sit on the parched ground, O inhabitant of Dibon! For the destroyer of Moab has come up against you; he has destroyed your strongholds.

rsv@Jeremiah:48:19 @ Stand by the way and watch, O inhabitant of Aro'er! Ask him who flees and her who escapes; say, `What has happened?'

rsv@Jeremiah:48:20 @ Moab is put to shame, for it is broken; wail and cry! Tell it by the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.

rsv@Jeremiah:48:21 @ "Judgment has come upon the tableland, upon Holon, and Jahzah, and Meph'a-ath,

rsv@Jeremiah:48:22 @ and Dibon, and Nebo, and Beth-diblatha'im,

rsv@Jeremiah:48:23 @ and Kiriatha'im, and Beth-ga'mul, and Beth-me'on,

rsv@Jeremiah:48:24 @ and Ker'i-oth, and Bozrah, and all the cities of the land of Moab, far and near.

rsv@Jeremiah:48:25 @ The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:48:26 @ "Make him drunk, because he magnified himself against the LORD; so that Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he too shall be held in derision.

rsv@Jeremiah:48:27 @ Was not Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves, that whenever you spoke of him you wagged your head?

rsv@Jeremiah:48:28 @ "Leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, O inhabitants of Moab! Be like the dove that nests in the sides of the mouth of a gorge.

rsv@Jeremiah:48:29 @ We have heard of the pride of Moab--he is very proud--of his loftiness, his pride, and his arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart.

rsv@Jeremiah:48:30 @ I know his insolence, says the LORD; his boasts are false, his deeds are false.

rsv@Jeremiah:48:31 @ Therefore I wail for Moab; I cry out for all Moab; for the men of Kir-he'res I mourn.

rsv@Jeremiah:48:32 @ More than for Jazer I weep for you, O vine of Sibmah! Your branches passed over the sea, reached as far as Jazer; upon your summer fruits and your vintage the destroyer has fallen.

rsv@Jeremiah:48:33 @ Gladness and joy have been taken away from the fruitful land of Moab; I have made the wine cease from the wine presses; no one treads them with shouts of joy; the shouting is not the shout of joy.

rsv@Jeremiah:48:34 @ "Heshbon and Ele-a'leh cry out; as far as Jahaz they utter their voice, from Zo'ar to Horona'im and Eg'lath-shelish'iyah. For the waters of Nimrim also have become desolate.

rsv@Jeremiah:48:35 @ And I will bring to an end in Moab, says the LORD, him who offers sacrifice in the high place and burns incense to his god.

rsv@Jeremiah:48:36 @ Therefore my heart moans for Moab like a flute, and my heart moans like a flute for the men of Kir-he'res; therefore the riches they gained have perished.

rsv@Jeremiah:48:37 @ "For every head is shaved and every beard cut off; upon all the hands are gashes, and on the loins is sackcloth.

rsv@Jeremiah:48:38 @ On all the housetops of Moab and in the squares there is nothing but lamentation; for I have broken Moab like a vessel for which no one cares, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:48:39 @ How it is broken! How they wail! How Moab has turned his back in shame! So Moab has become a derision and a horror to all that are round about him."

rsv@Jeremiah:48:40 @ For thus says the LORD: "Behold, one shall fly swiftly like an eagle, and spread his wings against Moab;

rsv@Jeremiah:48:41 @ the cities shall be taken and the strongholds seized. The heart of the warriors of Moab shall be in that day like the heart of a woman in her pangs;

rsv@Jeremiah:48:42 @ Moab shall be destroyed and be no longer a people, because he magnified himself against the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:48:43 @ Terror, pit, and snare are before you, O inhabitant of Moab! says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:48:44 @ He who flees from the terror shall fall into the pit, and he who climbs out of the pit shall be caught in the snare. For I will bring these things upon Moab in the year of their punishment, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:48:45 @ "In the shadow of Heshbon fugitives stop without strength; for a fire has gone forth from Heshbon, a flame from the house of Sihon; it has destroyed the forehead of Moab, the crown of the sons of tumult.

rsv@Jeremiah:48:46 @ Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh is undone; for your sons have been taken captive, and your daughters into captivity.

rsv@Jeremiah:48:47 @ Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab in the latter days, says the LORD." Thus far is the judgment on Moab.

rsv@Jeremiah:49:1 @ Concerning the Ammonites. Thus says the LORD: "Has Israel no sons? Has he no heir? Why then has Milcom dispossessed Gad, and his people settled in its cities?

rsv@Jeremiah:49:2 @ Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will cause the battle cry to be heard against Rabbah of the Ammonites; it shall become a desolate mound, and its villages shall be burned with fire; then Israel shall dispossess those who dispossessed him, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:49:3 @ "Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste! Cry, O daughters of Rabbah! Gird yourselves with sackcloth, lament, and run to and fro among the hedges! For Milcom shall go into exile, with his priests and his princes.

rsv@Jeremiah:49:4 @ Why do you boast of your valleys, O faithless daughter, who trusted in her treasures, saying, `Who will come against me?'

rsv@Jeremiah:49:5 @ Behold, I will bring terror upon you, says the Lord GOD of hosts, from all who are round about you, and you shall be driven out, every man straight before him, with none to gather the fugitives.

rsv@Jeremiah:49:6 @ But afterward I will restore the fortunes of the Ammonites, says the LORD."

rsv@Jeremiah:49:7 @ Concerning Edom. Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?

rsv@Jeremiah:49:8 @ Flee, turn back, dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Dedan! For I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time when I punish him.

rsv@Jeremiah:49:9 @ If grape-gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings? If thieves came by night, would they not destroy only enough for themselves?

rsv@Jeremiah:49:10 @ But I have stripped Esau bare, I have uncovered his hiding places, and he is not able to conceal himself. His children are destroyed, and his brothers, and his neighbors; and he is no more.

rsv@Jeremiah:49:11 @ Leave your fatherless children, I will keep them alive; and let your widows trust in me."

rsv@Jeremiah:49:12 @ For thus says the LORD: "If those who did not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, will you go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but you must drink.

rsv@Jeremiah:49:13 @ For I have sworn by myself, says the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a horror, a taunt, a waste, and a curse; and all her cities shall be perpetual wastes."

rsv@Jeremiah:49:14 @ I have heard tidings from the LORD, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: "Gather yourselves together and come against her, and rise up for battle!"

rsv@Jeremiah:49:15 @ For behold, I will make you small among the nations, despised among men.

rsv@Jeremiah:49:16 @ The horror you inspire has deceived you, and the pride of your heart, you who live in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill. Though you make your nest as high as the eagle's, I will bring you down from there, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:49:17 @ "Edom shall become a horror; every one who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its disasters.

rsv@Jeremiah:49:18 @ As when Sodom and Gomor'rah and their neighbor cities were overthrown, says the LORD, no man shall dwell there, no man shall sojourn in her.

rsv@Jeremiah:49:19 @ Behold, like a lion coming up from the jungle of the Jordan against a strong sheepfold, I will suddenly make them run away from her; and I will appoint over her whomever I choose. For who is like me? Who will summon me? What shepherd can stand before me?

rsv@Jeremiah:49:20 @ Therefore hear the plan which the LORD has made against Edom and the purposes which he has formed against the inhabitants of Teman: Even the little ones of the flock shall be dragged away; surely their fold shall be appalled at their fate.

rsv@Jeremiah:49:21 @ At the sound of their fall the earth shall tremble; the sound of their cry shall be heard at the Red Sea.

rsv@Jeremiah:49:22 @ Behold, one shall mount up and fly swiftly like an eagle, and spread his wings against Bozrah, and the heart of the warriors of Edom shall be in that day like the heart of a woman in her pangs."

rsv@Jeremiah:49:23 @ Concerning Damascus. "Hamath and Arpad are confounded, for they have heard evil tidings; they melt in fear, they are troubled like the sea which cannot be quiet.

rsv@Jeremiah:49:24 @ Damascus has become feeble, she turned to flee, and panic seized her; anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail.

rsv@Jeremiah:49:25 @ How the famous city is forsaken, the joyful city!

rsv@Jeremiah:49:26 @ Therefore her young men shall fall in her squares, and all her soldiers shall be destroyed in that day, says the LORD of hosts.

rsv@Jeremiah:49:27 @ And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-ha'dad."

rsv@Jeremiah:49:28 @ Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor which Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon smote. Thus says the LORD: "Rise up, advance against Kedar! Destroy the people of the east!

rsv@Jeremiah:49:29 @ Their tents and their flocks shall be taken, their curtains and all their goods; their camels shall be borne away from them, and men shall cry to them: `Terror on every side!'

rsv@Jeremiah:49:30 @ Flee, wander far away, dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Hazor! says the LORD. For Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon has made a plan against you, and formed a purpose against you.

rsv@Jeremiah:49:31 @ "Rise up, advance against a nation at ease, that dwells securely, says the LORD, that has no gates or bars, that dwells alone.

rsv@Jeremiah:49:32 @ Their camels shall become booty, their herds of cattle a spoil. I will scatter to every wind those who cut the corners of their hair, and I will bring their calamity from every side of them, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:49:33 @ Hazor shall become a haunt of jackals, an everlasting waste; no man shall dwell there, no man shall sojourn in her."

rsv@Jeremiah:49:34 @ The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedeki'ah king of Judah.

rsv@Jeremiah:49:35 @ Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the mainstay of their might;

rsv@Jeremiah:49:36 @ and I will bring upon Elam the four winds from the four quarters of heaven; and I will scatter them to all those winds, and there shall be no nation to which those driven out of Elam shall not come.

rsv@Jeremiah:49:37 @ I will terrify Elam before their enemies, and before those who seek their life; I will bring evil upon them, my fierce anger, says the LORD. I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them;

rsv@Jeremiah:49:38 @ and I will set my throne in Elam, and destroy their king and princes, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:49:39 @ "But in the latter days I will restore the fortunes of Elam, says the LORD."

rsv@Jeremiah:50:1 @ The word which the LORD spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chalde'ans, by Jeremiah the prophet:

rsv@Jeremiah:50:2 @ "Declare among the nations and proclaim, set up a banner and proclaim, conceal it not, and say: `Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Mer'odach is dismayed. Her images are put to shame, her idols are dismayed.'

rsv@Jeremiah:50:3 @ "For out of the north a nation has come up against her, which shall make her land a desolation, and none shall dwell in it; both man and beast shall flee away.

rsv@Jeremiah:50:4 @ "In those days and in that time, says the LORD, the people of Israel and the people of Judah shall come together, weeping as they come; and they shall seek the LORD their God.

rsv@Jeremiah:50:5 @ They shall ask the way to Zion, with faces turned toward it, saying, `Come, let us join ourselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant which will never be forgotten.'

rsv@Jeremiah:50:6 @ "My people have been lost sheep; their shepherds have led them astray, turning them away on the mountains; from mountain to hill they have gone, they have forgotten their fold.

rsv@Jeremiah:50:7 @ All who found them have devoured them, and their enemies have said, `We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the LORD, their true habitation, the LORD, the hope of their fathers.'

rsv@Jeremiah:50:8 @ "Flee from the midst of Babylon, and go out of the land of the Chalde'ans, and be as he-goats before the flock.

rsv@Jeremiah:50:9 @ For behold, I am stirring up and bringing against Babylon a company of great nations, from the north country; and they shall array themselves against her; from there she shall be taken. Their arrows are like a skilled warrior who does not return empty-handed.

rsv@Jeremiah:50:10 @ Chalde'a shall be plundered; all who plunder her shall be sated, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:50:11 @ "Though you rejoice, though you exult, O plunderers of my heritage, though you are wanton as a heifer at grass, and neigh like stallions,

rsv@Jeremiah:50:12 @ your mother shall be utterly shamed, and she who bore you shall be disgraced. Lo, she shall be the last of the nations, a wilderness dry and desert.

rsv@Jeremiah:50:13 @ Because of the wrath of the LORD she shall not be inhabited, but shall be an utter desolation; every one who passes by Babylon shall be appalled, and hiss because of all her wounds.

rsv@Jeremiah:50:14 @ Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about, all you that bend the bow; shoot at her, spare no arrows, for she has sinned against the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:50:15 @ Raise a shout against her round about, she has surrendered; her bulwarks have fallen, her walls are thrown down. For this is the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance on her, do to her as she has done.

rsv@Jeremiah:50:16 @ Cut off from Babylon the sower, and the one who handles the sickle in time of harvest; because of the sword of the oppressor, every one shall turn to his own people, and every one shall flee to his own land.

rsv@Jeremiah:50:17 @ "Israel is a hunted sheep driven away by lions. First the king of Assyria devoured him, and now at last Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon has gnawed his bones.

rsv@Jeremiah:50:18 @ Therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing punishment on the king of Babylon and his land, as I punished the king of Assyria.

rsv@Jeremiah:50:19 @ I will restore Israel to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and in Bashan, and his desire shall be satisfied on the hills of E'phraim and in Gilead.

rsv@Jeremiah:50:20 @ In those days and in that time, says the LORD, iniquity shall be sought in Israel, and there shall be none; and sin in Judah, and none shall be found; for I will pardon those whom I leave as a remnant.

rsv@Jeremiah:50:21 @ "Go up against the land of Meratha'im, and against the inhabitants of Pekod. Slay, and utterly destroy after them, says the LORD, and do all that I have commanded you.

rsv@Jeremiah:50:22 @ The noise of battle is in the land, and great destruction!

rsv@Jeremiah:50:23 @ How the hammer of the whole earth is cut down and broken! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!

rsv@Jeremiah:50:24 @ I set a snare for you and you were taken, O Babylon, and you did not know it; you were found and caught, because you strove against the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:50:25 @ The LORD has opened his armory, and brought out the weapons of his wrath, for the Lord GOD of hosts has a work to do in the land of the Chalde'ans.

rsv@Jeremiah:50:26 @ Come against her from every quarter; open her granaries; pile her up like heaps of grain, and destroy her utterly; let nothing be left of her.

rsv@Jeremiah:50:27 @ Slay all her bulls, let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come, the time of their punishment.

rsv@Jeremiah:50:28 @ "Hark! they flee and escape from the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, vengeance for his temple.

rsv@Jeremiah:50:29 @ "Summon archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow. Encamp round about her; let no one escape. Requite her according to her deeds, do to her according to all that she has done; for she has proudly defied the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.

rsv@Jeremiah:50:30 @ Therefore her young men shall fall in her squares, and all her soldiers shall be destroyed on that day, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:50:31 @ "Behold, I am against you, O proud one, says the Lord GOD of hosts; for your day has come, the time when I will punish you.

rsv@Jeremiah:50:32 @ The proud one shall stumble and fall, with none to raise him up, and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it will devour all that is round about him.

rsv@Jeremiah:50:33 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts: The people of Israel are oppressed, and the people of Judah with them; all who took them captive have held them fast, they refuse to let them go.

rsv@Jeremiah:50:34 @ Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name. He will surely plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, but unrest to the inhabitants of Babylon.

rsv@Jeremiah:50:35 @ "A sword upon the Chalde'ans, says the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes and her wise men!

rsv@Jeremiah:50:36 @ A sword upon the diviners, that they may become fools! A sword upon her warriors, that they may be destroyed!

rsv@Jeremiah:50:37 @ A sword upon her horses and upon her chariots, and upon all the foreign troops in her midst, that they may become women! A sword upon all her treasures, that they may be plundered!

rsv@Jeremiah:50:38 @ A drought upon her waters, that they may be dried up! For it is a land of images, and they are mad over idols.

rsv@Jeremiah:50:39 @ "Therefore wild beasts shall dwell with hyenas in Babylon, and ostriches shall dwell in her; she shall be peopled no more for ever, nor inhabited for all generations.

rsv@Jeremiah:50:40 @ As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomor'rah and their neighbor cities, says the LORD, so no man shall dwell there, and no son of man shall sojourn in her.

rsv@Jeremiah:50:41 @ "Behold, a people comes from the north; a mighty nation and many kings are stirring from the farthest parts of the earth.

rsv@Jeremiah:50:42 @ They lay hold of bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy. The sound of them is like the roaring of the sea; they ride upon horses, arrayed as a man for battle against you, O daughter of Babylon!

rsv@Jeremiah:50:43 @ "The king of Babylon heard the report of them, and his hands fell helpless; anguish seized him, pain as of a woman in travail.

rsv@Jeremiah:50:44 @ "Behold, like a lion coming up from the jungle of the Jordan against a strong sheepfold, I will suddenly make them run away from her; and I will appoint over her whomever I choose. For who is like me? Who will summon me? What shepherd can stand before me?

rsv@Jeremiah:50:45 @ Therefore hear the plan which the LORD has made against Babylon, and the purposes which he has formed against the land of the Chalde'ans: Surely the little ones of their flock shall be dragged away; surely their fold shall be appalled at their fate.

rsv@Jeremiah:50:46 @ At the sound of the capture of Babylon the earth shall tremble, and her cry shall be heard among the nations."

rsv@Jeremiah:51:1 @ Thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will stir up the spirit of a destroyer against Babylon, against the inhabitants of Chalde'a;

rsv@Jeremiah:51:2 @ and I will send to Babylon winnowers, and they shall winnow her, and they shall empty her land, when they come against her from every side on the day of trouble.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:3 @ Let not the archer bend his bow, and let him not stand up in his coat of mail. Spare not her young men; utterly destroy all her host.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:4 @ They shall fall down slain in the land of the Chalde'ans, and wounded in her streets.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:5 @ For Israel and Judah have not been forsaken by their God, the LORD of hosts; but the land of the Chalde'ans is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:6 @ "Flee from the midst of Babylon, let every man save his life! Be not cut off in her punishment, for this is the time of the LORD's vengeance, the requital he is rendering her.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:7 @ Babylon was a golden cup in the LORD's hand, making all the earth drunken; the nations drank of her wine, therefore the nations went mad.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:8 @ Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken; wail for her! Take balm for her pain; perhaps she may be healed.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:9 @ We would have healed Babylon, but she was not healed. Forsake her, and let us go each to his own country; for her judgment has reached up to heaven and has been lifted up even to the skies.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:10 @ The LORD has brought forth our vindication; come, let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:11 @ "Sharpen the arrows! Take up the shields! The LORD has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because his purpose concerning Babylon is to destroy it, for that is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance for his temple.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:12 @ Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon; make the watch strong; set up watchmen; prepare the ambushes; for the LORD has both planned and done what he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:13 @ O you who dwell by many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come, the thread of your life is cut.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:14 @ The LORD of hosts has sworn by himself: Surely I will fill you with men, as many as locusts, and they shall raise the shout of victory over you.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:15 @ "It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:16 @ When he utters his voice there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings for the rain, and he brings forth the wind from his storehouses.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:17 @ Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols; for his images are false, and there is no breath in them.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:18 @ They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:19 @ Not like these is he who is the portion of Jacob, for he is the one who formed all things, and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance; the LORD of hosts is his name.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:20 @ "You are my hammer and weapon of war: with you I break nations in pieces; with you I destroy kingdoms;

rsv@Jeremiah:51:21 @ with you I break in pieces the horse and his rider; with you I break in pieces the chariot and the charioteer;

rsv@Jeremiah:51:22 @ with you I break in pieces man and woman; with you I break in pieces the old man and the youth; with you I break in pieces the young man and the maiden;

rsv@Jeremiah:51:23 @ with you I break in pieces the shepherd and his flock; with you I break in pieces the farmer and his team; with you I break in pieces governors and commanders.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:24 @ "I will requite Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chalde'a before your very eyes for all the evil that they have done in Zion, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:25 @ "Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, says the LORD, which destroys the whole earth; I will stretch out my hand against you, and roll you down from the crags, and make you a burnt mountain.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:26 @ No stone shall be taken from you for a corner and no stone for a foundation, but you shall be a perpetual waste, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:27 @ "Set up a standard on the earth, blow the trumpet among the nations; prepare the nations for war against her, summon against her the kingdoms, Ar'arat, Minni, and Ash'kenaz; appoint a marshal against her, bring up horses like bristling locusts.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:28 @ Prepare the nations for war against her, the kings of the Medes, with their governors and deputies, and every land under their dominion.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:29 @ The land trembles and writhes in pain, for the LORD's purposes against Babylon stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:30 @ The warriors of Babylon have ceased fighting, they remain in their strongholds; their strength has failed, they have become women; her dwellings are on fire, her bars are broken.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:31 @ One runner runs to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to tell the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every side;

rsv@Jeremiah:51:32 @ the fords have been seized, the bulwarks are burned with fire, and the soldiers are in panic.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:33 @ For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while and the time of her harvest will come."

rsv@Jeremiah:51:34 @ "Nebuchadrez'zar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me; he has made me an empty vessel, he has swallowed me like a monster; he has filled his belly with my delicacies, he has rinsed me out.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:35 @ The violence done to me and to my kinsmen be upon Babylon," let the inhabitant of Zion say. "My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chalde'a," let Jerusalem say.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:36 @ Therefore thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will plead your cause and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea and make her fountain dry;

rsv@Jeremiah:51:37 @ and Babylon shall become a heap of ruins, the haunt of jackals, a horror and a hissing, without inhabitant.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:38 @ "They shall roar together like lions; they shall growl like lions' whelps.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:39 @ While they are inflamed I will prepare them a feast and make them drunk, till they swoon away and sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:40 @ I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and he-goats.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:41 @ "How Babylon is taken, the praise of the whole earth seized! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!

rsv@Jeremiah:51:42 @ The sea has come up on Babylon; she is covered with its tumultuous waves.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:43 @ Her cities have become a horror, a land of drought and a desert, a land in which no one dwells, and through which no son of man passes.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:44 @ And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and take out of his mouth what he has swallowed. The nations shall no longer flow to him; the wall of Babylon has fallen.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:45 @ "Go out of the midst of her, my people! Let every man save his life from the fierce anger of the LORD!

rsv@Jeremiah:51:46 @ Let not your heart faint, and be not fearful at the report heard in the land, when a report comes in one year and afterward a report in another year, and violence is in the land, and ruler is against ruler.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:47 @ "Therefore, behold, the days are coming when I will punish the images of Babylon; her whole land shall be put to shame, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:48 @ Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is in them, shall sing for joy over Babylon; for the destroyers shall come against them out of the north, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:49 @ Babylon must fall for the slain of Israel, as for Babylon have fallen the slain of all the earth.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:50 @ "You that have escaped from the sword, go, stand not still! Remember the LORD from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind:

rsv@Jeremiah:51:51 @ `We are put to shame, for we have heard reproach; dishonor has covered our face, for aliens have come into the holy places of the LORD's house.'

rsv@Jeremiah:51:52 @ "Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will execute judgment upon her images, and through all her land the wounded shall groan.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:53 @ Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify her strong height, yet destroyers would come from me upon her, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:54 @ "Hark! a cry from Babylon! The noise of great destruction from the land of the Chalde'ans!

rsv@Jeremiah:51:55 @ For the LORD is laying Babylon waste, and stilling her mighty voice. Their waves roar like many waters, the noise of their voice is raised;

rsv@Jeremiah:51:56 @ for a destroyer has come upon her, upon Babylon; her warriors are taken, their bows are broken in pieces; for the LORD is a God of recompense, he will surely requite.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:57 @ I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors, her commanders, and her warriors; they shall sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, says the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:58 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts: The broad wall of Babylon shall be leveled to the ground and her high gates shall be burned with fire. The peoples labor for nought, and the nations weary themselves only for fire."

rsv@Jeremiah:51:59 @ The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Serai'ah the son of Neri'ah, son of Mahsei'ah, when he went with Zedeki'ah king of Judah to Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign. Serai'ah was the quartermaster.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:60 @ Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, all these words that are written concerning Babylon.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:61 @ And Jeremiah said to Serai'ah: "When you come to Babylon, see that you read all these words,

rsv@Jeremiah:51:62 @ and say, `O LORD, thou hast said concerning this place that thou wilt cut it off, so that nothing shall dwell in it, neither man nor beast, and it shall be desolate for ever.'

rsv@Jeremiah:51:63 @ When you finish reading this book, bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of the Euphra'tes,

rsv@Jeremiah:51:64 @ and say, `Thus shall Babylon sink, to rise no more, because of the evil that I am bringing upon her.'" Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

rsv@Jeremiah:52:1 @ 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@Jeremiah:52:2 @ And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoi'akim had done.

rsv@Jeremiah:52:3 @ Surely because of the anger of the LORD things came to such a pass in Jerusalem and Judah that he cast them out from his presence. And Zedeki'ah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

rsv@Jeremiah:52:4 @ And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem, and they laid siege to it and built siegeworks against it round about.

rsv@Jeremiah:52:5 @ So the city was besieged till the eleventh year of King Zedeki'ah.

rsv@Jeremiah:52:6 @ On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city, that there was no food for the people of the land.

rsv@Jeremiah:52:7 @ Then a breach was made in the city; and all the men of war fled and went out from the city by night by the way of a gate between the two walls, by the king's garden, while the Chalde'ans were round about the city. And they went in the direction of the Arabah.

rsv@Jeremiah:52:8 @ But the army of the Chalde'ans pursued the king, and overtook Zedeki'ah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.

rsv@Jeremiah:52:9 @ Then they captured the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he passed sentence upon him.

rsv@Jeremiah:52:10 @ The king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedeki'ah before his eyes, and also slew all the princes of Judah at Riblah.

rsv@Jeremiah:52:11 @ He put out the eyes of Zedeki'ah, and bound him in fetters, and the king of Babylon took him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.

rsv@Jeremiah:52:12 @ In the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month--which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadrez'zar, king of Babylon--Nebu'zarad'an the captain of the bodyguard who served the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.

rsv@Jeremiah:52:13 @ And he burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.

rsv@Jeremiah:52:14 @ And all the army of the Chalde'ans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls round about Jerusalem.

rsv@Jeremiah:52:15 @ And Nebu'zarad'an the captain of the guard carried away captive some of the poorest of the people 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 artisans.

rsv@Jeremiah:52:16 @ But Nebu'zarad'an the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.

rsv@Jeremiah:52:17 @ And the pillars of bronze that were in the house of the LORD, and the stands and the bronze sea that were in the house of the LORD, the Chalde'ans broke in pieces, and carried all the bronze to Babylon.

rsv@Jeremiah:52:18 @ And they took away the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the basins, and the dishes for incense, and all the vessels of bronze used in the temple service;

rsv@Jeremiah:52:19 @ also the small bowls, and the firepans, and the basins, and the pots, and the lampstands, and the dishes for incense, and the bowls for libation. What was of gold the captain of the guard took away as gold, and what was of silver, as silver.

rsv@Jeremiah:52:20 @ As for the two pillars, the one sea, the twelve bronze bulls which were under the sea, and the stands, which Solomon the king had made for the house of the LORD, the bronze of all these things was beyond weight.

rsv@Jeremiah:52:21 @ As for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, its circumference was twelve cubits, and its thickness was four fingers, and it was hollow.

rsv@Jeremiah:52:22 @ Upon it was a capital of bronze; the height of the one capital was five cubits; a network and pomegranates, all of bronze, were upon the capital round about. And the second pillar had the like, with pomegranates.

rsv@Jeremiah:52:23 @ There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were a hundred upon the network round about.

rsv@Jeremiah:52:24 @ And the captain of the guard took Serai'ah the chief priest, and Zephani'ah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold;

rsv@Jeremiah:52:25 @ and from the city he took an officer who had been in command of the men of war, and seven 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 midst of the city.

rsv@Jeremiah:52:26 @ And Nebu'zarad'an the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

rsv@Jeremiah:52:27 @ And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried captive out of its land.

rsv@Jeremiah:52:28 @ This is the number of the people whom Nebuchadrez'zar carried away captive: in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Jews;

rsv@Jeremiah:52:29 @ in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrez'zar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred and thirty-two persons;

rsv@Jeremiah:52:30 @ in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadrez'zar, Nebu'zarad'an the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred and forty-five persons; all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.

rsv@Jeremiah:52:31 @ And in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoi'achin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, E'vil-mer'odach king of Babylon, in the year that he became king, lifted up the head of Jehoi'achin king of Judah and brought him out of prison;

rsv@Jeremiah:52:32 @ and he spoke kindly to him, and gave him a seat above the seats of the kings who were with him in Babylon.

rsv@Jeremiah:52:33 @ So Jehoi'achin put off his prison garments. And every day of his life he dined regularly at the king's table;

rsv@Lamentations:1:3 @ Judah has gone into exile because of affliction and hard servitude; she dwells now among the nations, but finds no resting place; her pursuers have all overtaken her in the midst of her distress.

rsv@Lamentations:1:15 @ "The LORD flouted all my mighty men in the midst of me; he summoned an assembly against me to crush my young men; the Lord has trodden as in a wine press the virgin daughter of Judah.

rsv@Lamentations:2:2 @ The Lord has destroyed without mercy all the habitations of Jacob; in his wrath he has broken down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; he has brought down to the ground in dishonor the kingdom and its rulers.

rsv@Lamentations:2:5 @ The Lord has become like an enemy, he has destroyed Israel; he has destroyed all its palaces, laid in ruins its strongholds; and he has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

rsv@Lamentations:2:16 @ All your enemies rail against you; they hiss, they gnash their teeth, they cry: "We have destroyed her! Ah, this is the day we longed for; now we have it; we see it!"

rsv@Lamentations:5:11 @ Women are ravished in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah.

rsv@Ezekiel:4:6 @ And when you have completed these, you shall lie down a second time, but on your right side, and bear the punishment of the house of Judah; forty days I assign you, a day for each year.

rsv@Ezekiel:4:14 @ Then I said, "Ah Lord GOD! behold, I have never defiled myself; from my youth up till now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has foul flesh come into my mouth."

rsv@Ezekiel:6:14 @ And I will stretch out my hand against them, and make the land desolate and waste, throughout all their habitations, from the wilderness to Riblah. Then they will know that I am the LORD."

rsv@Ezekiel:8:1 @ In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, with the elders of Judah sitting before me, the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me.

rsv@Ezekiel:8:11 @ And before them stood seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, with Ja-azani'ah the son of Shaphan standing among them. Each had his censer in his hand, and the smoke of the cloud of incense went up.

rsv@Ezekiel:8:17 @ Then he said to me, "Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it too slight a thing for the house of Judah to commit the abominations which they commit here, that they should fill the land with violence, and provoke me further to anger? Lo, they put the branch to their nose.

rsv@Ezekiel:9:8 @ And while they were smiting, and I was left alone, I fell upon my face, and cried, "Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou destroy all that remains of Israel in the outpouring of thy wrath upon Jerusalem?"

rsv@Ezekiel:9:9 @ Then he said to me, "The guilt of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great; the land is full of blood, and the city full of injustice; for they say, `The LORD has forsaken the land, and the LORD does not see.'

rsv@Ezekiel:11:1 @ The Spirit lifted me up, and brought me to the east gate of the house of the LORD, which faces east. And behold, at the door of the gateway there were twenty-five men; and I saw among them Ja-azani'ah the son of Azzur, and Pelati'ah the son of Benai'ah, princes of the people.

rsv@Ezekiel:11:13 @ And it came to pass, while I was prophesying, that Pelati'ah the son of Benai'ah died. Then I fell down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, "Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel?"

rsv@Ezekiel:14:14 @ even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness, says the Lord GOD.

rsv@Ezekiel:14:20 @ even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, says the Lord GOD, they would deliver neither son nor daughter; they would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness.

rsv@Ezekiel:20:29 @ (I said to them, What is the high place to which you go? So its name is called Bamah to this day.)

rsv@Ezekiel:20:49 @ Then I said, "Ah Lord GOD! they are saying of me, `Is he not a maker of allegories?'"

rsv@Ezekiel:21:15 @ that their hearts may melt, and many fall at all their gates. I have given the glittering sword; ah! it is made like lightning, it is polished for slaughter.

rsv@Ezekiel:21:20 @ mark a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the Ammonites and to Judah and to Jerusalem the fortified.

rsv@Ezekiel:23:4 @ Oho'lah was the name of the elder and Ohol'ibah the name of her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Oho'lah is Sama'ria, and Ohol'ibah is Jerusalem.

rsv@Ezekiel:23:5 @ "Oho'lah played the harlot while she was mine; and she doted on her lovers the Assyrians,

rsv@Ezekiel:23:11 @ "Her sister Ohol'ibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt than she in her doting and in her harlotry, which was worse than that of her sister.

rsv@Ezekiel:23:22 @ Therefore, O Ohol'ibah, thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I will rouse against you your lovers from whom you turned in disgust, and I will bring them against you from every side:

rsv@Ezekiel:23:36 @ The LORD said to me: "Son of man, will you judge Oho'lah and Ohol'ibah? Then declare to them their abominable deeds.

rsv@Ezekiel:23:44 @ For they have gone in to her, as men go in to a harlot. Thus they went in to Oho'lah and to Ohol'ibah to commit lewdness.

rsv@Ezekiel:25:3 @ Say to the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD: Thus says the Lord GOD, Because you said, `Aha!' over my sanctuary when it was profaned, and over the land of Israel when it was made desolate, and over the house of Judah when it went into exile;

rsv@Ezekiel:25:5 @ I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels and the cities of the Ammonites a fold for flocks. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

rsv@Ezekiel:25:8 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: Because Moab said, Behold, the house of Judah is like all the other nations,

rsv@Ezekiel:25:12 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: Because Edom acted revengefully against the house of Judah and has grievously offended in taking vengeance upon them,

rsv@Ezekiel:26:2 @ "Son of man, because Tyre said concerning Jerusalem, `Aha, the gate of the peoples is broken, it has swung open to me; I shall be replenished, now that she is laid waste,'

rsv@Ezekiel:27:7 @ Of fine embroidered linen from Egypt was your sail, serving as your ensign; blue and purple from the coasts of Eli'shah was your awning.

rsv@Ezekiel:27:14 @ Beth-togar'mah exchanged for your wares horses, war horses, and mules.

rsv@Ezekiel:27:17 @ Judah and the land of Israel traded with you; they exchanged for your merchandise wheat, olives and early figs, honey, oil, and balm.

rsv@Ezekiel:27:22 @ The traders of Sheba and Ra'amah traded with you; they exchanged for your wares the best of all kinds of spices, and all precious stones, and gold.

rsv@Ezekiel:33:24 @ "Son of man, the inhabitants of these waste places in the land of Israel keep saying, `Abraham was only one man, yet he got possession of the land; but we are many; the land is surely given us to possess.'

rsv@Ezekiel:36:2 @ Thus says the Lord GOD: Because the enemy said of you, `Aha!' and, `The ancient heights have become our possession,'

rsv@Ezekiel:37:16 @ "Son of man, take a stick and write on it, `For Judah, and the children of Israel associated with him'; then take another stick and write upon it, `For Joseph (the stick of E'phraim) and all the house of Israel associated with him';

rsv@Ezekiel:37:19 @ say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am about to take the stick of Joseph (which is in the hand of E'phraim) and the tribes of Israel associated with him; and I will join with it the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, that they may be one in my hand.

rsv@Ezekiel:38:6 @ Gomer and all his hordes; Beth-togar'mah from the uttermost parts of the north with all his hordes--many peoples are with you.

rsv@Ezekiel:39:16 @ (A city Hamo'nah is there also.) Thus shall they cleanse the land.

rsv@Ezekiel:45:10 @ "You shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath.

rsv@Ezekiel:45:11 @ The ephah and the bath shall be of the same measure, the bath containing one tenth of a homer, and the ephah one tenth of a homer; the homer shall be the standard measure.

rsv@Ezekiel:45:12 @ The shekel shall be twenty gerahs; five shekels shall be five shekels, and ten shekels shall be ten shekels, and your mina shall be fifty shekels.

rsv@Ezekiel:45:13 @ "This is the offering which you shall make: one sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat, and one sixth of an ephah from each homer of barley,

rsv@Ezekiel:45:24 @ And he shall provide as a cereal offering an ephah for each bull, an ephah for each ram, and a hin of oil to each ephah.

rsv@Ezekiel:46:5 @ and the cereal offering with the ram shall be an ephah, and the cereal offering with the lambs shall be as much as he is able, together with a hin of oil to each ephah.

rsv@Ezekiel:46:7 @ as a cereal offering he shall provide an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram, and with the lambs as much as he is able, together with a hin of oil to each ephah.

rsv@Ezekiel:46:9 @ "When the people of the land come before the LORD at the appointed feasts, he who enters by the north gate to worship shall go out by the south gate; and he who enters by the south gate shall go out by the north gate: no one shall return by way of the gate by which he entered, but each shall go out straight ahead.

rsv@Ezekiel:46:11 @ "At the feasts and the appointed seasons the cereal offering with a young bull shall be an ephah, and with a ram an ephah, and with the lambs as much as one is able to give, together with a hin of oil to an ephah.

rsv@Ezekiel:46:14 @ And he shall provide a cereal offering with it morning by morning, one sixth of an ephah, and one third of a hin of oil to moisten the flour, as a cereal offering to the LORD; this is the ordinance for the continual burnt offering.

rsv@Ezekiel:47:8 @ And he said to me, "This water flows toward the eastern region and goes down into the Arabah; and when it enters the stagnant waters of the sea, the water will become fresh.

rsv@Ezekiel:47:16 @ Bero'thah, Sib'raim (which lies on the border between Damascus and Hamath), as far as Hazer-hatticon, which is on the border of Hauran.

rsv@Ezekiel:48:7 @ Adjoining the territory of Reuben, from the east side to the west, Judah, one portion.

rsv@Ezekiel:48:8 @ "Adjoining the territory of Judah, from the east side to the west, shall be the portion which you shall set apart, twenty-five thousand cubits in breadth, and in length equal to one of the tribal portions, from the east side to the west, with the sanctuary in the midst of it.

rsv@Ezekiel:48:22 @ and the property of the Levites and the property of the city, shall be in the midst of that which belongs to the prince. The portion of the prince shall lie between the territory of Judah and the territory of Benjamin.

rsv@Ezekiel:48:31 @ three gates, the gate of Reuben, the gate of Judah, and the gate of Levi, the gates of the city being named after the tribes of Israel.

rsv@Daniel:1:1 @ In the third year of the reign of Jehoi'akim king of Judah, Nebuchadnez'zar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.

rsv@Daniel:1:2 @ And the Lord gave Jehoi'akim king of Judah into his hand, with some of the vessels of the house of God; and he brought them to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and placed the vessels in the treasury of his god.

rsv@Daniel:1:6 @ Among these were Daniel, Hanani'ah, Mish'a-el, and Azari'ah of the tribe of Judah.

rsv@Daniel:1:7 @ And the chief of the eunuchs gave them names: Daniel he called Belteshaz'zar, Hanani'ah he called Shadrach, Mish'a-el he called Meshach, and Azari'ah he called Abed'nego.

rsv@Daniel:1:11 @ Then Daniel said to the steward whom the chief of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Hanani'ah, Mish'a-el, and Azari'ah;

rsv@Daniel:1:19 @ And the king spoke with them, and among them all none was found like Daniel, Hanani'ah, Mish'a-el, and Azari'ah; therefore they stood before the king.

rsv@Daniel:2:17 @ Then Daniel went to his house and made the matter known to Hanani'ah, Mish'a-el, and Azari'ah, his companions,

rsv@Daniel:2:25 @ Then Ar'i-och brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said thus to him: "I have found among the exiles from Judah a man who can make known to the king the interpretation."

rsv@Daniel:5:13 @ Then Daniel was brought in before the king. The king said to Daniel, "You are that Daniel, one of the exiles of Judah, whom the king my father brought from Judah.

rsv@Daniel:6:13 @ Then they answered before the king, "That Daniel, who is one of the exiles from Judah, pays no heed to you, O king, or the interdict you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day."

rsv@Daniel:9:1 @ In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasu-e'rus, by birth a Mede, who became king over the realm of the Chalde'ans--

rsv@Daniel:9:2 @ in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, perceived in the books the number of years which, according to the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, must pass before the end of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years.

rsv@Daniel:9:7 @ To thee, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us confusion of face, as at this day, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, those that are near and those that are far away, in all the lands to which thou hast driven them, because of the treachery which they have committed against thee.

rsv@Hosea:1:1 @ The word of the LORD that came to Hose'a the son of Be-e'ri, in the days of Uzzi'ah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezeki'ah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jerobo'am the son of Jo'ash, king of Israel.

rsv@Hosea:1:7 @ But I will have pity on the house of Judah, and I will deliver them by the LORD their God; I will not deliver them by bow, nor by sword, nor by war, nor by horses, nor by horsemen."

rsv@Hosea:1:11 @ And the people of Judah and the people of Israel shall be gathered together, and they shall appoint for themselves one head; and they shall go up from the land, for great shall be the day of Jezreel.

rsv@Hosea:4:15 @ Though you play the harlot, O Israel, let not Judah become guilty. Enter not into Gilgal, nor go up to Beth-a'ven, and swear not, "As the LORD lives."

rsv@Hosea:5:1 @ Hear this, O priests! Give heed, O house of Israel! Hearken, O house of the king! For the judgment pertains to you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.

rsv@Hosea:5:5 @ The pride of Israel testifies to his face; E'phraim shall stumble in his guilt; Judah also shall stumble with them.

rsv@Hosea:5:8 @ Blow the horn in Gib'e-ah, the trumpet in Ramah. Sound the alarm at Beth-a'ven; tremble, O Benjamin!

rsv@Hosea:5:10 @ The princes of Judah have become like those who remove the landmark; upon them I will pour out my wrath like water.

rsv@Hosea:5:12 @ Therefore I am like a moth to E'phraim, and like dry rot to the house of Judah.

rsv@Hosea:5:13 @ When E'phraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, then E'phraim went to Assyria, and sent to the great king. But he is not able to cure you or heal your wound.

rsv@Hosea:5:14 @ For I will be like a lion to E'phraim, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will rend and go away, I will carry off, and none shall rescue.

rsv@Hosea:6:4 @ What shall I do with you, O E'phraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes early away.

rsv@Hosea:6:11 @ For you also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed. When I would restore the fortunes of my people,

rsv@Hosea:8:14 @ For Israel has forgotten his Maker, and built palaces; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour his strongholds.

rsv@Hosea:9:9 @ They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gib'e-ah: he will remember their iniquity, he will punish their sins.

rsv@Hosea:10:9 @ From the days of Gib'e-ah, you have sinned, O Israel; there they have continued. Shall not war overtake them in Gib'e-ah?

rsv@Hosea:10:11 @ E'phraim was a trained heifer that loved to thresh, and I spared her fair neck; but I will put E'phraim to the yoke, Judah must plow, Jacob must harrow for himself.

rsv@Hosea:11:8 @ How can I give you up, O E'phraim! How can I hand you over, O Israel! How can I make you like Admah! How can I treat you like Zeboi'im! My heart recoils within me, my compassion grows warm and tender.

rsv@Hosea:11:12 @ E'phraim has encompassed me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit; but Judah is still known by God, and is faithful to the Holy One.

rsv@Hosea:12:2 @ The LORD has an indictment against Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways, and requite him according to his deeds.

rsv@Hosea:12:8 @ E'phraim has said, "Ah, but I am rich, I have gained wealth for myself": but all his riches can never offset the guilt he has incurred.

rsv@Joel:3:1 @ "For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,

rsv@Joel:3:6 @ You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, removing them far from their own border.

rsv@Joel:3:8 @ I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabe'ans, to a nation far off; for the LORD has spoken."

rsv@Joel:3:18 @ "And in that day the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the stream beds of Judah shall flow with water; and a fountain shall come forth from the house of the LORD and water the valley of Shittim.

rsv@Joel:3:19 @ "Egypt shall become a desolation and Edom a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the people of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

rsv@Joel:3:20 @ But Judah shall be inhabited for ever, and Jerusalem to all generations.

rsv@Amos:1:1 @ The words of Amos, who was among the shepherds of Teko'a, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzzi'ah king of Judah and in the days of Jerobo'am the son of Jo'ash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.

rsv@Amos:1:12 @ So I will send a fire upon Teman, and it shall devour the strongholds of Bozrah."

rsv@Amos:1:14 @ So I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour her strongholds, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind;

rsv@Amos:2:4 @ Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment; because they have rejected the law of the LORD, and have not kept his statutes, but their lies have led them astray, after which their fathers walked.

rsv@Amos:2:5 @ So I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the strongholds of Jerusalem."

rsv@Amos:4:11 @ "I overthrew some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomor'rah, and you were as a brand plucked out of the burning; yet you did not return to me," says the LORD.

rsv@Amos:6:14 @ "For behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel," says the LORD, the God of hosts; "and they shall oppress you from the entrance of Hamath to the Brook of the Arabah."

rsv@Amos:7:10 @ Then Amazi'ah the priest of Bethel sent to Jerobo'am king of Israel, saying, "Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel; the land is not able to bear all his words.

rsv@Amos:7:12 @ And Amazi'ah said to Amos, "O seer, go, flee away to the land of Judah, and eat bread there, and prophesy there;

rsv@Amos:7:14 @ Then Amos answered Amazi'ah, "I am no prophet, nor a prophet's son; but I am a herdsman, and a dresser of sycamore trees,

rsv@Amos:8:5 @ saying, "When will the new moon be over, that we may sell grain? And the sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, that we may make the ephah small and the shekel great, and deal deceitfully with false balances,

rsv@Amos:8:14 @ Those who swear by Ash'imah of Sama'ria, and say, `As thy god lives, O Dan,' and, `As the way of Beer-sheba lives,' they shall fall, and never rise again."

rsv@Obadiah:1:1 @ The vision of Obadi'ah. Thus says the Lord GOD concerning Edom: We have heard tidings from the LORD, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: "Rise up! let us rise against her for battle!"

rsv@Obadiah:1:2 @ Behold, I will make you small among the nations, you shall be utterly despised.

rsv@Obadiah:1:3 @ The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, whose dwelling is high, who say in your heart, "Who will bring me down to the ground?"

rsv@Obadiah:1:4 @ Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, thence I will bring you down, says the LORD.

rsv@Obadiah:1:5 @ If thieves came to you, if plunderers by night--how you have been destroyed!--would they not steal only enough for themselves? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings?

rsv@Obadiah:1:6 @ How Esau has been pillaged, his treasures sought out!

rsv@Obadiah:1:7 @ All your allies have deceived you, they have driven you to the border; your confederates have prevailed against you; your trusted friends have set a trap under you-- there is no understanding of it.

rsv@Obadiah:1:8 @ Will I not on that day, says the LORD, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of Mount Esau?

rsv@Obadiah:1:9 @ And your mighty men shall be dismayed, O Teman, so that every man from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.

rsv@Obadiah:1:10 @ For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off for ever.

rsv@Obadiah:1:11 @ On the day that you stood aloof, on the day that strangers carried off his wealth, and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them.

rsv@Obadiah:1:12 @ But you should not have gloated over the day of your brother in the day of his misfortune; you should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah in the day of their ruin; you should not have boasted in the day of distress.

rsv@Obadiah:1:13 @ You should not have entered the gate of my people in the day of his calamity; you should not have gloated over his disaster in the day of his calamity; you should not have looted his goods in the day of his calamity.

rsv@Obadiah:1:14 @ You should not have stood at the parting of the ways to cut off his fugitives; you should not have delivered up his survivors in the day of distress.

rsv@Obadiah:1:15 @ For the day of the LORD is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you, your deeds shall return on your own head.

rsv@Obadiah:1:16 @ For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, all the nations round about shall drink; they shall drink, and stagger, and shall be as though they had not been.

rsv@Obadiah:1:17 @ But in Mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.

rsv@Obadiah:1:18 @ The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor to the house of Esau; for the LORD has spoken.

rsv@Obadiah:1:19 @ Those of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau, and those of the Shephe'lah the land of the Philistines; they shall possess the land of E'phraim and the land of Sama'ria and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.

rsv@Obadiah:1:20 @ The exiles in Halah who are of the people of Israel shall possess Phoenicia as far as Zar'ephath; and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sephar'ad shall possess the cities of the Negeb.

rsv@Obadiah:1:21 @ Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD's.

rsv@Jonah:1:1 @ Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the son of Amit'tai, saying,

rsv@Jonah:1:2 @ "Arise, go to Nin'eveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness has come up before me."

rsv@Jonah:1:3 @ But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid the fare, and went on board, to go with them to Tarshish, away from the presence of the LORD.

rsv@Jonah:1:4 @ But the LORD hurled a great wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship threatened to break up.

rsv@Jonah:1:5 @ Then the mariners were afraid, and each cried to his god; and they threw the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it for them. But Jonah had gone down into the inner part of the ship and had lain down, and was fast asleep.

rsv@Jonah:1:6 @ So the captain came and said to him, "What do you mean, you sleeper? Arise, call upon your god! Perhaps the god will give a thought to us, that we do not perish."

rsv@Jonah:1:7 @ And they said to one another, "Come, let us cast lots, that we may know on whose account this evil has come upon us." So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.

rsv@Jonah:1:8 @ Then they said to him, "Tell us, on whose account this evil has come upon us? What is your occupation? And whence do you come? What is your country? And of what people are you?"

rsv@Jonah:1:9 @ And he said to them, "I am a Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land."

rsv@Jonah:1:10 @ Then the men were exceedingly afraid, and said to him, "What is this that you have done!" For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.

rsv@Jonah:1:11 @ Then they said to him, "What shall we do to you, that the sea may quiet down for us?" For the sea grew more and more tempestuous.

rsv@Jonah:1:12 @ He said to them, "Take me up and throw me into the sea; then the sea will quiet down for you; for I know it is because of me that this great tempest has come upon you."

rsv@Jonah:1:13 @ Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring the ship back to land, but they could not, for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them.

rsv@Jonah:1:14 @ Therefore they cried to the LORD, "We beseech thee, O LORD, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not on us innocent blood; for thou, O LORD, hast done as it pleased thee."

rsv@Jonah:1:15 @ So they took up Jonah and threw him into the sea; and the sea ceased from its raging.

rsv@Jonah:1:16 @ Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and they offered a sacrifice to the LORD and made vows.

rsv@Jonah:1:17 @ And the LORD appointed a great fish to swallow up Jonah; and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

rsv@Jonah:2:1 @ Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the belly of the fish,

rsv@Jonah:2:2 @ saying, "I called to the LORD, out of my distress, and he answered me; out of the belly of Sheol I cried, and thou didst hear my voice.

rsv@Jonah:2:3 @ For thou didst cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the flood was round about me; all thy waves and thy billows passed over me.

rsv@Jonah:2:4 @ Then I said, `I am cast out from thy presence; how shall I again look upon thy holy temple?'

rsv@Jonah:2:5 @ The waters closed in over me, the deep was round about me; weeds were wrapped about my head

rsv@Jonah:2:6 @ at the roots of the mountains. I went down to the land whose bars closed upon me for ever; yet thou didst bring up my life from the Pit, O LORD my God.

rsv@Jonah:2:7 @ When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD; and my prayer came to thee, into thy holy temple.

rsv@Jonah:2:8 @ Those who pay regard to vain idols forsake their true loyalty.

rsv@Jonah:2:9 @ But I with the voice of thanksgiving will sacrifice to thee; what I have vowed I will pay. Deliverance belongs to the LORD!"

rsv@Jonah:2:10 @ And the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.

rsv@Jonah:3:1 @ Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying,

rsv@Jonah:3:2 @ "Arise, go to Nin'eveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you."

rsv@Jonah:3:3 @ So Jonah arose and went to Nin'eveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nin'eveh was an exceedingly great city, three days' journey in breadth.

rsv@Jonah:3:4 @ Jonah began to go into the city, going a day's journey. And he cried, "Yet forty days, and Nin'eveh shall be overthrown!"

rsv@Jonah:3:5 @ And the people of Nin'eveh believed God; they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.

rsv@Jonah:3:6 @ Then tidings reached the king of Nin'eveh, and he arose from his throne, removed his robe, and covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

rsv@Jonah:3:7 @ And he made proclamation and published through Nin'eveh, "By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, or drink water,

rsv@Jonah:3:8 @ but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and let them cry mightily to God; yea, let every one turn from his evil way and from the violence which is in his hands.

rsv@Jonah:3:9 @ Who knows, God may yet repent and turn from his fierce anger, so that we perish not?"

rsv@Jonah:3:10 @ When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God repented of the evil which he had said he would do to them; and he did not do it.

rsv@Jonah:4:1 @ But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.

rsv@Jonah:4:2 @ And he prayed to the LORD and said, "I pray thee, LORD, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that thou art a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and repentest of evil.

rsv@Jonah:4:3 @ Therefore now, O LORD, take my life from me, I beseech thee, for it is better for me to die than to live."

rsv@Jonah:4:4 @ And the LORD said, "Do you do well to be angry?"

rsv@Jonah:4:5 @ Then Jonah went out of the city and sat to the east of the city, and made a booth for himself there. He sat under it in the shade, till he should see what would become of the city.

rsv@Jonah:4:6 @ And the LORD God appointed a plant, and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to save him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the plant.

rsv@Jonah:4:7 @ But when dawn came up the next day, God appointed a worm which attacked the plant, so that it withered.

rsv@Jonah:4:8 @ When the sun rose, God appointed a sultry east wind, and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah so that he was faint; and he asked that he might die, and said, "It is better for me to die than to live."

rsv@Jonah:4:9 @ But God said to Jonah, "Do you do well to be angry for the plant?" And he said, "I do well to be angry, angry enough to die."

rsv@Jonah:4:10 @ And the LORD said, "You pity the plant, for which you did not labor, nor did you make it grow, which came into being in a night, and perished in a night.

rsv@Jonah:4:11 @ And should not I pity Nin'eveh, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?"

rsv@Micah:1:1 @ The word of the LORD that came to Micah of Mo'resheth in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezeki'ah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Sama'ria and Jerusalem.

rsv@Micah:1:2 @ Hear, you peoples, all of you; hearken, O earth, and all that is in it; and let the Lord GOD be a witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.

rsv@Micah:1:3 @ For behold, the LORD is coming forth out of his place, and will come down and tread upon the high places of the earth.

rsv@Micah:1:4 @ And the mountains will melt under him and the valleys will be cleft, like wax before the fire, like waters poured down a steep place.

rsv@Micah:1:5 @ All this is for the transgression of Jacob and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Sama'ria? And what is the sin of the house of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?

rsv@Micah:1:6 @ Therefore I will make Sama'ria a heap in the open country, a place for planting vineyards; and I will pour down her stones into the valley, and uncover her foundations.

rsv@Micah:1:7 @ All her images shall be beaten to pieces, all her hires shall be burned with fire, and all her idols I will lay waste; for from the hire of a harlot she gathered them, and to the hire of a harlot they shall return.

rsv@Micah:1:8 @ For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make lamentation like the jackals, and mourning like the ostriches.

rsv@Micah:1:9 @ For her wound is incurable; and it has come to Judah, it has reached to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem.

rsv@Micah:1:10 @ Tell it not in Gath, weep not at all; in Beth-le-aph'rah roll yourselves in the dust.

rsv@Micah:1:11 @ Pass on your way, inhabitants of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame; the inhabitants of Za'anan do not come forth; the wailing of Beth-e'zel shall take away from you its standing place.

rsv@Micah:1:12 @ For the inhabitants of Maroth wait anxiously for good, because evil has come down from the LORD to the gate of Jerusalem.

rsv@Micah:1:13 @ Harness the steeds to the chariots, inhabitants of Lachish; you were the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion, for in you were found the transgressions of Israel.

rsv@Micah:1:14 @ Therefore you shall give parting gifts to Mo'resheth-gath; the houses of Achzib shall be a deceitful thing to the kings of Israel.

rsv@Micah:1:15 @ I will again bring a conqueror upon you, inhabitants of Mare'shah; the glory of Israel shall come to Adullam.

rsv@Micah:1:16 @ Make yourselves bald and cut off your hair, for the children of your delight; make yourselves as bald as the eagle, for they shall go from you into exile.

rsv@Micah:2:1 @ Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil upon their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in the power of their hand.

rsv@Micah:2:2 @ They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away; they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.

rsv@Micah:2:3 @ Therefore thus says the LORD: Behold, against this family I am devising evil, from which you cannot remove your necks; and you shall not walk haughtily, for it will be an evil time.

rsv@Micah:2:4 @ In that day they shall take up a taunt song against you, and wail with bitter lamentation, and say, "We are utterly ruined; he changes the portion of my people; how he removes it from me! Among our captors he divides our fields."

rsv@Micah:2:5 @ Therefore you will have none to cast the line by lot in the assembly of the LORD.

rsv@Micah:2:6 @ "Do not preach"--thus they preach--"one should not preach of such things; disgrace will not overtake us."

rsv@Micah:2:7 @ Should this be said, O house of Jacob? Is the Spirit of the LORD impatient? Are these his doings? Do not my words do good to him who walks uprightly?

rsv@Micah:2:8 @ But you rise against my people as an enemy; you strip the robe from the peaceful, from those who pass by trustingly with no thought of war.

rsv@Micah:2:9 @ The women of my people you drive out from their pleasant houses; from their young children you take away my glory for ever.

rsv@Micah:2:10 @ Arise and go, for this is no place to rest; because of uncleanness that destroys with a grievous destruction.

rsv@Micah:2:11 @ If a man should go about and utter wind and lies, saying, "I will preach to you of wine and strong drink," he would be the preacher for this people!

rsv@Micah:2:12 @ I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob, I will gather the remnant of Israel; I will set them together like sheep in a fold, like a flock in its pasture, a noisy multitude of men.

rsv@Micah:2:13 @ He who opens the breach will go up before them; they will break through and pass the gate, going out by it. Their king will pass on before them, the LORD at their head.

rsv@Micah:3:1 @ And I said: Hear, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel! Is it not for you to know justice?--

rsv@Micah:3:2 @ you who hate the good and love the evil, who tear the skin from off my people, and their flesh from off their bones;

rsv@Micah:3:3 @ who eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones in pieces, and chop them up like meat in a kettle, like flesh in a caldron.

rsv@Micah:3:4 @ Then they will cry to the LORD, but he will not answer them; he will hide his face from them at that time, because they have made their deeds evil.

rsv@Micah:3:5 @ Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who lead my people astray, who cry "Peace" when they have something to eat, but declare war against him who puts nothing into their mouths.

rsv@Micah:3:6 @ Therefore it shall be night to you, without vision, and darkness to you, without divination. The sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be black over them;

rsv@Micah:3:7 @ the seers shall be disgraced, and the diviners put to shame; they shall all cover their lips, for there is no answer from God.

rsv@Micah:3:8 @ But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the LORD, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.

rsv@Micah:3:9 @ Hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice and pervert all equity,

rsv@Micah:3:10 @ who build Zion with blood and Jerusalem with wrong.

rsv@Micah:3:11 @ Its heads give judgment for a bribe, its priests teach for hire, its prophets divine for money; yet they lean upon the LORD and say, "Is not the LORD in the midst of us? No evil shall come upon us."

rsv@Micah:3:12 @ Therefore because of you Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the house a wooded height.

rsv@Micah:4:1 @ It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be raised up above the hills; and peoples shall flow to it,

rsv@Micah:4:2 @ and many nations shall come, and say: "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us his ways and we may walk in his paths." For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

rsv@Micah:4:3 @ He shall judge between many peoples, and shall decide for strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more;

rsv@Micah:4:4 @ but they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree, and none shall make them afraid; for the mouth of the LORD of hosts has spoken.

rsv@Micah:4:5 @ For all the peoples walk each in the name of its god, but we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.

rsv@Micah:4:6 @ In that day, says the LORD, I will assemble the lame and gather those who have been driven away, and those whom I have afflicted;

rsv@Micah:4:7 @ and the lame I will make the remnant; and those who were cast off, a strong nation; and the LORD will reign over them in Mount Zion from this time forth and for evermore.

rsv@Micah:4:8 @ And you, O tower of the flock, hill of the daughter of Zion, to you shall it come, the former dominion shall come, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.

rsv@Micah:4:9 @ Now why do you cry aloud? Is there no king in you? Has your counselor perished, that pangs have seized you like a woman in travail?

rsv@Micah:4:10 @ Writhe and groan, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail; for now you shall go forth from the city and dwell in the open country; you shall go to Babylon. There you shall be rescued, there the LORD will redeem you from the hand of your enemies.

rsv@Micah:4:11 @ Now many nations are assembled against you, saying, "Let her be profaned, and let our eyes gaze upon Zion."

rsv@Micah:4:12 @ But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD, they do not understand his plan, that he has gathered them as sheaves to the threshing floor.

rsv@Micah:4:13 @ Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion, for I will make your horn iron and your hoofs bronze; you shall beat in pieces many peoples, and shall devote their gain to the LORD, their wealth to the Lord of the whole earth.

rsv@Micah:5:1 @ Now you are walled about with a wall; siege is laid against us; with a rod they strike upon the cheek the ruler of Israel.

rsv@Micah:5:2 @ But you, O Bethlehem Eph'rathah, who are little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose origin is from of old, from ancient days.

rsv@Micah:5:3 @ Therefore he shall give them up until the time when she who is in travail has brought forth; then the rest of his brethren shall return to the people of Israel.

rsv@Micah:5:4 @ And he shall stand and feed his flock in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God. And they shall dwell secure, for now he shall be great to the ends of the earth.

rsv@Micah:5:5 @ And this shall be peace, when the Assyrian comes into our land and treads upon our soil, that we will raise against him seven shepherds and eight princes of men;

rsv@Micah:5:6 @ they shall rule the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod with the drawn sword; and they shall deliver us from the Assyrian when he comes into our land and treads within our border.

rsv@Micah:5:7 @ Then the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples like dew from the LORD, like showers upon the grass, which tarry not for men nor wait for the sons of men.

rsv@Micah:5:8 @ And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep, which, when it goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is none to deliver.

rsv@Micah:5:9 @ Your hand shall be lifted up over your adversaries, and all your enemies shall be cut off.

rsv@Micah:5:10 @ And in that day, says the LORD, I will cut off your horses from among you and will destroy your chariots;

rsv@Micah:5:11 @ and I will cut off the cities of your land and throw down all your strongholds;

rsv@Micah:5:12 @ and I will cut off sorceries from your hand, and you shall have no more soothsayers;

rsv@Micah:5:13 @ and I will cut off your images and your pillars from among you, and you shall bow down no more to the work of your hands;

rsv@Micah:5:14 @ and I will root out your Ashe'rim from among you and destroy your cities.

rsv@Micah:5:15 @ And in anger and wrath I will execute vengeance upon the nations that did not obey.

rsv@Micah:6:1 @ Hear what the LORD says: Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.

rsv@Micah:6:2 @ Hear, you mountains, the controversy of the LORD, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for the LORD has a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel.

rsv@Micah:6:3 @ "O my people, what have I done to you? In what have I wearied you? Answer me!

rsv@Micah:6:4 @ For I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and redeemed you from the house of bondage; and I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

rsv@Micah:6:5 @ O my people, remember what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Be'or answered him, and what happened from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the saving acts of the LORD."

rsv@Micah:6:6 @ "With what shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?

rsv@Micah:6:7 @ Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my first-born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?"

rsv@Micah:6:8 @ He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

rsv@Micah:6:9 @ The voice of the LORD cries to the city--and it is sound wisdom to fear thy name: "Hear, O tribe and assembly of the city!

rsv@Micah:6:10 @ Can I forget the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is accursed?

rsv@Micah:6:11 @ Shall I acquit the man with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful weights?

rsv@Micah:6:12 @ Your rich men are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

rsv@Micah:6:13 @ Therefore I have begun to smite you, making you desolate because of your sins.

rsv@Micah:6:14 @ You shall eat, but not be satisfied, and there shall be hunger in your inward parts; you shall put away, but not save, and what you save I will give to the sword.

rsv@Micah:6:15 @ You shall sow, but not reap; you shall tread olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil; you shall tread grapes, but not drink wine.

rsv@Micah:6:16 @ For you have kept the statutes of Omri, and all the works of the house of Ahab; and you have walked in their counsels; that I may make you a desolation, and your inhabitants a hissing; so you shall bear the scorn of the peoples."

rsv@Micah:7:1 @ Woe is me! For I have become as when the summer fruit has been gathered, as when the vintage has been gleaned: there is no cluster to eat, no first-ripe fig which my soul desires.

rsv@Micah:7:2 @ The godly man has perished from the earth, and there is none upright among men; they all lie in wait for blood, and each hunts his brother with a net.

rsv@Micah:7:3 @ Their hands are upon what is evil, to do it diligently; the prince and the judge ask for a bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; thus they weave it together.

rsv@Micah:7:4 @ The best of them is like a brier, the most upright of them a thorn hedge. The day of their watchmen, of their punishment, has come; now their confusion is at hand.

rsv@Micah:7:5 @ Put no trust in a neighbor, have no confidence in a friend; guard the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom;

rsv@Micah:7:6 @ for the son treats the father with contempt, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house.

rsv@Micah:7:7 @ But as for me, I will look to the LORD, I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.

rsv@Micah:7:8 @ Rejoice not over me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD will be a light to me.

rsv@Micah:7:9 @ I will bear the indignation of the LORD because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my cause and executes judgment for me. He will bring me forth to the light; I shall behold his deliverance.

rsv@Micah:7:10 @ Then my enemy will see, and shame will cover her who said to me, "Where is the LORD your God?" My eyes will gloat over her; now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.

rsv@Micah:7:11 @ A day for the building of your walls! In that day the boundary shall be far extended.

rsv@Micah:7:12 @ In that day they will come to you, from Assyria to Egypt, and from Egypt to the River, from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain.

rsv@Micah:7:13 @ But the earth will be desolate because of its inhabitants, for the fruit of their doings.

rsv@Micah:7:14 @ Shepherd thy people with thy staff, the flock of thy inheritance, who dwell alone in a forest in the midst of a garden land; let them feed in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old.

rsv@Micah:7:15 @ As in the days when you came out of the land of Egypt I will show them marvelous things.

rsv@Micah:7:16 @ The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might; they shall lay their hands on their mouths; their ears shall be deaf;

rsv@Micah:7:17 @ they shall lick the dust like a serpent, like the crawling things of the earth; they shall come trembling out of their strongholds, they shall turn in dread to the LORD our God, and they shall fear because of thee.

rsv@Micah:7:18 @ Who is a God like thee, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger for ever because he delights in steadfast love.

rsv@Micah:7:19 @ He will again have compassion upon us, he will tread our iniquities under foot. Thou wilt cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.

rsv@Micah:7:20 @ Thou wilt show faithfulness to Jacob and steadfast love to Abraham, as thou hast sworn to our fathers from the days of old.

rsv@Nahum:1:1 @ An oracle concerning Nin'eveh. The book of the vision of Nahum of Elkosh.

rsv@Nahum:1:2 @ The LORD is a jealous God and avenging, the LORD is avenging and wrathful; the LORD takes vengeance on his adversaries and keeps wrath for his enemies.

rsv@Nahum:1:3 @ The LORD is slow to anger and of great might, and the LORD will by no means clear the guilty. His way is in whirlwind and storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

rsv@Nahum:1:4 @ He rebukes the sea and makes it dry, he dries up all the rivers; Bashan and Carmel wither, the bloom of Lebanon fades.

rsv@Nahum:1:5 @ The mountains quake before him, the hills melt; the earth is laid waste before him, the world and all that dwell therein.

rsv@Nahum:1:6 @ Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the heat of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken asunder by him.

rsv@Nahum:1:7 @ The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; he knows those who take refuge in him.

rsv@Nahum:1:8 @ But with an overflowing flood he will make a full end of his adversaries, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

rsv@Nahum:1:9 @ What do you plot against the LORD? He will make a full end; he will not take vengeance twice on his foes.

rsv@Nahum:1:10 @ Like entangled thorns they are consumed, like dry stubble.

rsv@Nahum:1:11 @ Did one not come out from you, who plotted evil against the LORD, and counseled villainy?

rsv@Nahum:1:12 @ Thus says the LORD, "Though they be strong and many, they will be cut off and pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.

rsv@Nahum:1:13 @ And now I will break his yoke from off you and will burst your bonds asunder."

rsv@Nahum:1:14 @ The LORD has given commandment about you: "No more shall your name be perpetuated; from the house of your gods I will cut off the graven image and the molten image. I will make your grave, for you are vile."

rsv@Nahum:1:15 @ Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who brings good tidings, who proclaims peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah, fulfil your vows, for never again shall the wicked come against you, he is utterly cut off.

rsv@Nahum:2:1 @ The shatterer has come up against you. Man the ramparts; watch the road; gird your loins; collect all your strength.

rsv@Nahum:2:2 @ (For the LORD is restoring the majesty of Jacob as the majesty of Israel, for plunderers have stripped them and ruined their branches.)

rsv@Nahum:2:3 @ The shield of his mighty men is red, his soldiers are clothed in scarlet. The chariots flash like flame when mustered in array; the chargers prance.

rsv@Nahum:2:4 @ The chariots rage in the streets, they rush to and fro through the squares; they gleam like torches, they dart like lightning.

rsv@Nahum:2:5 @ The officers are summoned, they stumble as they go, they hasten to the wall, the mantelet is set up.

rsv@Nahum:2:6 @ The river gates are opened, the palace is in dismay;

rsv@Nahum:2:7 @ its mistress is stripped, she is carried off, her maidens lamenting, moaning like doves, and beating their breasts.

rsv@Nahum:2:8 @ Nin'eveh is like a pool whose waters run away. "Halt! Halt!" they cry; but none turns back.

rsv@Nahum:2:9 @ Plunder the silver, plunder the gold! There is no end of treasure, or wealth of every precious thing.

rsv@Nahum:2:10 @ Desolate! Desolation and ruin! Hearts faint and knees tremble, anguish is on all loins, all faces grow pale!

rsv@Nahum:2:11 @ Where is the lions' den, the cave of the young lions, where the lion brought his prey, where his cubs were, with none to disturb?

rsv@Nahum:2:12 @ The lion tore enough for his whelps and strangled prey for his lionesses; he filled his caves with prey and his dens with torn flesh.

rsv@Nahum:2:13 @ Behold, I am against you, says the LORD of hosts, and I will burn your chariots in smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions; I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers shall no more be heard.

rsv@Nahum:3:1 @ Woe to the bloody city, all full of lies and booty--no end to the plunder!

rsv@Nahum:3:2 @ The crack of whip, and rumble of wheel, galloping horse and bounding chariot!

rsv@Nahum:3:3 @ Horsemen charging, flashing sword and glittering spear, hosts of slain, heaps of corpses, dead bodies without end--they stumble over the bodies!

rsv@Nahum:3:4 @ And all for the countless harlotries of the harlot, graceful and of deadly charms, who betrays nations with her harlotries, and peoples with her charms.

rsv@Nahum:3:5 @ Behold, I am against you, says the LORD of hosts, and will lift up your skirts over your face; and I will let nations look on your nakedness and kingdoms on your shame.

rsv@Nahum:3:6 @ I will throw filth at you and treat you with contempt, and make you a gazingstock.

rsv@Nahum:3:7 @ And all who look on you will shrink from you and say, Wasted is Nin'eveh; who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for her?

rsv@Nahum:3:8 @ Are you better than Thebes that sat by the Nile, with water around her, her rampart a sea, and water her wall?

rsv@Nahum:3:9 @ Ethiopia was her strength, Egypt too, and that without limit; Put and the Libyans were her helpers.

rsv@Nahum:3:10 @ Yet she was carried away, she went into captivity; her little ones were dashed in pieces at the head of every street; for her honored men lots were cast, and all her great men were bound in chains.

rsv@Nahum:3:11 @ You also will be drunken, you will be dazed; you will seek a refuge from the enemy.

rsv@Nahum:3:12 @ All your fortresses are like fig trees with first-ripe figs--if shaken they fall into the mouth of the eater.

rsv@Nahum:3:13 @ Behold, your troops are women in your midst. The gates of your land are wide open to your foes; fire has devoured your bars.

rsv@Nahum:3:14 @ Draw water for the siege, strengthen your forts; go into the clay, tread the mortar, take hold of the brick mold!

rsv@Nahum:3:15 @ There will the fire devour you, the sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the locust. Multiply yourselves like the locust, multiply like the grasshopper!

rsv@Nahum:3:16 @ You increased your merchants more than the stars of the heavens. The locust spreads its wings and flies away.

rsv@Nahum:3:17 @ Your princes are like grasshoppers, your scribes like clouds of locusts settling on the fences in a day of cold--when the sun rises, they fly away; no one knows where they are.

rsv@Nahum:3:18 @ Your shepherds are asleep, O king of Assyria; your nobles slumber. Your people are scattered on the mountains with none to gather them.

rsv@Nahum:3:19 @ There is no assuaging your hurt, your wound is grievous. All who hear the news of you clap their hands over you. For upon whom has not come your unceasing evil?

rsv@Habakkuk:3:3 @ God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. Selah

rsv@Habakkuk:3:9 @ Thou didst strip the sheath from thy bow, and put the arrows to the string. Selah Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.

rsv@Habakkuk:3:13 @ Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, for the salvation of thy anointed. Thou didst crush the head of the wicked, laying him bare from thigh to neck. Selah

rsv@Zephaniah:1:1 @ The word of the LORD which came to Zephani'ah the son of Cushi, son of Gedali'ah, son of Amari'ah, son of Hezeki'ah, in the days of Josi'ah the son of Amon, king of Judah.

rsv@Zephaniah:1:2 @ "I will utterly sweep away everything from the face of the earth," says the LORD.

rsv@Zephaniah:1:3 @ "I will sweep away man and beast; I will sweep away the birds of the air and the fish of the sea. I will overthrow the wicked; I will cut off mankind from the face of the earth," says the LORD.

rsv@Zephaniah:1:4 @ "I will stretch out my hand against Judah, and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off from this place the remnant of Ba'al and the name of the idolatrous priests;

rsv@Zephaniah:1:5 @ those who bow down on the roofs to the host of the heavens; those who bow down and swear to the LORD and yet swear by Milcom;

rsv@Zephaniah:1:6 @ those who have turned back from following the LORD, who do not seek the LORD or inquire of him."

rsv@Zephaniah:1:7 @ Be silent before the Lord GOD! For the day of the LORD is at hand; the LORD has prepared a sacrifice and consecrated his guests.

rsv@Zephaniah:1:8 @ And on the day of the LORD'S sacrifice--"I will punish the officials and the king's sons and all who array themselves in foreign attire.

rsv@Zephaniah:1:9 @ On that day I will punish every one who leaps over the threshold, and those who fill their master's house with violence and fraud."

rsv@Zephaniah:1:10 @ "On that day," says the LORD, "a cry will be heard from the Fish Gate, a wail from the Second Quarter, a loud crash from the hills.

rsv@Zephaniah:1:11 @ Wail, O inhabitants of the Mortar! For all the traders are no more; all who weigh out silver are cut off.

rsv@Zephaniah:1:12 @ At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are thickening upon their lees, those who say in their hearts, `The LORD will not do good, nor will he do ill.'

rsv@Zephaniah:1:13 @ Their goods shall be plundered, and their houses laid waste. Though they build houses, they shall not inhabit them; though they plant vineyards, they shall not drink wine from them."

rsv@Zephaniah:1:14 @ The great day of the LORD is near, near and hastening fast; the sound of the day of the LORD is bitter, the mighty man cries aloud there.

rsv@Zephaniah:1:15 @ A day of wrath is that day, a day of distress and anguish, a day of ruin and devastation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness,

rsv@Zephaniah:1:16 @ a day of trumpet blast and battle cry against the fortified cities and against the lofty battlements.

rsv@Zephaniah:1:17 @ I will bring distress on men, so that they shall walk like the blind, because they have sinned against the LORD; their blood shall be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung.

rsv@Zephaniah:1:18 @ Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them on the day of the wrath of the LORD. In the fire of his jealous wrath, all the earth shall be consumed; for a full, yea, sudden end he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.

rsv@Zephaniah:2:1 @ Come together and hold assembly, O shameless nation,

rsv@Zephaniah:2:2 @ before you are driven away like the drifting chaff, before there comes upon you the fierce anger of the LORD, before there comes upon you the day of the wrath of the LORD.

rsv@Zephaniah:2:3 @ Seek the LORD, all you humble of the land, who do his commands; seek righteousness, seek humility; perhaps you may be hidden on the day of the wrath of the LORD.

rsv@Zephaniah:2:4 @ For Gaza shall be deserted, and Ash'kelon shall become a desolation; Ashdod's people shall be driven out at noon, and Ekron shall be uprooted.

rsv@Zephaniah:2:5 @ Woe to you inhabitants of the seacoast, you nation of the Cher'ethites! The word of the LORD is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines; and I will destroy you till no inhabitant is left.

rsv@Zephaniah:2:6 @ And you, O seacoast, shall be pastures, meadows for shepherds and folds for flocks.

rsv@Zephaniah:2:7 @ The seacoast shall become the possession of the remnant of the house of Judah, on which they shall pasture, and in the houses of Ash'kelon they shall lie down at evening. For the LORD their God will be mindful of them and restore their fortunes.

rsv@Zephaniah:2:8 @ "I have heard the taunts of Moab and the revilings of the Ammonites, how they have taunted my people and made boasts against their territory.

rsv@Zephaniah:2:9 @ Therefore, as I live," says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "Moab shall become like Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomor'rah, a land possessed by nettles and salt pits, and a waste for ever. The remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the survivors of my nation shall possess them."

rsv@Zephaniah:2:10 @ This shall be their lot in return for their pride, because they scoffed and boasted against the people of the LORD of hosts.

rsv@Zephaniah:2:11 @ The LORD will be terrible against them; yea, he will famish all the gods of the earth, and to him shall bow down, each in its place, all the lands of the nations.

rsv@Zephaniah:2:12 @ You also, O Ethiopians, shall be slain by my sword.

rsv@Zephaniah:2:13 @ And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and he will make Nin'eveh a desolation, a dry waste like the desert.

rsv@Zephaniah:2:14 @ Herds shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the field; the vulture and the hedgehog shall lodge in her capitals; the owl shall hoot in the window, the raven croak on the threshold; for her cedar work will be laid bare.

rsv@Zephaniah:2:15 @ This is the exultant city that dwelt secure, that said to herself, "I am and there is none else." What a desolation she has become, a lair for wild beasts! Every one who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.

rsv@Zephaniah:3:1 @ Woe to her that is rebellious and defiled, the oppressing city!

rsv@Zephaniah:3:2 @ She listens to no voice, she accepts no correction. She does not trust in the LORD, she does not draw near to her God.

rsv@Zephaniah:3:3 @ Her officials within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves that leave nothing till the morning.

rsv@Zephaniah:3:4 @ Her prophets are wanton, faithless men; her priests profane what is sacred, they do violence to the law.

rsv@Zephaniah:3:5 @ The LORD within her is righteous, he does no wrong; every morning he shows forth his justice, each dawn he does not fail; but the unjust knows no shame.

rsv@Zephaniah:3:6 @ "I have cut off nations; their battlements are in ruins; I have laid waste their streets so that none walks in them; their cities have been made desolate, without a man, without an inhabitant.

rsv@Zephaniah:3:7 @ I said, `Surely she will fear me, she will accept correction; she will not lose sight of all that I have enjoined upon her.' But all the more they were eager to make all their deeds corrupt."

rsv@Zephaniah:3:8 @ "Therefore wait for me," says the LORD, "for the day when I arise as a witness. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation, all the heat of my anger; for in the fire of my jealous wrath all the earth shall be consumed.

rsv@Zephaniah:3:9 @ "Yea, at that time I will change the speech of the peoples to a pure speech, that all of them may call on the name of the LORD and serve him with one accord.

rsv@Zephaniah:3:10 @ From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants, the daughter of my dispersed ones, shall bring my offering.

rsv@Zephaniah:3:11 @ "On that day you shall not be put to shame because of the deeds by which you have rebelled against me; for then I will remove from your midst your proudly exultant ones, and you shall no longer be haughty in my holy mountain.

rsv@Zephaniah:3:12 @ For I will leave in the midst of you a people humble and lowly. They shall seek refuge in the name of the LORD,

rsv@Zephaniah:3:13 @ those who are left in Israel; they shall do no wrong and utter no lies, nor shall there be found in their mouth a deceitful tongue. For they shall pasture and lie down, and none shall make them afraid."

rsv@Zephaniah:3:14 @ Sing aloud, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel! Rejoice and exult with all your heart, O daughter of Jerusalem!

rsv@Zephaniah:3:15 @ The LORD has taken away the judgments against you, he has cast out your enemies. The King of Israel, the LORD, is in your midst; you shall fear evil no more.

rsv@Zephaniah:3:16 @ On that day it shall be said to Jerusalem: "Do not fear, O Zion; let not your hands grow weak.

rsv@Zephaniah:3:17 @ The LORD, your God, is in your midst, a warrior who gives victory; he will rejoice over you with gladness, he will renew you in his love; he will exult over you with loud singing

rsv@Zephaniah:3:18 @ as on a day of festival. "I will remove disaster from you, so that you will not bear reproach for it.

rsv@Zephaniah:3:19 @ Behold, at that time I will deal with all your oppressors. And I will save the lame and gather the outcast, and I will change their shame into praise and renown in all the earth.

rsv@Zephaniah:3:20 @ At that time I will bring you home, at the time when I gather you together; yea, I will make you renowned and praised among all the peoples of the earth, when I restore your fortunes before your eyes," says the LORD.

rsv@Haggai:1:1 @ In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet to Zerub'babel the son of She-al'ti-el, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehoz'adak, the high priest,

rsv@Haggai:1:14 @ And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerub'babel the son of She-al'ti-el, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehoz'adak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,

rsv@Haggai:2:2 @ "Speak now to Zerub'babel the son of She-al'ti-el, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehoz'adak, the high priest, and to all the remnant of the people, and say,

rsv@Haggai:2:21 @ "Speak to Zerub'babel, governor of Judah, saying, I am about to shake the heavens and the earth,

rsv@Zechariah:1:1 @ In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechari'ah the son of Berechi'ah, son of Iddo, the prophet, saying,

rsv@Zechariah:1:2 @ "The LORD was very angry with your fathers.

rsv@Zechariah:1:3 @ Therefore say to them, Thus says the LORD of hosts: Return to me, says the LORD of hosts, and I will return to you, says the LORD of hosts.

rsv@Zechariah:1:4 @ Be not like your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried out, `Thus says the LORD of hosts, Return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.' But they did not hear or heed me, says the LORD.

rsv@Zechariah:1:5 @ Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live for ever?

rsv@Zechariah:1:6 @ But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? So they repented and said, As the LORD of hosts purposed to deal with us for our ways and deeds, so has he dealt with us."

rsv@Zechariah:1:7 @ On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month which is the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechari'ah the son of Berechi'ah, son of Iddo, the prophet; and Zechari'ah said,

rsv@Zechariah:1:8 @ "I saw in the night, and behold, a man riding upon a red horse! He was standing among the myrtle trees in the glen; and behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses.

rsv@Zechariah:1:9 @ Then I said, `What are these, my lord?' The angel who talked with me said to me, `I will show you what they are.'

rsv@Zechariah:1:10 @ So the man who was standing among the myrtle trees answered, `These are they whom the LORD has sent to patrol the earth.'

rsv@Zechariah:1:11 @ And they answered the angel of the LORD who was standing among the myrtle trees, `We have patrolled the earth, and behold, all the earth remains at rest.'

rsv@Zechariah:1:12 @ Then the angel of the LORD said, `O LORD of hosts, how long wilt thou have no mercy on Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these seventy years?'

rsv@Zechariah:1:13 @ And the LORD answered gracious and comforting words to the angel who talked with me.

rsv@Zechariah:1:14 @ So the angel who talked with me said to me, `Cry out, Thus says the LORD of hosts: I am exceedingly jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion.

rsv@Zechariah:1:15 @ And I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for while I was angry but a little they furthered the disaster.

rsv@Zechariah:1:16 @ Therefore, thus says the LORD, I have returned to Jerusalem with compassion; my house shall be built in it, says the LORD of hosts, and the measuring line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem.

rsv@Zechariah:1:17 @ Cry again, Thus says the LORD of hosts: My cities shall again overflow with prosperity, and the LORD will again comfort Zion and again choose Jerusalem.'"

rsv@Zechariah:1:18 @ And I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, four horns!

rsv@Zechariah:1:19 @ And I said to the angel who talked with me, "What are these?" And he answered me, "These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem."

rsv@Zechariah:1:20 @ Then the LORD showed me four smiths.

rsv@Zechariah:1:21 @ And I said, "What are these coming to do?" He answered, "These are the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man raised his head; and these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations who lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter it."

rsv@Zechariah:2:1 @ And I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand!

rsv@Zechariah:2:2 @ Then I said, "Where are you going?" And he said to me, "To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its breadth and what is its length."

rsv@Zechariah:2:3 @ And behold, the angel who talked with me came forward, and another angel came forward to meet him,

rsv@Zechariah:2:4 @ and said to him, "Run, say to that young man, `Jerusalem shall be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of men and cattle in it.

rsv@Zechariah:2:5 @ For I will be to her a wall of fire round about, says the LORD, and I will be the glory within her.'"

rsv@Zechariah:2:6 @ Ho! ho! Flee from the land of the north, says the LORD; for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heavens, says the LORD.

rsv@Zechariah:2:7 @ Ho! Escape to Zion, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.

rsv@Zechariah:2:8 @ For thus said the LORD of hosts, after his glory sent me to the nations who plundered you, for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye:

rsv@Zechariah:2:9 @ "Behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they shall become plunder for those who served them. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me.

rsv@Zechariah:2:10 @ Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion; for lo, I come and I will dwell in the midst of you, says the LORD.

rsv@Zechariah:2:11 @ And many nations shall join themselves to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell in the midst of you, and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.

rsv@Zechariah:2:12 @ And the LORD will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem."

rsv@Zechariah:2:13 @ Be silent, all flesh, before the LORD; for he has roused himself from his holy dwelling.

rsv@Zechariah:3:1 @ Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.

rsv@Zechariah:3:2 @ And the LORD said to Satan, "The LORD rebuke you, O Satan! The LORD who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is not this a brand plucked from the fire?"

rsv@Zechariah:3:3 @ Now Joshua was standing before the angel, clothed with filthy garments.

rsv@Zechariah:3:4 @ And the angel said to those who were standing before him, "Remove the filthy garments from him." And to him he said, "Behold, I have taken your iniquity away from you, and I will clothe you with rich apparel."

rsv@Zechariah:3:5 @ And I said, "Let them put a clean turban on his head." So they put a clean turban on his head and clothed him with garments; and the angel of the LORD was standing by.

rsv@Zechariah:3:6 @ And the angel of the LORD enjoined Joshua,

rsv@Zechariah:3:7 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts: If you will walk in my ways and keep my charge, then you shall rule my house and have charge of my courts, and I will give you the right of access among those who are standing here.

rsv@Zechariah:3:8 @ Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, you and your friends who sit before you, for they are men of good omen: behold, I will bring my servant the Branch.

rsv@Zechariah:3:9 @ For behold, upon the stone which I have set before Joshua, upon a single stone with seven facets, I will engrave its inscription, says the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the guilt of this land in a single day.

rsv@Zechariah:3:10 @ In that day, says the LORD of hosts, every one of you will invite his neighbor under his vine and under his fig tree."

rsv@Zechariah:4:1 @ And the angel who talked with me came again, and waked me, like a man that is wakened out of his sleep.

rsv@Zechariah:4:2 @ And he said to me, "What do you see?" I said, "I see, and behold, a lampstand all of gold, with a bowl on the top of it, and seven lamps on it, with seven lips on each of the lamps which are on the top of it.

rsv@Zechariah:4:3 @ And there are two olive trees by it, one on the right of the bowl and the other on its left."

rsv@Zechariah:4:4 @ And I said to the angel who talked with me, "What are these, my lord?"

rsv@Zechariah:4:5 @ Then the angel who talked with me answered me, "Do you not know what these are?" I said, "No, my lord."

rsv@Zechariah:4:6 @ Then he said to me, "This is the word of the LORD to Zerub'babel: Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the LORD of hosts.

rsv@Zechariah:4:7 @ What are you, O great mountain? Before Zerub'babel you shall become a plain; and he shall bring forward the top stone amid shouts of `Grace, grace to it!'"

rsv@Zechariah:4:8 @ Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

rsv@Zechariah:4:9 @ "The hands of Zerub'babel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also complete it. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.

rsv@Zechariah:4:10 @ For whoever has despised the day of small things shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerub'babel. "These seven are the eyes of the LORD, which range through the whole earth."

rsv@Zechariah:4:11 @ Then I said to him, "What are these two olive trees on the right and the left of the lampstand?"

rsv@Zechariah:4:12 @ And a second time I said to him, "What are these two branches of the olive trees, which are beside the two golden pipes from which the oil is poured out?"

rsv@Zechariah:4:13 @ He said to me, "Do you not know what these are?" I said, "No, my lord."

rsv@Zechariah:4:14 @ Then he said, "These are the two anointed who stand by the Lord of the whole earth."

rsv@Zechariah:5:1 @ Again I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a flying scroll!

rsv@Zechariah:5:2 @ And he said to me, "What do you see?" I answered, "I see a flying scroll; its length is twenty cubits, and its breadth ten cubits."

rsv@Zechariah:5:3 @ Then he said to me, "This is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole land; for every one who steals shall be cut off henceforth according to it, and every one who swears falsely shall be cut off henceforth according to it.

rsv@Zechariah:5:4 @ I will send it forth, says the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter the house of the thief, and the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it shall abide in his house and consume it, both timber and stones."

rsv@Zechariah:5:5 @ Then the angel who talked with me came forward and said to me, "Lift your eyes, and see what this is that goes forth."

rsv@Zechariah:5:6 @ And I said, "What is it?" He said, "This is the ephah that goes forth." And he said, "This is their iniquity in all the land."

rsv@Zechariah:5:7 @ And behold, the leaden cover was lifted, and there was a woman sitting in the ephah!

rsv@Zechariah:5:8 @ And he said, "This is Wickedness." And he thrust her back into the ephah, and thrust down the leaden weight upon its mouth.

rsv@Zechariah:5:9 @ Then I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, two women coming forward! The wind was in their wings; they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the ephah between earth and heaven.

rsv@Zechariah:5:10 @ Then I said to the angel who talked with me, "Where are they taking the ephah?"

rsv@Zechariah:5:11 @ He said to me, "To the land of Shinar, to build a house for it; and when this is prepared, they will set the ephah down there on its base."

rsv@Zechariah:6:1 @ And again I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, four chariots came out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of bronze.

rsv@Zechariah:6:2 @ The first chariot had red horses, the second black horses,

rsv@Zechariah:6:3 @ the third white horses, and the fourth chariot dappled gray horses.

rsv@Zechariah:6:4 @ Then I said to the angel who talked with me, "What are these, my lord?"

rsv@Zechariah:6:5 @ And the angel answered me, "These are going forth to the four winds of heaven, after presenting themselves before the LORD of all the earth.

rsv@Zechariah:6:6 @ The chariot with the black horses goes toward the north country, the white ones go toward the west country, and the dappled ones go toward the south country."

rsv@Zechariah:6:7 @ When the steeds came out, they were impatient to get off and patrol the earth. And he said, "Go, patrol the earth." So they patrolled the earth.

rsv@Zechariah:6:8 @ Then he cried to me, "Behold, those who go toward the north country have set my Spirit at rest in the north country."

rsv@Zechariah:6:9 @ And the word of the LORD came to me:

rsv@Zechariah:6:10 @ "Take from the exiles Heldai, Tobi'jah, and Jedai'ah, who have arrived from Babylon; and go the same day to the house of Josi'ah, the son of Zephani'ah.

rsv@Zechariah:6:11 @ Take from them silver and gold, and make a crown, and set it upon the head of Joshua, the son of Jehoz'adak, the high priest;

rsv@Zechariah:6:12 @ and say to him, `Thus says the LORD of hosts, "Behold, the man whose name is the Branch: for he shall grow up in his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD.

rsv@Zechariah:6:13 @ It is he who shall build the temple of the LORD, and shall bear royal honor, and shall sit and rule upon his throne. And there shall be a priest by his throne, and peaceful understanding shall be between them both."'

rsv@Zechariah:6:14 @ And the crown shall be in the temple of the LORD as a reminder to Heldai, Tobi'jah, Jedai'ah, and Josi'ah the son of Zephani'ah.

rsv@Zechariah:6:15 @ "And those who are far off shall come and help to build the temple of the LORD; and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you. And this shall come to pass, if you will diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God."

rsv@Zechariah:7:1 @ In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechari'ah in the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chislev.

rsv@Zechariah:7:2 @ Now the people of Bethel had sent Share'zer and Reg'em-mel'ech and their men, to entreat the favor of the LORD,

rsv@Zechariah:7:3 @ and to ask the priests of the house of the LORD of hosts and the prophets, "Should I mourn and fast in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?"

rsv@Zechariah:7:4 @ Then the word of the LORD of hosts came to me;

rsv@Zechariah:7:5 @ "Say to all the people of the land and the priests, When you fasted and mourned in the fifth month and in the seventh, for these seventy years, was it for me that you fasted?

rsv@Zechariah:7:6 @ And when you eat and when you drink, do you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?

rsv@Zechariah:7:7 @ When Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, with her cities round about her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited, were not these the words which the LORD proclaimed by the former prophets?"

rsv@Zechariah:7:8 @ And the word of the LORD came to Zechari'ah, saying,

rsv@Zechariah:7:9 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy each to his brother,

rsv@Zechariah:7:10 @ do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart."

rsv@Zechariah:7:11 @ But they refused to hearken, and turned a stubborn shoulder, and stopped their ears that they might not hear.

rsv@Zechariah:7:12 @ They made their hearts like adamant lest they should hear the law and the words which the LORD of hosts had sent by his Spirit through the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from the LORD of hosts.

rsv@Zechariah:7:13 @ "As I called, and they would not hear, so they called, and I would not hear," says the LORD of hosts,

rsv@Zechariah:7:14 @ "and I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they had not known. Thus the land they left was desolate, so that no one went to and fro, and the pleasant land was made desolate."

rsv@Zechariah:8:1 @ And the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying,

rsv@Zechariah:8:2 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts: I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath.

rsv@Zechariah:8:3 @ Thus says the LORD: I will return to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, and Jerusalem shall be called the faithful city, and the mountain of the LORD of hosts, the holy mountain.

rsv@Zechariah:8:4 @ Thus says the LORD of hosts: Old men and old women shall again sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each with staff in hand for very age.

rsv@Zechariah:8:5 @ And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.

rsv@Zechariah:8:6 @ Thus says the LORD of hosts: If it is marvelous in the sight of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be marvelous in my sight, says the LORD of hosts?

rsv@Zechariah:8:7 @ Thus says the LORD of hosts: Behold, I will save my people from the east country and from the west country;

rsv@Zechariah:8:8 @ and I will bring them to dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and they shall be my people and I will be their God, in faithfulness and in righteousness."

rsv@Zechariah:8:9 @ Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Let your hands be strong, you who in these days have been hearing these words from the mouth of the prophets, since the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built.

rsv@Zechariah:8:10 @ For before those days there was no wage for man or any wage for beast, neither was there any safety from the foe for him who went out or came in; for I set every man against his fellow.

rsv@Zechariah:8:11 @ But now I will not deal with the remnant of this people as in the former days, says the LORD of hosts.

rsv@Zechariah:8:12 @ For there shall be a sowing of peace; the vine shall yield its fruit, and the ground shall give its increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.

rsv@Zechariah:8:13 @ And as you have been a byword of cursing among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so will I save you and you shall be a blessing. Fear not, but let your hands be strong."

rsv@Zechariah:8:14 @ For thus says the LORD of hosts: "As I purposed to do evil to you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, and I did not relent, says the LORD of hosts,

rsv@Zechariah:8:15 @ so again have I purposed in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah; fear not.

rsv@Zechariah:8:16 @ These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another, render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace,

rsv@Zechariah:8:17 @ do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath, for all these things I hate, says the LORD."

rsv@Zechariah:8:18 @ And the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying,

rsv@Zechariah:8:19 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts: The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah seasons of joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love truth and peace.

rsv@Zechariah:8:20 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts: Peoples shall yet come, even the inhabitants of many cities;

rsv@Zechariah:8:21 @ the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, `Let us go at once to entreat the favor of the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts; I am going.'

rsv@Zechariah:8:22 @ Many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, and to entreat the favor of the LORD.

rsv@Zechariah:8:23 @ Thus says the LORD of hosts: In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue shall take hold of the robe of a Jew, saying, `Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.'"

rsv@Zechariah:9:1 @ An Oracle The word of the LORD is against the land of Hadrach and will rest upon Damascus. For to the LORD belong the cities of Aram, even as all the tribes of Israel;

rsv@Zechariah:9:2 @ Hamath also, which borders thereon, Tyre and Sidon, though they are very wise.

rsv@Zechariah:9:3 @ Tyre has built herself a rampart, and heaped up silver like dust, and gold like the dirt of the streets.

rsv@Zechariah:9:4 @ But lo, the Lord will strip her of her possessions and hurl her wealth into the sea, and she shall be devoured by fire.

rsv@Zechariah:9:5 @ Ash'kelon shall see it, and be afraid; Gaza too, and shall writhe in anguish; Ekron also, because its hopes are confounded. The king shall perish from Gaza; Ash'kelon shall be uninhabited;

rsv@Zechariah:9:6 @ a mongrel people shall dwell in Ashdod; and I will make an end of the pride of Philistia.

rsv@Zechariah:9:7 @ I will take away its blood from its mouth, and its abominations from between its teeth; it too shall be a remnant for our God; it shall be like a clan in Judah, and Ekron shall be like the Jeb'usites.

rsv@Zechariah:9:8 @ Then I will encamp at my house as a guard, so that none shall march to and fro; no oppressor shall again overrun them, for now I see with my own eyes.

rsv@Zechariah:9:9 @ Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Lo, your king comes to you; triumphant and victorious is he, humble and riding on an ass, on a colt the foal of an ass.

rsv@Zechariah:9:10 @ I will cut off the chariot from E'phraim and the war horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off, and he shall command peace to the nations; his dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.

rsv@Zechariah:9:11 @ As for you also, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will set your captives free from the waterless pit.

rsv@Zechariah:9:12 @ Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; today I declare that I will restore to you double.

rsv@Zechariah:9:13 @ For I have bent Judah as my bow; I have made E'phraim its arrow. I will brandish your sons, O Zion, over your sons, O Greece, and wield you like a warrior's sword.

rsv@Zechariah:9:14 @ Then the LORD will appear over them, and his arrow go forth like lightning; the Lord GOD will sound the trumpet, and march forth in the whirlwinds of the south.

rsv@Zechariah:9:15 @ The LORD of hosts will protect them, and they shall devour and tread down the slingers; and they shall drink their blood like wine, and be full like a bowl, drenched like the corners of the altar.

rsv@Zechariah:9:16 @ On that day the LORD their God will save them for they are the flock of his people; for like the jewels of a crown they shall shine on his land.

rsv@Zechariah:9:17 @ Yea, how good and how fair it shall be! Grain shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the maidens.

rsv@Zechariah:10:1 @ Ask rain from the LORD in the season of the spring rain, from the LORD who makes the storm clouds, who gives men showers of rain, to every one the vegetation in the field.

rsv@Zechariah:10:2 @ For the teraphim utter nonsense, and the diviners see lies; the dreamers tell false dreams, and give empty consolation. Therefore the people wander like sheep; they are afflicted for want of a shepherd.

rsv@Zechariah:10:3 @ "My anger is hot against the shepherds, and I will punish the leaders; for the LORD of hosts cares for his flock, the house of Judah, and will make them like his proud steed in battle.

rsv@Zechariah:10:4 @ Out of them shall come the cornerstone, out of them the tent peg, out of them the battle bow, out of them every ruler.

rsv@Zechariah:10:5 @ Together they shall be like mighty men in battle, trampling the foe in the mud of the streets; they shall fight because the LORD is with them, and they shall confound the riders on horses.

rsv@Zechariah:10:6 @ "I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph. I will bring them back because I have compassion on them, and they shall be as though I had not rejected them; for I am the LORD their God and I will answer them.

rsv@Zechariah:10:7 @ Then E'phraim shall become like a mighty warrior, and their hearts shall be glad as with wine. Their children shall see it and rejoice, their hearts shall exult in the LORD.

rsv@Zechariah:10:8 @ "I will signal for them and gather them in, for I have redeemed them, and they shall be as many as of old.

rsv@Zechariah:10:9 @ Though I scattered them among the nations, yet in far countries they shall remember me, and with their children they shall live and return.

rsv@Zechariah:10:10 @ I will bring them home from the land of Egypt, and gather them from Assyria; and I will bring them to the land of Gilead and to Lebanon, till there is no room for them.

rsv@Zechariah:10:11 @ They shall pass through the sea of Egypt, and the waves of the sea shall be smitten, and all the depths of the Nile dried up. The pride of Assyria shall be laid low, and the scepter of Egypt shall depart.

rsv@Zechariah:10:12 @ I will make them strong in the LORD and they shall glory in his name," says the LORD.

rsv@Zechariah:11:1 @ Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars!

rsv@Zechariah:11:2 @ Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen, for the glorious trees are ruined! Wail, oaks of Bashan, for the thick forest has been felled!

rsv@Zechariah:11:3 @ Hark, the wail of the shepherds, for their glory is despoiled! Hark, the roar of the lions, for the jungle of the Jordan is laid waste!

rsv@Zechariah:11:4 @ Thus said the LORD my God: "Become shepherd of the flock doomed to slaughter.

rsv@Zechariah:11:5 @ Those who buy them slay them and go unpunished; and those who sell them say, `Blessed be the LORD, I have become rich'; and their own shepherds have no pity on them.

rsv@Zechariah:11:6 @ For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of this land, says the LORD. Lo, I will cause men to fall each into the hand of his shepherd, and each into the hand of his king; and they shall crush the earth, and I will deliver none from their hand."

rsv@Zechariah:11:7 @ So I became the shepherd of the flock doomed to be slain for those who trafficked in the sheep. And I took two staffs; one I named Grace, the other I named Union. And I tended the sheep.

rsv@Zechariah:11:8 @ In one month I destroyed the three shepherds. But I became impatient with them, and they also detested me.

rsv@Zechariah:11:9 @ So I said, "I will not be your shepherd. What is to die, let it die; what is to be destroyed, let it be destroyed; and let those that are left devour the flesh of one another."

rsv@Zechariah:11:10 @ And I took my staff Grace, and I broke it, annulling the covenant which I had made with all the peoples.

rsv@Zechariah:11:11 @ So it was annulled on that day, and the traffickers in the sheep, who were watching me, knew that it was the word of the LORD.

rsv@Zechariah:11:12 @ Then I said to them, "If it seems right to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them." And they weighed out as my wages thirty shekels of silver.

rsv@Zechariah:11:13 @ Then the LORD said to me, "Cast it into the treasury"--the lordly price at which I was paid off by them. So I took the thirty shekels of silver and cast them into the treasury in the house of the LORD.

rsv@Zechariah:11:14 @ Then I broke my second staff Union, annulling the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

rsv@Zechariah:11:15 @ Then the LORD said to me, "Take once more the implements of a worthless shepherd.

rsv@Zechariah:11:16 @ For lo, I am raising up in the land a shepherd who does not care for the perishing, or seek the wandering, or heal the maimed, or nourish the sound, but devours the flesh of the fat ones, tearing off even their hoofs.

rsv@Zechariah:11:17 @ Woe to my worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May the sword smite his arm and his right eye! Let his arm be wholly withered, his right eye utterly blinded!"

rsv@Zechariah:12:1 @ An Oracle The word of the LORD concerning Israel: Thus says the LORD, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the spirit of man within him:

rsv@Zechariah:12:2 @ "Lo, I am about to make Jerusalem a cup of reeling to all the peoples round about; it will be against Judah also in the siege against Jerusalem.

rsv@Zechariah:12:3 @ On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who lift it shall grievously hurt themselves. And all the nations of the earth will come together against it.

rsv@Zechariah:12:4 @ On that day, says the LORD, I will strike every horse with panic, and its rider with madness. But upon the house of Judah I will open my eyes, when I strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.

rsv@Zechariah:12:5 @ Then the clans of Judah shall say to themselves, `The inhabitants of Jerusalem have strength through the LORD of hosts, their God.'

rsv@Zechariah:12:6 @ "On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a blazing pot in the midst of wood, like a flaming torch among sheaves; and they shall devour to the right and to the left all the peoples round about, while Jerusalem shall still be inhabited in its place, in Jerusalem.

rsv@Zechariah:12:7 @ "And the LORD will give victory to the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not be exalted over that of Judah.

rsv@Zechariah:12:8 @ On that day the LORD will put a shield about the inhabitants of Jerusalem so that the feeblest among them on that day shall be like David, and the house of David shall be like God, like the angel of the LORD, at their head.

rsv@Zechariah:12:9 @ And on that day I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

rsv@Zechariah:12:10 @ "And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of compassion and supplication, so that, when they look on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a first-born.

rsv@Zechariah:12:11 @ On that day the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as the mourning for Hadadrim'mon in the plain of Megid'do.

rsv@Zechariah:12:12 @ The land shall mourn, each family by itself; the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves;

rsv@Zechariah:12:13 @ the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the Shim'e-ites by itself, and their wives by themselves;

rsv@Zechariah:12:14 @ and all the families that are left, each by itself, and their wives by themselves.

rsv@Zechariah:13:1 @ "On that day there shall be a fountain opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to cleanse them from sin and uncleanness.

rsv@Zechariah:13:2 @ "And on that day, says the LORD of hosts, I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, so that they shall be remembered no more; and also I will remove from the land the prophets and the unclean spirit.

rsv@Zechariah:13:3 @ And if any one again appears as a prophet, his father and mother who bore him will say to him, `You shall not live, for you speak lies in the name of the LORD'; and his father and mother who bore him shall pierce him through when he prophesies.

rsv@Zechariah:13:4 @ On that day every prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies; he will not put on a hairy mantle in order to deceive,

rsv@Zechariah:13:5 @ but he will say, `I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the soil; for the land has been my possession since my youth.'

rsv@Zechariah:13:6 @ And if one asks him, `What are these wounds on your back?' he will say, `The wounds I received in the house of my friends.'"

rsv@Zechariah:13:7 @ "Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, against the man who stands next to me," says the LORD of hosts. "Strike the shepherd, that the sheep may be scattered; I will turn my hand against the little ones.

rsv@Zechariah:13:8 @ In the whole land, says the LORD, two thirds shall be cut off and perish, and one third shall be left alive.

rsv@Zechariah:13:9 @ And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will answer them. I will say, `They are my people'; and they will say, `The LORD is my God.'"

rsv@Zechariah:14:1 @ Behold, a day of the LORD is coming, when the spoil taken from you will be divided in the midst of you.

rsv@Zechariah:14:2 @ For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women ravished; half of the city shall go into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

rsv@Zechariah:14:3 @ Then the LORD will go forth and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle.

rsv@Zechariah:14:4 @ On that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives which lies before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by a very wide valley; so that one half of the Mount shall withdraw northward, and the other half southward.

rsv@Zechariah:14:5 @ And the valley of my mountains shall be stopped up, for the valley of the mountains shall touch the side of it; and you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzzi'ah king of Judah. Then the LORD your God will come, and all the holy ones with him.

rsv@Zechariah:14:6 @ On that day there shall be neither cold nor frost.

rsv@Zechariah:14:7 @ And there shall be continuous day (it is known to the LORD), not day and not night, for at evening time there shall be light.

rsv@Zechariah:14:8 @ On that day living waters shall flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to the eastern sea and half of them to the western sea; it shall continue in summer as in winter.

rsv@Zechariah:14:9 @ And the LORD will become king over all the earth; on that day the LORD will be one and his name one.

rsv@Zechariah:14:10 @ The whole land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. But Jerusalem shall remain aloft upon its site from the Gate of Benjamin to the place of the former gate, to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Han'anel to the king's wine presses.

rsv@Zechariah:14:11 @ And it shall be inhabited, for there shall be no more curse; Jerusalem shall dwell in security.

rsv@Zechariah:14:12 @ And this shall be the plague with which the LORD will smite all the peoples that wage war against Jerusalem: their flesh shall rot while they are still on their feet, their eyes shall rot in their sockets, and their tongues shall rot in their mouths.

rsv@Zechariah:14:13 @ And on that day a great panic from the LORD shall fall on them, so that each will lay hold on the hand of his fellow, and the hand of the one will be raised against the hand of the other;

rsv@Zechariah:14:14 @ even Judah will fight against Jerusalem. And the wealth of all the nations round about shall be collected, gold, silver, and garments in great abundance.

rsv@Zechariah:14:15 @ And a plague like this plague shall fall on the horses, the mules, the camels, the asses, and whatever beasts may be in those camps.

rsv@Zechariah:14:16 @ Then every one that survives of all the nations that have come against Jerusalem shall go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of booths.

rsv@Zechariah:14:17 @ And if any of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, there will be no rain upon them.

rsv@Zechariah:14:18 @ And if the family of Egypt do not go up and present themselves, then upon them shall come the plague with which the LORD afflicts the nations that do not go up to keep the feast of booths.

rsv@Zechariah:14:19 @ This shall be the punishment to Egypt and the punishment to all the nations that do not go up to keep the feast of booths.

rsv@Zechariah:14:20 @ And on that day there shall be inscribed on the bells of the horses, "Holy to the LORD." And the pots in the house of the LORD shall be as the bowls before the altar;

rsv@Zechariah:14:21 @ and every pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be sacred to the LORD of hosts, so that all who sacrifice may come and take of them and boil the flesh of the sacrifice in them. And there shall no longer be a trader in the house of the LORD of hosts on that day.

rsv@Malachi:2:11 @ Judah has been faithless, and abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the LORD, which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

rsv@Malachi:3:4 @ Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the LORD as in the days of old and as in former years.

rsv@Malachi:4:5 @ "Behold, I will send you Eli'jah the prophet before the great and terrible day of the LORD comes.

rsv@Matthew:1:1 @ The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

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